Chapter 48: Misunderstanding

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date="2021-02-15"

title="Chapter 48: Misunderstanding "

weight="127145"

series = ["The Times Spent in Pretense"]

mode = "manual"

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After each session of the Spring Festival, the students in the exam are very busy, especially those with better rankings, will receive a bunch of invitations, and then everyone will get together...discuss the questions of the palace exam.

Dajin’s palace exam questions have always been elegant and pragmatic. Sometimes your majesty will come up with some more complicated calculation questions. Candidates who do not calculate well and have an unstable mentality will be after the exam. , Can collapse and cry.

Hua Changkong spends very little time in the capital. Several friends worry that he does not know what to pay attention to during the palace exam, so he specifically called him, and the princes in the capital who were on the list, squatted in the beautiful garden and pondered all day. How to express yourself perfectly in the palace exam.

Yao Songbai and Hua Changkong are the best-ranked students among these candidates, so when reviewing the books, if everyone has differences in understanding, they will discuss them together.

However, in just a few days, Hua Changkong became siblings with these people, and the relationship was so good that they could ridicule each other.

"I was able to pass the exam this time. I have been blessed by the eighteenth generation of ancestors." The speaker was the youngest son of the Duke's Mansion. He lay on the recliner lazily, listening to the talk of his friends, and yawned. A few days ago, I called Master Lin to invite him to review the books with us, but he refused."

"He is the son of the champion man. He can recite poems at two, write at three, and write lyrics at five. Naturally, he is different from us." Another young man said, "Isn’t it true to be with us dudes all day? Drag him to study."

"Zhangkong is still the current session of the conference, and the shelf is not as big as him." The youngest son of the Duke's Mansion sat up and put the book aside, "Look at him like that, he is very high."

They are both candidates in the same class, even if they enter officialdom in the future, they are a bit more affectionate than others. The people who can study in this other courtyard are all the younger generations with status and status in the capital. The gathering together is not only for reviewing books, but also for the friendship of the family.

Lin Sen's rejection of his invitation is almost equivalent to his disdain for dealing with them.

This makes the person who pays the caller feel good about it.

"You two are hiding here to be lazy again." Yao Songbai waved to the two of them, "Come and cast the pot. If anyone can't make a shot, come memorize a book and write a poem."

"Come here." Hua Changkong also waved at the two of them, "I won't participate in pitching pots, lest you say I bully others."

As soon as these words came out, the sons all refuted Hua Changkong, but after they saw Hua Changkong ten shots and ten hits, they were all silent.

"Brother Hua, you obviously can rely on powerlessness to eat, why do you want to grab a spot with our literati." Yao Songbai pretended to sadly patted Hua Changkong's shoulder, "Is it not good to leave us a way out?"

"No way." Hua Changkong sighed with regret: "I don't have a good exam, so I will go home and let the little girl raise him."

Everyone burst into laughter. Hua's family has two marquis, two generations, and one princess. Only Hua Changkong, a poor child with no grade and no prince, is really likely to go home and let his sister raise him if he fails the exam.

After everyone laughed, a young man blushed and invited Hua Changkong to the corner: "Brother Hua, I wonder if Lingmei has a marriage?"

Hua Changkong looked at the handsome and shy boy in front of him, with a trace of pity in his eyes: "My sister is still young, and my parents want to keep her for a few more years."

If it's not good to see who is not good, you must see his sister.

Men, always don't understand, the better-looking woman is, the more powerful it is to pick up people.

"So that's it." The young man was a little bit lost. He once looked at Hua Liuli from a distance, and lost his heart and soul with just one glance. Finally, mustering up the courage to ask Hua Changkong, he didn't expect that the Hua family didn't want to marry a daughter at all.

This is not surprising. They have always advocated freedom in Dajin. There are many unmarried men in 20 and 18 unmarried women. Fushou is 15 years old this year. The two generals are reluctant to marry her now. .

Hua Changkong sighed, stretched out his hand and patted this young man on the shoulder. With regard to the brother's small body, if Liuli was really allowed to marry him, it would have harmed him.

