In late spring and early summer, it is the time when spring is about to pass and summer has not yet come. Seeing that the good time of the year is coming to an end, all the flowers are desperate to bloom to the most gorgeous, as if they want to use all their strength to fight for this prosperity . Sheng Yan was born at this time, on the sixth day of April. Every year on her birthday, there are flowers blooming like brocades, and the sky and the earth are shining—even though she and her mother depended on each other for life, and she learned to do housework and needlework since she was a child; In, but still can not change, her beautiful and prosperous birthday.

Year after year, all the way, until she was seventeen years old. The peach blossoms bloomed particularly well that spring, like a monster.Throughout the capital, flowers bloom like mist and snow. Even in the clearest weather, the sky is covered with a smoky pink color, almost evil. Others say that this year's peach blossoms are crazy. Sheng Yan wakes up early in the morning, and her mother is still asleep. Last night they rushed to an embroidery work, and they didn't fall asleep until early morning.After washing up, she swept the room, picked up the embroidery work on the table, took it to the door lightly, and sent it to the embroidery shop in the city.

The sky was gloomy, and the peach blossoms all over the city were like clouds, clusters of flowers, all blooming in vain under such a gloomy sky, withering without pity, countless pink peach petals fell on the bluestone slabs, trampled into mud by people. Something brushed by her ear lightly, she turned her head to see, it turned out to be a peach blossom, falling on her shoulder with the wind.She stretched out her hand to pick it up pitifully, and inserted it casually on her sideburns. After going to Xiuzhuang to hand in things and returning home, she walked slowly all the way home when she suddenly felt a slight chill on the tip of her nose.She looked up at the sky, and the heavy rain had already started to fall, making the leaves and grass beside her slap and slap.

She covered her head, thinking that there was a small flower temple nearby, so she hurried over there. The Temple of Flowers is very small, with only three rooms, and the old beams and columns have turned black.Sheng Yan ran to the eaves and patted her clothes.In just a short while, the rain has poured down.On the other side of the river, a large area of ​​peach blossoms is all over the mountain, and at first glance, it seems to be sprinkled with rays of light. When she looked up, she realized that there was already a man sheltering from the rain. The moment she saw that person, that person was also turning around, and the eyes of the two met in an instant.

Only the whole world rains, falling far and near. It's just that at that time, no one could have imagined that such an ordinary rain would change the lives of two people and the whole world. Until a long time later, they can still clearly recall everything today.The soft rainy wind in spring, Sheng Yan's clear and shy expression when she was seventeen years old, quietly bloomed in such a rainy day. And he is an extremely handsome man, with deep eyebrows and eyes, and a graceful and clear outline like a delicate sculpture, with a handsome and compelling aura. They stood on the left and on the right, with a distance of three feet, each silently watching the raindrops slanting in disorder.

There is a banana tree beside the eaves of the temple, the broad leaves are crackling by the rain.Sheng Yan stood there in embarrassment, silently reaching out to catch the water droplets that leaked from the leaves.The water hit her palm and scattered into thousands of fine beads. The man looked at her profile for a long time, and he didn't seem to care about looking at people like this.But she knew it clearly, but her heart was beating fast, and she didn't feel annoyed. It's just strange, he has a noble body and an extraordinary bearing, but why did he appear alone in this suburb at such a time?

I only heard him say suddenly: "This heavy rain came so suddenly, why did the girl forget to bring an umbrella?" She gave a soft "hmm" and said slowly: "There are unexpected winds and rains in the sky, which can't be expected at the moment." "I heard that divination here is effective, so I wanted to ask about it, but the Taoist has already wandered around, so it was a waste of time." He laughed. Sheng Yan turned to look at him, and said casually: "Of course, the temple is not a Taoist's efficacious, but an enshrined immortal's efficacious, and the Taoist is just unwrapping the lottery."

Seeing that the rain was falling endlessly, he said, "So, there is a lottery left here, so I can try it myself?" She was only a seventeen-year-old girl, so she naturally had a playful mind, so she took the lottery holder together with him, stood in front of the flower god, shook it for a while, and a lottery jumped out, the one hundred and tenth lottery. She flipped through the signature next to her and asked, "What are you asking?" He hesitated for a moment, and said: "Everything in my life has been logical, and I don't know what to ask... why don't I just ask about marriage."

