In the seventeenth year of Jinghe, the Imperial Master accepted eleven princesses as his closed disciples at Guoyun Mountain, and the entire court came to congratulate him.
Lan Jingxing didn't expect that he would accept a female disciple, but when he saw the little princess's big black eyes staring at him, full of broken hope, he couldn't refuse.
He leaned over and gently wiped her dirty little face with his snow-white sleeves, and then he found that the skirt she was wearing had an inconspicuous patch, as if it was an adult's clothes that was altered into a small garment.
She was very thin, bony, with a face no bigger than a palm, which only made her ebony almond-shaped eyes seem even larger. She looked like a homeless little animal, just like him. He had also heard about the goings-on in the Imperial Palace.
Emperor Yuancheng was incompetent, arrogant, extravagant and licentious. There were many nameless little princesses and princes in the imperial palace, and many of them died at a young age.
He twitched the corners of his mouth at her, revealing what he considered a gentle smile. "Your Highness Changsi, would you be willing to study some of the Four Books and Five Classics with me?"
He did not establish a master-disciple relationship between them, but simply kept the little princess by his side. How much she could learn depended on her talent.
The little princess' eyes sparkled, and she said clearly, "Yes."
She smiled at him, her eyes gleaming like scattered stars in an astrolabe. Perhaps dizzy with joy, she reached out her ink-stained hand and gently tugged at the hem of his sleeve, leaving a small, dark handprint.
The other party withdrew his hand in embarrassment, his eyes wet: "Sir, I'm sorry."
Like a little rabbit in the woods, cute and well-behaved, and loves to act coquettishly.
The corners of his lips curved, and he said gently, "It's alright, Your Highness, go back and pack your bags, and follow me to Lonely Cloud Mountain today."
The little princess pursed her pink lips and said timidly, "Changsi has no luggage, so there's no need to pack."
Although he was not worldly-wise, he could see her plight from the fierce and jealous looks of the princes and princesses, and he took her back to Guoyun Mountain that same day.
When Emperor Yuan Cheng saw that he had accepted his daughter as a disciple, he was very happy. He rewarded the little princess with many things and sent an old nanny to the mountain to take care of her.
He was not happy about it, and little Changsi was also very unhappy about it. They drove the old nanny away, and the two of them settled down in Guoyun Mountain.
When he made the bed, she would hold a pillow that was taller than herself. When he cooked, she would grunt and collect firewood. When he made tea, she would pick a basket of pear blossoms under the pear tree.
Every day when he opened his eyes, he would see the little princess in pink sitting in front of his wooden house, smiling brightly and saying, "Good morning, sir."
He was cold-hearted by nature and had poor senses, but he felt that Guoyun Mountain was no longer cold. His master was wrong. Even though he had a heart of jade, he could not refuse the little princess whose smile was like the sun.
Lan Jingxing felt that his heart of stone was slowly being carved into a smiling face. He taught her everything he had learned, including the most profound and difficult deduction techniques, and taught her to read and write, the Four Books and Five Classics, the various schools of thought, and the mindset of emperors.
In this way, she will have a way to protect her life in the imperial palace from now on.
Little Changsi was very studious and would sit for four or five hours every day. However, he was afraid that she would work too hard and her thin body would not be able to bear it, so he always stipulated that she could only study for a maximum of three hours. In the remaining time, he would take her up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and medicinal herbs, and go down the mountain to the market to buy fresh eggs, goat milk and meat.
He boiled an egg for her every morning and let her drink goat's milk before going to bed at night. He also tried his best to get her to eat more meat. However, she could not eat more than two pieces and looked at him with her big wet eyes.
It was not until half a year later that she was able to eat more meat, but she was still very restrained.
It was only much later that he realized that it was not that she disliked meat, but she was afraid that after getting used to such a diet, she would never be able to go back to the days of hunger.
Only then did he realize that the cannibalism in the imperial palace could make people feel gloomy and live in that invisible fear for the rest of their lives.
Seven years passed in this way. It was not until the imperial palace sent someone to pick up the eleventh princess that he realized that the little princess was already twelve years old and it was indeed not suitable for her to continue living in Guoyun Mountain.
That day, someone came from the palace. He sat in the courtyard and watched the young girl, as beautiful as jade, pack up her book boxes and trunks and have them taken down the mountain by the palace servants. Then she bowed to him and said, "Sir, Changsi has come down the mountain~"
"Yeah." He turned his head away, his heart heavy, as if a huge rock was pressing on it. He listened to the sound of her footsteps as she left, turned around to look, and saw that she seemed to have grown taller, like a willow branch sprouting in spring, with long ribbons flying in the wind. She walked away resolutely without looking back.
He felt lost and didn't speak for several months. The first thing he did when he opened his eyes every day was to look for the little girl at the door. When he saw the courtyard was empty, he remembered that she had not gotten up in the middle of the night to sit at his door for several years.
Half a year later, he slowly adapted to living alone, but he began to look forward to the first snow and the end of the year, so that he could legitimately pick her up and come to Guoyun Mountain to check on her schoolwork and see if she had encountered any difficulties.
However, the Eleventh Prince was very busy and only came to Guoyun Mountain twice a year. He would come at noon and return in the evening. His temperament had also changed a lot. He no longer pulled his sleeves and sweetly called him "sir" like when he was a child, nor would he pester him to go down the mountain to play.
She began to distance herself from him.
