After the emperor gave me a marriage to King Yi and I, a woman came to the door rashly.
She raised the birthmark of the crabapple flower on her wrist and said proudly, "I am the one he has been looking for for three years. Do you think he can compete for me?"
The arrow in my hand passed through her bun in an instant, and said with a faint smile: "If I want to compete, you can't win."
I covered the red color on my wrist with my sleeve. If I don't want to, he will never see it.
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I am Lu Shaoning, the daughter of King Jing'an, and I am good at Mobei.
Two months ago, Your Majesty summoned me to Beijing and gave me marriage to the current third prince Zhao Jingchu, and named him King of Yi.
Kei after marriage, the woman he had been looking for for three years came back.
She was born into the folk, but she became the adopted daughter of the prime minister. The moment Zhao Jingchu found her, she accidentally broke the glass cup and lost her composure.
My expression did not change in everyone's eyes.
What the people said about Yi Wang recovered the woman with the birthmark of the crabapple flower on her wrist, and cherished it thousands of times.
He planted crabapple flowers in the mansion for her, and even found her for three years, making such affection known to everyone.
When the marriage imperial edict was delivered, someone sighed for not finding the woman.
In just a few days, the story between King Yi and her was circulated in the capital.
They rafted on the lake and painted together.
He solved hundreds of riddles for her, just to win the lottery.
seems to me become a redundant joke in this story.
When Huo Shijin came to the door, he looked proud and showed me the birthmark of the crabapple flower on her wrist, the size of a copper coin, as bright as blood. "Miss Lu, I am the one he has been looking for for three years. I advise you to retreat when you see the difficulties and leave some respect for yourself."
"What if I don't retreat?" I wiped the arrow in my hand.
"The prince has been looking for me for three years, and he only has me in his heart. He doesn't like you. If you marry him, you will not be happy. Why do you have to be the third person among us?"
Her words are very lethal to ordinary women in the boudoir.
"Marriages of aristocratic families have always been a weighing of pros and cons, so how can we get the so-called joy of love?"
Her expression was stunned for a moment, as if she was choked by my words.
"But his heart and eyes are full of me. If you don't know the tact, you will only end up as an abandoned woman. Your reputation is ruined, and you can't fight for me."
She stared at me with confidence, probably that's it.
"Is that true?" I asked casually while aiming at the bull's-eye.
She was still proud, but the next moment, I suddenly turned around and the long arrow that had already aimed at the bull's eye pointed straight at her.
The long arrow broke through the air, and she fell to the ground, her black hair scattered.
I walked slowly, leaned over and pinched her jaw, and chuckled, "If I want to fight, you can't win. Today is just a small lesson. I hope you will be careful, otherwise the next time the arrow will pass through your hair, but your head."
looked at her with panic and pale face, and then I let go of my hand with satisfaction.
After she left, I took the handkerchief handed over by the maid and slowly wiped my hands. When I wiped the red color on the inside of my wrist, my eyebrows and eyes drooped slightly, and I accidentally covered it with my sleeves.
When Zhao Jingchu came to me angrily, I was not surprised at all, just lowered my head and drank tea.
And behind him was the pitiful Huo Shijin, but there were a few more slap marks on his fair face. I thought about it in a flash and realized that if I stopped pretending to be pitiful, how could people move?
He came with great force, and followed the guards of the mansion, as if he was determined to seek justice for her.
"Lu Shaoning, do you know that she is the one I cherish?" He asked me angrily.
I replied disrespectfully: "I know."
"Then do you dare to hurt her?" He was even more angry when he said this, as if he felt that I had provoked him.
I saw him so angry that I couldn't help laughing, "Are you talking about those slap marks? I'm afraid you have to ask her."
He obviously didn't believe me, but instead raised his hand to signal, the soldiers surrounded me and even put the long sword on my maid's neck.
, and his eyes were cold and he said coldly, "If you think she is a humble person, you will humiliate him. But I will never let go of those who bully her and insult her. I will definitely get it back for her."
I sneered, "Request it? Do you want to slap me a few times?"
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saw him say softly to Huo Shijin, "Shi Jin, you can hit you back no matter how she hits you. If she dares to move, she will kill her maid."
, Huo Shijin seemed to have confidence as he looked at him, and walked slowly towards me. Although he was still shivering in his eyes, there was a hint of pride and provocation in his eyes.
She raised her hand high, with a smile on her lips, but the next moment, the scream sounded, and I saw my maid snatch the hilt of the sword with her backhand and put the long sword on Huo Shijin's neck.
