The room fell into silence, and after a while of silence, Cheng Yuanjing said, "You decide to do this?"
Cheng Yujin lowered her head and said, "Your Highness misunderstood, it's not that the ministers and daughters intended to offend, but just restored the proper etiquette. The ministers and daughters had no status before, because His Royal Highness was in the Cheng family, and temporarily needed the Cheng family's cover up. It's really the fault of the ministers and daughters to harass your highness like an uncle Yesterday, I was fortunate to be rescued by His Highness, His Highness the Crown Prince is both the Crown Prince and the savior of the ministers and daughters, so the ministers and daughters naturally have to be respectful."
The father and son, the ruler and the minister, are respectful and respectful. Cheng Yuanjing smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Oh? Then you were in the Cheng family before, why didn't you want to stay away, but only now you realize it?"
Cheng Yujin sighed inwardly, sure enough, Cheng Yuanjing's potential is not so easy to borrow. Seeking skin with the tiger, she can't get away before skin can find it.
Cheng Yujin didn't think Cheng Yuanjing would be interested in this aspect at all, so she was full of thoughts of brushing the favor of the future king, seeking benefits for herself, and finally picking a prince who would appreciate the boundless potential stock in the future and marry off, realizing the three winners in life. Jump.
But yesterday Cheng Yuanjing jumped into the water to save her, no doubt slapped a brick on Cheng Yujin's forehead, making her unable to find the north. In fact, they had a lot of intimacy with blurred boundaries before, and they were too close to ordinary men and women. But that "Ninth Uncle" was too confusing, and Cheng Yujin was gradually deceived after listening to it too much. She felt that it was normal for relatives to have some intimacy, and it was normal to fight.
However, they are not true relatives. If neither of them mentioned it, after Cheng Yuanjing left, no one would know about these things. Who knew that Cheng Yuanjing didn't plan to stop there. He tore open the weak window paper between the two in front of her. Cheng Yujin had to face another grim fact.
She brushed her favor and brushed it off.
Cheng Yujin really didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would fall in love with her. It seems that this possibility has been ruled out subconsciously. When Cheng Yujin picked her husband, she didn't put Cheng Yuanjing in the options at all, so she naturally felt that Cheng Yuanjing was the same.
After all, Cheng Yujin is no different to Cheng Yujin than Zou Cheng, who passed the jinshi examination with Lin Qingyuan in the same year, but whose family is poor and can only rely on his mother and sister spinning threads to make a living.
They all have excellent personal abilities, but the family is holding back everywhere. Considering Cheng Yuanjing's special position, the lethality of Yichun Hou's holding back is more serious than that of the Zou family.
Cheng Yujin admires Zou Cheng very much, and is very moved by their family's mutual support, but Cheng Yujin would never want to marry Zou Cheng and be a high-class wife who makes Zou Cheng cross-class. She can completely choose a family from the same class with outstanding family ability, such as Xu Zhixian, or even Lin Qingyuan, who has better family ability.
How big of a hole did she have in her mind to pick Zou Cheng for such a high-risk business with no reward. From another angle, the situation between her and Cheng Yuanjing is the same.
If the commoners and Shilin are separated by a hurdle, and the ordinary official family and the princely family are separated by another hurdle, then the prince and the royal family are separated by heaven and earth.
The Gongqing family has hereditary power and wealth, does not need scientific examinations, does not need to get out, and the starting point is much better than the imperial examination students. However, in the eyes of princes and princesses, it is just a name. The difference is that some families have names worth remembering and some families are not.
The Cheng family of Yichun Houfu, unfortunately, is not worthy of this category. There are dukes everywhere in the capital, and a small, unfinished mansion is nothing.
As for the distant existence of the prince and the prince, who has to step on the heads of many princes and princesses, Cheng Yujin has never been able to come into contact with them. The situation in the DPRK and China is getting more and more dangerous, and Mrs. Cheng doesn't even worry about the battle for the reserve, which shows what the Cheng family is.
Only those who will be noticed by the higher-ranking people will worry about who will stand, the Cheng family, and they are not even qualified to stand in the team.
