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also had a face-to-face with the eldest princess's third concubine, Marquis Anyi.

It was a gentle man, and he was not surprised at all to see her on the eldest princess's couch, but looked at her with a smile and said to the eldest princess: "Don't scare people." ”

Gu Qingning really felt that he was really crazy at that moment, and he just wanted to end all this immediately, so he ran away.

Running out of the main house, I found myself a little disoriented, and when I turned around, I almost crashed into the arms of a man.

Zhongli held a lamp in his hand and looked at her, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Gu Qingning's face was flushed, fortunately it was at night, so he wouldn't be able to see it, and hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, what are you talking nonsense?"

Zhongli looked at her playfully, moved closer to her, and said softly, "You really look like her, no wonder she likes you...... She came back to me today and told me that when she saw you standing in the midst of a hundred officials, it was as if she had seen her back then...... You...... You like her too, don't you?"

Gu Qingning felt that she couldn't breathe, or because her belt was tightened in a panic, she breathed heavily, she didn't know how to respond, she hesitated for a while, and remembered the most important question, which could just be used to change the topic: "Zhongli, are you the son of the eldest princess? How can you be...... I've never heard of it, have I?"

Zhongli said calmly: "I am her adopted son, my maternal grandfather was the high priest of Qin Tianjian, and my biological mother grew up in Chang'an, and I befriended the eldest princess when I was young......

He paused, her mind still recalling the things in the room, making eye contact with him, and immediately grasping what he meant: "You mean, your mother ......"

He nodded, "Yes." But my mother later married my father, Lingnan Hou, and married into the Lingnan Zhongli family. When I was thirteen years old, the eldest princess came to Lingnan to see my mother, so she took me as a righteous son and brought me back to Chang'an to raise me. Because I have never declared it to the public, no one knows about my relationship with the eldest princess......"

"Lingnan, then how could you Zhongli family be harmed by Lu Yuanzhi?"

"Because of partisanship. ”

"Lingnan Hou also participated in the party struggle for the heir back then......? Could he be a second prince and a party?"

Thinking of those dusty pasts, there was no longer a playful ease in his inky eyes: "Yes, my father supported the second prince back then, and the reason why he agreed to give his only son to the eldest princess as a righteous son is to let me come to Chang'an, get close to the second prince, as a connection between the two parties...... Ten years ago, the prince rebelled, the enemy army hit under the city of Chang'an, Lu Yuanzhi went to Lingnan, a major military defense county, to transfer troops, it was my father who personally led the troops to relieve the danger of Chang'an, however, after the incident, he slandered my father and the second prince of conspiring to rebel, causing my Zhongli clan to be wiped out of the nine clans, and the second prince was also given death by the first emperor......"

Gu Qingning saw that he was so honest with herself, and her heart was moved, too many truths swept over, making her confused for a while, she pulled Zhong Li to sit down in the pavilion, looked at the sadness in his eyes, and asked him softly: "What kind of person is that?"

It's been a long, long time since I've told anyone about him......

Ten years have passed, and others have long forgotten the prince who died early, but he will never forget......

Fifteen years ago, at the age of thirteen, when he first arrived in Chang'an City, he first met the second prince Chen Jing'an, in the eldest princess's mansion.

The sixteen-year-old boy in a brocade dress with a sword eyebrow came to visit his aunt, wearing a goose-yellow gown and a lotus-colored jade, and gently shaking a folding fan, on which a simple and vigorous red plum was painted.

I still remember it vividly, as if I could still hear his clear voice, when I first met, under the seat of the eldest princess, the man had an elegant smile on his face: "Zichu, can you compose poems?

He shook his head: "Please also ask Your Highness for advice?"

Chen Jingan stretched out his hand and hooked his eyebrows, and said, "When I saw Zi Chu today, I only remembered that Zi Chu de......served the sentence of a beautiful young man."

