The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 286 Su Xi, You Are My Life

Qin Lian was very leisurely today. After taking off his court clothes, he has been slumped in the Yong'an Hall with his eyes closed and dozed off.He slept in his sleep, I read my script, and the Yong'an Hall was very quiet.This kind of silence was not broken until it was close to lunch, when an attendant played tremblingly against the cold sweat on his forehead, saying that Zhao Youchen, Mr. Zhao still knelt in the West Garden and did not get up, and the surrounding snow melted.

Qin Lian let out a "huh" and said softly, "I've never been so self-conscious before." Then he gave me a sideways look and said, "What did Xi'er say?"

I was so pissed by his address, I imitated him and said, "If the Holy Majesty is sympathetic to your subjects, then let him go back."

He rubbed the bridge of his nose: "Don't talk about me, what if it's according to your wishes?"

"If it's my opinion, since it's rare for him to like it, then let him continue to kneel."

Qin Lian glanced at me, his black jade-like eyes were impassive.I lowered my head to read the book again, and said slowly: "Didn't Zhao Youchen take pleasure in stumbling me all the time? Anyway, even if I say good things for him now, he won't remember in the end, so let him hate me even more. "

Qin Lian laughed, turned to the servant and said, "Then, according to the Queen's wishes, continue to kneel."

The fact that Zhao Youchen, as the most favored minister of the Holy Majesty today, knelt in the ice and snow for a whole day was spread with embellishment that day.The next day, Zhao Youchen contracted the wind and cold as a matter of course, and it was only natural that he had not recovered from the typhoid fever for seven consecutive days.When he finally stood up on the eighth day and faced the question of Lihou, he turned into a rolling pin with no ventilation.And those old courtiers who used to boo with Yitong also changed from sparrows in summer to frogs in winter, so they finally stopped temporarily.

As soon as they stopped, Qin Lian began to make drastic moves.Immediately finalized the date of the ceremony, and then quickly sent a few ministers who had been the most noisy a while ago to remote areas to condolences to the officers and soldiers to inspect the people's conditions.

I reckon that when Qin Lian did this, all the thousands of words that the courtiers had pent up in their hearts would all be reduced to three words, foolish lord.

All the courtiers dared not speak out, but Qin Lian was the only one who was in high spirits.When he stepped into the Yong'an Hall on time on the sixth day, which had been five consecutive days, I was rubbing ink for him through the candlelight while looking at his particularly careless and rarely quiet and well-behaved face, and sighed in my heart.

I dawdled and moved over, and carefully put my fingers on his left wrist, but I didn't see any reaction from him for a long time, so I tightened my fingers carefully, and finally let someone who had been buried in the scroll The man turned his face.

He looked at me calmly, and I looked at him sincerely: "Your Majesty, you have achieved the dream of becoming a queen that I have never dared to imagine, and I am so flattered and grateful, how should I repay Your Majesty? "

Qin Lian raised his sleeves to look, and said, "Goosebumps fell all over the floor."

"However," in the blink of an eye, his quiet and well-behaved appearance suddenly disappeared, revealing a smile that was not a smile. His fingers went all the way down my chin, passed the highest point in front of me, and then grabbed me. waist, the corners of the eyes hang several styles unique to dandies, and the tone is so gentle that it can lull people to sleep, "If Xi'er really wants to thank me, how about tonight..."

I tried my best to struggle, but I didn't break free, so I laughed dryly: "It's too bad for His Majesty..."

"That's why we're trying to find compensation tonight." Qin Lian took advantage of his size to push me against the edge of the table.I dodged his breath and touched it back, and before I could touch something like the inkstone, he held both hands first.Qin Lian freed up one hand and began to pick the buckle, I kicked him underneath, he looked down, looked up and said, "If you move around again, it will start here."

"..."

I immediately stopped moving.Then I saw him smile with satisfaction, put his hands through my armpits, and lift me up like a noodle. He also pulled out the hairpin on my head, and the hair immediately poured down my clothes like a waterfall.

Qin Lian looked at me and smiled again: "The most beautiful woman in the Su country. Is it a blessing that I marry you?"

In the eyes of people outside the Yong'an Hall, the performance of His Majesty the Southern Dynasty these days is difficult to compare with the image of the prince who has both ability and political integrity.A month after the Queen's ceremony, rumors abounded.According to Ah Ji's report, in the Southern Dynasties, my image as a vixen became more and more popular among the people.In ancient times, there was Daji, king of Zhou, and Baosi, king of you. Today, there is Suxi, the king of Qin.Even the name Su Xi is divinely endowed, and it rhymes exactly with the names of two famous harem disasters in ancient times.

It is said that Su Xi, the number one beauty in the country of Su, used some kind of charm to make His Majesty absent-minded when going to court for more than 30 days, and absent-minded when going to court, and spent most of the day in Yong'an Hall And the new queen of the Southern Dynasty just casually said that she was homesick and wanted to eat the red fruit hawthorn, which is a specialty of Su, so Her Majesty of the Southern Dynasty specially ordered people to rush to buy it back from the territory of Su; not only that, His Majesty of the Southern Dynasty also Ordering to renovate the Yong'an Palace, the degree of extravagance and extravagance was beyond the reach of the previous Southern Dynasty monarchs. In the long list submitted, the Ye Mingzhu alone spent nearly one-tenth of the national treasury.

However, the image Qin Lian created in the past was too tall and glorious. Now even if his actions are embarrassing, the people firmly believe that he was just fascinated by beauty for a while.

Still the same sentence, if the protagonists of these rumors are not me and Qin Lian, just judging from the folk rumors, I will really feel that the queen is a person who should be killed by a thousand swords and a disaster for the country.But now that the person involved is myself, I just watched the rumors stir up. Apart from saying that my appearance is the best in the world, which is more gratifying, I don't have any other good things to say. That kind of mood is full of mixed feelings.

I leaned on the side of the bed, staring at the hawthorn that Qin Lian personally handed over to my mouth, then slightly raised my eyes to look at him, and finally bit down.

The hall is peaceful, with only a wisp of white air lit by incense, swaying in the winter sunlight through the window.I watched Qin Lian put down the hawthorn, took the silk and slowly wiped his fingers, his eyebrows and eyes were low and gentle, and the corners of his lips had a nice curve.

I opened my mouth abruptly, breaking the silence in the room: "Your Majesty, may I tell you a folktale from the Soviet Union?"

"I do remember that there was a custom in the Southern Dynasties." He didn't take my words, and thought for a while before continuing, "If a married woman embroiders a mandarin duck purse for her husband, the couple will be together not only for the whole life, but for the next life. .”

I opened my eyes slightly: "Is there another theory?"

He smiled and held my five fingers: "So, Xi'er finally finished embroidering the mandarin duck purse two days ago, why didn't you give it to me?"

I immediately replied: "That purse was not embroidered for you. It's my own."

"Really." He looked calm and raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you tell me a story, why didn't you tell me?"

"..." I accused angrily, "Obviously you insisted on changing the subject, so I don't want to talk about it now. Go to sleep."

"Then I'll tell you one." Qin Lian lifted the quilt from my head, and said leisurely, regardless of whether others wanted to hear it or not, "A monster fell in love with a princess and cast a spell to make her The monster took her captive to the cave. The monster tried every means to please the princess, but the princess still refused to do so, looking for a life and death. The monster was distressed and sad, and was unwilling to send her back just like that. One day he smiled for Princess Bo and told her that the string on his neck The necklace with seven beads is actually a magic necklace. Hold the first one and tell the monster to become something. As long as the monster responds, the monster will become something. The monster said it very sincerely, and the princess was a little curious when she heard it. I just grabbed the bead and said it was a mouse, the monster didn't want to become a mouse, but for the sake of the beauty's smile, it changed happily."

