Chapter 516: Prince Ping and Jiang Baipin
Emperor Meng Qi of Daliang has been on the throne for thirty-five years. He is sixty-three years old this year, and the whole country celebrates his birthday.
During the thirty-five years, the Emperor of Daliang spent ten years recuperating and vigorously developing planting and breeding, turning Daliang from a barren and cold place into a place with developed breeding industry, with cattle, sheep and horses being sold to various countries in a steady stream.
With a certain level of national strength, he spent another 15 years attacking the four neighboring countries and incorporated their territories into Daliang's territory, but he never made any intrusion on Da Qi.
In the last ten years, he took advantage of the resources of each country and exchanged what he had with Daliang and Daqi, promoting Su Qianqian's Lanxiang Academy to various places. At the same time, planting also achieved unprecedented prosperity.
Meng Qi fulfilled his promise to himself and someone. He wanted the country to be safe and the people to be prosperous, without having to build walls with flesh and blood.
In a remote courtyard of the Daliang Imperial Palace, the dishes on the table had barely been taken before jars of wine were already lined up in a row.
"Jiang Baipin, it would be fine if you didn't bring a gift for my birthday, but you wasted all this wine that I've stored away for years. Do you have any sense of shame?"
Jiang Baipin raised his head. Although he was in his fifties, his bright red robe was still bright, his face was still charming, and the cinnabar mole at the corner of his eye made him look childish.
"Meng Qi, it's just the two of us here, don't be so arrogant. You don't drink, so what's the point of saving a jar every year? It's too late to use alcohol to make her faint and hold her hostage now!"
Jiang Bai staggered and finally lay on the couch sideways, propping up his head with one hand and squinting his eyes: "She's been gone for more than 30 years..."
"Only when there are only two of us here, I want you to know that I am the emperor, and I must be stronger than you! If she comes back one day..."
Meng Qi's voice became softer and softer.
"You married Qingluan as your queen. You and she had a clear division of labor in conquering the world. Although she couldn't bear children for you, you had many children and no longer had the habit of hating women... How could you still have the nerve to wait for her to come back?"
"How do you know that I no longer have this weird habit of hating women? After the concubines in the harem gave birth to the prince, did any of them ever visit him again?
Qingluan is not a woman, but a fellow soldier. She has her own purpose in becoming the queen. She and I are the same person, so I gave her this opportunity. ”
Meng Qi raised his finger and pointed at the small courtyard outside the door: "This courtyard is exactly the same as when we were in Xijing. At that time, she climbed over your wall, but never climbed over mine, so I changed my courtyard to look like yours."
"How ridiculous! The Emperor of Daliang is so frivolous. If those emperors whose countries were destroyed by you knew about this, they would feel so wronged!" Jiang Baipin pointed at Meng Qi and laughed.
"It's really ridiculous..." Meng Qi also laughed softly, his gray hair tied up with a golden hairpin. He always remembered that Su Qianqian liked golden things the most.
"Are you going to abdicate tomorrow?" Jiang Baipin asked, tilting his head.
"Yes, the Crown Prince has been the regent for five years. Qingluan is already seventy years old this year and is tired of sitting in this position. We can travel around the world after he abdicates tomorrow, to see the magnificent mountains and rivers of Daliang, and to visit the land of dreams in Daqi."
Meng Qi rested one hand on his raised knee, playing with a small white porcelain bottle.
"You've kept this bottle for decades. The medicine in it has long been ineffective. What's the point of keeping it?" Jiang Baipin sneered.
"This medicine is for external injuries. I am not injured, so why do I need medicine? This bottle is for heart disease. My heart disease can be cured by this bottle. You don't even have a bottle, how dare you laugh at me!"
Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and rolled his eyes at Jiang Baipin.
When Jian Qingluan walked into the courtyard, she saw Meng Qi rolling his eyes. She couldn't help but shook her head and laughed, "Your Majesty is really going backwards as time goes by. Why are you so childish?"
When Meng Qi saw Jian Qingluan, he naturally restrained his movements: "Why is the Queen here? This Jiang Louzhu is so annoying that I can't help but want to scold him."
Even though she is in her seventies, Jian Qingluan is still in good shape and does not look like a seventy-year-old woman.
"Is this the first time you two have been drinking together? Every time you've been drinking, there's always a lot of quarreling." Jian Qingluan came over and sat down beside the couch.
"Sister Qingluan, don't listen to his complaints. I am the most disciplined person." In front of Jian Qingluan, Jiang Baipin did not dare to be presumptuous. He sat up and straightened his posture.
"The envoy of the Great Qi sent this. It was grown by my third brother's wife in her former farm. It is said that only one plant is left that bears fruit, and it is guarded by an immortal little yellow dog. It is now worth a fortune."
Jian Qingluan took the bamboo basket and opened it to find tomatoes packed in ice. There were only six of them, all bright red.
"Li Yunqi is so stingy. These tomatoes can be grown everywhere now, and he sent them as a gift."
Meng Qi reached out to take the tomatoes as he spoke, and Jiang Baipin also reached out, but he opened his hand and pulled the basket over.
"Haven't you eaten enough in Da Qi? Why are you stealing mine?" Meng Qi took a tomato, cut half into two and gave it to the queen, and the two of them ate it with relish.
"I am not as good as that little yellow dog. It can guard the garden day and night, and no one can get close to it. The emperor is really stingy."
Jiang Baipin thought of Su Qianqian's thoughts and still felt unhappy: "What's so good about being an emperor? She praised him as her white moonlight. But the white moonlight is cold and lonely. What's so good about it?"
The three of them looked towards the yard. The bright moonlight was scattered in the yard and was shaken into scattered silver flakes by the leaves.
"Why is there no news for so many years? The water in that lake has been drained out, and the people from the Su and Jiang families have searched all over Jinchan Mountain."
Meng Qi ate a tomato, wiped his hands, and spoke slowly.
"I should have sent her to Muchuan. If I were here...even if I couldn't change anything, at least I would know her whereabouts."
"You know her whereabouts. There is one more missing person in this world. I can't even find the one who quarreled with me."
Meng Qi glanced at Jiang Baipin.
"So everything is the best arrangement. A Niang and my brothers and sisters must be safe. Qian Qian will protect them."
Jian Qingluan said softly.
The three people's eyes fell on the yard, as if a figure would suddenly jump out: "I am Su Qian!"
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More than 1,800 years later, a tomb of an unknown dynasty was unearthed in China. After the bottom layer of the tomb was excavated, the scene that emerged shocked the world:
The tomb owner was lying in the coffin with his head sideways, facing a stone sculpture of a half-squatting man. The man was smiling and stretching out his hand, holding a small bottle.
The tomb owner had become a pile of dry bones, and the only burial object was a porcelain bottle that he was tightly holding in his hand. The porcelain bottle looked exactly like the one on the stone sculpture.
The layout of this mausoleum is like that of an emperor, but there is no queen or concubines buried with him. It is buried alone underground without a tombstone or a group of tombs.
Only on the small stone bottle did archaeologists discover two seal script characters: Su Qian.
When Su Yu Nuan saw this news, she stared at the small porcelain bottle for a long time...
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