The fifth wife wants to escape marriage: marry the princess

Chapter 217 Three Years Later 1
Three years.

Three years in the blink of an eye.

I used to think that without Wushuang, without Ah Jiu, every day and every moment would be suffering, but, who would have thought that in a flash, I would be separated from Wushuang for more than three years.

Watching Yaoyao grow up day by day, his little appearance is exactly the same as that of Ah Jiu when he was a child. Sometimes he has selfish desires to change Yaoyao's name, so he calls it Ah Jiu.He wants to give this child, this "Ah Jiu" all the love and affection that he cannot give to Wushuang.

In the past three years, Qi State has become a leader among other countries from a small and unknown country. Although it cannot be compared with big countries such as Yin and Liang, its strength is not the same.

It is no longer the Xiruo Kingdom three years ago. Xiao Junyi gave this country a new name and new vitality.Under his leadership, Qi won the most powerful era since its founding, and the country's military strength has been greatly improved.

Xiao Junyi valued martial arts, promoted a large number of warriors, and repeatedly raised the treatment of soldiers, causing the people of Qi State to flock to join the army.

In three years, Qi State is no longer the tiny land it was at the beginning, and its territory has tripled.And all of this is inseparable from the long-term battle.

Jiangshan is just typed out.

From people's livelihood to military affairs, Qi State can be said to be the representative of all small countries, and the speed of its progress and expansion is absolutely jaw-dropping.

The state of Qi has not drafted for three years, and there is only one queen in the palace, and the prince Xiao Zixuan is the only one under his knees.Although this is too thin for the royal family and the harem.After all, there are unpredictable things in the sky, only the crown prince is a descendant of the emperor, so there is fear of mistakes, who should inherit the country of Qi?

However, the emperor was diligent in government affairs and had no intention of drafting talent at all, so his subordinates and others didn't have much to say, so they had to listen to his orders to strengthen national defense first.

What's more, because the previous emperor collected beauties from the people several times a year to enrich the harem, and was too obsessed with female sex, he complained a lot, and finally ended in subjugation.

Therefore, comparatively speaking, everyone is more inclined to Xiao Junyi, who puts state affairs first and the people first.

Year after year, Xiao Junyi, a military general, was born. He was negligent in government affairs in his early years, so he worked very hard the day after tomorrow.Since he took the throne, except for unannounced visits, he has never missed a morning court.In addition, every day he has no free time in the imperial court, and now Xue Yun has become his right-hand man. In terms of policy and strategy, Xue Yun is worthy of being the son of a prime minister, and has made a lot of achievements.

However, despite Xiao Junyi's hard work and dedication, Qi's foundation is too poor and too many people fall behind.

He admitted that he was talking big. Once he couldn't tell for three years that Qi State would be as strong as Liang State.

However, it has been three years now, and although Qi State is much stronger than before, it is still not as good as Liang State.To really catch up with Liang Guo, it may take three to five years, and the premise is that the other party will stop.

Liang Guo is far more powerful than Xiao Junyi imagined.

When the first emperor was alive, he could only say that he had no merit or fault.After Xiao Xuanyu came to the throne, he implemented benevolent government and managed a country that was not united and had many riots in an orderly manner. Even the Northwest was very obedient after three years of appeasement.

In the past three years, Xiao Junyi has not been idle, and neither has Xiao Xuanyu.

Xiao Junyi is a small country, it only needs to expand its territory and conquer the world.However, Xiao Xuanyu has much more to worry about when he owns a big country. He has to manage everything in a country, stop the civil war, and appease everywhere. These are more difficult and troublesome than defending against the enemy.

For three years, Qi State was used to grow, and Liang State was used to consolidate.

Now, it is safe and sound.However, no one knows how long such peace and tranquility can last.

Another year of winter, Liang Guo's winter is extremely beautiful, but, in addition to being beautiful, the winter in the capital is also extremely cold.

Xiao Xuanyu stood on the tower where he and Wushuang once stood together, looking at the city not far away, because it was too cold, there were few pedestrians on the street, very deserted.