I closed my eyes, but my ears were listening carefully: "Then the princess really smiled. The monster was very happy, but couldn't stand the princess's beautiful smile and a few gentle questions, and told all the effects of the remaining beads. She. The second is the spell of blowing wind, the third is the spell of invisibility, and until the seventh, as long as you pinch it and say change, the monster will stay in its original appearance and never change back. "

I was getting excited when I heard it, but I didn't expect it to disappear later.There was no sound after waiting for a long time, and I couldn't help but look back at him, just in time to meet his smile: "Want to know the ending?"

"..."

"Then you have to promise me one thing." He slowly took out the jasper-transparent pendant from my neck, "You can never take this thing off. Wherever you are, it must be there." where."

"..."

"Then take it as your consent." Qin Lian put the jade pendant back again, and continued, "The princess is not a fool. After thinking about it, she smiled at the monster, who was dazzled by the bright smile, and heard the princess pinch the pendant. His first bead said mouse, and he responded without thinking, and then naturally turned into a mouse again. The princess pinched the seventh bead before he changed back, said the sound changed, and the monster appeared. Be a mouse forever."

Qin Lian didn't blink when he saw me, smiled slightly, and continued: "Then the princess threw the mouse into the cage, and piled a pile of firewood under the cage, and the monster was burned to death like this."

Qin Lian looked at me, and I looked at him.After a while, he stroked my hair and said, "Go to sleep."

He got out of bed and came back after extinguishing the candles. I stared at his figure getting closer and closer in the dark, accompanied by the rustling of the quilt, thinking maybe I should say something.Unexpectedly, Qin Lian's hand was quicker than my thinking, covered my eyes, then gently swipe down, and then pulled me into his arms with the other hand, and said with a smile, "It's better to sleep .”

Qin Lian's behavior these days cannot be described with common sense, and he followed every word of my words to the end in a strangely obedient manner.It seems that he has made up his mind to create an image of a mediocre gentleman. I lay on the table and teased the little white cat, absent-mindedly listening to Ah Ji's straightforward report: "The holy order has been ordered to spread all over the country of Su. The search for a suitable candidate for the crown prince for His Royal Highness has been completed the day before yesterday."

"Oh."

"The final candidate for the crown princess is the daughter of the vassal king Qin Jiushao, named Qin Xiuxuan. She has both talent and appearance, and general intelligence and knowledge. Both the Holy Majesty and the Crown Prince are quite satisfied."

"Oh."

"His Royal Highness's wedding ceremony is scheduled for the 26th of this month."

"Oh."

Ah Ji continued to muffle her voice: "Empress Empress."

"I'm listening. I'm listening. Don't call those four words, it's too creepy." I looked up at her, "What does it mean to be more satisfied? It's because the situation is more urgent than others. King Qin's fief is one of all the towns in Su State. The biggest one is marriage, how can you be satisfied with both talents and looks? Even if Qin Xiuxuan has a hunchback and incomplete limbs, plus a pockmarked face, my brother will have to marry her."

Ah Ji's eyes were covered by bangs, and the corners of his mouth were cold and calm: "The princess is one of the best in intelligence, and my subordinates admire it."

My goosebumps trembled, and I waved my hand: "You take inventory, and divide the unused cloth, pearl hairpins without royal marks, and so on, among the maids who have been serving me well since I came to the Southern Dynasty."

"The princess wants to..."

I shook a finger at her: "One month, at most one month, you and I won't live here anymore."

Ah Ji's eyeballs hidden behind his bangs moved, and continued to say as if it had nothing to do with him: "No matter where you live, this slave will swear to the death to protect the safety of the princess."

I leaned back on the table again, stared at Xiaobai's cat eyes that were brighter than glass beads, thought for a while and said: "Aji, you have been with me for so many years, you are four years older than me, and you haven't married yet. people."

"The slave takes the princess as his home. Where the princess is, the slave will be there."

"But if you are really lonely, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life." I turned my head and looked at her seriously and sincerely, "Can I let you marry Qin Chu? He likes you, and you like him too. But my Ah Ji is so capable, if you are a concubine, you will be wronged too much, well, I also heard that Princess Kang is jealous, and now the young girls in Prince Kang’s mansion can be counted with one palm..."

Ah Ji whispered: "The slave doesn't like His Royal Highness Kang Wang."

I squeezed the jade bracelet on my wrist and said slowly: "Then you swear on my life, you really don't like Kang Wang at all. If you lie, let me die immediately."

Ah Ji's body trembled, his mouth opened, and he stopped talking.

I patted the back of Ah Ji's hand like my mother's, smiled, and said, "Just wait, I will definitely not treat you badly."

Ah Ji looked up at me, his brows were frowned, and he couldn't agree with him: "Princess..."

I promptly cut off what she said that must not be nice, slowly put away my smile, and said lightly: "It is said that Qin Lian is very fond of me now, if I don't make good use of this time, how can I be worthy of the storm I will suffer in the future?" .”

In the evening, Qin Lian really arrived at Yong'an Hall on time.There is only one and a half months left until Zhao Youyi gets married, but there is no sense of celebration in the palace.I have never seen Qin Lian take this matter to heart.

I deliberately brought this matter up to Qin Lian after dinner, but he didn't even frown, and blatantly changed the subject while holding a cup of tea: "The Yong'an Hall will be renovated in a few days, you and Mr. Move to Roufu Hall to live for a while."

I pouted and stared at him.

"You don't like Roufu Palace?" Qin Lian smiled, "How about Changxin Palace?"

I watched him lower his head and take a sip of tea, took a breath and said, "Your Majesty, arrange an auspicious day to marry Ah Ji to His Royal Highness Kang Wang?"

Qin Lian stopped fiddling with the tea leaves with the tea lid, raised his head and looked at me, his dark eyes were heavy, and the ancient well was calm: "Are you willing to part with it?"

"I'm not willing. So Ah Ji must not be wronged when he gets married. So..." I took a deep breath again, closed my eyes and said, "Can you let Ah Ji be the main wife?"

I didn't get a response for a long time.I half-opened one eye, and Qin Lian was looking at me with a half-smiling smile: "What Xier said is that she wants me to abolish the current Concubine Kang? But Concubine Kang is following the emperor's will." It’s not easy to get rid of those who married in the past.”

I hugged one of his arms, and seeing that he didn't resist, I hugged him even tighter and raised my face with a sincere expression: "If this matter can be achieved, the only person in the world who can do it is Your Majesty. "

Qin Lian smiled: "Xi'er tell me a reason that can convince me."

I thought about it and said, "Ah Ji is what I saw growing up. Her virtue and appearance are enough to compare with the current Concubine Kang."

Qin Lian was unmoved: "This is the opposite. You are the one who saw you growing up when you were young."

I pursed my mouth again.He stretched out his hand and tugged at my cheek, and said with a smile, "I'll give you two more chances."

"It is rumored that Concubine Kang is famous for her jealousy, and that Wang and his wife are not getting along well. And Wang Kang and A Ji are already in love with each other. Concubine Kang marries King Kang, and it is the three of them who suffer. This kind of marriage is worthless, right? "

Qin Lian still smiled lightly, neither expressing his opinion nor speaking.

I stood up angrily: "What exactly is Your Majesty thinking to agree to my request?"

"There is one last chance." Qin Lian calmly dragged me back into the chair, "Think about it carefully, and talk to me when you think of something suitable."

"But I only have this last wish left." I looked at him helplessly, but my tone was calmer than his. Reasons that make His Majesty trust, then my last wish in this life cannot be fulfilled. If it cannot be fulfilled, in this life, I can only die and regret it."

Qin Lian narrowed his eyes, looking at me in the dark, as if he could see into people's hearts.After a while, he put the teacup on the desk and said lightly, "I promise you."

