Manifest Marriage I

At the end of May, the rain fell on the ground reluctantly, and accompanied by the night wind, it slanted spring.

The trees in the courtyard are vigorously defending their territory, and the flowers in the flower garden are swaying and swaying beautifully. The fragrance of flowers, grasses and trees, and earth are mixed and blended into the silent and noisy night.

The rain was lingering.

The silver screen exploded, and Lianzhou coughed hastily, actually choked on it.

The fresh and ripe fruit pulp was wrapped in a stream of boiling hotness that rushed into her throat, she was so choked that tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, she was happy in her heart, but her white and tender skin was flushed.

This is so embarrassing.She didn't dare to look directly into Zhou Jing's eyes, she lowered her head in embarrassment, and the tip of her tongue brushed the corner of her lips, sweet.

"Zhou Zhou is so stupid, it's just a cup of fruit juice, but he can still choke on it?" Her voice became hoarse, her eyes rolled, she looked at the shy girl who was trying to hide with a half smile, and asked, "Is it delicious?" ?”

Lianzhou made a fool of herself, and she didn't plan to entangle her on this issue, but she was extremely ashamed. Since she entered the academy, devoted herself to her studies, and was influenced by sages' articles all day long, her temperament became more and more stable, otherwise she would not Being teased by Day Scene for being a nerd.

I'm used to taking it lightly, but I didn't expect to stumble on this matter and be teased by the person I like.She knew she was clumsy and dared not raise her head.

Zhou Jing looked at her lazily, and comforted her softly: "No problem, this is the same as drinking, it requires drinking capacity, try more, practice makes perfect."

Lianzhou lowered her head and still responded, a hot feeling appeared in her throat, even the juice she swallowed in her stomach was secretly boiling, she raised her eyelids with a look of being wronged, and she hesitated to speak to her beloved See.

She didn't speak, but her eyes were like water, and her red lips were covered with a layer of clear water. Zhou Jing's heart was beating wildly. Seeing that her eye circles were turning red with grievance, he quickly grabbed her by the shoulder: "What's wrong?"

In exchange for an increasingly angry look.

"Zhou Zhou?" Zhou Jing also said that she was annoyed by being teased by him because of her thin skin.

It turns out that Ah Jing also has moments of being stupid.Lianzhou sighed softly, and blamed her for being too seductive, and slowly opened her lips: "I was burned..."

Zhou Jing was dumbfounded, only belatedly remembered that Chang Ye's fire element origin was leaked uncontrollably by her, and raised her jaw nervously: "Let me see..."

The girl shyly opened her beautiful and soft red lips, and her little lilac tongue shyly hid inside.At first she was too shy, but slowly, she watched this man concentrate on examining her minor burns, and her heart became unbearably warm.

In fact, she was being coquettish.

It was the first time I did this, and I didn't do it well. I didn't even hold a cup of freshly brewed juice, and I was a little embarrassed.She is indeed very young in this matter, but she doesn't want to hear Ah Jing making fun of her hoarsely, she wants to see that she cares about her, wants her to see that she has worked very hard.

She wanted a compliment.

"Fortunately, it's okay..." Zhou Jing's eyes were dark, and Chang Ye's original power walked gently around the girl's limbs along her wrist. She let go of her hand, and met a pair of misty apricot eyes.

Lianzhou hugged her timidly: "Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Zhou Jing smiled: "Why not? I like Zhou Zhou to drink the fruit pulp I brewed for you. The fruit pulp is sweet and mellow. Drinking it will be good for your body and mind."

She was so shameless, Lianzhou was amused by her, put her arms around her neck and said: "Ah Jing likes me more than I imagined."

"So? Do you want to like Ah Jing too?"

"Is it... like that?"

"Hmm..." Zhou Jing stroked her beautiful hair: "I give Zhou Zhou warm and sweet fruit pulp, and Zhou Zhou should give me a handful of soft and clean water. When the sky is dry and things are dry, water can extinguish fire. A bit thirsty……"

It was raining outside the window, how did she open her eyes and say the words "the sky is dry and the things are dry", Lianzhou smiled and pinched her face: "It's all nonsense..."

The masters are sweet and "reciprocal", and the cooks guarding the back kitchen prepare the ingredients for dinner early and dare not neglect.All kinds of meat and vegetables are combined, which can be described as dedicated.

The two had been arguing until dinner was useless, the woman was worried about their health, so she came to the back kitchen specially.Seeing her, the cooks endured surprise and accepted every dish for her, striving to get her satisfaction.

The head of the family treats her like a mother. During the first three months of her marriage, the wife was still in charge of the central government. She knew the weight of her every word.

