On a warm afternoon in late autumn, a double-wheeled carriage with a red roof and blue cover was slowly marching on the street leading to Yanwangfu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Gao Xun sat in the carriage without saying a word, and it seemed unusually quiet compared to the usual chatter.

He looked at Gao Heng, who was closing his eyes beside him, and hesitated to speak, but finally reluctantly held back his words and let out a sigh of loss.

"What do you want to ask? ”

Gao Heng slowly opened his eyes and looked up at Gao Xun.

"I don't understand why I chose the Golden Branch. Gao Xun's eyes were lowered, and his expression was a little depressed, "Could it be that you, third brother... Do you really like her?

"Does the answer to this question matter?" Gao Heng's eyes condensed slightly, "If I don't do this, I'm afraid you and I won't be sitting in the carriage safely at this moment." ”

Gao Xun scratched his head and wondered, "What does this mean? How did the prince know about this?"

"You know, there is no impermeable wall in this world, the prince has always been my enemy, naturally always keep an eye on my words and deeds, as long as there is a movement, even if it is chasing the wind and shadows, he will seize the opportunity to play on the topic. ”

Gao Heng couldn't help frowning when he said this: "As a prince, it is not a matter of asking for a death row prisoner from prison, I am afraid that the prince will try his best to impose a trumped-up crime on me." Fortunately, the marriage of his father was able to make Cheng Jinzhi's identity want to be covered up and cut off the prince's conspiracy. And Cheng Yan, with his status as the Duke of Yasukuni so respected, even if the daughter he wants to marry is obviously not Cheng Jinzhi, he must be even more reluctant to make public the ugly matter of his daughter's death penalty. ”

Gao Heng's tone paused slightly, and then he continued: "You can't have both fish and bear's paws, he can only choose one or the other, face and truth. ”

"I see. Gao Xun nodded suddenly in realization, "Even if the crown prince wants to hit the third brother again, he has to take care of his father's face, is it possible to point out in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military that the object of his father's marriage to his prince is a sinner who has fallen on death row?"

Gao Xun is a man who has no city in his heart, and everything is straightforward and will not beat around the bush, and now after listening to Gao Heng's narrative, his heart suddenly brightened, and his original disappointed expression began to ease.

"No wonder after my father gave me the marriage, I saw that the prince had an expression of wanting to eat people, it turned out that the third brother, you messed up his plans. In this way, it is like her father who pardoned Jin Zhi's capital crime by mistake, and she will not have to hide in Tibet in the future, and she can live an open life. ”

So, this seems to be a downward strategy, but it can be logical, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Gao Heng said indifferently, but there was a layer of mist between his eyebrows, as if there was something else that was stumbling on him.

"But... What I don't understand is that my father used to give rewards, either to be promoted to the rank of official or to reward gold, silver and jewelry, why did he suddenly want to marry this time?"

"Do you think my father really made an improvisation?"

"Third brother, what do you mean.....?"

Gao Heng twisted his eyebrows lightly and said: "What happened in the court today, on the surface, it seems that we have the overall situation, but don't you think there is anything wrong?"

"What's wrong? I look good. ”

Gao Xun was confused when he heard it, he had never been interested in open and secret fighting, and he didn't like to speculate on people's hearts, but now Gao Heng's extraneous voice made him feel a headache when he heard it.

For the court dispute without gunpowder, what he is even more worried about is the change of Cheng Jinzhi's identity at the moment.

"Third brother, in fact, what I really want to ask is another thing. ”

"I know what you want to ask. ”

Gao Heng sighed and said: "There are many things that I can't help myself, I can only try my best to eliminate the worst results, but I don't have the ability to create the best." I can't make everybody happy and everybody understand me. But at least, I have a clear conscience. ”

"I think the Golden Bough will understand you. ”

Gao Xun was moved by Gao Heng's heartfelt words, and smiled with relief, but there was clearly a bit of bitterness in his smile.

"Then do you understand me?" Gao Heng suddenly raised his eyes and stared at him, his eyes were thick, "That Cheng Jinzhi, you like her, right?"

………………..

"Ahh

In the Yanwang Mansion, Cheng Jinzhi was sitting under the old locust tree in the back garden, learning from everyone's beautiful appearance, holding a book of poetry of his predecessors and preparing to read it carefully.

Since Gao Heng handed her that poem last time, she wanted to take advantage of this boring time to read more books and learn Braille. But after all, she has worked hard since she was a child, and she has no time to dance and write, if it weren't for her biological mother who taught her to recognize words for a few years when she was a child, she would only be an illiterate "hemp melon" now.

It's a pity that she didn't have much interest in poetry and songs, so after reading it for a while, she felt that her head was swollen, and finally she simply put the book on her head and fell asleep on her back.

Who knew that she was dreaming that Zhang and Cheng Xiuning were beating her legs and pinching her feet, and suddenly a sneeze shattered her sweet dream.

"Bah, someone must be scolding me behind my back, all my good dreams have been disturbed. ”

She reluctantly sat up and rubbed her eyes, only to see that Treading Snow and Xunmei was happily trotting from not far away.

"Miss Cheng, Miss Cheng, I'm so happy!"

"Daiki... Enjoy... Smile wide!"

Treading Xue was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Open... Groundbreaking. ”

"It's your turn to hunt for plums. ”

"Ground... The earth shakes and the mountains shake. ”

"Shake... Crumbling!"

"Fall... Fall..."

Taxue was serious and wanted to continue this inexplicable idiom solitaire, until Xunmei on the side pushed her, she realized that she had forgotten to say the right thing, and hurriedly pinched the conversation and said: "Miss Cheng, the slave maid doesn't want to talk to you idiom solitaire, she has a happy event to tell you." ”

"Happy event?" Cheng Jinzhi said disapprerovingly, "In this eventful autumn, it would be good if there were no bad things, what happy event could there be?"

"This news just came from the palace, the emperor has decreed a marriage and promised you to His Royal Highness King Yan as the princess!"

"Yes, it turns out that Miss Cheng, you are the daughter of the Yasukuni Mansion, this is really a match made in heaven with our Royal Highness!"

"Your Highness has been alone all these years, although this Yan Wang's Mansion is big, it is inevitably deserted, and now there is finally a new hostess here!"

And Cheng Jinzhi stood in place and listened to the conversation between the two of them who were surprised and happy, but he was not moved at all.

It can also be said that she does not believe that this is true at all.

"Where did you hear the gossip, you know it's fake when you think about it on your toes. Cheng Jinzhi said in a heartfelt manner, "I can't fight with your Highness with eight poles." And according to my observation, your Highness's face is not good, and it will not end well to be his wife, and I don't want to hang up so early. ”

Then he pretended to be serious and said: "So you, don't listen to the wind and rain, believe all rumors, and have a spirit of questioning in everything, understand?"

"We... This... This..."

Treading the snow and looking for plum was stunned by Cheng Jinzhi's "nonsense", and looked at each other for a while, not knowing how to refute it.

"What they say is true. ”

At this moment, I saw Gao Heng coming from the stone bridge opposite, stopping in front of Cheng Jinzhi and looking at her deeply.

"I'm so sorry, if you are unfortunately killed by me, I will definitely bury you in a glorious manner then. ”