Qin Lian agreed faster than I imagined, and his actions after agreeing were also faster than I imagined.After the next day, Qin Lian and I sat in the imperial garden, drinking hot tea and eating snacks, waiting for Qin Chu to come.

I asked Ah Ji to break a plum blossom branch for me to play with in my hand, while Qin Lian slowly poured out the tea, took a sip, put it on the small stone table, picked it up again after a while, and took another sip.

I propped my chin up and pretended not to see the plum tree not far away, but in fact I secretly scanned Qin Lian with the corner of my eye.Since he ascended the throne, he has had many things to do and is extremely busy every day, so it is rare for him to sit in this garden leisurely.And the mind is even more unpredictable, not only I can't figure it out, but probably not many ministers in the court can figure it out.

For example, Qin Lian ascended the throne some time ago, Qin Xu, Qin Yu, and Qin Chu all stayed in the capital.A few days ago, Qin Xu asked to leave the capital and go to the fief on the grounds that his concubine who stayed in the fief was seriously ill, but he was not allowed.Another two days passed, until Qin Xu's favorite concubine died of illness on the bed without seeing her husband whom she was thinking of, and couldn't continue breathing. With the help of the two ministers, Qin Lian finally agreed to play because he had no reason to insist on staying.

I looked at his face carefully, eyelashes drooping, lips slightly pursed, still my favorite look.

His eyes jerked slightly, and I looked back just in time before he could look at me.

The snow in the imperial garden has not yet fully melted, and the bleak chill is expressed through the low sniffing voice of the maid.I waited a little impatiently, and finally saw the servant not far away bowing his waist and leading Qin Chu through the branches, and the winter water of the small bridge coming slowly.The uniform black court dress with sable fur edges was worn on him, unexpectedly it was quite elegant.

I looked at him, then at Ah Ji, and I was still a little bit reluctant.

Ah Ji has extraordinary looks, wisdom, and skills.Ever since my father found out that I could still live to be 20 years old, Ah Ji was assigned to me, and now more than ten years have passed.Ah Ji, who used to be as thin as sugarcane, has now grown up to be as straight and towering as a snow mountain. I have seen her footsteps as fast as the wind when she practiced martial arts. Uncompromising courage when opening a move.I have always felt that an outstanding woman like her should be cared for by others. Even if she cannot marry a high-ranking official, she should marry a good man with a solid personality and a wealthy family.But her real identity is a guard.

Since he is the princess' personal bodyguard, he is destined to see blood.I don't know how she felt when she killed someone for the first time, but she once said in answer to my question: "Except for the princess, the lives of other people are worthless. The lives of slaves are also worthless. When a slave sees only the princess When alone, killing people is nothing more than mediocrity."

Aji was once ordered by Su Qi to kneel in the snow all night because of poor protection.I pleaded with Su Qi at that time, Su Qi slowly nodded at the table and said: "I have already shown mercy. If Ah Ji is my bodyguard, he is already disabled at this moment."

"You are you, I am me. Ah Ji is my bodyguard, and I have the right to deal with her myself."

Su Qi glanced at me, with an unteachable look: "I'm doing this for your own good."

"But I'm sorry to see her kneeling there."

Su Qi smiled: "Su Xi, you have to remember your identity. Su's royal family never gets sad or happy easily. As a member of the royal family, you can never soften your heart."

After a pause, he suddenly showed an expression of hatred for iron and steel, poked my forehead and said: "If it is possible, I really want to put you back into the queen mother's stomach. Compared with Su Zi, Su Zi Hee, you really have no merits other than your looks."

"..."

Qin Chu bowed politely and sat down with his clothes lifted.I looked into his eyes and stared behind me, and couldn't help coughing: "His Royal Highness Kang Wang."

He cupped his hands slightly: "The minister is here."

"I heard that the sound of broken ceramics can often be heard in Kang Wang's Mansion in recent nights."

Qin Chu also coughed, probably a little puzzled, and decided to lie after a moment of hesitation: "Is that so? I have been sleeping very soundly these days, and I have never heard of it."

Qin Lian sat aside and laughed: "Third brother, you mean the queen is telling lies?"

Qin Chu cupped his hands again: "I dare not."

Qin Chu smiled lightly: "Actually, what the queen meant was also what I meant. I left third brother here today, just to ask whether the rumor is true or not."

"This one……"

I interjected: "It doesn't matter if His Royal Highness admits it. As the saying goes, misfortune is blessed, and misfortune rests on it. There is a saying in ancient poems, there is no way out when mountains and rivers are poor, and there is no way out. Maybe there are other houses."

Qin Lian gave me a sideways look with a half-smile, then turned to Qin Chu and said, "I also agree with what the Queen said."

Qin Chu: "..."

I waved the plum blossom branch in my hand: "In my opinion, His Royal Highness Kang Wang is thin-skinned, so he admits it by default."

Qin Chu: "..."

I pointed at Qin Chu, who was wrapped as thick as a zongzi, and turned to Qin Lian, "Your Majesty, it's cold. Since His Highness King Kang is wearing thin clothes, we're done asking, let him go home."

Qin Chu pursed his thin lips and smiled slightly: "That's fine."

Qin Chu: "Your Majesty, Empress, forgive me for being dull, I don't understand much..."

I said: "It doesn't matter, as long as your Majesty and I understand it. Your Majesty, don't you?"

Qin Lian nodded and said, "That's right."

Qin Chu: "..."

Qin Lian and I walked towards Yong'an Hall first, and Qin Chu watched us leave.On the way, I continued to wave the plum blossom branch. Qin Lian looked at the Yong'an Temple in front of him, and glanced at me again. He suddenly smiled softly, "Can I carry you there?"

I stopped and almost fell: "Ah...?"

Qin Lian said seriously: "Last night, you talked a lot in your sleep. You kept saying that you wanted me to carry you around the imperial city three times. You said it at least ten times. I thought it was impossible for me to complete this task, so I didn't wake you up. "

I:"……"

"However, although I can't walk around the imperial city three times, it's still possible to carry you to the gate of Yong'an Hall." Qin Lian took the plum blossom branch in my hand and threw it to Ah Ji, who had always been expressionless, and waved his hand at him. The remaining maidservants said, "Stay away and follow."

The person behind said "yes" in a low voice, I glared at the crowd who kept backing away without looking sideways, then glared at Qin Lian who was waiting for me to get on his back, gritted my teeth, and finally climbed up to him back.

Qin Lian quickly caught me, hooked my calf with his hand, and walked steadily.

I silently sketched the image of me and Qin Lian at this moment in my mind.Although Qin Lian arched his back slightly, he walked leisurely and contentedly, and the white breath he exhaled did not increase, so he must still look elegant and calm; but I am different, I am lying on his lap in a skirt right now. On her body, even if she is a peerless beauty, the appearance of lying on the same plane with hands and feet at this moment... is definitely not so good-looking.

If Su Qi, who loves beauty like his life, saw my appearance at this moment, he would definitely cry on his forehead and never recognize me as a younger sister again.

I lay on Qin Lian's back and whispered, "What does Your Majesty plan to do with Concubine Kang?"

"Huh?" He turned his head slightly and smiled, "Don't worry, I won't disappoint you."

I said: "The concubine just wants to know the exact time when His Majesty married Ah Ji."

Qin Lian paused, then smiled again: "If you're in a hurry, you can depose Concubine Kang in ten days and marry Ah Ji in another ten days, okay?"

My arms around his neck tightened: "Really?"

He exhaled and said, "My promise is always valid."

"The concubine is waiting for the good news from His Majesty."

Qin Lian smiled and said, "Xi'er has any opinions on the renovation of the Yong'an Hall. The construction will really start in two days."

