Jiang Qing

It was almost night, and Mei Shao and Zhao Jingning were still on their way into the palace.

Zhao Jingning looked at Mei Shao's pale face, and said guiltily, "Mei Xiang's injury hasn't healed yet, please run away with me for a long time."

Mei Shao, who had been thinking about things since getting in the carriage, finally couldn't help it after Zhao Jingning uttered, and asked directly, "What is the princess going to do when she enters the palace?"

"Brother Huang, please allow me to marry." Zhao Jingning smiled lightly, his eyes full of relief, "The prince of Liang Country wants me, so I can solve the siege of brother Huang in the past, so why not do it?"

"This matter is not as simple as the princess thought." Mei Shao scratched her hair irritably, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't been negligent for a while and fell into the villain's tricks, Beidi wouldn't be so passive."

"Since he is a traitor, he will always try his best to stop him. It's not Mei Xiang's fault." Zhao Jingning said softly, "Mei Xiang has already done enough for the Zhao family and the Li country, and I bear the name of the Zhao family. people have to do something."

"I'm not like Sister Huang. Sister Huang has been taught by her father and emperor since she was a child, and she has learned the principles of managing the world. I am different. I don't understand state affairs or politics, but I know that you need time. What Li Guo lacks most now is It's time." Zhao Jingning looked at Mei Shao and asked, "I don't need to know too much about the political affairs between you and the emperor, but I need to know how much time you need."

Mei Shao was taken aback for a moment, originally he thought that Zhao Jingning was Zhao Zhen's pampered daughter in the boudoir, just like what she said, she didn't know much about court affairs, but now after hearing these words, she felt that everyone usually ignored her and pampered her. There may not be a heart that sees through the world and understands human feelings in the boudoir.

But when she thought that her thoroughness was wronging herself, Mei Shao couldn't bear it again, "What do you want to know about this? With His Majesty here, the princess doesn't need to marry."

Zhao Jingning pursed his lips and softened his words, "All this time, Brother Huang has shielded me from the ups and downs outside. I can't hide in the palace wall for a lifetime, and I will grow up. When I was recruiting relatives, I even said stupid things to Huang Jie, saying that if I want to come out of Ping in the future, I will have a look, such stupid things actually happened when I was very young."

"Mei Xiang probably doesn't remember. When Mei Xiang was a teenager, he often brought some gadgets from the world to present to the imperial concubine. At that time, my elder brother and I couldn't dote on them. I thought I didn't have my share in such gadgets." , but every time the imperial concubine gave it to the princes and princesses, she would never forget to give it to me. At that time, I was thinking about what the Li country outside Pingdu was like, and why there were so many interesting things."

"Later, Brother Huang seized the throne and placed me in Luofengzhai. Daoist Qingxuan didn't look like a man of the world, but I could feel the knight-errant heart in him, which must have been deeply branded in him when he was young. The traces on my body, so that even if I practiced in this boring and repetitive fast, I didn’t lose half of it. Originally, I wanted to see what it looked like outside Pingdu, but now I’m getting greedy, and I want to be with him Go see."

"I'm a selfish person. As a princess, I didn't put my family and country first. I asked him if he could take me away." Zhao Jingning smiled and shed a tear, "But now I got the answer, since there is no selfishness at all, then let’s be righteous. Things in the world are difficult, and there is always one.”

"Princess, this road is very difficult. Even if you choose a man in Pingdu at will, with His Majesty's support, you will be able to live a peaceful and peaceful life, but the country of Liang is not a pure land, and the princess will have to endure hardships when she gets married. .” Mei Shao persuaded earnestly.

"Forever..." Zhao Jingning lowered his head and smiled wryly, "Since ancient times, marriages and funerals have been inescapable. If it wasn't him, it doesn't matter who I marry."

"Princess……"

"I have made up my mind, and I will never change it." Zhao Jingning said softly but firmly, "I want Prime Minister Mei to accompany me into the palace, and I want Prime Minister Mei to help me convince the emperor. The courtiers are right. Mei Xiang is more qualified to propose a princess marriage."

"Your Majesty, he will not agree."

"He will. There are so many people who died on the front line. They are sons, brothers, and husbands. At this juncture, anyone's brothers and sisters can sacrifice, but the Zhao family can't?" Zhao Jingning said: "Brother Huang He will say yes."

She lifted the curtain of the carriage, and she was already under the palace.

The palace gate was hidden in the thick twilight, Zhao Jingning's car entered the palace overnight and did not come out until the evening of the next day.

