Chapter 44
Yingying was in a daze and did not notice that Eunuch Zhang was thinking about "Crown Prince Qinrong" rather than the third prince Qinrong.
What she didn't know was that before Eunuch Zhang came, two other imperial edicts had been sent to Qingboju, one was abolished and the other was abolished. The one who was abolished was Jing Zhaoshi, who was inappropriate in character and could not bear the position of prince, and the one who was appointed was the will of heaven, and the prince Jing Qinrong, who was deeply loved by me.
When Eunuch Zhang finished reading the imperial edict, the thanks from the Gu family made Yingying wake up. Eunuch Zhang looked at Yingying with a smile and said, "Miss Gu, why don't you accept the imperial edict?"
Yingying was pinched by her aunt, raised her stiff arm to take over the imperial edict. When she got up, she couldn't laugh on her face. Seeing this, Gu Manru smiled and scolded: "Look at this child, she is so happy and stupid."
As he said this, Yun Xin, the female official behind Gu Manru took out the silver from her sleeve and stuffed it into Eunuch Zhang's hand. Eunuch Zhang smiled and refused a few words, until Gu Manru said something.
Not only him, but also the eunuchs who followed him were rewarded. Now Yingying is not just the queen's niece. Eunuch Zhang packed the reward silver and flattered Yingying: "The old slave, let's say in advance that the Crown Princess is safe."
Although there is no good time in the imperial edict, Emperor Wucheng will definitely let the two get married as soon as possible in order to consolidate Qin Rong's position as crown prince.
As soon as Eunuch Zhang left, Yingying stuffed the imperial edict into Gu Lingxiao's hands. She was so anxious that she took her aunt's hand and asked for help: "Auntie, please help me, Yingying doesn't want to marry her third brother."
"Nonsense!" Gu Manru rarely made Yingying fiercely once. She lit her forehead and scolded: "Look at what you were like just now. You dare to shook your face at Eunuch Zhang without kneeling down or receiving the order. Good man, you have not become the crown princess yet, so you are not afraid that Eunuch Zhang will sue your evil deeds to Your Majesty!"
Not only was Yingying not afraid, she asked, "If he really told Your Majesty, can Your Majesty take back the imperial edict in anger?"
This time, before Gu Mantao scolded her, Dad Gu yelled at her first: "I see that you are so tiring and needing to deal with it!"
These days, Yingying is well-behaved, and because of the injury, her lover is muttering. Dad Gu has been very gentle to her recently. It has been a long time since Yingying heard Dad Gu yell at her like a irritable roar. When Yingying saw Dad Gu roll up her sleeves and seemed to be trying to hit her, she hurriedly ran behind her aunt to hide.
The Gu family's yard was in chaos in an instant, but in the end, Gu Lingxiao took advantage of his aunt's obstruction of Gu Mingzhi and took Yingying away.
"You girl, you really should be stupid when you are smart." Gu Lingxiao sent Yingying back to Qingboju.
Seeing Yingying feeling depressed, Gu Lingxiao thought she was frustrated with Gu Mingzhi, so he advised: "Don't blame dad, his hair has turned white for your affairs recently."
After that incident, even if Qin Rong and Emperor Wu Cheng covered up the truth, the ministers in the court were not fools, and many people still discovered suspicious points through clues.
Even if Qin Rong helped Yingying protect Qing. So what if? You should know that the prince was lying in her room at the moment was enough to destroy everything. It doesn’t matter whether Yingying was innocent or not. What’s important is that no one dared to marry Yingying.
Yingying doesn’t care about these things, but how can Gu Mingzhi, as her biological father, not care about them?
After many days of discussion, the best solution to this matter is to marry Yingying by the prince. Moreover, this prince must have a noble status and power to compete with the prince Zhaoshi. Only in this way can he block the public.
After all, no one would believe that a prince with a noble status would aggrieved himself to marry a wife with a bad reputation, not to mention that he is powerful and can gain a foothold in the court without any need to win over Gu's family, and Qin Rong is the best candidate.
Gu Mingzhi discussed these matters with Gu Lingxiao, and even thought about how to put down his face and let Gu Manru go to Qin Rong to talk. No one expected that Qin Rong would ask His Majesty for marriage first, and the reason used was not to be responsible, but to be happy.
Gu Mingzhi didn't have time to be happy. This morning, he heard that his daughter had a quarrel with the third prince last night. He was already on fire. In addition, Yingying's series of reactions from the imperial edict were successfully angered Gu Ming.
"Yingying, no matter how much the third prince tolerate you on weekdays, he is the prince after all, and now he is the crown prince. You should not lose your temper at him." Gu Lingxiao rubbed Yingying's head and patiently persuaded her.
This has been the case since their childhood. Yingying is used to being naughty and often being chased by Dad Gu, and their biological mother passed away early, so he risked his life to carry people out and then coaxed his sister softly.
Yingying still felt a little aggrieved when she sniffed. In fact, she didn't blame Dad Gu at all, but she was just angry that she couldn't get rid of the fate of marrying Qin Rong. She understood the truth Gu Lingxiao told her, but understanding did not mean she was willing. She grabbed Gu Lingxiao's sleeve and shouted pitifully, "Yingying really doesn't want to marry him."