"Everything can be done according to His Majesty's wishes." I said, "But Zhao Youyi will enter the palace after a while, why is there no celebration in the palace?"

"The Zhuyan Palace is already being rebuilt. After all, she is just a concubine." He said in a slightly teasing tone, "Is Xi'er jealous?"

I can basically foresee that if I say something like "my concubine dare not dare" at this time, Qin Lian will use it to block my words.Eighty percent of the time he would continue to tease and say, oh?Is there anything Xi'er dare not do? She even raised the issue of dismissing Concubine Kang.

I looked at the gloomy sky, put my head on his shoulder, turned the back of my head to his profile, and said slowly, "Of course I'm jealous."

He didn't speak, so I went on talking myself: "The sage is only me now, and I only have the sage. When Zhao Youyi gets married, there will be two of the sages, and I will only have one of the sages. At that time, if I use a poem to describe me , that is, Chunguang Town is full of people and old people, so what is the poverty of new worries and hatred?"

Qin Lian smiled lightly: "How can I remember that someone tried very hard to persuade me to accept a concubine before?"

"Selfishness belongs to selfishness, and publicity belongs to publicity. When I was in Su, someone taught my concubines to understand the general situation. The family and the country are the most important, and their own desires are not. At that time, the concubines were just trying their best to be sensible."

"Oh? I was trying my best to be sensible then, but what about now?"

Before we knew it, we had already arrived at Yong'an Hall, and Qin Lian carried me all the way to the bedroom with no one else on his back.He put me on the bed, I grabbed his arm and didn't let go, looked into his black eyes like jade, thought for a while and said: "I said I was jealous. And Zhao Youyi is very bad. Go up When my elder brother came to Nanchao, my waist was sprained, and she pushed it."

His eyes were still unmoved, but the corners of his lips curled up into a smile.After a while, she said, "Even if she enters the palace, you will still be you, nothing will change."

I looked up at him and said, "But I still don't want you to marry Zhao Youyi."

"Yesterday you said that Ah Ji's marriage to Qin Chu was your only wish." He restrained his smile and said slowly, "You didn't talk about yourself."

"I don't want you to marry Zhao Youyi." I repeated, "That's it."

That's a lot to ask, I know.I'm being unreasonable, and no matter how many times I repeat it, it's not going to happen, and I know it.

I seldom be so self-willed, but I think that maybe it's just because I haven't been wronged enough before.

I don't want to be so capricious, but I have no other way to relieve it except to say it verbally.I can hardly bear it anymore.

Qin Lian looked at me, then suddenly bent down, tilted his head and touched my lips.

Before I could react the next moment, I was pushed down on the bed.Qin Lian's hands intertwined with mine, I watched him lower his body, then use the tip of his tongue to pry open my teeth, drive straight in, suck and entangle.

Dizzy, I also wanted to remind him that it was broad daylight and he had already lowered the curtain with one hand.

In fact, since Su Qi came to Southern Dynasty last time, we haven't had intercourse for a long time.When Qin Lian was still in the East Palace, his mood became inexplicably bad for about ten days. At that time, I didn't dare to provoke him, and he didn't come to provoke me. He just spent his days in the study. After a long time, gradually Somehow it has become a sleepover.

There are so many rumors in this world that even the truth seems to be false.It is widely rumored that Su Xi seductively seduces the Lord, but we don’t know that there was a period of time when we slept separately; those corrupt old men feared that the princess of Su would give birth to an heir in the Southern Dynasty under the love of thousands of people, but I don't know that I have been secretly taking contraceptive pills since the second day I married Qin Lian.

When Su Qi handed me the pills back then, he looked at me and sighed, it was rare that he didn't have the usual leisurely look on his face.At that time, I looked relaxed and complacent, probably because I had never suffered from suffering except drinking medicine since I was a child, so the feeling of cutting flesh with a blunt knife was limited to the so-called paper talk, and I simply thought that I was both a living person and had a grandson who died , and why can't there be Su Xi who is jealous.Even if he is infatuated with Qin Lian to the bone, if he grit his teeth and endure it, it will always pass.

But now I find it's not that easy, and I regret it a bit.

If he knew it would be like this, he shouldn't have done it for the sake of authenticity, he shouldn't have agreed to the father's request, and he should have stopped like Su Zi.

It's a pity, even if there is a real possibility, if I do it all over again, I probably can't help but do the vacation scene again, agree to the request of the emperor again, and be reluctant to give up once again.

I remember that a fortune teller predicted my fortune after I was born, saying that there must be a catastrophe after I reach my birthday, if I survive this catastrophe, I will have no worries in my life, if I cannot survive it, I will have to Amitabha.After I found out later, I just taunted Su Qi about his seemingly mysterious but in fact nonsense, and only talked about it after Jiji but not before. Could it be that I would not know which difficulty was really a catastrophe until the end of my life.

But thinking about it now, I can no longer laugh.Probably this time is my doomed catastrophe.

Su Qi, recognized as the smartest person in the country of Su, only taught me how to weave conspiracies and calculate people's hearts, but he didn't teach me how to avoid joy.But then I thought, even if he did teach me, it probably wouldn't work.Because he himself has never really liked someone, and even if he talks about it, it's just on paper, and he probably doesn't understand what it means to cut flesh with a blunt knife, and have bruises all over his body.

But Su Zi's words are the most effective for me at the moment. Memories will only add to my troubles. No matter what, I can't cry, I can only laugh.If you really can't laugh, you should hold the corners of your mouth soberly.

Qin Lian and I didn't eat any lunch or dinner, and stayed in bed from sunrise to sunset.Qin Lian has never lost his composure like today, teasing me with strength and skill beyond his style.The clothes and quilt fell under the bed, I was rolled up and down by him like a wet towel, and turned over and over again like a dead leaf in the autumn wind, his hair was scattered on his forehead and shoulders, and his breathing was heavy , pursing his lips slightly, his eyes were full of desire, and when they finally stopped, both of them looked like they had just been fished out of the water.

Every time it's been done before, it's never been like this.During the more than half a year that I have been with him, he is used to restraint and patience every time we have sex, and when I have to scream because of Qin Lian's teasing, he still looks calm and gentle with a smile on the corner of his mouth.He and Su Qi have an extraordinary connection in some places. They always have a calm and calm face, and they seem to be able to withdraw at any time.

That's what a wise king should be.

In the end, I was carried by Qin Lian to take a bath in a dazed state, and when I came back, the bed had already been neatly re-laid with brand new sheets and bedding.I was sleepy and tired, Qin Lian pulled me out of the quilt with his hands together, patted my face: "Eat something first."

"..."

"If you don't eat, you'll wake up hungry in the middle of the night." He continued to harass without hesitation, with a very gentle voice, "Xi'er just take a bite, okay?"

"..." No matter how sleepy I was, I trembled involuntarily following his rather special tone.He managed to open his eyes, and sure enough, he saw maids standing all around the palace with their eyes down.

Qin Lian held a cup of bone soup in one hand, and brought the spoon to my mouth with the other.I looked around: "...Thank you, Your Majesty, I'll just come by myself."

I want to take the spoon, but he doesn't let go.I glanced at him and tried to take the spoon again, but he still wouldn't let go.I looked at him again, and this time he smiled: "Hey, open your mouth."

"..." Under his pair of ink-like eyes, I really opened my mouth obediently.

It is rare for Qin Lian to have such a truly leisurely time, although he usually puts on a very leisurely appearance.For two whole days, he lay beside me and stroked my hair when I fell asleep, and when I woke up, he still lay beside me and stroked my hair.Seeing that I opened my eyes, I will bend down, and then I will scoop up my whole body like scooping up noodles, brush off the broken hair on the forehead, and then from the forehead to the eyes to the nose, and then to the corners of the mouth, the soft lips are like soft The petals are brushed inch by inch, and they are pecked very carefully.