Huo Shijin held his arm in pain and called for help, but he did not dare to move freely.
Perhaps, she thought I really didn't dare to move and dared not resist this so-called nominal fiancé.
But she forgot that I was good at Mobei and never learned the three obediences and four virtues of the lady in Beijing.
I faced his shocked gaze and smiled, "I forgot to tell you that my maid was also trained from the military camp."
There was a faint scrutiny in his eyes. I sat down on my own and sneered, "When I followed my father and brother to guard the northern border, the arrows were shot without any of them. There were no deer in the wilderness and geese in the sky. If I wanted to kill her, how could she just disperse her hair? As for those slaps, if you really believe it, I can only say that although you are in a noble position, you are actually a fool."
"A barbarian woman, uneducated, cannot bear the position of princess." He glanced at her eyes and said coldly.
Then, he leaned over and picked up Huo Shijin and walked away.
Looking at their departure backs, I said loudly, "You are right, I am such a savage woman, and I will torture her every day in the future."
The crowd dispersed, the maid frowned and asked in confusion: "Princess, why don't you tell him you are..."
I raised my hand slightly, and she stopped the words she was about to say.
At the palace banquet two months ago, the emperor personally gave me a marriage to Zhao Jingchu and me. At that time, he had already written his dislike on his face.
After receiving the imperial edict, he told me that the wife in his heart was only the woman he met three years ago, and he would never be in line with me and know each other's heart.
But I didn't expect that I didn't even finish listening, so I left after I beat him up and raised him in disgrace.
Now he draws his sword to face each other.
The news spread that he left with Huo Shijin in his arms, and this farce instantly became a joke in Kyoto.
In the next few months, everyone knew that King Yi had a deep love for the Prime Minister's adopted daughter, and regarded it as a treasure.
Everyone laughed at me as good as the frontier, being crude and rude, and not being able to be the king of chess. I was neglected before I got married.
Above the teahouse, these remarks are all impressed.
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I met Huo Shijin again.
There are other girls from the little officials beside her, saying that King Yi is more in love with her than gold, and she will definitely have a deep blessing in the future.
It seems that she is very helpful.
But the moment she saw me, the smile on her face stopped abruptly, and the other girls beside her seemed to have heard of my past feats and left in a hurry.
Huo Shijin calmed down this time. She turned the jade bracelet in her hand, looked at me with deep meaning, and smiled slightly on the corner of her mouth.
"The prince took me to worship his mother. This is the bracelet she left behind..." She said slowly, observing my reaction. Although she tried her best to restrain her, the pride in her eyes could not be suppressed.
She is showing me her unique position in Zhao Jingchu's mind.
After listening, I put down my teacup casually and said, "The Prime Minister brings you back, I hope you can be useful, rather than gaining some useless reputation like now."
"What do you mean? I don't understand." A little panic flashed in her expression, and then she pretended to be calm.
"What the Prime Minister wants is that you destroy my marriage with Zhao Jingchu and make you the mistress of the Yiwang Mansion, but now it seems that you are a little incompetent and may not be able to become an abandoned son one day.”
I lowered my eyes slightly, and said lightly, but her eyes slightly changed.
"What do you know?"
"I know that the woman with a birthmark of a crabapple flower on her wrist who had been searching for for three years... it's not you."
The moment I finished speaking, she slowly stood up, but was unstable, and fell down, no longer had the arrogance and pride of the past, but only fear and anxiety.
"If Zhao Jingchu knew that you were a liar, not the one who saved him three years ago, would he still treat you like this? If you deceive him to this end, he would become a laughing conversation between the government and the people, and the only thing waiting for you is the wrath of thunder."
"What else do you know?" A deep fear emerged in her eyes.
People in the world only know that King Yi was looking for a woman with a birthmark of a crabapple flower on her wrist, but they didn't know that it was his savior. Huo Shijin's fear was based on this, because I knew it too much, which made her uneasy.
I smiled slowly, "I thought you were a smart person."
She hurriedly changed her words, "What do you want me to do?"
"What you want is nothing more than a wishful husband like King Yi, and the glory and wealth he brought. Since that's the case, I'll give it to you, but the position of Princess Yi depends entirely on your means."
She calmed down, seemed unable to understand, and then asked, "All the women in the world expected this, why don't you care?"
"If you have heard the flags and the drums of war, if you have seen the spear break through the sky and the arrows penetrate the clouds, you will know that the road in this world is not just about the sky and the battle of the back house." I stood high in the teahouse and looked into the distance.
Turned back, but saw Huo Shijin stunned.
