The first night I married into the Regent Palace
for the princess, Wang Yeh asked me what talent I had. Having been born on the street and living in a brothel, I thought about it and asked him, “Is it all right to break a big stone in the chest?”. Listen to the Sound of Strings (Double Double, Finished, HE ~) 1 The first time I saw Chu Yan, I didn’t like him very much.
Because the first thing he said to me was, “Like, like.” The second sentence was not addressed to me, but to the smiling madam beside me: “How much does it cost to buy her?” “Thirty thousand taels.” The madam reported a sky-high price of cheating a fool, but I didn’t expect that a fool really believed it.
Chu Yan took out a thick stack of silver tickets from his bosom and slapped them on the table. “I’ll take it.” She bought me for thirty taels and sold me for thirty thousand taels. I also want to do
such a good business.
Sitting on the glittering carriage, I knew that Chu Yan was the richest man in the State of Chen and controlled the economic lifeline of the country.
This thirty thousand taels is really a small sum of money for him. Before I
was sold into the brothel, I followed my parents through the streets, swallowing swords and breathing fire. If I could endure the pain, I could break a big stone in my chest. Originally earned a lot of money, but unfortunately my brother went to the casino all day, so it was always not enough.
Mother and father together, may be to marry a wife will be able to take heart, but where does the betrothal gift come from? Naturally, you have to sell me. So
I was sold into the most famous brothel in the capital. A wild girl exposed to the
wind and the sun is naturally no better than one raised in the boudoir.
Originally, ten taels were not worth it, but the madam girl saw a lot and looked closely, saying that my eyes were good, so she gave me twenty taels more.
Later, I looked at the high-definition bronze mirror of Sister Yanliu, the flower queen in the building.
Indeed, I have a pair of brown eyes with pink, full of water and long eyelashes.
It’s just that apart from the eyes, the rest of the face is plain.
Chu Yan didn’t mind. He took me back and raised me like a lady in the boudoir.
Daily milk bath, pollen on the face, wearing a soft cigarette skirt, wearing a full set of Dongzhu head and face. How else to
say, beauty is made of money? I have been raised
like this for only half a year, and I have been reborn. His skin was as delicate and white as congealed fat, his lips were red and his teeth were white, his black hair was as smooth and soft as silk, and his waist was tied with white jade. Standing in front of the mirror, he could hardly recognize himself.
“Ying Li.” Chu Yan stepped into the door and threw me a set of bright red clothes.
I picked it up and looked at it. It was a wedding dress.
What, is he going to marry me?
“You wish.” With a sneer, Chu Yan bent his fingers and knocked on the table. “Put it on.”. It is for this day that I have redeemed you. In this way, I changed into a wedding dress, was stuffed into the bridal sedan chair by Chu Yan, and married to the Regent’s Palace.
Walking through the streets, I also heard a lot of rumors. It was said that the regent was the youngest brother of the late emperor, but unfortunately his mother was born humble, so he was not favored.
Unexpectedly, the first emperor suddenly died, and the prince was still young, but let him hold more than half of the government.
And this man is moody and vicious, and everyone is afraid of him. It was Jiang Lingyi, Princess Shanxian, the elder sister of the emperor, who was
supposed to marry her.
But the princess is not willing, the emperor is not willing, so Chu Yan specially went to find me, instead of the princess to marry.
I sat in the room for half a night until Xie Changyue, who smelled a little of alcohol, came in.
He stepped down, picked up his hijab, and looked at me carefully.
I keep in mind Chu Yan’s command, keep a proud and indifferent posture, let him look at.
Until Xie Changyue stripped me of my clothes.
Until he felt a small scar on my back.
Until he stopped, straightened up, looked down at me, and said coldly, “Who are you?” “Princess Shanxian.” He drew his sword from its sheath beside the bed and put it on my shoulder.
This was already beyond the scope of Chu Yan’s business, so I quickly explained, “My name is Chung Ying-li.” Although the names of Princess Shanxian and I rhyme, we have different experiences.
Not younger brother gentleman, all make instrument. Jiang Lingyi’s name is about beauty.
The spring bridge and the snow reflect the parting. And I, Zhong Yingli, said that Lao Yan was separated.
He didn’t make a sound, and I didn’t dare to put on my clothes, so I could only be so naked and honest with him. The
more she asked me to tell her story, the more righteous I said,
“If you want to kill me, kill the parents who sold me to the brothel first.”. If it hadn’t been for them, you wouldn’t have married me by mistake. He curled his lips and drew back his sword. After a while, he finally said, “Since you’re living in a brothel, you must have some talent, right?” “I can swallow a sword and breathe fire,” I said quickly. Xie Changyue: “… …” I looked at his expression and couldn’t figure out whether he was satisfied or not, so I had to lay out the business at the bottom of the box, which I was not very skilled at. He will also break a big stone in his chest. Xie Changyue sneered, and from his tone, I heard doubts about my business ability.
In order to be able to make a living under Hsieh Yueh, I sat up with an awe-inspiring attitude and said, “The sword is coming, the fire is coming!” The more she twitched the corners of her mouth, the more she picked up the clothes on one side and threw them to me. “You put on some clothes first.” I quickly took advantage of the situation to close my skirt.
Yueyue got out of bed and sat down at the table. After drinking a glass of wine, he knocked on the table and looked at me with a half-smile. “I’m not in a hurry to see you swallow a sword and breathe fire. It’s just that you should think about how you can get past the queen mother when you come back in three days.” Because he and I were tossing and turning on the bed just now, Xie Changyue’s clothes were also in a mess.
At the moment, his skirt was wide open, revealing a piece of jade chest, and even two points of vermilion could be seen faintly.
He really had a good skin, a cold expression, but his eyebrows and eyes were romantic, his long hair was loose, and his cheeks were covered with a light pink because he had drunk wine.
Only one piano is needed, and we can pick up guests at the Nanfeng Hall opposite our brothel.
I thought about it in my mind, and then I understood what he had just said. “Isn’t the Empress Dowager my own mother?” He
asked in surprise? Will she still give me a hard time? Hsieh Yueh laughed again: “You got into the role very quickly.” “That is.” I said proudly, “In the past, when the city’s officers and soldiers were strictly checked and busking was not allowed, I also worked part-time in the opera troupe. I was very good at figuring out the roles, otherwise Chu Yan would not have been so relieved about me.” And shut up right now.
Shit, I let it slip. Hsieh Yueh smiled slowly and looked at me thoughtfully. “I never thought someone like Chu Yan could find a woman who was deeply devoted to him and willing to give.” There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
Who? Who did he say?
I pointed to myself. “You mean me?” The more he nodded, the more I curled my lips. “Who likes him?”? I was bought by him from a brothel for 30,000 taels, okay? “You–thirty thousand?” He looked at me as if he were quite surprised. “He’s crazy rich.” After talking to Xie Changyue for a while, I felt that he was not as bloodthirsty and cruel as the rumor.
What’s more, he was going to kill me with a sword just now, but now he sat down and had a long talk with me. He must have no intention of killing me.
Thinking of this, I simply told the truth: “He wants to buy me because I look like Princess Shanxian, and he wants me to marry her instead.” “By the way, you’re the younger brother of the late emperor, aren’t you the uncle of Princess Shanxian? How can you get married?!” I realized something was wrong, but Hsieh Yueh narrowed his eyes and said with a half-smile, “If Shanxian is really Hsieh Tse-hua’s own sister, how could the Empress Dowager not like her so much?” Xie Zehua is the name of today’s holy taboo, and the more he reveals the truth to me, he will not go on.
I shut up and sat quietly on the edge of the bed.
He looked at me curiously again. “Won’t you let me talk about it?” “The secrets of the royal family must not be passed on to the outside world, and those who know them must die.” I said, “It’s all written in the script, and I’ve acted in it. I understand all these things.” Xie Changyue suddenly stood up, walked up to me, reached out and raised my chin, and made me look up at him.
My eyes happened to be on his bare chest, and I blushed at once. I wanted to turn my head, but I couldn’t, so I had to lower my eyes. But
he said lightly, “Although you look like Ling Yi, you are much more clever than her.” The tone is very inexplicable, until I fell asleep, I did not guess the deep intention of his words.
Isn’t it said that the more the Regent is in love with Jiang Lingyi, the infatuation will not change. If he finds out that I marry instead, I will die? Why are
things different from what I imagined? When I woke up
the next day, Xie Changyue told me that from today on, I would regard myself as Jiang Lingyi and Princess Shanxian. Because of the substitute marriage, the real Jiang Lingyi had been sent to live in seclusion in the mountains by Chu Yan, and the identity chain could not be broken.
Although I have to carry the cold and arrogant posture of Princess Shanxian, there is also an advantage, that is, Jiang Lingyi’s dowry, all belong to me. I’ve never seen so much money in my life.
According to the price of my labor, this dowry is enough for me to make 700,000 somersaults on the street.
People’s fat and people’s cream, this is all people’s fat and people’s cream.
I don’t know if I’m afraid of exposing my identity, but I’m obviously a princess, but I don’t even have a servant girl around me.
On the day when I returned home on the third day, only Xie Changyue accompanied me. As soon as he
got into the carriage, he said to me, “Today the Empress Dowager has given a banquet for all the concubines and officials’ wives, and it will be held in conjunction with your homecoming banquet.” I said, “Oh,” and when I looked up, I saw him looking at me with interest, with an expression on his face that he was watching a good show.
Then he said, “Do you know any of these?” I I looked at Hsieh Yueh with a cry for help in my eyes, and he enjoyed it for a while in his spare time. Finally he said kindly, “Don’t worry, when the time comes, you’ll be right behind me, and I’ll remind you.” However, I don’t know if it was intentional, but as soon as Xie Changyue and I entered the palace, the emperor sent someone to invite him over.
He said that he wanted to discuss a national affair, leaving me alone and helpless, facing the queen mother and other concubines and ladies. I don’t recognize
anyone else, but the queen mother is sitting in a high position, with a full head of pearls and jade, and a dignified expression. I think I won’t admit my mistake.
So I quickly knelt down and saluted, saying, “Ling Yi has seen my mother. May she live a long life and live a long life.” The queen mother snorted coldly and did not speak. A bright and beautiful girl with an oval face
next to her covered her mouth and said, “I didn’t expect that Lingyi would be much milder after she got married.” Uh, what is this?
