Chapter 90: A Year and a Half Later
As soon as Gonggong Chang finished promulgating the holy decree, he didn't want to stay in the street for a moment, and turned around and got into the carriage without saying a word.
By the time Chang Gonggong's carriage was far away with smoke and dust, everyone on the street was still in a stupor, especially Princess Qingyue and other noblewomen, who looked at Jiang Mi with almost a look of surprise on their faces.
In the silence, Jiang Mi turned around, and as she walked, the crowd began to automatically divert to both sides.
In this way, Jiang Mi walked away step by step, leaving the stunned nobles and girls in vain.
When Jiang Mi entered the princess's mansion, the three mothers and all the people in the mansion were there, and when they saw Jiang Mi coming, they surrounded Jiang Mi with an uproar.
Without waiting for Jiang Mi to speak, Gui's mother waved her hand to signal the servants to disperse, and then the three mothers surrounded Jiang Mi and entered the study.
Until Jiang Mi sat down in the study for a long time, the three mothers who also sat down were still silent. Their expressions were too complicated, their eyes were too complicated, and at this time, words had lost their power.
After a while, Li's mother said in a dumb voice: "Ah Mi, we all know everything. ”
Jiang Mi nodded, I don't know if it was because of the rest of her life, her body was very weak, and she just wanted to fall asleep. Raising his eyelids weakly, Jiang Mi whispered, "It's okay now." In the blink of an eye, she comforted them softly, "It's all over, it's okay now." ”
Mother Gong asked slowly, "Princess, do you know why Your Majesty let you go?" ”
Jiang Mi shook her head, she blinked, and said weakly but naturally: "Because I'm lucky." ”
Mother Gong smiled, and in Jiang Mi's surprised gaze, she shook her head.
Shaking her head slowly, Mother Gong said carefully: "An old sister of mine in the palace in the past told me that after the incident that day, Cui Zixuan's henchman, a young guard named Cui Wu, found His Majesty......"
Jiang Mi was shocked.
Seeing her princess in a daze, looking at the sky outside in a daze, the palace mother said in a dumb voice: "Princess, it was Cui Lang who saved you!" ”
Jiang Mi listened blankly, and after a while. She whispered, "Looks so...... But why is he? ”
She is not stupid, so Jiang Mi knows that Cui Zixuan wants to meddle in such a matter. There is bound to be a big price. What's more, what Emperor Shu promised was to pardon her three capital crimes...... This kind of treatment, Jiang Mi is the first since the founding of Houshu. Of course, the greater the benefits she gets, the higher the price Cui Zixuan pays!
After a moment's pause. Jiang Mi slowly bit her lip, she looked ahead in a daze, and muttered, "I have to ask him...... I want to ask him. ”
Naturally, she couldn't ask, because Cui Zixuan had already left Shudu.
The three mothers looked at Jiang Mi in silence, and it wasn't until she calmed down from the news that Mother Li suddenly said, "The princess has to move." ”
Jiang Mi was stunned, and she looked up at Mother Li in a daze.
Seeing her stupid, Gui's mother said on the side: "The princess is moving." She explained to Jiang Mi in a hoarse voice: "Ah Mi, you are not a real golden branch and jade leaf, you can get the title of Princess of the Relict Flower, and you still live in the princess's mansion." This is the gift of the emperor and the queen...... Now, although His Majesty has spared Ah Mi from the death penalty, he must be extremely annoyed with the princess, so it is not appropriate for the princess to appear in front of the world for a while. ”
Jiang Mi understood, and she hurriedly asked, "Then where should I move to?" ”
Mother Gui replied decisively: "Go to the Taoist temple!" The princess can stay at the Taoist temple and put on a gesture of repentance! ”
…… In other words, let her withdraw from Houshu's social circle and temporarily disappear from everyone's field of vision for a while?
Jiang Mi frowned and thought for a while, then she whispered, "Then I want a lot of books...... There are so many books that you can't finish reading. ”
The three mothers originally thought that Jiang Mi went from poor to rich. It must be reluctant to be prosperous and comfortable now. They were all ready to persuade each other, but they didn't expect that Jiang Mi would accept it so simply!
Hearing her softly and cutely say that she wanted a lot of books, the three mothers couldn't help but show their satisfaction. With a loving smile, Mother Li whispered: "Although the princess is much worse than the lady concubine in terms of human sophistication, she is calm and spacious, and she knows that she is much better than her mother." ”
This Mother Li is Jiang Mi's mother's loyal confidant, and it can be said that this is the first time she has praised Jiang Mi for being better than her mother in a certain aspect.
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After making up your mind. Jiang Mi began to move.
After Jiang Mi moved out of the princess's mansion, he didn't explain the matter to Emperor Shu or anything. Because the three mothers knew that Emperor Shu didn't want to hear Jiang Mi's name even if he heard it, so at this time, the more low-key and quiet she was, the better.
After moving out of the princess's mansion, Jiang Mi chose to settle in Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Temple.
And after paying a large sum of gold, Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Temple specially gave Jiang Mi a quiet courtyard.
The Shu people like hibiscus, and Qingcheng Mountain is a sea of hibiscus. Now Jiang Mi's yard is surrounded by this hibiscus tree. Thinking about the hibiscus blossoming in autumn and October, her yard must be as beautiful as a fairyland.
In fact, Jiang Mi is a quiet and indisputable character, after she lived in the Taoist temple, because she was busy reading, and she had to learn the skills that the nobles needed to learn such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so she was very busy. In this kind of busyness, Jiang Mi gradually forgot the prosperity in Shudu City, forgot the busy banquet and those fragrant sideburns, and forgot her friends.
A month after Jiang Mi lived in Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Temple, the queen was beaten into the cold palace, and the throne of Emperor Shu's palace was vacant.
From the time the queen became a former queen and was thrown into the cold palace, the Qingcheng Mountain Taoist Temple was frequently visited. But Jiang Mi couldn't come out of the door, no one could find her, and for a while, whether it was Princess Qingyue or King Kang, or the people from the Wu family of the queen's mother, they were all turned away.
Faintly, Jiang Mi also felt that someone had been probing her brain outside her yard, and even one rainy night, a series of strange footprints suddenly appeared outside her door...... But before Jiang Mi had time to panic, all those ghosts and ghosts disappeared, and they disappeared very completely......
Time flies, in the blink of an eye, summer passes, then autumn passes, and now winter passes.
When another spring came, Jiang Mi was already seventeen years old.
However, at this time, the three mothers were not ready to let Jiang Mi debut in the Taoist Temple, and it was not until the beginning of October in the golden autumn that the hibiscus flowers bloomed all over Qingcheng Mountain, and the three mothers said to Jiang Mi: "Princess, you can go back now." ”
And Jiang Mi, who has been wearing a veil and never meeting outsiders easily since she turned seventeen, didn't have time to be happy when she heard the words, and Mother Li's excited voice came again, "Cui Gongzi is about to return to Shudu, I heard that he has made a great contribution to the Shu country this time, and even His Majesty is ready to greet him in person!" (To be continued.) )