"And leave?" Qingxi frowned.

Xiao Lechang took a deep breath and nodded.

"Over the years, we haven't lived together, but we haven't talked about it. Last night, for the first time, he offered to reconcile with me. She choked up.

Xiao Yizheng sighed lightly and asked, "Why did my brother-in-law propose to leave at this time?" ”

It stands to reason that the royal marriage and the princess's surrender are not a last resort, and this marriage cannot be easily stopped. Even if you really want to reconcile, you need to go to the Son of Heaven. Zhang Yan and Xiao Lechang have lived like this for many years, why do they have to propose reconciliation at this time?

"He said that because you are here, it is better to be a witness and explain one or two in front of my father, so that I will not be reprimanded by my father when I return to the palace in the future." Xiao Lechang lowered his head, his voice was sad, and his voice was very small.

"What are these words?" Xiao Yizheng's anger surged.

How could he want to reconcile and leave, but the one who spoke heard that the fault was the fourth sister's.

Xu heard Xiao Yizheng's misunderstanding of these words, and Xiao Lechang hurriedly explained: "He is not shirking responsibility, but sincerely thinking about my future." When he proposes to reconcile, he will take full responsibility. ”

Qingxi felt that these words were somewhat familiar. She raised her head slightly and looked at Xiao Yizheng, once upon a time, the two of them also had this agreement.

She thought: If Princess Anping's words are true, based on these words, Zhang Yan should say the past in terms of character. After all, he and Xiao Yizheng thought of going together at this point.

"Then Fourth Sister, you agreed?" She asked tentatively.

Xiao Lechang shook his head slightly, his breathing was short, and it seemed that it was difficult to say anything.

Xiao Yizheng wanted to ask something more, but was stopped by Qingxi with a look.

Xiao Lechang's tears fell down.

"The fourth sister is tired, let's hold off for a while, and I'll talk about it later." Qingxi said as he helped Xiao Lechang back to lie down on the couch again.

Xiao Yizheng told her to take care of one or two, turned around and exited the house.

After leaving the house, he motioned to Mama Zheng, who had been waiting outside the house, to go with him.

The two entered the study, and Xiao Yizheng asked bluntly: "Mama Zheng, you are an old man in the palace, and you have been serving the princess." You must know a lot about the princess and the colt. ”

Although Mama Zheng's expression was melancholy, she was calm and calm. She sighed deeply and replied, "There are some things that I don't know whether to say or not. ”

"Now that there is a murder in the princess's mansion, the horse died tragically, and it is a matter of human life, if the grandmother wants to protect the princess, she can't help but say it.".

Mama Zheng raised her eyes and glanced at Xiao Yizheng, and then respectfully lowered her eyebrows and replied, "Your Highness, please ask." ”

"Does the colt have an outer chamber?"

Mama Zheng shook her head: "It shouldn't be." ”

"Definitely?"

"At least there has never been such a rumor in Taining City. If His Highness wants to be sure, he can ask Zhang Shi. ”

"He, of course, I was going to ask. It's just that, before I do that, I need to know exactly how the princess and the colt are in relationship. ”

Mama Zheng sighed lightly again, and said slowly: "The concubine has a childhood sweetheart girl, the princess didn't know at first, when they first got married, the two also had a time of deep love. Later, the concubine and the princess discussed that they wanted to take a concubine and marry the girl. The princess knew that there was another person between the two, and she could not accept it, so she quarreled with the colt. The matter froze there, and I don't know what the girl thought, but she went to the princess's mansion by herself. The princess didn't want to see her, and she didn't bother to see her, but the girl didn't leave in front of the princess's mansion, and the princess saw her without saying anything. The girl just watched the princess cry, and said strangely that the princess should not be angry. In the end, I stepped in and sent her out. I didn't expect ......" Her expression suddenly changed, as if surprised.

"What happened?" Xiao Yizheng asked.

"That girl hanged herself." Mama Zheng closed her eyes and showed regret on her face.

Xiao Yizheng frowned. "And then?"

The colt went home furious, believing that the princess had said something that had stimulated the girl. The princess was also aggrieved, competing with each other, refusing to explain and bowing her head. The relationship between the two was completely stiff and estranged. After that, if nothing happens, the horse will not return to the princess's mansion. And the princess, on the surface, is self-satisfied, but in fact she is depressed. Mama Zheng said very embarrassed.

Shaw

Yi Zheng was silent for a long time and asked, "Where is that girl from?" Listening to what Mama said, when she was looking for the princess, her words and deeds were already unreasonable, why didn't she further investigate the reason? ”

"It was only later that we learned that the girl was an uncle of the horse's mother's maternal family, and a distant cousin of the horse. She lived with the horse for a while when she was a child, and she came to Taining to join the Zhang family before the horse got married. It is not known why the pony did not further investigate the cause of his lightness. I only know that there should be no one in the girl's family. ”

Xiao Yizheng nodded, and asked again: "After all these years, Mama has not persuaded the princess to explain?" ”

"Why haven't you been persuaded? In the first year, the princess was arrogant and refused to bow her head no matter what. Perhaps because I talked about it every day, it had an effect, and then on the horse's birthday one year later, the princess personally went to the palace to deliver dinner. In order for them to talk, I didn't follow the princess closely. Mama Zheng paused slightly, and continued with a look of chagrin: "Who knows, not long after, the princess ran out in a panic, and after returning home, she fell seriously ill, and washed her face with tears every day. ”

"Oh?" The lines between Xiao Yizheng's eyebrows were deeper: "What did they talk about?" ”

Mama Zheng shook her head: "The princess refuses to say." ”

"Won't tell?"

