Thousands of Miles of the Same Wind + Fanwai

Gu Siyuan was stunned for a moment, met Zhong Liran's hopeful gaze, and said softly: "Yes." They are about nine years apart, and they grew up together since they were young, and it is normal for them to take a bath together.

Zhong Liran's eyes lit up, he led Gu Siyuan to the west pavilion of the inner hall, and said, "Then let's hurry up, the water is getting cold." Gu Siyuan felt a little helpless, and followed her to the bathroom in the west pavilion.

The bathroom set up in the Chen Palace occupies about one-third of the area, and the floor is covered with a layer of clean white marble.The bathroom room is divided into two spaces by a screen. Outside the screen is the changing area, and inside the screen is the bathroom.

The bathroom is equipped with a bathtub that can accommodate four people soaking, and next to the bathtub is a place for washing.The palace is built next to the Taibai Mountains, and there are hot springs flowing through the palace.So the craftsmen made copper pipes to lead the hot spring water flowing through the palace to the bath room of the palace for the use of the emperor, which is very convenient.

Zhong Liran led Gu Siyuan into the bathroom, took off his clothes and put them neatly on the shelf, without taking off the crown on his head, he entered the bathroom and carefully immersed himself in the pool water.

The warm water spread all over his body, and the little emperor leaned against the bath after a tiring day, narrowing his eyes slightly.Gu Siyuan followed behind her, slowly took off all the clothes on her body, and then walked in naked.

Zhong Liran, who squinted his eyes slightly, heard the movement, and said to her, "You can wash your hair over there." Gu Siyuan nodded, walked to a place where you can wash, and sat on the pony made of stone with his back facing her.

The craftsmen installed a copper pipe switch for hot spring water to flow out here, and a small stone tank was placed under the switch.At this time, the stone jar was filled with water, and a piece of melon floated in the jar.

This is midsummer, and the water in the tank still has residual heat.But Gu Siyuan still turned on the copper pipe switch to let the hot spring water flow down.Sitting on a stone bench, she brushed all her long black hair to her left chest, held her hair in one hand, and scooped warm water from a melon ladle in the other and slowly washed it down from the top of her head.

With the sound of water pattering, Zhong Liran opened his eyes and turned to look at Gu Siyuan.

The girl with excellent eyesight clearly saw an extremely beautiful back.Snow-white skin, slender waist, and that faint touch of spring color make people's eyes shine.

Zhong Liran looked at it for a while, then suddenly asked: "Do you need maids to come in and serve you?"

Gu Siyuan shook his head, combing his slender black hair slowly.Seeing this, Zhong Liran got up from the pool, stepped on the steps, and walked behind Gu Siyuan on the marble slabs engraved with patterns.

She bent down, took off the soap on the shelf, applied it on the top of Gu Siyuan's head, and said softly, "Then I will help you."

Zhong Liran carefully lifted Gu Siyuan's long hair, put it on the top in a ball, and slowly rubbed her hair.The little emperor was very patient in this matter, and after a lot of tossing, he helped her wash it.

This torment lasted for a long time, and Gu Siyuan was very fortunate that it was midsummer, otherwise, the two of them would have caught cold after such a toss.

After wiping his hair, Gu Siyuan pushed Zhong Liran back to the bathtub.The two of them soaked in hot water, and immediately showed a relaxed expression.

Seeing that Zhong Liran was still wearing a crown, Gu Siyuan waved to her and called: "Your Majesty, come here." Zhong Liran moved to her side and found a comfortable position in her arms.

At this time, Gu Siyuan realized that Zhong Liran had really grown up a lot.The people who could not block her sight before now filled her entire field of vision.

Gu Siyuan, who pulled up his long hair, reached out and removed the silver crown that tied Zhong Liran's hair, and put it aside.Holding water in one hand, she wet Zhong Liran's half-length hair while saying: "Your Majesty has really grown a lot taller."

It felt good to relax his scalp, Zhong Liran narrowed his eyes slightly and did not speak.Gu Siyuan soaped her, massaged her scalp, and asked, "Does Your Majesty feel comfortable?"

Zhong Liran narrowed his eyes slightly, nodded, and looked very much like a kitten that was well groomed.Seeing that she liked it, Gu Siyuan smiled and pressed her again.

After a while, she held water to rinse Zhong Liran.After Zhong Liran washed his hair, he felt refreshed.Soaking in the warm spring water, she fell back and nestled into Gu Siyuan's arms.

Gu Siyuan was taken aback, and held her in his arms helplessly.The warm and soft embrace made Zhong Liran relax. She squinted her eyes slightly, and suddenly remembered an old event many years ago.

