The rain stopped outside, but the sky was still calm.
In the Fulan Hall, the princess was lying in Su Huaian's arms, pulling his arms to be thinner and shorter than their length.
Her long hair was swept over him, making it ticklish. He sighed silently, stood up and said, "Ayu, it's time for me to be worth it."
Xiao Lianyu blinked, "So early?"
Su Huaian looked at her with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "Do you want the officials living on Yunli Long Street to see me coming out of the princess' mansion early in the morning?"
Hearing this, Xiao Lianyu quickly let go of his arm, looked up at him obediently and said, "Then I'll change your clothes for you."
But how could the princess serve others? As soon as she gave her hand, Su Huaian pressed him back to the couch, "You can rest."
Xiao Lianyu opened his fan and put it on the tip of his nose, leaving only a pair of eyes to watch him change.
Dressed neatly, he once again became the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple with the beautiful scenery. Not at all like yesterday.
She smiled and said, "I like Master Su's fan."
He replied, "Then leave it for you."
Before leaving, Xiao Lianyu put her face close on tiptoe, Su Huai'an leaned over to kiss her cheek, and said in her ear, "In the future, you must not touch those medicines again."
The princess nodded politely.
She didn't touch it again, even if she was given money, she didn't touch it again.
Su Huaian said again, "What else?"
Xiao Lianyu said with her mouth shape: Please enter the palace and ask for an decree.
Su Huai'an left the small door of the princess' mansion. As soon as the door was closed, he couldn't help raising his hand and pinching the bridge of his nose.
After all, he was also the prince of the Duke of Zhen, a fourth-rank official of the imperial court, and he actually fell into this category.
Xiao Lianyu went back to the dormitory to make up her sleep. After waking up, she sat in the yard drinking tea, while shaking his fan, she was thinking about how to mention her marriage to the imperial brother and the queen mother.
The princess was in a hurry to get married and couldn't sleep. The next day, she went to the palace to see what the emperor said.
Xiao Yu promised her that he would issue this imperial decree when the teacher of the Duke of Zhenguo returned to the court.
Of course, before the battle report of the great victory came, the battle report of the Governor of Langzhou arrived first.
"On Saturday, 10,000 soldiers were trapped in the Mihe River, and no one survived."
"Su Jingbei, the Duke of Zhenguo, turned against him."
These two words spread all over the capital in an instant.
At first, the attitudes inside and outside the palace were almost the same, and no one believed that General Zhen Guo would rebel.
The Ministry of Punishment and Jin Yiwei were investigating the case day and night, and everyone was waiting to return the Su family's innocence. No one expected that human and physical evidence would be made public one after another.
Xiao Lianyu squeezed the letter in her hand and stood up abruptly, "This is impossible, I'm going to find the emperor."
Qingyu stopped her and said: "His Royal Highness! The concubine asked someone to hand over the message. The six important officials are all in the Hall of Mental Cultivation at the moment, you can't enter the palace!"
Xiao Lianyu said, "But..."
"Bang-"
There was a sudden sound of a heavy object falling to the ground outside, interrupting her words, and vaguely, she could hear the sound of indignant scolding.
Xiao Lianyu called someone in and frowned, "What's going on outside!"
The guards of the Princess Chang's mansion walked in and said, "Your Highness, this is the sound from the Duke's Mansion."
Hearing this, Xiao Lianyu put on her skirt and hurried out.
She stood on Yunli Chang Street and looked from afar—it was the Ministry of Punishment and Jinyiwei who led officers and soldiers into the Duke of Zhenguo’s mansion. The thick plaque was lying on the ground, and the people scolded: "National traitor!"
People admired it, and in a blink of an eye it became contempt and scolding.
Xiao Lianyu took a step backwards.
She knew very well in her heart that once the evidence was conclusive, confiscating homes and winning titles would only be the beginning.
Cooperating with the enemy and betraying the country cost 60,000 lives.
The blue sky of the capital is like washing, suddenly the wind is surging, the leaves are rustling, and the cool wind is mixed with the smell of soil.
