There is a lake to the south of Dongxucheng in Wu State.
The name of the lake is Acacia Lake.
There is an elegant courtyard beside Xiangsi Lake, and its name is Xiangsi Ju.
Acacia Curie There once was a girl named Li Xiangsi.
Now this girl has become a mature lady, and her appearance has changed greatly from before. What remains unchanged is the layout of the Acacia Residence and her name.
Of course, there is also her skill in braised deer antler with pickled vegetables.
Sitting in the elegant pavilion on the second floor of Xiangsi Residence, blowing the cool lake breeze in early autumn, drinking a cup of tea made from lotus leaves and lotus seeds, Hua Manting raised his head and looked at the person sitting opposite.
That's a woman.
Under the light of the red lantern, her face looked a little haggard, just like the withered lotus leaves in the Acacia Lake, but it was difficult to conceal the beauty of the lotus when it bloomed.
And charm!
She didn't apply any powder.
There was only a very ordinary willow hairpin inserted into her bun, and a small wooden pendant hung on the hairpin.
If you look carefully, the pendant is carved with a butterfly.
She is more graceful than when she was a girl, without the childishness of the past, and she is calmer and more wealthy.
She is not Li Xiangsi.
She is...Miao Qiuqin!
The former eldest lady of the Wu Kingdom's General's Palace is now the wife of Xia Liu of the Xia Kingdom's Palace, Xia Hua's mother, Miao Qiuqin!
Prince An sat on one side with him.
He is facing Acacia Lake.
His slightly chubby face did not raise his head. He was concentrating on making lotus leaf and lotus seed tea.
Hua Manting took a sip of tea and spoke:
"Madam, I never expected that Madam would come here. Now that Madam is here, she probably wants to ask me about someone or something."
"It's okay to ask, madam. I'll tell you everything I know!"
Miao Qiuqin smiled lightly, with two small pear dimples showing on her cheeks.
She stretched out her hand to smooth the hair on her forehead that was a little messy in the night wind, and asked seriously:
"Did my daughter Xia Hua really fall in love with Li Chenan?"
"yes!"
"Did Li Chenan really enter the stage of forgetfulness?"
"yes!"
"My daughter's demonic appearance is really Li Chenan?"
"yes."
Miao Qiuqin took a long breath and looked out the window at the dark Acacia Lake.
"So, she will never be able to marry in this life!"
Hua Manting pondered for a moment: "If Li Chenan can come out, of course she can marry Li Chenan."
Miao Qiuqin smiled bitterly:
"But that place is the Forgetting Platform!"
"I have also read Li Chenan's poems and articles. That kid... I still like him very much, but when I want to get out of the stage of forgetfulness, the poems and articles are of no use."
Hua Manting thought for a while and comforted: "Maybe he can really practice the Fujian Zhoutian Jue to the Great Perfection."
Miao Qiuqin's eyebrows raised slightly, but she didn't hold out any hope for this.
That is the forbidden area of Xijian Tower.
It is also a desperate place.
For thousands of years, so many extremely talented disciples have entered Xijian Tower, but none of them have been able to get out. Of course, Miao Qiuqin, who has long since become rational, will not believe this.
Prince An Wu Huan, who was making tea, looked at Hua Manting at this time.
There was some admiration, some disappointment, and some curiosity in his eyes.
"Hua Lao, I never expected that he was Li Chenan!"
"I really admire him!"
"Originally, I admired his poems and articles, but now...now I admire him as a person!"
"Real temper!"
"Because he is extremely emotional, his poems have such an unforgettable soul!"
"It is good for me to become a brother with him, but I am not as good as him!"
"After I heard the news that he was Li Xiaofeng, I didn't sleep all night. What a pity, what a pity!"
Wu Huan shook his head and sighed: "I hope he can come out of the Wangqing Platform. When he reappears in the world, he will not only be a poetry immortal, he will also be... a martial saint!"
The world's best Fuji Zhou Tian Jue!
If Li Chenan can come out alive, it means that he has mastered the best magical skill in the world, it means that he has become a great master and is invincible in the world!
This is Wu Huan's beautiful expectation. In his heart, he certainly thinks that Li Chenan will never come out.
So, he extinguished the tea stove and placed a altar of painting Pingchun on the table.
A woman about the same age as Miao Qiuqin came over.
She was holding a pot in her hand!
There was hot smoke rising from the pot, and an alluring aroma wafted from it.
She is Li Xiangsi.
She put the pot on the table, wiped her hands on her apron, and whispered to Miao Qiuqin:
"It's been a long time since I've made this braised velvet antler with pickled vegetables. There are no fresh pickled vegetables at this time... the taste may be a little worse, please give it a try, madam."
Miao Qiuqin raised his head and smiled slightly, "Of course I can rest assured of your craftsmanship. When the snow falls this winter, we will go to Jianshan Mountain to dig snow vegetables together!"
"good!"
Li Xiangsi bowed and retreated.
Miao Qiuqin looked at Hua Manting: "Hua Lao, please try it."
Hua Manting picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of pickled vegetables, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. After a moment, he put down the chopsticks:
"Good taste!"
Miao Qiuqin didn't take chopsticks.
She suddenly lowered her head and sighed: "Back then, it was he who brought me here to eat this dish."
"When I ate this dish for the first time, I thought it was the best flavor in the world."
"But later...Lao Hua must have known that he left."
"After he left, I ate here again, but I couldn't taste the same again."
"After that, I would come here occasionally, but I would just sit and talk to Sister Xiangsi and drink the lotus and lotus seed tea that she cooked by herself."
"I never tasted this dish again, but drank a lot of lotus and lotus seed tea."
"The bitter taste, I never liked this taste before, but since he left... I just like this taste."
She raised her head and smiled again: "It's all over. How has he been in Ningguo these years?"
Hua Manting picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
The person Miao Qiuqin was talking about at the moment was, of course, Wen Boiyu.
"I can't say it's very good, and of course I can't say it's too bad either."
"Li Chenan trusted him, and he realized his ideals and ambitions in Ningguo."
"But in life, it's a mess."
"After he left the Kingdom of Wu, he went to Uihe in the autumn of the third year of Zhaohua. There he got married to the seventh princess of the chief of Uihe. He gave her a Han name, Ye Wan."
"Later, he took Ye Wan back to Ning Country and had a daughter named Wen Xiaowan."
"When Wen Xiaowan was two or three years old, Ye Wan left him and never came back."
"After that, he took his daughter to Guangling City and built a small rain-cooking house by Huaping Lake. Later, the boiling rain house was burned down. Wen Xiaowan...she was adopted by Shang Di, Later, later I went to a brothel.”
Miao Qiuqin was shocked, and Hua Manting added: "This is Wen Xiaowan's choice. She is quite resentful of Wen Boiyu, her father."
"However, Wen Xiaowan didn't do anything extraordinary in the brothel. Now she is still taking care of the brothel and helping Li Chenan take care of it."
"This girl is quite ill-fated. She also fell in love with Li Chenan."
"This is roughly what is called fate."
Miao Qiuqin looked at the dark Acacia Lake again.
She casually pulled out the hairpin, and her eyes fell on this extremely ordinary hairpin, with the carved butterfly swaying.
It's like flying.
But it can't fly.
His daughter also fell in love with Li Chenan.
But Li Chenan may never come out again.
A lot of lovesickness is bitter, but few people can find it sweet.
The infatuated people in the world will eventually end up in tears.
"If Mr. Hua returns to Ningguo, please return this hairpin... to him."
