Chapter 33

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date="2021-02-15"

title="Chapter 33 "

weight="127130"

series = ["The Times Spent in Pretense"]

mode = "manual"

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"Punma, Jiamin, this kid doesn't seem to like to go out very much these days." Princess Shun'an was a little worried, "Is it because of the robbers that scared her?"

The funny cricket said: "There are a lot of candidates coming to Beijing recently, and it would be nice for her to stay at home."

Princess Shun'an glared at him, and put the teacup in her hand on the table again: "I know playing with crickets, believe it or not that the general raised you..."

"Hush." ​​Yao Shuma hurriedly sat up straight and said nervously: "Don't talk nonsense, my cricket has changed its name."

The eyes of the husband and wife met in the air, as if recalling something, simultaneously no longer mentioned the word "General".

"The princess, the horse, and the Fushou princess of the Flower Mansion handed over an invitation card, inviting the princess to leave the mansion for a comment." The servant brought in a greeting note.

Princess Shun'an took a look at the greeting note and said without thinking: "Go and ask the princess to come out, and say that Fushou County will mainly see her."

"Who did you say to invite me?" Jiamin took a look at the greeting card, shaking his hands and threw the greeting card aside: "Just say I can't be free, don't go."

"Princess, this is what the princess meant." The maid who passed the message looked a little embarrassed.

Jiamin grabbed the greeting card and strode to the front hall: "Mother, didn't you tell me, stay away from Hua Liuli?"

"I asked you to stay away from her, but now she invites you." Princess Shun'an avoided her daughter's angry eyes, "Then you go."

"I'm not going." Jiamin was embarrassed to tell her parents that she didn't consciously seduce her when she saw Hua Liuli, so she simply didn't see her heart.

"Daughter, today is different. General Wei has returned to Beijing. You should go obediently." Princess Shun'an stood up, "What's more, Princess Fushou is a delicate and gentle person, unlike her mother. What does it matter?"

"It's a good thing for General Wei to return to Beijing, but it doesn't mean I'm going to make her daughter happy." Jiamin shook her head sharply, "I'm not going."

"Be obedient." Princess Shun'an grabbed a stack of silver bills and stuffed her daughter, turned and walked outside, "The kitchen is not ready for your favorite food at noon. You have fun with Princess Fushou."

Jiamin: "Mother..."

"Father, mother, what do you mean?" Confirming that his mother would not change her mind, Jiamin turned to ask Yao Mingma, "I really don't want to go out."

"Young people do not know their fate, but old people regret it." Yao Mingma sighed, "My dear daughter, listen to your mother and have fun with Princess Fushou. If you don't have enough money, I still have it here."

After finishing speaking, he also stuffed Jiamin a handful of bank notes, carried the cage containing the crickets, and hurried away.

Holding the stack of silver bills, Jiamin's face changed, and finally he gritted his teeth and walked towards the door.

As soon as she walked to the gate, she saw Hua Liuli wearing a light-colored tunic skirt with a thin waist as soft as willow branches. Jiamin suddenly thought of a poem called "If there is no bone in the grip of Yingying, the wind blows the skirt and plays with butterflies".

But thinking that this weak and boneless woman could stab a dozen men with a sword, and let their corpses be dragged away by beasts, Jiamin's mind only had the phrase "dogs that bite people don't bark."

"Sister Jiamin." Seeing Jiamin coming out, Hua Liuli smiled sweetly at her, whispering softly, like water and smoke, and it made people's bones soften.

Jiamin strode to Hua Liuli's side and whispered, "What do you want to do with me?"

"Sister Jiamin, I just came to play with you, don't be so nervous." Hua Liuli blinked, "Don't sister want to see me?"

Seeing Hua Liuli's sobbing appearance, Princess Jiamin took a deep breath: "You don't use it to test me, I didn't tell anyone about you."

"I know that the princess is a person who keeps his promise." Hua Liuli reached out and took Jiamin's wrist and pulled it gently. "But we are sisters who have friends in life and death. Talking about these hurts feelings. Come, let's play while walking. "

Jiamin looked back at the gate of the princess mansion in despair, wondering if she could go back to the princess mansion with all hands and feet?

"Girl, the people passing by our carriage just now seem to be Princess Jiamin and Princess Fushou."

