Chapter 68 A Sad Smile

On June 28, as the wedding day approached, Xia Kang became more and more irritable. All this was seen by the careful Jing Wuying. Of course, no matter how careful Jing Wuying is, he doesn't know the reason why Xia Kang is irritable because of Murong Lingyue.

When the bright moon is in the sky, Xia Kang sits alone in the pavilion and drinks by himself. Who can understand the taste of the wine?

Jing Wuying looked at Xia Kang from afar, but he didn't know what to say. No matter how he tries to ask, he still can't know what makes Xia Kang, who has always been calm, sentimental.

A few families are happy, and several families are sad.

The night is windy, and there are a few dishes of yellow wine, and three or two friends gather around to chat. Is there anything more pleasant than this in the world?

Ling Yue put a salted peanut that had just been peeled into her mouth and said with a leisurely face: "Alas, I've been so leisurely that I feel fat."

Ouyang picked up the glass, drank it all, and said with a smile, "Ling Yue, you are fat and beautiful, as thin as a bamboo pole. Our Highness doesn't like it."

"Eh? Don't you like bone beauty?" Ling Yue turned her head sideways and looked at Xia Wuchen, who was also peeling salted peanuts.

"Don't listen to Ouyang."

"Hey, I didn't talk nonsense. Isn't the Yinxue you used to like fat?" Ouyang Wan seemed to have no intention, but still glanced at Xia Wuchen quietly.

"Yinxue?"

"It's Xie Yinyu's sister, Xie Yinxue. Thinking about those years, our Seventh Highness and Yin Xuezi loved to die. If it hadn't been for the nonsense dean, I guess our Seventh Highness would have been a father now. Ouyang Wan smiled heartlessly and looked up for another cup. "Seven Your Highness didn't tell you? Yinxue is going back to Linyun.

"Ouyang..." Xia Wuchen's tone was obviously angry.

"Yin Xue, Yin Xue, Xie Yin Xue..." Ling Yue lowered her head and picked up a salt peanut from the disk and read the word Yin Xue thoughtfully. Chi, the salt water peanut broke out of the shell, and Ling Yue suddenly stared at Xia Wuchen with a serious look, "This name is so beautiful. Listen to the rain and sing the snow. What did your parents think? Well, why didn't my mother, who only know how to cry every day, come up with such a beautiful name? Ling Yue sighed and looked sad.

What's the situation? Ouyang was stunned for a long time. He risked being flattened by Xia Wuchen to tell Yin Xue's story, but it was not to let Ling Yue praise Xie Yinxue's name: "Ling Yue, are you all right?"

"Eh? I'm fine." Ling Yue looked at Ouyang Wan doubtfully and said, "I think you seem to have something to do. Is there not enough money?"

"Uh..." Ouyang didn't know what to say for a while. He could only nod and then shook his head again. He didn't even know what it meant.

When Xia Wuchen breathed a little relief, Ling Yue's words made his heart hang to his throat, and what made him more incomprehensible was why he was so afraid that Ling Yue would know about Xie Yinxue.

"Do you like Xie Yinxue?"

"I used to... like it." Xia Wuchen specially emphasized the two words, but it was these two words that made Ouyang Wan's eyes feel bitter.

"Cough... In fact, Murong Lingyue is very generous. Even if you follow the example of Princess E, I don't mind."

"Princess E?"

"It's just a second lady." After seeing Xia Wuchen and Ouyang Wan's strange faces, Ling Yue realized that she had said something wrong and quickly changed her words, "I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm a lady and two women."

"Haha, this is not a matter of one man and two women. The seventh highness is the eldest prince. In addition to the imperial concubine, there will be at least five or six side concubines in the future..." Ouyang Wan laughed carelessly, and Ling Yue could feel that Ouyang Wan was hostile to her.

Is Ouyang Wan secretly in love with Xia Wuchen?

"Ouyang, tell me one thing honestly."

Ouyang picked up the glass: "What's the matter?"

"Are you secretly in love with Wuchen?"

