Hey, you are reborn too?

"It's okay," Xie Yongwei leaned back slightly, a faint smile on her lips, "You haven't finished speaking in the first place, so why hide it? If you have anything else to say, just say it now."

Dongqing's eyes were bright. She took a sip of the tea in the white porcelain cup. After putting the cup down, she pinched the corner of her clothes with her hands a little stiffly.

"Miss, I have no intention of slandering my cousin. I just heard it from somewhere else. It's this cousin who is born unlucky."

Seeing Dong Qing's face full of secrecy, but not continuing to talk, Xie Yongwei understood and took the initiative to speak: "What kind of ominous omen is it, is it a curse that killed someone, or?"

"I'm not sure about this," Dong Qing shook her head, with a hint of worry on her face, "but I heard that those who were close to my cousin didn't have a good ending."

Xie Yongwei nodded slightly, indicating that she understood.

Her eyes narrowed slightly. Why did this cousin sound a bit like someone in her previous life whom she didn't know very well but had heard of a few times?

"Dongqing, let me ask you, is this cousin good at embroidery?"

"How did you know that, young lady?" Dong Qing looked surprised. "I'm not sure about that. My cousin's mother was a very good artist, but I don't know whether this skill was passed on to my cousin."

Xie Yongwei closed her eyes gently and nodded twice.

Yes, I remembered now. It was around this time in my previous life. When the emperor celebrated his birthday, the Fu family took out a painting of "Splendid Mountains and Rivers" as a gift.

This picture is lifelike, and the scenery of the mountains and rivers of the abyss is vividly presented on the picture. It looks artistic from a distance and is also worthy of careful examination. The stitches are delicate, and I think it took a lot of effort to embroider it.

The emperor was very pleased and immediately asked the head of the Fu family, the Grand Secretary, who embroidered the picture and offered to reward the embroiderer handsomely.

The emperor guessed that it was embroidered by Mrs. Fu Zhongtang's wife. After all, Mrs. Fu's embroidery skills were well-known in the capital.

Fu Zhongtang was sweating profusely and immediately knelt down to apologize to the emperor.

The emperor didn't understand what was going on, so he quickly ordered his servants to pull him up.

Not only the emperor was confused, but also the other princes, nobles and ministers at the banquet.

They clearly said there would be a reward, so why was Fu Zhongtang so panicked?

After being helped up by a group of palace servants, Fu Zhongtang trembled and apologized to the emperor. He said that this painting was a daily practice work of his daughter and was not a valuable item. The gift this time should not have been this painting. It should be that the servants were careless and packed the wrong gift, which caused such a mistake. Please forgive me, Your Majesty.

Hearing this, everyone was shocked.

Such an exquisite work is actually the product of daily practice. If you embroider it seriously, what will happen?

The emperor clapped his hands and laughed. Not only did he promise Fu Zhongtang on the spot that he would not blame him, he also invited Fu Zhongtang to bring his daughter into the palace immediately to have fun at the palace banquet.

It was also at the palace banquet for the Emperor's birthday that Xie Yongwei met her cousin for the first time.

She was tall and thin, and her clothes were made of expensive material but were old-fashioned and obviously too small.

Xie Yongwei was puzzled at the time. Those styles had been popular in Beijing more than ten years ago, and they were all worn by women. They did not look like clothes for young girls at all. Why would Miss Fu wear that?

Now, after hearing Dong Qing's words, Xie Yongwei suddenly realized.

Fu Ningning had just been brought back from a farm in the country. She was not favored by her master and her biological mother had no say, so how could she make new clothes for her?

But when the emperor summoned him, the Fu family had no reason to hide Fu Ningning. They must have hurriedly asked her to wear her mother's clothes and come to the palace to meet the emperor.

The emperor was in high spirits and asked Fu Ningning to embroider some other small things on the spot.

Fu Ningning was really hardworking. She nodded and threaded the needle, and a pattern of auspicious dragon and phoenix slowly took shape under her hands.

She lowered her head and sewed casually, and the image of a real dragon came to life on the picture.

When the finished product came out, everyone was stunned. There were praises and exclamations everywhere, and everyone exclaimed that Fu Zhongtang had a good daughter.

Because Xie Yongwei was far away at the time, the palace banquet was held late, and she was very sleepy, she didn't remember the details clearly. She just remembered that the moment she raised it, there was only the sound of soft music, and the place was so quiet that people could fall asleep on the spot, but suddenly it was like a pot of boiling water, gurgling vigorously, which woke her up directly.

While Xie Yongwei was half asleep and half awake, she saw everyone staring at the work, praising it non-stop.

"Daddy, what happened? Why are you making so much noise?"

Little Xie Yongwei rubbed her eyes repeatedly with the back of her hands before she finally perked up a little.

"Awei, your cousin's marriage is looking forward to it."

Xie Yongwei didn’t understand at that time. Her eyelids were fighting each other hard. She just wanted to find a quiet place to sleep, so she simply closed her eyes and fell asleep in her father’s arms.

Now it seems that my father and mother had already started worrying about my cousin's marriage in her previous life. I just didn't understand it at the time and didn't think much about it, so I have almost no memory of it.

Xie Yongwei's heart suddenly sank. If it was really that cousin, she remembered that her ending was not good.

She stole the show at the palace banquet for the Emperor's birthday and was deeply favored by him thereafter. He gave her the title of County Princess and brought her into the palace from time to time.

In her previous life, when Xie Yongwei heard about this, she was a little envious.

But not long after, Fu Ningning suddenly disappeared.

Xie Yongwei was curious and asked her father and mother where her cousin had gone.

The strange thing was that they kept their mouths tightly shut, looking very secretive, and just put their fingers to their lips and made a hushing gesture to her.

Looking back now, Xie Yongwei realized that at that time, Beili had already had its army harassing the border of Dayuan, and Dayuan had been stable for a long time and did not want to go to war at all, so the court unanimously agreed to negotiate peace.

Unexpectedly, Beili agreed readily. They did not want money or land, but only one request, which was to marry a princess from Dayuan.

Dayuan was having a headache.

They understood Beili's reasoning - for some reason, Beili's princes never lived to see their fifteenth birthday, and most died before their birthdays. Beili now only had the last prince left, and he was about to turn fifteen, so it was no wonder that Beili was anxious.

However, isn't this obviously asking Princess Dayuan to go and bring good luck?

The current emperor has only two surviving daughters. One is the eldest princess, who has been in poor health since childhood. She is the daughter of the emperor's favorite concubine and has always been the apple of the emperor's eye. I think he would be reluctant to let her go in marriage no matter what.

There is another one, the Ninth Princess, born to the Queen. It is said that the Ninth Princess became a disciple of the Medical Immortal Valley and has been away from the capital for many years. She is already considered half a medical immortal.

Besides, the queen had only one daughter, and the conditions in Beili were difficult. It seemed that he had bad intentions to suddenly ask for the princess' hand in marriage. No matter what the queen said, she probably didn't want to let her ninth daughter get married.

Both princesses had sufficient reasons not to get married, and princes and ministers also submitted memorials, saying that their daughters were sick or ugly and were not worthy of Prince Beili's eyes.

The Beili side is coming with great force and must take a princess.

Dayuan was in a very difficult situation.