On the fifth day of the lunar month, Xie Ze failed to come back, and he did not come back either on the sixth day of the lunar month. He did not return until the 14th day of the first lunar month.

Li Ran was watching people hanging lamps in the back garden. If Xie Ze didn't come back, she would plan to walk around the lamp shed and drink some wine at home to look at the lamp.

She still remembers the embarrassment of watching the lights last year.

When Li Ran heard that Xie Ze was back, he hurried back to the main courtyard. After Xie Ze, he entered the courtyard gate.

Xie Ze stood under the door of Chuhua, looked at Li Ran who was smiling like a flower, and was rushing towards him. He subconsciously stretched out his arm, took a few steps forward, and met Li Ran.

"Something happened temporarily, I'm late to come back." Xie Ze looked at Li Ran with apologetic expression on his face.

"Well, I know, the prince has come over and told me that you have emergency military affairs." Li Ran looked up at Xie Ze.

"Well, the letter said that a messenger went south from the north, and I followed him to take a look."

Xie Ze hugged Li Ran and explained softly.

"Is it bad news?" Li Ran asked with concern.

"Not count, I had expected it long ago.

We must delay the war with the south, and it is best to wait until they form an alliance and discuss it well."

Xie Ze answered softly while holding Li Ran in.

"When is it late?"

"It's not decided yet, but there will definitely be no troops before the Spring Examination."

Li Ran responded quietly and stopped asking more questions.

Early the next morning, Xie Ze followed the way to Shangqing Palace to pray for peace and prosperity. Li Ran had breakfast and went to the back garden to pick four or five of them in the hanging lanterns. He asked someone to send them to Tao Nong, and then picked a few more and sent them to Mrs. Wu.

She wanted to go and see the lights with Xie Ze tonight, and she wouldn't need these lights.

In the evening, when it was still very bright, Li Ran changed into a silver-white dress, a silver-white embroidered silver thread, butterfly, a silver fox cloak, and went out to the lantern shed.

The next day after drinking in the second year of junior high school, I met Li Ran at the Hejian County Prince's Mansion. The fourth lady Cao told Li Ran that she wanted to look at the lanterns in the Rong'an Prince's Mansion.

In previous years, Cao Si Niangzi and Cao Sanzi went to the lantern shed of the Hejian County Prince's Mansion to watch the lanterns. Cao Si Niangzi's legitimate sister, but the wife of the Hejian County Prince's prince, could not kiss her anymore.

This year, although the lantern shed of the Prince of Hejian was moved back a little, this did not affect the viewing of the lantern shed at all. The reason why Miss Cao thought of the lantern shed of the Prince of Rong'an was that she might be able to see Prince Xie.

Li Ran understood what she meant and nodded and responded with a smile.

Mrs. Cao Si is a person who can't hide things, especially such a happy thing.

The New Year's wine in the Hejian County Prince's Mansion was only halfway through. Several young ladies present, such as the two sisters at the Duke of Lu's mansion, several of the Deputy Prime Minister Zhong's mansion, as well as the Huang Shumi family, Luo family, etc., all of them looked for Li Ran and wanted to go to their lantern shed to see the lanterns.

Li Ran nodded in extreme simplicity.

One is to watch, and the other is to watch.

Besides, I don’t know if Xie Ze can come back. Of course, they are just in vain.

Unexpectedly, Xie Ze rushed back.

When Li Ran arrived at the lantern shed, the Si Niangzi, Cao Sanniang, Xie Pei, Wang Shi, and the two young ladies of the Duke of Lu's mansion had arrived.

Seeing Li Ran coming up, a group of young ladies chattered at the greetings. Wang Jian first smiled and said, "I heard that the prince rushed back yesterday?"

"Yes, I went to Shangqing Palace early this morning." Li Ran replied with a smile.

"Oh!" Mrs. Cao Si stared at her eyes and cheered.

"General Xie followed the emperor to Shangqing Palace every year, and never entered the city with the ceremonial guard every year."

Mrs. Yang from the Duke of Lu's Mansion understood the fourth lady Cao's voice very well, and shook his head at Mrs. Cao's fourth lady with regret on his face.

"It used to be the past, now it is now, now it is different from before, maybe." Mrs. Cao Si was full of confidence.

Li Ran didn't understand what the ceremonial war was, but she understood this clearly, Cao Si Madam thought that she could see Xie Ze in the ceremonial war.

"The third young master also went to Shangqing Palace?" Li Ran sat next to the lantern shed and talked to Wang Shi.

"Well, the third young master, my third brother, the Cao family Sanlang, and the third master of the Chang'an Marquis' Mansion, have followed him every year since he was with the prince."

Wang Shi handed Li Ran a cup of tea.

"Have you heard from Li Qingrou?"

When Li Ran heard Wang talk about Chang'an Marquis' Mansion, he thought of Li Qingrou and asked softly.

"Well, a letter was sent before, which was sent at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. It said that Sun Daqing followed Li Qing'an to patrol the border and encountered two enemy situations. He was brave and undeflated, and he was very imposing as the Marquis of Sun.

Sun Daqing and Li Qing'an lived with him. They said yes, but they went out twice, all of whom went to talk to our second grandmother in the mansion. The rest of the time, they didn't leave the house."

After a pause, Wang Jing smiled bitterly and said, "It's very cold in the north, so it's not easy to go out."

"Um."

After a while, Li Ran hummed and was silent for a long time. Li Ran lowered her eyes and said:

That day, you talked about Sister Lin, and I thought about it for a long time when I went back.

What would I do if I were Lin Jie'er's brother and sister, or her elder?"

"Hmm?" Wang Yan raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Li Ran.

"Don't ignore it."

Li Ran looked at Wang Jing.

"At most, one, two, three words, you can listen to it best, and you can follow her if you don't listen to it."

Wang Shi raised his eyebrows, and after a moment, he sighed, and nodded while laughing. This was indeed Li Ran's style, which made her imagine, and so.

"Just like Li Qingrou, I thought about what I should do if she and me, just like you and A Pei, or even like A Pei and her sister.

I can't think of it."

Li Ran looked down at the cup in her hand.

"How did you think of this?" Wang Yin asked hesitantly.

"I think if I have children, I'm afraid I will be the most incompetent mother."

Li Ran sighed softly.

She never thought about having children. In the past, she had no intention of having children. Now, she has just begun to think about this issue.

Wang looked at Li Ran and smiled for a while, "This is nature..."

"Princess Du and Chang'an Marquis' Mansion are both natural."

Li Ran answered.

"That's right." Wang Shi thought about it more and had a headache, "My sixth uncle's second son is greedy for women, and is greedy for small gains, and is stupid.

If someone tells him that a certain woman has a new widow, has a bank and a property, is unwilling to remarry, and wants to find someone to support her, and can get both people and money. No matter how ridiculous he believes that Huihui was deceived and extorted.

My sixth uncle has taken ruthless action to deal with him countless times. The next time he will be fooled as long as he hears about such a thing.

Over the years, he was deceived and didn't dare to tell his family that he was looking for people to borrow money to deal with blackmail. My second brother helped him two or three times, but later he ignored it and then found his elder brother to take office.

Aunt Liu is well-read and smart and capable. All the other children are good, that's it. Not only Aunt Liu, but also my mother, but also the grandmother, there is no good idea."

"He should be castrated." Li Ran thought about it for a while and frowned.
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