Chapter 52: What to Gain and Who Loses (2)
Xiang Yao glanced at Pei Qingtan, slowly put down the scroll in his hand, turned around and brushed the hem of his clothes.
He bowed his way, the anger in his eyes faded, and he lowered his eyes no longer to look at her face, but said: "What conditions does the princess have, just say it." β
Pei Qingtan likes people who are easy to talk to.
So she said, "The second son wants this codex from my uncle, and you canβas long as the son agrees to take me to your mansion for a trip!" β
This was an unexpected request.
"Is the princess joking, or is she embarrassing Wei Chen?"
He lowered his head to talk to her like this, and his voice seemed to become muffled, not as good as the first one. Pei Qingtan frowned lightly and took two steps closer to him.
"Childe is a serious son, but this princess is not a serious princess, in front of me, if the princess is too well-behaved, it will make this princess have no rules!"
Xiang Yao said in his heart, well, it's quite unruly.
Listen to her again: "Childe should raise his head!" β
But after the second son raised his head to look at her, Pei Qingtan regretted it a little.
This person's eyes are too catchy, she thought, obviously there is no special emotion, but it just makes people panic.
She coughed twice and said, "Second son, I'm not joking with you, if you promise to take me on this trip, this codex will be yours." β
Xiang Yao said: "Weichen doesn't dare, please ask the princess to find someone else." When he had said this, he bowed and took his leave.
Pei Qingtan was a little anxious.
Her new friend, the sister who resembles an aunt, and the king of Chu are close to the wedding date, and these days, she has begged her uncle many times, saying that she wants to go to the Jiyang County Mansion to see her friend, so that he can give her the gift of his wedding to her, but her uncle always says, yes, don't mess around.
The road of fairness and righteousness can't go through, so she has to think about some crooked ways.
Coincidentally, before he could figure out anything, the second son sent it to the door by himself.
"Second son!"
Seeing that Xiang Yao was about to step out of the library with one foot, she called out hurriedly, and as soon as Xiang Yao turned around, she was shaken by the fire fold she had just taken out in her hand.
The little girl snorted twice like a scoundrel, and then said: "Second son, I will give you another chance, if you help me, after the matter is completed, I will present this codex with both hands, if you don't helpββ"
"Anyway, I don't know how to deal with medicine, and I don't know my uncle who has never met before, this thing...... If you burn it, you will burn it, I'm not sorry! β
An hour later, Pei Qingtan changed into a eunuch suit, and waited for Xiangyao to say goodbye to Concubine Xian and leave the palace in the art outside the palace.
Originally, Princess Yecheng wanted to sneak out of the palace, but she didn't have no choice, but when she got out of the palace gate, she didn't know which way the door of the Jiyang County Mansion opened. Now follow Xiangyao, if everything goes well, take a trip to the county mansion, maybe before the palace gate is locked, and have free time to take a stroll in the market.
When he arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, Pei Qingtan took off his eunuch clothes outside, and he was dressed as an ordinary maid. Xiangyao took her into the house through the back door, and after walking for a while, she arrived at Xiangyao Courtyard.
When Pei Yaowei saw her niece coming to the door with Xiang Yao, she was stunned for a moment.
"It's not easy for Princess Yecheng to leave the palace, she can't stay for a long time, if you have anything to say, say it quickly, don't delay things."
This sentence was said to Pei Yao.
Delays? Who is delaying? And who is looking for trouble for whom?
Pei Yaowei glanced at him, and he lost his temper.
After Xiang Yao finished saying this, he saluted Pei Qingtan and retreated to the door to guard.
"Sister Yu, I'm coming to see you, aren't you happy?" Pei Qingtan looked at her uncertain look, and was inexplicably a little scared.
This fear came wonderfully, and most of it was not to the other, but to the shadow behind her.
Pei Yaowei has a headache at this time.
Qingtan likes Xiang Xiang so much, she is naturally happy, but this girl is so bold and reckless, she somehow implicated Xiang Yao, and said that she could move him to help her get out of the palace, which made her worry.
Glancing in the direction of the door, she asked, "The princess is so capable, can she say that the second brother will help you get out of the palace?" β
As soon as she mentioned this, Pei Qingtan told her the ins and outs.
"In the past, I heard Concubine Xian Niangniang talk about this second son's good medical skills, this time it is better to be famous, it is better to meet!" She was triumphant, "Sister, haven't you seen it, my fire fold was just about to hit the codex, and your second brother was immediately nervous like something!" Originally, there was a 'Weichen didn't dare', but now he didn't dare and had to dare! β
Pei Yaowei looked at her helplessly and sighed.
"Princess, you can't do this in the future." She said, "If something happens, do you know how many people will be implicated?" β
Pei Qingtan was a little aggrieved.
"How can there be a future...... she muttered, raising her eyes to look at the person opposite, "If it weren't for my sister talking about getting married, and with the King of Chu returning to the fiefdom in the future, it would be difficult to see each other again, and I wouldn't dare to be so bold." β
She said: "I know the severity, don't worry, even if something really happens, I will never affect the Xiang family!" β
Pei Yaowei didn't know how to answer for a while.
