Chapter 38: The Prince
"I am already consulting with the minister and courting Dashun." Emperor Jianning stood up and sighed, frowned, and said, "It's just ......"
It's just that it's difficult.
The two countries have just withdrawn from the army, and he gave the real Princess Zhaoyue to his subordinates as a concubine, and it is unknown whether the emperor of Dashun will marry the princess.
The court's Xie family has a unique opportunity, and Xie Yuanxing must support Xie Ruyu as the last.
"Now, what should I do?" Xie Ruyu raised her head and asked.
Emperor Jianning tightened his eyebrows and said, "I, think about it carefully. ”
In the small garden of Liangba Ye Mansion, at night, Feng was sitting on a swing under the gardenia tree, and she looked up to see the blue sky and white clouds above her head swaying in front of her eyes.
Li Qingyan sat in the shade of the tree on one side and said cautiously, "Fifth sister, Ruyi wants to put paper kites, do you want to put paper kites with Ruyi?" ”
Embroidered shoes embroidered with lilies in light pink lightly clicked on the tender green grass, stopping the swing from rippling back and forth.
"Fifth sister, you wait," Li Qingyan didn't expect Ye Tingfeng to react, Ruyu's little face showed joy, and she turned over and got up from the grass, "I'll let Xiao Dezi go get the paper kite now, fifth sister, you wait." ”
Then he ran out of the garden.
There was no speech in his ears, and the eyes of Ye Tingfeng were blurred again. With a slight push on his toes, the swing swung again, and the gardenia swayed back and forth on the branches.
Wu Fengtian walked out from a distance, holding a bowl of inky medicinal juice in his right hand. When he came to Ye Tingfeng, he said softly, "Mo Mei, I've taken medicine." ”
Ye Tingfeng stopped again, his skinny right hand grasped the rope of the swing, and his eyes looked straight ahead, as if he wanted to listen to Wu Fengtian's words in his head.
Wu Fengtian sent the medicine bowl to Ye Tingfeng's mouth, and Ye Tingfeng gulped down the medicine by the bowl. After drinking it all, Ye Tingfeng hiccuped slightly, and the corners of his mouth hung with medicinal juice.
Wu Fengtian took a handkerchief to wipe the medicinal juice off the corner of her mouth, and gently pressed the three fingers of his right hand on Ye Tingfeng's right wrist.
Listening to Feng's pulse at night, it is no longer as messy as when he first left the palace.
But the man has not yet woken up.
Listening to Feng's confused mind at night, I don't know anyone except Lingxi.
Ye Tingfeng raised his slightly pale right hand and yawned on his bloodless lips, his eyelids slowly sinking.
Wu Fengtian handed the medicine bowl to Wen Qing on the side, and reached out to hug Ye Tingfeng.
The medicine has a calming effect, and it can make Ye Tingfeng sleep for two hours.
Ye Tingfeng opened his eyes to look at the white clouds in the blue sky, and finally, his mind slowly tired, and he fell asleep with his head leaning on Wu Fengtian's arms.
In Ye Tingfeng's room, Wu Yue was already waiting there, and on a piece of red cloth placed on the side of his hand, dozens of silver needles were densely tied with long, short, long, thick or thin.
"Today is much better than yesterday." Wu Fengtian put the sleeping Ye Tingfeng on the bed and said softly, "Miss Ten asked her to put the paper kite, and she seemed to listen." ”
"Hmm," Wu Yue nodded slightly, and in her lower eyes, she picked up a three-inch-long silver needle and swept it lightly over the candlestick burning on one side.
"Eldest sister, how long will it take for Mo Mei to get better?" Wu Fengtian raised his hand and took down the strands of hair that fell on Ye Tingfeng's cheeks.
"The body is easy to heal, but the heart is difficult to heal." Wu Yue walked to the bed with a silver needle shining with cold light, and looked at Ye Tingfeng who had no trace of anger on her face, "She, seal your heart." ”
Turning around, Wu Yue looked at Wu Fengtian and said, "Fengtian, she didn't have to be like this. ”
Wu Fengtian clenched his fists, and a burst of remorse rose in his heart. He turned to leave Ye Tingfeng's room and closed the door softly.
Wu Yue once told him that if Ye Tingfeng was not allowed to return to the Great Moon Palace, the development of things would not be controlled by anyone.
Wu Fengtian didn't believe it, so he repeatedly prevented Wu Yue from finding Ye Tingfeng.
The final result was a war between the two countries, and the prince of Otsuki was almost sacrificed in front of the two armies.
Wu Fengtian suddenly felt that he was a sinner and could not be forgiven.
Li Lingyi walked from the other side of the garden, saw Wu Fengtian standing in front of the door, knew that Wu Yue was listening to the maple needle for the night, and stepped forward and said, "Brother Wu, go and have two drinks with me." ”
"Please." After Wu Fengtian made a gesture of invitation to the garden, the two walked side by side. One black and one white, in the dazzling sunlight, forms a stark contrast.