She thought about it, and said, "Gu Siyuan, do you still remember, when you were 16 years old, the governor of Zhongzhou, Gufu proposed marriage to your grandmother?"

Gu Siyuan stretched out his hand, rubbed her neck carefully, and said casually: "I remember, what's the matter, Your Majesty?"

Zhong Liran looked up at her with starry eyes: "Then do you remember what I said at that time?"

Gu Siyuan thought about it, but found that he would not be able to remember for a while.Zhong Liran expected it to be so, and said coldly: "At that time, I asked you to wait for me to be crowned, and then marry me. Look, you are indeed married to me now."

Seeing the smile in her eyes, Gu Siyuan smiled, reached out his hand helplessly, touched her head and said, "Yes."

But Zhong Liran didn't say what Zhongzhou Governor said after he proposed marriage, but after Zhongzhou King's funeral.

Gu Siyuan clearly remembered that what the child said at the beginning was - Sisi, let's get engaged.

Even then, they were the closest people to each other.

The author has something to say: Calm down, these two will not fall in love so early.

Mai Mai has complicated feelings for Gu Siyuan, like a sister like a mother, but it is also his first love.Gu Siyuan regarded her as a partner, sister, and didn't think too much about it.This big marriage is actually equivalent to a contract marriage.For Maimai, Gu Siyuan is willing to be an ornament on her road to power. (Because she actually wants to spend her days idle, after all, she is a woman who is not doing business)

The period when Mai Mai was in power happened to be the end of Chu State.

It is about 200 years from Shuo's time.

At the end of the Chu Kingdom, Rio was set to be the Little Ice Age in the parallel world, so there were many disasters, such as severe droughts, floods and freezing periods.McMahon was at the beginning of this period, so there were many natural disasters and cholera.So Maimai kept thinking about how to increase food production so that the common people would be fed and clothed (this is why she was made the farming emperor)

And the state of Chu accepted by Shuo happened to be at the end of the Little Ice River, and it was directly tossed and destroyed. (Because Xiang Dongliu said that ice disasters and floods broke out very frequently, Chu State was actually exhausted.)

And Xuan Jingchen's Qing Kingdom, after the weakening of the belief in the gods, will quickly enter the industrial age, and eventually a constitutional monarchy will be established.

(This is probably the rough world view and development history in the connection between these two stories. Although I wrote it blindly, I still fiddled with it, and don’t pursue the details.)

All in all, let's talk about a sweet love for such a hard-working Mai Mai!

Chapter 18 IV.1

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Perhaps because of the emperor's wedding, there was neither severe drought nor flood this summer, and the entire Chu State could be regarded as peaceful.Soon, the scorching midsummer faded away, and the cool early autumn ushered in Yuanzhou City.

The coming autumn is the harvest season for the people of Chu.Logically speaking, the emperor and empress should lead all the ministers to the suburbs for the autumn festival.However, it would cost a lot of money to mobilize the crowd for a sacrifice, so Zhong Liran, who was already in power, decreed that the chief minister should lead the audience of Taiyi to perform the sacrifice in the temple.

In this way, there is a lot of money left.However, according to the practice of Chu State, after early autumn, the royal family needs to hold a martial arts performance in the western suburbs.But Zhong Liran almost had the word "poor" written on his face, and the ministers couldn't propose to hold it in a grand manner.It just so happened that the queen's birthday was approaching, and people who were interested wrote a letter saying that the queen's birthday was coming soon, so it would be better to hold a willow banquet composed of noble young men and women in Shengyuan Palace.

Compared with the performance of martial arts in the western suburbs, the cost of taking Liu Yan is much less, so Zhong Liran approved the word "yes" on this memorial.After the she Liu Yan, the officials of the DPRK and China did not mention any martial arts performances.

They could see that this His Majesty has no desire for material things, and he doesn't like to engage in any vain things, as long as he can barely live with his face, it will be fine.Although he is a half-grown child, he is more restrained than many adults. The courtiers still admire this point.

In fact, it's not that Zhong Liran doesn't care about face, it's just that because the treasury is too poor, she can't slap her swollen face to pretend to be fat.In the later period of Emperor Ming, there were many natural disasters, and the grain production dropped sharply. There were many refugees in the country who were hungry and naked.When Zhong Liran was eight years old, he was traveling in a drought-stricken land, and his car was hit by refugees.

She had personally seen those thin-faced and emaciated refugees, who were so hungry that their skin and bones fell in front of her car.She had never seen such a miserable person, so she asked around.Left and right sighed, saying that there has been a severe drought in recent years, the harvest has plummeted, and what can be done?