"Yes. To this day, the princess is tight-lipped about what happened that night. ”

"The colt hasn't been back to see the princess?"

Mama Zheng nodded: "Yes." It's just that during that time, the concubine always went back to the palace at night to see the princess while she was asleep, and always told the people in the palace not to tell the princess. I looked at the colt and looked at the sleeping princess's eyes, and it was clear that I also had love and pity. I also wanted the two of them to get along, so I disobeyed the horse's instructions and told the princess that the horse had secretly come back to see her. But the princess commanded that she should not be told these things in the future. Later, His Royal Highness knew that the princess began to chant Buddha and meditate, but she didn't care too much about the life of the horse. Gradually, the horses would occasionally come to the house to eat and sleep. It's just that the two have never had sex with each other again. ”

"That being the case, why didn't the princess return to her father, and leave Shangdu earlier?"

"And leave?" Mama Zheng was stunned for a while, and it took a long time to reflect what he meant. "The princess doesn't even want to pass on the real life situation with the concubine to the capital, how can she think of harmony?"

"Why?" Xiao Yizheng asked in a low voice, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

If you are not living comfortably, why do you have to persevere?

"The slave maid has been serving the princess for a long time, and no one knows the princess's mind better than the slave maid. First, she didn't want to worry the Holy Mother, and second, she didn't want the horse to be punished. ”

Xiao Yizheng was even more puzzled for a while: "In this way, the princess still has affection for the concubine." ”

Mama Zheng sighed and said, "How can you be hurt if you are ruthless?" ”

Xiao Yizheng was silent, always feeling bored.

After a while, he adjusted his tone and asked in a deep voice, "Is the Zhang family respectful to the princess?" What is your attitude towards the princess and the pony? ”

"What attitude?" Mama Zheng thought for a while and replied: "In addition to the New Year's festival etiquette, the people of the Zhang Mansion never ask about the princess, and they are very respectful when they rarely meet, but they don't dare to make a mistake." However, the slave maid thought, for so many years, the princess has nothing to do, and the Zhang family will mind somewhat, but fortunately, the second son of the Zhangfu has a group of wives and concubines, and the eldest son has no heirs, and he may be able to endure it, and he has never made trouble in front of the princess. The colt himself never mentioned the matter of taking a concubine again. ”

Xiao Yizheng bowed.

Hearing it this way, Zhang Yan suddenly mentioned the matter of reconciliation with Xiao Lechang, which was very strange.

There is no outer room, and there is no heart to take concubines, so it is not because they are looking for another love.

Is it really as he himself said, for Xiao Lechang's consideration?

Or is there something else?

Love killing? Vendetta? Or is it extinguished?

He was thinking about it, when the head of the princess's mansion came to report, saying that it was a colleague from the princess's mansion, and he fainted crying and wearing filial piety.

Xiao Yizheng didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. "Colleague? Wearing linen and filial piety? He wondered.

If this person has not received the great grace of the horse's recreation, he is the affection of the horse's heart, otherwise how can he be so excited to wear linen and filial piety?

"Let's go, let's see." He thought about the unusual and walked away.

In order not to arouse the crowd to watch, the house

The attendant had already carried the crying faint man into the courtyard, splashed water, and pinched the people, but the man was relieved in one breath.

When this was over, he hurried to push away the crowd, crying out to see the carcass of the pony.

What kind of work is this? The crowd was again obstructed, and they were noisy and muttering, and there was no peace.

"Presumptuous!" Xiao Yizheng, who arrived in a hurry, was intimidated, and the courtyard was instantly quiet, and everyone knelt on the ground.

Xiao Yizheng stood on the steps, swept around majestically, and locked his eyes on a weak scholar who was sitting on the ground.

"You, who?" He asked.

The little guy on the side hurriedly stabbed the weak scholar: "His Royal Highness King Heng asked you." ”

The weak scholar raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Yizheng, who was already sobbing. He hurriedly knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing, and humbly pleaded: "Your Highness, please let me meet Brother Zhang, please let me meet Brother Zhang." ”

His forehead was bleeding.

"Lift him up!" Xiao Yizheng hurriedly ordered.

"No, don't, Your Highness is gracious, I just want to see Brother Zhang." The weak scholar insisted on knocking again.

"Let him go." A soft female voice came from behind him.

Everyone looked up and saw Princess Anping slowly walking out with Qingxi's support.

She only glanced at the person kneeling in the courtyard and kept kowtowing, and then looked away.

Qingxi noticed that the light in her eyes was very complicated, as if disgusted, sympathetic and understanding and pitiful.

"Let him go." She gave another command, and turned to leave.

When the weak scholar heard this, he kowtowed again: "Princess Xie, Princess Xie." ”

"Send someone to watch him, and don't let him do anything drastic." Xiao Yizheng raised his eyebrows and commanded.