On the gazebo in the garden, there are already people who have set up fine wine and dishes.
After the two of them sat down, they didn't say anything, and took three glasses of wine first.
After a long sigh, Li Lingyi looked up at Wu Fengtian and smiled, "Brother Wu, my fifth sister ......"
"Momei's illness is a heart disease." Wu Fengtian put down the wine cup, and the Adam's apple squirmed up and down, "My eldest sister said, she sealed her heart. If she doesn't pay attention to the outside world, she won't hurt, and if it doesn't hurt, she won't cry. ”
In the end, Wu Fengtian was full of bitterness.
After Li Lingyi drank a glass of wine, he asked, "Brother Wu, why do you always call me Fifth Sister Momei?" ”
Wu Fengtian raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, poured a glass of wine for Li Lingyi with a wine jug, and said, "Because when I first met her, her name was Mo Mei." ”
After Li Lingyi sighed, he didn't ask any more questions. After drinking another glass of wine, he said to Wu Fengtian, "I want to go to Dayue." ”
"Looking for Ruyu?"
Li Lingyi nodded.
Xie Ruyu disappeared from his eyes with the little prince in his arms, and half a year has passed now. He wasn't worried about what danger Xie Ruyu would be in after entering Da Yue's territory, after all, no one in Da Yue knew the true identity of the little prince at all.
What he was worried about was that the Xie family would not let Xie Ruyu come back.
Xie Ruyu was born in the Jiangmen, and the door style is very strict, if he knows that Xie Ruyu has a private life with the prince of the enemy country, I am afraid that it will be difficult to do.
The treasure on the tip of his heart, he wants to pick it up.
Wu Fengtian let out a long sigh, and after drinking two glasses of wine, he smiled at Li Lingyi, "I'm afraid, you can't enter General Xie's main gate." ”
Li Lingyi's lips pursed, and he understood what Wu Fengtian meant, "If you can't enter the main gate, you can go to the foot door." ”
As long as Ruyu comes back with him willingly, face is nothing.
"I'm afraid, I can't get in at the wrong door." Wu Fengtian put down the wine cup, thought for a moment, and said with a smile, "When Mo Mei's illness is cured, I will go back with you and turn over the courtyard wall on the General's Mansion." ”
The identities of the two are destined to not be able to be together openly. Since this is the case, he can only steal Xie Ruyu out of Xie Mansion.
Li Lingyi smiled heartily, raised his hand and patted Wu Fengtian's shoulder, and said, "Xiao Wang thanked him first." ”
Li Lingyi still wanted Xie Ruyu to marry out of Xie Mansion openly.
Xie Mansion is where Xie Ruyu grew up, where there are her relatives, and he doesn't want to selfishly make her give up everything.
When the room was slightly dimmed, Wu Yue pulled out the silver needles that had been tattooed on Ye Tingfeng's body one by one, and put them back on the red cloth on the table on one side.
It was only a moment to take the needle, and Wu Yue was already sweating, and her clothes were tightly stuck to her back.
After removing the last slightly thick silver needle on the Ye Ting Feng Divine Court, Wu Yue breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Wringing the veil from the warm water on one side, she carefully wiped Ye Tingfeng's naked body and put on her bedclothes.
After doing all this, Wu Yue picked up the Jinpa, wiped the fine sweat on the side of her neck, and after putting away the silver needles for acupuncture, she pushed the door and walked out.
On the corridor, the spirit rhino has been waiting for a long time with lotus leaves.
Wu Yue looked at the noble lady in front of her, and after describing the condition of Tingfeng at night, she asked abruptly, "Mrs. Ye, can I touch your bones?" ”“
On May 20 of the sixth year of Yongning, Emperor Yongning received a letter of state from Emperor Jianning, Emperor Dayue. Princess Zhaoyue died of illness, and Emperor Jianning asked to marry the fifth princess of Dashun.
Posture, very low.
After Emperor Yongning sneered, he refused.
General Dashun fell to death in front of the two palace arrays and killed the sacrifice flag of the prince of Dayue, which was wrong with Dashun. But the more reason is that Emperor Jianning ordered Princess Zhaoyue to follow the army like a military prostitute, which angered the soldiers in front of the battle.
On the tenth day of June in the sixth year of Yongning, Emperor Jianning sent a letter of state again, and then asked to marry the fifth princess of Dashun as the queen.
Along with the letter of state, there was also a business agreement to lower the price of Dayue Iron.
Three years!
After a three-year business agreement, the price of refined iron was lowered by one percent.
Emperor Yongning thought about his hundreds of thousands of iron horses, and finally his heart moved. Returning to China, he is willing to marry the seventh princess.
