Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

The naughty sons and daughters talk, and the lights are dimly lit at night.

Even though I had expected Kong Ming's confession, when I came to the outskirts of the canyon and was surrounded by the misty lights all over the mountains and plains, I was still shocked beyond words.The candles flickering with soft light slowly explored the sky in the quiet night, dancing in the wind like elves, erratic, until they covered the entire night sky.

Perhaps this is the original meaning of the birth of Kongming Lantern: lighting a lantern can send thousands of wishes, looking back only for two hearts.

No kneeling down on one knee, no diamond ring rose, Kong Ming gently took my hand and watched quietly amidst the ups and downs of the moonlight.The drifting reflections of the lights flickered in his eyes, and the stars shone behind him, the light and shadow were hazy, illusory like a dream.

"Nan Shuang, would you like to marry me?"

Great Thousand Worlds disappeared after these words, almost without thinking, I tiptoed to find his cool and soft lips.

Time stood still.

Kong Ming seemed to have received an electric shock, and looked at me in amazement, like a puppet who had been pulled out of the plug, and stopped instantly in a strange and ridiculous posture.

The ancients valued etiquette, and he has probably never seen a woman as brazen as me.

But I've wanted to do it for a long time.Since the future is bumpy and the road ahead is difficult, at least for now, I have to get back a little of the principal.The feeling of long-cherished wish fulfilled... not bad.

"Is this the answer?" Kong Ming's ears blushed suspiciously, and the brilliance in his eyes flowed, scorching hot and seductive.

Tears welled up in my eyes, I held back, looked at him and nodded slightly.

It was quiet.At that moment, all the voices disappeared, only the disordered and interlaced breathing was in my ears.

The next day I overslept very excusably.I felt a little uncomfortable under the sunlight at noon. I turned my head and turned my lower body slightly. A brocade quilt as fine and smooth as water flowed onto the carpet. The gold threads on the quilt shone like broken silver against the sunlight .

"Ah, the princess is awake." Qiu Shuang noticed my movement, quickly put down the half-finished embroidered handkerchief in her hand, and came up to wait for me to freshen up, "How did the princess rest last night?

"It's not bad." Anyway, the dark circles under the eyes can't be seen in the blurry bronze mirror, so I can pretend that everything is normal.

Qiu Shuang's dexterous fingers fluttered behind my head, and after a while, a beautiful bun fell on my neck.Chunhong's crisp voice outside the window came to her ears intermittently: "Princess doesn't like peachy...Chu Mu is too old and desolate...The bed needs to be bigger..."

what are you doing?

"This morning, the prince has already given the marriage to the princess and Zhonglang. The ceremonial officer made a fortune telling and asked the sky, and the eighth day of the next lunar month is determined to be Shangji." Seeing my doubts, Qiu Shuang explained empathetically, "Because of time constraints, the prince Early in the morning, he ordered Zhaocai to send twenty craftsmen to wait for his dispatch."

This is, come to make furniture for my new house?

According to the customs of Jingxiang in the Three Kingdoms period, when new couples get married, the man will give the dowry of the house and the house, and the woman will give the dowry of furniture, but the son-in-law marries a daughter from the Tian family, so in addition to having the dowry of furniture to enter the door, you can also earn a princess mansion for nothing, which is equivalent to moving in with a bag .

I couldn't help wondering: "Today is already the ninth day of the lunar new year, and until the eighth day of the next month, there will be a month of preparations for the wedding. Why did the prince arrange it so hastily?" The six links of invitation and personal welcome are indispensable.Even though Kong Ming and I have recognized each other, we still have a private life-long agreement in terms of etiquette and law, and we will be treated as the same wild marriage without going through the six rituals.According to the normal procedure, it would take ten days each to accept the proposal and ask the name, half a month for Najib, one month for Najib, half a month for the request, and then half a year to prepare for the wedding, even if the delays caused by various reasons were not counted. It takes at least a year.However, the princess's pro-marriage etiquette method has become more and more complicated, and the battle line has become more procrastinated.Princess Wannian took a total of three years from Na Cai to Li Cheng, and this is still in the case of deliberately speeding up the pace to avoid Empress Dowager Dong's filial piety.

