Chapter 166 Hope

The fine charcoal eyebrow pencil used by the royal family is the best tribute to Yangzhou. It is said that it specializes in producing a kind of extremely delicate charcoal powder, and the small jaspers in the south of the Yangtze River are good at dressing up, so the time uses this fine charcoal powder to gently lighten the eyebrows, which is very slender and touching.

Qin Mubai put Princess Gaoyang's head on his left forearm, wrapped his palm around and held her face. He held the eyebrow pencil steadily in his right hand, a trace of a line, and drew her eyebrows.

Princess Gaoyang's small hands gently hooked Qin Mubai's left wrist, closed her eyes, and her slightly sickly pale face looked peaceful and happy. The corners of his mouth were gently raised, revealing a pair of small dimples that had not been seen for a long time.

"Okay, look in the mirror." Qin Mubai said.

"No, it's not ready yet." Princess Gaoyang grabbed his hand and refused to let go, smiling.

Qin Mubai smiled and said: So soon, is the naughty princess Gaoyang back again?

Originally, he also wanted to coax Princess Gaoyang, but when he thought that the emperor and the concubine were still outside, he had to take the initiative to raise his arm to help Princess Gaoyang up, push her to sit in front of the bronze mirror, point inside and said, "Look, how about it?"

"Hey, it's okay." Princess Gaoyang grinned and smiled naively, "I didn't expect you to be clumsy as a big man, but you really know how to draw eyebrows."

"Self-tight without a teacher!" Qin Mubai answered with a smile and quietly turned his head to take a look. Li Shimin's back at the corner of the courtyard just turned and disappeared.

He left.

Qin Mubai breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the door to take a look. There was no one else for the time being, so he hurried into the room and said to Princess Gao Yang, "Ling'er, how do you feel now?"

Princess Gaoyang blinked blankly: "Very good! I'll be fine when you come back."

"Did you...pretify it on purpose before?" Qin Mubai finally asked a sentence that had been depressed for a long time.

Princess Gaoyang shook her head in a franx: "Yes, it's not... I know that I'm going crazy, but I don't restrain myself. I just want to vent desperately like this, vent, vent until I'm exhausted."

"Do you remember what we said when we were in Jishan?" Qin Mubai asked.

Princess Gaoyang nodded: "Remember a little..."

"I remember that we agreed at the beginning. After you returned to Beijing, you admitted your mistake and compromised with the emperor and said that you were willing to marry into the house. Did you do this at that time?"

"I did it."

"Why did that thing turn out like this again?"

Princess Gaoyang was stunned for a moment and shook her head again: "I don't know... Anyway, my father was furious and said that even if I wanted to marry my family and didn't want to marry me, he said he would marry me to Tubo, said he didn't want me, and said he would lock me in the cold palace..."

As she spoke, Princess Gao Yang burst into tears again.

"Okay, don't cry. Let's not talk about this." Qin Mubai hurriedly reached out to wipe away the tears from her eyes and said with a comforting smile, "Ling'er, it's okay now. You know, it was the emperor who asked me to see you. He told me that he wanted you to get better, and he would no longer force you to do anything you didn't want to do.

"Really?" Princess Gaoyang was overjoyed, but immediately frowned and shook her head repeatedly, "I don't believe him! He is a bad guy, he is the devil! He is not my former father. He doesn't love me at all. He doesn't want me for a long time!"

"Hey..." Qin Mubai sighed and shook his head and said secretly: It seems that this incident has really left too many shadows in Princess Gaoyang's heart.

"Mu Bai, can you take me away?" Princess Gaoyang stretched out her hand and held Qin Mubai's face and said in a trembling voice, "I don't want to leave you for half a step. I don't want to stay in this palace without a trace of humanity for a moment. I would rather be a poor village woman than a glorious and rich walking corpse, let alone a tool for his charity and use. Mu Bai, can you take me away? ......”

"Ling'er..." Qin Mubai reached out and held her pair of soft palms and gently stroked them. He said softly, "This matter needs to be discussed in the long way. If you believe me, just give me some time and I will definitely take you away. But during this period, you have to be good, okay?"

"Well, I'm good!" Princess Gaoyang was full of expectation and joy, and nodded her head like a chicken pecking rice.

"You have to eat, sleep and bathe obediently. Don't lose your temper, don't beat people indiscriminately, and don't say bad words to your mother and father." Qin Mubai clapped her hands, "especially your... mother."

"Mother concubine... mother concubine..." Princess Gaoyang blinked her eyes in a daze, "Where is my mother concubine?!"

"Do you want to see her?"

"I want to! I want to see her!"

"So..." Qin Mubai smiled, "Eat your stomach first, and then I'll take you to see your mother!"

"Good!" Princess Gaoyang suddenly raised her arms and cheered, "I want to eat stewed mutton tripe, braised fish and steamed buns with salted dried meat!" I want to eat with you, and I want you to feed me one by one!"

"No problem." Qin Mubai smiled gently, and his heart was a little relaxed: Now it seems that Princess Gaoyang's mind has recovered a lot. Previously, she was just too stimulated, and she deliberately indulged and vented her anger. She broke the jar and went crazy, and the result was getting more and more serious. In fact, her spirit is still normal, but after the pillar in her heart collapsed, her whole body also collapsed.

That spiritual pillar is her father, Li Shimin, the emperor who loved her the most and gave her everything since she was a child.

