Wanyanyong waited for a long time in his position, and all he was thinking about was the scene on New Year's Eve when he and Qingya released sky lanterns together and wrote down their wishes together. The night scene was the most gentle and unforgettable thing he had ever seen in his life. He still remembered that the night was like water, and the cold wind blew the remaining snow from the ancient branches and fell on the plain clothes. When he picked up his pen and looked at it, the love of his life was in the dusk. Under the bright lamp, he lowered his eyebrows and smiled. In the haze, he seemed to see her appearance as a child.
"Lu'er! This kid, don't think too much. Men have their own ambitions. Wenwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes. You should also talk about your own thoughts!" Li Shi suddenly patted him, and he woke up.
He laughed innocently and pulled up his boots: "Wulu, I just hope that the country and the people will be safe, and that the weather will be good. If the people are safe, wouldn't it be the same whoever becomes the emperor?"
After he said this, Li Shi quickly stood up, patted his velvet shirt, knelt on the ground, raised his hands to his head, and saluted: "I am ashamed of myself!"
Wanyanyong was very surprised after hearing this: "Uncle, what are you doing?"
"We are scared. We are the king's right-hand man, but we don't know how to give advice. Now the situation in the court is chaotic and uprisings are happening from all sides. However, we didn't let the king see the dangerous situation. Instead, we made the king mistakenly think that the country is peaceful and the people are safe."
He sat on the couch, leaned over to look at Li Shi's bowed body, immediately straightened his sitting posture, and helped him up: "Uncle, the lonely king has naturally seen the current situation, and the lonely king is not a confused person. Son! But what can I do with my current strength?"
"Of course we can't do anything, so we must slowly accumulate strength first, and then wait for an opportunity. Now there is a counter-force in the court, and it is extremely powerful and incomparable to us!" There is a mystery in his words. , his eyes turned to the bright window, hinting at something.
"Wan Yanliang?" He answered immediately.
"Yes, now most of the forces in the imperial court have fallen to him. I believe there will be another bloody struggle in the near future!"
Talking about this, Wanyan Yong suddenly took a deep breath, stretched out against the tiger skin on the couch, and yawned again: "Whether it's a struggle or ambition! It would be better if the fire didn't burn the Yongguo Mansion. Since I don’t want to participate in their struggle, I just take it one step at a time.”
As for Li Shi, he naturally knew that although his nephew looked gentle and kind on the surface, deep down he still wanted to show his ambition, but the time was not ripe now. He thought about it carefully, then quickly poured the tea on the case over to the other side, and raised his hand to invite tea.
Li Shi admired Wan Yanyong's calmness and calmness more and more: "Yes, if we do this now, my uncle will secretly win over Lu'er and make plans for the future."
"My uncle treats Wulu like his own son, and Wulu will definitely not let his hard work go to waste. He will definitely be diligent, thrifty, and make progress in life, and he will also be able to honor his uncle."
"Okay, okay!"
The two smiled at each other and invited another cup of tea. Li Shi straightened the beard under his chin: "It's almost spring. The days go by so fast. These two little girls are over twelve." Three years old! They are already planning their wedding."
"What are your uncle's plans for your two cousins?"
"Qingya is not worried now, she has Lu'er for you, but Qingru, it was Brother Xuansu who came to discuss the proposal of Ru'er to Zhang Shaolang, but Ru'er was not willing and came to me crying, I think Since she lost her mother at such a young age, she is already pitiful, so I followed her wishes and let the matter end."
He seems to be feeling guilty about his deceased wife, and he also seems to love his son. Every time he mentions Qingru, he looks guilty and regretful. In the past, he was silent in front of everyone, dignified and honest, and had no air of a strict official. There was only a confused look in his eyes and a lingering sigh. He just looked at him mentioning his deceased wife, and couldn't stop circling the brocade with his hands, and couldn't say a word for a while.
"Oh! Li'er told you about Ru Bi. Ru Bi seems to want to marry sister Xiao Gao. He has sent a matchmaker to talk about it!"
Li Shi couldn't sit still for a while and quickly put the cup on the case: "So fast? It's really not easy to see this family. The front foot went to my Li family and the back foot went to the Gao family. Little Gao's family How can Ru'er be even remotely considerate and sensible!"
When he said this, he was extremely excited. He looked like he was about to go to the Zhang family to argue. His face was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and his face with fine lines was stunned.
Wanyanyong couldn't help laughing.
"Third cousin didn't want to, so Rubi naturally turned around and looked for someone else."
"Perhaps your third cousin thinks the Zhang family is not a noble family?"
"Hey! This girl has such a temperament. I have also said that Mr. Zhang is full of knowledge and plans to take the scientific examination in the future. If he really succeeds, he will be the number one scholar! But she won't listen, so don't do anything. The wife of the number one scholar."
"The girl is planning for herself, so that's good for her," Wan Yanyong could only lower his head and sip his tea.
Li Shi pondered for a moment and then held the cup and stroked it with his thumb. He raised his head and looked at him carefully. Suddenly, an idea occurred to him and he sat down an inch closer.
"Then uncle, let me tell you the truth, what if these two girls are given to Lu'er?"
