After leaving the Shangshu Mansion, Yan Wu floated on the empty and quiet street with a blank expression on her face.
She doesn't belong to this world at all. If she leaves Yaoyao, where can she go? Is there a safer place in the world than Yaoyao's side
She frowned, turned and looked at the door of Shangshu's mansion again. For a moment, she really wanted to rush back to Yaoyao's side regardless, pretending that she was still the Yan Wu who didn't remember anything and didn't know anything.
But…
"Ah..." She sighed a long time, and simply sat down on the stone stair in front of the gate of Shangshu Mansion, holding her cheeks and starting to be in a daze.
How to do it? Where are you going
The crisp sound of "Dang" startled her a lot. Looking up, she saw a young man wearing a bunt and holding a gong walking by the street not far away. He heard the rhythm of the man again. shouted, "It's dry, be careful with candles..."
She patted her chest, let out a long sigh, and pouted and said unhappily, "What, it scared people!"
While the man was passing in front of her, she suddenly floated over, took the handkerchief and fanned the man's neck forcefully. Seeing the man shivered from the cold, she shrank her neck again, and suddenly giggled. laughed.
After laughing for a while, she followed behind the man again, imitating the other's tone and movements and shouting: "It's dry, be careful with the candles..."
He covered his mouth and laughed for a while, and he was very happy playing alone.
When she saw that the man had put away the gong and was about to go home, she rubbed her cheeks, which made her smile a little sour, and then noticed that she had left Tang Shang Shufu unknowingly and was in a strange place.
She stood blankly in the middle of the road, looking around, there was nothing she was familiar with, and she didn't see a person she was familiar with.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a faint rooster crowing in the distance, which finally brought her back to her senses.
"It's almost dawn! I have to find a place to rest..." She muttered to herself, and then walked slowly down the street, looking for a suitable place for her to rest temporarily.
Suddenly, she saw several vases with red plums on a white background placed at the door of a house not far away, and she just felt a little tired, so she turned into a puff of blue smoke and got in without thinking about it.
"It's not good, it's not good at all, I'm not comfortable by Yaoyao's side, and I'm not safe by Yaoyao's side. I want to go back to Yaoyao... woo, but I don't dare. If Yaoyao knew In my last life, I was in the same body as her, and I grew up by absorbing her vitality, and she will definitely hate me." She curled up, muttering both grievances and sadness.
After a while, another voice seemed to retort: "Yaoyao will not! It's not your own will, it was those bad people who forcibly trapped you in that body, when you were so small and weak, There is no way!"
After a while, a weak voice disapproved: "Whether you want it or not, you are the one who benefits, and you are already ashamed of Yaoyao, how can you think of taking advantage of Yaoyao's kindness, How about staying by her side with a thick face?"
She whimpered and sobbed even more, tears fell silently, and before she knew it, she fell asleep crying like this.
The sky was white with fish belly, and the owner of the house started another busy day. About an hour later, a middle-aged woman came out of the house and carried the bottles by the door into the house. .
Yan Wu was awakened by a strong smell of wine. She sneezed first, then rubbed her nose, opened her eyes ignorantly, and found herself soaked in the wine, which scared her to zero. Without thinking, he jumped out of the bottle.
She looked at the clothes, which were all soaked wet, and smelled of strong alcohol, and flattened her mouth with a look of grievance.
She didn't have time to measure herself, only to see that there seemed to be a pool not far in front of her, she jumped into the pool without thinking, and finally rubbed her body hard.
"It stinks. If Yaoyao is here, she will definitely be angry."
"Tingruo, is the water ready? Your Highness is about to wake up." Suddenly a strange voice sounded behind her, she subconsciously responded, and when she realized that the other party was not calling her, she scratched naively. Head, stand up from the pool, and restore the clothes by the way.
"So there is someone here who has the same name as me!" She said happily, unable to hold back for a while, she followed behind the young woman named 'Ting Ruo', and only looked around her curiously up and down. Notice where you are.
