Chang'an ancient meaning

After dinner, Li Chengqi changed his bath and changed his clothes, and followed his servants to Renzhiyuan where his father lived.It has been nearly ten days since he stayed in the East Palace, and he finally got permission from the Queen Mother to go back to visit his parents and younger siblings.Perhaps it was unexpected that riding a horse with his uncle today, Li Chengqi was very happy in his heart, feeling that his desolation and loneliness these days was just for today's happiness.He walked out of the East Palace, walked through Dongge City, Dongjia City, Menxia Province, and Hongwen Museum, all the way to the north, and there were strings of purple flowers hanging on the vine trellis under the corridor, which was pleasant and refreshing.The towers and palaces in Jiuzhou Pool are lit with lights, and the pieces of lights are scattered in the rippling pool water, like thousands of stars falling from the sky.

When he returned to the Hall of Renzhi, his third brother Li Longji was pushing his younger sister Shouchang on the swing. Seeing him, Shouchang immediately jumped down and shouted, "Brother!" But Li Longji stood still and bowed, "Your Highness." Li Chengqi smiled. Go up to caress Li Longji's face and say: "Don't call like that." Li Longji glanced at the servant behind him, and then called out: "Brother." Shou Changzao shouted: "Mother, brother is back!" Run went into the house.

Li Chengqi heard a rush of dingdong rings, thinking it was his mother running out all the way, his heart felt hot, and he also quickened his pace and ran in. He was being hugged by Empress Liu, and he was full of surprises: "Feng Nu, Feng Nu!" The slave is back! I miss my mother to death!"

Li Dan was burning incense in the room. Hearing their voices, his hands shook slightly, and he still calmly covered the cover of the golden lotus aromatherapy diffuser. He could smell the sweet fragrance coming out of the small holes of the aromatherapy diffuser.When Li Dan turned around, Li Chengqi had already come to him and bowed down to him: "Father!" Li Dan smiled and went up to take him up: "Have you asked the Queen Mother?" Li Chengqi nodded: "The Queen Mother said, today After class, you can come back to visit your parents at night."

Liu Hou hurriedly said: "Have you eaten yet? Mother is going to get you two kinds of snacks you like." Li Dan held her back and smiled and said, "Feng Nu will not be able to stay long when you come back. You still have to be busy with these irrelevant things. " Empress Liu was taken aback for a moment, then burst into tears.

Li Dan looked inside the room and said with a smile, "it's too hot in the room. Put out the cool bed and take some fruits. Let's sit in the yard with Feng Nu." Empress Liu understood that the room was full of the queen mother's people On the contrary, it was convenient to talk outside, so he hurriedly instructed the maid to carry a rattan summer bed into the open room, erected a flower and bird crystal screen on one side of the summer bed, and placed some peaches and pineapple fruits on the bed table.Li Dan handed Li Longji a peach. Although Li Longji was young, he was very clever. Knowing that his father meant him to watch the wind outside, he immediately dragged his two younger brothers to play in the courtyard.

Empress Liu only looked at her son with dim tears, wishing to put him in her eyes and never let him go again.Li Chengqi felt sad, hugged his mother's waist and said: "Mother, I'm fine in the Eastern Palace. There are many books there, and it's very quiet. I read when I have nothing to do. Except thinking about you and your younger brothers and sisters at night, I can't sleep. Diet is good."

Li Dan asked: "How about going to school today? Or is Song Shoujie going to give lectures? Has Hua Nu gone?" Li Chengqi couldn't help laughing and said: "I was just about to tell my father a joke, Hua Nu caused a big problem today." Immediately After telling his parents about the class, Empress Liu smiled and said to Li Dan: "You too, let Hua Nu get involved." Li Dan smiled lightly, and said softly: "You should be closer to Hua Nu, Daddy asked him to go, not to let him learn to read from you, but to let you learn how to play with him."

Both Li Chengqi and Empress Liu were a little ignorant, Li Dan took his son's hand and said, "Feng Nu, our family has never lacked a prince who can read. Your uncle and second uncle all read very well."

When Liu Hou heard these two people, his face turned pale instantly, and he said in a trembling voice: "What do you mean?" Li Dan only said in a low voice: "The eldest brother likes to read the Book of Rites, and the second brother likes to read Hanshu. I understand, and I will be the prince according to the book." Li Chengqi's palms were gradually sweating, and his father never mentioned the two uncles at first.

Li Dan looked up at the blue sky, and said softly: "Samsung is at home, these days, facing Samsung every night, both father and mother miss you." It was the first time in Li Chengqi's life that he heard the gentle and indifferent words Father said such emotional words, his nose was sore, and he called out: "Daddy!" He fell into Li Dan's arms and cried, Li Dan gently stroked his shoulder and said: "Don't cry, don't cry anymore when you leave here Yes. I heard from my father that you can like some other things, such as learning some incense, learning to paint, learning to write poems, learning to play the flute and the piano." He smiled: "Learn to learn from your father."

