My past
with Kou Fei Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
. At night, the lights have stopped, the pedestrians on the road have gradually dispersed, the tea stall has been empty, and I sit alone at the table. The waiter of the
tea stall came over and told me apologetically that the stall was about to close. I didn’t speak.
I waited for her quietly.
I waited for her to suddenly rush out from the corner of the street and say to me, “Ha ha ha ha, big idiot, I lied to you. I haven’t tortured you enough. Wouldn’t it be a loss to walk like this?”
I waited for her to suddenly come out with a sad face and say to me, “You heartless, heartless woman, but you took your son away and you didn’t even chase after him, you big scum!”
I waited for her for a while, then she came back and told me, “I suddenly realized that I had no money with me, and I was a bit of a loser. If you don’t give me some money first, I’d better give me a few big boxes at a time, otherwise I won’t have enough money to spend.”
I waited for her quietly. On the
table was the ice-sugar gourds she had not had time to finish, and when she left, she did not forget to take away the osmanthus cake, but forgot to take away the ice-sugar gourds.
I picked one up and put it in my mouth.
An hour ago, she leaned back in her chair and said to me jokingly, Your Majesty? Do you know why I drink saffron?
Because I’m really afraid that you will take the initiative to bring the medicine to me, and I’m afraid that you will tell me to drink it. I know the times, and I know that I can’t keep this child, and I can’t give him a happy and normal life. I won’t force it, I won’t force it, I won’t do meaningless confrontation, I’m afraid I’ll let you make a choice. You will make the choice that I don’t want to see you make.
She smiled and said, “I can’t afford to gamble.” “I never meant for you to abort this child,” I
said hoarsely.
She knocked on the table as if she didn’t hear what I said. “I know you’re suspicious of me, but you just don’t ask.” She tilted her head and asked me, “Do you remember what I said to you the day I proposed marriage?”
I remember.
She thought for a long time that day and said to me, “All right, but if I marry you like this, I will be scolded to death. After I marry you, I have nothing to rely on. Then you must not dislike me or doubt me all your life. Otherwise, how hard my life will be. I will certainly have a miserable life in the palace. You must promise me.” If you don’t, you’ll be the son of a dog born of a tortoise bastard.
I replied with a smile, “a tortoise can’t give birth to a son.”
In front of her, she also smiled and said softly to me, “Look, now the tortoise bastard has given birth to a dog son.”
I picked up another ice-sugar gourds.
ice-sugar gourds is very sweet, the entrance of sugar water is thick, wrapped in the tip of the tongue, like a forgetful medicine, the pleasant taste seems to be able to make people forget their troubles.
This dead girl, no wonder she loves ice-sugar gourds so much. There are not many pedestrians left in the
yellow streets. Even the last stallholder closed his stall and left. Everyone laughs, and I’m sure everyone has a good time today.
Kou Fei will come back after watching the excitement, so I can only sit here motionless. If you don’t see me
when you come back, you will be scared to cry.
I’m gonna sit here and wait for her to come back.
I waited for her to suddenly come out of a corner and tell me that it was all a joke, and then I would be very angry, and I would grab her and spank her, and she would shout so loudly that she had no image, and then I would scold her for not looking like a palace concubine, and she would retort with red lips that you didn’t look like an emperor either.
Then I would be so angry with her that I would lose my temper, and she would get up from my knees, scold me for being too heavy, swear that she would never play with me again in her life, and then repeat the same mistake two days later.
She will definitely come back.
“Your Majesty, please go back. Empress Kou has been escorted by a secret guard and has already gone far away.” The sugar-coated haws in the
mouth faded, the hawthorn in the sugar coating was exposed, and the sweetness in the mouth turned into bitterness. There was no one
in the deserted street.
I said, “Look at me. I haven’t tasted ice-sugar gourds for a long time, but it makes me cry.” Kou Fei and
I knew each other when we were young.
At that time, I was not the emperor, I was the third prince Li Huaijin, Kou Fei was not Kou Fei, she was the only legitimate daughter of Prince Xu Tao, Xu Zhiwan. Since the founding of the court, the
Xu clan has always been an important official in the court. The Xu family, both men and women, served the court. The men entered the court and became officials, while the women became concubines.
When it came to the hereditary generation of Xu Shuitao, Shuitao refused the hereditary official position and turned to the imperial examination. Relying on his outstanding achievements, he became a Grand Bachelor and then became the first assistant of the crown prince.
Know late, it is this time to enter the palace, do the princess’s companion reading.
She was naughty by nature, but she was extremely clever. Before she entered the palace, because of her stepmother, she was seldom well taught by the teacher. When she entered the school, she could not keep up with the progress of the course. She was often beaten to tears by Chen Taifu, who taught us lessons.
“Master, did you practice martial arts when you were young?” On one occasion, she asked Chen Taifu after she had been beaten.
Chen Taifu picked up his beard and wondered, “I seldom practice martial arts. Why do you say that?”
Hsu Chih-wan said in a methodical manner, “When I watched the Master hit me, his posture was very skillful. His breath sank into the Dantian, and his rhythm was intermittent. Although there were no big ups and downs, it was painful. So I guess, Master, you have internal strength.” “No,” said
Chen Taifu, “it’s just because I use steel plates.” Xu Zhiwan began to study
in order not to touch the steel plate.
She left so much homework behind that she could only do two homework in her spare time, one for the day and one for the previous one. If she didn’t understand, she would catch people everywhere and ask them.
