The princess walked straight to Mrs. Yang, half-lowered her eyes, and looked coldly at the Yang family, who was still sitting: "Where you are is my princess's mansion; The man whom you accuse is my slave. Although you are the mother of the horse, you are not my aunt, and you are just a passer-by to the people up and down the house, but who has borrowed the courage to bully me? ”

Mrs. Yang glanced at her, then looked away indifferently, raised her head slightly, and said: "Is it my aunt, the world has its own public opinion, I don't care about you now, now I just talk about the ugly things in this house." Ordinary people see the crime, and there is a report and expose, and this thing happened right under my nose, how can I ignore it? said it, not to bully anyone, but to help the princess correct the atmosphere in the house. Otherwise, if this kind of thing continues to become a common practice, these subordinates in the house, who care about both men and women, will all drill into the same room and spread the word, and people will probably say that the public administration is not strict in teaching, and even more ugly statements will not be known. ”

At this time, Zhang Chengzhao suddenly approached two steps, his eyes were slightly puzzled, and he said to Mrs. Yang: "Uncle and Mrs. Guo, if you want to report and expose, then go and arrest those who have really made big mistakes." I was just lazy in my room and took a nap, is it worth your excitement to let people rush into my room and pull me out? ”

"Take a nap?" Mrs. Yang laughed out loud, pointed at her and said with a smile: "You will enjoy the blessings, and you will take a nap and pull a little lady like a flower to accompany you, could it be that I can't say it?" ”

"Where does this start?" Zhang Chengzhao shook his head again and again, and then turned to the onlookers in the hall and said, "Originally, I was sleeping well in the room alone, but Uncle Guo's wife suddenly brought someone in, and then dragged Xiao Jing'er into the room, and several people desperately pulled her clothes, and said that they would lock us in the room together, and poured a bunch of things on my bed. I was scared half to death, and I don't know how we offended Madame and were treated like this by Madame. Seeing that the door was about to be locked, I came back to my senses, and thought, being framed by her like this, I am nothing, at most I will lose a small life, but this matter is used by someone to play a problem, and it is not good to affect the reputation of the princess. So, I fought back, and finally broke through the siege and rushed out of the room. Now I came here with the princess to tell everyone the truth, and to prevent Xiaojing'er from being wronged......" Speaking of this, he faced Xiaojing'er again and asked her, "Sister Xiaojing'er, do you say that's the case?" ”

Xiao Jing'er probably understood what he meant at this time, stopped crying, and nodded busily.

Mrs. Yang looked annoyed, spat at Jing'er, and scolded: "You little slut, what are you pretending to be innocent? If he didn't commit a crime, why didn't he cry out for injustice? ”

Zhang Chengzhao immediately explained for Xiao Jing'er: "At that time, Xiao Jing'er had been beaten to the point by Mrs. You, after I left, maybe you told her something to make her dare not cry out for injustice?" ”

Xiao Jing'er understood, and whispered one wall with one chin and one wall: "Uncle and Mrs. Guo said that if I dare to cry out for injustice, I will cut off my tongue in the future......"

"The little hoof who kills a thousand knives, dare to make up the old lady here with your wild man!" Mrs. Yang was furious and said, "You are doing shameless and dirty things in the room, and more than a dozen people in the house have seen it, and everyone is watching, do you still want to deny it?" ”

The princess sneered when she heard this, and asked Mrs. Yang, "Everyone's eyes?" But they don't know who are the people who have seen them commit crimes? ”

Mrs. Yang waved her sleeves and pointed at the domestic servants she brought: "It's them, they all saw it!" ”

The princess didn't answer, moved to the bookshelf, took a three-legged wash with azure glaze from the official Ru kiln, and threw it on the ground, and the three-legged wash shattered in response. The princess pointed to a piece of debris and asked Zhang Chengzhao: "Chengzhao, who broke this three-legged wash?" ”

Zhang Chengzhao bowed to her and replied in a loud voice: "Back to the princess, it was Mrs. Guo's uncle who broke it." ”

The princess smiled faintly and asked, "How did she break?" ”

Zhang Chengzhao said: "Uncle Guo's wife slandered the minister and the smiling girl, and wanted to slander the princess, so the princess refuted her, which was reasonable and well-founded, and she was speechless. In the end, she couldn't find anything to say, and she was indignant in her heart, so she grabbed the three-legged wash and threw it at the princess, but fortunately the princess dodged in time and was not hit by her, and the three-legged wash was smashed to the ground and shattered! ”

After speaking, he also looked around at the little yellow door brought by the princess in the hall: "You say, is that so?" ”

Most of those little yellow men were usually angry with Mrs. Yang, and when they saw Zhang Chengzhao asking like this, they all looked at each other with a smile, and then one of them replied "yes" first, and the rest immediately responded and said yes.

