Chapter 25: The Tanuki Becomes the Princess
The deep alleys are shocking, and everything is like a dream.
Li Chun returned to the East Palace with Doctor Liang, and he was exhausted by this incident.
He leaned back in the carriage and sighed: "Old man, you see, every time Baba calls you out, it is useless, and he is called the first imperial doctor in vain." β
The old man was most embarrassed by the questioning of his medical skills, so he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and said angrily: "The old man is a practitioner of medicine, not the king of Yama, how can he come back to life?" It's really a poisonous woman, she used such a poison to seal her throat with blood, even if the old man was by her side at the time, she could only delay it for ten days and a half more! β
Li Chun snorted coldly: "Fortunately, my grandfather is still an understanding person, if I really change the king of Shu, I am afraid that if she receives the crown prince's seal today, the emperor will die tomorrow, and she can't wait to be the queen mother!" β
Doctor Liang said: "That holy decree, two marriages, one is no longer completed, and the other is afraid that it will change even if I see it." My old man looks at that girl well, you take advantage of it......"
He naturally has to grasp it, Concubine Wei Xian's assassination of Mu Ye this time is not successful, and it is even more impossible to accept her as Princess Shu, he can just take the opportunity to win over the Guo family.
Li Chun suddenly remembered Guo Nianyun's last sentence. She asked him to remember that Mrs. Jun was Guo Nianyun, what did she mean?
And what she said to Konoha strangely before, from now on, you are Guo Nianyun.
Li Chun's heart moved, and he had an idea that he thought was incredible. Could it be that Guo Nianyun was simply reminding him that he could do this?
Back in the East Palace, Li Chun didn't have time to eat and change clothes, took a deep breath, and walked to the table: "Take paper and pencil and study ink." β
Seeing that he looked tired, Liufu persuaded: "It's already late at night, so the master might as well rest first and write tomorrow." β
He glanced coldly: "When will you be my master?" β
Luofu didn't dare to say much, so he had to take a stack of sprinkled gold Xuan, which he often used.
He glanced at it, "Blank paper." β
Liufu had already seen that his master was emotionally unstable, so he hurriedly changed the paper and honestly polished the ink on an inkstone.
Li Chun was full of ink, but he muttered to the paper for a long time, until a heavy ink spot fell on the paper, he reacted, pulled out the defaced white paper, and slowly put pen on the bottom piece of paper.
Li Chun's reading has always been served by Lukfook, so Lukfook was able to know many words. He watched Li Chun write a few words on the paper very solemnly, as if he had been struck by lightning, and was stunned for a long time before he stammered and asked, "Lord...... Master, you can ...... But write...... Wrong? β
Li Chun raised his eyes slightly and glared at him fiercely, his eyes like a sharp blade soaked in ten thousand years of ice, piercing Liufu's skin. Luofu only felt like a bucket of ice water poured down on the cold day of the lunar month, and suddenly felt a biting coldness. It seemed that the next moment Li Chun would stab him in the chest with a cold sword, making him inexplicably afraid.
He has served Li Chun for several years, and he has never seen his master like this. He shuddered, not daring to squeak again.
He put down the pen, gently rolled up the ink marks and gently handed them to Luofu: "You personally send it to Shengping Mansion, you must personally hand it over to Princess Shengping." Everything that happened today, don't tell anyone. β
Liufu lowered his head, took the coupling tremblingly, and kowtowed: "The slave remembers." β
This is an elegiac couplet, which was personally delivered by Lukfook to Princess Shengping.
Princess Shengping took it and slowly unfolded it, on top of the couplet, in black and white, it was written-
Mourn the death of Guo's second daughter.
Second daughter.
Princess Shengping's eyes widened, for fear that she had made a mistake, so she confirmed it over and over again, and finally realized that she was not wrong. She looked at the little guy who sent the couplet, and it was the little guy who witnessed Nianyun's death with Li Chun. She looked away from the coupling and asked, "But what else do you have to say to me?"
Liufu lowered his head and imitated the tone of his master and said, Eleven Niang first heard the shocking past, and when her sister died violently, she must have been in pain, and asked the princess and the prince to comfort her.
Princess Shengping couldn't help but shudder, looked at him deeply, and waved him down.
The night outside the window was pressed down, and Shengping Mansion lit a lot of lanterns as always, and at this time, the small courtyard where the two little ladies lived in the house was closely guarded by the guards, and no one was allowed to enter and leave at will.
The maids had already washed Guo Nianyun's body and put on clean funeral clothes.
The body that was eroded by the poison was blue and black, and it was covered by the maids with thick rouge gouache, and the red lips were bright, lying in the brocade quilt, which looked very weird.
Just in front of Nianyun's bed, several principals of the Guo family gathered and held a meeting with a dull atmosphere.
Princess Shengping's face was solemn, and she couldn't tell that she had just cried, but the haggard in her eyes couldn't hide it.
Guo Xi was carried over by his subordinates. He leaned wearily back on the chaise longue, a dark gray woolen blanket on his lap, and his eyes were cloudy. He couldn't see anything anymore, but the cloudy eyes coldly "looked" in the direction of Princess Shengping, which still made the imperial lady shudder.