“…I really don’t want to!”
Gu Lingxiao was surprised: "Don't you like His Royal Highness the most in your daily life?"
Not only did he think so, but even Gu Mingzhi and Gu Manru had the same idea. Because of this, Yingying's performance today puzzled the Gu family.
"I don't like him anymore, I really don't like him anymore." Yingying said this over and over again, but no one believed it.
She buried her face on Gu Lingxiao's arm and rubbed it, repeating the words several times. But what if she said it again and again? Now that the imperial edict has been issued, it is harder to get His Majesty to take back the imperial edict than to climb to heaven. What's more, if the imperial edict for marriage is really ruined, then Yingying will be really destroyed.
After Gu Lingxiao left, Yingying returned to her room to vent her feelings and was still dissatisfied. She wanted to find someone to talk to but didn't know who to look for. She couldn't help but think of Prince Zhaoshi again. If it weren't for his absurd things, Yingying wouldn't have fallen to such a point.
Zhaoshi's crown prince can no longer be called the crown prince. Emperor Wucheng was kind and favored by this son, but he just deposed his crown prince and became an ordinary prince.
After all, he was the former crown prince. The current crown prince, Qin Rong, was just a thorn in his existence. Emperor Wucheng knew this truth well, so he was appointed as King Anping when he was appointed Jingzhao. After attending the prince's wedding, he went to the fiefdom Luo'an and had no choice but to return.
To put it nicely, it means being a tyrant away from the court, and to put it badly, it means exile. After all, Luo'an City is in the west. The southern border is barren and remote, so it is not a good place to go.
As Zhao Shi was deposed, Emperor Wu Cheng took care of him more relaxed than before. Although Emperor Wu Cheng still could not leave the room, Emperor Wu Cheng allowed others to see him, so Yingying took this opportunity to find him.
It was the center of the day and the sun was shining brightly. Jing Zhaoshi's doors and windows in the room were closed, and the layers of curtains covered the sunlight that penetrated outside, making the inner room the most hazy and dim.
Yingying walked forward for two steps and stopped, but could not find Jing Zhaoshi in a short time. Only the cicadas outside the window were singing in the room. Yingying couldn't help but shouted to him: "Zhaoshi?"
Smack-
The sound of things falling to the ground came from the inner room. The subtle sound attracted Yingying's attention. She was about to walk towards the inner room when the sound of her low dumb hair was heard: "Don't come in!"
Yingying stopped with the flow, thinking of the thing Jing Zhaoshi had done to her before, and turned around and sat in the outer hall.
"I didn't expect you to see the orphan." Prince Zhaoshi stopped and soon sneered again: "I am still a son of my family, I have become the deposed prince."
Yingying just heard his words, and she casually answered: "You can call yourself this king."
No matter what, he even got the title of prince.
The people in the room seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Gu Yingying, if you don't want to comfort others, just shut up."
At this time, the sarcastic King of Peace, who was sarcastic to him, was undoubtedly stabbing him in the heart.
"Who said I'm comforting you?" Gu Yingying didn't react at first. Until she tasted the feeling of falling from the noble prince to the down-and-out prince, she said three words in a dull sentence: "You deserve it!"
He deserves it!
"Why did you say that your prince is so good at doing it? Where did I, Gu Yingying, mess with you so badly?"
"Now, your position as crown prince was stolen by Qin Rong, and I was also given a marriage to him. Are you happy now?"
Yingying was really angry. She was so angry that she wanted to pull Qin Rong out and beat her. And she didn't forget Zhaoshi's struggle that day, as if he was forced to do so. When she hugged her, she was stiff and dared not move. When Yingying touched her, she was shocked and let go.
"Say! What's your idea?!" After meeting Zhao Shi for two lives, Yingying really didn't believe that Zhao Shi would do something that hurt her.
The first time in her life that the person she believed so did not disappoint her, Zhao Shi quickly gave her the answer: "Yingying, you believe me, I really didn't want to harm you."
Some words were already in his heart for a long time, but now he has lost all his worries and simply said them all.
"Do you still remember the destiny I mentioned with you on the way to Jiuhua Palace?"
In the inner room, Jing Zhaoshi leaned on the couch and closed his eyes, telling the truth that he had learned a long time ago: "You were born with auspicious auspiciousness, but in fact, it was a great life for a great phoenix."
"On the night you were born, Li Huaixu noticed the transformation of Ziwei Star. He found from your horoscope that your phoenix life is closely related to the Northern Region Kingdom. You are not an ordinary phoenix life. Traveling to the phoenix and playing with the dragon is the incarnation of the will of heaven."
Yingying doesn't understand these, nor does she believe in these messy nonsense. After all, the system has clearly told her that the so-called auspiciousness when she was born was actually a sign of heaven. If she really talks about fate, the Feng Life, which really flourishes the Northern Region Kingdom, is also the true original body of Gu Yingying. She has never even had a life without a life, so where does she get her fate?
