[Rebirth] Chronicle of the Two Capitals

The wind is blowing in the daytime, and the scenery is rushing westward.

In the seventh year of Jingning, the frosty sky was old, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the twelfth lunar month.

It is Laba, and it is also the Dharma Treasure Festival, the day when the Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened. This dynasty believed in Buddhism, and the Buddhist monks were greatly revived. Therefore, all officials rested and bathed. Good lip balm for the soldiers guarding the border to prevent chapped lips from the cold.

A year ago, Yan Yiqi returned to fill the vacancy of Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the new official took office three times. He wanted to use this to vigorously promote his measures to reform the official examination system from the central to the local.Although there is the support of the holy order, it is hard to get back. Many political measures are difficult to achieve overnight, and they are frequently violated by lower-level officials. It is very difficult to implement.

Fortunately, nothing was gained, and the phenomenon of excessive official donations and excessive official positions has been effectively controlled and alleviated.It's good to have results, and you can't become a big fat man if you can't eat one bite. The reformists in the court are contented and happy, and they are very prosperous.

Just when everything was gradually on the right track, the heroes were wise and wise, retreated despite the difficulties of foreign quarrels, and the emperor and Ji's personal administration were close at hand, but the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty all issued admonitions, either euphemistically or directly. For example, the emperor's husband should be registered as soon as possible, so as to fill the harem and extend the royal heirs.

The heavenly family has no personal affairs, and the emperor's marriage can be regarded as the top priority of the country, otherwise these old scholars, old scholars, old Confucians, old stubborns would definitely not interfere.Although the emperor was not the late emperor's own daughter, he followed the example of the late emperor by admonishing and following the right way. However, it was rare for the emperor to ignore all these memorials and keep them all.

One or two times can still be fooled with vague words, but the number of times is too many, and it seems to have evolved into a heart that cannot be crossed between the monarch and his ministers.So, last month, there was a censor who spoke bluntly and irritated the emperor in court. She was not a violent ruthless monarch, and she was often a virtuous corporal. Anyone who remonstrates with this statement will be punished with the same crime!

At thirty, the censor lay at home to recuperate for a while, and when he was on duty again, he went straight to Weiyang Palace, and tearfully poured out his sufferings to the queen mother who had retreated behind the scenes for a year and ignored the government. I went to find the queen mother to sue the emperor for being willful and reckless in treating courtiers harshly, and wanted to use the words of the queen mother to persuade the emperor to issue an edict to select the emperor's husband as soon as possible based on the private affairs of the family.

Every family has the custom of eating Laba porridge every La day, and the deep palace is no exception. The ministers of civil and military affairs and the servants of the palace are all given it and eat it.In several temples and monasteries in Yanjing, there were ministers who awarded rice grains, vegetables and fruits for Buddhist monks.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, a bowl of hot Laba porridge is drunk into the stomach, and the warmth is slowly released, gradually dispelling the damp and cold air accumulated all the way along the limbs and bones.Tang Yu put down the empty bowl, took the towel handed over by the palace man contentedly, wiped his mouth clean, then looked at the queen mother, and said with a sweet smile: "No matter what, it's still here for you to eat comfortably."

Her face was flushed red, and her slender eyelashes, which were as long as thin fans, were moist and soft from the heat of the Laba porridge just now.In just one year, she has grown her head again, and now she can almost stand shoulder to shoulder with the Queen Mother. No matter how mature and rational, only in front of the Queen Mother, she is obedient and obedient. How to fly into a rage.

The wind and snow outside the hall are heavy, just listening to the dull sound of the treetops being blown off by force is enough to make people dispel the idea of ​​walking in the snow.The sky was getting darker, but it was not nearly night yet. The queen mother asked Tang Yu to come over for dinner earlier, and she did as she said without any suspicion.

The two sat in the warm hall. The red charcoal in the charcoal stove set up a fire that was just right for keeping warm. The charcoal stove was covered with a smoke cage made of slender bamboo strips. It can prevent your hands from accidentally touching the charcoal stove and getting burned.Farther away, another smoker was set up, and the smoker was covered with a smoker cage, and the palace people were ironing the clothes that the Empress Dowager would wear the next day on it for incense.

The agarwood wafted to her nostrils. The Empress Dowager looked at the empty bowl on the food table, and suddenly smiled and said, "Baiju jumps the pill, the sun and the moon, and you will be an adult in the blink of an eye. In a month or so, you should ask Master Yuan to get it back." Your mailing bag."

The smile on Tang Yu's lips froze quickly.She knew about the censor's complaint, but she didn't want to take the initiative to mention it. She wanted to use this to guess how the empress dowager thought about her marriage.But obviously, the queen mother has always been the person who is most familiar with her state of mind, and she returned the question to her intact, as if she was talking about something else.

After a while, Tang Yu just smiled: "Aniang, this matter is not in a hurry. When giving porridge and food today, the little novice from Baoguo Temple brought a message from Master Yuan, saying that it is very easy to get sick in the recent cold weather, so he pulled out the bag and returned to the vulgar. You can take it slow."

"Well, this is not urgent." The Empress Dowager's voice paused slightly, but without warning, she changed the subject and asked softly, "Chang Geng, should you consider your own marriage?"

Tang Xi came here today because she was fully prepared psychologically. Even so, her expression still showed a little nervousness and apprehension.She was taken aback, and then hugged the Queen Mother's arm and acted coquettishly: "Mother, I'm still young. Even among Yanjing folks, I often hear that there are many women who are only married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. You will never be willing to let me Did I have a breakup with you early?"