The son was confused by Hua Changkong's shoulder-slapping behavior. Could it be that he was sympathizing with his love that fell from the branch before it bloomed?

Princess Shun'an Mansion.

"Jiamin, Lin Wan was divorced, what do you think?" Yao Wenyin pushed Jiamin's arm.

"I have any idea, I can't marry Lin Wan home." Jiamin sat cross-legged on the fox fur carpet, holding a knife to carve a plank. Since she was often mad at Hua Liuli, she has a new hobby, wood carving.

As long as you imagine these pieces of wood as Hua Liuli's face and cut it down with one knife, you will be extremely relieved.

"You don't like Prince Ying, or..."

"Forget it." Jiamin viciously stabbed the woodcarving twice, "Man, it can only be regarded as a pastime in a woman's life."

Her biggest goal in this life is to step on Hua Liuli under her feet. As long as Hua Liuli is a natural enemy, all men are floating clouds.

"You... be careful, don't poke your hands." Seeing Jiamin's vicious appearance, Yao Wenyin couldn't help but said, "Are you carving or killing wood?"

"Don't you think that if you treat this wood as Hua Liuli, it will be especially hateful when you carve it?" Jiamin pressed the wood to the ground hard, as if it was Hua Liuli.

Yao Wenyin stared at the messy wooden block for a while, and said, "Give me a piece of wood, and come over with a carving knife."

The two jabbed with a wooden stick together. Yao Wenyin said, "Jiamin, can't even you take Hua Liuli?" As a famous female bully in Beijing, they are always faceless by Hua Liuli.

Jiamin glanced at the little cousin faintly. If she dared to attack Hua Liuli, she would have done it a long time ago. Is it necessary to hold a piece of wood to vent her anger like this?

"Jiamin." Princess Shun'an's voice sounded outside the door, Jiamin and Yao Wenyin hurriedly put the wood and the carving knife away, and even the wood residue was hidden under the carpet.

"Princess." Yao Wenyin saluted Princess Shun'an.

"My own children, you don't need so much ceremony." Princess Shun'an was still very gentle towards the younger generations of the Yao family, waving her hand to avoid Yao Wenyin's gift, and said to Jiamin, "The female officer next to the empress mother said, please go to the palace Stay a few days."

Jiamin wondered: "The queen mother invited me into the palace?"

According to the seniority in the palace, she should call the queen mother to her grandmother, but her mother was not born to the queen mother, so she is not very close to the queen mother, the nominal grandparents and grandchildren. These years are only during the festivals. Greet the Queen Mother, and everyone will not disturb each other.

"Maybe it’s because the queen mother heard that you have a good time with Fushou Princess, so let you young people have fun together." Princess Shun’an said earnestly, "Girls, please be kind to the queen mother after entering the palace. The title of the princess depends on you."

Jiamin: "..."

Back then, if you could say a few words less, you would already be the eldest princess, where you still need your daughter.

Besides, she didn't play well with Hua Liuli!

not good at all!

No one heard Jiamin's inner roar, she was packed into the carriage by Princess Shun'an.

Princess Shun'an told her daughter: "Daughter, Princess Fushou is weak and has a good personality. Take care of her in the palace and don't let her be wronged."

After all, her mother could not provoke anyone.

Jiamin wants to cry without tears. She stays with Hua Liuli. She has always been wronged unilaterally, OK?

Sitting in the carriage, looking at the gate of the palace getting closer and closer, Jiamin seemed to see her bleak future life.

Hua Liuli lives in the palace with great joy. Every day, she has beautiful clothes prepared by the queen mother. He can also accompany her old man to listen to the compliments of the ladies. He will go to Eastern Palace to eat and drink from time to time. Happy as a fairy.

The queen mother was also very happy. She felt that she was very good at raising children, and Liuli, who was physically exhausted, lived with her and didn't get sick much.

What does this mean? It means that she is predestined with Hua Liuli, and she is born with the same eight characters.

The queen mother was worried that Hua Liuli would be boring to stay alone in the palace, so she sent the maid out to find out. Knowing that Hua Liuli often went to Shun'an Princess Mansion to invite Jiamin to play, she invited Jiamin into the palace.

