Chang Anqing

Chapter 6 Yuqing worships her mother
The next day, under the rain for several days, it was a rare good weather.

At about three o'clock in the morning, the Taiwei's mansion was already sweeping with joy, and the silk was hung up. In the cloudless summer, the morning sun radiated a dazzling golden light, falling on the green bamboos in the courtyard. , is really green.

When Li Sui went to visit Yang Chongyuan and his wife, he was accompanied by his father Li Zhang and rode in a carriage to the imperial Yuqing Temple.

The Yuqing Temple after the rain in the early morning, carrying a lightness that is not found in the world, far away at the foot of the mountain, you can hear the sound of bells lingering on the top of the mountain.

When the carriage circled up the path and stopped under the stone steps of Yuqingguan, my father's gentle voice came from my ears.

"Aman."

Nian Nu quickly and cleverly opened the curtain and got out of the car, and helped Li Sui out with Yu Nu in the car.

Among the verdant green forests, the crisp bird calls could be heard incessantly. Li Sui and Li Zhang climbed the steps and worshiped the real treasures of each hall, and then they walked along the path to a quieter place. Courtyard away.

When they got there, they saw the dark guard with a knife hiding around the yard, bowing respectfully to the two of them. Huichun, dressed in a dark blue robe, was waiting under the porch. When he saw the person coming, he greeted them with a smile.

"Master of the country, the county master."

Li Sui stepped forward to hold Huichun's body and lifted him up, with a very close tone.

"Chun Niang, get up quickly."

Huichun nodded, got up along the way, and then said: "The Immortal Master Yuzhen is doing his morning homework at the moment, and he will be ready soon. He also invites the grandfather and the county master to wait in the side room."

"It doesn't matter, this view is quiet, we can just wait in this courtyard."

Hearing Li Sui's words, Huichun responded, and immediately cleaned up the stone table and stone bench under a wisteria trellis in the courtyard. After the father and daughter sat down, they brought two cups of tea.

"This is picked from the tea trees in the back mountain, and the snow water accumulated under the flower roots last year is used. Although it is simple, it is all done by the immortal master."

After listening to Huichun's words, Li Sui took a sip. Although the tea taste was not as delicate as those precious products, it still had the scent of fireworks.

"Immortal Master Yuzhen, it's okay-"

In the silence, his father's voice sounded, and Li Sui looked sideways, only to see Li Zhang holding the teacup in his hand, and the seemingly calm inquiry made her hear a deep and unforgettable longing.

In my childhood memory, my father and mother were also harmonious, and the years were quiet.At that time, my mother would always hold her and wait under the wisteria trellis that my father had to pass by, telling her poetry and singing nursery rhymes. To have a good-looking smile, and she was waiting for not only her father, but also her favorite sugar cake.

Thinking about it now, Li Sui felt that the mother at that time was not a noble and glorious princess in front of her father, but a child, a child who was spoiled and spoiled.

Now those warm pictures are still in front of us, but those feelings no longer exist.

It can be seen that no matter how beautiful the love, no matter how sincere affection, after the death of the late emperor, the Yang and Li families were no longer shy, took power alone, took over the emperor step by step, and regarded the emperor as a puppet. Dust off.

That's why her mother decided to leave when she was seven years old, abandoning her identity as a princess, and willing to be the Immortal Master Yuzhen, who is now chanting sutras and eating fast.

"The immortal master is still the same as before, doing morning and evening homework every day, taking care of these flowers and plants on weekdays, occasionally playing games alone, or going to the back mountain—"

After Huichunfang said a few words, he heard the door behind him being opened with a "squeak--", and the three people in the courtyard all heard the sound and looked, only to see a man dressed in Xuanqing Taoist clothes and tied with a wooden hairpin. The cold beauty stood behind the door, still with her beautiful eyes, but without her vivid smile.However, he swept towards the courtyard in a calm manner, and when he touched Li Zhang's slightly trembling eyes, he just passed by as calmly as Feihong, and turned inside, leaving only that thin and cold back.

"Your Majesty, please—"

Hearing Huichun's voice, Li Sui looked at his father beside him, and saw that he lowered his eyes, finally put down the teacup in his hand, and said calmly, "Go ahead."

Li Sui gave his father a deep look, and without saying a word, turned around and walked into the room under the guidance of Huichun.

The door behind him was closed again, and everything in front of him remained unchanged. It was simple and simple, but it brought a sense of tranquility.

After a lifetime of separation, now that I can look at her mother kneeling a few short steps behind, and look at her softly, Li Sui's heart is almost uncontrollable with excitement and grief, but her eyes are slightly hot, and she almost burst into tears. She neatly arranged her dress, stepped forward to kneel respectfully, touched her head gently on the ground, and bowed, but a single tear silently fell on the mirror-like floor tiles.

The mother at this moment did not know that they had not seen each other for many years.

"Auntie—"

Hearing the barely audible choking in the girl's words, Chen shi, who was sitting there on his knees, felt a stagnation in his heart. He couldn't help turning his head to the side, closed his eyes silently, and forced himself to hold down the feelings that were surging in his chest. With a smile, he said gently, "Get up."

