Folding the Golden
Bough and Complaining: Fireworks Are Easy to Be Cold, For Whom to Bow Down
“Is this the face you like?” Hsieh Ching-lin smiled, but his eyes were cold. He scratched his cheek with a knife. “What about now?”? Does it still look like it?
I am a widowed princess, the second son of Xie in the capital. He is my nameless but well-known lover. Every time
he stepped into my princess’s house, his father would teach him a lesson. The blood stains on the
white back were so ferocious that they could not be seen.
“How many whips did your father break?”
“Three.”
I raised my hand, and the slender red armor ran across his handsome face little by little. “How dare you come?” I asked with pity.
“Since my father scolded me for doing such a disgraceful thing in order to cling to the royal family, wouldn’t it be in vain for me to back down?”
I smiled and said, “I have wronged my husband.”
I don’t want him to get hurt, and I don’t want him not to come.
For Xie Qinglin and I secretly live this matter, the capital has long been rumors. It is said that the second son of the Hsieh family was muddle-headed and refused to choose a maid from Beijing, but he wanted to provoke me, a widow.
Besides, I am a princess who has lost her husband in an undignified way. The
poison was given to me by my father, and the wine was given to my son-in-law. Before
the emperor’s son-in-law vomited blood and died, he murmured over and over again, “Even you don’t believe me, even you..” At the time of the
funeral, the princess’s house was deserted, and when the maidservant complained that people’s hearts were unbearable, I stood under the eaves and said that it was because of the heavy rain today. I don’t know when the clothes on
my arms were wet. When the
voice fell, suddenly came the sound of stepping on the water, and the next moment, the umbrella hanging on my side blocked the dense silk rain for me.
I looked back at Xie Qinglin, dressed in white, in a daze.
Xie Qinglin had been away from Beijing for three years, but he had never seen his son-in-law, probably because he did not know how much he looked like him.
The emperor’s son-in-law likes black, and Xie Qinglin likes white.
However, every time Xie Qinglin entered the house, he was all black. He knew that I liked it, but he didn’t know why. I had little interest when
he played the piano. I couldn’t take my eyes off the
sword.
I didn’t allow him to call me princess, but only “Huai Yue.”.
Xie Qinglin sometimes forgot that when he blurted out the princess, he would see me staring at him.
“Huai Yue, Huai Yue,” he said softly, pulling a rose hairpin out of his sleeve and shaking it. “I’ll make amends with this.”
I took it and pricked Xie Qinglin’s arm with a sharp point. Instead, he looked at me and smiled.
In fact, the temperament is not very similar, every time I attack the son-in-law, he will pretend to attack me, and finally hold together.
“Ching-lang!” When I put on the rose hairpin, I was a little distracted. “It doesn’t matter if you’re not polite.”
Hsieh Ching-lin, on the other hand, didn’t just give in. He fixed his eyes on me and said, “But in my heart I always remember to respect you.”
“The second son of Hsieh said that he respected me.” When my father asked me to inquire, I used this sentence to reply to my father.
The father frowned and said, “I know you’ve been involved by the emperor’s son-in-law, so that the people in the capital don’t dare to get close to you, but the second son of the Hsieh family is an informal person. There’s nothing wrong with you liking him.”. But if I really decide on this marriage, I’m afraid Old Master Hsieh will think I’m throwing him in the face.
I replied sensibly, “My son and Hsieh Er like to get together to relieve their boredom. As for the rest, many of them are arranged.”
The father emperor straightened his face and told me that the three important officials of the Xie family should not fool around too much with the second son of Xie. Xie Er’s frequent visits to the Princess Mansion are not good for me or him.
I thought about it and I got it. Since it is inconvenient
to go to and from the Princess Mansion, I can’t manage to go to and from the other courtyard of Beppu? When
I returned to the Princess Mansion with a careful mind, I found Xie Qinglin already sitting in the small courtyard of the mansion.
In recent days, the spring rain continued, the cool breeze continued, the pear blossoms rustled down, the silvery white pieces unwound at his feet, and there was one on his shoulder.
I was not in a hurry to go over and looked at it twice more.
The maidservant served tea just at this time, and did not forget to mention Hsieh Ching-lin: “Second son, the maidservant remembers that the anniversary of the emperor’s son-in-law’s death was just a few days ago. If your Highness is in a bad mood, maybe it’s because of this.”
Hsieh Ching-lin said indifferently and contemptuously, “Why do you mention Chou Hsien-luo?”? How can you worry about the ambition of a wolf?
The first time I heard Xie Qinglin speak like this, I didn’t see the warmth, and I had a little more shrewd and mean breath. Zhou Xianluo is
ambitious. Xie Qinglin
is not the only one who has said so.
He was the eldest son of King Dingbei and the proton sent to the capital. I heard that it was my father who betrothed me to him. But my father also told me to pay more attention to his movements.
