Chapter 31 Past
The carriage drove slowly and gradually disappeared into the vast night. Ouyang Wan put his hands behind his head, and his silvery hair floated gently with the night wind: "Isn't it too risky to do this?"
"Don't worry, between the prince and me, Li Changle has chosen to be on my side." Xia Wuchen's tone was brisk, with a smile on his face.
"I'm not talking about Li Changle, but the princess who suddenly expressed her admiration for you."
"Your Highness, I also feel that this matter is not appropriate. If it hadn't been investigated in advance, how could she know the relationship between the three of us, and..." Perhaps because of the cold, Xie Tingyu put away the folding fan in his hand and put his hands around his sleeve. "I always feel that there is something hidden in this princess."
"The biggest secret in her body is the picture of Qingsong's welcome guests left by Shen Haoran. Speaking of this, do you think she really lost her memory?"
Xia Wuchen turned around and walked slowly along the way: "Don't you think something is strange?"
"What?" Ouyang Wan and Xie Tingyu asked in one voice.
"Just now, Li Changle said that after the failed attack in the imperial city of Cangguo, he also attacked again, but he was blocked by an unknown force. I care about the source of this power."
"What's so strange about this? There is no doubt that the power should come from Cang. They want to protect the princess of their country, and it makes sense." Ouyangwan patted Xia Wuchen on the shoulder and looked regretfully, "Is it you, or are you really fascinated by that little girl?"
"As a guard, your duty is to protect the safety of the emperor and the court, cough..." Xia Wuchen pretended to cough twice and dragged his chin to meditate. "Ah, speaking of which, the security in the palace has been getting worse and worse recently. Isn't it because you are lazy? Well, it must be like this."
"Don't suddenly change the topic..." Ouyang Wan held his forehead and said weakly, "Oh, from your appearance, you are really in love with her."
"Brother Ouyang, don't be so pessimistic. Maybe it's a good thing for us." The empty blue stone slab shines faintly under the moonlight. Xie Tingyu lowered his head and looked at the ground a little distractedly. "It can be seen that she is sincere to His Highness Seventh. Since the two love each other naturally needs blessings."
"I said Xie Tingyu, you are really calm. If His Highness is really with Ling Yue, what will your sister Xie Yinxue do?" In an instant, Xie Tingyu felt that his heart suddenly stopped, and then an unspeakable grief flowed all over his body with the blood. Ouyang saw Xie Tingyu's abnormal look and felt guilty in his heart, "Sorry, I didn't mean to mention it."
"It's okay, really." The faint tone could not hide the inner sadness, and the cold moonlight shone with an extremely lonely face.
Xia Wuchen lowered his head, did not say anything, and looked extremely calm. It's just that Xie Tingyu's performance is at a loss. No, it's not so much a surprise. For a long time, Xie Tingyu whispered four words: things are human.
In the carriage, Ling Yue leaned on the edge of the carriage window boredly, and from time to time a cold wind came in with the slightly raised curtain cracks, but Ling Yue felt very comfortable.
"Do you really like him?"
"What do you think?"
"Half true and half false."
Ling Yue turned her head and gave a big anger: "You feel very keen. Strictly speaking, I should be a businessman, so you must be rational under any circumstances, even in the face of love that can turn people's IQ into negative. And he is not an ordinary person, so he can't take it lightly.
"Hm?"
"If he is really just a light seventh prince, then there is nothing to worry about, but he has the ambition to master the whole world, which is the so-called imperial mind. There is no love in the emperor's heart, only rivers and mountains.
"In this case, why did you choose him?"
Ling Yue smiled softly and gently: "Of course, for those I want to protect."
"Ye." Liu Ye answered, lowered his head and stopped talking.
Back to the Qinghe Hall, as soon as Lingyue entered the yard, she saw Haigong lying on the rattan chair leisurely. On the small table beside him, there was boiling a pot of hot tea, and the water mist curled up.
"Woth, is the flower banquet fun?"
"It's boring. By the way, you promised me to tell me about the owner of this cheongsam. You should know that wearing a cheongsam in this weather is very sinful.
Hai Gong raised the cigarette rod and smoked for a long time. After that, he put the cigarette rod aside and said in a hoarse voice:
Forty years ago, a 16-year-old perfumer came to Linyun, and soon the reputation of the perfumer spread throughout the imperial city, and of course to the ancestors who loved all kinds of fragrances. Later, the former emperor wanted to take the perfumer as a concubine, but was stopped by the queen at that time, the current Empress Dowager Duanfu. However, even so, the former emperor still couldn't give up his love for the perfumer, so the former emperor gave the perfumer to his most trusted confidant to take care of him. Soon the perfumer gave birth to a baby girl for the former emperor. Later, the confidant who was most trusted by the late emperor betrayed him, killed the weak perfumer after giving birth, and left the baby girl who had just been born a few days by the roadside. The late emperor knew that he could not afford to get sick, and soon passed away. Perhaps it was retribution. Twenty years later, a woman with a gentle and ethereal voice came to Linyun, who looked almost exactly the same as the perfumer, especially the pale golden hair and the emerald-like deep eyes, all of which showed that the woman was the baby girl who was abandoned on the roadside in those years.
Duke Hai paused and seemed to recall something: "Then, the direct prince born by Duanfu, the current emperor, fell in love with the woman who sang as beautiful as a yellow warbler. However, the Empress Dowager Duan Fu knew that the two were half-brothers and half-sisters. In order to cover up the royal scandal, the Empress Dowager finally killed the emperor's sister. And the cheongsam you are wearing is left by the perfumer.
"Do you know the secrets of the royal family very well?" Ling Yue quickly dealt with what Grandpa Hai said to her in her mind.
"Of course I know the old man, because the confidant trusted by the previous emperor is me."
According to you, a woman was with the previous emperor and then gave birth to a daughter. Empress Dowager Duanfu ordered you to kill the perfumer and the baby she gave birth to, but she didn't expect that the baby didn't die. Twenty years later, she returned to Linyun. What's more surprising is that the son of Empress Dowager Duanfu fell in love with his sister, which is why the blonde beauty disappeared 20 years ago. Ling Yue's decoction summarized what Haigong said, "But why did the perfumer have a cheongsam?" And I have always felt strange that since this cheongsam has been sealed for 40 years, it can be seen that it is a treasure for you. In this case, why do you want me, who has never met you before, wear it to a flower banquet? There must be any reason for this.