Once the Qixi Festival is over, it will be closer to the Obon Festival in July and a half. In addition to praying for disaster relief and thanking parents for their kindness, the Obon Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival among the people, and there is a custom of mourning the dead.
Therefore, Zhu Yi always writes essays in the Buddhist temple devoutly. Jixiangshu prays for the living, and Chaobashu pays homage to the dead. Take it to the incense burner outside the Daxiong Palace and melt it.
Zhu Yi was interrupted by a little novice's question, and after walking halfway from the Buddhist hall, she remembered that she forgot to take the paper book with her, so Xie Ying took the initiative to help her get it.
On the incense case, there was a long row of yellow auspicious incense sticks and white super-basic incense sticks neatly arranged, and Xie Ying took them one by one. There are more than ten pieces of auspiciousness, and they are naturally the queen mother, the emperor and other members of the royal family. Xie Ying also saw his name.
There are only four Chaobashu, which are Zhu Yi's biological parents and Lin Shi, the mother who took care of her when she was a child. Xie Ying picked up the last one, and as he expected, the words "Shao Congyi" imprinted in his eyes.
Xie Ying stared at these three words for a long time, with no expression on his face, but the hostility in his eyes was frightening. He slowly closed his palms, and crushed the super-drawn paper into a ball of paper scraps.
After Zhu Yi took the paper from Xie Ying, she flipped through it quickly, and said, "You took one away." She also said lightly, "Really, I can't do this well."
Xie Ying didn't show a single point on his face, and asked indifferently: "Really, who did I take away for the princess?"
Zhu Yi didn't say who was missing, just said: "Forget it, I'll let Mianfeng make another trip."
"I can see clearly, there is nothing else there." Xie Ying looked at Zhu Yi.
Zhu Yi thinks about it too, Xie Ying has always been rigorous in his work, how could he be so careless. So where did Shao Congyi's superlativeness go? Could it be that it was blown down by the wind and swept away by the little monk? She said: "It might be lost. It doesn't matter, it's still early, I'll just rewrite it. Alright, thank you son for helping me get the things. Go and do it if you have something to do."
This is to tell Xie Ying to leave, so that she can write and do her own business.
At this moment, Zhu Yi cast his eyes from Zhi Shu to Xie Ying, and his heart trembled: "What are you doing looking at me like this?"
Xie Ying said: "I looked at it at the time, and everyone should be there. I asked the princess who was missing, and the princess didn't say anything. Is there something ulterior?"
Only then did Zhu Yi realize his abnormality, and said, "What did you say? What I wrote here is either a relative or a benefactor. There is nothing to tell."
Xie Ying said: "Then who is the one I took away? Let me hear what the princess said."
Zhu Yi was silent for a moment, then said: "That was my first bodyguard, named Shao Congyi. When I was thirteen years old, when I was playing in the Baihua Terrace of Yuquan Palace, it suddenly collapsed due to heavy rain, and Shao Congyi died protecting me. Shouldn't I pay homage to him?"
Xie Ying smiled ironically, and said slowly, "Yes." After speaking, she turned around and left.
Zhu Yi frowned tightly, and she said, "Xie Ying, stop!" She ran up to Xie Ying to stop him, and asked, "Please explain clearly, what do you mean by your attitude today?"
"When did the princess know my birthday?" Xie Ying asked her after silence.
Zhu Yi was startled: "I asked you the day before yesterday."
"That's right. Given how close I am to the princess now, I didn't know the date of birth until the day before yesterday. But the princess still remembers the guard's birthday and death clearly."
Zhu Yi came to his senses and asked, "Didn't you say you haven't seen that super book?" Shao Congyi's birth date and death date were all written on that super book. If he hadn't seen it, how would he know
Xie Ying no longer concealed it: "I told lies to the princess earlier, I have seen it."
"What about Shuwen?"
"Tear it up." After Xie Ying finished speaking, she left without caring about Zhu Yi's increasingly ugly face.
Xie Ying had left for a long time, but Zhu Yi was still staring at the door, tightly twisting her skirt with her two hanging hands.
This afternoon, Xie Ying never looked for Zhu Yi again, and she ordered Wen Yan to guard her. Occasionally, the two met in the yard, and Zhu Yi went to see Xie Ying. They didn't stop, as if they didn't know each other.
This time, Zhu Yi didn't ask Wen Yan what Xie Ying was up to. After thinking about Xie Ying's attitude for so long, she felt that she hadn't guessed that there were eight points and five points.
If it is said that she loves jealousy like her, but Shao Congyi is dead, Xie Ying even treats Rong Xiao as a living person lightly, there is no reason to care about Shao Congyi so much. The biggest possibility is that he wanted to abandon her, and he just took advantage of Shao Congyi to get angry.
What did Xie Ying say in that sentence—"Based on the closeness between me and the princess now, I only found out the date of birth the day before yesterday. But the princess still remembers the guard's birthday and death clearly." She understood what he meant. He just thought that she had been intimate with Shao Congyi, just like she was with him.
She is so stupid, so stupid that if Xie Ying says he likes her, she will lose everything. She couldn't bear to let him down and wanted to see him happy, so she even gave him the most precious innocence of the girl's family, but what did she get in exchange? ... Maybe it was because of her "generosity" that he felt that she was interested in Shao Cong and would be so generous to other men.
It may also be because of the signature. Although there are many ways to interpret the signature, if such a signature is misunderstood, it will really attract people's imagination.
