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Pei Xu stood up suddenly. He looked down at his wife's scattered long hair and said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid you have wanted to make peace with me for a long time."

"Zhao Zhen, that's my daughter too. You didn't even want to take her back to Beijing for burial, so you buried her alone in Bingzhou." His lips were pale and he stared down at his almond-shaped eyes, "Are you afraid of being discovered by me? "

Zhao Zhen hid it from him because he was afraid that he would lose his mind. He didn't expect that he would be afraid of everything.

She raised her eyes and said, "Are you planting spies around me? It turns out that female officer is yours."

"So what, you also planted an spy around me."

Pei Xu lowered his eyelashes and felt a dull pain in his heart. The first time he noticed Zhao Zhen's eyeliner, he only found it interesting. He deliberately walked in front of the spy and said that he missed the princess. It didn't take long for the eyeliner to turn to the dark place.

That female officer was just sent by him to protect Zhao Zhen's safety. She only took orders from him and had nothing to do with the rest of the Pei family.

Unexpectedly, the man in front of him was so straightforward. Zhao Zhen choked and said calmly: "It's not just your Pei family's men who are besieging Bingzhou, but also the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. What's the difference between killing without permission and treason?"

"Your Majesty has given permission, and I will act accordingly."

Her eyes suddenly widened. The person in front of her was behind her back and conspired with the puppet emperor they supported.

Sensing Zhao Zhen's ups and downs, Pei Xu explained: "In this way, your hands are still clean."

Zhao Zhen tended to cooperate with the gentry. Pei Xu chose another path when he massacred the gentry in Bingzhou and appointed Xu Youzhen as the new governor.

He can fall out with the nobles and be ruthless, but Zhao Zhen cannot. The eldest princess's biggest trump card is the support from the Jingyi nobles. If the city is massacred in the name of Zhao Zhen, her people will inevitably die.

As soon as Pei Xu finished speaking, he saw the woman in front of him suddenly clenching the bed curtains and vomiting blood.

His expression suddenly changed, and he leaned over to hug her, lifting her chin with rough fingers, scarlet blood dripping on the back of his hand.

The person in his arms was light and his lips moved: "How can I not be sad that the child is gone? I'm just afraid that you will lose your temper with the people who serve me."

Zhao Zhen closed his eyes, "I had known today..."

She paused for a while and said: "I shouldn't have fallen in love with you. As a qualified regent princess, I should have supported my second brother, then crossed the river and demolished the bridge to kill you, and then fight to the death with Mr. Pei, instead of like this."

Speaking of allies, the people under Pei and the eldest princess each disliked each other, and their behavior styles were very different. As for political enemies, no pair of political enemies would linger on the couch all night long, talking to each other.

Pei Xu was silent, just like when he was a boy sitting by the plum forest in the East Palace, listening to her quietly.

After the doctor prescribed a few medicines, Zhao Zhen said calmly: "I'm going to Jingzhou."

The man who looked like a stone sculpture finally moved, and his voice was dry: "I don't agree, Zhao Zhen, if you want to leave me alone in Chang'an, don't even think about it."

"It's only half a year."

Her cousin has been helping to take care of Jingyi. Yizhou produces salt and iron, has natural dangers as a barrier, rich land, and Jingzhou is a battleground for military strategists.

Her cousin wrote several times, asking her to come to Xiangyang in person, otherwise she would have to sit far away in Chang'an and it would be difficult to convince the public.

On the day Zhao Zhen left Beijing, Pei Xu's face was as dark as water, and he grabbed her sleeve in full view of everyone.

He had tried everything these days, and he couldn't even step into Zhao Zhen's yard. It was a great mercy from her to come to see him off.

"I only played half of the pipa song you composed for me last time. I want to hear it all."

Pei Xu's throat moved slightly, and he didn't feel there was anything wrong with making this request in front of everyone.

"can."

Zhao Zhen nodded and asked him to get into the carriage with her. After playing a song with her pipa in her arms, she said, "It's getting late. The Prime Minister can go back."

Just three days ago, Pei Xu added a prime minister to his list of official titles.

The emperor was worried about his sister, but he believed that Pei, as the head of the noble clan, needed to take into account his reputation to a certain extent, so that he could remain a powerful minister and would not seek power or usurp the throne.

The emperor turned to Pei Xu without hesitation and took the initiative to make him prime minister.

Zhao Zhen's power in the central government was weakened, and he was more eager to lay a solid foundation in Jingyi. At the same time, he felt resentful at being betrayed by his brother and husband.

Pei Xu hated the emperor's sudden convulsion so much that even his tribe thought he was colluding with the emperor. What's more, Zhao Zhen, let alone the courtyard, couldn't get close to the princess's mansion for three days.

At this moment, when he heard the word "Prime Minister" from Zhao Zhen's mouth, his eyelids twitched, and he suddenly hugged her tightly and murmured in a low voice: "Zhen'er, that is the emperor's own idea and has nothing to do with me. From now on, I can do anything you want." OK, don’t leave me."

"I said, I will only go for half a year."

"Then after you come back half a year ago, will you still treat me the same way you did before?" After he finished speaking, he noticed that the woman in his arms froze for a moment, and felt sad, "Zhen'er doesn't like me anymore."

A very determined tone.

After waiting for a long time, seeing that Zhao Zhen had no intention of denying it, Pei Xu felt that his internal organs were being twisted with sharp knives.

When Zhao Zhen struggled to break free from his imprisonment and looked at him, he suddenly froze on the spot.

