The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

"Ma'am, are you looking for me?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind.

The traces of tears from worry on Li Qingqian's face had not yet disappeared. She slowly turned around and saw Shen Changyun appear in front of her.

"Madam, you..."

Before Shen Changyun could finish his words, Li Qingqian immediately threw herself into his arms, her shoulders trembling and her voice tinged with tears.

"Where have you been? They all said something happened to you. I was so worried..."

Shen Changyun gently wiped the tears from her face and was deeply moved when he heard her words of concern for him.

"Okay, okay, stop crying. Look, I'm fine. Your husband is so strong and powerful, how could he get into trouble so easily?"

Li Qingqian was still a little worried, so she pulled him to a place with fewer people and checked him up and down. She heaved a sigh of relief when she found that there were indeed no obvious injuries.

Then his eyes drifted to a certain place, and he coughed lightly and said, "I heard that you were injured there. Will it be difficult for you to have children in the future?"

This is what I heard in my previous life.

But when she got closer and smelled Shen Changyun, she found that he did not smell of alcohol.

Shen Changyun's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He gritted his teeth and said in a calm voice, "Whether my husband is injured or not, you will know tomorrow if you try it, madam."

Li Qingqian curled the corners of his mouth. After hearing what he said, it should be okay.

"You, are you feeling unwell anywhere? Can I take you to see Ah Ning?"

Shen Changyun sighed and said, "I'm fine, really fine, I promise you."

After saying that, he remembered something else, "Oh, right, didn't you go to the palace? If you come out casually like this, if His Majesty knows, he will punish you. Aren't you afraid?"

Li Qingqian sniffed, "I was afraid at first, but I always felt that something big was going to happen tonight. So I lied to the Fifth Princess and said I was out for the Lantern Festival, but in fact I came to see if you were okay. I was more afraid of you getting hurt than being punished by His Majesty."

After that, she added, "But you don't have to worry. I have already discussed it with the Crown Princess. The Fifth Princess has been sent back to the palace. She has been staying with me these days. No one in the palace will notice that she is missing."

Although he took advantage of the Fifth Princess' trust this time, Li Qingqian was also worried that the Fifth Princess would be punished along with himself, so he had arranged everything from the beginning.

"Okay, since you're okay, then go back home quickly. I should also hurry back to the palace before I'm discovered."

After saying that, Li Qingqian walked towards the palace carriage that the Crown Princess had prepared for her outside Changming Tower.

After saying goodbye to Song Ningyan who was waiting inside, Li Qingqian got on the carriage heading to the palace.

With the collaboration of Li Qingqian and the Crown Prince and his wife, and the fact that they managed to sneak back into the palace before the palace gates were locked, Emperor Hexi and the Queen thought that Li Qingqian and Jiang Huairong had been whispering in the room all day.

And at this time, Shen Changyun brought back news that was even more important than this matter.

Emperor Hexi was looking at the thief he had captured and had no time to notice that Jiang Huairong and Li Qingqian had sneaked out of the palace.

When Li Qingqian returned to the yard where she lived with Jiang Huairong, she found him standing in front of her door, staring at her coldly without saying much.

When she looked at the other person, Jiang Huairong retracted his gaze, turned around and went into the house, closing the door heavily.

Li Qingqian sighed in her heart. She had indeed taken advantage of the Crown Princess's feelings for the Fifth Princess being locked up in the palace. She felt deeply guilty.

But in addition to feeling guilty, she recalled the secret about the fifth princess that she had discovered recently.

She knew very well that she had to stop the Fifth Princess's thoughts at this time, otherwise it would only cause more trouble in the future.

Li Qingqian looked up at the bright moon. Tomorrow, she would be the wife of the Crown Prince of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion.

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On the second day of the second month, the dragon raises its head, and everything goes well.

Li Qingqian got up early in the morning and washed and dressed with the help of Yunyi Yunshang and several palace maids.

Fengyi Palace became bustling with activity since daybreak. The daughter of an official was married off according to the rules for a legitimate princess, with the empress personally delivering her dowry. This kind of honor was probably the first of its kind in the capital, not to mention the entire country, since the founding of Dawei.

Li Qingqian has this honor.

The wedding dress was made of crimson snow-melting satin. This kind of fabric was regarded as a treasure of Dawei because it was warm in winter and cool in summer. Wearing clothes made of snow-melting satin in winter, one would not feel a bit of cold even if there was heavy snow.

Although February is not as cold as winter, it is still as cold as spring.

The wedding dress was embroidered with a golden pattern of a flying phoenix. Li Qingqian's skin was fair to begin with, and wearing this red wedding dress made her skin look even fairer.

The queen personally tied her hair into a bun and put on a golden crown inlaid with mutton-fat jade.

"This high bun means that Ah Qian is no longer a little girl, but a legitimate wife of the Crown Prince," the Queen said with a gentle smile, "I only have one biological daughter, Huairong, but her health has not been good, and I am reluctant to let her marry far away. This is the first time I am sending dowry to a young girl."

