Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

"I'll pay homage to Duke Wei." Li Mingda stared at Wei Shuyu with deep meaning.

Wei Shuyu was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, bowed to give way, and then dismissed the idlers, and only one person led the way, leading Li Ming to the mourning hall.

After Li Mingda offered incense, he didn't say anything, he came out of the mourning hall quietly, and asked Wei Shuyu immediately.

"How is Lingmei now? Last time I saw her in Plum Blossom Temple, she was extremely thin."

"It's much better." Wei Shuyu said politely, and then asked Li Mingda probingly, "Your lord suddenly mentioned her, is it—"

"I just want to ask her something, please lead the way." Li Mingda said calmly.

Wei Shuyu glanced at Fang Yizhi behind Li Mingda.

"This is an investigation, so there's no need to hide anything, and besides, you're here."

Wei Shuyu promised Li Mingda again and again, "It's not that I'm taboo about this, but I'm just afraid that my younger sister will keep her filial piety at home, her face will be tired, and she will be rude to the princess and Mr. Fang."

"Forget it, Fang Shizi is not going, just wait here, I can go to see her alone. We are all girls, so we don't need to care about our appearance." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he turned his head and motioned to Fang Yizhi.

Fang Yizhi nodded slightly, as if he was happy with this arrangement.

Seeing this, Wei Shuyu twitched the corners of her mouth, and suddenly felt that Fang Yizhi was also not interested in her sister.Otherwise, during the filial piety period, he would be interrogated by the princess. As his sister's future husband, he should show some concern, but he didn't care at all.

Wei Shuyu was in a daze for a moment, and saw that the princess had gone far away, so he hurried to catch up, and asked someone to arrange for Fang Yizhi to rest in the side hall, and serve him tea.

Fang Yi watched the two go away coldly, then turned around and left.

After Li Ming arrived at Wei Wanshu's room, he looked around and felt that Wei Wanshu was worthy of being a famous talented girl in the capital. The boudoir didn't place those exquisite objects that girls like, but there were mostly books and paintings.

Wei Wanshu smiled modestly, "I haven't loved those since I was a child."

"Well, it's unusual." Li Mingda looked up at a landscape painting made by Wei Wanshu, "Majestic and magnificent, with the style of Duke Wei."

Wei Wanshu hurriedly thanked the princess for her compliment.

Li Mingda finished it immediately, turned his eyes to look at the people in the room, and said to Wei Wanshu: "I have something important to ask you, only cronies can be kept in the room."

Wei Wanshu raised her hand, leaving only the personal maid, Yuan Yue, and dismissed the rest.

"Princess, please don't worry, Yuanyue is the person I trust the most. She can't guarantee it, but she will definitely not talk nonsense." Wei Wanshu explained.

Li Mingda nodded, then took a cup of tea, blew on it, and took a sip slowly.

The room also became very quiet.

Immediately, Li Mingda suddenly raised his eyes to look at Yuan Yue, "Shangsi Festival, the day I fell off the cliff, did you and your master see Xiao Kai on the mountain?"

Yuan Yue was stunned, and immediately panicked when she realized it, and looked at Wei Wanshu as if asking questions.

Wei Wanshu was stunned, she didn't expect the princess to mention this matter suddenly, she was also shocked, and was caught off guard.

Wei Wanshu: "Princess—"

"My princess is asking you something, look at what your second mother is doing!" Li Mingda suddenly snapped.

Yuan Yue was so frightened that she was trembling all over, she quickly knelt down and kowtowed, hesitating and hawing, she didn't know whether to say it, her eyes still couldn't help asking Qian Wei Wanshu.

Li Mingda smiled, "No need to reply, I already know the answer."

Yuanyue's reaction already showed that the answer was "yes", if not, there was no need for her to use such a wink, and she would only dare to say it with Wei Wanshu's consent.

Wei Wanshu frowned, while hating Yuanyue's performance full of loopholes, but also embarrassed that the matter had been seen through by the princess.In other words, it is very likely that the crown prince said something to Princess Jinyang, and he sold her after all.