At that time, the eleventh princess used the title of the imperial teacher to win over the hearts of the people, interfered in the government affairs, lived a life of luxury and debauchery, and all kinds of rumors spread to Guoyun Mountain one by one.
He was furious and felt that she should not be such a person. It was also from then on that he realized that she had grown a lot taller after not seeing her for half a year. After not seeing her for a year, her eyebrows and eyes had grown, and she had become the most beautiful and arrogant princess in the imperial palace.
He knew that she was smart, but he didn't know that she had hidden the sharpest claws, so after ten years of careful teaching, she embarked on a path of fighting for power.
He got angry for the first time and wrote to her asking her to come to Guyun Mountain to hear her explanation. But when she came, she said nothing, only smiling and saying, "Sir, I have someone transplanted a pear blossom forest behind the Taoist temple. Please accompany me to see the sea of pear blossoms."
He was extremely disappointed. He thought he was treating the whole world as his own chess game, but he didn't realize that he had become a chess piece in her hands.
"Your Highness, you don't need to do anything for me, because I have never done anything for Your Highness." That was the first time he said such harsh words, hoping that she would come to her senses and turn back, but she turned around, went down the mountain, and sent people to cut down the pear blossom forest.
Later, he went to the forest and picked up the pear blossoms all over the ground, washed them and brewed a jar of pear blossom wine.
As long as she gave up fighting for power, he would forgive her this time. The Li Dynasty was doomed, and her path was a dead end.
However, she did not admit her mistake and did not go to Guoyun Mountain for half a year.
Fate is like two forks in the road. Two people who once depended on each other, he stayed where he was waiting for her, but she had gone too far and could not turn back.
The window of the room was blown open by the wind at some point, and the cold winter wind rushed in. Lu Qi was woken up by the cold wind. Looking at the notebook that fell to the ground, he was frightened and couldn't recover for a long time.
The cabin on Guyun Mountain, the pear tree in the courtyard, the lonely and cold imperial teacher all year round, the eleventh princess who had grown up, everything seemed like what he had experienced personally. In his dream, he was Lan Jingxing, and the eleventh princess was exactly the same as Chang Sichang.
An ancestor without five senses and a little princess in the cold palace were destined to be tragic. So, the Lu family left behind a painting, calculated the astrological chart within ten generations, and searched for a woman with the same name and surname for generations?
Lu Qi stood up, clenched his slender fingers, and his heart was tightly pinched by an invisible big hand.
He bent down to pick up the notebook on the ground, locked it and the ancient scrolls back into the wooden box, and then called Wei Zhenxi.
Wei Zhenxi received a call from Lu Qi in the middle of the night. When she saw the time, her face darkened and she gritted her teeth and said, "Lu Qi, you'd better come to me if there's something urgent! I performed five operations during the day!"
I woke him up at three in the morning. Three in the morning, what can a person do?
Lu Qi pressed his brow, trying to suppress the fear in his heart. He looked lazy and said, "Please help me get an appointment with a psychiatric department."
Upon hearing this, Wei Zhenxi immediately asked cautiously, "Brother Lu, why are you going to the psychiatric department?"
Lu Qi: "I found the notes of the Lu family's ancestors, and then had a dream about my past life."
Wei Zhenxi: “…”
It’s better to go to the psychiatric department.
Wei Zhenxi went crazy. He was an atheist, and his Lu family had always been mysterious, and he couldn't stand it.
"Are you under too much pressure? Is it because of the scandal between Li Changsi and Bai Zhuo, or is it because someone in the group ran away with the money?"
Lu Qi pursed his lips. He knew that he didn't believe it, and he himself didn't quite believe it. But rather than saying that it was a dream, it would be better to say that it was a memory sealed in the notebook that he accidentally read.
"Zhenxi, if one day I'm gone, please take good care of Changsi for me." Lu Qi's voice was hoarse, his eyes red. "Just watch her from afar and she's well."
Wei Zhenxi: “…”
Wei Zhenxi coughed lightly: "I really don't have any thoughts about Li Changsi..."
If Lu Qi wasn't there, he would definitely have some ideas. No wonder he was still on guard against him even after Old Lu died. He's indeed a brother!
"No, it's the second son of the Bai family who's been stalking Li Changsi. Why are you guarding against me?"
"Prepare for a rainy day." Lu Qi's eyes were indifferent. "I will take care of his problems."
Wei Zhenxi yawned. "Remember to come to the hospital for a checkup if you feel unwell. I wish you a long and happy marriage and a baby soon. Bye."
Wei Zhenxi decisively hung up the phone and went to sleep.
Lu Qi: “…”
A long-lasting marriage and a son soon? Does he still have these qualifications?
He stood up and hurried out of the room. It was freezing cold outside and only a few wall lamps were on.
He left in a hurry and forgot to take his coat. The temperature outside was at least minus ten degrees Celsius. He didn't look back, but hurried across the corridor, walked to Li Changsi's door, and sent her a message.
He wanted to see her, desperately wanted to see her.
Li Changsi was a light sleeper and didn't dream at night, so he woke up when he heard his cell phone vibrate. He reached out to it in a daze and saw that it was a message from Lu Qi, and he immediately woke up.
When she opened the door, she saw the man standing outside hugging her tightly in his arms, almost strangling her.
She didn't understand and was about to ask him what happened when she was kissed all over. His thin lips trembled with a hint of coldness. He tested her cautiously at first, and then kissed her deeply.
Li Changsi opened his eyes slightly, reached out and pulled him into the house.
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