"haven't seen you for a long time."
Pei Wenxuan laughed: "It should be more than three years, right?"
When the two of them spoke, Li Rong gave Li Chuan a look, and then led Li Chuan to the edge of the cell, the farthest place from Pei Wenxuan, and whispered, "Why is she here?"
"Sister, do you know her?"
Li Chuan glanced at the two people who were talking, and whispered to Li Rong, "I met you at the gate of Jiulu Mountain, and when they saw me, they beat me up and threw them very hard."
Li Rong: "..."
It was the first time she heard someone describe Qin Zhenzhen like this.
"and then?"
Li Rong ignored Li Chuan's description and jumped to the point: "She said she was Qin Lin's sister, and I don't know if it was true or not. Anyway, after the palace came, she heard who I was and immediately said to help me. Please Qin Lin, but the condition is," Li Chuan raised his chin, "Come and see Pei Wenxuan."
Speaking, Li Chuan frowned: "Sister, are they in a situation?"
Li Rong: "..."
It was rare for Li Chuan to be smart.
Li Chuan was relatively stable in government affairs, but in the matter of love, Li Rong felt that his ambition was basically the same as that of a six-year-old.
Qin Zhen really talked to Pei Wenxuan. She asked about Pei Wenxuan's situation in general, and Pei Wenxuan answered them one by one. After Qin Zhenzhen confirmed that Pei Wenxuan was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief: "I know that my brother is fine, then I will Don't worry. By the way," Qin Zhenzhen remembered, "you received the jade pendant from before, right?"
"And a jade pendant," Li Chuan whispered next to Li Rong's ear, "They really have a problem."
Li Rong tapped the fan on the shoulder, smiled with her lips hooked, showing a look of watching a good show, she folded a fan, covered her face with the fan, and approached Li Chuan, her lips buzzing: "It's time to watch the show."
"I received it." Pei Wenxuan's voice sounded, and he said slowly, "I know this is not your intention, I don't blame you, you don't have to worry."
"Brother Pei has misunderstood, this is what I mean." Qin Zhenzhen said generously, with a sincere face, "I wanted to return this jade pendant to Brother Pei long ago, but Brother Pei kept his filial piety before and couldn't make it in time. Now he's back, I should have sent it myself, but the eldest brother said, now that I have grown up, it is inconvenient to see you, so he will send it for me."
Li Chuan was at a loss, but Li Rong was covering herself with a fan, shaking her shoulders and laughing silently.
She looked at Qin Zhenzhen with an upright face at the moment, and recalled that Pei Wenxuan had sworn to her before that Qin Zhenzhen was being forced, and she heard an invisible slap in the face, "papapa".
Pei Wenxuan was silent, and after a while, he said stiffly, "Brother Qin has a heart."
"Yeah," Qin Zhenzhen laughed, "although you and eldest brother don't see each other very often, but eldest brother is very considerate of you. The eldest brother told me that when the two got married, I never thought that the Pei family would have the current momentum. Big brother Pei is the direct son of the Pei family, and his future is limitless. Big brother asked me not to delay you, not because of the jokes of the two families back then, to delay your good marriage."
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
Li Rong leaned against the wall and turned over with a smile, while Li Chuan was blank.
After a long time, Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's emotionless voice: "Is this what Qin Lin told you?"
This emotionless voice showed Pei Wenxuan's restrained emotional state. Just listening to the voice, Li Rong felt Pei Wenxuan's urge to tear Qin Lin apart.
What is the future of the Pei family's direct son? This is all a lie. If he has a promising future, he can only be an eighth-rank petty official
It was clear that Qin Lin despised him and fooled Qin Zhenzhen.
It's just that Qin Zhenzhen's daughter-in-law has never cared about these complex relationships with the outside world. The Pei family has done a good job in terms of face, and it is normal for children of aristocratic families to start from low-level officials with real power. As for what position at the bottom has real power and what position does not, this is not what Qin Zhen really can understand.