Du Xiuying heard the maid’s words and lifted the curtains of the car to take a look. From a distance, he saw Jiamin driving Hua Liuli’s arm towards a teahouse, and the maid of the two followed behind her head down, with no expression.

Putting down the curtain, Du Xiuying turned a page of the book, but couldn't get in.

Many people in the capital knew that General Hua's daughter was frail and sickly and could not be frightened. Jiamin has studied martial arts since she was a child, and her personality is arrogant and at odds with Hua Liuli. She took Hua Liuli to the teahouse.

"A gentleman emphasizes righteousness and avoids profit..." Du Xiuying put down her book and said, "Groom, turn around and go to the teahouse that you just passed by."

If you don't see it, then it's fine. If you see an injustice, but don't want to come forward, how is it different from a villain?

Hua Liuli took Jiamin to the most popular teahouse in Beijing, and poked Jiamin's arm with her finger: "Sister Jiamin, which wing do you like to stay in?"

Jiamin slapped her hand away, and said to the neatly dressed female hall, "It's still the old rules."

"Princess, please." The female hall smiled, and led the two upstairs. "Recently, the small store has bought some spring bud tea. Would you like to try it?"

Seeing Jiamin nodded, the female hall clerk quickly sent someone to prepare, bowed and led the two to the box, then quietly retreated.

"Princess, you forgot? I don't drink tea." Hua Liuli asked Tang Hao to change the pot of boiled water, picking up the fruits and vegetables on the table.

"What do you want to do?" Jiamin looked at Hua Liuli suspiciously. She didn't believe that Hua Liuli was caring about her.

"I don't have any friends in the capital, so I just want to have fun with the princess to kill the time." Hua Liuli put two peanuts in front of Jiamin, "No other meaning."

Hua Liuli glanced out of the window, and found that this location was very interesting, as you could see the pedestrians passing by on the street. The other side of the street looks familiar. The last time Tian Ruidong had a conflict with Young Master Chen, he was almost killed by the young man with a dagger, as if he was there.

She even wondered if the real behind-the-scenes man would sit in this teahouse when the incident happened and watch this happen coldly.

Because of her sudden appearance, it not only destroyed this person's plan, but also affected his mood in the theater.

So he hated her outside of her plan and wanted to take her back alive and slowly tortured to death. It is a pity that after Tian Ruidong's incident, the court began to check all suspicious persons, so he had to leave the capital early, leaving behind those killers to carry out his plan.

Now as she imagined, the person behind the scenes is a very conceited person. He felt that his plan was seamless and foolproof, as if everything was in his grasp.

Shocked with disgust by her own assumptions, Hua Liuli turned her head and looked at Jiamin who was sitting honestly: "Princess Jiamin, I heard that the Hua Dynasty Festival in the capital is particularly lively. Is there anything I need to pay attention to? "

Jiamin's scalp felt numb when she heard the word "Hua Chao", and she was secretly anxious. Did Hua Liuli already know that she had a plan to shame her on the Flower Festival, and now she deliberately mentioned it, that is Listening to reality?

But she had already given up her plan to embarrass Hua Liuli, would she believe it?

"Also... there is nothing to pay attention to. That day, there will be many princes outing in the capital, even reciting poems and painting. You just need to dress yourself up." Jiamin took a sip from the teacup and concealed his guilty conscience. What do you ask this for?"

"Just ask it casually." Hua Liuli got up and walked to sit down next to Jiamin. "Actually, there is another little thing I want to ask you."

"Just ask, what are you doing so close?" Jiamin froze as soon as Hua Liuli approached, she moved aside, "Hua Liuli, let me tell you, don't go too far, I am the emperor. Relatives."

"I know, I know, if you are not the relatives of the emperor, I will not ask you." Hua Liuli grabbed Jiamin who was moving aside and dragged her back. "I am not bored, I want to hear you Tell me about gossip in the capital."

"What gossip?" Jiamin turned his head, "My dignified princess, how can I rap like a city woman."

"That's it." Hua Liuli let go of Jiamin, "I heard some gossip about the British prince and wanted to tell you. Since you don't like to discuss these, then forget it."

"Can you know what news about the King of England?" Jiamin looked at Hua Liuli suspiciously.

