She raised her head and smiled at him. He took her hand again and said, "Qingya, I know that you are young and don't know the love between men and women. The lonely king has been missing you in Liaoyang. I hope you will treat me as you did when you were young."
She nodded and lowered her eyebrows, then suddenly retracted her hand: "Cousin..."
She swallowed the words that came to her lips, because it was difficult to say them due to the relationship between the two cousins.
Wan Yanyong replied: "It doesn't matter, I understand."
She was silent, and he gradually became happy from the silence for a moment, and said with a smile: "Okay, why are you so silent? Now that the lonely king is back in Beijing, you must come and sit more often. Your sister-in-law loves me on weekdays. Chess and reading, you two certainly have a lot in common."
"How are you, cousin sister-in-law?"
"Okay, of course it's good. You should know that your cousin-in-law has a son and a daughter, and the lonely king is still waiting for you to teach them calligraphy and calligraphy!"
"I'm clumsy. I don't have the qualifications to teach the county lord and the crown prince."
When he saw the gentleness and beauty in her words and the sincerity in her eyes, he loved her even more: "Don't be humble. You have been talented since you were a child. Everyone in Huining knows this."
"My cousin is like this, so Qingya will no longer refuse. I will visit my brother in person in a while."
"Okay, if you are really a military commander's daughter, I like a cheerful person like you."
The more he spoke, the more energetic he became, his piercing eyes constantly moving between her eyes.
She suddenly met his eyes and then turned away. She felt a dull pain in the wounds on her body and her shoulders kept shaking.
Upon seeing this, Wan Yanyong looked at her with gentle concern: "Sister, go back to your boudoir and have a good rest. Don't show off. Just treat the lonely king as a family member. You don't need to be so polite, huh?"
Seeing that he was affectionate and gentle, and indeed very sincere, she bowed slightly: "Then I will listen to my brother and went back to the boudoir. It was rare for my cousin to come, so she and her father had a good chat together. Qingya now Resigned."
She turned around and walked away without looking back. The sound of the bell on her waist gradually faded away, leaving only silence.
He nodded, feeling a little disappointed privately, and kept rubbing the teacup in his hand.
After Qingya left, he said to Li Shi: "Qingya has a more straightforward temperament. After all, she is young and ignorant, and cannot tell the difference between love and affection for her children. But uncle, you certainly know who King Qi is."
Li Shi raised the tea cup and said, "I know who King Qi is, so I stopped Qingya many times, but she didn't listen, so I'm afraid Lu'er will have to worry more about this matter."
"Wulu will think about it carefully, but uncle, please punish Qingya with your stick. There must be no next time. The girl has a delicate figure, so what if she gets damaged?"
He was measured in everything he said and did, and knew right from wrong, which added a little more trust to Li Shi's heart.
Li Shi made a few perfunctory remarks and then introduced the topic: "I know that there will be no such thing in the future, but I think that even though you two have reunited after a long separation, you still haven't changed your feelings?"
He suddenly laughed and said very shyly: "When Wulu and her cousins met, it was just a small friendship. They changed things at any time. Of course I have always liked them."
"That's good. Let her learn some housekeeping duties next year. After her thirteenth birthday, our two families will set a date and send her to the palace."
He nodded, then frowned and said, "Qingya is so young, it's probably too early to get married at thirteen!"
Li Shi lifted his long beard under his chin and replied: "Hey, to prevent the girl from becoming selfish as she grows older, it is better to get married early and be disciplined by her husband's family."
Of course he was willing, so he smiled and replied: "Okay, then Wulu has already made preparations."
There was purple smoke from the incense burner in the room, and the nephew and uncle were chatting and laughing on both sides of the tea table. It was in the evening before Li Shi saw Wan Yanyong off.
In the embroidery building, Qingya was lying on the bed, and Cuihe carefully applied medicine to her in the tent. He just watched her soybean-like sweat rolling down her cheeks, and her eyes were full of tears. The crystal tears hung in her eyes, as if they were slightly If you don't pay attention, it will fall.
After Cuihe applied it, she opened the plain bed curtain and said, "Girl, please don't take big steps anymore, the scars on your body will burst."
She wiped her tears with a handkerchief, rubbed her rosy cheeks and the tip of her nose, gritted her teeth and endured the pain, but after less than a moment, she sobbed against the pillow, her whole body trembling.
Cuihe gently stroked her back: "Girl, if you feel pain, just cry! This is uncomfortable."
While talking, Liang Xiyi walked in in two or three steps, and Cui He immediately greeted her: "Didn't you take the painkillers?"
"The nanny at the pharmacy said she didn't have any more, but I saw Cuitao taking several doses yesterday."
"Without the medicine, how can the girl's injury be cured? If this continues, she will be covered in scars," Cuihe said anxiously.
"Those sisters-in-law, sooner or later I will put a knife to their necks."
