Chapter 2 Liangdi Substitute Marriage
The other princess left the prince's mansion and returned to her private residence.
The crown prince disposed of a humble mansion in seclusion, which was specially used to hide the treasures of the Golden House, where he had been meeting Chen Anyi all these years.
Xue Rui chased him to the mansion without hesitation when he left the prince's mansion, he was more afraid of losing this woman than Shen Yu, who was on the same side.
Chen Anyi is the illegitimate daughter of the prince's nurse, when Xue Rui's mother died, the emperor was a cowardly lord, he suffered the humiliation of the women in the deep palace, and even his subordinates did not put him in his eyes, it was the nurse Chen who made him taste the feeling of a mother.
When Xue Rui was young, the Chen family often quietly took Chen Anyi with him, so the two of them could be regarded as childhood sweethearts. Chen was sick and left after being bedridden for less than a year, and handed Chen Anyi to Xue Rui before leaving.
In the years when the struggle in the palace was at its peak, Xue Rui was isolated, and the queen liked to watch dancing, so Xue Rui secretly operated and asked someone to arrange Chen Anyi to be a dancing girl in the workshop, and he took the initiative to invite Ying to go to the frontier to avoid the limelight.
Chen Anyi also lived up to his trust, and really won the queen's love, and mixed under the queen's nose.
After Xue Rui returned to the city, he bought this mansion, and he felt guilty for Chen Anyi, in addition to sympathy.
Xue Ruize rushed to the side of the small house, a man in black sneakily wandered in front of the door, and when he saw someone rushing into the night, he pulled off the thorn whip coiled around his waist, and chased after it was a whip, he was afraid that something would happen to Chen Anyi, and he couldn't help but increase his strength.
The man in black fell to the ground, writhing and screaming in pain, and Xue Rui locked him with a whip and led him through the door.
"Chen Anyi, Chen Anyi." Xue Rui kicked the man in black into the flower bed and hurriedly pushed open the bedroom.
The room was steaming, and as soon as the door was opened, the heat wave hit, Xue Rui waved his hand, and dimly saw the wet-haired woman in the bathtub, the woman looked magnificent, not stunning but refreshing, and there was a tear mole under the corner of her right eye.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, what's the matter with the anxious search for slaves and maids." Chen Anyi responded, but did not turn his head, only poured water on his body with two scoops.
"You are not a slave, you are the crown princess who is being married by this prince Mingmei." Xue Rui was afraid for a while, and strode forward eagerly and pinched her shoulder.
Chen Anyi lowered his head, "The slave is a dancing girl, and she doesn't dare to hope extravagantly." ”
"Chen Anyi, you look at me and say you want to marry me." Xue Rui brushed away the wet hair stuck to her shoulders, and his tone was very gentle.
"Xue Rui, do you know how many people in the court are waiting to see my jokes."
The prince stood there in a groom's garment, suavely. "Do you know how many people I asked to marry you?"
"Give me this opportunity and let me make it up to you."
"But your compensation is not what I want, how do you ask others to speculate about the dirty means used by a dancer for amusement to climb onto the prince's bed?"
"No one dares to say anything about you, and I won't let anyone bully you."
Chen Anyi broke free from Xue Rui's confinement and stood up from the bathtub, not avoiding Xue Rui's scorching gaze at all.
Chen Anyi stepped out of the bathtub and stood in front of the prince wet, his eyes were also wet, "His Royal Highness the Prince, I also had a dream of sleeping with you when I was a child, but in the dream, we are just ordinary people, now that you are noble, I don't want to wade through the muddy water again, I am tired, I just want to stay away from these palace walls, and ask His Royal Highness the Prince to fulfill it." ”
Xue Rui picked up the dry bath towel by the bucket and gently helped her wipe her body, as if she was wiping a precious treasure.
"Anyi, except to let you go, I can promise you anything else. Don't leave me. ”
"I just want you to let me go."
Xue Rui's mood fluctuated a little, and his brows were frowned. "There was an ambush at the door just now, do you think you can really escape?"
"I've pulled you aboard, and without me, you're dead." Xue Rui grabbed Chen Anyi's arm and shook it.
Xue Rui was too excited, his hands were too hard, and Chen Anyi was caught so that his facial features were screwed together. "Please let me go, life and death are up to heaven, as long as you let me go, I promise to stay away from the temple with those secrets of yours."
"Stupid woman."
Xue Rui couldn't make sense with her, and a knife slashed down, and Chen Anyi fainted naked in his arms.
