74 Chapter 74
"Color!" Wang Li spoke loudly, "This is what Princess Daqin should look like!"
Not only is it the appearance that Princess Daqin should have, but he also saw the appearance of His Majesty from that slightly immature little face.
- This is the daughter who was raised by His Majesty's side and brought up by her own hands, not only in appearance, but also in temperament.
He loves Eleven's way of looking so much!
Wang Li raised his hand and took a sip of wine into his mouth, his eyes were shining, "Eleven, do you know what you looked like a few days ago?" You did things a few days ago, looking forward and backward, timid, not like Princess Daqin, but more like a pitiful little person living in the streets and alleys. "
Meng Yi's brows furrowed slightly, and his gaze fell on Hehua.
He grew up watching Hehua, this princess is well-behaved, sensible, smart, and a princess who makes people feel at ease. - Only if she's in a good mood and isn't provoked, of course.
As the most favored princess of the emperor, this princess should have a lot of princess temperament, happy clothes, good music, delicious food, if it were not for the previous few young people who were thin in taxes and rest for the people to make the treasury run in deficit, she would also give full play to the poverty and luxury of her identity.
Like to enjoy, it used to be generous and kind, but now it is but there is a sharp edge, and it is the best portrayal to deal with the guards.
Like such a person, it is difficult for him to imagine that she will be afraid of wolves and tigers, as Wang Li said in his words, she is like a little pitiful person abandoned on the street.
He couldn't imagine that kind of picture, let alone think about it. But his brows still frowned involuntarily, and his chest was very stuffy, and he looked at her face, and his thoughts froze for a moment.
"Poor little on the streets?" Meng Yi looked at Hehua in the main position.
"Yes, it's a poor little one living on the streets."
Wang Li took a big sip of wine, "The princess a few days ago didn't look like a princess at all, she was pitiful and pretended to be strong, not to mention how unpleasant it was."
Hehua sneered and glanced at Wang Li, "What little pitiful? How can I be like this?"
"Okay, if you say no, you don't, I'll listen to you."
The spicy taste entered his throat, and Wang Li sighed happily, "But I'll tell you, it's still pleasing to your eyes now." "Since you are a princess, you should be arrogant and domineering, and you should not be constrained by others."
/ > "What is well-behaved and sensible, what is gentle and kind, that is to restrain ordinary people, not to restrain princesses." "
Wang Li raised his eyes to look at Hehua and smiled with a mouthful of big white teeth, "Eleven, you should always be the way you are now, always confident and flamboyant, looking forward to Shenfei."
Hehua's chin was slightly raised, and his face was determined, "Don't worry, I will always be like today."
Those who are not confident, those who try to follow the path of their predecessors step by step to win the pertinence of others, will never have it again. - What she looks like is up to her to define.
Meng Yi's eyelids lifted slightly.
He should be relieved, happy for His Majesty, and even more proud of the princess, but when he saw the slightly childish little face full of determination, he suddenly had an inexplicable sense of loss in his heart, and the little princess he watched her grow up no longer regarded him as a retreat, let alone habitually dependent on him, she had learned to walk on her own, and she no longer needed him.
What does that feel like? is probably looking forward to the child growing up, but he is afraid that the child will grow up too quickly and leave his old father's mood.
Meng Yi laughed to himself.
Hehua's fingers tapped lightly on the table in front of the teacup. The attendant was very pale, and immediately stepped forward to add tea.
"Meng Yi, I will replace the wine with tea, and I will toast you." Hehua picked up the teacup, "Thank you for taking care of me and teaching me all these years, and thank you—"
His voice paused slightly, and Hehua snorted lightly, "Just thank you for taking care of and teaching me, and don't thank you for the rest."
There is a very popular saying in the 21st century, which probably means thank you for suffering, and those who can't kill you will make you stronger. She didn't like this sentence, and made the suffering seem like a gift, and she wanted to thank it for not killing herself, so that she could get stronger and stronger.
This statement is a complete refutation. Why do people have to go through hardship to grow?
The delicate girl born in the ivory tower, with the passage of time, will also have her own opinions, instead of flying into trouble, under the pressure and pain, the original self will be completely abandoned, and replaced with an unrecognizable self, which is the price of growth.
