Gu Qingci

"During the Chinese New Year this year, I will go with you to Dongshan. Where did your master's friend come from?"

"I didn't tell you, why are you so forgetful! You can tell that you are from the south just by that accent."

Yan Xi held Yang Zhi's hand holding the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, quickly kissed her fingertips, and said, "I mean, how south is it? Jiangnan County is the south, and... Nanman is also the south."

"I, how would I know!" Yang Zhi hurriedly put his hands behind his back, staring at Yan Xi sternly.

"Just kidding, I already guessed that you didn't know." Yan Xi became more and more delighted as he watched, "Let's go to the restaurant, lady."

"Who is your wife, don't be ashamed!" Yang Zhi couldn't help breaking her, "If you want to say, I am the husband, you are the wife!"

"Okay, then let's go for a wine competition and see who is the gentleman and who is the young lady tonight—"

Yan Xi was chased by Yang Zhi and started to run, the last voice was so loud.

Master Yan can take his little wife to hang out on the streets of Daxing, and then go to compete for drinking; but I can only accompany the emperor to deal with political affairs in front of the imperial court day after day, which is really hard work.

The Imperial Palace is too boring.If the emperor finds out about my slander, I will definitely have a hard time.

In the golden autumn, the construction of the north line of the canal started, and the progress of many projects came, and I confirmed and summarized them one by one to the emperor.

The emperor went through it quickly, and used a cinnabar pen to leave only two big characters behind other people's long-running papers: "I have read it."

She raised her head slowly, stared at me, felt hairy from her stare, touched her nose and wondered what went wrong again.

After a while, her cold voice was filled with relief, and her red lips parted lightly: "Yang Li, it's Qucai to let you be the cabinet, are you willing to be my prime minister in Daxing?"

"Really?" He reacted quickly, first of all he was pleasantly surprised, without any concealment.

This person is really... I don't know if he is stupid or wise.

"I'm willing, willing!" Recovering from the surprise, he nodded his head like a pounding garlic.Joy overflows my chest, my emperor finally wants to use me again!

The emperor was thoughtful.

If it is other ministers, they must be humble first, even if they are ecstatic, they will never show it so openly on the public face.Only her, the excitement in her eyes could not stop flowing, flamboyant like the bright sun, like a glistening river, with heat and temperature, able to melt the old-fashioned, dusty ice.

Hiding emotions, concealing thoughts, and testing human nature are the inherent skills of the emperor. They are hard shells that have been honed and hammered in the towering palace walls since childhood. They lock innocence and purity, freedom and casualness like shackles. .However, all these skills failed in front of Yang Ling.

Such blazing and blazing, people who are always thinking about conspiracy have an indescribable yearning.

"When the autumn harvest comes this year, I will make a decree." After calming his mind, the emperor made a promise.

"Okay, I'll wait." He couldn't help grinning, showing his teeth.

The emperor put down the cinnabar pen and said with a sigh of relief: "It's been a long time since I took a rest. Today, do you want to go out for a stroll?"

"Well, really?" I just got the promise from her, and my whole body became excited, willing to do anything.

"come over."

She took me to the small room behind the screen, found two ordinary clothes from nowhere, and changed into one for each of us.The clothes in the palace, even ordinary clothes, are made of high-quality materials, embroidered with rare patterns, but the hem and cuffs are a little smaller, making it easier to move around.

After changing clothes, she took me out of the meeting hall through the side door, walked for a long time in the inner palace, and came to a very tall pavilion.

"It turns out that this is the bell tower that I can see all the time, but I don't know where it is." Looking at the towering pavilion, I couldn't help but sigh.

With a slight smile on Liu Yueying's face, she entered the pavilion, but instead of stepping up the stairs, she lifted a stone slab in a hidden place, revealing a dark tunnel.

"Go from here."

He looked at her a little scared, without moving his feet.Liu Yueying couldn't help but grab my hand and drag me in.In the tunnel where you can't see your fingers, you can only feel the footsteps of the two of us, and she clasped my hand tightly.

Slowly, there was a faint light ahead, and finally the white light became stronger and stronger, and the walls around the tunnel could be seen clearly.

After walking dozens of steps, it suddenly became clear.

This is a very high hillside, with several osmanthus trees planted, the grass on the ground has not had time to wither and yellow, the tallest of the osmanthus trees is already covered with yellow osmanthus flowers, and the tiny petals are densely packed to rest on the branches.

In the distance, there is a rolling river.

"This is the back hill of the imperial palace. When the site was selected, the imperial palace was built on the hillside. Standing here, you can see the Huaijiang River in the north." She felt relaxed, and the quiet breath disappeared.

