Hearing Li Rong's words, Pei Wenxuan saw Li Rong's expression was different, and looked at Li Rong up and down, and couldn't help asking, "What happened to you? You were bullied in the palace?"
"What are you thinking about?" Li Rong tapped Pei Wenxuan on the head with a fan and turned around and said, "Let's go."
The carriage was outside the palace gate, and Pei Wenxuan chased Li Rong up and put the umbrella on her head. He was rather unhappy: "Just talk when you talk, what are you doing by knocking on my head?"
"I'm happy."
Li Rong glanced at him sideways, and Pei Wenxuan felt a little helpless: "I found out that you and the others are doing fine, so if you see me, you will move your hands, feet, and mouth. Your Highness, you have to change your habit."
"If you have a problem, look for yourself," Li Rong listened to Pei Wenxuan's complaint. For some reason, she felt that her emotions had been diluted, and she only thought about how to hate the people in front of her, so she got on the carriage and Educating Pei Wenxuan, "Think more about why I don't trouble others, but you."
"Hey, I know this very well," Pei Wenxuan sighed, the two got into the carriage, Pei Wenxuan put away the umbrella, Li Rong poured tea for herself, and Pei Wenxuan said helplessly, "I can only blame me for being too tricky. People love it, and it is difficult for His Highness to keep his heart."
Hearing this, Li Rong was about to spit out a mouthful of tea, but she forcibly stopped it in time, choked back into her trachea, and coughed rapidly.
Seeing that she was coughing rapidly, Pei Wenxuan stopped playing, and hurriedly stepped forward and patted her on the back: "Don't drink tea next time you talk."
Li Rong raised her eyes to stare at him, her beautiful watery eyes were stained a bit due to coughing, and suddenly lost her usual aura. Suddenly, a quiver spread all the way from the heart to the fingertips. After touching the warm and soft skin under his hands, he turned back again. As he went back and forth, the bones of his half body were smashed and his mind was shaken.
Li Rong was relieved, seeing that Pei Wenxuan didn't know what to do, she stared at her blankly, she couldn't help poking Pei Wenxuan with her fan, and said strangely: "What are you looking at?"
Pei Wenxuan regained his senses in an instant, stood up calmly and sat down to the side, a few minutes away from Li Rong, and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered something. Oh," Pei Wenxuan changed the subject, "Just now you What are you standing at the gate of the palace in a daze?"
When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan's question, she smiled and said, "Today, my mother asked about the palace banquet, and she said that Concubine Rou and His Majesty mentioned it. Please decree the marriage."
"Just such a little thing can make you worry like this?" Pei Wenxuan looked her up and down in disbelief, "It's not like you."
Li Rong didn't bother to pay attention to him, so she took out the chess box from the side and said, "I'm bored halfway through, let's talk about a game."
Li Rong's invitation, Pei Wenxuan also readily accepted, sat across from her, took the chess pieces, caught black and white with her, and then began to move.
The chess pieces were intertwined. Li Rong looked at the chessboard, and her emotions gradually calmed down. Whether it was happiness or sadness, it seemed to have become a lot farther away. It was only then that Li Rong asked, "By the way, I have always been strange."
"Um?"
"In the last life, why did Chuan'er become like that."
Li Rong said slowly, "He became the emperor and unified the north. He also eliminated the family. He has everything he wants." Li Rong looked up at Pei Wenxuan, "Why, he still lives in such pain. ?"
Pei Wenxuan did not speak, and Li Rong frowned: "Is it because Qin Zhen is really dead? Can you remember a cute person for so long?"
"Does Your Highness know why His Majesty must unify the north?"
Pei Wenxuan looked at the chessboard, and only asked this question, Li Rong pondered: "Because the northern border is uneasy all the year round, and the people suffer?"
"Of course that's the reason," Pei Wenxuan laughed. He glanced at Li Rong and said, "But what about other than that?"
Li Rong shook her head: "He didn't tell me."
"One year, I was drinking with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and he mentioned to me that in the eighth year of Xuanzhi, the northern border and Daxia were at odds. He gave 20 million silver and 500 beauties, as well as cattle, sheep and horses, silk and satin. A year later, Princess Yunyan died in the northern border. Princess Yunyan, died in the imperial harem."
"His Royal Highness told me that you were too scared to sleep that night. You kept asking the Queen whether one day you would be like Princess Yunyan, and go to the north with relatives and die without a return date."
Li Rong's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her voice was flat: "I forgot."
"His Royal Highness remembers that from that moment on, His Highness told himself that one day, he would definitely go north and fight until the barbarians in the north bowed their heads and dared not to do it again."