Huh? This girl seems a little familiar! But she had never seen this face.
She scratched her ears in confusion, followed the woman step by step, and watched her walk into a courtyard with a basin full of hot water, then set foot on the cross road in the courtyard, and came to the door of the main house forward.
The door was pushed open from the inside, and another young woman came out.
Painting cuckoo? When Yan Wu recognized the woman, she was stunned for a moment, then looked around again, and found that she was actually in the palace of Prince Yu.
The next moment, she saw Huajuo looking down at the woman named 'Tingruo', with contempt and disdain in her tone: "Are you Xu Tingruo?"
"Yes, the slave is Xu Tingruo." Xu Tingruo lowered her head and replied meekly.
Yan Wu suddenly jumped: "What? Your name is Xu Tingruo too?! How could it be so coincidental!"
She opened her eyes wide, leaned over to Xu Tingruo and stared at her, not paying attention to what Huajuan said.
It was not until Xu Tingruo handed the pot in her hand to Huajuan and Yingying gave a blessing and turned to leave, she frowned in distress and racked her brains thinking about the memory of the past.
This girl with the same name as her gave her a very familiar feeling, she must have seen her somewhere. However, in her last life, when she was about to die, her soul was about to leave the body, but when she was forcibly restrained and pulled back to her original body, she was still very small. How can you feel familiar with a strange girl
After thinking about it, she couldn't think of a reason, she patted her head angrily, and floated into a room at will.
Suddenly, the two paintings hanging on the wall in the house caught her attention. She stared blankly at the woman in the somewhat outdated painting, her heart tightened, and she walked towards the painting subconsciously. Gently stroked the woman in the painting, her nose gradually became sour.
"Mother..." she murmured, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Mother..." She called again in a hoarse voice, and the tears finally couldn't help falling down.
She never imagined that she would see the portrait of her mother who died early in the study of Prince Yu's Mansion. Even though her memory is blurred for a long time, she subconsciously knows that the woman in the painting is her biological mother.
She caressed the portrait and cried so hard that she called 'mother' over and over again, but the only response to her was the chirping of the early birds outside the window.
She wiped away her tears, the door was pushed open from the outside, and King Yu's voice came in from behind: "You can do your own thing and let Ting Ruo come in and serve you."
"But... Yes, the servant will call Ting Ruo here." Huajuan replied somewhat unwillingly.
Yan Wu wiped away a tear and was about to find a hiding place when she noticed the painting hanging next to her mother's portrait, and the woman in the painting was actually her!
She opened her mouth slightly in surprise and stared at the "self" in the painting, that frown and smile, like her, but also like Yaoyao, to be precise, the person in the painting is more like a previous life with a strong and a weak in the body Concubine Xu Shu, a twin soul.
"Greet your highness." Xu Tingruo's voice rang again in the room, Yan Wu calmed down, turned to look over, and saw that Xu Tingruo had a faint smile on her lips, walking lightly towards the room come in.
She stared at her in a daze, and she didn't know how long it took, when she suddenly felt blessed and clapped her palms: "Ah! I know, you are Sister Tingwan!"
The girl in front of her who gave her a sense of familiarity must be her sister, the sister Ting Wan who likes to bully her when she urinates and rob her of things.
"Hate, you have a name yourself, why are you trying to rob someone? You're not called Xu Tingruo, you are clearly Xu Tingwan!" She floated around Xu Tingruo in dissatisfaction, mumbling.
Naturally, Xu Tingruo would not know that there were 'people' talking beside her, and her eyes were filled with only this noble and gentle man in front of her.
She knew that the glory of the rest of her life depended on this person, so she would do everything in her power to attract his attention, and then arouse his pity for her. And it turned out that everything she did was effective. At the very least, the Huajuan, who used to despise her so much, has now listed her as the first-class enemy for the favor of King Yu.