When the little lady stood up straight, she lightly tapped the cushion beside her with her hand.

"Come."

Li Sui walked forward fluently, twisting his skirt and kneeling beside Chen.

Chen shi's eyes were soft, and she looked at the girl's appearance delicately. After a long time, she finally raised the hand holding the sandalwood fragrant beads and gently rubbed the girl's face.

"Aman has grown up again."

After the words were finished, Chen shi still had a smile on his lips, and then stuck out a red pouch and said, "I don't have anything else here, so I can only give you an amulet every year to keep you safe and sound."

Li Sui took the thing, she knew that this seemingly small thing must have been painted by the real person of Yuqing in the shrine, which she had prayed and recited every day before the shrine.

Li Sui put the amulet in his sleeve and gave a respectful gift.

"Today should be Aman thanking Aniang for nurturing me."

Hearing this sentence, looking at the smiling face of a girl just like him, Chen shi smiled lightly, stroked the girl's bun lightly, and murmured.

"I don't look forward to anything else, I just hope you are safe..."

Chen's words didn't go on, but Li Sui didn't know what it meant. Seeing her mother's reluctant smile, her heart was gloomy, and she didn't know how to go back.

"I also hope that my mother will cherish the jade body-"

"Okay, go back, today is your good day, everyone is waiting for you."

When the hands that held her were put down, Li Sui raised her head, wanting to deeply understand the appearance of the person in front of her.

Every year on her birthday, she kneels at Yuqingguan and looks at her mother's soft eyebrows. She can't help but feel greedy. No one knows how many times she wants to invite her mother back to Chang'an City, even if she spends another birthday with her. , but she knew that even if she opened her mouth, she could only get a rejection.Therefore, in the previous life until the death of her mother, she never spent a day with her mother.

"Auntie take care."

After a deep bow, Li Sui walked out of the room and saw her father still sitting under the flower stand. Although Hue Chun was standing beside him, he looked so lonely and lonely.

Over the years, compared to the Taiwei's mansion with many wives and concubines, the father's mansion was considered to be alone.

Everyone knows that his father, Li Zhanggui, is the son of the Li family in Longxi, and now he is in power with Yang Chongyuan. Although he bears the name of the concubine of Qinghe, his mother was born into the world. It is reasonable to marry a couple of concubines and concubines.

But only Li Sui knew that his father never married again in his life.

In front of my mother, my father is a ruthless man.

In front of the world, my father is an infatuated person.

"Let's go."

The father's voice sounded in his ears, Li Sui nodded, then delivered a few words to Huichun and walked out.

After leaving the Yuqing Temple, the sound of Zhongqing was still circling far away. As he walked down the stairs, Li Sui was about to get on the carriage with help, but he saw a familiar figure in a trance. Across the wall of the carriage, he looked at the guards who followed behind the carriage.

"Aman?"

His father's voice rang in his ears, Li Sui glanced hurriedly, and finally withdrew his gaze and got into the carriage.

After walking out for a long time, Li Sui was still leaning on the pillow, frowning slightly, forgetting the Niannu and Yunu who were serving on the side, but the figure was clear in her mind little by little, condensing into one person.

King Yuling, Zhao Yi.

……

It was noon when he returned to the mansion, and Li Sui was served with meals and only took a nap.He was awakened and prepared for the night banquet in the palace.

Surrounded by maids, I bathed and dressed, pulled up a bun, embellished with small and delicate pearls, and then put on the [-]-year-old flower skirt, which was more gorgeous, and the light yellow flower between the eyebrows added a few more. Sub-girl coquettish.

While Li Sui was taking a self-portrait in the mirror, she heard Niannu walk in and salute with a smile: "County Lord, Saburo is here, waiting for you outside the house by the bamboo forest."

The girl in the mirror moved slightly, stretched out her hand to trim the beaded flower beside her haircut, then stood up and walked out of the house.

Now in the beginning of June, the noon sun has a bit of heat, and through the green bamboo forest, the bamboo leaves have knocked down mottled shadows.

The man was wearing a brocade robe with a bamboo green round neck and narrow sleeves. He stood behind the bamboo forest with his hands behind his back. He seemed to sense Li Sui's approaching footsteps, and Yang Che's sigh sounded from the forest.

"I thought you and I didn't change, but when I saw the scratches on the bamboo branch, I realized that we have grown a lot taller."

After saying that, Yang Che turned his head. Unlike Yang Yan's warm and genial smile, Yang Che's smile was more like sunshine, dazzling and free.

Having seen the deep-eyed and seasoned King of Luoyang on the city wall, and now looking at Yang Che in front of him, Li Sui felt a sense of separation from the world.

Thinking of the palace change, I am afraid that Yang Che would not have guessed it in his previous life until he died. She would take advantage of the opportunity when her son died in the imperial mausoleum to send the jade seal and tiger talisman along with the Zigong to the far border under his nose. in the hands of King Yuling.

Now recalling Yang Che's frantic appearance, it seemed to overlap with the young man in his memory. Li Sui couldn't help but feel disappointed. Following Yang Che's gaze, he saw the green bamboo branch beside him with the words printed on it. One scratch after another.

