The princess fought back against Sima Guang like that, although it was a pleasure in the eyes of others, but it could not be said to be a wise act. After Sima Guang finished reading the "Actual Record", his bad impression of the princess was bound to be supplemented: he was fearless and fearless. A woman fabricating the words and deeds of her father's ancestors without authorization is absolutely intolerable to him, who values filial piety and teaches etiquette.

I persuaded the princess many times not to go-for-tat with Master Sima anymore, let alone take out the words that Ruozhu gave her to stimulate him, the princess was noncommittal, but the words were put away by her and she didn't look at them much. After Shangyuan, she was in poor spirits, and she didn't want to go back to the princess's house, so Concubine Miao Xian asked her to stay in the palace today. In the palace, she just lay sick all day long, and said very little, and within a month, she did not mention the topic related to Sima Guang again.

I guess Sima Guang and the others must have put forward new opinions about the princess's words and deeds, because every time I saw him, his expression was very gloomy, and his eyes were worried when he looked at the princess, which could be described as sad.

He frowned, and there was another reason, which was also something that Sima Guang and other officials frequently asked him to consider-Lichu. Giving birth to five princesses in a row within three years should be a big blow to him. In the sixth year of Jiayou, the prime minister Fu Bi resigned and was dismissed because of Ding's mother's worries, and before leaving, he went to the table, meaning that the heavens did not favor the present, so that he had no children as heirs, and strongly persuaded him to choose the clan as the prince, saying, "Your Majesty gave birth to the king of Yu in the past, if the will of heaven and Your Majesty, then it has been established today." Recently, it was reported that four princesses were born in a year, and if God and His Majesty were born, then there were princes among them. If the will of God is so, Your Majesty should understand it. ”

Although he still insists on not establishing a prince, he is now old, and he doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic about asking for a child. Qiu He was riddled with illness, he was already skinny, and he was no longer the jade face of the past, according to the maid in her pavilion revealed to Concubine Miao Xian, she may not want her to sleep today, most of the time she just silently opposite her, or close her eyes and rest beside her.

Today's sorrow also affects Autumn Harmony. One time I went to visit her, and I saw that she was crying, and she had just cried. When she saw me enter, she immediately greeted me with a smile, deliberately hiding the tears just now. While we were chatting, the eleventh princess woke up from a nap and began to cry, Qiu He hurriedly coaxed her, and I took advantage of this time to ask the cabinet promotion official Zhao Ji to pet Qiu He and the reason for his tears. Zhao Jizhong said that when the official family came back from the morning court today, he sat here in Qiuhe first, but he didn't speak, and he was stunned for a long time. Qiu He carefully asked him why he was unhappy, he looked at her, let out a long sigh, and said, "Qiu He, why didn't we have a son?" ”

I immediately understood Akiwa's feelings. Saying that today may be just a simple lament of bad fate, but Qiuhe will definitely blame himself for this, and add a knot to his heart, and the days ahead will be more sad than happy.

"Waiji, I have good news for you." Qiuhe took the eleventh princess back to me and sat down, and said with a smile, "I'm worried that the official family will follow the advice of the official and separate you from the princess, so I told him about it yesterday, and then he promised me that this time, the official can't control him, and he will definitely not expel you from the capital again." ”

I wasn't particularly surprised, but I just thanked Qiuhe from the bottom of my heart. For the matter of me and the princess, she doesn't know how much thought and tongue she spent trying to persuade Jinshang.

"Aren't you happy?" Qiu He felt that my expression was different, and gradually withdrew his smile, but soon showed me a happy look of encouragement, "Don't worry, it's okay, you will live a peaceful and happy life in the future, and no one can separate you." ”

I smiled at her and accepted her kind wishes, but I didn't tell her that in this space from which we could not escape, there would be no more peace and joy in our lives, only a short or long, temporary peace – just like her.

After living in the palace for a month, the princess gradually got used to the single life she deliberately sought, and deliberately forgot that she still had a husband outside the palace, so when Li Wei came to pick her up, it seemed that the fear of the past hit her heart again, she let out an exclamation, and retreated one wall and the other wall to let the people around her drive Li Wei out.

