Empress Tianze gave birth to a pair of twins for Emperor Qi. Emperor Long Yan was delighted and ordered a general amnesty. Except for prisoners sentenced to death, all criminals were exempted from guilt and released on the spot. The court was suspended for three days, and the city of Jingyang rejoiced.

Celebrate seven days.【】

Suddenly, the entire Northern Qi Dynasty was jumping for joy, Jingyang City was singing and dancing like a New Year, and the sounds of thanksgiving and blessings resounded throughout the day.

Half a month later, Emperor Yeluxie of the Eastern Shang Dynasty sent a congratulatory gift, wishing that the Northern Qi Dynasty would be complete, and that Queen Tianze, mother and son would be safe. In the next three days, the two powerful figures in the Southern Song Dynasty, Shangguan Ning and Shangguan Yu, separated from each other.

He sent a congratulatory gift and expressed his willingness to work with the Northern Qi Dynasty to revise it for a hundred years.

On the full moon day of the little prince and the little princess, Emperor Qi and the queen took pens and wrote the names of the two children with their own hands in front of the officials. The little prince's surname was Qi, and his name only had the word "Hao", which meant that his mind was as broad as the sky.

In the future, he will be able to love his people like his own son and build up the Northern Qi Dynasty.

The little princess's name was decided by the Queen, Qi Rui, and was given the title Anping. It had no special meaning. Zhong Qingye only wished her a safe life.

On the day when the little prince and the little princess turned three months old, Yanzi, who had been serving Zhong Qingye, asked to leave the palace. After getting the permission, she left Jingyang City, and her whereabouts are unknown since then. But everyone who walked along could vaguely guess her.

place.

In the second year of Taichu, on the third day of November, the little prince and the little princess celebrated their first birthday. On this day of universal celebration, the Emperor of Qi publicly announced that Northern Qi would no longer have a draft, and that only Queen Tianze would be the only one in the harem.

As soon as this statement came out, it caused a huge stir. All the military officials came to the meeting and tried to obstruct him in every possible way. The emperor of Qi swept away all the obstacles and refused to change.

At the end of the fifth year of Taichu, on New Year's Eve, Queen Tianze gave birth to Lin'er again, adding another prince to the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the ninth year of Taichu, when the eldest prince was nine years old, the second princess was nine years old, and the third prince was three years old, the trend of advising the Qi Emperor to accept beautiful girls gradually stopped, and all the officials gradually accepted the system of one emperor and one empress, which was respected by the people of Northern Qi. Hundreds of

Years later, monogamy had become the orthodoxy of the Northern Qi Dynasty. From then on, men were superior to women, and three wives and four concubines no longer returned.

In the twelfth year of Taichu, Emperor Yeluxie of the Eastern Shang Dynasty left a posthumous edict to surrender to the Northern Qi Dynasty. He died mysteriously. The heroes of the Eastern Shang Dynasty rose up and the smoke spread everywhere. Xi Zang led the troops according to the order, and the war between the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Eastern Shang Dynasty began.

In the fifteenth year of Taichu, Xi Zang led troops to invade Rongcheng, the imperial capital of Dongshang, and declared the defeat of Dongshang. Emperor Qi ordered that Dongshang be established as a tributary state, retaining all its original institutions, and adopting the one country, two systems proposed by Queen Tianze.

The officials of the Shang Dynasty had different opinions. From then on, the situation of three parts of the world came to an end, and the independent Northern Qi Dynasty faced off against the Southern Song Dynasty, which was initially decided a few years ago.

In the 16th year of Taichu, Queen Tianze went into labor again, and after a narrow escape, she gave birth to the fourth prince of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of Taichu, the regent of Northern Qi Dading, Queen Tianze, took the lead in breaking up the friendship agreement. Ziying and Red Eagle took the lead, with Red Eagle as the leader and Ziying as the assistant. They took the eldest prince and led an army of 400,000 to open up the Northern Qi Dynasty.

War with the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the 21st year of Taichu, in the twelfth month of winter, the Southern Song Dynasty was defeated and was completely absorbed by the Northern Qi Dynasty. It completely disappeared from the Cangyang continent. The Northern Qi Dynasty became the dominant one. The Northern Qi Dynasty was renamed the Da Qi Dynasty. One family became the king, and from then on the world was unified.

In the 22nd year of Taichu, on the second day of the second month of spring, the eldest prince Qi Hao of the Northern Qi Dynasty got married and married the second lady of General Black Eagle's family. Queen Tianze was very happy and announced on the same day that she would accept the general's wife as her adopted sister and enjoy the treatment of a first-class wife.