Li Mingda blinked, then looked at Wei Wanshu quietly, as if patiently waiting for her explanation.

Wei Shuyu was at the side, from being puzzled at first, to watching his sister's reaction later, his mood changed to resentment.He also realized that Princess Jinyang should have known about Li Chengqian.This is not a good thing, it will make people feel ashamed and ashamed, after all, he can't hold his head up at the moment.Fortunately, brother Yizhi is not here at the moment, but I don't know if brother Yizhi knows, if he knows, this marriage is probably... hard to say.

"My lord, we didn't—"

"Do you want to keep your mouth shut?" Li Mingda took out a letter from his sleeve, unfolded it and showed it to Wei Wanshu, "My elder brother is dead, this is the last letter he left before his death."

Wei Wanshu was stunned, and immediately recognized that the handwriting on the letter belonged to Li Chengqian.

Li Mingda immediately received the letter, facing himself with the content.

"Do you still want to deny it now?" Li Mingda asked softly.

Wei Wanshu closed her eyes resignedly, and took a deep breath.Her lips trembled, not knowing whether to say it or not to say it.If she said it, she would admit it on the spot, but if she didn't say it, the prince had already written her name in the letter, and she couldn't clean herself up.

"Your lord," Wei Shuyu frowned, and bowed to Li Mingda to plead for his younger sister, "Plum Blossom Temple is just a coincidence, my second sister is young and ignorant, please let your lord let her go."

"How do you release it? This is the most important evidence in the case. It cannot be concealed at all. I can only ensure that as few people as possible know-"

"Thank you, your lord!" Before Li Mingda finished speaking, Wei Wanshu eagerly knelt down and kowtowed to thank her, and then explained to Li Mingda that there was no real physical relationship between her and the former prince. Poetry, if you meet by chance, you will chat a few words and express your feelings to the scenery."

"Lyric, um, it's not easy to talk about the Su Clan, my fall off a cliff and other secret matters." Li Mingda half-sarcastically said.

Wei Wanshu lowered her head even more, "That's because he was troubled by this matter, so I asked too much, but I didn't expect to tell me the whole story. Maybe it was because he had held on to this matter for too long. It just so happened that day I just saw Xiao Kai, so I told him casually."

"Xiao Kai really appeared in the mountains that day, and not far from the place where my accident happened?"

"When I met him, it was the time when everyone was separately looking for the princess in the forest. He was running down the mountain in a hurry by himself, but he didn't see me." explain.

Yuanyue agreed, "As Erniang said, she was really in a hurry to run away. I didn't think much of it at the time, but after learning about the accident with the princess, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that Xiao Erlang ran away as if he had done something bad to escape. .”

"Why didn't you report this situation?" Wei Shuyu looked at Wei Wanshu in surprise.

Wei Wanshu frowned, "At that time, I really thought it was nothing. Xiao Erlang has always had a good relationship with the eldest brother, and he also respects our father very much. I think he is a good character. I never thought that he would harm the princess. Later, the former prince told me that the princess fell off the cliff. What happened before, talking about stones, and saying that the person who threw the stones was probably an aristocrat, I remembered Xiao Erlang’s strange running that day, so I said it. I didn’t think it must be him when I said it, but it was just words It’s just a matter of talking.”

"These testimonies, you have to sign and draw a deposit." Li Mingda said.

Wei Shuyu said anxiously: "Princess, but she and—"

"She signed the letter and told the truth about what I saw with my own eyes when I fell off the cliff that day. I can consider not showing this letter from my elder brother to the saint." Li Mingda finished the word game. Li Shimin has seen it, so her promise at this moment is to 'never' show it to the saint.

Wei Shuyu heaved a sigh of relief, looked at Wei Wanshu, squinted slightly, and motioned for her to agree, because this was already the best result he felt.

Wei Wanshu red-eyed, repeatedly apologized to Li Mingda, and then obediently wrote the testimony, drew a pledge and submitted it.The full moon also gave the same testimony.