So Qin Lin's big flickering for a while, Qin Zhenzhen didn't suspect him at all, and gave Yupei to his brother to break off the marriage. Seeing that Pei Wenxuan didn't see the slightest bit of joy in her expression, she realized that something was wrong, and hesitantly said, "What my brother said... is there anything wrong?"
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
No, neither.
But now Pei Wenxuan doesn't want to explain to Qin Zhenzhen. After all, the decision has been made, and there is no need to explain. So he replied blankly: "It's nothing, I'm just grateful to my brother for thinking about it."
Hearing this, Li Rong didn't hold back and finally laughed out loud.
Qin Zhenzhen couldn't help it anymore. She turned her head and looked over. She couldn't understand why this Princess Pingle was always having fun from the beginning
She couldn't help but wonder: "What is your Highness laughing at?"
"It's nothing," Li Rong calmed down, wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, and said quickly, "I just thought of something funny."
When Pei Wenxuan heard Li Rong laughing at him, he was quite helpless. He knew that Li Rong was laughing at him when he remembered the quarrel just now. You don't have to worry. Go back and persuade your brother, His Royal Highness..."
"My brother knows this." Qin Zhenzhen heard Pei Wenxuan talking about it, and said, "Don't worry, brother Pei, my brother will go, but I have to wait another day."
"Oh, your brother will go, and you told me that you would persuade me and let me help you?" Li Chuan raised his eyebrows while listening, "Are you lying to me?"
Qin Zhenzhen listened to Li Chuan's opening, and suddenly lost his previous peace, and said indifferently: "The people's daughter persuaded him to go, why lie there?"
"you… "
"Chuan'er," Li Rong reminded Li Chuan, "don't be rude."
Hearing this, Li Chuan turned to look at Li Rong, quite shocked: "Sister, you call me rude without saying anything?"
"What do you want to say, I already know."
Li Rong raised her eyebrows, and then said: "Okay, don't say that there are some things, you go back now, find out what happened in the court, and make preparations tomorrow morning. The royal father can let me come here to prove that the Yang family There should be pressure on him there. If you don't expect it, your father will send you to the northwest to supervise the battle tomorrow morning. You can't directly agree, you must keep rejecting it."
"I understand." Li Chuan pursed his lips, "I've already prepared these things, don't worry."
"Miss Qin," Li Rong raised her eyes and looked at Qin Zhenzhen next to her, "If the prince is forced to be sent to the front line tomorrow, is your brother sure you can go?"
She stared at Qin Zhenzhen, Qin Zhenzhen understood this, and saluted respectfully: "Don't worry, Her Royal Highness, my brother is embarrassing Her Royal Highness, but I want to investigate His Highness's character, and I have no intention of rejecting it."
Li Rong nodded, and after thinking about it, she looked at Li Chuan, and said again: "If Qin Lin goes to the front line with you, don't let people know. Quietly put him in the military camp, and don't let others know that this is yours. "
Li Chuan was stunned for a while, but after a while, he reacted and said, "Understood."
It took so much Zhouzhang to bring down the Yang family, they didn't make wedding dresses for Li Ming.
The fundamental purpose is to let Li Chuan insert his own staff in the northwest. Li Ming will definitely replace the main general at the end of this war and take all the credit. If Qin Lin followed Li Chuan directly, he was afraid that he would get his head and be pinched by Li Ming later.
The safest plan now is for Qin Lin to take his good friend Cui Qinghe to the front line, start from scratch as an identity that has nothing to do with Li Chuan, and then use the ingenuity of the two of them to make suggestions for Li Chuan to solve the problem of Yang's family in the northwest border. After the hidden danger, attack Rong.
When the northwest border is flat, Li Ming replaces the main generals, and it is impossible to replace the generals below. Qin Lin stays in the northwest, and they will cooperate with Qin Lin's military salary arrangement and transfer in Huajing. With time, the military power in the northwest will fall sooner or later. into Qin Lin's hands.
