Chapter 575 Extra Four: King Jingbei and Princess Jingbei (1)
The story of Jingbei King Xie Cizhou and Jingbei Princess Jiang Li——
The story begins twenty-three years ago, when Prince Jingbei was ordered to accompany Prince Yong Xiao Lin to congratulate the Emperor of Southern Liang on his birthday.
At that time, Prince Jingbei was still the crown prince, and Prince Yong had not inherited the title, but was only the crown prince of Prince Yong's Mansion.
The two of them went to Southern Liang with several envoys and gifts.
On the day they arrived at the capital of Southern Liang, the Crown Princess of Southern Liang gave birth to a son. The Emperor of Southern Liang was overjoyed to have a grandson and held a lantern festival outside the palace for three days to pray for the newborn grandson.
The prince had participated in many lantern festivals of the Ning Dynasty, but had never seen the lantern festival of the Southern Liang Dynasty, so he was lucky enough to catch up.
The prince and Prince Yong were taken to the temporary palace by Nanliang and stayed there. After everything was settled, the two went out to the street.
The capital of Southern Liang was as prosperous as that of Ning Dynasty, but it was different.
The customs vary from one place to another, not to mention that Ning Dynasty and Southern Liang were thousands of miles apart.
The prince and Prince Yong were walking on the street, talking and laughing as they walked forward.
But there were so many people at the lantern festival that even though the two of them were very careful, they still got separated.
The prince was wearing a black brocade robe embroidered with auspicious clouds in gold and silver threads. His every move was elegant and graceful.
When he came out of the palace, many girls looked at him sideways with this face. Prince Yong laughed at him for being ostentatious, bought two masks and gave one to him.
He put it on.
After getting separated from Prince Yong, the prince looked for him a little, but couldn't find him, so he went on his own.
The prince didn't expect that when he got separated, he would meet Princess Yihe of Southern Liang, Pei Xiyue, who had sneaked out of the palace to visit the lanterns accompanied by her cousin, Prince Gaoyang, Pei Shao.
Coincidentally, he and King Gaoyang were wearing brocade robes of the same color.
Princess Yihe was wearing an ordinary dress and was choosing a lantern in front of a lantern shop. She chose a rabbit lantern, but when she was checking out, she realized that the purse she was carrying had fallen out at some point.
At that time, the prince walked past her, and Princess Yihe mistook him for Prince Gaoyang. She grabbed his sleeve and pulled the purse from his waist.
He opened his purse, took out a small silver ingot and placed it on the stall, saying generously, "No need for change."
"Thank you, young lady."
The vendors were very happy.
The girl was wearing a mask and her movements were so smooth that the prince was shocked. Was he being robbed in the street?
The girl turned around holding the rabbit lantern and saw him looking at her. His eyes fell on her purse in her hand. The girl said generously, "I lost my purse. I'd like to borrow it from you, cousin. I'll ask my brother to pay you double someday."
She was wearing a mask, so her face couldn't be seen clearly, but her eyes, which could not be hidden by the mask, were even more beautiful than the moon in the sky.
The prince knew that she had recognized the wrong person.
But he didn't expose it either.
The girl was walking forward with the lantern in her hand. Seeing him walking slowly behind her, she turned back and grabbed his sleeve, urging him, "Walk faster! It's more lively up ahead."
He told her that she had the wrong person.
However, the surroundings were very noisy and his voice was drowned out. The girl didn't hear a word he said. She grabbed him and walked towards the busiest part of the crowd.
When crossing the bridge, she was bumped by someone coming down the stairs and stumbled backward. The prince reached out and hugged her waist.
This was the first time in the prince's life that he had hugged a girl's waist.
Especially when he hugged her, the mask on her face fell off, revealing her stunningly beautiful face.
A strange feeling flashed through his heart.
But the girl treated him as her cousin and didn't even say thank you. She just sighed and said, "There are so many people at the Lantern Festival. Let's go, let's go over there."
Just like the Lantern Festival in Ning Dynasty, some people set up high platforms and compete for good luck.
The lucky number is a beauty fan.
The girl liked it very much. She shook his arm and said bluntly, "I want it. Go and help me get it."
It can be seen that she has a good relationship with her cousin.
But they have a good relationship and don't seem to be very familiar with each other, otherwise he wouldn't have not realized that he had recognized the wrong person for so long.
Since she had been mistaken all the way, she wanted the beauty fan, so the prince went to snatch it from her.
The prince was fighting with someone up there, and the girl was watching from below, cheering for him. But as she was drinking, someone grabbed her arm and said, "Finally found you. What brought you here? You almost scared me to death..."
The one who arrested her was her cousin, King Gaoyang.
The girl was confused, "Cousin?"
King Gaoyang was still puzzled, "Why are you so surprised to see your cousin?"
How can I not be surprised?
Her cousin is here, so who is this person she has been dragging along all the way, and who is now trying to snatch the prize for her on the elevated road?!
Under the mask, her face was burning and the rabbit lantern in her hand was hot.
It's so embarrassing.
She wanted to leave.
But the other person's purse is still in her hands.
She should at least say sorry to them.
She said, "I want to eat candied haws. Can you buy some for me, cousin?"
The servants who were taken out of the palace and the waiters in Prince Gaoyang's mansion had all gone their separate ways long ago. Prince Gaoyang had no one to order around, so he had to go buy it himself.
"Just stay here and don't run."
Prince Gaoyang went to buy candied haws, and the prince over there successfully grabbed the prize, the beauty fan.
He jumped down from the platform and handed the beauty fan to the girl.
The girl's face flushed red under her mask and she handed him the purse. "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person."
The prince laughed and said, "I finally realized I recognized the wrong person."
The girl was so embarrassed, "Why didn't you tell me?"
The prince said, "It's not too late to know now."
At that time, due to the scramble, the overpass collapsed and fell down.
The prince hugged the girl's waist and dodged it with a flick of his body.
She had been hugged around the waist once before on the bridge, but she thought it was her cousin, so she didn't feel anything. Now that she knew he was not her cousin, she could no longer remain calm.
The girl stuffed the lantern and purse in her hand into his hand and said, "I'll pay you back later if I owe you anything."
She turned around and walked towards King Gaoyang who was holding a candied haws in his hand.
Fearing that he would chase her, she left quickly.
King Gaoyang could only follow behind and protect him.
It would have been fine if the Southern Liang Emperor didn't know that Princess Yihe, his beloved daughter, had sneaked out of the palace to play, but if they knew and didn't protect her, the Emperor and the Crown Prince would punish him with a hundred lashes of the cane.
Because she recognized the wrong person, Princess Yihe was extremely shy and had no mood to continue shopping. Besides, she had sneaked out in the first place and needed to return before the palace curfew, so Prince Gaoyang sent her back to the palace.
However, it was not late at night. Prince Gaoyang sent Princess Yihe to the palace and watched her walk into the palace before returning.
Watching the girl leave, the prince felt a little flutter in his heart and wanted to know who she was.
But he is the prince of Jingbei in Ning Dynasty. He came to Nanliang to celebrate his birthday. He will only stay in Nanliang for half a month at most. Maybe this is the only time they meet.
If you can't marry the girl, why bother to mess with her?
The prince did not chase after him to ask.
But it just happened that he remembered King Gaoyang's face and met him again.
The girl is his cousin. If you know who he is, you will know who the girl is.
The prince was still thinking about making friends and was wondering how to do it without leaving any trace when an old man happened to be knocked to the ground. He went to help the old man and Prince Gaoyang also extended a hand.
That's how they got to know each other.
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