Chapter 3 Concubine Caution
The last night of the palace was destined to be a sleepless night.
Li Shushen leaned sideways in front of the window, looking at the blue moon meteor, and couldn't help but introduce infinite reverie. Just now, her maidservant Miaochun came to tell her that the prince and Shen Changan had returned home. She only said lightly, "Oh, I see." ”
It's getting late, and the prince probably won't come to see her. In fact, if it was still early, it wouldn't be, and the prince must have stayed with Shen Changan again.
There was a thick stack of ledgers beside her, and she flipped to the last page, and after carefully examining it, she closed it again.
This is the fifth year that she has married into the palace. For five years, her youth had been left in this dormitory. Except for the wedding day, after having a happy day with her, the prince has not stayed at her residence overnight.
Whenever he saw her, he called her "cousin", and she listened to it on her face, but her heart was dripping blood.
She met Chu Luo for the first time in her childhood. At that time, he was still the sixth prince of the dynasty, and his aura was magnificent, and he showed his extraordinaryness early. On that day, the spring was just right, and fifteen-year-old Li Shu cautiously followed behind her aunt, who was still Concubine Xuan at the time, preparing to meet the fourth prince. When he arrived, Chu Xun was only practicing swords in the courtyard, and he didn't bother to see her. The aunt pushed Shushen behind her, and said with a smile on her face, "Xun'er, I've come to see your cousin." ”
Shushen was finally shy, she raised her head, glanced at the majestic King Mingyang, and said softly, "Shushen has seen the fourth cousin. ”
"Fourth brother, look at the sword!"
Shu Shen raised his eyes when he heard the sound, only to see the figure of a young man in a green shirt flickering, pulling out the sword in the scabbard, with a turn of his wrist, the green sword also flashed as fast as lightning, the sword light flashed, but it merged with the figure in green clothes, the cyan sword light was drawn in the air into an arc, only in an instant, he looked at the scabbard in Chu Xun's hand, and then threw out the green sword in his hand, right in the scabbard. Chu Luo flew down, walked around to Chu Xun's side, and said with a smug smile, "Fourth brother, you lost." ”
Chu Xun looked displeased, and put the sword back into the sheath with one hand.
"Luo'er, don't mess around like this." A stern look flashed on Concubine Xuan's face, and she said sharply to the little eunuch beside her, "Go and take back his sword." ”
Shu Shen looked at Chu Luo's departing figure, unable to return to his senses for a long time. In just that moment, she knew that she would have to be his companion in this life.
She played with him, but he always let her have a son, and once she saw the mystery, but he just smiled and said, "I'm a man, so I should let my cousin." Chu Luo let her just be a chess piece, but Li Shushen had already given up her whole heart.
She is beautiful and captivating, her piano skills are good at music, and her singing of mountains and rivers is exciting, attracting countless gentlemen to bend their waists for her. She was originally going to become the princess of Mingyang, and the four princes had already belonged to her, and her father also belonged to the faction of the four princes, and intended to marry his daughter to the king of Mingyang. But she didn't, she had already sworn in front of the gods that she would not marry King Lin'an in this life.
She probably never looked forward to that night, she knelt in front of her father's room in a red dress all night, and everyone advised her not to kneel, but she didn't listen. The next morning, my father opened the door with a tired face. Seeing that she was still kneeling outside, she finally couldn't bear to cry.
"Shen'er, you must not regret it."
She smiled, ignoring the pain in her knees, and kowtowed to her father three times.
Marrying Chu Luo, how could she regret it? Even today, she is willing to kneel outside the house all night to beg her father for a change of heart. Her marriage to him is the best thing in this life.
In the end, she got her wish and became the princess of Lin'an, but what she faced was half a life of loneliness.
On the wedding night, Chu Luo picked up Xipa, she raised her head with joy, but what she saw was the faint anger between Chu Luo's eyebrows.
"Cousin, why did you marry me?"
Fortunately, he is not thin on her, her food and clothing are the best in the palace, whenever the spring is open, he always takes her into the palace, in front of outsiders, they are also the right couple. Since she got married, he would often take her home to save her relatives and talk about her homesickness.
The prince likes landscapes, loves poetry and painting, and does not like political affairs. She took charge of all the affairs of the palace, from taxes to the general affairs of the people under the palace. She occasionally hears the prince call her a "rare good wife" in front of outsiders, and she will be complacent, but in fact, the prince still has a place for her in his heart.
The two spent three years respectfully with each other. And in the third year, two major events happened, which completely defeated Li Shushen - Nanyan was pregnant and Shen Chang'an entered the mansion.
The former happened on a spring day in the third year of Li Shushen's marriage to the palace, and she heard Miaochun say that the prince wanted to take a maid as a concubine. At first, she didn't believe it, thinking that it was just a false rumor spread by the little maids in the palace who saw that the prince had spoken a few more words with which girl, after all, she still knew the prince's thoughts, and which maid in the palace could get into his eyes. But when she saw Zhao Nanyan walking into the inner courtyard of the palace with her stomach up, her psychological defense line was broken down at once. Even if he was fortunate to be a little maid, he wouldn't go to her. She has been married for three years, but she has never had children of her own.
She thought it was the worst, but it wasn't. That year, when the scorching sun was high, Chu Luo met Shen Changan. She watched as the eight sedan chairs were carried into the palace, but Shen Changan was carried into the palace by the prince. The beauty smiled like a flower, how could she see her secretly sad on the side.
Since then, Chu Luo has not been the same as before. Shen Chang'an is a talented woman in Lin'an City, who is proficient in poetry and good at music and rhythm, and is even better at painting. She likes peach blossoms, so Chu Luo gave her a peach forest, accompanied her to play in the mountains and rivers, and lived a life like a fairy couple. In order to make her happy, Chu Luo even let go of everything in the palace and took Shen Changan to live in paradise. The person sent by Shushen came back and told her that the two were incognito, commensurate with husband and wife, and they were not happy. Chu Luo and Shen Changan left, and all the messes in this palace were handed over to Li Shushen. All the jealousy and desire, as well as her grievances of staying alone in the empty room for so many years, at this moment, made her almost hate Shen Changan to death.
Later, Nanyan gave birth to a daughter, and the name taken by Shen Changan was also used. Chu Luo gave her everything but her identity.
However, until today, Li Shushen suddenly understood that in fact, fate has never treated her badly, as long as she survives today, she is the queen, the mother of this country, and only she is qualified to be the mother of the world.
She turned off the lights and tossed and turned back and forth like before.