Except for Qin Zhenzhen, everyone present knew these calculations, and Li Chuan respectfully said, "Don't worry, sister, I will arrange it."
Li Rong responded and looked at the sky: "It's not too early, you go back first."
Li Chuan nodded in response, then turned to look at Qin Zhenzhen: "Can you go?"
Qin Zhenzhen glanced at Pei Wenxuan, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, "I am relieved to see that Brother Pei is safe. Now that it is inconvenient to meet, I hope that Brother Pei will take care of me. If you need my help in the future, if you have any difficulties, My elder brother asked someone who went to Jiulu Mountain to find my elder brother to tell me on his behalf, I really will not refuse."
Listening to Qin Zhenzhen's words, Pei Wenxuan looked flat, nodded, and only replied, "Don't worry, I'm doing well."
Qin Zhenzhen nodded, put on his hat again, and returned to Li Chuan. Li Chuan glanced at Li Rong: "Sister, I'm leaving."
Li Rong nodded, Li Chuan led Qin Zhenzhen out, Li Chuan buried Qin Zhenzhen's short stature, Qin Zhenzhen ignored him with a cold expression, Li Rong looked at the two who were walking away, and suddenly stopped Li Chuan: "Chuan'er."
Li Chuan turned around a little puzzled, and saw Li Rong standing in the prison quietly looking at him at the end of the corridor. She saw that he continued to struggle. Li Chuan was a little confused. After a long time, he heard Li Rong speak. Said: "Wait a while, you can ask others to send Miss Qin to the palace. There are still things waiting for you in the palace, so you can go back early."
Hearing this, Li Chuan laughed: "Understood, you also have to order this kind of thing, be my child?"
Having said that, Li Chuan waved his hand and left with Qin Zhenzhen.
Seeing Li Chuan's back, Li Rong stood still a little dazed. Although Pei Wenxuan didn't see Li Rong's expression, he could guess what she was thinking: "I don't want the prince and Miss Qin to meet again. together?"
This time he paid attention to the wording and did not call it "true" again.
Li Rong listened to his words and said indifferently, "What do you think?"
"I met a little earlier this time." Pei Wenxuan was a little worried, "I don't know what will happen."
Li Rong didn't speak, but Pei Wenxuan was worried that she understood, just like she was only half a spring banquet, and tossed everything into a completely different from the previous life, and now Li Chuan and Qin Zhenzhen met so long ago, no one knows What will change.
In the last life, Li Chuan and Qin Zhenzhen met only a year later.
Qin Zhenzhen became Li Chuan's side concubine because he chose a concubine to enter the palace. When she first entered the East Palace, Qin Zhenzhen was at odds with Li Chuan. Li Chuan hardly ever met her. She was often bullied in the East Palace. .
I don't know what happened to Li Chuan. I didn't understand love before. After being with Qin Zhenzhen, I suddenly went crazy and only thought about this person.
But under the favor, it brings not only love, but also sharp blades.
So one year after Li Chuan ascended the throne, Qin Zhenzhen gave birth to Li Ping, and then died in the harem.
On the day she died, Li Chuan kept holding her body and refused to let it go. It was Li Rong who passed by and dragged the person out of Li Chuan's arms.
After Qin Zhenzhen's death, Li Chuan insisted on being buried with the empress' ceremony and put her in his tomb in advance. At that time, everyone just thought that Li Chuan was dead, thinking that Li Chuan would get better in a few years.
Who knew he didn't, his temper became worse and worse, and he became more and more violent. The young prince, who had always been known for his benevolence, finally embarked on the same old path as Li Ming.
He used military force, suppressed the family, and suppressed the court with iron blood, and only Li Rong could manage him a little.
But in the case of the Su family, their siblings eventually had a estrangement.
After the Su family case, she was bedridden due to her injuries, and Li Chuan came to see her.
At that time, he was already very thin. They were separated by the curtain. Li Rong looked at his figure and felt that he was like a silhouette.
