In the second year of Li Yuan's ascension to the throne and proclamation as emperor, the third day of the first month of the second year of Wude.

Li Yuan issued an edict: ordered Li Shimin to guard Changchun Palace.

Changchun Palace is located in the west of the Jinpu ferry port of the Yellow River and north of Tongguan, the east gate of Guanzhong.

The place where the palace site is located, there are cliffs on three sides, the Yellow River in the east, facing the Pujin Pass, you can look at the two mountains of Taihua and Zhongtiao in the distance, overlook the three rivers of Huang, Luo and Wei, and tightly enter the two throat roads of Shanxi and the Central Plains.

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After Jinyang raised troops, when Li Yuan led the army into Guanzhong for the first time, he settled in Changchun Palace, where he received all the heroes from all walks of life in Guanzhong.

Now, Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin to guard the Changchun Palace, the purpose of which was to make him pay attention to the situation in the Central Plains and Shanxi, and to guard the east gate of Chang'an.

This not only brought into play Li Shimin's role as the needle of the sea, but also did not violate Li Yuan's plan to prevent Li Shimin from continuing to make contributions.

As long as foreign enemies do not come in from Shanxi and the Central Plains, Li Shimin will be an ornament, with no war to fight and no merit to build.

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Changchun Palace is three hundred miles away from Chang'an, not too close, not too far.

After the edict was issued, Li Shimin was about to take his staff to Changchun Palace.

Guanyin, Yang Jing, and Yin Yue'e were all pregnant, and no one could accompany them, so Li Shimin had to leave them all in the Taiji Palace in Chang'an City.

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Guanyin's delivery date is approaching, and it is estimated that the time of delivery will be in February, Li Shimin can't be by his side, and he is very uneasy. In addition, Mo Lifang, the biological mother of the sixth prince, had just passed away in childbirth, and Li Shimin was even more worried about the safety of Guanyin, lest there be an accident.

Before leaving, Li Shimin specially asked Doctor Wu of the Imperial Medical Department to diagnose Guanyin's pulse, and Doctor Wu replied to Li Shimin that the fetal position was normal, as long as the princess was in a good mood and did more activities, everything should be fine.

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Li Shimin asked Mrs. Ding, and she was responsible for all the things that Guanyin was in labor.

In order to prevent the occurrence of a situation where no one is available at a critical time, Li Shimin specially left the eldest grandson Zhan and Lu Zheng behind and took turns to be on duty at the Huizheng Gate. He instructed Qin Lan to contact the eldest grandson Zhan and Lu Zheng at any time when there was something.

After all the arrangements were made, Li Shimin rushed to Changchun Palace with concern.

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Just after the New Year's Day, Li Shimin went to Changchun Palace.

left the Guanyin maid who was waiting to give birth in the Taiji Palace in Chang'an.

It was dry and cold for a winter, and there was no shadow of snow, but after the beginning of spring, it snowed.

After one night, the palaces and pavilions in the palace were enveloped in pink and jade.

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The palace maids were very diligent, and when they got up in the morning, they cleaned up the platform of the apse and the road in the courtyard.

Guanyin was supported by Hsinchu and Zhanhua, and went to the palace to enjoy the snow, and saw the world of pink makeup and jade, and Guanyin had an urge to go out and step on the snow in her heart.

She suddenly remembered a few plum blossoms on the bank of the Qingming Canal, and turned her head to ask Hsinchu, who was standing beside her, "I haven't paid attention to it during this time, have the plum blossoms on the east side of the courtyard wall bloomed?"

Zhanhua didn't know what Guanyin meant when she asked this, so she hurriedly replied, "A few days ago, Sanniang asked me to go to Jingshu Palace, and I saw a plum tree on the west side of the canal, and the flowers of a tree bloomed, pink and pink, very beautiful."

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A smile spread across Guanyin's face, and she asked Hsinchu's opinion, "Why don't we go to the canal to enjoy the flowers?"

Hsinchu looked at Guanyin's high bulging lower abdomen, and wanted to immediately dispel Guanyin's risky thoughts, so he directly stopped, "Sanniang's body is inconvenient, and the slave doesn't dare to take you there."

