At midnight, the houses and pavilions of Xuandehou Mansion were hidden in the dim skylight. The black plaque with gold characters had been eroded by wind and rain, and had long lost its original splendor.
The eaves were wet, and raindrops as big as copper coins fell from time to time, hitting the bluestone floor heavily.
Li Qingyi stood up from the bed, pursed his lips tightly, and looked at the dressing table over there.
There is a moon palace diamond pattern glazed mirror on the dressing table. Unlike ordinary bronze mirrors that can only vaguely illuminate faces, this glazed mirror reflects every detail of a person, and even the fine lines on the skin can be seen very clearly.
But the glazed mirror was put away after she entered the capital. She was never seen again until her mother gave it to the eunuch Qin Zeng as a plaything.
How could he appear in front of her now?
She was lost in thought in the mirror, and a figure turned around from behind the screen. He saw her sitting there in a daze, and asked softly: "Why is the girl awake, but worried about the princess' arrival?"
Li Qingyi subconsciously moved his gaze to the speaker.
The girl Silk Lan was suddenly stared at by such cold and stern eyes, and she trembled with fright.
And Li Qingyi's eyes froze instantly.
The woad in front of her has green eyebrows and a childish expression. She looks like she is thirteen or fourteen years old. Where is the confidant girl who has gone through countless bloody storms with her?
As if she had been stared at for too long, Jiulu couldn't help but asked in confusion: "Miss, why are you always in a daze?"
Big girl?
Woad has obviously called her Mrs. for many years.
Li Qingyi suddenly turned his eyes and looked at the room inch by inch.
She finally knew where that strange feeling when she woke up came from.
This is not the house she and Qin Zeng shared in the capital, but the residence she used to live in the Li family in Yangzhou. It is the boudoir where she has lived for fourteen years!
Li Qingyi walked to the dressing table in a daze, and the same childish face was reflected in the glass mirror.
She stretched out her hand, and her fingertips touched the glass mirror, which was cold and connected to the person in the mirror.
As if her soul and soul were united, a thought suddenly came to her mind, and she immediately picked up a hairpin and stabbed it into her palm!
"Big girl!"
Silan exclaimed and stepped forward to grab her hand, but she didn't have time.
Li Qingyi looked at the swelling blood beads in his palm, felt the sharp pain, and his heart was shaken.
Seeing that she was looking a little crazy, Jianlan stepped forward and hugged her, coaxing: "Miss, are you afraid of going to the capital? If you don't want to go, we won't go."
Li Qingyi was greatly shocked when he heard the words "go to the capital".
She went back five years!
She actually went back five years ago!
What about Qin Zeng?
Is Qin Zeng back too?
Silan's eyes were red: "The princess abandoned you and her daughter and remarried Li, and ignored you for so many years. Now this time, she suddenly wants to take you to the capital. Maybe it's not a good thing. This servant's heart is always twitching. Endless..."
Listening to Isam's words, Li Qingyi gradually calmed down.
This is really what Isatis said right.
The Li family was originally a Marquis of Xuande during the late emperor's reign. In a capital city where princes were everywhere, it was considered a middle-class family. It's just that the old marquis spoke for the guilty minister earlier, which made the current emperor dislike him, and he has gone downhill since then.
Only Li Zhifeng, the eldest son of Li, was as dazzling as jade and became more and more dazzling. He was a good man in the eyes of all the ladies in the capital.
Princess Yuanheng, who was spoiled by the Queen Mother, accidentally met her and was immediately attracted by her. Regardless of the decline of the Li family, she begged the Queen Mother for a long time, and finally got her wish, married Li Zhi and gave birth to Li Qingyi.
The couple's newlyweds can be considered loving and sweet.
But the good times did not last long. Li Zhilu was injured by a bandit and was paralyzed on the bed.
Princess Yuanheng was so noble that she couldn't bear the fact that her husband was a useless person, so she abandoned her father and daughter soon after and married Wei Shicheng, a young and romantic number one scholar in the new science.
Li Zhi suffered severe physical and mental injuries. He fell ill and died soon after.
At that time, Princess Yuanheng was the Empress Dowager's favorite granddaughter. She was extremely powerful and could do whatever she wanted.
However, times have changed.
When Li Qingyi was fourteen years old, Wei Shicheng had already established a foothold in the capital with the help of the Queen Mother's power. If he wanted to take a step forward, he only had to wait for an opportunity.
Princess Yuanheng was old and frail, and her great supporter, the Queen Mother, had also passed away.
Princess Yuanheng was worried as her husband was increasingly out of control, so she thought of her eldest daughter.
I want to use the eldest daughter I once cruelly abandoned for another opportunity...
The window lattice rattled in the night wind, awakening Li Qingyi's thoughts.
How did she answer woad last time?
