Fanwai Spring Thunder

The soundtrack of "Spring Thunder" is Jay Chou's "Orchid Pavilion Preface"

Those of you who have heard this song can recall what the last line of the lyrics was.

When the first peach blossoms bloom on the branches in early spring, the counties and countries selected new talents and sent them to Chang'an Taixue to study. At the same time, the first class of Taixue students also completed their three-year Taixue studies.

In the performance roster of each student, the first place is a young man named Yan Zhu from Hedong.

Seeing this name, Liu Ying was stunned for a moment. He does not have the habit of abandoning official affairs because of personal feelings, although Yan Zhu is ambitious, but he is also really talented and learned, and he can use it properly, and he can be a capable minister. So he gave the edict to the golden horse gate.

When His Majesty saw it, Yan Zhu saw the emperor's face, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and after retreating, he was stunned for a while.

In the second day, the two prime ministers discussed with the emperor on the livelihood of the people in Changsha County, as well as the establishment of the Kwantung Horse Farm.

After all, he couldn't help it, and took out the roster of palace people who were pressed under many chapters.

On a thin book, the names of seventy-six palace maids are transcribed, enshrined, and originated. Liu Ying knew that one of them was a pseudonym proposed by Ah Yan.

Of these seventy-six unfamiliar names, one belonged to Ah Yan, and he guessed slowly. Which one will it be.

She is afraid that she will recognize herself, so she will definitely not use the name related to her real name, but she loves elegance and will definitely not use too vulgar words.

In this way, twenty-six people were finally circled.

He suddenly smiled wryly. Push the roster away. Liu Ying, what do you want to do? Even if I know where Ah Yan is now. What can you do?

If you don't have the confidence to keep Ah Yan, just let it go. Leave her a galloping blue sky.

Ah Yan. I will learn to quit you when I think of your land.

On this day, the spring is just right, and Liu Yingxing is in Weiyang Palace. Suddenly, I saw a peach blossom blooming on the side of Cangchi, and I couldn't help but be interested, and ordered someone to take a pen and paper, spread it out on the stone table in the Lanshui Pavilion on the side, and draw the newly bloomed peach blossom in front of the pavilion.

Stretching out of the ground branches, the peach blossoms bloomed a little more moist.

At that time, new paper went from invention to all over the world. However, after a few years, Liu Ying has abandoned the bulky bamboo slips and expensive silk. Started using new paper to learn calligraphy and drawing. Just because three or four years of practice is not worth half a lifetime of experience, the painting skills are very difficult. I drew a few strokes in the shape of peach blossoms by the water. Suddenly I thought, speaking of which, this new paper invention was also contributed to by Ah Yan.

Ah Yan seems to have left too many traces around her, so she occasionally bows her head. I can think of her.

When Liu Ying came back to her senses and looked at the pen, she couldn't help but laugh dumbly. It turned out that when he lost his mind, he inadvertently drew a girl standing on the peach blossom tree by the water's edge, although there were only a few outlines, but her expression was like that. Isn't it Ah Yan?

Those who are concerned and what they think are hidden from everyone. But he couldn't hide his heart, and inadvertently poured it into the pen, and then he knew.

Liu Ying looked left and right, and saw that the attendants closest to the ground were all outside the pavilion, so he was relieved. Now that you've already drawn it, you might as well do it from your heart. Let's draw to the end.

He dipped the ink again and continued to draw along the lines of the appropriate brush. There was no one in front of him, but he didn't need to watch it, Ah Yandi's appearance was engraved in his heart, and he didn't need to deliberately recall, just like he was there. So I stopped looking up, and the pen was getting faster and faster.

He painted the side of Ah Yan, who looked up at the falling flowers on the branches under the tree, her eyes were like water, and her smile was lifelike. After closing the pen, I can't help but be surprised, this painting is just because of a whim, the peach blossoms on the branches, the pond next to it are painted in general, but only the flower A Yan is like a god, emotional, exceptionally good. Vaguely, as if Ah Yan was really beside him, he reached out and picked a peach blossom from the tree, and asked him with a smile if the peach blossoms were blooming.

Regardless of painting skills, he relies on a lover's heart.

