Chang'an ancient meaning

Many years later, Xue Chongjian always insisted on asking Li Chengqi about the scene when the two met for the first time. Being only three years younger than Li Chengqi made him miss many things: for example, Li Chengqi met Zhanghuai Prince Li Xian with his own eyes, and Li Chengqi could remember his grandfather Emperor Gaozong was sick Li Chengqi had seen Zhongzong Li Xian's complacent smile when he became the prince for the first time, and the loving expression that Tianhou occasionally showed to her children.Of course, he was also fortunate to witness Xue Chongjian's naked butt curled up in the nurse's arms and sucked.

Since childhood, they have been dragged into an era of beauty in depravity and spirituality in madness.Because love, hate, pain, and joy are indulged to the extreme, time is no longer tolerant, and even a moment is a sea of ​​change.For the onlookers, it is a lively rhythm, but for those who are involved, it is a heartbreaking scene of parting.

In the winter of the 29th year of Kaiyuan, Ning Wang Li Xian (1) looked at the frost condensed on the willow trees in the courtyard, and smiled at his son Li Jing: "'Shujia, the high officials are afraid.' Should it be on me?" The son shed tears, King Ning smiled slightly, he thought, so many bright and flamboyant lives passed through his life like a revolving lantern, and he was the most ordinary one who stayed at the end.He closed his eyes and called: "Huanu." Li Jin hurriedly responded: "My son is here." King Ning said nothing.

That winter in Chang'an was bitterly cold, King Ning Li Xian died after a heavy snowfall, the emperor posthumously proclaimed his elder brother King Ning the "Emperor Rang" and bestowed him with a mountain mausoleum.That year, it had been ten years since Xue Chongjian, the orphan of Princess Taiping, the cousin of King Ning, passed away.Later, Li Jin, the king of Ruyang, met Li Bai, a talented man. Li Bai, who was drunk, danced and sang: "Yi Jun is far away from the blue sky, and the eyes of the past are now a fountain of tears." The half-drunk Ruyang Wang Li Jin suddenly understood. Father's silence that day.

In August of the second year of Yongchun in the Tang Dynasty, Princess Taiping gave birth to her second son-in-law at the full moon, and the princess' son-in-law entered the palace to meet the emperor and queen.On this day, from the residence of Princess Taiping in Shangshanfang to Duanmen of Baocheng, red flower balls were hung up in shops and houses in Shifang. These prizes were distributed to the common people by Jing Zhaoyin three days ago.The soldiers and eunuchs guarding the car kept grabbing copper coins from the money pouches on the horses and throwing them to the crowd of onlookers. The court ladies held baskets in their arms and handed out steamed buns with colored paper along the way.The accompanying monks, nuns and folk music were all performing hard, attracting poor people in Luoyang City to beg for a few steamed buns and scholars and women who wanted to see the beauty of the princess. The crowds on both sides of the road were so crowded that even tall willows and ginkgo trees It was full of people.

Hundreds of court ladies and eunuchs cling to barriers woven with gold threads, covering the resplendent ox carts. Judging from the size of the carts, the front and back are supposed to be accompanying maids and officials, and the largest one in the middle is driven by Princess Taiping.The Queen of Heaven, Wu Zhao, was killed because her first daughter was killed in her early years, so she doted on this only delicate girl, and her rewards every year were often more than her brothers who were princes and princes.

A young man riding a tall white horse followed beside the incense chariot unhurriedly. The golden apricot leaves on the horse's head shone brightly in the summer sun, and his jade-like face was exposed on the barrier.From the elegant and calm demeanor of the young Gu Pan, everyone can guess that this is the son-in-law of the Queen of Heaven, nephew of the Emperor, and Princess Taiping's son-in-law Xue Shao.