I looked at her hesitantly and was thinking about how to round it up when a weak woman with a melon seed face next to me spoke again: “The imperial concubine’s elder sister is absolutely right. A month ago, when Ling Yi broke the queen mother’s beloved jade Ruyi, she gave us a cold face!”! It’s amazing how much has changed. The imperial concubine sighed again: “It seems that Rong Pin’s younger sister has the same feelings as this palace.” I understood in an instant that one of the two was the imperial concubine of Ming Dynasty and the other was the concubine of Rong Dynasty, both of whom had been favored recently. As soon as they said this, the other people next to them began to whisper and point at me.
It’s a pity that I didn’t do it. Besides, we buskers went from street to street to ask for money. What we did was to be thick-skinned. So I was indifferent and listened to it on my knees. Satisfied,
the Empress Dowager coughed lightly and said lightly, “Ling Yi, take a seat.” I sat down and began to eat. After eating two mouthfuls, suddenly a lady pushed her daughter out and said that she had recently composed a new song and wanted to play it for the queen mother.
I thought this had nothing to do with me, but after listening to the song, the Empress Dowager changed the subject and suddenly said to me, “I heard from the Ai family that Ling Yi also studied for a period of time before she got married.” I suddenly understood the intention of asking me more and more that day.
I sighed, stood up, and made a clumsy salute. “That’s a shame.” I really don’t understand. I just performed a somersault and fire-breathing trick in front of the queen mother.
She was so angry that her chest heaved. Pointing at me, she said angrily, “Jiang Lingyi, how dare you!” What’s wrong? At least he is the champion of the last Gong Dou, and he is so timid? Concu
bine Ming covered her mouth and said in surprise, “I heard that before she got married, Ling Yi went to live in a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River for a few months and learned a lot about etiquette and talent. I didn’t expect that she would learn this kind of thing.” The tone was somewhat contemptuous.
I know that a well-fed harem concubine like her is not used to the things in the street.
“It’s all right.” “If the Empress Dowager and the Ming Concubine are not used to it the first time, Ling Yi can perform it a few more times.” Then I did a back flip on the spot, followed by a split in place, and then spouted a fire. I
looked up and found the whole place silent. Staring behind me.
I turned around and saw Yuezheng standing side by side with a man in a bright yellow robe, standing at the gate behind me, looking very inexplicable. This man is obviously the emperor Xie Zehua.
“I can’t believe that Ling Yi is so capable today.” He made a meaningful remark.
I don’t know if he recognized me, and what kind of attitude he had towards Jiang Lingyi before, so I had to look at him for help.
He just stood there and looked at me with a heavy look. I couldn’t figure out what he meant for a moment. Did he think my talent was too shameful to claim me?
Thinking of this, I put down my torch and smiled delicately. “Husband, come and help her.” From a long distance, I could clearly see the pupil earthquake of Xie Changyue.
The emperor burst out laughing and said, “Your temperament has become more and more lovely since you got married.”. Uncle Huang, now that she’s opened her mouth, you’d better hurry up and help her up. Xie Changyue came to my side, lifted me up like pulling out an onion, and then sat with me in the position just now.
He covered his face with a glass of wine and said in a strange tone, “I thought you said your talent was to breathe fire, but it was just a modest remark.” “Yes.” I said modestly, “Didn’t you think of that?”? I can also back flip and do the splits. Xie Changyue: “… …” He didn’t say a word to me or eat anything until the end of the party.
I’m very full. I’ve never eaten anything in the palace in my life. I think everything is delicious. The dish of Red Bean cold cake and a whole crispy chicken
on the table made me eat a clean one, and the steamed fish on the plate was also eaten by me. In the end, when I was rubbing my bulging stomach and planning to leave the palace with him, a eunuch came to say that the emperor had summoned me.
I immediately took a look at Xie Changyue.
He said, “I will go with you.” The eunuch immediately said, “The emperor said that only Princess Shanxian would be summoned, and the regent would just go back to the house to rest.” “Oh?” Xie Changyue gave him a cool look, which was not aggressive, but inexplicably made people feel cold all over.
He stretched out his hand to straighten my cloak, and pinned my scattered hair behind my ears. He whispered to me, “In that case, you go. Remember to go home soon, and don’t let your husband miss you too much.” My eyelids jumped and I felt a little uneasy for no reason.
The emperor was waiting for me in his study. When I entered, he was standing at the desk with his back to me, looking up at the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. I
watched for a long time, but I didn’t see any mystery in it, so I had to remind him that I was coming: “Your Majesty, pay your respects.” He turned his head and looked at me. I don’t know if it was because he was standing in the dark. His eyes always made me feel strange and looked a little cold.
Then he walked slowly up to me and looked down at me. “No need to be polite.” I stood up straight and said, “The emperor has asked me to come, but I don’t know why.”
“You’ve been in the Regent Palace for three days, but are you still used to it?” Xie Zehua stared at me, and before I could answer, he suddenly stretched out a hand and clamped my chin.
The finger pulp is cold, but the one that sticks to my skin is getting hot.
What’s more, he approached me inch by inch, breathing hot and slightly fast in the place close at hand. My
hair stood on end and I couldn’t help reminding him, “Well, I’m your elder sister. Isn’t that not good?” “Don’t I know if you are my elder sister?” Hsieh Tse-hua chuckled. “Without my orders, how dare Chu Yan do such a bold thing as replacing someone to marry?” The words exploded in my ears like a thunderbolt.
But my first reaction was shock, and my second was frustration. The richest and most powerful people in the state of
Chen, except the queen mother, all knew that I was a fake.
Then what is the value and significance of me as a stand-in?
Hsieh Tse-hua seemed to see through what I was thinking and said with a low smile, “Although you look very similar to Sister Huang, she thinks she has a noble status and would never do these things.”. So if I’m not mistaken, my mother knows. I opened my mouth to say something.
But because I was so full just now, I burped as soon as I opened my mouth.
Very loud, with the smell of steamed fish. Xie Zehua in
front of him was livid for a moment.
…… I’m so embarrassed that I want to run away. All of a sudden, the
ambiguous atmosphere was gone. Hsieh Tse-hua let go of my chin, shook off his hand, and said lightly, “You really don’t stick to trifles.” Then he called the eunuch in loudly and sent me out.
Out of the palace gate, I found that Xie Changyue’s carriage was still parked in the same place, as if waiting for me. Jumping into the carriage
very lightly, I lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the deep eyes inside, and I was slightly stunned.
Xie Changyue stretched out his hand, clasped my wrist and pulled me over. Caught off guard, I lost my footing and fell into his arms.
I looked up and found that the face with romantic eyebrows and heavy colors was very close to me.
This pose is a little ambiguous.
Most importantly, a little familiar. Under the gaze of those deep eyes,
I gradually lost my mind and closed my eyes subconsciously.
Xie Changyue went forward again, and some kind of deep and pleasant smell came from his body. The burning breath was close at hand, and the tip of his nose almost touched the tip of my nose.
The distance was too close. My heart was pounding. I bit the tip of my tongue to wake myself up and stammered, “You..” I am not Jiang Lingyi. “I know.” With a low laugh, he asked me, “What did Xie Zehua say when he asked you to come over?” He actually called the emperor by his first name.
I finally remembered, with some hindsight, that this was the supposedly powerful and temperamental regent, not the man I had thought I was when I was briefly absent. When I suddenly
woke up, I lowered my head slightly and avoided his eyes. “Just say that my performance of breathing fire and splitting today made the queen mother very angry. Let me not make the queen mother angry again when I go to the palace.” “Is that it?” 「…… Uh He patted me on the head and carried me to sit upright, with a thin smile in his eyes, as if the wind had blown away. There was a long silence in the
carriage, and then the elder Yueh gave a light command: “Go home.” When we got home, it was already dark, and before I could sit on my ass, someone came to the palace.
An expressionless old Mammy and two pale little eunuchs.
The old Mammy brought a letter from the Empress Dowager, saying that when she came back today, the Empress Dowager saw that I was not dignified enough and my words were too frivolous, so she gave me a copy of Nu De and a copy of Gong Gui, each of which was copied fifty times and delivered to her in the palace ten days later.
I couldn’t believe it. My voice changed. “Fifty times?”? Ten days?! Mammy’s old face, like the bark of a tree, did not move at all. “Take the order, princess.” As soon as she left, I looked at her with a mournful face and said, “Wang Ye, I can’t finish this. I write very slowly.” Xie Changyue did not answer me immediately.
He just looked at me with a kind of strange but kind eyes and asked me,
“Do you remember who taught me to write?” That really got me.
My parents took me through the streets to support my bloodsucker-like brother. Of course, it was impossible to ask someone to come back and teach me how to read. But I can read, I can write, and I even read a lot of books.
Like a.. A pampered boudoir girl.
I was daunted by the idea.
“Maybe the immortals taught me,” he said. In fact, there is nothing wrong with what I said.
Since I was fifteen years old, I often saw a man who escaped from the dust in my dreams.
The dream was so lifelike that there were countless details between me and him in the dream. Maybe he taught me how to write.
But there was always a light that blurred his face, so many times, I never saw his face clearly.
She gathered up her cloak and came to me step by step, each step as if stepping on the tip of my heart.
Because of the backlight, I could not see his features clearly, and the devilish thought came back at this moment.
Xie Changyue, and that person, really like. When he saw
me staring at him, he didn’t know what I was thinking. He reached out his hand and pulled it on my face. He frowned and said, “Why is there no meat at all?” I pulled the corners of my lips and did not speak.
Busking and juggling, the same head is to have a light body.
Later, I entered the brothel and was redeemed by Chu Yan to act as a stand-in for Jiang Lingyi, becoming more and more slender.
I was born with a small face, and if I can have meat, I will have ghosts.
I didn’t reply, but Xie Changyue was not annoyed. “In the daytime, I saw that you liked that steamed fish very much. I’ll ask the cook to cook more for you in the future,” he said in a calm voice. “Oh, I don’t like steamed fish.” I finally came to my senses and said, “The dishes on that table were all very delicious, mainly because I had never eaten anything in the palace, so in a moment of curiosity, I ate a little more.” Xie Changyue finally smiled, and when he smiled, his eyes were shining, and there was a kind of fascinating beauty.
“Well, I’ll let you eat more later.” I thought he would ask the cook in the house to learn those dishes. I didn’t expect you to go directly to the palace and get back the chef who cooked the banquet that day. You are
arrogant enough to be a regent. When
he brought the man back, I was sitting at the desk, holding the pen painfully and copying the book one stroke at a time.
