Li Hong, who walked to the entrance of Penglai Hall, met Fang Muqing, who was about to enter Penglai Hall. The two stood at the cold and windy palace entrance, looking at each other in silence.
After being silent for a long time, Fang Muqing seemed to suddenly wake up and bowed to Li Hong.
"It's going to snow." Li Hong stretched out his warm palms and said, feeling the cold wind.
"Yes." Fang Muqing said lightly. Her ladylike demeanor was still there, but there was something more mature and steady and deeply sad.
"You want him back?"
"yes."
"What would you do if you were me?"
"..." Fang Muqing didn't know how to answer.
"Some things can be regretted forever, because someone will always give you a chance to correct it. Some things have been done and there is no chance to regret. Sometimes the result can be afforded, sometimes it takes a lifetime to bear, and sometimes it is just He had to bear it with his life, and in the end he chose the latter, right."
"He has changed." After Fang Muqing said three words, he became silent again.
She found that the rhetoric she had thought up along the way seemed so feeble when facing Li Hong, when facing the trauma her husband had brought to Li Hong, and when facing Li Hong's questioning after the position was reversed.
"I have changed too, and the world has changed."
"One last chance. You've forgiven him many times before."
"I have been forgiven too much and given too many opportunities. It was all good."
"He has really changed. He is no longer greedy. There is no tiger in his heart. He just wants to live an ordinary life for the rest of his life, instead of being exiled to a foreign country and left to fend for himself. This... is too cruel, no fair."
"Is there fairness in this world?" Li Hongzong's red hand slowly retracted at this moment, catching one of the scattered snowflakes, but it soon melted in the palm of his hand: "The opportunity is fair, I gave it to him, I want to It’s fair to come back and give it to him, so just seize the opportunity.”
"He has no choice. He will be exiled to a foreign country and compete with those barbarians for power. There is no way he can win. He will... die. For the sake of Li Guangshun and Li Guangren being young, let him return to Chang'an to imprison us and his wife." Fang Muqing's eyes flashed with tears, and she said in a serious tone: "Even for a lifetime."
Li Guangshun and Li Guangren, led by two palace maids, stood next to the big tree not far from the entrance of Penglai Palace. There was some awe and fear in their eyes. They held the lapels of the palace maids tightly with their small hands, but they did not dare to come over to the palace. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince greeted his mother-in-law at the door.
"Do you know this tree?" Li Hong asked calmly, looking at the withered yellow leaves on the ground, blown in all directions by the cold wind.
"For several years, before I married Li Xian, my mother no longer allowed anyone to clean the fallen leaves from this tree. Even if they fell here, no one was allowed to clean them. They just let the fallen leaves spread everywhere. On the ground." Fang Muqing raised his head and glanced at Li Hong, then smiled gently at Li Guangshun and Li Guangren under the tree.
"I guarantee that the two of them will grow up like other royal and county kings, and no one will bully them."
"What does this tree have to do with you?" Fang Muqing asked.
After watching Li Hong signal to the two palace ladies, the two palace ladies dared to take Li Guangshun and Li Guangren and hurriedly walked to Li Hong to salute, and then walked into Penglai Hall.
Fang Muqing's hands looked much rougher than those of Bai Chun and others. Apparently there were too few palace maids and eunuchs, and some things needed to be done by themselves, so the originally fair hands began to develop calluses.
When Fang Muqing stroked Li Guangshun and Li Guangren's heads, Li Hong kept looking at those hands and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
"Yeah, it does matter."
“….”
"Back then... when I was about two or three years old, I found a sapling, ran to the court, grabbed the hand of my father who was attending court, and then planted this tree at the entrance of the Taiji Palace and Queen Mother's palace. "
"It was later transplanted here, and it still thrives under protection."
"Li Xian once planted a tree next door, but unfortunately it died within half a year. Do you know how it died?"
"have no idea."
"He had to water it every day and fertilize it every day. He really wanted his tree to surpass mine in the fastest time, so he died. You can't blame others, right?"
"Yes." Fang Muqing understood how the tree died.
"But he said it was because my tree stole the water he watered and the fertilizer he applied every night, so his tree had no water to drink and then died of thirst."
"It's his own fault." Fang Muqing's eyes became increasingly gloomy.
"From then on, the queen mother no longer asked people to clean up the fallen leaves from this tree. This happened every year. Every year, a thick layer of leaves would fall here. Li Lingyue once rolled with Li Dan on the fallen leaves, but Li Lingyue used to roll with Li Dan on the fallen leaves. Once he was beaten by his mother, Li Lingyue got away with it. "
"The Queen feels sorry for those leaves." Fang Muqing could imagine that Li Lingyue would point at Li Dan and complain: "He pushed me to roll on the leaves."
