Half an hour ago.
A carriage covered with snow on the canopy stopped at the gate of the city.
Shangguanqing opened the curtain and poked his head out.
He looked at the towering tower and asked in surprise, "is the capital ahead?"
"HMM." Xiao Heng nodded, opened the curtain, looked at the endless crowd and said, "there are many people in and out of the capital in the twelfth lunar month. It's not so crowded on weekdays."
"Not bad," said shangguanqing.
The state of Zhao is a lower state. Although it is not as rich as the state of Yan, the court program is stable, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are many praises for the court and the emperor.
You know, the monarch of Yan is a tyrant, and most of the people's comments about him are negative.
It's just that he has good means, and no one dares to resist under the tyranny.
Xiao Heng smiled. Zhao is not strong enough now, but he believes that one day, Zhao will be among the top countries.
That requires the efforts of many people, maybe even generations, but as long as you don't give up, there must be hope.
"Do you want to have a rest?" Xiao Heng asked shangguanqing.
When Xiao Heng and Gu Jiao went from Zhao state to Yan state, they both took the land route. There were many checkpoints and detours. Moreover, because there was no royal privilege, many officials could not go, which greatly delayed the process and took nearly two months to reach Shengdu.
When they came back this time, they used the identity of the emperor's eldest grandson, took the grain and grass official road dedicated to the imperial court, and changed the waterway in the second half.
They were lucky enough to get ashore before the water began to freeze.
From the beginning of November to the beginning of December, I walked for a whole month.
"No, I'm not tired," said shangguanqing.
Not tired is false. Xiao Heng is tired, not to mention a patient?
But the brothers knew that shangguanqing had little time. It was a miracle that he could last until now. He stepped on the roof of the palace of hell every step and didn't know when he would fall.
The carriage entered the city.
Although shangguanqing was very tired, he still didn't miss the opportunity to appreciate the capital carefully.
"So many people sell candied haws." he exclaimed.
There are few in Yan state.
It's hard to see a sugar gourd vendor on the street. There are many shops selling sugar gourd.
Xiao Heng asked the coachman to stop the carriage in front of a sugar gourd shop and bought a string of each flavor.
"Here you are."
He handed a handful of candied haws to shangguanqing.
"The candied haws came from the state of Zhao." shangguanqing picked a bunch of big and red ones, "which the state of Yan didn't have before."
So do you like sugar gourd because you miss your hometown?
Xiao Heng watched him eat silently.
Shangguanqing actually didn't have much appetite. He took it and played a few times.
"Or..." he paused and said, "I'll go later?"
"What's the matter?" Xiao Heng asked.
Shangguanqing looked at the sugar gourd in his hand and hesitated: "I... what..."
Xiao Heng asked jokingly, "are you nervous?"
"No!" shangguanqing denied.
Xiao Heng said with a smile, "don't worry, my mother will be very happy to see you."
Shangguan Qing whispered, "I'm not uh huh, I won't uh huh."
The last two words of each sentence were vague. Xiao Heng only heard a tone, but Xiao Heng tasted those four words by virtue of his telepathy with his brother.
——I'm not number one. I can't study.
Such a proud and arrogant brother has such self-confidence. Indeed, that sentence has come true. When you care too much about a person's view, you will become worried about gain and loss.
Xiao Heng smiled and said, "my mother will like you."
Shangguan Qing glanced: "look at you, you know what kind of son she likes."
Xiao Heng raised his eyebrow: "is this why you secretly recite poetry?"
Shangguan Qinghu shook his body and said, "where can I recite poetry!"
Xiao Heng laughed.
They are really brothers. One carries his daughter-in-law to exercise and enhance his physical strength, and the other secretly recites poems and famous sentences.
Stupid son always wants to see his mother. Near dusk, the carriage still arrived at rosefinch street.
Shangguanqing hesitated and refused to get off.
Finally, I got off the bus and stood against the wall in the alley.
Xiao Heng could not laugh or cry.
Isn't it thick skinned? Why are you more shy than me about seeing your mother?
Brother came and stood in the alley diagonally opposite for a long time. Xiao Heng saw Xiao Jingkong leave. Shangguan Qingcai lingered with Xiao Heng.
That's how the snowflakes on their shoulders came.
At first, Princess Xinyang didn't know who her brother was shouting, but when shangguanqing, wearing a crescent white cloak, grabbed a string of sugar gourd and crossed the threshold, Princess Xinyang's footsteps suddenly stopped!
The wind all around seemed to stop suddenly, snowflakes fell in large areas, and the whole yard was very quiet.
Her eyes fell on the handsome face that was somewhat similar to Xiao Heng. Her breath stagnated and her heart missed a beat!
A brother can't prove anything.
Xiao Heng is not without a brother.
But.
Her heart suddenly hurt.
It hurts, it hurts!
Why does her heart hurt so much when she looks at this person?
The uncontrollable heat in the orbit made the throat swell and ache.
"Mother, my brother is back," said Xiao Heng.
Then the next second, he followed.
His eyes fell from the beautiful face of Princess Xinyang to her high bulging stomach.
wait.
He's only been away for nine months. What the hell is going on?
Shangguanqing was so nervous that he was stunned. His brain was buzzing and he couldn't think at all.
Xiao Heng guessed right. Shangguan qingjue was more nervous than Xiao Heng about seeing his mother.
All the faces he didn't want these years are now used on Princess Xinyang.
What about being good and shy?
Shangguanqing realized that he was still holding a sugar gourd in his hand.
I blame myself for being so nervous that I forgot to put such a childish thing back on the carriage.
What can I do?
His mature high cold image!
Yujin is too excited. Who is the "brother" brought back by the little Marquis? In terms of age, it's similar to the young marquis. Shouldn't it be——
No, no?