Wanyan Yongzheng was eating a piece of tea. After hearing this, the tea in his hand rolled down the clothes and fell to the ground. Seeing that the white clothes were dirty, he stood up and patted himself with his hands, then sat back in the circle. On the couch.
"How could uncle think so?"
Li Shi knew that this was inappropriate, but he did not feel confident about handing over the jewel in his eyes to others. Even the closest people are the best. He scratched the braid on the back of his head and said, "Hey! My uncle didn't want to do this either. Yes, but at a glance, it seems that the young masters in Ningcheng are either already committed to marriage, or they are just idle and flirting with women. Come to think of it, it is better to marry Ru'er to the king, so that I can feel more at ease."
He was a little at a loss. He held an empty tea cup in his hands and placed it on his chest. He paused and said, "Uncle, in this way, I have failed Qingya. I might as well... choose another good match for my third cousin!"
"What are you afraid of? Since ancient times, there have been two sisters serving one husband. Qingya is still a child. What does she know?"
"No, it's okay. Wulu is a passionate person. He and Qingya were separated when they reunited after a long separation. By doing so, she became even more alienated. So Wulu still only wants Qingya, and his third cousin...Gu Bian also looks for him. Just go with it! There will always be someone suitable."
The conversation between the two became more and more awkward. Wan Yanyong drank tea and declined, while Li Shi didn't know what to do and was at a loss. ..
"The Yuan Zhong of the eldest princess's family is not very suitable..." He thought, the wife Wugu Lunjia also has a son, but after thinking about it, he shook his head.
"Oh! My uncle has already come to the government to discuss with me. He wants Yuan Zhong and Yu Xiao to get married, but he is a step too late."
Li Shi was suddenly shocked: "Wugu Lun Yuanzhong is a widower, and Yuxiao is the princess. How can he become a stepmother?"
"It doesn't matter, my uncle and aunt came to tell me in person. Although the lonely king has little contact with Yuan Zhong, he also knows a little about his character. He is a person worth relying on, so the lonely king and the imperial concubine discussed staying with Yuanzhong. When she got hairpins, she married into the Wugu Lun family."
The Wugulun Yuanzhong in his mouth is the son of Qingya's uncle Wugulunwolun. His mother is the eldest princess of the State of Bi. He got married at the age of seventeen. His wife died in childbirth. Now he is nearly frail and has never grown. Continue to marry.
"Hey, he still has a son, Yi, who is over two years old! This Yuxiao is only six or seven years old. This...how does this make sense? If my cousin marries my cousin, how will the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects be distinguished in the future?"
Facing the in-laws with such a big age gap and a wide span of generations, Li Shi was dumbfounded. He raised his head and looked at Wan Yanyong's serious look. He turned the cup in his hand alone and looked at the others. The curtains moved slightly in the wind.
"Uncle, don't worry about this. Isn't Qingya still in her teens? I guess there is no difference between the two."
Seeing his persistence, Li Shi gave up and took a sip of water: "Okay! Okay, Wulu, you have your own thoughts."
"Yes, yes, what my uncle said is that now that I am letting Sister Qingru look at people slowly, I will definitely find a young master I like."
The two of them talked happily. For a moment, they felt that the things in this world were unclear, so they stopped there.
After a while, the thick curtain of the door was lifted, and Mingxuan walked in from the outside. She gently lifted the beaded curtain with her hands, walked in front of the hall, bowed and bowed: "Your Majesty, uncle, the banquet has been served, let's Let’s go get some food together!”
Looking at Mingxuan, under the pale orchid curtain, under the soft and silver sleeves with hundreds of butterflies playing with flowers, there is
It was her belly that was gradually swollen. She took a step, bowed and raised her head, and she had to slowly hold her belly, lest she hurt the little baby in her belly due to a small problem.
Li Shi stood up, looked at her, and said to Wan Yanyong: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask, is the mother in your womb a boy or a girl?"
After saying that, Mingxuan glanced at her husband's kind eyebrows and smiled: "The imperial doctor said that the baby is a boy! Your Majesty wants to have another girl, what a pity!"
"Girl, you're so cute and beautiful, you'll never tire of it. If it's a boy, he's fat and thick. Look at how old Yungong is, and he's already very heavy!" He joked.
"Your Majesty is now in his prime. It's not easy to get a girl! Just take your time!"
While several people were laughing at each other, they stepped out of the door one after another. When they stepped out, a gust of cold wind hit their faces. The maids around quickly handed them thick cloak armbands before they could do anything. Along the corridor, the red plum blossoms of the old year have been spread everywhere, and only the remaining empty branches are left. Looking down at the courtyard from a distance, the green tiles are covered with white snow, the window sills are covered with light frost, and there are thousands more The residual reds pile up one after another, the turbid wine and green smoke, and the red lanterns and happy couplets are all poetic in this.
The merchants who traveled north and south, the soldiers who traveled from east to west, and the bride looking out of the window were all relieved of their worries at this moment, and they all enjoyed this short but fulfilling beauty.
Fragments of delicate red, under the ice and snow, a cluster of new green peeks out, spring is coming in Huining Mansion...