She didn't like that kind of upbringing. This growth is more like a compromise after suffering has crushed the backbone.
The flamboyant and enthusiastic self was buried by his own hands, and then he had to tell others that he was doing a good job, which is a necessary thing in life, and no one can hide from it.
This is a forced and reluctant concession, one step at a time to reconcile with suffering.
The past years have been cut across the board
, The edges and corners of the character are all polished, only things are left and there is no difference between the walking dead, the only difference is that he is still alive, and he still knows the pain, and when he recalls that he was also high-spirited, there will be a moment of loss of consciousness when he is heavy, but this loss of mind will gradually become numb, and finally when others mention it again, he will laugh at himself-
"Blind, I was still too young."
If you are too young, you will separate yourself from the past.
She didn't like that.
It is true that there will be all kinds of helpless choices on the road of life, but she hopes that no matter how many choices she makes, no matter how many times she stands at the crossroads of life, she can have the courage to choose the path she likes the most, not the most suitable.
She does not compromise and does not reconcile. She will swim against the current like her father, and find her own way in the choppy crowd.
"I can grow so fast because of your renunciation."
Hehua held the teacup and looked at Meng Yi below, "But this kind of renunciation made me very painful for a while, self-doubt, and went astray, if it wasn't for Wang Li's night break into the palace gate and take me away, I'm afraid that I will be trapped in that kind of strange circle now."
Meng Yi poured wine and paused slightly.
He didn't look up at Hehua, but he could feel that Hehua's gaze at this time must have fallen on his face, and the eyes that looked like His Majesty looked at him with a little dissatisfaction at this time, burning and slightly complaining, burning his face a little painful.
"I know you're doing it for me, but I don't like your kind of doing it for me." "I know that I will come to this day one day, and the sooner I go, the better my future will be."
"But still, I don't think it's up to you to start this path."
"Meng Yi, you have always been my way out, not that you cut this road with your own hands, so that I can get used to being in a high position and not being cold."
Meng Yi's fingers pinching the wine cup tightened slightly.
Hehua's voice continued, "But Meng Yi, does he have to be a loner if he is in a high position?"
The banquet is a public banquet, but it is also a private banquet.
At the banquet, there were only a few henchmen of King Hehua and Meng Yi, all of whom were people who had been with Hehua day and night in the past, there were no outsiders in the flower hall, and she spoke more unscrupulously, of course, it was also possible that she no longer needed to care about the appearance of others, so she could say whatever she wanted.
"I don't think it's the right thing to do."
"No one stipulates that the superior must be lonely and cold."
"Even if there is, when it comes to my father's and my generation, such things will be completely broken."
Hehua looked at Meng Yi.
The man didn't look up, only looked at the wine cup in his hand, as if he was appreciating the color of the wine, but she knew that it was definitely not, Meng Yi didn't pay attention to the appetite, whether the wine was a gentle and long drunken moon in the southwest, or a spicy burning knife in the land of Guanzhong, Meng Yi would not pay much attention, the reason why he was staring at his wine cup at this time, instead of looking up at her, was because he was weak in heart.
He realized that his unilateral renunciation would hurt her, and even more hurt her feelings and dependence on him, but no matter how many times he did it again, he would still go this way.
- He wants her to always be independent and not dependent on anyone, even if it is him.
The candle flame cut the man's emaciated chin.
The swaying halo faded little by little, and the curling incense spit out of the sandalwood burner of the feathered seat outlined the corners of the man's eyes and eyebrows. Hehua's voice softened suddenly, "Meng Yi, I rely on you a lot." "It was, it is, and it will be."
Meng Yi's shoulders trembled slightly. As if he suspected that he had misheard, the man's ears moved—later, too?
"But this dependence will not affect my judgment of the political situation." Hehua continued, "So Meng Yi, don't go and break this dependence, okay?"
Meng Yi breathed slightly.
The lieutenants who accompanied the adjutant looked at their noses and noses, and sat quietly in their places with quails.
- The matter between the princess and General Meng is not something that their group can put their beaks in, and the only purpose for them to appear here is only one, and that is to be a foil.
Just like the half-height incense burner in the flower hall and the delicate and simple glass lamp, it is a tool to decorate the atmosphere of the flower hall.