The princess then raised her chin at Mrs. Yang and said, "Look, more than ten people have seen what you have done, and they are also in full view." ”

Mrs. Yang was furious, brushed her sleeves up, and scolded the princess: "In order to cover up the subordinates who committed crimes, they openly framed their aunts with their conscience, how can there be a bride like you in the world!" ”

The princess's anger was like firewood soaked in oil, and after her stirring, the flames jumped up. "Conscience? You tell me about conscience? She raised her eyebrows coldly at Yang, and tears flashed in her eyes, "If you have the slightest conscience, will you think of drugging me?" Use this kind of indiscriminate means on the bride, how can there be a family like you in the world! ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was suddenly silent, and even the Yang family closed her mouth and said no more, and under the princess's solemn gaze, she lowered her eyes slightly crampedly.

The drugging should have been told to the princess by Zhang Chengzhao just now, in order to arouse the princess's anger, so as to prompt her to confront the Yang family and defend him with all her might. Thinking of this, I turned to Zhang Chengzhao, and as soon as he touched my gaze, he immediately bowed his head and avoided it, as if I expected it to be true.

Looking at Han again, she was also a little unnatural, and she turned her head sideways to avoid my inquiring eyes. Zhang Chengzhao's exposure of the Yang family should also be affirmed by her. Of course, the Han family is dissatisfied with the Yang family, I can understand it, but in this way, the princess can't even be polite to the Yang family on the surface, how should she live under the same roof with her in the future?

What's more, knowing about the drug was a serious blow to the princess herself. I sighed in my heart.

The princess breathed slowly and heavily, trying her best to suppress the abnormal emotions at the moment, and after a while, she suppressed her choking and told Yang her final decision: "Today's matter, I will not worry about you for the time being, but if you hold on to my courtiers and maids, and dare to tell outsiders that they are right and wrong, I will immediately enter the palace and tell my father and my sons and daughters about the drug you gave me, and if they don't punish you, I will not give up!" ”

After listening to the princess's words, Mrs. Yang was embarrassed and silent, and later only flicked her sleeves at the princess before going out to express her last anger. It seems that the princess has won, but she is not happy, after all the people brought by the Yang family left, she asked the rest of the idle people to retreat, and then pointed at Zhang Chengzhao and Xiao Jing'er, and said to Liang Dujian: "These two people have made mistakes, please reprimand them, and think of a way to punish them, just don't be known by outsiders, and end up with others chewing their tongues." ”

Liang Dujian agreed, and the princess didn't listen to Zhang Chengzhao's grievances, and quietly turned to look at me, and the tears in her eyes finally burst out of her eyes.

At dinner, the princess ordered someone to bring wine, and she drank a lot of stuffy alone, and then Han took away the wine jug, so she stopped drinking, got up and went back to the bedroom, saying that she was tired and wanted to rest early. However, when I returned to my residence at night and was reviewing the Chinese documents of the house, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door and asked Xiaobai to see, and he quickly ran back and said, "It's the princess, with Jiaqingzi, standing outside the door." ”

I looked at the leaky pot, and it was past two shifts. So I got up, walked to the courtyard gate, and said to the princess outside the door, "Princess, the hour is not early, let's go back and rest." ”

Her soft voice came from behind the unopened door: "I can't sleep, I want to talk to you." ”

As usual, I refused: "It's the same if you have something to say tomorrow." ”

There was silence outside the door. After a few moments, I tentatively called her, but heard no reply, and I thought she was gone, so I went back to my room and continued to read the papers. But then the knock on the door started again, accompanied by Jiaqingzi's voice: "Mr. Liang, the princess is sitting outside the door and refuses to go back." ”

I rushed at once, opened the door, and saw the princess sitting on the ground on one side of the door, with her head buried in her knees, curled up in a small ball. Hearing me open the door, she looked at me slightly, and a tired smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Huaiji, I'm so cold." ”

It was an autumn night, and the wind was dewy, and she was wearing very little, not even a cloak. I was distressed, and immediately asked Jia Qingzi to help her into my room.

She sat down in the room, and was silent for a while, and after a while she asked me, "Do you have any wine here?" ”

Yes, but I don't want to give it to her. "You have drunk a lot today." I told her.

She bowed her head gloomily: "Brother, I'm cold." ”

I was silent, and finally compromised and ordered Xiaobai to get a pot of wine.

He quickly took them, and brought two cups, and laid them before me and the princess. After heating the water in the bowl and warming the wine in the bowl, he poured it for us again before stepping aside.

The princess raised her glass and drank half of it first. I called Jiaqingzi and whispered to her to go to the kitchen to fry a bowl of hangover soup for the princess. Jiaqingzi agreed and went out immediately, and Xiaobai also went out with her and closed the door outside.