She was extremely orderly in her speech and took great care in her meals.Gradually, the note of flower sleeves

The mind is attracted, and this is the mood to look at the other person's face.

When I saw it, I was surprised.

There is a bit of a shadow of a tree in the eyebrows and eyes.

The last time Xuantian Temple came to exorcise evil spirits, and when the sky was full of stars, the master of Fanxing Temple took his younger brothers and sisters away to avoid Ah Jing's edge. This time they met, she and Fan Mu said a few words together.

I still remember when we were in love at the beginning, and when we met her, Fanmu always had endless things to say.She thought she and Fanmu could go on forever.Unexpectedly, a word of righteousness cut off Fanmu's infatuation with her.

There is no reason.It is easy to fall in love, but difficult to stay together.

For these years, Fanmu has been her Taoist master in Xuantian Temple and practiced Taoism hard, and spent her time in the day mansion, managing the family business for the day scene.

The cook explained the efficacy of each dish in an orderly manner. The woman came back to her senses and did not want to look at her face again. The past is over and Fanmu is "dead".She shouldn't dwell on the past.Can't be the person who stays with her forever, Fanmu is still her friend.But she won't put her heart on her anymore.

Love is inherently ethereal. In this life, some people can catch it, some people can't catch it, and some people have it and then lose it. Only when there is no trace of love, is liberation.

She should let herself go.

When the small dishes were brought to her eyes, she raised her eyebrows, but she couldn't hear what the cook said, and what she agreed to inadvertently.

The cook looked at her in embarrassment. She didn't know why she refused to try the dish. She was about to withdraw her hand in embarrassment, and Hua Xiu took the plate she wanted to withdraw: "A new dish? I'll try it..."

She was willing to taste it and gave the chef a face. The young cook smiled gratefully.

This smile is not like Fanmu again.

The food that came into her mouth was surprisingly delicious and tender, with a layer of sweetness on the outside, and a bit of refreshing sourness when she tasted it carefully. Based on her understanding of A Jing, she would definitely like this dish when presented.After tasting it, look at the appearance and nod: "What's in it? Berries?"

Her sense of taste is different from ordinary people, and the cook was surprised: "You are the first to taste it."

The berries picked in the mountains are delicious, but if you want to use them in dishes to make delicacies that no one from aristocratic families have ever tasted, it will be a test of cooking skills and mind.

The woman glanced at her: "That's right, just wait for the reward from the Patriarch."

A smile spread across the cook's face.

"You look young."

"Yes, there are three out of twenty slaves." Compared with women, they are indeed not big.

"23, why did you become a cook in the mansion? I haven't seen you before, and you are newly recruited this year?"

The two talked back and forth in the back kitchen, mostly women asked questions and the cook answered.It can be regarded as a rare scene in the mansion for many years.

The spring rain takes a break...

The windows of the inner room were reopened.

The smell of soil floated in, and the moist water vapor intertwined repeatedly, Lian Zhou slowed down for a long time before there was clarity in his eyes.She thought, compared with Ah Jing, her studies were really poor.

"I asked the servants to set the meal." Zhou Jing sat on the edge of the bed and helped her sit up, and took half of her shoulders to make her lean into his arms.

Lian Zhou responded softly, closed his eyes, feeling powerless.

Zhou Jing was used to her delicacy, so he didn't speak, and listened to the wind outside quietly with her.

He was really hungry after all the fuss, and even though eating at this time was considered supper, Lianzhou sat obediently at the dining table under the persuasion of his sweetheart.

The terrible thing was that there were actually two cups of freshly squeezed juice on the table.

A look of joy floated between Zhou Jing's brows, and he looked at the girl with ruddy cheeks: "Zhou Zhou, drink."

Lianzhou scolded her shyly, thinking, did you drink too little?

For the first time, she bent her body to serve someone wholeheartedly, full of joy and shame.After all, she was choked up a bit. What she had learned in the picture book and experienced in person earlier, her pitiful little experience made her a disadvantaged teacher.

Seeing Zhou Jing holding a lamp towards her at this moment, she didn't want to show weakness, her red lips touched lightly, someone approached her and asked in a low voice: "Which one is better?"

Lianzhou's eyelashes trembled, and for a moment she really wanted to gag her mouth.Putting down the juice, she said softly: "You can't talk about food..." This means to eat well.

After admiring the scene of the beauty's shyness for a few moments, Dayi Jing picked up his chopsticks and served her dishes quietly.

The new dish that the cook tried was indeed rewarded, because not only Zhou Jing liked it, but Lian Zhou also liked it.Having received double rewards from master and son, he applied to leave the mansion the next day and went back home.