I can’t notice anything.
But during the turbulent period, there was evidence pointing to his collusion with the rebels, the father said. The
father stood in front of the imperial case that day and said with an expressionless face, “If it’s true, the family of the King of Dingbei is the one who wants to kill him on the spot.”. If it’s not true, he’s too incompetent. He’s lost all the face of the Chou family and the royal family. It’s so easy to exploit a loophole. I don’t know what else will happen in the future.
“That’s settled, Xiaoliu. Be obedient.” The father continued.
So Zhou Xianluo’s fate was also decided, and on my side, many people secretly doubted whether I had helped the emperor’s son-in-law, but it was not easy to announce it.
I stood quietly under the porch, thinking about my father’s treatment of Zhou Xianluo. Unconsciously, after half a cup of tea, the wind was lighter. I lifted my feet and walked over to Xie Qinglin.
When Hsieh Ching-lin heard the noise, he turned around, and a warm smile appeared on his face. “I’ve been waiting a long time.”
I patted the flower on Hsieh Ching-lin’s shoulder and said, “I don’t want to break up with you, but I don’t want to meet you at the Princess’s Mansion again. I have a house in Fufeng Alley, and I’ll be there in the future.”
Xie Qinglin’s face was slightly congealed, and his smile suddenly disappeared.
“Why?” Xie Qinglin asked.
I shook my head, only to say that it was quiet there, and turned back to the inner temple. While
I was carefully pruning the thorns on the flower branches in the inner hall, the maid came to me and asked me, “The second son has gone. Will he not come again?”
“He will.” As soon as the thin blade closed, all the fine thorns fell off.
The maidservant was silent, but her eyes were full of disbelief.
I really couldn’t see Xie Qinglin for several days. When
I felt lonely, the princess of Xingyang, who had just come out of the palace, came to see me with a musician. Xingyang is a master with a big heart, and she doesn’t put the outside world’s speculation about me in her heart.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that she brought a message.
Zhou Xianluo’s little sister, my sister-in-law Jane, is getting married and will come to the capital in a few days.
“I’m not sure. The Hsieh Taishi family, the Minister of Works family, and the Prime Minister family all have sons of similar age. I don’t know who they fall on.”
My lips opened and closed, and I said the two words: “Xie Er.”
Hsing-yang sneered, “Have you heard that the Hsieh family is in a hurry to choose a wife for their second son?”
I concentrated on fiddling with the bottles and cans on the table, and after a while I said, “I’m afraid Hsieh Er is going to make a scene.”
“It’s up to you whether you make trouble or not,” said Hsing-yang with an ambiguous look. She got up slowly and left a sentence as she left. “I think it’s going to rain soon, so I’ll stay soon. But this musician is left to you.
I raised my head and looked at the musician carefully.
Wonderful hands play the piano, elegant demeanor.
Yeah, this is to deliver the face. When I
was listening with relish, I suddenly felt a solemn and suffocating arrogance climbing from behind.
Xie Qinglin suddenly appeared in the Princess Mansion, which made me unable to react. “You can go back now,” he ordered the musician coldly, “or I’ll ask you to go to the Hsieh Mansion and play for me.”
The musician looked at me bitterly.
“Come back another day.” I say.
The musician actually smiled and nodded and said yes.
Xie Qinglin’s left hand holding the umbrella has a slight blue tendons. Only then did
I realize that his shoulders and the ends of his hair were all wet by the drizzle, as if he had been drenched.
I wiped his hair with my veil and asked, “What’s going on?”
Hsieh Ching-lin gently brushed my hand away and refused to accept my wishes. He stared at me and said, “I’ve been waiting in Fufeng Alley every day, but you haven’t set foot in it once. What on earth do you mean?” “Have you been there?”
I asked in surprise.
Hsieh Ching-lin frowned and said, “It’s not right to go during the day, and it’s also right to go at night. I can’t figure out why.”. When I came to see you today, I saw that you were making fun of people.
Xie Qinglin came to quarrel, but I was not annoyed.
I picked up the jar on the case and looked at him. “Would you like to try the new medicine I mixed?” I asked. “It’s all from the palace. It’s for the welts on your back.”
Xie Qinglin was stunned, and the coldness in his eyes gradually dissipated, replaced by the rippling light of water. He put his arms around me and buried his face in my shoulder. He mumbled something and said shamelessly, “Moon, I was wrong. It was all my fault.”
“Of course you’re wrong,” I said, stroking his injured back. “If you hadn’t come to provoke me on the day of mourning, nothing would have happened.” Strange to
say, when my father summoned me to the palace to discuss Zhou Xianluo’s crime, I had clearly met Xie Qinglin there, but the memory was very vague, except for the side head under the eaves on the day of mourning, which was very clear and branded in my heart.
Every time I am tempted, I will think of his contempt for Zhou Xianluo.