"No wonder the whole Rongcheng is called Huainan. It turns out that the north side is surrounded by the Huaijiang River." This is the first time I have seen such a scenery intuitively, and I have a feeling of expanding my mind.The ancients said that the passing of the river often represents the white clouds and dogs of time, and I am just going upstream.

"Xiao Li, do you have any opinion on Yuehua?" The clear and steady voice flowed slowly, less cold.

Although she asked freely, but so suddenly, she didn't know how to answer.

Because, I am a person far away from the river.

The water rushing day and night has taken away time, and let me know many things that are impossible to know today after I was born decades later.Just because I know history, I can't help but worship her.It is hard for me to accept her death at such a young age in history, so I can't bear to make things difficult for her successor in every possible way.With such strange powers and minds, you can't talk to her casually.

Seeing that I didn't answer, she sighed: "Father chose me as the crown prince. Naturally, the requirements for Yuehua are not so strict. She has been favored since she was a child. She is seventeen now, and she is my eldest princess in Daxing. How much do you want?" Give her some face."

Seeing the person I have been thinking about day and night is in front of me, and speaking to me in such a soft voice, I feel an indescribable feeling.Like a feather dipped in honey, it gently scrapes across the heart.So, even if she still has scruples about me, it doesn't matter, right?

I think so, right? ——The initial confusion swept over again, leaving me at a loss as to what to do.

"Understood, I will let her go in the future." Liu Yuehua is her biological sister after all.

There was a breeze, and the osmanthus trees were rustling.

"Xiao Lu, today is my birthday." She stood under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, closed her eyes and looked up to smell the fragrance of the flowers, and suddenly said this sentence.

"After today, I will be 22." She opened her eyes and turned to look at me.

"When I was young, my father would celebrate my birthday. Since I became busy as a regent, he seemed to be a different person. He was always stern and terrifying. Later, when my mother passed away, I never celebrated my birthday again." Despondency appeared in her eyes, "After ascending to the throne, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to ask a few times, but there were too many things, and it was not time for Yuehua to share them, and... I wanted to save more money for people's livelihood. I want to leave some legacy to future generations, so it’s just a birthday.”

She did leave a lot of legacy, and every single piece is enough to shine in the annals of history and last forever.

"It turns out that His Majesty was born in autumn."

"Well, the seventeenth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar." She told me about the day, and her eyes regained their luster when she looked at me: "I told you several times, call me Yueying when no one is around."

I can't say it for a while, but she has such a lofty status in my mind that calling her by her first name always seems to be blasphemy.So I changed the words and said: "What a coincidence, maybe I haven't celebrated my birthday for a long time."

"How old are you this year." She seemed very interested in my age.

"twenty."

"When is your birthday?" The emperor sat on the floor in his robes, looking at the Huaijiang River in the distance.

"Me, it was the day of Guyu." When I said this, I thought of some dark and terrifying memories, which would occasionally wake me up from nightmares.

"Gu Yu? That's March..." She also thought of something, her expression flickered, and she leaned towards me, "Did you work in the Punishment Department that day?"

I didn't answer, just looked at the rolling river in the distance.Life is fragile and perishable, and personal experience is insignificant and not worth mentioning in the vastness of history.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the emperor was a little at a loss. "Little worry..." She hugged me tightly, her head resting on my neck, but she hesitated to speak.I vaguely felt that she might want to apologize, but she didn't say it in the end, and the murmured syllables drifted away with the wind.

I don't need her apology, she always has supreme dignity as an emperor, how could she do something wrong, so I comforted her: "It's okay, everyone has involuntary and helpless, I know." On behalf of take it easy.

She and I looked at each other, and the deep pupils slowly shrank and lost focus.After a while, she just swallowed and hummed lightly.

"Don't go home tonight, okay?" She asked me.

After talking in the head, of course she knew what her subtext was, and she replied calmly: "Of order, Her Majesty's servants are waiting for your call at any time."

Her earlobes were red again, but she was so easily shy.

I have a thick skin.

"When I was recuperating in your bedroom, Wuxia told me one thing."

"what?"

"Don't punish her, I'll just say it."

She didn't say yes right away, and hung her arms around me.After walking three steps forward, I couldn't see her expression, so I slowly said: "Why, you will also feel sorry for her?"

……

"No, she just told me out of kindness. If you punish her for this, you will not let me down..." The more you talked, the more chaotic the surrounding temperature dropped. The person in front turned to look at me with a blank expression on his face. People are shocked.

"Oh," simply broke the jar, stepped forward to hug her again, and muttered: "Wu Xia said, your old illness relapsed a few months ago, but now you are recovering? What is it?"

She was stunned, and after thinking for a while, she said lightly: "It's nothing, don't listen to her nonsense."

"Don't lie to me."

"Do you believe me or her?" The emperor's tone raised a degree, and I had no choice but to shut my mouth obediently, not daring to ask any more questions.