The huge flower hall fell silent as Hehua's voice ended.
Meng Yi pinched the wine cup with his fingers and slowly raised his head.
But halfway up his head, he suddenly stopped again, as if to slow down. After slowing down for a while, the deep eyes with the eyelashes tucked up inch by inch along the brocade carpet, moving to Hehua little by little.
At this time, Hehua was also looking at him, his phoenix eyes reflected the flickering candle flame, and the shining candle flame burned from the bottom of her eyes to him.
Meng Yi suddenly laughed. - Wang Li is right, such a princess is indeed very pleasing to the eye.
"Color!
"
The Silent Flower Hall suddenly erupted in applause.
This voice came really suddenly, Meng Yi's movements stopped instantly, the range of his movements was larger than Fang Cai, the wine in his hand couldn't help but tremble, and a few drops of wine jumped out of the wine cup and sprinkled on Meng Yi's fingers.
And the perpetrator who caused all this did not notice Meng Yi's subtle movements at all, the young man stepped over with long legs, got up from his position, held the wine cup in one hand and the wine bottle in the other, and strode in front of Meng Yi.
Seeing that the wine cup in Meng Yi's hand was still full, the young man put down his wine cup, grabbed Meng Yi's arm and poured the wine cup into Meng Yi's mouth, and complained while pouring it, "Eleven said it so well, why don't you take one?"
Can't the king sit quietly without this wild monkey?
The corners of Hehua's mouth twitched slightly.
A glass of wine was poured into the air.
"That's right.
Wang Li was satisfied.
The young man's mind was only on Meng Yi, and he didn't pay attention to the eyes of Hehua on the main throne at all, Meng Yi finished drinking the wine in the wine cup, he sat down next to Meng Yi on his knees, raised his hand and patted Meng Yi on the shoulder, "Meng Yi, what do you have to do with Eleven?"
"Why do you want to follow others to draw a line with Eleven?"
If you say what is the biggest gain of going to the southwest to experience, then after coming back, Meng Yi is no longer moving
Beating him up was definitely the first one. In this kind of mentality, Wang Li saw Meng Yi and no longer saw the cat like before, he was a person who survived the battlefield, not only survived, but also made great achievements and became famous, as a peerless general rising in Great Qin, what is he afraid of?
Of course he is not afraid!
- Especially in front of Eleven, not only was he not afraid, but he also dared to pour wine on Meng Yi with Meng Yi!
Meng Yi, Eleven depends on you, so let her rely on you. Wang Li refilled the wine in Meng Yi's wine cup, what's the big deal? As for making you hesitate for a long time without speaking?
"Come, let's go!"
Wang Li sent the wine cup full of wine to Meng Yi's mouth, After walking this one, he took out the arrogance of our Guanzhong Erlang, and said to Eleven that she depended on her!
You'll never betray Eleven, so why worry about her dependence?
Hehua raised his hand to support his forehead. - As long as there is Wang Li by his side, no matter how sensational the picture is, it will become unbearable to look at directly.
The corners of Hehua's mouth twitched slightly, clamped
Feed a piece of bacon to your mouth.
Meng Yi glanced at Hehua, took the wine in Wang Li's hand, raised his hand and drank it all.
Color!
Wang Li's voice was Lang Lang.
Meng Yi put down the wine cup.
Wang Li urged repeatedly, "Say it quickly!"
The lieutenants who were quietly pretending to be quails looked at Meng Yi secretly. - Who can refuse this kind of excitement? Especially the liveliness of General Meng.
Everyone's eyes fell on Meng Yi, except for Hehua.
She knows Meng Yi too well, if her eldest brother is a gentleman who can be bullied, then Meng Yi is a bright wind and moon, bright and sparse, he will not bury all his thoughts in his heart, let you guess, but he will not declare all his thoughts, he will always say the right words at the right time, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.
Wang Cai can't leave his mouth, he will definitely say his words in front of her sight, but now Wang Li is constantly coaxing, what he wants to say is no longer suitable at this time, if he opens his mouth again, it will be like Wang Li with a drunken half-truth, and to put it bluntly, it is to push the boat down the river and say a few nice words to make her happy.