But also because of this, he can be in my side, steady in front of Zhou Xianluo’s shadow.
“You go ahead today, and I’ll see you at Fufeng Alley another day.”
But Hsieh Ching-lin asked, “Which day will it be?”
“Tomorrow is the anniversary of his death. I have to burn paper for him tonight. I have to burn it for three days in a row. Otherwise, he always gives me dreams and disturbs my sleep.”
“Can’t you ever sleep?”
I giggled and said, “Did you listen to the first part in vain?”? I can only hear these words in my ears.
Hsieh Ching-lin said word for word: “Only what comes after is related to you.”
I kept silent and urged, “Hurry up and go. It’s still raining heavily.”
Hsieh Ching-lin suddenly asked, “You still can’t let Chou go?”
I stared at him and said, “You are going too far. You obviously have no quarrel with him.”
“Maybe, maybe there is.”
“Then he can’t get in your way now.”
Hsieh Ching-lin said to himself, “Yes, it doesn’t bother me, so what else do I care about?”
I thought my heart was like stagnant water, but at this moment I couldn’t help being annoyed. I kicked Xie Qinglin’s calf, turned around hurriedly and went into the inner hall, and let people lock the door.
The maidservant asked in surprise, “What’s the matter with Your Highness and the Second Childe these days?”? As if trying to get angry with each other.
I raised my eyebrows. “Am I mad at him?” “No, no, no, of course not,” said
the maidservant. “It’s the second son. He’s a little impatient.” “But your Highness,”
she said hesitantly, “the maidservant feels that the second son has a good heart and is very kind to your Highness. You can’t find another one in the capital with a lantern. Your Highness, don’t let the second son get cold because of a trivial matter. Otherwise, you will be the one who is sad.”
“It’s not a small thing, but it’s not a big thing either. It’s just a few words.”
“Your Highness used to say that you never quarreled with the Second Childe, but if you listen now, isn’t that what your Highness wants?”
Is it? Did you do what I wanted?
Not really. In the past, I always felt that there was alienation behind Xie Qinglin’s gentleness, so I changed my way to make him angry, but when he was really angry, his expression was not like Zhou Xianluo’s.
In addition to appearance and voice, in fact, he and Zhou Xianluo this has many places are not like, can let him change clothes, but not easy to temper.
“Go and prepare what you’re going to burn tonight.” I told my maidservant.
She obeyed, but she could not help admonishing me, “Your Highness, don’t be too sad, or you won’t be able to sleep at night.”
“I’d like to forget all about it.” I said. Just
keep the kindness of three years ago.
Three years ago, I was in trouble in the suburbs of Beijing. At the critical moment
, a touch of dark blue came out of the corner of my eye, and then a warm, broad palm clasped my eyes tightly, and my voice was clear: “Don’t look.”
Still later, I was blindfolded with a ribbon, but I could clearly hear the crash of knives, and occasionally warm liquid splashed on my hands.
I was so scared that I ran around. Fortunately, I was finally picked up by the princess’s attendant. When
I mentioned that someone had come to my rescue, I thought about it carefully and said in surprise, “The prince of Dingbei went to the capital today. It was him. It was him.”
Prince Zhou Xianluo, I took it to heart at that time.
Later, he went to see him specially, but he blushed and could not speak. When I
remembered this, I couldn’t help laughing out loud. When the maid saw this scene, her hand holding the paper money suddenly shook and she said in a trembling voice, “Your Highness, don’t do this. I’ll ask the second son to come over.”
I stood up and shook the ashes off my hands. “Be careful, my son-in-law will come looking for you tonight.”
I took two steps, then stopped and said thoughtfully, “Do you think Xie Er used the ointment I mixed?”
The maidservant covered her mouth with a smile and said, “Your Highness, go and see for yourself.”
I didn’t go to see it, but on the third day after the anniversary of my death, I lived in the house in Fufeng Lane without my attendants, so they all thought I had gone to the palace.
The window was not closed, and the night wind poured in and made the candle jump and jump, shaking the eyes dizzy. When the
door was pushed open, the black figure came in in the moonlight, and when the door closed, the candlelight was left.
I looked sideways at Xie Qinglin, slowly drawing my fingers on the jade pillow.
He knew I was staring at him, but he wasn’t in a hurry to come.
Xie Qinglin quietly went to close the window, cut the candle wick with scissors, and then poured incense ash into the incense burner. It’s
like benzoin, but it’s a little different from ordinary benzoin. It should be one or two more spices, and.. Xie Qinglin’s daily incense has some similarities.
Xie Qinglin seems to be very familiar with the layout everywhere, as if he often comes. But this is the first time we’ve seen each other in the house.
I waited patiently for Hsieh Ching-lin to finish what he was doing, but when he came over, he just sat on the edge of the couch and said, “I’ll wait for you to fall asleep.”
