Chapter 301 Epilogue

The ministers in the hall were silent. Now the new master sitting on the dragon throne was deep-minded, unpredictable, and his methods were swift and resolute.

He had been in power for only two months, but he had already started to revise the law code, change taxes, open the imperial examination, and develop water conservancy... drastic measures, and the whole court was turned upside down.

After the court, Xie Tingzhou went out of the palace to pick up Shen Yu.

Since Emperor Yongning passed away, Shen Yu looked fine and had never shed tears, but she often looked depressed.

All the people she could regard as confidants and close friends in this world were gone, and she was inevitably depressed.

Xie Tingzhou was very worried and often sent her to talk to Yu Wanqiu.

The carriage was driving on the street, and Xifeng rode on the side, "Your Majesty, the court officials kneeled every day to ask you to ascend the throne and become emperor, why do you always refuse?"

Almost everyone thought that Xie Tingzhou was going for the position of the Nine Five Supremes, but when the road ahead was smooth and there was no obstacle, he stopped in front of the dragon throne.

"I am willing to carry this land, but I don't want it to be my shackles."

Xie Tingzhou looked at the people coming and going and said: "When you are an emperor, there are too many things you can't do, and there are too many things you don't want to do but have to do."

No one in the world understands him, except Shen Yu, who has never asked him this question.

The Shen Mansion has been renovated. The maids took off their rings and pendants and deliberately walked lightly, for fear of disturbing the master inside.

"Are you used to living here?"

"Used." Yu Wanqiu said with a smile: "How can I not be used to it."

Shen Yu teased the baby in the cradle, the baby opened his mouth, and saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth.

Yu Wanqiu gently wiped the saliva with a handkerchief, "It's starting to grow teeth. I've been drooling recently."

"So cute." Shen Yu pinched his chubby little hand and shook it gently, saying: "If I wasn't physically disabled, I would have taken the coffin to send my father to reunite with my mother, and my brother could stay at home with you and the child."

"Your brother is the elder brother, and these things are what he should do."

Yu Wanqiu looked at Shen Yu's bulging belly and asked: "It's been eight months, right?"

"No." Shen Yu put her hand on her belly, "Only seven months."

Yu Wanqiu was surprised and said: "How come it's so big, it's growing so well."

"I eat a lot."

The child next to him said: "Aunt, Xuan'er and aunt eat the same amount."

"That's right." Shen Yu smiled and rubbed Li Xuan's head.

Li Xuan is Li Zhaonian's only son.

Before leaving, Li Zhaonian sent Queen Chu away with a cup of poisoned wine, leaving only his only son Li Xuan to Shen Yu, asking her to send the child far away.

Shen Yu wanted to find a good family for the child, so Li Xuan stayed in the palace temporarily to be taken care of by the original nanny. Later, Shen Yu found that the nanny did not even let go of a young child, and beat and scolded him all day long, and the child was not full.

Where could such a child be sent? Shen Yu was worried about sending Li Xuan to anyone to raise him, so she kept Li Xuan by her side.

She regarded Li Zhaonian as a confidant, so she asked Li Xuan to call her aunt.

The maid knocked on the door outside and said that the prince would come to pick up the princess after the court. Shen Yu got up and said goodbye, walked out of the yard and put her hand in Xie Tingzhou's palm.

This year, spring came early, and the snow began to melt just after the New Year.

The carriage was traveling on the street, with people coming and going on both sides, and the red lanterns of the New Year were hung at the door of the shops on the street.

When pedestrians met someone they knew, they would say Happy New Year to each other.

Xie Tingzhou led Shen Yu on the quiet palace road.

Deep and shallow footprints stretched into a line in the snow. They walked quietly, letting the wind fill their sleeves.

This imperial city witnessed the rise and fall of several dynasties. The wind of history has been blowing for thousands of years. Countless people have come one after another, just to keep the mountains and seas the same and the world peaceful.

They walked in the long river of time, leaving behind one after another in the history books.

Shen Yu thought of the winter of the seventeenth year of Tongxu.

They met each other in the war.

Walk through the winter snow and the spring breeze together, and love each other passionately in the season of blooming mountain flowers.

"Ayu."

Shen Yu turned her head, the floating clouds suddenly dispersed, and Xie Tingzhou smiled like the spring breeze.

"I love you."

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The author has something to say:

Preparing to finish is the beginning of my anxiety.

Seeing the outline getting shorter and shorter, I know it's time to say goodbye again. I'm glad to have told you another story, but I'm also reluctant to leave.

Xie Tingzhou and Shen Yu have been with me for several months. They have gradually grown from a little vague idea in my mind to the point where I feel that they are alive.

I have cried with them for loss and rejoiced for victory, as if I had witnessed their lives.

To be honest, I was very depressed during the process of writing this article.

I read Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, Xin Qiji, Li Yu... I wanted to experience the cultural and social status of the time from the stories of the ancients, but unfortunately, all I read from different stories in different times was the sadness of history.

Imperial power is the shackles that bound Li Zhaonian, and the outline is the shackles that bound me. Now that the outline is finished, I will give you a shot of prevention. The author is going to go crazy.

I will let myself go in the extra chapters and write whatever I think of, so you don’t have to dig up the logic of the extra chapters, because there is no logic!

Finally, thank you all for following me all the time. You really give me a lot of encouragement.

A friend who is also an author asked me if readers will quarrel? Will they curse? I said they were really nice and would find out my typos every day. To be honest, I was really proud of myself at that time.

Okay, enough nonsense, see you in the next book.

————Knowledge