Although Cheng Yuanjing has been absent for more than ten years, the position of the prince has been preserved so far, which shows that the emperor clearly cares about him. Under such circumstances, when Cheng Yuanjing recovers his identity, some high-ranking officials are willing to show affection. He clearly can easily marry a high-class daughter with good family background, character, appearance, and ability. He has a strong wife and family to help him. How good is it for him to compete with the Yang family? Cheng Yujin doesn't believe that Cheng Yuanjing doesn't know.
And what about Cheng Yujin? She only had a flamboyant but misnamed origin, a reputation for being glamorous but practically useless, and a pretty face.
Cheng Yujin always puts interests first, and is not trapped in love or balance, so she always treats others like this. Cheng Yuanjing's rationality is much higher than hers, but he never shows it. For such a person, Cheng Yujin does not believe that he will give up his ready-made interests.
That being the case, his actions yesterday gradually pointed to another possibility that sent chills down the spine.
There is no difference between Zou Cheng and Cheng Yujin. The only difference is that Cheng Yujin cannot marry twice, while a man can have three wives and four concubines. If Cheng Yujin has the conditions, she also wants to choose Lin Qingyuan as the principal and raise another Zou Cheng to invest, but she can't.
Cheng Yujin's throat was getting dry. She stayed in the ice water for a long time yesterday, and her throat is now hoarse. Now, the familiar cold and powerless feeling is back.
Cheng Yujin's voice was hoarse, and she tried her best to make her voice sound not sickly: "Ninth Uncle, you are from a noble background and talented, and you may never need to understand the difficulties of survival in your life. It is a novelty for you, but for me , is all the hard work of fifteen years, and the rest of my life.”
Perhaps His Royal Highness saw her good-looking, so on a whim, he wanted to bring her to raise him. This is a whim for Cheng Yuanjing, and a lifetime for Cheng Yujin.
Wife and concubine are separated by more than a gulf. Even if the royal concubine is called Side Concubine, she is still a concubine.
Cheng Yuanjing looked at her deeply, not missing the slightest change in her face. She called him Ninth Uncle again, showing weakness in disguise. But such a begging for mercy was extremely harsh to Cheng Yuanjing's ears.
"Fresh for a while?" Cheng Yuanjing said slowly, one word at a time, "I am in your heart, is this kind of person? Or, has it always been this kind of person?"
Cheng Yujin lowered her head, as if thinking about how to answer. Cheng Yuanjing was sitting, while she stood with her head lowered, revealing a long and slender neck.
Cheng Yuanjing's eyes first fell on the neck, then slowly moved up, carefully lingering on her face. Cheng Yujin really has an excellent skin appearance, her skin is fair and delicate, and her neck is unbearable. When she stands quietly and does not speak, she is as beautiful as a beauty who has come out of a painting, which is amazing and makes people think Fingers.
Cheng Yuanjing remembered what she said just now, and smiled unconsciously: "Since you want to distinguish the boundaries, let me ask you, what is the courtesy of the emperor? How can you repay the grace of saving your life?"
Cheng Yujin seemed to be surprised. She opened her eyes and glanced at Cheng Yuanjing quickly. Although she tried to hide it, her eyebrows were still slightly wrinkled. Such words are almost blatant. Cheng Yuanjing has never shown a strong and unscrupulous side in front of her before. Cheng Yujin subconsciously feels that Cheng Yuanjing has always been a gentleman, modest, rational and virtuous prince.
Cheng Yujin never thought that Cheng Yuanjing would even say such a thing. It is extremely rude to force each other with power and ask for retribution.
Cheng Yujin was speechless for a moment, she could have the courage to reason with the other party, but this trick is to guard against the gentleman but not against the villain. If the other party is a gentleman, then it will work.
Even Zhai Yanlin can force her to submit, not to mention Cheng Yuanjing.
Cheng Yuanjing saw that her face had changed, she stretched out her hand, and said, "Come here."
Cheng Yujin hesitated, hesitating for a long time before coming forward. And Cheng Yuanjing was also very patient, and kept waiting.
Be patient, but don't hesitate.
Cheng Yujin had no choice, she sighed silently, took two steps forward, and tentatively put her hand on Cheng Yuanjing's palm.