Did not receive any news from the palace, the court stopped for three days, and the officials waited for the news in a panic outside the palace gate, until the evening of the third day, Bai Bingchen was called into the palace, but half an hour later, he came from the tight Walking out of the closed hall, behind him are the kneeling princess in the hall and the decadent king in the high position.

Bai Bingchen walked down the steps of the Chongming Hall step by step, looking at the courtiers kneeling on the ground. At this time, the sun was setting and the sun was setting, and he was stingy from the corner of his eyes and refused to sprinkle more in this gloomy hall. His mind skipped Zhao Zhen's tired face With Zhao Jingning's firm eyes, thousands of unspeakable thoughts disturbed his heart, and finally poured into his throat and spit out from his lips, just a short sentence to the Minister of Rites.

"The Ministry of Rituals has prepared the regulations, and His Majesty approves that Princess Jingning will choose a date for marriage."

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The marriage was settled, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the flames of war in the far north also stopped for the time being, Liangguo frequently sent envoys to urge the marriage, but Zhao Jingning delayed and stopped them for various reasons.

All the envoys sent by Liangguo had received the princess's face. Either Zhao Jingning disliked the emerald water color in the dowry gift, or the few nuns sent to welcome the gift did not have auspicious faces. After going to Liangguo to follow her, it dragged on for more than two months. It was not until the autumn wind raised various regulations that she barely caught the princess's eyes. The Ministry of Rites chose a few good days for her to choose from. The big wedding on September 23 has been finalized, and the princess will be ready to get married from Pingdu at the latest at the beginning of September, with red makeup all the way until she gets married in Yanzhou.

Zhao Zhen, who usually loves her the most, didn't even show his face during the two months of wedding preparations. He just acquiesced that the Ministry of Rites followed her wishes. Until the day of the wedding, Emperor Jia didn't show up at the palace either. In the end, the two prime ministers led all the officials to send Zhao Jingning away to marry.

As for the entourage who married with her, except for the theater troupe in her house, and she personally asked Zhao Zhen to ask Master Qingxuan to be her entourage all the way north, Zhao Jingning didn't even bring a single maid, all of them According to the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites, bring the manpower.

Zhao Jingning was dressed in a wedding gown, with a golden crown on top, looking back deeply at the palace gate he stepped out of, at the officials who came to see him off, and finally slowly moved his gaze up to the bright yellow color on the city wall.

After all, Zhao Zhen couldn't hold back and came to see her off. He looked at her from a distance alone, and the distance blurred their vision of each other. Zhao Zhen suddenly seemed to see Zhao Jingning running from this door to her. own appearance.

It was this door, because Zhao Jingning was taken back from the palace because of the death of his mother and concubine, Zhao Zhen waited in front of this door, watching the little fan looking at him from afar, and after taking two hesitant steps, Running and throwing herself into his arms, calling him "Brother", it was also this door, after Zhao Jingning came back from Luofengzhai after the King Jing Rebellion ended, Zhao Zhen was also waiting in front of this door, she still trotted away After two steps, he looked up and down worriedly for a while, and called out "brother" in a crying voice.

Zhao Zhen originally thought that one day, he would stand under this door, hand him over to a certain young talent in person, and then wait under this door on the day she returned to the door, waiting for his sister go home.

But now, everything has become a luxury.

It's still the same door, he's not under the door, Zhao Jingning is no longer running to the door, she's going out of this door, going north, going north again, to a place where he can't even touch it with a far-sighted eye, Go to a place thousands of miles away where you can't even write letters back and forth in the same day, go to a completely strange country, a strange environment, as the princess of Li Guo, not his sister of Zhao Zhen, to marry a situation that makes her marry people.

If someone told Zhao Zhen when he was young that one day you would personally marry Zhao Jingning away, he would not believe it.But Zhao Zhen has always cared for her every step of the way. He has never forgotten his original intention. How did he come to this point?

He is the supreme king, the lord of the Li country, why is he forced to rely on his own sister and marriage to earn a little respite?

Zhao Jingning smiled at him from a distance. They hadn't seen each other's smiles during the cold war for more than two months, but now she gave him the most brilliant one.

She made a mouth shape with a smile, then turned and stepped on the carriage.The carriage curtain was not lifted, and she did not look back.

Zhao Zhen silently clenched his hands behind his back, watching her car go further and further away, his palms were pinched blue and purple by himself but he couldn't feel the pain.

She called out "Brother" softly, and Zhao Zhen felt that there was no emperor in the world who was more useless than him.

Pifu can still protect his family desperately, but he can't.

The little princess he pampered still couldn't be sheltered under his wings forever, when he aspired to the world and the yellow robe was added to his body.