This has to mention the swordsmanship of the Xiao family, which is simply low-key and does not show its edge, but it can stand alone in the world. Because of the Northern Song Dynasty's "emphasis on literature and education, light on martial arts", the Xiao family set up ancestral family rules, established "reading-oriented, Confucianism as the industry", restrained the sword qi, avoided the edge, and did not see the corners, so as not to provoke the scourge of right and wrong. The Xiao family belongs to a famous family in central Henan, with a long history in the local area, and has a high reputation, and has a good relationship with the five surnames of the seven wang families such as the Li family in Longxi, the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Yang family in Hongnong, the Xie family in Chenjun, and the Cui family in Qinghe. In order to continue the glory of the family, the Xiao family did not care about the affairs of the rivers and lakes in the rivers and lakes, and devoted themselves to cultivating their children to rush to the imperial examination to gain fame, and develop the family style of the family of eunuchs, so as to bless the prosperity of the family. Compared with the civil and military champions, the scribes are fast and preferential, and the martial arts are not valued. When Juzi is named the champion, the first is also Hanlin, and then gradually promoted. And if Wu Zhuangyuan does not have the performance of major battles, he can only rely on time to be promoted. Therefore, the Xiao family advocates that all texts should be followed.

In ancient times, when the country was in deep crisis, it abandoned the pen and followed the Rong, and now there is the wind of the Northern Song Dynasty not changing the martial arts.

The next day, the morning light pierced through the mist and into the window, giving it a warm and fresh feeling.

On the bed, the sheets and quilt covers are neatly stacked, the faint scent of sandalwood fills the room, and the hollow carved windows shine into the speckled sunlight, filling the room with freshness and leisure--- everything is waiting for Liu Yuqing to push the door in.

Liu Yuqing boiled mint and lily soup and walked straight to the door. In fact, she had expected that the house would inevitably be empty, and her uncle embarked on the return journey and left the commercial capital Zhengzhou early. He is a person who doesn't like to drag mud and water, he values love and loyalty, and there must be other concerns in his heart.

However, she still held a trace of luck, or couldn't let go of her worries and sense of responsibility, and cooked healthy porridge for her uncle early, which is conducive to moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the nerves. After all, when entering the mango seed, it is easy to make people irritable in hot and humid weather, and it is easy to hurt the liver and stomach when drinking.

A miss, a trace of concern.

There are two flowers, one on each branch. Now it's about Princess Lin'an's Mansion.

Why is Xiao Zhengyu so indignant, he is not easily angry, he can't help but get angry after all.

Xiao Zhengyu and Princess Zhao Xuan of Lin'an were married by Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and they belonged to the relationship of childhood sweethearts.

Xiao Zhengyu likes intelligent women, Zhao Xuan is naturally no exception, she is the granddaughter of Song Taizu's eldest house, and her father is Zhao Kuangyin's eldest son Zhao Dezhao.

Zhao Xuan has always been haunted by the violent death of his grandfather and the suicide of his father by cutting his wrists. She is superficially subservient to the current government and secretly accumulates her own strength.

Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi and Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng felt that she was just a daughter after all, and she couldn't set off the wind and waves, and she was somewhat ashamed in her heart, and most of the rumors about her belonged to turning a blind eye and letting her go.

Zhao Xuan's personality is strong, his emotions are fickle, he pretends to be gentle and gentle when he goes out, but when he returns to the house, he has a different kind of respect, has a strong desire to control, often suffers from gains and losses, and likes to test each other. Once there is a chance to find a reason to lose his temper, he will be domineering and aggressive, giving people a kind of pressure that they can't kick.

Maybe it's because of the family changes brought about by the struggle for royal power when he was young, or maybe it's too insecure, Zhao Xuan is strong on the outside, but glassy on the inside, forcing himself to disguise, in order to protect himself, he doesn't want to look so out of place in the royal family, and he doesn't want others to know his loneliness and helplessness. She longs for someone to understand, but she is afraid of being understood, so she keeps struggling and pulling herself.

