Tibet

Chapter 398 Farewell to Chang'an
At this time, Suzaku came over and said, "My son-in-law, the princess let you go."

Cheng Changyin hurried over, Li Ye smiled and asked, "How do you say?"

Suzaku nodded, "She accepted, in order to keep the son-in-law, she can only endure today's grievances."

Li Ye smiled and said, "I did well today!"

Suzaku praised: "You performed really well today. I thought you would kill them all, but you restrained yourself. It's really rare!"

"Then reward rewards!"

Li Ye stretched out his mouth, Suzaku quickly pushed him away, "I'm going to die, they are right behind!"

When Li Ye turned his head, Cheng Changyin and Princess Guangning were really behind, and they seemed to be leaving.

"Are you going back?" Li Ye walked up and asked.

"Let's go, brother, thank you for your kindness, see you later!"

"Brother, take care!"

Suzaku held Princess Guangning's hand and said a few words, and the young couple went down the VIP passage.

Li Ye returned to the elegant room and lay down immediately, "I'm exhausted today!"

"Get up! Get up! Haven't I written the poem that someone promised me?"

"Oh! I forgot."

Li Ye smiled lazily, "Did I forget where to put the paper and pen?"

"Don't make excuses, if the imperial concubine asks you to write, you will definitely fly up to find it."

Li Ye got up, hugged her and said with a smile: "You won't be jealous of the noble concubine, right! How is it possible, age is all here."

Suzaku shook her head, "Master said that age is a woman's natural enemy, except for the imperial concubine. Age is frozen on her body. Even if she is old, she will still make men in the world intoxicated."

Li Ye patted his forehead, "I remembered, I asked the maid to put it away, she seems to put it here!"

Li Ye opened the small cabinet below, and found the brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and waved to Suzaku, "Stop thinking about it, come and grind ink for me!"

Suzaku pouted and sat aside to grind ink for him. At this moment, the maid came in to salute and said, "My lord, supper is ready. Do you want to bring it in?"

Suzaku waved his hand, "Don't worry, he's not hungry, I'll bring it in later."

As soon as the words fell, Li Ye's stomach rumbled, and he looked at her with grievances, Suzaku covered his mouth and laughed, and quickly waved: "Hurry up and bring it in!"

The two maids hurriedly brought in the supper, various snacks, lotus seed soup, and two bowls of hot osmanthus gnocchi. These are not glutinous rice balls. Filled glutinous rice balls only appeared in the Song Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty gnocchi were still solid.

After eating supper, no longer hungry, Li Ye spread the paper on the table, and said softly to Suzaku: "There is a poem, I originally planned to give it to you on Qixi Festival."

Suzaku lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Let's treat it as Qixi Festival tonight!"

Li Ye picked up a pen and wrote out the words in his heart.

"The Magpie Bridge Fairy"

Xianyun is clever, Feixing spreads hatred, and Yinhan looms dark.

As soon as Jinfeng Yulu met, they won but countless on earth.

The tenderness is like water, and the good times are like dreams.

If these two feelings are long, how are they going up and down.

On the 1th day of the first lunar month, the mighty Hezhong Army set off. The [-] army left Chang'an with [-] camels and [-] carts and marched westward.

Accompanied by more than a dozen Sogdian caravans and Prince Rahana's team, and more than [-] family members accompanied the army.

There were tens of thousands of people seeing off, most of whom were family members of soldiers. The soldiers bid farewell to their families and rushed to distant frontiers. According to the plan, this group of troops will be transferred back to Chang'an in four years, and will be rotated by another group of troops.

Li Ye hugged his farewell parents and Aunt Mu, and hugged Suzaku tightly. Si Ning Wang Li Lin had already been a matchmaker. Li Dai came to propose with a gift yesterday. The Dugu family accepted the gift and accepted the Li family's proposal.

This is the first step of the six rituals, Na Cai, and the second step is to ask Ming and Najib, that is, whether the horoscopes of the two are suitable. Except that the same surname is not allowed to marry, there are almost no problems, and it ended yesterday.

There are still three steps below, the recruitment, the application period, and the personal welcome. These three steps are relatively long. After the application period, many families still have to prepare for the wedding for several months to half a year.

Acceptance is the gift of dowry. Putting this together with the application period is not a big problem. The key is the first step. Once the woman's family accepts the proposal, the relationship between the two parties is settled.

