At the end of October of the 14th year of Tianbao, fine snowflakes floated into the sky in Jiangnan. The snowflakes fell to the ground and soon melted into water and seeped down. After a while, a thin layer was accumulated.

The breeze blew by, like a broom of a god, raised all the snowflakes and spread them along the hillside.

A small black dot quietly emerged from the top of the hillside. It was a little boy who was less than two feet tall, and was so cute.

Standing at the top of the hillside, he looked down and saw the open wilderness under the hillside. A thin layer of snowflakes covered it like a gauze dress, shining softly in the sunlight.

It seemed that the little boy had seen such a scene for the first time, and he couldn't help but scream. He widened his eyes, grinned and ran down the hillside. As he ran, he lay on the ground without paying attention and rolled down the hillside.

However, here is a soft earth slope, and it is difficult to find a piece of stone. Its angle is very flat, so the little boy rolled down the road without any injuries. He patted his clothes and climbed up from the ground.

He was about to continue running forward, but he heard someone shouting behind his back: "Young Master! Young Master! Come back quickly!"

The little boy frowned and replied reluctantly: "Okay, wet nurse, stop screaming! I'm going back now!"

Although he was small, his voice was very loud. The wet nurse on the other side of the hillside could hear it clearly and immediately followed the sound to the top of the hillside.

The little boy took a step, his legs dancing like a windmill, and soon ran to his wet nurse.

The wet nurse was a woman in her thirties. When she saw him running over, she shouted "Slow down, slow down" with concern, while reaching out and hugging him in her arms.

Looking at the mud and water standing on his clothes, the wet nurse immediately frowned: "Little ancestor! Tell you to be careful! Did you fall?" As she said that, she groped up and down and carefully checked whether there were any scars on the little boy's body.

The little boy was itchy all over by her and couldn't help but twist his body and laughed: "Woman, don't do it! It's so itchy! It's okay! It's okay! I'm fine!"

Even so, the wet nurse still touched him all over before putting him down. Then she pulled him forward and walked forward: "Go away! Go kowtow to your aunt!"

The little boy kicked his calves and followed the wet nurse forward. Soon after, he saw a tall white marble tombstone. The tombstone was surrounded by people, but when he saw the little boy coming, he made way and let him walk to the tombstone.

A woman in her early twenties stood in front of the tombstone, dressed in white, looking very solemn. As soon as she saw the boy, she immediately waved to him. When the boy arrived in front of her, she pressed his shoulder and whispered: "Ari, kowtow to my aunt!"

Arie hurriedly knelt down as he spoke, kowtowed respectfully at the tombstone three times, then stood up and carefully looked at the tombstone. There were several big words engraved on the tombstone: The tomb of Queen Love Lan.

Arie's round eyes dripped for a long time before he pressed on the woman and asked in a low voice: "Mom, is your aunt the big stone? Will people turn into big stones when they die?"

The woman smiled and shook her head: "Of course my aunt is not a big stone! My aunt is sleeping inside, but she can't wake up again. When people die, they can't wake up."

"Oh my God!" A trace of fear appeared in the little boy's eyes, "If you die, you can't wake up? That's not that you can't eat anything? No, I don't want to die! Mom, you are not allowed to die! No one is allowed to die!"

"Okay, okay!" The woman rubbed Arui's head docilely, and rubbed his head into a mess.

Arie seemed very dissatisfied with her mother's actions. As soon as the woman let go, he sorted out his head. But before he could finish it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he trotted to a man, raised his head and shouted excitedly: "Uncle 6!"

6 Yu squatted down and looked at him with a smile: "What's wrong with Arie?"

Arie bulged her mouth and her face turned like a bun: "Why haven't you come to see me these days?"

"I have some things that I can't get rid of."

"Then where did you go just now? I won't see you in your house!" Ari asked relentlessly.

"I went to the city to buy some things and just came back." Liu Yu carried the bag on his shoulder, then pulled Ari back to his mother, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Sister-in-law, I'm going to say goodbye."

"Oh?" Wang Hui raised her eyebrows, "Are you in such a hurry to leave?"

"Yes!" Liu Yu nodded, "Three years have passed, and I should leave too. Thank you for taking care of you in the past three years, but I haven't seen a few elders today. I'm really sorry. I think they can't forgive me yet, right?"

"No, no, no," Wang Hui shook her head repeatedly, "Dad was because there was a business in the north, so he had to rush over. As for grandfather and grandmother..."

As he said that, Wang Hui sighed softly: "They have been bedridden recently and are taken care of by my mother."

"What?" Liu Yu's voice was very anxious, "Why did the two elders suddenly get sick? Wasn't I still fine when I went there last month?"

"I'm old," Wang Hui shook her head helplessly, "I said I wanted to go out for a while, but I caught a cold, and I'm lying at home. The weather is getting colder and colder, and no one dares to let them come out!"

