Chapter 43: The Past
"Why hasn't Wanwan dressed up yet, it's all three strokes a day."
Sisi also laughed and joked with Xihe.
"It's not like getting up in the morning and getting busy with the sunset, my courtyard is not as good as yours, there are a few who serve carefully, and when the sunset moon is done, they will come to dress up for me."
There are many people who are unwilling to serve Xihe, except for Xiyue, the rest are some rough maids.
"Then you say which one of my courtyard you have taken a fancy to, and I will point you to be your companion."
"The girls in your yard have all been spoiled by you as the second lady, how did I instruct me." Xihe looked at Lan Xiang's dress, "Look at Lan Xiang's dress, she is more delicate than ordinary young ladies." ”
As he spoke, he took the things from Lan Xiang's hand.
"I know Sisi's embroidery skills, this mandarin duck embroidery is so good, I must have asked Lanxiang to help."
Lan Xiang blushed when she heard this, but Sisi was neither red nor white: "Although this mandarin duck has been modified a lot, this foundation was laid by me, and I embroidered it." ”
"You go out and work with Xiyue, I have something to say and Wanwan." Sisi said to Lan Xiang on the side.
Lan Xiang saluted Xihe and went out.
Sisi pressed Xihe to the dresser, took a comb and combed her hair thinly.
Xi He's hair is black and thick, and his skin is even whiter than snow when draped over his shoulders.
"Wanwan, you are going to marry someone in a few days, are you really willing to marry someone you don't love?"
"Love or not is not very important at this time, there are many things in the royal family that cannot be done from the heart." Wanwan breathed a sigh of relief.
"But if you don't enter the palace, will you be able to avoid these troubles?"
"If I don't enter the palace, I naturally won't be able to know Yuanlang and marry Yuanlang. I don't regret it in any way. ”
"General Yuan, what kind of person is he?"
Speaking of which, Sisi didn't seem to have asked Xihe about General Yuan and her.
"He is your father and my husband." Xihe's face was gentle, and he seemed to be trapped in memories: "I was only twelve years old that year, and I was running freely on the mountain, and suddenly he appeared, led a group of people, knelt down in front of me, and called me a princess. My mother had been gone for a few days, and before she left, she told me that she would take me to a place when she returned. Then I didn't wait for her to come back. ”
"You mean Grandma, what kind of person is she?"
"She's a free-spirited person, and you're about the same as her, and we lived in the mountains, and she used to leave me and disappear for a few days, and that time I thought she was just the same as usual, and would come back in a few days, but she never came back."
"Grandma, did she have an accident?"
"She died, and I only found out later, and when I first met Genro, I learned about my mother's death."
Xihe's gaze became wandering, remembering the past a long time ago.
On the rain-soaked green mountain, a young girl is carrying a small basket of mushrooms she has just picked.
"One, two, three, four, thirteen, well, these can be fried on a plate, digging two potatoes, and dinner will be served."
The girl ran and jumped on the mountain road with brisk steps.
This is Cuiluan Mountain, where she has lived for 12 years.
She was dressed in a garment made of linen, and the skirt on her lower body was a little old, but although it was old, it was very clean.
She ran to the ground behind the house and dug two potatoes.
There was some sweat, and there were some fine beads of sweat on her face, and she wiped it indifferently, and her face was stained with some mud.
Putting the dug potatoes into the small basket, she jumped into the yard.
The mountain is not steep, the slope is gentle, and the courtyard is built halfway up the mountain.
Pushing open the door, the yard was cleaned clean and tidy, and on the pole in the yard, a few clothes of not bright colors were hung, dripping water.
Everything shows that such a mountain, so far from the town, almost isolated from the rest of the world, is really inhabited.
"My mother has been gone for a few days, and it is time to come back."
The little girl muttered as she poured the yam into the basin.
Lisuo was washed and steamed, and the mushrooms were also stir-fried.
Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside.
The girl hurriedly put down her chopsticks and got up to check, and saw a man push the door open.
"This man is the father?" Sisi interrupted.
"Don't interrupt, listen to me."
The man was dressed in armor and held a horsewhip in his hand.
"You are ... Who? The girl was the first to ask.
"But the girl lives here?" The man didn't reply, but asked her the question.
"I live here with my mother, what is the matter with Childe?" Although the girl has never seen others, she is not afraid.
The man knelt down when he heard this, and shouted: "Your Royal Highness Princess, Your Majesty will let the ministers take you back to the palace!" ”
"Back to the palace? Back to what palace? ”
"Naturally, it's back to Her Royal Highness the Princess's house."
But her family lives here, and there are freshly prepared meals in the house that she hasn't had time to eat, where can she go?
"Where's my mother?"
"My subordinates don't know."
"What do you know?"
"My subordinates know that I will be able to send Her Royal Highness the princess back to Kyoto safely."
Xi He was twelve years old that year, and General Yuan was not yet a general, he was only seventeen years old.
"And then?" Sisi asked again.
"Later, I went back to Kyoto with him and learned that my father was the current saint and that my mother had died."
"Your Majesty told you this?"
"Yes, since I have returned to Kyoto, Motoro will be leaving, and at that time he was just a small guard who was transferred to the palace gate by the head of the forbidden army because of his loyalty."
"Then how could His Majesty finally give you two a marriage?" That's what Sisi cares about.
"I didn't want to be in the palace at that time, so I tried to escape many times, and finally it was Genro who found me, and then I felt that this man was so hateful, and he detained me from the land of freedom to this iron wall, and prevented me from escaping again and again. Later, he invited himself to the battlefield, and made miraculous achievements, and the old general before appreciated her very much, so he recommended him to His Majesty, and he became a general. ”
It seems that this General Yuan is still inspirational, and Sisi thinks he has some complicated background.
"On the day he returned to Beijing, I went to see him at the gate of the palace, he was riding on a tall horse, majestic, and I thought at that time, there is such a good man in the world, if he can marry such a wishful man when he gets married in Japan, it will not be in vain in the world."
"In the end, as you wished, didn't Your Majesty personally appoint the marriage! I guess it was my father who begged His Majesty to come. Sisi imitated the man's voice, "The minister implores His Majesty to marry Xi and the princess to the minister!" ”
Xihe couldn't help but look at Sisi's funny expression.
"It's not what you think, Yuan Lang had great achievements at that time, how many boudoir ladies in Beijing secretly promised him, where is my turn to be a country girl."
Xihe has never felt worthy of Yuanlang until now.
"Who said that, Wanwan is white and white, and Shengxue is gentle and beautiful, I think, with how powerful he is, Wanwan is also worthy!" Sisi hurriedly rejected Xihe's inferiority complex.
"He has great military achievements, but he has no support in the court, and His Majesty will take this kind of lonely minister for his own use, so he pointed me out to him."
"Your Majesty has asked you what you mean by this?"
"No, why should Your Majesty act in a way that cares about anyone? I just did it if I wanted to. Yuan Lang respects me and pities me, and I have never been wronged. ”
Sisi pouted when he heard this, in the end, it was the emperor, and he pointed to the marriage, if he fell in love with that noble son of a good family in the future, he would definitely go to His Majesty to ask for a decree, so that he could rob the wife and man of the good family.