It also means that Suzaku, also known as Dugu Xinyue, has become the future daughter-in-law of the Li family and Li Ye's fiancée.

"Go! Have a good trip and come back soon."

"I will definitely come back next year."

Li Ye let go of Suzaku and hugged his mother tightly, then got on his horse and waved goodbye to his parents.

Seeing her son walking away, Pei Sanniang covered her mouth and began to cry. Suzaku held her arm and comforted her softly. Li Dai sighed. The son had just grown up and broke up.

"Ma'am, I'm going back to the court first."

In the afternoon there is another important meeting about the imperial examination schedule, and Li Dai has to go back and prepare.

"You go! Suzaku is with me, and my aunt is also here." Pei Sanniang said with red eyes.

The three women, old, middle-aged and young, got into the carriage, Da Zhu waved his whip, and the carriage slowly drove towards Chang'an City.

At noon, the sun was very warm. Sitting in the yard, Li Linfu slowly raised his head and squinted to look at the big tree above him. The big tree died last year. Li Linfu forbade anyone to cut it down. Like a big tree, it has gone through countless springs, summers, autumns, winters and ups and downs, and finally came to an end.

"Is it seventeen today!" He whispered to the little maid next to him.

"Master, it's seventeen!"

"He's finally gone!"

Li Linfu heaved a long sigh of relief, slowly closed his eyes, and the little maid hurriedly ran to get a blanket to cover him all over.

"Tang Wenzong! Tang Wenzong!"

Li Linfu read a few words in a low voice, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

After a long time, the little maid finally felt that something was wrong, and lightly tried the old man's breath, then retracted her hand in fright, and shouted in horror, "Someone is coming! Come soon!"

Li Xiu waited for several sons to come running, felt his father's pulse and breath, fell to his knees on the ground, and burst into tears.

On the 11th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Tianbao, Li Linfu, the former prime minister, finally came to the end of his life.

He has been struggling and suffering, until his grandson Li Ye left, he stopped worrying about the world and closed his eyes.

The death of Li Linfu also means the end of an era. This powerful official who has been in charge of the Tang Dynasty for nearly 20 years has witnessed the prosperity and decline of the Tang Dynasty. Now, and the era of Yang Guozhong begins.

Li Linfu died of illness, the atmosphere in the court was very strange, no one rushed to condolences, only his son-in-law was busy with his funeral, and all the ministers of the court were waiting with bated breath, waiting for the emperor's order.

Even the Yuwen family who originally wanted to come to Pingkang Mansion to play gongs and drums did not dare to act rashly.

It was not until three days after Li Linfu's death that the emperor's decree was finally issued, and Li Linfu was posthumously awarded the title of Taiwei and the governor of Yangzhou, and he was bestowed with a sword warrior, a secret weapon in the West Garden, and a posthumous posthumous title, Wuzhen.

The emperor gave Li Linfu a good position, and ministers began to come to mourn him one after another.

At this time, a series of news shocked the Li family. The court forced all the descendants of the Li family, Ding You, to mourn.

But not all sons-in-law were required to resign and wear mourning. Yang Guozhong retained four of them on the grounds that he was busy with court affairs, which exposed the fact that these four had secretly taken refuge in Yang Guozhong.

But there are exceptions. The emperor rejected Ding You's application of Li Dai, the minister of rites, and asked him to stay in the post until the imperial examinations were over.

After all, Li Dai was the son of Li Linfu, and he was also the minister of the Ministry of Rites. It was unreasonable to violate the court system, so Li Longji specially approved him to wear mourning in April, and the mourning period was twelve months.

But the court's Ding You system is only for parents, and it is not so strict for the grandson's generation. If he voluntarily applies for mourning for his grandfather Ding You, the court will approve it and reward him for his filial piety.

But if you don't apply, and you don't violate the system, the court will not pursue it.

Xiangguo Zhang Jun wrote a letter to the Son of Heaven, asking Li Ye, governor of Hedong, to uphold filial piety and serve his grandfather for three years.

The news that followed was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, which exploded in Li's West Temple. Li Linfu's title was inherited by his fifth son, Li Dai.

This means that Li Linfu's mantle will eventually be inherited by Li Dai, and the East Temple is the authentic one.

Li Xiu cried a lot in front of his father's spirit and fell ill.

(End of this chapter)