Isn't childe Xiao Qing dead?
"Gong, Princess..." she looked at Princess Xinyang in disbelief.
Princess Xinyang is out of breath now. Pregnancy changes her body. Under the action of hormones, tears come. It's not like the proud and cold she used to be.
Xiao Heng took his stunned brother to Princess Xinyang and whispered to Princess Xinyang, "Mom, let's go in and talk."
……
The mother and son entered the house.
Yujin is also waiting on one side.
Xiao Heng sits in the middle, and Princess Xinyang faces shangguanqing.
Princess Xinyang looked at the child and couldn't stop her hot tears.
Shangguanqing was not sad, but when he saw her cry, he suddenly felt distressed.
Their emotions fluctuated so much that Xiao Heng could only tell the story.
Xiao Heng starts with shangguanyan's identity.
The female slaves of the state of Yan were actually the Empress Dowager of the state of Yan. They were framed and sold into the underground martial arts field and saved by Marquis Xuanping.
Princess Xinyang knows everything behind her.
But what Princess Xinyang didn't know was that Mrs. Yan didn't kill shangguanqing. She just hid him. When she left, she secretly took shangguanqing away.
Shangguanqing was poisoned.
Chen Guo's medical skills are excellent.
She first went to Chen Guo to ask for medicine. Chen Guo's doctor renewed Shangguan Qing's life. Unfortunately, the curative effect was very little. In order to keep Shangguan Qing alive, she had to take Shangguan Qing back to the dragon's pool and tiger's den in Shengdu.
After that, there were a series of drastic changes in Xuanyuan family.
Shangguanyan was deposed from the position of tainv, but the monarch loved shangguanqing very much. He still let him retain the respect of the eldest grandson of the emperor and let the National Teacher hall continue to provide him with treatment.
However, as shangguanqing grew up, his facial features gradually opened, and he became less and less like shangguanyan.
Many people began to attack shangguanyan, wrote about shangguanqing's identity, and impeached her to confuse the royal blood.
In desperation, Shangguan Yan had to send someone to the state of Zhao secretly to draw a portrait of Xiao Heng, so that Shangguan Qingyi could become Xiao Heng.
It was this move that exposed Xiao Heng's existence to the prince's party.
In order to save Xinyang's flesh and blood, shangguanyan exposed her flesh and blood.
It was hateful that shangguanyan robbed shangguanqing of the antidote.
But her heart to make up for the rest of her life is not false.
Over the years, she treated shangguanqing as her own, not all out of compensation. The relationship between mother and son really existed.
Of course, Xiao Heng did not add his own views when telling the story, but objectively stated all the facts.
No one can forgive shangguanyan for Princess Xinyang, and no one can bear the "pain of losing her son" for her these years.
Princess Xinyang should have her own views on whether to hate, forgive or others.
Shangguanqing looked nervously at Princess Xinyang, as if waiting for her sentence.
Princess Xinyang calmed down when she heard this.
She looked up at Guan Qing and said bitterly: "In fact, even if she didn't 'take' the antidote, you couldn't survive. The former Emperor guarded your father. My marriage to him was just a political chip. My dragon shadow guard was waiting to kill him at any time. In order to prevent my son from being soft hearted, the Dragon shadow guard... Would kill me and his children. If they failed once, they would come again until... I lost you completely."
"I have also deeply hurt ah Heng. You are both innocent. I really blame my father and Emperor. Secondly, I was born in the royal family. Finally, I, a mother... Did not protect you."
Not you, but you.
She was filled with deep guilt for her two sons.
After learning the false truth that "shangguanyan was her enemy who killed her son", didn't she also vent her anger on the innocent Xiao Heng?
What right does she have to blame shangguanyan?
Xiao Heng gently held her hand.
It's over that little Marquis died in the big fire on New Year's Eve.
His heart knot opened.
He is not a child abandoned by his mother.
At the last moment, his mother guarded him with her life.
Princess Xinyang choked and smiled: "I am very grateful to her for raising you. If it weren't for her, I might have lost you."
Shangguanqing relaxed a lot. He smiled and said, "my mother also said that I appreciate you raising my brother, because if the real emperor's eldest son returns to the state of Yan, it will be difficult for him to grow up safely."
Fate is a very magical thing, but do good deeds, don't ask the future.
"Your mother?" Princess Xinyang was stunned.
Shangguan Qingshan touched his nose: "that's my mother."
Princess Xinyang tasted this title and could feel the harmonious and natural relationship between shangguanyan and qinger.
Xiao Heng said, "in that case, I won't mention the past."
Princess Xinyang nodded.
Shangguanqing has no objection.
Princess Xinyang looked at her lost son and couldn't believe it was true: "ah Heng, you pinch me."
Xiao Heng said with a smile, "why don't you pinch me."
Where am I willing to make you hurt?
Then Princess Xinyang really pinched it.
Xiao Heng gave a look of pain.
Mom, you've changed. You've never been able to do this before.
I really fell out of favor
Princess Xinyang rubbed her son's red leg.
Qing'er came back. It was incredible. She was immersed in great joy and was really at a loss.
"But mother, what's the situation with you?" Xiao Heng looked at her stomach, which was about to get on the table. "My father's?"
At the mention of this, Princess Xinyang is angry!
Mingming drank all the Xizi soup!
Why are you still pregnant?
Damn it, it took her three months to react!
I knew I had to drink more bowls of Xizi soup!
I don't know if I felt my mother's disapproval. The little guy in my stomach turned over and kicked a few times, kicking his little footprints on my mother's belly.
Princess Xinyang covered her stomach and took a breath.
The child is so noisy.
Qing'er is at ease in her stomach.
Xiao Heng nodded seriously: "it seems to be my father's."
Besides my father, I can't think of any man who can make you bite your teeth like this.