He said to Empress Liu, "Bring that purple jade flute to Feng Nu." Empress Liu turned and went back to the house. Not long after, she came out with a flute as clear as smoke, and Li Dan took it with a smile: " This was obtained when Emperor Taizong personally conquered Korea. The first emperor gave it to me, saying that it can ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. The East Palace is a bit desolate. You can take it and hang it on the bed. You can also ask the Queen Mother to learn to play the flute. , let her send a teacher to teach you." Li Chengqi choked up and nodded: "My son remembers."

Li Chengqi stayed for less than a meal, when a servant came to urge him, watching his son go out step by step, Empress Liu finally couldn't hold it back, sobbing softly with her forehead on the screen: "Where is there a father in the world? Teach my son to play with things and lose his ambition?" Li Dan shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter to me whether Feng Nu has ambition, I just want him to be safe." He looked at the starry sky and smiled: "Who would have thought that the emperor of Tang Dynasty All he wants in this life is for his children to live in peace."

"Lang Jun, it's time to get up." The palace maid lifted the embroidered tent from the outside, and gently opened the Poli screen, seeing the two sleeping children on the bed, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle.

Xue Chongjian's own quilt was wrapped into a ball on his lap, but somehow his upper body was stuffed into Li Chengqi's quilt, and the quilt under his body was rubbed into a mess.He probably wasn't used to sleeping on porcelain pillows, the pillows had been pushed aside long ago, resting on Li Chengqi's shoulders, sleeping soundly with arms crossed.He only wore his bellyband when he slept, and his little butt was exposed outside the quilt. The maid was used to serving Li Chengqi, and she had never seen such a mess on the bed. He hurriedly covered him with the quilt.

Xue Chongjian's toys were scattered all over the bed, a wooden duck in the east, a takraw ball in the west, a few knuckles, and a jiegu.Surrounded by a lot of colorful things, Prince Li Chengqi was lying upright, even his hair was not messed up.

It snowed heavily last night, Xue Chongjian insisted on playing with Li Chengqi in the snow, so Xue Shao allowed him to stay in the East Palace.The two made a few big snowmen in the yard. Xue Chongjian played with his cousin for half a day, and was over excited. When he returned to the house, he wanted to eat roasted mutton, play Cuju, and asked all the court ladies to play Tibetan with him. Hook, and for a while, he will compete with Li Chengqi to shoot powder balls.

The game of shooting powder balls originated from Duanyang. Put the rice dumplings on a golden plate, and shoot the rice balls in the plate with a small bow and arrow, and the one in the middle gets to eat.It was the first time for Li Chengqi to play this kind of game, and the powder balls were slippery and difficult to shoot. Although he was older than Xue Chongjian, it was difficult for him to win two games out of ten.Xue Chongjian won a lot, so naturally he ate a lot. The glutinous rice was hard to digest, so he couldn't sleep at night, and pestered Li Chengqi to tell him stories until late at night. Rub your belly.

Li Chengqi was awakened by the maid, his head was dizzy, he stared at the landscape on the screen in a daze, the clear water seemed to be flowing, and he was in a small boat.The maid called again, and Li Chengqi realized that it was time for him to get up and go to school.Although getting up in winter was more uncomfortable than usual, he was used to waking up early after all. He looked at Xue Chongjian who was lying halfway across his quilt, stretched out his hand and gently hooked his little finger, and called out: "Huanu, I Get up."

Xue Chongjian murmured: "Mother, I'm cold." He reached out, hugged Li Chengqi's arm, and took advantage of the momentum to slap Li Chengqi's quilt with his whole body.Li Chengqi smiled helplessly, shaking his fingers a little more, coaxing him softly: "Huanu, get up, it's time for us to go to school." Then Xue Chongjian slightly opened his eyes, turned his head to look outside the screen, because In winter, the sky dawns late, and it is snowy and cloudy, so the window paper of the Nuan Pavilion is still dark.His small, naked body twisted a few times, and hummed: "It's still dark, I want to sleep...it's cold outside..." He plunged into the quilt and hugged Li Chengqi's arm even tighter.

Seeing that Hua Nu was so sleepy, Li Chengqi couldn't bear to force him to get up.What's more, he himself was extremely sleepy, he felt that his whole body weighed a thousand catties, he couldn't move even half of it under the warm cloud-like bedding, and he really longed for another moment of sleep.He comforted himself vaguely, usually when he got up he had to review the book and eat snacks, so he did it faster today, not to mention that he had read the book of rites recently, so he didn't need to review and preview, and the time saved was about a moment, so he went to that The maid said: "Call me in a moment."

