Summer June, Xin Chou.

Fish and geese came from Chang'an.

After Lu Yuan showed his letter, he was worried, and discussed with Tu Tu for a long time, but he was at a loss, and only cried, "Poor my Ah Yan, such a good child, why is his life so bitter?" ”

After getting late, Zhang Yan came to her mother's main courtyard and asked the maid outside the second gate, "Grandma is not feeling well today, why don't you come out to have dinner with us." ”

"Lady Zhang is good." The little maid bent her knees and said, "The maid doesn't know what is going on, the princess and Aunt Tu have been talking for a long time next night, and just after falling asleep, Aunt Tu went to the kitchen to get dinner for her." ”

She nodded, took a light step, rolled up the curtains and entered the room.

In the inner room, it was dim, and Lu Yuan and Yi were lying on the couch on their sides, still frowning during a nap.

On the case in front of the bed, there is a bamboo slip upside down.

Zhang Yan bent down to take it and read the words on it by the dim candlelight.

It was sent by the Empress Dowager Lu of Changle Palace. Yan Dao Han and his envoy came back from the Xiongnu, and on the day of the ceremony of the day and the pro-family, between the words of Mao Dun, it was obvious that he remembered himself and was still not dead.

The candlelight slammed and shook slightly.

She looked at the book, but there was no joy or sorrow in her heart.

From beginning to end, what she was worried about was not the Huns thousands of miles away. The Huns are always young or young, tyrannical or reckless, and it has nothing to do with her.

She just wants to be with the person in her heart until she is old.

"Ah Yan."

Lu Yuan called behind him.

She woke up at some point and looked at her daughter's side face, focused and gentle.

"Mother," Zhang Yan turned around and said with a smile, "Did I disturb you?" ”

The candlelight in the waiter flashed a trace of warmth on her face, becoming more and more pale, and the smoky smile made Lu Yuan feel distressed. smiled bitterly, "These days, Ah Yan has lost weight. Eyes caressed her cheek with pity,

"It's okay," Zhang Yan blinked and smiled, "It's more beautiful to be thinner." ”

"Then I'd rather you're ugly."

……

"Did you see your grandmother's letter?"

"Hmm."

"Over the years," Lu Yuan said abruptly, "the Han and Hungarians have fought and made peace. Although there is a marriage in the past. However, after a few years, I am afraid that the Huns will provoke again. And Luo Shu came from the Xiongnu, and said that Mao Dunshan punished the Xiongnu envoy who came to Han last time in terms of peace and etiquette. and to humiliate the picks. Between the words, you are still unwilling to Ah Yan. ”

She hugged her daughter who was lying in her arms, "In the ninth year of the first emperor, Han and Hun also made peace, and now the eldest princess of Chu is out of the fortress, but it has only been six years." Six years later. Ah Yan, you are only eighteen years old, and you are in your prime. As Ah Yan said that day, if you ask the Han to marry when you are down, or even Chen Bing's border pass, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty will love you and my mother and daughter no matter how much they love you, and they may not be able to resolutely refuse. ”

Lu Yuan's tears flowed. There was a drop on Zhang Yan's neck, hot and sour, a mother's hesitant heart. "On that day, your grandmother talked about marrying you as the queen of the Han Dynasty for His Majesty, and your father was quite enthusiastic and responded in one bite. But I am very reluctant, Your Majesty is a good boy. But he and you are uncles and nephews, how can they be together? So I have been married to your father for ten years. For the first time, there was a dispute, and I was angry and took you and Ah Yan back to Xuanping. ”

"But compared to you being the queen, I am more reluctant for you to go to the Huns. I heard that the Huns are all barbarians, their Shan Yu is older than your father, with three hands and six heads, Ah Yan, you grew up in the palm of my hand, so delicate, how can you be tortured by them? ”

"But Ah Yan, what do you think yourself?"

"I know that you have made your own decisions since you were a child, how you want to decide your life, and mothers will always do everything to help you achieve it."

She tilted her head from her mother's arms and looked at the candle flame on the desk three feet away. The candlelight jumped and continued to burn brightly.

So it was, so it was.

Over the years, Zhang Yan has been thinking about why there are so many people singing with her for such a ridiculous idea. Now she finally understands that the name of the kick that was inserted in it was called the Huns.

But what about me? What am I going to do?

Half of the wick was soaked in oil, and it burned brilliantly and happily, not knowing that once it burned itself, it would be nothing.

A few dusty moths swooped down on the light, and the first one crashed into the flames, bursting into a small cloud of sparks with a thud, and turning into ashes in an instant. The rest of the moths do not know fear and sorrow, and they follow one after another.

She asked herself if you were going to be a moth or a lamp.

If it is a lamp, it will burn peacefully for a long time, and life will have a certain length, but the process will be smooth, there will be no surprises, and there will be no disasters.

If it is a moth, use all your life and courage to pursue a brilliant burn.

"A-Niang," Zhang Yan said suddenly, "You bring the lamp for me." ”

Lu Yuan was puzzled, but he slapped the lamp in front of her.

The wick burned, leaving bright tears. Zhang Yan plucked the hairpin from her head and picked the wick. Then the lights suddenly turned on, causing more moths to fly around it.

"Okay."

She said suddenly, her voice like the texture of cutting gold and jade.

And her cheeks lit and darkened between the jumps of light, bewitching and gorgeous.

"I promised to marry him. Ah Niang," she smiled slightly, and said softly, "You're going to be the emperor's mother-in-law, are you happy?" ”

"It's just that it's hard to be a mother, and it will be very embarrassing to meet my uncle in the future."