"I don't even know," Li Rong laughed lightly, "So he had the idea of a northern expedition so early."
"So, His Royal Highness is different from you," Pei Wenxuan surrounded Li Rong's chess pieces on the chessboard, he raised his chess pieces, and said slowly, "Most of the things he wants to have and do in the courtroom stem from There are certain feelings in his heart. He wants to go north to protect his subjects and his family. He fights against the family to ensure that what he wants to achieve can be achieved. But in the end, his purpose in court seems to have been achieved, but he also Why would he be happy when he lost forever what he wanted in the first place?"
"Lost Qin Zhenzhen?" Li Rong laughed mockingly.
"He has lost you, his mother, his wife, and himself. Even if he has mountains and rivers, it means nothing to His Royal Highness."
"He can't find his way, and he has no way to return. If you don't understand this, you will never be able to understand His Royal Highness."
Li Rong didn't speak, she looked at Pei Wenxuan quietly: "What does it mean to lose me?"
Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes and stared at Li Rong.
"His Royal Highness," he smiled bitterly, "It's not just His Royal Highness that has changed over the years."
Li Rong was stunned for a while, but Pei Wenxuan lowered his eyes and said indifferently, "And you and me."
Li Rong didn't speak, her face was calm, and Pei Wenxuan's words didn't seem to have any influence on her. She calmly settled down, and then reached out to serve tea, but the moment she touched the teacup, she found that her hand was trembling unconsciously and slightly.
Pei Wenxuan pretended not to see it, and looked at the chessboard with a calm expression.
He watched the chess game for a while, then raised his hand and pulled his sleeves lightly, and dropped the chess piece on the chessboard.
"Those who abandon me should not be left behind. The past is gone."
"Your Highness," Pei Wenxuan looked up at her with a smile in his eyes, "It doesn't matter if you lose this game, let's start a new game?"
Li Rong didn't speak. After a long time, she laughed and raised her hand to drop the chess piece on the chessboard.
In an instant, Pei Wenxuan lost most of his country.
Li Rong looked at the chessboard, raised her hand, looked at Pei Wenxuan with a smile, and said, "You are the one who lost, not in this palace."
Pei Wenxuan stared blankly at the chessboard, and then reacted: "Did you deliberately tease me?"
Seeing Pei Wenxuan's shock, Li Rong laughed out loud and said happily, "I don't want to be deceived, I won't talk to you today, how did I win?"
"Sure enough, only women and villains are difficult to support." Pei Wenxuan put his hands in his sleeves, shook his head and said, "I've learned it today, and I won't be able to talk to you when I play chess in the future."
"Don't," Li Rong said with a smile: "You talk to me more, I like it."
Pei Wenxuan looked disgusted and sat aside, not wanting to pay attention to Li Rong.
Li Rong and him were burying each other, saying that they arrived at the Princess Mansion without saying a word. After getting off the carriage, Li Rong went back to the room first. She first got familiar with it and went to bed. Pei Wenxuan went back to the room after busying for a while. When he arrived at the door, he saw Jingmei and Jinglan standing at the door. He waved to Jingmei. Jingmei came forward with some doubts, and Pei Wenxuan said in a low voice, "Your Highness has a conflict with the prince in the palace today?"
"That's not true," Jingmei shook her head and said honestly, "I just talked for a while, it seems that His Royal Highness does not want to marry the side concubine. After speaking, His Royal Highness is not very happy, you can comfort her. ."
As she spoke, Jingmei squeezed her eyes: "Your Highness will be much happier when you talk to your concubine."
Pei Wenxuan smiled and didn't say much, just said, "Don't tell Your Highness I'm asking you this."
"The slaves understand that the concubine is secretly concerned."
Pei Wenxuan was a little embarrassed when Jingmei said this. He coughed lightly and waved: "Don't be fooling around, let's go."
Jingmei pursed her lips and smiled and returned to her original position, while Pei Wenxuan pushed the door in. Li Rong had already fallen asleep. After washing in the dark, he returned to the bed.
He lay on the bed for a while, and Li Rong said vaguely, "Are you going to sleep now?"
Pei Wenxuan responded in a low voice in the night. Li Rong slept in another bed with her back to him. Her back was very thin, and she looked small.
In fact, as soon as Jingmei said that, Pei Wenxuan could almost guess what Li Rong had talked about with Li Chuan. He knew the weight of Li Chuan in Li Rong's heart, and he also knew Li Rong's temperament. Today's talk, Li Rong Thinking about Li Chuan's last life, he must be unhappy.