Li Qingqian felt a little emotional. In her previous life, she had chosen Jiang Lin. Perhaps she was destined to stand on the opposite side of the royal family from the very beginning.

Therefore, she was destined not to receive the kindness of the Queen and the Crown Princess in her previous life.

She vaguely remembered that after Jiang Lin ascended the throne, she went to visit the queen who was then the queen mother but was imprisoned.

Not for any other reason, just because the person in front of him is indeed a worthy opponent.

When he saw the Queen Mother for the last time, she also smiled at him with relief and said, "Li Qingqian, you are indeed a good opponent. If we didn't have these conflicts at the beginning, perhaps we could have become good friends regardless of age difference."

Li Qingqian smiled from the bottom of her heart at the Queen's smile in the bronze mirror. This time, maybe they could really become friends.

The queen straightened her wedding dress, covered her with the veil herself, and held her hand as they walked out.

Today is a big wedding day for the Mansion of the Duke of Zhenguo and the Mansion of the Left Prime Minister Li. Emperor Hexi specially allowed the court to take a day off today. He and Li Zhengkang, who came to see his daughter off to get married, were already standing outside the Chenghua Hall.

Chenghua Hall is usually where the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace gets married or where princesses are sent to marry. Li Zhengkang never expected that Emperor Hexi would graciously allow Li Qingqian to marry from here.

But he didn't have the extra time to think about anything else at the moment.

Although he mostly used his children, his feelings for his original wife were not fake. He and Li Qingqian's biological mother were a young couple who were married by the previous emperor, and Cheng had only this one daughter, who looked somewhat like her back then.

Now that Li Qingqian is getting married, it would be a lie for Li Zhengkang to say that he has no feelings at all, and a thin layer of mist appeared in his eyes.

According to the rules, Li Qingqian had to kneel down and thank the emperor and empress first, and then bid farewell to his biological father Li Zhengkang.

After completing these rituals, Li Qingqian was helped by the queen's dowry nanny to sit on the bridal sedan.

At the same time, the Li family was busy preparing to send Li Shuyue to get married.

The Li family married off two daughters at the same time, which was not only very lively, but also the contrast was still very tragic.

Compare with the first one: Dowry.

Li Qingqian's dowry, all added up to about 300 sets, plus the 188 sets of betrothal gifts sent by the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Every box hung with red silk was made of huanghuali wood, and they were all packed full without a single space.

In addition, since I was getting married in the palace, His Majesty and the Queen also bestowed me with one hundred sets of gold, silver and jewelry.

At first glance, it is all red. To say that it is ten miles of red is probably an understatement.

As the Liu family went bankrupt, Li Shuyue only had the dowry given by the old lady and the things Liu had prepared for her. She could barely get together 66 machines, not even a fraction of what Li Qingqian had, and half of them were even empty.

Contrast the second: the bride’s escort and wedding processions.

The Emperor and Empress had ordered Li Qingqian to get married, and she was sent out of the palace according to the rules for a legitimate princess.

The eaves of the sedan chair are more than five feet high, eight feet long, and more than four feet wide, and can accommodate six people. There are bead curtains hanging around, all of which are embroidered with colors. Various gods and auspicious animals are carved on the railings outside the eaves.

There were two pairs of people carrying the eaves of the sedan chair, a total of twelve people. There were eight boys and girls wearing golden hairpins on their heads, each holding eight square and round fans. Behind them were twenty palace maids in festive attire.

The procession from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to welcome the bride was so long that you could not see the beginning or the end.

Li Shuyue's bridal sedan was just an ordinary red one, without any carvings of phoenixes, and it was not a sedan chair carried by eight people.

Liu knew that all the people in this mansion had been replaced by Li Qingqian, and she didn't want these people to accompany the bride. However, the people from the Jiang family who came to welcome the bride were all hired temporarily, and one could tell at a glance who they were.

Compare with the third one: the groom.

Both the Duke of Zhenguo and the Duke of Zhenguo were outstanding men, and Shen Changyun's appearance and temperament were also the most extraordinary among the young masters of the Dawei family.

He was wearing a wedding gown made of melted snow satin today and a golden jade crown on his head. His bony hands were trembling slightly as he held the reins, as if he was a little nervous.

Riding a maroon Arabian horse, he walked at the front of the team, his handsome face filled with joy and excitement of marrying his bride.

Passersby watching the fun on the roadside couldn't help but laugh at him for being a groom for the first time. He seemed so nervous that tears welled up in his eyes.

Looking at Jiang Lin again, he originally had the appearance of a handsome scholar, and looked gentle and elegant.

But even though she was wearing a bright red wedding gown and sitting on a tall horse, the smile on her face did not reach her eyes.

It doesn't look like a newlywed wedding. If you don't know, you might think it's a funeral at home.