211 “Drunken Bones (Guyan 1v1 High H)” Birthday Extra – Crown

Xie Ciyan’s eyes fell on the brocade box in her hand, and his fingertips trembled almost indelibly.His Adam’s apple rolled, as if he was choked by something, and he couldn’t make a sound for a long time.

There was a rustle of snow outside the eaves, and the building was so quiet that even the intertwined breaths fell on my ears.

Yan Zhaozhao couldn’t see his expression clearly at this moment. The hand holding the brocade box was slightly sore, and she felt a little uneasy in her heart.She thought he didn’t like it, so she subconsciously wanted to retract her hand, but he suddenly grabbed her wrist.

“I…” His voice was hoarse and out of tune, and the warmth from his palm came through the pulse in her wrist, which was shockingly hot.”I just…I’m very grateful for what you have done for me, Zhaozhao.”

He then lowered his head to take the brocade box and slowly opened it.The dazzling golden crown lies quietly on the apricot yellow soft satin, and the twelve white jade beads sway slightly, creating a fine halo in the slanting light. The black gold is colorful, calm and solemn.

“This, this is…” As his fingertips rubbed the crown, Xie Ciyan felt a faint sense of familiarity in his heart.He seemed… to have seen this crown somewhere before, and even the beads hanging on it looked familiar.

Yan Zhaozhao pulled him to sit on the soft couch near the window. The afterglow of spring shone through the carved window lattice, casting gentle mottled light and shadow on them.She slowly untied his hair, letting the dark hair fall on his shoulders, and then combed it carefully with a wooden comb.”In order to find a suitable birthday gift, I came here every day to search through the old collection, and finally found something…a wish that my mother and concubine had not fulfilled back then.”

The movement of her fingers brushing through his black hair was as gentle as water, and Yan Zhaozhao’s voice couldn’t help but soften a little as the wooden comb rustled through the hair, “I found a drawing in an old book of my mother-in-law, which drew the style of this crown in detail, and also specially commented on it.She wanted to make it from the pearls she wore when she was crowned a concubine.” She paused, with a slight smile on her lips. “Later, I found a whole box of pearls in the mother-in-law’s brocade box.I think she had prepared this crown early and wanted to put it on you when you get the crown.”

Xie Ciyan’s expression suddenly calmed down, and a touch of loneliness appeared in his eyes.Yan Zhaozhao saw it in her eyes, hugged him from behind with distress, put her chin gently on his shoulder, and whispered softly, “I will make up for what the mother-in-law failed to do. I will also make up for you with a crowning gift that truly belongs to you.”

Xie Ciyan’s thoughts couldn’t help but drift back to the past.When he was still a child, he loved to pester his mother and concubine to tell stories.The mother-in-law’s voice was gentle and clear, and when she held him in her arms, he was as warm as the spring sunshine.He often reached out to grab the phoenix crown inlaid with pearls in her hair. Once he grabbed it, he would not let go.

The mother-in-law was never annoyed, she only smiled gently, “Yan’er likes the pearls on the mother-in-law’s head? In the future, I will use the pearls on it to make a crown for you, okay?”

At that young age, he didn’t know the meaning of being crowned. He just thought that his mother-in-law wanted to give him the beads, so he nodded his head happily.Now that I think about it, the reason why that crown looks familiar is because…it was a promise made by the mother-in-law many years ago.

The mother-in-law always remembered to make him a crown, but in the end she failed to do so.

Xie Ciyan gently stroked the jade beads hanging on the crown with his fingertips. His throat rolled several times, but he couldn’t even say a word. It was choked in his throat.He lowered his eyelashes and put away all the loneliness that was rising up.The beads were shiny and warm, just like the arms of his mother and concubine when she was a child.But at this moment, the crown that should have been completed by his mother-in-law was actually sewn for him by his beloved, whom he cared about most in his life, stitch by stitch.

He never believed in destiny, so he walked through the fire on countless corpses and blood.At that time, he knew that the most difficult thing to find in this world was sincerity and reunion.Fortunately, God was very kind to him. When he thought that his final destination would be to die on the battlefield, or to be exhausted by the greedy court, he found someone who loved him.

It was she who held him tightly and refused to let go, leading him from the endless abyss of fishy darkness all the way to the light.Let him, a person who was originally only qualified to live under the shadow of filth, be able to step into the afterglow and stand in it.

“Yan Zhaozhao…” He whispered her name, as if he wanted to carve these three words into his heart, as deep as his bones and blood.Even if he drinks all the Meng Po soup in the next life, he must remember his beloved and look for her again.

Xie Ciyan slowly turned around, and his dark eyes were instantly illuminated by the falling sunlight, glowing with little glimmers.His eyes fell on her face and touched her temples. He couldn’t help but reach out and gently brush away the broken hair on her temples, his voice was sincere and solemn.”This is the heaviest and most precious gift I have ever received in my life.”

Yan Zhaozhao lowered his eyes, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, but there was a smile on the corners of his lips.She leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on the man’s pursed lips, “Since you have a crown, how can you not have a crown ceremony? Today, I will boldly perform this ceremony for you.”

The dusk suddenly became solemn.A crabapple tree outside the building swayed gently in the wind, and the rustling red color drifted across the carved window. A few petals happened to be stuck on Xie Ciyan’s untied ink hair.Yan Zhaozhao held the crown firmly with her fingertips and hung it three inches away from his eyebrows. The shadows of hydrangea flowers flowed on the crown, and the twelve white jade beads moved automatically without wind, creating a fine halo in the slanting light.