While people were waiting anxiously, the gauze curtain of the oil wall car suddenly turned automatically without wind, and all the spectators suddenly became nervous.What appeared behind the veil was first a fan. Amid the anxious voices of the onlookers, the fan sank slowly, revealing the fat-like forehead of the beauty in the car, with a gold leaf flower in the center of the forehead, and a pearl in the center of the flower. It's emerald eyebrows, beautiful eyes, and yellow cheeks like a phoenix tail beside the eyebrows... Xue Shaoti, the son-in-law, brought the horse closer with the reins, and leaned slightly towards the window. Judging from the smile in the eyes of the princess in the car, it seemed that she was whispering to her. What the son-in-law said, a faint smile flashed across the corners of Xue Shao's warm lips...

This is the silhouette of the 17-year-old Princess Taiping and the 19-year-old son-in-law Xue Shao left to the East Capital City in the summer of the first year of Yongchun. The smiles of the couple seem to dilute the memory of the Tianjin Bridge fire in people's hearts. shadow.

In the first year of Yonglong, hundreds of pieces of armor were confiscated in Prince Li Xian's East Palace. The Queen of Heaven was furious and ordered these armors to be burned in front of the Tianjin Bridge leading to the palace as evidence of Li Xian's rebellion.Under Tianhou's insistence, Emperor Li Zhi exterminated his relatives righteously and abolished Prince Li Xian as a commoner. He is still imprisoned in Dongdu Garden.

Li Zhi has ruled the empire for more than 30 years. The complicated government affairs, frequent wars and accidents of the two princes have exhausted his energy.Since the death of Prince Hong, his head wind disease has become more and more serious, making him suffer from headaches and dizziness.After Prince Xian was deposed, the 53-year-old emperor not only had white hair on his temples, but also gradually lost his eyesight. Today, when his beloved daughter enters the palace, he can only lie on the sickbed to welcome his daughter and son-in-law.

Sitting next to the emperor, Wu Zhao, the queen of heaven, was three years older than her husband, but her exquisite powder makeup subtly replaced her youth that had slowly faded away in recent years.Her upper body was lightly rolled up in a blouse woven with gold and silver thread patterns. Because of the skillful maintenance, the skin exposed above the open collar on her chest was plump, white and tender, still like creamy nephrite jade.The eyebrows drawn by indigo daisy are faintly smudged at the tip of the eyebrows, adding a bit of hazyness to the natural, just like the moon in the peony in the fog.There is a gold foil painting on the forehead, and the same emerald eyebrows and gold tines show a frown and worry on the face of Shangguan Wan'er behind her, but on the face of Empress Wu, there is a pair of phoenix eyes that are full of spirit.Even Princess Taiping can't figure out why her mother has been able to show off her graceful appearance in front of people for 20 years. Perhaps the only explanation is that her strong and powerful heart defeated the creation and captured her youth.

With a gratifying, generous and compassionate smile on his face, Li Zhi stretched out his hand to Princess Taiping, and said with concern: "How is your body recovering? Just let Shao come here today, and you should take care of it at home." After Princess Taiping gave birth, Her figure was slightly plump, and a line of snow-white cleavage was exposed on Liao Ling's tube top. She sat beside Li Zhi's bed, held her father's hand covered with dark spots, and said with a smile: "I'm fine, I just lie on the bed and eat every day." After sleeping and eating, I can hardly walk." Li Zhi nodded, and stretched his other hand forward: "Let me see my little grandson."

Fang Manyue's little baby was only wearing a scarlet belly wrap, with little golden bells tied on his hands and feet, and was being hugged by several concubines in turn. Princess Yu, Princess Liu handed the baby up with a smile, and said, "The baby is so beautiful, I can't wait to see you." It will be so white and tender in a month, like a doll in a snowdrift." Princess Taiping laughed and said, "He was wrinkled when he was just born, and I was worried about it for a few days, but these days it has grown, and it looks like it has changed Just one piece, it’s too edible, and you’ll have to breastfeed when you cry.” Tianhou pursed her lips and looked at Princess Taiping with a smile: “Isn’t it the same as when you were a child?” Princess Taiping said coquettishly, “Mother! short!"

Li Zhi's hands trembled a little, Tianhou stretched out her plump and tender white hand, grabbed the Emperor's wrinkled hand, and gently placed it on the baby's delicate baby flesh to caress, Princess Taiping suddenly felt sad.