The man in front of her looked at her quietly, tears sliding down his face, and soon they fell to the ground and disappeared, as if it was just an illusion.

When she was young, she asked Pei Xu why he had so few expressions on his face. He said that Pei raised his children to be indifferent to joy and anger.

Just as Zhao Zhen was about to speak, he remembered that he had taken the initiative to send troops to merge with the state.

"Prime Minister Pei, go back."

He lowered his head and tripped on a stone on the ground when leaving the carriage. He stumbled and looked back, but he didn't see Zhao Zhen's shadow.

After saying goodbye that time, Zhao Zhen seemed to have made up his mind to break up with him without even a family letter.

Half a year passed, but she didn't come back at all. She wrote to the emperor, saying that she wanted to stay longer.

In the pavilion of the princess mansion, the young doctor who came to see the doctor couldn't bear it and took the cup from the man lying on the ground.

The man was as drunk as a puddle of mud, squinting at the birds in the distance.

"Zhen'er, Zhen'er..."

Xi Mian rolled his eyes, and since he got on Pei's pirate ship, his hair has turned completely white. Taking advantage of Pei Xu's inability to remember anything tomorrow, he cursed loudly: "I vomited blood just last month after drinking, and now I'm doing it again." Drink it, and drink it specifically during the rest period, so that you don’t bother the officials, just listen to me, right?"

After saying that, he seemed to accept his fate and asked the servant to pass the sobering soup to Pei Xu and wait for him to wake up and take his pulse.

After several times in a row, Xi Mian's patience was worn out, and his words of scolding Prime Minister Pei became longer and longer.

"The eldest princess went in and out with the governor in Jingzhou. She is a serious cousin. Yushu Linfeng is very capable, which is not comparable to some drunkards. No wonder he can spend the night in the princess's mansion."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that the man lying down seemed to be severely stimulated, and his eyes were much clearer.

Xi Mian's scalp was numb, and when he was about to plead guilty, he suddenly heard Pei Xu's cold voice: "Get out, or I will throw you into the river to feed the fish today."

He ran away as if he had been granted amnesty, and vaguely heard the wine jar being smashed to pieces.

With a "clang", a jade pendant fell to the ground and was stained with soft spring mud. Zhao Zhen leaned over to pick it up and said to the tall and tall man: "What did my cousin just say?"

"Is it true that Your Highness is leaving in a few days?" Jingzhou Governor glanced at the jade pendant and said with a smile, "Your Highness seems to treasure this very much."

"Given by Prime Minister Pei."

Zhao Zhen's answer was brief, and he obviously didn't want to talk too much. The man opposite him tried to test it: "Jade of this color is indeed rare, but I happen to have one here with a smoother texture. I wonder if Your Highness is willing to accept it."

"No, two jade pendants are too much."

"Your Highness, there is no need to worry. It's just that there are rumors that the relationship between Your Highness and the Prime Minister is not good, and I was too talkative for a while."

Zhao Zhen was silent for a moment, then sneered as if he was self-deprecating: "Do you all think so? But it's no wonder that I haven't mentioned it back for so long."

"It's not because of this matter." The governor's expression was subtle, "Prime Minister Pei was too ruthless in Bingzhou and the court, and he and His Highness were obviously not on the same journey. If it hadn't been for the lack of reconciliation, others would have guessed that you two were incompatible. "

Zhao Zhen lowered his long eyelashes and said, "If all the emotions in the world are reasonable, there will definitely be many more happy things."

If she were not a princess, or if Pei Xu was a member of an ordinary noble family, she could still hold Pei Xu's arm and talk nonsense every day.

They can be completely honest with each other without any reservation, and they are so intimate that they are like mortise and tenon joints that fit together tightly. They live and die together in the same place. They are very complete.

It's a pity that such perfection is destined not to belong to them.

Zhao Zhen's embroidered shoes were stained with spring mud. She glanced at them and sighed: "I can't wash them clean."

*

On the day the eldest princess returned to Beijing, the originally sunny weather suddenly changed. When she got out of the car, her attendants quickly held an umbrella for her, and raindrops fell, and everything in front of her eyes was completely white.

The summer rain was coming in a hurry, so she sat in the front hall for a while. When the rain stopped and she returned to the courtyard, she saw a man lying next to the stone table. His whole body was soaked by the rain, and his hair crown fell into pieces on the ground, like ink. The hair was wrapped in moisture and pressed against his back.

Zhao Zhen remembered that Pei Xu didn't like drinking, so he frowned and stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder.

When she saw the haggard face, before she could react, she was held by him and sat on the stone table. The man's tall figure covered her, his green stubble rubbed her cheek, and his rough hands reached into the hem of her skirt.

Zhao Zhen smelled the strong smell of alcohol and knew that this person was drunk, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to force her in the yard if he had the guts to do so.

"Pei Mingze, release your hands."

The man on her body turned a deaf ear and said nothing, burying himself in her chest and panting like a dog sniffing bones.

The other people in the yard had already left in a very obedient manner. Seeing that he was getting more aggressive, Zhao Zhen slapped him without hesitation.

There was a crisp sound, and young Prime Minister Pei blushed on his left face. He blinked and looked at the person in front of him.

The girl's figure in reality and memory overlapped and staggered repeatedly. The only thing that could be confirmed was that every appearance was his favorite.

Those phoenix eyes were slightly bright, like stars. His throat was tight and he said, "Zhen'er is willing to touch me?"