"Since the princess personally invited her, I would rather obey her orders than if I were respectful." After Fang Zilan said that, she followed Fang Ziqin into the inner courtyard, thinking to herself all the way. She was afraid that her sister's tea was a lie, and what she said was true, but she would be with her say something? Is it to reveal her true identity or to test her purpose of following King Xiang? She thought about it, but she didn't have a clue.
The original owner of Fang Zilan's body probably had the deepest impression of her eldest sister Fang Ziqin when she was summoned by her second sister Fang Zitong to look at flowers in the garden when she was twelve years old. Fang Zitong said that the tribute peonies were valuable and asked her to take care of them all the time, which was a clear sign of bullying her.
She originally thought that Fang Ziqin would help Fang Zitong bully her, the unpopular doormat of the Fang Mansion, or simply ignore him as if he didn't see it. Who would have expected that Fang Ziqin actually reprimanded Fang Zitong in a few words, and even when he got into trouble in front of his father Fang Chongzheng, he still told the truth clearly and unabashedly. Later, Fang Zitong's resentment towards her grew even more as she was forced to kneel down in the ancestral hall.
Thinking about it now, Fang Zilan can't figure out whether Fang Ziqin did it out of good intentions or deliberately. If she had put it in the past, she would not have thought so much and just assumed it was the former, but now...she thinks like this He couldn't help but sigh.
"Miss Xiu sighed, but you think the punishment I just imposed was too severe?" Fang Ziqin's voice rang in her ears, pulling her somewhat wandering thoughts back, "This is the princess's housework, I dare not say anything. "
"You haven't changed at all." Fang Ziqin smiled faintly, "At best, it sounds indifferent and uncontroversial. At worst, you don't know what to say. Sometimes I also wonder what do you care about?"
"I don't quite understand what the princess said, but I know very well that there are very few people in this world who are truly indifferent, at least not me." Fang Zilan said, taking the teacup handed over by Fang Ziqin, and looked at With wisps of white smoke rising, he couldn't help but continue, "It's just that some people have a hard time just being wise enough to protect themselves, let alone caring."
"If you really wanted to protect yourself wisely, you wouldn't have hesitated just now." Fang Ziqin put the tea cup in his hand on the table and looked at the person in front of him steadily, "You are just overestimating your capabilities. I want to protect others, but I don’t even have the ability to protect myself.”
"Protecting yourself is not something you can do only by hurting others." Fang Zilan's expression became a bit colder, "The princess is so high up that she doesn't know how difficult it is for an ant to survive."
"Since you know it's hard, you should stay calm." Fang Ziqin's smile disappeared. "Do you know what would happen if I let those two girls go just now? People's words are scary, maybe tomorrow there will be news in the capital With the news that His Royal Highness Prince Benxiang has lost his Sacred Heart, who will know what will happen when the current situation is unstable and people's hearts are changing? If you want to keep the high position you say about me, you can't do it with just a few beautiful words."
"The princess is very resourceful, I admire her very much." Fang Zilan's lips curled up slightly with a cold smile, "It's just a pity for those two little girls."
"I know you are not convinced. It doesn't matter, you have such a temper anyway." Fang Ziqin said, taking the tea cup on the table and taking a sip, "But let me remind you, be careful when doing things around His Highness, don't Cause trouble to His Highness."
Fang Zilan was a little confused. From the first words she heard from Fang Ziqin, she knew that she was convinced that she was Fang Zilan from the Fang family - her third sister. She originally thought that Fang Ziqin would test her purpose by insinuations, but who knew that she was actually Fang Zilan from the Fang family? She was told not to cause trouble to Prince Xiang, which made her a little bit uncontrollable. She couldn't help but ask: "The princess cares so much about His Highness Prince Xiang, doesn't she want to know why I am with His Highness?"
"Your Highness has his own reasons for doing things. I only need to do my part. What does other people do have nothing to do with me?" Fang Ziqin answered happily, but Fang Zilan was stunned for a moment.
Ignoring Fang Zilan's stunned look, Fang Ziqin said to herself: "It's getting late, and Miss Xiu must be hungry too. I've ordered the kitchen to cook a few good dishes, and we'll have a banquet when His Highness comes back."
After Fang Ziqin finished speaking, she stood up and was about to leave, but the next moment she heard Fang Zilan's voice, "Actually, it's not that I didn't understand what the princess did just now, I just couldn't accept it." After all, those two girls are living people, not at the mercy of others. commodity.
"Can't accept it?" After hearing this, Fang Ziqin turned around and glanced at the person in front of her, "Miss Xiu is still too young and has never suffered much. It doesn't matter, the road is long and difficult, you will always accept it."
"Really?" Fang Zilan sighed softly as if mumbling to herself. She didn't say that the princess and I were not on the same journey after all. Until now, she didn't know what path she was taking, but she had no choice but to turn back until she died. .
Prince Xiang didn't come back until the evening. For a moment, everyone in Prince Xiang's palace was panicking. However, Fang Ziqin didn't react at all. He just told her not to neglect Miss Xiu when His Highness was away, so she and Fang Zilan had a banquet.
