1 Chapter 001
◎A family should be in good order◎
Princess Rong'an was knocked unconscious by a pig!
The news spread at an alarming speed, instantly igniting the entire capital, and people inside and outside the court were talking about it.
For the common people who had just stayed in the house for a whole winter, the rumors about the royal family were undoubtedly the most refreshing topic of conversation.
When the emperor heard the news, he was so confused that his alchemy furnace exploded and he was hit on the forehead by the flying copper pieces, falling into coma. The empress was so shocked when she heard the news that she fainted.
What is even more bizarre is that the King of Qi, who had always been mentally retarded, fell into the pool under the close supervision of the palace servants and developed a high fever.
While the Prince of Jin was entertaining his guests at his mansion, he suddenly fell to the ground drunk and lost consciousness.
The current emperor has only one queen in his harem, and only three sons: Prince of Qi, Prince of Jin, and Princess Rong'an. The five members of the family met with an accident at the same time. Isn't this really a warning from God?
For a time, rumors spread among the people, pointing out that the royal family was immoral and that disasters were brought by heaven. The people went from talking about it with relish to being in a state of panic.
The Princess's Palace is located in Chengqingfang outside Dong'an Gate, adjacent to the Ten Princes' Palaces and the other princes' halls. Although its scale is not as good as that of the Prince's Palace, it has nine rooms and eleven frames, and the carved beams and painted rafters are all exquisite. The roof ridges and animals are all ingeniously crafted. The flying pavilions in the courtyard are red, and every blade of grass and tree shows the royal splendor and majesty.
The bright sunlight filtered through the window lattices with auspicious cloud patterns, almost reaching the huanghuali wood bed frame. The embroidered bead curtains were hung with golden hooks, revealing a small area.
Xie Mingzhuo had been awake for a quarter of an hour.
It took her a quarter of an hour to digest the original owner's memories, and another quarter of an hour to sort out her current situation.
She died, but lived on in a novel, and her new body only had three months to live in the book.
Her parents and two brothers were in the accident with her. If she traveled into the book, what about them?
The most urgent thing is to confirm whether relatives have also come through.
Xie Mingzhuo coughed lightly, and immediately someone pushed the door open from outside.
A girl of about sixteen or seventeen came into view. She had a beautiful and gentle appearance. She wore a blue round-necked bodice, a red stand-up collared jacket with pipa sleeves, and had her hair in a single bun with a plum-shaped silk flower inserted on the side of the bun.
"Your Highness is awake!" She showed surprise and leaned over to half-kneel before the bed. "Are you feeling unwell? I'll go call the imperial physician."
"Wait." Xie Mingzhuo stopped her and said without hesitation, "Caiyu, please help me wash and get the carriage ready. I need to go to the palace."
In her original body's memory, her parents and brothers looked exactly like her relatives in modern times, and even their temperaments were similar. She had to go and see for herself.
Feng Caiyu hesitated slightly. "Your Highness, after you fell into a coma, news came from the palace that His Majesty and His Majesty were both in convulsions and unconscious. His Highness the Prince of Qi fell into the water and had a high fever. There was also news from the Prince of Jin's mansion that the Prince of Jin had drunkenly at a banquet and had been unconscious for a long time."
Xie Mingzhuo was shocked, but also happy.
Such a series of similar encounters is most likely not a coincidence.
"I understand. My father, the emperor, and my mother, the queen, are in a coma. As a son, I must visit them in the palace."
"As you command."
The huge princess mansion was in high gear. The gorgeous carriage stopped outside the vermilion gate and waited for a long time before Xie Mingzhuo finished dressing up.
She was wearing the usual clothes of a Princess of Qi Dynasty: a bright red dress with wide sleeves, a red silk skirt, a red silk jacket, a shawl, and a flower hairpin and phoenix crown on her head.
Just dressing up wasted a lot of her time, but being in a feudal dynasty and with the situation unclear, she could only endure this red tape for the time being.
It was late March, late spring, and the weather was unusually cold.
There was a brazier burning in the room, and the temperature was just right. As soon as I walked out of the room, the cold air hit my face and the breath I exhaled turned into mist.
Feng Caiyu was afraid that she would catch a cold, so she put a pure white cloak on her and followed her out of the main courtyard.
The Princess's Mansion was recently completed and was to be used for Princess Rong'an's wedding. However, the current emperor doted on his daughter and could not resist the princess's request, which was against etiquette, and allowed the princess to move in early.
