The Grand Princess - Chapter 161
The carriage stopped suddenly, as if it had arrived.
It’s just that even with the sound insulation board, Tong Ye heard that there was something wrong early on, and when he got there, he didn’t urge Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan.
Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong and waited for Li Rong’s answer. Li Rong took a deep breath, raised her hand to dress, and whispered, “Go down first.”
Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong put on clothes together. After getting out of the carriage, they found that Tongye had sent someone to take the sedan chair. Li Rong had injuries on his foot. Pei Wenxuan helped Li Rong to get on the sedan chair. Drove her into the bedroom.
After tossing all night, Li Rong looked very tired. After Pei Wenxuan helped her lie down, he immediately asked the doctor to come over to see if there was any major problem.
The doctor had already prepared it, and waited at the door as soon as he entered the house. After the two of them entered the house, the doctor followed in.
Pei Wenxuan was waiting for the doctor to check his pulse. After a while, he saw Tong Ye standing at the door, whispering: “Master.”
When Pei Wenxuan saw that Tong Ye didn’t come in, he knew that something was not good and told Li Rong. He nodded, said hello to others, and took care of Li Rong, then turned his head and walked out.
When he reached the door, he saw Zhao Chongjiu standing in the courtyard. Zhao Chongjiu’s expression was not very good, and Pei Wenxuan knew the result.
“What about people?”
“Ran.”
Zhao Chongjiu’s face was stern: “Master Su brought people too fast, I’m too late.”
Pei Wenxuan was not surprised. At that hour, Su Ronghua remembered that Su Rongqing should be found.
He responded softly and nodded: “You go back and rest first. This matter…”
“Subordinates must inform His Royal Highness.”
Zhao Chongjiu interrupted him, seeming to have misunderstood something, Pei Wenxuan smiled: “I didn’t tell you not to tell your Highness, you are from the inspector, I know it clearly in my heart. I mean I’m here to tell her about this. You don’t have to report it separately.”
This request is not too much, Zhao Zhongjiu nodded.
“But there is something else?”
Zhao Chongjiu shook his head, Pei Wenxuanji hung Li Rong, and waved: “Go down.”
After speaking, Pei Wenxuan turned back to the room.
The doctor had finished the pulse diagnosis for Li Rong, Pei Wenxuan came in. The doctor was packing up his things and was about to go to the next room for consultation and prescription. Pei Wenxuan and Li Rong greeted them and went to the side room together. The doctor watched Pei Wenxuan enter the door. There was some anxiety on the face, Pei Wenxuan’s heart hung up, but he still raised his hand: “If you have anything to say, just say it.”
“My lord, the princess has some trauma, but it’s okay. Please rest assured.” A person from the doctor came up to report, and Pei Wenxuan nodded, “What else?”
If it’s just this sentence, these doctors shouldn’t be this kind of reaction.
“The other thing is…” The doctor hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, “Your Highness, I’m pregnant.”
The moment he heard this, Pei Wenxuan was stunned. The doctor said the hardest thing to say, and continued: “This bump has caused the fetal position to become unstable. I also hope that your majesty will take care of the fetus in the future to avoid any accidents. ”
Pei Wenxuan listened, but didn’t say anything. Everyone was waiting for him, feeling up and down.
Princess Pingle has now been reconciled, but she was diagnosed as pregnant. The first thing she knew was the former consort. Whether the princess was pregnant or the former consort knew, which one was enough for these doctors to be uneasy.
Pei Wenxuan was silent for too long. All the doctors looked at the headed doctor. The headed doctor bit the bullet: “Sir?”
“Oh,” Pei Wenxuan finally recovered when he heard this. He nodded, his face seemed calm, and immediately ordered, “Don’t tell this matter, how is your Royal Highness’s health?”
“My lord, don’t worry.” When everyone heard Pei Wenxuan’s tone, they were relieved, “His Royal Highness takes a good rest, there is no major problem. I will wait for this matter to be tight-lipped, and will never let outsiders know.”
Pei Wenxuan nodded, seeming absent-mindedly: “You should prescribe a prescription first. If someone has any taboos, tell me how to do it better for pregnant women.”
The doctor nodded repeatedly, and the group talked to Pei Wenxuan for a long time. After Pei Wenxuan asked how to take care of Li Rong, he finally went back. When he walked out the door, he folded back again and frowned: “Did you feel suspicious, sensitive, sentimental, emotional during pregnancy? Ups and downs, irritable and hard to control?”
