Chapter Twenty-Seven: Knowing the Marriage Contract
Jing Ci really became interested, glanced at Mama Chen and walked in, and said to the palace maid, "Oh? What was said? β
The palace maid was originally just cleaning the outer courtyard, but because of the large number of officials and dependents today, she was given the opportunity to enter the house for tea. I'm probably complimenting you! β
Mama Chen glanced her up and down, and laughed in a low voice, "It's a talker." β
"It's okay," Jing Ci also nodded with a smile and said to the palace maid, "I'll listen to it myself." β
After that, she walked towards the main hall, and she didn't even meet two palace maids along the way, and no one was in front of the main hall.
Seeing this, the palace maid was about to speak, but Jing Ci stopped her, she shook her head, and walked forward to open the door herself, but she heard a voice from inside.
It seemed to be the queen's voice, "Rong'an doesn't like it, forget it, except for the early death of her parents, she has always been smooth sailing, where can this idea of friendship move her?" If she doesn't like it, she doesn't have to force it. β
"The daughter-in-law thinks the same way," Princess Hui was indeed inside, she said, "So I carefully persuaded Yibai and his mother, the matter of fate is determined by heaven, where do you dare to force it?" β
As soon as these words came out, the faint uneasiness in Jing Ci's heart suddenly dissipated, and Mama Chen behind her also reacted immediately, and hurriedly pulled the palace maid to take a step back.
Jing Ci stood outside the door, and heard Princess Hui's voice sound inside again, she said with a slight smile, "It's just that Rong'an's matter is not mentioned for the time being, Shan'er's marriage should be put on the agenda, this marriage contract has been on the agenda for almost twenty years, if you don't mention it in Jingzhong, no one will remember!" β
There seemed to be a third person in the room, and the voice was very familiar to Jing Ci, so he only heard the person say respectfully, "The queen mother and Princess Hui's intentions, concubines and lords both understand, everything is up to the mother." β
Then, the queen mother said to the man with great satisfaction, "Your family is loyal, and the daughter who has been raised is even more knowledgeable, courteous, bright and dignified. Don't worry, I personally went to ask the emperor to marry my two children at the Chinese New Year's Eve! I will let your family marry off your daughter in a beautiful way! β
After that, the three of them laughed, but the laughter was like a knife through the door of the room and directly into Jing Ci's heart, making the blood in her body seem to be congealed, and her body was cold and stiff and unable to move.
A dense voice sounded in her head, and for a while it was Qi Shan who said, "I want you to be happy, I want to give you what you really want", and then it was the imperial grandmother who said, "This marriage is Shan'er...... begging the emperor to give marriage to the two children".
These voices kept swirling in her head, giving her a headache, and a moment later, under the shocked gaze of Mama Chen, she ran out alone with her skirt in her hand.
She stumbled to the palace gate with her memory, but there was no figure of Qi Shan there.
Jing Ci casually called a soldier guarding the door, covered his heart and gasped, "You, where is your leader?" β
The little soldier thought for a while, and after confirming with his companions, he said, "Your Highness, the Empress Fang sent someone to invite the leader to the Imperial Garden." β
"Imperial Garden...... Good, good ......."
Jing Ci nodded and turned around with his dress and left.
It was not appropriate for her to wander around the palace as a princess, so she avoided the crowd all the way, and she thought to herself, maybe she would miss the two of them.
Laba was already cold, she walked for a while, and the sky gradually became gloomy, and the wind howled on the narrow palace road, and after a while, it slowly began to snow.
It was the first snow of the year, and it fell on her, wetting the hem of her skirt and making her hair white for a moment.
When Jiang Yibai met her by chance, he saw such a scene.
He had seen her dancing brightly and movingly, he had seen her with a slightly red face and a shy and helpless face, and he had seen her weak and seriously injured in bed, but he had never seen this scene.
In the snow, the green silk turned into white hair, and she was independent, like a fairy who was not stained with dust.
The bewishing red dress and the plain white robe, these two extreme beauties were mixed together to dazzle his eyes, so that for the first time in his life, he gave birth to such absurd, such desperate thoughtsβthe ancients treasured the golden house to show their treasure, and now he wants to do the same.
When he was out of his mind, the attendant who led the way was the first to shout, "Oh, Your Highness Rong'anββ, what are you doing here?" β
This scream woke both Jiang Yibai and Jing Ci, Jiang Yibai strode up to her and asked worriedly, "Your Highness, are you ...... You okay? What about your retinue? β
Jing Ci blinked hard and looked up in the direction of Jiang Yibai, and in a trance, she felt that she saw Qi Shan, so she smiled at him and said, "You're here, I'm looking for you,......" As she spoke, her body fainted.
Jiang Yibai hurriedly stretched out his hand to hug her, he could still feel the scorching temperature on her body through the thick clothes, and when he touched his head, it really burned badly, and he hurriedly called, "Your Highness!" Your Highness! Your Highness Wake Up......"
The waiter on the side said, "Jiang Shilang, don't shout quickly!" Let's send His Royal Highness Rong'an back to the princess garden first! β
Hearing this, Jiang Yibai nodded, immediately bent down and hugged Jing Ciheng, carefully wrapped her cloak, turned around and ran in stride.
The snow behind him was getting heavier and heavier, but Jiang Yibai had no time to take care of it, he only had time to rejoice that he had fallen into the palace today, so he hurriedly found an attendant to lead him out of the palace, so he was able to save Princess Rong'an and save the girl he liked.
