Qing Ping Le · Double Songs

King Chang Ning tossed and turned for several nights, and today it was the sunrise again, and the breakfast was also casually dismissed, and the valet had no choice but to remove the dishes.For several days in a row, the few potted flowers he loved the most had no intention of taking care of them, and he just sat anxiously in the front hall all day long, every movement outside aroused his eager anticipation.

Early this morning, the concierge's servants rushed over to report to him, "The princess's carriage has come from the street."

King Chang Ning walked towards the outside of the hall quickly, and the servant who was waiting beside him wanted to come to help him, but he pushed him back impatiently. As a father, he knew all the hardships his Ah Cheng had suffered along the way, and he wished he could not protect her well. It caused her to lose her life again, thinking of this, King Chang Ning's eyes turned red and his feet became unstable.

The carriage stopped in front of the palace, Dong Ge helped Rong Cheng get out of the carriage and saw King Chang Ning hurried out, Rong Cheng smiled coquettishly and saluted, "My daughter greets father."

"What kind of courtesy is there, is your body better?" The prince pulled her closer to look at her face carefully, "Hurry up and show Mr. Zhuge, you are not allowed to go anywhere until you get well."

"Mr. Qianhai specially prepared medicine for me before I came back. My health has improved a lot along the way. Father doesn't have to worry too much."

"Prince, Princess." Dong Ge called out softly, "It's cold outside, go in and talk."

The walking chariot had already landed at Rong Cheng's feet. I don't know if he was worried about Bai Qingtong's presence. Rong Cheng hesitated to step on the chariot, but he still sat on it with Dong Ge's support.As before, the walking chariot stopped under the platform of Wuhuayuan. Dongge helped her to get off the chariot. She turned her head to look at Bai Qingtong, and Bai Qingyun was still looking at her coldly.

She pointed to a maid and said, "Send Miss Bai to Wuxiang Courtyard to wait on the girl." Then she said, "Qingtong, you go to rest first."

The maids in Wuhuayuan were silently busy, Rong Cheng was served by Dong Ge first to take a shower and change clothes.Bai Qingtong went to Wuxiang Courtyard with others, similar to Ziqi Donglai, these two small courtyards are also connected by a straight path, Wuxiang Courtyard is elegant and quiet, stepping into the courtyard gate is a cobblestone path, with Xifu and Chuisi Begonia planted on both sides , hence the name Wuxiang.

The flowering period has not yet arrived, and the small courtyard is a bit lonely. Bai Qingtong looked at the maid who was serving with her head bowed and asked, "What's your name?"

"Return to Miss, Lin Lang." She raised her head to peek at Bai Qingtong's cold face, then lowered her head even lower, "Miss, do you want to take a bath?"

"Okay." Seeing that she was about to leave, she said again, "You don't have to be so cautious here in the future." Lin Lang was stunned for a moment and then nodded. Bai Qingtong looked at her back and suddenly thought of Chun Mian, their age It seems to be about the same size.

After taking a bath, Rong Cheng changed into her clothes and stepped into the study. King Chang Ning didn't go anywhere and just watched over her in the courtyard without flowers. With a smile on her brows, she knelt down and saluted, "Daughter pays respects to father."

"Ah Cheng, come here and let my father take a look." Chang Ning Wang saw her haggard, and her figure had also lost weight, and said distressedly, "I shouldn't have asked you to go, come here, and invite Mr. Zhuge."

Rong Cheng said with a smile, "It's all thanks to Ah Che."

"I also heard that she saved you several times in Yongzhou City, and even jumped off a cliff for you." King Chang Ning paused, and then said, "There is also that white girl, since your mother passed away, there has been no one in the garden. Check in, what do you want to do to respond to your father by doing this."

Rong Cheng knelt down again to salute, "Qingtong risked his life several times to save her, and asked father to help his daughter."

"You have gone through life and death several times when you grow up to this age. Don't say you only want her. If you want the stars in the sky, your father will find a way to pick them off for you. What's more." King Chang Ning helped her up, his eyes were loving, " The principles of the three cardinal guides and five constant principles of human relations have been regarded as the law for my father, but since," he paused, "since the emperor's brother's rebellion and your mother's death, I often think that there are so many rules to follow in the world, and how many greedy people can understand. Caiyi is entertaining relatives, and you are pure in nature and deeply understand righteousness, so why do you have to make things difficult for this small matter?"