Everyone was stunned. They didn’t understand why Pei Wenxuan asked such a question, but they nodded at the same time, and then exhorted: “My lord, just bear it.”
Pei Wenxuan nodded: “I understand.”
After speaking, Pei Wenxuan turned around and walked on the promenade.
Everyone didn’t know what he was thinking, they just watched him walking all the way to Li Rong’s room. Li Rong’s room was closed, but he didn’t even notice it. He slammed into it, “cang”, and then covered in pain. Live the nose on the face.
Li Rong listened to Zhao Chongjiu’s report on the night of her disappearance in the room, and suddenly heard a “clam”, she raised her chin, Zhao Chongjiu immediately went to open the door, and saw Pei Wenxuan bow and her body in pain. face. Zhao Chongjiu couldn’t help but was stunned: “Master Pei?”
Pei Wenxuan waved his hand and sucked in a cold breath. Li Rong raised his eyes and called out, “Pei Wenxuan?”
“I’m fine, hit the door.”
Pei Wenxuan replied, slowly, and finally straightened up, he looked at Zhao Chongjiu: “Is the report finished?”
“It’s almost there,” Zhao Zhongjiu nodded, then turned to salute Li Rong, “Your Highness, your subordinates will leave first.”
“Staring at Li Cheng’s situation,” Li Rong ordered, and said softly, “Go.”
Zhao Chongjiu saluted and left, while Pei Wenxuan was still standing at the door. Seeing Pei Wenxuan still stunned, Li Rong raised his eyes and said, “What are you still standing for? Come in and sit down.”
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan came back to his senses, nodded, closed the door and walked in.
He sat down, Li Rong looked at him and chuckled, “I have a terminal illness?”
“No!”
Pei Wenxuan denied it, and quickly replied: “You are fine, don’t think about it.”
“Sit down without thinking, and I will discuss it with you.”
Li Rong took three pages from the side: “Chuan’er was assassinated last night, but it didn’t matter. Li Cheng is hanging in the palace now. Concubine Rou is called into the palace to take care of Li Cheng. His Majesty has returned. In order to make a move, I guess I was waiting for Xiao Su first, and secondly I was waiting for Li Cheng’s final news.”
Pei Wenxuan responded, and Li Rong took out the third piece of paper: “So here is the worst news.”
Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes and Li Rong calmly said: “Xun Chuan brought news from the northwest. Cui Qinghe rebelled to assassinate Qin Lin and took over the army under Qin Lin in the northwest.”
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan’s eyes widened suddenly. Li Rong put the page on the table and said calmly: “The army in the northwest can’t make it through. This matter must be kept secret. I have notified Lin Feibai from the southwest. Adjust the army and let Shangguanya prepare Shangguan’s army.”
“But the Shangguan family’s total military strength is less than 30,000. Lin Fei holds 20,000 in his hand. I am in Qingzhou with 10,000. Your Pei’s is less than 20,000. The total number is less than 80,000. Originally, Qin Lin in the northwest has raised 50,000 troops. There are 130,000 troops up there, but now Cui Qinghe is rebelling, and the 50,000 troops in the northwest are afraid I can’t count on it.”
“And Xiao Su has fifty thousand troops, your majesty himself has fifty thousand men, and Su’s hand has at least twenty thousand, a full 120,000 horses.”
“There are countless hidden soldiers left by the family, but just like the previous life, they can’t be moved by no interest. Asking them to take action, now the plan falls short. Moreover, this time with Su Rongqing, who the family will fight in the end, maybe. I guess. They are more sitting in the mountains watching tigers fight, whoever wins, they listen to whom.”
“This is the situation now,” Li Rong looked at Pei Wenxuan, “What do you think?”
Pei Wenxuan listened and thought quietly for a while: “Although it seems that in the whole situation, your majesty has far more people in his hands than us, but as long as we can stabilize the situation in Huajing ahead of time, the world will be mostly settled. Then Xiao Su Even if his majesty’s direct line comes back, he is also a chased courtier and thieves, and the world is condemned. Moreover, once the prince succeeds, it is unclear whether his majesty’s direct line will move or not. And Xiao Su has been in charge of the northwest for less than two years and brought five Wan Jun commits a disorder, I am afraid it will be a mess. As for Su Rongqing…”
Pei Wenxuan thought for a while: “Whether he can take charge of the Su clan is still unknown.”
