He refused the emperor’s marriage in the court, saying that he did not like me.
Later, we had a baby, and he became a famous henpecked general.
That year, my father was convicted of the prince’s rebellion, and I was exiled. Along
with me in exile, there is a prince to read Xie Tingyi.
Xie Tingyi is the youngest son of Zhan Beihou.
Zhan Beihou had great military exploits, and although Xie Tingyi was implicated in the matter of the prince, the escort officer did not dare to make a mistake in front of him.
I’m different. My father fell, and I don’t have any backing.
Out of the capital, several officials looked at me with more and more explicit and obscene eyes.
That night, they finally couldn’t help attacking me. I turned around and ran away. I couldn’t run far with my shackles, so I had to break open the door of Xie Tingyi next door.
I got into bed with him and begged him in a low voice, “Help me..”
My father is Prince Taifu, speaking of it is also Xie Tingyi’s teacher, my father once talked about Xie Tingyi, said he was unruly, no respect for superiority and inferiority, not to mention respect for teachers.
But now, he is my only life-saving straw, I can only hold on to him.
He rolled over with an aggressive look in his eyes. “You want to sleep with me?” It is better to
lose your virginity to one person than to be humiliated by a group of people.
I hugged Hsieh Ting-yi’s neck and nodded. “Mmm.”
He pushed my head away. “Sleep tight.”
I breathed a sigh of relief, he said sleep, really just sleep.
After that, I lived and ate with him, and he did not shy away from putting his arms around my waist in front of the officials. Seeing this, the
officials did not dare to think about me any more. Instead, they told me with a cold face to take good care of the prince.
The frontier fortress had a long way to go, and I, a well-fed Taifu’s daughter, learned to serve tea and water to Xie Tingyi every day, hammer her back and pinch her shoulders, wash clothes and warm her bed.
Xie Tingyi is cold and indifferent, and looks difficult to get along with. Fortunately, he is not picky. Once the water for washing his feet was scalded and his feet were red. He just frowned and did not blame me.
It’s not as annoying as my father said!
After more than ten days, the news that Zhan Beihou won the battle in the north of the Great Wall spread all over the people. Passing
by the street and listening to people talking about the exciting news, I observed Xie Tingyi’s expression, and he smiled. When I undressed Hsieh Ting-yi in the
evening, he hooked my chin and dyed my eyes red. “I’m not Liu Xia Hui, and I don’t have any noble character and integrity. I didn’t promise you that I wouldn’t touch you all the way..” With
that, his kiss fell.
My body shrank and trembled unconsciously, “Shih, Shih …”
He pushed me against the bed and leaned down, and the two of our fetters clattered together with a clear sound. The sound stayed with me
that night and formed an indelible mark in my mind.
Walking to Xunyang Pass in March, I saw desolation everywhere, and the cold wind cut my face.
The officer untied the chains on our hands and feet, and Xie Tingyi and I stood side by side, looking at the lonely sunset in the distance.
This is where we will live from now on. Before
we could settle down at the Xunyang Pass, Xie Tingyi received a letter from a flying pigeon in the capital. A coup took place in the capital. The prince, who was imprisoned in the East Palace, fought back and won the throne. The new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. Xie Tingyi and
I are no longer guilty.
Xie Tingyi wants to go to Saibei to find Zhan Beihou, but I have nowhere to go. On the day my father was arrested,
my mother cried to stop the Yu Lin Jun and was stabbed to death by the Yu Lin Jun in my home.
My father and brother did not wait for the day when the prince ascended the throne. Before I was exiled, they died in prison because they could not stand the torture.
Heaven and earth are big, and there are no relatives of mine in the world.
Xie Tingyi asked me if I would like to go with him, and I shook my head. What are you doing
with him? Be a bed maid?
I don’t want to.
“Where are you going? I’ll take you.”
I thought for a moment and told him a place.
He left me at the door of my aunt’s house in the south of the Yangtze River and rode away.
I watched him go away, and his figure disappeared in the cold dusk, never looking back at me. Because
my aunt had no son, she was not favored by her husband’s family, and I was dependent on others, so I had to be diligent, not to eat free food, and not to cause trouble to my aunt.
I work harder than my aunt’s maidservant, and I do all kinds of work.
My aunt looked at me with tears in her eyes. “Good boy, you’ve been wronged.”
I wiped the sweat from my face. “What did my aunt say?”? With food, clothing, and shelter, Kui-hung is already very satisfied.