Guanyin's idea of going out to enjoy the plum blossoms has arisen, and it can't be realized, so she has a feeling in her heart that she can't stretch. She lost her stubborn temper and insisted, "Doctor Wu told me to move around more, didn't this heavy snow seal me in the house? When the snow melts away, it will take ten days and a half to get around, at least, how can I move around?"

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Hsinchu was afraid that Guanyin would be unhappy, so he had to explain, "This is cold and snowy, Sanniang wants to go out, and the slave and maid can't be the master, I have to ask Ding Niangzi and Sister Qin Lan."

Guanyin smiled and urged, "Then you hurry up and ask."

Hsinchu promised, and walked to the east chamber to call Ding Niangzi and Qin Lan.

After a while, Ding Niangzi and Qin Lan came out of the East Chamber, talking in a whisper as they walked, as if discussing how to dispel Guanyin's idea of going out to enjoy the plum blossoms.

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When Guanyin followed, Qin Lan saluted Guanyin, and Ding Niangzi smiled lovingly and reproached, "Sanniang can't be willful at this time, the road is slippery in snow, what if she falls?"

Guanyin looked at Ding Niangzi, showing a pitiful look, and begged, "This snow has just fallen, no one has stepped on it yet, where will it be slippery?"

Ding Niangzi watched Guanyin grow up since she was a child, and knew what she wanted to do, but she couldn't do the temper of vowing not to give up, and she couldn't resist her in the end, so she gave way, "Or I'll arrange someone to clean up the snow on the side of the canal."

Guanyin saw that Ding Niangzi was relieved, and a triumphant smile appeared on her face, she was afraid that Ding Niangzi would change her mind again, so she hurriedly said, "No need to sweep anymore, it is more interesting to tread the snow and find plums."

After speaking, he was in a hurry to step out of the temple gate.

Ding Niangzi hurriedly asked Zhanhua to bring a mink cloak to put on Guanyin's maid, and then asked her to cage a mink sleeve, and personally stepped forward to help Guanyin's maid pull the placket of the cloak, and complained, "Don't be obedient at all, don't be careless, and be frozen again."

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Accompanied by Qin Lan and others, Ding Niangzi was not at ease, so she personally followed by her side, and a group of more than a dozen people went out of the backyard of Chengqing Hall to see the plum blossoms on the bank of the Qingming Canal.

The palace maids who followed the service carried the Hu bed, followed the mattress and the hand stove behind them, and prepared to sit down and rest after the Guanyin maid was tired.

On the Yong Road in the courtyard of Chengqing Palace, the snow has been cleared, Qin Lan and Shiqin helped Guanyin to get off the platform of the apse, turned east along Yong Road, passed through the Moon Gate to the east, and then went south out of the East Hanging Flower Gate, and walked towards Chengqing Gate.

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Originally, it was not a hurry, but to go out for a walk, and the group walked slowly, stopping to enjoy the snow around them as they walked.

Out of the Chengqing Gate, looking east, on the way to the Yiqiu Gate, the palace maid and the eunuch were sweeping the snow on the road in twos and threes.

The world is white, and the red door and red pillar of the Qinqin Building in the Harmony Courtyard are particularly conspicuous in the silver makeup wrapping, such as a paintbrush lightly drawing two strokes of cinnabar on the white paper, embellished in the pure white artistic conception.

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On the bank of the Qingming Canal, the branches of the willow are slightly covered with snow, and occasionally a few birds and finches stop in the treetops, startling the snowflakes of the trees to fall, moving in the stillness, showing a stubborn and unyielding vitality in the ice and snow.

Looking north along the canal, the fresh snow has just fallen, and there is no trace of human disturbance. Near the stone table in the middle, there are several clumps of plum blossoms standing proudly in the snow, looking at it from afar, the snow is covered in the branches, and a little pink is hidden in the ice and snow, just like seeing flowers in the fog, which is also real and illusory, real and virtual.