“You don’t stay in bed?”
Hsieh Ching-lin asked, “Aren’t you angry with me?”
“You — I didn’t say anything.”
Hsieh Ching-lin: “The princes have invited me to the palace tomorrow, so I have to leave Hsieh’s mansion tomorrow morning.” Drinking and discussing poetry
again? Boring.
Hsieh Ching-lin: “I don’t think it matters if it’s boring. The important thing is that no one will stop the princess from enjoying the music.”
“Yes, Hsing-yang sent me a musician. I almost forgot.”
Hsieh Ching said with a smile, “If I see someone suitable in the palace tomorrow, I’ll ask for it for you.”
“Good.”
Hsieh Ching-lin smiled and clasped my wrist. “Yang Huai-yueh!” He said. But
I laughed, “Why are you getting more and more stingy?”? This little thing has been written down for a few days.
Hsieh Ching-lin frowned and said, “Moon, please coax me.”
“Tomorrow night for sure.”
Hsieh Ching-lin stretched out his hand to hold the jade pillow and saw that he was about to fall down. I couldn’t help but say, “Aren’t you going to stay in bed?”
Hsieh Ching-lin just touched the tip of his ear with his lips. After a brief pause, he stood up again and said, “I’m leaving. I’ll come back tomorrow night.”
“Don’t you wait for me to fall asleep?”
“You were urging me to go, weren’t you?” Xie Qinglin was born with a beautiful skin and a noble spirit. Once he showed his grievance with the meaning of begging, it really made my soul float up.
I hooked his white jade belt.
As a result, Hsieh Ching-lin really couldn’t get away.
Those whiplash wounds are still not good, the palm of the hand is covered, and the ferocious roughness can be clearly felt.
“Take it easy. Just come back tomorrow night. What if you’re really killed?”
Xie Qinglin gave a low laugh, kept silent, and repeatedly grinded. After
that night, I didn’t go to Fufeng Lane for several days.
On one occasion, a sedan chair passed by the long street. When the curtain was lifted, he saw Xie Qinglin riding a horse passing by. He only glanced at it lightly, and he did the same.
Hsieh Ching-lin probably thought I was putting on a show for outsiders to see. After all, the Hsieh family was now eager to put him into a bridal sedan chair and send him to a girl’s home.
But Xie Qinglin did not guess that I was willing to break up with him this time.
I suddenly found that the time to see Zhou Xianluo through Xie Qinglin was getting less and less, and even sometimes I remembered Zhou Xianluo after he left.
I thought, I don’t need a double anymore. When I
realized this, I had a strong sense of crying, even more sad than when I was in mourning. Remembering that I had been suppressing my emotions in order to avoid suspicion and reassure my father, I really didn’t shed a few tears.
The only time was when Zhou Xianluo asked me if I believed him when he was dying. I later answered that I believed you, but he had closed his eyes.
“Your Highness, your Highness,” said the maidservant, interrupting my thoughts. “The maidservant just saw the second son riding a horse outside.”
I suppressed my tears and said, “Yes, that red horse is really beautiful.”
“Why do the maidservants feel that these horses all look the same, but they don’t look like people. There are some differences between them anyway.”
Yeah, it’s not all the same.
Seeing that I didn’t accept the musician last time, the princess of Xingyang brought a new handsome young man this time, and painstakingly advised me that people should have some fun to get through life.
I burst out laughing.
“Are you and the second son not good again?” Xingyang asked me later.
The body is lazy, too lazy to see people, but through the letter.
The Hsieh family has a high status, but you deserve it. It’s just that the old master heard the rumors before and mistakenly thought that you were involved in the disaster of the emperor’s son-in-law, so he had some scruples. Now that everyone knows that Your Majesty treats you as before, they know that you are innocent. Perhaps the Grand Master doesn’t think so anymore. If you really like it, open your mouth to Your Majesty, and it will be all right.
I shook my head and said, “No.”
“If you don’t want it, don’t want it. There’s no reason to kill a tree.” Hsing-yang points to the new musician and asks, “Does this look good?”
I was about to open my mouth when I suddenly noticed a stagnation of breath behind me-
I turned around and saw a beautiful little face, but it looked heavy and spiritless, like a flower that was about to wilt.
“Lord, you can’t come in without being notified. That’s not the rule.” A servant hurried up behind him.
County Lord. Jane? Are you Xianluo’s sister?
Chou Chien-erh stared at me quietly for a moment, then slowly asked, “Princess, are you getting married?”
Xingyang glanced at her, then looked at me, and said nothing.
“No.” I said.
I heard Zhou Xianluo mention his third sister, and I knew that they had a good relationship. Naturally, I also knew the reason why Zhou Jianer rushed to the Princess Mansion as soon as she settled in the capital.
“Is this where my brother lived?” Chou Chien-erh walked step by step through the Princess Mansion. “It’s not a big house.”