Qingya raised her head slightly and turned her face sideways: "That's all, if something happens to you, daddy will have us operated on, but they won't do it, so you sent someone to pawn a few more bracelets and go outside to change them." Just some medicine."
Xiyi suddenly sat beside the bed: "Young lady, just tell the eldest lady! Tell the eldest young man."
"It's not like I haven't said it before. Daddy covers the sky with one hand. Even if I tell her and the two of them, what will happen? It's better to solve it by yourself."
Cuihe frowned slightly: "Girl, how can you endure such suffering?"
She suddenly picked up a book on the bedside: "When heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. I hope In these hard days, if you accumulate good character, you will be able to become a person with both virtue and conduct in the future."
Cui He burst into tears: "This girl is like this. If you think about it, she can set an example for women in the world. She is as tough as silk and knowledgeable. I don't know what kind of person our girl will be in the future."
Xiyi wanted to make her happy, so he continued: "Cui He, don't tell me, maybe our girl will become a concubine or a queen in the future! Come on, let's have a benevolent king and a concubine, and together we can make a fortune for me." bustling."
"The more you talk, the more outrageous you are. Look at me. Now I am forced to eat raw rice in my mouth, and I still have such wishful thinking as a royal concubine and a wise empress."
Xiyi leaned closer to her face: "Who knows what will happen in the future, maybe!"
"It's never my turn, so I never think about these empty things. I just study hard!"
After saying that, Qingya looked at the book carefully alone, Xiyi casually went to the desk and took a book, moved a small pile beside the bed, and sat down to read.
When Cuihe saw this, he also brought a small piece of cloth, sat around the bed and embroidered a handkerchief.
Xiyi read a poem but didn't understand it. She was full of doubts. She leaned over and asked: "Girl, look at the chapter on the suffering phase of Yuzhang. What is it about? Why is Fu Xuan originally a boy, but he is actually a girl?" It is rare for a family to fight against injustice."
She did not read the book in Xiyi's hand, but blinked her eyes and began to recite poems: "As a woman, it is hard to be humble and miserable. A man is a doorman, and he falls to the ground to create his own god. He is ambitious to the world, and looks at the wind and dust thousands of miles away." Girls are not loved and cherished by their families. When they grow up, they run away into the house, hiding their heads and being ashamed to see others. In just a few words, they have explained the suffering of our girl’s family. Women are ultimately the endless victims of this era.”
Xiyi knew that she was thinking of sad things again, so she looked at Cuihe and said:
"Girl, don't overthink it. You are the daughter of a famous family in Bohai. You are the niece of Taizu's consort and the prince's cousin."
"Now that Young Master Kui Ke has married the beloved daughter of General Zhaowu, the Li family is connected with the four major families and is a full royal relative. In addition, the Lord is a high-ranking official and the eldest lady is a royal decree. You will definitely have a bright future in this life. If you don't There will be times of defeat.”
She suddenly laughed, looked at each other with sympathy, and raised her red lips:
"Look how you try to make me happy! The more prominent your family background, the more restricted you are and the endless responsibilities you have to bear. On the contrary, I envy an ordinary woman like you, how free she is."
As Qingya spoke, she held her face and looked out the window, with a lot of thoughts in her heart.
Xiyi stroked her hair and said: "Ordinary women may not be good. I lived in hiding when I was a child. After my parents died, several women wanted to buy me. If the young master hadn't saved me, I don't know where I would be now. But I know I also have responsibilities to bear."
She put a scroll in her hand and said: "I have a responsibility, but why do you have to stick with me for the rest of your life! When I reunited with my cousin after a long separation, I suddenly felt a little strange. He didn't change anything, but I... felt more and more strange. points, I have lost the feeling I had in previous years.”
Cui He thoughtfully added: "Girl, in my opinion, things will change after six years, but you must not have a rift with King Qi because of him or hurt your feelings."
She nodded lightly: "I know what you mean. I have just resigned myself to it too many times and been oppressed too much, so I want to break through this shackles."
"How can you, a little girl, fight against the world's etiquette?"
“How can you know without trying?”
After hearing this, Cui He lowered her head and said nothing, then she held their hands together and said seriously: "I want to come, you two! You two have grown up with me since childhood, which is better than my relationship with Princess Jiaxiang. It will go deeper. When we are older, you can choose your own family, dowry, etc., so I asked my sister to come from my Li family. I want you to live a free life."
"Pity will always be with the girl."
"Cuihe too!"
She shook her head vigorously: "You are both older than me. How can you not get married in a few years?"
There were tears in Xiyi's eyes, and she held her hand tightly. Qingya wiped her tears and said, "Silly Xiyi! Why are you crying!"
Xiyi cried and laughed: "I am willing to protect the girl with my body of pampas grass!"
Cuihe also said: "Same goes for slave."
"Don't worry, as long as I am here, I will not let you become the sacrifices of this world."
Qingya caressed their hands, and her smile was like the bright moon for a moment. The master and servant looked at each other, expressing their feelings like friends for many years. Such deep friendship is indeed rare.
