As soon as Li Rong left the palace, Concubine Rou hurriedly knelt down and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty forgives my sins, I really don't know that Hongde..."
"Forget it," Li Ming was a little tired. "You deserve to be punished. Go back and take a good rest. Don't worry too much."
"Your Majesty..." Concubine Rou's voice was disturbed, as if hesitating whether to speak, Li Ming looked up at her and said indifferently, "What else?"
"Your Majesty, my concubine knows that I shouldn't say more at this time, but I am worried about Your Majesty, so I can't help but want to say a few more words."
Concubine Rou raised her eyes, looked at Li Ming, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, do you know that the talisman that Master Hongde took out today, what is it?"
"This is a marriage talisman for three lifetimes." Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong were sitting in the carriage. The palace gate was not the place to talk, so Pei Wenxuan quickly took Li Rong and got on the carriage.
When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's words, her heart sank. She could only confirm once again, "Didn't you write it?"
"No." Pei Wenxuan touched the handwriting on the paper and said slowly, "These words look like me, but they are not written by me. The other party just found someone to copy my handwriting, and then put His Highness in a scene. Negotiations, let His Highness focus on the matter of Master Hongde, and lose his judgment on other things."
"So tonight, they have already abandoned Master Hongde. In fact, Concubine Rou made a plan to be suppressed by me. The purpose is to make me admit that this talisman is indeed ours."
Li Rong understood immediately, and she took a deep breath: "What exactly does this talisman do?"
"A special talisman paper made by the eminent monks of the Yuelao Temple in the east of the city. Please take this talisman. You must fast and fast for 49 days before you can make a wish. The meaning of this talisman is the two people on the talisman." Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes and looked at Li Rong, "Marriage for three lifetimes, life and death."
"Marriage for three lives, life and death."
Concubine Rou knelt on the ground and explained the meaning of this talisman to Li Ming: "This talisman is handwritten by the concubine, that is, the talisman that the concubine went to ask for. There are several men in this world who can treat their wives like this. Feelings? One life is not enough, life and death are not lost, and three generations of marriages are required to meet each other for life. The concubine remembers that His Majesty once said that Pei Wenxuan was born in the Han family and was a knife used by His Majesty to balance the family. The love is very, in fact, it is just a means for him to control His Highness Pingle."
"But Your Majesty," Concubine Rou raised her eyes and looked at Li Ming, "Now you say, is Pingle manipulating Pei Wenxuan or Pei Wenxuan is manipulating Pingle?"
"What if Pei Wenxuan's heart is happy?" Li Ming asked very lightly, but Concubine Rou knew that Li Ming actually already had the answer in her heart, but she just wanted her to say it. She smiled and said gently: "Then, the two princesses are husband and wife, and in the future, the consort will be promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the princess will be the chief inspector, one in charge of arresting people, and the other in charge of promotion. , but they have the final say."
"If such a big right is used by your majesty, it will be fine. What if the princess' heart is for the prince?"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Your Majesty," Concubine Rou leaned over and kowtowed, "Raising tigers is a danger. Since the concubine already belongs to His Royal Highness Pingle, then he should be a concubine. In the future, His Royal Highness Pingle will really be a tiger," Concubine Rou raised her eyes and calmly said "Your Majesty is also capable of beheading."
Concubine Rou's voice was very cold, her usual soft voice line, with some rare sonorousness. Like the night wind in early spring, it blows cold on one's back.
Listening to Pei Wenxuan's explanation, Li Rong felt the night wind blowing from the window. They looked at each other quietly, and she instantly understood the intentions of Concubine Rou, and even the intentions of those behind Concubine Rou.
She squeezed her fist involuntarily, restrained all her thoughts, and tried to calm herself down as much as possible: "I was careless."
Pei Wenxuan did not speak, he rubbed the handwriting on the talisman paper.
He was not surprised that Li Rong would miss, after all, no one could guard against the deliberate calculations in the dark by the people who were closest to him.
He had an indescribable anger surging, and in all the calculations he had encountered, there had never been one that made him feel so disgusting, so vicious, so angry.
But the more this is the case, the more he doesn't show anything on his face, and he even hopes that Li Rong won't be too smart, she can blame everything on Concubine Rou, and she has never discovered anything.
In this way, Li Rong will not be sad at least.
Pei Wenxuan pondered the ins and outs of the whole thing. Li Rong waited beside him for a while. Seeing that he didn't speak, she said slowly, "You... don't be angry, I'll be more careful in the future."
"Huh?" Pei Wenxuan laughed. He raised his head and said gently, "Your Highness is joking, why am I angry?"