After Li Mingda confirmed the testimony of the two, he immediately left to leave.Wei Shuyu hurriedly sent them off, and wanted to explain about his sister.

Li Mingda said: "No need. After all, paper can't contain fire. If this matter doesn't leak from me, it must be safe. To tell you the truth, before I saw this letter from my elder brother, I was in the Plum Blossom Nunnery. When investigating the case, I heard some gossip, but I didn't care about it."

After Li Mingda finished speaking, he turned around and left.Wei Shuyu stood where he was, his whole body was as stiff as a stone sculpture.

After getting the news that the princess and Fang Yi were going away, Wei Shuyu rushed straight into Wei Wanshu's room like crazy.

Wei Wanshu huddled in the bed, crying beyond recognition.

"Look at what you've done!" After driving everyone away, Wei Shuyu wandered back and forth in the center of the ground with his hands behind his back angrily.

Wei Wanshu choked up and cried, listening to Wei Shuyu's lecture, she didn't say a word.

Seeing her crying fiercely, Wei Shuyu was helpless and silent for a while, then sighed: "I won't talk about you anymore, the solution for now is to discuss the solution. The princess said that even if the prince didn't mention this matter, those in Meihua Temple The nuns have already seen the clues. You said why you couldn't do it more covertly, and everyone knows about it!"

"At that time, how did I know that the prince turned around and became a waste prince! If I knew this result, I wouldn't want to provoke him at all." Wei Wanshu angrily wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "Don't you think I'm ashamed? You don't have to admit it Me, tomorrow I will pack my things and leave this house."

"Leave if you say leave. Don't forget that you have been married by a saint! Now that this matter is exposed, I am afraid that the consequences will be too serious. Everything else is fine. The princess promised to keep it a secret for us, so of course I won't. , but Fang Shizi, if we can't hide it and the matter gets bigger, our Wei family will lose face. Not only will you not be able to correct the Wei family's reputation, but you will also tarnish all the good reputation established by your father before."

"I know, it's all my fault." Wei Wanshu scratched her head with both hands, and turned to look at Wei Shuyu with red eyes, "Otherwise I'll die, and the Wei family's reputation can be preserved by this end."

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's not that far!" Wei Shuyu reprimanded angrily.

"Which step?" Mrs. Pei had just entered the courtyard, when she heard such a conversation coming from the room, she couldn't help asking.

Wei Shuyu and Wei Wanshu were both stunned, and when their brothers and sisters reacted, the maid had already opened the door.

Pei hurried into the house.Mrs. Pei turned her eyes to look at their brothers and sisters, knowing that something was wrong, and Princess Jinyang and Fang Shizi had just visited, so she asked him seriously what happened to them.

Wei Shuyu looked at Wei Wanshu.

Wei Wanshu's eyes were weeping, and she didn't have the face to say anything.

"You two are talking! Look at the way you two are now, how serious is the matter, and you still don't explain to me? Do you still have my mother in your eyes?" Pei slapped the table angrily.

Wei Shuyu hurriedly advised Mrs. Pei not to be angry. He read the book helplessly but did not buy the book, and finally decided to tell Mrs. Pei what happened.After all, the mother's life experience is more than the two of them, and there may be a better solution.

When Mrs. Pei heard what had happened, her eyeballs almost dropped from shock, and she was so angry that she burst into flames.She calmed down for a long time before trying to force herself to calm down a little.

"You are too confused." Pei Shiming knew that Wei Wanshu had regretted everything now, but she still couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Aniang, what happened has already happened, how should we solve the urgent matter now?" Wei Shuyu worriedly mentioned the marriage between Fang Yizhi and Wei Wanshu.

Pei frowned and tried hard to find a way.

"The princess must be appeased, and the Plum Blossom Nunnery, I see such a big matter, this nunnery can't be done. Why don't we be kind, give them more money, and dismiss them." Wei Shuyu thought of this, her eyes widened. one light.