But she was not afraid at all. Peng Liangdi's methods at the time were much more brilliant than Huajuan, but she could still find a way under her nose. If it wasn't for the sudden dismissal of the prince, she would have become the prince's concubine at this moment. Maybe she will successfully conceive a dragon child.
But it doesn't matter, King Yu is also very good, and there is also the possibility of becoming the new crown prince.
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On the day when King Xiang left the capital, Emperor Tianxi and the Empress stood hand in hand on the city tower, watching his chariot gradually drift away, and finally turned into a black dot and completely disappeared from sight.
There were faint tears in the queen's eyes, and although her face was still somewhat pale, her spirit was not bad. In fact, since the two sons shook hands and made peace, the boulder that had been on her heart for many years was finally removed, and her condition had rarely improved.
Even so, she knew very well that her life was not long, and she had nothing to regret when she saw her two sons unravel the knots in their hearts for many years before she died.
First, the prince was abolished, and then King Xiang took the initiative to request to leave the capital to go to the fief, which surprised many courtiers who thought that King Xiang would become the new prince.
And at this time, King Xin ran several beautiful errands, which made Longyan happy, and even more praised and praised by Emperor Tianxi, and also made the courtiers finally turn their attention to the second son of the prince who has never been so unassuming. .
King Xin had a generous temperament and regarded a virtuous corporal. Judging from the previous errands, he was also a capable and capable person. Such a virtuous king is rare.
Unconsciously, there was a call for the establishment of King Xin as the crown prince, and this call became stronger and stronger, and the number of supporters of King Xin became more and more. The trend of dividing the prince.
Tang Junyao sighed after learning about it. I didn't expect that the one who jumped out after the prince was abolished in this life was not King Xiang, but the King Xin who had always been like an invisible man.
But even now, she wasn't entirely sure that King Yu would still take that seat in the end.
At this moment, she rested her elbows on Tang Songnian's bookcase and asked, "Dad, do you think Your Majesty will establish King Xin as the crown prince?"
Tang Songnian put down the scroll in his hand and said with a smile, "Why is this little girl interested in these?"
"Why don't you tell me, will your Majesty appoint King Xin as the crown prince?" Tang Junyao urged.
Tang Songnian shook his head and replied, "Your Majesty's heart is unpredictable, and His Majesty's thoughts are beyond our ability to speculate. Besides, as a minister, I only need to obey His Majesty's will, and I don't need to care about the rest."
Tang Junyao thought for a while, and then asked: "So it is Your Majesty who is loyal to Daddy. For Daddy, as long as it is the prince that His Majesty personally chose, no matter who it is, you will be loyal to him?"
Tang Songnian nodded and smiled: "What Baoya said is very true."
Tang Junyao pursed her lips and smiled, just as she was about to say more, when she heard a voice outside, she felt a little displeased, and raised her voice to call Lan Chun to let her see what happened. Lan Chun led the way and returned in less than a quarter of an hour.
"I heard that the old lady of the Chen family annoyed the lady and was persuaded to leave. The lady is still angry in the house right now!"
The father and daughter looked at each other and both saw surprise in each other's eyes.
"Do you know why the old lady annoyed her mother?" Tang Junyao asked again.
Lan Chun glanced at her, then looked at Tang Songnian, and then said in a low voice, "It seems to be for the girl's marriage, the old lady wants to marry her for her grandson, but the lady doesn't want to, the old lady said Some unpleasant words, the madam got angry when she heard it, and directly ordered to see the guest."
Tang Junyao was stunned again, but did not expect that this matter was actually related to him. Before she said anything, Tang Songnian was already furious: "How unreasonable, the brave brother of their family, who is not good at martial arts, is idle all day and has no seriousness, and dares to attack my Baoya's idea?! Eating swan meat is wrong in his mind!"
"Tell me, if he dares to come to our courtyard next time, he will just shoot people out!"
It was the first time in his life that Tang Junyao saw him get angry, some novel, some funny, and some moving.
The old man really loves her very much, but in his eyes, there are not many men in the world who are worthy of her.
