Wishing You Eternal Happiness

Stars shift, time flies, with another year of snow melting, the ten-year spring of Zhaoping arrives as scheduled.

In the past three years, natural disasters have been greatly reduced in China. Except for the locust plague in Shanxi and the flooding in Anhui the year before, the rest of the country has had a good harvest, with sufficient annual money, and the national treasury was surplus for the first time;

Outside, the Hu was defeated in a battle three years ago. After his vitality was severely injured, he is still afraid of hearing Pei Youan’s name. According to the contract he made, he went north for five hundred miles. Within ten years, he decided that he could never go again. Ability to provoke the border on a large scale;

As for the clan, at the end of last year, the emperor also eliminated the last King Jingan who was accused of treason. In the past three years, the last remaining seven or eight princes, including King Jing’an, who were considered capable or likely to imitate King Changle, successively committed conclusive or unwarranted charges, committed suicide in fear of crime, or It's the fact that no one can get a good death. The strength of the emperor Pingfan’s heart and the iron and blood of his wrists can be seen. The rest of the surviving vassal kings are all trembling, lest they will delay the disaster, and they have taken the initiative to surrender their forces. The imperial court completely withdrew the elite armed forces in the hands of all the vassals outside, and strictly restricted the authority of the kings. The first-rank elders of the imperial court, see all the kings, no longer have to bow down and pay respects. So far, the measures to restrict the vassal began after Xiao Lie ascended the throne, and in the tenth year of difficult progress, it finally saw results and achieved outstanding results.

The new year is supposed to be a year of auspicious signs, and the country is peaceful and peaceful. But when the whole city was looking forward to the Lantern Festival, the atmosphere in the court suddenly became heavy.

The sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve was still in my ears, and it was only two days before the news spread, saying that the emperor was very likely to be unable to sustain it. Perhaps it was something in these days.

The emperor’s body has gone from bad to worse a few years ago after the prince was abolished, and the lamp has been exhausted in the past two years, but it has survived this way. Until a few days before the end of the year, the news of King Jing’an Fuzhu was spread. After coming, perhaps it was completely relaxed. It is said that the emperor fell down that night.

This fall, no matter how hard the imperial physician tried his best, he was no longer able to rejuvenate.

At the beginning of the year, the courtiers were still in the spring break. The news spread. Ministers such as He Gongpu, Zhang Shiyong, Lu Xiang, and Liu Jiushao came to the East Pavilion where the cabinet is located. Knowing that in the past few days, most of the time, the emperor has been drowsy and sleepy, and the rice has not been fed, all relying on the medicinal juice and ginseng soup to continue.

In the past two years, the emperor has let go of the ordinary affairs of the court and handed them over to the cabinet headed by Pei You'an. In addition to government affairs, Pei Youan also assisted the emperor's grandson in his studies. The affection of master and apprentice, the family member fist.

The emperor's grandson was not only talented and intelligent, but at a young age, there was a vague style of scrupulousness between his gestures. Manchu dynasty civil and military, such as Ho, Zhang and others with old qualifications, did not dare to have something in front of this seven-year-old boy. Wanton. When he was established as the emperor's grandson, some of the rumors about his improper origin that were secretly passed on by the court have now disappeared long ago, and no one mentions it anymore.

Everyone knows that the old dynasty is about to pass, and what is about to come is the age of the imperial grandson and Taifu who is concealed in power in front of him and his young emperor's student who needs auxiliary education because of his underage.

Everyone knows that Pei Youan entered the palace overnight on the night of the emperor's fall, and stopped the spring break the next day. Every day, except for inquiring about the emperor's illness, everyone was in the East Pavilion for the rest of the day, handling the affairs of the pavilion as usual. The emperor’s grandson and the emperor’s grandchildren have very good relationships. The emperor can’t afford to be sick, and the emperor is sad and anxious, and it is difficult to sleep at night. Considering that the emperor’s grandson is still young, he is afraid that his sadness will excessively damage his body, and there will be no sisters in the palace. Long guide, as the Tai Fu Pei You'an, these days his wife was connected to the palace, temporarily taking care of the emperor grandson and comforting him.

He, Zhang and others naturally have no objection to this arrangement.

In the East Pavilion, under the gaze of several surrounding cabinet officials, Pei Youan remained silent and said nothing.

As usual, there is not much difference.

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"Tweet—"

Accompanied by the sharp sound of breaking through the sky, a firework rose above the night sky of the lamp market not far from the east outer wall of the palace, bursting out brilliant fireworks, the first one has not disappeared, and the next one cannot wait to fight The phases bloom, and gradually, fireworks all over the city, competing with each other, are competing to light up the night sky of the capital during the Shanghai Yuan Festival.