As soon as his fingers touched his palm, they were wrapped in a handful. Then a burst of force came, Cheng Yujin was pulled to the front of the collapse, Cheng Yuanjing hugged her shoulders very naturally, and placed her beside him.
This was originally a position for one person, but suddenly another person was added, and the space was suddenly cramped, Cheng Yujin almost sat down next to Cheng Yuanjing. She was stiff all over, but Cheng Yuanjing didn't seem to notice it. First, he tested the temperature on Cheng Yujin's forehead, then turned over her wrist and cut it for a while, and said, "It's much better, just take more days."
Cheng Yujin didn't even dare to move, but she didn't dare to be silent. Cheng Yuanjing completely tore her face. If she had been obedient and deftly acting, who knew what would happen in a while. Cheng Yujin's eyes flickered for a while, and asked, "Your Highness actually has a pulse?"
"A long illness has become a doctor. I was not in good health when I was a child, and I will gradually get better after seeing it more."
This remark involves two generations of court struggles. Cheng Yujin did not dare to take it casually, stopped for a while, and conservatively chose to flatter him: "His Royal Highness is really smart. His Highness is now both civil and military, and it is impossible to see that he was not in good health when he was young."
He often listened to similar words when he wanted to, but Cheng Yuanjing didn't answer, but looked at Cheng Yujin for a while, then suddenly smiled: "Are you afraid of me?"
Cheng Yujin sighed, put down her grudge, and talked to him well: "Yes. I can't help but be afraid of what Your Highness said just now."
Cheng Yuanjing was noncommittal. After he took the pulse, he did not let go of Cheng Yujin's hand, but held it in his palm and played it slowly. Cheng Yujin didn't dare to smoke if she wanted to, so she could only wait stiffly. He fiddled with Cheng Yujin's fingers one by one, and suddenly said, "Did you see the Zhai family yesterday?"
Cheng Yujin didn't know why he was talking about this, and replied truthfully: "Yes. Yesterday, my mother and second aunt went out to look at the lights, and happened to meet Mrs. Zhai's second wife in the middle. If Mrs. Zhai's second wife had something to say to her alone, my mother let me Feel free to look at the lantern booths on both sides. Later... Your Highness will know what happened next."
"So you didn't hear what they said." Cheng Yuanjing understood, "No wonder."
"What?" Cheng Yujin didn't understand and looked at Cheng Yuanjing suspiciously.
Cheng Yujin sat within his arms, and when he looked closer, his eyes became more and more beautiful and thrilling. Cheng Yuanjing looked at it for a while, and suddenly wanted to do something closer, but they were not married or even engaged yet, these actions were too out of bounds.
Cheng Yuanjing held back his unruly heart in the end. He has been educated by the prince for more than ten years, and after all, he respects order more than recklessness, not to mention, this is respect for Cheng Yujin.
Cheng Yujin only felt that Cheng Yuanjing looked at her silently for a while, that look made her inexplicably vigilant, and then he looked away and said without exception: "Zhai's family is not for negotiation, they are there to apologize."
Cheng Yujin frowned and replied subconsciously: "How is it possible, if they want to break off the marriage, how can their attitude be..."
The rest of the voices stopped abruptly, Cheng Yuanjing seemed to have expected it long ago, and looked at her with a smile: "So, I said they were going to apologize."
This apology has two meanings. The first is to apologize for breaking off the marriage and sorry for the woman. Cheng Yujin has seen it once, such as the insincere apology of the Huo family. On the first floor, because he had provoked someone he shouldn't have provoked, he was afraid of being liquidated in the future, so he rushed forward to apologize.
Cheng Yujin originally thought that Mrs. Zhai's approach to Qingfu was the first type, but now it seems that it is the second type
It is impossible for Cai Guogong's mansion to be afraid of the Cheng family. Among them, it can only be because of Cheng Yuanjing.
The previous marriage was only a verbal agreement, there was no deed, no evidence, and not many people even knew about it. The Zhai family broke off the marriage in a good voice, Cheng Yujin had no loss of reputation, and also received a bunch of apology gifts from Cai Guogong's mansion, which is the most ideal situation. Cheng Yujin's best plan was not as good as this.