She has a sense of intimacy in her heart, so she naturally doesn't want the Xiang family to be affected by her niece, but she doesn't want Qingtan to misunderstand - she misunderstands that the sister Xiangyu in her eyes is a person who only values the family, not her.
After thinking about it, she smiled lightly: "Princess, if you have an accident, what is the difference between you and Xiang's accident?" β
"Even if I go to the north in the future, as long as I hear that the princess is safe and sound in the capital, I will be happy."
Pei Qingtan was not aggrieved again.
Before I met Xiangyu, I knew that there was such a person in this world like my aunt, but she actually rejected it in her heart. After seeing each other, she felt that this person was really like her aunt.
- Not only the skin, but also the temperament hidden under the red face.
She carefully took out a jade box from her bosom and handed it to her.
"Sister, this is the wedding gift I prepared for you, although the king of Chu is ......" she paused, swept away the embarrassment, and continued: "I still hope that you can marry a good man, and be happy with him forever!" β
Pei Yaowei opened the jade box, and then he was stunned.
In the box is a pair of earrings - phoenix head and leaf dot cui earrings. It was in the stone beast forest in the palace that day, that Empress Dowager Liang wronged Qing Tan for stealing things from the palace of Xiao Ji, the eldest princess of Fanchang.
"These earrings were originally my aunt's." Qing Tan looked at her in remembrance, and slowly spoke to her: "After my aunt died, Empress Dowager Liang took this thing away without authorization. On Fanchang's eighteenth birthday last year, Empress Dowager Liang rewarded it to Fanchang. That day, when my sister was in the Stone Beast Forest to relieve me, it turned out that Fanchang knew that his mother's object was not right, so he wanted to steal it and return it to me. Who knew that she was discovered by her aunt in the palace and stabbed to the Empress Dowager Liang, who knew the truth, but still seized the opportunity to make trouble for me......"
Such a truth is similar to Pei Yao's guess.
Xiao Ji can be regarded as she has grown up, Empress Dowager Liang is irritable and strong, raising her daughter with a cowardly temperament, that day I saw Xiao Ji secretly interceding for Qingtan, her face was full of guilt, coupled with Meng Shurong's words from the side, Pei Yao's strings before and after, and she understood a rough idea.
Empress Dowager Liang has never liked the people around her because of herself, and she has always known this. She just hated Xiao Cha - hated him and refused to even think about his miserable death, and protect Qingtan more.
"Sister, do you like this gift?"
Pei Yao smiled and naturally said that she liked it.
It's just that......
She picked up the pendant and put it down, but there was a deep feeling of weakness in her heart.
Qing Tan didn't know much about the origin of this pendant, but she knew why Empress Dowager Liang valued this pair of earrings so much.
Originally, it was the first emperor who took it as a token and hired his original wife, Empress Dexiao Pei.
In the seventeenth year of Yuanguang, Empress Dexiao collapsed, and this thing returned to the hands of the first emperor, and then in the nineteenth year of Wuyao, the first emperor took it again and hired the princess for the crown prince Xiao Di.
After Xiao Di repented of his marriage, Emperor Xian sent someone to Pei's Mansion to take back the dowry, but he deliberately confessed to leaving this pair of earrings to her.
The minister who came by order said that the Son of Heaven asked the Pei family girl to carefully put away this pair of earrings, and the Empress Dexiao wore it to carry it into the palace gate, and in the future, the Pei family girl will also have it one day.
When these words spread out of Pei's mansion, turmoil began inside and outside the government and the opposition.
Everyone said that the East Palace repented of marriage, and the emperor was not the concubine, but the prince.
However, in her previous life, after the crown princess and the queen of Qin, Pei Yaowei never wore this pair of earrings until she died.
Pei Qingtan came to this trip, and when she saw her, she became more and more reluctant, until Xiangyao knocked on the door for the third time, and she was reluctantly sent out by Pei Yao.
There are still a lot of maids in the courtyard, and they can't say anything, Xiang Yao was about to take Pei Qingtan away, but when he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he bumped into Xiang Ying head-on.
At this moment, several people were stunned.
Although Pei Qingtan had never seen Xiang Yao in the past, he had seen Xiang Ying.
Xiang Yao obviously thought of this, after all, Xiang Ying Yu Linwei was born, and he had been in the Son of Heaven for a long time, I heard that Empress Renyi also had the idea of marrying Princess Yecheng to him.
He called out to Changchu, shook his head, and signaled with his eyes that Xiang Ying should not be publicized.
Xiang Ying glanced at the three people in front of him one by one, and finally stopped at Pei Yaoyan.
He didn't say anything, but when he passed by Pei Qingtan's side, he bowed his head with a very small movement, and then said to Pei Yao, go and come back quickly.
Pei Yao replied.
She sent Pei Qingtan all the way out of the back door, and Xiang Yao deliberately quickened her pace and separated herself from them. After Pei Yaowei found out that Zi Shi had just seen Xiang Ying, Qing Tan's expression was a little lonely, and her head was lowered, not knowing what she was thinking.
Pei Yao thought for a moment, and was about to ask her a few words, but her heart moved, and she suddenly thought of a possibility.
- The daughter's family looks like she doesn't belong to her, and it's easy to guess the reason.