When Ming Le came out of the palace, Ni Zhan was already waiting in the courtyard.
Jin Fu Jinxi took off Ming Le's cape and shook off the snow on it.
Mingle walked to Ni Zhan and sat down, "Azhan?"
Ni Zhan turned to look at her with a look of tangle and sorrow.
Mingle's long eyelashes moved slightly, "What's wrong?"
"Mingle, the second brother refuses to drink the medicine." Ni Zhan lowered his head and repeatedly forced Mingle to find a job for his family. Now he feels that he has suffered a section in front of Mingle, and his self-esteem makes him unable to Watching Mingle say the next request.
Ming Le didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.
Ni Zhan said: "Second brother heard that you asked for a fourth-rank official for the third brother. He went to the battlefield and got injured and got nothing, and his heart was unbalanced, so he refused to take medicine. The doctor said that if his If the legs are not treated properly, they will really be useless.”
Mingle lowered his head, his heart was deserted, "So, what do you want me to do?"
Hearing Mingle's words, Ni Zhan thought that Mingle had understood him, and said excitedly: "Mingle, as long as you give the third brother a higher official position than the fourth grade, no matter what kind of official position is fine."
Mingle pulled Ni Zhan away and held her hand, "Azhan, you said that father was the last time."
Ni Zhan was extremely helpless, "But Mingle, I'm also a big brother, can I watch the third brother's future ruined?"
Ming Le looked at him seriously, with disappointment deep in his eyes, "But, Ah Zhan, have you ever thought that I am also a sister, can I shamelessly persecute the emperor for myself again and again? It is true that the emperor is now You are the Son of Heaven, the supreme being in the world, but Ah Zhan, being the emperor is very tiring. He has to balance the forces of all parties, he has to protect his people, once he goes wrong, the ministers will scold him, the people will scold him, history books Gongbi will also scold him."
“Mingle…”
"Azhan, you always ask me to understand your helplessness to your family, why have you never understood my sadness and sadness?" Mingle's eyes were red, "Azhan, you are my husband, I can go there for you. I tolerate a lot of things, my mother's deception and torture, my younger siblings' provocation, and my uncle's shamelessness. But I can't hurt other people who love me just because you are my husband."
A terrifying panic suddenly rose in his heart. Ni Zhan looked into Mingle's eyes, his hands began to tremble, and he called out her name, "Mingle?"
"Azhan, let's separate."
"No, Mingle, we won't be separated!" Ni Zhan held her hand tightly, he couldn't bear it, "Mingle, I love you, I really love you, don't leave me!"
Mingle closed his eyes, and a tear fell from the corner of his eyes, "I didn't expect that the saddest thing is that the heartache when I said the words to separate from you was not comparable to the pain my mother gave me when I pretended to be sick."
Ni Zhan's eyes were white, and he heard the sound of something collapsing in a trance.
He asked sadly, "Mingle, do you really want to separate from me?"
"Azhan, I'm sorry."
"Is it because of the mother and the third brother?"
"Azhan, what I love is the hero who rescued me from the palace." Mingle said bitterly: "It took me a long time to realize that what I love is just an illusory shadow, an imaginary hero."
"So, I'm not the hero you thought I was?"
"You are not the one I love."
Hearing this, Ni Zhan stood up from his chair and asked, "So you are determined to separate from me?"
"Ok."
"Did you want to separate from me a long time ago? There has been no excuse, so you have been waiting for me to speak!"
Mingle looked up at him calmly, "Whether you believe it or not, before you speak today, I really want to be with you for the rest of my life."
"Ha!" Ni Zhan sneered, "Okay, the princess wants to separate, and the order will be followed in the end."
After Ni Zhan finished speaking, he fluttered his sleeves and left.
Ming Le fell on the table and cried, but he didn't know whether it was she who was crying, or Ni Zhan, or the past or the past.
This year's marital relationship.
Ming Le was sitting in the carriage, and Jin Fu Jinxi simply packed up some things she couldn't bear and moved to the palace.
Mingle opened the curtain and looked back at the Ni Mansion, which used to be her home, and suddenly felt that maybe life is like this. You thought that your love would come and go as vigorously as Du Liniang, but in fact it ended so peacefully and peacefully. You can't even believe it yourself.