He watched for a long time, and raised his pen to draw a stroke of a serious word: The dynasty and the beautiful woman period, the day and night are not coming.

If you don't taste the food, stop the wine.

Sending a message to the birds, I can't tell the rest.

Fold Lanying, and knot cinnamon branches.

If the beauty is not there, what is the knot?

Where do you start? It's in the corner of the Great Teaching.

Lingruo said, Yier Pearl.

Hope for it, step by step.

If the beauty doesn't come, why should she muster.

If the beauty doesn't come, why should she muster. After all, Ah Yan has left his side and is separated from him.

The lintel of the Jiaofang Hall is a solemn vermilion color, which reflects more of the majesty of the world rather than the light dancing that the girl likes, Ah Yan once complained that she was too old-fashioned, she was young and lively, in fact, she preferred the magnificence of Zhaoyang or the quiet elegance of Yutang, but when she said it, she didn't want to get any results, she always made him smile and passed.

Without Ah Yan's Jiaofang Palace, although it is still magnificent, Liu Ying walked in, but she always felt a little lonely.

He shook his head to stop the surprised little palace people outside the hall, walked in gently, and saw that the hall was empty, but the hall was empty, and he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. Suddenly, I heard the voice of the maid in the palace, "The queen mother is gone, and Your Majesty is rarely coming to the Jiaofang Palace, after this batch of winter furnaces is recovered, I don't know if we will be here next year." Listening to the voice, it seemed to be the female official named Hanlian he had seen beside Ah Yan.

"Silence," Xie Wei said sternly, "The affairs of the heavenly family are not for those of us who are good servants to discuss. ”

"What does it matter?" Han Lian pouted and said, "Anyway, no one hears it now." As he was talking, he suddenly saw a figure thrown in from outside the palace gate, he was taken aback, and when he got up and saw that it was Liu Ying, he changed color slightly, and hurriedly bowed, "See Your Majesty." ”

Liu Ying saw that the case in the Jiaofang Palace was almost the same, as if it was still placed when Ah Yan was always there, comfortable and clean, and said softly while relieving her worries, "The maid thinks that the queen mother may come back, so she placed it according to her preferences when she came, and after she came back." so that you will not be unaccustomed. I couldn't help it for a while, and I couldn't help but secretly turn my back to wipe my tears.

Liu Ying nodded and said, "You guys go out first." I...... I want to be here alone for a while. ”

He bypassed the screen and came to Ah Yan's bed, and saw a lotus-colored tent fighting, fragrant and leisurely, and a book of "Pipes" was placed in front of the bed, but it was the book she read in the temple on the last day before she left.

Although Ah Yan has read all the Confucian classics. But she doesn't respect Confucianism, on the contrary, her favorite thing to watch is "Guanzi". She always said that although the great harmony of the world described by Mencius in his writings is desirable, it is like an ethereal castle in the air, which cannot be implemented in his lifetime, but is like Guan Zhong. It is more admirable to govern a country well and let the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Therefore, compared with the Confucian Confucian sage, Ah Yan is more respectful of Qi Xiangguanzhong.

This is obviously completely inconsistent with Liu Ying's Confucian views, and he always thinks that Guan Zhong's statecraft is good. It's just a technique, and the Datong of Confucius and Mencius is the real Tao. Every time two people bring it up, they always have to argue. But now Ah Yan is gone. He didn't have the mood to talk about the hole, sat on the bed and looked through the "Tube", closed it, got up and put it on the bookshelf in front of the bed, one carelessly. A few books next to the belt smashed down, and suddenly I saw a piece of hemp paper neatly stacked behind the bookshelf. I was slightly curious, so I took it out and watched.

Suddenly, he felt like he was standing there and couldn't move.

The paper is actually not in good condition, the color is slightly yellow and dull, and there are a few nettle ideas that have not yet been cleaned, far from being as white and soft as the fine bamboo paper produced by Lu today. There are two famous sayings from "Mencius" written on it: the old and the old, the young and the young. But it's his own handwriting.

