Chapter 2 Memories
The last sentence before Li Rong's death was about Pei Wenxuan, a man who had lived as her husband for thirty years.
After saying that, she lost consciousness again. She thought that she was dead. What a violent poison from Xiangmei. With her long-term illness, how could she bear it?
But I never thought that after a while, she woke up again!
When she woke up, she slept on the warm bed, and the sun was scattered into her bedroom, and the orchid incense she loved when she was young was burning around her.
She opened her eyes in a daze and heard a familiar voice called out, "Your Highness, are you awake?"
When Li Rong heard the voice, she turned her head and showed a quiet and gentle smile in front of her. Her face was not beautiful, but she was pretty. She looked almost twenty-five or six years old, dignified and calm, and she reflected her alone in her memory.
She called out incrediblely: "Jinglan?"
The other party smiled and stretched out his hand, helped her get up, and said softly: "It's already the hour. Your Majesty has just arrived at the court and asked someone to ask him to have lunch and have a meal with Princess Xuan. I wanted to call the princess to get up, but I woke up if I didn't want the princess to wake up."
Li Rong listened to Jinglan's words and looked around, feeling a little shocked.
She stood up with Jinglan's movements, washed and looked around. After she finished washing her face, she finally confirmed that this was Changle Palace.
Changle Palace was where she lived before she left home, and Jinglan was her personal servant by the time. Jinglan accompanied her from Changle Palace until she got married, and later became the head of the princess's mansion.
When she was young, she didn't like Jinglan very much. She thought she was very stern and didn't speak well. Instead, she preferred Jingmei, who was more pleasing, but her mother liked Jinglan, so after building the Princess Mansion, Jinglan still became the head of the Princess Mansion.
It was not until she was assassinated when she was thirty years old that Jinglan blocked the sword for her and died in front of her that she realized that some people did not need words to do things, and that she did not have no achievements to say.
Looking at the living Jinglan and the old palace when she was young, Li Rong calmed down and finally admitted that she seemed to be alive again.
Moreover, she returned to her youth.
She needed to determine what time it is as soon as possible, but she didn't want people to notice it. She washed her hands, recalled what Jinglan said before, and asked tentatively: "My father announced that I had a meal, but did you ask why?"
Although her father seemed to be very fond of her, she rarely offered her meals. Every time she went there, it was a Hongmen banquet. For example, when she was asked to marry, she would have to have dinner first.
"I don't know," Jinglan said, but after thinking about it, she added, "But I heard that a few days ago, His Majesty asked each family to present the portraits of the young people who are suitable for marriage."
Oh, that's indeed the point of marriage.
Li Rong took the veil from Jinglan, wiped her hands clean, and raised her hand to ask the servant to change her clothes. After dressing her, she took a small golden fan from the side, took a step into the sedan chair, rushed towards the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
It is a bit difficult to recall the past, but it gradually becomes clear with the sound of the creaking of sedan chairs.
She remembered that before she was eighteen years old, she had a good relationship with her father Li Ming.
She is the eldest princess born in the palace and Li Ming's first child. She treated her very well as Li Ming when she was young, and she was even better than her prince's younger brother Li Chuan.
She cherished Li Ming's kindness to him very much because she had thoughts when she was young. She realized early on that it was extremely rare and very caring for an emperor to be nice to you. So she tried her best to please Li Ming.
In fact, she is naughty by nature, but because Li Ming often told her that women should be quiet and virtuous, she kept suppressing her temperament and pretending to be a "quiet and virtuous" princess.
The better she pretended, the more Li Ming loved to praise her. He often said that she was the best among his many descendants. If it weren't for her daughter, the country would have the right to do so.
When Li Ming praised her, she worked harder. It was not until later that she understood what it means to praise her.
She has unconditional trust in Li Ming.
For ordinary princesses, they should have a marriage at the age of fifteen, and then they will naturally get married, leave the palace, have a fief, and build a princess's mansion.
But when she was fifteen years old, Li Ming said that he was reluctant to let his daughter get married, so he asked her to stay for a few more years, and she believed this statement.
Once she stayed until she was eighteen years old, her mother began to get sick, and Li Ming finally decided to point her out. He took portraits of four young men and asked her to choose. These young men all had noble identities and handsome faces. She chose the right and chose Pei Wenxuan, who looked the most handsome.
When she came back and checked, she was shocked by Pei Wenxuan's life experience.
Pei Wenxuan looks pretty good.
He is handsome and gentle in character. He is the eldest son of the noble Pei family and even competes with Su Rongqing, the first noble son of Huajing.