When Mingle returned to the bedroom that Lu Ze arranged for her, Lu Ze was already waiting for her.
Winter in Beijing is extremely cold.
Lu Ze took a warmer and held it for her, "Just came back from the outside world, warm up your hands first, and drink some hot tea to get rid of the cold."
"Brother~" Mingle threw himself into Lu Ze's arms, "I want to reconcile with Ah Zhan."
Lu Ze gently stroked her head, "It's all fate, you have worked hard to maintain this marriage, and you have a clear conscience."
"Brother, but I still feel uncomfortable."
"Then stay in brother's arms for a while."
"Yeah." Mingle said sullenly.
After a while, Mingle was appeased, and Lu Ze asked Sun Tingyun to come into the palace to accompany Mingle, and then summoned the Minister of Rites to be in charge of the princess' reunion, notify the Ni family, and draft a reconciliation letter.
When the Ni family received the notice from the Ministry of Rites, they knew that Mingle was going to reconcile with Ni Zhan, and felt that the sky was falling for a while.
Father Ni and Mother Ni looked for Ni Zhan everywhere but couldn't find him.
Everyone went crazy and went out to look for someone. Naturally, no one informed the second room. Ni Gong was still dying and didn't take medicine.
In the end, Ni's father and Ni's mother found a drunk Ni Zhan not far from the military camp and dragged him home.
Father Ni asked for a basin of cold water to wake up Ni Zhan.
In the winter, Father Ni's forehead was covered in sweat, "Tell me what's going on? Why did the princess want to break up with you all of a sudden? Didn't you have a good two months?"
Ni Zhan was stunned for a while, as if he hadn't recovered yet, he said calmly, "I didn't expect that she would separate when she said separation, and she didn't say anything about her feelings."
Still affectionate
Is it a matter of affection now
It's the golden pimples that have been lost!
Father Ni kicked him, "You wake me up a bit, what's going on?"
Ni Zhan smiled bitterly, "What else is going on? I want an official position for my third brother, my father an official position, and now I want an official position for my second brother, all of you lions shouted and drove people away."
"Just because of this, nothing else?" Mother Ni was obviously unwilling to believe such a reason that seemed absurd to her.
In her heart, Mingle has endured the first two times, and they have been working on her bottom line, and they have not damaged Mingle's bottom line.
Moreover, Ming Le has already married, and is already a member of the Ni family. Isn't it appropriate to contribute to the glory of the Ni family
Mother Ni said dissatisfiedly: "She wants to reconcile just because you helped your second brother get an official position? Why is she so bad at heart? I don't think she wants to reconcile for such a trivial matter, but to inherit the grace and rise If you are arrogant, you can't look down on our Ni family!"
Mother Ni completely spoke out Father Ni's heart, but Father Ni was still reluctant to bear Mingle's golden lump.
He pulled Ni Zhan up from the ground, "As a husband, can't you control your own wife?"
"Dad, she's determined."
"Go and beg her."
Ni Zhan looked at Father Ni in astonishment, "Father, what did you say?"
How can he beg a woman if he is a man
"Our Ni family finally had an opportunity to set foot in the third public, and this opportunity is in Mingle's hands. As the eldest son, you don't want to contribute to the family, but you are obsessed with the private affairs of men and women and don't know how to cheer up. You are worthy of the Ni family. Ancestors?"
Ni Zhan looked at Father Ni in disbelief, "Father! Could it be that the so-called glorious ancestors of the Ni family are just grabbing a woman's skirt and climbing up?"
"It doesn't matter how you succeed, it's the results that matter."
"Father!"
Father Ni turned his back and said, "Go and ask for Mingle now, but if you don't come back, I won't have your son in the future!"
"Father, as your son, is this identity just a tool for you to cling to the powerful?"
Ni Zhan's heart skipped a beat at this moment, as if he suddenly understood Mingle's mood.
He was used by his father as a tool, and then he was used unknowingly to use Mingle as a tool.
Ni Zhan looked at Father Ni, and then at Mother Ni.
He saw that the eyes of the two were equally cold and ruthless.
