There is a lake to the south of Dongxucheng in Wu State.

The lake is named Acacia Lake.

There is an elegant courtyard beside Xiangsi Lake, and its name is Xiangsi Ju.

Acacia Curie There once was a girl named Li Xiangsi.

Now this girl has become a mature lady, and her appearance has changed greatly from before. What remains unchanged is the layout of the Acacia Residence and her name.

Of course, there is also her skill of braised deer antler with pickled vegetables.

Sitting in the elegant pavilion on the second floor of Xiangsi Residence, blowing the cool lake breeze in early autumn, drinking a cup of tea made from lotus leaves and lotus seeds, Huamanting raised his head and looked at the person sitting opposite.

That's a woman.

Under the light of the red lantern, her face looked a little haggard, just like the withered lotus leaves in the Acacia Lake, but it was difficult to conceal the beauty of the lotus when it bloomed.

And charm!

She didn't apply any powder.

There was only a very ordinary willow hairpin inserted into her bun, and a small wooden pendant hung on the hairpin.

If you look carefully, the pendant is carved with a butterfly.

She is more graceful than when she was a girl, without the childishness of the past, and she is calmer and more wealthy.

She is not Li Xiangsi.

She is...Miao Qiuqin!

The former eldest lady of the Wu Kingdom's General's Palace is now the wife of Xia Liu of the Xia Kingdom's Palace, Xia Hua's mother, Miao Qiuqin!

Prince An sat on one side with him.

He is facing Xiangsi Lake.

His fat face did not raise his head, he was concentrating on making lotus leaf and lotus seed tea.

Hua Manting took a sip of tea and spoke:

"Madam, I never expected that Madam would come here. Now that Madam is here, she probably wants to ask me about some people or things."

"It's okay to ask, madam. I'll tell you everything I know!"

Miao Qiuqin smiled lightly, revealing two small pear dimples on her cheeks.

She stretched out her hand to smooth the hair on her forehead that was a little messy in the night wind, and asked seriously:

"Did my daughter Xia Hua really fall in love with Li Chenan?"

"yes!"

"Did Li Chenan really enter the stage of forgetfulness?"

"yes!"

"My daughter's demonic appearance is really Li Chenan?"

"yes."

Miao Qiuqin took a long breath and looked out the window at the dark Acacia Lake.

"So, she will never be able to marry in this life!"

Hua Manting pondered for a moment: "If Li Chenan can come out, of course she can marry Li Chenan."

Miao Qiuqin smiled bitterly:

"But that place is the Forgetting Platform!"

"I have also read Li Chenan's poems and articles. That kid... I still like him very much, but when I want to get out of the stage of forgetfulness, the poems and articles are of no use."

Hua Manting thought for a while and comforted: "Maybe he can really practice the Fuji Zhou Tian Jue to the Great Perfection."

Miao Qiuqin's eyebrows raised slightly, but she didn't hold out any hope for this.

That is the forbidden area of ​​Xijian Tower.

It is also a desperate place.

For thousands of years, so many extremely talented disciples have entered the Xijian Tower, but none of them have been able to come out. Of course, Miao Qiuqin, who has long since become rational, will not believe this.

Prince An Wu Huan, who was making tea, looked at Hua Manting.

There was some admiration, some disappointment, and some curiosity in his eyes.

"Hua Lao, I never expected that he was Li Chenan!"

"I really admire him!"

"Originally, I admired his poems and articles, but now...now I admire him as a person!"

"Real temper!"

"Because he is extremely emotional, his poems have an unforgettable soul!"

"It is good for me to become a brother with him, but I am not as good as him!"

"After I heard the news that he was Li Xiaofeng, I didn't sleep all night. What a pity, what a pity!"

Wu Huan shook his head and sighed: "I hope he can come out of the Wangqing Platform. When he reappears in the world, he will not only be a poetry immortal, he will also be... a martial saint!"

The world's best Fuji Zhou Tian Jue!

If Li Chenan can come out alive, it means that he has mastered this magical skill that is the best in the world, it means that he has become a great master and is invincible in the world!

This is Wu Huan's beautiful expectation. In his heart, he certainly thinks that it is impossible for Li Chenan to come out.

So, he put out the tea stove and put a altar of painted spring on the table.

A woman about the same age as Miao Qiuqin came over.

She holds a pot in her hand!

There was hot smoke rising from the pot, and an alluring aroma wafted from it.

She is Li Xiangsi.

She put the pot on the table, wiped her hands on her apron, and whispered to Miao Qiuqin:

"It's been a long time since I've made this braised velvet antler with pickled vegetables. There's no fresh pickled vegetables at this time... the taste may be a little worse, please give it a try, madam."

Miao Qiuqin raised her head and smiled slightly, "I am of course confident in your craftsmanship. When the snow falls this winter, we will go to Jianshan Mountain to dig snow vegetables together!"

"good!"

Li Xiangsi bowed and stepped back.

Miao Qiuqin looked at Hua Manting: "Hua Lao, please try it."

Hua Manting picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of pickled vegetables, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. After a moment, he put down the chopsticks:

"Good taste!"

Miao Qiuqin didn't take chopsticks.

She suddenly lowered her head and sighed: "Back then, he was the one who brought me here to eat this dish."

"When I ate this dish for the first time, I thought it was the best flavor in the world."

"But later...Lao Hua must have known that he left."

"After he left, I ate here again, but I couldn't taste the same again."

"After that, I would come here occasionally, but just to sit and talk to Sister Xiangsi and drink the lotus and lotus seed tea that she cooked by herself."

"I have never eaten this dish again, but I have drank a lot of lotus and lotus seed tea."

"The bitter taste, I never liked this taste originally, but since he left... I just like this taste."

She raised her head and smiled again: "It's all over. How has he been in Ningguo these years?"

Hua Manting picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

Of course the person Miao Qiuqin was talking about right now was Wen Boiyu.

"I can't say it's very good, and of course I can't say it's too bad either."

"Li Chenan trusted him, and he realized his ideals and ambitions in Ningguo."

"But in life, it's a mess."

"After he left the Kingdom of Wu, he went to Uihe in the autumn of the third year of Zhaohua. There he got married to the seventh princess of the chief of Uihe. He gave her a Han name, Ye Wan."

"Later, he took Ye Wan back to Ning Country and had a daughter named Wen Xiaowan."

"When Wen Xiaowan was two or three years old, Ye Wan left him and never came back."

"After that, he took his daughter to Guangling City and built a small house for cooking rain by the Huaping Lake. Later, the small house for cooking rain was burned down. Wen Xiaowan... she was adopted by Shang Di.

Later, I went to a brothel."

Miao Qiuqin was shocked, and Hua Manting added: "This is Wen Xiaowan's choice. She is quite resentful of Wen Boiyu, her father."
To be continued...