It can be imagine how sad Princess Gaoyang should have been when Li Shimin was furious at Princess Gaoyang and said that he would marry her to Tubo, don't want her, and put her into the cold palace... Maybe at that moment, she couldn't cry. Because no one is more sad than the death of the heart. At the moment when the heart dies, the soul also dies, and the whole person is like a walking corpse.

The concubine, who has been dependent on her since she was a child, also seemed so powerless in the face of the emperor. In the view of Princess Gaoyang, her mother and father are one.

Perhaps from that moment on, Qin Mubai became her only miss. It's so far away. She seemed to fall alone in the dark and bottomless abyss, in a never-stopped fall. There is only a cold wind around her. She can't scream or cry. She can only let her body and soul fall endlessly and fall into the eternal hell...

Just as she accepted that her fate sank to the end, a little starlight appeared in front of her. A pair of gentle hands held her and stopped her from falling. He gently hugged her and leaped to the other side of the cliff. She saw this person's face clearly, which was the only face in her heart - Qin Mubai.

She once swore that if heaven kills me, I will fall like this forever; if there is love, I will see him again in my life!

Then, he came...

A flame of hope, weak but strong, bloomed in her heart again. It is like a holy white lotus blooming in a pool of blood, amazingly beautiful and suffocatingly gorgeous!

"Qin Mubai, I will not leave you in my life! If there is an afterlife, I will be with you forever! Even the punishment of immortals, the curse of the devil, and the obstacles of the whole world, we can't be separated!!"

- This voice echoed in the heart of Princess Gaoyang for a long time.

swallowing the white-faced steamed buns, Princess Gaoyang looked at Qin Mubai with a pair of red eyes, tears like rain.

"Fool, how can you cry even if you eat a steamed bun?" Qin Mubai didn't know what to do, so he could only reach out to wipe her tears.

"I'm happy, I'm happy, you know?" Princess Gaoyang sniffled and smiled with her eyes.

"I would like to eat a lifetime of white steamed buns with you!"

......

After having a full meal with Princess Gaoyang, perhaps a long period of tension and rage finally calmed down. Princess Gaoyang said that she was sleepy and wanted to sleep. Qin Mubai asked the raccoon lady to get a clean and comfortable bed and put it in the cabin for her to sleep.

"No, don't go away, stay with me..." Princess Gaoyang stubbornly grabbed his hand against her face and stared at him with wide eyes.

"Okay, I'm not leaving. But how do you sleep with your eyes open? Qin Mubai smiled gently, "Good boy, I'm here to guard you."

"I want to listen to the pipa song you played, I miss it, I miss it..."

"No problem!"

Qin Mubai had to ask someone to get another pipa, and he would gently play a tribute "Spring River Flower Moon Night" beside Princess Gaoyang's couch. In the middle of the song, Princess Gaoyang fell asleep.

He slept soundly and sweetly, and the corners of his mouth gently lifted up, showing a sweet smile. The breathing in the nose is relatively heavy, which shows that it is indeed extremely tired. This sleep is almost like a coma.

Qin Mubai breathed a sigh of relief, gently walked out of the cabin and closed the door, told the two old raccoon ladies to wait here, and then he went to the front yard.

Unsurprisingly, the emperor and the concubine must still be there waiting for their reply!

When he went to the front yard, he only saw Li Shimin standing alone under a small tree with his hands cut off his back, looking up at the bare trunk above his head, in a daze.

After Qin Mubai walked over, Li Shimin came to his senses and turned his head and smiled slightly: "It seems that Linger has improved."

"Your Majesty's blessing, Her Royal Highness's condition has stabilized much more." Qin Mubai arched his hand and replied.

"What blessing do I have for her?" Li Shimin sighed and shook his head, "At this moment, in her eyes, I must be about to become the devil."

Qin Mubai was slightly stunned. He thought that in the conversation between him and Princess Gaoyang just now, Li Shimin mostly heard it clearly outside, so he said, "Your Majesty, don't be sad. In fact, in the heart of the princess, your majesty has always been the most important. The so-called deep love, the hurt..."

"Hmm..." Li Shimin nodded gently, "Anyway, she is better now, which is better than anything else. I don't usually feel that once she has any illness, I'm really heartbroken. In fact, no matter what I do, it is always for her good. Although sometimes I am annoyed for a while and speak more seriously, it is also an unintentional mistake. It's a pity that Gao Yang didn't understand this when he was too young. Mu Bai, if you have time, you should talk to her more.

"Weichen should obey." Qin Mubai bowed his hand and said to himself that Li Shimin was also a true confession... In fact, what he said was really telling the truth. He has always loved Princess Gaoyang and even spoiled her. The emperor's daughter married the Xunmen, which is a common example of Zhenguan. Before that, several princesses had married the sons of the founders. Fang Xuanling is the minister that Li Shimin has always relied on the most.

For a long time, there have been no more than three confidants who are most valued and trusted by Li Shimin. Fangmou Du Duan", in addition, is his eldest brother-in-law, Sun Wuji. Now that Du Ruhui has passed away, only Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji are left.

Among his daughters, except for the eldest princess who married the eldest grandson Wuji's son and her cousin Changsun Chong in the early years, no princess Xu's family can be better than Princess Gaoyang.

This is also enough to show that Li Shimin's preference for Princess Gaoyang.