Today is the 6th, which is the day of the Beginning of Summer. Because it is the 16th of the lunar calendar, the moon is perfect, hanging in the night sky like a silver disk. The sky in this era is particularly clear. Looking up, the moon is very clear.
The dark spots on it are almost clearly visible.
Xiang Xiaoqiang quickly followed Zheng Yucong, and their footsteps echoed in the sleeping Forbidden City. It was already one o'clock at night, and there were no palace maids on the empty stone road. Only an occasional imperial guard stood in the dark. When Xiang Xiaoqiang was seen,
Xiaoqiang passed by and quietly saluted.
Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at Zheng Yucong's swaying waist and perfect hip curves in front of her... She has a good figure! She always wears palace clothes in the palace, and the feeling of wearing a dress outside the palace is completely different.
Take off a classic little beauty.
He returned to Daming for a week, during which he met Zheng Yucong two or three times. But that was only with others, and everyone ate together. Zheng Yucong was also laughing and joking, and he felt that there was nothing special about him. Xiang Xiaoqiang thought uneasily several times,
Is it because Miss Zheng has a fickle personality that she has forgotten her relationship with her in the past two months?... Not to mention, Miss Zheng likes to be lively and playful, and such a person's attention to one thing,
In other words, emotional devotion usually does not last long.
The more Xiang Xiaoqiang thought about it, the more he realized this: for Zhu Yourong, the separation of more than two months would only make him miss her more deeply, but for Miss Zheng, she might have almost forgotten about it.
…
The palace was empty and dark, with no one else around. This was the first time in a week that they were alone together. But the two of them walked in tandem, and neither of them spoke.
Zheng Yucong led Xiang Xiaoqiang around a corner and entered a secluded alley. There were high palace walls on both sides and flat bluestone slabs under the feet.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was shocked, why did Zheng Yucong bring me here? He was already familiar with Zhu Yourong, but this was not the way to Qianqing Palace!
He just said:
"Ms. Zheng, it seems..."
Zheng Yuqing stood immediately, motionless, with her back facing him straight, her long black hair hanging behind her head.
There was a pale moon above my head, and the moonlight illuminated the stone slabs under my feet pale. The palace walls on both sides seemed to be squeezing in towards the middle, creating an endless feeling of claustrophobia.
Xiang Xiaoqiang suddenly felt goosebumps. Staring at the black-haired figure in front of him who was also covered in "pale" hair, goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body.
No, the one in front is not Zheng Yucong, but a strange woman. Or, a strange "thing"...
Suddenly, the "thing" in front slowly stretched out its arms, and then jumped back and forth toward itself.
The blood all over Xiang Xiaoqiang's body was almost cold, and he didn't dare to move. His scalp began to feel numb, and he slowly stepped back while reaching for the holster on his waist with his right hand.
The "thing" stopped, turned around, stretched out its arms, stuck out its tongue, rolled its eyes, and jumped over again and again.
My day!
Xiang Xiaoqiang was so angry that he wanted to beat this little girl up.
Zheng Yucong's little face was flushed, and her whole face was filled with the look of suppressing a smile, and the corners of her mouth could hardly be curled up. Although she rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue hard, there was no trace of a zombie's hideous look.
?
Xiang Xiaoqiang hugged his chest and looked at her coldly, watching her jump closer to him. Finally, Zheng Yucong let out a soft "Wow" and rushed towards him. Xiang Xiaoqiang caught her.
Zheng Yucong seemed to have never been so happy. She laughed so hard in his arms that she almost burst into tears, as if she had accumulated all the laughter in the past two months. But after all, this was the palace and it was a silent night. She
She tried her best to keep her voice down, laughing so hard that her whole body was shaking, and she had to pat Xiaoqiang so that she wouldn't lose her breath.
After finally holding it back, Zheng Yucong took a long breath, raised her face, and stared at him.
Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but be surprised, this girl was laughing so hard just now that she wanted to die, but now she stopped laughing so fast.
...It looks like there is still a little sadness in the eyes.
Zheng Yuqing stared into his eyes with burning eyes and licked her lips, as if hesitating about something.
Suddenly, she stood up on tiptoes, hugged Xiang Xiaoqiang's neck, and kissed his lips.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was overjoyed and without saying a word, he hugged her tightly and the two kissed passionately on the path between the palace walls.
I don't know how long it took - maybe thirty seconds, maybe ten minutes - Zheng Yucong seemed to have gone limp all over and was about to fall back.
If it were in his own home, Xiang Xiaoqiang would definitely have Zheng Yucong executed on the spot. But now he thought about it and broke into a cold sweat: This is in the palace!
He gently let go of Zheng Yucong and said softly:
"Thrilling..."
Zheng Yucong opened his eyes and said angrily:
"Do you like my cousin?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang was shocked, wondering why Zheng Yucong would say such a thing at this time. He hesitated:
"This...it...is actually...such a thing, it is..."
Zheng Yuqing looked at him and snorted:
"You are so hypocritical."
Xiang Xiaoqiang was stimulated by these words, his heart skipped a beat, and he said ruthlessly:
"I just like your cousin, and she likes me too. So what?"
Zheng Yuqing was not angry at all, she just looked at him with a smile and said after a while:
"Hmph, it doesn't matter. Just like it if you like it. It's all for nothing anyway."
Then, she still smiled, but her face turned red, and she said bravely:
"Then, do you like my cousin or you still like me?"