The sky was so gloomy that it didn't look like summer at all.
Xiao Lianyu panicked, she returned to the house and paced back and forth, took out a stack of silver notes from the box, "Qingyu, immediately prepare a carriage out of the city."
Qingyu couldn't believe it: "Princess is this what you want to do!"
Xiao Lianyu faintly collapsed and said: "Qingyu, he can't be a rebel, he will never..."
Qingyu said solemnly: "Whether Master Su is or not, the evidence is already there. Your Highness, if the prince wants to live, he won't wait until today."
Why doesn't she understand this
Xiao Lianyu said in a muffled voice, "Qingyu, please do as I say first."
After all, she left the house without looking back.
It only took a moment for Xiao Lianyu to dismount from the horse, break into the room, grab Su Huaian's sleeve, and say with a trembling voice, "Come with me."
Su Huaian withdrew his hand.
"I'll let you go with me!"
Su Huai'an looked into her eyes, her Adam's apple slid up and down, and a thousand words were condensed into one sentence, "Promise me, in the future, don't do stupid things again."
The princess's eyes were red, and she gritted her teeth silently.
Su Huaian walked to the table in the room, took off the black gauze on his head, took off his official uniform, and folded the glory and pride of the Su family's son one by one.
Xiao Lianyu watched his slow but neat movements, and tears rolled down the corners of her eyes.
Su Huaian put on plain clothes, turned around, and knelt down at Zheng Baidao, the official of the Dali Temple, "Students are destined to be ashamed of their teachers' kindness and humiliated by the lintel. After this day, there will be no more Jingming students from the Zheng family."
Su Huaian tapped the ground with his forehead three times, and thanked the teacher.
When he got up again, he handed over his hand and wrote: "May your body be healthy, and the world will be filled with peaches and plums."
Zheng Baiyi looked at him with a heartbroken expression, choked and shook his head.
This is his most proud student. He was named on the 18th Golden List, entered the Ming Hall on the 19th, and was ranked in the fourth rank by the 20th official. His life should not be like this.
The sound of footsteps came, and dozens of officers and soldiers broke into the Dali Temple.
Su Huai'an turned to look at the princess and whispered, "Your Highness will close your eyes later and don't look at it."
Holding the imperial decree, Xue Xiangyang broke into the Dali Temple's room and walked to Su Huaian, "The sinner Su Huaian accepted the decree."
Su Huaian knelt down again, and Xiao Lianyu closed her eyes instantly.
The surroundings were silent and pitch black.
Xue Xiangyang personally read out the imperial decree and said word by word: "The evidence of the Su family collaborating with the enemy and treason is conclusive, above, can you plead guilty?"
Su Huai'an pondered for a while, and then said: "The above, the guilty minister is irrefutable, but the current queen has no knowledge of it."
Xue Xiangyang knew that he would say this, raised his hand, and said sternly: "Put the shackles, torture them, and take them away."
Zheng Baiyao took a step forward, took a deep breath and said, "Master Xue."
Xue Xiangyang looked back and said coldly: "I have enough time for Master Zheng, don't embarrass me, just stay."
The chain shook, the sound was deafening, and the little princess was shaking all over, as if the cold pig iron was pressing on her body.
She refrained from opening her eyes.
If he doesn't allow it, she listens to him.
In the midsummer of the first year of Yanxi's reign, the capital was in chaos. Even though Su's elder son was imprisoned, the public anger was still unquenchable.
In the meantime, Xiao Lianyu has passed through the penal department countless times, and she just stubbornly wants to know if he is still alive every day she is alive.
Xue Xiangyang persuaded her at first that the princess of the Tian family should not have anything to do with such criminal ministers. Later, when she saw that she did not listen to the persuasion, she sent someone to watch at the door. When she saw the carriage of the eldest princess, she stopped outside. .
Day by day, in a daze, I don't know the year.
One morning, Xiao Lianyu opened her eyes and suddenly felt nauseated. Intuitively, she glanced at the date, July 19.
Instead of calling an imperial doctor, she secretly called a private doctor.