Xie Changyue stood at the desk and pulled out the piece of paper I was writing on. “Don’t copy it.” “What are you doing?” I was so anxious that I nearly jumped up and stared at him angrily. “I’ve already written a dozen words on this one, but if you pull it like this, the ink will fall on it, and I’ll have to copy a dozen more words.” Xie Changyue: “… …” He sighed, crumpled the paper into a ball, and said to me, “The Empress Dowager is not really asking you to copy the book, but to test your identity.”. Ling Yi has always relied on his status and would never do such a thing. When you breathe fire and back flip in full view of the public, she naturally suspects you. Xie Yueyue’s words were almost exactly the same as what Xie Zehua said to me that day.
As a result, I have a great deal of curiosity about Jiang Lingyi, who “relies on her identity.”.
For example, why she is a mountain string princess, and Xie Zehua and Xie Changyue are not the same surname.
For example, she is not the queen mother’s own, and may not even have any blood relationship with the royal family of Chen, why was she named princess.
But these palace secrets, I’m not sure I can walk out of the Regent Palace alive after I ask.
After all, Xie Yueyue and Xie Zehua do not look too kind.
So I could only gently remind him, “But if I don’t copy it, I’m afraid I won’t be able to explain it to the Empress Dowager when I enter the palace in two days.” The voice did not fall, he suddenly deceives the body to come forward, takes advantage of the opportunity to push me down on the soft couch beside the desk.
Then he began to strip me like the night of the wedding.
I turned pale with fright and struggled crazily: “Xie Changyue!”! What are you going to do? In a hurry, I even called him by his first name.
But he didn’t seem to mind at all. He just pressed my hand and kissed me all the way up from my bare shoulder. Finally, he used a little strength on my neck and nibbled a red mark.
He gently rubbed the mark with his finger pulp and said to me slowly: “I have already told the Empress Dowager that Ling Yi has tasted human affairs for the first time and is addicted to it. His body is already unable to stand it. Therefore, he will not be able to go to the palace for an audience in a short time.” I was stupefied and stupefied, and when I finally reacted, I blushed and set myself on fire. Xie Changyue, however, had already gathered up his skirt for me and sat on the side of the soft couch, looking at me quietly. Behind him, the
candle was slightly beating by the night wind, but the light scattered into the sea.
This scene is very familiar, as if it had appeared in my dream.
I raised my hand to my chest and heard my heartbeat clearly.
One by one, gradually speeding up.
It was not until a month later, when the Empress Dowager went out to worship the Buddha at the Changming Temple in the mountains on the outskirts of the city, that Xie Zehua suddenly ordered me to enter the palace.
It also happened to be the time when Xie Changyue went out on a business trip. I’m really not happy to meet
Jiang Lingyi’s nominal brother.
But he is the king of a country, and his destiny is hard to disobey. I have to go even if I don’t like it. I
just never thought that as soon as the carriage reached the gate of the palace, I met Chu Yan.
He is still as quiet as we used to be.
I jumped out of the carriage facing the sun, and as I was about to stand still, I heard Chu Yan’s voice: “Ling Yi, what are you doing? Oh, it’s Ying Li.” It took him only a moment to switch his tone from surprise and excitement to dullness.
Then he looked at me up and down for a moment and frowned. “Ying Li, you’re fat.”. Ling Yi has always paid attention to the lightness of her posture, and she would never be like you. “Oh.” With an expressionless face, I pulled a gold hairpin from my head. “Ling Yi, depending on her status, surely she wouldn’t want to stab you to death like I do.” Chu Yan stopped talking with great interest. Satisfied,
I put the gold hairpin back in my hair and clapped my hands. “All right, let’s go in.” But I did not expect that it was Xie Zehua who took the initiative to summon me, but he was not in a hurry to see me.
I was about to step through the door with my skirt, when I was stopped by a little eunuch.
He gave me a respectful blessing and said, “Princess, the emperor wants to talk to Prince Chu. Please wait a moment.” With a puzzled look on my face, I was led aside by him and walked a long cross road to a palace full of irises in the doorway and courtyard.
The place looks a bit secluded, and you can even hear the birds singing clearly. The most important thing is that the whole palace is empty. Remembering the scripts I had read,
I began to wonder if this little eunuch, who seemed to be Xie Zehua’s man, was actually an undercover agent placed by one of his concubines or even the queen mother? You brought
me here to plot against me?
Thinking of this, I suddenly became extremely alert, and quietly pulled out the gold hairpin and held it in my hand.
Unexpectedly, the little eunuch took me into the palace, let me sit here for a while, and then retired.
There was no foul play.
I did not relax my vigilance, holding the gold hairpin, eyes flowing in the hall, from the soft curtain beside the bed, to the light log-colored table, and then to the well-made glass screen in front of the window. All
this looks so familiar.
As if I had seen it in a dream. When
Xie Zehua came, I was still standing in front of the dressing table, staring at the plain silver hairpin in the dressing table. I have something to discuss
with Chu Yan, and I have been delayed. I’ve kept you waiting. Xie Zehua whispered in my ear.
Because of the close distance, the hot breath sprayed on my neck as he spoke, which made my scalp tingle and almost jump up.
I suddenly took a step aside and dodged Xie Zehua’s ambiguous movements.
He didn’t come after me, but just stood there and looked at me with great interest.
“Your Majesty, I am your elder sister.” I forced myself to remind him calmly.
He raised an eyebrow and said, “Chung Ying-li, are you used to acting as a stand-in for Ling Yi? Have you forgotten your true origin and identity?” That’s a little hurtful.
I glanced at Xie Zehua and decided to cheat him, so I sneered, “Do you still want to cheat me?”? Don’t think I don’t know. I’m afraid there’s no such person as Chiang Ling-yi in the world, is there? Yes, I have such doubts in my mind for a long time.
If I am Jiang Lingyi’s stand-in, other people should have a way to treat the stand-in.
But whether it is Xie Yueyue or Xie Zehua, the performance is too strange. Besides, I have a lot of doubts about myself. I
combined some of the scripts I had read before and began my reasoning: In fact, there is no substitute at all. I am Jiang Lingyi herself, right? Just because of some reason, I lost my memory and couldn’t remember who I was, so you just compiled such an identity for me. Hsieh Tse-hua sat down on a chair beside him, propped up his chin, and looked at me noncommittally: “Go on.” In my memory, I always dream of a person like a fairy who accompanies me to read and write and teaches me how to play the piano and paint. This dream is so real that it often makes me wonder what it has to do with reality. In fact, that’s what I did before I lost my memory, and that person is either you or you, isn’t it? After listening to my last word, Hsieh Tse-hua finally laughed: “Your imagination is quite rich.” I stared at him and said, “Just tell me.” “Of course not.” He sneered disdainfully, “Zhong Yingli, don’t forget that you can breathe fire, swallow a sword, and break a big stone in your chest.”. No matter how much you don’t like the Empress Dowager,
Ling Yi is also a princess and my elder sister. How could she do such a thing? What he said is so reasonable that I can’t find an excuse to refute it. Dejected,
I sat down beside Hsieh Tse-hua and asked him casually, “In that case, why did you ask me to come to the palace?” “I want to take you into the palace as a concubine, so I came to ask you what you think.” 「？」 I looked at him in amazement. “Have you forgotten that I am now the wife of Chang Yueh?” “Of course I didn’t forget, but thank you. Yue’s nominal wife is Ling Yi, and you are just a substitute I sent Chu Yan to find.” He has a double, which makes me want to kill the king.
“So, if you like, I can ask Chu Yan to bring you back from the mountains, and then bring you into the palace to be a concubine.” He smiled at me, and his eyes lit up, as if he were spoiling me. “What do you think of being an imperial concubine?” My face was blank. “Oh, I don’t want to.” Hsieh Tse-hua was not angry either: Why? Don’t you think it’s better to be my imperial concubine than to stay with Chang Yueh and be a substitute for Ling Yi? Double, double again! At the end of my patience,
I gave a warm smile and said, “You are just a puppet emperor when the regent is in power.”. To be his princess, even a stand-in, is better than being your concubine. Xie Zehua blacked his face for a moment and reached out to pinch my chin. When his eyes fell on the hickey between my shoulder and neck, his eyes were even colder: “Chung Ying-li, do you think I really don’t dare to kill you?” I bluffed and said, “If you kill me, don’t be afraid to come after you when you return to Beijing.” This naturally said that I am extremely guilty, although very hurt self-esteem, but said to break the sky, I am indeed a substitute, where will Xie Zehua be offended for me?
But the heart can not help but be filled with subtle sour. After getting along with each other for
so many days, Xie Changyue is not bad to me, or even very good to me. Whenever
I put him together with the figure in my dream, I always have a sense of illusion of Zhuangzhou’s dream of butterflies.
I couldn’t tell whether it was the person in my dream or the person in front of me who made my heart throb.
But very clear, in his heart, I just replace the existence of Jiang Lingyi.
But what I didn’t expect was that after this sentence was spoken, Xie Zehua made a move and really let go of me slowly.
He smiled meaningfully. “It seems that you and your husband are in love with each other.” This probably refers to the hickey on my neck.
I didn’t have the nerve to say that the closest contact I had with Hsieh Yueh was just that. I just nodded my head proudly and said, “Nature loves me deeply.” Xie Zehua stood up and turned sideways to me.
I could not see his expression, but I could hear his cold voice: “I will send someone to take you back.” Then he walked away without looking back. Xie Changyue came back
that evening. Dressed in
a dark purple robe, elegant temperament, with the cold of the moonlight, but also mixed with a faint smell of blood. Sharp-eyed,
I saw a touch of red between his white and slender fingers, and suspected that he was not going to do business, but to kill people.
The maid handed over her veil and slowly wiped the blood from her fingers. She turned her head and looked at me with a low smile: “Ying Li.” Although I am a stand-in, he calls me by my name directly every day, which is the minimum respect.
And these days, I live in the Regent Palace, life is much better than before.
Xie Changyue is very indulgent to me, in terms of food and clothing, more preferential treatment than before in Chu Yan. The servants of the Prince Regent’s Palace also respected me very much. There were no sarcastic words at all, and there was no favorite servant girl who deliberately tripped me up.
Compared with the roles of the stand-in princess and the stand-in queen in the script, my treatment is not bad. “Today the emperor summoned me to the palace and said something to me,” I said
to him as I was thinking about it. There was a pause as Hsieh Yueh wiped his hands. The light in his eyes dimmed slightly, and there was a touch of coldness in his voice: “What did you say?” Originally, I wanted to tell him that Xie Zehua planned to take me into the palace as a concubine, but somehow, the words came to my mouth but could not be spit out.
