Chapter 161: Fulfillment (1)
"Escape? Where can I escape? The world is too big to accommodate a little woman like me. ”
Cui Ying sneered, and his eyes were no longer full of the same as before. She looked at the scenery outside the window with wide eyes and pursed her lips.
"Your Highness told me not to break or stand, and to force him to force myself to do it. Now, he still hasn't come to Cui's Mansion to look for me. and no word was sent to me. I lost the bet, and I lost badly. ”
Her voice was ethereal and resentful, like a tiny sharp blade that broke her mind.
Putting her to die and then to live, she fell into the place of death, but she did not wait for the afterlife.
Concubine Xian knew her situation, and directly buried all hopes and opportunities.
"The decree has been issued, and you still have a few days to think about and arrange things outside the palace. Everything is as you like, as long as you don't regret it in the future. ”
Shen Yan sighed and comforted.
Now this situation is a steady win for the Cui family. A concubine who almost ruined her reputation turned into a concubine, no matter how you think about it, it's a good deal.
However, it is extremely cruel to Cui Ying.
"Obedience to the ...... Heart"
The ministers who announced the decree yesterday were mighty and gave the Cui family enough face.
The Cui family has another daughter to be sent to the palace, and she has also been crowned Concubine Li, which is the same as the virtuous concubine back then.
One door and two concubines, what an honor.
The people in the criminal department who used to ridicule Qiao Lingfeng and Cui Ying shut up one after another. The girl became the imperial concubine, and it was no longer something they could arrange.
What's more, everyone is just trying to be lively, and they don't want to kill Qiao Lingfeng, the rumors are like tigers and wolves, and the speaker has no intention of listening.
Qiao Lingfeng rarely had a quiet ear, sitting in his house and sorting out the files of the murder cases in Chang'an City in recent years.
He sat at the desk with a calm face, but the file in his hand had not been moved for an hour.
Qiao Lingfeng's mind is now full of the scene when he first met Cui Ying.
I have to say that Cui Ying is very successful in dressing up as a man. She is tall and tall, and she walks and sits without whims.
Although it looks like a boy at first glance. But Qiao Lingfeng is in charge of the law, and he is used to seeing all kinds of strange people and strange things, so he naturally has a vicious eye, and he can see through her disguise at once.
At that time, Qiao Lingfeng thought to himself that she was Cui Min's sister and Cui's young lady, locked in the deep boudoir, and now she came to the Criminal Department for fun and novelty.
He can't just blast people out, he should play with this little girl.
Unexpectedly, she was very different from the woman he imagined.
Cui Ying knows a lot about legal criminal cases, and has her own opinions between talking eloquently, which makes Qiao Lingfeng look at her.
The two talked about poetry and poetry from the law and criminal cases, and the anecdotes in the countryside were very speculative.
After that day passed, Qiao Lingfeng no longer had an impression of her.
Later, Cui Ying came to the Criminal Department several times to chat with him in disguised as a man. Qiao Lingfeng was quite helpless, and secretly knocked on Cui Min's side, telling him that he felt that it was a bit inappropriate and unruly to talk about this bloody criminal law with Miss Cui.
Cui Min has also been in the officialdom for so many years, and he immediately understood what Qiao Lingfeng meant.
Afterwards, Cui Ying did not appear in the Criminal Department.
Instead, he appeared in Chang'an City and had a chance encounter with Qiao Lingfeng.
Still wearing women's clothes.
On that day, Cui Ying wore a pomegranate trimmed skirt embroidered with plackets, a few strands of silver flowers hung down from her soft bun, and her gorgeous facial features retreated from the cover of men's clothing, finally showing her beauty.
Qiao Lingfeng's heart skipped a beat, his eyes swept over the charm of Cui Ying's eyebrows at the corners of his eyes, and he suddenly realized something.
He fled.
Holding the file in his hand, Qiao Lingfeng sighed, threw the file away and strode out.
When he walked to the front hall, he heard a few people surrounding Cui Min, smiling and complimenting: "Cui Shilang is really lucky." My sister is a virtuous concubine, and now there is another concubine. ”
"Yes, yes, Cui Shilang's sisters are all concubines in the palace and serve His Majesty, which is really a blessing from God."
"Sister Ling is so blessed."
Hearing this noisy compliment, Qiao Lingfeng couldn't help but sink his eyes.
yes, what the hell was he thinking?
Now Cui Ying is no longer the little girl who chatted with him, she is already His Majesty's Concubine Li, and she will enter the palace as soon as the auspicious day arrives.
Someone saw Qiao Lingfeng with sharp eyes, so he greeted with a smile: "Qiao Shilang." ”
These people who complimented Cui Min today are the same people who ridiculed Qiao Lingfeng a few days ago.
Human memories are really deceiving.
They seemed to have forgotten the gossip about Qiao Lingfeng and Cui Ying.
"Everyone goes to work first, and when I have the opportunity, I will definitely invite everyone to eat and order whatever you want."
Hearing Cui Min's refreshing words, everyone smiled and arched their hands, and then turned to leave.
Suddenly, only Qiao Lingfeng and Cui Min were left standing in the front hall, but they didn't speak.
"Brother Qiao, things have come to this point, and you don't have to worry about it, this is a choice made by God."
Cui Min stepped forward and patted Qiao Lingfeng's shoulder and comforted.
That's probably what it means to make people happy.
Qiao Lingfeng was worried about everything in his heart, but he struggled, which showed that he had already moved his heart to Cui Ying in his heart, so he would think about some things in the future.
But God is in such a hurry, and before he really makes a choice, don't change the direction of fate.
In the compass of all beings, the two of them once met briefly, and after all, they were wrong in each other's pride and scruples.
"It's a good thing that she can enter the palace, after all, I won't marry her."
Qiao Lingfeng said in a deep voice.
He is not a good person, nor will he be a good husband, in front of his own interests and future, Cui Ying's heart is really nothing.
Although he is sad now, Cui Ying is going to get married. However, marrying ordinary people is not the same as marrying the Son of Heaven.
At least she entered the palace and could have a so-called future.
"Sometimes I want to beat you up."
Cui Min heard his ruthless and indifferent words, and couldn't help but squint his eyes and tighten his cheeks, and said fiercely.
What he said seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth, and he couldn't wait to eat Qiao Lingfeng.
"Since she wants to enter the palace, she can't have an ordinary heart. The queen mother is in charge of the middle palace, and Concubine Chen is such a high-flying and domineering character, she has entered the palace, but she is afraid that there will be no good life. ”
Qiao Lingfeng said softly.
He understands very well that he and Cui Ying have no future, no possibility.
But his feelings can't deceive him.
"You're just a little stubborn. But the two of you have nothing to do with it. Speaking of which, I have an important matter for me to look for you today. ”
"What's the matter?"
Cui Min stood in the front hall with his sleeves folded and said slowly with a calm face.
"Shadow wants to see you again."
Qiao Lingfeng was stunned.
He didn't expect that the matter had come to this point, and Cui Ying was still willing to see him.
"Okay."
He replied softly.
From the beginning of his entry into the court as an official, he was cautious and cautious, step by step, lest he make a mistake.
He has been cautious for so long, guarding against the enemy's cold arrows and plots, but he has not guarded his own heart.
Qiao Lingfeng knew that he had actually lost.
Lost to this little girl named Cui Ying.