Chapter 39: Fire

The next day, Shen Sui woke up with a headache, and the servant brought him a hangover soup. Shen Sui was not the kind of person who would forget things when drunk. When he saw his eyebrows and eyes reflected in the brown medicine, he remembered last night.

He pinched his eyebrows, feeling a little annoyed.

She clearly hated him and didn't like him, so why was he so happy because of her lies?

Shen Sui felt more and more absurd, put down the hangover soup, got up, and left Yuning Palace.

When he left, the sky in the east was still pale, and the courtyard was full of jade trees, jade flowers, and red lanterns. The grandest festival of the year passed by like flying snow.

He thought that there should have been fireworks last night. She liked fireworks, but he wondered if she saw them.

This day of the year was still a very ordinary day for him. It was

so ordinary that when he thought about it not long after, his heart was broken. Not long after

the New Year, Wu Lei sent a letter and a gift. After Wu Chun read it, he carefully put it away.

The days were getting warmer, the ice and snow melted, and the earth was lush. Soon it would be the wedding date of Shen Sui and Cheng Jingyi.

They said it was according to etiquette, so the servants in the palace prepared in a very methodical manner. Shen Sui did not give Cheng Jingyi any extra treatment.

However, Cheng Jingyi lived next to Wuchun's yard, and occasionally through the window, she could see servants busy repairing the palace and arranging the wedding. The red cloth and lanterns were extremely dazzling.

"My queen, do you want to find a time when you take a nap and let them move things, or let them come with lanterns when you rest at night..." Agui asked cautiously.

Wu Chun waved his hands, "No need, it's not easy for you servants, Shen Sui is not here, you can do whatever you want. Miss Cheng will marry in sooner or later, think about it, if I can't stand it now, can I stand it in the future? It's better to think more open-mindedly and live a leisurely life."

"Your Majesty is insightful."

Jing Lian said, "Agui, when Your Majesty was not locked up a few days ago, you and Prince Ze'an passed the message, which can be regarded as helping Your Majesty a lot. This is a little reward, you keep it, and after Your Majesty leaves, you should leave the palace as soon as possible, do business or go back to your hometown."

Agui asked curiously, "Why do you say that? Your Majesty wants to..."

Wu Chun smiled slightly, "This is a good thing."

"I understand. I will never say anything that I shouldn't."

A few days before Shen Sui married Cheng Jingyi, Wu Chun had a long dream.

In the dream, she saw the pear blossoms and white clouds in her previous life. She looked for a long time in the direction where he would return. At that time, even the color of the red wall was bright and beautiful. All her girlish innocence was placed on this man.

Shen Sui finally came back, and her shoulders were covered with white.

"Your Highness." Wu Chun lowered her body and was lifted up by Shen Sui. His palm brushed away the petals on her shoulders.

"I haven't seen you for a while. How come my beloved concubine has become much dumber?" He joked.

At that time, she could not understand his smile and thought that he was sincere. In the Daliang Palace, he was indeed her only support. All the warmth in her memories before she was hung on the Zhaotian Tower in her previous life were related to Shen Sui.

When he smiled, Wu Chun blushed, "I don't have that."

Shen Sui's eyes suddenly fell into the distance, "What is that?"

Wu Chun followed his gaze and looked over. She saw nothing under the red wall. Her cheeks were touched by a touch of warmth.

It was Shen Sui who bent down and kissed her.

As soon as she turned her head, she met his half-smiling black eyes. Wu Chun retracted her gaze as if touched by a needle tip, "Your Highness, are you a three-year-old child, teasing me like this?"

Shen Sui admired the pink blush on her face, revealing a bit of romantic meaning, "How can this be called teasing? Do you want to... do something that children can't do?"

During the days of anticipation and waiting in the palace, in addition to the chilly north wind that blew through the hall, there were actually some times when they were at their purest, making it difficult to tell the truth from the false.

Wu Chun always told Shen Sui, "I want to see the beauty of the sun shining on the yellow sand, the strangeness of the snow-covered Tianshan Mountains, and the tranquility of the clouds. Your Highness, can you take me there in your lifetime?"

Shen Sui pricked her nose with her finger, "What do you mean in your lifetime? It sounds like we are going to die soon."

The smile on his face was very faint. Wu Chun thought he just didn't like this topic, but then she remembered that he didn't even respond to the previous part. It seems that he thought she was ridiculous. How could he, who was going to be the master of the country, accompany her to wander around the world?

"But Your Highness clearly doesn't believe in these. Your Highness never believes in prophecies, never believes in ghosts and gods, and fate. Your Highness said that you only believe in yourself."

Shen Sui did not refute, "I really don't believe it. But you should say less of these things in the future."

Wu Chun seemed to be deflated, "I know."

He was a person who could throw away his own amulet at will. Every time he passed by a temple that was revered and worshipped by the world, he would never take a second look. He always sat in the corner during the blessing ceremony in the palace.

If there really are gods and Buddhas, how could they tolerate so many injustices in the world? If there are, it must be that gods and Buddhas are incompetent and inferior to human power!

The pear blossoms in the dream fluttered like snow, foreshadowing a grand farewell.