Li Zhi trembled his beard happily, and said, "Who does this child look more like?" Tianhou laughed and said, "Like Ah Yue, with big eyes and a broad forehead." Li Zhi smiled and said, "So, I'm like you too." Princess Taiping smiled and said, "Daddy, please give the baby a name, the names are still empty on the congratulatory cards given to me by the wives and concubines of the families." Li Zhi's cloudy eyes pondered a little, and he said with a smile: "Meiniang, I want to write."

Behind Tianhou, the slender Shangguan Wan'er hurriedly stepped forward and spread a piece of yellow silk on the desk. Tianhou smiled gently and held Li Zhi's hand. Everyone was used to Tianhou holding the emperor's hand and writing. Without knowing who is leading whom, it is impossible to know whose will the handwriting on the yellow silk came from.Li Zhi wrote the word "Jane" on the yellow silk with smooth and elegant Feibai calligraphy.

Princess Taiping hurriedly kowtowed to her son-in-law Xue Shao, and Li Zhi smiled and said, "Meiniang, what flowers did you save today? It smells so good." Tianhou calmly stroked the flowers on the high bun with her slender fingertips, and said with a smile: "It's hibiscus. Wan'er picked it in the morning, and my concubine put it on." Li Zhi said softly, "Oh, is the hibiscus blooming? Is it almost autumn..." Everyone was puzzled why there was a hint of melancholy in his tone , paused for a moment, Li Zhi said again: "I will give this child another nickname, how about Hua Nu?"

Crown Princess Wei took the baby and said with a smile: "Hua Nu, Xue Chongjian, Hua Nu, only such a beautiful baby deserves this name! Our family's Chongrun..." Before she finished speaking, she suddenly screamed, He handed it to the nanny in a panic and said, "He pissed!" Everyone in the hall laughed, only to see the water stains on Webster's tube top, she said a little displeased, "I'm going to change clothes."

Xue Chongjian, who just got his name, burst into tears after urinating, and the nanny laughed and said, "That's how Xiao Langjun is, you have to eat after urinating." She untied the strap of her tube top, and was about to breastfeed. Princess Taiping laughed and said, "Shaolang , Today’s incense burns too much, you go to focus on a pot of submerged water.” Princess Yu Liu said with a smile: “Let the maids go for such trivial matters, how can you work for a delicate guest.” Shangguan Wan’er smiled and covered her mouth with a fan Said: "My concubine doesn't understand the princess's thoughts too much, the princess doesn't want her son-in-law to see..." Her eyes slanted towards the wet nurse, and Princess Taiping smiled and twisted Guan Wan'er's mouth: "You are the one who talks too much! "

Folk families have the custom of making fun of the new son-in-law, and the Tian family is no exception.Xue Shao was used to being teased by them in recent years, but he didn't think it was disobedient, he just blushed a little, stood up gracefully, and walked to the corner of the hall.Open the golden suanni incense ashes, press out the burning incense with the fine incense ash, poke a few holes in the incense ashes with the top of the incense spoon, open the incense box again, cover the incense ashes with some mica to separate the fire, and then get the incense from the waist He took out two pills of Shenshui incense balls from the belt, threw them on it, and covered the lid of the aroma diffuser, a wisp of fragrant light smoke curled up from Suan Ni's mouth, and he smiled with satisfaction.Several maids standing there looked at his back with a tall body and long sleeves in a wide robe, and they were a little absent-minded for a moment.

When Princess Taiping was not married, she was the closest to Shangguan Wan'er. She took her hand and said, "We haven't seen each other for two months, why have you lost so much weight?" Diamond Sutra, I pray for your safety. She has to help Xian and me with government affairs during the day, and also copies scriptures at night. She can’t sleep for two hours a day. How can she not lose weight?” Taiping Haosheng was grateful and said: “I’m doing well now Yes, you don’t need to copy anymore.” Shangguan Wan’er still smiled gently: “It’s because you are good that I should fulfill my wish.” Princess Taiping smiled and said: “Oh, if you are tired and sick, the third brother will return it to you.” Don't want my life..." Shangguan Wan'er frowned slightly, and turned her face slightly: "I won't tell you." Prince Li Xian glanced anxiously at the direction where Webster left, and said dully: "You Don't talk nonsense..." Princess Taiping and Tianhou chuckled again, they all knew how close they were to Shangguan Wan'er since becoming the crown prince, but they dared not speak because Tianhou couldn't leave her. He accepted her as a concubine, but often called her to the East Palace under the pretext of inquiring about government affairs.