"Oh, if there isn't, there won't be." Hua Liuli waved his hand, "Anyway, you are not interested, it doesn't matter."

"If you insist on telling me, I can still listen." Jiamin grabbed Hua Liuli, "You tell me."

"Prefer not to say."

"Did you deliberately, Hua Liuli..."

"Jiamin, don't mess around." The door of the box was opened, and a panting woman stood by the door, staring at Jiamin closely.

"Cousin?" Although Jiamin didn't like this cousin very much, she didn't want Hua Liuli to watch the excitement. She waved her hand to retreat the nursing home who was catching up. "Why are you here suddenly?"

Du Xiuying ignored her, walked to Hua Liuli's side, and waved away Jiamin's hand on Hua Liuli's arm: "Jiamin, stop making trouble."

"What am I making?" Jiamin saw Du Xiuying hiding Hua Liuli behind him, and he dared not talk. "Who is she and I making trouble?!"

She stayed at home, was dragged out by Hua Liuli forcibly, and now she is regarded as a villain by her cousin.

Growing up, she has never suffered this kind of grievance.

"Princess, are you okay?" Du Xiuying ignored Jiamin, who was called Qu. She didn't know how many people she had bullied since she was a child. When she grew up, she was even more open-minded and completely ignored the feelings of others, so she had long believed her. One set.

"I'm fine." Hua Liuli shook her head obediently.

"It's okay." Du Xiuying supported her arm, "It's not early, I will send you back."

Hua Liuli looked at Du Xiuying and Jiamin again, and did not reject the other's kindness.

"The princess may not be familiar with me." Seeing that Hua Liuli hadn't come out in the carriage, Du Xiuying helped her ride in the same carriage with her, "Lai Xia's surname is Du and her boudoir's name is Xiuying, Jiamin's cousin, you call My name is good."

"Sister Xiuying is good."

"Don't dare." Du Xiuying bowed, "The princess is the body of a daughter, how can I call Xixia my sister."

Looking at Du Xiuying, who was serious, Hua Liuli remembered the female husband who taught her etiquette when she was a child.

"Although Jiamin has an impulsive personality, he is not bad in nature. If there is any offense, I ask the princess to forgive her." Du Xiuying gave Hua Liuli another big gift.

"Miss Du, don't be like this." After being given such a formal gift, Hua Liuli hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her, "I came out today with the lord Jiamin, just want to ask the lord about the Hua Dynasty festival, but she was not there. thing."

Du Xiuying took a deep look at Hua Liuli, then slightly lowered her head and said, "That's it."

The Hua family girl is so kind. When she entered the door, she clearly saw Jiamin holding her arm and forced her to say something, but she still didn't want to say anything bad about Jiamin in front of her.

Such a character, with Jiamin, how can he not suffer?

"What the princess wants to know, you can come and ask." Du Xiuying sighed in her heart, took the cloak handed by the maid, and put it on Hua Liuli's shoulder.

Such a thin little girl, just sitting there, can't help but worry.

"Thank you Ms. Du." Hua Liuli felt that Du Xiuying's eyes looked like a kind sister. She touched her face and couldn't help but deeply examine it. Isn't it a bit bad to deceive the pretty girl's trust like this?

"Every year during the Hua Dynasty Festival, we will worship the flower god, and the hairpins will take spring. There is no queen in the palace, and the empress dowager is getting older, so the palace will not hold a special ceremony. In recent years, several princesses have invited the capital The girls who came out of the pavilion, dressed up to attend the sacrificial activities together.” Du Xiuying said, “This year the organizer of the Huachao Fair is the second princess. Her personality has always been kind. You don’t have to wrong yourself to do things you don’t want to do after you go.”

Speaking of this, she glanced at Hua Liuli worriedly: "I will also go on the day of Hua Chao. If the princess has anything unclear, just come to me."

"Thank you Ms. Du." Hua Liuli smiled gratefully at Du Xiuying.

"The princess doesn't have to be polite." Du Xiuying looked at Hua Liuli's white face, always wanting to put another dress on Hua Liuli.

This is probably... the mood of grandma raising her granddaughter, always feeling that she is not warm enough?

Du Xiuying finds her mentality a bit strange. Is it because the brothers and sisters in the family are not as good-looking as Hua Liuli?