Qin Lian had never been so gentle before.The eyes are gentle, the movements are also gentle, and even the words are whispered, like a bowl of mild honey water, sweet and sticky just right.In the past two days, I have not seen him approving the memorials, nor summoning the ministers, nor even seeing him go to the morning court. He has always stayed in the Yong'an Hall and never stepped out.

When Qin Lian acted like this, there was still a normal look on his face.I looked at him, and had no choice but to show the same ordinary expression.

If I were a qualified empress, I should have moved her with emotion and understanding, tried every means, even with death, to ask the emperor to preside over the government, but I never wanted to be a qualified empress.Qin Lian asked me to sit on his lap to copy the copybooks, taught me to play the brocade qin unique to the Southern Dynasty, drew my eyebrows in front of the window, and led me to Xiyuan to play in the mud, and I followed suit one by one.

I used to hope so cautiously, but now it has come true before my eyes, and I have no reason to refuse.

What's more, time is running out.

When Su Qi waved his fan, there were generally only two types of words he said, one was nonsense and the other was truth.Before I came to the Southern Dynasties, Su State had just reached the season when you could wave your fan, and Su Qi waved his fan and said his first tip of the year: With Su Xi's wisdom, don't think about being smarter than Qin Lian.No matter how uncertain and scheming Qin Lian is, all you need is to stay the same and respond to all changes.

I did so, and it turned out that Su Qi was right again.

When Qin Lian got married, I pretended that I knew nothing but the so-called piano, chess, calligraphy and painting; when Qin Lian was monitoring me and Ah Ji, I still pretended that I knew nothing except the so-called piano, chess, calligraphy and painting; When Qin Lian treated me gently, I still pretended that I didn’t understand anything other than the so-called piano, chess, calligraphy and painting; when Qin Lian spread rumors of being charming, I still pretended that I didn’t know anything except the so-called piano, chess, calligraphy and painting .

It's always easier to find something under the sun than nothing.It's easier to pretend you don't know than to pretend to be inscrutable.

But after pretending for so long, I almost forgot what was real.I only saw Zhao Youyi's obsession with Qin Lian, and I almost forgot the meaning of Zhao You'e's gift of my little white cat.If I hadn't suddenly heard the news that Su Qi was about to get married, I would have almost forgotten the meaning of my coming to the Southern Dynasty.

The emperor once urged you to marry to the Southern Dynasty, not for marriage, not for love between men and women, nor for being a queen, but only to kill Qin Lian, disturb the court, and assist the eldest prince Qin Xu to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year position .

At that time, I knelt deeply on the ground and felt cold hands and feet for a while.

Before that, I didn't know when my father and Qin Xu got in touch, and I didn't know why my father was so sure that I had such great ability to kill Qin Lian and disturb Chao Gang, and earn money for him by myself. Get half of the country.

However, there are so many things I don't understand in this world, it's impossible to ask them all clearly.

On the third day, Qin Lian finally went to the early court.I got up early in the morning to feed my starlings and tease Xiaobai. After hearing the second ringing of the clock, Ah Ji quietly walked behind me and whispered: "Princess, the wedding date of His Royal Highness has been advanced, and it will be held in seven days." .”

I tilted my head, thought for a while, and said, "Got it."

After the morning court, I learned another thing.Zhao Youchen suddenly listed the top ten crimes against King Yu Qing, including gangsters, fraud, embezzlement, and bribery. Qin Lian was furious, and ordered the three envoys to conduct a strict interrogation, and two days later, the imperial court was issued.

Qin Lian did not come back to Yong'an Hall after his downfall.I lay down on the table and finalized the dowry that Ah Ji would need bit by bit according to the list. Ah Ji endured behind him, and endured again, and finally he couldn't hold back, and whispered: "Princess."

"What?" I didn't even raise my head, "Don't worry, the matter of King Yu Qing was originally a case that Qin Lian and the former emperor of the Southern Dynasty wanted to solve a long time ago. His result after two days must be a confession, and Qin Lian will definitely If Tian Xinru is smart, she may hang herself. If she is not smart enough, Qin Lian will make a bunch of crimes for her to confess. Qin Chu divorces his wife for sure. You will marry soon, and I won’t It's too late to prepare your dowry."

Ah Ji called again in a low voice: "Princess."

I looked up at her.

"Did the princess want me to spy on Qin Chu?"

"What's there for Qin Chu to monitor?" I put down the scroll, "He's just a free prince with no real power."

"Then why does the princess insist on marrying me?"

"Didn't I say that? You have been with me for so long, I must not treat you badly. Qin Chu loves you and is a prince, so he is a good candidate. You don't believe me?"

Ah Ji lowered his eyebrows, expressionless: "Why did the princess marry me at this time? Now is an extraordinary time, and even a slight mistake will lose everything."

"I have my measure."

"When the princess came to the Southern Dynasty, she only brought me with her. If I went to Prince Lu's mansion, the princess would have no one to rely on in the palace alone."

I held my chin and looked at her: "Then tell me yourself, what have you done for me since you came to Nanchao? As the first guard, have you ever helped me block knives and kill people? I was killed by Zhao Youyi Where were you when you hit the rockery? When the rumors are endless, have you ever blocked Yoyo's mouth? Here, two people are the same as one person."

Ah Ji remained silent for a long time, and after a while whispered: "If the princess needs to disguise herself to leave the palace, someone must pretend to be a princess and stay in the palace."

This time it was me who didn't say anything for a long time, and finally sighed after a while: "Then you should marry me and help me monitor Qin Chu."

"Princess……"

"Why do you have to ask me to tell the truth?" I scribbled the brush on the snow-white paper, tore it into strips and grabbed it slowly in my hand, "Since my father asked me to come, I didn't think about it." I have a chance to go back. Your stay in the palace is just one more death."

When the lights were on that night, I lay on the beauty's couch and closed my eyes, my mind was full of a year ago in a trance.In the picture, there is always a pair of slender white hands gently flicking the strings of the piano, while one person is leaning on the glass couch next to him, clapping the drum in his hands one after another.The doffed gauze curtain was blown gently by the wind, and the cannas outside the window were in full bloom.

When I was half awake and half asleep, my eyes were suddenly covered gently by someone.The palm of the visitor was slightly cold, but the breath that came close to me was warm, causing trembling when it brushed my cheeks, and then I heard him laughing softly: "What dream are you doing? Are you still frowning? "

I still closed my eyes and whispered, "I miss Su Qi..."

The clepsydra not far away made the sound of a drop of water, Qin Lian let go of his hand, sat down on the soft couch with his clothes up, and showed a faint smile: "Your brother is getting married soon."

I tilted my head and looked at him, my eyes lingering on his face, I paused and repeated: "When I first saw you, I thought you were very similar to my brother."

"and after?"

"It doesn't look like it anymore."

He bent his lips slightly, took an apple on the table and rubbed it in his hand, put it down again after a while, and then suddenly lifted me up into the air and placed me on his lap.

He wiped my lips with his finger, and a smile like clear water crossed the corner of his mouth: "Your brother's luck is much better than mine."

I looked at him and said, "That's not necessarily..."

"Why not." He tilted his head slightly, and began to wrap his fingers around my neck, unbuttoning them one by one, pressing his lips on them, and the words overflowed between his lips and teeth were vague, "At least the Crown Princess of Su is getting married. Then there will be no sunflower water."

"..."