I opened my mouth and finally said, “I didn’t say anything. I just chatted a few words. I think he may have some doubts about my identity. Do I really look like Princess Shanxian?” I didn’t believe Xie Zehua’s words, so I came to test him again.
But he looked at me with a faint smile and said, “I can’t say it’s very similar. I can only say it’s exactly the same.”. Otherwise, with so many people at the palace banquet, how could it be so smooth and so easy? I said, “Oh,” and didn’t ask any more questions. But there is a new guess in
my mind.
If Jiang Lingyi really exists, is she still alive today? As soon as
this guess came out, I trembled all over, and suddenly I felt the atmosphere around me became gloomy. What’s
the matter? Is it cold? Xie Changyue’s voice suddenly sounded very close to the top of my hair, with some complex emotions that I could not fathom.
No.. I just thought of a story-telling script I had read before, and the story in it was a bit scary. I raised my head in some panic and looked into his sparkling eyes.
Then his soft lips brushed my forehead.
Strength is not heavy, light as a feather, but like a heavy blow in my heart.
In fact, I have not been in close contact with Xie Changyue before.
Perhaps in order to prove to the queen mother that what he said was true, as long as he rested in the house for a month, he slept with me every night. They will also touch, gnaw and kiss me.
But that’s it at best. Once
he kissed me so soft that he fell on my chest and gasped for breath. It was clear that he was already moved, but he did not go any further. I couldn’t help but ask him, “Do you feel sorry for Jiang Lingyi if you have sex with me?” Xie Changyue’s eyes suddenly darkened.
He held out his hand over my eyes and whispered, “Ying Li, don’t mention her name at this time.” The light in front of his eyes was suddenly covered and plunged into darkness.
I can’t mention Jiang Lingyi at this time, probably because she is the same as the white moonlight in his heart.
In a flash, I woke up.
I am not Jiang Lingyi, and he is not the immortal who is gentle with me in my dream.
But at this moment, the kiss that fell gently on my forehead made my heart surge again.
I subconsciously tried to dodge, but my arm was grabbed.
Xie Changyue sighed, “Don’t read too much of this mess.” That night, he was still resting in my room.
I don’t know if it was because I said I was afraid, but all night long, Xie Yueyue held me in her arms and gently comforted me.
The next morning, when Xie Changyue went to the front of the court, I hinted to him that I was tired of eating the food in the Regent’s Palace and wanted to go out to look for food.
Xie Changyue gazed at me for a long time. Just when I thought he had seen through my intention, he smiled faintly and agreed.
Then I went out and went straight to the restaurant opened by Chu Yan. When
he saw me, his eyes almost popped out: “Ying Li, what are you looking for me for?”? The regent is still in the capital. Aren’t you afraid of revealing your identity? I really did not have the nerve to tell him, in fact, the more I knew I was not Jiang Lingyi.
“Nothing. He’s busy and doesn’t have time to take care of me.” Chu Yan asked again, “Ying Li, why did you suddenly come to see me?” “Don’t make up such a written statement. I just came to ask you a question.” I interrupted him with a wave of my hand. Then I took a deep breath and approached Chu Yan cautiously. “Princess Shanxian, where is she now?” Chu Yan looked at me warily. “What are you going to do?” I said, “I want to see her!” “What did you see your instrument for?”
Chu Yan looked around, and when he saw that no one was there, he dragged me upstairs to the private room and whispered, “I warn you, Zhong Yingli, as long as you are a substitute for Ling Yi, you will always be a substitute for Ling Yi. Don’t think about things that don’t belong to you.” I looked down at my palm.
Then he raised it and slapped Chu Yan on the head.
I suddenly found that although Xie Changyue did not love me, he indulged me very much. I
have been indulged, and I am much more arrogant than when I was busking in the street.
Chu Yan just redeemed me from the brothel, not to mention beating him, I even refuted him a word, I have to go through it in my heart first to see if it is appropriate.
“Don’t worry, I don’t have any other ideas. I just want to see Princess Shanxian and ask her about something.” By the way. To verify whether some of my guesses are true or not.
I thought about it and decided to give him a gentle hint: “Recently, perhaps because some of my words and deeds and small habits are not very similar to those of the princess, the regent seems to have some doubts about my identity.” Chu Yan was startled. “You must have put on so much weight,” he said. “The regent is suspicious. Go back and lose some weight.” I want to kill him.
But in the end, Chu Yan agreed to my request.
He said that Princess Shanxian now lives in seclusion in the mountains, and it will take some time to come out.
He would arrange for me to meet Jiang Lingyi in the backyard of the restaurant at the same time ten days later.
I was nodding my head, and my eyes casually swept out of the window and suddenly solidified there.
Downstairs on the long street, Xie Changyue is riding a horse far away to this side.
“Bow!” I gave a light drink to Chu Yan on the opposite side. He was startled and caught off guard. He buried his head very obediently.
Xie Changyue soon saw me.
He rode to the window and looked up at me.
The long street was deserted, and the scenery was reflected in his pupils with me. For a moment, I couldn’t tell whether it was the sky or I was clearer.
“Princess.” He used to call me that in front of outsiders.
I looked down at him slightly, but before I could open my mouth, Xie Changyue asked again, “Does the princess mind if the king comes up with you?” Do you mind if I say that?
I smiled stiffly. “Of course you can. Be my guest, Wang Yeh.” Then Xie Changyue turned over and got off his horse and strode to the door.
I panicked. I
don’t know why, but I always feel that I should hide it from Chu Yan.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, get out of here. I’ve come to see you without telling you. I can’t let him see you.” Chu Yan took a deep breath and looked a little flustered. “There’s only one staircase in this restaurant.” Then he stared nervously at the stairway.
Although Xie Changyue has not come up yet, I think he may appear at the stairway entrance at any time, and then show a very cold expression to me and Chu Yan.
It was like being caught in bed for an affair, and the panic rolled around in my heart.
I turned to Chu Yan and said, “Just climb over the window and go.” Without waiting for him to agree, I had picked up the back of his neck collar and thrown him out of the window with the strength I had developed in busking and juggling. Not bad, Chu Yan is very thin, and I can carry it.
Just as Chu Yan fell to the ground and let out a scream, the voice of the elder Yueh sounded not far behind me: “Princess.” I slammed the window and tried to suppress the panic in my heart. I turned to look at him and said with a smile, “Wang Yeh is coming.” His eyes swept over the empty table in front of me.
I hastened to say, “After a little thought, I decided to wait for Wang Yeh to come up and order together.” Xie Yueyue nodded and sat down opposite me very casually.
I called the waiter and asked him what he wanted to eat.
He propped his chin lazily and looked at me. “Whatever the princess likes.” I had something in mind, and I was too lazy to choose, so I ordered a few dishes casually.
He was quite leisurely to pick up food for me. When I ate a mouthful, he picked up another chopstick. When I ate two mouthfuls, he gave me a bowl directly. Finally, almost all the meat on the table went into my stomach.
I mainly while eating, while observing the look of Xie Changyue. I didn’t taste the
last dish at all.
Only in the heart silently speculation: “Xie Changyue should not have found me and Chu Yan private meeting.” Huh?
That night, Xie Changyue came to my room with a stack of different types of books.
He was followed by four little maids, each holding a lute, a lute, a chess set, and even a round white-haired dog.
“Ying Li.” When Xie Yueyue sat down in front of me, I was still eating a peach.
Originally, it was not the season for peaches, which were very expensive, but when he heard that I loved them, he ordered people to speed up the transportation from the south.
His eyes swept over the dripping juice between my fingers, and suddenly there was a smile in his eyes. Then he reached out his fingers and knocked on the table.
“These are all sent to you.” 「…… Why? Xie Changyue was suddenly silent.
He waved his hand, and several maids consciously put down their things and left.
The plump little dog jumped into my arms, and I heard his voice in the sudden soft and heavy feeling: “The mountain rain is coming, and the capital is going to be in chaos. You have nothing to do recently, so don’t go out.” That night, Xie Yueyue did not sleep with me, and the next few days were the same.
According to the servant girl, he had been staying in the study, talking with his confidant all night almost every day, as if he was discussing something important. Mrs. Duan in the
small kitchen also told me that when she went to buy vegetables in the daytime, she found that the capital was under martial law a lot, and even in places like the vegetable market, there were guards patrolling.
She hesitated for a moment, then leaned close to my ear and whispered, “I heard that the Empress Dowager has finished worshipping Buddha and is going back to Beijing.” I was stunned on the spot.
On the day I made an appointment with Chu Yan, the sky was overcast early in the morning, and a few drizzles passed through the wind from time to time.
Xie Changyue is not in the mansion, and I don’t know where he went.
I sneaked out of the door, slipped out of the palace through the back door, got into the carriage, and drove all the way to the restaurant. At the door of the backyard, the door was unclosed, but there was no sign of Chu Yanren.
I stood there, hesitated for a moment, and pushed the door open.
The next moment, I just want to close the door, roll back to the Regent Palace, stay in my little bed, and spend the whole day with my new little white dog.
But the people in the yard didn’t give me the chance.
“Ying Li, stop.” His voice was soft and calm, but it seemed to carry a tremendous force, which made me dizzy. In the
small backyard, Yueyue sat upright at a stone table, dressed in black clothes, with long hair, cold eyebrows and eyes, and a flagon in front of him.
He did not move, but propped up his chin and looked at me intently. But
I felt that I had been shocked by his eyes.
I clasped the knocker tightly with my hand, opened my wet eyes wide, and tried to pull out an innocent and pitiful smile: “Wang Ye, what a coincidence!” Xie Changyue also smiled at me, hiding a knife in his smile. “Unfortunately, I was waiting for you here specially.” I almost pulled the whole door down with my hands.
There is nothing to defend, obviously that day he had seen Chu Yan, but pretended not to know, but also quite leisurely to have a meal with me.
Behind his back, he immediately found Chu Yan and asked him about the time and place I had agreed to meet him.
For a while, I don’t know whether I should blame the more scheming or the less integrity of Chu Yan.
While my brain was turning rapidly, Xie Changyue stood up and walked in front of me step by step.
I raised my head and asked, “Where is Chu Yan?” Yueyue’s eyes sank slightly, and suddenly he lowered his head, and his hot breath approached my breath inch by inch.
His voice was heavy. “Ying Li, if I were you, I wouldn’t mention another man’s name at such a time.” The words did not fall, he seemed to lose patience, picked me up and got into the carriage parked beside me.