She most often asked the four princes, and occasionally asked me. Never ask the prince.
“I’m stupid. I’ll ask the prince. The prince was taught by my father, and my father doesn’t know how badly I learned. If I complain to my father, my father won’t have to tell Chen Taifu to be more serious next time.”
Wei Ling listened to admire her wisdom, praised her very far-sighted.
“I was always scolded by my father, who always said I was stupid.” Wei Ling said enviously.
Hsu Chih-wan patted her on the shoulder and said, “You’re still too young. I’ll teach you well another day.”
Wei Ling is our fifth sister, before the princess either died, or married, she was the only princess in the palace, so her father and mother loved her very much.
Correspondingly, her discipline was also stricter. Wei Ling, who had been strictly disciplined
since childhood, had refused to let go since she met Xu Zhiwan at the palace banquet. It was time to choose a companion for her to read. Her father had chosen a group of ladies for her, all of whom were officials, gentle and virtuous, and versatile. Only not Xu Zhiwan.
“Mother, I want Hsu Chih-wan to read with me.” Who
is Hsu Chih-wan? Asked the queen mother. Empress
Hui is the daughter of Grand Maester Hsu Shu-tao. The first round of the exam was brushed off. Grandfather Wang, the eunuch in charge, said respectfully.
Her mother comforted Wei Ling: “Xu Zhiwan must not have learned well enough. If you let her experience it, you can spend more time with these talented women and make progress day by day. Only in the future can you become a qualified imperial princess.”
Wei Ling burst into tears.
Her mother refused to let Xu Zhiwan enter the palace, not only because of her lack of talent, learning and poor grades, but also because her father, Xu Shitao, was the cousin of the imperial concubine.
For example, the imperial concubine has always been in the same boat with her mother, and she is backed by the deep foundation of her mother’s clan, so she can’t be beaten or punished. The mother was very afraid of her, and naturally she hated me and my dog, and even had a kind of disgust for Xu Zhiwan, whom she had never met.
Then?
Then Wei Ling lay down for three days and refused to eat.
Then the father knew it, and he was so distressed that he ran into the Changle Palace without even reading the memorial.
Then the father came out and decreed, “Call Hsu Chih-wan in, right away!”
When Hsu Chih-wan entered the palace, she kowtowed to her head and said, “Your Majesty, I came second from the bottom in the first round of the exam.”
Later, when I asked her why she was the first to say this, she said with a straight face, “I didn’t know the princess didn’t eat. I thought the emperor had suddenly summoned me in because he thought I was too good for my father’s face. I’ll tell him first, so he won’t expect too much of me.”
Wei Ling asked her, “Who is the last one?”
Hsu Chih-wan patted her hand and said, “He must be a good Samaritan.”
Wei Ling wonders: “Why is the last but one good Samaritan?”
Hsu Chih-wan patiently explained to her, “If I don’t go to hell, who will? This person is willing to dedicate herself to save everyone’s face and become the person who goes to hell. Do you think she has a good heart?”.
Wei Ling was suddenly enlightened with a cry of “oh ~” and nodded with a serious face.
A month later, Wei Ling achieved the penultimate result in the Taixue class.
Father smiled and called her over, first from life to chat, recently appetite is not good, sleep is not good, there is no trouble ah, Wei Ling said, eat more, sleep well, the only trouble is to eat too much, sleep too well, a lot of fat.
The father asked if the homework was difficult and if he could keep up with the progress of the course. Wei Ling said that although it was a little difficult, he could keep up with the hard work.
Father worried, the child so hard, there is no other problem, it seems only because of stupid, but his daughter is always reluctant to say that she is stupid, so a good words, sent Wei Ling back to the palace. After
coming back, she tossed and turned for several days in a row, sighing and sighing, determined to help her pick a good husband with solid eyes in the future.
Wei Ling did not know that he had been secretly labeled by his father, and he went to school happily every day. After another three months of this, Chen Taifu could not sit still. He called Wei Ling and carefully considered the sentence and said, “Why is it that every time the princess has a good homework between classes, but when it comes to the class test, it’s not as good as usual?”.
Wei Ling said, “Master, do you know how your father and mother teach Wei Ling?”
The Master shook his head in a daze.
Wei Ling said, “My father and mother taught Wei Ling to be the first to worry about the world and the second to enjoy the world.”. Only by cherishing the world, benevolence and virtue, and universal love, can one be a princess of a country.
The Master said solemnly, “The teachings of the emperor and the empress are of extraordinary bearing, and I admire them.” Just a princess. What does this have to do with your exam?
Wei Ling said, “Because Wei Ling wants to think about the people of the world, he wants to be the last one.”. Being number one from the bottom is for everyone’s sake, that is, if I don’t go to hell, who will?
The Master smiled amiably, and his voice was extremely gentle: “Such a good insight really makes me admire, admire.”. I dare to ask the princess, which doctor told her this insight?
Wei Ling said happily, “Master, what you know is that your student knows too late!”
Xu Zhiwan was punished to clean school for three months and copy the Tao Te Ching a hundred times. When the
father knew it, he couldn’t sleep well. I thought Wei Ling was just stupid, but he turned out to be stupid. It doesn’t matter if you don’t study well, but it really matters if you don’t have a good brain. His father tossed and turned, determined to find a good husband with a solid heart for Wei Ling.
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Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
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