Pei Wenxuan said, looking at Li Rong's full of suspicion, he hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and took Li Rong into his arms.
The moment Li Rong's temperature was on him, Pei Wenxuan felt that the manic depression in his heart was slowly poured over by a clear spring. He hugged this person and said nothing. Li Rong felt his emotions, and she also felt it for a while. She didn't know what to say, but after waiting for a while, she said, "Now that we have come to this point, when the royal father sees this talisman paper you asked for, I am afraid that he will no longer believe what you said before, if you don't do something , before Chuan'er ascended the throne, it was over."
Li Rong closed her eyes and leaned against Pei Wenxuan: "Are you ready?"
Pei Wenxuan didn't reply.
Su Rongqing's step was too ruthless, and the bottom line was drawn from the bottom of the pot, which completely touched his foundation.
This step is simple to solve.
After all, there are not many people available to Li Ming these days. It is a pity that he has walked this move for so long, and it is a pity to abandon it directly. As long as he is loyal to Li Ming enough, it will be fine.
If Su Rongqing had taken this step earlier, he would have been unscrupulous.
Li Ming was afraid that he would be controlled by Li Rong, so he would leave directly and express his determination to Li Ming.
He and Li Rong were just allies, and it didn't matter in what form.
But now it's different.
He couldn't use his emotions to pave the way for his official career.
His wife, his love, and his Li Rong were all things in his heart that should not be stained with dust.
He lowered his head, speechless.
Li Rong waited quietly for a long time, and finally said: "You are the most useful knife to the father. All the evidence now can only make the father suspicious. With his temperament, he will probably try you again."
Li Rong lowered her head, touched his forehead with her forehead, and said as if to lie: "When the time comes, you can follow his wishes and show your loyalty as you please, eh?"
Li Rong didn't say those two words directly, but Pei Wenxuan understood it completely.
He lowered his head, and an indescribable sense of powerlessness rose.
"His Royal Highness," Pei Wenxuan said in a hoarse voice, "don't hold me and say such things to me."
Li Rong paused for a moment, then she stood up straight.
There was a distance between them. Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes to look at her. He seemed to be trying his best to restrain his emotions and calmly said: "Your Highness means that if it is a last resort, I can make peace with His Highness, right?"
"Yes." Li Rong said decisively, "But this relationship is fake. We will marry again when things are done in the future."
"His Royal Highness didn't think about it," Pei Wenxuan said calmly, "After you and I left, if I have someone else in my heart, what about Your Highness?"
Li Rong was stunned for a while, and after a while, she forced a smile: "If... If you have someone else in your heart, just tell me."
Li Rong pinched her fan and restrained her emotions: "I'm not an unreasonable person. No one should be tied to anyone for a lifetime. If you have someone else in your heart...then...then just don't come back."
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, he looked at Li Rong quietly, Li Rong thought about it, and said slowly: "I know it may be difficult for you to accept this, but this is the easiest way. If you have anything to say Let's talk about it, let's talk about it."
"Nothing to discuss."
Pei Wenxuan spoke decisively. He stared at Li Rong and said decisively, "Your Highness, I will not divorce."
"Then what do you say?"
Li Rong looked at Pei Wenxuan: "Do you have any other way? You don't want the position of the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, do you?"
"Yes!"
Pei Wenxuan was enraged by Li Rong, and he snorted coldly, "I don't want it."
"It's not just the Minister of Officials," Li Rong said in a cold voice, "You may no longer be able to sit in the position of real power, and even this inspector of the imperial censor, you will not be able to sit."
"So what?" Pei Wenxuan clenched his fists, "Can't I stop being an official?!"
"And then?" Li Rong raised her eyes and looked at him coldly, "You are not an official, you have no real power, and you want me to support you?"
"You've been so useless all your life, going back to your Luzhou to row a boat to pick lotus seeds? Pei Wenxuan, you have to figure it out," Li Rong controlled her tone, but still couldn't help slapping her fan on the table. If you want to talk about qualifications, what are you now? Do you still have a choice for an eighth-rank supervisory censor?!”
"You came from a poor family, and you entered the court so late. If you had Su Rongqing's background, you would be presumptuous today, but are you? Why do you tell me that you are not at peace?"
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, he felt that Li Rong's words slashed through his heart like a blade.
What she said was the truth, and every sentence was accusing him of his incompetence, his humbleness, and his unbearableness.
"You and Chuan'er's biggest problem," Li Rong looked at his expression, couldn't bear it in her heart, but she still wanted to speak, "I always want things that I shouldn't want when I don't have the ability."
