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"You know me..." Xiao Tingyun looked straight into his eyes without avoiding him.
She can't be a canary!
Her stubborn face was reflected in Pei Yuning's deep eyes, with a gentle expression and a hint of nostalgia.
Xiao Tingyun wanted to find out something from it, but soon the strange color disappeared again.
Thinking it was his own illusion, Xiao Tingyun put it out of his mind and still wanted to tell her that she would not enter his harem.
"This token is returned intact to Zhao." Xiao Tingyun took out the token and returned it to him.
Everyone goes their own way, he continues to rule the world, and she continues to enjoy the scenery of the desert!
It’s all unrelated, just be well!
Pei Yuning lowered her eyebrows. The token lay in the palm of her hand, its coldness mixed with her tenderness.
"You don't like the palace." He said softly, not as a simple inquiry, but as an affirmation.
Xiao Tingyun pursed his lips. It didn't matter whether he liked it or not, but that place was full of twists and turns.
There are too many intrigues in that position, and she doesn't want herself and her family to become pawns in it.
What happened at the Zhang Mansion is a lesson for us. The Xiao family should not follow in their footsteps!
"I just hope someone will be with me forever." Xiao Tingyun raised her head and paused, "I'm very greedy. I want my future husband to belong to me alone. We can enjoy the sunset, the Jiangnan landscape, and the ancient temples together, instead of staying alone in an empty room every day, hoping that he can have some pity on me and come to see me when he remembers!"
Xiao Tingyun was a little excited when she spoke. She trembled and closed her eyes. "That kind of life is over in a blink of an eye. It's like being a living dead..."
She doesn't want to experience it at all!
"I know. I won't force you to enter the palace. I just hope you won't distance yourself from me." Pei Yuning said gently.
Xiao Tingyun smiled bitterly. If she didn't distance herself from him, would she stay by his side and be his shameful lover? ? ? !
Or is it his pastime when he is bored?
Xiao Tingyun immediately shook his head, "I won't..."
"Maybe you can give me some time to tell a story, and then you can tell me the answer after listening to the story." Pei Yuning interrupted her.
Xiao Tingyun stared blankly at the hope in his eyes. That was a look of him she had never seen before, as if a person's world would desperately grab a little light and hold on to it!
Her heart suddenly twitched...
"Okay?"
She seemed to have never had any resistance to the way he lowered his posture and asked her softly, which bewitched her heart.
I said "OK" for some unknown reason.
The tension between the two of them suddenly disappeared, and they sat quietly at the tea table.
Pei Yuning poured her a cup of tea, "Moisten your throat."
I just cried for so long, my throat must not be feeling well.
Xiao Tingyun took it and took a sip without hesitation, and his throat indeed felt much better.
Seeing her drink it, Pei Yuning's mouth corners raised.
"Can you tell me now?" Xiao Tingyun asked.
Pei Yuning nodded, speaking in a normal tone, as if he was really telling a story, "This story is a bit long, maybe I should start with why I am called Pei Yuning..."
Why is it called Pei Yuning?
Xiao Tingyun was a little confused. He said his name was Pei Yuning, but he was also Qi Yuhan, the king of Da Qi? ?
One person was called by two names, and it was obvious that he was a little cold towards the name Qi Yuhan.
And he insisted that I just call him Pei Yuning? ?
"In the 21st year of the Great Qi Dynasty, the Pei family had become one of the most prominent families in the Great Qi Dynasty. Although they lived in Huaizhou, the Pei family's children were all outstanding in talent and learning, and the women also often studied literature and art, just like the men. In addition, because the Pei family was always kind and generous, and did not care about trivial matters, they were very popular among the people."
"But sometimes too much fame is not necessarily a good thing. There were rumors that if the ruler of Da Qi was incompetent, the children of the Pei family could take his place, and the people of the world would naturally support him."
Xiao Tingyun frowned. Isn't this equivalent to handing a handle to the person in power? ? Which emperor could tolerate such an aristocratic family that was supported by the people?
But nowadays, the Pei family is in semi-seclusion. They don't enter officialdom and don't marry into the aristocratic families in Kyoto. Have you ever heard that they were destroyed by the previous emperor?
"The late emperor naturally heard the rumor, so he went to Huaizhou incognito to gather information."
"The Pei family members naturally heard the rumors, but before they could make any move, a shocking event happened in their own backyard." Pei Yuning's tone was very calm, without any emotion mixed in it.
"What's the big deal?" Xiao Tingyun asked curiously.
Pei Yuning poured a cup of tea and took a sip. "Back then, the Pei family would choose a spring day to send all the men and women of the family to Ruzhou for a month of study. The third daughter of the Pei family master happened to be of the right age at that time. She was young, beautiful, lively and cheerful. At a spring banquet, she met a young man who was also very good-looking."
"The young man was very eloquent and said he was from Kyoto. The woman was a little hesitant, but the two of them met by chance. Soon, the woman fell deeply in love with him and later had an affair with him before getting married."
"The young master told her that he would come to propose marriage soon."
"But I didn't expect that before I could receive the news of the proposal from the young master, her family would find out that she was pregnant."
"The Pei family has never done anything so against the family tradition, so they planned to make the woman a prisoner and imprison her in the Buddhist temple for life."
"But suddenly a guest came to Pei's house. It was that young master. The woman thought she had finally made it to her beloved and that she had finally found her savior. But that young master was the late emperor!"
Xiao Tingyun was shocked, and felt cold all over.
Did the late emperor do it on purpose? Knowing that she was the daughter of Pei, he deliberately designed an encounter with her and then ruined her reputation?
Not only her reputation, but also the reputation of Pei family...
Why did he tell himself these things?
This is considered a secret in the palace!
"What happened next?" Xiao Tingyun swallowed hard.
"The late emperor naturally learned that the woman was pregnant with his child, and asked Pei to marry her as his concubine."
"Pei proposed that if the woman agreed, he would sever all ties with her, and claimed that she was not allowed to mention that she was a daughter of the Pei family, and was not allowed to use the surname Pei for the rest of her life!"
"For the sake of her lover and the prosperity of Kyoto, the woman abandoned her family and followed the late emperor to Kyoto."
"Later, the woman got her wish and became the late emperor's concubine, and gave birth to a prince."
Xiao Tingyun thought, that's him?
It turns out that his background is so shameful, it is the product of a secret meeting between his father and mother!
"The prince is just as she wished. He is smart and studious, well-read, and very much like the children of the Pei family."
"The late emperor had few children, many of whom died young, and even fewer grew up. The prince's intelligence was naturally noticed by the late emperor, who chose him as the next ruler."
"He lived up to everyone's expectations, gave birth to offspring, and governed the Great Qi."
Hearing about reproducing offspring, Xiao Tingyun slowly clenched his hands...
Pei Yuning pretended not to hear anything, and his tone remained unspeakably calm, until the last sentence, which frightened Xiao Tingyun so much that his pupils shrank!
"But he had a hidden illness. He caught a cold at the age of 24 and died!"
"Bang!"
The teacup shattered to the ground!
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