370 Luckily, we finally met each other
Luckily, we finally met each other
"Ahh Through the green gauze tent, you can faintly see the bright moonlight outside the house, and the shadows of the trees outside the main courtyard of the princess's mansion are pulled by the moonlight.
The scene in the dream, almost 20 years have passed, but it is still as clear as yesterday.
In the last second, there was still a scene of pushing cups and changing lamps, singing and dancing, but after a while, everything changed.
First, Rong Guifei Dong, who had been favored by her father for many years, somehow became Queen Herui, who had been dead for nearly twenty years, and wanted to assassinate her father with the jade on the piano, but she stabbed her own son, who was also her second brother Lu Cheng.
And then her own brother Lu Yuan showed his fangs that had been hidden for many years, and wanted to kill his father as the palace killer, but before he could do it, his only son Lu Duo was held hostage by the future eldest brother-in-law, Qianyou's great general Tang Yuxiao, as long as he dared to act rashly, that innocent child would be splashed with blood on the spot.
What came to her ears was the pleading of Princess Yu Du Ruo, and she was still crying hoarsely begging Lu Yuan to stop for the sake of the child's innocence, Don't let Tang Yuxiao hurt her child.
Lu said that he intended to look down on Du Ruo, this woman, from a humble background, did not say, and did not know what method was used to climb to the position of Princess Yu step by step, all she thought about all day long was some caution, there was no big pattern at all, and she did not necessarily have a sincere love for her, the sister of King Yu, every time she looked at her, her eyes were full of calculations.
But at this time, Lu Chengyi, who was about to become a mother, couldn't help but feel a little pity for this woman. After so many years of being married to her brother, she hasn't been able to see the essence of Lu Yuan, which is really sad.
In Lu Yuan's eyes, in this world, he only cares about himself. The rest of the people, the father, the mother, the younger sister, the wife He Ping'an, including the current wife and children, are just a springboard for him to realize his wishes. Once it is no longer useful, it will be discarded like a piece of waste. She finally saw the essence of this brother a few years ago, and only then did she direct and act in a good play, and married herself to Xu Huanche by mistake.
In fact, she didn't think clearly who she wanted to marry, but she knew that as long as it wasn't someone arranged by Lu Yuan, she didn't have to continue to be his bargaining chip.
Xu Huanche just crashed into this game by mistake. She also knew that there was a tomb in his heart, and it was inhabited by a woman who he could not reach in his life.
But not her.
Xu Huanche's father was the youngest son of the Marquis of Anshun, and there was no hope of becoming a prince, but his uncle died early, and the position of the son fell on his father. He is his father's only son, and if there is no accident, the title of Marquis of Anshun will fall on him sooner or later.
But because she broke into his life on a rampage, all this suddenly took root in the middle of the festival. The position of grandson was canonized by her father to his cousin, and his father also set a system that the horse was not allowed to be an official in the court, which broke his future abruptly.
He just didn't love her, and now that he has no future, he should hate her, right? She took a sip of the lotus seed soup in front of her, although the lotus heart had been removed, but there was still a bitterness in her mouth.
Even if he complained, she was a princess, he had no other way to resist, and the emperor's order could not be violated. Even if they can't bring comfort to each other in this life, at least she still has the meat in her belly, which is the closest person to her in this world.
Sure enough, as she expected, Lu Yuan finally said the heartless words: "Du Ruo, there will be a son between this king and you." Whether Brother Duo lives or dies depends on his own creation. ”
She saw that the blazing fire in Du Ruo's eyes dimmed little by little, and smiled bitterly in her heart, in fact, the people in the palace were fighting back and forth, and in the end, they often couldn't tell what they had gained and what they had lost.
Just as she was sighing to herself, Du Ruo pulled out the rather sharp gem-encrusted tourmaline hairpin on her head with lightning speed, flew forward, and poked at Lu Yuan's neck with his back to him.
"Whew-"
The long tourmaline hairpin went straight through Lu Yuan's neck, and the hairpin that was originally golden and blue, when it came out, it was already covered with blood stains, and blood beads were splashed everywhere.
Because Du Ruo poked Lu Yuan's throat, Lu Yuan didn't even have time to say a word, he struggled to the ground, convulsed, and couldn't move anymore. No one thought that King Yu, who was majestic and wanted to kill the king and seize the throne one moment, was stabbed to death with a hairpin by the person next to his pillow the next moment.
But none of them expected that another person would jump out next, and the situation would change. From beginning to end, the ambitious Lu Yuan is just a chess piece in the hands of Lu Muchu, the eldest princess of Zhaoxing, and her son He Yiqing, how sad?
The rebels brought by He Yiqing set off stormy waves in the Yanqing Palace without warning.
"You go first, leave me alone. You know the palace well, you know where to hide!" The man's voice was low, but with some strength and undeniable firmness. He took her hand and tried to hide her behind him, covering her step by step.
Her marriage with him originated from a mistake, but later, it was covered up by a holy decree of marriage turned into a fig leaf, if it was a feeling, probably not, he would never have thought that he, who was powerless, would pick up the white jade wine cup on the nearby table and smash it towards the rebel's head one after another on such an occasion, just to protect her who also had no ability to protect herself, and was pregnant.