Rong Cheng smiled coquettishly, "Thank you, father, for making it happen."

Although King Chang Ning also smiled, he poured cold water on her, "Don't be too happy, I think that Bai girl doesn't mean much to you."

Rong Cheng pretended to be annoyed, "Father."

King Chang Ning laughed, "It's really a girl who doesn't want to stay." He added, "Father also heard that Yuan Jia not only injured you this time, but also put you in danger again and again, it's really bullying. Too many people."

"Didn't the father warn his daughter not to be presumptuous?"

He said angrily, "It was nothing more than a small fight back then, but this time I almost killed you, and my father still cares about her rank or not. This time, my father will definitely get it back from you in front of His Majesty." justice."

"Father, calm down." Rong Cheng said with a smile, "I'm fine with this, and the emperor's sister is also unintentional, not to mention the current situation is inappropriate to fight against the emperor's sister. Father has seen the emperor's sister?" Seeing the prince nodding, she said again, "Father doesn't know that Huangjie is still alive?"

"Back then, because of your disappearance, as a father, all your attention was on your safety, so Yuan Jia's accident was not taken into consideration. Back then, His Majesty simplified the funeral ceremony on the grounds of not disturbing the souls of the dead, so as to avoid the prince's condolences and hasty burial. Now I think about it. Something is wrong."

"The Sacred Heart is unpredictable." Rong Cheng said again, "I came back and received the news that Uncle Wang has been in contact with Nanliang recently, and I was surprised to find that the spies from Nanliang are wide and dense when I went to the Western Zhou Dynasty. What did Father think of Uncle Wang's move? "

"Ah Cheng, my father doesn't want you to participate in this matter." Chang Ning Wang seemed to be unwilling to get entangled in this matter, so he said, "It's just a pity for this child, Ah Che."

"Father, don't worry, Ache is someone close to His Majesty."

The prince was startled, and then laughed again, "The Sacred Heart is really unpredictable. If you have the opportunity, you should remind Ah Che more. King Jingyuan has been in the court for many years and it is not easy to fool her. Tell her to pay more attention to the people around her."

"Got it, father."

"You go to rest first, because father is going to look at those flowers, I'm afraid I'm going to lose if I haven't taken care of them for a while." He accompanied his daughter to the bedroom, and then walked off the platform and left the garden without flowers.

After the prince left, Jing Yu said outside the door, "Jing Yu, please see the princess." The maid opened the door to let him in, and he saluted, "Jing Yu disturbed the princess's rest, please don't blame the princess."

"Have you found out what it is?"

"The subordinates are incompetent and have nothing to gain." He said again, "Is there anyone who doubts the princess?"

Every face in the palace flashed through her mind, she shook her head, but couldn't figure it out for a while, "In the future, you should pay more attention to the movement of the palace."

"Jing Yu has another matter to plead guilty to the princess. The matter of Hongmeiling is due to the fact that his subordinates have no way to prevent the guards from protecting the princess."

"This matter has nothing to do with you, I was careless." Her usual clear eyes dimmed a little, "Chun Mian was buried?"

"The prince's will was buried in Yecheng Temple. The prince wanted to wait until the princess came back to bury him, but he didn't expect that there would be many changes in the middle." Jing Yu took a whip and presented it, "This is the third son of the Xu family in Yunzhou. Made."

Rong Cheng took the long whip as if it weighed a thousand catties in his hand, he felt sour in his nose, he was silent for a long time before he calmly said, "Dongge, go invite Miss Bai."

Bai Qingtong stepped into a carriage outside the gate of the palace, and sat quietly without asking why. She caught a glimpse of the long black whip in Rong Cheng's hand, and she understood it.The carriage drove through the bustling long street and sped towards the outside of the city. There was a small temple named Yecheng Temple in a quiet place on the west mountain. The temple was small and clean but not dilapidated.

From the bottom of the mountain to the gate of the temple, there is a section of slope with stone ladders, and a stone lamp is set every ten steps to illuminate the road at night, with dense trees and deep forests on both sides.The monk boy sweeping the floor at the gate saw her from afar, and ran inside to inform the abbot, who closed the scriptures and left the temple gate to wait for her at the end of the stone steps.

"Amitabha, I greet the princess."

