The Grand Princess

Before Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan woke up, there were footsteps outside. Jinglan stood at the door and said respectfully: "Your Highness, Miss Shangguan is here."

Li Rong was not surprised when she heard this voice. She closed her eyes and said dumbly, "Let her wait."

After Li Rong finished speaking, she slowed down a little.

It is now approaching winter and the weather is much colder. She hadn't slept enough last night. She was called out suddenly. She needed some courage to get out of the bed.

Li Rong heard Pei Wenxuan get up, and then lit the lamp. She squinted in the light, then raised her hand and rubbed her eyes. When she was about to support herself, she felt that she was draped over her body with clothes.

The clothes were warm, Li Rong adjusted to the light and saw Pei Wenxuan put on a coat, holding her clothes, helping her to dress her.

Li Rong was a little sleepy looking at Pei Wenxuan, tilted her head to his shoulders, and he helped her raise her hands, tucked her clothes into her sleeves, and tied a belt for her. She leaned against him and closed her eyes and said: "It's so cold, I don't want to go to court anymore."

"If you are really not allowed to go to court, you are afraid and unhappy."

Pei Wenxuan laughed and put a furry fox fur cloak on her.

After the clothes were put on, Li Rong didn't feel cold anymore, and she got a little more courage to get out of bed. Pei Wenxuan saw her leaning on his shoulder, raised his hand to embrace her, and smiled: "Shangguanya is here, right? "

"I know," Li Rong sighed. Pei Wenxuan helped him get out of the bed and called Jinglan and the others to come in. They waited for the washing, washing and washing each other, "I guessed what she was about to say, it's nothing urgent. "

"Probably it was Shangguan Xu who had negotiated with her."

Pei Wenxuan wiped his face and analyzed: "In this way, Your Highness can be considered as getting what you wanted."

Li Rong answered, and after freshening up, walked out with Pei Wenxuan.

The two of them stepped across the threshold and went out together. Pei Wenxuan took Li Rong's hand smoothly and whispered: "Your Highness, be careful."

Li Rong stiffened.

In the past, Pei Wenxuan pulled her so smoothly, she would still treat Pei Wenxuan unintentionally, absent-mindedly, and didn't notice, but now he pulls over so naturally, she can no longer treat him as unintentionally.

But she couldn't just shake off his hand directly. She always felt that the response was too violent. She seemed to tear a layer of paper. After tearing it apart, she didn't dare to think about what she had to face.

So she looked at Pei Wenxuan unconsciously. Pei Wenxuan noticed her gaze, turned her head, and smiled slightly: "What is your Highness looking at me?"

Li Rong came back to her senses when he asked him, she abruptly opened her eyes, looked forward and said: "Nothing, distracted."

"I'm afraid I didn't sleep enough."

Pei Wenxuan said gently: "Tonight, I urge His Highness to go to bed early."

"Ok."

Li Rong didn't want to entangle with him more on this issue, but took her hand back casually, touched her hand and said, "I forgot to put on perfume today."

"Then I'll be taken by someone and wiped on the carriage for you."

Pei Wenxuan immediately replied, and before Li Rong refused, he smiled and said: "And your Highness don't need to worry, even if you don't put on the perfume today, His Highness's hands are still as tender and naturally beautiful as usual, no need to add them."

Li Rong heard him say these things with a smile, and always felt that he had seen through her hiding and deliberately teased her in a serious manner.

She coughed lightly, and only said, "The consort is more and more fond of flattery."

Pei Wenxuan did not respond, smiled and came forward, holding Li Rong's hand again, his tone of voice was calm, but he couldn't refuse: "It's cold, and I haven't put on the perfume, let the minister keep the wind out of your Royal Highness to avoid birth. Sores."

Li Rong saw that Pei Wenxuan was very tough and entangled in this matter. She actually liked the sense of him holding her in her own heart. After all, it was cold and warm things were liked by everyone, so she didn't bother to fight anymore. Pretending to be ignorant, walked to the lobby with him.