“Today I put my crown on my head -” Her soft voice sounded with a hint of solemnity.There seemed to be more leaking sounds in the distance, as if he was returning to the crowning ceremony in the past that he could not successfully complete.”Not for the sake of the mountains, rivers, and country, nor for the ancestral etiquette.”

The moment the lush fingertips touched the top of his hair, the flowers and trees in the garden suddenly rustled, “Just to thank you for this day.”

She stood in front of him and looked into his eyes solemnly, “Thank you, Sir, from today on, you no longer need to dwell on the regrets of the past. You are no longer alone in this world. You have me and a pair of children by your side.” After that, she took a step forward, raised her hands and tightly hugged his waist, speaking softly but firmly: “I will always be with you.”

Xie Ciyan had a lump in her throat, and finally couldn’t hold it back any longer. He hugged her tighter, as if he wanted to rub his sweetheart into his bones and blood, never to be separated again.He lowered his eyes, hiding the redness in his eyes, and whispered hoarsely, “You are enough for me.”

In this life, it is a gift from God that he can have her.

In the past, he was the regent who missed a step. He could only watch her sitting next to him with a forced smile. Even though she was worshiped by hundreds of officials and concubines, there was never any real joy in her eyes.He thought that this life was nothing more than this, and missing it meant saying goodbye forever.But she never expected that one day, she would knock on Jinyuan’s door and not only walk into his bedroom, but also step into his heart.From then on, there was no looking back.

“Ouch! You, you stepped on me!”

“Shhh-keep it down…”

Suddenly, two familiar children’s voices came from outside the door. They came into my ears in small pieces. I don’t know how long they have been hidden outside.The two people who were embracing each other were startled at the same time, then looked at each other helplessly, and said to the two little bastards outside the door who were completely exposed: “It’s useless to keep quiet, how long do you plan to hide outside?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a little head with messy sideburns poked in.Xiao Liuying timidly glanced at the expressions of her father, the queen, and her queen. Seeing that they didn’t look angry, she quickly pulled her brother behind her and said, “It’s okay, my father, queen, and queen are not angry!”

After saying that, a group of pink dumplings trotted into the hall with a few steps, followed by a small figure staggering to catch up.Xie Ciyan naturally caught Xie Jinyu who threw himself into his arms, patted his chubby little butt with the palm of his hand, and said in a feinting tone: “I am getting bolder and bolder, and I actually did such a thing as eavesdropping on the corner.” Although his mouth was reproachful, his eyes were full of love.

The little Liuying who was holding Yan Zhaozhao’s neck narrowed her mouth and opened her mouth to complain, “Mom, my brother just stepped on me, it hurt so much——”

Yan Zhaozhao was so happy when she heard this that she couldn’t help but laugh out loud. He pinched her round face with his fingertips and said, “Don’t think that you can escape punishment by complaining like this. If you are so noisy, if you keep it up for another two years, you may even lift the roof of the Cultivation Heart Palace.”

The little plot was exposed with one word, and Xiao Liuying instantly withered.

Xiao Jinyu stretched out her still fleshy hand to look at her sister’s hand, and signaled something to her with her eyes. The latter suddenly reacted, raised a big smile, and turned to Xie Ciyan together.

“Father, may you have a happy birthday——”

Xiao Liuying leaned over and gave Xie Ciyan a kiss on his left cheek, leaving a little glistening saliva.She pursed her lips, then blinked her eyes and said, “My brother and I secretly followed our mother here, only to find out that today is your birthday, my father.” She folded her hands together and twisted her body shyly, “This will serve as my birthday gift first, and I will make it up to my father later.”

Xiao Jinyu nestled in her father’s arms and pondered for a long time, and then said in a deep voice, like a little adult, “I will copy the scriptures for my father when I get back and pray for you.”

Xie Ciyan suddenly seemed to be gently brushed by spring water, and a surge of softness and emotion almost overwhelmed him.He looked at them in front of him and said word by word: “Having children like you is the best birthday gift for me.”

The faces of the two little dumplings couldn’t help but look happy, and Xiao Liuying even more proudly kissed Xie Ciyan on the cheek several times, making him laugh sullenly.

Yan Zhaozhao was also overjoyed and poked Xie Jinyu’s soft face, “Does Jinyu also want to kiss his father?”

Xie Jinyu was stunned for a moment, then her face turned red and her ears burned.He opened his mouth, “I, I… am a man…” Before he could finish his words, he suddenly closed his eyes tightly, and with a look of death, he suddenly leaned forward and kissed Xie Ciyan on the face. Then he was so embarrassed that he buried his head in Xie Ciyan’s neck and refused to show his head again.

Xie Ciyan was also stunned for a moment. After he realized what he was doing, he couldn’t stop laughing and rubbed his son’s head hard.

He raised his eyes to look at Xin Shangqing, who was smiling sweetly, his eyes as gentle as water.Suddenly he reached out and gently covered Xiao Liuying’s eyes.

Immediately, he kissed Yan Zhaozhao’s red lips.

He thought that he was most fortunate in his life to have a minister like this and children like this.

Even if I hold the country in my hand, I am not as happy and satisfied as holding her in my hand.

The mountains and rivers are picturesque, but after all, they are not as beautiful as her smile.The congratulations of all the people could not be compared to her calling him softly——

“Thank you, Mr. Lang.”