Dao Minghuang's figure is sitting in the pavilion. Seen from a distance, it looks so lonely and ethereal under the dim palace lantern.
Qi Baoer paused, suddenly feeling a little sour and feeling a little guilty.
She didn't know why, but when she looked at it, Ruoda's palace felt so empty.
Unconsciously, he quickened his pace.
He gently placed his hand on the shoulder that seemed to be weighted by tens of millions of kilograms but was always strong, and his voice sounded like wind and mist, "Chen Yuan, I'm back."
Jun Chenyuan's eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he was in disbelief but also wanted to confirm something. He raised his hand and gently and slowly grasped the small hand on his shoulder.
The warm feeling came, as if it could spread throughout the whole body through the palm of the hand, driving away the coldness all over the body.
it is true.
It wasn't his dream.
He turned around and put his strength into his arms, hugging the little man tightly and holding him tightly for a long time without saying a word. At this moment, he just wanted to feel this real feeling that enriched his whole heart.
Someone hugged him tightly as if he had lost something, and Qi Baoer felt a little uncomfortable from being strangled, but this time she did not resist. She also reached out and gently hugged his waist, bowing her head to the chest with a strong heartbeat.
On the chamber.
The two father-in-laws, Fu and Bai, looked at each other, then silently stepped back further.
Two people who haven't seen each other for more than half a month are like three autumns apart. They have been inseparable for decades. They miss each other so much that they wish they could be together.
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Xianfeng County, Yuefu.
Jun Jinlan took out a palm-sized box from his sleeve and placed it in front of Mr. Yue opposite, "This is something that the emperor asked me to return to the old man."
Even if there was nothing going on in Yecheng, Jun Jinlan would still make a trip to Xianfeng County.
Mr. Yue looked at the box that was still like new. Although his face was calm, there was a storm in his eyes, with nostalgia and grief mixed together, and his whole person was enveloped in sadness.
After a long time, Jun Jinlan heard him say in a hoarse voice: "This is my daughter's thing. I didn't expect the Holy One to still keep it. Thirty-two years later, it's time to return it to my in-laws."
Jun Jinlan was speechless. Nothing he could say was appropriate at this time.
Before coming, he had heard the Empress Dowager talk about a few unknown things that had happened between the Emperor and the Yue family.
Mr. Yue actually went to Beijing to prepare for the examination. At that time, Mr. Yue was already in his thirties and had a son and two daughters. The eldest daughter was already thirteen.
Mr. Yue and his wife were childhood sweethearts, and they had a very good relationship. When they went to Beijing for reference, they took his wife and their eldest daughter with them, and planned to take their wife and daughter to visit the capital after the exam.
Who would have thought that after just a trip to Beijing, three people went, but only two came back.
Mr. Yue had to prepare for the examination and had no time, so he could only let his wife take his eldest daughter out for a walk.
Once by chance, I met the emperor who was also out for fun.
At that time, the emperor was just an idle king. He had no power and he did not like to show off. He was usually accompanied by only one or two servants. He did not identify himself, so Mrs. Yue and Miss Yue, who were outsiders, could not recognize him.
The Ji family were all good-looking. The emperor at that time had a humorous and carefree conversation, and Miss Yue was only a thirteen-year-old girl, so she was fascinated.
In the box that Jun Jinlan just gave Mr. Yue, there was a men's white jade waist pendant three fingers thick. On the front was a lifelike lotus. Instead, there was a special circular pattern with the word "Yue" in it. The small letters below were Miss Yue's maiden name and birth date.
date.
When the Queen Mother took out the jade and showed it to him, she said that this jade was a token given to the man by the girl from the Yue family when she got engaged.
But the emperor didn't know this at the time.
Royal men would value women too little. For them, women's tenderness and love are taken for granted. At most, those with high status will be given a side wife, and those with low status will be given a concubine.
It cannot be said that everything is ruthless. It is due to the environment. For them, women tend to take the initiative, and since they were young, they have always seen one thing on the outside and another behind the scenes. The women are fake women and fake honeys who are aiming at their identities.
many.
Therefore, most of them are not serious about love. They are interested in having fun and having fun for a while, but if they want to give their sincerity, how can they have so much sincerity to pay?
When the emperor received the jade pendant, he accepted it without even looking at it carefully. He planned to choose a date to propose marriage to Miss Yue.
If he looked carefully, he would find that the back of the jade pendant had a special pattern that represented the family, and he would know that this kind of jade pendant, which could only be given to the head wife, was not the random things he usually collected.
[Only those with the clan emblem will be used as tokens of serious engagement.]
It's a pity that he didn't take it seriously.
Before the concubine ceremony was carried out, Miss Yue accidentally learned the identity of the emperor and also found out that he had not only wives but also many concubines in his family.
Miss Yue had a fierce temper, and without thinking she left a suicide note and hanged herself.
She was more than a month pregnant when she died.
The other party is a prince, and he is also the emperor's biological son no matter how reused he is. What else can Mr. Yue do?
But he was so angry that he gave up the exam and returned to Xianfeng County with the bodies of his wife and daughter.
Mrs. Yue was so sad about her daughter's death that she fell ill after returning to Xianfeng County, and soon followed Miss Yue.
Jun Jinlan opened her mouth, but in the end she still didn't say the words, 'Things have always been kept with the Empress Dowager.'
When the Empress Dowager learned about this, she felt that the Tian family owed it to the Yue family. When the emperor ascended the throne and moved into the palace, she specially asked for this thing from the emperor. She has been keeping it, preparing to return it to the Yue family one day.
The Empress Dowager's original words: Even if you have betrayed others, how can you still accept their tokens and make people feel uneasy when they leave?
The so-called thinking about people when you see things is just self-deception.
But for the sad old father in front of me, it’s better not to talk about this.
Maybe it would be better for him to think that the emperor still cares about his daughter, which at least proves that his daughter's death was not in vain.
More than thirty years have passed since the incident, and he has been sad and sad. Mr. Yue only felt sad for a while and then calmed down. After putting away the box, he stood up and bowed to Jun Jinlan.
How could Jun Jinlan let someone who was already in his sixties or seventies and was so sentimental just now bow to him and faint?
He is here to invite people today, not to offend them.
He quickly lifted Mr. Yue up before he bowed, "The old man has broken Jinlan."
Mr. Yue couldn't bow down, and since he had a grudge against the royal family, he didn't have much respect for the royal bastard in front of him, King Ding, so he decided not to bow down.
Yue Wenfeng, who was teaching at the college, rushed back at this time and happened to see his father and a young man seemingly tugging at each other. Looking at the young man's low-key but luxurious clothes, Yue Wenfeng knew that this must be the thousand-year-old King Lan.
He quickly stepped forward and saluted, "See King Lan is a thousand years old."
Jun Jinlan first helped Mr. Yue sit down on the stone bench, then turned around to see who was coming.
Yue Wenfeng is in his forties. He has a face with a Chinese character, eyes like torches, and a mustache that looks like a scholar. At first glance, he looks like a knowledgeable but restrained and not arrogant person.
"Get up." Jun Jinlan's eyes showed a hint of pity.
Mr. Yue and Yue Wenfeng are the two members of the Yue family. I don't know if it's because the Yue family's ancestral tombs were not built in the right location, or because the Yue family offended Wen Quxing, but the Yue family's scholars have some bad luck.