After some conversation, Wanyanyong's sad face slightly softened, and he turned sideways and took a step closer.
"Qingya, what happened a few days ago made the lonely king a little impulsive..."
She listened to his apology quietly, and recalled the shameful scene under the dim candlelight a few days ago. The delicate skin of her legs had been stained by him.
She blushed and became more and more emotional. She didn't answer a word with a straight face, only holding the silk and holding her hair.
"Your Majesty, please don't tell anyone about what happened that day. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Qingya to be a good person." She was very serious.
"King Gu, it's because of love that you do this. King Gu is angry when he sees you being so persistent."
She quietly raised her head, the eyebrows on her forehead swaying, and as her bright eyes turned, she shed a small tear.
"If you are not angry enough, you will take me by force. If you are not angry, you will besiege me. This is not love. No, if you really love me, you will set me free."
The few words she said in an understatement were as calm as water and without any ripples, but they stung his heart deeply.
He looked at her sincere eyes and secretly moved closer to her. As soon as he got closer, a kind of fragrance came to his nostrils. He looked at her carefully again, and he felt more and more that her eyes were bright and her teeth were white, and her skin was like snow. Seduced his soul.
"What does freedom have to do with love? Love is to be obtained."
After hearing this, she took a deep breath, stood up slowly, and walked with small steps.
"We, the Jin Dynasty, defeated the Song Dynasty, but do we have the desire to restore the country and wipe out its people? The late Nianhan seized countless Song women. They would rather die than surrender. This is integrity."
"Your Majesty, you are well-read in poetry and books, and you are talented, but you don't understand what love is. Now, you and your father have trapped me like this, and you think I will bend my knees and obey? I won't."
"The lonely king has never met a disobedient woman!"
"That's me," she said with her back to him, under the independent plum branch.
"Qingya, the lonely king can't help you, but you will understand in the future," he said.
"As for what happened today, the lonely king didn't want to punish you, but even in the eyes of everyone, I can't protect you."
She chuckled once, leaned against the railing and stood still, speaking respectfully.
"I have never been favored by anyone, and I don't want to ask for it now. I will reflect on it carefully and bid farewell to your Majesty!"
After hearing this, he turned around and looked at her. Her lips were like delicate flowers. An inch closer, he could only smell the faint fragrance lingering in front of his nose for a long time.
The voice was like a warbler's melody, clearly audible. She couldn't help blushing, lifting up her skirt, turning around and walking away. The green jade on her head glowed under the twilight, and the corners of her skirt were flowing elegantly in the wind. , her steps are delicate and fast, every movement is so crisp and decisive, and her posture is as graceful as a thin willow.
She had just lowered her head and retreated, and her glance at her made him even more distraught.
Sitting alone in the pavilion, he looked down at the red marks on the back of his hands. When he looked up, he saw that her figure had disappeared into the shadows of flowers and was nowhere to be found.
When she returned to Huiwan Garden, she looked at Cuihe and Xiyi and came up to her: "Girl, why are your clothes like this?"
"Girl, come in quickly!" Xiyi closed the door tightly.
She walked in with small steps, as if her whole body's muscles and bones had been broken, she collapsed on the bed. She looked at Cui He again and quickly took the clothes from the cabinet.
"No need, bring some hot water. I'll take a shower and then go to sleep."
"Girl, what happened to you? Xiyi and I heard someone saying that you had a conflict with Madam Ling, so we both went to look for you, but you were not there. Then we went all the way to Shelin Court and heard someone saying that Madam Ling was not there. I'm sick, the imperial doctor is treating me, but my slave has come back dejected."
"I'll talk to you two slowly later!" She seemed to be tired and about to breathe.
"Xiyi, has the jade ring been repaired?" She suddenly raised her head.
Xiyi paused, waited for a long time before bowing: "Girl, it's fixed, slave will bring it immediately!"
"I don't know why this jade craftsman is so slow. It's been seven or eight days!" She sighed.
The two looked at each other privately, then bowed out of regret and left. After a while, a small red box was presented to her. She brought it up, and the rose-colored, bright and flawless jade ring finger was sandwiched in the red velvet. between.
When Qingya saw it, hot tears welled up in her eyes. She picked it up lightly, choked up and couldn't speak. She held it tightly in her hand and protected it in her heart.
"Even if there are many hardships, I will only love him."
As she spoke, they listened, mingling in private and looking around. Suddenly, she fell asleep alone on the table under the bright window, with the series of jade hanging between her hanging jade fingers.
"Girl, you should take a shower first!" Cuihe walked in slowly and helped her shoulders.
She woke up suddenly, straightened her clothes and went to the back hall.
The back hall is filled with hot smoke. Thin curtains hang along a disk on the beam. The bathing pool is small enough to accommodate two people and is built into the ground. There are simple couches and poles for hanging clothes around.
She was wearing light clothes and approached, standing by the stone steps and taking off her clothes. Cuihe tied her hair up, and in a daze, he looked at the scars that were not hidden on her fair skin.
"Girl, you need to take good care of the scars on your body. Apply the medicine carefully every day. Don't be careless even a day."
A lock of black hair hung down between her ears, catching her attention.
“I don’t know if I will add more in the future, it’s up to you!”
She walked slowly up the steps into the warm pool without any clothes on. She lay down in the open space beside her and began to sleep soundly again.