He was a little dazed when he spoke, and he said Qin Zhenzhen for some reason.
He talked a lot that day, just like when he was young, and when he talked about the end time, he suddenly opened his mouth.
He said, "Sister, I have a beast in my heart. I can't keep it. I'm afraid of it, and I'm also afraid of myself. I'm sorry for hurting my sister."
"Fortunately," Li Chuan chuckled, "I have done what I should do. In the future, I will leave everything to my sister."
After speaking, he stood up and left her room floating like a born alchemist.
Shortly after the burial of the Su family, Li Chuan announced that he would become a monk. Pei Wenxuan took his ministers and knelt in the Grand Palace for a day, and finally reached a compromise. Li Chuan did not go home, but he no longer managed.
For the next twenty-five years, Li Chuan never went to the morning court again, and he indulged in the illusions described by the alchemists every day, trying to find a way to bring the dead back to life.
She recalled countless times in the second half of her life, if she hadn't let Li Chuan experience the abolition of the prince and let him meet Qin Zhenzhen, was it her younger brother, she would always have hope in her life like when she was young, like a cold sun Fire, according to this world.
It's just that at that time, there was no turning back, and she didn't think about the things she couldn't change, so she just walked on in a hurry.
But now it's different, she really has a choice.
The two of them were leaning against the same wall, standing on either side, Li Rong did not speak, Pei Wenxuan looked up at the afternoon sky, and after a long time, Li Rong said slowly: "This time, you will not let She's in the palace."
Pei Wenxuan did not speak, and Li Rong was a little puzzled: "Why shouldn't you speak?"
"Look at you."
Pei Wenxuan spoke calmly, and Li Rong was a little surprised: "Why are you looking at me?"
"If you agree, I will go and tell Qin Lin. As I said, they want her to enter the palace, and that's her business. As for whether you want to interfere directly so that she can't enter the palace, that's your business."
Li Rong was stunned by these words, and she couldn't understand.
She paused for a moment, thought about it, and said cautiously: "I'm sorry, can you... explain it a bit more? I don't understand."
Pei Wenxuan heard this and lowered his eyes: "I shouldn't have interfered in those days."
Li Rong didn't understand even more. She vaguely seemed to understand the literal meaning of the sentence. Pei Wenxuan seemed to be saying that he didn't plan to care about Qin Zhenzhen any more—
But how is this possible
Li Rong was at a loss.
Not to mention Qin Zhenzhen's weight in Pei Wenxuan's heart, even if Qin Zhenzhen has no weight in Pei Wenxuan's heart, and is just a friend, according to Pei Wenxuan's personality, it is impossible to know that Qin Zhenzhen will die when he enters the palace, and watch it with his eyes. Qin really died.
And what if she agrees
What does she need to agree to
When did he need her approval about Pei Wenxuan? Can she handle it
Li Rong was completely at a loss. She didn't even know how many questions this question should be divided into and which angle to ask.
Pei Wenxuan leaned against the wall, lowered his head and did not speak. He knew that Li Rong was going to ask him. His heart was beating fast, and he was a little nervous. He was looking forward to Li Rong's question. Find the right time to speak your words.
But he didn't know whether to answer or not. After all, after so many years, saying this seemed to add to the sadness and regret, and there was no other superfluous use.
The two slowly slowed down, and Li Rong finally said, "Well, do you mean, I let you take care of it, and you take care of it, and if I don't let you, you don't care?"
Pei Wenxuan lowered his head, and after a while, he replied softly, "Yeah."
"Why... why?"
Li Rong stuttered a little, Pei Wenxuan lowered his eyes and said slowly: "There are boundaries between people, everyone has cobwebs on their bodies, and a web involves other people, everyone is You need to move within this limit, and if you exceed it, whichever side you go to, it will cause pain to the other side.”
Pei Wenxuan's words were subtle, but Li Rong understood it. She leaned gently against the wall and listened to Pei Wenxuan's rare serious and peaceful words.