"Send someone to Plum Blossom's side first to monitor the situation. At such an urgent time, don't let any rumors spread. The princess still has to find a way to make her not speak out." Pei pondered for a while. Thinking how to appease Princess Jinyang would be useful, then looked at Wei Shuyu, "You have followed the princess to investigate the case, how do you get along with her?"

Wei Shuyu was stunned, "Mother, when is this, why do you think of asking this?"

"What's the best way to ensure that the princess will keep the secret and not let it out?" Pei sighed.

Wei Shuyu stared in surprise, he understood that what his mother meant was that it was safest to make the princess into his own family.

"So I want to curry favor with the princess and try my best to honor the Lord? But don't forget, my son is now in his filial piety."

"It's in the period of filial piety, but your father's last wish is actually your lifelong event. Your father likes Princess Jinyang very much. If you were not reluctant in every possible way, he would not hesitate when the saint came. This marriage is settled."

Wei Shuyu sneered, "I didn't mean to say that, but the occasion was indeed not up to my father's discretion. Princess Jinyang obviously knew the intentions of her father and mother at that time, so she blocked her with words in advance."

"If your father really wants to ask, do you think that Princess Jinyang can pass by with a word? The dead are the greatest, that is your father's last wish before his death, and the saint will agree no matter how bad he is." Pei explained.

"It's useless to say these things now. Besides, the princess is definitely not a person who doesn't keep her word. I believe that since she promised, she will definitely fulfill her promise." Wei Shuyu said confidently.

Mrs. Pei carefully asked Wei Shuyu what the original words Princess Jinyang had just agreed to, after listening to them, no matter how much she thought about them, she felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.After a moment of silence, Mrs. Pei suddenly got excited and looked at Wei Shuyu: "By the way, when the princess came to question your sister just now, why did Fang Shizi follow? Is the case going to be tried together by the princess and Fang Shizi? Then the princess is not Said, Fang Yizhi wouldn’t have noticed. The case was found to your sister, even if Fang Shizi was not present, with his level of intelligence, it would be difficult to understand what happened?”

"This—" Wei Shuyu had to admit, "My son has overlooked this point. With the wisdom of Yizhi brother, it is indeed possible to realize the cause and effect of this matter."

After Wei Shuyu finished speaking, he frowned and looked at Wei Wanshu over there.Wei Wanshu was already dumbfounded, she was still thinking about her mother and elder brother Zhang Luo dismissing the Plum Blossom Nunnery, and she still had hope, but when she heard that Fang Yizhi had realized the cause and effect, she was so frightened that she was dumbfounded.That was Fang Yizhi, not someone else.But some time ago, she told her mother desperately that he was the one she liked.If this kind of thing happened to others, he might know it according to his temperament, and he would not meddle in his own business, but when it happened to him, no man would tolerate it.

Wei Wanshu closed her eyes and took a deep breath, feeling that she would be suffocated by fear in the next moment.

"Then what should we do about this matter?" Wei Shuyu asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Mrs. Pei didn't dare to think about it anymore, "I'm looking forward to it now, I hope the future son-in-law will be more stupid."

Wei Wanshu frowned, Pei's emotion was not what she wanted.Wei Wanshu really regretted it, she couldn't even figure out why she did so many stupid things in the first place.When Zhou Xiaohe had an accident back then, she still felt that Zhou Xiaohe was stupid and didn't get things done.Looking at it now, the one who is completely stupid is herself!

Naturally, Mrs. Pei was reluctant to part with her precious daughter, and was still anxiously trying to find a way.Wei Shuyu was also wondering what Fang Yizhi's weakness was, and how to find a way to make him not care about it.

The three of them were on the brink of fear, when word spread that the Fang family had sent a greeting card.

Pei Shi trembled when she heard the word "Fang's family", and immediately learned that it was a greeting card, thinking that Fang Xuanling and Mrs. Lu wanted to come to express their condolences again, so she relaxed slightly.

