When Li Rong's people quietly sneaked into Pei's house, Pei Wenxuan was standing in front of a basin of clear water, quietly looking at his appearance.
It came alive.
He looked at himself, who would be twenty years old, in disbelief. It's just that many years of court career have taught him to restrain his emotions, even if his heart is turned upside down, his face is calm.
The attendant Tong Ye next to him looked at him tremblingly, and whispered, "Young Master, are you alright?"
When he woke up in the early morning, he asked him what day it was today, and he has been in a daze until now. Although Pei Wenxuan is usually reticent to talk, he has rarely been so silent. Tong Ye couldn't help but feel a little scared, and then said, "Master, if you are not feeling well, I will go and ask a doctor for you."
After hearing this, Pei Wenxuan finally raised his eyes, replied "No need", washed his face, and went out directly.
He walked out of the courtyard, and Tong Ye hurriedly followed him out. After a while, he finally said: "Young Master, don't keep it in your heart, just say it, maybe it will be better. It's not to blame that Miss Qin came to retire from the relatives. Miss Qin, she is also sincere to you, that is... "
"Don't say it."
Seeing that Tong Ye was talking more and more, Pei Wenxuan paused, turned his head and told Tong Ye, "This matter doesn't need to be mentioned in the future."
As he spoke, he put his arms together and stood outside the courtyard, looking at the tall tower in the palace city in the distance.
The tower is high into the clouds, with red lacquer and golden tiles, and copper bells hang under the eaves.
Back then, when he was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, when he encountered troubles, he liked to stand in the courtyard and look up at the tower in the distance. Now this habit seems to be preserved. Now looking at the tower, he slowly calmed down and began to think about his own situation. .
He remembered that when he was 20 years old, he had just finished his filial piety in his hometown and returned to Huajing. His second uncle was in control of the Pei family, and his mother was too weak to be bullied. However, he was ostracized by his family. As the eldest son of the Pei family of Huajing's prosperous family, he could only go to the Ministry of Punishment to be a small jailer.
The current day should be right after he was divorced.
When his father was still there, he ordered a baby kiss for him and his family friend Qin Zhenzhen, the daughter of the Qin family. The age was determined so early that there was no ceremony that was too solemn. After exchanging jade pendants, it was decided. So he and Qin Zhenzhen have been acquainted with each other since childhood, and they thought of seeking marriage wholeheartedly.
His father passed away early, and the Qin family is now on good terms with his second uncle Pei Lixian, so it is reasonable for Qin Zhenzhen to withdraw from his family.
The engagement was not solemn enough back then, and now it is very simple to withdraw from the marriage. After handing over the token of the year, I didn't even have a letter. I left some money and left.
Of course, he doesn't blame Qin Zhenzhen, he himself is incompetent, and he has no reason to blame other people's women.
and after
Pei Wenxuan tried hard to recall.
Later, it should be such an embarrassing identity that the emperor just took a fancy to, and then promised to Li Rong.
With Li Rong's current status, if she really finds a poor child for her, she won't be able to save face, and the world is afraid that there will be a lot of discussion; if you find her a famous family, it will be like a tiger with wings, and the emperor has to be afraid. Just like him, he looks noble but has no future, so Li Rong is the most suitable.
With the status of consort, the Pei family began to pay attention to him again, and he had a real backer in the court.
According to the time, the edict of giving marriage should come down soon. Once again, he still has to marry Li Rong.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile.
He and Li Rong were enemies in previous lives.
After working together all his life, he had been suspicious of him all his life. He thought that Li Rong should have friendship with him, even if he didn't have the love of husband and wife.
But he died, and she couldn't live either.
She gave him a sharp blade, and he gave him a bowl of poison to pierce his intestines.
There was never any debt between them, and neither did their lives.
Human resentment is nothing but injustice, and he and she have been in the past thirty years, and there is nothing unfair. He has a heart, and she has someone by her side; she gives him a sword, and he gives her poison.
