It had been snowing for several days in the capital, but it finally cleared up this day. The sunlight passed through the glazed tile windows and rushed into the inner room.
The smell of Albizia Julibrissin that makes people blush is strong in the warm room. The woman on the bed has not yet woken up. Half of her delicate and white face is hidden in the gold brocade quilt. Her long dark silky hair is spread out lazily. Her thin and breathable middle coat is loosely worn on her body, and her belt is open. Two knots and messy clothes.
Mingzhu was sleeping soundly, her jade-white face was tinged with pink and pink, and her pretty eyebrows were filled with a hint of drunken spring, looking charming as if she had just been pampered. But his brows gradually tightened, as if he had a bad nightmare.
The maids gently cleaned up the mess from last night and picked up the torn dresses on the ground, their little faces turning red.
His Royal Highness the Prince came out of the room this morning dressed neatly and meticulously. He looked gentle and elegant, as cold as jade. He didn't expect to be so arrogant about the bed. There was a lot of commotion in the room last night, and the girl must have suffered a lot.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to wake up even after being exposed to the sun for three days.
The Bazi soup cooked in the kitchen early in the morning has been heated three times. If Miss Mingzhu doesn't get up, the people in the kitchen will have to cook the soup again.
Mingzhu stretched out her thin white fingers from the quilt, lifted the red bed curtain, and slowly sat up.
Her whole body was sore and weak, her arms were so sore that she couldn't lift them up, and when she got out of bed, she almost couldn't stand with her legs. She took a deep breath and slowly put on her clothes.
The maid who was waiting for Mingzhu to wash up heard the sound and entered the room.
Biying brought the freshly cooked Bazi soup and placed it in front of Mingzhu. After a moment of hesitation, she pursed her lips and reminded in a low voice, "Girl, drink the medicine first."
Mingzhu stared at the dark soup in the bowl, pursed her thin lips, and frowned slightly. She seemed reluctant to drink it, but she didn't seem to be.
After a while, Biying was about to grit her teeth and urge her again. Mingzhu picked up the medicine bowl in front of her, raised her thin neck, and poured it into her stomach in one breath.
Biying breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly handed over the candied fruit, "Girl, eat a candied fruit to get rid of the bitterness."
Mingzhu frowned and said, "No need."
Biying was a little strange. In the past, Miss Mingzhu always found the soup to be bitter, so she had to eat a few candied fruits after drinking the medicine to relieve her pain. Biying observed her face carefully, and she had to say that Miss Mingzhu was the most beautiful woman she had ever seen in her life. She had a stunning beauty that could turn all living beings upside down. Her eyes were like mountains and rivers, her eyebrows were like paintings, her lips were red and her teeth were white, she was beautiful and delicate. Her complexion is rosy, like a delicate flower bud waiting to bloom.
Miss Mingzhu didn't look like she was angry or sad, but Biying still spoke to comfort her: "Girl, relax, don't be sad. Your body is weak now, so His Highness the Crown Prince asked you to take contraceptive pills. When your body is well restored in the future, Your Highness will definitely May you be fruitful and multiply.”
Mingzhu smiled slightly when she heard this. She actually didn't feel sad. But no one would believe it.
"You go out, I'll take a rest."
"yes."
The door was gently closed, blocking out the dazzling and dim sunlight.
The wooden window was half propped up, and Mingzhu looked at the scenery outside the window, her thoughts already drifting away.
What Biying said was wrong, Zhao Shi did not prevent her from having children because of her weak bones. In her previous life, she was raised by Zhao Shi in Wangyue Pavilion and drank the child-preventing soup for five years. Later, she had difficulty conceiving because she took too much soup.
And some things never changed until she died.
Zhao Shi thought that she was of low status and would not let her, a person with no name or status or even a concubine, give birth to a child before marrying the crown princess.
Zhao Shi was a distinguished Crown Prince, a man of extraordinary beauty, and a model of etiquette praised by everyone.
He is good-looking and gentle most of the time. But gentle people are the most ruthless.
Mingzhu is a concubine who is not valued in the family. Her mother has a humble status and died young. She had no one to protect her in the Ming family, but she was smart and did not steal the limelight from her elder sisters, so she grew up peacefully.
When Mingzhu was just getting hairpins, her neighbor Zhuma just passed the Jiangnan Provincial Examination and said he wanted to marry her.
Soon he came to propose marriage in person.
The man is in love and the woman is interested, so Mingzhu successfully made a marriage contract with Zhuma, who was in love with her.
At that time, Mingzhu was full of joy and waiting to get married. She stayed in the house all day long as a hostess, blushing and embroidering a mandarin duck pillowcase for her husband.
Coincidentally, there was a banquet held by the Ming family that day. His Royal Highness attended the banquet in a low-key manner, drank some wine and went to the lake to relax.
After Mingzhu's engagement, several of the direct daughters of the Ming family did not guard against her. Originally, according to Mingzhu's status, she was not qualified to attend such a banquet, but this time she made an exception and allowed her to show her face.
