Chapter Twenty-Six: It's No More Than Yesterday
Chang'an City at night has another taste compared to the daytime, each household has hung up the door lamp that illuminates the road, there are still a lot of hawkers on the street are still selling, the people who come and go are not less than the daytime, the reason why Chang'an City is enviable, is because of the prosperity of this side.
The carriage arranged by my sister-in-law asked me to ask someone to take me back, at this time I was beside Jiang Zitang in white clothes, the warm yellow candlelight shone on him, and a long figure was played on the ground, I quietly moved a step to the side, and the two shadows on the ground happened to be next to each other.
I always did this kind of careful thinking when I was fourteen or fifteen years old, and now I can't help but play this little trick.
At that time, I always liked to follow Jiang Zitang, if I saw him in the palace, I must follow him quietly, until he left the palace, although I only looked at him from a distance, but it was enough to be satisfied.
Now, I am walking with him on the streets of Chang'an City, not in front of me and behind, but by his side, the streets are lively and lively, but I can only hear his voice.
"What does the princess think of today's events?"
"Chaoyang wouldn't do such a thing," I quickly replied, and as for Qin Guangrong, remembering how he looked in the imperial study in the afternoon, I added: "King Qiyang probably won't do it." ”
Jiang Zitang said with a smile: "If Princess Chaoyang really did it, according to the temperament of King Qiyang, she would have been scared and trembling, if it was done by King Qiyang, I am afraid that Princess Chaoyang would have personally tied people up." ”
This is not wrong at all, which of other people's wives is not based on their husbands, how dare they yell at their husbands, but when they come to the eldest princess, they are indeed different from others.
Qin Guangrong is also a prince, the ancestor of the Qin family is the founding father of the Northern Dynasty, and enjoys the honor of a hereditary prince, but Qin Guangrong can be said to be obedient to the eldest princess, and the former body has a lot less smugness, which is a good thing.
At that time, I thought that my father had decreed that the eldest princess should marry Qin Guangrong, and she would make trouble and she would cry, but the person who cried was the second princess, not only that, but the second princess also went to the Qiyang palace to find Qin Guangrong, who was still the son at the time, and cried and complained.
Thinking of all the things at that time, many years have passed in a flash, Chang'an City is still that Chang'an City, and I hope that the person is still that person.
"What is the princess sighing for?"
Jiang Zitang turned his head to ask me, the corners of his eyes rose slightly, I often love to look at the stars, but because his eyes are like stars, the light that guided me when I was young.
I looked at the street in front of me, and there were pedestrians walking and stopping, and I pretended to look around, and said, "I'm just afraid that Chaoyang will be affected by this matter, and I'm afraid that I don't know who will blame her for this." ”
Jiang Zitang's eyes lit up a little, and he smiled slightly: "She is worthy of being a princess." ”
"Indeed, that day, we followed the clues and traced all the way to the Qiyang Palace, and easily caught that person in the palace, but everything was too simple, and there must be a demon when things go wrong."
I pondered for a moment, then asked, "Who is the assassin in the palace?" ”
Jiang Zitang: "It's just a small purchase, and it was just recruited by the palace a month ago." ”
I remembered that there were so many people that day, I didn't see the assassin's face clearly when the dagger stabbed me, and after he didn't stab me, he didn't stop long, he slipped away in the crowd, obviously looking for a needle in a haystack, but the clues were very clear.
I looked up at Jiang Zitang and said, "The people behind the scenes deliberately leaked the clues, and I was deliberately pushed into the corner by many people in the crowd that day, I am afraid that those people are the real assassins." ”
"That's right," Jiang Zitang's voice was a little colder: "They have a good calculation, and they want to blame Princess Chaoyang for this matter, and they must also know Princess Chaoyang's temperament very well." ”
The eldest princess can't bear to be wronged, she will never admit it if she doesn't do it, if someone wants her to take the blame, I'm afraid she won't stop if she doesn't make a fuss, if the brother decided that the eldest princess did it, the consequences don't need to think about it, there may be a mess between the royal family, and the person behind it wants this!
Just thinking about it, I was a little scared in my heart, and I hurriedly asked, "What happened to the person who was arrested?" ”
"When I caught it, I had already bitten myself to death."
Candles are warm, but they can't warm people's hearts, the world says that ghosts can harm people, but they don't know that people's hearts are the most harmful.