She clings to her body obediently and domineeringly as she was when she was a child, and she is no longer willing to leave half an inch. Such an intimate behavior was not uncommon in the past, but a bit of hesitation quickly flashed in the Queen Mother's eyes.She sat a little further away calmly, and said in her mouth: "Although this is the case, it still needs to be looked at after all. The three books and six ceremonies are prepared one by one, at least it will take a year." After another year, She is 16 years old, which is not too early.

The queen mother's words are like an ordinary mother, hoping to choose a suitable and good family with her daughter, so that they can spend a lifetime together until they grow old.Tang Yu's eyes darkened because of this, and she whispered: "Aniang, there is no need to look at each other." She didn't have time to think, and said the truth in her heart.

"Why don't you need to look at each other?" The queen mother asked her, if Tang Yu could spare a little time in the nervousness at this moment, he would be able to catch the slightest tremor in her words.

Tang Yu didn't know how to answer, so he simply pursed his lips and remained silent.

The Empress Dowager looked at her and sighed silently in her heart. Before she could speak, Liandong smiled beside her and said, "Could it be that Your Majesty already has his own heart?" Liandong was just joking, she was familiar with the emperor's sleep, food and daily life. It's nothing more than princes, clansmen, civil and military ministers, and if they really belonged, how could they still come to Weiyang Palace every day or two.

As soon as the voice fell, the hall fell into silence, so quiet that the sound of crackling sparks in the charcoal stove could be heard clearly.Liandong looked strangely at the two silent masters. In his impression, the two of them were rarely relatively silent. What happened today?

After a while, the Empress Dowager took up the conversation. She said with a light smile, "Is it true? Which family's young gentleman is it?" She looked calm as if she had foreseen it, but she lacked the joy that a mother should have in such a situation. And reluctance, but implies a little hope and worry.

Tang Yu's heart was already in a mess, and she couldn't show her feet at all. She was a little nervous, and looked at the Queen Mother nervously. The pitiful look like a frightened deer happened to fall into the Queen Mother's clear eyes like Wang Minghong. middle.The Empress Dowager's eyes became more gentle, just like when she was a child, she enlightened her to read and write, encouraged her every improvement, and tolerated all her mistakes, which eased her panicked emotions very easily.

Tang Yu thought for a while, then she left the warm and fragrant arms of the queen mother, sat upright and upright on the couch, taking advantage of this momentary courage, boldly said: "Mother, I... I... I I don’t like Mr. Xiao Lang.” This courage came and went quickly, she was discouraged after she finished speaking, and lowered her head, waiting for the expected surprise and harshness from the Queen Mother.

Although he didn't say it directly, the meaning behind his words was very clear, Liandong couldn't help but gasped in surprise.Then, the Empress Dowager gave her a wink, and she led the people in the palace to retreat, and when she walked away, she closed the palace door from the outside to cover it tightly.

In the long winter days, the night is always getting colder and the wind is getting stronger. The strong wind outside the window seems to be swept from a high place with monstrous anger, blowing the grass and trees in the garden to hum.Such a scene obviously deepened the anxiety in Tang Yu's heart. She looked down at the pattern on her robe, and twisted the corners of the clothes aimlessly with her slender fingers, feeling like she was sitting on pins and needles.

Suddenly, a hand reached out and gently pinched her ear. The touch was as warm and soft as jade, and it had a cold fragrance like musk deer. The eyes that had been slackened just now gathered together shyly and timidly, and the pinnae of the ear quickly burned red .Tang Yu raised his head and looked at the queen mother, although he didn't know what to say, he opened his mouth: "Mother...I..."

The Empress Dowager's fingertips still rested on her earlobe, which was burning like a ball of fire. No matter how unbelievable she was in the past, she dared not draw conclusions easily. Is there anything worth overturning the conjecture at this moment?Whether it is anger or self-blame, among the many complex emotions, the most prominent and the most irresistible is actually distressed.

The empress dowager's first feeling towards her was guilt, for involving the ignorant and ignorant baby outside the palace into the planning plan she made up by herself, so that she could only be confined to this huge and lonely deep palace for the rest of her life, without any freedom.What the queen mother longs for most is freedom, but because she had it before, she lost it, and there is always an indelible obsession in her heart.And yet, she, she had been deprived of even her first taste of freedom.

"If you don't like Mr. Xiaolang, could it be that you have a lady who likes you?" The queen mother smiled lightly as before, and as if nothing had happened, she avoided the expectation and eagerness in Tang Yu's eyes, she retracted her hand, very quickly Quickly picked up the voice by himself, "There are old rules to follow during Shizong's reign, and this matter is actually okay."

Hearing the Queen Mother's words, Tang Yu was suddenly overjoyed, and she was about to speak, but the Queen Mother added lightly: "Chang Geng, whether it's this matter or something else, I have nothing else to ask of you, only reason, in case Indisputable."

From childhood to adulthood, she took whatever she wanted, and she never vetoed it, no matter how difficult it was.Only this time, she couldn't think of a better reason to convince herself, and pamper her like before.What she wants, the nearest and the farthest, is only tied to herself, but she can't give it.The best thing, perhaps, is to cut off her delusions from the very beginning.

The author has something to say:

Mouth fat, in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor often rewarded ministers and soldiers, which is probably equivalent to the current lipstick, to prevent chapped lips. ps, the Empress Dowager in the last chapter will definitely not ask about Fang Zhongshu, what the hell is opening the door to a new world 233333.