"Anyi, I hope you can understand my painstaking efforts, I will take you back, and we will salute."
Xue Rui carefully put on a wedding dress for Chen Anyi, and even put on shoes for her personally.
Although Chen Anyi is a side concubine, Xue Rui's dowry gift to her and the wedding dress she purchased are no different from those of the main concubine.
After picking up, Xue Rui went out with Chen Anyi, who was covered with a hijab.
The man in black in the flower bed had already fainted, Xue Rui was already full of unhappiness and had nowhere to vent, and when he removed the whip, he whipped it again, which happened to be whipped on the man's face.
The man in black on the ground cried out in pain.
The man in front of him was the devil, "Don't kill me, the prince spares his life." ”
"You know I'm the crown prince? Who sent you? ”
"This, this, can't be ......"
At this time, someone broke into the mansion, it was the prince's cronies, Wu Xuan.
Xue Rui didn't have the patience to interrogate carefully, there were still a large number of people in the Prince's Mansion waiting for him to take people back, and now he also had a plan.
Chen Anyi is in distress and Shen Yu is missing, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a scene directed and acted by his good princess Miss Shen, this is to give him a dismount.
Xue Rui naturally thought that Shen Yu had the most motive to harm Chen Anyi, and he only needed to wait for Shen Yu to appear again to find evidence, he didn't believe that she dared to go away from now on and never come back, nor did he believe that she was so ruthless that she cut off contact with her relatives and friends.
Xue Rui only glanced at him, and Wu Xuan understood and finished off the killer with one sword. rummaged through the killer again, and found a fox head token, which Xue Rui and Wu Xuan had never seen.
Xue Rui stepped out first, and Wu Xuan took the token into his arms and followed.
The road was bumpy, Chen Anyi woke up in the prince's arms, but saw that his wrist was tied with a red silk rope, and suddenly his heart was cold.
"Let go of me."
"Chen Anyi, after a while, you will pretend to be Shen Yu to worship with me and accept the canonization, as long as you don't lift the hijab, don't speak, no one knows who you are."
Chen Anyi understood, it turned out that the other heroine of today's wedding banquet also fled, "Is this what you said Ming Media is marrying, asking me to marry you instead of another woman?" ”
"Don't be willful, today's incident is no coincidence, she wants to embarrass Prince Ben, only you can help me."
Chen Anyi was silent, I don't know if it was because he felt that his heart was overturned while riding on a fast horse, or because of Xue Rui's words.
"Where's the prince! Hurry up and look for it again. Xue Fengying sat in the center of the main hall, dressed plainly beside her, and it was Queen Zhao Yue who was holding a string of Buddhist beads in her hand.
The servants were anxious like ants on a hot pot, and the auspicious time was near, but the bridegroom was gone.
Shen Xuan couldn't sit still, and was about to go out to look for it, but Qin Jing also followed, and Xue Rui arrived with his bride in his arms.
"Phew!" As soon as the reins were pulled, the horse's hooves were raised, almost hitting Shen Xuan's face. Even though Shen Xuan had been on the battlefield for a long time, this sudden hoof still frightened him to a standstill.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, this is ......"
Qin Jing stretched out his hand to pick up the bride right away, but Shen Xuan, who came back to his senses, pressed her hand.
Xue Rui hugged Chen Anyi and dismounted, Chen Anyi blessed Shen Xuan and Qin Jing, and the prince led her into the main hall.
Qin Jing was extremely puzzled, "General, that's not a delusion. ”
Shen Xuan pursed his lips and shook his head at her, motioning for her to whisper, "Chunyue, go and call Ruoshui and Ruogu back." ”
"I fell in love with the crown princess Shen Yu at first sight, and I was afraid that she would be bored alone, so I took her to the market to visit the lanterns and made a wish."
"Rui'er, it's not a form! Today is your wedding, if you miss the auspicious time, won't it make your father's face dull? ”
"The child is not filial, which makes his father worried."
"Since you are holding the daughter of the Shen family, what about the other crown princess?"
"Why don't you arrange for someone to announce her out."
"Chen Anyi came from a humble background, and it was not easy to be canonized with the concubine, and the sons also took into account the feelings of the general's mansion and asked her father to exempt her from the canonization ceremony."
Chen Anyi's hand pulling the corner of Xue Rui's clothes silently let go, she felt like a joke.
"Why didn't you say it sooner." Xue Fenghuan felt that this prince's affairs were not ordinary.