"Then...of course."
"Okay," Zheng Yucong stared at him, her face turned even redder, and she mustered up her courage to say, "Then I will help you chase my cousin, so that you don't like her in vain."
"..."
No, is there such a thing? Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at her in astonishment, suspecting that he heard wrongly. Originally, Zheng Yucong's revelation that he liked Zhu Yourong was enough to frighten him, but now he wants to help him chase Zhu Yourong?
...It seems that I will never understand the way of thinking of Ming girls in this era.
Zheng Yuqing said another even more shocking sentence:
"But I have a condition. I want to go in first before my cousin."
"..."
Zheng Yuqing bit her lip and said softly:
"Xiang Xiaoqiang, I know that you are a playboy, lustful, and thick-skinned person. I know that you... you can't hold back your wife once you marry her... You can't hold her back, right?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang was so shocked that he didn't dare to accept the move: What on earth does this Miss Zheng want to do?... He lured himself here in the middle of the night, first pretending to be a ghost and scaring people, and then giving him a passionate kiss, and now he's so useless
A few words without thinking...
Zheng Yuqing said simply:
"Look, you've only been in Ming Dynasty for a few months, and you've already married two wives... You still like your cousin, you still like me, you still like Princess Liaoyang... right? You still like Princess Liaoyang, right?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at her dumbfounded, like a wooden man, and nodded honestly.
Zheng Yuqing continued:
"You are only in your twenties and you have become such a big official and have so much money... You have fallen in love with so many people in just a few months. How can you get it in the future... If I don't like you, then you
I don’t care if you marry a hundred wives. But, I like you and I want to be your wife. So, I won’t allow you to marry so many wives... So, I have to find someone to suppress you."
Only now did Xiang Xiaoqiang understand: Zheng Yucong's plan was to help him catch Zhu Yourong. In this way, once one of his wives was the queen, he would not dare to marry again, at least he would not dare to be so unscrupulous. Zhu Yourong
It's like a bottle stopper. Once she enters the door, it will be difficult for the woman below to enter the door again. Therefore, Zheng Yuqing has to go in first. Although she has a good relationship with her cousin, she still has to be just in case.
When the time comes, with Zheng Yucong's scheming and fierceness, coupled with Zhu Yourong's status and power, the two cousins will collude to not only eat themselves to death, but also eat other wives to death.
If Zhu Yourong hadn't joined and Zheng Yucong would have been alone, he would have been unable to deal with "sisters" like Shi Shigege and Xiuxiu.
This girl's idea seems ridiculous, but when you think about it carefully, it's actually very practical!
Although Xiang Xiaoqiang thought through this quickly, he was still extremely surprised at this moment. He grabbed her hand, then held her face, and said softly:
"Cong Cong, I'm really lucky that you are so sensible... Then what, then it's settled..."
As soon as he saw the sparks flashing in Zheng Yucong's eyes, he immediately changed his words and comforted:
"Cong Cong, you have to know that there is only one reason why I want you to be my wife, that is, I love you. I love you purely and 100%... But for your cousin, what should I say? I
I also love her, but a big part of the reason is that her becoming my wife is related to my career and my grand ideal in life...that is to unite the Ming Dynasty, eliminate the Qing captives, and regain the lost territory...
To do this, I must first have a very high status... Cong Cong, do you understand?"
Zheng Yucong's eyes flashed with great surprise. She freed her face from Xiang Xiaoqiang's hands, looked him up and down, and then said curiously after a while:
"Ah, you... you actually... actually want to... be real or fake?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled faintly and didn't say a word. He just looked at her resolutely and tenderly and nodded lightly. You can't fake this feeling.
Zheng Yucong also felt it. She just smiled in surprise:
"Xiang Xiaoqiang, you are crazy."
…
In the Imperial Study Room of Qianqing Palace, Mrs. Li was sitting in a red sandalwood armchair, covering her yawn and looking coldly at Xiang Xiaoqiang who had just entered.
She had obviously fallen asleep, because Zhu Yourong got up, so she had to get up too. She seemed very unhappy. In addition, the person she wanted to meet was Xiang Xiaoqiang, a person who made her unhappy.
But even though he was unhappy, this was the person who could convince Zhu Yourong not to marry Siam.
Zheng Yuqing came in immediately. When Mrs. Li saw her, her eyes immediately softened and she smiled lovingly:
"Hey, it's so loud."
Zheng Yucong smiled coquettishly, said a simple blessing in front of her, then leaned forward and asked with a smile:
"Mrs. Li, where is my cousin?"
Mrs. Li smiled and said:
"Rongrong is in the Royal Garden! Alas, it's so late, and he's wandering around alone in the back. No one is allowed to get close... Oh, isn't this Mr. Xiang? Mr. Xiang is here too, haha... That's it.
Well, Sir, would you like to sit here for a while first?"
Zheng Yuqing rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
"No, madam, you can go and rest. Don't worry about us. I'll take you to the back..."
Saying this, without waiting for Mrs. Li to answer, she directly pulled Xiang Xiaoqiang through the imperial study room and went straight to the imperial garden. Mrs. Li stood up immediately and said "Hey". She didn't stop her even if she wanted to. It didn't look good when she chased him, so she shouted
road:
"Little orange!"
Huang Xiaojue immediately ran out of the side door and followed directly without Mrs. Li's instructions.