"What does this have to do with you framing me?" Yingying interrupted Zhao Shi's words.
Zhao Shi sighed lowly: "Do you have to understand what I said so well?"
"Li Huaixu means that whoever you marry is the next emperor of the Northern Region Kingdom. This emperor is not decided by my father, but by you."
This is why Emperor Wucheng has always indulged Yingying. Yingying was stunned for a while because of Zhaoshi's words. She couldn't help but remember that Emperor Wucheng asked her three times and four times whether she liked Qin Rong or Zhaoshi, and her various strange attitudes towards her in her previous life.
She guessed something for a long time, but she didn't expect that the answer would be such a ridiculous ending.
"...This is too ridiculous." Yingying couldn't believe that Emperor Wucheng could actually believe Li Huaixu's words.
Prince Zhaoshi also laughed. He smiled very coldly and gently, and whispered: "It's indeed ridiculous."
It is so ridiculous that he can't get to the eyes of his father no matter what he does. Whether the prince is abolished or retained depends entirely on whether he can marry Gu Yingying.
"That's why you thought of using that method to marry me?" Now, Yingying doesn't understand what else she doesn't understand.
Prince Zhaoshi nodded, and soon thought that Yingying could not see him at all. It would be better if she couldn't see him. If she couldn't see him, she wouldn't know how embarrassed he was at this time. Many words were easy to put aside and say it.
"I know I'm very despicable, and I admit that I really wanted to destroy your reputation at that time, but I, Jing Zhaoshi, swear that I really didn't think about touching you. I just wanted my father to misunderstand that we were both. Ran, and then take the opportunity to marry you."
As early as Zhaoshi, when the prince planned to do this, he had already thought of a way out for Yingying.
He would marry her, and would indulge Yingying to let her find a man after marriage. When he kept the position of the Eastern Palace and successfully ascended the throne, if Yingying did not want to be the queen, he would write an edict to explain Yingying's innocence, saying that she was a hero who helped him seize the throne, and then give her the title of eldest princess for her to squander. With his status at that time, he could snatch any man Yingying wanted for her.
"I didn't lie to you. I really found a sachet to relieve your lover's pain. It's just that it's not the one I gave you."
Prince Zhaoshi originally wanted to secretly replace the sachet after the plan was completed, but he did not expect that it would end like this. Now the disaster has already happened. He took out a sachet from his arms and threw it at Yingying's feet, without explaining it.
Yingying sat without moving and did not pick up the sachets on the ground. She thought of a question: "Does Qin Rong know what you said...?"
"Do you think he doesn't know?"
Zhao Shi's tone was difficult to tell: "I'm afraid he knew earlier than I did."
"My third brother has always liked to play with people's hearts. Anyone who he targets can't escape his palms."
Yingying naturally knew this.
Zhao Shi's answer was as expected by Yingying, but she felt uncomfortable when she heard it.
I think it was because the windows and doors in the house were too tightly closed and hot. After having enough of this dim environment, Yingying wanted to leave.
"I'm leaving."
Standing up, Yingying saw the curtains in the inner room slightly moving, and a blurred figure appeared. Zhao Shi did not approach, he just stood a few steps away at Yingying and looked at her, breathing heavily and unable to see her expression, but she was inexplicably pitiful.
It seemed as if Yingying had stepped on something at her feet, and she lowered her eyes and found that it was the small and beautiful sachet.
"Don't think that I can forgive you if you say so much." Yingying said softly, and she could hear it when she knew the sign.
Although the truth was revealed, Yingying still concealed something from Zhao Shi when she knew Zhao. After all, a person as arrogant as him would not use such a means if he was not forced to go to the point of no way out.
Yingying didn't know what Zhao Shi was carrying when she did all this. From the perspective of the victim, she had no reason to think about it for him, but she still picked up the sachet on the ground. If she didn't forgive her, she didn't need to be in trouble with herself.
No more said anything, Yingying picked up the sachet and didn't look at Zhao Shi again. This closed room made people feel dry and upset, and Yingying's mouth and tongue were dry and sweating.
When she pushed open the door, a clear light blew, and Yingying took a breath of air and felt more comfortable. She stepped out of the door with her right foot, and when her left foot fell, she called her mutely when she heard the inside of the room: "Yingying."
Sorry, the three words fell to the ground, accompanied by the heavy sound of the door closing.
Yingying looked up at the sky. The setting sun dyed half of the sky red. Before she knew it, the sun was about to set.
Yingying still felt hot, so she did not go back to the room, but walked to the edge of the pool. She took off her shoes and stuck her feet into the water. The cold water filled Yingying's calves, and her wet skirt floated on the water like a flower.
I didn't have a good rest last night. Yingying came out of Zhaoshi and felt physically and mentally exhausted, so she leaned back and lay on the ground.
The sun was getting lower and lower, and the red clouds spread in the sky like blood fusion with water. Yingying felt the cold pool water oozing her legs, but it could not dispel the dryness in her heart. Yingying closed her eyes and was about to jump into the pool, and footsteps approached. She opened her eyes and saw Qin Rong's face.
Chapter completed!