"What the prince said is not unreasonable, but since the prince thinks my person is lowly, why should he marry." Zhao Yue stood up for Chen Anyi, after all, Chen was her person, and the prince humiliating Chen Anyi in public was tantamount to provoking her.
"Erchen is not disgusted, this, just now Erchen spoke inappropriately, and it would be good to choose a good day for the canonization ceremony of the side concubine."
"Yes."
Xue Fengying reprimanded the prince again, Chen Anyi cooperated, and the next canonization ceremony and the chapel went very smoothly.
Chen Anyi was pointed at like a marionette, she was at a loss, there seemed to be no turning back from this step, and God didn't give her a chance to choose.
"Send it to the cave." As the servants shouted, the crowd erupted in joyful cheers.
Chen Anyi was led back to the room, but this road was not familiar to her, and when she arrived at the door of the bedroom, she realized that she was only afraid that she would live in the east hall tonight.
The strange thing is that Shen Yu's dowry girl didn't come with her, and Chen An thought that it was probably arranged by Xue Rui.
Chen Anyi sat down for a while, and then two maids came in, saying that they wanted to wash her feet.
Chen Anyi was afraid that his voice would be revealed, so he only nodded in agreement.
These two maids Chen Anyi are somewhat familiar, when she lives in the Anyi Palace, they often serve her tea, and Chen Anyi likes them a little.
The two little maids fetched water, helped Chen Anyi take off her shoes and socks, and exclaimed as she looked at her scarred feet.
"Little master, I'm afraid I have suffered a lot in practicing in the General's Mansion, it's shocking!"
Chen Anyi shrank her instep very uncomfortably, this was the injury she suffered while practicing dance, but now it has become the entry point for people to praise others.
"Little master, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really still cares about you, just say that the side concubine is a dancing girl, she must have grabbed the prince's handle to marry into the door, and she dared to enter the door in front of you today." The two maids tried to please Chen Anyi, but when they saw that she was unmoved, they continued to speak.
"No, it's still the little lord who is charming, and he eats our prince to death, so he only sees two sides, and he doesn't even want to give the canonization ceremony to the person in the west."
Chen Anyi put her hands on her knees and pinched her thighs, but she couldn't speak, didn't dare to show abnormality, so she had to nod.
The two maids thought they had said something that made their master poke their hearts, and they said bad things about Chen Anyi even harder, but they didn't know that it was the one sitting in front of them.
"I'm afraid that in the future, I will have to keep the widow alive and sneer, let her daydream, and let her have no good fruit to eat......"
As if the kick kicked out by itself, Chen Anyi kicked over the basin with this kick.
The two maids reacted very quickly, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed again and again to admit their mistakes, "The little master is angry, the slave and maid don't know what they are not doing well, please make it clear to the princess." ”
“……”
Chen Anyi was about to speak when he felt someone walk in the door.
It was Xue Rui who stepped in drunkly, he staggered over and picked up the basin on the ground, and waved his hand to drive people away, "Go down." ”
The two maids fled and left.
"Peace, come here."
Chen Anyi took a step back and lifted his hijab, "Let me ask you, did you choose to go to me really because you were worried about my safety?" ”
"Nature." Xue Rui staggered and stood unsteadily, hugged Chen Anyi like a scoundrel, and fell to the bed.
"Or because you think you can't bring it back."
Xue Rui was untying the belt around Chen Anyi's waist, and when he heard this, he paused, "Anyi, don't think about it, I love you." ”
Chen Anyi lay motionless, letting her tears slide down, she reached out and hugged Xue Rui, who was rubbing against her like a child.
The guests dispersed, and Shen Xuan also took his family back to the house.
Shen Xuan was in the carriage before he explained to Qin Jing, "The prince said that the hijab is delusional, that is." If you lift the girl's veil, but you are either a delusional child, or you blow the prince's face, the original intention of this marriage is to form an alliance, wouldn't it be self-defeating for you to lift it? ”
"We don't care if the delusion lives or dies?"
"Although Yu'er has always been well-behaved, I know that she has rebellious blood in her bones, and this accident is determined that she has escaped from marriage, so don't panic for the time being, send more people to find it."
"This ......"
So after the crown princess canonization ceremony, there were many plainclothes guards from the general's mansion outside the city, plus the people sent by the prince, not to mention more than 100, but they still couldn't find the crown princess Shen Yu, no one could have imagined that she was sleeping in the guest room of the Ling Wangfu at the moment.