No one cares about his thoughts, no one cares about his mood, his biological parents are just persecuting him.
"Hahaha… "
Ni Zhan burst out laughing and rushed out the door.
The snow that had stopped for a long time began to fall again, the sky and the earth were white, and the white was so barren.
Inside the palace wall, Mingle and Sun Tingyun embroidered together, and Sun Tingyun gave her another golden hairpin.
The golden hairpin is in the shape of a peony flower and is embellished with several pearls and jade. It is very delicate. Mingle also gave Sun Tingyun a guqin he collected.
The two chatted for a while, and Sun Tingyun saw that it was getting dark before preparing to leave.
Not long after Sun Tingyun walked out of Mingle's bedroom, he was led by the eunuch to Lu Ze.
Sun Tingyun knelt down respectfully, "My daughter, Sun, bows to my emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live."
Lu Ze didn't say that he was flat, and Sun Tingyun could only kneel, not daring to get up.
Lu Ze moved his hands, and Fu Zheng took out a few volumes of documents and walked to Sun Tingyun and slowly unfolded them.
It records everything about their grandson family.
Lu Ze said: "You should know what I'm curious about, and you can leave after making it clear."
Sun Tingyun's long eyelashes drooped down, and the face that was usually full of smiles and vitality suddenly dimmed, "Your Majesty, this is just a family matter for the servant girl, the servant girl just wants to get close to the princess."
"Whether it is a family matter or a national matter, I have the final say."
The Son of Heaven is on top, she has already asked, how dare she deceive
In desperation, Sun Tingyun opened his red lips lightly, and said, "Your Majesty, the servant girl has an older brother who is three years older than the princess. When she was twelve years old, she went to the palace with her father to visit your majesty. During the banquet, I sneaked out and ran into Princess Mingle who stole something, and the elder brother of the court lady took Princess Mingle to steal a lot of food, and agreed to meet next time."
The corner of Sun Tingyun's mouth smiled bitterly, "Later, the elder brother of the minister and daughter kept trying to find ways to enter the palace, but the gate of the palace was very strict, and it was difficult to enter the palace. It was not until the age of fourteen that my elder brother had a second chance to enter the palace. It's for a guard on duty."
It's not that easy to replace the guards.
It took a lot of work compared to.
Lu Ze listened quietly.
"Later, after my elder brother came back, the emperor decided to attack Rouran. My elder brother went on an expedition with the army and did not return. The ministers and daughters just heard elder brother mention the princess, so they wanted to get close to the princess. It's just that the princess seldom went out after marrying into the Ni family. Two months ago, Only the ministers have the opportunity to approach the princess."
Sun Tingyun looked at Lu Ze earnestly, "Your Majesty, the servant girl has no ill will towards the princess, she just wants to protect the person he likes for the elder brother. As for the gifts that the servant girl gave to the princess... My elder brother once said that he would do it this time. I have made meritorious deeds on the battlefield and asked the emperor for a princess. At that time, I will have an extra sister-in-law. Those gifts were originally prepared by my brother for the princess.
Sun Tingyun kowtowed again and knelt down again, his head on the ground for a long time and did not get up.
Lu Ze's low voice came from above her head, "Your brother died in the battle of Rouran."
"Back to the emperor, the battle of Tugu on the tenth day of September in the sixth year of Heisei."
"Get up."
"The minister and daughter thank the Lord Longen."
Lu Ze looked at her with deep eyes, "If you re-enter the palace tomorrow, maybe there are some things that I and Mingle are going to miss."
"emperor?"
"Go back."
"Yes."
Ni Zhan was wandering all the way outside. The winter night in the capital was particularly cold, and people who were cold were trembling. There was no one on the street for a long time.
Even the pub was closed.
Ni Zhan recalled the past with Mingle over and over again in his mind.
He tried hard to reminisce a little more. They were happy and happy, but they always saw Ni mother, Ni father, Ni Gong, Ni Shun, the second daughter-in-law, the third daughter-in-law in their memories.
He and Mingle have so little time alone.
Ni Zhan rested outside for a night before returning to Ni Mansion in the early morning.
When he returned to the mansion, he was greeted by Mother Ni's worried inquiry and the urgency to let him go back to Mingle.