She was seven years old that year. Because of her mother's decision to leave, she became unhappy and did not like to talk to others. In the whole house, except for her father, she was a servant. Only when her father came to accompany her every day could she temporarily forget the sorrow of losing her mother.Later, my aunt took pity on her, so she negotiated with her father and put her in the Taiwei's mansion to get along with several brothers and sisters, so she would never be alone.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, everyone at the banquet saw the whole family gathering together. She was the only one, and only her father was by her side. So after the banquet, she quietly went back to the yard and hugged the dress that her mother had worn in her arms, being careful. Looking at it, touching it carefully, as if you could feel the warm embrace of her mother, she huddled in the corner alone and cried for a long time.

She still remembers now that Yang Che, who was only a few months older than her at the time, followed quietly, gently wiped her tears with silk, and said to her with a seriousness she had never had before: "Aman, auntie Although I can't accompany you, but you still have us, my brother and I will always be with you."

After finishing speaking, the little boy dragged her to the front of the court, pulled out a delicate dagger from somewhere, and made a deep mark on the bamboo branch according to his size, turned around and said, "I will accompany you in the future. If you don't believe me, then I will come here every year until your birthday to make a mark."

The boy's words were still in her ears, Li Sui rubbed the bamboo branches, the first scratches were still within her reach, but today's newly carved ones are already in the place where she can reach them by raising her hands and feet.

From the day he made his promise, Yang Che never broke his promise. Later, Yang Che said with a smile that if he stopped growing taller and grew older, the green bamboo would be cut off by him.

However, laughter is a laughter after all. When Yang Yan became the emperor and her queen, and Yang Che, who was privately raising the army in Luoyang, tried to meet her, this promise was never fulfilled.

At that time, in order to help Yang Yan secure the throne, she killed the powerful ministers and leveled the harem, thinking that she would be able to help Yang Yan expand his territory and achieve great things from now on.

I never thought that she would send a secret letter to the fief to tell her that Yang Che, who was far away in Luoyang, would win people's hearts, hide his armor, and the limelight had grown. .

Therefore, she planned to take advantage of Yang Yan's longevity banquet and the kings to come to Beijing to congratulate him to test Yang Che. Once the charges were confirmed, she decided to get rid of Yang Che.

But she never thought that Yang Yan didn't know how to find out about it. Not only did she dislike her secretly planting meticulous works beside the kings, but she was even more afraid of her murderous intentions against Yang Che's younger brother.

For half a month, Yang Yan ate and lived with Yang Che. She didn't teach Yang Che to stay away from him, so she couldn't do anything, and finally sent Yang Che to sneak out of the palace in the early morning one day.

Rao was that she knew about this, and sent people to chase him all the way. Yang Che, who was chasing him, fled east in embarrassment, but he finally missed the opportunity to let the tiger return to the mountain and let him return to Luoyang.

In the end the truth told her that she did nothing wrong.

Yang Che, indeed, is rebellious.

"Originally, I didn't understand, these flower skirts are like rag skirts, and those little ladies don't look so good when they wear them, why have they been fashionable in Chang'an for so long, and I see you wearing them today. You know, it's the same as a sword with a hero."

Hearing Yang Che's words, Li Sui smiled lightly, and the next moment, the person in front of him stretched out his hand, spread his palm, and lay a small brocade box quietly on it.

Under Yang Che's suggestion, Li Sui opened the box, and a fragrant but not greasy fragrance came out in an instant. I saw a palm-sized piece of jade in the box. The color was simple and mellow, and it seemed that there was no high-quality jade. Such an amazing appearance.

But it exudes a fragrant fragrance, which makes people smell comfortable.In his hand, there is the feeling of a girl's cool skin that can be broken by blowing bullets.

"This jade has the spiritual energy of all things, the essence of nature, and the person who wears it hears that it can eliminate pain and sadness, and it has the function of protecting the body from bad luck. You will wear it next to your body, which is also a good sign."

Hearing this, Li Sui raised his head, touched Yang Cheyi's smiling eyes, squeezed the jade in his hand tightly, and said with a smile, "Okay."

After saying that, he handed the jade to the jade slave behind him and carefully put it on for her.

"I heard that my brother gave you both the Duanyan inkstones that Aye gave to you. Tell me, who's gift is better than my brother's."

Looking at the pair of joking eyes in front of him, Li Sui's lips held a smile, and he said: "If I say that Erlang is good, what will you do if you don't give me good things in the future, but if I say that you are good, I'm afraid Erlang will do the same, no matter what, I will have fewer treasures in the future, so in my opinion, the more the better, the better."

Yang Che's eyes moved slightly when he heard the words, and he turned into a smile. He quietly looked at the person in front of him, but he suddenly reached out and attached his hand to the girl's forehead, rubbing his palms, deliberately messing up the girl's bun.

"You are greedy for money."

Looking at the young man in front of him as bright as the summer sun, Li Sui has never understood why he eventually became such a wolf-like ambitious person.

In this world, this throne is really so alluring.

(End of this chapter)