Concubine Miao Xian hurriedly asked Wang Wuzi to invite Li Wei out of the cabinet. The next day, at the family banquet on the upper floor of Shengping, Jinshang mentioned Li Wei's intention to the princess: "Du Wei said that in two days it will be the Flower Dynasty Festival, and the spring flowers in his garden have bloomed, and some rare varieties in Beijing have been added, and it is better than other places, and the princess has always liked strange flowers and plants, so you might as well go back and see...... He is now downstairs, and if you agree, I will let him come up, and you will speak, and let him rest in the palace tonight, and you will go back with you tomorrow......"

Without saying a word, the princess stood up and rushed straight to the vermilion lacquer pillar in the pavilion, hitting her head on the pillar.

The incident happened suddenly, and no one could hold her in time. Fortunately, it was a wooden pillar, not very hard, and the main body of the male body was weak, and the force of the impact was not enough to be fatal, Rao was so, she was still hit and her forehead was bursting with blood, and she immediately fainted to the ground.

When the princess woke up in the Virtuous Pavilion, the first people she saw were not only me and the Virtuous Princess, but also her father. And Li Wei, after she hit the pillar, Concubine Miao Xian, who was grief-stricken, was angrily scolded and driven out of the palace.

The princess opened her eyes, and after looking at her surroundings in a daze, she said her first words to Imagami: "I don't want to see him." ”

Jinshang wiped the corners of his eyes and asked her gloomily: "Does this marriage arranged for you by your father really make you so painful?" ”

The princess's floating eyes wandered around Imagami's face, looking for her father's eyes, and after a while, she said to Imajo, "I can marry him by decree, but I cannot love him by decree." ”

She struggled to turn her head inward under Jinshang's stagnant gaze, tears dripping from her closed eyes: "I'm sorry, Daddy. ”

Ikagami got up without saying a word and left his daughter's hospital room with heavy steps.

The princess has a fever, I and Miao Xianfei did not dare to leave without permission, and have been staying by the princess's side, and at night Concubine Xian slept in the princess's room, while I sat in the next hall with my eyes closed. The princess woke up after midnight and cried out for "sister" and "Waiji". We immediately rushed to her bed, and Concubine Miao Xian hugged her, patted her and comforted her repeatedly, and the princess gradually quieted down.

"Sister, am I still in the palace?" She asked her mother with a sob.

Concubine Miao Xian gave her a positive answer, she snuggled up to her mother, and began to tell the dream just now: "I seem to see Li Wei come in again...... He lifted my quilt and those disgusting hands roamed over me......"

Before she could continue, she couldn't stop crying. Concubine Miao Xian hugged her tightly and comforted her repeatedly, but her tears couldn't help but fall down.

The princess wept for a while, and then said sadly, "I don't want to be with him anymore...... Even just the thought of him touching my body with his mouth open and panting makes me want to die right away! ”

"No, it won't!" Concubine Miao Xian's chin was lifted from her daughter's shoulder, her face turned in the direction of the light source, and there were two clusters of cold flames jumping with the candlelight in her teary eyes, "Sister will protect you even if she fights for this life, and she will not give that evil obstacle another chance to bully you." ”

While the princess was bedridden, Concubine Miao Xian began a plan to save her. first cried and begged Jinshang to give the princess and Li Wei a separation, so that the princess could adapt to others, but Jinshang, who was gray-haired, just sighed: "Since the founding of the dynasty, the princess has been from the beginning to the end, and she has never remarried after leaving her husband." ”

Concubine Miao Xian consulted with her good sister Yu Chongyi, and Chongyi's thoughts were similar to hers: "Since the princess was injured, the attitude of the official family has obviously loosened, and they have not blindly protected Li Wei. Now he should be afraid that giving the renunciation for no reason will be the truth, so that the speaker will chew the root of his tongue again, but if the horse has been, he will have a reason to tell the official about this separation. ”

They repeatedly asked me and Wang Wuzi if Li Wei was usually at fault, and I didn't say a bad word about Li Wei, and Wang Wuzi also said that Li Wei has always been cautious and has no handle to catch - and things such as breaking into the princess's boudoir cannot be used as evidence to tell the official.