"Yes! They have to rest well, otherwise I..." He hesitated for a moment and sighed dejectedly, "Forget it, if I go to see them, maybe they'll get angry."

Wang Hui smiled slightly: "Don't think too much, do whatever you should do. When their health is better and you have time again, it's not too late to see them again."

"Okay!" 6 feathers responded solemnly.

At this time, Ari finally had the chance to interrupt. He quickly jumped and asked, "Uncle 6, Uncle 6, are you leaving?"

"Yes!" Liu Yu bent down, "Uncle has something to do, I'm leaving here for the time being."

"Then when will you come back?" Arie was obviously very anxious.

"This..." 6 Yu thought seriously for a moment, "This is not good. Maybe January, maybe half a year, or maybe several years."

"It will take several years?" Arie shouted loudly, then puffed up his mouth in dissatisfaction.

His round face was very cute even when he was angry. Looking at his appearance, Liu Yu couldn't help laughing. He slowly stretched out his hand that had been behind him and handed a jade flute to Arui: "I'm giving this to you!"

This jade flute is only five inches, which is much smaller than the common flute. But for Ari, who is only three years old, it is just right. At the end of the flute, there is a grasshopper made of straw, with long legs, and lifelike.

Arie suddenly said "Wow" excitedly, and couldn't wait to pick up the flute, staring at her eyes and praised: "Uncle 6, you are so amazing! This grasshopper is much better than sold on the street!"

Six Yu was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He thought to himself: "This flute was carefully carved by me with one knife! The grasshopper was just a casual teasing!" But seeing Ari was very happy, he couldn't make any corrections, so he could only nod and said earnestly: "This thing took me a long time to make, so please don't break it!"

"Yeah!" Arie agreed.

"Okay! If this thing remains intact when uncle comes back, I will turn you into a grasshopper." As he said that, 6 Yu patted Ari's small shoulder seriously, and Ari nodded very seriously to agree.

After giving instructions to Ari, Liu Yu raised his head and said to Wang Hui: "Mrs. Sister-in-law, I'm leaving now. Take care of you."

Wang Hui nodded slightly: "Your elder brother wrote to you that you will also go to Chang'an in the near future, so you might as well get together more."

"Absolute!" After saying that, Liu Yu turned around and faced Wang Lan's tombstone. He put his hands together, gave a deep bow to the tombstone with Buddhist rituals, then stood up and floated away.

...

When the snow fell in Jinling, Chang'an City was already covered in silver.

In the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, there was not much charcoal fire left in the copper furnace. The eunuch in charge wanted to go up and add fire, but he didn't dare to. He could only shrink his neck and quietly take a few steps back, using pillars to block the cold wind blowing from outside the hall.

The door of the hall was open, and a man with a purple robe and gold belt stood in the middle of the hall. He was a little shivered by the wind, but he didn't dare to move.

In the dragon chaise high above, a silent emperor sat upright. The emperor's somewhat turbid eyes slowly turned, as if thinking about something.

After a while, he calmed his eyes and said in a deep voice to the people below the audience: "Guozhong, why didn't An Lushan come to the capital?"

Yang Guozhong thought: Of course it is because he wants to rebel!

But similar words were said to the emperor countless times when Li Linfu was alive, and Yang Guozhong had mentioned them several times, but the emperor did not accept them every time and trusted An Lushan as always.

Yang Guozhong didn't want to make things boring anymore, so he replied: "Didn't Lord An say he is in good health? I heard it's quite serious."

"Do you believe it?" the emperor asked, "Don't you think he was intending to rebel and he had a ghost in his heart?"

Yang Guozhong was stunned for a while, and then he spoke again: "Have you not trusted Lord An all the time before?"

The emperor smiled helplessly: "I shot an arrow yesterday, but I couldn't pull the longbow I used in the past."

Yang Guozhong widened his eyes, not understanding what the emperor was saying.

The emperor obviously realized his confusion, so he explained: "I feel that when I get old, there will be many problems when I get old. For example, people I can control may not be able to control when I get old!"

Yang Guozhong suddenly realized: It turned out that the emperor had never completely trusted An Lushan. The reason why he ignored everyone's words before was because he had strong confidence in controlling An Lushan!

However, now, the emperor has truly realized his aging and this confidence has begun to shake.

"What should you do, Your Majesty?" Yang Guozhong naturally would not let go of this opportunity and asked quickly as the emperor said.

"See him again," the emperor wrapped his fox fur tightly and called the eunuch to come up and fill the charcoal fire. "If he doesn't come again, let him never come again, you can go down and do it immediately."

"Yes!" A cold light like a sword lit up from Yang Guozhong's eyes. He bowed to the emperor, then retreated out of the door and disappeared into the wind and snow outside the hall.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!