In the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, she got a new batch of good paper made of grass, and when she checked it, she came to the Jiaofang Palace, and avoided it, so she hid behind her, but she was seen by herself, so she took it out, but she saw that it was this newly produced paper, and she couldn't help but be very happy, and she was very interested, and she wrote these two sentences on it. Ah Yan asked for it with a smile and carefully hid it here.

Liu Ying felt sad in her heart, and looked around at the Jiaofang Palace, only to find that the items she had inadvertently left behind, poems, old clothes, and frost pens, had been carefully collected by Ah Yan with gentle patience.

He looked at the Jiaofang Hall with such affection, and was suddenly speechless.

Although he could feel Ah Yan's affection for him, he always thought that it was just the dependence of a young girl on the men close to her. When she was too young, she was already married to him. There is a huge Weiyang Palace, and only the closest one is her husband, so she will naturally share her affection gently.

It wasn't until after she left him that he saw Ah Yan's hand hidden, and finally understood what kind of mood Ah Yan used to love herself.

However, he had already lost her.

She left him.

She left all the traces related to him in this Jiaofang Palace, and took nothing with her. Does this mean that she has been ruthless and buried all her love for him in the empty city of this Jiaofang Palace?

In the empty Jiaofang Palace, Liu Ying suddenly felt a little scared, Ah Yan, do you really want to forget everything in the past?

I don't know how long it took, Han Lian asked softly outside the hall, "Your Majesty, should you stay in the Jiaofang Hall for dinner?" ”

Liu Ying hurriedly turned her head, and after a while, she responded, "Okay." ”

It was getting dark, the palace people lit the candles in the Jiaofang Palace, Liu Ying looked at "Pipe" for a while, listened to the sound of the maids gently entering and leaving, and when everything was ready, Han Lian presented the food table to him and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to eat." ”

He nodded, seeing that the case was full of delicacies, but he had no appetite, he took a bite of dried bamboo shoots from the lacquer chopstick, chewed it mechanically, and suddenly felt that there was no Ah Yan sitting opposite him, Yin Yin spoke, and it was very empty.

"Why," he said, "I remember that Jiaofangdian used to make mutton soup, but not today?" ”

"Your Majesty," Han Lian bowed and said, "Your Majesty probably doesn't know that when the Queen Mother was in the past, Your Majesty's diet in the Jiaofang Palace was carefully prepared by the Queen Mother according to the seasonal weather and His Majesty's physical condition at that time. The maid has seen that the queen has been doing it for so many years, although she doesn't know too much, but she also knows that mutton soup is a great tonic food, which is only suitable for use in the cold of autumn and winter. ”

Her words were decent, but there was a faint resentment between her voices.

The queen mother loves Her Majesty so much, but Her Majesty finally failed her affection.

Liu Ying couldn't help but be dumbfounded when she heard this. Is he really too sorry for Ah Yan, which makes the maids around her feel unhappy for her? And he has always taken Ah Yan's affection for granted, so he never paid attention to when she was behind. How much effort did you put into him?

He suddenly felt that the delicious food in the past was now the same as chewing wax, and he didn't know if the food official surnamed Cen Di in Jiaofang Hall was also resentful of him, so he refused to cook it carefully as usual, or if he was thinking about it at this time. Even if it's a delicacy. I can't taste it. After a few quick bites, I no longer had the appetite to continue. Waving his hand, he ordered the palace people to take down the dinner.

In the Jiaofang Palace, there has been no trace of Ah Yan for a long time. But he still lingered. I refuse to just turn around and leave. Standing in this Jiaofang hall with countless memories they shared, they forbearably and presumptuously missed Ah Yan.

Ah Yan, she has always only shown herself the appearance of Yu Xiaoyanran, and secretly did all the hard work. Never say. Whether. She tried her best, but she didn't get a response from herself, so she was sad and desperate, and walked away without looking back.

Liu Ying was thinking bitterly. Suddenly, a white shadow flashed in the court, swept over, and suddenly called, "Ah Yan? ”

Ah Yan. Is that you?

Moment. Liu Ying heard her heart pounding, like thunder.

In court. The white-clothed female officer paused and turned around. Calmly saluted like a ritual, knelt down and said, "Minister Shen Dongshou sees Your Majesty." ”

"It's you."

Liu Ying said lightly. For a moment, there was a kind of prostration.