In the evening, Li Shi was writing at his desk in the Li family's pavilion. When someone spoke to his ear, he suddenly felt happy and changed from his usual fierce expression.
"Really? Don't try to trick me."
"How dare you lie to the lord? The maid next to the second girl said it herself. The king and the girl are very close!!"
After hearing this, Li Shi stared at his handwriting like an eagle and laughed loudly. He threw the pen on the inkstone, and the ink on the inkstone suddenly splashed on the end of the asparagus.
"Okay! Okay! Even if she is like this and can be used by me, it will not be in vain for me to raise her for more than ten years. However, Qingya has a stubborn temper. We have to find a way to make her obey."
"My lord, you don't want to..."
He glanced at the waiting person with a complicated expression and said: "It's just a woman. If it can make the king happy, so what if she is dedicated to him?"
"But it's hard to explain to the eldest lady! I'm afraid the Prince Consort will also come forward."
Li Shi walked under the bright window, grabbed a cup of tea, put it under his nose and smelled it.
"This is a family matter of my Li family. It involves the royal family. No matter how much the prince-in-law interferes, there is nothing he can do."
The waiter looked at his stern eyes and quickly stopped asking any more questions. He hurriedly brought a pot of hot tea from outside and poured it for him.
"Master, if the second girl is like this, what should the third girl do?"
He inserted his sleeves, held his waist and walked to the tea table to sit down. He took a sip of tea and looked at the bright window again, brushing his black beard under his chin as if reminiscing about his past.
"Ru'er's temperament follows her mother's, and she is more willful and aggressive. It has been almost five years since my wife left. I can't help but miss her when I go to and fro every night. I have been married to her for more than ten years, but in the end I couldn't keep her. , Now that Kui Ke has married a wife and started a family, Ru'er is the only one left, so I will definitely think carefully about her important affairs."
As he spoke, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes relaxed a little, and the unspeakable heartache lingered in his eyes for a long time.
"Thinking back to those days when I was a breeze, but she was a lady from a famous family, but she threw away all obstacles to marry me. She has been with me through ups and downs for more than ten years. She is the woman I love most in my life. No matter how good I am, she can't be as good as her. .”
The waiter lowered his head slightly: "Now the eldest lady is also a kind-hearted person. She treats superiors and subordinates with kindness, kindness and filial piety."
After hearing this, he sat cross-legged on the sofa and said: "It is better for the husband and wife to be the first couple. No matter how good the stepmother is, she is the one who comes later and does not understand my heart."
"Just saying, she and other people's children were raised under my knees. Sometimes when I look at Qingya's eyes, I feel a little soft-hearted and think about a lot of things."
He had been soft-hearted and moved by true love, but in the end he had stopped at rationality. During his official career, there was always haze and the political situation was unpredictable. He could only be stable by strengthening his family's power, so he felt that it would be useless to sacrifice a woman. Too much.
"My wife only has three girls and one girl. Does the Lord also want the three girls to join the imperial family?" said the waiter.
"I definitely don't want Ru'er to get caught up in the shadow of the imperial family, so she can just marry an official and become a down-to-earth wife."
The waiter was very discerning and immediately picked up the purple pot and poured a cup of tea: "Do you have a young master that I like?"
"I see that Young Master Zhang of the Zhang family in the west of the city is a progressive young man. His Zhang family is also related to my Li family, so he is a thoughtful person."
Speaking of Zhang Rubi, Zhang Rubi, we have to mention his talent. It is said that he could recite a hundred Tang poems at the age of five, and his poems were spread all over the world. He was born in the Zhang family in the Bohai Sea. His uncle was an official in the imperial court. His biological sister was Wan Yanyong's wife Zhang Qinli of Xu State. He grew up under the control of his eldest sister. He studied the Four Books and Five Classics, was familiar with Confucian classics, and was full of enthusiasm. I want to spread my wings.
The waiter mentioned something: "Master, I forgot, Master Zhang Xuanzang mentioned this matter when we had a drink last time."
"Really? That's the best! Zhang Shaolang and Zhang Rubi..." He suddenly remembered something and turned around quickly.
"I heard from his uncle that this child is going to take the scientific examination?"
"Exactly!"
"He is really a good boy. His eldest sister is Lu'er's concubine. The Zhang family is from Meng'an in Tongzhou. She is really the rival of Ru'er's family."
He put the warm tea in the cup, swallowed it all in one breath, and ordered others to add more.
"Well, Zhang Shaolang wants to take the scientific examination. You told Kuike that he and Zhang Shaolang are from the same sect. You can't let them compare. You have to think about your own future." He wiped the wrinkles under his chin again. Must.
It must not be mentioned that Li Shi's official career was smooth sailing in his forties. When he was young, he was often promoted by his brother-in-law and princes, so that he could fight on the battlefield and defeat enemies. His ambition was high for his children. The desire to become a dragon and a phoenix is not only that the girls are marrying into noble families, but also that the young men are entering official careers. However, this sea of officialdom is so vast that you can't see it all at a glance.
He thought carefully about his children's future, leaned lightly on the small tea table, stretched out his hand over the stove, and looked at the black carbon in the stove. He was deep in thought. The tea cup on the table was slightly cold, so he waved to his servant to change it. , drank tea alone and turned around to look down at the bright window.
