in the sound of swallows

Chapter 202 The Finale
"What's wrong?" Gu Chaobei asked her.

Shen Guiyan looked at the crows flying by outside the window, pursed her lips and said, "I always feel a little uneasy today."

The white-haired great compassion that the national teacher said is today, three years later, her hair is already snow-white, tied into a bun, with a pink peach hairpin and headdress, she really looks pretty.Even because Gu Chaobei praised this white bun very much, it was once popular in the palace to dye the hair white with paint, which was called "the old bun".

The emperor said he liked it, and no one in the world dared to say that her hair is not good-looking, but envied her.Shen Guiyan also felt content.

"Today is your birthday, what can you be uneasy about?" Gu Chaobei smiled lowly, stretched out his hand to pull her over, and personally helped her put on the last flower ornament: "Now there is nothing that can shake you and me, what else is there? So scared?"

During the three years, the ministers tried many times to get the emperor to accept the concubine, but Gu Chaobei took it down.Shen Guiyan's body was weak, and she had to bear several serious illnesses.People intercede with each other at any time, but their relationship grows deeper and deeper each day, trusting each other and relying on each other.

If at the beginning it was just a marriage caused by a joke and a misunderstanding, then step by step after that, it will be a god-sent marriage that will come naturally.

Shen Guiyan pursed her lips and smiled lightly: "What the emperor said is that the concubine was thinking too much, let's go ahead."

"En." Gu Chaobei nodded, and walked out together with her.

A banquet was prepared in the Juhuan Pavilion, and it was very lively, just like the birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager back then.Shen Guiyan and Gu Chaobei sat at the top, and all civil and military officials were present at the bottom, singing and dancing.

"I heard that today the eldest prince also prepared a special congratulatory gift for the empress."

"Yeah, I'm still such a young child, so it's said that I have a big surprise." Shen Guiwu said with a smile, "I've been preparing for more than a year."

Just don't know what it is.

The national teacher did not attend. It is said that he left the palace to continue his journey before the queen's birthday. Zhou Taishi sat next to the empress dowager and was still talking about the selection of talented people in the world today.

Shen Guiyan watched the dancer below dance, and always felt that her heart was still hanging.Look to the side, the eldest prince is not there.

"Where's the prince?" She asked the palace man hastily.

The palace man replied in a low voice: "The prince is preparing for the show."

A few days ago, Baoshan was saying that the eldest prince got a juggling master from somewhere, and planned to practice juggling to surprise her.

Shen Guiyan pressed her heart, nodded and waited.

After the dancer, the stage was emptied, and two boxes were brought up by a palace official. The adjacent sides of the two boxes were removed, and when they were put together, they were just enough for the eldest prince to lie down on.

That's right, Ming Sigui was tired of giving calligraphy and painting to his mother every year. He had been preparing this gift for a year, and today he wanted to present it to his mother with a trick.

Ming Sigui is now six years old. Compared with ordinary children who are still playing and playing, he has already familiarized himself with the emperor's scriptures in Gu Chaobei's half of the room, and he has inherited Shen Guiyan's talent well. Also early.

He knew what the queen mother wanted most.

"The eldest prince wants to present a magic trick to the empress." The juggler pushed the eldest prince up, and said respectfully: "Please take a look."

The wind music stopped, everyone looked at the stage curiously, and Shen Guiyan also sat up straight.

Ming Sigui was carried and put into the two side-by-side boxes, with his head and legs separated, the box moved slightly, and the waist hanging in the middle could still be seen.

The folk tricks are very magical, and this is the first time that everyone has watched them in the palace.Some people have already begun to speculate: "Could it be that the prince is going to be stuffed into a box and then transformed out of another place?"

Gu Chaobei chuckled and nodded: "This is interesting."

The juggler turned around a few times and brought two pieces of iron the same size as the side of the box. When everyone was puzzled, he swiped the floor and inserted it into the middle of the two boxes.

"Ah—" Everyone was startled, and Shen Guiyan's face turned pale!
This piece of iron, still can't cut people in two?