At the end of Li Zhi's couch, a three-year-old boy was holding a Huasheng Moheluo (2) made of wax in his hand, and he was always looking at Xue Chongjian who was sucking milk with curious eyes.Xue Chongjian seemed to be a little hot, his little white buttocks arched, and he made a gurgling sound, his closed eyes seemed to use all the strength in his body, and he would take a short rest and take a breath after eating. , which sounds like a sigh of contentment before continuing to fight.When he was breastfeeding, his two new lotus-like round calves kicked the nurse's arms from time to time, and the bells on his ankles vibrated with a crisp and pleasant sound.

Princess Taiping turned her head, saw him, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few months, Feng Nu has grown a lot taller, and looks more and more like my fourth brother. Come, come to my aunt!" Feng Nu is the youngest son of Li Chengqi, the eldest son of Prince Yu. It is said that when he was born, the emperor's eye disease was not very serious. That day, he was copying Emperor Taizong's "Feng Fu" in the palace. Suddenly, the eunuch of the Yu Palace reported that the princess had given birth to a son. took his nickname.Li Chengqi followed his father in appearance, with delicate features, fair complexion, and quiet nature. Princess Taiping liked him very much.

Li Chengqi smiled at Princess Taiping and raised the Moheluo in his hand, and said: "Auntie, the little brother is so beautiful, even more beautiful than this transformation boy. I want to touch him, can I?" Princess Taiping smiled and said, "Yes." , he is your cousin, and he will play with you when he grows up." The nanny smiled and hugged Xue Chongjian, then bent slightly, Li Chengqi stretched out his hand carefully, as if he didn't know where to touch, he hesitated, He even stretched out his finger and poked lightly on Xue Chongjian's fleshy little buttocks.

Tian Hou laughed and said: "This child seems to be full of Xu Lun. He has been more timid than other children since he was a child." Li Chengqi didn't think there was anything wrong, he smelled the rich milk fragrance from the baby in his nose, She couldn't help but kissed him on the arm again.Xue Chongjian, who was breastfeeding, didn't know if he was tickled by him, but she even grinned "Karma".

At this time, the Crown Princess Webster had changed into her dress, and came in with a few maids. On the trays were crystal bowls, inside which were piled up crisp mountains like small snow mountains. greedy.Princess Taiping cheered when she saw it: "Sushan Sushan, I haven't eaten for a long time." The queen was about to speak, when Li Zhi suddenly said: "I remember, you and the sixth brother both like to eat this. When we were young, we once wanted to grab a bowl of it." Cherry Sushan, you are so angry that you don't talk for a day." He sighed despondently.

For a while, the people in the palace looked at each other, the sixth brother (3) was the nickname of the abandoned prince Xian, the emperor mentioned him at a family reunion, everyone dared not say a word, but the queen said to Taiping calmly: "You used to have a lot of stomach troubles because of eating this, It’s not confinement yet, so I can’t eat it.” Princess Taiping said coquettishly: “It’s so hot, just eat a little.” At this moment, Xue Shao walked over from the corner of the hall, took the crystal bowl from her hand, and said, “No way. The imperial doctor said that you can eat raw or cold food after two months." He handed the bowl to Li Chengqi, and Taiping stuck out his tongue, but he didn't insist.

Wei Shi pushed Liu Shi with a smile and said, "What am I talking about?" However, Xue Shao slightly avoided looking sideways.

The author has something to say: Note [-]: Li Xian is Li Chengqi. During the Kaiyuan period, in order to avoid the posthumous title given to his mother by Li Longji, Li Chengqi changed his name.

Note [-]: Running Luo is the doll that children played with in Tang and Song Dynasties.

Note [-]: This is what I named him. Li Xian is the sixth among Li Zhi's sons.