On the seventh day of the seventh month, on the day of Qiaoxi Festival, it is the day of Shen and Jin Yao's wedding.

Lest the world know the true identity of Princess Jin Yao, Shen Zhu didn't want to have a big wedding. But under the instigation of Shu Mei and Bai An, this wedding has become one of the most lively weddings in Yongding City.

The emperor and queen came in person, and the officials congratulated each other, and it was very lively. The traffic and horses blocked Persimmon Lane.

"I knew there were so many guests, I should have let them get married at the Autumn Pavilion." Before the wedding ceremony began, Ling Li and Shu Mei stood on the Guanlan Pavilion in the backyard of the Shen family, looking at the crowded Shen Mansion, and regretted a little.

"Holding a wedding here, the relatives of the Shen family under the spring can also feel some joy." Shu frowned and looked at the crescent moon in the sky.

"Amei, I'm sorry." Ling Li held Shu Mei's hand resting on the railing.

Shu Mei looked at Ling Li in surprise when he heard this, "Why do you suddenly want to say sorry?" ”

"On that day, I misunderstood you and Shen in the palace, and I hurt you recklessly." For the matter in Du Ruo's courtyard, Ling Li has always felt guilty in his heart, but he has never apologized positively. Shen got married, and the suspicions he had had about him and her in his heart were completely relieved. He was ashamed and said: "All kinds of suspicions and jealousies in the past are because I love you and am not confident enough, so I will suffer from gains and losses, and I will be mad......"

"And now?"

"I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in Ah Mei's heart." Ling Li said with a smile.

"What about Brother Ling Li's heart?" Shu Mei asked suddenly.

"Naturally, there is only Ah Mei alone."

"Where's Sister Shen Chan?"

Ling Li was stunned for a moment, categorically not expecting her to mention Shen Chan. He hadn't thought of her for a long time since Shu Mei lived in his heart. The woman who had briefly appeared in his life was as far away as a touch of moonlight in his previous life.

Seeing that he didn't answer, she suddenly regretted that she shouldn't have asked this question. She pulled her hand out of his hand and awkwardly straightened the wide sleeves of her gown, "I'm afraid the hour is coming, right?" ”

He remembered Shen Zhu's words about Shen Qingyuan, and immediately woke up, blaming him for ignoring it, because she had been forced to disguise herself into Shen Chan's appearance, and she had always minded this matter in her heart. He held her hand again, made her face to face with him, and said solemnly: "Ah Mei, I used to love Shen Chan, but that love was too short-lived, and then it was used by too many people with ulterior motives, and it has long been exhausted." Now, you're the only one in my heart. ”

"I know."

"Do you know and ask?" Ling Li had a feeling of being fooled.

"Let's make sure." Shu frowned and smiled.

Ling Li couldn't help but laugh too, he wrapped her in his arms, put his chin on the top of her head, and said softly: "Ah Mei, we still have a long way to go in the future, we have to confirm each other like this often, so that we can resist all kinds of temptations and challenges in this world together." ”

"Did the courtiers advise the concubine again?" Shu Mei raised his head and asked.

Ling Li shook his head.

"What a temptation is that. Confused and challenging? ”

"For example, you just stared at the white-robed man on the other side of the lotus pond for a while."

Shu Mei couldn't help but smile, "Didn't you just say that suspicion and jealousy are not confident enough in love?" ”

Ling Li argued: "It's not suspicion and jealousy, it's just an ordinary little vinegar smell......

"A little bit is enough, life needs to be delicious. Ah, that brother in a blue brocade robe with a lantern is so good-looking! ”

"It's too sour, I can't stand it, I want something sweet!" Ling Li pulled her face and kissed her.

"Your Majesty, Niangniang, the auspicious time for the wedding has arrived——!"

Before Ling Li could taste the sweetness, Man Fu was already shouting downstairs.

The two looked at each other helplessly and smiled.

*********

Just after the beginning of summer, Zhou Qingyun, the secretary of Honglu Temple, took a list of gifts to ask Ling Li, saying that it was a gift list prepared for the queen mother to visit the mother and son of the frost in Beilin, and sent it to the emperor to see if it was suitable.

Only then did Ling Li remember that he had promised to go to Beishan after entering the summer. When she made this request, his relationship with her was in the cold winter season, and he indulged and flattered her in every way, only begging her not to make peace and leave. Now, the relationship between the two has thawed, and it is the deep love and sweetness that is like glue, and the thought of her leaving for months makes him unbearable.

As the emperor, he is full of his word, and if he changes his mind and does not let her go, it will be a reversal. He really wanted to go with her, but the cold spring at the beginning of the year led to the late ripening of summer rice, and now he didn't know the specific harvest in various places, so he didn't dare to leave the country rashly.

