Yuan Zhao turned around and saw Huo Yan sitting on the wall. He didn't know how long he had been there.
He stood on one leg, his black clothes hanging down.
Maybe it was because of the wine, he became less distant than usual and more carefree like his youth.
The moonlight poured down on him, illuminating his incredibly handsome face.
Yuan Zhao stood in the shadow under the tree, looked at him from afar and smiled.
"Have you finished discussing this with my brother?"
When she smiled, Huo Yan felt that the dead phoenix tree seemed to be blooming.
He suddenly laughed too, and sat on the wall, playing with a blade of grass in his hand, and called out without beginning or ending:
"Yuan Zhao."
"Hmm?" The person under the tree looked at him, the smile in his moonlight-filled eyes had not yet faded, and the ending tone stirred his heart that had been silent for ten years.
He waited ten years for this response.
For the past ten years, he returned to Kyoto every year and came here, witnessing the phoenix tree withering year after year.
It was as if the tree was telling him that the person he was waiting for would never come back.
But now, people are standing under this tree.
There was still some alcohol on his body, and Huo Yan was afraid to close his eyes, fearing that this was just a dream.
He rolled over nimbly and got off the ground, then walked quickly towards Yuan Zhao.
Yuan Zhao looked at the person walking towards him in the moonlight, and slowly stopped smiling. He just turned around and continued to look at the tree, muttering, "What a pity..."
"It's okay." Huo Yan walked to her side. "If you come back, it will come back to life."
Yuan Zhao didn't answer, but lowered his eyes and just looked at the tree.
There was suddenly nothing to say between the two of them, and they were silent for a long time.
Just looking at the tree side by side.
"Next you..."
"Next you..."
The two spoke at the same time and couldn't help but smile at each other. Huo Yan looked intently at the person next to him and motioned for her to ask first.
"Next, I want to quickly..." Yuan Zhao didn't ask, but answered the question he hadn't finished, "to finish this matter with Wei Shaoqing as soon as possible."
After returning to Beijing, she confirmed the thoughts of her father and brother. With her children by her side, she no longer had any worries.
I was timid in Yangzhou, but there was no need to be so cautious in the capital.
Even though the Bai family has the weird Wei Jiaojiao, this family is still not a big deal after all. She doesn't want to continue to be entangled with Wei Shaoqing. The sooner it ends, the less hidden dangers there will be.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then turned to ask Huo Yan: "What about you? What are your plans next?"
Huo Yan looked at her and said firmly, "Your Majesty's intention today is to let me return to the northwest."
Yuan Zhao looked away, "Really?"
"Then Xiaoyu will be reluctant to leave you..." She murmured, and then smiled, "I still remember you once said that the sunset in the northwest is extremely magnificent."
Huo Yan replied "Yes." He looked at the person next to him, trying hard to read any emotion on her face.
But there was only a faint smile on her face, as if she was wearing a mask.
He stopped looking and asked calmly, "Do you want to go see it together?"
His hands clenched slightly under his long sleeves, Yuan Zhao's eyes flickered, and he swallowed unconsciously.
She took a step forward, standing completely in the shadow under the tree, and reached out to touch the trunk of the phoenix tree.
Huo Yan could only see her back. He heard her ask:
"Huo Yan, what does the Northwest mean to you?"
What is it?
Before he could answer, Yuan Zhao answered for him.
"That's your battlefield."
This is where Huo Yan first went to the battlefield, where General Huo made great achievements for more than ten years, and where several generations of the Huo family have been stationed.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians there depended on him for their livelihood.
That was Huo Yan's lifelong pursuit and glory.
"So what?" Huo Yan looked at the figure with his back to him and understood something.
But he wanted an answer.
Yuan Zhao clenched his hands tightly into the tree trunk. She took a deep breath and didn't dare to look back at him.
After a long pause, she slowly said, "Now that things are over here, I just want to take the children... and stay in the capital safely."
The moon disappeared into the clouds, casting a shadow over Huo Yan's face.
I don’t know how long it took, so long that Yuan Zhao thought the person behind him had left.
His voice came on the wind,
"I see."
"Just do what you want to do."
…
The sound gradually dissipated in the wind, the moon came out again, and only Yuan Zhao was left under the tree.
Gan Tang stepped forward and put a cloak on her.
"Your Highness, go back to sleep."
Yuan Zhao turned around and held Gan Tang's hand tightly.
Gan Tang looked at her and couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, in fact, General Huo has always been..."
"Gan Tang..." Yuan Zhao walked in step by step and interrupted her softly, "He and I have not been on the same path for a long time."
She stopped and looked at the top of the wall.
When he was young, he often sat there.
How could she not remember?
But now, he holds the military power, and it is impossible for him to abandon everything for her and stay in the capital as an idler;
She also has four children, and it is impossible for her to abandon everything just to follow one person like she did when she was young and ignorant ten years ago.
An unsolvable problem.
Yuan Zhao couldn't help but think, what if...
But she closed her eyes and there was no if.
…
The news that the princess had returned to the capital and was summoned by His Majesty quickly spread throughout the capital's aristocratic circles.
Many women wanted to send invitations to Yuan Zhao, either to invite him to a banquet or to visit him.
But the door of the princess's mansion was always closed, and there seemed to be no sign that anyone lived there.
Some people speculate that the princess is favored by His Majesty and the Crown Prince and most likely lives in the palace.
I can't help but envy you.
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