She blushed slightly, thinking to herself, so he doesn't have a wife yet. The one hundred and eleventh sign, the signature book said, "It only takes a few evenings to ruin a lifetime of haggardness." When she read the signed letter, she was secretly startled, thinking, this man said that he had been stable all his life, but his marriage was so pitiful. He smiled and asked, "What about the signature?" She gently covered the signed text and said: "I wish to be a pair of swans, soaring high. Sign up. Ask about the marriage. The main couple have white heads, auspicious."

He smiled casually, thinking that this was a matter of course, and disapproved. Sheng Yan withdrew by herself to pray devoutly, and when she drew the lottery, it was the sixteenth.Hold it up and ask him. He turned to the sixteen lottery, Sheng Yan was afraid that he would be deceiving others like herself, so she leaned closer to him to have a look.Pointing to the signature, he said: "This visa is 'In the shadows of apricot blossoms, play the flute until dawn'. If you are looking for marriage, the main husband and wife are loving, auspicious." She calmed down a little, raised her head and smiled at him, only to realize that she was so close to him, and hurriedly took a step back.But if you think about it carefully according to the signature, although this "Linjiang Immortal" is said to be auspicious, the last line of the word seems to be "more than twenty years have been like a dream, although this body is shocking".I felt a little terrified in my heart.