In the next two days, Miao and Yu frequently discussed the princess's affairs with Wang Wuzi, trying to find a solution to the problem, and I did not participate in their discussions again, but just accompanied the princess all day long.

With no tomorrow in sight, I can only grasp today. Looking at the princess's sleeping appearance, I often wonder if I would be with her when the sun rose the next day.

On the day of the Flower Dynasty Festival, the two ladies had a secret discussion with Wang Wuzi in the afternoon, and then went to the Funing Palace to see Jinshang, and they did not return for a long time. I served the princess to eat and take medicine, and watched her close her eyes and fall asleep, before leaving her room, and walked outside the pavilion door to look in the direction of the Funing Palace, guessing what the two ladies might suggest to Imajo.

Later, someone from the Funing Palace came over, but it was not Concubine Miao Xian or Yu Chongyi, but Deng Baoji, who was with him today.

"Where's the princess?" He was in a hurry, and when he saw me, he asked with an unusual anxiety in his tone.

"The princess rested in the pavilion after taking the medicine." I replied, and immediately asked him, "Do you know that you want to see the princess?" ”

He hesitated a little, but he quickly told me the reason: "Today, Miao Niangzi and Yu Niangzi went to see the official family and said to the official family that the princess and the concubine broke up like this, it is absolutely impossible to reconcile, and then let the princess and the concubine live under the same roof, she will definitely seek death again, and the princess of the dynasty has no precedent for divorcing her husband, and if the princess wants to get rid of the current situation, she can only let Li Wei disappear." ”

I was shocked: "What do they mean?" ”

Deng Duzhi sighed: "The official family is also your reaction. Then Wang Wuzi stepped forward and said, 'As long as the official family gives an order, Wuzi can end this matter with wine.' ’”

He referred to giving poisoned wine to Li Wei, and then announced to the public that Li Wei had died of a violent illness. This is a common method of killing in the courts of all dynasties.

"The official family didn't agree?" I asked Deng Duzhi, remembering his anxious expression just now, I was actually not sure about this.

Deng Duzhi said: "The official family glared at Wang Wuzi for a long time, but did not immediately express his position. Miao Niangzi knelt down to the official family, and asked him to choose between her daughter and Li Wei with tears in her eyes, to see who she wanted to live. Mrs. Yu also knelt down and pleaded with her, and also talked about many things about the princess when she was a child, describing the princess's innocent and lively appearance at that time, and the eyes of the officials were red when she heard it. In the end, he sighed, didn't say anything, and went in the direction of the Rouyi Palace, probably to discuss with the queen. The two ladies also followed, and now they are in the Rouyi Palace, and they don't know if they have a choice. ”

I understood the purpose of his trip: "So I know that I came to the princess to ask her to stop and save the pony?" ”

Deng Duzhi nodded: "After thinking about it, I think that if the queen also thinks that the horse can be killed, then only the princess can make them change their minds...... The horse is an honest man, although he is a little wooden and does not like the princess, but he is very good, and if he loses his life because of this, it will be too unjust! ”

I believe that the princess will be as Deng Duzhi guessed, although she hates Li Wei, but she will not think that she deserves to be punished, and if she knew that her parents had murderous intentions against Li Wei because of her, she should have stopped them—but that was if the princess was sober and judgmental. Now that she had suffered a severe blow to the head and was sleeping groggily under the high heat, even if she woke her up immediately, I didn't dare to guarantee that she would immediately understand the current situation and rush to save Li Wei.

I made a quick decision, and hurried towards the Rouyi Temple, hoping to do what I could to persuade them to abandon this cruel plan. But before I arrived at the gate of the Rouyi Palace, I saw Concubine Miao Xian and Yu Chongyi coming out one after another, and Wang Wuzi was not behind them.

My heart sank, and I froze in place. Concubine Miao Xian was very surprised when she saw me, and walked up to me and asked, "Huaiji, what are you doing here?" ”

I smiled reluctantly, and instead of answering the question, I asked her, "Where did Mr. Wang go?" ”

"He's going to the Plum Horse Garden." Concubine Miao Xian replied expressionlessly, "Today is the Flower Dynasty Festival, and according to the rules, the official family wants to give wine to the relatives of the clan......

I didn't listen to her, turned around and strode in the direction of the palace gate.