After Mrs. Pei took the greeting card, she opened it casually to read it, raised her eyebrows and scanned the contents, her whole body paled with fright.Mrs. Pei turned to stare at Wei Wanshu, and shouted at her almost collapsed: "You bastard, what scandal did you do! You've really disgraced your mother! Our Wei family's face!"

"How to say?" Wei Shuyu asked puzzledly, and then went to get the letter in Mrs. Pei's hand. After reading it, he also frowned, and looked at Wei Wanshu disappointedly.

Wei Wanshu still didn't understand, she looked back at them puzzled.

Wei Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief, and opened his mouth in disgust, "Second sister, do you still have something to do with Cui Qingji?"

Hearing Wei Shuyu's words, Mrs. Pei's lips trembled, and the way she looked at Wei Wanshu wanted to tear her apart.

"Cui Qingji? I don't have one," Wei Wanshu froze for a moment, panicking, her eyes flicked away.

Wei Shuyu became anxious and shouted: "I'll ask you again, did you really not send a letter to Cui Qingji?"

"I...not." Wei Wanshu lowered her head deeply.

Seeing her reaction, Wei Shuyu and Pei knew that the acrostic poem on the letter was not fake, and that "Er Niang sent a letter to Liu Lang" was true.

"Are you crazy? It's not enough to provoke one, you also provoke Cui Qingji?" Wei Shuyu shook his head, he couldn't believe that the woman in front of him was his own sister, "You are really taught by poetry and etiquette Second mother of the Wei family, are you really the daughter of the famous official Wei Zheng?"

Wei Wanshu cried, "I sent him the news, but it was word of mouth, not a letter. That Fang Yi has always wronged me!"

"So you really contacted Cui Qingji? What on earth are you going to do!" Mrs. Pei was about to be driven crazy by her own daughter.What happened to the former prince had already made her lose confidence in her daughter, and she was completely disappointed, but because of her blood relationship, considering that her daughter might have made a mistake in a moment of confusion, she was forcing herself to accept and tolerate her, and not to give up her daughter.Now that Cui Qingji came out again, Pei's last bit of support for Wei Wanshu was immediately smashed to pieces.Of course, Wei Shuyu was also beaten to pieces.

"Listen to my explanation, I really have nothing to do with Cui Qingji, I just want to be useful in front of the prince and let him know that I have the virtuous talent to help him become an emperor, just like the old empress Sun— —”

"Shut up! You're like this, you still want to compare yourself with the eldest grandson empress who is famous for her virtuous mother! Even if I am your mother, I would feel disgusted to hear this!" Mrs. Pei gave Wei Wanshu a disgusted look, and then looked elsewhere , because she really didn't want to take a second look at that person.Didn't the child look like she was born back then, but rather like she pulled it out!

Mrs. Pei was in a hurry. She was born in a scholarly family, but she couldn't help cursing in her heart, and she was scolding her own daughter.

Wei Shuyu clenched his fists, turned around and kicked over the table beside him.

Pei immediately ordered people to guard Wei Wanshu and not allow her to leave the door for half a step.She took Wei Shuyu out of the courtyard.

"Mom, what should we do about this matter?"

"The Fang family, at least Fang Yizhi, must have known about what happened to your sister in Plum Blossom Temple. She deliberately sent us this acrostic poem at this time, insulting us and warning us. Not only did he know What we know about the former prince, even what we don't know about Cui Qingji, he also knows."

Wei Shuyu tensed his nerves, and sighed uneasy, "This is Brother Yi's style. As long as he doesn't have anything to do with big things, he won't care about them. But once he is offended, no matter how big the problem is, he will pay for it." There will be no mercy. Since he has warned us about this matter, he will definitely not let it go."

"Then based on what you know about him, how will he deal with your sister's matter? Now that we're asking for peace, can he be merciful?"

Wei Shuyu shook his head, "I don't know."

"Then you go and try it out, at least to find out." Pei said as she shed tears, "At least I have to leave a way for your sister to survive."