The lid of the box was opened, and the eldest prince came out with his head, indicating that he was fine, but his legs rested on the edge of another box, indicating that he had not retracted into a box.

When everyone was puzzled, the juggler suddenly separated the two boxes!
With the head on one side and the legs on the other, this daring magician actually cut the eldest prince in half!
The wives all exclaimed, even Gu Chaobei was taken aback, looking at the juggler with a livid face: "What is this?!"

Shen Guiyan stared blankly, looking at Ming Sigui's motionless legs in a box, her eyes were red.

The palace man next to him covered his mouth and said in a low voice: "Could it be that because the eldest prince's legs are crippled, he didn't even feel the legs cut off?"

With a shock, Shen Guiyan turned her head and looked at the palace man who was speaking with bloodshot eyes. The palace man was so frightened that he immediately knelt down.

There was silence in the Juhuan Pavilion, and everyone dared not vent their anger, staring at the two separated boxes above.

The leg resting on the edge of the box suddenly moved.

Shen Guiyan stared blankly, thinking for a moment that she was dazzled, but her leg slowly moved again.

The magician finally put the two boxes together again, took away the iron piece, and the eldest prince came out of the box directly.

came out.

Shen Guiyan looked dumbfounded, seeing her son who could only walk in her dreams, being supported by the palace servants, although it was difficult, he walked towards her step by step.

"I have never kowtowed to my mother before. Grand Master Zhou said that you should bow to your mother to show your respect." Ming Sigui looked at his mother, his small face was full of seriousness: "I wish your mother a happy birthday."

After finishing speaking, he let go of the palace man's hand, and knelt down towards Shen Guiyan.

Gu Chaobei was overjoyed, and the officials were also inexplicably astonished, and they all opened their mouths to congratulate.

Shen Guiyan didn't recover, but her eyes became more and more blurred. Big drops of tears fell down, and she looked at her son kneeling on the ground, and suddenly burst into sobs.

For so many years, what she has been unable to let go of is Sigui's leg, for fear that he will be sad and that he will be looked down upon.Many doctors were found for him, but he was unwilling to cooperate.

When was it possible to walk without telling her?
Shen Guiyan got up and fell in front of Ming Sigui, hugged him, and burst into tears like a girl in a boudoir, without any dignified state mother left, but the people around did not laugh at her, but wiped their tears with her.

"What should come is still coming! Three years later, your hair will be completely white, and on your birthday, you will shed tears on the court!"

The master of the state has been scaring her with white hair and great compassion, but he doesn't know that the tears he said shed the court, so that's how he shed them.

Crying and laughing, Shen Guiyan hugged her son and was hugged by the emperor again.The fireworks arranged outside were set off in the sky ahead of time, and the rumbling sound covered up her cries, and the light of the prosperous age bloomed in her crystal clear tears.

Good people will be rewarded, this is a generalization, not all good people will be rewarded, but most of the good people are much luckier than the bad people and live a happy life.

Don't believe it, and don't say that bad people are more comfortable.Whatever you sow, you will get what you want. Those who have a clear conscience, stick to their beliefs, remain loyal, brave and strong will not have bad luck.

Gu Chaobei hugged Shen Guiyan, resting his chin on the top of her head, with the whole world in his eyes.

Shen Guiyan felt that he must be thinking about everything in the world.

In fact, what the emperor is thinking now is, the gift from his son is so good, what should he give to compete for favor?

There are more than ten volumes of historical records of the Ming Dynasty, including the biography of Empress Xiaolie. Let me start from the very beginning:
"Shen Guiyan was able to memorize a thousand-character essay at the age of five, played the piano at the age of six and composed her own music, burned incense at the age of seven, and composed poems at the age of seven, and married the son of the prime minister at the age of eight. Everyone said that this girl was born with a phoenix jade, and she was born with a natural talent." Good luck."

And the end is just one sentence:
"I will die with the emperor at the age of sixty and be buried together in the tomb."

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