When she arrived in the lobby, Shangguanya was already waiting there. She seemed to be sleepy, napping with her head on her head. Li Rong led Pei Wenxuan in and said with a smile: "Why, I didn't sleep all night?"

Shangguanya was taken aback by Li Rong's words, and she was shocked. After realizing the arrival, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and complained a little: "His Royal Highness, can you stop making such a sudden shock?"

Li Rong smiled without answering, and sat opposite Shangguanya. Pei Wenxuan sat next to her. After sitting down, he began to make tea. Shangguanya glanced at Pei Wenxuan and smiled: "The horse is back? Looks like it's still all the way. smoothly."

"If it doesn't go well," Pei Wenxuan said with a smile while pouring tea into the purple clay pot, "Miss Shangguan won't be able to sit here."

"Yes." Shangguanya nodded and turned to look at Li Rong, "The princess has a good vision, and she has a prince. That's really powerful and easy to do."

"Just say the result."

Li Rong calmly said: "It's coming early. I'm waiting for your father's reply. I should let the queen tell you what your father thinks."

"Since I'm here, I'm naturally settled."

Shangguanya laughed: "My father meant everything to follow His Highness's meaning. From today onwards, Shangguanjia will clean and self-examine internally, and from then on will fully assist His Highness."

"How are you going to do self-examination?" Li Rong listened to the boiling water next to him, and asked, Pei Wenxuan poured the water into the purple clay pot, and after the first water, poured it on the tea tray.

Shangguanya had already prepared a plan and calmly said: "I will host this event. Tonight, Shangguan's family will hold a meeting in the ancestral hall. I will convey the meaning of the princess, and then I will investigate and deal with the past privately. , Shangguanjia’s guilt is divided into three categories. The first category involves serious crimes involving life and death, which will involve the prince. I will report it to His Royal Highness, who will punish him and serve as the Superintendent’s merit.

"The second category, although it is a felony, it is more than money, and the amount is huge. I will persuade you to resign."

"The third category is that there is not much money. This category is only for admonishment, and caution must not be repeated."

After sorting these into categories, Shangguan Ya raised her eyes to Li Rong, and said with a smile: "I wonder what your Highness thinks?"

Li Rong looked into Shangguanya's eyes, and she was silent.

Pei Wenxuan pushed the poured tea in front of the two girls, then stretched out his hand to hold Li Rong's hand, held the tea by himself, and sipped the tea quietly.

The temperature in Pei Wenxuan's hands calmed Li Rong's confusion and made her think more smoothly.

In fact, she clearly knew that her answer at this moment determined Shangguanya's final position.

Shangguanya cooperated with her, firstly for her power in Shangguan's house, and secondly, more importantly, to protect Shangguan's house. And if she did too much and forced Shangguan's family to death, Shangguan Ya was afraid that she would find another way if she turned around.

And she really couldn't completely destroy Shangguan's house. She just wants to control the Shangguan family, not to destroy it.

But if she punishes her too lightly, it will be unfair to the Qin family, and it will be more chilling, and the Shangguan family may still treat her as a soft persimmon, bullying her like Li Chuan.

After thinking about it for a moment, Li Rong took a sip of the tea and said slowly: "Then I don't know what kind of military payment case does uncle belong to?"

"The military payment case shakes the country's foundation," Shangguan Ya said calmly, "Such a case, naturally, your Highness is in charge."

"What about Qin's case?"

Li Rong continued to inquire. After Shangguanya was silent for a while, she said slowly: "Your Highness, the Qin family is still alive."

The Qin family is still alive, and this case was handled by Shangguan Xu. If the investigation continues all the way, I am afraid it will affect Shangguan Xu's cronies.