“The Princess Mansion is not as good as the Dingbei Mansion, but he’s happy to live there.”
Chou Chien-erh’s expression stagnated. She raised her eyebrows and said, “Since you’re so happy, why did you pick a road beyond redemption?”
I spread out my hands and said, “He didn’t tell me about it when he told me in a dream.”
Do you really believe that he would collude with the rebels? I don’t believe it. My brother is not that kind of insidious person.
I looked at Chou Chien-er and suddenly asked, “Did you take the initiative to come to the capital with the King of the North?”
“Yes,” Chou Chien-erh said without hesitation, “I want to check. Don’t you want to get engaged? As it happens, not only will I be able to take root in the capital, but I will also be able to use my husband’s influence to investigate.
“How dare you,” I said in a low voice. “Do you question Your Majesty’s decision?”
“There are times when Your Majesty is deceived.”
“Tomorrow I will blindfold you and throw you back into the north.”
Chou Chien-erh ignored me and said to herself, “When I came here, I had already vaguely heard of the families that might be my partners. Sister-in-law, do you think the Hsieh family is good?”? If the family is well, I’ll go and report back to Your Majesty. When
she finished, her eyes fell on me intentionally or unintentionally, forcing her calm eyes to show the shadow of waiting for an opportunity only in a moment. Without hesitation,
I said, “Not the Hsieh family.”
Chou Chien-erh wasn’t surprised. “Why?” I retorted.
You’re not questioning Your Majesty, you’re questioning me. You’ve heard what the princess said, and you know I’m involved with the Hsieh family. He even asked me whether the Xie family was good or not, because he wanted to provoke me on purpose. You just want to know if I deliberately harmed Hsien-luo to make room for the Hsieh family in order to live with the Hsieh family’s son.
Chou Chien-erh was startled, and his face looked as cramped as if his mind had been pierced. “Isn’t that the case, sister-in-law?”
“Thanks to you for looking down on your own brother,” I paused. “When Chou Hsien-luo went to the capital, it was the time for the Hsieh family’s son to leave the capital. So we still have time to make private deals?”
Out of the corner of my eye, I faintly saw a dark shadow.
I raised my voice and my face became a little fierce. I twisted Zhou Jianer’s chin with my hand, and she gave a cry of pain. Unmoved,
I said, “You’ve only met the son of the Hsieh family, but how dare you say that you love him?”? Still want to rob with me? Where did you get the courage?
Chou Chien-erh was stunned. “What..?” What love?
I carried her into the inner hall and then let go of my hand. “Don’t talk nonsense in the princess’s mansion. Not all of them are mine.”
Chou Chien-erh gasped for breath and kept silent, not baring his teeth and brandishing his claws as he had just done.
“But don’t think that the Hsieh family is telling the truth, or you’ll suffer a lot.” I paced up and down, thinking for a long time. “There are a few others with good character and good prospects. You can see them more often.”
Chou Chien-erh: “I want the most powerful one.”
I pulled the corners of my mouth and said, “They have a lot of power, but you have a lot of courage. I’m afraid you won’t be able to cover it yourself.”
“If you don’t help me check, will you stop me?” “I can see that,” said Chou Chien-erh hurriedly. “You don’t want to know the truth at all. Why on earth?”
I stared straight at Chou Chien-erh and said, “Because I’m timid and afraid of trouble.”
Zhou Jianer’s expression froze and stared at me for a long time without saying a word before he lowered his head.
My father asked me to kill people to force me to break up with Zhou Xianluo so that I could prove my innocence. I
knew it was cruel, but I still obeyed the holy will.
Then in the day and night interwoven guilt, he constantly deepened his affection for Zhou Xianluo, and then was easily lured away by Xie Qinglin, who described it as similar.
When Hsieh Ching-lin first returned to Beijing, he fell on my knee and said, “I’m willing to be a subordinate of the princess, even if I can’t see the light of day.”
I was uncontrollably infatuated with him at that moment. For the
next few days, Zhou Jianer was very quiet, and I didn’t know what idea she was brewing.
If so calm down, it is good, but some people can not bear this calm. When
I went to Fanlou for a drink, I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure sitting next to me only a curtain away.
“What a coincidence.” I opened my mouth.
“It’s not a coincidence. I came with you on purpose. You didn’t want me to go into the Princess Mansion, and I couldn’t find you in Fufeng Alley, so I had to come with you behind the sedan chair.” Hsieh Ching-lin didn’t turn his head to look at me. He was picking up a piece of shrimp, but he didn’t put it into his mouth for a long time. “I thought you were acting a few days ago, but these last few days I suddenly realized that this was not acting. You can’t put up with acting like that. You just want to abandon me. What a cruel heart!
Xie Qinglin’s tone is very light, but the meaning of the words is heavy and heavy. I couldn’t eat anything, so I slowly put down my chopsticks and stared at him through the curtain.