Without the protection of his parents, the temple was isolated and difficult to help, Zhao Xuan was like a drowning person, struggling in the water, but unable to get out of the predicament...... When fate hangs in the balance, people are in a critical moment, even if it is a straw or a falling leaf, they want to rush to grasp it desperately at the critical moment, desperately betting.

Xiao Zhengyu is a life-saving straw in Zhao Xuan's life, she holds his hand tightly, like a drowning man trying to grasp the branches on the shore, betting a lot of hopes and expectations on this man, hoping that he will open the way for himself to meet mountains and rivers by his side, hope that he will squeeze into the most circle of power in the Northern Song Dynasty when he becomes famous, and hope that he will take back the dignity and status that originally belonged to his family for his father, and hope that he will ...... However, the more you expect, the more you move forward, and the more you are afraid of being disappointed.

Xiao Zhengyu loves this little princess of childhood and her childhood sweetheart, she loved to laugh in the past, leaned on the door to smile, covered her mouth and smiled, her eyebrows flew and her eyes smiled, and she burst into laughter...... He remembered almost all her smiling appearances, with a moth brow, a clever smile, and beautiful eyes.

He tried his best to give his fiancée love and make up for the sadness and loneliness caused by the departure of his relatives. After all, from the very beginning, he gladly accepted Taizu's decision to marry the eldest princess to him. It's just that his father Xiao Shouwen will sigh in private.

In ancient times, the average rich and noble family had three wives and four concubines, and if it was a high-ranking official and nobleman, it was a group of wives and concubines, and the beauty lingered and not to mention, life was free. But there is a kind of person, although the surface scenery, wealth and glory are endless, but everywhere is restrained by the royal power, that is, a concubine. Aside from not being able to take concubines, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the imperial power, and it also has its own guiding constraints in politics and officials, and it is easy to be artificially divided into camps and buckled up for personal gain, and it will be feared by the imperial power if it is not guarded.

Regarding Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's marriage to the Xiao family, Xiao Shouwen's heart refused, but because of the strict authority of the emperor, he could not offend the holy grace, so he could not refuse, only gladly accepted.

Regarding his father's worries and worries, Xiao Zhengyu has not yet thought about this. After all, he was too young to follow his feelings.

In his mind, Zhao Xuan is not the eldest princess, but the little girl in his memory who keeps smoking a spinning top in the snow in the imperial garden. She is confident and cheerful, smiling like a flower, has cultivation and knowledge, knows piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, knows humility and peace, and is held in the palm of her hand by everyone, but she is not coquettish. They do hide and seek together, count the stars, fight crickets, and guess lantern riddles...... Gyeongbok Palace, Yanfu Palace, Cuiwei Palace, and Houyuan all left their figures running and playing together, wearing long clothes full of brocade.

A heart secretly promises, and a heart falls in love at first sight. Originally, there were no other changes, and Taizu Chrysostom gave marriage, which was really a godsend and the beauty of adults.

However, things are unpredictable. Zhao Xuan's personality changed with family changes, and even Xiao Zhengyu was unpredictable. Of course, this change was not highlighted from the time he and Zhao Xuan reunited in the Hanlin Academy, but gradually appeared in the process of contact.

After all, when people just get along, they always present their best side to each other. After getting along for a long time, the shortcomings will gradually be exposed. Xiao Zhengyu's feelings for Zhao Xuan stayed in the good memories of the past, her smile was as bright as a pearl, imprinted into his mind, and became the most beautiful memory, like a bean firefly, no matter how the years passed, although the light was faint but dazzling.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's hard to get along. Although Xiao Zhengyu was born in the list, he admired martial arts, and did not like literati and ink writers to be too detoured in social interactions, and indulged in singing and dancing, like to sing and sing in a low voice, and sang in interpersonal interactions, without doing more practical things, resulting in a trend of forming a party for personal gain, and corruption was rampant, but he was still pretentious, arrogant, and looked down on the generals who excluded the bloody battlefield outside, which also made Xiao Zhengyu, who was originally strong-blooded, indignant.