"She has her brother, her husband, and herself. She should have taken on her life. Every choice she makes will have consequences. Anyone's intervention is not a good thing."
"I have my responsibility, no matter where it comes from. Now that I have promised you to marry, I will bind myself with the demands of a husband."
"Until our contract ends?" Li Rong chuckled.
Pei Wenxuan was silent, and after a while, he said lightly, "Maybe."
Listening to Pei Wenxuan's words, Li Rong pulled a futon to the corner of the wall. After sitting down cross-legged, she sorted out her clothes and said with emotion, "Pei Wenxuan, you really haven't lived in vain for the past fifty years. If you had realized this earlier, In our last life, maybe we can really grow old."
Pei Wenxuan heard this, his eyelashes trembled.
He didn't know why, but he felt that Li Rong's words pierced through him like a sharp blade. He couldn't tell where this feeling came from for a while, maybe it was because of regret, maybe it was dissatisfaction with the previous life, or maybe it was the unspoken feelings of the last life when he was young, after being dormant for many years, a momentary counterattack , One bite hard, and the blood is dripping from the bite.
The pain made Pei Wenxuan calm down subconsciously. He used to enter an extreme calm when he was in extreme emotions.
Li Rong was arranging her clothes, ignorant of Pei Wenxuan's feelings, and continued to laugh: "I knew you were a smart person back then, and I could figure things out sooner or later, as expected. How many girls out there like you."
"You knew I would understand?" Pei Wenxuan said coldly, Li Rong shook his fan and replied, "I'm pretty accurate in seeing people."
"Then what do you think of me?"
"Now or before?"
"then."
Hearing this, Li Rong thought about it seriously, tried her best to recall Pei Wenxuan thirty years ago, and said slowly, "You were a good person back then, but you were stubborn and couldn't think of it."
"How to say?"
"You promised to take care of Qin Zhenzhen back then, but you thought that a gentleman would be hard to follow, and no matter what your situation was, you would help others." Li Rong said, pouring tea for herself, analyzing Said, "And you always thought that you liked Qin Zhenzhen. When you saw me, you suddenly fell down under my pomegranate skirt, and your heart collapsed. You were conflicted, you couldn't accept it, and why did you think you were such a half-hearted man? What? So, as a person, there is no problem with your motives, you just can't think of it."
Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong describe everything in the past lightly and calmly. But he also knew clearly that the root cause of this harshness came from what Li Rong said was true.
"At that time," he said in a steady voice, without the slightest emotion, "you knew that I liked you."
"I'm not stupid."
Li Rong blew on the green leaves on the tea: "If you didn't like it, how could you be so good to me? It's just that I was thin-skinned back then, and I felt that you liked me, but I wasn't sure."
"Then you..." Pei Wenxuan's voice was dry, "Why don't you wait for me?"
If she is willing to wait a little longer, he may be able to see his heart clearly and learn to grow up, and they would not have such an ending in their last life.
Li Rong couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "You're funny, I'm not a collector of junk, why should I wait for you?"
"Pei Wenxuan," Li Rong looked at herself in the cup, her voice calm, "Actually, you have been unable to see clearly."
"It wasn't that you were sorry for me in the last life, I left sadly, and then gave up on myself and spent the rest of my life with a eunuch. But I could actually get you, I chose not to, I found a new love, and I will spend the rest of my life with what I like in my heart."
"A woman hates her rival in love because she feels that in the emotional competition, facing a very good woman with her current self, she has no chance of winning."
"So she always hopes that the other party is disgusting. It is her lover who is blind. One day her lover will wake up and realize how beautiful she is, but I don't need such comfort."
Li Rong smiled lightly.
"I know it's easy for me to win Qin Zhen. If I want to get you, I don't even have to do anything, just wait, but I don't want to."