According to the etiquette of this dynasty, only the princess can live in the main courtyard of the princess's mansion. Even after marriage, the prince consort cannot live here.
Xie Mingzhuo walked towards the courtyard gate, and from time to time, common sense of the dynasty and memories of his interactions with the emperor, empress and others flashed through his mind. He kept them firmly in mind to avoid exposing his tracks later.
Her mind was completely occupied by the matter of time travel. When she left the hospital, she didn't pay attention to what was happening outside. She was suddenly startled and stopped by a clear and loud voice.
"Your humble servant, Song You, implore Her Royal Highness to fulfill my humble aspiration to serve my country with loyalty!"
Xie Mingzhuo: “…”
Who is this person? Why is he kneeling outside the yard?
After a quarter of an hour of digesting more than ten years of memories, her mind was still a little confused. She couldn't remember it for a moment, so she didn't answer.
"Your Highness," Feng Caiyu explained diligently, "Young Master Song did not wish to marry you. You went to the Yue Lao Temple on the outskirts of the city to petition, and on your way back to the city, you were accidentally run over by a herd of pigs from the farm. Madam Wei felt sorry for you, so she asked him to kneel here and apologize."
It is Song You's blessing to be favored by the princess. He has disobeyed Her Highness so much that it would not be a pity even if he dies kneeling here.
Song You knelt on his knees, but stood straight. "Ms. Feng, please address me as Editor Song."
Xie Mingzhuo: “…”
Come to think of it, her current personality is that of an arrogant and domineering princess. Apart from anything else, the most ridiculous thing she did recently was to rob a man.
It would be fine if he was really a "common man", but how many men from the lower classes of scholars were vying to marry the princess in order to get rich and powerful.
But the man before him was the newly crowned third place winner in this year's spring imperial examination. The emperor bestowed upon him the title of Jinshi and appointed him as an editor in the Hanlin Academy. Unexpectedly, as soon as the banquet was over, he was noticed by Princess Rong'an, who wanted to appoint him as her husband.
In the Qi Dynasty, the prince consort had no official career to speak of.
Song Tanhua studied hard for ten years just to get into the imperial court, rise to the top and serve his country.
The honorary title of the Imperial Consort was indeed not what he wanted.
Seeing that he refused to comply, Princess Rong'an forcibly abducted him to the princess's residence and sent people to guard him strictly, not allowing him to leave the residence.
Song Tanhua refused to comply, and in order to save him, his relatives, friends, teachers, and classmates wrote letters to impeach Princess Rong'an for her absurd behavior.
This incident caused an uproar in the capital.
Unfortunately, the emperor doted on his daughter, suppressed the memorial, and did not express his opinion for a long time.
Then, the princess was knocked unconscious by a pig when she returned to the city.
Xie Mingzhuo remembered everything that happened.
Looking closely at the person in front of me, I found that he had already ranked first in the palace examination before he even reached the age of twenty. He was indeed talented. Moreover, he had a handsome and elegant appearance and an extraordinary bearing. It was reasonable for me to fall in love with him at first sight.
In her previous life, Xie Mingzhuo ran a listed company. Everyone called her "Mr. Xie". There were many handsome young men who wanted to spend a night with her. Although she had never met a man like Song Tanhua, she herself was not very interested in handsome men.
What's more, she prefers mutual consent and is not interested in "forced love".
The young and honest Song Tanhua is not her type at all.
Xie Mingzhuo just wanted to solve this problem immediately, so he said decisively: "In that case, I will let you go home."
Not only Song You was confused, Feng Caiyu was also a little surprised.
After the princess woke up, she seemed much calmer than usual. She didn't even bother to look at Song Tanhua, and even wanted to let him go home. Could it be that she was worried about His Majesty and the Queen?
Seeing that Song Tanhua was still kneeling there stupidly, Xie Mingzhuo glanced at him coldly: "What are you still standing there for? Do you want to continue eating and drinking for free in my house?"
Song You's face flushed red, he hurriedly got up, said his leave in a hurry, and turned away without hesitation, as if there was a ferocious beast chasing him.
Feng Caiyu did not dare to comment on his master's decision.
She didn't ask anything, but helped the princess out of the gate and onto the carriage. The guards of the princess's mansion surrounded the carriage tightly and drove straight to Dong'anmen.