He remembered that this female historian, every time she came to the Jiaofang Palace, when she was with Ah Yan, she was in the corner of the hall and bowed her head to record something in the book in her hand. Quiet and silent, with little presence.

"Yes...... Your Majesty. These days, the ministers have time to read, so they will transcribe the history of Tong a few years ago to the book made of new paper in the palace, and suddenly remembered that Empress Zhang had been kind to me, and I missed it a little, so I came to the Jiaofang Palace to see, and I didn't know that Your Majesty was here, if you are offended, please forgive Your Majesty. ”

Liu Ying smiled, and sure enough, she was holding a thread-bound book in her sleeve, so she said, "Take the history of Empress Zhang over the years and show it to me." ”

"This ......" Shen Dongshou hesitated.

"How?" Liu Ying sank slightly, "I want to watch the history of Tong, but can't I?" ”

"Don't dare." Shen Dongshou hurriedly kowtowed, "It's just that Empress Zhang once ordered that the history of Tong recorded by the ministers should not be handed over to others." ”

"Oh?" Liu Ying became more and more curious, and even more had the idea of watching Tong Shidi, and said lightly, "I ordered you to present it, and you will present it." ”

Shen Dongshou didn't dare to disobey the emperor's order, so he had to present the history in his hand. Seeing that the emperor turned around and entered the hall, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and hurriedly called, "Your Majesty......"

When will you return to me the history I recorded?

Tong Shi turned the first page, recording the day of his wedding to Ah Yan:

"In the winter and October of the fourth year of this year, Ren Yin, Prime Minister Shen, Yu Shi Dafu Yao, Zong Zhengli, Changle Zhan Shi Shi Feng welcomed the queen in Xuanping Marquis. At the age of thirteen, he was not yet twelve years old.

In front of the Xuanshu Palace, after wearing the ethereal queen's order, with deep collar and wide sleeves, and then bowed: Concubine Zhang Yanhe Uncle His Majesty for ten thousand years. The head hangs down the double mustache, the clear spirit is glowing, the color is like the morning glow reflecting the snow, the upper is moved, and the hand into the hall, after eating together in the prison, the latter smile is as before, calling the uncle and uncle, the apricot eyes are moving, and the smile is also happy. Dropped out of chess in the middle of the night, called the nickname, did not answer, held the candle and looked at it, and had fallen into a dream, laughing and saying that the king was childish. For the rest of the bed. ”

When I recall that time, it seems that my state of mind at that time was a little blurred. At that time, he was forced to marry his niece due to the situation, and he was at a loss, how did he expect that that little girl would occupy such a heavy position in his heart in the future?

He continued to flip back.

"In the spring and March, after entering the new paper made by Momen, he was moved, holding a written test book, praising that his brother-in-law has the heart to help the country, and Ah Yan is also virtuous. I am really fortunate to have your father and daughter! ”

After being alert, good at laughing, in leisure, admonishing Yin Yin with a smile.

Shang Shi asked Yu Houyan, "I want to abolish the law of calligraphy, how can I get it?" ”

Then he pursed his lips, "Yes." This is one too. ”

laughed out loud and asked again, what is it, two, three?

Later, "Your Majesty can immediately observe and prosper Taixue." ”

Bow to the service, so he looked back and praised and said, if Zitong is a man, he will definitely be the minister of my humerus.

After laughing, he couldn't stop laughing. According to the words of the above, the above also laughed. Since then, she has often called Hou Yanqing. ”

"Jiazi, crowned in the high temple. After feasting on new wine, he was drunk, and then he was helped to put it on, and his cheeks were beautiful. Yuchen said. Please come out. ”

Liu Ying was stunned and suddenly remembered. That night, Ah Yan made new wine. He was so happy in his heart that he got drunk and stayed on the couch of Ah Yan.

That seems to be the first time. In the relationship between him and Ah Yan's husband-wife politely, a crack was drawn.

He was annoyed. But just thinking that she was indulgent, Ah Yan was only thirteen years old at the time. It's just a child, what kind of scheming can it have? But looking back at this time, Liu Ying always felt that she always felt as if she had been calculated. Ah Yan was also able to send out the female history in a good time, how she didn't look like a good baby who knew nothing.