Just like Xiao Xuanyu's heart, it has been cold for three years.

He seemed to be used to such coldness, used to always smiling softly and kindly in front of people, but frowning when he was alone.He likes the feeling of being alone more and more, casual and casual.No need to pretend, no need to pretend to be happy and not lonely.

Even if he told himself a thousand times that he is not lonely, not lonely, but when sitting on a high dragon chair, watching all the singing and dancing, and the beauty of the harem, but no one to accompany and share, that kind of emptiness and helplessness is a lie. Inhuman.

He thought that if he didn't mention Wushuang or look for Concubine Heng for three years, he would forget Wushuang and Ajiu.

However, it is very difficult to forget someone.

From the time when Concubine Lan carried her into the palace when she was less than one year old, it has been more than [-] years since then, everything about Ah Jiu has already melted into his blood. How can we forget each other in this life?

The things that happened in the past three years are too much to say, and too little to say.

He is still the emperor, and his life is still like this. He is busy with government affairs every day, so busy that he has no time to care about what Qi is doing, and he has no time to think about Wushuang.

He wanted to take her and Xiao Junyi away from his life, since he wanted to leave, he had to leave completely.However, he said it thoroughly, but he didn't want to really end it. He knew Wushuang long before Xiao Junyi, so why did he lose to Xiao Junyi? !
For three years, for the safety of the palace, the servants and maids in the palace have been changed one after another. Even Xiao Xuanyu felt that he was becoming more and more suspicious.Perhaps after being an emperor for a long time, he became more and more cautious and took his own life more seriously.

The empress dowager passed away, in the second year after the death of the first emperor.

She passed away on a warm spring day, lying in the yard basking in the sun, took a nap and never woke up again.When the servants came to inform Xiao Xuanyu, he was teaching Yaoyao how to write, when he heard the news of the Empress Dowager's death, the brush trembled suddenly, and the whole paper was blackened.

He thought that he had experienced everything and had already seen through life and death, but when the Empress Dowager left, Xiao Xuanyu was still unavoidably sad.He quickly ran to Kangshou Palace.That imperial grandmother, that woman who used to be so powerful that even the late emperor was somewhat afraid, just went away, lying on the chair, as if she had fallen asleep peacefully.

It can be said that his own throne was won by the Empress Dowager alone.Although, he was also annoyed at her for assassinating Ah Jiu and breaking them apart, and he missed it ever since.However, he couldn't forget that during the days when he was neglected by the former emperor, when his mother and concubine were thrown into the cold palace, only the empress dowager was by his side, and she was his support, so that no other prince would dare to underestimate him.

Time flies, no matter how strong a person is, he can't escape death.The imperial grandmother who used to shield him from the wind and rain with her old, weak and disabled body has gone, Xiao Xuanyu's heart is sore, but she still stands in the hall, without shedding a single tear, facing the people of the world majestically.

There is one less person who loves him in this world. After burying the Empress Dowager, Xiao Xuanyu also dismissed Zhang Shilang. Originally, he was sentenced to death for his bold and reckless assassination of Concubine Heng, but Xiao Xuanyu did not want the Empress Dowager to be sad, let alone see him A relative died tragically, but he couldn't tolerate such a person staying in the court, so he dismissed all his positions and confiscated most of his family property to fill the treasury.

As for Concubine Ya, the original house arrest has long been lifted, but it is not what it used to be, although she is still Xiao Xuanyu's concubine, she is no longer favored by her back then.However, it is enough to be by the empress dowager's side, to see the emperor often, and even occasionally to be arranged by the empress dowager to sleep with her.

Seeing the former lively, pretty and even domineering girl calm down day by day, the queen mother didn't know whether to be happy or sad.Perhaps, in this palace, Yafei's current temperament is more suitable for survival.Or maybe, it was really my mistake, not all women from the Zhang family entered the palace, and not all of them came to fight for the post.