"So," Pei Wenxuan laughed, "I hope you and my feelings can stay away from this court, I hope not to let my feelings give way to power, I hope my wife is like me, not to go so easily Giving up our marriage is something we shouldn't aspire to, right?"
Li Rong's movements froze for a while, and Pei Wenxuan seemed to think it was absurd. He turned his head and looked a little embarrassed at the bluestone street outside the carriage: "Li Rong, if you hesitate for a moment today, I will feel that you have me in your heart."
Li Rong's eyelashes trembled slightly, but Pei Wenxuan didn't look at her, he lowered his eyes: "But at the moment I only have one thing on my mind."
"If you want to reconcile," Pei Wenxuan's voice trembled, but he still gritted his teeth, "I don't care."
"I don't want a wife who can use feelings as a weapon at any time."
Pei Wenxuan's eyes turned red. He didn't look at Li Rong, his teeth collided lightly, and he clenched his fists: "You can laugh at me for being naive, laugh at me for being naive, laugh at me for being incompetent."
"But you shouldn't laugh at my sincerity."
"I don't want to divorce, because I care about this relationship. Even if I make a little concession to the power, I'm not willing. But you didn't hesitate, or even thought of other ways. You told me before that if you are sincere, It should be respected. But when it comes to making such a choice, Li Rong, you never hesitate to choose power."
When Li Rong heard such words, she felt as if she was being pushed into the water by Pei Wenxuan.
The surroundings slowly quieted down, her whole body was soaked in water, struggling and unable to breathe.
She listened to Pei Wenxuan's words, like in the last ten years of her last life, he scolded her again and again: "Li Rong, you are just a black-hearted, vicious-hearted person."
And Li Chuan would also occasionally ask her with a glass of wine, if you seem to ask her, "Princess, if I'm not Your Majesty, am I still your brother?"
She didn't care before, she could scold him wantonly, and even tell him directly and generously, yes, I'm such a poisonous woman with a black heart and a wicked heart, what's wrong
She could smile at Li Chuan, but changed the subject as if she didn't understand, and said, "Your Highness is joking."
She thought she was used to it.
But after this life comes back, when she gets along with Pei Wenxuan as a brand new Li Rong, when she gets a sincere "Sister" from Li Chuan, and when she gets Pei Wenxuan's solemn "I'm waiting for you", She felt that she finally had light in her life, the light washed away her muddy body, made her look up, and began to yearn for those thoughts that had long been drowned in this palace and should not have.
Because she looked up and saw the sun, when someone pressed her into the water again, she felt a pain that she had never felt before.
She quietly listened to Pei Wenxuan's words.
He said, "The Li Rong I want, the Li Rong who deserves my waiting, shouldn't be like this."
Li Rong laughed when she heard it, but she didn't reply, she didn't answer.
She picked up a chess piece, as if nothing had happened, and said, "I'm just making a suggestion, accept it if you want to, if you don't want to be an official, you want to die, but when Su Rongqing is pressed on the ground and stepped on, I It doesn't matter."
"Do you think I care about you too much?" Li Rong put the pieces on the chessboard and said in a low voice, "If you are useless, it doesn't matter if you kill me."
When Pei Wenxuan heard these words, he knew that it was Li Rong's angry words.
If Li Rong gets angry, she can say how ruthless it is. He knew it, but he still felt pain.
It was probably because he had been with Li Rong for so long that he had forgotten how painful it would be to dig up people's hearts.
Fortunately, when the carriage arrived at the Princess Mansion, Pei Wenxuan couldn't bear it for a moment when the carriage stopped. He jumped off the carriage and went directly into the Princess Mansion.
"I'm not going back tonight." Li Rong played chess and said calmly, "Think about it, Master Pei, I advise you—"
"Love is useless, and the future matters. I don't care anyway," Li Rong said calmly, "You can weigh it for yourself."
After speaking, Li Rong directly instructed the driver: "Let's go."
Hearing Li Rong's sarcasm, Pei Wenxuan turned his back to Li Rong and closed his eyes.
He told himself not to bother with Li Rong, but every word of Li Rong was scratching back and forth in his heart, and when he heard Li Rong's carriage leaving, Pei Wenxuan couldn't help it.
He thought he was driven mad by her, he turned his head and shouted in the direction of the carriage, "Li Rong, don't come back if you have the ability! If you don't come back today, I will write a divorce letter immediately."
"Write!" Li Rong trembled with anger when she heard the word "break book". She rolled up the curtains of the car, and regardless of the driver's dissuasion, she stuck her head out and looked at Pei Wenxuan who was standing at the door of the princess' mansion. , sneered and raised his voice, "I'm going to drink on the flower boat and find ten or eight beautiful men. If you don't marry me tomorrow, you are a coward!"