If a girl plays more with her peers, her mood and body will be better.

When Jiamin arrived, Hua Liuli was wearing a beautiful palace costume and sitting on the newly built swing. Seeing her coming, Hua Liuli waved to her enthusiastically: "Jiamin, come, let's sit on the swing together."

Staring silently at the swing stand beside his eyes, Jiamin walked over and sat down: "You asked the queen mother to pick me up into the palace?"

Although she doesn't like Hua Liuli, as a nominal granddaughter, being taken into the palace by the Queen Mother is a good thing for her.

"It was the empress dowager who missed you, so she took you into the palace." Hua Liuli said, "It has nothing to do with me."

"You don't need to protect my face." Jiamin leaned on the swing chair. There were not many princesses in the capital. Her mother was becoming more and more critical of the juniors over the years, just to cover up the loss of their family not being valued by the royal family.

Had it not been for your majesty's broad-mindedness and always caring for the princesses of the royal family, their home would not have been the same as it is today. People outside did not know, but she knew very well in her heart that when the prince succeeded to the throne, their family would become marginal figures in the royal family.

Since the mother reprimanded the prince, the palace has become indifferent to their family, and many of the little sisters who befriend her have gradually become alienated. Those who really have a good time with her are only the few people.

In this place of Beijing, there is never a shortage of people who uphold the high and the low.

This time she was invited by the Queen Mother to stay in the palace. In the eyes of others, it would become a signal for the royal family to pay more attention to Princess Shun'an Mansion. Those little sisters who were far away from her might become more cheerful again.

She glanced at Hua Liuli, then stopped talking.

Today's Huajia is the time when the scenery is boundless.

With Hua Liuli's scheming, really ignorant of those rumors in the capital?

"Fortunately you are here. There are so many interesting places in the palace. It is always not convenient for me to go alone." Hua Liuli didn't seem to see how complicated Jiamin's mood was at the moment. She was dangling on the swing, "Tomorrow It can be one piece."

"Heh." Jiamin said awkwardly, "The palace is not a place to play, don't make trouble for yourself."

"Don't worry, I know it in my heart." Hua Liuli waved her hand to let the maids who were waiting on her stand farther, and whispered to Jiamin, "I want to ask you something."

Seeing the mysterious appearance of Hua Liuli, Jiamin hurriedly said: "If you have something to do, don't call me. Don't call me for any palace fight. I won't be involved."

"What to fight?" Hua Liuli wondered if she frightened Jiamin stupidly last time.

"Then what do you want to tell me?" Jiamin tilted his head to the side and moved his head away from Hua Liuli.

"You grew up in the capital, and you are a relative of the emperor, then do you know, which family of women your Royal Highness is close to?"

"Who else, isn't it you?" Jiamin suddenly sat upright, and after looking around, lowered his voice to Hua Liuli and said, "Hua Liuli, do you want to die? Since you are in love with the prince, you dare Go to the band to find a male luthier?"

"What nonsense, I and His Royal Highness are pure and beautiful friendships." Hua Liuli shook her head, "Can't there be something pure in your mind?"

Jiamin was speechless, she really couldn't see how pure the relationship between Hua Liuli and his cousin was.

"Between men and women, there is nothing pure." Jiamin hummed. "If a man is not married, and a woman is not married, what is pure?"

"Our hearts are pure." Hua Liuli said confidently, "Isn't the prince the one you like?"

"What?" Jiamin thought that there was a problem with his ears. With the narcissistic and fussy virtue of the dog prince, who could he like?

Seeing Jiamin's shocked look, Hua Liuli suddenly understood it, and it seemed that Jiamin didn't know about it.

"In the past few years, has there been a beautiful girl in the capital with a delicate body like me who died prematurely due to illness?" Hua Liuli changed her mind. She had no intention of uncovering the scars of the prince, but people could not keep getting stuck. She always has to find a way if she doesn't get out of her past emotions.

"Like you... delicate?" Jiamin's expression was a bit subtle, but under Hua Liuli's smirking stare, she compromised. "In the capital, there has indeed been a daughter Jia Fanghua who has died young in recent years. They are not as delicate as you."