Everything is going well and everything is developing in the best direction. Qi Mo and Zhong Qingye are gradually surrounded by their children and enjoy the entire Qi Dynasty hand in hand. The only thing that makes Zhong Qingye regretful is that over the years, she has

While searching for Feng Jin's whereabouts, Qi Mo told her the agreement he made with Feng Jin. She knew the story of Zi Tong and Yelu Xie, but even Qi Mo didn't know where Feng Jin went after that.

Zhong Qingye even sent people to the Southern Territory dozens of times, and went there several times himself, but never found it.

Nowadays, the Yue Worshiping Sect family is king in the Southern Territory, and Feng Yun has become a well-deserved underground emperor. However, even he does not know Feng Jin’s current whereabouts, and there is no clue to follow. It is as if Feng Jin has never been

Just like this world existed.

As time gradually passed, the first three of Zhong Qingye and Qi Mo's four children were married. Qi Hao's wife Nan'er even gave birth to their granddaughter. Qi Rui was also married and pregnant.

As she was about to give birth and her family was full of children and grandchildren, Zhong Qingye's desire to find Feng Jin gradually faded away.

But this does not mean that she has forgotten that Feng Jin has gradually become a knot in her heart. Suddenly, when she dreams back in the middle of the night, she can still think of the man in white who was as elegant as a fairy when she first met him at the fire scene that year.

For the next six years, Zhong Qingye lived in the imperial capital, devoted himself to accompanying Qi Mo and his grandchildren, and kept Feng Jin's matter firmly in his heart. Until the winter of the 28th year of Taichu, a woman suddenly took Zhong Qingye with her.

Ye's regent broke into the queen and went straight to Weiyang Palace to find her.

A total of three tokens of Prince Dading were forged. One was in Zhong Qingye's hand, one was given to Xia'er who was far away from the palace and could not easily enter the palace, and the other one was given to Zhong Qingye when Yanzi left the palace.

Ye put it in her hand so that if necessary in the future, she could come directly to her. This could be regarded as Zhong Qingye's gratitude to her over the years.

The three tokens are each engraved with three patterns: sword, arrow, and shield. Zhong Qingye is holding an arrow, Xia'er is holding a knife, and this woman is holding a shield. The token with the shield engraved on it is exactly the same.

It's the one Yan Zi took away back then.

But this woman is not Yanzi, but Yelv Meixue, the little princess of Dongshang who disappeared mysteriously when Yeluxie died mysteriously!

No, she can no longer be called a little princess. Yelv Meixue is only four years younger than Zhong Qingye. Zhong Qingye is forty-eight this year, and she is forty-four. At such an age, the word "little" is not really suitable.

Words to describe it.

Meeting old friends gave Zhong Qingye not only shock, but also unexpected questions. Yelv Meixue had been missing for more than sixteen years. During this period, Zhong Qingye could not find any trace of her whereabouts. He once thought that this little girl was missing.

The girl died in the chaotic Dongshang battlefield back then. She never expected that we would see each other again now.

Since she is not dead, where has she been in these years? How has she been? What did she do when she traveled thousands of miles to break into the palace to find him?

Zhong Qingye's heart, which had been calm for a long time, was stirred up for the first time sixteen years after the Northern Qi Dynasty was settled.

However, what she never expected was that Yelu Meixue's arrival not only revealed a series of secrets, but also revealed the current whereabouts of Yelu Xie, Feng Jin and Yan Zi!

turn out to be

In the twelfth year of Taichu, Yeluxie did not die at all. He just swallowed the medicine to fake death with the help of Feng Jin. After being buried, he escaped with his help. The current Dongshang Emperor Mausoleum is just his

a set of clothing.

Yelu Xie did this not because he was tired of all this. He did not like being an emperor in the first place. What's more, he was not a child of the Yelu family of the Eastern Shang royal family at all. He had long been impatient after being bound by responsibilities for so many years.

, that time, he discussed with Feng Jin, pretended to die, left an edict of surrender, and gave Dong Shang the rightful name to Qi Mo through the war, while he and Feng Jin wandered around freely.

But unexpectedly, Yelu Meixue didn't believe that he would die like this, or maybe it was because of luck. This little girl had always liked Yelu Xie and was unwilling to return to the palace after the burial. She ran away secretly and hid in the palace.

In the imperial mausoleum, they were almost ready to die for love, but at this moment, Yeluxie and Feng Jin, who were "resurrected", walked out of the tomb side by side.

Even if she didn't tell Zhong Qingye, she could have guessed what happened next. It must be that this girl was unwilling to leave Yeluxie and asked in every possible way. However, Fengjin and Yeluxie had no choice but to take her away together, which is why she disappeared mysteriously later.