My aunt touched my head and smiled without a word.
She was not in good health. After standing for a while, she couldn’t stand coughing. I helped her to rest.
Six years later, my aunt died of illness, and my life became more and more difficult.
My uncle and my concubine’s son coveted me for a long time. He didn’t dare to make a mistake when my aunt was alive. Before my aunt was buried, he touched me in front of her coffin.
In the past six years, I have been used to doing menial work, which is no less than his strength as a scholar. I pushed him away, and his head hit my aunt’s coffin, bleeding, and I don’t know whether he is alive or dead.
I was petrified, but soon calmed down and ran for my life.
I fled to the capital and met Liu Heng on the way.
His father and my father were colleagues. We were childhood sweethearts.
He said he had been looking for me all these years after the amnesty.
The frontier fortress had sent people there, and he had also come to my aunt’s house, but my uncle replied that I had not gone to his house.
At that time, I was doing the work of several people in my uncle’s house, and I didn’t want to be paid. My uncle didn’t want me to go back to Beijing, so he lied.
Leaving the capital these years, I was so greedy for the roast duck of Lan Yunzhai that I begged Liu Heng to take me to eat it.
Liu Heng laughed and said, “You’re still the same as before, like a greedy cat.” When they
arrived at Lan Yun Zhai, Liu Heng, who was walking in front of them, saluted a man and said, “Prince.”
I fixed my eyes on it, and it turned out to be Xie Tingyi.
I don’t know when Xie Tingyi returned to the capital. Didn’t he go to the north of the Great Wall?
He also saw me, raised his eyebrows slightly, and then looked away from my face. “Nice to meet you, Lord Liu.”
“Why don’t we eat together?”
Hsieh Ting-yi smiles. “Good.”
Two men are there, you come and I come to each other politely to pick up food and toast each other.
I don’t care whether you are an adult or a prince. You have the greatest appetite. I ate two roast ducks as if nothing had happened.
Liu Heng looked at my unsightly appearance and laughed. For the sake of a man’s face, he explained to Hsieh Ting-yi, “Kui-hung has suffered too much these years. When she marries into the Liu family, I won’t let her suffer any more.”
Liu Heng said, “Oh,” noncommittal.
My belly, the three months on the way to exile, what did I look like? This man didn’t see it?
I did not give Liu Heng a sense of self-blame for losing face, people live in the world, can eat and drink enough days than immortals, other, are false. Only delicious food
in the world can not be let down.
Eat and drink enough to have the strength to visit the graves of my parents and brothers.
It was Liu Heng who buried them.
Kneeling in front of my parents’ grave, Liu Heng took hold of my rough hands and said, “From now on, the Liu family will be your home.”
I followed Liu Heng to Liu’s mansion.
On the way, as if I had no intention of asking about Hsieh Ting-yi, Liu Heng said, “Two years ago, the emperor transferred Hsieh Ting-yi back to the capital and made him the leader of the Yulin Army.”
In the middle of the night, a man climbed over the window and came into my room. The dim moonlight came through the window. I stabbed the man in the face with a dagger, but the dagger was kicked off. The man encircled me, and I instinctively bent my elbow to hit the man behind me. He took my arm and easily subdued me.
He bowed his head and breathed hot in my ears. “You can’t fight me. Don’t forget, I taught you how to defend yourself.” The
familiar voice brought back my memory of six years ago.
Want to marry Liu Heng? How do you explain that the wedding night didn’t fall red?
My voice was calm. “I will naturally confess to him before marriage. Please rest assured that I will not tell the prince.”. I said I had met a gangster in the frontier fortress, and if he didn’t want to marry me, I would leave the Liu Mansion.
I don’t have a guilty conscience. Anyway, I’m a loner. I have a rotten life. No one can handle me.
“It’s you, prince. You’re a dignitary in the capital. Aren’t you afraid that you’ll disgrace your reputation by climbing the wall in the middle of the night?”
He smiled in a low voice. “It’s Liu Heng who found me in your bed today. How dare he say anything?”. I climbed over the wall to save his face. What does
the prince want to do? Forcing me in the willow mansion?
He let go of me and said, “It’s just talking about old love. I never force a woman.”. Did I force you six years ago?
“No, it’s the little girl who is willing to make a deal with the prince to exchange my body for the protection of adults.”
“Just a deal?”