Once the bottom line of a person falls, it will plummet. Jiamin now uses the word "fragile" to describe Hua Liuli without any difficulty.

"There is someone who meets the criteria you mentioned, but she is not from Beijing." Seeing that Hua Liuli seemed to be very interested in this, Jiamin continued, "The eldest daughter of Princess Leyang looks like a bright moon in the sky, but she was born. I was in poor health and couldn't get away from the medicine jar all day long. After the spring last year, I was ill and died.

Hua Liuli knows Princess Leyang. It is said that this princess has an outstanding appearance. She married the Xie family, a family in the south, and he and her husband Qinse Heming. There are two daughters and one son under her knee.

"Has she been to the capital?" Hua Liuli asked.

"Naturally, the princess Leyang brings her husband and children to Beijing for two or three months every year. If it weren't for the eldest daughter who died in Beijing last year, she would have entered Beijing this year." Jiamin mentioned Leyang. The eldest princess's tone is not very good, and it can be seen that the relationship between Princess Shun'an and Princess Leyang is not very good.

"However, Princess Leyang will not miss this important occasion for hosting the Hundred Nations Banquet this year." Jiamin sneered, "She will come to Beijing at the end of this month at the latest."

"You seem to... don't like this princess?" Hua Liuli opened the kit and divided half of his sips to Jiamin.

When listening to gossip, don’t eat snacks. I’m sorry for the atmosphere.

"Princess Leyang has been at odds with my mother since I was a child, and I didn't deal with her daughter Xie Yao too much." Jiamin was not polite to Hua Liuli, and said while eating snacks, "That Xie Yao... cried if he didn't agree. It’s wrong to apologize again and again, as if she was a little pitiful who was bullied by all the people in the world. She was also gentle and kind, a little fairy who would accuse us of cruelty when she saw us hunting rabbits."

Speaking of this, she glanced at Hua Liuli: "Just like you."

"Nonsense, I am indeed a gentle and kind little fairy, but I like to eat rabbits." Hua Liuli raised her eyebrows. "The rabbits are so cute and the meat is so delicious. How can we let it go?"

"I forgot, you are indeed different, you are fake and weak, others are really weak..."

"Sister Jiamin, I think you can reorganize the language just now, what do you think?" Hua Liuli looked at Jiamin with a smile.

"I mean, you are very beautiful and weak, and she is so weak and pretentious, incomparable to you." Jiamin immediately changed her words.

Hua Liuli nodded in satisfaction: "I knew that Sister Jiamin spoke the best."

"Jiamin, why are you here?" The prince heard that Hua Liuli was swinging here, and as soon as he approached, he heard Hua Liuli kwa Jiamin. Thinking of Jiamin taking Hua Liuli to the band to play in the concert not long ago, he was worried that Jiamin would lead her to damage.

"Prince." Jiamin was shocked when he saw the prince, jumped off the swing and saluted the prince.

The prince waved his hand. Seeing Hua Liuli's body moved twice, he sat back and couldn't help but smiled: "Princess, there are fresh river prawns there today. Would you like to try it?"

"Isn't it too good to go to your place for dinner?" Hua Liuli pretended to be polite.

"Guo often eats food alone, accompanied by the princess. Gu is very happy." The prince lowered his eyelids slightly, trying his best to conceal the loneliness and sadness in his eyes. "If the princess is embarrassed, just treat it as a lone. So many years , Gu has long been used to it."

"The courtier was harassing." Seeing that the beautiful man showed such a melancholy and strong expression in front of her, Hua Liuli couldn't maintain a fake politeness, and quickly said, "Then we will pass now."

After speaking, she turned her head to look at Jiamin: "Jiamin, are you coming with you too?"

"No, no." Jiamin glanced at the eyes of the prince's slightly drooping eyelids, and quickly said: "The imperial doctor said, my body is not suitable for eating shrimp, it will cause a red rash."

"That's really a shame." Hua Liuli said regretfully, "Then we will have dinner together next time?"

Under the gaze of the prince smiling, Jiamin bit his head and said: "Okay, we have a chance to be together again."

After the prince and Hua Liuli left, Jiamin collapsed and sat on the swing. Are her eyes crazy, or the prince crazy? !