When the old master had to teach me the word "death lingering", he avoided my eyes and told me that it meant a kind of entanglement that resisted death.And I was still young at that time, and I still had a little bit of a show-off mentality. Whenever I learned a word that I thought was uncommon, I would definitely try my best to mention it in daily conversations in the next few days.However, the word "lingering to death" is really difficult to form a sentence in the Su Palace. It was not until the Su army returned from an expedition and a general was wounded by an arrow, bleeding profusely and dying, that I had the opportunity to go to Suqi. In front of him, he composes a sentence triumphantly: "General Zhou is lingering to death on the bed, he is really a good general worthy of respect."

The next moment, all the tea in Su Qi's mouth was sprayed out, which wet most of his brand new folding fan.After the maid cleaned up and left, he coughed twice under my eager eyes, and said politely: "Sister, this word is not used in this way."

"The old master said that it means to resist the entanglement of death. Am I using it wrong?"

Su Qi thought for a while and said: "The old master is right to say this to you, but you are wrong if you say it yourself. But if I say it, it is also right, but if I explain it to you, it is wrong. You understand ?”

"I don't understand……"

"It's best if you don't understand." Su Qi looked relieved, tapped my shoulder with a folding fan, and blocked my next words decisively, "In short, remember this word is a bad word like scumbag , you don’t need to use it in the future.”

"..."

So I was misled like this for many years, until I finally stopped taking his words as the supreme truth, and gained my own ability to distinguish, I realized that it turns out that Lingling is not a scumbag, but Su Qi himself is.

I think, if I make a sentence now with "Qin Lian and I have intercourse tonight can be regarded as lingering to death", I probably won't be accused of being wrong.

When I tried my best to suppress Qin Lian tonight, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he smiled faintly when he saw me undoing his buttons one by one with great difficulty. He said, "Want to help?"

I carefully recalled what Qin Lian did at this time in the past.Under normal circumstances, he would dexterously pick buttons ten times faster than mine, and under normal circumstances he would tear them open with his hands impatiently.I looked at him, thought for a moment, took one side of the silk undershirt over his eyes, and pushed the rest under the pillow.

I whispered, "Don't struggle."

Although I say this, I don't expect him to really not struggle.However, Qin Lian cooperated abnormally tonight. I thought he would resist a few times knowingly, but I didn't expect him to lie on the spot like a well-behaved Xiaobai and let me slaughter him.I ignored his slightly curved lips, and then carefully recalled Qin Lian's teasing actions in the past.Then I put my finger on his chin like a cat and a tiger, and then I leaned over and kissed him.

Then I heard someone hiss in a low voice, sighed again, and said, "You turned from a kitten? It hurts to bite."

Then his hand held my five fingers accurately in the dark, pulled them to his throat, and said: "Kiss here." After a pause, he added, "Be gentle."

"..." It turns out that even now, I am the one who is slaughtered.I glanced at him depressedly, lowered my head and stuck my lips to the designated position. Since I couldn't bite with my teeth, I had to open my mouth slightly and touched the tip of my tongue.

Soon I heard a muffled grunt, followed by the sound of teeth grinding, Qin Lian said in a low voice, "Su Xi, you are my life."

I froze for a moment, thinking that I must have heard wrong.Even if I heard it right, I must have understood it wrong.Not to mention that Qin Lian basically never speaks the truth in front of me, even if he speaks the truth, it is useless now.

I'm just wondering why he said this extra sentence.Even if he didn't say this sentence, I would have given up killing him long ago, and if I really intend to kill him, then what's the use of him saying this sentence?
Qin Lian didn't give me time to continue thinking, he quickly grabbed my wrist, and the next second I was pressed down again by him as usual.Obviously he was accusing me of biting him with his teeth just now, but now he is clearly pinching my chin and biting my lips hard.

His strength was so strong that I quickly frowned and let out a sob.He paused for a while, and slowly became gentle again. The tip of his tongue pressed against my jaw, brushed my teeth and upper jaw, and finally rolled on the corner of my lips, advancing and retreating like a tide.

"Su Xi," he finally stopped when my eyes were full of tears, put his finger on my face, and said slowly, "Do you really have nothing to say to me?"

I thought for a while under his gaze, and said, "Can you give up plotting Su Guo?"

He pursed his lips and looked at me firmly, after a while, he said softly, "No."

"Can you make those feudal towns in Su that you provoked withdraw their troops?"

"No."

"Can you not marry Zhao Youyi?"

"No."

"Can you stop killing me?"

This time he paused for a while, avoiding my eyes, and still said, "No."

My tears fell: "So what do you want me to say?"

Qin Lian's Adam's apple twitched, and after a while, he lowered his head and kissed me gently bit by bit.

There is no moonlight tonight, and sesame-like stars dot the entire blue sky.I and Qin Lian's clothes and belts were tangled together. After I pressed him and he pressed me and I pressed him again, I finally got my wish and pressed on him.

I clasped his shoulders with my hands, and the tears stopped falling after five or six tears. I comforted myself that my control was quite better than when I first married Nanchao, and I even bent my mouth and smiled. After a moment, he pressed his hands on his chest, groped to his beating heart, stretched out his nails and scratched, and then saw him smile.

Qin Lian is always so pretty when he smiles.There is a little tenderness, a little indulgence, and a little intangible and indescribable elegance.

I reminded myself over and over how could I fall in love with such a cold-hearted person.However, just, how can I not fall in love with him like this.

When I was in a daze, Qin Lian turned over and pressed me underneath, and with his fingers, he nimbly hooked off the last bit of clothing left by the two of them.

Then his soft lips came up, sucking and rolling next to my teeth.The feeling of gentleness and presumptuousness is like the bright red on the top of the hibiscus tent, which is in full bloom and drifting away.

Things went a little differently than I expected the next day.Tian Xinru did hang herself, but was rescued by Qin Chu in time.Tian Xinru wakes up after being acupunctured. When she sees Qin Chu, her first reaction is to draw her sword and shout loudly that he has betrayed her.

When I heard this passage, I once doubted the authenticity of the story.First of all, it is hard for me to imagine what kind of supernatural power Tian Xinru possessed to conjure a dagger from the bed out of thin air; secondly, Qin Chu should not be blamed for those who have betrayed Tian Xinru and even her whole family. If she opened her mouth to curse my entire royal family of Su, she might have something to say.

Qin Chu and Tian Xinru were originally a political marriage designed to slow down the war.Since the theme of the marriage is politics, Tian Xinru should have some consciousness of sacrificing for politics.

Su Zi once said that it is not appropriate to say who is responsible for who most of the time.If you give willingly, then don't blame others for taking it for granted.The matter of love is no different from gambling. You should calculate whether it is worth it before you spend all your efforts. return to you.

Tian Xinru probably didn't have such a sister who pointed out these things to her, and she herself didn't have such awareness, so in the end, instead of comforting her, when Qin Chu went to the desk and started writing the divorce letter, all she thought was to fight hard. He slammed it hard against the bedside post with all his strength, and if it wasn't for someone dragging him, the blood would have been spattered on the spot.

I think Tian Xinru's approach is ill-considered and very bad.And to take a step back, even if it is a real suicide, at least the suicide must be decent.I think, if Su Qi was here, he would definitely shake his head, bend the corners of his lips, put on a regretful expression, and say: "People in the Southern Dynasty are barbaric and uncivilized, too impulsive. Let your emotions be in vain Control your reason, no wonder they are so stupid."

The sun in these few days is like a small flying insect in the study, and it has already flown from east to west in the blink of an eye.

Not long after Qin Chu issued the letter of divorce, Qin Lian's edict arrived at the Prince Kang's residence.

Standing on air in the courtyard, the servant read a lengthy paragraph, but in the end it meant only one sentence: Six days later, Ah Ji married Qin Chu for Concubine Kang.

Six days later, it was also the time for Su Qi's wedding.

When I heard the news, I was looking at the sunset with my chin resting on my chin. It was fiery red, peaceful and serene, and there was no sign of the sky changing.

