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At this time, Zhuque came over and said: "Consort, the princess lets you pass."

Cheng Changyin hurried over, and Li Ye smiled and asked, "How do you say it?"

Suzaku nodded, "She accepted it. In order to keep the prince-in-law, she had no choice but to endure today's grievances."

Li Ye smiled and said: "I performed well today, right?"

Suzaku praised: "You performed really well today. I thought you would kill them all, but you restrained yourself. It's really rare!"

"Then give me a reward!"

Li Ye stretched out his mouth, and Suzaku quickly pushed him away, "I'm going to die, they're right behind me!"

When Li Ye turned around, he saw that Cheng Changyin and Princess Guangning were really behind them, looking like they were about to leave.

"Are you guys going back?" Li Ye walked up and asked.

"Let's go, dear brother. I won't thank you for your kindness. We'll see you later!"

"Brother, take care!"

Zhuque took Princess Guangning's hand and said a few words, and the young couple went down the VIP aisle.

Li Ye returned to the elegant room and lay down immediately, "I'm exhausted today!"

"Get up! Get up! The poem someone promised me hasn't been written yet?"

"Oops! I forgot about it."

Li Ye smiled lazily and said, "Where did I forget to put the paper and pen?"

"Don't make excuses. If the imperial concubine asks you to write it, you promise to fly up and find it."

Li Ye stood up, hugged her and said with a smile: "You are not jealous of the imperial concubine! How is it possible? Your age is here."

Suzaku shook his head, "Master said that age is a woman's natural enemy, except for the imperial concubine. Age is frozen in her body. Even when she is old, she will still make the men in the world intoxicated."

Li Ye patted his forehead, "I remembered, I asked the maid to put it away, she seems to have put it here!"

Li Ye opened the small cabinet below and found pen, ink, paper and inkstone as expected. He waved to Suzaku, "Stop thinking about it and come and grind the ink for me!"

Zhuque pouted and sat aside to grind ink for him. At this time, the maid came in and bowed: "Master, the supper is ready, do you want to bring it in?"

Suzaku waved his hand, "Don't worry, he's not hungry. We'll bring it in later."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Ye's stomach growled. He looked at her aggrievedly. Suzaku covered his mouth and laughed, and hurriedly waved: "Come in quickly!"

The two maids quickly brought in the late night snacks, including various snacks, lotus seed soup, and two bowls of hot sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice balls. These were not glutinous rice balls. Filled glutinous rice balls only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and the glutinous rice balls in the Tang Dynasty were still solid.

After eating the supper, he was no longer hungry. Li Ye spread the paper on the table and said softly to Suzaku: "There is a poem that I originally planned to give you on Chinese Valentine's Day."

Suzaku lowered his head and whispered: "Just treat tonight as Chinese Valentine's Day!"

Li Ye took up his pen and wrote down the words in his heart.

"Magpie Bridge Immortal"

Thin clouds make tricks, flying stars spread hatred, and silver men are far away in darkness.

As soon as the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will defeat countless people in the world.

Tenderness is like water, good times are like dreams, and I can't help but look at the Magpie Bridge on the way home.

If the love lasts for a long time, how can it last day and night?

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the mighty Hezhong Army set out. The 12,000-strong army left Chang'an and headed west with 20,000 camels and 3,000 carts.

Accompanying them were more than a dozen Sogdian caravans and the team of Prince Bakhna, and more than 700 family members accompanied the army.

The farewell crowd numbered tens of thousands, mostly the families of the soldiers. The soldiers bid farewell to their families and rushed to the distant frontier. According to the plan, this group of troops will be transferred back to Chang'an in four years and will be rotated by another group of troops.

Li Ye hugged his parents and Aunt Mu to bid him farewell, and then hugged Suzaku tightly. Li Lin, the king of Sining, had successfully acted as a matchmaker. Li Dai came to propose with gifts yesterday, and the Dugu family accepted the gifts and accepted the proposal from the Li family.

This is the first step of the Six Rites, Nacai. The second step is to ask Ming and Naji, which is to calculate whether the two people's horoscopes are suitable. Except for the fact that they are not allowed to get married if they have the same surname, there are almost no problems. It also ended yesterday.

There are three more steps below: application, application and personal reception. These three steps are relatively long. After the application period, many families still have to prepare for the wedding for several months to half a year.

To accept a marriage proposal is to send a betrothal gift. This and the application period are put together. These are not big problems. The key is the first step. Once the woman's family accepts the marriage proposal, the relationship between the two parties is finalized.

This means that Zhuque, also known as Dugu Xinyue, has become the future daughter-in-law of the Li family and Li Ye's fiancée.