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Qin Lan helped Guanyin and gently shook her chin to signal to Zhanhua, "Sister Zhanhua, you go and try it, the road by the canal is not slippery."

Zhan Hua slowly stepped onto the flat snow, the snow was up to her ankles, she slowly walked forward a few steps, the soles of her feet creaked, and then she ran a few steps forward, gathered herself and turned quickly, danced a whirlwind dance, wading a circle of snowflakes and flying towards her side.

She went crazy in the snow alone, stopped, bent down, picked up the snow on the ground and lifted it into the air, giggled, and said to Guanyin and the others, "It's not slippery."

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Shiqin looked at the exhibition envy and said to Qin Lan, "I also want to dance on the snow."

Qin Lan glared at Shi Qin and explained, "Carefully support Sanniang, wait until you see the plum blossoms and return to the courtyard, find a place where there is no one, and let you jump enough."

Guanyin smiled happily and whispered to Shiqin, "Go back in a while, go back to the backyard, and let each of you go crazy in the snow for a while."

Shiqin held Guanyin's arm, bent her knees slightly, and said happily, "Xie Sanniang."

Qin Lan chattered on the side, "It's so old, it's like a child of a few years old."

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Zhan Hua ran back, to Guanyin maid, several people carefully helped Guanyin maid to walk forward steadily, before they came to the plum tree, there was a faint fragrance attack.

Guanyin snorted lightly and said with a smile, "This fragrance is so good, I like the fragrance of two flowers the most, one is the fragrance of plum blossoms, and the other is the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, which will drown me in this fragrance all day long, and I will not feel bored."

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Guanyin walked to a clump of plum trees, pulled her hand out of her sleeve, stretched out her fingers, pinched the end of a flower branch, leaned over the pink flower and smelled it, feeling that the fragrance was stronger.

She slowly let go of her fingers, and the branch flicked up slightly, shaking off the snow on the branch, leaving only a few sparse small flowers on the dead branch, which looked neither charming nor delicate.

She said to Qin Lan with some regret, "It's still better to have this white snow."

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Ding Niangzi said beside her, "Dragging such a heavy body, I have to come all the way so far, saying that I want to come over to enjoy the plum blossoms, and when I get to the root, there is nothing special."

Guanyin smiled faintly, looked at Ding Niangzi, and then looked at the plum blossoms, and said to Ding Niangzi with deep meaning, "Ah Wan is in a hurry to come over, not just for her own happiness, but for fear of disappointing these plum blossoms."

Ding Niangzi looked at Guanyin and smiled lovingly, "Sanniang is crazy again, it's just a few trees and flowers, what's there to live up to?"

Guanyin sighed softly meaningfully, "Spit fragrance alone, lonely and ownerless. If we don't come, who knows if they have bloomed in this snowy spring?"

"They are lonely here, don't they look like the countless women in the palace?"

The two couldn't help but look at each other silently.

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A faint resentment flashed in Guanyin's heart, she was afraid that her sadness would infect the girls around her, so she hurriedly restrained her sad emotions, and a smile reappeared on her cheeks.

Guanyin glanced at the palace maids who followed behind her seemingly casually, they were all teenagers and were in the flowering season of their lives. But in this world, who really thinks about them?

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After admiring the plum blossoms, Qin Lan asked Guanyin if she wanted to sit down and rest, and Guanyin said to a few people around her in an encouraging tone, "Let's go back quickly, and when we have breakfast, you can find a place in the courtyard and go crazy in the snow, do you say?"

These girls are all teenagers, still at an innocent age, and when they hear that they can play crazy, they are all excited and eager to try.

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After breakfast, Guanyin specially allowed the palace maids in the apse to find a secluded place to play. Only Ding Niangzi and Qin Lan stayed behind and talked to Guanyin.

Not long after Chenshi, Yuwen Lingxin, accompanied by a personal palace maid, came to see Guanyin.

Seeing her coming in a hurry, Guanyin couldn't help but complain, "You just had a body, why are you running around on a snowy day, what if there is an accident?"

Yuwen Lingxin saluted Guanyin, and before she sat down, she said, "There was an accident in the harem last night."

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