In the end, the rebels still noticed that the defense here was the weakest - the man knew that he was a scholar at a glance, and the woman did not understand the affairs of soldiers, and she was pregnant, so it was naturally the best place to conquer.
The sword had no eyes, and as she hid behind a huge bronze dome under his protection, a short sword stabbed straight into his shoulder.
She screamed, and the nightmare came to an abrupt end.
Her voice alarmed him who was sleeping next to her, Xu Huan turned over, grabbed the corner of the quilt and gently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead: "Want to be Tongtong?"
Tongtong is their eldest daughter, her name is Xu Fengtong, she was born the night he tried his best to protect her, and before giving birth that night, she also had a dream, dreaming of a red phoenix jade in a dream, and then she started.
She loves to dream very much, and she also believes that there is some kind of connection between dreams and reality, so according to the dream, she named this daughter Fengtong.
The day Tongtong was born was his father's 50th birthday, and Rao Shilu Chengyi was already holding a nine-month-old belly, but he still couldn't hold back his heart and wanted to join in the fun, so he ran to Yan Qing Palace early to get busy.
said that she was busy, but no one dared to let her, the fourth princess who was pregnant and had been in the palace, really do anything, she just held her back a little soft because of pregnancy with one hand, while pointing with the other finger and giving orders.
The people in the palace have long been accustomed to such scenes, even if Lu Chengyi knows, they don't know how many times they have muttered in their hearts about the shocking vulgarity of this fourth princess.
Yes, the princess of Daxuan, who is not shocking?
Whichever one comes out, it's also a legend.
Emperor Longqing gave birth to four sons and four daughters in his life, and as the youngest of the eight children, her biological mother was the powerful Qing Concubine Niangniang, who naturally grew up with a thousand pets, in her childhood memories, no matter what she asked, her mother and brother could always do their best to satisfy her.
And her other three sisters, without exception, all have no mother early, so she has a special sense of superiority since she was a child.
But people always don't know how to be satisfied, and as she grew older day by day, she found the difference between herself and her eldest sister Lu Keyi- is also the daughter of the father, when the father looks at the four of them, his eyes always linger on Lu Keyi's body; it is also a reward during the New Year's Festival, even if the type of object is the same, the bracelet in Lu Keyi's hand is always better than the other sisters; according to the ancestral system of Daxuan, among the princes, except for the prince who can live in the East Palace, the rest have to live in the prince's house, and the princesses have to be raised in the princess's house since childhood, and there are educated grandmothers to restrain every word and deed, only Lu Keyi is an exception, her birth indicates the death of Queen Herui, and the Zhengyi Palace where Queen Herui lived before her death has become her residence alone...... What makes her feel most unacceptable is that only Lu Keyi can be coquettish and obsessed in front of her father unscrupulously, but her mother Concubine Qing always reminds her that in Jinse Palace, she can go with her as much trouble as she wants, and when she leaves Jinse Palace, she must be a good princess in a proper manner, and she can't let her father feel that her mother and daughter have no way.
It wasn't until the mother concubine was jealous of her father because she secretly plotted for her brother, and was finally demoted to a concubine and grounded in Jinse Palace, and she could no longer set foot in Jinse Palace for half a step, and since then she has become a princess without a mother, she realized that her life has changed drastically - her life, no one cares about it anymore.
In fact, this is not the most shattered, but it was only at that time that she clearly realized that the mother's love and brother's favor that she was proud of before came from nothing more than material aspects. The mother concubine only has her brother in her eyes, and her brother only has the position of the prince in her eyes, and her sister, in their hearts, has never even occupied a position the size of a sesame seed.
All the sweet dreams of her youth have all turned into beautiful bubbles, and when the wind blows, they are broken, and she can't find them, and she can't find them, which is the biggest crack in the young princess's heart.
She really realized that in this world, probably no one will really protect her, except herself. And the only thing she can rely on is the name of the fourth princess. The people in the palace are especially high and low, and the father is unwilling to tear off the fig leaf that she is unmarried and pregnant, and the people in the palace are naturally secretive, and they dare not slack off with respect to her, the fourth princess.
Only by letting this child be born in the palace will people not criticize her origin.
So even if she was pregnant with Xu Huanche's child by mistake, she didn't want to marry into the Xu family in a hurry, she didn't want to be looked down upon by the Xu family, and she didn't want her future mother-in-law to think that she was a princess with ill intentions.
But what she didn't expect was that in such a life-and-death situation, this powerless man would give up everything to protect her. Her heart, which had been frozen for a long time, finally began to melt because of that sentence.
"You go first, leave me alone. You know the palace well, and you know where to hide!"
This man rarely speaks sweet words, but these less than twenty words have become a fetters for her whole life, better than all love words......
Seeing that she didn't speak, Xu Huanche pulled the quilt she slipped off over her shoulder again, and pulled her to lie down again: "Tongtong is now the queen, and only Ah Zheng's kid has the ability to bully her." But how could Ah Zheng be willing to bully her? Tongtong is already good if she doesn't bully Ah Zheng, so you don't have to worry about Tongtong, the children are older, and they have to live their own lives after all. ”
Tongtong's appearance is more like Xu Huanche, but her personality is more like her, but she has lived in a fairly harmonious family since she was a child, which is far better than the palace she lived in when she was a child, and far more bright and cheerful than her.