The people in the princess garden were even more chaotic at this time, Mama Chen and Fu Hui couldn't find any trace of Jingci, and they were worried that Jingci's reputation would be damaged and they didn't dare to make a noise, so they even had to lie and cover up Jinghan and Lin Ruowei, and a group of people were so anxious that they jumped to their feet like ants in a pot.
Just when Mama Chen had no way to contact the dark line in the palace, she saw Jiang Yibai holding Jing Ci and hurriedly running into the princess garden with the guide from the inner servant!
Everyone hurriedly stepped forward and took Jing Ci with all hands and feet, seeing that her face was pale and bloodless, and her body was extremely hot, Mama Chen's eyes turned red in an instant, and she hurriedly ordered the chamberlain to invite the imperial doctor, and personally changed her clothes and fed Jing Ci medicine. After everything was finished, he remembered that there was still a Jiang Yibai standing in the courtyard, so he hurried out of the house.
Jiang Yibai was really still in the courtyard, he was anxiously walking back and forth, and when he saw Mama Chen coming out, he hurriedly said, "Is Your Highness better?" β
Mama Chen saluted him and said sincerely, "Your Highness was excited and cold for a while, and now there is no big problem, thank you Jiang Shilang today." β
Jiang Yibai waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" As long as she's good! But why don't you follow her properly? If it weren't for ...... today"
"Jiang Gongzi is cautious!"
Mama Chen interrupted him and said, "Jiang Gongzi doesn't want to talk nonsense!" β
She took a step forward and approached Jiang Yibai, and looked around to see that there were some reliable people in the courtyard, so she whispered reassuringly, "Gongzi Jiang saved His Royal Highness my family, and he has a favor with King Ling's Mansion." But it is a matter of His Royal Highness's reputation, and I also ask Jiang Gongzi not to spread the rumors everywhere, let alone ask more. β
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Yibai immediately understood, he was stunned and immediately said, "Yes, Yibai remember." β
As he spoke, he took a step back and said, "Yibai will retire first, and Yibai will come back to ask for a meeting when His Highness wakes up." β
Mama Chen returned the salute, and after he walked away, she sighed and said, "It's a pity that he is such a transparent and polite person." β
Jing Ci had a high fever, although he took medicine but also fell asleep all night, during which the emperor and the queen and all the ministers of the clan sent people to ask, Chen Mama all thought that the recurrence of Jing Ci's pain caused by cold illness blocked back.
It wasn't until the early morning of the second day that Jing Ci woke up in a daze, she shook Mama Chen, who was sleeping next to the bed, and said hoarsely, "Mama, Mama, water...... Water ......"
Mama Chen had a very light sleep, and immediately woke up, and when she saw that she was going to drink water, she hurriedly poured it, and after slowly serving her to drink, she listened to her, "What about the general?" β
"General?" Mama Chen put down the teacup and helped her sit down, and wondered, "What general?" β
"Didn't the general send me back? Yesterday ......"
"Nothing happened yesterday!" Mama Chen hurriedly shook her head and whispered again, "Besides, it wasn't Qi Shizi yesterday, but Jiang Yibai Jiang Gongzi who sent you back." β
"Jiang Yibai?"
"Yes, you fainted on the palace road, and fortunately met Jiang Gongzi. Your Highness," Mama Chen took her hand and said earnestly, "You can't mess around like this in the future, not only the slaves and maids, but even the Lord Rongyue and Miss Lin are so worried!" β
"Yes, Mama, I know it's wrong," Jing Ci nodded, took her hand back, and said, "Ah Han and Ruowei are also here......
As she spoke, she was suddenly stunned, as if something flashed through her mind.
It was the voice I heard yesterday at the Sycamore Palace.
That voice, the voice that she was extremely familiar with, wasn't it from Lin Ruowei's mother, the wife of Lin Qihan, the secretary of the Ministry of War!
She and Lin Ruowei are sisters and often go to the Lin Mansion to play with Jinghan, so they are also very familiar with Mrs. Lin, that voice, she should have heard it at once, but she was so excited that she gave up her roots.
She said in her heart, yesterday, the imperial grandmother and the fourth imperial aunt actually talked about the marriage contract with Mrs. Lin, could it be that the marriage contract that Ruowei had been worried about and feared was with Qi Shan!
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible, and suddenly she felt a thunderbolt from the sky, and she almost fainted again!
Seeing her look change, Mama Chen hurriedly squeezed her hand and asked, "What's wrong?" Your Highness! What's going on? β
Who knows, but when he heard Jing Ci, he cried slightly, "Mama, I want to see Qi Shan." β
Seeing that she was faintly showing signs of crying, Mama Chen hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, see you!" We'll see! β
After lunch, Mama Chen resigned for Jing to ask the emperor and queen to resign, saying that the pain had recurred and that she would return to her home to continue to recuperate.
Hearing this, the emperor felt even more guilty, and immediately issued an edict to reprimand King Ping, who was still grounded in King Ping's mansion, and was afraid of delaying his recuperation in Beijing, so he and the queen sent a lot of medicines to reward him, and he did not summon him.
After Mama Chen counted the rewards, Jing Ci led the mighty team out of the palace in a carriage.
After leaving the palace gate, taking advantage of the large number of people in the team, Mama Chen commanded the little servant to secretly turn the carriage that Jing Ci was riding into an alley not far away.
Not long after, someone knocked on Jingci's carriage, and she opened the curtain to see that it was Qi Shan, who was sitting on top of the horse with a worried face!