The sky was bright again. The dawn shone through the window, and the glazed tiles on the top of the Ziwei Palace were shining with dazzling light under the rising sun.

Mu Fulan sat in front of the mirror. Aru accompanied her and combed her long hair.

"Aunt, your hair is so good, just like the spring water of our Dongting Lake, slippery and bright..."

While combing her hair, the girl sincerely praised her.

Mu Fulan stared at herself in the mirror, with green hair and snowy face. In a daze, she suddenly remembered another sixteen-year-old self ten years ago.

I remember it was also such an early morning. At that time, she had been married for less than a year. Her young and ambitious husband left her on the wedding night and never returned for a long time. She had just woken up from a nightmare last night.

It was that nightmare that changed everything about her.

At that time, she was determined to leave the man who brought all the bad luck to her. She wanted to return to Changsha where she gave birth to her and live her new life smoothly. How could she have thought that ten years later, she would be in Zique and be respected as the queen mother?

Three months ago, the Shao Emperor had been preparing for a long time, and he personally planned to go south to pacify the war of the Qi court and achieved a great victory. The small court that had survived for several years in the south after the founding of the great country disappeared. Zhao Xitai committed suicide by pursuing the army. A few days ago, the army was over, and the Shao Emperor led all civil and military officials to travel twenty miles and out of the city to welcome him.

Xie Changgeng, the founding emperor of the Dacheng Dynasty, was the first emperor to be in charge of the army. Unfortunately, his old injuries relapsed outside. After that, he died young half a year later. The prince succeeded to the throne with the assistance of the empress of the regent and several important officials. In the past two years, he has not only been smart and good at governing, but his diligence is also amazing. In addition to dealing with the government affairs every day, he will definitely get up early and up. Just like when he was young, he learned swordsmanship and studied, regardless of wind and rain.

Today, the Great Decision was brought to the unification, and the prestige of the Shao Emperor increased greatly during the Battle of the South. He was almost fourteen years old, which was enough to rule.

Yesterday, the Empress Dowager took the post of governing the country. Under the witness of all civil and military officials, she handed the jade seal that had been under her control to the Shao Emperor.

"Empress Dowager, Your Majesty is here-"

With a sound of rapid footsteps, the palace servants also followed.

Aru paused his hands, his cheeks turned red quietly, and he hurriedly put down his comb and dodged out.

Mu Fulan looked at her shy back of Tingting, with a smile in her eyes.

Everyone knows that the young emperor and the princess Aru are childhood sweethearts. They are young and have no guesses. Now the young emperor has taken power. When the filial piety period of the late emperor has expired, they will get married.

"Mother Queen!"

A young man in a dragon robe ran into the hall. The young man rushed to her, and with a thud, his knees fell to the ground and knelt down.

"My mother, is this true? Are you really going to leave?"

The boy looked at her with wide eyes, looking full of surprise and surprise.

Mu Fulan ordered everyone around him to withdraw.

"Yes. After a while, I will go back to Dongting." She said.

The boy grabbed Mu Fulan's sleeve tightly, "Okay, why did my mother suddenly leave?"

"Xi'er, my mother has long wanted to go back. She used to be unable to escape, but now you have taken power, so I feel relieved about you."

"It's time for me to go back, too."

The boy stared at her in a daze, and after a moment, his fingers holding Mu Fulan's sleeve slowly loosened.

"Mom..." he said softly, "Although my son hopes to see her sooner or later, if she doesn't want to be trapped here again and wants to go back to Dongting, her son will never stop him."

He said, his eyes slowly turning red.

Mu Fulan smiled and said, "Mom grew up there since she was a child. Now when she goes back, she is like a fish in water. You don't have to worry about it. Besides, Mom is not not not going back. When you are on your wedding day, Mom will come back in person."

"Mom!" The young man kowtowed to her and couldn't get up for a long time.

Mu Fulan helped him up, stared at the face in front of him that was increasingly similar to that person, pondered for a while, and said, "I'm going back and want to leave you alone."

"Mom, tell me!" the boy nodded. "Who is it?"

Mu Fulan said a name.

The boy was stunned.

The man was the deputy commander of the imperial guards in Shangjing. He was usually silent and had a thumb missing in his left hand. It is said that when he was following the late emperor in his early years, he was rude and stopped himself because he didn't know what he had committed. However, because of his ability and loyalty, in the past two years, in addition to performing his duties as commanding the imperial guards, he was also responsible for the training and teaching of the imperial guards on weekdays.

"I've asked him, and he volunteered to go back to Dongting with me."

Although she didn't know why her mother wanted to take Zhu Liuhu away, since she spoke, how could the young man refuse to refuse and immediately agreed: "My son knows, and today he will ask him to prepare and go back with his mother."