Emperor Jianning was stunned after receiving the letter of state, and secretly said that there were many sisters of Emperor Yongning.
Standing in front of Emperor Jianning, Meng Zizong, the right prime minister, said very happily, "Your Majesty, Dashun's agreement to make peace is already a precursor to the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. He also asked the emperor to order the construction of the palace to welcome the seven princesses of Dashun. ”
Emperor Jianning shook his head, threw the national letter back, and said to the right prime minister, "I am marrying the mother of a country, and I am marrying a princess, so how can I marry a princess." ”
"Your Majesty, in fact, it is okay to marry Princess Shu as a concubine."
The right prime minister was anxious, what was the national strength of Dayue, how could he, the prime minister who knew the overall situation, not know. Half a year ago, Emperor Jianning sent troops to Dayue, and he did everything possible to obstruct it, but in the end he failed to do so.
Later, he learned that the reason why Emperor Jianning sent troops was to return to the only prince of Dayue, and he thought that Emperor Jianning had done the right thing. As a king, he must indeed have the style of a king in major affairs.
Now that the prince is coming back, he should bow his head when he should bow his head. Really had a stiff fight with Dashun, and in the end it was Dayue who was not good.
At this time, the international trade has not been opened, and it is really not the time to be righteous and angry.
Emperor Jianning shook his head repeatedly, he agreed to ask the Chinese official to ask Dashun for marriage, and the person he wanted to marry was not the seventh princess.
The right prime minister was helpless and bowed down.
Suddenly, Ning Shi walked in from outside with the prince in her arms, with a hint of anger in her eyes.
The prince got down from Ning Shi's arms, staggered to the dragon case, and grabbed Emperor Jianning's dragon robe with his small hand.
Emperor Jianning stretched out his hand to hold the prince into his arms, and his handsome face showed a hint of a smile.
"Father......" The prince called out to his father sweetly, biting his little hand into his mouth, and a pair of small eyes were rolling around.
That's like that.,It's like listening to the maple at night when it's naughty.。
Emperor Jianning picked up the brocade and wiped the saliva on the prince's little hand, and saw that there were tears in the corners of the prince's eyes, and asked Ning Shi, "Where did the prince go?" ”
"Back to the emperor," Ning Shi replied, "after breakfast, the prince went to play in the imperial garden. ”
Emperor Jianning looked up and saw a trace of annoyance in Ning Shi's eyes, and asked, "Who did you meet?" What was said and what was done? ”
Ning Shi bit her lip and replied, "I met Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Wen asked the prince to go to her palace to play, but the prince was reluctant and cried for a while." ”
The prince's biological mother, Mrs. Ru, died of illness two months ago, and several high-ranking concubines in the harem who had no prince under their knees all hit the prince with their ideas and wanted to get close to him.
And Qing Xiuyi and Mrs. Miao, who gave birth to the second prince and the third prince, regarded the prince as a thorn in the flesh.
Emperor Jianning raised his eyebrows, and after a while, he whispered to the prince who was holding the dragon pendant on his waist, "Yu'er, your mother is not easy to marry, what should I do?" ”
The prince couldn't understand what Emperor Jianning was saying, so he only played with the jade pendant in his tender white hand, occasionally spitting out two saliva blisters.
On the morning of the sixth day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Yongning, a drizzling rain fell on Liangba. Raindrops fell on the deserted stone streets, making a crackling sound.
Near noon, the light rain turned into a heavy rain, and it fell in a hurry, enveloping the entire Liangba City in rain and smoke.
In front of King Yi's mansion, Xie Ruyu, who was drenched in the rain, stretched out his bloodless hand and slapped the beast-shaped door knocker hard. The rain slid down her pale face and fell into her mouth, astringent.
It took a full quarter of an hour before the sound of someone opening the door came from the gate of the palace.
The porter opened the door a small crack, and looked at Xie Ruyu, who was embarrassed in front of him, with some confusion in his eyes, "This girl, who are you?" ”
"Is the prince in the house?" Xie Ruyu wanted to walk towards the door as she spoke, "Lead the horse to the backyard." ”
In the palace, it is not a concubine, not a side concubine, but Li Lingyi's concubine. She didn't want to mention her name, and only asked Li Lingyi if he was in the palace.
"The palace left the palace two days ago and has not yet returned." The porter was stunned and stopped Xie Ruyu. Because she looked familiar, she was also polite, "Girl, if you have something to do with the prince, let's say goodbye another day." ”
Xie Ruyu bit her lip, and after squeaking for a while, she finally said who she was. She is Li Lingyi's concubine, the third concubine, Xie.
The porter's face turned pale when he heard this, and he actually closed the gate of the palace with a bang.