Ah Yan.

He smiled wryly. Isn't his brother-in-law's tutor too bizarre, how did he teach a precocious baby like Ah Yan?

Five years of winter. After hugging, enter the pepper room hall. Then he suddenly laughed, which was said above. The concubine is afraid that the king does not like the concubine as before, and now he is still hanging on the concubine, and he is happy!

It was night, and I stayed overnight in the pepper room. ”

He put down the book history in a daze.

Is that. For the first time, Ah Yan told him very clearly that she liked him.

He called her name in a hurry. A premonition suddenly arose in his heart that if he couldn't get out of this Jiaofang Palace, then he would eventually fall into the quicksand that she had set for him, and this life would not be over.

He finally didn't leave the pepper room that Ah Yan kept.

Thereupon. He should be robbed, and he can no longer forget Ah Yandi's warmth.

Suddenly I understood. Why did Ah Yan earnestly instruct Shen Dongshou that she was unwilling to hand over this history to others to watch. This thin book, between the lines, is full of Ah Yan's deep affection for herself.

When spring arrives, a hundred flowers are gone, and all the spring hearts will be dissipated. The love fades, the traces it once left will not fade, and it once moistened people's hearts and will not be forgotten.

"Next spring, after the pepper room hall in the personal adjustment of the meal, served on the top. The upper eyebrows are bitter, but they can't bear the hard work of the future, and they just taste them one by one. At night, suddenly unwell, urgently recruited the imperial doctor to enter, and asked the doctor, His Majesty was also in harmony with the stomach. After being silent. Seeing it, I said, you have been spoiled since you were a child, and your mother handed you over to me, how can you wash your hands and make soup for me? ……”

When he and Ah Yan had already parted, looking at these words that recorded the bits and pieces between them, Ah Yan's affection, a look, and a slang that he had never paid attention to in the past seemed to reappear in his heart.

"Boom ----" The midwinter passed, and the first spring thunder of the spring of the seventh year of filial piety resounded in the sky above Weiyang Palace.

Liu Ying, how much do you owe Ah Yan?

The rain poured down. In the empty Jiaofang Palace, lying on the wide couch where Ah Yan had slept peacefully for countless nights, Liu Ying was finally able to bear it, and tears flowed quietly on her cheeks.

On the Sansheng Stone, the person he owes the most is Ah Yan.

Liu Ying, how rare is life to get such a confidant?

He suddenly had an impulse, jumped up from the bed, rushed out of this heavy rain, to the ends of the earth, to find Ah Yan back, they stayed together all their lives, didn't care about anything, didn't care about anything, he wanted her to laugh under his wing, instead of sending her to a man who didn't know her name, appearance, temperament, and heart.

If one day, he knew that she loved that man as much as she loved herself, perhaps, he would go crazy.

Admit it, Liu Ying, you are not as magnanimous as you think.

Those young and poor talented courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, even if he picks until the end of his life, he still can't pick one who can reassure him to deliver Ah Yan.

Because, even if there is such a person, young, handsome, intelligent, and simple, he can find out one of the biggest shortcomings:

He won't love Ah Yan as much as he does.

Even if there are good people in this world, there is no one who understands Ah Yan like himself, and then treats her as a cherished heart and takes good care of her.

Liu Ying clenched her fists in the dark night. For the first time, I hated the insistence in my heart, if I could not look at anything for the time being, I didn't want to, and just kissed the beautiful woman in my arms on that Shangyuan night, perhaps, he would not hesitate so much in the middle of the night now, bow down to Lan Ying for his beloved, and look up to the laurel branch.

Beloved.

When the lightning shone through the sky, Liu Ying suddenly realized. He naturally knew that he loved Ah Yan, but how much of it was out of the family affection of watching her grow up, or the unswerving love of this life, he never dared to think carefully.

At this moment, he suddenly really understood his mind, so he laughed coldly.

He once loved a young girl, she had a delicate face, an intelligent temperament, and when she smiled, a pair of apricot-like eyes narrowed into a curved crescent, sweet and amiable. Moreover, she loved him very much.

In the end, he pushed her away with his own hands.

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