“Stabilize the situation in Huajing…”
Li Rong murmured. She raised her head and looked at Pei Wenxuan: “Why don’t you think there is actually a way out?”
“What does your highness mean?”
“I mean,” Li Rong’s eyes were steady, but deep in her eyes, there was a bit of indescribable sadness. “Once Li Cheng is dead, the prince is the only heir. The prince and his majesty are not absolute enemies. It is not an absolute alliance with me and my mother. As long as he surrenders me and Shangguan, Your Majesty will let him go.”
Pei Wenxuan did not speak, Li Rong closed his eyes: “In fact, this is the best plan. He handed over me and the queen to the Yi clan in the name of assassinating the prince. He successfully succeeded the throne and took over the army from His Majesty. The pure King Lee.”
As Li Rong said, she couldn’t help laughing: “In this way, the world will be stable and there will be no need to fight, and the people will have a good life.”
“His Royal Highness is also right.” Pei Wenxuan answered smoothly. Listening to this, Li Rong opened his eyes and looked at Pei Wenxuan. Pei Wenxuan met Li Rong’s gaze, “But, does His Highness agree?”
Li Rong said nothing, Pei Wenxuan raised his hand and held Li Rong’s hand: “His Royal Highness, have you forgotten? I told you shortly after being reborn. After power, it is the heart of the people. It is not a simple choice of interests, but the same thing. Some people choose to gain, while others choose to lose.”
“But I can’t believe in Li Chuan.”
Li Rong spoke directly, and Pei Wenxuan fell silent.
“You arrange a good person,” Li Rong said calmly, “As soon as Li Cheng dies, Your Majesty will arrest people. Before that, I will leave Huajing and go to Qingzhou. I will not let anyone know about this. I will go by myself.”
“Where is Shangguanya?” Pei Wenxuan looked at her.
“After I leave, you will inform the Shangguan family again.”
After she left, notifying the people of Shangguan’s family was equivalent to putting the people of Shangguan’s family in Huajing as a cover, so that she could leave Beijing more safely.
However, this also put the Shangguan family directly at risk. She left. Once the opportunity was missed, no one would leave Shangguan family.
Pei Wenxuan looked at her, Li Rong looked indifferent, she turned to Pei Wenxuan: “What do you think is wrong?”
“Your Highness,” Pei Wenxuan asked seriously, “If something happens, don’t you regret it?”
Li Rong didn’t speak, she met Pei Wenxuan’s gaze: “Do you know what I heard last night?”
“I know.”
There was no wave in Pei Wenxuan’s eyes: “Li Chuan killed you, Shangguanya watched you die, and Su Rongqing gave you the poison.”
“Are you not surprised?” Li Rong laughed, Pei Wenxuan shook his head, “I was not surprised about anything in the previous life.”
“In that case,” Li Rong was a little strange, “What are you advising me to do? It was a matter of the previous life. I can ignore it, but I don’t care. It doesn’t mean I don’t care.”
“People have power to have choices. And when you encounter power, you should not be mixed with emotions. I used to say that I like power, but when I make decisions, I always trust them a lot and are willing to work hard for them. So When I came up, I always wanted to help Chuan’er and solve his current and future problems.”
“The queen scolded me and said that all the things I thought were what the emperor thought. I am a princess. In the eyes of the future emperor, I am essentially the same as the family. I thought she was stupid at the time, but now I understand that it is me who is stupid. .”
Li Rong turned her head and looked at Pei Wenxuan. She stretched out her hand and held Pei Wenxuan’s hand: “In my last life, I chose them, I didn’t choose myself. This time, I want to choose myself.”
“Regardless of regret or not,” Li Rong stared at Pei Wenxuan, “Let me go.”
Let Huajing’s filth and fighting stay in Huajing, keep her away from here, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and she has her own way back.
Pei Wenxuan watched Li Rong calmly and calmly with a pleading look. After a long time, he lowered his head and smiled: “His Royal Highness remembers that, His Highness and I bet twice, once in the Jucai Pavilion, betting on the presence of Guanya. There, where does a gambling imperial decree come first.”
“Remember,” Li Rong knew what Pei Wenxuan meant, “Are you asking for a bet with me?”
“The clothes of the Persian dancer has been worn for me by your highness, and there is one thing left, please do it for me.”
Li Rong looked at Pei Wenxuan and definitely said, “You don’t want me to go?”