In the context of increasingly strengthening centralized politics, Zhao Xuan is eager for her fiancé to get involved in the core category of political power, mingle with Taishi, Taiwei, Taibo, etc., and sell his reputation and reputation, and inevitably urge Xiao Zhengyu again and again, to be diligent in socializing, and to maneuver in all kinds of officialdom. This made Xiao Zhengyu very uncomfortable, the entertainment ushered in, and eating and drinking at public funds became a trend, from the court ministers to the state and county officials, and the ministers from promotion, to appointment, to resignation, birthday, marriage, etc., with a huge cost, and the salaries were all for the people, so that he could see clearly the corruption and unbearableness of the government and the opposition, and he was even more tired of this political ecological environment, and was unwilling to go along with it.

In this regard, he refused to welcome the social interaction of guests, out of the mud without staining, indifferent to fame and fortune, disdainful of Luo Qi's gorgeous clothes and light cars and fragrant horses, and devoted himself to returning to the purity and authenticity of his heart. As a result, he had a disagreement with Zhao Xuan, from the beginning of the good words and persuasion, to the later Cold War, and then quarrels, it was inevitable. So much so that the husband and wife no longer play the piano and ming, even if it is a moment of skin-to-skin blind date, they feel that each other's souls are far away from the body.

"Officialdom is a society of acquaintances, and many things are played back and forth and eventually have to be entangled in the word human feelings, and the biggest characteristic of the acquaintance society is to form a docking channel for the transmission of interests, and finally form an impermeable relationship network -- if you don't integrate into this relationship network, how can you gain a foothold in the imperial court? Not to mention consolidating and developing new forces, it is difficult to even gain a firm foothold in officialdom!" Zhao Xuan said naturally.

"Who said that I must try to gain a firm foothold in the imperial court and consolidate my power? The state finances are stretched, and the officialdom still pursues power, face, and favors, and is not ashamed of corruption, but uses power to seek rent in exchange for wine and pleasure, forms a party for personal gain, and holds a group to make fire, so it is okay for the court not to stay!" Xiao Zhengyu asked righteously.

"Officialdom has always had entertainment, and it is justified. It is said that since Zhou Tianzi, all the emperors have to hold a palace banquet on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and all civil and military officials have to participate, and bring their ladies to have fun, with pomp and circumstance, and extravagant drinking, which has continued until now. Other routine events, such as the Yuan banquet when the new emperor ascended the throne, the Dingding banquet when the Yuan was rebuilt, and the longevity banquet when celebrating his birthday, are also countless, and every meal of delicacies from the mountains and seas at the banquet can be worth the food and clothing expenses of ordinary people for a year. Everything has been like this since ancient times, what do you have to be indignant?" Zhao Xuan looked back at Gu Shenghui and slowly retorted.

"I don't like it, can I? Whether it's like everything in ancient times, or the sages in ancient times, I don't like the ups and downs of the sea!" Xiao Zhengyu raised his voice and shouted at Zhao Xuan. This is a rare time for him to be angry, and it is the only time he has ever screamed at his fiancée, who is the eldest princess.

Now that he had already let out the first cry, he simply vented the suppressed emotions in his heart, changed color, his eyes widened with anger, and the green tendons in the corners of his forehead swelled with the exhalation. Xiao Zhengyu said sharply: "What I need is a gentle and lovely wife, not a guide who stands behind me and manipulates my career and political prospects - I am not a puppeteer, and I don't need someone to carry the string behind my back!"

