The first year of Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, spring.

The mulberry trees on the side of the road spit out new green, and Cang Geng chirped gently, and flew quickly from this branch to that branch. The river thawed, gurgling by, splashing with clear water. The earth is warming, and the east of Chang'an, the imperial capital, is full of vitality and spring.

In the distance of the avenue, a team of cars and horses came from afar, in the center is the most spacious paulownia Xuan car at present, covering the oil wall, painted with black lacquer, can resist the wind and rain. On the dry hand of the car fluttering in the wind, a Zhao character was written.

After the death of Emperor Gao, the crown prince Liu Ying inherited the throne, and the empress Lu Pheasant was promoted to the empress dowager. Now that she is benevolent and filial, and her mother is very devoted, Empress Dowager Lu changed the quiet and forbearance of Emperor Gao's reign and became arrogant. In the autumn of the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty, Empress Dowager Lu sent an envoy to Handan, Zhao State, and summoned King Zhao Ruyi to enter the Chang'an Dynasty. King Zhao was young and at a loss, but Zhao Xiang Zhou Chang was very strong, saying that King Zhao was sick and weak, and it was not suitable to enter the court, so he choked the Han envoy back. If this is the case again and again, the fourth time, the Empress Dowager Lu was very angry, and the edict went to Handan, no longer calling Zhao Wang Ruyi, but summoning Zhao Xiang Zhou Chang.

Zhou Chang is the king of Zhao and can refuse to accept the edict. When it was his turn to leave the Zhao Kingdom, he looked at the King of Zhao who was seeing him off, sighed, and said to the heavens, "Emperor Gao, what you entrusted to Zhou Chang, Zhou Chang couldn't complete it." "Instructed King Zhao, "Don't enter Chang'an." ”

When Zhou Chang returned to Chang'an, Empress Dowager Lu reprimanded him in person, "Don't you know that I have hated King Zhao for a long time, why do you still want to protect that little child now?" ”

Zhou Chang Zhengse replied, "In the past, the emperor ordered his ministers to be the prime minister of Zhao and entrusted the king of Zhao to his ministers. Ministers should do their best. ”

In the past, Zhou Chang had the grace to protect the throne of the Empress Dowager Lu's mother and son, so the Empress Dowager Lu couldn't blame Zhou Chang too much, and was silent for a long time, only saying, "The so-called not in his position, not in his politics." Now that you're not Zhao Xiang anymore, forget it. ”

The envoy who summoned the king of Zhao soon arrived in Handan. Liu Ruyi lost the protection of Zhou Chang and couldn't resist, so he had no choice but to board the car, escorted by the Han envoy, and returned to Chang'an, which he had called home when he was a child.

On this day, the carriage and horses passed through Xuanping County, and it was past noon, Ruyi lifted the car and commanded, "I have walked the road for these hours." Let's take a break and have lunch. ”

"No." The guard replied. The speed of the Mito slowly slowed down.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" The car caught up with the car behind. Han envoy Wei Chang leaned his head out and asked, "Okay, why did you stop?" ”

Ruyi took a deep breath and smiled, "Lord Wei." The king was already hungry and wanted to rest again, and by the way he had lunch. ”

"It's still early." Wei Changpi replied with a smile, "If King Zhao is hungry, the envoy has brought some dry food here to fill King Zhao's stomach." Mrs. Qi is still in Chang'an, looking at the princess and going back. King Zhao compares his heart to his heart, can't he even stand this little tiredness? ”

"You-" Ruyi trembled.

"How is Wechen?" Wei Chang maintained a smiling expression and said lightly. "What does King Zhao think?"

Ruyi threw down the car in his hand and shouted, "Keep walking." ”

Wei Chang smiled faintly and raised his eyes to look at the front of the avenue.

In the dusty place ahead, there was also a cart and horse. There are domestic servants next to the car, and I think it's not an ordinary family.

"This is King Zhao's car driving into Beijing." The guard in front of him was already shouting, "Don't avoid it yet." But the chariot and horse did not shy away, and went straight this way.