He intuitively felt that he should persuade Li Rong, but he didn't know what to persuade. If Li Rong was sad and sad, he liked to cover it up by himself, so that no one else would know. If you say it too clearly, she will be embarrassed, afraid of having the opposite effect.
But if he doesn't say a word...
He also felt that the Li Rong in this life was no different from the previous life. Whether he is there or not, Li Rong is going to go through all the soreness and pain alone.
When he thought about it this way, he felt that he was being disrespectful.
Although Li Rong was a little arrogant, she was actually very kind and treated him well. He accepted Li Rong's kindness and took care of her a little more.
So he thought for a moment, and finally said awkwardly, "Your Highness."
"Um?"
"I'm here to pick you up today, are you happy?"
When Li Rong heard this, she slowly opened her eyes in the night.
She wanted to bury him a few words, and suddenly remembered the warmth that this person gave him when he stood behind her when the wind and rain came. She couldn't speak for a while, so she replied in a low voice: "It's okay."
Pei Wenxuan laughed, he propped himself up and said happily: "Then every time you go out, I'll pick you up. That way, when you come back, you won't feel bored if you have someone as your companion. "
When Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan speak, she turned over and looked at Pei Wenxuan seriously.
"Pei Wenxuan," she stared at him, "you tell me the truth."
"Um?"
"Are you asking for money again?"
Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong's solemn eyes, and was speechless for a while. He felt that his good intentions were like a donkey's liver and lungs, so he turned over, pulled the quilt, and muttered, "The dog bites Lu Dongbin."
Li Rong was happy to hear this. She lay flat on the bed. After a while, she kicked Pei Wenxuan: "In the future, before you and I go our separate ways, come pick me up every day, do you hear?"
"Don't go."
Pei Wenxuan closed his eyes: "Go to sleep, there is everything in your dreams."
Li Rong knew that he was being sarcastic, but ignored him and fell asleep with a smile.
When she was lying on the bed, she didn't know why, but she felt a lot more joyful, and felt that no matter how bad she was in her previous life, it seemed that she could change it.
Even Pei Wenxuan, a dog thief, can talk to her so well, what can't be changed
Li Rong closed her eyes and fell asleep with a smile.
The two stayed at home for a few days. Pei Wenxuan drank tea and played chess with her. After walking around, the marriage leave was over.
When Pei Wenxuan began to go to court, Li Rong went to various tea houses to listen to the scholars' talk, and see if he could meet a few useful people, or other aunts who lived abroad. Go there for a door and get in touch with some feelings.
In a blink of an eye, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the queen held a banquet in the palace and invited all the young men and women of the appropriate age from the courtiers' families to enter the palace to celebrate the Qixi Festival together. Li Rong waited for this day for a long time, she was ready early, and led Pei Wenxuan into the palace ahead of schedule. After arriving in the palace, Li Rong sorted out the people in the palace in her heart, then raised her eyes to look at Pei Wenxuan: "Is it useful to give you so much money?"
Pei Wenxuan was helpless and gave her two names: "These two are people who serve today. If you have anything to do, you can find them."
Li Rong nodded, and then said, "Have you found anything special about today's palace banquet?"
"Others are normal, but I heard one thing." Pei Wenxuan leaned against the table, looked at the book in his hand, and said slowly, "This palace banquet prepared many identical incense burners, and also added a lot of spices."
"Um?"
After hearing this, Li Rong thought for a while and said, "Are they going to incense at the banquet?"
"If you want to ask for a marriage, naturally you need some reasons."
Pei Wenxuan said directly: "I heard that Concubine Rou wants to recommend that girl who is very good at perfumery."
Li Rong realized, she laughed: "It seems that tonight will be very interesting."
Pei Wenxuan responded, and without saying much, Li Rong leaned over and looked at the book he was reading, and found that they were all from ginseng.
In the last life, Pei Wenxuan was born in the Censor's Desk. This is his specialty. Li Rong supported his chin and said, "You are very busy."
"Three fires for a new officer to take office," Pei Wenxuan laughed, "Your Majesty has the heart to use me as a knife, so of course you have to help him see some blood. If I don't work hard, can I be promoted? Go ahead a little bit," Pei Wenxuan raised his hand to put the curtain on the car Pulling it away, he glanced at Li Rong in disgust, "You're blocking my light."
Li Rong shrugged. She shifted her position and smoked a book. After reading it for a while, she felt bored again. When she thought of the banquet in the palace, she couldn't calm down, turned her head and said to Pei Wenxuan, "Aren't you in any other mood?"