But whether it is good or bad, life is like this. A heavy rain makes two strangers meet in a small temple. They calculate the future fate for each other, but they don't know how the future will come. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the mountains in the distance began to be unclear. Suddenly there was the sound of horses neighing outside, several people got off their horses at the gate of the temple, hurried in to shelter from the rain, and met them face to face under the eaves. The leading man was tall and stalwart. When he saw them, he frowned slightly, then stopped, and sneered at the man next to Sheng Yan, "It's really a pleasure to meet... I never thought that the person who will turn the world upside down will be caught by this one." A rain stuck here alone—oh, not alone, with a girl." And the man stood beside Sheng Yan with his normal expression, he didn't even clarify the relationship between the two, he just said: "Yunhuan, you and your father are leaving the capital tomorrow, you should have stayed at home, why bother?" To embarrass yourself like this." Xiang Yunhuan looked down at her slightly wet clothes, slightly annoyed: "I owe everything to you." "Don't be afraid, it's everyone's choice." He said flatly, turned to look at Shengyan, and said, "Girl, it seems that you can't take shelter here, I think you'd better go back in the rain as soon as possible. " Sheng Yan knew that these people must be something she couldn't afford to offend, so she nodded in fear, turned around and walked towards the door, but unexpectedly Xiang Yunhuan stopped her with her hand, raised her head and smiled at the person: "Anyway, it's raining, so I'm leaving now No, how about letting this girl play a game with us?" Sheng Yan's face was pale, knowing that it would be difficult for him to escape, he had to turn his head to the man hastily, and looked at him beggingly. Although they were strangers, in the current situation, it seemed that he was the only person she could rely on for help. He frowned slightly, and said: "This is a matter of the imperial court, why bother to involve a little girl who has nothing to do with it." Then, he walked to the door and signaled Sheng Yan to leave. Sheng Yan quickly covered her beating heart, and rushed out into the heavy rain outside. Xiang Yunhuan sneered as she watched her run dozens of steps, and suddenly shouted: "Hey, stop if you want to survive!" Standing in the rain, Sheng Yan glanced back hastily, and immediately stood there in fright, not daring to move. The man named Xiang Yunhuan drew his bow full and pointed at her with an arrow, while turning his head to smile at the man: "I have never been lucky enough to see the skill of the prince. Why don't you be more elegant today... how about you and I take the peach blossom on her temple as your bet?" The sky was dark, Sheng Yan was standing in the heavy rain, thirty steps away from them, the heavy rain was pouring, and it was rushing in her ears, she couldn't hear what they were saying at all, but she already knew it just by looking at Xiang Yunhuan's actions danger. Because of fear, her body trembled slightly, her rain-drenched hair was as black as ink, and the peach blossom in her hair was particularly vivid. The man glanced at her and said indifferently, "What's the fun? Even if you win, you can't escape the fate of going to Champa." "I've just admired the lord's skill for a long time, and I'm leaving the capital now, just want to see it." He laughed. Without saying a word, he raised his hand to take the bow and arrow handed to him by Xiang Yunhuan's subordinates, put the arrow on the string, aimed at her, and slowly drew the bow. These two people, looking at the peach blossoms on her hair, didn't even blink after a day of spring rain. In this kind of rain, the light is dim, and her vision is blurred. If she makes a mistake, she will be killed by an arrow. She stood there in fright, not daring to move, and was drenched in the rain.Only the pale lips trembled slightly, like decaying peach blossoms. There was only a slight "swoosh", and they let go of their hands almost at the same time. Sheng Yan didn't dare to watch the arrow coming, so she could only close her eyes tightly. However, there was no expected blow, and the arrow passed by her ear and landed behind her. She looked back eagerly, and it turned out that an arrow was shot in the air by another arrow, which deviated from her body, and all shot to nothing. Xiang Yunhuan turned to look at the man angrily, Sheng Yan thought in her heart, the man's arrow must have been the first to catch up with Xiang Yunhuan's arrow and saved her life. Before she felt grateful to that man, she saw him raise his hand again and shoot an arrow at her.There was only a very slight sound of "rubbing", and Shengyan's black and wet hair suddenly fell down, like a dark cloud, in the heavy rain, suddenly enveloped her body, messy and embarrassed. The arrow passed through her hair, and with the peach blossom, it was nailed to the cypress tree behind. Sheng Yan stood there with her hair in a daze, only to feel that a strand of hair that had been shot off slowly slid down her cheek, fell silently to the ground, and fell into the mud in the rain. He looked at her standing in the rain with messy long hair, soaked and embarrassed, but suddenly the corners of her mouth curled up and smiled at her. When he laughed for a while, it made people feel gentle and warm, with a little childish meaning. He raised his hand and handed the bow and arrow back to Xiang Yunhuan's subordinates. His slender and clean fingers were as white as jade, without any uncleanness. Only then did Sheng Yan come back to her senses, she stretched out her hand to caress her temples, her face turned pale. These people don't seem to be in the same world as her.She is as humble as grass, even if she is accidentally killed by them, no one will take her life or death seriously. Seeing the man's cold smile, a cold anger suddenly rose in her heart, she turned around and ran away quickly. Escaping from the two men who inexplicably made a bet on her, Sheng Yan walked alone on the muddy road in the peach blossom forest on the outskirts of the city under heavy rain, carrying her heavy wet skirt.Her loose hair was dripping water drop by drop, and she was in a terrible state of distress. Home is still far away, the heavy rain around is boundless, the peach blossoms that withered in the rain, sticking to her