"Which family's cub is so bold," Wei Chang reprimanded loudly, "Dare to collide with King Zhao's car?" ”

The car stopped before it hit someone, and the royal person who was driving the car let out a long cry and laughed loudly, "Please forgive me." My lady is the eldest lady of the Xuanping Hou family, and I heard that King Zhao took Xuanping back to Beijing, so he came to see him off. ”

Xie Wei raised the curtain of the car, and the ten-year-old girl got out of the car, raised her head, and shouted, "Ruyi." ”

"Ah Yan."

The waiter set up a couch under the shade of a tree, and the two sat opposite each other. After a long time, Zhang Yan smiled sideways, "I haven't seen you for a few years, Ruyi is taller, thinner, and depressed." "The boy who was as beautiful as jade in the Changle Palace was gone, leaving only a young man who had sensed the taste of the world.

Ruyi also smiled, "Ah Yan is also beautiful." ”

She is wearing a yellow Qiluo dress today, wearing a green plain skirt, pulling her hair in a bun, sweeping a green silk to the top, wrapping it into a ring, and then tying it up with the rest of her hair, becoming more and more fresh and tall, like the light spring light in the field like smoke and water.

"You shouldn't have promised to go to Chang'an." Zhang Yan bowed her head.

"yes." Ruyi smiled softly, "Prime Minister Zhou said the same thing. But Ah Yan, my home is in Chang'an. ”

"When my father died, I heard the state funeral in Handan, and I couldn't eat when I cried. I wanted to go back to Chang'an for the funeral, but Zhou Xiangguo wouldn't let me. He said, Lord Wang, but you have to think for yourself, and you can't enter Chang'an at this time. ”

"I know he's doing it for my good. But Ah Yan, I am a son of man, I grew up under the knee of my father, and once the mountain collapsed, I didn't even have the opportunity to kowtow in front of his tomb. Ah Yan, you say, what should I do? I can be free in Handan, but my mother is still in Chang'an, how can I leave her alone? ”

Zhang Yan was dumbfounded, looking at the excited young man in front of him, once upon a time, the innocent and carefree Ruyi also grew into King Zhao with a deep heart. And the wind of that year by the Weishui River can never go back.

"And what are you going to do?" After a long time, she asked in a low voice.

Ruyi sighed, "I want to take my mother back to Zhao Di and serve her well." Never enter Chang'an. ”

"The Queen Mother won't agree easily."

"I know." Ruyi suddenly became excited, and grabbed Zhang Yan's hand, "So Ah Yan, the Queen Mother has always loved you the most, you go to intercede for my mother and concubine, and let her let our mother and son go, okay?" ”

Zhang Yan was stunned and struggled, but Ruyi's strength was quite strong, but she couldn't struggle at all, so she only said angrily, "You're crazy." How can I make the Queen Mother change her mind? The queen mother's heart is the most important to the emperor's uncle, but the emperor's uncle persuaded her for half a year, can the queen mother be moved? ”

"yes." Ruyi was stunned and let go of his hand.

She looked at it and softened her heart, and persuaded, "Ruyi, if you go to Chang'an, the first thing is to persuade Mrs. Qi, so that she can rely on the queen mother to admit her mistakes, the situation is stronger than people, and it is nothing to bend over." If you can save your life. Even if you are a concubine, there is nothing bad about it. Second, if things are not harmonious, rely on the emperor's uncle, he is soft-hearted, and he will do his best to protect you. ”

"Got it." Ruyi smiled and said, "I'm not a child, so I use your orders?" ”

"The most important thing," Zhang Yan stood up violently and held Ruyi. "You must not lie in bed, give me to follow the emperor's uncle, you will eat whatever he eats. Where he sleeps, you sleep with him. You have to go with him when he hunts, and in short, you can't leave him for a single step. ”

"It's not that serious, is it?" Ruyi laughed.

"It's that serious." Zhang Yan emphasized solemnly.

"Alright, alright." Ruyi was perfunctory, and said resentfully, "Speaking of which." Ah Yan, you are still a few years younger than me, you should be called my uncle in terms of seniority. How to talk about the big truth, one by one, it's not cute at all, and it's a waste of this beautiful look. ”

Zhang Yanqi's forehead was bruised, this dead child, who is she working for and who is busy. He disliked him so much.

After using wine and food, Ruyi sighed and said sadly. "Ah Yan, it's time for me to go."