"The Queen Mother comforted Li Xian and said: 'Maybe one day when these leaves fall, they will turn into fertilizer and revive the tree that was watered to death.' But he didn't believe it." Li Hong sighed, standing on a high branch , has several bird's nests, and the Queen Mother does not allow anyone to touch it. This tree is now outside the Penglai Hall, and is valued by the Queen Mother more than anything else.
"Is this the origin of Li Ye's name?" Fang Muqing still lowered her head. A leaf under her feet was hanging on her skirt. It was easy to crush it, but... How many people dared to crush this leaf at the entrance of Penglai Hall? Leaves falling from a tree
I'm afraid there's no one there yet, except for Ye Zi's parents.
"The queen mother hopes that the leaves falling from this tree can save the tree, so the tree is still alive, but the result of its own fault is that maybe it can live well if it takes root in another place. Just in time, it can be regarded as branching. A type of loose leaf does not necessarily have to be in the royal family, nor does it have to be in Chang'an, or even in the Tang Dynasty to survive successfully. "
"Flying dandelions, where the flowers fall with the wind after blooming, breed new life, bloom the beauty of the Lihua tribe, and spread a new way of statement." Fang Muqing obviously knows very well about dandelions, and even He even knows a thing or two about his habits.
"Dandelion has no ambitions, just to live. This is the letter Li Zhe sent to me. I keep it with me all the time and never give it to you. So, after entering, there is no need to plead with my father and mother." Li Hong's hands were frozen. Red, in the air shrouded by the cold wind, I have been trying to catch even a snowflake that can stay for a while, but I have never succeeded.
Seeing Li Hong Dong's red hands hand over a letter in the form of a memorial, Fang Muqing hesitated for a moment before taking it solemnly with both hands.
"My hands are red from the cold, and my heart hurts, but sometimes there is nothing I can do. It's not enough if I don't freeze. It's all about living, right?"
"Thank you, Your Highness, for clarifying... Mu Qing's doubts. Mu Qing will never mention it again in the future." Fang Muqing bowed her head, tears welling up in her eyes.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince used trees to describe the competitive relationship between him and Li Xian. He also stretched out his hand to wait for warmth in the cold wind, but couldn't catch even a snowflake. Brothers are like siblings, but the younger brother didn't know it, so he only gave him more. Much cold.
Watching the tall figure leave, Fang Muqing also knew that the Crown Prince would obviously not agree to his request to leave Li Guangshun and Li Guangren and go to Anxi to accompany Li Xian, which he had never said.
Yeyue sat in the warm spring-like Li Zhengdian of the East Palace. She looked at the palace maid's strange expression strangely. When she was about to ask her what was wrong, she suddenly felt as if a piece of ice had been stuffed into the back of her neck. She was so cold that she jumped up from the soft sofa, and screams came from her mouth.
"I hate it! Are you childish? No, I have to ice you to even it out!" Yeyue pulled on Li Hong's clothes, regardless of the fact that her entire exquisite body was already stuck to Li Hong's body.
Although it is winter now and the clothes on everyone's body are not as thin as in summer, in the warm spring-like Li Zheng Hall, no one will wrap themselves up like rice dumplings, because in that case, within a quarter of an hour, people will Hot and sweaty.
Feeling the warm, soft and delicate body in his arms rubbing against his, Li Hong released a hand to hold Yeyue's hands: "Are you stupid? Your hands are so hot, and I won't feel cold even if you put them in." "
"Then I don't care, you just froze me to death."
"What were you thinking about just now? Are you thinking about the person your brother Wang wants you to marry?"
"It's nonsense, I won't think about it. Have you figured out a way? Brother Wang wrote again to urge you." Yeyue gave up retaliating against Li Hong because she felt that someone's hand was not in the right place, so she A bite on someone's arm.
"You are all dogs. Why do you all like to bite people?" Li Hong gasped and tried to take his hand away, but Ye Yue bit him tightly. It hurt so much that he and Princess Dalai The pain of biting the chest muscle is really the same.
"Tell me, who else has bitten you? Sister Wanying and Sister Bai never bite, right? An Xiaohe? Chen Qinghan? She is so gentle and virtuous, how could she bite you? Did you bully her?" Yeyue let go. Mouth, pulled Li Hong's arm, looked at the clear teeth marks on his arm, and was very satisfied with his proud work.
"Why do you care so much?" Li Hong withdrew his arm. The palace maid was about to hand Li Hong a brocade handkerchief to wipe the drool on his arm, but Ye Yue arbitrarily blocked her from wiping it.
The speechless Li Hong had no choice but to casually rub the saliva on his arm on Yeyue's chest. When Yeyue discovered that this pervert had taken advantage of him again and wanted to take revenge again, he saw that he had picked up the memorial on the case and was concentrating on it. Look.
"It's over. Your brother Wang really doesn't have a long memory. He still wants to come over and ask me to beat him. What should I do? To beat him or not to beat him?"
"Beat him up and force me to marry someone I don't like."Someone said it with a choir.
(End of chapter)