In an instant, perhaps accustomed to Xiao Zhengyu's gentle and elegant face, Zhao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and his expression froze. After most of the sound, she came to her senses, and she couldn't hide her doubts between her eyebrows: "I let you follow the steady career step by step, I hope that your Xiao family will continue the glory of the family and carry it forward, is it so difficult for you, the first-class leader? ”

While Zhao Xuan spoke, he calmed down with a wisp of air, straightened out the emerald bun of the clouds, turned around and sat back on the Zhu chair, and said slowly: "Do you know that although the father-in-law can be literate and martial, wise and brave, there are still villains who blow the wind by Song Renzong's side. At the beginning, Di Qing, the general of Mian Ni, was brave and good at fighting, performed military exploits, and was relocated to the command of Yanzhou, but because he was not good at officialdom and interpersonal communication, he was rejected by the ministers of the court, and he was depressed and depressed, and finally died of depression - do you want to repeat the mistakes of the past?"

"Don't you feel ashamed when the Zhao family says this?" Xiao Zhengyu said coldly with disdain in his eyes: "The general ended up with regret, and the military generals were squeezed out by the government and the opposition, is it really just because they don't understand human favors and don't know the rules of etiquette? I'm afraid that even if the generals entertain every day, the cups are staggered, and they can't enter the eyes of the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty. ”

Saying that, Xiao Zhengyu's tone paused, hesitated for a moment, and finally blurted out the sentence: "Because the fundamental reason is not here, but because your Zhao family was originally a martial arts dictatorship, and after stealing the Later Zhou Jiangshan, I am afraid that the 'Chenqiao Mutiny' will be repeated, and the law of emphasizing literature and light military force as the ancestor is deep-rooted and unshakable--- after all, it is easy to break the mountain and the thief in the heart!"

After that, Xiao Zhengyu's cold eyes turned, as if a cold light shot out, his eyes were clear, looking directly at Zhao Xuan in front of him, if there was a kind of pressure that was relieved but like a fish in his throat.

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Xuan was suddenly enraged, frowned, originally her red lips were lightly opened, and she was as angry as an orchid, she almost jumped up from the red chair, her eyebrows were solemn, and she was not very frightened in her heart, so she quickly knelt down and persuaded: "Please the eldest princess to calm her anger, please the eldest princess to calm her anger." ”

I saw Zhao Xuanyu raising his fingers lightly, pointing at the sweetheart in front of him, and said in a depressed voice: "Xiao Zhengyu, you are arrogant and presumptuous! Could it be that you are tired of being alive!"

"Yes, I'm tired of it. Wandering on the surface of a group of harmony, pleasant faces, competing with each other in the back, deceitful Vanity Fair, not only to grovel, but also to celebrate with the crown, I am in dire straits, life is better than death!" Xiao Zhengyu looked at Zhao Xuan's gaze squarely, and said loudly, "How about the eldest prince, everything is up to you!" After saying that, he turned his head and resolutely turned to leave, stepping out of the mansion with a sharp and resolute gaze.

For Zhao Xuan, a chill seeped from head to toe, the corners of her mouth trembled slightly, her mind slowly calmed down, she sat down slowly, stopped talking, and her eyes wandered away from the direction where Xiao Zhengyu's back disappeared.

After a while, remembering something, he turned his head to the personal maid tassel and said: "What the master said today, not half a word can be transmitted outside the house, if anyone has any mistakes, I will take the blame, Zhulian Nine Clans!"

Tassel hurriedly bowed, nodded respectfully and said: "Master, put it down, in your own home, talking and doing things, naturally has nothing to do with outsiders." Master Horse, what did you say just now, the slave maid turned her ears behind her ears for a while, and she didn't hear clearly. ”

Zhao Xuan bowed his head slightly, condensed slightly, and handed over his approving eyes, his heart couldn't help but sink, his brows wrinkled slightly, and the corners of his eyes were wet.

Maybe it was too long since the lonely days passed, Xiao Zhengyu's sudden withdrawal from leaving made her afraid of the initial feeling of not worrying again, her heart was soaked with sadness and vinegar, and she had no expectations, but she was more and more unwilling to submit.

This night is windy, and the chrysanthemums in the courtyard are blown off the petals, and the flowers are colorful, covering the steps.

This night, Zhao Xuan's dream was long and trivial.