The moment he received the imperial edict, Ni Zhan felt that he was crazy, since he felt a sense of relief that he had finally escaped from this house.
In the uterine cavity, Ni Zhan saw Mingle again before meeting Lu Ze.
Mingle held a bow and arrow, pointed it forward, and shot an arrow straight to the bullseye.
Jin Fu Jinxi applauded.
She smiled sweetly, like opening a lily for the first time.
Has Mingle, who used to be by his side, ever laugh like this
It turns out that Mingle also likes archery
Ni Zhan remembered the past and thought, "Mingle."
Hearing the familiar voice, Ming Le turned back in surprise, the two were not far from each other, and there was only silence.
"Mingle." After all, it was Ni Zhan who broke the solemnity. He walked up to Mingle and said, "It turns out that you like archery, why don't you tell me, and I can teach you too."
"You're too busy." Mingle smiled lightly, "Also, I didn't know I would like archery before, but I didn't like it until the elder sister mentioned it and she taught me."
Ni Zhan was deeply saddened.
Mingle's words seemed to say in his ears, I didn't know I didn't like you before, but now I know.
"No, Mingle, you love me, and we can start over." Ni Zhan wanted to hold Mingle's hand, but Jin Fu and Jinxi stood in the middle of them, "Ni Gongzi, please respect yourself."
Their address to him changed from Concubine to Master Ni.
"Mingle, give me another chance."
Ni Zhan still wanted to save everything, and the eunuch father-in-law reminded: "Master Ni, the emperor is still waiting."
In the imperial study, Ni Zhan knelt on the ground, and Lu Ze sat high above.
Lu Ze went straight in, "Ni Zhan, do you know the guilt?"
Ni Zhan's heart trembled, "Your Majesty, this minister knows that he did not take good care of Princess Mingle, and is willing to accept the crime, but please give the minister another chance, and the minister swears that the minister will spend the rest of his life being good to Mingle."
"You won't." Lu Ze vetoed Ni Zhan's determination without hesitation, "I have given you countless opportunities, and Mingle has given them too. If you could change, you would have changed it long ago. People, you will never change. will be wrong."
"emperor?"
"Okay!" Lu Ze raised his hand to interrupt Ni Zhan, "I am the emperor of the world, I am not here to talk to you about the long-term relationship."
Ni Zhan was puzzled. Apart from Mingle, what else did he do wrong and the emperor should personally ask him the guilt.
Lu Ze nodded at Fu Zheng, who brought Sun Tingyun in.
Sun Tingyun knelt on the ground and looked at Ni Zhan, "Master Ni still remembers my brother, Sun Tingyu."
Sun Tingyu, what an ancient name, so long that Ni Zhan has almost forgotten it.
It was a battle against Rouran, a bloody battle. They encircled and suppressed General Rouran in the canyon. General Rouran fought bloody and escaped.
Along the way, they were surrounded by the remnants gathered by Rouran, and the team suffered numerous casualties.
The general was also killed in the battle.
Sun Tingyu and he were the only two who survived.
"Who killed General Rouran!" Sun Tingyun's mournful questioning voice sounded in Ni Zhan's ear.
General Rouran's head seemed to fall from his eyes again.
Along with him was Sun Tingyu.
Sun Tingyu's chest was pierced by a sword from General Rouran before he died.
Blood stained the sand.
Before dying, he grabbed his hand and asked him to take the head back, and used General Rouran's head to exchange Ming Le from the palace.
"Who killed General Rouran!"
"Who killed it!"
Sun Tingyun's voice became more and more harsh and shrill.
Ni Zhan blurted out, "Sun Tingyu."
After getting the answer, Sun Tingyun was stunned.
She was just following the emperor's plan.
Yes, when my brother died in the battlefield, she was very sad and cried for a long time with her parents, but they never thought that my brother's military exploits would be falsely claimed.
"Then why are you!" Sun Tingyun grabbed Ni Zhan's neck like crazy, "Why do you pretend to take my brother's military exploits! That belongs to my brother!"
"I didn't." The victim's questioning made Ni Zhan panic, "I didn't."