Hsieh Ching-lin: I just figured out a few days ago that it was because I was busy with things in the past, so I was distracted to take care of things over there. Fortunately, the result was good, and I made some small contributions. Your Majesty was very happy, so he asked me what reward I wanted. I said, “How about settling things between me and Princess Huaiyue?”? He’s fine with it.
I lifted the curtain and said, “Hsieh Ching-lin!”
Hsieh Ching-lin looked sideways at me and said, “In the past, you had the final say, but now it’s time for me to have the final say.” Is it up to
you? You’re acting first and asking questions later! So what if we act
first and report later? I don’t have a point, but do you have a point just because you’re a heartbreaker?
I was stunned. How. Why is it so serious.
Hsieh Ching-lin’s eyes sparkled and he said with a light smile, “I used to say it wouldn’t matter if I couldn’t see the light, but now you’re not even happy to hide me in the dark. I’ll have to go to the light myself.”
“Your father..” Without waiting for me to finish
, Hsieh Ching-lin said, “Princess Neng Shang welcomed the emperor’s daughter. It was only I who climbed up.” At this moment,
I suddenly realized that Xie Qinglin’s bones were not as kind and gentle as I thought before, and I dared not bully him as before.
“You have a guest in your house?” Xie Qinglin suddenly asked.
“Hsien-luo’s younger sister, Chou Chien-er.”
“I’m afraid there will be a lot of noise.”
“Not as good as you.”
“Not bad.” Hsieh Ching-lin lifted his chopsticks sideways and brought the shrimp he had picked up to my mouth. “It’s ready,” he whispered. “You can taste it.”
I turned my face away. “I won’t eat.”
Hsieh Ching-lin laughed again. He put down his chopsticks and said, “It’s my side that’s not good. I’ll go over to your side.”
“It’s not good,” Hsieh Ching-lin thought for a moment. “It’s not good for your reputation. We’ll have to wait until it’s more justified.”
“Soon, too.” Xie Qinglin looked at me and said. After a pause,
I changed the subject and said, “Can you go and see the minister of the Dali Temple?”
Hmm? OK
5
“Your brother used to be very close to the eldest son of the prime minister’s family. He is now an official in the Dali Temple. He has the heart and the power. He used to go around and investigate cases for your brother.”
When Zhou Jianer heard this, he immediately sat down and listened to me.
I took out a box and said, “He gave me the evidence that led to your brother’s accident today.”
Zhou Jianer took it in a hurry, opened the box, and protected the contents very tightly for fear of being blown away by the wind in the yard. “Did you find them all in his study?”
She asked, looking at them one by one with a heavy face.
“Yes.”
Chou Chien-erh was silent for a long time. “Sister-in-law,” she said, “I’m not going to investigate.”
“Why?”
“I still don’t believe he’s going to do this, but I’m really afraid of finding out just in case.”
“You can personally return these things to the minister of the Dali Temple and say thank you. Tomorrow you can go to Fanlou.” I told her.
Chou Chien-erh nodded, her eyes drifting around as she absentmindedly gathered her things.
A scream from the corner of the yard pierced the air.
My maid was forced to come over by two men dressed as dark guards, then kicked in the knee and knelt down in an instant.
I looked at Chou Chien-erh and asked, “What are you doing?” Isn
‘t that what you want me to do? It’s obviously such an important thing to say, but you dare to choose a courtyard without tiles to cover your head. “Chou Chien-er:” Since you say that the house is not full of your people, then I’ll find her out. You have just ordered the dismissal of all the slaves, but she is deliberately eavesdropping, otherwise my attendants would not have caught her in the act.
The maidservant buried her head, not knowing whether she dared not look at me or disdained to look at me, the master who had been deceived by her for three years.
“You always advise me to put down my son-in-law and accept Hsieh Er,” I asked slowly. “Do you feel guilty, or do you really want me to put his death behind me?”
She didn’t say a word. “In those days,”
I continued, “you used to come into his study and sweep, and I laughed at you for being restless.”
The maid raised her head and looked at me with red eyes. “Your Highness, I’m sorry.”
Chou Chien-erh suddenly picked up a teacup and threw it at him. “What’s the use of being sorry?” He said angrily? Say, who ordered you! Or I will tear you up.
The maid dodged, but at the next moment she rushed to the rockery beside the pool and hit it hard.
The dark guard went up to sniff, then shook his head. He put the dead maidservant into the pool, and after her body sank, he said, “I will bring it up later.” The people
from Dingbei Wangfu are very calm. After all, drowning can be said to be an accident.
Chou Chien-erh was still very indignant: “Everyone has been caught, but it’s gone like this.”. There’s nothing left. What’s the point?
She turned to me and asked, “What are you going to do?”
“There is no way.” What
else can we do?