“Or what?”
He stood with his hands on his back and gazed at me for a long time. “As you wish,” he said coldly. With that
, he turned and left.
Without waiting for me to confess to Liu Heng, Liu’s mother called me to talk. “It’s true that you and Huan’er have an engagement, but you were exiled to the frontier fortress. We thought you couldn’t come back, so we gave Huan’er a new marriage. It was Li Ruozheng, Miss Li Hanlin’s family.”. Of course, we will not deny your engagement to the Liu family, and when the daughter of the Li family passes through the door, let Heng accept you as a concubine. “
I am neither humble nor pushy.” Everything comes first. My brother Heng and I are engaged first. If I want to be a concubine, Li Ruozheng will also be a concubine. ”
Mother Liu’s face changed. “You, I watched you grow up. I’m so ready for you, but you’re so unappreciative..”
“Auntie, you’d better not flatter me. Gui Hong can’t stand your flattery.”
Mother Liu was so angry that her head was smoking. I got up and left. I went out and saw Liu Heng.
I asked in a cold voice, “Is it true that you married Li Juo-cheng?”
His eyes changed slightly. “Don’t worry, you’re the only one in my heart. I married Li Juo-cheng because of pressure from my family.”
I sneered, “I have to think about being a wife, and it’s even more impossible to be a concubine.”
He stepped forward and I sidestepped.
I packed my bags and went to the market to buy and sell maidservants. I learned from others to hang a sign and a price on my body: a rough servant girl, nine yuan of silver a month.
I brought the wood and showed the onlookers how I could chop wood with one hand.
Liu Heng probably found that I really left Liu Fu and came out to look for me. When
he saw me, his face darkened. “Would you rather be a rough servant girl than Liu Heng’s concubine?”
I answered loudly, “Yes.” Li Juo-cheng, who was
following Liu Heng, said, “My house is short of a maid, the housekeeper. Buy her and make her my foot-washing maid.” When
my father was alive, Li Ruozheng was a little humble in front of me. Now her sister has become a queen, and she has ascended to heaven alone. She is insolent.
I glanced at her and turned over the sign on my body. It said, “
Liu and Li, go away.”.
Li Ruozheng blackened his face. “You..”
Liu Heng’s face was also very ugly. “You used to be a lady from a good family. How did you become so vulgar?”
I sneered, “The family is gone, how can there be a lady from a good family?”? Gentle and dignified. If you can’t fill your stomach in a difficult situation and live on your own, you have to go with the flow.
I took Liu Heng away, and Li Ruozheng looked back at me and followed Liu Heng.
The onlookers dispersed and offended the queen’s sister Li Ruozheng. No one dared to buy me in the market.
I dropped my axe and thought about where to stay tonight. I was unaware when
Xie Tingyi came over.
Until his voice rang out, “I’ll buy you, okay?”
I looked up at him and lamented, “Why can’t a good family buy me?”?
Well, it’s better than Liu Jia and Li Jia.
Compared with sleeping on the street, there is nothing wrong with being a slave in Xie Tingyi’s house.
He has become the leader of the Feather Forest Army, so he won’t miss my beauty. During the
three months of exile, in order to curry favor with him, I served him tea and water all the way, hammered his back and pinched his shoulders, washed clothes and accompanied him to bed.
Now as his maid, in addition to not accompanying the bed, the other seems to be no difference, but a little different.
When Xie Tingyi became a high-ranking official, he added a lot of problems and was not so easy to serve.
Tea can’t be hot, it can’t be cold, I have to pick holes when I eat fish, I have to rub my back when I take a bath, clothes have to be folded into squares, bedding has to be dried once every two days..
The kitchen was leaking, so I climbed to the roof to repair it.
When Hsieh Ting-yi returned, “What are you doing?”
I raised the plank in my hand. “Prince, don’t you see?”? “
Who told you to mend the roof?” He said with a cold face.
He threw back his head and his jaw line was tight, which made me feel afraid. “I know how to mend the house when it leaks, but I just want to help the prince save money for the craftsmen.”
His voice was sullen. “Come down.” Is it not good to
help you save money? What is so fierce?
Because the roof of Huangmei season was wet and slippery, I stepped on it. Fortunately, I took protective measures. I tied a rope around my waist, and the other end of the rope was tied to the beam. I just rolled on the tiles a few times, and my hands were scratched. It was no big deal.