“Go home.” When he had finished, I found that the driver was also a familiar face in the Regent’s Palace.
This is the carriage I hired specially at the market! How deep this man’s scheming is!
I was encircled in my arms by the elder. It was raining and windy outside, but his hot body temperature was passed on to me through the thin material of his clothes. In the panic, I subconsciously wanted to break free, but the more I clasped my shoulder firmly. “Ying Li.” He said, “Do you know what Chu Yan told me?”? He said that you were born in a brothel and had an old friendship with him, and that you were looking for him this time. The red apricot goes out of the wall. Stunned, I nearly jumped out of her arms and said angrily, “Nonsense!” It was still too light that day! I knew this guy wasn’t a good guy!
I don’t believe him. He has always been devoted to her, so naturally everything is done to save her first. But Ying Li, what exactly are you looking for Ling Yi for? The sighing voice of Xie Changyue sounded in my ears. There was a trace of pain in
the voice, which made my heart ache.
I pushed him away a little and whispered, “I just want to see Princess Shanxian.” Xie Changyue sighed again and was about to speak when suddenly a sharp arrow came through the wind, penetrated the wall of the carriage and plunged deep into the board on the other side. I froze in the same place, and suddenly there was a chill in my heart. Before
I could react, Hsieh Yueh took me into his arms, and a cold voice rang in my ears: “Ying Li, don’t look up.” After the sound of several arrows breaking the wind, it was followed by the sound of the intersection of weapons, as well as the sudden sound of wind and rain. With my
head buried in my chest, I couldn’t see anything but hear every sound clearly.
Extremely dangerous, but also. Incomparably familiar.
I closed my eyes and the fragmented images came to my mind. Crushed fleurs-de-lis outside the
palace.
Blood-stained curtains. A
broken glass screen.
There is also a blurred face, only the eyes are full of pain, and just look at me more and more eyes gradually coincide.
I opened my mouth and was about to speak when suddenly there was a dull hum in my arms, and then the smell of blood gradually spread in the carriage.
I looked up sharply. “Are you hurt?!” He gathered his torn shirt around his shoulder, his face slightly pale. “A little scratch. It doesn’t matter.” Although the arrow only grazed his shoulder, it broke a layer of flesh and blood, and blood soaked his clothes and dripped down.
I thought of the time before the more told me that the capital will be chaotic, let me have nothing to go out, the heart finally emerged a bit of regret. When the
carriage reached the gate of the palace, it was already riddled with holes.
I helped Xie Changyue and stumbled out of the carriage.
It was clear that he was the one who was injured, but he actually stood more steadily than I did, and calmly told the guards: “Clean up the bodies and find out who sent them.” After a pause, his eyes rolled with a few traces of murder.
“I can’t wait for so little time. I think I have no way out.” By the time we got in, he was soaked to the skin.
The housekeeper called the doctor, and after seeing him, he said that Xie Changyue’s injury was not serious, and that it would be all right after taking the medicine. Only then did
I feel relieved, and then I thought that the reason why Xie Changyue was injured was to go out and catch me. I could not help standing aside with a guilty conscience and burying my head.
Xie Changyue stretched out his hand and clasped my wrist, pulling me down on the soft couch beside him. He looked at me with heavy eyes. “What do you want to see your instrument for?” 「……」 “Would you rather believe Chu Yan than me?” I suddenly raised my head and looked at Xie Changyue. My lips moved twice, but I didn’t say anything.
Just as the atmosphere between me and him was getting more and more solemn, the little white dog, whom I named Bai Bai, suddenly barked and rushed in, jumped up directly, bit my cuff, and dragged me to the other side. The
awkward and solemn atmosphere was broken by the barking of the dog.
He pulled his lips helplessly, raised his hand and stroked the head of the little white dog, and stood up to go.
“Stop!” As soon as I made a sound, I regretted it.
But seeing that Xie Changyue had already turned his head and stood staring at me in the flickering candlelight, I could only bite the bullet and continue to say, “Won’t you sleep with me tonight?” Hsieh Yueh was silent for a moment, then suddenly he curled his lips and laughed. “Does Ying Li want me to stay and sleep with you?” The servant girl retreated very consciously.
Even Bai Bai slipped away with a wink. There were only two of us left in the
room.
In the sound of my gradually intense heartbeat, Xie Changyue stepped on the bright and dark light on the ground and came to me step by step. I swallowed my saliva, realized that it was not good, and subconsciously wanted to run, but I was trapped between my arms and pressed me on the soft couch.
He slowly took off my coat and skirt, and then stripped off my middle coat.
When there was only one snow-blue dress left and I was holding it down, Xie Changyue finally stopped: “Are you afraid?”? Aren’t you going to sleep with me? I think there are some deviations in our understanding of this verb.
That.. You’re still hurt. I mean, just sleep. Before I could finish, I was blocked by a kiss from the elder.
It was a long, wet kiss, very different from the previous one. At a very close distance,
I saw Xie Changyue’s eyes filled with desire little by little, and suddenly realized that he might be coming for real.
How to say.. Nervous at the same time, there is a little expectation. I
was so tired that I couldn’t remember many details in the middle. All
I remember is that when I was getting more and more excited, I asked without a wink, “Can you tell now if it’s me or Jiang Lingyi lying here?” Xie Changyue’s hand holding my skirt stiffened, and then he aggravated his action like punishment.
“Ying Li, of course I know who you are.” He stretched out his hand and put it on my chest. After moving slowly for a while, he suddenly laughed ambiguously. “It’s so soft here. How can you break a big stone?” Xie Changyue actually said! Meat! Words!
I suddenly opened my eyes wide and tightened my hand on the back of his neck. When I woke up
the next day, it was still raining outside.
Xie Changyue put his hand on my chest and was carefully moved away by me.
He had been hurt and tired yesterday, and now he was still in a deep sleep, and his face looked a little pale. When the eyes are
closed, the body of Xie Changyue does not have that sharp and cold momentum, and the beautiful face even looks a little pitiful.
I watched intently for a long time, and then I heard him ask me, “Have you seen enough?” 「……」 “Does it look good?” I swallowed my saliva and stepped back slowly. “It looks good..” It’s over. There’s a wall behind it. As soon as
my back touched the wall, I was pulled back by the elder. He bowed his head and kissed my collarbone. “It’s still early,” he said. “It’s better to leave the king and take a rest.” This break lasted until noon.
The rain stopped, the sky cleared up, and the room was bright.
Xie Changyue did not pursue my private meeting with Chu Yan, but he still did not tell me what the relationship between Jiang Lingyi and me was. It took several days for the wound on his shoulder to heal, and the wound almost healed, and the origin of the assassin on that day came to an end.
“It’s the queen mother’s men.” When Xie Changyue’s men came to report, I was eating peaches.
Feeling that it involved a key secret, I subconsciously wanted to go, but was dragged back by the elder, fell down on the chair, and then heard such explosive news.
The queen mother’s men? Is it the queen mother who scolds me for being bold when she sees me breathing fire?
Xie Changyue’s expression was still calm, his eyes were like a deep pool, and people could not guess what he was thinking. After hearing this,
he waved his hand and let his men back down. Then he turned to look at me. “Are the peaches delicious?” I nodded my head.
Xie Changyue finally laughed. He touched my head, reached out and took another peach from the fruit bowl and put it in my hand. I
don’t know why, but I suddenly felt like he was feeding a monkey.
“Eat more if you like.” With these words he got up and went to the door.
I raised my head subconsciously and followed his back to the door.
Sunlight fell in from outside the door, and half of his figure fell in the light, as if to melt away.
I stopped him devilishly and said, “Thank you so much.” He paused for a moment, then suddenly turned around and strode toward me.
Walking slightly hurried, walking, there is wind through the gap, blowing clothes and robe sleeves. The scene overlapped with a passing image in my mind, and by the time I came to my senses, he was standing in front of me again.
Ying Li, I’m going on a long trip. The capital is in a state of chaos, and there are guards everywhere. You should stay in the mansion and don’t go out. It was the second time he had told me so, and his tone became more solemn. As soon as I nodded, a kiss was printed. I still have the aroma of peaches in my
mouth, which is wet and moist, and when I am sent back, it is even sweeter.
For a long time, Xie Changyue finally left my lips.
“I’m leaving, Ying Li. Don’t trust anyone anymore.” The more he said, the more he left. On the same day, he got on his horse and went out of the capital with several of his men. I was a little worried when I
thought that the wound on his shoulder had not healed completely.
But as Xie Changyue said, the capital is more and more chaotic, even at the foot of the son of heaven, heavily guarded, or failed to stop the influx of refugees, frequent conflicts. I stayed in the Regent’s Palace and dared not go out again.
Just listen to the maid mentioned, the richest man in the state of Chen Chu Yan disappeared a few days later, and reappeared at the door of his mansion, and unconscious, was carried into the house by the boy, the door closed, never came out.
It seems that the more you leave, the more you let someone put him back.
From the time Chu Yan bought me back from the brothel, I knew that he was deeply in love with Jiang Lingyi.
But I never thought that in order not to confess Jiang Lingyi, he would not hesitate to fabricate an affair between me and him. I feel a chill in my back when I
think of this. If you don’t believe me. I was stunned.
Because I suddenly found that if the more you do not believe me, my first reaction is not to curse Chu Yan, but he did not believe me?
According to my experience of reading so many books, I care so much about him that I probably like him.
But between me and him, there is an unknown Jiang Lingyi.
I bit my finger and began to count the days, but when I finished eating the two baskets of peaches, I didn’t see Xie Changyue come back.
On the contrary, there was constant news in the capital, saying that the queen mother’s ambition was getting bigger and bigger, and that she left the capital in the name of worshipping Buddha, in fact, in order to secretly mobilize military forces, with the intention of rebellion.
Boy, the queen mother rebellion, words in the book dare not write so. The maidservant girl who delivered the message
to me took a sip of tea and continued to deliver the message: “The princess knows that not only are you not born to the queen mother, but even the emperor is not of the queen mother’s blood.”? The Empress Dowager brought out a young man from the Changming Temple in the suburbs of Beijing, saying that that was the true blood of the royal family, and that you and the emperor were both.. She looked at me and said the last two words carefully: “bastard.” In the palace of the Regent, only a few confidants of Xie Changyue knew that I was not Jiang Lingyi.
But the child was just a little girl who helped in the kitchen. Naturally, she didn’t know the truth. She also regarded me as Jiang Lingyi. She was afraid that I would be sad, so she said it carefully.