Mu Fulan smiled: "I'm fine. You have just taken charge of the government and have a lot of things to do. If you are busy, don't have to keep me here anymore."

The boy stood up and left. Mu Fulan watched his back and saw that he was about to step out of the hall. Suddenly, he stopped again and turned around suddenly.

"Mother! Son..."

He opened his head, but suddenly stopped.

"Xi'er, do you have something else?" Mu Fulan asked when she saw that he seemed to have something to say.

"Nothing happens..."

He hesitated for a while, and finally shook his head slowly.

"My son wants to say that my mother will be happy in the future, and my son will have nothing to ask for in this life."

He turned around, knelt down to Mu Fulan again, and choked.

...

This year, the young Empress Dowager Mu, who was only twenty-six years old in the Dacheng Dynasty, was to take care of her health, and to avoid being criticized for being suspected of repeating the interference of Empress Liu of the previous dynasty. After returning to the Shao Emperor, he quietly left Shangjing in late spring and returned to Dongting.

She went south and returned to Yuecheng. After settling down, the first thing she did was to go to the ancestral temple to worship the ancestors of Mu and her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law whom she had lost over the years.

After coming out of the ancestral temple, she took an ordinary carriage and walked through the bustling old street market that she knew very well, and went to the medicine house in Junshan. She came to the ferry and boarded the boat. After she called Zhu Liuhu, who had been with her as a guard, and said, "If you stay in Shangjing, you will have a bright future. If you come here with me, you will have to spend the rest of your life mediocre. Do you really not regret it?"

"Even if you regret it at this moment, it's okay. Tell me to go back and I'll let Your Majesty restore your post."

Zhu Liuhu knelt slowly towards her without thinking.

"When the late emperor was blessed, Zhu Liuhu was lucky enough to live in the world. What kind of virtue can a person who has no taste? He was lucky enough to make the Empress Dowager remember it until now. Zhu Liuhu was grateful. It was my blessing to be able to follow the Empress Dowager. I will never regret it!"

Mu Fulan smiled and nodded.

"She was originally a teaching maid in the palace. She was smart and smart. I sent her to you back then. She still doesn't know that your name is Zhu Liuhu, not Zhu Liu you said to her at the beginning. But I heard from my mother Mu that she never forgot you. She has been waiting for you for several years. I saw that you have never been married for many years, so I asked you casually before leaving Shangjing."

She turned her head and looked at the pier that was getting closer and closer at the center of the lake in front.

"She already knows you're here. Look, she's there."

Zhu Liuhu was shocked and could hardly believe his ears.

He raised his head suddenly.

At the end of his sight, the island in the middle of the lake was rippling blue waves, faintly. He saw a beautiful figure standing on the shore, a woman looking in the wind, her dress moving.

As the boat got closer, his eyes widened and he soon recognized it.

Who is the person on the shore who is not the woman who still makes him dream of?

Over the years, when it was late at night, he had dreamed countless times, dreaming of the peddler and his woman carrying a load and walking through the streets and alleys of Yuecheng. However, after waking up, he never dared to think that one day in his life, he would meet her again.

He looked at it steadily.

The boat gradually landed. The woman seemed to see him, and ran towards him, ran a few steps, but suddenly stopped, standing there, staring blankly.

This man who was usually silent as a mountain could not wait to stop the boat. His eyes emitted light, he bowed heavily to Mu Fulan, then jumped up, waded down, and ran towards the woman on the shore who was staring at him and was already in tears.

Mother Mu gradually got older and was in poor health. In recent years, she has not entered the palace with Mu Fulan and has been spending her years in the medicine house.

She took Amao, who had come here from the palace two years ago, stood aside, looking at the pair next to her who met again many years later, her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

"Mom Mu, how did he know my aunt Hua? What is his relationship with Aunt Hua?"

"Oh ah ah! What is he going to do!"

Amao looked at the man who was wading in the water and slammed the man who was wading in the water and tightly held the girl Hua's hand when he got ashore. He covered his eyes. Curiously, he couldn't help but split a gap between his fingers and looked at him secretly.

Mother Mu wiped her eyes, turned around and quickly met her, hugged the person in front of her who had been away for several years, and stroking her silky black hair, tremblingly calling her "Master Weng" with a trembling voice, as if she was still the sweet and innocent Changsha king girl who was in the boudoir of the past.

The sound of "Honeylor" seems to be a different life.

Mu Fulan closed her eyes and let Mu's mother hold her, leaning her face against her arms, and not moving.

After a long time, she opened her eyes, smiled and said softly, "Mom Mu, I'm back."
Chapter completed!