She said: "My mother and Li remarried because she was forced by the Queen Mother. She has a new husband's family. If she worries about me anymore, her husband's family will definitely displease her. Besides, I have my grandparents taking care of me, so there is no need for her to worry." , and she hasn’t come to see me since. Now that my grandparents are gone, she misses me, so she naturally thought of a way to pick me up."
Li Qingyi laughed to himself. He was really naive at that time.
Heli's remarriage was clearly Princess Yuanheng's own wish, but the Queen Mother doted on her and helped her take on the matter.
Seeing that she was silent, Jian Lan advised again: "Perhaps, we should stay in Yangzhou honestly. The second master and second wife will never send you away casually. If you find a suitable marriage next year, you will be able to live a lifetime." Peace and happiness..."
Li Qingyi listened to what she said, and every word was kind words from the bottom of his heart. He was indeed her good woad, but she had to go to Qin Zeng.
"We still have to go to the capital, but we have to plan carefully and we can't just go along with everything they want."
Isatis doesn't understand. Whose wishes can't be followed?
Li Qingyi glanced at her, smiled warmly, and said, "Go to bed first."
Woad suppressed doubts and turned off the light, tossing and turning all night.
However, Li Qingyi slept extremely soundly and sweetly. When he woke up in the morning, he felt refreshed and even ate a few more bites of breakfast.
Then someone came to report that Princess Yuanheng and his party had arrived a hundred miles away from Yangzhou and would be able to enter the city at noon.
When Li Qingyi heard this, he said "hmm" lightly, as if he had just heard something irrelevant and didn't have much reaction.
Silan hesitated: "Girl, if you want to follow the princess back to the capital, you should be more polite..."
Before Li Qingyi could answer, Ruan, the second wife of the Li family, her second aunt came in.
"Qingqing, the princess is about to enter the city. Second aunt will accompany you to welcome her!"
Li Qingyi's pair of wonderful eyes lingered on her face for a moment, his expression was as well-behaved as ever, but his words were full of stubbornness.
"When my father was injured by a bandit, she abandoned our father and daughter to marry a new scholar, regardless of his disability. She made my father angry to death. My second aunt said, if she welcomes her, where will my father be placed? What will happen to our Li family? Where should I put my face?"
Mrs. Ruan choked for a while, "Second Aunt is doing it for your own good. After all, she is your mother. If you want to live with her in the future, you can't talk about old things all the time."
Li Qingyi lowered his eyes when he heard this, tears came at a moment's notice, and clear water droplets hung on his eyelashes, "Second aunt thinks that I am a burden and wants to drive me to the capital?"
Ruan sighed, broke it open, crushed it into pieces, and told Li Qingyi the pros and cons.
"In any case, you are also a daughter. If filial piety is too great, you should not be rude. If word spreads, it will not be good for your reputation. You can clean up first. Second Aunt will wait for you in front."
Li Qingyi sneered in his heart when he heard this, daughter?
Did Princess Yuanheng regard her as her daughter?
She gave herself to a eunuch for glory and power. What kind of mother is she?
Siam watched Ruan go out and said hesitantly: "Isn't the princess giving the second lady any benefits? She worked so hard to convince the girl?"
"The most urgent thing for my second aunt is just this one thing."
"Title?"
Li Qingyi glanced at her appreciatively: "My father died young, and the title of Marquis Xuande in our family should fall on my second uncle. Unfortunately, after my grandfather passed away, my second uncle handed over several invitations for the title, but nothing happened." It aroused a little response. This has become the second aunt's worry. "
Silan said angrily: "How did the second wife promise the old lady that she would marry you off properly and not wrong you in the slightest? Now that the old lady has been gone for less than two years, they don't even remember a word of it!" And for the sake of an empty title, I gave you to the princess!"
After Isatis said this, she remembered that Li Qingyi had told her clearly that she was going to the capital last night, and she suddenly stopped talking.
"Second Aunt has no bad intentions, she just wants to leave a title for the Li family."
Like her in the previous life, Ruan was too naive and underestimated Princess Yuanheng's ruthlessness.
"Okay, don't think about this now. Let me change my clothes. My mother is about to arrive too. We still have to cheer up and poke her lungs!"
Li Qingyi made it clear that he wanted to make Princess Yuanheng unhappy, but Shia Lan was a little unsure of her intentions.
You want to go to the capital, but you don’t want to look good to the princess?
Will this work?
At the gate of Li Mansion, a carriage decorated with gold lacquer and carvings slowly stopped. The woman who stepped out was in her thirties, with luxurious clothes and a haughty expression. She was Li Qingyi's mother, Princess Yuanheng.
The second lady Ruan rushed to greet her: "My wife has met the princess, Princess Jin An."
Princess Yuanheng glanced at her old home, feeling a sense of boredom in her heart. She couldn't bring herself to greet the second lady. She looked around, but didn't see the person she should see most, so she frowned hard. Get up: "Where is she?!"