There is also the mother, such a soft and good-natured person, who always talks softly on weekdays, and only suddenly loses his temper when he feels that his children are being bullied.
Nguyen was really annoyed by Qian. She never thought that the Qian family would actually attack her daughter.
When Mrs Qian mentioned that she hoped that the two families of Chen and Tang would marry her, and wanted to marry Tang Junyao for her grandson Chen Zhaoyong, the smile on her face was a bit stiff, but she still said politely: "She is still young, For the time being, don’t think about family affairs.”
Qian's family disagreed: "Next year will be due to the hairpin, so I'm still young, most of the girls' families discuss marriage at this time, what's the problem. I know you two love your daughter, but you dote on her too much. You are reluctant to take care of yourselves, so you can book a marriage early, and I can also sharpen her temper for you, so that you won't be able to restrain yourself and make jokes when you get married in the future."
Ruan's face suddenly became a little ugly, and the smile faded at once, and said lightly: "Thank you aunt for your trouble, I don't dare to bother your old man."
"There's no way to do that. You can't just watch her cause trouble for our Chen family in the future. I want to tell you, if you could discipline your daughter earlier, why would you be like this. I listen to you. Saying that she runs outside with Brother Zhou from time to time, what does it look like? She is so restless before she gets married, if she gets married in the future, won’t she be a womanizer?”
"Enough!!" Ruan Shi couldn't help but interrupted her sharply, "The little girl is very good, I am very satisfied with her. As for Lingsun, please forgive the little girl for not being able to climb high. I still have something to do, so I won't leave my aunt to drink. Tea time. Lay the qin, see off the guest!!”
"You! You are biting Lu Dongbin and don't know good people!" Qian Shi was also angry and wanted to say a few more words, but Wanqin had already walked in with two strong maids and forcibly invited her go out.
Qian Shi was furious and scolded all the way. When those unpleasant words came, Ruan Shi almost couldn't hold back and wanted to rush out and tear her mouth.
"Bah, what kind of broken things are not even worthy of my baby girl!" When Tang Junyao heard the news and came into the house, he heard Ruan's unprecedented scolding, and suddenly burst into laughter, but his heart was full of joy. , I feel that ironing is extremely good.
But he said that the courtiers waited and waited, not waiting for His Majesty's will to establish the new crown prince, but waiting for His Majesty's will to marry King Yu and Zhongshu Ling Ji Yuan's niece Liang Yuyan.
Everyone knows that this girl Liang was raised by Mrs. Ji since she was a child, and she is no different from Mrs. Ji's own daughter, so it is not surprising that she can be married to King Yu as the concubine.
After all, Lord Ji has no children and no daughters, but he loves this niece the most. His Majesty values Lord Ji, and naturally he will also lift up this girl Liang.
Tang Junyao had to sigh that King Yu and Liang Yuyan really had the fate of being married in two lifetimes.
But at the moment, she didn't have any time to think about the couple who had been married for two lifetimes. She stared at the two people under the tree in front of her without blinking, and rolled the handkerchief in her hand, and pulled it. Pull again.
Those two people, a man and a woman, the man is her Moonlight Young General He Shaoting, and the woman is Zheng Yan, the daughter of the Duke of Zheng who has suffered repeated setbacks in marriage in recent years.
She looked at what Zheng Yan was saying to He Shaoting shyly. Although she was far away, she couldn't hear it, but she still guessed that the other party might be showing love, and she was so nervous that she pulled the veil in her hands, thinking about whether to pretend to pass by. Go out and interrupt them.
However, if Zheng Yan is serious about it, she won't be able to say it this time, and there will always be a chance to talk about it next time. Instead of contacting them in the future without knowing it, it's better to make it clear under her own eyes now!
Wanting to understand this, she took back the steps she took, and pricked up her ears to hear He Shaoting's answer, but she didn't hear anything, so she scratched her ears and cheeks anxiously.