But the problem is that he doesn't have a father.
I heard that he was the top scorer in high school when he was seventeen years old. Unexpectedly, his father Pei Lizhi suddenly passed away. He was driven back to his hometown in Jinling by his second uncle Pei Lixian in the name of filial piety. Three years went by and after he returned from filial piety, the Pei family is now full of his second uncle's family, so he arranged for him a small eighth rank official and looked at the cell in the Ministry of Justice. Anyone with eyes knew that Pei Wenxuan's life was not easy.
Even if the identity of a legitimate person can be released soon.
This is equivalent to a settlement among the nobles. She naturally refuses to accept marrying such a person.
So she quickly inquired about the other three candidates.
These three candidates are Lu Yu, the son of Marshal Yang, Yang Quan, the second son of Marshal Yang, and the new top scholar Cui Yulang
I don’t know if I don’t ask, but I’m shocked when I ask.
That Lu Yu was rumored to be stupid, but his mother kept covering up with the outside world. When the Marquis of Ningguo left, the position of prince would sooner or later disappear.
That Yang Quan was a lunatic. He had been in the military camp since he was a child. He was seven years old and had a knife to kill people. He was violent and none of the maids around him survived.
Cui Yulang, who was born in a poor family, did not have much disadvantages, but the problem is that his biggest hobby in his life was to go to brothels and write some poems for those brothel women. He was not bad and was considered free and easy, but what is the future in the officialdom?
Among the four people, none of her husband's candidates was a bad guy. I don't know how much effort her father had to make such a list of bad husbands in the world.
After inquiring about the identities of the four people, she felt cold. When she went to find her mother that night, she wanted to regret her marriage with Pei Wenxuan, but the first thing her mother heard was to tell her: "You have to live with him."
Li Rong was stunned at the time, and then listened to her mother's quiet words: "Now the prince is too popular in the court. Your father is afraid, and the relatives and mother's clan are too strong. If you marry another powerful person, your father will be afraid, so you can't help it."
"So you have to marry and live with him. When your brother ascends the throne, you will be the eldest princess. At that time, if you are willing to divorce, you will be separated, if you are unwilling to divorce, you will feel disliked, and if you are not happy, you will raise a few couples of couples, it will be nothing."
Li Rong was stunned by the words of the mother. She had heard someone tell her that it was nothing to raise a few faces. The mother leaned out her hand, gently placed it on her face, and said gently: "Son, all women in this world are suffering. The only way not to suffer is not to learn to be virtuous, but to gain power."
"You have to fight, rob, and hold power in your hands. You cannot expect your destiny to be given to you by others, neither your father, husband, or brother."
"You are not young anymore," the mother's eyes were calm and desolate. "I don't have many times to protect you. You have been smart since childhood. If you marry Pei Wenxuan, what if he doesn't do it? You can do it. What you want is not him, but this marriage will be the only way to avoid disaster."
"If you don't marry, your father will be afraid that you will not be able to tolerate you."
So she married.
After marrying Pei Wenxuan, she had already made plans to leave Pei Wenxuan, a coward, and become the eldest princess by herself. Unexpectedly, after getting married, she saw this legendary man who was gentle and weak and might be killed by her family at any time, she knew what a smile-faced tiger was.
She got a good ally, they used each other, assisted each other, and suspected each other. She became the eldest princess, and he became the prime minister. Their marriage was the strongest contract and the oath of their alliance in the court.
They played the best cooperation, which 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 live forever.
Until one day, she suddenly realized that this person had another person in his heart.
This is actually not Pei Wenxuan’s fault. Their marriage is involuntary, so how can they force themselves to belong?
She didn't like Pei Wenxuan, but she had hope and was disappointed when she found out.
She is a person who is used to being proud and cannot tolerate any impurity in her marriage. If this is a marriage, then two people must abide by their one-on-one vows, and neither of them can have any other thoughts.
If you have 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.
Lord Pei has his own white moonlight and carefully cared for the other party to live his life.
She also found her own fun. She watched operas and listened to music and played in the world. Later, after falling into trouble at the Su family, she tried her best to rescue Su Rongqing, whom she admired when she was young, and placed him in the princess's mansion. She also had the first and only "guest minister" among the people.
They each have their own days. This marriage has nothing to do with the romance, only the swords and shadows in the court are fighting in a neat way.
It starts like this in the court and ends in the court.
Li Rong was stunned and the sedan chair fell to the ground. She heard Jinglan's voice coming from outside: "Your Highness, you're here."
She held the golden fan and looked up at the plaque of Taiqing Palace.
Now everything is back...
Chapter completed!