Xie Tingyi jumped onto the roof and picked me up from the waist lying on the tiles.
The hemp rope was tied around my waist, which made my front look very stiff. He glanced at me, and his face became more ugly. Trembling,
I said, Prince.. There’s a ladder over there, and I.. .I can go down by myself..
Xie Tingyi untied the hemp rope on my body, took my waist and jumped down.
If you have a ladder, don’t show off your flying skills? Are you stupid? When I
stood firm, I said flatteringly, “Your prince’s flying skill is so great!”
He whispered, “I’m only good at flying.”
Uh.
I swallowed nervously and pretended, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”.
Xie Tingyi said he would take me to Lan Yunzhai to eat.
Eat and drink, who does not go who is a fool.
Lan Yunzhai has always been favored by the dignitaries in the capital, and I used to be a frequent visitor here. As soon as
Xie Tingyifu entered the shop, he met his colleagues. Several colleagues pulled him into the box, and I followed him. I’m not surprised to see Liu Heng
in the box. It’s impossible to never meet him in the capital.
I was raised in the boudoir, outside people do not know me, in addition to the Liu family, no one knows that I was once the daughter of Taifu.
Xie Tingyi usually does not have a positive shape, people only when he changed the confidante, at most curious to look at me twice.
I just eat and drink, regardless of the sight of others. When
Liu Heng came to toast Xie Tingyi, I had already eaten my stomach round and burped.
Hsieh Ting-yi grabbed my hand and said, “Well, you haven’t put down your chopsticks since you started eating. It’s like I abused you in Hsieh’s house.”
His voice was so spoiled that not only did Liu Heng’s hand stiffen, but my body also stiffened.
Eat and drink enough to avoid going to the toilet. When
I came out of the toilet in the backyard and walked in the direction of the box, Liu Heng, who was waiting in a remote place, suddenly jumped out from behind the wall.
He pulled me into the shadows, and the smell of alcohol came to my face. “If you don’t want to be a famous concubine, would you like to follow Xie Shizi, who has no name and no share?”? Li Kuei-hung, what can’t I compare to Hsieh Ting-yi?
I retreated to the foot of the wall and pulled away from him. “Liu Heng, you’re getting married soon. It’s the past between us.” “I’ve loved you for three years, and I’ve been looking for you for six years,”
he growled. “Why do you say it’s over?”
I was angry, “I beg you to love me?”? Please come to me? I like Hsieh Ting-yi. I love him to death. I’m willing to follow him anyway. It’s none of your business.
I pushed Liu Heng to stagger, and not far away someone was shouting, “Lord Liu..” Lord Liu..
Liu Heng took one look at me and left.
I patted the smell of alcohol on my body and was about to leave when a figure flashed over and pushed me against the wall. Before I could react, the man sealed my lips with his lips. At the beginning, the attack was so fierce that I couldn’t resist it. I am familiar with
this breath, and I can’t avoid it.
The average man I can resist, Xie Tingyi has been practicing martial arts all the year round, his body is as hard as iron, and he can’t push it.
He drained the air from my chest and released me, pressing his forehead against me. Like me? Love me to death? Would you like to follow me anyway?
No, he listened to the conversation with Liu Heng just now.
I was still panting, and my chest fell together. Xie Tingyi and I were close to each other without any gap. I rubbed him between the ups and downs of my chest. I
just feel like I can’t breathe. I
ate too much and was held by him like this. The food in my stomach turned up in my throat. I wanted to vomit.
He realized something was wrong with me and let me go. I turned around and vomited into the grass.
He left in disgust.
When I cleaned up and returned to the banquet, Xie Tingyi was still drinking with his colleagues, as if what had just happened did not exist.
Liu Heng’s line of sight turns to me and Xie Tingyi’s direction from time to time, the look in the eyes is gloomy.
I regret eating with Xie Tingyi. It’s all my fault for being greedy. After
eating for a long time, I vomited, but I was hungry.
The next day, Xie Tingyi was not on duty in the palace, and someone from the palace took me to the palace.
I followed the Chamberlain to the Imperial Study and met the present emperor.
My father was the emperor’s teacher when he was the crown prince. I met the emperor a few times, but I didn’t know him well.
Shengshang Tianwei is totally different from the gentle prince in the past.
The emperor looked at me with an expression of grief in his eyes. “My teacher has passed away, and my heart is sad. I heard that his daughter is still alive. I hurried to send the palace people to look for you. How could you be a slave in Xie Aiqing’s house?”