So I lovingly touched her head and exhorted, “Nothing.”. You’ve said that the queen mother is plotting a rebellion. You can’t believe a single word that such a rebellious person says. The child nodded fiercely.
“All right, you go down.” After the child left, I sat at the table and pondered for a while, but I was still a little worried, so I was ready to get up and go to the housekeeper to tell him something. Unexpectedly, when I walked through the long corridor and came to the front yard, I suddenly collided with a man in a hurry.
“Ah!” I was knocked back two steps, and when I stood still and looked up, I realized that the man in front of me looked familiar.
“Princess Shanxian, you happen to be here. The emperor has ordered you to enter the palace immediately.” I remembered as soon as he opened his mouth.
Isn’t this the little eunuch who summoned me to Xie Zehua’s place after the last palace banquet.
I asked him, “Did the emperor say anything about summoning this palace?” He shook his head.
I said, “I’m not feeling well, so I won’t go.” As soon as the voice fell, I heard Hsieh Tse-hua’s heavy voice ringing from the doorway: “Are you not feeling well?”? I think Sister Huang is alive and kicking. He came in person!
I felt vaguely that something was wrong and stepped back warily, but Hsieh took his time to follow me: “Aren’t you worried about Hsieh’s safety, Sister Huang?” I was stupefied, and suddenly there was a chill in my heart.
“Did something happen to you?” I took a step forward, grabbed him by the skirt, and gritted my teeth. “Where is it?” I asked. “I’ll take you to find him.” Xie Zehua looked at me with his eyes burning. He shaped the atmosphere just right, so that I was so deeply worried about Xie Changyue that I almost lost the ability to think calmly. However, when I followed his steps to the door, my mind suddenly flashed the words that Xie Changyue had said to me before he left.
“Ying Li, don’t trust anyone anymore.” I suddenly stopped and said, “I’m not going.” Hsieh Tse-hua paused, then turned to look at me. “Sister Huang is really ruthless,” he said. “You are your husband, but don’t you worry about him at all?” He clearly knew who I was, but he still called me a royal elder sister, and he must not have blushed when he told lies.
But after all, he is the emperor, and I can’t tear his face directly.
My eyes twinkled: “I …” I’m pregnant, and the baby can’t run around, so I’d better not go. I’ll let her run her own course and take care of herself. With that, I ignored Xie Zehua’s suddenly heavy face in front of me and turned to go. There was a sudden pain in the
back of my neck, and then I lost consciousness. The purple of
the irises, crushed by the horse’s hooves, and the moist aroma mixed with the smell of rosemary, floated into the hall. Yueyue, dressed in
a military uniform, stood in front of me, his eyes full of pain.
Strangely, he looked much younger, and there was a trace of pain in his voice.
“Ying Li, I’ll take you home.” When I opened my eyes, a familiar face came into view, with tight lips and dark emotions in my eyes, like the night.
It’s Xie Zehua.
I stared at him warily. “What are you doing?” He laughed and said, “Does the elder sister not even call out the younger brother?” “Cut the crap!” I stared at him and said coldly, “You clearly know who I am, but what is the purpose of bringing me into Princess Shanxian’s bedroom?” “Purpose?” Hsieh Yueh tugged at the corners of his lips, and his voice was a little cold. “Zhong Yingli, you know very well that Hsieh Yueh is more powerful than government and the public, and even I will be ruled by him.”. In any case, I am the emperor of the State of Chen. How can I allow him to continue to act like a tyrant? Oh, I see. He wants to take me as a hostage and threaten me.
Does Xie Zehua look up to me too much?
Not to mention that Xie Changyue is the regent after all, it is hard to say which is more important to him, feelings or power. Speaking of importance
alone, I’m afraid his kidnapping of the real Jiang Lingyi is more effective than his kidnapping of me. After
I asked this question, Hsieh Tse-hua did not speak for a moment. Instead, he stared at me meaningfully for a long time before he gave a light and cold snort: “Oh..” Jiang Lingyi? And then he left.
I tried to get out of bed, only to find that I was weak and could barely walk, and it was impossible to get out of the palace. At the door of the
bedroom were two ladies with big arms, round waists and expressionless faces. They didn’t answer any questions I asked. They would only comply with the needs of food, clothing, shelter and transportation.
In the evening, after I had dinner and bathed, I asked the maid to help me move a chair and sit outside the hall, staring at the iris in a daze.
Xie Zehua suddenly appeared.
He put an oil-paper bag in front of me and said as if nothing had happened, “I have ordered Chu Yan to buy the sweet-scented osmanthus cake outside the palace for your sister to taste.” I have been too lazy to correct his name, not to mention this person every day to me under the soft muscle powder, so that my whole body is weak, I am very angry, really do not want to talk to him.
As a result, Hsieh Tse-hua remained indomitable: “Sister Huang is angry with me for bringing you into the palace, or is she angry with Hsieh Chang-yue for not coming to save you and the child in your womb?” The last few words he said were particularly frivolous.
At the beginning, the second day after I was brought into the palace, Xie Zehua found the doctor to feel my pulse. After confirming that I was not pregnant, he let the doctor retire and then sneered at me.
I said, “What are you laughing at?”? If you hadn’t knocked me unconscious and brought me into the palace and locked me up, how could my child have been lost? This just said, Xie Zehua suddenly deceives the body to come forward, the entire person covers on me.
I was startled and tried to push him away, but the soft muscles in my body were scattered, and there was no strength in my hands. On the contrary, the soft resistance had a feeling of refusing and greeting.
Xie Zehua lowered his head and nodded on my lips, staring at me with burning eyes and a little desire in his eyes. “I can give you a child,”
he said hoarsely. My heart is frightened, desperately struggling, do not know where a strength, really let me open Xie Zehua. He was not annoyed. He stood up straight on the edge of the bed and said lightly, “Since Ying Li doesn’t agree, let’s forget it.” The sweet-scented osmanthus cake was placed beside me, giving off a very sweet aroma.
I recognize that this is the sweet osmanthus cake in the old pastry shop in the capital near the Regent’s Palace.
I seriously doubt that Chu Yan did it on purpose.
In order to avenge Chang Yue’s capture of him. “No appetite,”
I said dryly. Hsieh Tse-hua was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, “When you see Hsieh Chang-yue, maybe you’ll have an appetite?” I had already repeatedly convinced myself that no matter what Hsieh Tse-hua said, he wouldn’t get angry, but I couldn’t help but look up at him and say, “Is Hsieh Tse-hua coming back?” “Don’t worry, you’ll see him soon,” Hsieh says, tugging at the corners of his lips. Then he grabbed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake on the table and threw it on the floor. “If you don’t want to eat it, you can throw it away,” he said lightly. Then he left in a huff.
I stared at the sweet-scented osmanthus cake crumbs all over the floor and thought about things in a daze.
These days, I live in Jiang Lingyi’s former bedroom, and in my mind and dreams, there are more and more fragmented pictures, familiar but strange. I doubt it. I’ve actually lived here before.
It’s just that something happened that made me lose this memory and can’t remember it.
Looking at the fleur-de-lis in the night, I have an intuition that I will know the truth soon.
As it turned out, my intuition was accurate.
Because two days later, when I was still enjoying the cool air in the hall, I suddenly heard something coming from outside.
Then, without waiting for me to react, the palace gate was suddenly pushed open by Xie Zehua, who strode in with a face as heavy as water and picked me up from the soft couch. “Don’t you want to see Xie Changyue?”
He asked coldly? I will take you there now. Xie Zehua took me all the way out of the bedroom to the scene of the confrontation between the two armies outside the Chaoyang Hall. On the
steps, he and his palace guards, and I, who was held hostage by him. At the bottom of the
steps was Chang Yueh, dressed in black clothes and with a cold face, the armored army behind him, and Jiang Lingyi, standing beside him, dressed in red and with a stern look in his eyes. The first time I
saw her, I knew why no one would recognize me even if I pretended to be her.
Her face, her features, her pointed chin, and her pink-brown eyes, were almost exactly like mine.
It’s just that she has a unique noble temperament, and I’m afraid I won’t be able to learn it in my next life.
But this temperament, unluckily with her side of the body more and more incomparably match. I suddenly felt a sour feeling in my
heart. The
more Hsieh saw me beside him, his expression changed slightly. Then he drew his sword neatly from his waist and said, “What is the purpose of the emperor’s kidnapping of the king’s wife?” Hsieh Tse-hua seemed to smile and said, “Did the emperor’s uncle make a mistake?”? The one next to you is my elder sister, your wife, Jiang Lingyi, Princess Shanxian. He bit the word “Huang Jie” so hard that Jiang Lingyi, who was beside him, became more and more pale.
She looked at Hsieh Tse-hua coldly, but out of the corner of her eye she didn’t even give me one: “Hsieh Tse-hua, this palace says that I don’t want to risk the world’s condemnation to enter the palace as a concubine. Do you really think that if you find a fake to come back, you can take my place for the rest of your life?” Xie Zehua did not seem to be angry at the two men’s behavior of calling them by their first names, and he was still laughing.
Sister Huang, are you kidding? I’m afraid everyone in the world knows that you and I are not related by blood, so how can we talk about not condemning you? Everyone in the world? “No,”
I said honestly, “I didn’t know about this before I married into the Regent Palace.” 「……」 Hsieh Tse-hua’s smile stiffened, and his eyes swept over me. “Shut up,” he gritted his teeth. The dagger in his hand was still against my back, so I had to shut up.
The more he looked at me, the more the sun shone on his pupils, and the inside was calm. My
heart ached, and I raised my voice slightly. “Now that Wang Yeh has found the real princess, I can retire with success.” I just don’t know if Jiang Lingyi’s dowry can’t be returned. I’ve used some of it.
Xie Changyue trembled slightly, and his eyes were filled with waves in an instant, and he could no longer hide the clear pain.
He didn’t reply to me, but said to Hsieh Tse-hua, who was beside me, “How can emperor be willing to return Ying Li to me?” Xie Zehua did not answer, and took a deep look at Jiang Lingyi beside him. That look in the eyes
, extremely complex, it seems that even Jiang Lingyi himself has a slight touch.
I finally understand, Xie Yue, Xie Zehua and Chu Yan like people are Jiang Lingyi, but these three people, Jiang Lingyi do not like one. So she did not enter the palace for the imperial concubine, do not marry Chu Yan, would rather go to the mountains to live in seclusion, also do not marry with Xie Changyue.