Rong Cheng said with a smile, "Master Hui Hai doesn't need to be too polite, it's good that Master doesn't have to accompany me to see my mother."

"Your Highness, please."

Rong Cheng's biological mother was buried in Yecheng Temple. Before she died, she wished not to enter the ancestral mausoleum of Rong's family, but only wanted to be buried here. She also lived here for several years before her death, eating fast and praying to Buddha.Rong Cheng has never understood what happened in the first place, which caused his mother to devote herself to Buddha and even refused to go back to the palace. At that time, his father would come to listen to his mother's chanting every day.

Only Rong Cheng and Bai Qingtong stood silently in front of the princess's tomb, while Xia Feng, Jing Yu and Dong Ge retreated ten steps away.Rong Cheng was dressed in white Shengxue wrapped in a mink velvet cloak, and Bai Qingtong was dressed in a light pink dress to reduce the desolation.

Rong Cheng said, "When I was a child, my mother was injured and prayed for me here. Later, my mother who survived the catastrophe brought me to fast and worship the Buddha to express my gratitude for blessings. Now I often think of her chanting at that time."

She added, "Only those who have contributed to the palace and have no relatives and no reason will be buried here after death." She pointed to a place, "Look at the old nanny who saved my father, there is the old nanny next to my mother, and There is Chun Mian." She walked over with Bai Qingtong, and she put the long whip in front of the tomb, "I will never break my promise to give you the gift, is Chun Mian still satisfied?"

Bai Qingtong looked at the word "Chun Mian" on the tombstone, recalled the battle between her and Cheng Yiliu that day, and said, "Ah Cheng, if I didn't deliberately keep my hand that day, perhaps Chun Mian would not have died." She has always been cold A rare expression of regret appeared on his face.

"It's none of your business. I used you when you and I first met. You don't have to blame yourself."

"it is good."

The cold smoke is weaving, the bells echo, and the red walls and gray tiles of Yecheng Temple are bathed in the winter wind.Rong Cheng wiped his mother's tombstone with a wet handkerchief, and Bai Qingtong watched her move slowly and carefully from behind. then left.

Jing Yu came over and said in a low voice, "The fast meal is ready, can the princess use it?"

Rong Cheng was checking if there were any omissions, and said, "The abbot's kindness cannot be denied, and mother will not be happy."

The four vegetarian dishes in the dining hall have been prepared, Rong Cheng just sat down, a clear voice came from outside, with a cold tone, "Cousin, Ah Che is too late for lunch, can I have one?" Just as she was talking, she had already left Going in, I took the seat opposite Chu Rongcheng and sat down, "Miss Bai, long time no see."

"Princess, Qingtong is being polite."

Dong Ge set the bowls and chopsticks for the three of them and then went out, the door closed, only the sound of the bowls and chopsticks remained in the dining hall, the vegetarian meal was light and Rong Cheng was not used to it, he stopped after eating two mouthfuls, sat upright and waited for the two of them to eat meal.After the meal, Dong Ge came in and removed the bowls and chopsticks, made the tea and went out again, this time Rong Che finally spoke first.

"I guessed that my cousin would come here when she first entered the city."

"You and Sister Huang knew the news of my return to the city faster than my father." Rong Cheng said with a smile, "I heard that Sister Huang tested Pei Qingyang a few days ago, what does Ah Che think?"

"Sister Huang has her own opinions in doing things for the eldest princess, we as courtiers shouldn't ask too much." She continued, "The shadow guards in Hongmei Ridge who didn't try their best to protect cousin have been punished, fortunately cousin returned safely. "

"Ah Che has a heart." She looked at that indifferent gaze, "Pei Qingyang is someone close to the Duke. I heard that the Duke seldom shows up when he comes to the capital to thank guests behind closed doors."

"My cousin really has a lot of eyes and ears."

"I also heard that Wei Changdong will enter the palace with you to meet the Holy Spirit as soon as he comes back. After thinking about it, I feel that Mr. Wei's move is somewhat reckless, but recently I have figured it out again, Mr. Wei. I'm afraid he is hesitant about the Duke's plan, he is now in a dilemma."

"My cousin knows Mr. Wei very well."

She smiled and said, "My future sister-in-law should understand a thing or two, but I can't let my sister marry someone who is not human."