Listen to who?
Which big mouth tells my news to the emperor, want to be known by me, I give him a big mouth! In front of
the emperor, I didn’t dare to talk nonsense. I took a deep breath and replied, “The civilian girl’s relatives are dead. It was Lord Hsieh who bought the civilian girl to be a rough servant girl in your house.”
Afraid of causing trouble for Hsieh Ting-yi, I paused and added, “Hsieh Shih-tzu treats civilian women very well.”
The emperor smiled jokingly at the corners of his mouth and said, “That’s good. What’s the good way?”
He emphasized the word “good” in an ambiguous tone.
What I said is good, just ordinary good. Give me monthly silver, including food and accommodation, and do not abuse me. Can a
man have a serious idea in his head, as noble as a saint, even.
I frowned and said, “It’s not that kind of good. The civilian girl said that Xie Shizi was a good man.”
The emperor shook his head. “You don’t understand Hsieh Ting-yi. He regards women as great scourges. All the servants in the mansion are men. If he buys you into the mansion, he won’t just let you be a servant girl, will he?”? I ask you, have you two ever had a close relationship?
I
I did not have the courage to deceive the king. I hesitated for a moment and answered truthfully, “Yes.”
The emperor smiled even more deeply. “Look, I can guess right.”
“I recognize you as my foster sister. You will move into the Chaoyi Palace first, and in a few days you will confer the title of Princess Hongzhen.”
I didn’t want to stay in the palace, and I didn’t want to be a princess. I weighed my words carefully. “Thank the emperor for his pity. The civilian women live very well in the Hsieh Mansion. The emperor doesn’t have to worry about it.”. Women of the people, women of the people are used to being free, and they can’t stand the constraints of the palace.
The emperor’s face sank and he said in awe, “I’ve made up my mind. You can stay in the palace.”. The daughter of a teacher must not live among the people.
I had to obey and kowtow to thank him. In order to show his affection for my father, the
emperor held a very grand ceremony for my canonization. In
the Changji Hall, the monarch and his subjects raised their glasses to celebrate, and I sat at the head with a stiff smile on my face, like a wooden man. Several adults
below had seen me and Xie Tingyi in Lanyunzhai. At that time, they thought I was Xie Tingyi’s confidante. Now when they saw me in the palace, they looked at Xie Tingyi with different eyes.
Xie Tingyi drank by himself and looked like a stranger who was not allowed to approach.
Liu Heng looked up at me with a complicated expression.
The civil servants propose a toast and praise the sage for respecting the teacher. He is really a wise king through the ages.
The emperor obviously enjoyed it very much, and his eyebrows and eyes were stretched.
Since the conferring ceremony, I have eaten delicacies in the palace, dressed in silks and satins, and my body is round.
I am a princess, in the palace is a marginal figure, no one walks with me, no one hates me, no one fawns on me. From time to time,
the emperor rewarded me with some gold, silver and jewelry to show his benevolence and righteousness, and I had a good life.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is near, the bright moon is in the sky, I am leaning against a tree of sweet-scented osmanthus in the Imperial Garden, singing to the wine.
Hsieh Ting-yi made an appointment to inspect the palace and passed by here. He snatched the flagon from my hand. His face sank slightly. “Don’t drink..”
I was drunk, my eyes were filled with fog, and the people in front of me looked more and more beautiful.
My tone was a little bitter. “You don’t like me, so why do you care?”
When I went to grab the flagon, I jumped on him unsteadily. He straightened me up and let me lean on the osmanthus tree.
The moonlight was like frost, and the smell of the man’s body was fermented into a fire in my heart by the wine, burning more and more.
I remember the craziness in his arms that year.
At that time, I was in a precarious situation. I committed myself to him and did not enjoy the pleasure of fish and water.
I don’t want to be his bedmate. If the relationship between men and women is not equal, I would rather be the one who holds the dominant position. Otherwise, I would rather die.
Now, I am the princess, he is the minister. I want him
tonight, not he has my body.
I grabbed his collar and pulled it hard, and he staggered forward, holding the tree trunk in his hands so that he didn’t lie on me.
I stroked the hilt of his knife and his face changed in an instant.
I pulled out the knife and held the handle in my hand and played with it carefully in the moonlight.
