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Zhong Lishuo looked at the girl with tears in front of him, and what came to his mind was the last time he saw her.
It was a quiet summer night. In the deserted West Hall, Zhong Lishuo, who was thinly dressed, stood on the cold and hard ground. With the help of the lantern in the servant's hand, he smiled and looked at the two young men dressed in green shirts. The girl took another look at King Yunzhong, who was blacked out by the maid, and said softly: "Sanmuhui and the deputy commander of Jinpaowei will go from the west and send you from Zhongzhou to Lizhou City. Don't be afraid, your sister is here. There."
The elder Xuan Jingan hugged the twelve-year-old Xuan Jingning, but the seventeen-year-old girl looked at her worriedly: "What about Your Majesty? How about Your Majesty?"
Yuanzhou City had been besieged for half a month, the rebels from the outer city could not enter, and the soldiers from the inner city could not break out. Tonight, it was the generals who feigned their attack to fight for the chance for the nobles of Yuanzhou City to escape.
The emperor guards the gate of the country, how could Zhong Lishuo abandon his soldiers and leave at this time. The reinforcements were held up in Wanzhou, but as long as they persisted for a while, there would still be a chance of survival.
She looked at the anxious girls and replied with a smile: "Of course it's waiting for reinforcements to come, Jing'an don't have to worry, the generals are all powerful, how can the imperial capital disappear so easily. When you meet the queen, tell me She, I will defend Yuanzhou City and wait for her triumph."
Xuan Jingan didn't speak, just looked at her with a sad expression that saw through everything.
If Yuanzhou City can be defended, will she send them away without telling everyone
King Yun Zhong, who was sitting beside them, looked at the tears in the girl's eyes, and secretly reached out and held the back of her hand. The boy with a childish face turned his head, followed by the dim lights, looked at the emperor's overly pale and weak face, and called out uneasy, "Sister Huang..."
Zhong Lishuo looked at the half-year-old boy, and warned, "Take care of your sisters, you know? If they bump into each other, the imperial sister won't be able to spare you in the future."
She said so, trying to dilute the sadness in some desperate situations. Zhong Lishuo turned his eyes and set his eyes on the girl who had been in the arms of the second sister and had not spoken.
The little girl was wearing men's clothing, and crystal tears flowed from her dark eyes. Zhong Lishuo thought she was afraid of the dark again, and reached out to wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes, "Why is Ning Ning crying again, you have brothers and sisters with you, don't be afraid."
The little girl cried out of breath, and the moment she opened her mouth, she cried out of tune, and said intermittently: "Then... that sister... that brother-in-law... brother-in-law?"
"Brother-in-law... no... not with... not with us... with... go... go to my sister... my sister's place?"
She was burping, looking at Zhong Lishuo and crying very sadly.
Zhong Lishuo was helpless, so he coaxed her and said, "No, I'll wait for you to come back."
So the last thing left in her mind was Jing An's tearful eyes, Zhong Limu's expectation, and the sad "brother-in-law" of this little sister who had followed her and the queen since childhood.
"You must... must... come."
In the end, Zhong Lishuo did not choose to flee, and they never saw each other again. But Zhong Lishuo did not break her promise, she had indeed been waiting for them to come back.
She stayed in this deep palace forever, never left, waiting for them to come back until she died.
Zhong Lishuo looked at the slim girl in front of him, and looked at her pink and jade-carved face, which overlapped with the girl with a little baby fat on her cheeks many years ago, and felt extremely relieved.
Little sister, still grew up safely.
It couldn't be better to be so carefree. She thought about the previous sentence of the prince and brother-in-law, and she felt very happy. It seems that the child is not in vain, and she still remembers her after so many years.
It's just that the current situation is different.
She is no longer her prince and brother-in-law, but the young son of Zhenbei Houfu. The little boy who came from Lanzhou had never seen the princess, so she restrained her sudden surprise and stared blankly at the girl in front of her.
"Princess!" The young man beside her called out, and Zhong Lishuo, who had the opportunity, leaned over and bowed to the girl in front of him: "The grass people have seen the princess."
The tears in the girl's eyes condensed and fell. Looking at the young boy in white robe in front of her, she raised her hand and pretended to wipe away the tears inadvertently, and said, "No courtesy, you, raise your head and let Ben Gong take a look."
Princess Jingming is sassy, this is something that the senior students of Hongwenguan know. Zhong Lishuo followed his words and looked at his sister who had been reunited after a long absence. She wanted to take this opportunity to take a good look at what the little girl in the past looked like now.
Like her eldest sister, Xiao Jingning has the sassy look of a Lanzhou woman, but has the gentle face of a noble woman from Yuanzhou. But it was a little different, because the girl in front of her looked so lively and energetic.
Perhaps, this is what 15- or 16-year-old boys and girls should look like.
Zhong Lishuo was looking at the little princess, and the little princess was also looking at her.
The young man in a white robe is slender, but extraordinarily thin. That immature face was like the one who had accompanied him tenderly when he was young.
She is taller, more energetic and younger than the prince and brother-in-law in her impression.
The young man in front of him was exactly the sixteen-year-old Prince Zhaoming.
The little princess remembered the first time she met the prince's brother-in-law. It was the early morning of the second day of the eldest sister's wedding. She woke up crying to find her sister. The servants carried her to the wedding room and knocked on the door of the prince's bedroom. door.
The eldest sister in the wedding dress hugged her in her arms and comforted her for a while. Her cheap brother-in-law came out from behind the screen neatly dressed, and when he saw her, he smiled and rolled his eyes.