Sending Hua Liuli back to the mansion, Du Xiuying returned home and saw her parents and elder brothers both present, she stepped forward to salute the three of them.

"Xinying, my family doesn't need to be like this." Du's father was very helpless.

"Father, one must not be rude, this is what a daughter should do." Du Xiuying still finished the ceremony.

Father Du reluctantly stretched out his hand to help his forehead, obviously because he couldn't do anything with this old pedantic daughter.

The elder brothers of the Du family have long been accustomed to his sister's character, and instead of taking these things to heart, he said: "Father, mother, I heard a very interesting thing today."

"What's the matter?" Father Du asked with interest, turning his head to see that his daughter was still there, and sat up straight again.

As a child, it is impossible to say that the parents are not, Du Xiuying had to stand up and prepare to go back to the study.

"The prince and General Wei's mother and daughter appeared at Taoist Temple in the suburbs of Beijing yesterday."

Du Xiuying paused, then stopped walking outside.

"The prince would go to the Taoist temple every year on the 16th day of the first lunar month to light up the lamp for Queen Gonghui. General Wei returned to the capital for the first time. He didn’t know the prince’s habits. It’s normal for both sides to accidentally meet him." Father Du heard that the matter was related to the prince. In a very lively mood, there have been too many rumors about the prince since childhood, and the whole capital has no sense of novelty.

Anyway, everyone felt that it would be sooner or later that his majesty abolished his heir status based on the prince’s behavior.

Today is not abandoned, that is tomorrow, anyway, someday in the future.

The Du family brother said: "Maybe the prince wants to marry Fushou princess to increase his bargaining chips for his inheritance?"

"As long as the prince is a little bit brainy, you should stay away from the Hua family." Father Du sighed, "Hua Yingting and Wei Mingyue have made monstrous military exploits. Not only are they highly prestigious in the military, even the civilians also highly respect him, you If it were your majesty, what would you think?"

"I admire my insight and selected two capable generals?" The Du family's elder brother was a little uncertain. "Don't the people always say that your majesty is Ziwei Xing, and Hua Yingting is Wenquxing?"

"Superficial." Father Du looked at his son disappointedly, "If you have the patience to see half as your sister, I can rest assured."

Brother Du thought to himself that he had become an old scholar because he disliked his daughter for studying too much. He also disliked him for too little study and lack of knowledge. Nowadays, it is not easy for children to please parents.

"Your Majesty may be so long at the beginning, but after a long time, he will wonder if the Hua family will be rebellious, and suspect that the Hua family will threaten the emperor with public opinion. If the prince and the Hua family get closer, it will be worse, your majesty I suspect that the prince can’t wait to take over and take his place.”

"As long as the prince is half sensible, he will not get too close to the Hua family. He wants to marry any woman in the world, but the princess of the Hua family can't." Father Du said very positively, "not to mention the Fushou princess. Frail and sickly, it may not be conducive to having children. How can such a girl marry into the royal family?"

"That's the case." The exclusive brother suddenly realized: "Is it because someone deliberately framed this matter?"

"The other princes are all old, this is not true." Father Du stroked his beard and turned to look at Du Xiuying who was standing at the door and had not left. "So it is a good thing for Xiuying not to marry the prince."

"Father, the child went to greet my grandfather yesterday. His old man seems to admire the Fourth Prince very much." Brother Du family whispered, "Will his old man think..."

"Don't think too much." Father Du frowned. He knew that his father didn't like the prince, but he didn't want to use the marriage of his children as his father's political bargaining chip.

Four princes?

Du Xiuying turned and left blankly. In her opinion, the book has its own golden house, and the book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the prince or the prince are not as interesting as those books.

"Little girl, you have a good time." Hua Changkong said, "Go out in the morning to play with Princess Jiamin, and let Girl Du family send it back at noon. The little girl in the capital, who else have you not provoke?"

"That's too much." Hua Liuli said, "I found out from Miss Du today that there is a Wenquxing Temple nearby, which is very effective. I will pay you a respect tomorrow."

Hua Changkong: "Don't be superstitious."

"Believe a letter and don't suffer." Hua Liuli patted Hua Changkong's shoulder, "Brother, don't put too much pressure on yourself. There are only three days left in Chunwei, so I can't read many books in this little time, so relax. Mood. I believe you will be able to pass the exam. It doesn’t matter if you fail. The most important thing is that you are happy."