He finally couldn’t help it. His eyes were red. He clasped my hand and took the knife back. The
sharp blade cut my palm, and I could feel the blood flowing out, but I was too numb to feel the pain.
Hsieh Ting-yi said in a deep voice, “The wine you’re drinking has Albizzia in it.”
I realized something was wrong. Even though I had desires, I was always disciplined and restrained. Tonight I obviously couldn’t control myself.
I stroked his face with my bleeding hand, and my voice was hoarse. “Will you detoxify me?”
He takes two steps back. Adam’s apple rolls. “No.”
I laughed wildly and turned to the Chaoyi Palace behind the osmanthus tree.
Xie Tingyi followed.
I ordered the maid of honor to “prepare a chariot and go to the Huan Studio.”
Huan Ying Lou, the largest fireworks place in the capital, is not difficult to find a waiter.
Hsieh Ting-yi took me by the arm and stared at me. “Do you know that if you go to the Huan Ying Building, it will spread all over the capital tomorrow? Even if you don’t care about your reputation, don’t you want Li Taifu to be laughed at in his grave?” My
eyes were blurred, my eyes were red, and I stammered, “I feel bad..”
His expression softened and his eyes were no longer sharp.
I turned my back to him and took off my clothes.
I heard his slow steps approaching me.
It was not until a heavy gasp was behind my ears that I turned and hugged his waist. When
I woke up, there was no one beside me. I rubbed my dazed head and thought about last night.
Who would drug me? When
I went to Yulin Army to handle affairs, Xie Tingyi was changing clothes in the inner room. I blushed when I
saw the cat’s paw marks on his body. “Do you know who drugged him?” His
eyes were black and blue, and his tone was not good. “If you don’t know, how can I know?”. Remembering something,
he asked me, “Have you had the soup?”
I was stunned, “I came to you as soon as I woke up.” “
Go back and drink the medicine,” he snapped. “You can’t have my child.”
I looked up. “Why?”
He paused and said, “I don’t like it.”
I felt a pain in my heart. “If you didn’t like it so much, why did you detoxify me last night?”
It’s just empty, just as a good thing. . “
” You..
I closed my eyes to ease the unbearable heartache. As I
turned to leave, I heard his deep voice. “Be careful. Don’t be poisoned again. I won’t be so kind every time.”
A few days later, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, the monarch and his subjects were happy together, singing and dancing to promote peace.
The emperor put down the glass lamp and said, “Thank you, Aiqing.”
Hsieh Ting-yi stood up, bowed, and said, “I’m here.”
The emperor turned his eyes to me and said, “I heard that the emperor’s younger sister and Hsieh Aiqing had a love affair. Now the emperor’s younger sister has been conferred the title of princess, and she is a good match for you. Why don’t I marry you two? What do you think of Aiqing?”
My heart missed a beat, this saint thought one is one, before the marriage has not heard him mention, now directly in front of everyone, if Xie Tingyi does not agree, how should I deal with myself?
My heart was in my throat, and I stared at the tall and straight posture like pine and bamboo.
Hsieh Ting-yi’s eyes overlapped with mine in the air. His face was still indifferent, and his expression was calm. He just looked at me and said in a deep voice, “I don’t like Princess Hongzhen.”
Every word, like a sharp arrow, whistled my heart down from the sky, the figure in front of me was shaking, and I pinched the flesh of my palm to calm myself down.
The emperor’s face is not good.
I chuckled. “Not long after the emperor’s brother recognized the emperor’s sister, is he going to marry her off?”? All the delicious and interesting things in the palace are still fresh, and the emperor’s younger sister doesn’t want to get married early. When
I said the last sentence, my eyes fell on Xie Tingyi, his face changed, his eyes drooped, and he no longer looked at me.
The emperor looked a little worried. “It’s the emperor’s brother who is impatient. It doesn’t matter. The future is long. Let’s talk about the marriage later.”
The emperor summoned me and said to me, “I can see that Xie Tingyi has feelings for you. I hope you can find a way to marry him.”. I have known Hsieh Ting-yi for many years, and I know that he has a stubborn character. I can’t force him to get married. But since the Marquis of Zhan Bei has left him in the capital, I am duty-bound to arrange for his life, so that the Marquis of Zhan Bei will have no worries about fighting at the border.
The words are sincere, but I don’t believe that the emperor has the leisure to care about the life of his courtiers.
I guessed the purpose of the emperor to make me a princess and take me to the palace.