"Go! Have a safe journey and come back soon."

"I will definitely come back next year."

Li Ye let go of Suzaku, hugged his mother tightly, then got on his horse and waved goodbye to his parents.

Watching her son walk away, Pei Sanniang suddenly covered her mouth and started crying. Suzaku held her arm and whispered comfort. Li Dai sighed. Their son had just grown up and they broke up.

"Madam, I'm going back to the court first."

There was another important discussion about the imperial examination schedule in the afternoon, and Li Dai had to go back to prepare for it.

"Go ahead! Suzaku is with me, and my aunt is too." Pei Sanniang said with red eyes.

The three women, old, middle and young, got on the carriage, Dazhu waved his whip, and the carriage drove slowly towards Chang'an City.

At noon, the sun was extremely warm. Li Linfu sat in the yard, slowly raised his head, and squinted at the big tree above his head. The big tree died last year. Li Linfu did not allow anyone to cut it down. He knew that his fate was related to this tree. Like a big tree, it has gone through countless springs, summers, autumns, and winters, and has finally come to an end.

"Are you seventeen today?" he asked the maid next to him in a low voice.

"Old man, it's seventeen!"

"He's finally gone!"

Li Linfu breathed a long sigh of relief and slowly closed his eyes. The maid hurriedly ran to get a blanket to cover him all over.

"Tang Wenzong! Tang Wenzong!"

Li Linfu muttered a few words in a low voice, with a smile on his lips.

After a long time, the little maid finally felt something was wrong. She gently tested the old man's breath. She was so frightened that she suddenly retracted her hand and shouted in horror, "Someone is coming! Someone is coming quickly!"

Li Xiu and several other sons came over, felt his father's pulse and breathing, then fell to his knees on the ground and burst into tears.

On the seventeenth day of the first month of the eleventh year of Tianbao, Li Linfu, the former prime minister, finally came to the end of his life.

He had been struggling and suffering. After his grandson Li Ye left, he no longer cared about the world and closed his eyes.

The death of Li Linfu also means the end of an era. This powerful official who has been in charge of the Tang Dynasty for nearly two decades has witnessed the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty. People have criticized him more than praised him, but this is no longer important. What is important is that he It ended, and the Yang Guozhong era began.

When Li Linfu died of illness, the atmosphere in the court was very strange. No one rushed to express condolences. Only his sons, grandsons and husband were busy with his funeral. All the ministers in the court were waiting with bated breath for the emperor's decree to be issued.

Even the Yuwen family who originally wanted to come to Pingkang Mansion to play gongs and drums did not dare to act rashly.

It was not until three days after Li Linfu's death that the emperor's decree was finally issued, posthumously granting Li Linfu the title of Taiwei, Grand Governor of Yangzhou, Ban Sword Warrior, the Secret Weapon of Xiyuan, and the posthumous title Wuzhen.

The emperor gave Li Linfu a good position, and ministers began to come to pay their respects.

At this time, a series of news shocked the Li family. The imperial court forced all Li's descendants to mourn, and all of them had to resign from their official positions. Several sons-in-law were also required to resign and mourn for one year.

However, not all sons-in-law were required to resign in mourning. Yang Guozhong retained four of them on the grounds that they were busy with court affairs, which exposed the fact that these four had secretly defected to Yang Guozhong for a long time.

But there are exceptions. The emperor's rejection of Li Dai's application for Ding You, the minister of rites, asked him to continue to stay in office and apply again after the imperial examination was over. This did not mean that he was not allowed to mourn, but that he was asked to postpone his mourning, which was allowed.

After all, Li Dai was the son of Li Linfu and the minister of the Ministry of Rites. It was unjustifiable to violate the court system, so Li Longji gave special approval and agreed that he should be mourned in April for a period of twelve months.

However, the court's Ding You system is only for parents, and it is not so strict for the grandson's generation. If you take the initiative to apply for mourning for your grandfather Ding You, the court will approve it and reward your filial piety.

But if you don't apply, you haven't violated the system, and the court won't pursue it.

Prime Minister Zhang Jun wrote a letter to the emperor, asking Li Ye, the governor of Hedong, to uphold filial piety and serve his grandfather for three years. However, his letter fell into the sea like a mud cow, and there was no further content. It was stuck on Gao Lishi's side.

The news that followed was like a thunderbolt from the blue, exploding in the West Temple of the Li family. Li Linfu's title was inherited by his fifth son, Li Dai. According to regulations, he was demoted one level and given the title of Shangdang County Duke.

This means that Li Linfu's mantle will eventually be inherited by Li Dai, and the Dongci Temple is the authentic one.

Li Xiu cried loudly in front of his father's soul and fell ill.