During dinner, Ling Li accompanied Shu Mei to dine together, and when he was hesitating about this matter, Man Fu reported that Lord Bai An asked to see him outside the palace. Ling Li nodded and allowed him to come in and speak.

"I'm very sorry to disturb Your Majesty and Niangniang's meal." As soon as Bai An entered, he bowed down and apologized.

Shu Meizheng took a spoon of Ling Lisheng soup, and when he saw Bai An, he smiled and said: "If you come a little earlier, you can eat together, but now it is all leftovers, and it is not good to keep you." ”

Bai An hurriedly said: "The minister has no merit and no reward, how dare he dine with His Majesty." ”

"What did you choose to come to see at dinner?" Ling Li frowned and asked.

"Your Majesty. In this matter, the minister wanted to ask for instructions in front of His Majesty and Niangniang, so he chose it at this time. ”

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Shu Mei handed the soup bowl to Ling Li, put down the spoon, and sat down to listen.

Bai An said: "The minister received a letter from the frost concubine a while ago, saying that the little prince has not been in good health recently, and she does not trust Bai Li's medical officer, so she invited the minister to take care of it. ”

Ling Li's brows furrowed more and more, he must have heard that Shu Mei was going to Bei Lin to visit the mother and son of Frost Fall, so he came to ask him to go with Shu Mei. He was about to refuse, so he heard Bai An say: "The minister wants to resign from the post of medical officer in the inner court......"

"Bai An, it's naturally a good thing that you took the initiative to ask to go to Bei Lin to take care of the little prince, but why did you resign?" Shu Mei asked puzzled.

"I want to settle in Beilin in the future."

"You want to settle in Beishan?" Ling Li's eyes lit up.

"The minister has lived in Beilin, and he likes the scenery of Beilin very much, and now he is invited by the frost concubine, and he happens to have a settlement." Bai An bowed his head.

"Okay, if you have a favorite place, then I'll be sure." Ling Li replied briskly in his surprised gaze.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Niangniang Longen." Bai An knelt down and bowed to the two.

"Bai An, you ......" Shu Mei got up and helped him up, and asked eagerly, "Have you really thought about it?" ”

"I've figured it out." Bai An looked at Shu Mei and said with a firm gaze.

"Niangniang originally planned to go to Beilin in the summer to visit the mother and son of Frostfall, but now that the prince is young, it is the time when he is unstoppable, so I ordered you to be an envoy and go to Beishan to visit on behalf of Niangniang. Your letter of resignation will be approved by me until you have completed your mission as an envoy. Do you think so? Ling Li asked.

"Obey." After Bai An received the order, he turned around and left the Ciyuan Palace.

Shu Mei hurriedly chased a few steps, but stopped at the door, she looked at Bai An's back in a daze, and was a little stunned for a while.

"Lord Bai'an, why did you resign?" Huo Cheng's question came from outside the hall.

"It's about every day to watch Your Majesty and Niangniang show affection, and I'm tired of watching it." Bai An laughed.

"Your Majesty and Niangniang are so affectionate, it is our blessing to be slaves."

"Who's to say it isn't. Now that Niangniang has His Majesty to take care of her, she doesn't need me anymore, and it's time for me to find my own life. ”

Listening to Bai An's voice gradually moving away, the doubts in Shu Mei's heart gradually unraveled. As soon as she turned around, she found Ling Li standing beside her with a smile on her lips.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Bai An has grown up and is sensible. I will reward him well. ”

"What are you going to reward him?"

"I want to buy him a house in Bei Lone, help him open a medical center, and pick a few right-hand men to make his life safe for the rest of his life."

Shu Mei finally smiled reassuringly.

*********

After several months of visiting, in the autumn of that year, Dou Ji brought back a Xili couple from Rouge Island.

The couple was brought before Ling Li and Shu Mei and bowed according to South Vietnamese etiquette. When the man raised his head, Shu Mei only felt that his face was kind, and after thinking about it for a while, he immediately said in surprise: "You are the eldest brother Helian in the Rouge Continent Ji Ye Worm Valley?" ”

"Niang Niang knows the villain?" The man froze for a moment.

"Do you remember that insect worker named Mu Zhi?"

"Mu Zhi?" The man and his wife glanced at each other, and immediately nodded: "Remember, Miss Mu is really a good insect keeper, I just came to Ji Ye's valley as a worm worker, people are stupid, and I can't get on the road, thanks to Miss Mu's careful guidance." It's just that later she went back to South Vietnam for Ji Ye to find a market, and she never went back...... Niangniang also knows her? ”

Shu Mei suddenly smiled, "That Mu girl who raises insects is this palace." ”

"Niangniang is Miss Mu?!" The man was surprised, the beautiful Nanyue Queen in front of him was far from the insect worker Mu Zhi he met back then.