Xie Ruyu's eyes were on fire, it was okay for this porter to be disrespectful to her, it was okay to be sarcastic about her, and it was okay to look down on her, but he couldn't let her enter the door of the palace and not let her go home.
The strength of his hand increased, and Xie Ruyu knocked on the knocker again.
After another quarter of an hour, the gates of the palace opened again. Before Xie Ruyu could see who the person who opened the door was, he was already splashed on the door by a basin of dirty water.
Dirty water and rain ran down her face, making her even more embarrassed.
"The prince doesn't have a concubine like you." A woman stood in the palace and scolded arrogantly, "Is there really no woman in Dashun?" What kind of good things have you done, and you still have the face to come back! I think you are the fine work sent by Dayue, and the purpose is to kill the prince! ”
Xie Ruyu looked up at the person, and saw that Li Lingyi's side concubine Liu was standing in the door with a jealous face, surrounded by a group of maids, and it was Liu's personal maid Min'er who splashed dirty water on her face.
Xie Ruyu was so angry that her body trembled slightly, and her eyes showed murderous intent when she looked at Concubine Liu.
His left hand drooped, and the spear slipped into his hand against his arm.
Liu stepped back, looked at Xie Ruyu, who had no kind face, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "What do you want to do?" ”
"Do what?" Xie Ruyu raised her eyebrows, and a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Grandma doesn't even do the queen, she is angry with you when she comes back, and you are also worthy?" ”
With a wave of his left hand, Xie Ruyu pointed the head of the gun at Min'er, and raised his head and said, "You are pouring dirty water on your aunt and grandmother?" ”
Min'er said 'Mom', and ran behind Liu in fright.
How could Xie Ruyu let her run, her left hand swept away, and in the heavy rain, the head of the spear shining with cold light slashed against Mei'er's delicate neck.
Min'er let out a grunt in her throat, her eyes suddenly widened, and she raised her hand to wipe it on her neck. When he saw the blood on his hands, he couldn't even scream and fell into the rain.
Blood, along with the rain, stained the stone floor red.
Liu screamed, raised his finger and pointed at Xie Ruyu and yelled, "You, you killed someone!" You killed Min'er! ”
Xie Ruyu shook off the blood stains on the short spear and sneered, "Murder? From Dayue to Dashun is not far away, is this the person I killed. Liu, I see that Li Lingyi's face does not move you, if you bully me again, you are her! ”
Xie Ruyu pointed at Min'er, who fell to the ground and breathed less and more out, and her angry little face was full of ruthlessness.
Xie Ruyu killed someone, and the gatehouse and the nursing home all surrounded him. Noisy and noisy, within a moment, the whole palace was already known.
When the guards who rushed to hear the sound saw that it was Xie Ruyu, they all stopped and did not take another step.
Suddenly, the princess Dong came out at the urging of the maid and the mother, and did not step forward for fear of seeing Min'er's corpse, but just pointed at Xie Ruyu and shouted, "Xie, you are presumptuous!" ”
Princess Dong's voice was already small, and it fell into Xie Ruyu's ears through the rain curtain, and she couldn't hear anything clearly.
From Princess Dong's actions, she still saw the meaning.
Flicked the short gun again, Xie Ruyu disdainfully glanced at these people again. She turned and walked out the door.
"Stop!" There was another shout behind him.
Xie Ruyu turned around and saw that Concubine Liu threw away the oil-paper umbrella she was holding in her hand, and walked in front of her with the handmaid's hand. The delicate makeup on the face is blurred in the rain.
"You, you killed Min'er! You! Concubine Liu pointed at Xie Ruyu, and suddenly raised her right hand, "You murderer!" ”
Xie Ruyu pursed her lips and leaned back to avoid Liu's slap.
She glanced at Concubine Liu, and suddenly said solemnly, "It's me who is wrong." ”
The people around were stunned.
Xie Ruyu didn't even blink his eyes when he killed someone, how could he suddenly admit his mistake to the side concubine Liu.
Just when everyone was surprised, Xie Ruyu raised the short spear in his left hand again and stabbed at Liu.
This time, the guards standing around no longer stood idly by, and stepped forward to stop them.
Xie Ruyu's left wrist was kicked hard by a guard, and the short gun flew out of his hand, fell to the ground with a 'pop' sound, and rolled in the rain a few times.
Concubine Liu screamed 'ah' and squatted down, blood flowing out of her fingers.
The spear flew out and slashed at her face.
Xie Ruyu covered her left wrist and groaned, falling backwards into the muddy water.
Xia Qing, who had just come out of the back house after hearing the news, was shocked, and when she saw Xie Ruyu fall to the ground, she hurriedly stepped forward to help her up.
Xia Qing is a grandmother who has held Li Lingyi since she was a child, and her prestige in the palace is quite high.
At this time, seeing her go out to help Xie Ruyu, the people surrounding the gate of the palace all took a step back with a weak heart.