hair skirt, she became depressed, wishing to sit on the side of the road and wait for the heavy rain to stop before going back. Suddenly a carriage came up from behind, and it was coming very fast in the pouring rain. She quickly dodged aside to avoid being splashed with mud.Unexpectedly, the beautifully decorated carriage stopped beside her, the curtain was raised, and someone called her softly: "Hey, girl..." Sheng Yan raised her skirt full of mud and looked up at him. It was the man I just met in the Huashen Temple. He looked at her in the car, noble and leisurely, calm and calm, and said slowly: "Girl, my servant is here to pick me up. If you don't mind, I can Take you for a ride." Sheng Yan shook her head vigorously, and the water drops on her hair followed her movements, and kept falling down: "No need." "It's really inappropriate for you, a young girl, to be alone in such a place." He looked at the emptiness around, frowned slightly, and said, "Go ahead, if you meet someone like Xiang Yunhuan again, think about it yourself What are the consequences." Sheng Yan turned her head to take a look with lingering fear, climbed into the carriage hesitantly, and sat down carefully on the outermost side. He looked at her funny and said, "Even if you don't come up, I want to bully you, can you escape?" Hearing this, she immediately pressed her back against the car wall and looked at him vigilantly. But he turned his head to one side, looked at the gurgling spring rain outside the car curtain, and the boundless bright peach blossoms, and never looked at her again. Sheng Yan looked down at the thick soft blanket laid on the car, which was now covered with mud from her stepping on it, she quickly shrank her feet, and glanced at him nervously, but he didn't look at her, but only said: "No in the way." What, obviously she was secretly looking at her from the corner of her eye, and pretended to be looking at the scenery. Sheng Yan was a little annoyed and a little nervous, so she had to find something to talk about and ask him: "That person just now...is inexplicable, why?" He said casually: "Don't pay attention to him, he lost power in the court, and was dispatched to suppress Champa together with his father. Now there is no one to vent his anger. Seeing you and me together, I want to bully you to vent." Sheng Yan said in a low voice: "I heard from neighbors that it is General Xiang Yuanfei who will go to Champa tomorrow." "Xiang Yunhuan is Xiang Yuanfei's son." He said. From this point of view, these people are all important people in the court, and they will never be able to get together with her.Sheng Yan thought about it, but didn't speak, just rested her chin and turned her head to look outside. The two were silently in the car, each looking at the scenery outside, the car bumped slightly, and walked straight along the river. Seeing her home getting closer, Sheng Yan gradually felt relieved, but he suddenly asked: "Since the girl can read and write, she should come from a good family background, why do you live in such a wilderness?" She whispered: "My father was also an official in the imperial court in the early years. Later, he was demoted and sent out after being convicted of a crime. He passed away while in office. So when my mother brought me back, she was excluded by the tribe, and only our mother and daughter were settled. it's here." "I remember that this area should belong to the Sheng family... Could it be that your father is Sheng Weiyan?" He asked. Sheng Yan nodded slightly, and looked at him in surprise: "Do you know my father?" "I know, and if you are Sheng Weiyan's daughter, then you and the current emperor were born on the same day, and your name seems to be given by the emperor?" He smiled slightly, looking at her without blinking , "I didn't expect your life to be like this now." Sheng Yan's heart skipped a beat, and when she looked up to see his burning eyes, she suddenly felt dazed. Yes, her life shouldn't be like this. On the day she was born, the father who was guarding outside the mother's door had just heard her cry, and before he had time to take a look, people from the palace rushed over. "Master Sheng, the emperor is happy to have a dragon son, and I order you to enter the palace to face the saint." Perhaps it is the so-called fate, she was born on the same day as the later Emperor Shang Xun.Her father, Sheng Weiyan, worked in Tianzhang Pavilion at that time, and was famous for his poems and prose, so he must have been sent to the palace to recite poems to celebrate.He only had time to hear the servant say "Miss", and left immediately. Emperor Chongde loved the concubine who had just given birth to the emperor's son very much, so even though it was his second child, he couldn't help but be as happy as a new father, and Sheng Weiyan sat and wrote poems helplessly. Showing a bit of anxiety, Emperor Chongde asked: "Is there something else in Aiqing's mind?" Sheng Weiyan hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty: "Damn me, I miss my wife, she also gave birth today, and she just gave birth to a daughter before I left, so I don't feel worried..." Emperor Chongde had also waited for the child outside the hall just now, and he immediately urged after hearing the words: "Why didn't you say it earlier? It's my fault, you hurry home to see your daughter, I will send someone to send He Yi over later. " "I don't dare." Sheng Weiyan was about to say goodbye and go back, when Emperor Chongde asked again: "Do you have a nickname?" "Not yet," he said. Emperor Chongde couldn't help laughing at his look of returning home, and said: "This pair of children are destined to be born on the same day. I will give her a name." "Thank you, Your Majesty." He hastened to thank you. Emperor Chongde stretched out his hand and wrote a word Yan on the paper for him. Or in the eyes of the emperor, a woman does not need to have other things, as long as she has a beautiful face. Despite the emperor's grace, when Shengyan was one year old, her father was exiled to a remote place as a secretary because of the involvement of the court party. Sicang is just an official in charge of the warehouse, with a meager salary, and there is no other way to get money.Sheng Weiyan is incompetent and cowardly, he doesn't understand the facts in the accounting room at all, when the people above want to transfer the money and food, he often hand it over in a daze, he doesn't understand the handover