Shangguanya sat down on her knees and continued: "In this case, my father didn't want to kill the Qin family at first, but just wanted to find a reason to warn the Qin clan. But the people from the Ministry of War to please his father, so he tore up the marching log and reported it to him. Yushitai and Xingbu, the people at Yushitai and Xingbu did not know that the march log was torn up, and they presumably believed that the Qin family collided with the enemy, so they forged the evidence. The father was wrong, but it was definitely not what the highness thought. It was for his own personal benefit. Destroy everyone."

It's just that everyone pushes a little bit in the middle, and it ends up being a big case.

The Ministry of War received the news that it wanted to check the Qin family's taint. The Qin family had no taint and couldn't handle the errands on it, so it tore up the march log and found a taint.

When Yu Shitai and the Xing Department saw this stain, they inferred that there must be a problem. If there is no evidence, they would create evidence. In their eyes, there must be a problem with this matter, but there is no evidence, and they are not wronging the Qin family.

When the news reached the hands of Shangguan Xu, he had completely changed his appearance. Even if he knew that there might be some mistakes in the middle, but guess it would not be too big. The Qin family **** it, can threaten Li Ming and Xiao with the death of the Qin family Sudden people, that's even better.

After listening to Shangguanya's words, Li Rong nodded and said, "What you want, I understand. It's just that so many people have died after all."

Li Rong raised her eyes to look at Shangguanya: "You have to insist on negligence, for fear that it will be impossible. Qin's case will always see blood."

Shangguan Ya tightened her lips, and Li Rong calmly said: "I know you are difficult to do. If you help me move the people of my uncle, I am afraid that no one can use it again. Give me the list."

Shangguan Ya was stunned, Li Rong turned to look at her: "Who killed the witness?"

Shangguan Ya received Li Rong's words and reacted.

The Qin case cannot be investigated on the face of it. If the investigation continues, the queen will be involved all the way. Then he will throw a rock on his own foot and affect Li Chuan's position as a prince.

But whether it was the following to please Shangguan Xu to deceive his superiors, or frame the Qin family, or later kill people to cover up the crime, these things can't be left alone.

It can only be handled privately as a warning.

Shangguanya calmly saluted, and said, "I will go to get the list..."

Li Rong nodded, turned to look at the sky outside, and said calmly: "Go back, I'm going up too."

Shangguanya saluted, and when she got up, she swept her gaze over the two people, and then raised her eyebrows: "By the way, Your Highness, is it cold today?"

Li Rong was a little strange: "Huh?"

Pei Wenxuan held her in one hand and a tea cup in the other, drinking tea calmly. Shangguanya laughed: "You have been pulling you by Ma Ke, and his feelings are good."

Hearing this, Li Rong's face became hot for no reason.

She hadn't had this experience for many years, and she was a little embarrassed for a while. Pei Wenxuan smiled lightly, and only said: "Miss Shangguan, let's go back and get some sleep, and then go to the casino to play a few rounds of leaf cards, otherwise Master Su will be thin again today. A few couples, people are haggard for Yixiao."

When Shangguanya heard Pei Wenxuan squeeze her quietly, she waved her hand quickly and said, "I can't afford to offend, I'm leaving."

After speaking, she stepped and left the room. After she left, Li Rong breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and finally got a reason, took her hand out of Pei Wenxuan's hand, and said with dissatisfaction: "I've been holding me while I'm idle. , Do you think it's like a joke when outsiders see it?"

When Pei Wenxuan heard this, he lowered his head and chuckled, and followed Li Rong to get up and walk out with Li Rong.

Seeing him laughing at her, Li Rong frowned, "What are you laughing at?"

At this time it was still dark, and the two were walking on the promenade one after the other. Pei Wenxuan was only half a step away from her. His temperature mixed with the cold morning wind blew behind her, causing Li Rong to look at him.

The lantern with the painting of Chang'e Holding the Moon swayed gently in the wind, and the soft light was shining on the young man in black official uniform. Pei Wenxuan smiled with the light on his face, and said slowly: "If I tell you what I am smiling, your Highness will be annoyed. mine."

