Yingluo was dressed in red makeup, with crimson tassels hanging down from her ears. She was leaning on the bed. Under her long eyelashes, her confused eyes were looking at the bright and dancing candlelight, recalling the past, and the past events were as vivid as yesterday.
Seeing that the young lady had been sitting like this for a long time, Zhen'er called out: "Miss, tomorrow is the day when the young lady will die. She needs to rest early."
Yingluo frowned and thought, who is the woman standing behind the screen? All the questions in her past life have not been resolved, and she is involved in a complicated situation in this life, so how can she sleep.
Yingluo felt that the room was stuffy. She wanted to go out for a walk. She looked up and saw the sword her father gave her hanging on the bedside. Without hesitation, she reached out and grabbed the sword hanging on the bedside and ran out of the door. Zhen'er ran out of the door.
He hurriedly followed behind.
Murong Yingluo came to the courtyard, looked up at the stars in the sky, as vast as glass, pulled out the long sword in her hand, and threw the scabbard aside.
A light green figure flashed over and took the scabbard of the sword. Zhen'er saw the figure clearly and called out: "Ah Mai! Why are you here so late?"
In the courtyard, Murong Yingluo put all the resentment in her heart on the sword's edge, which drew a trail of cold light in the night sky. Amai did not speak, but just looked at Yingluo silently, knowing that she was in a bad mood at this time.
After a long time, Yingluo squandered all the resentment in her heart and fell limply to the ground. Tears fell from the corners of her eyes. She watched the sword deeply inserted into the cracks in the bluestone, and she felt like a person living in the cracks.
Since I was a child, I was disliked by my mother because I was not a boy but a daughter of a concubine. In order to gain the appreciation of my father and to make my mother think that I was not a useless person.
She started learning martial arts at the age of seven. Every time she was too tired to get up, she would hide in a corner and cry secretly. She hated herself for not being a man. At that time, only Gongyichu was the best to her. Now even he has betrayed her.
own.
There was imperceptible pain in Amai's amber pupils, and he took out a palm-sized, round red wooden box from his arms and handed it over.
Yingluo raised her tearful eyes and looked at the red wooden box in Amai's hand. She took it with trembling hands and looked at him with doubtful eyes. If her guess was correct, there should be ten candied fruits inside.
In the past, whenever she was sad, there would always be a box of candied fruits on her bedside. For ten years, she always thought that it was given to her by Gongyichu, and she felt no bitterness every time she ate it.
With trembling hands, he opened the red wooden box, and there were exactly ten of them, every detail. The red wooden box immediately fell to the ground, and the candied fruits were scattered all over the ground.
Yingluo stood up, rushed to him, grabbed his collar, "Ah Mai! Why didn't you tell me that you sent it to my room for ten years? Maybe everything would be different."
Amai wanted to reach out and take her into his arms, but now that she was Princess Zheng, and there were eyes secretly monitoring everything in the courtyard, he could only stand there silently and do nothing.
Zhen'er stood silently in the distance. She didn't expect that the person Amai liked in his heart was a young lady. No wonder he never responded to her feelings.
She felt sour and a little jealous in her heart. The person she always liked in her heart should be Young Master Chu, and now she is married to Prince Zheng. Which one did she really like?
All night long, Yingluo barely slept. She and Gongyichu had been misunderstandings from the beginning. She finally put her mind at ease and everything in the past could no longer affect her mood. She was no longer the Murong Yingluo she was before.
Princess Zheng.
Today was her day for Guining. She bathed and freshened up early in the morning and sent someone to invite King Zheng. King Zheng said he was unwell and just ordered the housekeeper to prepare a gift and a sedan for Guining.
Yingluo just informed her so as not to be rude. No matter whether Prince Zheng returned to peace with her today, she would go back. She wanted to ask her father clearly what the two things in Prince Zheng's mouth were.
Yingluo got on the sedan chair prepared by King Zheng, took Zhen'er and Amai, and headed towards the general's mansion.
The early morning glow reflected the green and quiet lake surface with sparkling waves. Si Wushang held fish food in his hand and was leisurely feeding the koi in the green pond.
The housekeeper reported that the princess's sedan chair had already gone to the General's Mansion. Bupo looked at Si Wushang who had a leisurely expression. If King Zheng did not go to the General's Mansion, if this matter spread, there would be a lot of discussion in the court.
Marrying the daughter of the Murong family is the emperor's wish. Prince Zheng will not fail to go to the general's palace. "Your Majesty, when do you plan to go to the general's palace?"
Si Wushang was still throwing fish food leisurely, watching the koi carps in the pond competing for the fish food, "I'm not in a hurry yet, why are you in a hurry? Why should we let the father and daughter reminisce about the past?"
There were people waiting at the door of the General's Mansion for a long time. Someone reported that the sedan chair from Prince Zheng's Mansion had arrived at the General's Mansion. Murong Xuan came out to greet him personally, but saw that only his daughter had returned.
There was no hint of joy or anger on his face, and he called his daughter directly to the study, closed the door, and then Murong Xuan asked: "Luo'er, why didn't Prince Zheng come back with you?"
His father had long known that King Zheng was feigning illness and wanted to find out his father's true intention, "Father, King Zheng said that he does not have what father is looking for, and those two things are in the hands of the emperor and the queen mother."
Murong Xuan originally thought that Prince Zheng would pretend to be in front of his daughter, but he didn't expect that in just one day, they would open the window paper between each other. The more he said this, the more likely it was that those two things were in Prince Zheng's palace.
Yingluo saw her father deep in thought, "Father, what exactly did King Zheng say?"
Murong Xuan motioned Yingluo to sit down. To mention those two things, we must start with the life experience of Prince Zheng. Prince Zheng’s mother was Concubine Chen, the most beloved concubine of the late emperor. The queen gave birth to the prince, and Concubine Chen also gave birth to her a year later.
Later, after giving birth, Concubine Chen suffered from hysteria and said that someone was going to strangle her child. Later, she fell into hysteria and threw herself into a lake to die. The queen took pity on the infant King Zheng, so she took the child back to her palace to raise her.
It was rumored privately that Concubine Chen became insane because she was poisoned.
The Queen decreed that Concubine Chen should be given a grand burial, and Prince Zheng should be adopted to the Empress. From now on, Prince Zheng would be the Queen's son, and no one in the palace would be allowed to mention Concubine Chen.
The emperor pinned his feelings for Concubine Chen on King Zheng. Before his death six years ago, the emperor gave two items that could shake the thatched cottage to King Zheng in order to protect his son.
Yingluo always thought that the emperor and Prince Zheng were brothers, but she never expected that there would be such a secret. No wonder the emperor would be suspicious of Prince Zheng.
Yingluo frowned and asked, "Father, what did the late emperor leave to Prince Zheng?"
When he mentioned those two things, Murong Xuan's expression became solemn, "It's a tiger talisman and the late emperor's edict!"