Lu Yuan looked at Linglong's daughter in a daze, and her expression in the candlelight was a kind of maturity that she had never seen. Her daughter grew up in the stumbling world, and the process was sprinkled with her mother's sadness, Lu Yuan hugged her daughter and said in a trembling voice, "It's hard for you, Ah Yan, in the future, I hope you don't regret it." ”

On the day of the Emperor's Day, Lu Yuan returned to Chang'an.

Weiyang Propaganda Room

Liu Ying dropped her hand and said angrily, "No matter what, I will never be so ridiculous as to marry my niece." ”

"Your Majesty's meaning is clear, but," Chang Lu was embarrassed behind him, "Until now, the Queen Mother, the Marquis of Xuanping, and the eldest princess have all agreed to this marriage, and the courtiers have also been pressed to death by the Queen Mother." There is also the matter of the Huns, Your Majesty, you and Mrs. Zhang. - There's no way around it. ”

The times are oppressive, even if he is the emperor, he has to listen to his mother in family affairs. And marriage is one of the three ceremonies in life, the most solemn family affair.

"That's not necessarily the case," Liu Ying tapped her finger and muttered, "There is another person." "It can make the queen mother change her mind.

"Who?" Chang Qi asked curiously.

"Chang Li," Liu Ying didn't answer him. got up and ordered, "You go to the palace quickly, and Xu Xiang, the commander of Xuansosu Du, will enter the palace to meet you." ”

"Your Majesty." Chang Lu was puzzled, "Even if Du Wei Xu is a genius, there is nothing he can do in this matter, right?" ”

"What nonsense," Liu Ying scolded with a smile. "I'm not at him, I'm at his eldest sister."

"Xu Duwei's eldest sister, oops," Chang Liu's eyes lit up, "It's the Marquis of Minghen Pavilion." ”

"Yes," he said, clapping his hands. "Why didn't the slave think of it. The queen mother has a resolute temperament, but she reveres ghosts and gods very much, and the Marquis of Minghen Pavilion is a famous female physiognomy in the world. If she says that this marriage is not compatible, the Queen Mother can only take back her fate. ”

In June, Xu Xiang, the commander of Sosu, set off to Xijing Mountain, a one-day journey away on the outskirts of Chang'an, to meet his sister who had been living in seclusion for a long time.

On Bingchen Day, he returned to Chang'an.

"My sister has a word, she has not asked Hongchen for a long time. refuses to enter the world again. However, she made a fortune for His Majesty and the Marquis of Xuanping. Let the minister bring back the hexagram. "In the Xuanshu Palace, he gave his hand to the king. The candle flame danced across his face, and the sound of it was silent.

"Oh? What is the hexagram? ”

"Daji."

"How is that possible?" Emperor Xuanyi stood up violently, and his broad robe brought up the arc of the gale.

"I and Ah Yan share a few nephews and uncles, how can such a marriage still be an auspicious hexagram?" Liu Ying suddenly became suspicious, "Could it be that the Marquis of Minghen Pavilion has been instructed by the Queen Mother?" ”

"Your Majesty," Pei Xiang said with a slight anger on his face, "Your Majesty's words are insulting to my sister." The minister also asked his mother about this, and the sister said that she was just a physiognomy teacher, not a courtier of His Majesty and the Queen Mother. She only recognizes the destiny of heaven and does not obey the king's orders. The Queen Mother can't let her say an auspicious word, and Your Majesty, you can't let her say that the marriage is a big murder against her will. The hexagram is like this, and the will of heaven is helpless. ”

Liu Ying sat down dejectedly, waved weakly, and said, "You go down." ”

Standing under the majestic and solemn Beisima Gate of Weiyang Palace, Xu Xiang put his hands on his eyebrows, looking at the clouds and feet in the sky, like a sign of rain, like his dazed scheming. He remembered the earnest admonition of the eldest sister on Xijing Mountain, and remembered the immature girl who was glimpsed in the restaurant six years ago, many people think that she is just a child who does not know the world, and there will not be many people in the world who know that she is thoughtful and clever than a man with eyebrows, such a girl will be subject to the Huns, and if he does not say a word in this marriage, he will not believe it in death. Then, she agreed to this marriage, but she was willing.

Willingly, he looked back at the vastness, and in the twilight it was entrenched like a crouching tiger sleeping dragon, silent like a giant beast in the wilderness.

Xu Xiang sneered, it was going to rain, and he had to get home early before the rain.

In the Xuanmuro Temple.

The young Emperor Hui sat on his feet, his hair scattered.

"Chang Liu," he tilted his head slightly in the dark, his eyes slightly red, "you say," he said dejectedly, "even the hexagram of the Ming Female Pavilion Hou Bu said so, I really shouldn't insist on it anymore." ”

"Your Majesty," Chang Liu, who had been by his side all the time, thought for a moment, "the slave doesn't know how to choose. However, the slave maid thinks that ethics cannot be violated, the mother's destiny cannot be violated, and the destiny of heaven cannot be violated. If today's fate and ethics cancel each other out, Your Majesty should not think too much about it, just listen to the Queen Mother's wishes. ”

"Besides," a slight smile appeared on his lips, "Mrs. Zhang is smart and cute, and there is nothing wrong with being a queen." ”

"I know Ah Yan is fine, but—" Emperor Hui stretched out his hands to cover his face, stopped talking, and let out a crying and laughing moan escaped from his throat.

Xin Youri, ordered Prime Minister Shen, Taiwei Bo, Zongzheng Liu Li, went to Chang'an Shangguanli Xuanping Marquis Mansion, for the emperor.

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I submitted my papers ahead of schedule today.

Sympathetic, Comrade Liu Ying, you really found the wrong person. Xu Ying is definitely behind this big wedding (the ultimate boss?). It's impossible to ask her to help you talk.

So, continue to ask for pink tickets for the big wedding.

Tomorrow the update time should be back to normal.