Shu Mei nodded with a smile, and told the truth what he had to do at that time.

Hearing that this man had raised cochineal worms in the same place with Shu Mei before, Ling Li smiled and asked, "Did Ah Mei specially invite the old man to come to South Vietnam as a guest this time?" ”

Shu Mei shook his head, got up and personally helped Helian and his wife up, and ordered the palace people to move the chairs and hand over the tea. Only then did he say to Ling Li: "Brother Ling Li didn't know, I promised to find my biological parents for Xiao Silkworm, so I asked General Dou to take people to the Xili area to visit, and it happened that Brother Helian said that his daughter who was taken away by the Zhenxi Army before was called Xiao Silkworm ......"

"You are the couple who are at the foot of the Huifeng Ridge and are exploring the grain and grass camp for the Dragon and Tiger Army?" Ling Li was surprised. He had long forgotten what the couple looked like.

Helian and his wife were even more surprised, they never expected that the general who let them go that day was actually the current emperor of South Vietnam! After the two argued carefully, they immediately got up from the chair and knelt down to thank him for his grace of not killing back then.

"I promised you that if the war is over, you can come to General Lucheng's mansion to find your daughter. Why haven't you come? ”

"The South Vietnamese have always hated the Xili people, I, we don't dare to go to Lucheng...... This time, I want to thank Niangniang for her mercy and let General Dou come to look for us, so we dare to come. As he spoke, the Helian couple thanked Shu Mei with a salute.

After talking about the cause and effect, and after confirming the identity, Shu Mei asked people to bring the little silkworm. As soon as the family of three met, they immediately hugged each other and cried with joy.

"Xiao Silkworm is now the lord of Jiaqi in my South Vietnam, and you and your wife don't have to go back to Rouge Island to be insect workers, I will give you a mansion, and you will settle down in Yongding." Seeing the reunion of this family of three, Ling Li was also very happy.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Niangniang......" Helian and his wife were pleasantly surprised, and knelt down to thank him.

Shu Mei helped the two of them up again, "Brother Helian, if you want to say thank you, the emperor and I should also thank you." The shortcut from Rouge Island to Huifeng Ridge was still told to me by you, and if it weren't for your guidance, there would be no ...... for me and Your Majesty today."

Only then did Ling Li learn that the shortcut road leading from Rouge Island to Huifeng Ridge was actually discovered by Helian and his wife! If he hadn't let the couple go at the foot of Huifeng Ridge that day, how could there have been a surprise attack later?!

After the banquet to celebrate the silkworm's finding home, Ling Li took Shumei's hand and took a walk under the moonlight in the West Garden.

Shu Mei sighed with emotion: "I really didn't expect that Brother Ling Li and I would have met Brother Helian one after another. Brother Ling Li let them have a way to live, and they also gave Brother Ling Li and me a way to live, what a good fate bears good results! ”

"This is the heavens that favor and fulfill us." Ling Li squeezed her hand tightly.

Shu Mei also nodded in agreement.

Everything in the world has its own cause and effect in the dark.

At this moment, the full moon is hanging high in the sky, and the two people walking hand in hand under the moon only feel that no matter what the future holds, now is the best arrangement.

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【Afterword】

This book is a hole I dug in 2016. Later, due to the change of position, he was extremely busy, and he never had the time and energy to fill the pit well. As a codeword lover in the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder, if there is a hole that is not filled, I can't give up in my heart. So over the past five years, weekends and holidays, fragmented periods of time, have finally contributed to the book you see today.

As for whether it's good or not, only what you say. For me, it's a rare peace of mind after fulfilling my promise.

"Once the Flowers Are Gone", the title of the book, at first glance, is a tragic title of sadomasochistic love. Probably because the writing span is too long, as he grows older, the author becomes soft-hearted, coupled with the repeated persuasion of friends such as Kangkang, Ruchu, Tofu, etc., in the end, Comrade Ling Li successfully escaped and enjoyed the happy ending of the country in hand and the beauty in his arms.

Before the official post, I also thought about changing the title of the book and changing it to a beautiful title, but I really like the book cover that I found someone to make five years ago, so the title of the book and the text are not so matched, forgive me.

There are countless outlines in mind about the next book. It's just that the work is too busy now, and overtime has become the norm, and there is no more time for coding words. I've also thought about washing my hands in the golden basin, but the hobby of code words, once contaminated, it's really hard to quit, not to mention that this is also the best spiritual enchantment I cut with reality. So, I still write, and I still look forward to meeting you in the story.

Finally, thank you readers and friends who read this page, thank you for not giving up, and wish you good luck and happiness!