It is precisely because she is partial to her eldest daughter who has always been raised by her side that she insisted on giving Nianyun to Li Chun, and directly finalized it at Guo Hua's birthday banquet, which led to today's tragedy.
He wants to say too much, but he can say too little. He had lost a good niece like a bud, but for some reason, he felt a little secretly glad that it wasn't the one who died.
The old matter between Concubine Wei Xian and Wei Taozhuo is not a secret among the Guo family, Princess Shengping said a few words, everyone already knew it, and they also made a decision in their hearts, but no one was willing to say it.
Since the ascendion to the throne of the saint, the father of the king of Guangling County was made the crown prince as the eldest son. As the eldest grandson of the emperor, the king of Guangling County is also talented and knowledgeable, and has always been very popular with the saint and Empress Zhaode.
In terms of background and blood, the prince is superior.
Li Chun, the eldest grandson of the emperor, there is no one among the prince's heirs who can compare with him in a slightest, and the saint also likes him very much. A hundred years later, if the crown prince ascends the throne, then the king of Guangling County can almost be said to be the undisputed prince.
In this elegiac couplet, Li Chunjian went sideways, but it was not very dangerous.
If the identities of the two sisters were replaced, and it was announced to the public that the twelve mothers had died of a violent illness, and Nianyun was still married to the East Palace as planned instead of Konoha instead, Concubine Wei Xian would naturally be happy to see it happen, and she would have achieved the same goal of breaking Li Yi's marriage contract and being a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with Konoha, so naturally she would not have exposed the matter.
And Konoha has not been back in Chang'an for a long time, and there are few opportunities to show up, and the two sisters are very similar, so they are naturally not afraid of outsiders exposing them.
As for the Guo family, they have already lost a daughter, and Concubine Wei Xian has already made a stand and broken with the Guo family, and it is impossible to maintain the relationship with the East Palace at this time.
Konoha and Li Yi are fighting hotly, if she marries Li Chun at this time, it will also be a psychological blow to King Shu. Now that he is an enemy, he has to fall into the trap, which is a brilliant idea.
The elderly Guo Xi coughed, raised his chin around, and finally faced Princess Shengping, "What do you think?" β
All eyes were on Princess Seungpyeong.
Princess Shengping sighed inaudibly and said in a low voice, "I listen to your uncles' opinions. β
The left hand and both the hand are flesh, but at this time it is no longer balanced, and only by cutting off the side that has blurred flesh and flesh and scraping off the carrion can he stand on his heels.
Put all oneβs eggs in one basket.
"King Shu is too emotional, not an emperor. If you want to revive the Guo family, you must not offend the East Palace. β
Guo Xi sighed, the wrinkles on his face were like those carved out of a knife. Princess Shengping's lips were biting blood, and she clenched her fists tightly, pinching her bones white. There were no objections, and there was silence and there was unity.
He raised his hand and motioned for his brothers behind him to carry him to the door.
Princess Shengping slowly helped him open the door.
Guo Xi took a deep breath and said to the housekeeper who was guarding outside: "Guo Twelve Niang suddenly fell ill and died, arrange for the funeral in the mansions on both sides - send someone to inform the Shu Wangfu." β
The coffin has been moved out of the bedroom and placed in the hall, several elders of the Guo family are busy arranging funeral matters on both sides of the house, Princess Shengping and Guo Yu have no time to grieve, and are preparing the funeral post and the speech to the Shu Wangfu and the palace.
Naturally, Konoha and Guo Fei did not have the opportunity to participate in such a meeting that would decide their fate, and they were taken to Konoha's courtyard and grounded.
She would never have thought that at this moment, the person who was mourned in the mourning hall was her Guo Muye, and the person sitting in the room in a daze was her sister Guo Nianyun, who was "too sad and unable to control herself".
Konoha was vaguely aware of something big about to happen, and sat in the house until dawn, in a trance. When she stood up, her knees went limp, but Fennel reached out to help her. She walked out of the house as if in a dream, and saw Guo Yan kneeling in the courtyard of Konoha without saying a word, facing the swing under the wisteria trellis.
"Third Brother ......"
Guo Yan turned around and sighed: "Konoha, I'm sorry. β
She slowly stretched out her hand to caress Guo Yan's messy face, and said softly: "Third brother, you are sad and confused, you have always treated me so well, we should say sorry to my sister." β
Guo Yan was still kneeling on the ground, reaching out to hug Konoha and pressing his face against her waist, but he couldn't stop whimpering.
He obviously knew that what the Guo family chose was actually the East Palace all along, but he was desperate, thinking that he was raising obscurity in Taoguang and would be able to achieve a career when he rose up, but he unexpectedly made his sister a ghost who died to death.
He was frightened for no reason, he could scarcely imagine what he would have been if she hadn't stopped to examine his wound on that road, if the cold arrow had been stuck in her chest.
With Konoha these days, day and night, there are more words than he has said to Nianyun for more than ten years, and he has long regarded this sister who suddenly appeared as a part of his life and is inseparable.
Konoha gently wiped his face with his sleeve, and his gentle expression also made his heart like a knife.
He pulled Konoha's sleeve: "I promised you, I will be by your side, all the time." β
"Thank you, third brother."