“Ying Li?” Hsieh Tse-hua repeated my name in a low voice and suddenly burst out laughing. “Uncle Huang, didn’t you forget? She, Chung Ying-li, and Princess Shan-hsien are sisters.”? When General Chiang died in battle, he had a pair of daughters who were just one month old. One of them joined the Hsieh family and became a princess with golden branches and jade leaves, while the other drifted among the people and did the lowest things on the street. Can emperor tell who the person he fell in love with was? What did
he say?
I looked at Xie Zehua beside me in shock, and it took me a long time to understand his huge amount of information.
But before it was over, Hsieh Tse-hua pulled out the dagger that had been held against my back and put it across my neck: “Uncle Huang has married my nominal elder sister, Princess Shanxian, as his concubine, and I have accepted Zhong Yingli, the daughter of the people, into the palace and treated her with the courtesy of an imperial concubine. Does Uncle Huang have any objection?”. Xie Changyue closed his eyes.
Your Majesty, I understand. At the beginning of the matter, is the minister’s own initiative, will be involved in the reflection, also hope that the emperor do not blame the reflection. I have asked myself to go and present the military amulets of the Iron Armor and the Xuan Jia Armor, so that I will never interfere with the government again. He finished this passage word by word, as if he had exhausted all his strength.
“I returned the princess to the emperor. Can emperor now return Ying Li to me?” I stared at him in a daze, and my heart was filled with pain and bitterness.
Xie Yueyue stared at me without moving his eyes, and his voice sounded so gentle.
He said, “Ying Li, don’t be afraid. I’ll take you home.” This sentence seemed to open some dust-laden imprisonment for a long time, and in an instant, a flood of memories came up and almost swallowed me up completely. At the age of
fourteen, when I was busking in the street, someone suddenly kidnapped me and took me all the way to the palace, a magnificent bedroom. The door of the
bedroom was covered with irises, which were very beautiful, while inside the palace, the glass screen was glittering and translucent, the curtain was soft as snow, and the incense burner had a faint smell of rosemary. This is where
I met Xie Changyue.
At that time he was still very young, but when he faced me, he was very gentle. As soon as he came in, he asked me, “Are you still used to leaving your parents?” I shook my head and nodded. “I’m not used to it, but they’re not very nice to me. I don’t even have enough to eat, but there’s a lot of good food here.”
Xie Yueyue’s eyes froze slightly, and then a hand fell on my head.
“Then you can stay here for a long time.” I lived here for a year.
Xie Yueyue came almost every day to teach me how to read and write, to make beautiful skirts for me, and to buy me many delicious snacks. I bit the sweet-scented osmanthus cake, afraid that if he was unhappy, I would eat and live for free, and there would be no such things in the future, so when he came in the door the next day, I offered to perform juggling for him.
Say that finish, do not wait to thank more agree, I performed a successive back flip to him on the spot.
But I was not good at learning the art, and I slipped in the middle of turning over, fell down, and bruised my palm.
Xie Changyue gave me medicine and told me helplessly that I didn’t need to perform any talent, but that there might be strange people coming from time to time in the future, so I should remember that when facing them, she claimed to be Princess Shanxian.
“If they ask anything else, just keep a cold face and don’t answer anything.” I thought it strange, but I did it anyway.
From that day on, not only would someone come to question me during the day, but even at night someone would sneak in and put a sharp blade on my throat and ask me to hand over the amulet.
I didn’t know what the amulet was, so I didn’t speak with a cold face, but the man was so angry that he put the dagger into my shoulder.
I screamed and fainted from the pain. When I woke up
again, the pale Yueyue stayed in front of my bed.
Touching my eyes, which were still somewhat blurred, he moved his lips twice, and suddenly reached out his hand and took my hand in the quilt. “Don’t be afraid, Ling Yi. I’ll come to accompany you at night whenever I’m free.” I think he is really strange. My name is Ying Li, but he can’t pronounce my name correctly.
But thinking that Xie Yueyue would come to accompany me in the evening, I nodded happily.
That night, he retired and sat in front of the bed and watched me sleep. But
I stepped back to make room for him and motioned for him to come up.
Xie Yueyue’s eyes deepened slightly and he shook his head. When
we were busking in the street, I heard the cook next door mention that if a woman fell in love with a man, she would sleep with him in the future.
Thinking of this, I said to Xie Changyue, “I love you. We can sleep together.” But he didn’t agree in the end.
It’s just that I slept late into the night and felt something soft touch on my cheek. At the beginning, Xie Yueyue did come to accompany me every night, but later he seemed to be busier and busier, only once in three or four days. At this time, the people who came at night were frequent again, so he called a few big brothers dressed in black to guard the door, saying that his confidant, the dark guard, could protect me.
I lived in such a dangerous environment for about a month.
Until that day.
I just got up, and after washing, I wanted to pick some irises in front of the bedroom door.
However, as soon as I reached the front of the flowers with my skirt, there was a sudden shout in the distance.
Then after a rapid sound, a group of people rushed in and crushed the irises. The swords in
their hands were still bleeding, and I was so frightened that I screamed and ran to the hall. Thank you, the more trusted dark guards were trying their best to resist, but it was still difficult to take care of everything.
Several people chased me into the door, overturned the glass screen, in the crisp cracking sound, the sword from behind my shoulder, once again stabbed in. When
Xie Changyue arrived, the man just pulled out the sword. My blood spilled on the curtain, and my body fell down feebly. I only had time to meet Xie Changyue’s painful eyes for a short moment.
Ying Li, it’s my fault.. I shouldn’t have brought you into the palace in order to save your instrument and the things in her hands. Trembling, he picked me up, pressed me against my cooling cheek, stepped on the blood-soaked iris fragments on the ground, and walked out step by step.
I opened and closed my lips and said to him with difficulty, “This time …” You finally called me by the right name. It turned out that the “immortal” who taught me to read and write in my dream was originally a person. Pulling away
from my memory, I saw two signs being thrown up by the elder.
He threw it so accurately that it happened to fall into the palm of Xie Zehua one after the other.
Come to think of these two things, is the Xuanjia army and the soldier amulet of the ironclad army.
Hsieh took it in his hand and played with it for a while, probably trying to identify the authenticity. Then he pushed me forward and said, “Go.” I stumbled and nearly rolled down the steps.
When he stood firm, he immediately turned around and glared at him: “I’ve got everything. Can’t you be gentle when you push me?” After scolding, I immediately ran down with my skirt, but unfortunately the effect of the medicine had not yet dissipated, and I could not run fast. A few steps
forward, I subconsciously looked back, thought it would be on Xie Zehua’s angry face, did not expect him to look at me in a daze.
In order to avoid complications, I slipped away quickly. When
he walked down the steps, he just passed Jiang Lingyi who was walking up. Her cold voice came to my ears. “You’re my sister. I should have saved you.” Then she walked up the steps and stood beside Xie Zehua with an expressionless face.
I know very well that just now Xie Zehua issued a decree that Jiang Lingyi and I must stay with him.
Jiang Lingyi saved me. Although she and
I are sisters, we have our own memories, and we have only met once in our lives.
Only this time, she saved me once. As soon as
I arrived at Xie Changyue’s side, he clasped my wrist and pulled me into his arms.
His arms were warm and firm, and he had held me so tightly six years ago.
My heart is sour and sweet, can not say what feeling, just subconsciously force, want to earn out of his arms.
The more he trembled, the more he let go of me, but he still clasped my hand and took me to the palace gate behind him. The cuirassiers automatically cleared a path for us. As I
walked along, I suddenly felt a chill on my back and looked back subconsciously.
Xie Zehua actually took the bow, the tip of the arrow pointed at the back of me and Xie Changyue, as if he would let go of his hand at any time and let the arrow shoot out. My
scalp tingled, and I hurriedly shouted at him, “Thank you, Chang Yue, you’re not joking. You’re already a mature emperor. You have to keep your word!” Xie Zehua action a meal, after all, slowly put down the bow and arrow.
His eyes passed through the crowd and fell on me far away, and there seemed to be countless emotions hidden in them.
I can’t identify it, and I don’t want to.
I took Xie Changyue’s hand and walked out of the magnificent cage step by step.
I probably won’t come back for the rest of my life.
As soon as I left the palace gate, I shook off his hand and looked at him with an expressionless face.
Her long eyelashes quivered, and she reached out to hold my hand. Her voice was full of caution: “Ying Li..” “The regent was playing for real, so in the end he gave up Jiang Ling-yi and chose me.” I raised my eyebrows, and my tone was very arrogant. It’s none of your business. Ying Li, it’s all about you from the beginning to the end. It’s all between you and me. You are not your substitute. From the very beginning, you were the one I loved. Xie Changyue’s hand finally got mine.
I didn’t shake him off again.
In fact, I was not particularly angry, and I just wanted to make a gesture. After my
memory was restored, I knew that from the very beginning, the person who was more and more interested in me was me.
No Jiang Lingyi, no Princess Shanxian, only me.
Great. There was a carriage parked at the gate of the
palace, which he had prepared for a long time. I got into the carriage with him.
In the closed environment, he finally told me the things I didn’t know.
My real name is Jiang Lingyi, and my surname is Jiang. Twenty years ago, the wife of General Jiang gave birth to a pair of twin daughters.
However, Jiang Lingyi and I are not yet full one year old, the state of Chen has a internal turmoil, dormant for a long time the different surname Wang Lian captured thirteen cities, the first emperor into a desperate situation, general Jiang was also trapped in the city. At
the critical moment, he ordered his servants to carry me and Jiang Lingyi out of the city in two ways and send me to a rural couple in the mountains, while Jiang Lingyi sent me to the capital. He said that if Chen Guozhen ceased to exist, the Jiang family should also leave behind blood.
It’s just that I’ve been unlucky since I was a child. Jiang Lingyi’s road to the capital was even more dangerous, but nothing happened and she arrived safely.
Later, by virtue of General Jiang’s hidden Xuanjia Army Tiger Charm, he joined the royal family and became a princess. The late emperor
even arranged a perfect identity for her, saying that she was the daughter of General Jiang’s sister and herself, and left her Jiang surname in gratitude for General Jiang’s sacrifice. On my way
to the mountains, I was caught in a rainstorm and fell off a cliff, so that I was picked up by a couple who wanted to be a child bride for their son.
But later, by mistake, she became their nominal daughter and the main inheritor of their busking skills. After the
young Xie Zehua ascended the throne, the imperial power was dispersed, and it all depended on Xie Zehua to gather it back a little bit, but most of it was controlled by him.
Another part of the power, in the hands of the queen mother.