When Zhao Jingchu arrived, he saw this scene. Huo Shijin fell down there with a pale face, with fine sweat hanging on his forehead, his eyes dull, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
He thought I had done something to her, so he accused me indiscriminately, and his disgust was like looking at the enemy.
It was not until Huo Shijin reached out and pulled his sleeve that his cold face softened a little, showing a hint of tenderness.
But when he turned to look at me, his eyes were full of coldness, "Lu Shaoning, if you have any trouble, don't blame me for being rude."
Huo Shijin grabbed him and shook his head to signal.
After the two left, the maid next to him spoke: "If King Yi learned the truth in the future, he would be so angry that he would regret it. I regret treating the princess like this today."
"He can't tell the difference, can't tell, and can't see it..."
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A burst of laughter came from next door, "What a woman who has seen a spear breaking through the air and arrows penetrate the clouds."
people have deep eyebrows and eyes, and their facial features are quite exotic. Among his handsomeness, he is full of heroism.
I have lived in the northern desert since I was a child, and there are many such faces there, all of which come from the northern grasslands.
While I was looking at him, he was also looking at me.
After a long time, he laughed loudly and said, "A man like King Yi is not worthy of you."
If it weren't for his deep eyebrows and eyes that were different from ordinary people, I'm afraid even I might not be able to see that he is a person from the grassland.
"Why do people from the eleventh Grassland appear here?" I asked him back.
He looked unexpected and quickly dissipated, and then said, "We will meet again tomorrow." After
finished speaking, he turned around and left, and his figure quickly disappeared in front of him.
Jing'an Prince's Mansion guards the northern part of the Mobei region, adjacent to the Eleven Grasslands, and has been peaceful for many years.
But he is definitely not an ordinary person.
Huo Shijin's methods are more direct than I think.
My marriage with Zhao Jingchu will be scheduled for the New Year.
But she never thought that she would give me a big gift at the end of the year.
At the palace banquet, she actually vomited many times in front of everyone. After the imperial doctor diagnosed it, she actually said that she was pregnant.
Everyone's eyes looked at Zhao Jingchu and turned to me.
Prime Minister made an unfortunate attitude in the family and asked who Huo Shijin's child. If he did not explain the family law, his ostentatious glances at Zhao Jingchu.
Everyone understood it, and the emperor's face was already filled with anger.
Huo Shijin's eyes were tearful, and she shook her head repeatedly, and she refused to speak, just making a fuss to kill her head.
People around her grabbed her tightly, and the scene was in chaos.
Zhao Jingchu got up and knelt in front of the emperor, and said in a deep voice: "Father, that is the flesh and blood of a son."
This is the answer that everyone expected. If he doesn't recognize it, the others will be surprised.
The emperor's face was not good at all, and he was angry at this moment and sat on the dragon throne for a long time before he calmed down.
But after all, I looked at me. The emperor seemed to want to be a peacemaker, turning big things into small things.
I took the initiative and said: "Your Majesty, the people talked a lot about the deep affection of King Yi to Miss Huo. Shaoning was moved. I hope to be a beautiful person and give up the position of Princess Yi."
When Zhao Jingchu looked at me, he was full of surprise in his eyes, shocked at me so decisively, and gave up the position of Princess without any nostalgia.
But the emperor said, "Shaoning, this matter is not impossible to achieve both things..."
But today, what I want is to make him unable to achieve both things.
I glanced at Zhao Jingchu, and then knelt down to the emperor, saying with sadness: "Shaoning only has one person's heart, so he will also ask his future husband to be one with my heart and virtue. But King Yi obviously can't do it. Instead of being a resentful partner, it's better to stop here and continue to be a stalemate. It is also a humiliation to the Prince Jing'an Mansion and me. Shaoning requested to terminate the engagement, and I hope Your Majesty will fulfill it."
said the last sentence very seriously. After saying that, I leaned over and kowtowed, and I didn't move at all before I heard the response.
Everyone whispered, and I was unwavering.
Until he heard a helpless voice in the vicissitudes of life: "Forget it, let's do it."
This farce came to an end, the wedding date did not change, everything was as usual, but the person who married into the Yiwang Mansion became Huo Shijin.
Now, I have forgotten my worries.
This marriage was finally resolved as I wish.
No one can manipulate me, the father cannot, and the emperor cannot.
But after the banquet, Zhao Jingchu blocked me in the corner and asked sternly: "You pretended to be sad in front of your father, and now you feel so relieved. Are you deliberately doing a show? Take the opportunity to break off the engagement?"