Ah Ji was still standing silently not far from me. I came back to my senses and smiled at her: "Look, how smart Qin Lian is. I haven't even mentioned to him the specifics of why I want to marry you off." time, he will arrange for you no more than six days later."

Ah Ji moved his lips, his expression gradually turned sad, and he didn't speak.After thinking about it, I took out the embroidered pouch that Su Qi brought to me when he came to Nanchao last time, and handed it over.

"I don't know if we can meet again in the future." I said, "Aji, you should cherish it in the future."

She looked at me, didn't speak, blinked suddenly, and turned her head away quickly before the tears fell.

Six days passed quickly.When it was time to light the lanterns, Ah Ji came to say goodbye to me in a red wedding dress.I looked at her face flushed by the clothes, sighed decently, and said, "I think back when I got married..."

Before he finished speaking, someone behind him burst out laughing.I looked back and saw that everyone in the room had knelt down on the floor.

Qin Lian walked up to me, held my hand, and said with a smile, "What happened when you got married? Did I treat you badly?"

I looked down at his hands, with slender fingers protruding from the wide sleeves, clean and warm.I looked up at his face again, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, clear eyebrows, still my favorite appearance.

I moved my lips, and said in a calm tone, "I think of the four maids who accompanied me to the Southern Dynasty when I got married, and now there are no dead or dead married maids. Even the starling that was originally hanging on the corridor, It is no longer alive."

After my words fell, all the maids in the room who had just straightened up knelt down silently.

Even Ah Ji, who always tried to pretend to be pleasing to the eye, raised his head and looked at me.

I know that I shouldn't say such things on such an occasion, and I shouldn't contradict them for no reason in such a delicate situation.But I've been acting stupid for so long, and I really want to make a move before someone finally cleans me up.

Qin Lian looked at me, pursed his lips slightly, and slowly suppressed his smile.After a while, I thought I was self-aware and pulled my hand out of his palm.

The room was suddenly so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.

I looked up at Qin Lian, Qin Lian's expression had changed into a blank expression.I lowered my eyes and folded my hands in front of my body to see his sleeves hanging down, the hem of his clothes receding a few inches, and then he walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

I sighed slightly, closed my eyes, opened them again, and said, "The auspicious time is almost over. Just take off the bride's hijab."

When the hijab was taken off, Ah Ji was still looking at me.Holding the hands of the people around her, she stepped down the steps carefully step by step. She paused at the last step, turned her head through the red hijab, looked in my direction for a moment, and then turned her head again.

I watched her go until the sedan was out of sight.She has lived with me for more than ten years, and the next few decades can finally truly belong to her.

Looking back on the past 18 years of my life, I don't know which day or year I lived in a truly comfortable way.The art of war, the piano art I have learned, and the calligraphy I have practiced with all my heart, I have not had time to show off to others, and I am about to leave the person I love, this world.

If I knew this earlier, I should just eat, drink and have fun, indulge my heart and soul, and it would not be in vain for me to come to this world for a while.

However, destiny is always higher than people.

I sent the rest of the people away, and there was only silence in the yard where Ah Ji left.Facing a pot of green tea, I took out the jade pendant that Qin Lian had personally worn in my arms, and twisted it dozens of times in my hand.Thinking boredly, besides here, probably many places are busy at the moment: Aji and Qin Chu are busy worshiping the sky and entering the bridal chamber in Prince Lu's Mansion, Su Qi and Qin Xiuxuan are busy worshiping the heaven and earth entering the bridal chamber in Su State, the vassal kings of Su State are busy While thanking guests behind closed doors and plotting a rebellion, Qin Lian and Zhao Youchen were busy adding fuel to Su Guo's desperation, and Zhao Youyi was busy half a month later to worship heaven and earth and enter the bridal chamber.

I'm alone, and it's a crime to be idle.

Back when she was in Su Country, Su Zi used to tease Su Qi, saying that as his younger sister, she had been married for more than a year, but he was still alone.Shaking the ivory folding fan that was just enshrined by others, she said with a smile, what's the rush, within two years, you should call Qin Xiuxuan your sister-in-law.

At that time, I didn't know who Qin Xiuxuan was, so when I asked Su Qi, he continued to smile and said, it's nothing, just alone.It doesn't matter who she is, the important thing is that you married to Nanchao to stir up conflicts, and she married me to quell internal strife.

Su Qi seldom mentioned political affairs when chatting, but he was willing to open his mouth that day and made up for Su Zi and me with many court affairs.He said that Qin Jiushao, Qin Xiuxuan's father, knew that the imperial court would cut down the feudal clan sooner or later, so he rebelled first.Not only is his ambition inflated, but he is also obsessed with ghosts, so he actually made a deal with Hu Moupi and Nan Chao.If Qin Lian can help him ascend to the throne, he promises to cede one part of Su's land to the Southern Dynasty.

I coveted the lovely green jade pendant on his body, stared at him without moving, and said by the way, cede the land?What did he think?

Su Qi held the handle of the fan in his palm and played with it, and said with a smile, this is a very profitable idea.After the matter is completed, his power and territory will be a hundred times greater than when he was a prince, and he will not care about the piece given to the Southern Dynasty.As for the failure... once the human desire breaks through the soil and sprouts, there is no time to think about failure.

Let me say again, then he never thought that the disgraceful betrayal of the country will be infamous for thousands of years?

Su Qi glanced at me and said, the word "conscience" is just like "face", it's difficult to tear it off, but it's also easy to say.For Qin Jiushao, the most real thing is what he can get while alive, and it doesn't matter if he has a bad reputation for thousands of years.

Since then, it has become more and more obvious to me that men and women think very differently.I really can't figure it out, if a person can have enough food, clothing, warmth, and a comfortable life, why bother to seek other interests.Su Qi is like this, Qin Jiushao is like this, and so is Qin Lian.But Su Qi really couldn't figure it out, the royal family of the Su Kingdom had always been kind to aggression, how could it give birth to a princess like me who is content with the status quo and does not think about making progress.Obviously Su Zi is not like this, the mother is not like this, and the queen mother is not like this.

Later, he simply judged me bluntly, that I was really useless in the development of the royal family.

However, it turned out that this was one of the few wrong words Su Qi said.I am not only useful, but more useful.Regardless of whether it is a help or a hindrance, in short, my coming to the Southern Dynasty has indeed played a certain role in promoting or hindering the development of the royal family.

The royal family of the Su Kingdom has beauties, but it is the first princess like me who has a mission to marry a foreign country.However, although there is no precedent to follow in this dynasty, if it is traced back to history, there can be a long list of names of women and girls.The eyes of the beauties are flying, and the dimples are drunk, and the king can look at it with a smile. Since then, it is difficult to go to the morning court. Since the head on the top is wrapped by mandarin ducks and hibiscus tents, I don’t know what night it is. His internal organs and limbs were gradually paralyzed.

This is the most vicious but gentlest trick.If it falls short, it is nothing more than the loss of a woman's life, which is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of dead bones on the battlefield; if it is successful, it will naturally benefit endlessly. Spit on the misfortune of the stars with the enemy country, one side will last forever, while the other side will last forever.

Touching the jade pendant on my neck, I remembered that it had been more than two years since I first met Qin Lian in Su country.

At that time, I didn't know his identity, and I thought he liked Su Zi, and I kindly reminded him that the person my sister will marry in the future must be either powerful or expensive. It's good to make some reputation.

He smiled at the corner of his mouth, but there was interest in his eyes, and asked me, what if I want to marry you?
His smile was light and elegant, his slender fingers were hidden in the wide sleeves, he held a fan in one hand, leaned slightly, and looked at me less than a foot away from me, I suddenly felt that his face was burning like a rolling cloud, and I bowed my head Avoiding his sight, he held back for a long time before whispering, I haven't thought about this question yet.