The doctor said with a smile, congratulations to Madam, although Madam's month is still shallow, she is indeed a slippery pulse.
Qingyu was frightened, knelt down in Fulan Hall, and kept saying, "Failed to persuade His Highness, the slave is guilty."
Xiao Lianyu was just in a trance.
Qingyu saw the reluctance in her eyes, and an uneasy thought flashed through her heart. She whispered: "Slave... it's okay for me to boil the medicine?"
Xiao Lianyu said indifferently: "Qingyu, just wait..."
The moon fell on the window, and the sycamore trees rustled. Xiao Lianyu sat in the Fulan Hall all night. She looked at the sign in her hand, "Beautiful flowers, full moon, longevity." She gently raised the corner of her lips.
Flowers are full of moon, and from the beginning, she forced it.
She touched her lower abdomen and muttered to herself: Su Jingming, A Yu will be willful one last time.
The next morning, she entered the palace.
The affair between her and Su Huaian was well known to everyone in the capital. Seeing her haggard face, Tai Concubine Sun couldn't help sighing and said, "You haven't slept for a few days?"
Xiao Lianyu looked at the lines in the corner of the concubine's eyes and whispered, "It's the daughter's unfilial piety, which makes my mother worried."
Tai Concubine Sun held her in her arms, patted her back gently and said, "Tell me."
Xiao Lianyu's eyes were red, and although she didn't cry, her voice kept trembling, "He's about to be executed, I can't stand it anymore, Mother, can I go to Lishan to live for a while?"
Concubine Sun looked down at her, frowned and said, "Lishan? How long are you going to be there?"
Xiao Lianyu coughed a few times and said, "I'll come back after the new year."
As we all know, Su Huaian is about to be sentenced to a lingering punishment soon, and it is reasonable that she does not want to stay in Beijing.
Concubine Sun sighed and asked again, "Will you come back after this year?"
Xiao Lianyu nodded and said again, "Auntie... The imperial brother is not in the palace right now, can the queen mother agree?"
"Mother and concubine will speak for you." Sun Taifei looked at her eyes and said, "Ayu, do you have anything else to hide from me?"
Xiao Lianyu shook her head and said no.
After coming out of Shou'an Palace, Xiao Lianyu paused in her footsteps, thinking about the Queen's Wife in her heart, she turned around and went to Kunning Palace.
Kunning Palace was no longer as lively as it used to be. She walked to the door and let the little eunuch pass the message.
After a long while, Su Ling came to the gate of Kunning Palace, still with a small smile on her face, "Changning, why did you come here?"
Everyone knows that today's Kunning Palace, although not a cold palace, is no different from a cold palace.
Xiao Lianyu looked at the thin queen, she clenched her fists, and her emotions suddenly collapsed. My sister-in-law is already pregnant, so she can't even support a plain clothes
"Sister-in-law, why are you so thin?" Xiao Lianyu covered her mouth with her hand and let the tears fall to the ground, "Why is the emperor so cruel... Sister-in-law still has a child in her belly..."
Across the threshold, Su Ling raised her hand to wipe her tears, "Everything is fine in Kunning Palace, it's none of your royal brother's business."
Xiao Lianyu felt the coldness of her fingertips, stepped directly into Kunning Palace and hugged Su Ling.
"Sister-in-law."
Su Ling patted her back, "Changning... don't cry anymore, don't go to the punishment department to make trouble, eh?"
Xiao Lianyu nodded on her shoulder.
Su Ling said in her ear: "Let's go, there are many people in the palace, don't let people see."
Xiao Lianyu glanced at her belly and sobbed: "That sister-in-law, please take care..."
Su Ling nodded with a smile, and Xu Shangyi came over to support her and said, "Niangniang, it's time to eat."
Su Ling made a "hmm" sound.
Su Ling took a few steps, paused, and suddenly turned around and smiled and said, "Changning, remember to go to the palace more in the future and talk to your imperial brother."
Her smile was the same as before, gentle and firm enough to hide all the unknown pain.
At this time, the princess never imagined that this would be the last time she and Su Ling would see each other.