Thinking of it this way, even if she killed him, he didn't have much resentment. Now that it's all over again, thinking of marrying Li Rong again, there is not much resentment.
Even, he couldn't help but think.
Eighteen-year-old Li Rong is still somewhat innocent and kind. She occasionally blushes when she sees him. The day she raised her hijab, she raised her head and looked at her with a bit of sincerity and seriousness. She took a glass of wine and said to him, "Pei Wenxuan, no matter what. It's what we are together for, since we've become husband and wife, I still want to spend a lifetime with you."
If he didn't let Li Rong find out that he cared about Qin Zhenzhen in this life, or if he didn't care about Qin Zhenzhen in his whole life, she would not be angry, she would not be separated from him, and she would not know Su Rongqing...
Perhaps, they can still be an ordinary couple and grow old.
He was tired of the suspicions and struggles of the previous life. If possible, he would also like to have an ordinary family and live a safe and secure life.
As for Qin Zhenzhen...
She couldn't ask for it in the last life, and protected her for a lifetime. A lifetime has passed, responsibility is greater than love, regret is greater than miss. Since it was destined not to be together, that's all.
After thinking about this, Pei Wenxuan calmed down. He turned his head and said lightly with Tong Ye, "Go back."
He doesn't need to do anything now, just wait for the imperial edict to be given.
However, he waited in the house for a few days, and the marriage decree did not come, but a spring banquet invitation from Princess Pingle was delivered to his house.
Pingle is Li Rong's title. Looking at the fancy invitation, Pei Wenxuan felt a little uneasy. He frowned, and he couldn't help but start to think back - in his last life, he attended the spring banquet hosted by Li Rong? Is he too old to lose his memory, or is reality derailed from his memory
While Pei Wenxuan was pondering over and over again what was going on with this spring banquet at home, Li Rong was in the palace happily arranging the spring banquet.
She likes this kind of lively occasions. When she was young, she still found it noisy. When she was older, she realized that the old people like to watch young people dislike and make fun of them at the same time.
It makes her feel energetic!
Besides arranging the spring banquet, she has many other things to do.
She first went to re-select a bunch of clothes, and sent all the black, white and cool clothes she had used to the bottom of the press box, and specially made some red and gold colors, so that she dressed up in all directions. , bright and moving!
Then she moved over all the maintenance procedures of her previous life, massaged, soaked in the bath and applied balm every day from morning to night, without giving up a single detail, fully enjoying the beauty of being a princess.
In the end, she had to listen to Jinglan reporting the trip of the four sons to her when she was free.
Lu Yu squatted at home and counted ants every day. He had already counted two ant nests and made good friends with ants.
Yang Quan had a fight at the training ground recently, and he drove three of his colleagues into the medical hall. Then he was dragged to the bed by his father, and he had been crawling on the bed for two days.
Cui Yulang recently made a big splash in the brothel and wrote thirty poems, which were well received.
As for Pei Wenxuan, he went to work every day, practiced calligraphy, and became an elderly care official at a young age. The strangest thing every day was always standing at the door of his house, as if he was waiting for something.
Of course, she finally succeeded in waiting for her spring banquet invitation.
"It really pays off," Li Rong took a bath in the petal pool and listened to Jinglan's report on these matters, and couldn't help but ask, "Is he surprised or surprised at the time? Eighth-rank small official, how did you receive a post from Princess Pingle? Are you crazy with joy?"
"No," Jing Lan said calmly, "Master Pei didn't look very good at that time. The boy named Tong Ye beside him asked him how he received the post and whether it was sent to the wrong person."
"How did he say?"
"Lord Pei said," Jing Lan said with a straight face, "The post is not wrong, he looks good, you must have sent him this post."
Hearing this, Li Rong couldn't help spitting out a mouthful of water.
For the first time, she knew that Pei Wenxuan was so confident in her face.