Fang Zilan hesitated several times during the dinner, but Fang Ziqin didn't seem to notice it. Her calm and leisurely look made Fang Zilan couldn't help but murmur in her heart. King Xiang only brought Xiahou Zhang into the palace. If the Queen Mother had the intention to embarrass herself, she might It's not that easy to get away.
After eating and sleeping silently, Fang Zilan finally waited until the two of them had almost eaten. Just when she was about to say something, she heard Fang Ziqin's voice, "If Miss Xiu can trust His Highness, she can stay at home with peace of mind."
"The princess is really not worried about His Highness Prince Xiang at all?" Fang Zilan blurted it out almost without thinking, but she felt a little regretful the moment she said it.
Hearing this, Fang Ziqin was not annoyed, and said calmly: "What's the use of worrying? Instead of worrying about causing trouble for His Highness, it's better to guard Prince Xiang's Mansion safely and share the worries for His Highness."
"Princess is indeed as powerful as the rumors. I offended you, and I hope you will forgive me." Fang Zilan gave a salute openly and prepared to leave.
"Miss Xiu, if His Highness hasn't come back tomorrow morning, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble the girl to make a trip." Fang Ziqin's voice reached Fang Zilan's ears, making her startled, "What do you mean, Princess? "
"I don't want anything to happen to Your Highness, let alone the girl, right?" Fang Ziqin smiled faintly, but she only felt a chill behind her. In the past, I only thought that Fang Ziqin was a gentle and virtuous lady, but now it seems that her scheming methods are even more unfathomable. Did Fang Ziqin guess that she didn't want anything to happen to Prince Xiang, or did he already know that someone else was standing behind her?
When Fang Zilan thought about it, she felt even more horrified. If Fang Ziqin knew it, it meant that Fang Chongzheng also knew it. Then except for her, would everyone else in the Fang Mansion be pawns in the hands of the young master?
But if it was true as she thought, why did the young master keep hiding her identity as a killer from everyone and let her pretend to be a weak, harmless and dispensable concubine of the prime minister's house? She only felt that she was trapped in the situation, and through the fog, she could not see the truth at all.
"Miss Xiu?" Fang Ziqin stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Fang Zilan's eyes, and then she came back to her senses, "What does the princess want to say?"
"You know very well, don't you? Why pretend to know nothing." Fang Ziqin said, picking up the tea cup at hand, watching the wisps of tea smoke dissipate, and said calmly: "Sometimes I wonder what you are thinking. What, you know everything, but you choose the most difficult path. Just like this tea cigarette, you can see it but you can't fight for it, why bother?"
"You can't turn back until you die." As if out of control, Fang Zilan heard her own voice, "I have something I have to do no matter what, and God knows whether I can get it until the last moment."
"Then I'll wait and see." Fang Ziqin stood up and left after leaving these words. The maids and servants guarding the door came in and out to clean up the dishes on the table, but Fang Zilan sat there unconsciously, her mind Zhong repeatedly repeated what she had just said, and it was no longer clear whether that sentence was Fang Zilan's intention in ancient times or her own true intention.
What Fang Zilan knew in ancient times, she has not yet completely sorted out. The memory of this body is like broken glass, complete but fragmented, and the light of the so-called truth reflected is only one-sided.
She doesn't know what the ancient Fang Zilan is fighting for. There is only one fact that she knows. She is the living person now. What she wants to fight for is to live indestructibly in this era, have her own place, and then go home.
Fang Zilan didn't know how long she sat in the hall, until the sky turned completely dark, and she didn't care that it was pitch black in front of her. During this period, a little maid came over and wanted to help her light the lamp, but she did not agree. She sat quietly in the darkness. Suddenly she heard a servant calling out that His Highness Prince Xiang was back. Then she stumbled and tried to stand up. , her legs were already numb after sitting for too long, and the injury from the previous military staff had not yet healed, so she could barely stand still by holding on to the table.
Fang Zilan finally dragged her body to the door step by step, but saw Prince Xiang walking in a hurry, with a gloomy look on his face that she had never seen before. Xia Houzhang, who was chasing behind him, kept shouting at His Highness. Prince Xiang walked straight to the study as if he didn't hear him.
Just hearing a bang, Prince Xiang actually slammed the door? This is truly unprecedented. Ignoring the injuries on her body and her almost numb legs, Fang Zilan held on to the pillars in the corridor and walked to the door of the study. Looking at the helpless Xia Houzhang, she couldn't help but ask: "His Royal Highness, Prince Xiang, what is this?" What's wrong?"
Hearing the sound, Xia Houzhang turned around and looked at the person jumping behind him. He frowned and asked, "What's going on with you?" "I'm fine. I sat for too long and my legs are numb." Fang Zilan replied lightly. In one sentence, he deliberately ignored the look of disgust on Xia Houzhang's face and asked what he just said again, "What happened to His Highness Prince Xiang?"
