"The eldest princess's love for Your Highness has never died!" Li Rufeng looked at him sympathetically, "Your Highness needs to think of a solution quickly! His Highness rejected her with the excuse that his father would not allow it, and now Emperor Xiao is dead. She will definitely bring up the past! Your Highness, please don’t forget that when things happened in a hurry, the Xiao family did not formally propose to Princess Mingzhen to break off the engagement, and the Geng Tie exchanged by Emperor Xiao back then is still in the hands of the eldest princess!"
"Stop talking!" Xiao Lin frowned more and more tightly, "I feel pain in my head when I think about it!"
If he were from a family like Gao Qi, Xue and Zhao, all he had to do was look like a tiger, frown, and say some high-sounding words, and these people would automatically retreat and would never embarrass him.
After all, everyone has been immersed in the officialdom for so long, and what they are best at is observing faces. Even if they are dissatisfied, they will not show it, and at least they will work hard to maintain their appearance.
But the eldest princess, mother and daughter, were different.
They are women, or poor women who have lost their husbands and their families. The eldest princess's husband's surname is Li, and he was also a lord of Houmen at that time. The late emperor needed the strength of the Li family, so he married the eldest princess to Li Xu, the eldest son of Li. Li Xu was a He was a rough man and did not understand the charm. The relationship between the eldest princess and him was not good at first. They were at odds with each other for several years. Later, all the men in Li Fuma's family died in the battle, and she came to her senses and recalled Fuma. of various benefits.
But that was all later. She was absolutely unwilling to get married, but for the sake of the Great Xiao Emperor, she still got married in tears. As a result, her relationship with Fu Ma was about to blossom. , Fu Ma died, leaving her alone in this world. Speaking of it, the happiness of this life was ruined in this marriage formed for profit.
For this reason, the late emperor felt deeply sorry for her, and made a will before his death that no matter who succeeded the throne, he would treat the eldest princess as a guest and support her well. If she had any requests, he would try his best to satisfy her. If he cannot do this, he is not worthy of continuing his rule.
This legacy is now in the hands of the eldest princess, but she has never taken it out and used it in these years.
She is a smart and perceptive person with a gentle and kind-hearted temperament. She usually lives in seclusion and has no fights with the world. Even the subsequent battle for the right to inherit the throne, she stayed out of it from beginning to end. She used her poor health to exclude the princes from trying to win over her. He refused, never accepted their banquets, and did not have too many interactions with any of them.
But she likes children and does not associate with the princes. However, when she meets the princes and grandchildren, she still behaves like an elder and rewards them every time she sees them.
As one of the emperor's grandsons, Xiao Lin was the one who received the most rewards from her, and was also the one whom she valued and loved the most.
This imperial aunt took care of her as a child, and Xiao Lin certainly respected her very much.
Speaking of which, if something hadn't happened suddenly to the Li family and their usefulness had not been lost, even if Xiao Lin was reluctant, his marriage to Mingzhen would have been a certainty.
Because Ming Zhen is too paranoid.
She was obsessed with Xiao Lin from the first moment she saw him. She was only four or five years old at that time, but the first thing she did when she opened her eyes every day was to yell for her beautiful brother and pester her every day. The eldest princess went to Emperor Xiao's dormitory at that time. If the eldest princess hadn't wanted to avoid suspicion, she would have moved directly to the dormitory!
At first, Xiao Lin regarded her as a little sister and the sister of an elder who loved him, so he naturally took good care of her. However, as he grew older, he disliked Princess Mingzhen less and less.
This woman's obsession with him is simply suffocating sometimes!
She likes Xiao Lin, so she doesn't allow any girls to appear around Xiao Lin. Even if she says a few words to Xiao Lin, she will cause trouble for them!
She has a distinguished and special status, and girls from ordinary families and even the royal family are reluctant to mess with her. Therefore, she often succeeds and is so bold that in the end, she secretly revenges herself and injures a little girl of her own age. !
And that little girl happened to be Xu Qiang's cousin. Xu Qiang stood up for her cousin and beat Mingzhen severely. This created a rift between the two. From then on, whenever they met, they would be extremely jealous, especially when they met. After learning that this fat boy who had been lusting after Xiao Lin was actually a girl, Mingzhen hated her even more. He often tried to make things difficult for her. The housewife used all those shameful methods.
After Xiao Lin found out, he found the eldest princess and told her the truth. Only then did the eldest princess realize that she had spoiled her, so she was confined to the house and was not allowed to go out.
At this time, Xiao Lin also guarded the border with his grandfather and spent more than half of the year in the northern border. Even when he returned to Beijing, he refused Mingzhen's visit in every possible way. Over time, the two of them broke off all contact. Occasionally I heard news about her from the eldest princess.
In the eyes of the eldest princess, she is of course still a good girl. She used to be young and ignorant, and doing some stupid things was not a big problem. Now she is older, knowledgeable, courteous, elegant and beautiful, and she is no longer the willful little girl she used to be. .
But Xiao Lin still had a bad impression of her. In order to prevent her from returning to her old ways, even if he saw her at the banquet, he would not look away from her and treat her as a stranger. He only hoped to use this method to directly cut off her thoughts. think.
But now it seems that he still underestimated Mingzhen's paranoia and stubbornness!
This time she suddenly appeared, and with her temperament, there was no telling what trouble she would cause!
With the eldest princess in the middle, he always treats her with caution. He can't punish her severely, but he doesn't dare to let her go lightly. It's a tricky thing to do!
Thinking about it here, he had a splitting headache and was filled with sorrow. On the other side, Su Li acted like a normal person, smiling and discussing the old things she brought with Bai. ..
It can be seen that the mother loves her unborn daughter very much. She was only a few months old at that time, and she began to prepare for her birth, making a lot of small clothes, shoes and so on.
Su Li pulled out a colorful tiger head hat and gestured to it childishly: "Mother-in-law, does it look good?"
"Good-looking! Good-looking!" Bai replied repeatedly, "Ah Ning's little girl is so beautiful! Ah, by the way, this golden lock was also prepared for you by your mother!"
She carefully opened a brocade box, and found a yellow golden lock of longevity lying quietly inside, remaining true to its original character despite the vicissitudes of time.
Su Li happily took it and looked through it with admiration. When she saw the word "Jiaojiao" engraved on the back, her eyes started to heat up. She put the golden lock around her neck. The rope was a little tight, a little strangler. But she still couldn't bear to take it off.
This was given to her by her mother!
Having been rejected and hated by others since childhood, and later made miserable by a fake mother like Su Yun, Su Li's desire for family affection is far stronger than that of ordinary people.