He repeatedly emphasized that he didn't, and retorted: "It was your brother who asked me to rescue Mingle from the palace with military exploits, and it was your brother who begged me before he died."
"My brother, please?" Sun Tingyun roared hysterically, "My brother asked you to use military skills to rescue Ming Le from the palace, did he tell you to impersonate you? Did he tell you to marry Sister Ming Le? You are a liar! fraud!"
"No! I'm not!" Ni Zhan pushed Sun Tingyun away. "In that environment, if I didn't say marry Mingle, how would I use military skills to get her out? And I really love her."
"Really love? Are you qualified?" Sun Tingyun clenched his fists and roared angrily: "My brother is reluctant to be a little wronged, because you were abused by your parents, knelt in the rain for a day, and was framed and taken in. Banned book, Ni Zhan, what right do you have to say that you love her! Are you worthy of my brother?"
"No, it's not..."
Suddenly, the door of the imperial study opened.
Mingle was standing at the door, "You say it again, who was the military meritorious person who changed me out of the palace."
Mingle!
Ni Zhan and Sun Tingyun were stunned.
Mingle looked at Ni Zhan stubbornly, "Say it again, who is the military meritorious person who changed me out of the palace back then."
She raised the volume so that the subtle tremors in her voice could be heard.
"Mingle, listen to my explanation."
Snapped!
A slap in the face made Ni Zhan stop.
"How could you be so rude?" Mingle asked with tears streaming down his face
"I didn't, I just wanted to save you out of the palace, Mingle, I love you, I really love you!"
"You are not qualified to say this word." Mingle said painfully: "Your so-called love is based on deceit and plunder, you are not worthy of this word!"
The words "You are not worthy" became the last straw that broke Ni Zhan.
He slumped to his knees on the ground, tears falling like rain.
Ni Zhan soon left the palace, and the imperial edict of inquiring followed him to Ni's house.
Ni Zhan was assigned to the frontier because of his false leadership.
Ni's father and Ni's mother passed out on the spot.
Ni Shun and the third wife grabbed Ni Zhan and asked desperately, "Brother, what the imperial edict said is not true, is it? Is it Princess Mingle's revenge against us?"
Ni Zhan was silent, silent, he still did not have the courage to confess his guilt.
Ni Shun and the third wife's daughter-in-law looked at Ni Zhan in silence, shivering. Ni Zhan took the lead in leading the army to ask for guilt, so what about their Ni family
No! Impossible, they refuse to believe the truth.
It must be Mingle's revenge, it must be her!
The person who should be punished must be punished, and the honor that should be restored must be restored.
Mingle and Sun Tingyun brought Fuzheng back to Sun's house.
Sun's father's hand continued to tremble following the imperial decree, and grandmother and Sun Tingyun hugged and cried together.
Sun Tingyun brought Mingle to Sun Tingyu's room, which remained the same as before.
It's just that she took out all the things in the cabinet and gave them to Mingle.
Sun Tingyun smiled and said with tears in his eyes: "Sister, do you remember that there was a banquet when someone went to the imperial kitchen with you to steal something? You couldn't see it, thinking that my brother was as hungry as you, and gave him the biggest drumstick. , Brother said it was the best chicken drumstick he had ever eaten."
Mingle nodded, she remembered.
It's just that she never knew that the person who stole things on an empty stomach like her and who had only met once would take her who no one cared at that time to heart for so many years.
Mingle stroked the white jade on his neck.
Sun Tingyun said: "Sister, the white jade whistle you are wearing is made by brother. Brother said you can't see it. When he returns from the battlefield, he thinks that the emperor wants you, and you will wear this whistle in the future, and he will take you out. Play, if you accidentally get separated, or you encounter any danger, he can find you only by blowing this whistle."
"Sister, that dagger was also made by my brother. He said that you look weak, but you are actually very courageous and yearn for a bigger world, so he wants to go to the four seas with you to see, so I will be with you. You talk so much about the outside world."
"Sister, in fact, there should be no regrets for my brother's departure, because he knows that you will come out of the cage in the palace. Sister, don't worry about your brother's departure, and don't feel that you owe him. I know my brother, he paid Just because he wants to give. Sister, brother wants to see you happy, sister, this is what I want to see the most."