Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Substitute Princess
Princess Qixin was rescued, but she was extremely weak, and the emperor was angry and punished everyone up and down Yangxinzhai. The emperor stood in front of Qi Xin's bed, looking at Qi Xin's face without a trace of blood, and was speechless in distress.
"Your Majesty."
The old lady doctor trembled and whispered behind the emperor,
"And you just say what's going on."
"The princess was rescued, but now the princess is angry and weak, and the princess is depressed in her heart and has not lived**, and it is not easy for her body to recover, and there is,"
The old lady paused as she spoke, but did not say the rest of the words.
"If there's anything else, just say it."
"And, there's that, the princess's left hand, I'm afraid, I'm afraid."
The emperor had no patience anymore, and turned around directly and shouted at the old lady,
"I'm afraid what's going on, you just say it."
"Yes, Your Majesty. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the princess to return to her original state, at least she will no longer be able to lift heavy objects and live hard. ”
The emperor's eyes widened, that was really going to frighten everyone present.
"You mean, the princess's hand is useless?"
The old lady nodded tremblingly, and the emperor turned his eyes wide to look back at his daughter on the bed, and finally burst into tears. The queen and the seventh princess both stood aside, and when they heard the old lady say this, the seventh princess immediately threw herself into the queen's arms and cried. The queen too, her eyes were red as if she was about to shed tears.
The emperor waved his hand and told everyone to retreat. The seventh princess wanted to stay, but was pulled out by the queen.
After everyone pushed out, the emperor knelt down in front of Qixin's bed. This man, who is nearly half a hundred years old, finally shed tears in front of his sleeping daughter, and the feelings that have been suppressed in his heart are finally vented. The emperor grabbed Qi Xin's hand and rested his head on the edge of the bed, leaving silent tears.
The room was quiet, and only the faint sobbing sound of the emperor could be heard.
The queen and the seventh princess stood outside, and the queen and everyone retreated farther away.
"Qi Shui. You didn't say anything excessive."
"Naturally, there is no queen mother, I am afraid that Qixin is still awake, everything is said to the point, and I don't say anything excessive."
"Hmm. That's good. ”
The queen grabbed the hand of the seventh princess, looked at the seventh princess, and smiled after a while.
"Our Qi Shui is obviously the best-looking princess."
When the seventh princess heard the queen say this, she also smiled,
"Oops. Mother, what are you talking about? ”
The queen stripped every messy hair of the seventh princess to the back and looked at her daughter more carefully.
"Qi Shui, I believe in the queen mother, everything the queen mother does is for your good."
The seventh princess smiled and nodded,
"It's natural, Queen Mother. In this world, only the queen mother is the best for me. ”
The seventh princess went to the queen's arms and hugged her tightly, and the queen patted the seventh princess's back again and again, and finally said what she had been thinking about for a long time.
"Qi Shui, you marry to the Northern Qi Kingdom."
"What do you say, Queen Mother?"
Qi Shui couldn't believe what his ears had heard. Break free from the Queen's arms and look at the Queen. The queen took the hand of the seventh princess, looked into her eyes, and said seriously,
"You marry into the Northern Qi Kingdom."
"Queen Mother!"
The seventh princess was anxious, thinking that the queen mother was crazy and wanted to break free. But the queen grabbed the seventh princess as if she had premeditated,
"Qi Shui, Qi Shui, listen to me, Qi Shui!"
The Seven Princesses kept struggling.
"I don't want to listen, you must be crazy, Queen Mother. Didn't the Northern Qi Kingdom want me! Doesn't the Northern Qi Kingdom have to be united! What are you talking about, Queen Mother! ”
It took a lot of effort for the queen to control the seventh princess, and the seventh princess stopped with a loud sigh. However, the seventh princess still looked at the queen with angry eyes, and the queen knew that Qi Shui was bitter. Or say it in a good voice,
"Qi Shui, listen to me, it won't hurt you behind the scenes, it's all for your own good."
"For my good?"
The seventh princess looked at her queen mother in disbelief, and the queen sighed,
"Together. I have already discussed this matter with your father. This time, the purpose of the Northern Qi Kingdom is very clear, that is, to make our Qingguo suffer losses, they just want us to call out a princess of Qixin, but they ask for many dowries. Obviously, they didn't come here to work together, their real purpose was to destroy Qingguo. ”
"What?"
The first time the seventh princess heard such a statement, she made a statement,
"Yes, this is in the way of the real purpose of the Northern Qi State, that is to say, all the worries that have been done before are provocations, and the purpose is to start this war, gain benefits, show national greatness, and kill two birds with one stone."
The Seventh Princess nodded, probably understood.
"But, what does it matter if I marry into Qingguo behind this background?"
The queen looked around, and pulled the seventh princess more shrewdly to the side again.
"Now with the strength of Qingguo, it is impossible to win this battle. Therefore, the best way is to negotiate peace, and then strengthen the strength of Qingguo after it becomes more stable. Discrimination is something that everyone can guess, and it is only a matter of time before peace is negotiated. The crux of the matter is here, negotiating peace means agreeing to the conditions of the Northern Qi State, but the condition of the Qingguo is to hand over the unity of the heart. But it is absolutely impossible for your father to do this, so I took the initiative to talk to the emperor and ask for it, hoping that you can marry to Northern Qi as a Qi Xin. ”
When the seventh princess heard this, she was anxious,
"Mother, why are you doing this? How can I do it for Qi Xin, didn't Qi Xin and the emperor of the Northern Qi Kingdom still know each other when they were young. ”
The queen patted the back of Qi Shui's hand and signaled her not to worry.
"You listen to me, listen to me. When people grow up, their appearance will change a lot, they are just similar when they were children, and they have never seen each other when they grow up. Besides, even if you get married, you won't necessarily live together. But after marrying, you will become the mother of a country and enjoy the treatment of the queen. On the one hand, on the other hand, your father has already begun to plan an operation, and he will definitely bring you back, and you can also help your father get information when the time comes, isn't it a double win? ”
The queen persuaded the seventh princess bitterly outside, and the princess Qixin inside had also woken up, and the emperor was talking about these things in Qixin's ear, Qixin didn't say a word, and looked at you blankly. After the emperor finished speaking, he didn't plan to respond in unison, the two of them just stayed together quietly with each other.
After a long time, I heard Qi Xin say,
"Father, my son wants to dance."
So there was the scene of the princess's marriage, the princess's sedan chair has not yet left the city, but many people have been moved by the dance in the sacrifice ceremony.
How could it not be moved, Princess Qixin's head was not dancing in vain, and she was full of grief and the pain of death.
It's a pity that in the eyes of Northern Qi, everything is in vain. (To be continued.) )