June 24, the 24th year of Zhaohua.
On this day, Li Chenan and his party entered the uninhabited Netherworld Valley of Wuya Mountain.
They had to go through the hardships and obstacles along the way before they could cross Wuya Mountain and reach Xiayuan Prefecture of Wu State.
The road ahead is difficult and dangerous.
But in order to save Zhongli Ruoshui's life, Li Chenan did not hesitate at all.
He presses forward without hesitation!
It was also on this day that Xiao Wu and his party returned to Yujing City, the capital of Ning State.
At the south gate of Yujing City, Wen Boyu led the civil and military ministers to welcome the return of the emperor's eldest son.
Yujing City was boiling.
The people who had once been saddened by the death of the regent now cheered for the return of the eldest son of the emperor.
The deceased is gone, but life must go on.
There have long been rumors in the capital that the emperor's eldest son will ascend the throne as emperor upon his return.
Although I didn’t know who Xiao Wu was before, some news about the eldest son of the emperor has spread in Beijing these days——
For example, he has been living in a small courtyard in an alley in Kyoto.
For example, he has peerless medical skills that can bring life and death to human flesh and bones.
For example, he is a close friend of the regent Li Chenan.
Of course, there is also the hidden problem that his ears cannot hear and his mouth cannot speak.
As for why he has this hidden disease, the culprit pointed by those rumors is Concubine Li!
It was that snake-hearted woman who poisoned the emperor's eldest son through Wei San, the eunuch in the palace, just a few days after his birth.
The eldest son of the emperor was lucky enough to survive and suffered such a disability.
This made the people in Kyoto feel some sympathy for the emperor's eldest son. As for the disability, everyone just knew about it, but they should never mention it in the future.
Therefore, some people felt emotional, saying that he was a real dragon after all. After so many disasters, he finally returned to the palace and finally achieved enlightenment.
As for the regent Li Chenan... Although he died on the top of the Western Mountain, his death brought the emperor's eldest son back to the throne.
Since he and the emperor's eldest son have a brotherly relationship, I think that after the emperor's eldest son ascends the throne, Li Chenan's remains may be buried in the imperial mausoleum.
The regent's previous policies probably won't change much.
In recent days, there have been rumors in Beijing that the imperial palace will be moved to Changle Palace——
This is news that shocks everyone.
As the capital of several dynasties for thousands of years, the people didn't understand why the palace had to be moved out now.
Think again that the autumn wedding ceremony of this year will be held in Changle Palace...
This means that the political and cultural center of Ningguo will change from Yujing City to Changle City!
If the eldest son of the emperor really chooses to ascend the throne as emperor in Changle Palace in Changle City after returning to Beijing, then this rumored news will be confirmed!
In the past few days, I heard that the head of the Yan Mansion, Duke Yan Jinyue, had gone to Changle City and bought a large house in an alley called Xidi Street closest to Changle Palace. courtyard.
I heard that the Duke of Qi, Cheng Guogong, even the Duke of Dingguo, as well as well-informed big businessmen, have flocked to Changle City in the past few days.
I even heard that some wealthy merchants from Jiangnan Province got the news from somewhere and were coming to Kyoto to visit Changle City.
Those wealthy businessmen in Kyoto seemed unable to sit still.
News from Changle City said that the housing prices there were just like the Yudai River after a heavy rain. They were rising day by day!
But there are still many people who are still waiting and watching.
They were dubious, always feeling that moving the capital was too ridiculous.
It depends on the changes after the eldest son of the emperor comes back.
He wants to ascend the throne and become the emperor!
In the end, he will choose Changle Palace or the old palace in Yujing City... But no one can say for sure, and no one can control it.
The broad Suzaku Avenue, even though the sunlight was very strong at the moment, the people of Kyoto were still standing on both sides of the Suzaku Avenue.
They were sweating and cheering, which was their ardent expectation for the eldest son of the emperor.
Xiao Wu is sitting in the carriage.
He opened the car curtain and looked at the excited crowd outside.
He didn't know what they were cheering for, but he felt extremely lonely.
So he lowered the curtain.
This is a city he is very familiar with.
There are people here that he is very familiar with.
But when he came back this time, he felt that this city had become very strange.
Now that I think about it, I no longer have the familiar people I once had.
Grandpa Sun is gone.
Apart from Grandpa Sun, the people he is closest to are Li Chenan and Zhongli Ruoshui.
But they died on the top of the Western Mountain for themselves.
Although Amu and Wang Zhenghaoxuan came back together, from the bottom of his heart, the importance of these two people in his heart was inferior to that of Li Chenan and Zhongli Ruoshui.
I still remember that day was August 13th, the 23rd year of Zhaohua!
The first time I met Li Chenan was at Sister Ruoshui’s Huaxi Villa!
The communication between Li Chenan and himself started with a piece of paper!
He wrote something on that piece of paper: Xiao Wu, I like you very much!
Xiao Wu grinned.
His face is still clean, and his eyes are still unsullied.
However, his eyes gradually filled with tears, and after a while, they fell one by one from the corners of his eyes.
"I am a man!"
"You are a man too!"
"Master said that no matter how deep the relationship between two men is, they can be friends and brothers, but they cannot be..."
"Only you and Miss Ruoshui can talk about love. You and I can be friends!"
Li Chenan took the pen and wrote again:
"Like is not the same as love."
"When I say I like you, I like your happy personality. I like to be with a happy person. We are friends now, and I hope we can become brothers in the future."
We are already brothers, but I lost you. How can you make me happy in the future?
You said you would accompany me to see the stars, watch the rain or snow, but you are no longer here.
When you said that, I was very happy. I said it would be good for me to watch the stars, watch the rain or snow by myself... but it was not that good.
Being alone is lonely.
Is boring.
It felt like the stars were far away, it was raining, it was cold, it was snowing... The sky and the earth were vast, as if they were dead.
But if there are friends by my side, I think the mood is completely different.
I actually have a doubt in my heart. I should be only eighteen years old this year, and I should be the same age as you.
But the eldest son of the emperor should be twenty-one years old this year.
How come I became the eldest son of the emperor?
I didn't tell anyone.
After you leave, I will guard this country. It’s not that I want to be the emperor. You should know my thoughts... I just guard it. I hope that I can guard the ideal seeds you sown in the past. The flowers bear fruit.
Xiao Wu sighed deeply, lifted up his sleeves and wiped away the tears on his face.
He put his hands on his knees, and his waist gradually became straighter at this time.
His eyes gradually became firmer.
He was thinking silently in his heart:
"From now on, my name is Ning Zhinian!"
"Brother Chen'an, Xiaowu, I have gone with you!"
"In the next life, we will be brothers again!"