At a corner not far away, Song You stuck half of his head out and watched the princess's car driving towards the palace. He scratched the back of his head, his face full of confusion and disbelief.
He should have been happy and excited, but he felt like he was still in a dream and didn't feel at ease at all.
It's so weird.
The princess's carriage drove through Dong'anmen, then entered Donghuamen, entered the imperial palace, and then changed to a sedan chair to go to the Qianqing Palace.
But outside Longzong Gate, he met another group of people, who were also carrying a sedan chair. On the sedan chair sat a young man wearing the prince's regular clothes.
Xie Mingzhuo made eye contact with him, and the two looked at each other in silence, neither of them speaking first.
The bright sunlight brushed across the vermilion palace walls, and the metallic sound of the clock announcing the time came faintly from the Jiaotai Hall. The Western bell sound instantly woke the two of them up.
The young man turned his waist and said seriously: "Odds change, but evens remain the same."
The other attendants turned a deaf ear to it. After all, the King of Jin had always been unruly, so nothing he said was surprising.
As long as it's not an order to them, who cares what it means.
Xie Mingzhuo: "...Your idea is already outdated."
"Then you come?" The young man was dissatisfied.
Xie Mingzhuo held out the jade sceptre from his waist: "You sweep me? I sweep you?"
The young man laughed heartily and took it with his jade sceptre, muttering, "What's the note? Little sister? Shao Shao? Mr. Xie?"
Shaoshao was Xie Mingzhuo's nickname in his previous life. Few outsiders knew it, and this body did not have the nickname Shaoshao either.
But her second brother Xie Mingshuo never called her Shaoshao, but called her——
"Iron Pillar," she said.
"Shao Shao" was first uttered by the eldest brother Xie Mingxuan. He was young at the time and did not recognize the character "朱" (zhuo), so he pronounced it as "沙". Thus, Xie Mingzhuo's nickname was decided in this way.
After the second brother started to remember things, he and the eldest brother were at odds with each other for a while and refused anything related to the eldest brother, including her nickname.
He secretly inquired and heard the well-known truth about naming that "a humble name makes it easier to raise a child", so he racked his brains and secretly gave her a nickname that was easier to raise - Tiezhu.
Because of this, Xie Mingshuo was often beaten by Xie Mingzhuo.
Hearing her personally admit that she was "Tie Zhu", although it was to confirm the identities of both parties, Xie Mingshuo still couldn't help but burst out laughing. He curled up in the sedan chair and was shaking with laughter. The sedan bearers almost lost their grip and their eyes widened in fear.
Xie Mingzhuo remained calm and said, "I heard that you hosted a grand banquet at your house, but because you were drunk and sleepy, you behaved disgracefully in front of the guests."
"That's just a carefree and unrestrained attitude towards life, you don't understand." Xie Mingshuo retorted, "I heard that you went to the outskirts of the city to seek marriage, but not only did you not find it, you were knocked unconscious by a herd of pigs running towards freedom, hahahaha."
He laughed so hard that his tonsils were exposed, and he had no image at all. Of course, his character as the King of Jin was already unruly.
The two men were at loggerheads, neither giving the other any face. The attendants were so frightened that they wished they had their ears cut off.
Both parties secretly breathed a sigh of relief. What is more surprising and exciting than "meeting an old friend in a foreign land" is "meeting relatives in a foreign land".
The two looked at each other again and smiled with relief.
After passing through Longzong Gate, you will reach the wide and bright Tianjie.
Tianjie is both the dividing line between the front court and the harem, and the place connecting the front court and the harem, implying the mutual generation and assistance of yin and yang.
The two men got off the sedan chair and stood side by side outside the Qianqing Gate.
Inside the Qianqing Gate is where the emperor and empress lived. The emperor was injured when his furnace exploded while he was refining elixir, and the empress was unconscious from convulsions, so they were placed in the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace respectively.
The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau came to the Qianqing Palace in person to treat the emperor. The other imperial doctors either went to the Kunning Palace or to the princes' residence to reduce the fever of the Prince of Qi. The Prince of Jin's Mansion and the Princess' Mansion were no exception.
——Because the King of Qi was dull and stupid, he was unable to leave the palace and build a residence after he became an adult, and he had always lived with the princes.
High fever was a rather tricky problem in ancient times, and Xie Mingzhuo and Xie Mingshuo were both worried about the King of Qi.
What if my elder brother came through with them and got burned into a fool?
【Author’s words】
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