"Why hangover soup?" Hearing what I said to Jiaqingzi, the princess turned the wine glass with her fingertips and smiled, "It is said that wine can relieve worries, if you relieve alcohol, won't your worries come back?" ”

I smiled at her and said, "Is there any wine in the world that can relieve your worries?" Drowning one's sorrows with wine is just a way to get drunk and forget one's troubles for a while. ”

"It would be nice to forget my troubles," sighed the princess, "and I have a lot of things that I want to forget." ”

She looked up and drank the remaining half of the wine in the cup, and then said, "I hope this cup can make me forget everything related to Li Wei and his mother." ”

Seeing that I was speechless, she looked at me with a smile and asked, "What about you?" You must have something you want to forget, right? ”

"I, too......" I groaned, holding up the glass of wine in front of me and drinking it down, "this cup will make me forget the unpleasant memories of my childhood." ”

"What is it?" She asked.

There are many, such as my father's early death, my mother's remarriage, and my entry into the palace...... The pain is deep in my memory and will never be erased......

These are unspeakable things, I didn't answer, and she didn't ask, she found an answer herself: "Oh, you said, your family is very poor......"

I grinned at her, making her think it was acquiescence.

"Everyone has a place where they are poor, when I was a child, I thought that not being able to go out and play was my poverty, but later I found out that I had even poorer ...... Compared with a woman like Ruozhu, I am so poor that I am at home. She said gloomily, poured herself another glass, and drank it in one gulp, "May this cup let me erase the memories that Feng Jing and Cao Ping left me...... If I hadn't met them, I wouldn't have known I was so poor. ”

After saying that, she filled my glass of wine again and urged me to say, "What else do you want to forget?" ”

I thought about it for a long time, drank the glass of wine silently, and told her: "I still want to forget the matter of being a minister and the regret that this status brings me." ”

"Well," she nodded, making a statement of understanding, "If you are not a minister, you can participate in the tribute, be the champion, and become a great official." ”

And that's not all. If it weren't for the minister, maybe I could have tried to snatch you? I thought bitterly, whether it was from Cao Ping's hands or Li Wei's side.

Of course, she couldn't say it, and she quickly began to think about the next question: "What else do I want to forget?" …… Alas, let me forget that I am a princess, so that it will be settled once and for all, because all my troubles are brought about by the status of a princess. ”

She drank another full cup for this, and then she was still immersed in this idea, "If I don't want to be a princess, then what will I do......" Her eyes drifted to the lotus-shaped bowl, and suddenly had an idea, "Let me make a lotus, born on the autumn river every year, watching the lonely sail in the distance, watching the clouds rolling in the clouds, free, how good it is." ”

I followed her thoughts, and a beautiful picture appeared in my mind, and the corners of my lips could not help but rise. When she saw it, she said repeatedly: "Don't laugh yet, tell me about yourself, what do you want to do?" ”

Gently caressing the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, I smiled and said, "If you are a lotus, then I will be the waves under your flowers and leaves, so that we can come and go year after year, with the wind and rain." ”

She stroked her palms and said yes, and then she was a little shy, buried her head in the case and snickered, and after a while, she raised her eyes to look at me, and looked at the pot of wine with her bright eyes, and said, "Pour it quickly, continue to drink, continue to talk, say what you want to forget." ”

I poured my wine as I was told, but this time I was silent for a long time. When she asked again, I said to her, "Apart from the above two things, I don't have anything I want to forget for the time being, if I have to say it, just change it to a wish." ”

She didn't have an opinion and asked me what I wanted at the moment. I took another drink without a word, and then I told her, "I hope that no matter how much we cut our memories, they will still be in each other's lives." ”

This sentence made her smile condense. After staring at me for a long time, she gently approached me, stroked the scars on my face that had not faded, and suddenly leaned up and put her arms around my neck, imprinting my scars with her warm and soft lips.

"I remember," she said, kissing the scar little by little, in an almost murmuring voice, "I remember everything that happened with you...... I will remember your smile, your sorrow, every word you said to me, and every scar you left behind because of me......"

Her voice grew quieter and quieter, and she bowed her head slightly, but her forehead touched my cheek, allowing me to feel her skin, her temperature, and the tears she was shedding at this point.

A tear of her slid down my right cheek and slowly spread to the corner of my lips. I pursed my lips and let it melt into my mouth.

"My tears, what do they smell like?" She asked me.

Before I could answer, she hugged me again, and the scarred Tankou touched my lips this time. I was stunned for a moment, and I just sat still, and as if she wanted to seek the answer to the question herself, the tip of her small tongue had reached into my mouth, and she tipped at my teeth, as if she was about to find the lost tear between my lips and teeth.