At that time, it was a very different feeling for Lianzhou when the head of the family accompanied his wife who had a small appetite for a walk in the dark courtyard.With a smile on her lips, her eyebrows and eyes curved, she walked a few steps and turned to look at the person who lit the lantern for her: "Ah Jing?"

"Ok?"

"A Jingjing?"

Zhou Jing followed suit with a soft voice: "Zhou Zhou..."

"A Jingjing is mine now." The girl said this solemnly, her eyes filled with sweetness.Even if she didn't take the last step, Ah Jing was hers.

She was so excited that she didn't want to go to bed, she wanted to hold her hand and stroll around the courtyard, even if the sky lit up with stars, even if the Changye star was hanging high above her head.

Ah Jing will not return to Xinghe, she is her home, the destination she wants most.

Before the flowers and under the moon, looking at her bright and charming face, with bright eyes in the daytime scene, I thought: If you don't kiss her in this situation, it will be a disappointment.

Thinking of this, she hugged the girl's waist.

The starry sky is vast.

The imperial palace under the starry sky, the palaces are row upon row, and the precious flower species in the imperial garden have been baptized by rain, and they are full of vitality under the bright moon and stars.

After Li Shiqi received the letter, he was surprised for a few breaths.What should come will always come, there is nothing to be afraid of.She wanted to be with Duanduan, even if the emperor's brother objected, even if her father came back from the dead, nothing could stop her.

She folded the letter and put it in her sleeve pocket. Thinking that the emperor brother had already seen her heart, she stepped out of the palace gate and walked towards the imperial study room unswervingly.

Imperial study...

While waiting, Li Chengsi drank two cups of tea one after another. The tea was warm, but his heart was cold.

Brother and sister had a frank and honest talk, and the result of the talk determined whether he would lose his most beloved imperial sister in the future.

He doesn't want to lose.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Seventeen has arrived."

"Let's all back down..."

The palace people came out one after another, and the imperial study room fell into silence.Li Shiqi stepped over the threshold and called "Brother Huang" nonchalantly.

"Sit down, Seventeen. Let's have a good talk."

Li Shiqi trembled, and the depth of Brother Huang's words aroused the sadness in her heart. Of course, she knew what kind of ending tonight would usher in, and she had to choose between Duan Duan and Brother Huang.She doesn't want to choose, if she has to choose, she wants to be honest.

Brother Huang is accompanied by others, loved by others, accompanied by Jiangshan, supported and loyal by all civil and military officials, but she and Duanduan just want to be together.

"Send her..."

"She's very good..." Li Shiqi rushed to express his feelings before he could find fault: "I want to stay with her forever."

Li Chengsi originally thought of being Huairou, but she was aroused by her resolute and unrepentant tone: "Stay together forever? Two women? You are not afraid of being laughed at by the world if it spreads!"

"They laugh at theirs, we live ours, they smile, we can live a life? Why, two women, this princess likes women, so does liking mean liking?"

The two brothers and sisters rushed out when they got angry, Li Qiqi frowned: "Brother Huang, you have been a man for too long, and you forgot that our mother is also a woman, you—"

"Presumptuous!" Li Chengsi smashed the inkstone: "You still dare to mention my mother to me? My mother must know that you are a good boy, so you don't want to hang out with a woman instead. I have already trained you!"

"She reprimanded me, but I still like what I like."

She didn't enter into oil and salt, she didn't feel panic, she was justified, the new emperor was so angry that his face darkened, and he thought to himself: Seventeen is really spoiled by him and the emperor.

Facing a spoiled child, he extinguished his anger, and said earnestly: "You said Shen Duan is good, but what can she give you? Can she give you both children or can she give you the highest honor?"

"she--"

"Listen to me first."

Li Shiqi shut up.

The new emperor earnestly persuaded: "The fact has to be reversed. She uses you to climb up step by step. You are the noble Seventeenth Royal Highness of the royal family, and I am my royal sister. You are greedy for a moment and I will tolerate you. What do you want?" I can tolerate you even if you play.

But that's before you get married.Your Royal Highness, who doesn't recruit a son-in-law?

Seventeen, Brother Huang doesn't want to get into trouble with you, do you know how sad I was when I found out that you had an affair with Shen Duan?

My imperial sister, the good imperial sister whom I have held in the palm of my hand for many years, was cheated out of her sincerity by a pious woman.

Before my mother left, you were the most worried thing. She took my hand and told me to protect you for a happy life. How could I not?And the father, the moment before the father got poisoned, he still mentioned you to me, and you were the last person he called when he passed away.

