Chapter 472: Self-pity
In King Huai's mansion, Gao Qi was sitting by the window, quietly reading a poetry book written by his predecessors. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
He is not sociable, and he doesn't like to be lively, except for entering the palace every day to ask for peace, most of the time he always stays in the palace to live peacefully, never provokes right and wrong, and is the most easily ignored by Emperor Zhou among the princes.
Just as he raised his hand to turn the page, he suddenly heard a knock on the door outside, so he raised his eyes lightly and replied lightly: "Come in." ”
As the door was pushed open, I saw Qingyin, the maidservant in the house, walking in with a restless face, and when her eyes came into contact with Gao Qi, the uneasiness in her eyes was even worse.
"Your Highness. ”
She bowed stiffly, as if she had been frightened by something, and her whole body looked nervous.
Looking at Qingyin's abnormal attitude, Gao Qi closed the book, and there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?"
"Slave... Slaves and maids deserve to die, please forgive your highness!"
As soon as Gao Qi asked this, Qingyin immediately fell to his knees with a thud, with extreme horror in his voice.
"What the hell is going on? ”
Gao Qi is a person with a gentle temperament, and he has never been harsh, and he was about to raise his hand to let her get up, but he saw Qingyin reply in an almost trembling voice.
"It's... It's Concubine Jing's hairpin......"
"Hairpin?" Gao Qi's eyes rolled, he pondered for a moment, and then said comfortingly, "Oh, it doesn't matter, this hairpin is a long time old, and it is common for the beads on it to loosen, if you can't fix it well, I will hand it over to the female official in the palace tomorrow to repair it, you don't have to blame yourself so much." ”
"No, the beaded flowers on the hairpin, the slave and maid have already repaired it. ”
Qingyin said with a panicked expression, and then took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Gao Qi tremblingly.
"Now that it's been repaired, I want to reward you even more. Anyway, this is also the only thing left by the mother. ”
Gao Qi opened the handkerchief with a deep expression, and when he saw that his biological mother's relics were lying in the brocade handkerchief intact, a faint sadness appeared in his eyes.
"Your Highness, please try it and turn the beaded flower on it......"
However, Qingyin's nervousness was not alleviated by Gao Qi's words at all, but stared at the hairpin with heavy eyes.
"What?" Gao Qi moved his eyelashes in surprise when he heard this, "Hearing you say that, is there still a hole in this hairpin?"
As he spoke, he tried to turn the beaded part of his head according to Qingyin's words, but he didn't expect that with a little effort, he actually turned away.
"This ......"
Gao Qi's eyebrows jumped, and he subconsciously glanced up at Qingyin, and suddenly had a hint of foreboding in his heart.
When he unscrewed it a few more times, when the hairpin body and the bead flower part were completely separated, and his eyes touched the hairpin body, which was similar to paper, Gao Qi's face began to become serious.
He carefully removed the contents, which turned out to be a thinly rolled roll of yellowed paper.
"What is this? How can this hairpin ...... be?"
"Your Highness, the slave maid did not intend to snoop, but she really discovered the mystery in the hairpin by accident, and because she was really curious, she opened it. But I didn't expect it to be written inside... The slave and maid are really afraid, thinking about it, even if they are punished by His Highness, they must come to inform His Highness, and ask His Highness for forgiveness!"
Hearing Qingyin say this, Gao Qi had already realized that there might be some shocking secret hidden in this scroll of paper, and he couldn't help but tense his cheeks for a while, and his eyes narrowed deeply.
After taking a deep breath, he pursed the corners of his lips and slowly opened the paper roll.
…………………….
The wedding date is certain, and it will soon come to the day when Gao Xun and Cheng Xiuning get married.
And according to Cheng Jinzhi's expectations, although she heard that Cheng Xiuning was reluctant to this marriage, deep down in her heart, she should still approve and be satisfied with this marriage.
Although Gao Xun is not as respected as Gao Heng, she is also a prince no matter how she marries into the Jin Palace, she naturally assumes the title of princess like Cheng Jinzhi and becomes a veritable royal relative.
For Cheng Xiuning, who has been pretentious since she was a child, she is not much different from her vision.
She has never been a person who will plan for the long term, and always only cares about the immediate interests, so she does not know the concerns of the Cheng family.
Especially her biological mother, Liu, actually didn't want her only daughter to marry King Jin as his wife.
Now although the crown prince has been punished to guard the tomb in Lishan, he is still on the storage position, which shows that his position is difficult to shake.
In the future, once he succeeds to the throne, according to the temperament of the prince, the first thing must be to exclude dissidents.
Gao Heng naturally could not escape this catastrophe, and Gao Xun had been with him for many years, and he would definitely be affected.
In fact, Cheng Xiuning, the princess, may not sit steadily for a long time.
"I'm not going out! When the dominatrix comes, let her wait outside, and if you don't want to wait, let me go home!"
As soon as he arrived in the backyard of the Jin Palace, he heard Gao Xun's impatient voice coming from the house from a distance.
Cheng Jinzhi and Gao Heng glanced at each other, and after signaling themselves to go in alone, they took the lead in pushing the door and entering the room.
When the curtain was opened, I saw Gao Xun dressed in a red wedding dress, sitting on a sandalwood chair with his shoulders bent and his back to him, and the rest of the people in the circle next to him were helpless, but they didn't dare to go up to persuade them again, so they could only stand helplessly in place.
It wasn't until he saw Cheng Jinzhi appear in front of him that he relieved himself and retreated one after another.
"Don't say congratulations, I don't want to hear it. ”
Gao Xun was still depressed, and did not turn around, but looked at Cheng Jinzhi reflected in the bronze mirror on the table, and his tone was full of sadness.
"How so?"
Cheng Jinzhi slapped his palm, even if he was equally sad in his heart, he still tried his best to make himself feel relaxed and relieved.
"I don't know my second sister's temperament, how can I be as hypocritical and polite as those people outside?"
"Then are you here to pity me?" Gao Xun glanced back, pouting and pouting, "Anyway, I've already accepted my fate, so I don't need it." It's only that I blamed someone for messing with that day, and I had to provoke that dominatrix, what a sin!"
When he said this, he clenched his fist and hammered it to his knee with anger and remorse, but saw Cheng Jinzhi walk up to him, take out a handful of sour plums wrapped in oiled paper from his arms, take out one of the largest and hand it to him.
"Let's eat a sour plum, when my heart is sour, it tastes very sweet. ”
"Really?"
"Of course it's true, when did I lie to you?"
Seeing that Cheng Jinzhi said with a sincere face, Gao Xun let go of his fist, pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment, then took the sour plum and put it in his mouth.
After savoring it for a while, I saw that his brows were furrowing deeper and deeper, and then he raised his head and glared at Cheng Jinzhi angrily.
"You liar, it's obviously very sour!"