My guess was confirmed by Liu Heng. When
Liu Heng and Li Ruozheng got married, I sent a big gift.
“I wish you a happy reunion for a hundred years.”
Liu Heng took the gift list, but his face did not brighten. “Thank you.”
“We are destined for each other, but for the sake of our childhood acquaintance, I advise you to stay away from Hsieh Ting-yi.”
“If you follow Hsieh Ting-yi, once you get pregnant, you can only be like Mrs. Chan Pei-hou in those days.”
I raised my eyebrows and said, “Mrs. Zhan Beihou?” When
my father and brother were alive, he didn’t tell me much about the court. I only knew that Xie Tingyi was the prince’s attendant at that time, and he didn’t know anything about Lady Zhan Beihou. “You women don’t understand officialdom,” said
Liu Heng. When Zhan Beihou’s wife was pregnant with Xie Tingyi, she was put under house arrest by the late emperor in the palace to contain Zhan Beihou. When
Xie Tingyi was seven years old, Zhan Beihou’s wife was pregnant with a second child, and the first emperor agreed that Zhan Beihou should take Xie Tingyi to Saibei. Later, Zhan Beihou’s second son died of illness, and the late emperor transferred Xie Tingyi back to the capital.
Mrs. Zhan Beihou has been separated from her husband all the year round. She has been depressed all the time. With the blow of her second son’s death, she fell into the water and died for several years. The military power of the border
generals is too great, and the emperor must leave their protons in the capital. Zhan Beihou has only one son, Xie Tingyi. Once Xie Tingyi gives birth to a child with a woman, the child must become a proton, and the mother of the child will naturally be trapped in the capital.
Gui-hong, I’d rather you find a man from a small family than suffer like that. Even if
Liu Heng is not single-minded to me, he is not without feelings. Coming out
of Liu Fu, I did not go back to the palace, but went to Xie Fu. I have checked the duty roster in the
palace. Xie Tingyi is taking a rest today.
I went straight to Xie Tingyi’s study. He worked as a slave
in his house for a period of time, and I know that he usually read military books in his study at this time.
I pushed the door open and entered. “Hsieh Ting-yi, I want to marry you, but you have to marry me even if you don’t, because I’m pregnant.”
He stood up. “Didn’t I tell you to take the medicine?”
I rolled my eyes. “If you tell me to drink, I’ll drink.”? I’m not your slave, so why should I listen to you?
He frowned. “You..”
“Did you know it was the emperor who drugged you?”
I nodded. I had guessed.
Hsieh Ting-yi said in a deep voice, My father is very old, and he has repeatedly urged the emperor to let me go back to the north of the Great Wall. But there is no one in the capital who can hold the Hsieh family together. How can emperor rest assured that I can go back.
He has long wanted to find a woman to marry me, and when that woman is pregnant, he can control my wife and children.
I’m always cautious. He can’t put the medicine on me. He has to start with you. When I saw you
in Imperial Garden that day, I knew it was the arrangement of the emperor, but I couldn’t bear to see you tortured by Albizzia julibrissin.
Gui Hong, if you are pregnant, you will become a bird in a cage, a tool used by the emperor to coerce me, and you will never be free again. Is that why
you don’t want to marry me?
“Yes.”
“Listen, Hsieh Ting-yi, I’m not afraid!”! I am not afraid of losing my freedom. I am not afraid of becoming a tool of the Holy One. I know that your heart is in the north of the Great Wall. If you do not have children, you will never go back. With tears in his eyes
, Hsieh Ting-yi held me tightly in his arms and said hesitantly, “I’ve watched my mother face the north of the Great Wall every day since I was a child, and I’ve washed my face with tears. I don’t want you to be like my mother.” With a sly smile,
I stood on tiptoe and told him my plan.
He held me for a long time before he let go of me. His long, slender fingers pulled my hair from my forehead. “Your intelligence, courage, and passion are not comparable to those of ordinary women. How lucky I am to know you.”
I smiled. “Let’s get married.”
He gave me a kiss. “Okay.”
He stroked my lower abdomen, and I pressed his hand. “Don’t touch it. There is no child. I lied to you.”
He smiled and pinched my nose. “In that case, I have to work hard.”
The words did not fall, his long arm brushed the objects on the desk to the ground and carried me up.