This kind of talk can be heard or not, Hehua doesn't care too much. But when Meng Yi finally spoke under Wang Li's urging, Hehua paused slightly, and clearly found that he was happy-
The princess has grown up and can do whatever she wants.
Meng Yi's voice was clear, Ruchen will no longer ask the princess how much snack she has eaten today, who the princess wants to rely on, and who she is close to, and the minister will not ask again.
This sentence is not to coax her, but to push the boat obediently, but the most straightforward idea in his heart, he will no longer interfere in anything with her, she can do whatever she likes.
She is free.
He wanted her to be free forever.
Princess, may you have a bright future and be invincible. Meng Yi looked at Hehua gently, and there was a candle flame in his eyes.
"I will."
Hehua bent his eyes and smiled, and the chopsticks in his hand rested on the jade plate.
Hehua raised his head, there was a candle flame between himself and Meng Yi, the candle flame was flickering, and the shallow light was plated on Meng Yi's body, making his whole person have a dream-like sense of unreality, Hehua blinked, the light disappeared, and only the man and Wang Li sat side by side.
Meng Yi, come back early. Hehua said, "Wang Li and I are waiting for you in Xianyang."
Meng Yi smiled softly, "The minister's will." "The next day. Under the city tower, Meng Yi sent the crane
Hua left.
The princess has always been kind-hearted and will not easily take people's lives.
Meng Yi told Hehua about yesterday's execution of the guards, "Before the execution, the minister took it upon himself to save those people, fined them fifty military sticks, and sent them to three years of hard labor after they were wounded, so that they could take this as a warning and never commit it again.
"Those people wept bitterly, regretted their mistakes, and swore to heaven that they would never dare to be disrespectful to the princess again."
Hehua glared at Meng Yi, You always like to be a good person.
If the princess is not satisfied with this arrangement, the minister will let them look up now. Meng Yi said with a smile.
"Not necessarily."
Hehua stopped and looked Meng Yi up and down, The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped. If they are your guardians, and they are disrespectful to me, you should be punished with them for your lack of discipline.
Meng Yi couldn't help laughing, it was indeed a minister's lax discipline.
"Three...... No, twenty military sticks. "Hehua raised two fingers, and punished you for half a year to set an example.
Well, the minister should indeed be punished.
Meng Yiwan.
"What year has your money been deducted?"
Wang Li's eyes darkened, "I originally wanted to ask you to borrow some money to turn around, but now it's okay, let alone borrowing money, I still have to talk to your eldest brother and ask your eldest brother to stick some money for you."
In the bitter cold land of the border pass, it is difficult to move an inch without money. Say, how much money did your eldest brother send you?
Meng Tian offered 10,000 stones, and even if he sent 5,000 stones to Meng Yi, there were still 5,000 stones in the house, which was enough for his daily expenses. In the Zhangtai Palace, Ying Zheng put the approved recital on the imperial case, and his voice was leisurely.
"Father!"
Hehua stepped forward with the corner of his skirt and took two small fists to hammer Yingzheng's shoulders attentively.
This is one of the few life skills she has, every time she gets into trouble or wants to intercede for others, she will do everything she can to give her father a slap on his back and shoulders.
As for whether the effect is good or not, she thinks it is probably good, otherwise Father would not have let go of the fold that he opened casually, and his eyes narrowed comfortably.
Father's face was enjoyed, and the atmosphere was almost over, so she changed her movements, stretched out her small fists, and changed from a hammer shoulder to holding Yingzheng's shoulder, lying on Yingzheng's shoulder and coquettishly, "I am so clear about public and private, Father can't do it anymore."
It's not the one who cares about me sneaking out of the palace. ”
Of course, not only me, but also Wang Li, his injuries are not healed yet, so don't beat him.
As soon as she and Wang Li arrived in Xianyang City, they were arrested by her father's personal guards, and she was sent back to the palace, while Wang Li was directly imprisoned. What's even worse is that going to prison is just the beginning, and after the disaster of prison, you will have to be beaten with a military stick, and the real capital crime can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped.
Hehua said, "The general only has such a son as Wang Li, seeing that Wang Li is so badly injured-"
"General?"
