79 Autumn Colors
◎The girl is really smart, why is she alone here feeling sad about the autumn◎
"Why do you want to go back home?"
Fu Tao dressed and went to Ci'an Hall to say goodbye.
After talking to Rong Qianyu, she suddenly understood that she was indeed weak and helpless in the imperial power, and her struggles were of no avail. She finally saw clearly what Rong Qianyu meant by "helplessness".
But Huang Song still wanted to take a gamble. She didn't believe she would become the next emperor's sister-in-law. She knew Huang Song, and he wouldn't back down. Perhaps this life was destined to harm him. Their love, their childhood sweethearts of over a decade, could actually harm him.
The recent uproar had been so intense that the entire palace was probably abuzz with it. She didn't mind that. Her only concern was Bai Yi. Her mother was her last resort. Although this support was of no real use and couldn't change her fate, she still worried about causing her mother worry.
She knelt down gracefully.
I have been spoiled all my life, but now I have grown up overnight and no longer have the carefree look I had back then.
"I have been making too much noise these days, breaking the rules. I have caused my mother and the Empress Dowager's sister-in-law much worry. I will obey the Emperor's orders in all matters. I will take my leave now."
"Good Tao'er, have you really thought it through?" Bai Yi felt sorry for her. If she had the ability, why would she let her most precious daughter marry a foreign prince? But she was powerless.
She held Fu Tao's hand with a distressed look on her face, tears trickling down her face as she spoke. She had cried many times in the past few days, and her eyes were bloodshot.
I was so worried and sick that it seemed as if every day I didn't see him had only added a few more gray hairs.
Looking at his mother who was no longer in high spirits, Fu Tao felt a pang of pain in his heart. He stood still and said calmly, "I will follow the arrangements of my brother and mother."
The marriage seemed to have become a customary transaction, and there was no need to even ask the person who was to get the marriage. The two countries just agreed and sent a woman.
Bai Yi and Fu Kang were also married through a marriage alliance, as were my sister-in-law and my brother. It was said that the queens of many countries were princesses married through marriage alliances. It seemed as if this had become a perfectly natural thing, and anyone who dared to speak out would be accused of being unfaithful and unfilial. Every time she argued, it was always to no avail.
"That's good. Don't blame yourself." She saw her daughter's amazing transformation in a few days, feeling helpless and distressed.
She could do nothing but offer some empty comfort. She had underestimated her son.
The two of them didn't say anything, just said goodbye briefly. Before Bai Yi could say anything more, Fu Tao knelt down first to pay his respects.
It was suffocating to stay in this palace, but it was more comfortable outside. It was a pity that she could only experience such freedom for a few days before she had to return to the cage again.
It wasn't that she couldn't go for the marriage, but she had her lover in front of her, so no matter what, she should have refused. But her good brother didn't do that, not even saying a word to fight for her.
She wanted to live for herself once before that. Even if she failed, at least she would give up the idea of going to Daxia.
At the Huang Mansion, Huang Song was locked up for two or three days. Apart from being provided with three meals a day, the door of the ancestral hall was closed and Huang Yun had no intention of letting him out.
He was locked up in the ancestral hall, but he was not isolated from news about the outside world.
"Master, Master?" his servant called him through the crack in the door.
"Yutomi, Yutomi?"
Yuanjiang is the most loyal servant around Huang Song. He knows everything about him and Fu Tao, so he is also under the supervision of Huang Yun. This time, he was allowed to come in and talk after bribing the guard.
"Master, I brought you some food. Please eat some." He stuffed some cakes into his mouth.
Huang Song had been imprisoned for so long, and had been eating cold and hard white steamed buns. Such hot pastries suddenly became a long-missed delicacy.
This time, in addition to sending some food to the young master out of pity, he also had an important task to do for the young master.
He pulled out a linen-wrapped package from his bosom. Inside was the key to the back door, which he had stolen the night before. There was also fifty taels of silver, which was also my own money. Although it wasn't much, it would be enough for Huang Song to use for a while.
"Master, there's a guard change at 3:30 pm. It'll probably take about a cup of tea. Please hurry up, Master. I can only help you this far."
He wanted to go out, even if he was unfaithful or unfilial this time, he would go out. He had many talents, he could write poetry and paint, and even if he became a teacher in the fields, it would be enough to feed himself.
He must not let Fu Tao down.
Yuanjiang worked hard to get these things. This time he can only succeed and not fail. He is destined to let his parents down in this life, and he cannot let his lover down either.
He approached the door and said weakly, "Thank you very much."
Huang Song was preparing to escape, and Fu Tao was also planning to leave.
She gathered all the servants in the princess's mansion and gave them many instructions. Although they were not instructions, they were more like parting instructions.
"I'm going out the day after tomorrow. I'll stay at a house on the outskirts of the city for a few days to enjoy the chrysanthemums. I'll be back in a few days. Ziying and I will go..." She paused to think for a moment, "Ziying, don't go either. I'll go alone. No one else needs to come with me."
Ziying was her closest maid, but after listening to Rong Qianyu's words, she didn't think too much about revealing her whereabouts to others, so Ziying couldn't be taken along.
This is her own business. She cannot involve too many people and cannot let more people know about her rebellious plan.
After being raised in seclusion for so many years, this is the first time she has made such a crazy decision, just like Rong Qianyu in the past.