“Whether to go or not is the decision of His Highness. Actually, I think it’s all good, but I’m afraid that His Highness has regrets in his heart and want to give His Highness more choices.”
As Pei Wenxuan said, he leaned forward: “His Royal Highness, come with me to see His Royal Highness.”
When Li Rong heard this, her hand trembled slightly, and Pei Wenxuan smiled, “Don’t you dare your Highness?”
“Look at him, why don’t you dare? It’s just that you have to make arrangements for leaving the city…”
“I’ll arrange it.”
Pei Wenxuan interrupted her: “Go down to see His Royal Highness, don’t need to say anything, talk with His Royal Highness as usual. After the chat, whether to go or stay, I support Your Highness.”
At this point, Li Rong has nothing to say. She raised her hand and patted Pei Wenxuan’s hand: “Then it’s up to you.”
With that, Li Rong was about to get up, Pei Wenxuan raised her hand and held her: “I’m going to get the clothes, don’t catch the cold.”
After Pei Wenxuan finished speaking, he went to the cabinet to get the clothes, and ordered the sedan chair to be prepared outside. He turned back to put clothes on Li Rong, and then pulled her hair. When preparing to put on the makeup, he paused and Li Rong lifted it. Eye: “What’s the matter?”
“It’s okay, I just feel that your Royal Highness’s water comes out of lotus, so you don’t need to be too decorative.”
As he said, Pei Wenxuan put down the eyebrow pencil: “That’s it.”
Li Rong only thought that he was in a hurry to see Li Chuan, and he held her out of the house and put her on the sedan chair.
The two went to the East Palace together. After the announcement, Pei Wenxuan sent Li Rong to the door. Li Rong stood in front of the door, listening to Li Chuan coughing gently inside: “Sister A is here? Quick, let A sister come in.”
Li Rong didn’t know how, so suddenly she didn’t dare to enter.
She grabbed Pei Wenxuan’s hand, Pei Wenxuan patted her hand, and instructed others: “His Royal Highness is not suitable for meeting guests. Men and women are different. Let’s install a screen.”
The order was ordered and the screen was placed in the house. Pei Wenxuan helped Li Rong in. As soon as he entered the house, he saw the screen and felt the person behind the screen. Li Rong couldn’t help but tremble slightly.
Pei Wenxuan helped Li Rong to sit on a chair. Li Rong and Li Chuan sat down across the screen. At that moment, Li Rong seemed to have returned to her previous life. Li Chuan announced that she would be a prisoner of the country, and asked about the night before.
She put her hands on the armrest and lowered her head.
Pei Wenxuan covered her with a blanket, squatted in front of her, and looked up at her: “His Royal Highness, some Ruth is alone, and the minister is waiting for you outside.”
Li Rong squeezed the armrest, she looked at Pei Wenxuan, and Pei Wenxuan raised her hand on her hand and said softly, “Don’t be afraid.”
After speaking, Pei Wenxuan stood up, then retreated and closed the door.
Suddenly Li Rong and Li Chuan were left in the room. Both of them were very quiet. Li Rong slowly raised his head and looked at the silhouette on the screen. Li Chuan seemed to sit up. He passed the screen like two lives. The dead soul stays on the screen.
Li Rong didn’t know what was going on, her eyes were suddenly red.
The two were silent. After a long time, Li Chuan coughed lightly and said, “Sister A is okay? Is it hurt?”
“I’m fine.” Li Rong restrained her tone, sounding like there was nothing. Li Chuan had coughed, eased his breath, and whispered softly: “Sister A, don’t worry, I’m fine, but I’ve suffered a little injury, and I will heal soon.”
“Just fine.”
After Li Rong finished speaking, she didn’t know what to say. After a long silence, Li Chuan hesitated: “Sister is looking for me, but what’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing,” Li Rong said softly, “I just had a nightmare. I want to see you and say a few words with you. It’s fine to know that you are okay.”
“What dream did A sister have?”
“Just…” Li Rong hesitated and said slowly, “I dreamt that you killed me.”
“How is this possible?” Li Chuan laughed, and he said decisively, “Sister, don’t worry, no matter what, I won’t hurt you. Whoever wants to hurt you has to walk on my Li Chuan corpse. past.”
Li Rong couldn’t help laughing as she listened, “I know.”