Li Shiqi, think about it with your conscience, do you have the heart to embarrass the emperor and disappoint the mother, queen, and father?You are His Royal Highness of Da Zhou and my younger sister, Li Chengsi, I will not allow you to marry a woman. "

After saying this, he waited for Seventeen to rage and play tricks on him, but he didn't.

After a long while, Li Shiqi sighed, and she unhurriedly spit out the words that had been brewed before coming here, her eyes were burning: "Brother Emperor, I am His Royal Highness Seventeen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I enjoy the same treatment as the prince. The emperor stood on the golden palace and promised all the officials! So I can't marry someone, if I want to get married, I will marry."

Li Chengsi never expected that he would be moved by affection, and Li Shiqi turned around and used his father's words to suppress him.

He laughed: "What absurd thing are you talking about? The father promised the princess to enjoy the treatment of a prince, and she can be a king and have a fief, but do you have the ability to govern the fief?

The emperor father said those words purely to make you happy, do you also take his old man's words of coaxing people seriously?Besides, as a woman, how can there be any reason to marry a woman? "

"Brother Huang, why are you so busy overturning his golden words when your father is driving west of Hebei?"

The atmosphere between the siblings was at a stalemate. Li Chengsi picked up the teacup in hand, took a sip of the herbal tea and put it down: "Shen Duan did teach you well, and you became smarter."

The words that the first emperor promised the princess to enjoy the treatment of the prince were indeed the words he regretted the most in his wise and mighty life.

Now being used by Li Shiqi as a shield, before she could take advantage of the victory to pursue her, the new emperor dropped the tea bowl: "Seventeen, don't force me."

Li Shiqi looked at the broken tea bowl on the ground and the tea splashed on the corner of his skirt, his eyes were dim: "I am not forcing the emperor, but the emperor is forcing me."

The fragility revealed in his eyebrows hurt Li Chengsi's heart. After a long time, he said in a deep voice, "It's not impossible for you to be with her..."

Li Shiqi raised his head suddenly!

"But if you want to marry, you will cut off your ridiculous idea of ​​becoming king, and have a son and a daughter with the son-in-law I chose for you. I will allow you to secretly raise Shen Duan in the backyard. The son-in-law doesn't dare to say too much."

"Brother Huang, you..." Li Shiqi's lips trembled. She didn't know where his terrible thoughts came from. She took two steps back: "This is not fair to Duan Duan, it is not fair to me, and it is even more unfair to the son-in-law. She is a perfect person, in this life, I will not marry unless she is the only one!"

There was a burst of dizziness in front of his eyes, and Li Chengsi was so angry that blood gushed out of his throat.

Blood splattered on the smooth white jade bricks, and Li Shiqi turned pale with shock: "Brother Huang!"

"You are with her...with her..." Xindi's fingers trembled, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes: "What a shame! How dare you—"

He frowned heavily, and was stimulated to temporarily forget that the person in front of him was his most beloved sister-in-law, and said coldly: "Promise me, otherwise..." He was cruel: "Otherwise, you will no longer be Your Highness Princess of the Great Zhou! "

"Brother Huang, don't be angry, Brother Huang, it's my fault..." Li Shiqi wiped the blood stains on his lips in a panic, and tears fell down when he heard this: "Okay, I will leave the palace tonight, and I won't see you, the emperor You don’t have to be so angry that you vomit blood.”

She cried sadly and walked away simply.

Li Chengsi watched her stepping out of the imperial study, her face pale as paper: "Come here, come here!"

The imperial eunuch walked in with small steps, and shouted in shock: "Your Majesty?!"

"I'm fine..." He was angry, his face looked scary: "Draft an order for me... abolish the position of His Highness Li Mingxi, and relegate him to... a commoner!"

"His Majesty!"

"Purpose!"

late at night...

Baihe Academy, a small courtyard.

There was a knock on the door, and the person lying on the couch stared blankly at the gauze above his head. It was difficult to sleep all night, and he hadn't rested yet.

Hearing the movement from outside, Shen Duan suddenly lifted the quilt and got out of bed to look.

The courtyard door opened, and Li Shiqi, who was crying like a cat, threw himself into her arms: "Duanduan..."

She cried heart-rendingly, Shen Duan's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously looked behind her.

There was no familiar maidservant behind her, she pursed her lips, as if she had expected the whole story, she bent down and carried him into the room.

Her worst fears still happened.

Shi Qi gave up everything for her.

The sharp pain spread in her heart, and she said softly, "Seventeen, I'm here. I'm here..."

"Duanduan!" Li Shiqi cried even harder.

This night, bittersweet.

Some people tasted the sweetest taste, and some people released the pain in tears.

dawn.All things renewed.

The author has something to say: Take peace of mind √ Don’t panic, Shi Qi and Duan Duan are not as cruel as you think...