Xu Huanche could not enter the court as an official as a concubine, and Emperor Changle, that is, her second brother, took pity on his peerless calligraphy and painting talent, and when the prince was enlightened, he insisted on inviting him to come to the palace to teach calligraphy and painting to the two princes who had reached school age. The rules set by his father, Emperor Changle can't change his course with great fanfare, so Xu Huanche naturally won't have the title of Taifu, but the two princes are very clear that the Xu family had a dragon merit before Emperor Changle ascended the throne, and this uncle is the queen's maiden cousin, and he is knowledgeable and upright, so he definitely doesn't dare to disrespect him.
People who go to the study will also respect Xu Huanche and say "Mr. Xu".
The emperor's eldest son, Lu Kai, is the concubine born to the Zhu family, with a gentle personality, but there are some cowardices, and some of them are weak from the mother's womb when they were born, and they can't practice martial arts, but they are willing to spend time on learning literature, and they can be regarded as knowledgeable people. is the crown prince Lu Zheng, whose personality is quite similar to Emperor Changle, a small ghost who is brave and strategic, and most of the time when learning calligraphy and painting is considered diligent, unless the little companion reads to disturb his quietness.
And this little companion reading is the errand that Xu Fengtong, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, disguised as a man. Who knew that after coming and going, the two children born on the same day, the same month, and the same year developed into childhood sweethearts, and the two had no guesses.
And Tongtong, after all, fulfilled the phoenix in her dream, first became the crown princess, and then became the queen.
Lu Chengyi looked at the broad arm that hugged him and smiled: "I didn't think about Tongtong, I believe Ah Zheng will be good to her." ”
"Then you dreamed of Tongtong's birth day again, right? It's over, life will only get better and better, don't worry, I'm here." ”
With him, isn't life getting better and better?
Originally, the imaginary husband and wife respected each other like guests, but the experience of suffering together made the two have some inexplicable feelings. Xu Huanche felt sorry for her for so many years, no one really knew the cold and the heat, and loved her more and more, and she also learned to let go of her arrogance and do some small things in person to repay his love.
When Lu Chengyi married the Xu family with her infant daughter Xu Fengtong, it caused a sensation in the entire imperial capital for a while, and probably many people thought that she gave birth to a child of the Xu family, even if she was a noble princess, she could only marry.
Only she knows that with her nature, if she doesn't want to marry, no one can force her. And she is not married, how fortunate is she to marry a man who is willing to sacrifice his life for her?
Feelings are just like people drinking water, and they know their own warmth and coldness.
She is really good when she is doing well.
In the first fourteen years with Xu Huanche, she gave birth to a total of seven daughters to Xu Huanche, except for the eldest daughter Xu Fengtong, the rest were from the genealogy of the daughters of the Xu family, Xu Jiashu, Xu Jiahua, Xu Jiashi, Xu Jiajiu, Xu Jiahua, and Xu Jiacha. Xu Huan took pity on her for her hard work, and once asked her to drink the soup that did not hurt her body, but she secretly stopped taking the medicine again and again, just thinking about giving him a son.
But God can't let her do everything after all, the Huacha sisters are twins, and she was over thirty years old when she gave birth to them, in the end, she was still short of qi and blood during childbirth, and she couldn't get pregnant anymore.
After she knew, she looked apologetically at Xu Huanche, who was still less than forty years old, and said: "You are still young, you can't live without a son, I will find a good concubine for you to enter the door, and I will leave you a queen." ”
Xu Huan cherished her, there was no woman around him before marrying her, and after marrying her, he would not mess with flowers and grass at all. In fact, she herself knew that when she said the words to let him take a concubine, her heart also hurt like a pinprick.
She has long been accustomed to Xu Huanche being only good to her alone, and she also believes that Xu Huanche's love when he was young has been eliminated invisibly in more than ten years of mutual affection.
Unexpectedly, Xu Huanche took her hand: "Fool, do you know that if my father had to investigate my abrupt affair with you and prevent us from marrying, I thought about it, even if I wanted to purify myself, it would be okay." ”
"Huh?" Lu Chengyi raised his eyebrows and looked at Xu Huanche, what did he mean by this?
Xu Huanche stared at the woman in front of him who already had a little fine lines at the corners of her eyes, even if she had wrinkles, in his heart, she was still the most beautiful one: "So, if I hadn't met you, if you hadn't been willing to marry me, I would have cut off my children and grandchildren a long time ago! Fortunately, I finally met you, and now I have you, and the seven fairies of our princess's mansion, there is nothing more complete than this." ”
"Sleep. The man on the pillow hugged her tighter, and her chest was so hot that she would no longer be afraid of all the cold in this world.
She held Xu Huanche's hand with both hands and placed it in the most intimate place, which has been her habit for many years.
Before going back to sleep, she thought, "It's okay, we've finally met each other."