Chapter 482: Give Me a Spring (End)
Two years later, Princess Changning Huo Yanran married the Minister of Rites Liu Yan.
The whole country celebrated and the city was full of joy. The Great Chanyu of Beili, Tuoba Ying, led his people across three thousand miles to congratulate and presented ninety-nine night pearls and countless treasures as wedding gifts.
In order to express their love for Princess Changning, the emperor and empress hosted a grand banquet for their guests. The buffet was set up in front of the princess's mansion for seven days and seven nights.
The Queen Mother always said that Huo Yanran should have been married a long time ago, but when the day of her wedding really came, the Queen Mother couldn't help but tear up.
This is the child she raised with her own hands. From a tiny child, she has grown into a graceful and charming young lady. Now that she is going to get married, she is reluctant to let her go.
Huo Yanran smiled and said, "Even after I get married, I will come back often to accompany my mother. I hope my mother won't find me annoying and chase me away."
The Queen Mother's sadness was diluted by Huo Yanran's words, and she smiled as she sent her daughter off to marry.
Chunzhi personally arranged the wedding ceremony, and everyone in the palace was dedicated.
On the day of Huo Yanran and Liu Yan's wedding, famous painters from Daxing gathered in the capital and painted everything from the imperial palace to the princess's mansion. Every scene was painted and preserved, from the newlyweds riding in a flower carriage in the parade, whispering in each other's ears, to entering the house to worship heaven and earth.
The young couple are both lovers of calligraphy and painting. This wedding banquet brought together countless famous artists, which was a grand event of the time.
On the wedding night, the wedding candles were burning brightly, and Liu Yan and Huo Yanran sat together in the wedding tent. The red silk tent embroidered with hundreds of children and grandchildren made their faces feel a little hot.
After the bridesmaid had completed all the necessary procedures, some people still wanted to make trouble in the bridal chamber, but Song Wan'er stopped them and kicked them out. She winked at the princess.
A night of spring is worth a thousand gold. The princess and Liu Tanhua finally got married. These people are so blind that they want to make trouble for them. Forget it!
Song Wan'er sent away all those who wanted to make trouble in the bridal chamber, and also took the matchmaker and the maids out. To prevent anyone from disturbing her, she closed the door herself and stood outside with her hands on her hips as a door god.
If anyone dares to ruin the princess's good fortune tonight, Song Wan'er will be the first to disagree.
The relatives of the Liu family and the officials in the court were all waiting for the prince consort to come to the banquet to toast. For a long time, Liu Yan did not come out. They sent people to invite him several times, but were turned away every time.
Everyone started to say that Master Liu was so hard to invite, and they wanted to go and invite him out together. At this time, Pingxi Marquis Jiang Hao came over and sat down at the main table. "Who wants to drink with the Prince Consort? Come drink with me first!"
Everyone at the table was stunned by Jiang Hao.
At this time, the sky gradually darkened and lights lingered on the seats under the eaves.
In the bridal chamber, Liu Yan's mind and eyes were filled with the princess, and he had no time to deal with the guests outside.
Huo Yanran stood up, took off her phoenix crown and her wedding dress, reached out to untie Liu Yan's belt and gently pushed him onto the wedding couch. She leaned forward with a smile, "My husband is well-behaved and polite. He never overstepped the boundaries before the marriage. What do you have to say about this tonight?"
Liu Yan hugged Huo Yanran with one hand and took off his clothes with the other. He entered the red silk tent with his sweetheart and embraced her like a pair of mandarin ducks.
He spoke very little in bed, only asking the princess if it hurt at the beginning. Later, he asked her if she wanted it to be gentler or harder.
Huo Yanran was a little shy to speak up at first, but then she thought that this was her husband, the one who would make her happy for the rest of her life, and there was nothing she couldn't say, so she felt much more at ease.
Later, she even asked Liu Yan, "Does your husband prefer a son or a daughter?"
Liu Yan kissed her neck and said in a hoarse voice, "As long as it's the princess's child, I like them all."
The following year, Huo Yanran gave birth to a son, who took her surname Huo.
Liu Yan named his beloved son Jiusi.
A gentleman has nine thoughts, and Liu Yan has long thoughts.
I was young and didn't understand love then, but only after we parted did I realize how much I missed you.
Fortunately, all the separations and deaths have become the past. They still have a long and good life to spend together, and they can witness all the joys of the world hand in hand.
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In the tenth year of Yongming, the world was at peace and prosperity.
The sixteen-year-old prince was ordered to govern the country. The emperor and empress, along with their six-year-old daughter Changle, went to Nanzhou hand in hand to revisit the old place.
It is March again, and the old peach trees in Taohua Lane are in full bloom again. Chunzhi and Huo Zheng dress up as an ordinary couple and go back to the tofu workshop. The small courtyard that Huo Zheng had demolished along with the bricks and the baby has been rebuilt long ago, and it looks exactly the same as before, except that there is no tofu beauty inside, only tourists coming and going.
The current queen is from Linshui Town. The tofu beauty who used to earn her money by hard work rose to the top and became the queen who ruled the country. Everyone yearned for such a legend. Over time, more and more tourists came to Linshui Town, and it became one of the richest towns in Nanzhou.