"What's your mood?" Pei Wenxuan looked at the official document, calmly. Li Rong poked him with a fan: "I'm going to see your real sister today."
Pei Wenxuan's movements froze, he raised his head and frowned: "Are you all boring?"
Seeing that he was really angry, Li Rong quickly stood up and coughed lightly: "Just chat casually. Today's Qixi Festival, don't read the official document first," Li Rong said, taking the Zhezi looked at him and said, "Let's talk about personal matters, Qin Zhenzhen is going to see Chuan'er today, aren't you worried?"
"What do I need to worry about?"
"What if they see the right eye?"
"Isn't that what you're worried about?" Pei Wenxuan gave her a cold look and went to get her book. Li Rong saw that he didn't want to pay attention to her at all, so she held her chin and said, "I'm thinking of you, don't you go first Let's do it and cultivate a relationship with Qin Zhenzhen, what if she is going to marry after we divorce?"
"It's not my business?"
Pei Wenxuan said directly, and then he didn't wait for Li Rong to speak, and immediately said: "Instead of caring about this, you might as well be more concerned about Su Rongqing coming tonight, how can you talk to him more."
Li Rong was choked by him, and Pei Wenxuan raised his eyebrows and smiled when he saw that she was dumb: "But it's not good for you to say more directly now, don't worry, I will help you to hint him tonight."
"Dark... What does it imply?" Li Rong was a little scared. Seeing that she was scared, Pei Wenxuan pursed his lips and smiled, looked down at Zhezi, and stopped talking.
Li Rong was silent for a while, but she still couldn't help poking Pei Wenxuan with her fan: "What are you implying?"
"Indicate to him that we are a fake husband and wife, and we will divorce in the future, so that if you contact him in the future, he will not take care of me."
Pei Wenxuan looked down at Zhezi, and he didn't know what to do. He felt a little chest tightness when he said this.
But he restrained his emotions. He thought that he didn't like Su Rongqing for a long time, and it had become a habit. If he wanted to help Li Rong, he had to adjust his mentality.
Li Rong heard that Pei Wenxuan was so planned and executed, she coughed lightly: "Actually, I don't think Su Rongqing and I are either..."
Pei Wenxuan raised her eyes and looked over, and Li Rong instantly remembered what Pei Wenxuan said that night.
She was afraid that Pei Wenxuan would read her scriptures again, and vaguely, she also felt that maybe according to Pei Wenxuan's words, trying again, it might not be... not a good thing
I do not know the true face of Mount Lu, only because I am in this mountain. Pei Wenxuan is an outsider, maybe he sees it better than she does.
Just like when she sees Pei Wenxuan, she needs to see herself more clearly than Pei Wenxuan sees herself.
Although she felt a little strange in her heart, she still reluctantly accepted: "Then I'll have a good talk with Qin Zhenzhen too."
"No need." Pei Wenxuan said immediately, "Not at this time."
"Indeed," Li Rong nodded, "I think it's too early. So you don't have to talk too much with Su Rongqing."
"Just mention it like that."
The two spoke in unison and reached an inexplicable tacit understanding.
The two chatted all the way to the palace. When they arrived, there were already many people. When Pei Wenxuan saw his colleagues, he smiled and greeted them. Li Rong greeted him and went to the women's seat by himself.
For the banquet, the male guest seat was in the main hall, and the female guest seat was set up in the imperial garden. When Li Rong passed by, there were already many daughters from aristocratic families.
Shangguanya was born and was talking to the eldest lady of the Su family and several county masters. Her voice was not high and she spoke gently, but because of her clear voice, Li Rong could hear Shangguanya's voice as soon as she entered the garden. . She raised her eyes and looked over, Shangguanya heard the sound of her coming in, and after looking at it, she just swept away, and looked away as if she had never seen it before.
Then she stood up with everyone and saluted Li Rong together.
She was graceful and dignified, and she was no different from the person in Li Rong's memory, but she was completely incompatible with the girl from the casino before.
Li Rong wanted to laugh for a while, but she suppressed her smile, walked over to Shangguanya, took her hand and said, "Sister Aya is also here today."
Shangguanya's body was a little stiff, she forced a smile, but said, "It's too early to come down."
"Sister Aya is not too late. Is this the first time to enter the palace today?"
"I came here once when I was a child." Shangguanya calmed down slowly, relaxed a lot, and chatted with Li Rong rules.
After the two talked for a while, people almost came. Li Rong glanced at Qin Zhenzhen not far away and walked in with a few girls talking and laughing, and then was led to sit behind Shangguanya.