After the two lingered for a while, Xue Chongjian still refused to get up. Li Chengqi struggled for a while, seeing the shimmer of light on the window paper, like a piece of semi-transparent jade, knowing that no matter what, he could no longer sleep, so he mustered up his courage Sitting up from the quilt, he also dragged Xue Chongjian up, and ordered the maid to come in and change clothes.

Li Chengqi got out of bed, wiped his teeth and washed his face, and then he came to his senses. Looking at Xue Chongjian, his eyes were still closed, and he was allowed to dress and put on shoes by the maid. up.Can't help getting anxious, and urged: "Huanu, if you don't hurry up, you will be really late!" Xue Chongjian didn't hear it at all, and was still half asleep and half awake at the mercy of the maid.

Li Chengqi also ignored his usual demeanor, picked up a piece of mustard biscuit, took two bites, and drank a bowl of cheese.Some of the maids over there combed Xue Chongjian's hair, and some fed him with pancakes. Xue Chongjian's eyes were sleepy, and he took a bite of the cake when it came to his mouth.None of these maids had ever given birth to children. It was the first time they saw such cute and ridiculous children.Li Chengqi was really in a hurry, and was afraid that Xue Chongjian would be hungry when he went to school, so he wrapped a piece of paper in his sleeve and hid it in his sleeve, and asked the servant to pack up the stationery of the two of them, then pulled Xue Chongjian up and walked out.

Opening the door of the dormitory, a burst of coldness hits the face, the heavy snow from last night has been much smaller by this time, falling silently like pearl powder and jade crumbs.Looking from a distance, looking west from the East Palace, the continuous Chonglou and Edian halls are all covered in pure white, and the cornice of Qianyuan Hall faces a white crane spreading its wings.The sky was dark, and the courtyards all around were lit with lamps for the maids to freshen up. The yellow light came out from the window paper, and the warm fire light swayed gently. Looking through the hazy and finely divided snow, it was peaceful and picturesque.

In the center of the courtyard is the big snowman they built last night. The mouth is filled with the red pepper they asked for from the maid, and the eyes are filled with longan cores. Although it is surprisingly small, it is placed too close to each other. It looks like a stupid grinning expression , It seems that they have been loyally waiting for them all night.

Li Chengqi took a deep breath, a little happy in his heart, and told the servant: "Don't shovel this, keep it for us." He pulled Xue Chongjian with a smile: "Huanu, look at our snowman." Xue Chongjian opened his eyes Looking around, he put his arms around Li Chengqi's arm again and said, drooping his head and muttering: "The snowman is sleepy, and the flower slave is also sleepy." Go to Chongfu Hall.

The ground was already wet and slippery, Xue Chongjian closed his eyes again, and sat down on the ground with his feet slipping. Fortunately, Li Chengqi pulled him, so he didn't fall into a mess.He opened his eyes, and was taken aback for a moment, when he suddenly saw the waterwheel in the yard covered with thick snow, with ice edges hanging down, he yelled "ah", got up and ran over, folded twice The ice edge came down and said with a smile: "Cousin, look, look, what is this?" Li Chengqi smiled and said: "It's icicles, there are all on the eaves." Xue Chongjian smiled: "This is ice chopsticks. Take it to eat." Li Chengqi said with a smile: "You hold it in your hand, and it will melt in a while." Xue Chongjian said to the servant behind him: "Hold it for me, so that it doesn't melt." Li Chengqi said with a smile: "Don't make it difficult Anyone who holds this will melt it." Xue Chongjian twisted his body and said, "I don't agree, I still want to eat with it, you are the prince, you must have a way to make it melt."

It was the first time Li Chengqi heard Hua Nu mention his status as the prince. He watched the drops of water falling from the crystal clear ice edge, feeling helpless and melancholy.He thought to himself, Hua Nu must not know that although he is a prince, there are many things that he cannot do and cannot keep.Time is like a trickle that slips quietly from the hand. Many beautiful things are hard to miss. The spring flowers in Saibei and the light snow in Jiangnan are fleeting and easily disappear.

He wiped Xue Chongjian's little red hands with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "If you like it, my cousin will grind a pair of water essence chopsticks for you, just like this one, and it will never melt, okay?" Xue Chongjian immediately He cheered and said: "Okay, cousin is not allowed to lie!" He suddenly had another idea, squatted on the ground and stretched his arms and said, "Cousin pull me away!" Li Chengqi had to drag one hand with the servant, As he slid forward in the snow, Xue Chongjian couldn't help screaming with joy.

Playing and making noise along the way, the two arrived in front of the Chongfu Hall, but they couldn't help being stunned. There were more than a dozen teenagers kneeling in the corridor of the hall.Song Shoujie, a bachelor of attendant, stood on the steps, looking gloomyly at the late prince and Xue Chongjian with his hands behind his back.