Rong Che glanced at Bai Qingtong at the side very indifferently, but said, "I thought the National Council and my father also refused to return to the capital because of the instability of the frontier war. After all, this capital of your majesty is a place where people can enter and never return."

Rong Cheng withdrew his smile, "You also noticed it?"

Rong Che nodded, "Your Majesty is worried that the duke and his father are holding military power and joining forces to cause disturbances in the borderlands. The chaos is far worse than the overthrow of the dynasty, so he recalled the two of them back to the capital to take the opportunity to remove the military power. Since this is the case, the duke will not be unaware of the danger here. , but he came back anyway. So there are only two reasons left."

Rong Cheng continued, "Duke One is old and foolish and did not guess His Majesty's intentions. Duke Two and King Jingyuan plan to attack Nanyang and take the imperial palace together. Ah Che thinks?"

"The duke and the father are both young." She continued, "Sister Huang also has the same intention, but," she glanced at Rong Cheng, said, "It's just that your majesty doesn't seem to be aware of it, and I don't know that Mr. Pei How did it work?"

"Ache." Rong Cheng lowered his eyes to hide his emotions, "Your Majesty is different from the one ten years ago. I heard that His Majesty recently summoned the Ministry of Rites privately to ask about Feng Chan, but you and I both know that the late Emperor died in Feng Chan. chaos."

"My cousin's mention of Feng Chan reminds me that Duke Guo is actually an old person next to the former prince. What Chang Dong means is that Duke Guo seems to be trying to rehabilitate the former prince."

"Your Majesty beheaded the first prince and the Feng Chan Rebellion, and the two kings Chang Ning and Jing Yuan also made great contributions in this battle." Rong Cheng looked up at her, "I'm afraid this matter is far from as simple as it is recorded in the file."

"Does my cousin want to thoroughly investigate this case?"

Rong Cheng shook his head and said, "Firstly, it's an accident, and secondly, it's causing His Majesty to be jealous. This matter must not be mentioned in front of the imperial sister." She continued, "By the way, Ah Che, father wants me to remind you to be careful of the people around you this morning. .”

Rong Che was stunned for a moment and then understood again, "Thank you Uncle Wang for me."

"Ache, when the plans of King Jingyuan and the Duke are not yet clear, you must not act rashly. You must be more cautious when doing things in front of His Majesty, and you should not get too close to the Royal Sister for fear of arousing His Majesty's suspicion."

"Cousin, don't worry, I know." She stood up and said again, "I haven't come to pay respects to my aunt since I came back. Cousin, sit down for a while."

Rong Cheng smiled and said, "I'm afraid that mother will blame you."

Rong Che could no longer remember her aunt's face, she only remembered that she was a gentle woman who cared for her very much, and then she went to the frontier, and then a message was spread in the capital that Princess Chang Ning died of illness, and another eight years passed in a flash.After paying homage to her aunt, she went to Chun Mian's tomb again. The setting sun shone on her cheeks, and she stood there for a long time with indifferent eyes before turning around and leaving.

At the foot of the western mountain, Rong Cheng said goodbye to Rong Che, and Rong Che said to Bai Qingtong, "If Miss Bai is free, you and I will learn swordsmanship again."

"I have the princess' advice."

Rong Che nodded, turned around, got on his horse, and galloped away.Rong Cheng rode into the city in a carriage just like when he came here, he felt tired only at the end of the day, and fell asleep in the bumping of the carriage.She didn't notice when the carriage stopped outside the gate of the palace, but heard a familiar voice softly ringing in her ears.

"Chengmei wake up, you're home."

Rong Cheng woke up slowly, and only then did he see the person in front of him clearly. She was startled and called out, "Brother Cunshan, you are back."

Rong Cunshan looked at her with gentle eyes, with a doting smile on that unparalleled face carved like beautiful jade, he said, "Get up quickly, don't freeze." Cheng helped her out of the carriage, and when the chariot stopped on the platform, he helped her to sit on it, and even followed the chariot all the way to Wuhuayuan.

She was deeply impressed by the first expression of this young master Ruyu when he saw Bai Qingtong. His eyes seemed calm and normal, although they were gentle, but the gentleness seemed to float on his face, not from the heart.With her desertedness, she shouldn't take other people's attitudes to heart, so why this time?She thought it might be the mild hostility, a sudden hostility.