How could the prince’s dog temperament show a grievance, pitiful, and melancholic expression? !

No, this is not true!

The prince will only make people melancholy, never make him melancholy!

She was dying and pulled her handmaid's sleeve: "You said, does the prince... have that meaning to Hua Liuli?"

The maid shook her head in panic: "Princess, you can't talk nonsense about these things."

Jiamin looked up at the sky blankly.

She was really worried. After the prince was really with Hua Liuli, what if the prince took the concubine's room and Hua Liuli drew out a soft sword without saying anything, and cut the prince and the concubine together?

Imagining that scene, Jiamin couldn't help but shudder.

In the past, she looked at the prince and felt guilty, but today she feels a little sympathetic to him.

There are so many beautiful women in the world, why the prince couldn't figure it out so he fell in love with Hua Liuli?

Do you think life is too long, or do you think life is too easy?

What surprised her even more was that even she saw the prince's intentions. Why didn't the servants of Shoukang Palace react at all? And Hua Liuli thought that the prince likes other people. Is there any misunderstanding in this?

Could it be...

Jiamin suddenly thought of a possibility. Maybe the prince really liked a woman who was very similar to Hua Liuli, but this person has passed away from illness, and then he uses Hua Liuli as a substitute?

Isn't it often written like this in the script? The living is always inferior to the dead. Toss and toss, and the aggrieved are always the living.

Thinking of this, Jiamin felt a little unhappy for Hua Liuli.

That is the daughter of the heroine General Guard. Although she did something, a little hypocritical, and a little bit inconsistent, she is also the jewel in the hand of General Wei. Why should she be a substitute for others?

Even if she hates Hua Liuli no matter what, she won't see Hua Liuli suffer such insults.

When Hua Liuli came back from Eastern Palace, she received several scripts prepared by Jiamin for her, and she didn't know how she brought these books into the palace.

""Shuangyu Ji", what is written?" Hua Liuli turned over the first book.

"It's about a scholar's beloved woman who died of illness. She happened to meet a peasant girl who was similar to her lover in the mountains. After getting married, she wanted the peasant girl to learn from her lover's words and deeds." Jiamin answered blankly.

"What is "Blooming Flowers"?"

"It is written that after a princess died of illness, the prince married the princess's younger sister again because the younger sister's appearance was somewhat similar to the older sister."

"What about "Flowers in the Shadow"?"

"The scholar turned the flower demon into a dead wife, marrying him to repay his favor."

Hua Liuli threw the pile of books on the table, got up and pulled out a few books from the cabinet to Jiamin: "Less reading these scripts will make you look stupid. Come, look at these, it's more interesting."

"What are these...?" Jiamin flipped through the pages and saw that most of the titles of these books were somewhat quaint.

"The story of the scumbag being beaten to the head of a dog." Hua Liuli smiled and said, "Specially hit your male protagonists in the script."

Jiamin: "..."

She is no longer worried about Hua Liuli, she is now a little worried about the prince.

If Hua Liuli knew what the prince was thinking, would it blow the prince's head?

"It's always bad to fight, kill, and kill." Jiamin put away all these scripts, and persuaded with a dry smile, "violence can't solve all problems."

"Sometimes it can solve a part of the problem." Hua Liuli said earnestly looking at Jiamin, "Although you are always in the head, but I still like you very much. Love is precious, but for a man who does not love himself, let himself I'm sorry for being so complacent, and I'm sorry for my family. From birth to growing up, one person is to see more of the beauty in the world, not to let another person ruin himself, understand?"

Jiamin: "Huh?"

She understands all these words, but what does it have to do with her, isn't she trying to persuade Hua Liuli?

Also, what does it mean to speak but brains?

If she couldn't beat Hua Liuli, she would have had trouble with her.

Hua Liuli sighed, but she didn't expect that Princess Jiamin said she no longer likes the King of England, yet she felt so affectionate for him in her heart.

A good little girl, how can she be so persistent in her feelings?

Hua Liuli and Jiamin stared at each other speechlessly, their eyes filled with unspeakable sympathy and helplessness.