Since the emperor fell ill, he has not been out of Chengguang Hall for half a step.

This palace is located in the direction of the imperial palace close to the Xiyuan, which was originally far away from the East City. But tonight, the crackling sound of fire trees and silver flowers blooming in the distant night sky across the high palace wall, faintly drifted here.

Li Yuangui had guarded for half a month before the emperor’s sickbed. Very sleepy, he closed a random glance on the floor.

The imperial doctors have just gone out. The emperor has been in a coma for two consecutive days and two nights, and the ginseng soup that has been living for a long time can hardly be fed today.

When the imperial physicians withdrew, they looked at the dragon couch as if the emperor had fallen asleep, and the panic in their eyes was ready to come out.

Li Yuangui looked at the half of the potion left in the bowl, suppressed the sorrow in his heart, called the palace man to come forward, and was about to try to feed the potion into the emperor’s throat again, suddenly, the man on the sickbed, A pair of eyelids trembled slightly.

"call out--"

Faintly, outside the palace wall in the distance, there seemed to be another sound of fireworks.

The emperor's eyelids were shaking more and more.

Li Yuangui saw it, threw it over, and hurriedly called "Long live".

Xiao Lie's eyes finally opened slowly.

"call out--"

There seemed to be another sound in the distance.

Xiao Lie seemed to be listening. After a while, his eyes gradually became clearer.

"Hurrah, are you awake? Long live medicine! After taking the medicine, Long live disease will be cured!"

Li Yuangui's eyes were filled with excitement and tears, and his voice was trembling slightly. He hurriedly picked up the bowl of concoction, took a spoonful of it with a spoon, and fed it to the emperor's lips.

Xiao Lie didn't even hear about it, motionless, just continuing to listen to the fireworks bursting above the night sky in the distance. For a long time, with a faint, almost unintelligible hoarse voice, he asked softly: "Is it Shangyuan tonight?"

"Yes. Long live you have been sleeping for half a month..." Li Yuangui's voice choked again.

"I have been asleep for half a month..."

Xiao Lie murmured and repeated it.

"It's so fast... I just dreamt of Shang Yuanye when I was fourteen years old... When I woke up, she had already left. It has been more than 30 years... Fortunately, I am leaving too. Going to find her..."

He sighed softly, unable to tell whether it was joy or sorrow.

Li Yuangui bowed his head and wiped his tears.

"Go and fetch the contents of my box."

Li Yuangui was taken aback, and then he understood. He hurried to a cabinet with gold-filled lacquer dragon pattern, took the key, opened the cabinet door, took out a box from it, took out the jade pendant placed in the box, and held it. Before the sickbed, he was carefully placed in the hands of the emperor.

The cool beautiful jade fell into Xiao Lie's open palm. He closed his eyes, slowly tightened his five fingers, and finally squeezed the jade tightly into his palm.

In his dream just a moment ago, that year, he was fourteen and she was thirteen, and it was the same as the night of the Yuan Dynasty of the fire tree and silver flower. With the jubilant horse, he deliberately rushed in front of the girl and broke a rabbit lamp in her hand.

She naturally recognized him, and she often met him since she was young, knowing that he was always rampant in the palace with the emperor’s favor, and was annoyed, but because of his identity, she didn’t dare to scold him, she just turned around angrily and wanted to call his family. As he walked along, he chased after him and carved out the piece of jade that he had personally carved out a long time ago. At this moment, he hid it next to his body, and he quickly squeezed it into the palm of her hand with the jade pendant of his body temperature.

She loves orchids, he knows.

"If I pay you, take it!"

He raised his proud chin, he didn't care about being authentic, but his heart was beating hard and his face was slightly red.

She was surprised and shy, and quickly stuffed the jade pendant back, turned around and left, as if it was something that could bite.

The young prince hung the jade pendant above the wicker and said to her back: "I'm hanging it here. Don't forget it!"

She ignored him and walked a few steps, but saw her family suddenly come from the opposite side, turned her head quickly, and saw that he was still standing next to the willow, her eyes gleaming by the fireworks on the flower bridge opposite, just staring like that On the handsome face of the young man, with an annoying smirk, he couldn’t help being flustered, afraid of being seen by his family. He hurriedly turned around, ran to the willow tree, took the still dangling jade pendant, and picked it up. After coming down, he quickly hid in the palm of his hand.