And the thing that troubled the Queen Mother the most was Qianxue, that girl, who was still domineering and stubborn, scaring away the young master who came to propose marriage.Now, after living in the deep palace for a long time, she has turned into an old lady day by day.

She didn't clamor to marry Xiao Junyi either, as if she had really given up on it, but she just went about leisurely and leisurely, and Xiao Xuanyu didn't want to force her.It's not that the royal family can't afford her, so why force her to marry.

Day after day, year after year.

Sometimes looking at the political situation in such chaos, Xiao Xuanyu is glad that Wushuang is not here, so he doesn't have to watch him frown all day long, and he doesn't have to feel guilty for not remembering that he is Ah Jiu, and the little things with him.

But thinking about it, he would go crazy and wish she was by his side.

He is so contradictory, even more contradictory than the emperor!
Standing on the tower, Xiao Xuanyu's thoughts were flying wildly, thinking wildly for a long time, his eyes wandered on the street.Suddenly there was a coldness on his forehead, he raised his head subconsciously, and there were thin snowflakes in the sky.

In the twilight, the snowflakes are falling little by little, but they are very cold on the forehead.

The memory went back to a year ago, he held her hand and walked in the snow, the snowflakes rustled down, and she gently wiped the snow off his head.At that time, he thought, this is the happiest thing in this life.

However, today, the snowflakes fell again, but no one helped him to take pictures of the snowflakes, and walked with him in the snow.

Snow is beautiful and cool.

Xiao Xuanyu stood on the tower, looking at Xuehua for a long time and couldn't regain his senses. He seemed to see Ah Jiu, a little man in a fiery red palace uniform running in the snow, shouting as he ran, "Brother, chase me quickly!" Ah, come on..."

However, in the blink of an eye, there was nothing in front of him except the empty street.

"Your Majesty..." The gentle tone of voice suddenly came to my ears, Xiao Xuanyu turned her head, it was Du Hongyu, Concubine Yu, who was already a noble concubine.

"Where are you coming?" Xiao Xuanyu asked shallowly, and continued to look at the city. Concubine Yu handed the silk umbrella to the maid at the side, and immediately went up to wipe the snow off Xiao Xuanyu's forehead and head with the silk silk, still worried. He blamed him, "It's snowing, why didn't the emperor go back to the palace? I just got sick a few days ago, why are you still getting wet?"

"I'm fine." Xiao Xuanyu responded with a smile, and Concubine Yu said coquettishly, "You always say you're fine, but you're really sick, and it's my concubine who feels distressed."

Concubine Yu said, holding Xiao Xuanyu's arm naturally, and said, "Let's go back to the palace, Dong'er is arguing to see his father!" (Note: Xiao Xudong, Prince Liang, son of Xiao Xuanyu and Concubine Yu.)
The palace people immediately held umbrellas for Xiao Xuanyu and Concubine Yu from the side.

Xiao Xuanyu looked at Concubine Yu, lucky to have her by his side all these years, this woman knew himself better than he imagined, as if she had been by his side for 20 years, she knew his likes and dislikes like the back of her hand.

Sometimes, he would be curious, wondering how she knew such details, she knew many hobbies when she was a child.

Occasionally asked, she always smiled gently, and said softly, because she has him in her heart, no one in this world can compare.To get to know someone she loves deeply, in her opinion, is a happy thing.

Xiao Xuanyu didn't know why, but he didn't believe women's words more and more, maybe it was because of his heart disease since he became the emperor.Because he also felt ashamed in his heart, he never really cared about these harem concubines, although he always treated them kindly, but it was Li Ping who helped them take care of them.He has never been kind to others, so naturally he does not believe that anyone will treat him well and love him deeply.

In his eyes, those concubines, just like him, are just puppets under the power of the deep palace, and fate controls them all.Before they became imperial concubines, they didn't know each other, but they met in the harem, lived in a room under the arrangement of others, finished serving the bed, and then repeated until they had children and stayed with them forever...

(End of this chapter)