Li Rong looked up and saw the colorful clouds in the sky, and Yan Yan Feiming said, "I, Li Rongtian, are noble and noble, blood relatives of emperors, and my appearance is not to say the world is gorgeous, but I am famous in Huajing. woman, if you ask me why I didn't wait for you, what you should ask is—"
Li Rong drank all the tea in the cup: "Why do you let me wait for you? Even if Mr. Pei is good-looking," Li Rong extended her voice, with a bit of playfulness in the tone, "I won't be so disgusting. Fainting."
When Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong's words, she spoke calmly and open-mindedly. Even if she humiliated him and talked about unpleasant past events, it was rare for her to be open-minded and relaxed.
Pei Wenxuan hugged his chest and listened to Li Rong's words. He looked down at his feet, thought for a long time, and couldn't help but chuckled.
He suddenly felt as if he knew Li Rong for the first time.
Today's Li Rong is not the same as when she was young. She has the persistence and principles of 20-year-old Li Rong, but she has the open-mindedness and calmness that 20-year-old Li Rong is far from.
In the past, they always argued and quarreled. When he saw Su Rongqing beside her, it was difficult for him to restrain himself.
Now that he has put aside his prejudice, he has an indescribable appreciation and love.
This kind of love has nothing to do with love, it just feels that a woman like Li Rong in this world is really hard to look away.
Seeing that Pei Wenxuan didn't answer for a long time, Li Rong couldn't help thinking that she might have poked Pei Wenxuan's heart.
She was a little helpless, and scolded the man for being stingy, got up and said, "Is it still possible to chat today? I'll leave if you don't."
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, Li Rong stood up, flipped through a book by herself, sat at the table, squatting on the sunflower seeds to read the original words.
After a while, she looked up and found a roll of paper suddenly appeared in the corner of the cell.
The paper was rolled up with a red ribbon, and it looked orderly, as if it was a gift, and it was very beautiful.
Li Rong was a little puzzled, stepped forward, bent down and picked up the rolled up words, and saw Pei Wenxuan's handwriting on it, which read:
Her Royal Highness the princess.
Pei Wenxuan's words are used to turn the rotten into the miraculous. No matter how ordinary things are, plus his words, they can show a bit of elegance.
Li Rong pursed her lips and felt a little amused. She pulled the ribbon and opened the piece of paper.
The paper slowly unfolded, and Li Rong, an 18-year-old dressed in a palace suit, with a peony on her head, turned her head and smiled.
It looked like an eighteen-year-old, but that smile was not eighteen-year-old Li Rong.
Bright and flamboyant with a thousand charms, Li Rong couldn't tell when she looked like this.
Below the painting, the words of Pei Wenxuan are mentioned.
Only the true national color of peony can move the capital when the flowers bloom.
Li Rong couldn't help laughing when she saw this sentence.
Pei Wenxuan stood in front of the desk, and he carefully sketched the lines on which Li Rong was drawn.
In fact, one thing he never dared to face in his last life was that in his life, he never felt that there was any woman more beautiful than Li Rong.
There is only Peony's true national color, and the only girl who has the beauty of Peony in his heart is Li Rong.
Qin Zhenzhen may be beautiful, but that kind of beauty never made his heart flutter, and it never surprised him.
Only Li Rong.
But she bloomed early, then quickly withered, and finally became a dead branch left in his memory, he almost forgot those beautiful appearances, until he looked back suddenly, and suddenly saw it.
The peony has been in full bloom, but she doesn't want to see him again, that's all.
The author has something to say: [Small Theater]
Q: "What does Pei Wenxuan's painting of Li Rong mean?"
Li Rong: "Reconcile the gift. I want to use this kind of small favor to make me stop quarreling with him, stand on the same front, and don't make his head hurt."
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
Q: "Pei Wenxuan, don't be silent, stand up and speak."
Pei Wenxuan: "It's a love letter..."
Everyone: "… "
Pei Wenxuan: "Of course, the positioning of this love letter will have to wait until later, when I look back, I will find my true intentions..."
Everyone: "Intention?"
Pei Wenxuan: "It's not that I don't want to quarrel with her, I just want to marry her and quarrel with her for the rest of my life."