My hands were a little cold, and looking up at the night and the stars on my head, I asked softly, "Why?" ”
After asking, I felt very ridiculous, what else can make people rush to it except power.
There was a hint of warmth above my head, I looked at Jiang Zitang in surprise, I forgot to move for a while, the hand gently patted my head, I heard Jiang Zitang say to me in a gentle voice: "Princess, the minister is here, the minister will protect you in the future, protect you well." ”
After many years, it seems that I have returned to the time when the people in the palace were panicked, I don't know who said that there was a woman in white walking in Lengjia Palace every night, holding a pipa and playing a song of sorrow, Lengjia Palace is a cold palace, there is no one living in it, and where did the woman in white come from.
At first, no one believed it, but one night, a palace maid passed by with a lantern, and a black cat suddenly burst out of the corner, with green eyes flashing, and on the second day, the palace maid was crazy and stupid, and when she met people, she said that she saw the woman in white, the woman looked extremely scary, with long hair and white face, and muttered to herself.
On the third day, the fourth day, for five days in a row, if someone passes by here at night, they are either crazy or stupid, and on the sixth day, Concubine Yuan in the palace had a miscarriage, and it was rumored that the woman in white did it, and the woman was the big palace maid next to Concubine Yuan before, and she died for some reason.
Although my father in the palace ordered that these ghosts and monsters should not be heard, the dormitory where I lived at that time was not far from Lengjia Palace, and I was so frightened that I couldn't even eat all day.
I was afraid of these things when I was a child, and if people told me about some ghosts, I would have nightmares at night, not to mention that there was no reason for such a terrible thing to happen in the palace.
When I am afraid, I will seek a stable place, and I am looking for Jiang Zitang, I waited for him behind the palace pillar not far from the imperial study, Xu was really scared, and he didn't care about his cold eyes on me on weekdays, and when he went up, he pulled his sleeve and told him about Leng Jia Palace, and I cried out of breath before I could say a word or two.
Jiang Zitang heard vaguely, but the things in the palace were somewhat heard, and I pulled my sleeves tightly, and I refused to let go, but I was bold at this time.
I heard Jiang Zitang sigh lightly, Xu was very helpless, he touched my head like this, he didn't push me away for the first time, just pulled his sleeves back, his voice was a little softer than usual, he said: "Princess, the minister is here, don't be afraid." ”
It's just a sentence of ministers, my heart seems to have the courage to say nothing, and when I walked by the Leng Jia Palace, I inexplicably felt a little more confident, after that, I heard that it was my father who invited the abbot of Dingguo Temple to come to visit, anyway, I never heard of a woman in white holding the pipa.
Young and lonely, a glimmer of light in the place of the rejoicing person can be turned into countless courage, enough to resist the dangers of the world, and now all the lonely courage has turned into the evening wind, unable to hold it and do not know where to drift.
I took a few steps back gently, the wind blew away the warmth above my head, and also cleared my feverish head a little, Jiang Zitang silently withdrew his hand, I heard him call me, not a princess, not Changle, but Ah Yuan.
And what shall I answer, I remember what he had told me the day before, and it is fitting to say it now.
"Prime Minister Jiang, don't be like this, it's not in line with etiquette."
The bitterness between my lips and teeth, in the end, I said this, the night wind lifted the hair in my ears, those pedestrians, those candles, seemed to slowly fall backwards, there was wind and sand blinding my eyes, causing me to almost cry.
"Yu Li is not compatible...... Jiang Zitang muttered to himself, and then a wry smile appeared on his lips, and the hand he withdrew was clasped behind his back, this sentence Yu Li did not agree, separating everything between them, it was in the past, and it is now.
As the concubine of the Jiang family, there is nothing he can do, the people around him are wolves or tigers, he can't pull her in, a sentence is not in line with etiquette, and he rejects people thousands of miles away, and now, he is in a high position, and she is a princess, in the end, it is also inconsistent with etiquette.
At the beginning of the lanterns, Jiang Zitang bowed to me, lowered his head and said: "It is natural for a courtier to protect the monarch, and the right talent is a minister's overstep, I hope the princess will forgive me." ”
"It's okay, presumably Prime Minister Jiang didn't do it on purpose."
I opened my mouth softly, the bitterness spread in my mouth, and I kind of wanted to eat osmanthus cake.