Getting married in a hurry will leave unnecessary room for imagination. Fortunately, Kong Ming has just returned from Jiangdong, so no one will suspect that I have a secret marriage.

But the muttering behind it must be indispensable.

"It's spread all over the street." Qiu Shuang had already inquired clearly earlier. Seeing my inquiry, she consciously turned into a megaphone and replied, "My lord said, it's better to be a man than to be sweet before being sweet. Marry a sister It is a bitter thing, but marrying a wife is a happy event, so you must first marry your sister to taste the bitterness, and then marry the bride to taste the sweetness."

... This Liu Xi is really getting more and more good at talking nonsense.After what he said, no one mentioned the order of seniority that has been passed down for thousands of years. When Jingxiang people talked about my marriage, not only would they not block it, but they couldn't help but praise King Pingan's "" The theory of joys and sorrows", praised Liu Xi as a man of temperament who values ​​brotherhood.

I keep silent about it.

Liu Xi had already confessed to me that the reason why he was so eager to arrange a marriage for me was because he was going to raid Yizhou after the beginning of spring and caught Liu Zhang by surprise.

"Although Liu Zhang is weak and incompetent, Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky! I don't know how long this battle will last. I can't miss your wedding because of a stinky man, right?" Liu Xi inherited Chen Meiren has a good appearance, with a high nose bridge and handsome facial features. She hugged Pa Pao and raised Erlang's legs, vividly interpreting the image of the evil, charming, domineering and cool president.

It's so romantic and suave that you can't bear to look directly at it!No wonder the two most famous lyrics on the Qinhuai Painting Boat are: "Officials should be regarded as the ruler of Jinwu, and wives should be regarded as Yin Lihua. If you ask for advice, you can refine the elixir of immortality, and if you marry a man, you can ask for the king of peace."

It's a pity that most domineering presidents are ruthless: "You really don't plan to go to court with Sun Shangxiang before leaving? If Sun Quan finds out that you have despised his sister so much, there will inevitably be another lawsuit."

Maybe it’s because I’ve heard a lot about Mrs. Sun’s anecdotes in later generations. I have a good impression of the heroine Sun Shangxiang, who is good at wielding knives and swords. Although her marriage with Liu Xi is entirely out of political considerations, the bride is not far away. The wind and dust came, but the groom's official did not obediently wait in the new house, but ran all the way to other places to kill people and steal goods. No matter how I thought about it, I felt that it was not kind enough.

If Liu Xi wasn't my brother, from a woman's point of view, he would already be worthy of the title of scumbag.

But Liu Xi is not ashamed but proud: "Those who achieve great things don't care about small things. Isn't this era emphasizing three obediences and four virtues? If Sun Shangxiang can't even bear this grievance, she deserves what I put her in the cold palace."

"Didn't you plan to put her in the sidelines from the very beginning?" I sighed deeply.

From the resistance of escaping marriage at the beginning to the indifference now, no matter how well Liu Xi concealed it, he could not change his determination to put Sun Shangxiang on the shelf.Back then, Sun Shangxiang ranked No.1 on the list of Liu Xi's favorite women of the Three Kingdoms. Who would have thought that once he traveled through time, he would be destined to be a husband and wife with the former goddess, but he was destined to become a resentful couple before they got married.

It is unavoidable to be stunned.

However, emotional matters cannot be forced. Although I sympathize with Sun Shangxiang's experience, people's hearts are biased. When Sun Shangxiang meets Liu Xi, she has no power to fight in my heart.

In history, Sun Shangxiang married Liu Bei, who was more than [-] years older than her, and there is no birth record in historical materials.After Liu Bei entered Shu, she was sent back by Sun Quan, and there was no news after that. Neither Liu Bei nor Liu Chan gave her any title or posthumous title, far from being happy.The lesser of the two evils, Sun Shangxiang marrying Liu Xi, at least at the same age, can avoid the tragic fate of being a stepmother as soon as she enters the door.