However - Li Rong was quickly puzzled - how did Pei Wenxuan know that she liked good-looking people
Li Rong took this question to heart.
Time passed very quickly, and Li Rong felt that she had just adjusted to the life in Changle Palace when she arrived at the Spring Banquet.
On the first day of the Spring Banquet, she went to her suburban courtyard ahead of time, staggering the schedule of other families in Beijing on the second day. In the early morning of the second day, the young ladies of various noble families came over one after another. Outside the courtyard, there was an endless stream of fragrant carriages and BMWs. All the carriages were luxurious and exquisite.
After a while, two jade carriages came back and forth. The front carriage had a jade-engraved "Su" on it, and the rear carriage had a "Pei" on it.
The two prosperous families in Huajing came back and forth, and everyone avoided them one after another.
After a while, the carriage stopped in front and back, and a person in front of the Su family's carriage came out first. The man was dressed in a white brocade robe, with a jade hairpin and a crown.
As soon as he appeared, someone hurriedly called out and said loudly, "Young Master Su, you are here too!"
"Princess, please," Su Rongqing opened her mouth and said with a smile, "Where is the gift for not coming?"
With that, he got out of the carriage and asked the servant to quickly make way for the carriage behind.
As soon as Su Rongqing appeared, everyone gathered and chatted with Su Rongqing in a lively manner. When Pei Wenxuan came down, not many people cared.
Pei Wenxuan got off the carriage by himself, and when he heard Su Rongqing's voice, he couldn't help but look up.
This is the person who has been with Li Rong for the next 20 years, and he doesn't like him.
His disgust for Su Rongqing almost became an instinct.
After all, even if he and Li Rong made it clear that they each had their own days, Su Rongqing was always a challenge to his dignity, just like Qin Zhenzhen was to Li Rong.
This disgust has nothing to do with love, but with that bit of self-esteem in people's hearts.
It's just that this is the next life after all. Pei Wenxuan felt that it was irrational to care about the past life. He quickly turned his head and led Tong Ye to the yard together.
Although Su Rongqing was talking to people, her footsteps did not stop. She walked into the courtyard with Pei Wenxuan one after the other.
Li Rong also woke up at this time. After she finished dressing, she yawned and hurried to the courtyard where the main banquet was being held. Before she reached the door of the courtyard, she heard a familiar voice.
The voice changed a little bit later, but it was still engraved in her heart.
She was so familiar with that voice that she turned her head back subconsciously.
Then she saw two people head on.
One with a white robe and a jade crown stood with a smile; the other with a blue robe and a golden crown looked at her in a daze.
One of them is elegant and gentle, the other is pure and handsome, and the two of them are standing not far from each other, which can be described as amazing.
Li Rong looked at the two of them, and was stunned for a moment. At this time, Su Rongqing was the first to return to her senses and bowed to Li Rong. Between her lips and teeth, was the sentence he had read countless times.
"Wei Chen Su Rongqing, I have seen Her Royal Highness Princess."
The author has something to say: At this time, let's make a multiple-choice question:
If you were a princess, you would:
1—Respond to Su Rongqing and chat with Su Rongqing
2 - Respond politely to Su Rongqing and chat with Pei Wenxuan
3 - Ignore one, respond politely, and leave immediately
Come on, 1, 2, 3, open the election, the maximum number of comments and choices will determine the beginning of our next chapter!
[small theater]
Pei Wenxuan: I am the only choice for my ex-wife. Now I just need to wait for the emperor to send me a daughter-in-law. Going to the door every day to stand guard is my best effort.
On the first day of squatting, the daughter-in-law issued an order and did not come.
On the second day of squatting, the daughter-in-law issued the order and did not come.
The third day of squatting...
Daughter-in-law sent someone: Hello, your spring banquet fiancé election ticket has arrived.
Pei Wenxuan: Why am I running for a fiancé? ! !
Li Rong: I'm sorry, I have at least four spare tires. Line up well, compete hard, and promise me to cheer up? !