Ying Zheng raised his eyes slightly and interrupted Hehua's words, Which general?
Okay, I know, the general of Daqin was affected by the great filial son, and he was demoted from the highest official position of a military general to the end, not to mention that he was white, and he even lost his mansion, and he ate and drank in Mengtian's mansion every day.
"Father, I was really wrong."
Hehua sighed and explained honestly, "It was I who got into the horns of the bull and understood it too late, and it affected so many people-"
"You're a princess, you're not wrong."
Ying Zheng sneered lightly and interrupted Hehua's words again, "Eleven, you came to look for me today, do you want to admit your mistake to me, or do you want to intercede for others?
Hehua's breathing paused, and his eyelids couldn't help jumping.
How could the princess be at fault? The superior will never be at fault, only the people around her will be at fault.
And she doesn't need to intercede for them.
The mistake has happened, and intercession is the most useless thing, what she should do is to clean up the aftermath for them, completely rewrite this mistake, and reverse it into something beneficial to them.
No, I came here today to discuss two other things with my father.
Hehua let go of Yingzheng's shoulders and knelt down beside Yingzheng, "The Wang family has accumulated for several generations, and the wealth is rivaled by the country, rather than filling the Wang family's property into the treasury and piling it up in the treasury to eat ashes, it is better to use it to build a straight road.
When this straight road is repaired, a monument will be erected on the straight road, on which it is written that Wang Ben Wang Li donated.
Ying Zheng lazily raised his eyebrows.
"There are also several sisters-in-law of mine, who have been crowned kings and are ministers of Great Qin, what they should do is to help my father create a prosperous world, instead of staying in the house every day to teach their husbands and children.
Hehua said, "I've been thinking about this on the way back, Sister Pheasant is busy with new things now, and she has no time to distract from managing the previous factories, and she doesn't feel at ease when those factories are handed over to others, so it is better to let my sisters-in-law manage them."
"Of course, they have knighthoods, and the small factory is insulting them, and if they enter the office, they will have at least 600 stones."
"They have experience in managing people's livelihoods, of course they can't just be in charge of the factory, I mean the future history of governance is cultivated from them.
They are all very good people, as long as they are given a little chance, they will not do worse than anyone else. and my second sister, she is not inferior to my sisters-in-law in the matter of governing people's livelihood, and she can also come to help me-
Hehua's voice paused slightly, and he suddenly remembered the hysteria of the sixth sister when he followed Wang Li away.
- The sixth sister saw in her the radiance that belonged to a woman, but she covered herself up and left everything behind for the sake of some love, so that she was willing to ruin her future for the sake of a man, and she was really killable in the eyes of the sixth sister.
Hehua didn't speak for a long time, Yingzheng raised his hand and knocked Hehua's forehead with his fingers.
"Father, where is the sixth sister now?" Hehua came back to his senses, "I want to see the sixth sister."
Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows, don't you hate her?
"It's false to say that you don't complain, if it weren't for Wang Li's quick reaction, then the person who was shot through the chest by a crossbow/arrow would be me."
Thinking about Wang Li's injuries, Hehua shook his head, "Forget it, don't see her, I don't want to see her until Wang Li's injuries are completely healed."
Ying Zhengdao, she has been imprisoned by me, and she will be sent by you in the future.
Thank you, Father.
Hehua hugged Yingzheng's arm, and his voice was not as eloquent as when he talked about political affairs.
Ying Zheng's eyes moved slightly, and he reached out and rubbed Hehua's hair, Eleven, you have grown a lot this time, I am very pleased. People live for a lifetime, and many people have not had time to figure out what they want, so they have lived their lives in a daze, just like her aunt. But Eleven is completely different, she is growing up far faster than he imagined, she knows what she wants early on, and she keeps working towards her goal
Strength, ambition meets ability, and what she wants is close at hand.
The so-called courtiers' obstruction and the so-called secular prejudice will eventually be trampled under her feet and become a jade step to help her reach a higher level.
She's close to her goal.
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Do you know what your biggest Achilles' heel is compared to your male heir? Ying Zheng's eyes fell on Hehua's face, and his phoenix eyes were sharp for a moment, "It's childbirth."
Eleven, how do you prove to me that this Achilles' heel will not affect you?