Those who used to work as vendors with Chunzhi are now wealthy families with quite a few properties. And her former neighbor, Aunt Li, who looks completely aged, is now telling the tourists who come here to admire her, "This is the former residence of our Tofu Queen!" Look at this stone mill and this cart—
Chunzhi started laughing as she listened. Little Changle was at an age when he loved the hustle and bustle, and he liked to go to crowded places. He pulled his mother's sleeve and said, "Mom, mom, let's go to the front and take a look."
Huo Zheng asked Chunzhi: "Do you want to go in and take a look?"
Chunzhi said, "Didn't you move my tofu workshop to the capital a long time ago?"
Linshui Town is a place she can never forget, but now she has a real home and no longer has to worry about anywhere else.
Chunzhi and Huo Zheng did not alarm those people. They walked around Linshui Town with Changle in their arms and bought her a string of candied haws. The little girl who was unable to squeeze into the crowd to watch the fun soon became happy again, with her eyes and eyebrows curved in laughter.
While happily eating the candied haws, Changle told her father and mother that she wanted to eat this and that. She wanted to eat anything delicious that she could see.
Just then, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd in front.
"My dear wife...my dear wife helped me to reach my lofty goals, and I will repay my dear wife with ten thousand taels of gold! I have won the first place in the imperial examination! I will repay my dear wife with ten thousand taels of gold! I am the number one scholar——"
There was a ragged beggar who kept repeating this sentence and walked on the street like a madman. When he saw a young girl, he rushed up to her and said this to her. He was beaten half to death and fell to the ground.
The skinny mother Lu limped over and protected the crazy Lu Jingyun under her body, crying and shouting: "Stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! This is karma! Karma!"
When Lu Jingyun passed the imperial examination, he abandoned Chunzhi to marry the Prime Minister's daughter. Later, Chunzhi became the princess and queen...
Lu Jingyun married the daughter of the prime minister and the daughter of the grand tutor. Both wives were troublesome and quarreled with each other all the time, causing chaos at home. Lu's mother was so annoyed that she couldn't sit still. Lu Jingyun couldn't stay in Beijing and went to a remote county to serve as a county magistrate.
But later, Prince Rui rebelled and Prime Minister Ji defected to him. Ji Ruzhen's love for Lu Jingyun was exhausted. Before returning to become the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she took revenge on Lu Jingyun and Lu's mother. Wang Yiyue ran away when she saw that the situation was not right. Lu Jingyun lost his official position and was bullied at will. Suddenly one day he went crazy.
Lu's mother had nowhere to go, so she could only take the crazy Lu Jingyun back to Linshui Town. Now Lu Jingyun had lost his official position, the Lu family had lost their house and money, and the mother and son could only live in a dilapidated temple.
These matters had been submitted to the emperor in memorials a long time ago, and Chunzhi also knew about it, but she no longer cared about Lu Jingyun's life or death. Whether he lived a good or bad life had nothing to do with her.
Lu Jingyun kept repeating the promise he made to Chunzhi. He forgot that he was the one who let Chunzhi down, and he couldn't recognize who was the person he wanted to see.
"Let's go." Chunzhi took Xiao Changle's hand and turned with her to walk in another direction.
"good."
Changle was small and nodded as he agreed, being very well-behaved.
Huo Zheng also wanted to hold Chunzhi's hand, so he picked up little Changle with one hand and held Chunzhi with the other.
Haruji smiled.
After all these years, Huo Zheng is still the jealous person who gets jealous of children.
Linshui Town has changed a lot. It used to be a place where few outsiders came, but now it is full of restaurants and there are constant traffic of carriages and horses. There are also storytellers on the roadside telling the love legend of how the current emperor and empress met and fell in love in Linshui Town.
Little Changle pricked up her ears and asked her mother, "Is what they said true?"
Harue laughed and said, "Most of it is fictional."
Little Changle looked at her mother and asked childishly, "Then what is true?"
Chunzhi walked on the streets that she was familiar with in the past, but still seemed a little strange now. She looked at the people coming and going on the street, as if she saw herself many years ago. She had been sincere and devoted to unworthy people, worked hard for a few copper coins, and was also filled with joy for picking a blooming peach blossom.
Everything in the past seems like a lifetime ago.
Chunzhi looked at Xiao Changle tenderly and said to her with a smile: "You are real."
Little Changle didn't understand and wrinkled her nose and said, "Changle doesn't understand. Changle wants to hear the story of Daddy and Mommy from Mommy's own mouth..."
"OK."
Chunzhi softly told Xiao Changle how she met Huo Zheng, saved him, kept him, and how they got along, fell in love, and fell in love with each other...
Little Changle listened very carefully.
As Huo Zheng listened to Chunzhi talk about the past, those memories emerged in his mind one by one.
Chunzhi had already omitted many details that children were not allowed to hear, but she still couldn't finish it all at once, so she talked to Xiao Changle all the way.
A family of three walked through the crowd, the spring breeze blew gently, and peach blossoms fell.
When Chunzhi reached the end of the story, she looked up at Huo Zheng with a smile on her face.
Life's circumstances are always unpredictable. One moment you may think you have fallen into the abyss and be in great pain, but the next moment everything seems to be clear and you are reborn.
Those who have experienced all kinds of hardships and can still grow towards the sun like wild grass without giving up on themselves will eventually obtain the three thousand joys of the world.
Do what you should do, move forward and don't look back.
There will always be someone in this world who will share my life with me and fill me with spring.
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