There were too many female guests, and the seats became several rows. As Qin Zhenzhen, she naturally couldn't be in the first row on the left or right, so she retreated to the first row of the second row, just behind Shangguanya.
Li Rong speculated and glanced at Qin Zhenzhen, and saw that Qin Zhenzhen seemed to have never seen her before. Without looking sideways, she respectfully said, "I have seen Your Highness."
Then she looked at Shangguanya and saluted politely: "I have seen Miss Shangguan."
Li Rong and Shangguan Ya returned their salutes, and even said hello, Qin Zhenzhen sat down in his seat, watched his nose and heart, and stopped talking.
The announcement of the Queen's admission came from outside, and Li Rong didn't stay any longer. She stood up and smiled with Shangguanya: "Bengong has returned to the table first, and sister Aya can do it at her own discretion."
Shangguanya salutes Li Rong away, Li Rong sits opposite Shangguanya, and then sees the queen leading the other four concubines to the table, everyone stands up and salutes, and after the queen sits down, she asks everyone to get up and take their seats.
"Today's Qixi Festival, you should be celebrating at home, but this palace thought it would be better for everyone to be lively and lively, so I specially invited you all," the queen opened her mouth and said with a smile, "Don't feel resentful in your heart."
"The queen mother is joking," Li Rong took the queen's words from the seat, "Young girls love to be lively. You invited everyone here. It's too late for everyone to be happy."
Li Rong said this, and there were successive voices of approval from the next convenience, and the scene became lively for a while.
The queen relaxed and announced the opening according to the procedure. In the main hall in front, Li Ming presided over and led Li Chuan to banquet young officials.
After a group of young girls had eaten, they began to play around, took needles and thread to wear for a long time, and then began to make wishes.
Li Rong was already married, and she had indeed lost interest in these things, so she sat there and watched a group of girls lively.
Concubine Rou drank some wine and seemed to be a little drunk. She raised her eyes and looked at the queen and said, "Niang Niang, it's almost time for you, why don't you have someone bring the incense burner up and let everyone compare?"
When Li Rong heard this, she raised her eyes to look at Concubine Rou. The others were also a little puzzled, but the Queen seemed to have known it for a long time. She nodded and said, "Then let someone bring it up."
When Concubine Rou got this, she immediately greeted everyone back to their seats, and then said: "In the past, everyone had to have some fun at the Qixi Festival banquet, but now it's a palace banquet, and there are too many people. Usually, those who play drums and write poems are afraid of making trouble. No, so today, the empress's poem is changed to perfume. The unmarried girls here today will make perfume together, and then they will be sent to the main hall. The prince will choose one, two or three, and there will be a big reward, how about it? "
Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then they each had a different look.
As long as you are not a fool, you can understand what Concubine Rou means. The queen called the unmarried daughters of the noble family into the palace, and asked them to make fragrances and let the prince choose the incense. Now the prince has not yet married, and Li Rong has just married. What it means, it couldn't be more obvious.
So some people showed joy and eagerness to move, and some people looked at a loss.
And Shangguan Yasu Rongwen, most of the high-class women have a dull expression. They should have known the news early, or Qin Zhenzhen, who seemed to be completely out of the way, with a calm and calm face that said "This matter has nothing to do with me".
Li Rong looked at everyone's expressions, laughed playfully, and suddenly said, "Mother, I don't think it's right."
As soon as she opened her mouth, everyone looked over. Li Rong smiled and said, "Everyone is here to attend the banquet. Why do they just mix incense and get rewards, but not my son? My son also wants to join."
"Rong'er, what are you messing with?" The queen frowned, signaling her not to mess around.
Seeing the Queen's expression, Li Rong knew that this matter was probably decided by the Queen and Concubine Rou.
Concubine Rou's purpose is very simple. If she wants to marry her niece, she needs a reason. It is the best excuse for Li Chuan to choose her niece's fragrance.
And the queen would agree, and naturally it was in the eyes of the queen that she could control the situation and let Li Chuan choose the fragrance of Shangguanya, and then the Shangguan family simply decided to marry Shangguanya and the prince.
They each made their own calculations, regarded the position of the crown princess as a reward, and then made the same decision.
Li Rong didn't know if Li Chuan knew, but what she was sure about was that she could choose anyone who was present today, and definitely not Shangguanya, Concubine Rou's niece, or Qin Zhenzhen.
So Li Rong didn't retreat, and looked at the queen with a smile: "It's not too much to add me, mother, you promised me, right?"