"Let's talk and listen." Li Rong Xiaofan tapped her hand and added, "If you don't tell me, I will definitely annoy you."

"If your Highness says this, Weichen can only tell the truth."

Pei Wenxuan sighed, seemingly helpless, and then he seemed to come forward casually, walked beside Li Rong, holding the wat board, put his lips to Li Rong's ear, lowered his voice, and whispered: "I know your Royal Highness today What is the name of the rouge."

His breath lightly stroked her auricle like an invisible hand, and with a dumb and smiling voice, it penetrated into her heart all the way, and before she could respond, he bit the words and said: "Chunxia."

Li Rong didn't speak, she turned to look at Pei Wenxuan, this person was very close to her, like a peach blossom crossing the promenade and obliquely protruding in front of her, hanging down the branches gracefully, posing as a picking posture. Beautiful and alluring.

This kind of Pei Wenxuan is like the gentleman Wen Ya in her young memory, but compared to the ignorant Pei Wenxuan who was 20 years old, this person is a little more calm and measured, tentatively grasping the scale, and cautiously approaching , Show okay, remind.

Quietly moved by, and hurried back to the border when people noticed it.

If she was still eighteen, Pei Wenxuan's actions would make her afraid of gains and losses. While wondering if this person liked her, she was afraid that she would be wrong. On the one hand, he was uneasy and worried about his actions, and on the other hand, he had to restrain himself, fearing that his shameful emotions would be known by the other party.

But now she is an old fox in her fifties. She has also seen many things about men and women. She had been blinded by Pei Wenxuan before and couldn't see clearly. Now that she reacted, she knew that he was deliberately pushing her.

She was a little unwilling to be so passive, but now he still smiled at her and blushed. She couldn't help but get even more angry, and wanted Pei Wenxuan to try her mood.

So she smiled slightly, and only said: "Then I also know what kind of incense the prince uses today."

Pei Wenxuan raised his eyebrows, Li Rong stood on tiptoe, leaned close to his ear, opened a small fan to block it, and whispered, "Is it sandalwood?"

Pei Wenxuan was taken aback for a moment, just about to refute, and then he reflected something. He stared at Li Rong blankly, and saw Li Rong pursing his lips and smiling, turning around, shaking his fan and twisting his waist, and went away gracefully.

"When did you borrow the east wind, it blows Tan Lang to the pillow." (Note 1)

"The embroidered bed is slanted by Jiao Wu, chewing the red velvet, and spitting at Tan Lang with a smile."

...

Pei Wenxuan suddenly turned these poems in his mind, his face flushed instantly.

Li Rong walked a few steps, and saw that Pei Wenxuan hadn't followed him. Turning around, he saw Pei Wenxuan standing on the promenade. He didn't know what he was thinking. Her face turned red to the root of her ears. Li Rong burst into laughter. Standing on the edge of the corridor: "Pei Wenxuan, let's go."

Pei Wenxuan reacted, like a little beast that had been shunned, blushing and following Li Rong.

This time he didn't speak anymore, holding the wat-board, and quietly following Li Rong. Seeing Li Rong's momentum fade away, with her hands behind her back, Li Rong was very happy. She pressed her lips and was quite happy along the way. Pei Wenxuan's emotions slowly calmed down, and he raised his head to look at the girl who held his hands forward.

He couldn't help but smile.

This was the first time in her life that she responded to him affectionately.

Even with such a circuitous and joking way, she didn't even notice it, but she still hinted at him after all.

He is her Tan Lang.

The author has something to say: [Small Theater]

Li Rong: "Hahahaha! You can't beat me."

Pei Wenxuan: "His Royal Highness said that if you say a few more words, you will win more."

Li Rong: "..."

I always feel lost elsewhere.

【Small Theater 2】

Shangguanya: I am just a yin, always on the front line of eating melons.

[Note 1] From "Jin Ping Mei"

[Note 2] From "Yihuzhu"