The Grand Princess

Chapter 2: Memories

Li Rong's last sentence before his death was about Pei Wenxuan, a man who had lived as her husband for thirty years.

After speaking, she no longer had consciousness. She thought that she was dead, how fierce the poison of Xiangmei was, with her long-ill body, where could she stand it?

But I never thought, I don't know how long it took, she woke up again!

When she woke up, she slept on a soft bed, and the sunlight sprinkled into her bedroom, surrounded by orchid incense, which was her favorite when she was young.

She opened her eyes in a daze, and then heard a familiar voice that was a little distant and whispered: "Your Highness, are you awake?"

Li Rong heard the voice, turned her head, and showed a quiet and gentle smiling face in front of her. That face is not beautiful, but it is also pretty. She looks almost twenty-five or sixty-six, dignified and steady, and she is alone in her memory. Reflected.

She called out incredible: "Jinglan?"

The other party smiled and stretched out his hand, helped her get up, and said softly: "It's already time, your majesty has just come down to the court, and people come to order, saying that it is lunch and the princess has a meal. The servant girl wanted to wake the princess to get up, but she woke up without thinking about it. ."

Li Rong listened to Jinglan's words and looked at her surroundings, feeling quite shocked.

Following Jinglan's movements, she stood up and looked around while washing her face. After she finished washing her face, she finally determined that this was the Changle Palace.

Changle Palace was the place where she lived before she left the pavilion, and Jinglan was her personal attendant back then. Jinglan accompanied her from Changle Palace until her marriage, and later became the head of the princess's residence.

When she was young, she didn’t like Jinglan very much. She felt that she was stern and unspoken. Instead, she preferred the cute Jingmei more. But her mother liked Jinglan. So after the princess mansion was built, Jinglan still became the palm of the princess mansion. thing.

It wasn't until she was assassinated when she was thirty years old that Jinglan blocked her sword and died in front of her. She didn't realize that some people do things without words, and it's not that she has no merit.

Looking at the living Jinglan and the old palace from when she was young, Li Rong calmed down and finally admitted that she seemed to be alive again.

Moreover, it went back to when she was young.

She needs to determine what time it is now as soon as possible, but she doesn't want people to notice. She washed her hands, recalled what Jinglan had said before, and tentatively asked: "Father, the emperor announced that I was eating, but what did you ask for?"

Although her father seemed to be very fond of her, he seldom announced her meal. Every time she went, it was a feast for the grand family. For example, when she was married, she was also allowed to eat first.

"Slaves don't know," Jinglan said, but after thinking about it, she added, "But I heard that a few days ago, His Majesty asked all families to submit portraits of married young people."

Oh, that really refers to the meal of marriage.

Li Rong took the handkerchief from Jinglan. After wiping her hands, she raised her hand and asked the attendant to change her clothes. After getting dressed, she took a small golden fan from the side, stepped onto the sedan chair, and took the sedan chair towards her. The Hall of Supreme Harmony rushed over.

It was a bit difficult to recall the past in the dust, but in the creaking sound of the sedan chair, it gradually became clear.

She remembers that before the age of eighteen, she and her father Li Ming had a good relationship.

She is the eldest princess born in the palace and the first child of Li Ming. Playing Xiao Li Ming is very good to her, even better than her prince brother Li Chuan.

She cherishes Li Ming's kindness to him, because when she was young, she didn't know where it came from, and she understood early that an emperor would be willing to treat you well, that is extremely rare and extremely cherished. So she tried her best to please Li Ming.

In fact, she has a stubborn nature, but because Li Ming often told her that women should be demure and virtuous, she kept suppressing her temper and pretending to be a "demure and virtuous" princess.

The better she pretends, the more Li Ming loves to praise her, often saying that she is the best of his many descendants, if not a daughter, she would be worthy of her.

When Li Ming praised her, she worked even harder, until later did she understand what it means to kill.

She has unconditional trust in Li Ming.

The average princess should have a marriage at the age of fifteen, and then it is logical to get married, go out of the palace, have a fief, and build a princess mansion.

But when she was fifteen years old, Li Ming said that she was reluctant to marry her daughter, so she let her stay for a few more years, and she believed that.

Once she stayed until she was eighteen, her mother became ill, and Li Ming finally decided to marry her. He took the portraits of four princes and asked her to choose. These princes were all noble and handsome. She chose from left to right, and chose Pei Wenxuan, who looked the most handsome.

When she came back to check, she was shocked by Pei Wenxuan's life experience.

Pei Wenxuan looks good.

He looks handsome and has a gentle temperament. He is the eldest son of the noble family Pei's prime minister, and is even comparable to Su Rongqing, the first noble son of Huajing.

The problem is that he has no father.