Her ambition is not small, the first emperor originally intended to give the child secretly raised in Changming Temple, and attempted to take away the tiger amulet of Xuanjia Army from Jiang Lingyi. Jiang Lingyi is a witty and cautious person, she did not admit that the tiger amulet here, Xie Zehua, the queen mother, Xie Changyue, she did not believe one. In the end, she had no choice but to send her away temporarily and take me into the palace. She wanted to force Jiang Lingyi to take out the tiger amulet through some improper ways. At the same time, she broke the idea of the queen mother by asking me three questions. So he took me from my parents by all means and brought me into the palace.
Unexpectedly, in the days of living together day and night, he actually fell in love with me, and witnessed my injuries again and again, and finally nearly died of serious injuries in front of him, he finally regretted it.
“I would rather have never known you than to see you almost silent in front of me.” Xie Changyue took my hand and carefully pressed it on his cheek: “Ying Li, that day the Empress Dowager manipulated people to launch the palace change, so that group of people found you.”. There was blood all over your skirt. I took you out of the palace and found a miracle doctor. He said he could save you, but he was afraid that you would forget the memory of this year. At that time, Xie Changyue agreed without hesitation.
He thought that my life was hanging by a thread, and that this year in the palace might not be a good experience for me.
Whether it is happy, painful, or those memories of his heartbeat, all forget, even he also do not think of.
Later, after I recovered from the wound, the elder Yueren sent me to a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, where he had found a good family for me and recorded me as his adopted daughter. But he didn’t expect that Xie Zehua would start the layout at that time. The people who were sent by
Xie Yueyue were supposed to kill the busking couple who treated me harshly, but Xie Zehua sent someone to replace them and deceive the world.
Then Xie Zehua’s men kidnapped me on the way and returned it to the busking couple. They also told them to keep quiet and sell me to the brothel in the capital after four years. Someone would give them a generous reward.
Xie Zehua is a qualified king. When he
was fledgling, he used Xie Changyue to help him gather power and balance the queen mother.
Later, Xie Changyue went to find Jiang Lingyi to exchange chips and got the tiger amulet of the Xuanjia Army. When he killed all the Empress Dowager’s party, he took me into the palace to threaten Xie Changyue and return the military power.
I asked him, “So the Empress Dowager left the palace to worship the Buddha just to bring out the child she had hidden for so many years, and then to plot a rebellion, right?” More than that. She also sent someone to the mountains to look for Jiang Lingyi and try to get the Xuan Jia Jun Hu Fu from her. Hsieh Yueh says, “I arrived in time to save Chiang Ling-yi, and she was so grateful that she was willing to hand over the tiger charm.” Aft listening to this long sequence of event, that carriage had stopped.
Just stopped outside a strange house.
“We can’t go back to the Regent Palace.” Hsieh Tse-hua clasped my hand and led me in. “Hsieh Tse-hua has already convicted me. In the future, there will be no more Prince Regent and Princess Shanxian in the State of Chen. There will only be Hsieh Tse-yue, a merchant who has settled in the capital, and his wife, Jiang Ying-li.” This strange five-entry mansion was bought by Xie Changyue early in the morning. The servants of the
Prince Regent’s Palace had already moved over one after another, not only that, but also the dowry of Jiang Lingyi. Xie Changyue said that this is all our property at present.
In fact, it’s quite a lot, but I still have some regrets: “If I had known that when I stole those snacks, I wouldn’t have used the dowry money, and I could have left more.” Xie Changyue: “… …” He took me to familiarize myself with the environment of the house and went back to the room.
It was dusk, and the door closed behind us.
Xie Changyue hugged me and sat on the edge of the bed. He lowered his head and kissed my eyes. “Are you still angry?” “A little.” He sighed, took me by the shoulder, and looked at me earnestly: “It’s not that I won’t tell you the truth. It’s that before, the situation was uncertain, and the queen mother and Hsieh Tse-hua were watching covetously. You don’t know these things, and that’s the safest thing.” “I know, so I’m not really angry about it.” I stared into his eyes. “I was angry with you. Why did you take the liberty to send me away to a rich family in a rich place in the south of the Yangtze River, raise me until I was 18 years old, and then get married, right?”? Thank you. I said at the time that the person I like is you, and you clearly like me, but you’re willing to watch me marry someone else. I’m afraid your love isn’t really sincere, is it? I made a gesture to go, and sure enough, as soon as I moved, I was dragged back by the elder, and as a matter of course, I put it on him.
My fingers just touched his neat and graceful jaw.
I can’t help thinking about it.
Xie Changyue didn’t notice it for a moment, but explained to me in a hurry, “No, Ying Li.”. But at that time, Qian Kun was uncertain. Besides, you finally saved your life and forgot me. I don’t want you to get hurt for me again. As for marrying, “he paused,” I won’t let you marry anyone else. I thought that if the situation in the capital was settled, I would go to the south of the Yangtze River and bring you back to the capital myself. Xie Changyue finally noticed that my hand had reached in through his lapel. He quickly pressed my hand and gritted his teeth, saying, “Ying Li!” I looked up at him innocently. “What’s wrong?”? Will you be unhappy if you play? Okay, I did it on purpose. After
some things have been done for the first time, they will eat the marrow and know the taste. When
Xie Changyue put down the bed curtain, I was still pretending to shout, “What are you doing?”? This is a way of professing adultery in the daytime. With a low laugh, he leaned over and bit my lip. “Madam, it’s already dark.” Warm fingers went all the way up my back, stopped at the scar left on my back, and touched it with pity.
In the midst of my confusion, I suddenly realized, “Actually, you recognized me early on the night of the wedding, didn’t you?” With a slight pause in his movements, he finally nodded and admitted.
Xie Changyue said, now the situation is gradually stable, the queen mother began to stir.
Jiang Lingyi was besieged on all sides and even went to the south of the Yangtze River to avoid disaster.
In order to get Xuan Jia Jun Hu Fu from her and to protect her life, he consulted with Xie Zehua before deciding to marry her.
“Although I’m going to marry Ling Yi, I’m not really going to marry her. I’m going to ask for a decree to divorce her after the situation is settled, and then go to Jiangnan to find you.” “I just didn’t expect that Hsieh Tse-hua would be ready to trade you in from then on.” Later, Xie Zehua arranged for me to marry Xie Changyue and return to the palace.
The queen mother did not see the real Jiang Lingyi, the heart was urgent, rushed to start, this was seized by them, defeated in one fell swoop.
She stroked my eyes and said, “The moment I opened Xipa, I knew you weren’t Jiang Lingyi.” But he still pretended not to know and stripped me of my clothes before he stopped.
“Thank you, Yue. You’ve really been lusting after my body for a long time.” “Hush!” He put his index finger on my lips and glanced vaguely at my chest. “I just want to know if madam has grown up.” Later, I asked Xie Changyue to inquire about the news of my cheap parents, only to learn that because the cheap brother was still gambling after marriage, owed thousands of taels, his wife was picked up by her family, and the three of them worked to pay the debt, and finally lost their lives.
A thousand taels? How can you owe so much? I looked at Chang Yueh with an incredulous expression. “Is it written by you?” He smiled without a word. Instead, he had the leisure to peel a peach and put it in my hand.
This is the default.
I have no feelings for those three people, but I feel very happy. I sold part of
Jiang Lingyi’s dowry and opened a restaurant in the capital. Together with the teahouse next to it, I invited people to perform every day, performing fire-breathing, sword-swallowing and stone-breaking in the chest. Once
I was in the mood and insisted on going down to perform in person, but the more I resisted, the more I agreed. I
did not want a back flip to split, the fire did not come out, but pulled the thigh root, and was finally carried to the hospital by him.
At night, I lay in bed with bare legs, waiting for Xie Changyue to give me medicine. He didn’t move too hard, but I still bared my teeth in pain and began to vent my anger with tears in my eyes: “It’s all your fault. You’ve spoiled me. It turns out that I do this very easily.” After a pause, Hsieh Yueh said helplessly, “Well, it’s my fault.” When he had finished taking the medicine, he turned around and held the account book in his hand. “Then I’ll ask Ying Li to help me look at the account book and take care of the family’s money.” In the hot weather, when I was eating iced peaches and looking at the account book at home, Xie Yueyue played the piano for me. They are
playing “Phoenix Seeking Phoenix” and “Lingering Spectrum”.
I took a bite of peach meat and raised my head, just in time to see the veil being gently raised by the wind. He was sitting in a waterside pavilion in a thin shirt, revealing a large white and naked chest, faintly two points of vermilion, long hair scattered, eyebrows and eyes romantic. Naturally, the
music is also very good.
I told you, he could go to the South Wind Hall with a sign.
Later, after I recovered, when I went to the store to check the accounts, I met Chu Yan at the door.
He mumbled an apology to me in a low voice.
In a flash, new and old hatred came to my mind.
“I’ve heard that Ling Yi is very much in the emperor’s favor and will soon be conferred the title of empress. Does Prince Chu still feel happy?” Chu Yan’s expression immediately darkened.
I hummed a tuneless ditty and left satisfied.
Jiang Lingyi’s grand ceremony was held three months later, which happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival. The emperor granted amnesty to the whole world and exempted taxes for one year.
I was so happy that when I went back from the store, I carried a big box of coconut moon cakes for my husband.
He picked up a piece of moon cake and suddenly asked me, “When Hsieh Tse-hua wanted to take you to the palace, if you had agreed, perhaps you would be the queen today.” I disdained to say, “Am I crazy to stay with him and continue to be Jiang Lingyi’s stand-in?” But Hsieh Yueh murmured softly, “a substitute?”? That’s not necessarily.. He knows which is more important, so why should I say it for him? I didn’t hear what he was talking about. I just frowned and continued, “Besides, I don’t like Hsieh Tse-hua. He seems to have a problem with his brain.”. The first time he went to the palace, he saw me reading on the table and watching me practice the splits and breathing fire, and he always stared at me with strange eyes. Xie Changyue looked at me in astonishment for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he laughed his head off. After
laughing, he went to fetch the piano and said, “I’ll play another tune for Ying-li. I wanted to teach you the piano, but you never learned it, and every day you pestered me to listen to it.” He began to pluck the strings.
I ate a piece of moon cake and felt a little bored. I took a sip of tea and pressed it down. Then I propped up my chin and looked at him intently. The sound of the harp is clear to the ear. What’s so great about
being a queen? I want to love in the side, money in the hand, the world of mortals rolling, boudoir joy.
Now, it’s all there.