He frowned, sniffed the aroma of wine on this person, and felt that it was not a prince in front of him: "Your Highness is laughing at me?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty, 'Poor half-dead pulsatilla, beautiful young man in the past', but this is not a pleasant phrase. ”

Chen Jingan smiled and took his hand: "Zichu, Shaohua is not reserved for young people, we will all be old and die, but I want to enjoy this life......"

He followed Chen Jing'an to the Second Prince's Mansion, accompanied him day and night, and when he was a teenager, he was full of joy.

……

"He was a good poet, a good composer, a good drinker, and he was not destined to be a good emperor...... His heart has never been greedy for power, he is so romantic and free, but his life has been manipulated by others...... His biological mother was the favorite woman of the former emperor, how could she be willing to let her son not be on the throne? So he kept forcing him to live a miserable life, he didn't want to kill his siblings, but he was forced to die by his brother again and again......"

Zhongli recalled, his face as drunk as he was drunk, and he missed the man deeply.

Gu Qingning sat next to him, grabbed his shoulder, he pillowed his head on her shoulder, and smiled: "Do you believe it or not, he really doesn't love the throne, he loves me the most." ”

Although this was something she couldn't imagine, she nodded: "I believe it." ”

"No, you don't believe it, you don't believe that there are people in this world who don't covet power......" he said.

Gu Qingning wanted to say, but in fact, you didn't believe it.

But he didn't say it, but said: "It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I've never been loved so truly." ”

……

This night was too complicated, it was late at night when she left the princess's mansion, Zhongli sent her back to the mansion with a lamp, and two people with deep hearts walked together on Chang'an Avenue in the middle of the night.

The evening breeze and the waning moon, the twilight spring is warm, the sky is like a hook, and the figure on the ground is a pair.

It was Gu Qinghuan who opened the door to her, and when he saw Zhongli sending her back, he was so happy in his heart that Gu Qingfeng also saw it, and the two brothers were overjoyed all night.

Gu Qingning smiled but did not speak.

Gu Qingxuan hadn't rested yet, and was writing something in the study. She went into the study, poured tea for her father, and the father and daughter sat opposite each other, and she told Gu Qingxuan everything she had learned tonight.

Gu Qingning asked: "Father, the eldest princess was the second prince and the first party back then?"

Gu Qingxuan seemed a little strange that she would ask like this, and shook her head with a smile: "I thought that you would get to know the eldest princess after you got along with her one night...... Who wants to ...... Huh. ”

"Father, what do you mean by that?"

Gu Qingxuan said: "She has never participated in the party struggle for the heir, on the contrary, she is the most opposed." Qing Ning, she is an amorous person, and she is the only person in the royal family who cares about family affection. Even when the dynasty was discussing politics, the emperor never regarded her as a threat, just because she believed in her, she cared most about the stability of the society, as long as the surname of this great Qi Jiangshan was Chen, she didn't care which nephew sat on the throne, so His Majesty still respects her, that is really respectful. ”

"She resigned from the dynasty in order not to get involved in the party struggle, it can be said that she hates the party struggle the most, so she hates Lu Yuanzhi the most, and the tragedy of the heir back then was all because of Lu Yuanzhi......"

But she also understood that power struggles were inevitable, and she couldn't stop some things, so when Lu Yuanzhi's power grew, she chose to avoid it. ”

After all kinds of contacts, she finally understood: "But she left her father with Lu Yuanzhi?"

Gu Qingxuan smiled: "Sort of, in short, from then to now, she has been waiting, until the new emperor succeeds to the throne, she doesn't have to wait...... I don't have to wait......"

Gu Qingning pondered: "My father has been playing chess for so many years, and he is finally going to have a result." ”

He asked, "Why don't you think that the person who plays this game of chess is the eldest princess?"

She smiled: "Because my father will not be someone else's pawn, even if it is not Lu Yuanzhi, if it is someone else, my father will not tolerate it becoming an obstacle to progress." ”