In fact, it's not that I haven't thought about it, but I've thought about it countless times.Once chatting with Su Qi, I once said that the person I want to marry in the future does not need to be so powerful, but it is better to be good-looking. I like him and he also likes me. He can think of me in everything and be with me Cooking tea and wine, I accompany him to relax and he accompany me to relieve boredom, he will not be reluctant when he takes me out to play, and will never use me.

Su Qi laughed out loud and said, aren't you talking about me?
I said, do you look good?It's just that men in Su country are generally ugly, so it seems that you are more pleasing to the eye.

Su Qi smiled and said, if word of this gets out, you won't even think about getting married.Besides, everyone has such a good life everywhere, not only you like other people's family but also you, it's pretty good if only one of these two is satisfied.What if people don't like you and you don't like them?

I said, that's the worst, I'm not that unlucky, am I?
Su Qilue thought for a while, then patted my head, smiled again, and said, yes, I have done too many bad things, so it would be great if I could be satisfied.But you have been ill since you were a child, and you have never been killed. Your heart is as timid as a ball of cotton. Maybe God will favor you and make you lose the mulberry elm harvested in the east, and you may even cheat a lover.

Now I understand that the worst thing is not that people don't like me and I don't like them, but that people like me and I like them, but they can't live together for a long time; Had to kill each other.

Recently, I have often chewed on the words "God's will and tricking people".I thought that if I hadn't been sick, I wouldn't have been able to go out of the palace to recuperate, so I wouldn't have seen Qin Lian one day; if I hadn't seen Qin Lian at the beginning, naturally I wouldn't have come to Nanchao; if I hadn't come to Nanchao, I would have There will never be a day when she plots to kill Qin Lian.

However, now that I am sick, I see Qin Lian, married to the Southern Dynasty, plotting to kill Qin Lian but at the same time I am reluctant, so I can only sit and watch Su Qi instruct Qin Xu to usurp the throne, and Qin Lian instruct Qin Jiushao to rebel against the State of Su. Even if I feel sad in my heart, I don't know which side to help.

I have been worried for many days, missed the best time, and now there is no chance.All I can do now is to sit in this soft blessing hall, and wait for him to detain me tomorrow, or directly kill me.

So, no matter how you look at it, Qin Lian and I didn't have a perfect day, so we had to blame it on God's will.

I took off the piece of transparent green jade and held it in the palm of my hand, the lantern flower suddenly crackled, I was startled, and the jade pendant in my hand fell in response.I lowered my head in horror, the opaque green jade pendant was not broken into pieces, but separated from the lotus silver frame, rolled twice, and lay leisurely at my feet.

However, soon a maid heard the sound and knelt down to hold it up without any communication.I glanced at her and said, "Warm me a pot of tea, I'm going to see Your Majesty."

The maid hesitated for a moment, but refused to stand up.I glanced at her again: "Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

She bent her back deeply: "Your Majesty has an order that you are not allowed to leave this bedroom for half a step tonight."

I froze for a moment, then smiled: "Are you afraid that I will have private messages with someone?"

She said nothing.

"I thought it wouldn't start until the official decree was made tomorrow." I tried to soften my voice, "Then what if I have to leave? Are you going to shoot me to death?"

The maid's forehead was pressed against the back of her hand, and the back of her hand was pressed against the floor tiles, still silent.

I looked at her for a while, and finally gave up: "Forget it, since this is the case, go and make me some Furong Yulu Cake, it's okay, right?"

The next day there was indeed a decree delivered to Roufu Hall, the servant took a look at me, I stood behind the threshold and stopped him before he could speak: "I'm listening."

I thought he would insist on making me kneel, and I was ready to make some strong words.Unexpectedly, he took my abnormality as normal, and said to the air: "The queen has violated the Islamic law, and she is confined to the Roufu Palace. She must be ordered."

I nodded, turned around and returned to the inner room very tactfully, and didn't take a step for a day.

It's just that there must be a name for house arrest, but the name Qin Lian chose is so unreasonable and weak.In fact, after all, I have already deeply rooted the words "beautiful color and harming the country" into the hearts of the people in the Southern Dynasties. Even if he really said so, it's no big deal.

What's more, I also took a little white cat from Zhao You'e, and I haven't been willing to destroy that little cat so far.In this way, although the murder of life was not done, the name of colluding with Qin Xu can be added, not to mention that this was one of my missions when I came to the Southern Dynasty.Thinking about it, if the person who drafted the decree was Su Qi, he would definitely not be so indecisive, and would definitely write down everything he could think of. Anyway, I am just a ball of dough at this time, and it is up to him to shape it round or flat. mean.

It's just that since I'm under house arrest, it's hard to know what's going on outside.I don't know whether Su Qi has successfully married, whether Qin Jiushao has rebelled against him, whether Qin Xu can't hold back his anger and rise up prematurely.

There are only two things that are certain, and neither is good news.One is that Zhao Youyi should be married after [-] days, I was hoping to find a way to let her procrastinate for a while, but now that I can't protect myself, I have no choice but to give up; The dispute between the two countries finally could not be suppressed, and they were about to meet each other in battle.

I flipped through the storybook, but I couldn't read it at all. I subconsciously looked at the corner of the room, only to realize that Ah Ji was no longer standing there, so I couldn't help sighing.

If Ah Ji is still by my side, I would really like to say to her right now: "I have done more than failed, I am sorry to my father and elder brother."

I remembered that before I came to the Southern Dynasty, I knelt in front of Weiyang Palace, the most magnificent palace in the Su Kingdom, and swore to my father that I would never fall in love with Qin Lian.I just wanted to ask him a question, that's all.

And my father asked me, what if you really fell in love?
I thought about it and said, even if I fell in love with him, I would put Su Guosheji first and feed him poisoned wine.

Emperor Father glanced at me, his eyes were dark and deep, as if he couldn't see the boundary.In the end, he flicked his robe sleeves, turned around and entered the hall without saying a word.

And Su Zi came over, pulled me up from the blue floor tiles, looked at me deeply for a while, and sighed.

At that time, I didn't understand why Su Zi sighed, so I asked her, just like I asked her why she voluntarily married the prime minister's son, but she never smiled after marriage.But Su Zi was finally willing to open his mouth a few days before I left for the Southern Dynasty, and answered these two questions together: "I am married to the prime minister's son, although I may not be too happy, but I can still live easily. I I may not be in harmony with him, but I can respect him as a guest. Although I have to sacrifice a little happiness, I can still be my own princess. I can maintain this pride and dignity without any effort, and I can do this all my life .”

"And when you marry in the Southern Dynasty, you are no longer you. You have to be the daughter of the father, the princess of the country, shouldering heavy responsibilities, and can't help yourself. Although you keep saying that even if you fall in love with him, you can feed him poisonous wine , but you may not really do it when the time comes. You will be in a dilemma, tossing and turning. If you feed poisoned wine, even if you live, you will not be happy in this life; but if you don’t feed poisoned wine, you will I'm sorry for the whole country of Su." Su Zi lightly brushed the petals off my shoulders, and said softly, "And you, Su Xi, will definitely fall in love with him. What should you do then?"

I said, "It doesn't matter if you fell in love. You also liked Qin Lian, didn't you? But you didn't like him later. I can do the same."

Su Zi looked at me with complicated eyes, and sighed again after a long time.

At that time, I thought things too simply, so I could not listen to any advice.I stubbornly asked to marry to the Southern Dynasty, and my heart and eyes were full of wanting to see Qin Lian again, so eager that I didn't want to think about the bitter fruit I might taste after this.

And now, I really tasted the bitter fruit.

Looking back carefully now, I think, if the time can be pushed back to more than two years ago, I would rather never see Qin Lian.

(End of this chapter)