It was heard that he was a high school champion when he was seventeen years old. Who knows that his father Pei Lizhi suddenly died of illness, he was driven back to his hometown in Jinling by his second uncle Pei Lixian in the name of filial piety. All of them belonged to his second uncle. They randomly arranged for him an eighth-rank petty officer to look at the cell in the Criminal Department. Anyone who had eyes would know that Pei Wenxuan's life was difficult.

Even if he was born out of this identity, he would be able to live for a while.

This is equivalent to a ruin among the nobles, marrying such a person, she naturally refuses to accept it.

So she quickly inquired about the other three candidates.

The three candidates are Lu Yu, the son of Ning Guohou, Yang Quan, the second son of Marshal Yang, and Cui Yulang, the champion of the new branch.

I don't know if I don't inquire, I am surprised when I inquire.

That Lu Yu, it was rumored that he was born stupid, but his mother kept covering up, and when Ning Guohou went, the position of the son would soon be gone.

That Yang Quan, he was a lunatic. He spent most of his childhood in the barracks. He carried a knife to kill at the age of seven. His temperament was violent, and none of the maids around him survived.

And Cui Yulang, from a poor family, has no major shortcomings, but the problem is that one of the hobbies of this life is to go to the brothel and write some poems to the brothel women. People are not bad, but they are also smart, but this is in officialdom. What's the future?

In the list of candidates for her husband-in-law, none of the four people was not a member of Jin Yu's external defeat. It is also unknown how much effort her father-in-law had spent to come up with such a list of candidates for the worst husband-in-law in the world.

After inquiring about the identities of the four people, she felt cold. After going to her mother that night, she wanted to regret her marriage to Pei Wenxuan. Who knows that the first sentence her mother heard was to tell her: "You I have to live with him."

Li Rong was stunned at the time, and then listened to the mother's queen calmly saying: "Now the prince is too popular in the court, your father is jealous, and the relatives are too strong. If you marry another powerful and powerful, your father is afraid Can't help it."

"So you have to marry and live with him. When your brother is enthroned, you will be the eldest princess. At that time, if you are willing to reconcile and reunite, you will reconcile and reunite. ."

The mother's words shocked Li Rong's whole body. She grew up, and for the first time she heard someone tell her that raising a few faces is nothing. The mother reached out her hand, gently placed it on her face, and said gently: "My son, all women in this world suffer. The only way to avoid suffering is not to learn to be virtuous, but to master power."

"You have to fight, grab, and hold power in your hands. You can't expect fate to be given to you by others. You can't count on your father, husband, or brother."

"You are not young anymore," the mother's eyes were calm and desolate, "I don't have a long time, I can't protect you, you are smart since childhood, married Pei Wenxuan, what if he can't? You can do it. What you want is not He, what you want is only this marriage to avoid disaster for you."

"If you don't marry, your father will not be able to tolerate you anymore."

So she married.

After marrying Pei Wenxuan, she had already planned to abandon Pei Wenxuan's uselessness and become the eldest princess by herself. Who knows that after getting married, she knew what a smiling tiger was after seeing this legendary man who was mild, weak and could be killed by his family at any time.

She had a good ally. They used each other, assisted each other, and suspiced each other. She became the eldest princess, and he became the prime minister. Their marriage was the strongest contract, and their pledge of alliance in the court.

They cooperated with the best. This kind of cooperation made her a little happy. In the early days, she even thought that maybe they could really be a couple, live together, have children, and die.

Until one day, she suddenly discovered that this person had another person in her heart.

This is actually not to blame Pei Wenxuan, their marriage is inherently involuntary, how can they force their attachment?

She didn't like Pei Wenxuan either, but she had hope, and when she found out, she was a little disappointed.

She is used to being proud and cannot tolerate the impureness in her marriage. If this is a marriage, then two people must abide by the single-minded oath, and neither can have other thoughts.

If there are other thoughts, this marriage should not be a marriage, it should be just a covenant.

So from that moment, she became the eldest princess Li Rong, and Pei Wenxuan, in her heart, became the eternal Lord Pei.

Master Pei has his own white moonlight, and has carefully taken care of the other party for a lifetime.

And she also found her own fun. She watched operas, listened to music, and had fun in the world. Later, after the Su family fell into trouble, she desperately rescued the Su Rongqing who had been admired in her youth from prison and placed him in the princess mansion. The first and only "Keqing" in the population.

They each have their own days, this marriage has nothing to do with Fengyue, only the swords and shadows in the court fighting neatly.

It started in Chaotang and ended in Chaotang.

Li Rong was stunned. She fell to the ground. She heard Jinglan's voice from outside: "Your Highness, here it is."

Holding the golden fan, she raised her eyes to the plaque of Taiqing Palace.

Now it's all over again...

She thought, this time, should I still choose Pei Wenxuan?