Zhu Yi laughed at herself, and Xie Ying also said that she would be responsible for her and would marry her, but in the end, she was still the same as the first time, she turned her face when she said it was the first time, and she let it go when she said she would let it go. Probably this is the difference between a man like him who does big things and a little girl like her.
The atmosphere between Xie Ying and Zhu Yi these two days made Rong Ting feel that something was wrong, finally caught Xie Ying who came back from outside at night, and asked, "What's the matter with you and the princess?"
Xie Ying said lightly: "It's nothing." He walked around behind the screen, ready to change clothes and take a bath.
Rong Ting snorted and said: "It's okay to lie to me, just don't lie to yourself. Tell me, what happened, tell brother, brother can help you with details." He paused and said: "Don't you think that the princess has something to do with Rong Xiao? What? Rong Xiao is in unrequited love, the princess can't look down on a brat like Rong Xiao."
Rong Ting treats Xie Ying differently, and because Zhu Ning loves Wu and Wu, he treats Zhu Yi as a girl. The two of them were arguing and poking his eyes every day, which made him really unhappy to watch.
However, based on his understanding of Xie Ying, the more he deliberately avoided talking about it, the more he cared about it. Therefore, Rong Ting didn't think that Xie Ying would just let Zhu Yi go. If he made the princess angry, wouldn't he be the one who suffered later? Alas, even a smart person like A Ying can't get over that hurdle when he encounters love characters.
Xie Ying didn't speak, he knew that Zhu Yi had no idea about Rong Xiao, but she was still thinking about another person. Xie Ying thought of the sword tassels Zhu Yi gave him that she claimed to have made, and let out a sneer.
Wen Yan begged to see Xie Ying outside the door, saying that there was something about the princess to report. Xie Ying put on the outer clothes again. Wen Yan said: "My son, the princess only called Mianfeng and Chang Lin when she went out today, and no slaves followed her. Just now the princess went out again, and it was the princess who invited her over. Seeing that it was too late, I was a little worried, so I asked son..."
Before Wen Yan finished speaking, Xie Ying had already left the house.
Rong Ting: "..." It seems that he doesn't need to worry anymore.
The crown prince and Zhu Dai also lived in the temple, but the crown prince was not there during the day and only came at night.
The prince has been very irritable for the past two days. He Zhuliang, the mine supervisor of Datong Mansion, was the one he put in with great effort. Liu He, the magistrate, had also been drawn to his camp a long time ago. The two cooperated well, and the mine tax was actually collected. One number, and another number that went into the internal storage. Only one place in Datong Mansion brought in a lot of money for the prince.
The reason why the prince chose Hezhu Liang to enter Datong is that he is extremely cautious, and he has always been at ease with him. Who knows that money and silk are blinding people's eyes, and He Zhuliang's mind is lost when he steps on the golden mountain. He has long been dissatisfied with the few stars that the prince leaked to him through the fingers, and he cooperated with Liu He to open a private one in Lingqiu County. The silver mine is still under the banner of the crown prince, but the good thing is that the crown prince didn't get any of it.
The miners in Lingqiu County jointly filed a lawsuit against the imperial court, saying that it was He Zhuliang who overshadowed the sky with one hand, and that the slaves and privately detained people were killed by mining for him. It stands to reason that such things as imperial certificates were not easily handed over to Beijing, but they were not only sent to Beijing, but also fell into the hands of Zhou Baichuan, the censor of the right capital, before being presented to the emperor.
The prince sat on the chair and pinched his brows. He only came over after making trouble with Yiyi, but his heart was still full of violence. The princess said that Zhu Yi and Xie Ying hadn't said a word in the past two days. It seems that there was a conflict? This news made the prince rarely smile.
Zhu Yi had already arrived, and he called out to the emperor in a warm voice, and the crown prince responded flatly, and sat aside to watch the crown princess talk to Zhu Yi. The concubine ordered Zhu Yi to be handed Xingsu drink, saying that she made it herself, and urged her to drink it. The princess was so enthusiastic, Zhu Yi couldn't help it, so he had to pick it up and taste it.
The prince watched Zhu Yi's small mouth squirming gently into the cup, the bright red and full petals made the man's lower body ready to move again. The prince found that when he was irritable, he wanted to see Zhu Yi very much, but when he saw her, he often became more irritable, and the anger he wanted to vent on her could never be vented.
The servant next to the crown princess came in at this moment and said, "The prince has arrived."
Zhu Yi, the prince and his wife were all a little surprised, the princess called immediately, and Xie Ying came in, he called the prince and his wife, and then looked at Zhu Yi: "When the princess ordered someone to come to escort me, I I'm changing clothes, I'm late."
When had she sent for him? Zhu Yi just looked into Xie Ying's eyes, and the disappointment and grievance in her heart came out again. She was afraid that her expression would reveal her thoughts, so she quickly moved her eyes away.
There was gloom in the prince's eyes, and after knowing that Xie Ying also had a crush on Zhu Yi, his thoughts changed. He was wondering if he should get Zhu Yi out of the palace as soon as possible and lock her up in the Guanju Pavilion that he had prepared for her a long time ago. Otherwise, if the emperor decides to marry her, Zhu Yi would have to marry even if it wasn't Xie Ying. Waiting until the day he ascends the throne to take it back, I am afraid that the children will be born, so how could he allow Zhu Yi to give birth to other men. The prince stared at Zhu Yi's flat abdomen. Since Zhu Yi entered the palace as an adopted daughter of the royal family, she was destined to be his plaything. As for his child, it doesn't matter whether it comes out of Zhu Yi's stomach or not.