The little princess looked at the cheap brother-in-law in front of her and asked, "Who are you
The young Prince Zhaoming smiled and said, "My name is Zhong Lishuo, are you Jingning?"
The young prince in red, with an unparalleled smile.
Maybe it's too good a memory from childhood. Until now, the little princess can't accept that her brother-in-law is no longer there.
This face is so similar. It made her take a glimpse, and she was so complacent that she called out the name that had not been called out for many years. But she is no longer the immature little girl, she is a princess, and there are a group of people by her side.
Looking at this similar face, she held back her curiosity, as if casual but very cautiously asked: "Who are you? What's your name?"
"Caominle is right now, and I live in Qionghua Lane." Zhong Lishuo smiled at the arrogant girl in front of him.
The princess pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Le Zheng... Who is Mr. Le Zhengying from the Ministry of War?"
"Back to the princess, that's elder sister Caomin."
"You are the son of Zhenbei Hou, huh... No wonder." As if she had found a suitable reason, the little princess wiped away all the surprises on her face, coughed lightly, and said, "It's nothing, this princess sees you. It looks familiar, it turns out to be from the Lezheng family."
After that, the little princess said a few words to her casually. Even if they have different identities and cannot hope to have the same relationship as before, Zhong Lishuo, who was very happy, couldn't help showing some closeness.
But in the end, it's still different.
After the little princess took the people away, Zhong Lishuo was left alone. She looked at the backs of the boys and girls, sighed, shook her head and walked outside the museum.
This little turmoil reached the ears of those with a heart. Within a few days, the nobles of Yuanzhou City knew that the young son of Zhenbeihou was more like the late emperor than her eldest sister, so much that Princess Jingming had mistaken him.
It was such a small thing that let the ministers know that the royal family was still very concerned about the Emperor Zhao who died young. Judging from her posthumous title, you can see how important Emperor Zhao is in Her Majesty's heart.
The adults' minds were active, and people came to test Le Zhengying within a few days, and they all hinted that Le Zhengjia might be able to express his position.
Even if it is similar, even if it is a stand-in, as long as it is favored by the queen, the favor will be supreme in the future, and the Lezheng family may even be able to produce a king of a country.
Le Zhengying knew exactly what the ministers were calculating.
Fortunately, her little brother was a fake brother and could not bring a female heir. Back then, when Da Si passed through Lanzhou, he happened to meet Le Zhengsu, who was about to die within seven days of birth, so Le Zhengqin asked Le Zhengqin to raise the child as a boy. He escaped from the heavenly secret as a son, and then he survived safely.
Therefore, Le Zhengying, who had long guessed that his little sister's face that was too similar to Emperor Zhao would cause trouble, shook out her little sister's identity little by little.
The little princess of the Zhenbei Houfu was a daughter and could not be given to His Majesty as an heir, so the Lezheng family was plucked out of the murky waters that the nobles forced the queen to marry.
This group of people, after the world was at peace, began to activate their minds again.
Most worry about the cornerstone of the country, and a small number have ulterior motives. Although His Majesty is a woman today, the nobles still want her to give birth to their own family's heirs and continue their glory.
Who wouldn't want to be the king of a country
The choice of the emperor's husband is something that has been mentioned again and again in the winter. But His Majesty's military power is in his hands and cannot be shaken at all. No one can force the queen, and only herself can make her nod to marry.
Le Zhengying clearly knew the undercurrent of Yuanzhou City, so he didn't want his sister to be involved at all.
What's more, that similar face will only make His Majesty sad, but not a bit of comfort.
The young son of Lezheng's family had no way to know about this kind of thing. Everyone in the Hou Mansion just hoped that she would be safe and well, how could she be exposed to the wind and rain of the outside world. In addition, she didn't like to go out, and everyone didn't even have a chance to see her pointing.
Now she is only at home with peace of mind, waiting for the spring to come after the new year, when her mother can fulfill her promise and take her to the hot springs in Xishan as scheduled.
The days passed quickly, and it was the end of the year in a blink of an eye.
At the end of this year, all the officials in the court jumped up and down so much that there was a trace of irritability on Her Majesty's eyebrows. Under the repeated persecution of the ministers, she was not allowed to hold the palace banquet at the end of the year, and invited many young nobles and young talents.
The Minister of Rites could not wait to invite all the young men and women of the right age in Daqing for His Majesty's choice.
Daqing needs a crown prince, but Her Majesty the Queen has already planned, even if she is not willing, she still forces herself to cooperate with the ministers to finish the play.
The servants all knew that His Majesty was in a bad mood recently, so they waited on him carefully. After hearing that Le Zhengying had finished the corruption case in his hand, His Majesty showed a little bit of joy.
"This year, all the ministers will accompany me to celebrate the New Year. When your father and daughter are closer to me, it can be considered a reunion dinner."
As he said that, His Majesty thought of Le Zhengying's younger sister who just happened to be this year. Thinking that it was also a happy event, he said cheerfully, "Your brother is in good health. He also came to see me, so that your family will not be separated because of me."
Le Zhengying thought to himself, that was your blind date, Your Majesty, is it appropriate for your little sister to go
But thinking about the little sister's problem is solved, it's not the little sister's fault that they are too similar. After all, the Lezheng family and the Zhongli royal family are closely related and have a deep relationship.
So this time, she answered honestly.
At home, Zhong Lishuo, after receiving the imperial decree of the palace banquet, froze in place at a loss.