Mingzhu secretly hid two pieces of her favorite hibiscus cake and went back to the backyard to rest.
The weather was nice again, and there were no people around the lake in the backyard. She boldly went to the lake to pick lotus pods.
In the summer, she was leaning against the sun. She was wearing a light shirt. Her fair face was slightly red from the light, and her black hair was scattered by the wind. She took off her shoes and socks and entered the water. The maids on the shore jumped anxiously, " Miss, come up quickly, it won't be good if others see you."
Mingzhu smiled at her, "Oh, don't be afraid, no one will come here."
She came back with a full load, put on her socks and shoes after landing, and held a bunch of lotus pods in her arms. She had a bright smile on her face, beautiful and clean.
She didn't notice at all that in the pavilion not far away, the man stared at her quietly for a long time, his unfathomable gaze slowly retracting from her back.
Zhao Shi sobered up and cooled down, and when he returned to the front yard, he still had the image of the young girl smiling brightly, which was a bit sweeter than the lotus.
Before leaving, the uncle of the Ming family sent His Royal Highness to the gate respectfully and politely.
Before Zhao Shi got on the carriage, he asked casually who the girl picking lotus pods by the lake was.
The uncle of the Ming family ordered people to investigate. After getting the news, he immediately replied, "It's my niece."
Zhao Shi hummed, "What's your name?"
The uncle of the Ming family was stunned at that time and couldn't figure out what the prince meant. He lowered his head and replied: "Pearl."
Zhao Shi wrote down the name and said nothing more.
The uncle of the Ming family turned around and forgot about this episode. Unexpectedly, a few days later, he received a message from the East Palace, asking him to send the pearl.
The uncle of the Ming family was shocked. The prince was gentle and polite, but he had never heard of him doing such a thing.
He sent someone to deliver the message, saying that his niece already had a fiancé and would be getting married next spring.
The prince said he already knew about it.
The uncle of the Ming family knew in his heart that His Highness the Crown Prince was only polite and kind on the surface, but his blood was cold in his bones, his heart was ruthless, and he had done countless things to eradicate the situation.
He did not dare to offend His Highness the Crown Prince in any case, so he was cruel and sent the pearl directly to the Crown Prince's residence in private. Then he broke the engagement and pretended that the marriage did not exist.
Mingzhu thought about running away, but the first day she was sent to the heavily guarded Prince's Mansion, she wanted to escape without anyone noticing.
She spent a lot of effort to get out of the backyard, and was tied back by the expressionless guards with her feet touching the ground.
The door was locked heavily by the nanny, and the windows were sealed by them.
Mingzhu waited for several hours. When the night was thick, she heard the sound of unlocking outside the house.
Her fingers involuntarily tugged at the tight sheets, her face turned pale, and she gritted her teeth, not daring to relax at all.
There was a slight glimmer of water in her eyes, and her moist eyes looked full of spring. The white and silky face is even more soft and beautiful under the candlelight.
The man walked up to her slowly and looked at her face condescendingly. He was silent and his whole body was as cold as ice.
Mingzhu opened her eyes tremblingly. The man in front of her was so good-looking that she was stunned. She sniffed her red nose and said pitifully: "You... please let me go."
The man raised his eyebrows and pursed his lips in silence.
Mingzhu has heard of the prince's good reputation. He is a gentle, kind and easy-to-talk person.
She mustered up the courage, grabbed the hem of his clothes, and begged him while crying: "I...I have a fiancé, and we are about to get married."
There was a cry in his voice.
The expression on the man's face did not change after hearing this, "Yeah."
One word, as cold as his temperament.
He suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched her chin with his cold fingers. There was a chill in his voice, which was not as gentle as the outside world said. He asked expressionlessly: "I heard that you want to go out in the afternoon?"
Mingzhu stopped crying, her wet eyes looked like a frightened deer.
The man raised the corners of his lips and sneered. Looking at her frightened eyes, he gently wiped away the tears on her cheeks with his fingertips, "Your fiancé will also attend the Spring Festival next year."
The voice was extremely warm, but it made her feel breathless.
The man slowly wiped her face clean, and his cold voice continued to fall in her ears: "And your father, and that maid of yours."
No matter how stupid Mingzhu is, she can tell that he seems to be threatening her.
The man loosened his fingers, leaving two red marks on the woman's delicate skin as expected. He lowered his eyes and looked at her coldly. There was no emotion in his words, and he lightly reminded: "You need to clear customs documents to settle down. If you run out rashly, you will be arrested." The policeman will treat him as a fugitive and put him in jail, and he will be tortured and he will not live more than three days."
Her body deed and road guide had long been in his hands.
"There are many ways to punish criminals with unknown origins in the Sky Prison, including pulling out tongues and burning eyeballs, removing leg bones and branding them. How many do you think you can withstand?"
Mingzhu couldn't even cry anymore. Her wet tears hung on her eyelashes and her body was shaking uncontrollably.