She had a little bit of tears in her eyes: “When you were young, you said you wanted to protect me. I remember that year they said that the father-in-law sent to the north to make peace. I was very scared in my heart, and I was afraid that I would go there when I grew up. Husband, you tell me, you will,” Li Rong said, choked in her tone, she paused, and after a long time, she continued, “You will calm the north and drive the barbarians all the way into the desert. You will not let This kind of marriage will fall on any princess in Daxia, let alone me.”
“How did Sister Sister talk about her childhood?”
Li Chuan sat up cross-legged, seeming to be a little happy: “Is it because I am treating you badly now, you are beginning to remember sweetness and bitterness?”
“No, I heard that you were hurt for me, and I remembered what was good to me when you were a kid.”
“Then A sister is not good to me?” Li Chuan’s shadow on the screen took the young man’s publicity, talking and gesturing, “I remember when I was a child I shared peaches with Yuanbao, and I was knocked off by my mother’s queen. Confinement, saying that I am a prince, you must know that I am respected and others are humble, so how can I share peaches with someone. You also know that there is no light in the forbidden room, and you are at the door, talking to me all the time. I was closed for three days, and you said at the door for three days.”
Li Chuan said, I don’t know why, and his voice was a little dumb: “Also, didn’t I have a big tabby cat in the palace before? That cat is very spiritual. If others don’t kiss me, they kiss me. I keep hiding. People went to feed it, and it was discovered later. They wanted me to bury the cat alive. The mother said that this is a lesson for me, how can the prince prefer something, or no one has a big tabby cat.”
“If I don’t bury it, the queen’s mother will be robbed of the cat and killed with a stick. I will protect the cat in my arms. Sister blocked me and blocked the stick?”
“Then you finally bury the cat alive?”
Li Rong asked. Li Chuan didn’t speak. He was silent for a long time. On the screen, he was sitting cross-legged, as if slightly tilting his head up, looking at something.
“Because, I don’t want A sister to be beaten for me again.”
Li Chuan finally said, “Isn’t it just a cat? Just bury it. You can’t let A sister and I bury this cat with me?”
Li Rong could not speak, she felt tears streaming down her eyes.
She suddenly realized that in fact, for so many years, she had not really understood Li Chuan, nor had she really understood how this younger brother grew up.
When he was young, she was also young. She couldn’t understand the various aspects of young Li Chuan, and she forgot when she grew up.
Just like this cat, she thought that Li Chuan couldn’t resist fighting, but in fact, at that time, what Li Chuan couldn’t resist was not the stick responsibility in the deep palace, but the suffering of his sister.
It was not the cat that he buried himself, but himself.
He didn’t want to be the prince, but for Li Rong, for Shangguanyue, for the people he cherished, he was.
He was soft-hearted, innocent and pure, but for Li Rong and Shangguan Yue, he learned to be tough and indifferent.
He restrained his gentleness and innocence, suppressed all his loves and desires, buried himself deep in this palace, hoping to raise Li Rong and Shangguanyue on it like mud, watching them grow, blossom, and stabilize their lives.
This is her brother.
No matter how cruel and terrifying her brother is in the future, at the age of seventeen, behind the screen, he is always the young man who is willing to be like a mountain and river to give his loved one a good view.
“Sister,” Li Chuan lowered his head. He seemed to know that Li Rong was crying. He muttered, “What do you want to ask when you come here?”
“Chuan’er,” Li Rong took a deep breath, “If God is destined, one day, you will become a monarch like his father. No, better than him, but as indifferent and jealous as him.”
“You will kill a lot of people and make the world turbulent, but you can also succeed in the Northern Expedition and break the shackles of the family. You will imprison your mother, kill your uncle, behead half of your clan, and finally poison the elder sister. You will lose your love, but also Will become the Ninth Five-Year. You say, what should I do?”
“You mean,” Li Chuan seemed to know everything, “Will I kill you?”
“Right.” Li Rong smiled, “but this is just a dream, you don’t have to…”
Before she finished speaking, she heard the sound of drawing a sword inside. Li Rong looked up in surprise, watching Li Chuan lift the sword out of the screen.
He was holding a sword with wet tears on his face.
“In fact, I have long discovered that Sister A is different from before.”
Li Chuan looked at Li Rong, he handed the scabbard backhand to Li Rong, pointed the tip of the sword at himself, and knelt in front of Li Rong on one knee. His eyes were full of tears, but firm and bright: “If this is the future, please Sister, kill me now.”