Puff... As soon as the alcohol entered the mouth, it was scared out by Ling Yue's words: "You, you, what did you just say?"

"Do I say you have a crush on Wuchen?" Ling Yue repeated.

Ouyang Wan got goose bumps behind him and shouted, "I like women."

After the words that just roared that were enough to resound throughout the Qinghe Hall, Ouyang Wan heard a voice behind him: "Haha, why don't my imperial guards like women? Is it possible that they still like men?"

"I will see my father."

"My son participates in the emperor." Murong Lingyue and Xia Wuchen said at the same time.

"I want to see the emperor."

Xia Di looked at the dishes on the table and said with a smile, "What are you talking about? Why did I hear Ouyang say that you like women as soon as I came in? Oh, I remembered that you haven't married yet. Well, if you like the daughter or sister of a minister, tell me that I will marry you in person.

"Thank you for the emperor's grace."

"Old Seven, do you remember what I said to you in Yiyun Mountain? If you want to be with Ling Yue, I will inherit you to a concubine who has no children. I have asked the queen about this matter. She did not make a statement, but it should be acquiesced. So I want to know what you mean."

"As long as you can be with Ling Yue, you can let your ministers do anything."

"No." Ling Yue said harshly, "If Wuchen succeeds to a rare concubine who has no children, it means that he must give up his direct status and lose the qualification to inherit the throne at the same time. If so, it will be too much."

"What, Ling Yue, do you really want Lao Qi to inherit the throne?" Emperor Xia casually picked up a handful of salted peanuts from the disk and peeled them with interest, "In fact, even if Lao Qi is the direct identity and there is a prince on it, he can't inherit the throne in the future."

"Who can be accurate about what will happen in the future? Maybe the prince will suddenly die one day."

Xia Di's action of peeling peanuts suddenly stopped, and Ouyang Wan and Xia Wuchen lowered their heads solemnly. They really can't understand why Ling Yue can say that kind of rebellious words casually without even a little fear. As soon as Liu Xi saw that the atmosphere was wrong, he immediately looked like an oiled loach: "How can these dishes be enough? I'll ask the imperial dining room to prepare more."

Everyone can see that Liu Xi casually found an excuse to slip away.

Ling Yue smiled and said, "I seem to have said something rebellious just now, is that right?"

"Since you know it's rebellious, why do you still say it?" Xia Di continued to peel the salted peanuts, but only peeled the flowers and put the pale pink peanuts back on the plate.

"Freedom of speech."

"What?"

"It is to let everyone speak freely and say what they want to say." Ling Yue said, "If everyone says the same thing, how can you know what everyone is thinking and how can you see the situation in the whole world?"

"So how can you see the situation in the whole world?"

"Freedom of speech, as long as freedom of speech, your Majesty, even if you are trapped in this slapped palace every day, you can still understand the whole world. Alas, in fact, it's not only freedom of speech, but also a lot of things that need to be improved..." Ling Yue drank a glass of wine for herself and drank it with a lonely look. "What's the use of saying so much, haha..."

The night wind blows gently, and Ling Yue's lonely look is overlooked by everyone. It was a kind of loneliness betrayed and abandoned by everyone. Xia Wuchen thought that the loneliness came from the pain of national subjugation, but he did not know that Ling Yue's loneliness was that this was not her world. In this era of imperial supremacy, she was useless. Even fate must be in the hands of others. How can such a life not make people despair?

Liu Ye said in a low voice, "Princess, you are drunk, and I will help you go back to rest."

"Eh." Ling Yue got up, and she felt very uncomfortable. Her unprecedented powerlessness turned into drunkenness to attack her reason.

She wanted to say something to the emperor who peeled salted peanuts, but in the end she didn't say anything, just looked at Xia Wuchen with almost pitiful eyes. Then, with a sad smile.

Xia Wuchen can't understand the meaning of Ling Yue's smile.

I remember who once said that a man's laughing woman will never understand. On the contrary, many times, women's laughing men can never understand.