Cheng Yuanjing said she didn't have to worry, he would solve it for her, which turned out to be true.
Cheng Yujin was speechless. Because of the poor information, she didn't know what Mrs. Zhai Er said last night, so she took the risk and gambled on Lin Qingyuan's character. If Lin Qingyuan came down to save her, she would have a legitimate reason to marry Lin Qingyuan. If Lin Qingyuan didn't come down to save her... Then she could see a person clearly, lest she would be unkind in the rest of her life, and it would not be a loss.
If Cheng Yujin learned that the crisis of the Huo family had been resolved one day later, she would never have done such a risky thing. But she didn't know it at the time, the opportunity was fleeting, and at that moment Cheng Yujin had to make a decision.
Cheng Yujin didn't speak for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh: "Forget it, this is the end of the matter, I have no regrets, there is nothing to say."
Cheng Yuanjing laughed lightly, pinched her index finger from top to bottom, and said in a slow and slow voice, "You don't believe me."
"Because you don't trust me, you will do something like diving in the big winter to force someone to save you. As long as you have some trust in me, this will not be the case."
Cheng Yujin was silent. It was true that she saved people at first, but when she saw the ice cracking later, she came up with some other ideas. She fell into the water, half to save people, half to follow the trend.
She deceived everyone, and even Du Ruo, who had been with her the longest, felt that she was in a hurry to save people and had no choice but to jump off. In fact, if Lin Qingyuan was not there at the time, Cheng Yujin would have nothing to turn her head and return to the shore. Her reputation is important, but her life is more important. There are strong and experienced nurses in the Hou residence. Why should she take the risk on her own
But Cheng Yuanjing saw it at a glance. Maybe he already understood what she wanted to do when he jumped down to save her.
Cheng Yujin sighed and asked, "Since you already know, why did you come down to save me in the first place? The river in winter isn't a joke after all."
"I'm not here to save you, what should I do? Watching you exhausted, or watching another man come to save you?" Cheng Yuanjing's voice was slow and slow, and he didn't have a strong tone, but it fell in his ears and said It's terrifying, "You are ignoring your own life for a man. Do you like him like this, and you don't even want your life to marry him?"
Cheng Yuanjing was angry. Different from deliberately scaring her with her face before, this time, it was true.
The more angry he was, the more calm he became.
Cheng Yujin didn't answer for a long time. Her hand was still in Cheng Yuanjing's palm, and without warning, Cheng Yujin suddenly clenched her palm into a fist, and held Cheng Yuanjing's mouth with her backhand.
Her eyes were also wide open, without dodging or evading, without any self-consciousness, she saw Cheng Yuanjing's pupils directly: "Ninth uncle was born as the eldest prince, he became the prince at the age of five, what did he want since he was a child? Just go get it, act openly and aboveboard, don’t you despise someone like me who is exhausted and who is only for clinging?"
Cheng Yujin didn't wait for Cheng Yuanjing to answer, and continued on her own: "If I were a man, I wouldn't like it either. If you want to live a high-ranking life, then become a strong man yourself, and always think about marrying a strong man. what?"
"Do you think I don't want to?" Cheng Yujin's eyes are as clear as glaze, with beautiful lines, as if they were carefully outlined. At such a close distance, she fixedly looked at Cheng Yuanjing, and Cheng Yuanjing could see his shrunken figure inside.
"If I were a man, if I had other options, would I do this kind of thing? Do you think it's easier to practice manners than to take a test? Practice the same movement over and over again, and put each step in the right position, Would it be easier than reading at night with the lights on and writing by memorization?"
"I recite poetry and prose faster than all my brothers, and my handwriting is not inferior. If I can participate in the imperial examinations, I will also devote myself to retreat and read only the books of sages and sages. I will also think about how to make myself better every day. But I don't have a chance."
Cheng Yuanjing looked at her without saying a word, he saw a tear swirling in those beautiful eyes and slipped down suddenly.
Cheng Yuanjing's fingers trembled slightly, as if scalded by the tear. After a while, he raised his hand and put it on Cheng Yujin's cheek, like a treasure that would shatter at the touch of a touch, and gently wiped away her tears: "Don't cry."