She has been serving in front of the emperor since she was a child. When I got married, my father pointed her out as my dowry. What else can
I do?
When Chou Chien-erh noticed my shoulders trembling, she frowned and asked, “What’s the matter with you, sister-in-law?”
“The wind is strong and I feel cold.” “It’s almost summer,”
said Chou Chien-erh doubtfully.
I stood up stiffly and went into the temple. “I went in to take shelter from the wind.” Before I
had taken two steps, I suddenly turned around and ran out of the princess mansion in all directions.
I went to the house in Fufeng Lane. Someone is waiting for me in the
house.
I stopped my unsteady steps. Xie Qinglin,
dressed in white clothes, was playing the piano intently, and his slender fingers lingered on the strings. A banished immortal. Seldom have
I listened so carefully. At the end of the
song, Hsieh Ching-lin raised his head and looked at me with a smile: “You’re here.”
“Your marriage to Your Majesty will not be counted.” I say. Two
strings are broken.
Hsieh Ching-lin scowled: “I didn’t sleep last night. I was writing a list of betrothal gifts. I wrote a long, long list, but I still don’t think it’s enough. I’m going to add some more tonight. Now that you say that, not only don’t you have to start buying tonight, but last night’s list will also be cancelled.”
I mumbled, “Yes, I don’t count anymore.”
Xie Qinglin’s eyes are cool, some dark, straight, some like snakes.
“You don’t look well.” When he opened his mouth, he only said something neither salty nor light.
“Because I’m not happy. I’ll go and tell my father later that I’m bored in the capital and I don’t want to stay here. I’ll be sent to stay in the fief.”
Hsieh Ching-lin frowned and asked, “Who made you unhappy?”
I was stunned for a moment and giggled. “You know what?”? Zhou Xianluo and I have been really happy in the past few years as husband and wife, so I am sad that he has gone, and I still can’t sleep every night for a year. Perhaps it was because I was staying at the Princess’s Mansion. This house was renovated for my marriage. Every moment I was in it, I was reminded that things had changed and that I had to leave.
“Are you in a hurry to give me up because you want to go?” Hsieh Ching-lin smiled coldly as he spoke. “Why don’t you ask me if I want to follow you?”
“Ching-lang, the sons of the Hsieh family are all outstanding and have a bright future. How can it be that you are such a reckless lover, as if you had come specially to avenge a grievance on the Grand Master?” Hsieh Ching-lin’s expression softened a little when
I called him Ching-lang, but by the time my voice fell, he had already become calm: “It sounds like Your Highness is determined to break up with me.”
“Yes.”
“I used to really think that you at least had feelings for me, even a little bit. It turns out that I flattered myself.” Hsieh Ching-lin paused. “Or did I want too much? Did I ask for something I shouldn’t have?
“Why stand in the light?” Hsieh Ching-lin continued. “That’s not what I should want, is it?”? So you are bored. When I
came, I felt the wind was strong and my body was cold, and now the cold is rushing into my bones, making my limbs stiff and my thoughts even more so. In addition, I was not as articulate as Hsieh Ching-lin, and in the end I could only say, “Ching-lang, don’t ask.”
“I have to ask, and I have to ask you,” Hsieh Ching-lin said sharply. “You especially like me to wear black clothes, and you like to watch me perform the sword. Is there a reason?”.
“You are somewhat like him, especially when you do what you say.”
“He..” Hsieh Ching-lin’s eyes suddenly turned red. “He’s just like him.”
But I can’t tell. I have long been unable to tell, I can not tell when I am emotional to Xie Qinglin, whether it is because he is like Zhou Xianluo, or because he is not like Zhou Xianluo.
“Moon, does it look like this?” Hsieh Ching-lin suddenly called me, and a small dagger with carved patterns appeared in his hand. The sharpest point of the dagger slowly approached his left cheek. When it was only a short distance away, I called out in panic: “Hsieh Ching-lin, don’t..” Don’t!
One, two. The
dazzling blood trickled down the side jaw and fell on the harp as Xie Qinglin showed no mercy. My
head stings and my eyes are sore.
“Moon, do I still look like Chou Hsien-luo?” Hsieh Ching-lin threw away the dagger and smiled. “But there are some things he hasn’t done, only I have. Three years ago, when you were in danger on the outskirts of Beijing, if I had covered your eyes a little later, would you have seen what I looked like?
Three years ago.. Three years ago.
It’s Xie Qinglin.
Not Zhou Xianluo, who went to Beijing, but Xie Qinglin, who happened to leave Beijing.
I bent down and coughed up blood.
Thoughts become blank in an instant, even with the eyes of Xie Qinglin have become blurred.
In the autumn wind, a solemn and dignified figure stood alone on the high platform, looking into the distance with a thoughtful expression.
“Don’t catch cold, Your Majesty.” The eunuch promptly gave the man a canopy to shelter him from the wind.