After Li Rong finished speaking, she lowered the curtain with a swoosh, and then she raised her hand, covered her forehead, and leaned against the table.
"Your Highness," the driver asked nervously, "Where are you going?"
Li Rong paused for a moment, then said in a low voice, "Go to the lake, find a boat, and go to the Nanfeng Pavilion to find some good boys. Those who can play and sing are the best."
Li Rong sniffed and raised her head: "I don't believe it, there is no one else who can't be without."
After listening to Li Rong's words, the driver did not dare to say more, so he could only proceed according to Li Rong's instructions.
Li Rong closed her eyes and rushed all the way to the lake.
Pei Wenxuan returned to the princess' mansion by himself. He first took the book and lowered his head to calm down.
He couldn't argue with Li Rong.
There is a way, there is always a way.
His mind was in a mess, and after a while, Tong Ye rushed in and said anxiously: "Young master, it's not good, your highness went down to the lake, rented a flower boat, and called many sons from Nanfeng Pavilion to go there. "
"It's okay." Pei Wenxuan clenched the brush tightly, pretending to be calm, "Nothing can happen if there are too many people."
"No," Tong Ye knelt down and said in shock, "Young Master, what's wrong with you? Even if nothing happens, you can't watch the princess mess around like that? One has two, there are more people today and fewer people tomorrow. ?"
"go out."
Pei Wenxuan spoke coldly, and Tong Ye said anxiously, "Young Master!"
"Go out!" Pei Wenxuan shouted, Tong Ye looked at Pei Wenxuan in shock, and after a long time, he finally saluted and backed away.
When no one else was in the room, Pei Wenxuan squeezed the pen tightly, and after a long time, he couldn't help overturning the table.
He couldn't hold back his emotions any longer, he turned back and drew the sword hanging on the pillar next to him, and slashed it at random in the room.
Every word of Li Rong was in his heart.
Why is he
He is humble, he is useless, he is incompetent, why does he want a relationship
She doesn't care about him, if it wasn't for his talent, Pei Wenxuan, would she still marry him
Why should he be stuck here, why should he guard someone who repeatedly hurts him
Why didn't you resign and go back to Luzhou, why did you still struggle with her in the mud in Huajing
She was only certain that he would not want her, why should she let him want to bear her? !
The sword slashed through the bookshelf, the box on the bookshelf was cut in half, and a pile of paper pages scattered from the locked box and slowly fell to the ground.
The writing on the page fell into Pei Wenxuan's eyes.
"Pei Wenxuan, are you okay? I'm waiting for you to come back in the palace. If you don't come back, I don't mind, but I'm still scared. Forget it, I can't actually send this letter. I'll be honest with you. If you don't come back, how can I be indifferent."
"Pei Wenxuan, I actually regret letting you go out to Huajing. It's fine if the Superintendent doesn't want to. If you don't come back, where will I find you."
"Pei Wenxuan, they all say you are dead, I don't believe it. They don't know how powerful and smart you are. How can those who were born in the clouds know how amazing the vitality of the grass that breaks through the stones is? Besides, I'm still in Huajing."
"Pei Wenxuan, I miss you, why haven't you come back?"
…
The pages, though unsigned, have no date. But Pei Wenxuan still recognized it at a glance. This should have been written by Li Rong when he was locked up in Beiyan Tower.
He stared blankly at the page, looking at Li Rongjuan's beautiful handwriting on it.
I don't know when Li Rong's writing started, but it looks a bit like him.
She seemed to really like his handwriting, so she looked for the post in the dark and copied his handwriting stroke by stroke.
Why stay here, why do you still like this person
Because this person, in addition to saying such cold words, will hurt him like that, but he will also be hurt by him, he will secretly like him, he will secretly write to him, and he will copy his words.
He cared too much about their feelings, the gains and losses of her performance, and he forgot that the person he liked was a little girl who hid all his feelings in his heart and only protected himself with a sharp blade in his wound. .
Pei Wenxuan stared blankly at the letters scattered all over the floor. After a long time, he suddenly reacted and rushed out with his sword in hand.
When Jinglan returned to the house to look for Pei Wenxuan, before she got to the door, she saw Jinglan hurried forward and panicked: "Sister, it's not good."
"Where's the concubine?" When Jinglan saw Jingmei's appearance, she knew what was wrong and asked, "Where are the others?"
"Concubine, concubine," Jingmei panted heavily, "Just now with the sword in hand, I rushed out with the sword in hand!"