She didn't tell Hua Changkong. Today, she asked Du Xiuying about the imperial examination and learned that some candidates were suddenly crazy and sick in the examination room. She was worried that her handsome third brother would also be crazy in the examination room.

"Don't worry, the third brother will pay attention." After Hua Liuli said so much, she was worried that she would be too stressed to hurt her body. Hua Changkong smiled and rubbed the top of Hua Liuli's hair. "Children don't worry. These little things."

"Then you go to bed earlier tonight." Hua Liuli closed the books on the table, "read these books tomorrow day."

"Good, good." Hua Changkong was supervised by Hua Liuli and returned to his yard. When Hua Liuli returned to his small yard, she saw her father and mother drinking and admiring the moon outside. She was afraid of disturbing their Yaxing. She immediately stepped lightly and walked against the wall. Go into your yard.

"His Royal Highness, can this be put under the pillow?" The palace lady who changed the bed found a cluster of weeds under the pillow, so she didn't dare to call the shots without permission, so she held her hands in front of the prince.

The prince got up and put the straw butterfly back under the pillow himself, and said to the maid: "Let it go."

"Yes." The maids made up the beds and quietly retreated.

"His Royal Highness, the news about your meeting with the princess in Taoist Temple yesterday was passed on by the sage concubine." A little eunuch in a blue robe hurried in and said in a low voice, "The sage concubine does not seem to want you to marry the Du girl. ."

"Heh." The prince was not surprised by the results of the investigation. This method of spreading rumors to each other was almost a method used by the harem concubines.

The concubine Xian has been in the palace for so many years without any improvement.

"His Royal Highness." The eunuch who had served the prince for many years couldn't help saying: "It's better... it's better to stay away from Fushou Princess in the future."

"Is lonely the kind of person who wronged himself because of rumors?" The prince flicked the golden beads on the table. Seeing the golden beads fell to the ground and rolled into the bottom of the cabinet, his brows did not wrinkle: "The flower is coming soon, Gu I remember there is a box of pearl hairpins in the private library, which will be sent to Princess Fushou tomorrow."

"His Royal Highness, those pearl hairpins are rare treasures, why not leave them to the future princess..."

"I feel that those jewels are suitable for Princess Fushou." The prince stood up lazily. "You are all alone when you are alone."

"Yes."

The next day Emperor Changlong came to court, and the prince went to the Imperial Study Room of Chenyang Palace.

Seeing his son come to the Imperial Study so actively, Emperor Changlong put the papers in his hands: "Say, what needs the father to do?"

Suddenly, the son was hardworking and well-behaved, mostly because he wanted something.

"It's okay, I just want to report it to you. In the harem, there are some concubines who arrange the gossip between the child and a girl." The prince sat down in a chair dejectedly, "The child is not very happy, so I can only find you Complain."

"Who is it again?" Emperor Changlong had a headache. He set the crown prince so high, just to let them understand that the future heir of Dajin could only be Yuan Su, not anyone else.

It's a pity that the women in the harem still don't seem to understand what he meant.

"This is not important. The important thing is that in order to make up for the little girl, the child minister gave her the jewellery that he was going to give to the princess." The prince said, "so the jewellery to be tributed this year, you first let the child minister choose , Save the family wealth for the children."

"You still lack this thing?"

"Father, it is a tradition for thousands of years to save the capital for a son to marry a daughter-in-law. If your ministers don't find you, who else can they go to?" As the most noble gnawing old man in the Jin Dynasty, the prince gnawed. Peace of mind.

"It's nothing, everyone in the world loves to supplement his son. You pick it yourself and take whatever you like." In front of the prince, Emperor Changlong's eccentric eye problems would occur from time to time.

"Children thank the emperor for his grace."

The prince turned around and went to the emperor's private library, and asked the imperial chief Zhao Sancai who was accompanying him: "Duke Zhao, what jewellery does the sage concubine like on weekdays?"

Zhao Sancai: "..."

Your Highness, can we not be so obvious?

The author has something to say: Question: How to avenge a woman?

Jiamin: I feel that I am being retaliated against.

Prince: Thank you, Gu Gang came out of the emperor's private library. There are many ways, but the simplest and rude is to take what she likes.