The man's hand gently stroked her thin back, his cold fingers pinched the back of her neck, his dark eyes stared at her, and he asked softly: "Have you thought about it? Do you still want to run?"
Mingzhu shook her head with tears in her eyes.
The man nodded with satisfaction, "Well, let's rest."
He put out the candle, gently pulled it with his fingers, and untied the ribbon around his waist. When he got close to her, he paused and said, "As long as you obey, I won't make things difficult for you. You don't have to be afraid."
In the darkness, Mingzhu bit her lip and remained silent.
The man's fingers were bone-chilling, pinching her slender waist hard, and biting her soft earlobe with his sharp teeth, "Can you serve others?"
Her body shivered and shivered.
She can't, she can only cry.
The man patted her trembling body, kissed her eyes, and sucked away the water at the end of her eyes. He said in her ear: "If you don't know how to learn, you will have to serve me from now on. Do you understand?"
Mingzhu thought Zhao Shi loved her.
In other words, he likes her.
Otherwise, he would not have forcibly broken up her marriage and locked her up in the Prince's Mansion.
At the beginning of her previous life, she had no feelings for him, but in the later days, she couldn't help but fall in love with him.
Except for his children, he treated her extremely well and never let her suffer any injustice.
Women who fall in love are fools.
Zhao Shi has a cold personality and is taciturn, and doesn't like her being in public. She listened to him and stayed in the backyard without going anywhere.
On his birthday, she secretly embroidered purses and clothes for him, and she didn't even utter a word of pain when she pricked her fingertips with a needle. But he had never seen the purse she gave him wearing it.
Mingzhu also secretly went to the small kitchen to cook a bowl of longevity noodles for him. She dozed off and waited all night, but did not wait for him to come back. She heard that she rested in the palace. When she came back early the next morning and smelled the smell of powder on his body, her tears fell inexplicably.
Mingzhu hugged him with tears in her eyes and suddenly said: "I want a child."
She liked him so much and was so lonely that she wanted to have a child with him, and it would be perfect if it was a daughter.
Zhao Shi was silent for a while and said, "Your current body is not suitable for having a child."
Although the words sounded nice, Mingzhu knew what he meant, and he felt that she was not worthy.
Not long after, Zhao Shi was going to get married. He carefully selected a candidate for the Crown Princess, set an auspicious day, and announced it to the world.
Mingzhu felt sad about this for a long time, her eyes were red, and she figured out many things after taking a nap.
Zhao Shi attaches great importance to etiquette and has always felt that her status is low. He feels that she is not even worthy of the position of concubine and will not marry her. Of course, she herself didn't want to.
So before Zhao Shi got married, Mingzhu decided to ask him for a favor and let him let her go.
Mingzhu plans to go to Jiangnan, where her mother is from. She did some small business and lived quietly.
Who would have thought that before she could open her mouth, a nanny would bring a jug of wine to her and say, "Girl, this is the prince's wish."
Mingzhu looked at the glass of wine in disbelief, "What do you mean?"
"The Crown Princess cannot tolerate you. The Crown Prince asked the old slave to come over and deal with it."
Mingzhu refused to drink, her eyes filled with tears, "I want to see him."
Mammy sneered: "The prince knew that you would pester him, so he asked this slave to come over."
Mingzhu's heart seemed to be torn in half and thrown into the frying pan. His face was pale, his lips were trembling slightly, but he lost the ability to make a sound when he opened his mouth.
When the nuns saw her disobedience, they held her arms, roughly opened her jaw, fed the wine into her mouth, and forced her to swallow it.
"A bed-warming thing, you really take yourself seriously? Don't you know how to flatter me? This is an order given by the Crown Prince himself. You are living to embarrass the future Crown Princess. Do you think you are more important than the Crown Princess?" Face is important? It’s a joke.”
Mingzhu knelt on the ground, crying and coughing. Not long after, the medicine took effect. Dark blood slowly flowed from the corners of her mouth, and her stomach felt severe pain as if it had been stirred.
pain.
It hurts so much.
He said he loved her so tenderly, but it turned out to be false.
Her abdomen seemed to have been thrust in and out with knives. There were knives all over her body and blood flowed all over the floor.
That kind of unforgettable pain, like someone digging out her heart with bare hands, Mingzhu still doesn't want to think about it.
Before she died, Mingzhu never thought that God would give her a chance to live again.
But unfortunately, she had already entered the Prince's Mansion for almost a year.
Mingzhu felt that she was really stupid in her previous life and fell in love with him stupidly. She thought that Zhao Shi also liked her.
What about the facts? She was just a toy that Zhao Shiyang kept in the backyard to relieve his desires.
Mingzhu came to her senses silently, but she still felt particularly uncomfortable thinking of those things.
She asked the maid to bring her lunch and took two mouthfuls of porridge.
Mingzhu had had lunch and was feeling low, so she lay down on the couch by the window to rest.
Biying suddenly came in from outside to report the news, with a look of surprise on her face, "Miss Mingzhu, the prince just asked someone to take a message, and he will rest at Wangyue Pavilion tonight."