The flames spread from the horizon like an unstoppable dragon. While she was waiting for Shen Sui, Yuning Palace was on fire from which there was no escape.

She felt no pain in the sea of ​​fire, but only vaguely saw a person staggering in the blazing flames.

Is it you, Shen Sui?

"Crack." The sound of branches breaking woke Wu Chun from her dream. The sky was about to dawn, and the whiteness of the window paper revealed the festive red of the Tingxiang Palace not far away.

Wu Chun was in a trance, and a drop of coldness fell on the back of her hand, and she realized that she had shed tears without realizing it.

"Your Highness, why are you crying? Are you missing home? We will be able to go home soon..." Jinglian wiped her tears.

"Hurry up and pack up."

...

Shen Sui married Cheng Jingyi on a sunny day in early spring.

It was a calm day, the streets of the imperial capital were ordinary, the spring breeze was ordinary, and even the magnolia flowers on the street were ordinary.

He wore a fiery red wedding dress, as if he was wearing someone else's skin. There was no joy of getting married in his eyes, and the people below didn't even dare to say words of blessing to him.

But he had the same expression when he married his first wife last time.

The process of taking a concubine is complicated, but after Shen Sui took Cheng Jingyi, he didn't need to worship in the hall, he just needed Cheng Jingyi to kowtow and serve tea to the main wife.

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Cheng Jingyi sat in a small sedan chair, which was much smaller than the sedan chair when she married Shen Heng in her previous life, but she didn't care. She only cared about the final outcome. In order to live a good life, it was okay for her to make some sacrifices and tolerate.

After Shen Sui completed a series of ceremonies in the general's mansion, he rode in front. On both sides of the aisle were cheers and congratulations like waves. The royal family got married, and the common people knelt on the ground.

In the noise that almost drowned him, he vaguely recalled the past.

When he married Wuchun, it seemed the same as today, but it was also very different.

They all said that they were despised by the world, and this marriage was just a coincidence. And except for the mistake that night, Shen Sui did not touch Wuchun for almost a month.

Even on the wedding night.

On the wedding night, he used the wedding scale to lift her veil, and then he threw aside this auspicious symbol that symbolized satisfaction.

He still remembered her eyes looking at him timidly, like a frightened little rabbit, but those eyes were indeed beautiful. He

had never looked closely before, but that night, with the lights and candles all over the palace, he realized that the rumor that women in southern Xinjiang were beautiful was not a rumor.

Her earlobes were red, and her hands were tightly grasping the cloth on her knees. Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's. "Your Highness..."

Shen Sui looked away indifferently and interrupted her. "Other etiquette is unnecessary. You and I are just a coincidence. It's fine to be a couple in name only. It's getting late. You have already bathed today. Eat something and rest."

She held on tighter, and when he was about to leave, her slender fingers hooked the corner of his sleeve.

As if for self-esteem and for the dignity of Nanjiang behind her, she spoke with a stubbornness, "But I am the principal wife of Your Highness. If I don't follow the etiquette, isn't it not good?"

Shen Sui's brows wrinkled slightly at that time. Indeed, he didn't like vases who followed the rules everywhere.

"No one else knows what you and I have done. I have sealed off the Yuning Palace and sent the servants away. They can't hear anything happening here."

Wu Chun's face turned even redder. Before she could let go of her hand, he had already raised his arm and pulled her sleeve out of her palm.

Looking back, she was in Fengchun Palace and he was in Xuanyang Palace that night, and they spent it peacefully.

That night was lonely for her.

This principal wife had not been able to disturb his mind for a month.

While he was distracted, Shen Sui had already entered the palace, and he still had to walk a long way to get to the Yuning Palace.

The sky was bleak, like the day when she resolutely defended him and held the whip of the palace lady.

It was from that time that he began to go to Fengchun Palace at night, and after that, he could not stop.

Later, when he returned from the war, she seemed to be a different person. All the rules and regulations that bound her disappeared, as if a dead thing had come to life. She was covered with thorns, like a red rose deep in the thorns. He wanted to pull out her thorns one by one, like trying to tame a wild horse, to make her obedient and to make her heart and eyes full of him.

But she refused to do so. She did whatever he didn't like, deliberately annoying and teasing him.

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. It turned out that she hated him.

Hate him if you want, just break up with him, she lives her happy life, and he takes a concubine. She doesn't love him, how can he be so humble as to beg for her love?

I don't know how long I walked, but I haven't reached the Yuning Palace yet, but I saw rolling black smoke rising from the direction of the Yuning Palace!

Shen Sui reacted almost instantly, faster than the palace people - there's a fire!

His body reacted before his mind did, he tightened the reins and rode away!

Cheng Jingyi heard the hurried sound of horse hooves, and had a bad feeling in her heart. She opened the curtain and asked the maid next to her, "What's wrong? Who dares to run like this in the palace?" This book is exclusively compiled by the LK team for you

. The maid's face was ashen, "Miss, it seems that there's a fire in Yuning Palace, and His Highness has ridden over there... I'm afraid you'll have to wait here for a while."

Cheng Jingyi gritted her teeth and leaned back heavily into the sedan chair.