"Sun Shangxiang was originally married to a shoemaker, but now she is a proper princess of Ping'an. As long as she fulfills her responsibilities as a wife, the queen's throne is like a bag." Facing me, Liu Xi never concealed his ambition, "And, I will definitely not be like Liu Bei when I see 'more than a hundred maidservants, all standing up with swords', and I will be 'sincere and always dignified', as long as she keeps herself safe, so what if I let her lead an army of women?"

Having personally experienced the casualness of the new women in the 21st century, Liu Xi was very sympathetic to the bondage and persecution suffered by the women of the Three Kingdoms.Although we cannot take any action due to the current situation of internal and external troubles, as long as there is an opportunity, drastic reforms are imperative.If Sun Shangxiang can fight for the sky with his martial arts, it will also be a great help to me, a princess who does not abide by etiquette and discusses government affairs indiscriminately.

"The Three Kingdoms are sparsely populated. It is a huge waste to confine women to the boudoir. Straight men with cancer only know how to fight and kill every day. They don't talk about production, and they spend all their energy on destroying productivity. If the economy does not develop, it is their fault." Credit." Liu Xi was full of anger, "In my opinion, if the ancients knew how to respect women, the progress of social development would have been at least doubled, and they had given up the productivity that can account for half the sky!

Think about it, if it took only 1000 years to complete the transformation from a slave society to a feudal society, and then only take more than [-] years to end the feudal society... China, which entered industrial modernization early, must be incredibly strong.

"Not only Sun Shangxiang, but also Cai Wenji, who is talented in literature, Huang Yueying, who is proficient in bureaucracy, Wang Yi, who helps her husband defend the city, Xin Xianying, who knows things like a god, etc., all should be given the opportunity to give full play to their talents. It would be too wasteful to bury them in the trivial matters of the inner house " As early as three months ago, Liu Xi had sent someone to Tingzhou to invite the widowed Huang Yueying to arrange for the research and development of arms in the R&D camp.

It is said that at the beginning, Huang Yueying wanted to die and was unwilling to serve Liu Xi: "King Ping'an killed my uncle and husband, and made my aunt commit suicide. Although Yueying is unworthy, how can she abandon her relatives and become an enemy!"

But Liu Xi grabbed her lifeline with one sentence: "Cai's family has been slaughtered, but I heard by chance a few days ago that there is still a glimmer of life left in Madam's belly. Health', I am hesitating whether to listen to the rumors, and ask the doctor to check the pulse of the lady."

Huang Yueying was furious, but in order to preserve the last trace of the Cai family's blood, she finally chose to swallow her anger.

National affairs are not trivial matters. Although I feel sorry for Huang Yueying's young widowhood, I can't help reminding Liu Xi: "Huang Yueying is full of resentment, and there is no guarantee that she will not secretly inform foreign enemies. The development of arms involves secrets. What if she sells the technology to Cao Cao and Sun Quan..."

"She won't." Liu Xi replied confidently, "I will never give her this chance." Huang Yueying was surrounded by Liu Xi's confidantes, without Liu Xi's handwriting, she would not even be able to leave the gate of the R&D camp. "I only need ten years." Liu Xi said, "In ten years, I will rule the world and revive the Han Dynasty. At that time, there will be no king in the world, and I will not be afraid of her defection, but I will return her freedom."

The Three Kingdoms did not prohibit women from remarrying. If Huang Yueying had an abortion and remarried at this moment, it was very possible to find a good relationship, but ten years later, when she was old and young, the possibility of regaining happiness became very slim.Whether it is worth exchanging a lifetime of happiness for the life of a posthumous child, only Huang Yueying can make a decision.

The author has something to say: The idea of ​​Kongming Lantern comes from Dongyue, thank you!