In late autumn, the air is filled with a chill that is ready to be tried.

Jiang Lingxi walked out of Qingfang Pavilion, subconsciously wrapped his coat tighter, walked in the direction of Yunhong House for a while, and saw Jiang Lu standing under a rockery in the front yard. It seems that he didn't go back to Yunhong House directly after returning home, but sent someone to Qingfang Pavilion first, and waited in place for a while.

Jiang Lingxi stepped forward to salute, Jiang Lu held him up, shook one hand outward, and did not want to go back to Yunhong House, but motioned to Jiang Lingxi to accompany him to walk around. I guess I don't want to make the atmosphere too strict, or too embarrassing.

The two phases walked in silence for a while, and finally Jiang Lu turned his head to look at his daughter, and spoke first, "What are you going to do?" ”

Jiang Lingxi was a little distracted, and he didn't understand what he meant for a while, so he asked blankly, "What?" ”

"I mean your future."

Seeing that the confusion in his daughter's eyes had not decreased, Jiang Lu sighed, frowned, and said: "The first emperor's filial piety period is about to expire, and at the beginning of spring in the coming year, the palace must start to draft girls. In three years, you'll be seventeen years old......"

Jiang Lingxi was stunned, and suddenly felt a little helpless. Jiang Lu had already asked this question when she first joined the company, but she never took it to heart. Fifteen years old, just admitted to high school, the age of the rainy season, put it here, it will become a quasi-older leftover girl who is anxious to plan for the future, a feudal society of all evils. Thinking about it, he said with a smile: "I have never mentioned it to you, when the emperor recruited me into the palace, he made an agreement with me not to arrange a place for me in the harem." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Jiang Lu looked a little surprised, thinking that being selected by the emperor in advance would pave a smooth road for her daughter and find a good future, but who knew that she had already made such an agreement with the emperor. "The Queen Mother asked for it?"

Jiang Lingxi smiled, "I asked for it myself." ”

"Yourself?" Jiang Lu's eyes widened, "Why are you ......?"

"I just think it's not interesting to fight and fight for a man who sleeps next to his pillow every once in a while."

Jiang Lu was stunned, it was the first time he had heard such remarks. In his concept, Mo said that the harem is also common for ordinary people to have three wives and four concubines, and women can't avoid being jealous occasionally, and some people even use this as a manifestation of male charm, and their ancestors have been like this for generations, and no one has ever questioned it so bluntly. He was a little unsure about looking at Jiang Lingxi, "What do you mean by that?" What the hell do you think? ”

Jiang Lingxi lowered his head and was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head, "To be honest, before you said these words to me, I didn't make any clear plans for the so-called "future", and now that you suddenly ask me, I can only say, take one step at a time." ”

Jiang Lu was stunned again, thinking that the Ling family had been recuperating in bed and neglected to guide her, so it was delayed. smiled a little helplessly, and said softly: "The good times of my daughter's family add up to so many years, how can I take one step at a time?" You have to plan ahead......"

That's the women of your time, who are accustomed to attaching all the value of their lives to one man!

Jiang Lingxi was suddenly a little irritable, he wanted to refute fiercely, but he felt that standing in his position was just out of a father's concern for his daughter. tried his best to suppress his anger, and said vaguely: "People don't necessarily follow only one routine in their lives, who hasn't tried to measure it in their lives." ”

Jiang Lu was silent for a while after listening to this, and seeing that the atmosphere was about to cool down completely, he suddenly sighed a little abruptly, and said without a beginning or an end: "Zhanying's matter, it is true that I did not do it properly. ”

This time, Jiang Lingxi was stunned for a moment, reacted for a while, and estimated that Jiang Lu probably thought that her daughter was stimulated by Zhanying's death, and her thoughts became a little paranoid, and she wanted to take the opportunity to guide her.

She couldn't tell him the truth, because when she was a child, she was often woken up in the middle of the night by the quarrels of her parents, and even when she grew up, she clearly remembered the way her young and helpless body shrunk into tears in the bed, coupled with some later experiences, she didn't have much confidence and expectations for marriage for a while, and she always felt that not everyone was suitable for marriage.

If you can't meet someone in your life who can really let go of the mustard and rely on it wholeheartedly, then try not to disappoint yourself, and it doesn't hurt to go alone.

Sigh, let's just think of it as a misunderstanding that is not very beautiful. Jiang Lingxi silently thanked the innocent Zhan family boy who was lying as a shield in his heart.

"Just do what you think."

Because he was a little distracted, when Jiang Lu said this, Jiang Lingxi heard it a little vaguely. Subconsciously raised his eyes to look at Jiang Lu, he seemed to have made a lot of determination, and the smile on his lips revealed a little helplessness and desolation.

"After that incident, I also seriously reflected on whether I had gone too far. Especially when I looked at the miserable face of my daughter who had just been fished out of the lake, and suddenly realized that my hard work could cause irreparable damage to my family, I really felt that no matter what, it was best to live. ”

Speaking of the back, the voice was already uncontrollably slightly trembling. looked at Jiang Lingxi again, but he had already burst into tears.

God knows how much she wished that the man in her previous life, who could still be called a father, could talk to her so calmly about the past, and could generously admit that he did owe to his wife and children. It's a pity that until the end, he lived in his own small world, complaining about the heavens and people, and never refused to face up to those who had failed.

Jiang Lu saw that her daughter was crying, thinking that she remembered the sad thing about Zhanying again, and couldn't help but be a little flustered, and hesitated helplessly for a while before tentatively reaching out and wanting to pat her daughter's shoulder.

Jiang Lingxi finally couldn't help it, threw herself into Jiang Lu's arms, and cried loudly like a child.

"Thank you, father, really, thank you."

Thank you for finally letting me go of those unbearable past events, unload my burden, and move forward lightly.

Jiang Lu's body stiffened for a short time, and then it seemed like he had unloaded some burden, and the whole person relaxed, put his arms around his daughter, and gently patted her on the back.

……

After three consecutive months of long-distance travel, Jiang Lingxi got out of the carriage and complained tiredly, "How long do you have to go?" ”

"It should be soon, isn't this already in the border of Ichishu?" Huang Zicheng was in good spirits and trotted all the way into the post station, looking forward to his plan being implemented soon.

After settling the luggage cover, Jiang Lingxi grabbed a bag of snacks and went downstairs out of the room, and saw Zhu Yunwen sitting at one of the tables drinking tea. I thought he was pampered, this small body must be unbearable, but I didn't expect him to maintain his image, let it be dusty all the way, I can't see too many changes at all when I first set off, and the burden of being the emperor's idol is also really heavy.

Facing the face that looked like his own male god for a while, Jiang Lingxi sat down, held his cheeks and asked him boredly: "How have you kept in good shape?" ”

Zhu Yunwen glanced at her, and spit out two words concisely and powerfully: "Eat less." ”

"......" Jiang Lingxi rolled his eyes as he chewed on the dried sweet potato, got up and went to the back kitchen to find something to drink.