"Hmm." Zhang Yan also replied in a low voice.

Watching the two get up from a distance, Wei Chang hurriedly greeted him, his chubby face smiled like a chrysanthemum, and bent down to ask. "Zhang Niangzi lives far away in Xuanping, and the minister is about to escort King Zhao back to Chang'an. What kind of things does the lady have to give to Princess Lu Yuan? ”

Zhang Yan glanced at him strangely and said, "If I want to send something to my mother, I will have my own post station to pass it on, and I won't be Lord Laowei." ”

Wei Chang touched a soft nail, didn't dare to get angry, and slowly stepped aside.

"Lord Wei," a small soap-clothed official asked curiously, "I don't understand the humble position, King Zhao has a noble status, he is a prince and king, you are very harsh to him, and you don't have any respect." That girl is just the daughter of a prince, why do you value it so much? ”

"You know what?" Wei Chang clapped his hands impatiently and reprimanded, "Gaining or losing power depends entirely on status." Although King Zhao is a prince on the surface, the scenery is infinite. In fact, he and His Majesty had several enmities for seizing the throne back then, and he was a thorn in the side of the Queen Mother. I should follow the queen mother's wishes and be demanding with him; As for the eldest lady of the Xuanping Hou family, although she is only the daughter of the princes, her mother is the daughter of the Queen Mother, the sister of the Son of Heaven, and the eldest princess of Lu Yuan, can this relationship be the same as other princes? ”

"Ruyi, take care all the way." Zhang Yan watched Ruyi get on the copper-walled car back to Chang'an, her eyebrows wrinkled slightly into a Sichuan character, and she opened her mouth to tell her, but she didn't know what to say, and finally a thousand words turned into the most ordinary blessings, "Take care." ”

"Okay." Ruyi couldn't hear her heaviness, she responded with a smile, her face was bright, and she could vaguely see the jade-like demeanor of the third son of the emperor in the Changle Palace in the past.

Zhang Yan stood in place, watching the Xuan car roll away, and hummed a song vaguely.

"What?" Beside him, Tu Yu turned his head blankly and asked, "Lady, what are you singing?" ”

"Nothing." She bowed her head.

She sang: "The son is the king, the mother is the captive, all day long, often with death!" Three thousand miles apart, who will tell you! ”

This is the song that Mrs. Qi sang when she was cooking rice in Yongxiang.

After her uncle ascended the throne, she returned to Xuanping with her father, and before leaving Chang'an, she sent Tu Yu to Yongxiang several times to visit Mrs. Qi, and told her to restrain her temper. Regarding the shocking tragedy in history, she always thinks that although Grandma is a little vicious, Qi Yi herself is not without responsibility.

It's just that Mrs. Qi refused to appreciate it, and decided that she was ungrateful, and scolded Tu Yu back every time.

"Lady," the family stepped forward to persuade, "King Zhao is gone, so let's turn around." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Yan retracted her gaze and nodded, "Lead me a horse." ”

The family frowned and hesitated for a while, but finally did not speak, and responded, "No." ”

Zhang Yan turned over and got on the horse, the spring breeze in the field blew her clothes, slightly wrinkled like turbulent water waves, she took a deep breath, shook the rattan whip in her hand, and said, "Let's go." Suddenly, I heard a call from behind me.

"Ah Yan—"

When the wheels rolled again, Ruyi lifted the curtain and poked his head out and shouted.

Zhang Yan turned her head right away, her eyebrows slightly puzzled.

Ruyi grabbed the curtain and said with a low smile, "All these years, you haven't called me uncle?" I don't know when I'll be able to come back, how are you, shout and listen to me? ”

The spring breeze blew through Zhang Yan's sideburns, and she went around in a naughty circle and left. Zhang Yan suddenly became sad, lowered her eyes and looked at her shadow in the sun, bit her lip and smiled, "When you go back to Handan, I'll come here to pick you up again." At that time, "if there is still that time," I will call you uncle. ”

"Okay." Ruyi laughed, and there was a thin outline between her eyebrows, "Then Ah Yan, I'm really leaving." ”

The axle rattled, and when they were far away, the two of them immediately looked back from the car, and they had become a small point in the distance.

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After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to follow the blueprint in my heart.

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