Xie Tingyi asked the emperor to marry me. The emperor was so happy that he asked the Ministry of Rites to set the wedding date overnight. Ten days later, I sat in the bridal sedan chair. In order to get back to the capital
, Zhan Beihou exhausted five horses. The first time
I saw my father-in-law was when I was serving tea on the second day after my wedding. My father-in-law was very similar to Hsieh Ting-yi. He was not angry, but he looked scary. His voice was a little loud, but he was cheerful and friendly.
Father-in-law and Xie Tingyi two people in front of the sand table platoon, the two men on the battle plan quarreled blush thick neck, but Xie Tingyi’s eyes are brilliant I have never seen.
In order to let the dormant eagle return to its high altitude quickly, I pestered Xie Tingyi to make a baby every night, and drank the soup medicine that I wanted to vomit when I smelled it every day.
Two months later, I finally got pregnant.
Hsieh Ting-yi had mixed feelings. I comforted him by saying, “Don’t worry about me. Go to the north of the Great Wall.”
He stroked my cheek and said, “I’ll be back in ten months.” I bound his loins with the peace and blessings I asked
from the temple.
He mounted his horse, his armor shining in the sun.
I watched him go away, just like that year at the door of my aunt’s house. The
difference is that this time, he always looked back at me, and I, smiling and waving, my heart filled with happiness.
Even parting, there is no sadness. When
I was about to give birth, the border war was tight, and Xie Tingyi failed to come back. There are Yu Lin Jun around
Xie Fu. I asked someone to call Liu Heng. In
a remote house on the outskirts of the city, Xie Tingyi secretly sent someone to deliver an abandoned baby yesterday.
According to the plan, after I gave birth, I replaced my child with the abandoned baby.
But Xie Fu is full of the eyes of the emperor, I can not give birth in Xie Fu.
I get close to Liu Heng these days, pretending to be lonely and rekindling my old love with Liu Heng.
I often went out with Liu Heng and stayed in a boat on the outskirts of the city for half a day.
Deliberately making a blushing noise in the boat. The maid who
followed me did not dare to enter the boat.
The emperor advised me to be restrained, and I went in one ear and out the other.
He can only trap me in the capital, I have a private meeting with people, he can not call Xie Tingyi back to manage me.
I made it as big as one head and two heads.
So, when I went out with Liu Heng again, the old Mammy just advised me not to stay outside too long when I was about to give birth.
I gave birth in the boathouse. The two ladies who
accompanied me ran back to Xie’s house and called Mammy when I had abdominal pain. When Mammy arrived, Liu Heng had already delivered my baby.
Of course, Liu Heng is holding the abandoned baby in his arms. My child has been taken to Saibei by Xie Tingyi’s people. The
child was carried into the palace and raised by the emperor, and I continued to “hang out” with Liu Heng after my confinement, and even brought the wild man into Hsieh’s mansion. When Xie Tingyi returned to Beijing to be rewarded after the great victory at
the border, I was still sleeping in the arms of an actor in Zuixianglou.
Xie Tingyi made a scene in the Drunken Incense Building, gave me a slap in public, dragged me to the front of the emperor, and shouted to divorce his wife. Seeing my disheveled appearance,
the emperor frowned and put his hand to his forehead. “Just take a break..”
He felt that Hsieh Ting-yi’s son was already in the palace anyway, and that he, the emperor, was in charge of heaven and earth, and that he couldn’t stop me from cheating, and that he couldn’t stop Hsieh Ting-yi from giving up his “dissolute” wife.
Xie Tingyi remembered his old love and didn’t immerse me in a pig cage.
The emperor withdrew my title of “Princess Hongzhen” and demoted me to a commoner.
I left the capital with a bundle on my back. As I walked down the street, Li Ruozheng rushed out and slapped me in the face. “Bitch..”
She wanted to hit me for a long time. She used to worry about my status as “Princess Hongzhen” and the wife of the prince, and she didn’t dare to do it. Now she can vent her anger.
I have suffered a lot. I owe Liu Heng. I don’t blame her for being slapped by her wife.
Liu Heng ran over to stop Li Ruozheng from doing it again.
He motioned for me to run, and I smiled at him and ran out of the gate. In a city north of
the Great Wall, I dressed up as a civilian woman and held my babbling son in my arms. When the
war was not busy, his father came here as a woodcutter to accompany us.
Occasionally, I disguised myself as a man and went to the army to find him.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away. The sky north of the Great Wall is vast and boundless. That is freedom.