Over there, Zheng Yan saw him with a slight smile and shook her head. Although she didn't say anything, she already understood the meaning of refusal. She asked unwillingly, "Does the general also think that I am the order of Kefu?"
He Shaoting shook his head again, and said warmly, "This general never believed in this, but the girl firmly believed in it."
Zheng Yan was stunned.
"Girls have the courage to express their state of mind to men, and she should not be afraid of all difficulties. Why is she trapped in rumors and unable to extricate herself?"
Zheng Yan was speechless for a long time.
"Oh, so Sister Yan is here! I'll just say it..." Suddenly, a woman's charming laughter came, Zheng Yan's face suddenly sank, and she looked sullenly at the few noble girls who were walking towards her. Knowing that they must have guessed what they did, they must have guessed the result, and they are waiting to see their jokes!
She was extremely annoyed, but she had no way of doing it, and suddenly saw He Shaoting bowing her hands to her: "Thank you, girl, for guiding the way and saying goodbye."
She was stunned, watching the man leave.
"Is General He and the military asking you for directions?" the noble lady at the head asked in disbelief.
She also came back to her senses and sneered: "Didn't you hear it just now? If it wasn't for him asking me for directions, what else could be wrong?"
The woman opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she could only change the subject embarrassingly.
What a pity, I thought I could add another talk about Zheng Yan!
Tang Junyao had a panoramic view of everything, scratched his face suspiciously, and then chased in the direction He Shaoting left.
"Oh, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." She quickly chased a distance, then got into the path, walked out from the other side, and stood on the road with her hands behind her back, pretending to be a chance encounter. He Shaoting next to him said.
He Shaoting was amused in his heart, but he didn't show it on the surface: "Unfortunately, I saw you just now."
The smile on Tang Junyao's face froze, but she quickly covered it up again and said innocently, "Really? It turns out that it was you who was talking to Sister Yan just now? I thought I was wrong!"
He Shaoting smiled: "You read that right, it's me."
"What did you say to her? Oh, it doesn't matter if you don't want to. I'll just ask casually anyway." She pretended not to care.
The corners of He Shaoting's mouth were slightly curved, his eyes looking at her were extremely gentle, but he did not answer her words.
Tang Junyao blinked her eyes, leaned in front of him and said deliberately, "I know even if you don't tell me, she is happy with you, and took the opportunity of today to confess to you, isn't she?"
He Shaoting only looked at her with a slight smile, but did not answer.
Seeing that he still didn't speak, Miss Tang frowned unhappily and continued: "Sister Yan has a good background, and I'm no worse than her; although she looks good, she's still worse than me; and she has a dull temperament. , not as good as me…”
He Shaoting laughed dumbly. The little liar is also very thick-skinned. Is this a pretense of complimenting others but actually complimenting himself
"Miss Zheng is very good." Finally, Tang Junyao heard him speak slowly, and when he heard what he said again, his eyes suddenly widened.
What does it mean? Could it be that he also fell in love with Zheng Yan
"But... it's not as good as someone."
She was stunned for a while, then she showed a smug smile. She covered her mouth and laughed for a while, and then she ran after the man who was walking slowly with her hands behind her back, raised her face and grabbed his cuffs and said crisply. .
"Brother Ting, let me tell you, although you are older than me, you don't know much about the girl's mind, and you don't know as much as I do, and you will easily be deceived. My girl, you must remember to tell me first, and I'll take a look at you. Do you think this is good?"
He Shaoting glanced at her with a smile, looked at her watery eyes and looked full of anticipation, and finally nodded as she wished: "That's fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the little liar's eyes immediately lit up, as bright as the stars hanging in the summer night sky, which made the smile on his face deepen unconsciously.
"Brother Ting, don't worry, I will definitely choose the best girl for you in the future." Tang Junyao assured him with frowning eyes.
"Who is the best girl?" He Shaoting asked suddenly.
"Me!" Miss Tang replied without hesitation, she realized what she had just said, and looked at him innocently while covering her mouth.