“Has the reply to Huai Yue been sent out?” Asked the emperor.
“Your Majesty, as soon as you tell me, I will send it out, and the princess will receive it soon.”
“Well, I know.”
“Your Majesty loves the princess so much that the princess will always remember Your Majesty.”
The emperor waved his hand to the eunuch to step down.
She’s been gone for months. As soon as the news of the death of the maid who had
given Huaiyue a dowry came, he knew that Huaiyue had already known something.
Huai Yue knew it at that time, anyway. She can’t remember now.
I do not know why, Huai Yue and Xie Er after a quarrel, the brain suddenly can not remember things, confused. Most of the people in the
capital do not know these things, occasionally a few know, also only when the month is deep in the past can not come out. They did not take seriously the drowning of a maid in the princess’s house.
Drowning can deceive outsiders, but not him. The death of Zhou Xianluo, the
emperor’s son-in-law, was indeed his deliberate act.
At that time, the king of Dingbei won another battle, and his reputation grew stronger and stronger. Whether it is a
timely knock or a setback in prestige, we should not be indifferent in any case, and we must do something.
Huai Yue is really innocent.
But when I first advised her to choose another family, she didn’t listen. Thinking of this, the emperor sighed faintly.
Fortunately, no matter how bad it was in the past, it is good now.
Xie Er took her to Huaizhou, which was a quiet place and would raise Huai Yue well. The grand master had some objections to
Xie Eryuan’s going to Huaizhou. But Xie Er is really a brilliant, let him into the title, when the Lord of the city, is also a reasonable thing. After that, the grand master had no opinion.
Huai Yue, my father has done everything he can. When you think of it
later, don’t blame your father.
Huaizhou.
Lang Jun was born very beautiful, but only half of his face could be seen, and the other half of his face was covered by a delicate mask, so he could not see what it looked like.
He sat in the yard and painted for half an hour, his eyes either fixed on the paper or on the woman who was digging the soil and planting flowers not far away.
Xie Qinglin looked at it, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised a smile.
Then I remembered one thing, and the smile disappeared. When
Your Majesty explained to Huaiyue the disposal of Zhou Xianluo, Xie Qinglin heard it clearly in the rear hall. At that time, he knew that Zhou Xianluo was going to leave, and devilishly, he had a strange idea. In those years when he
left Beijing, Xie Qinglin had heard of a kind of love trick called Lingxi.
First meet in the palace, looking for the opportunity.
Goodbye is the day of mourning, in exchange for the love of the moon at first sight. The
Lingxi will only take effect for a while, and then the effect will fade very quickly.
So Xie Qinglin has been eager to be really interested in Huaiyue.
Unexpectedly, Huai Yue’s affection never seems to diminish. She calls out “Qing Lang” one by one, tenderly tenderly with herself.
Get what you want, get what you want, Xie Qinglin thought.
It turned out to be a delusion.
Xie Qinglin later wanted to understand that this Lingxi was used unfortunately, just when Huaiyue was the most affectionate to Zhou Xianluo, so she only regarded herself as Zhou Xianluo’s similar appearance, in order to paralyze the so-called love at first sight. Do
you really look like Zhou Xianluo?
If so, then why has it never been mentioned.
Even Zhou Xianluo’s younger sister, Zhou Jianer, was indifferent when she saw him on the day she married the minister of Dali Temple. When
thoughts scattered, Xie Qinglin accidentally touched the ink, and the juice dripped down the edge of the table and fell on the black clothes.
Hsieh Ching-lin was wiping his clothes with his handkerchief when he heard Huai Yue calling to him, “Ching-lang, come and help me dig.”
Hsieh Ching-lin replied with a smile, “Wait a minute.”
Huai Yue threw the shovel and trotted over. “What are you doing?” She asked.
Hsieh Ching-lin: “Wait, I’ve soiled my clothes.”
“Well, it’s black anyway and you can’t see it.”
Huai Yue suddenly came over and leaned over Hsieh Ching-lin. She carefully lifted half of the mask and looked at it carefully for a while. Then she said, “Oh, this scar is much lighter. Is it possible that in a few months you won’t have to wear this thing?”
“Yes, after all, if you mix plasters for me every day, it will naturally get better very quickly.”
Huai Yue stuck out her tongue and laughed at him, “Little painted face.”
“Who told me to walk carelessly and shave my face with a pile of rubble?”
“And you spilled the ink.”
“Yes, yes, yes. Be careful next time.”
Huai Yue pulled him up by his sleeve and said, “Hsien Luo, hurry up and help me dig.” When
Xie Qinglin heard the name, his expression was still calm.
Huai Yue is always called “Ching-lang” and “Hsien-luo.” Hsieh Ching-lin is used to this. It’s
just a title, and there’s nothing to care about.
She is who she wants to be.
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