procedures at all. In the end, you can only pay for it yourself, and the amount of money is often astonishing. Not long after, his family was completely destitute because of compensation for money and food.Sheng Yan remembers that she hardly ever wore skirts before she was ten years old, and she was ridiculed by the children next door because of this.When she came home crying, her mother just stroked her shoulders, and the mother and daughter cried bitterly behind her father's back. In the winter when she was eleven years old, Emperor Chongde in the capital died of illness. The eldest son of the emperor was still a hostage in Mengdi and did not rush back. The child who was born on the same day, the same month as Sheng Yan, became the throne with the support of the officials. For the emperor. It is said that when the young Emperor Shang Xun was supported by his uncle to ascend the throne, because of his father's death, he cried so hard that he almost lost his breath.This is a cowardly child who grew up in the deep palace and was raised in the hands of a woman. He knew nothing about political affairs, so under the recommendation of the ministers, his uncle became the regent. Before Sheng Weiyan was demoted, he was not long in court, so even if the emperor changed, no one remembered him, let alone ordered him to return to Beijing.During the long wait, he lost his will and fell seriously ill. Seeing the poverty of his family, the doctor who was invited was not very careful in seeing the doctor, and the medicine was so-so.When Sheng Weiyan passed away, it was snowing heavily outside the window, but his face had never been so peaceful.He knew that he no longer had to worry about tomorrow and the future. Only their mother and daughter were left sitting in front of his icy body in the snow-falling world.The world is so big, and everyone is celebrating the new year happily. The death of their close relatives is as silent as snowflakes falling. Mother held her hand and said, "Ayan, let's live on." Sheng Yan would remember till death that the wind outside was whistling like the whole world was mourning. The mother tried her best to support her husband's coffin, and took her young daughter with her, trekking all the way back to the capital.After her husband was buried, the family property was divided among the clansmen, leaving them with only a vacant hut in the suburbs, where they barely lived. In this dark room, my mother embroidered all day and all night to support the family, and her eyes soon went bad.And Sheng Yan also learned all the housework early on, and learned to cook in front of the stove with a stool. At that time, Sheng Yan already knew her goal in doing everything. No matter how difficult life is, she and her mother must live on. But these things obviously cannot be said for outsiders, so she didn't say anything to this stranger, but kept silent. Seeing her drooping face and not speaking, he turned his head to look at the peach blossoms and spring rain outside, changed the topic, and said, "There is a fork in the road ahead, you have to tell Ah Fu how to get there." Sheng Yan raised her head to look at him in a daze, and said, "Just stop at the intersection, anyway, the rain is also gradually subsiding." Hearing what she said, he didn't insist. He took the umbrella next to her and said, "This is for you." The umbrella was delicately depicted with Fengge, Dragon Tower, misty flowers and trees, she hesitated for a moment before taking it, thanked him in a low voice, got out of the car and left alone. In the peach blossom forest, she held an umbrella and headed south. The heavy rain passed by suddenly, the grass beside the road was low, and the peach blossoms were scattered.She walked a few steps, and suddenly a slight pity flashed in her heart. God arranged for such a rain to let her meet him, but she was insignificant, but he was definitely not his destination. When we meet at this moment, we will probably end up with the beauty of the mountains and rivers. She was walking ahead, holding the umbrella carefully, while the man was watching her from the carriage behind, but did not follow. She walked all the way to the corner and returned to the door of her house. She couldn't see him when she turned around, so she quickly hid the umbrella in her hand to the woodshed, then pushed the door in, patted her wet hair and clothes, and said: " Mother, I didn't bring an umbrella, but I was drenched enough." Her mother was embroidering with her head down, and when she looked up and saw her like this, she quickly got up and made ginger tea for her, and asked, "Why is your hair all loose?" "Too fast on the road," she whispered. "Silly girl, it's raining all over the sky, no matter how fast you run, can you run out of the sky?" Mother shook her head. Sheng Yan boiled hot water to take a bath, sat under the window and drank a few sips of ginger tea, looked up through the old window lattice to see the heavy rain outside. The peach blossoms in the yellow mud courtyard wall have been scattered in the rain. Unknowingly, holding ginger tea, she was in a daze for a long time. In the evening, the rain gradually stopped.She was embroidering with her mother under the lamp, and her mother shook the clothes she was embroidering and asked her, "Whose family does this wedding dress of white butterflies and peonies belong to?" "Miss Liu's family is getting married." She said, "She can't work as a female worker, so she entrusts the embroidery shop to others." Mother looked at her under the dim light for a long time, and said with a trembling voice: "I make wedding dresses for others every year, Ayan, I wonder when you will be able to make your own?" Sheng Yan felt sad for a while, and after a long silence, she said: "I don't want to marry, I want to be by mother's side forever." "Stop talking nonsense, you are already seventeen years old, and you haven't mentioned your husband's family yet..." It's not that there are no people who come to propose marriage, but my mother refuses one after another.Good families only want to buy her as a concubine, and the families who want her to be their wives are all in the same situation as her family. Seeing her mother crying under the lamp, Sheng Yan said, "Ayan, you can't live like this for the rest of your life." Sheng Yan was speechless for a moment. The humble flowers and plants that bloom in dark corners only last year after year, through spring, summer, autumn and winter.