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The three of them lived in an isolated place, and people from the Moon Worship Sect had always ensured daily necessities (so Feng Yun still knew the whereabouts of Feng Jin). When they arrived, Yan Zi was already there, and he didn't know

How did she find it?

After Yelu Meixue said all this, Zhong Qingye felt a sudden realization. He was stunned for a while before he remembered to ask her why she came.

Yelv Meixue's expression was calm. For a long time after that, Zhong Qingye didn't know how to describe her calmness. She felt like she was in a trance, calm and calm.

Yelumei Xue said that Yeluxie passed away due to illness three years ago. She came all the way here because Fengjin was also dying now, and Yanzi wanted to stay with her to take care of him because she knew he would definitely want to see him again before he died.

Zhong Qingye, then handed her the regent's token and asked her to come to Northern Qi to look for Zhong Qingye. She must let Feng Jin see her again before she died.

Zhong Qingye never expected that the news she got would be like this. Although she couldn't find Feng Jin these years, she always wanted to believe that he was still alive and living well in a place she didn't know.

She owed Feng Jin so much in this life, and her only hope was that he could forget her and live a good life. In this way, even if she could never find him again in her life, at least she would have peace of mind.

But she didn't expect that one day she would learn about Feng Jin's whereabouts again, and when the news came, she heard about Feng Jin's near death.

If this was the case, she would rather never find Feng Jin for the rest of her life.

When the two were talking in detail, Qi Mo was also beside him. Seeing Zhong Qingye's expression fluctuating, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to stop him out of habit. There was a touch of sadness on his already slightly wrinkled face, and he said slowly: "He is here now.

where?"

Yelumei Xue said: "In the past, the territory of Dongshang was full of mountains and valleys."

Hearing what she said, Zhong Qingye almost blurted out and exclaimed: "How is that possible?!"

There is a small valley in the Baishan Mountains of Dongshang. A hundred meters before the bottom of the valley, there is a steaming hot spring. Feng Jin built a small wooden house next to the hot spring. She and he spent two days in it.

More than a year.

Yelu Meixue lowered her head lightly, her eyelashes as thick as crow's wings casting thick shadows on her fair face. She was a beautiful woman, and time seemed to be treating her particularly favorably. After so many years, her appearance has changed

She is still beautiful, time has only left a mature charm on her body, and has not taken away any part of her beauty.

She slowly opened her lips, which were as delicate as honey, just like they were decades ago. Her voice was soft and would disappear if you didn't pay attention.

She said: "Brother Feng always likes to stand on the top of the mountain slope of the valley and look at Northern Qi. I once asked him why he chose to live in seclusion in this valley. He said that the best time of his life was spent in this Valley of Worry. He

He also said that if something is lost, it is lost forever and he will never get it back. The only thing he can do is to remind himself not to forget."

Yelu Meixue raised her head slightly, her bright eyes focused on Zhong Qingye's eyes little by little, looking at the fish-eye lines faintly exposed in the corners of her eyes, and sighed: "I didn't understand what he said until now.

It was only on the day Brother Xie died that I realized that what Brother Feng had been reminding me not to forget was all the memories with you."

She still calls Yeluxie Brother Xie, just like when Zhong Qingye first met this girl decades ago, when she was young, beautiful, and energetic, and when they first met, he accused her of taking away his rabbit.

, whipped up to beat her. These scenes hidden deep in the memory were suddenly brought out, and Zhong Qingye felt in a daze that it seemed like it happened yesterday.

The valley of sorrow, the valley of sorrow...

Feng Jin wanted her to be miserable all her life, so why didn't she like him too?

In this life, she owed him too much, failed him too much, and her only wish to pray was shattered by him.

Why would such an outstanding man stand on the top of a mountain every day, letting his long hair wrinkle his skin and scrape away the beautiful years of his youth, just to look in the direction of her.

He could never find what he had lost, so the only thing he could do was to remind himself not to forget it.

With such deep affection, she finally let down a heavenly man.

On December 12, the twenty-eighth year of Taichu, Qi Mo temporarily handed over the government affairs to the eldest prince and the second prince to handle together. He accompanied Zhong Qingye, Qiu'er, Chun'er, Black Eagle, Hongying,

Huang Ying and the other five accompanied him and quietly headed towards Dongshang's territory.

On the third day of January, the group arrived at the foot of Baishan Mountain and walked for an hour and a half. After more than seventeen years, Zhong Qingye finally stood at the entrance of the valley again.
To be continued...