"Your Highness, are you really not going to take me with you? You'll only eat if you do. Now you're going to a house in the suburbs alone. I'm really worried."
She now has the strength, and she is not afraid even if she fails. "It's nothing, I said, everything will be arranged by my royal brother, I just want to go out and relax, I won't get into trouble again."
After everything was arranged at the princess's mansion, she returned to her room to sleep. It was already late autumn, and the endless forests on the mountains outside the palace were bare. The bleak autumn wind was the most sad thing.
Only the chrysanthemums stretch out in the autumn wind, their golden stamens dotted like stars, shining brightly.
The chrysanthemum lacks the grandeur of the peony, the alluring beauty of the rose, or the arrogance of the rose. But the chrysanthemum has a unique charm, and its autumn bloom is a striking contrast to the myriad withered colors.
The palace was in an uproar, but only Fu Nian still had the mind to care about the chrysanthemums in the imperial garden.
"The west wind blows through the courtyard, the cold fragrance of the flowers makes it difficult for butterflies to come. If I become the Jade Emperor someday, I will reward you by letting the peach blossoms bloom in your garden."
Since her mother's death and her brother's rebellion, she has rarely had such a pleasant day.
But even such a rare moment of peace and quiet was disturbed by someone. "When autumn comes on September 8th, my flowers will bloom and all other flowers will die. People love the chrysanthemum's integrity, so why do you have to speak up for the chrysanthemum?"
A strange man suddenly appeared, scaring her so much that she took a few steps back. The man saw that she was frightened and felt a little embarrassed.
"Young Master, are you from Xia?" Fu Nian asked.
The man was very curious, "How do you know?"
She pointed at his cuffs and said, "The pattern on your cuffs is very unique, and the stitching is different from that of the Great Zhou."
The man looked to be less than 20 years old. Although he was very tall, his face still had a childish look and he seemed to be younger than her.
"You are so smart, why are you alone here, feeling sad about the autumn?"
Although Fu Nianjian was a bit reckless, he was also a well-behaved person. Anyway, not many people talked to her, so it was just a good way to kill time.
She glanced at him and said angrily, "It's the same with this young master. The princess's affair has caused so much unrest, and instead of joining the delegation to find a solution, he's just hanging around here?"
Her words stopped the man from saying any compliments. He saw that she was not dressed like a palace maid, and he thought that the ladies and concubines would not be so calm.
I think she must be a master who is not favored. "Are you a princess too?"
"Yes." Fu Nian nodded, "I am the eldest princess's concubine sister, and my biological mother is Liu."
She introduced herself, and the man finally understood the whole story. She was truly an unloved mistress. "They arranged a marriage for the eldest princess, why didn't they find a husband for you? Doesn't your Majesty treat you well?"
He asked out of great curiosity, but it didn't seem like he wanted to find out anything. He probably didn't want to find out any information from a princess who was not liked at all.
They chatted quickly, "My mother committed suicide out of fear of punishment, and my brother was arrested for treason. I'm lucky to be alive. How could they care about me and waste their lives?"
The man was extremely surprised when he heard her words, "Do you want to leave the palace?"
What Fu Nian wants most now is to leave this place. This palace wall trapped her mother for more than 20 years and eventually killed her. She wants to leave all the time.
"Do you have a solution?!" She seemed to have grabbed a straw and was unwilling to let go. Then she turned around and thought, he is a Xia person, why should she trust him?
"My mother was the first wife, but my father wasn't a good man either. He let down a woman. Although my brother and I are not born of the same mother, we are very close."
Fu Nian no longer believed in this kind of brotherly love and respect. "So good? You're men, so you don't fight over the family property?"
"I don't want to fight with my brother, and my brother is so good to me, I can't be so conscienceless!"
She saw that he was quite old, tall, and good-looking, yet he still had such a ridiculous idea. "Naive! Wait until your brother inherits the family fortune, and see if he will still remember your friendship."
The man suddenly felt aggrieved when she said that, and said in a coquettish tone, "You are too harsh in your words. My brother would never do that!"
Fu Nian was too lazy to care about these mundane matters of their family. He only wanted to leave the palace. "Let me ask you, can you really help me leave the palace?"
He nodded and said, "I can find a way."
"Why don't you marry me? You don't have to marry me for real. Just ask His Majesty for permission. He'll definitely agree if I'm a burden. He'll definitely give you many rewards, but I don't want any of them. Once I leave the palace, someone will meet me outside. I'll give you some money and we can part ways."
This man had a good personality. Despite his occasional childish thoughts, he was actually quite intelligent. "While your escape was a thoughtful one, you can't stay in the Great Zhou anymore. Doesn't your emperor know that he won't hunt you down?"
Fu Nian patted his shoulder. She was the one who came up with the idea, but she ended up comforting others. "That's my business. Now that you've returned to your country, it has nothing to do with you."
The man was startled by her sudden and intimate approach, but before he could take a closer look at the other person's face, he was interrupted again.
"Princess, Princess, where are you?"
Fu Nian heard someone calling her, threw the chrysanthemum in her hand to the man, and left, "Someone is looking for me, come at this time tomorrow, I'll wait for your reply!"
The man stood there in a daze, holding a beautiful chrysanthemum in his hand, not knowing where to go. Fu Nian came back and told him, "Don't worry, I won't get you into trouble. I'm leaving now."
"By the way, my name is Fu Nian! Nian means missing!"
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