Chapter 248 The Past
Tonight's lantern show is destined to be lively.
On the way, I met the fifth prince.
"Hello, Lord Yongyi."
"The fifth prince is well."
The fifth prince was dressed in a black robe and said with a smile.
"To be honest, you didn't even send me an invitation when you got married. You got married quietly like that. Otherwise, I would have given you a big gift."
Pei Luoshu's eyes were filled with smiles.
"Your kindness is better than any gift."
The Fifth Prince turned his gaze to Chen Shiyi again.
"County Lord, you must take good care of him from now on. He is just as naughty as I am."
Chen Shiyi's eyes were filled with smiles.
"We really need to take good care of him, and he will never do anything out of line in the future."
Pei Luoshu glanced at Chen Shiyi and smiled, then took out a handkerchief and wiped her mouth.
"Eat like a kitten."
Chen Shiyi lowered her eyes. Where did she eat?
"There's a bowl of golden purple rice crab cake in the teahouse in front. It tastes really good. Shall we go try it together?"
Chen Shiyi didn't really want to go, but Pei Luoshu agreed.
"The Fifth Prince has invited me, so I'd better obey his orders."
On the second floor of Fuxing Tower, Pei Luoshu and the fifth prince were chatting casually.
Chen Shiyi sat in front of the window, quietly looking at the night outside. The highest light wall was flashing with silver flowers, and the fireworks continued to bloom brilliantly and then dissipated in an instant.
The life of a firework is lived only for the moment of blooming.
We only live for a moment, but the beauty of that moment will remain forever in our most beautiful memories.
The life of fireworks continues in people’s beautiful years.
She also saw Wen Zhirou and Rui'er squeezed into the crowd, laughing and making noises, while Wen Zhiheng just stood quietly beside a tree not far away, with his hands behind his back, a faint smile on his face.
Everyone is getting better and better. Chen Shiyi looked at Pei Luoshu beside him, and his every move revealed his royal nobility.
Some barriers are born, and even if you go through untold hardships, you will eventually go your separate ways.
Chen Shiyi suddenly felt a little sad. The hardest things to change in this world are family background and prejudice.
Even if someone breaks the rules for this, so what? From ancient times to the present, feelings cannot be used to make a living, only interests can.
Everyone wants to be an exception, but no one is an exception.
"Eleven, what's wrong with you? What are you thinking about?"
Pei Luoshu took her hand and held it tightly.
Chen Shiyi raised his eyes and smiled slightly.
"It's okay, I just think this bowl of milk tea is too sweet and a bit greasy."
"Eleven, this is not milk tea, it's snowflake sand. Eat it with a spoon. It's soft and a little salty."
Chen Shiyi was slightly stunned.
Pei Luoshu sighed softly, turned around and said goodbye to the Fifth Prince.
"She's a little sleepy. I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, he took Chen Shiyi back.
The fifth prince watched them leave and fell into deep thought.
"Eleven, I know what you are worried about. The incident with Lu Erniang will not happen again, and no one will complain about your identity anymore. You don't have to worry about these things. You have to be well. I will finish the work and hand it over to the Fifth Prince, and then we will leave Kyoto, okay?"
In the carriage, Pei Luoshu held Chen Shiyi tightly.
"Take care of yourself, take medicine and get well. We will have another child. He should have a temperament like you and live like the sun, warming everyone around him."
Chen Shiyi smiled calmly.
"good."
She couldn't just retreat and run away when she encountered a problem. That would be uncharacteristic of her.
The next day, Chen Shiyi wrote a letter to Bo Yuan, who was far away in Yuanzhou, where he had been supervising his own business.
"Help me contact Fuda. I need to talk to him about something."
"Also, keep an eye on Shen Wuyang for me recently to see if he has any plans to return to Beijing."
She also wrote a letter to Chang Yi, who was far away in Anzhou, asking him to come to Kyoto as soon as possible.
Recently, Long Muchuan has been staying in his palace and rarely goes out.
He was thinking about a problem, a very difficult problem.
Should he kill Pei Luoshu?
Regardless of whether Pei Luoshu admits it or not, he is the crown prince and he was the one who killed his father with his own hands.
They will be enemies for life, so why should they be soft-hearted?
His eldest brother was kind, filial, gentle and respectful, and the virtuous successor to the throne. All the court officials, from top to bottom, praised him. His mother was the Empress Dowager, so he was pampered since he was born.
She was born to a palace maid and later given the position of a concubine. Because of her mother's identity, she was neglected since childhood. In the palace, she could only rely on others to survive. She became a rat that peeked into other people's lives from the gutter and could only survive by picking up the leftovers left by others.
He thought he would live like this for the rest of his life, but it wasn't.
One day, he fell ill with a high fever. The eunuch who went to the Imperial Hospital to look for help met the prince and knelt down to beg him to save his life.
He would never forget that day when his elder brother, whom he had always looked up to, fed him medicine personally, comforted him gently, rebuked the Imperial Household Department for being unfair, and ordered the Department to restore his treatment as a prince should be, giving him new clothes, a new bed, and many delicacies that he could not normally eat. He was also allowed to study and learn calligraphy with the Grand Tutor.
The fatherly love that he never received was obtained from his eldest brother, the prince.
That year, he was eight years old and his elder brother was twenty-two years old.
And in this year, the Crown Prince was born, a man of great wealth and status.
As soon as he was born, he was named the Grandson by the Emperor. Even if his elder brother did not ascend the throne, he would still be the heir to the throne.
He envied all of this, and he was willing to dedicate his whole life to this elder brother who was the only one who had ever given him warmth.
Until the death of his mother Zheng Cainu.
Although his mother was of low status, she fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother conscientiously. She did some embroidery work in the palace every day and sold it outside the palace. She earned some meager money and barely supported herself.
After embroidering for so many years, her eyes were blurry. In the end, she could only rely on her hands, stroking her own face and imagining what she would look like.
Such a person, who just wanted to survive and was as humble as dust, was poisoned to death by those eunuchs.
Just because he happened to hear his elder brother say something.
"I'm afraid that Xiaochuan's marriage will be a burden to her mother's status. I've seen several daughters and none of them are very good."
When his third brother, the current emperor, told him all this, he almost went crazy.
His beloved elder brother killed his mother, on whom he depended for everything.
He didn't know how he survived those days.
The rope is always picking out the smallest details, and misfortune is always picking out the unfortunate people.
Everything he had worked so hard to obtain was destroyed because of that damn word "position".
Later, people gradually told him that everything his elder brother did for him was to make him a sword in his hand, a knife charging forward, and a shield to protect against wind and rain. His mother was a burden, and without her, he would be loyal to the current crown prince wholeheartedly.
Oh, he won’t get his wish!
Revenge became his only living wish.
So, after lurking by his side for so many years, he finally cut the prince's neck with a sword when the prince was eight years old.
At that time, gushing blood poured over his devilish face.
He had gotten his revenge, but he did not feel as relieved as he had imagined. Instead, he was filled with melancholy.
He suddenly couldn't find the motivation to live.
Later, he became more and more perverse and cruel, and gradually became a knife in the hands of the third brother.
The third brother kept asking, with so many good girls given to you, why don’t you want to get married?
How could he get married? His marriage ended with the death of the two most important people in his life.
It doesn’t matter anymore, nothing else matters!