Chapter 225 Fate is so ingenious!
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In the following days, Li Shiyue first went to the prefectural school to deliver a box of paper to Li Wangming, telling him that once the prefectural school was closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival, he could go directly back to the paper shop.
"I had already told my mother and the others before I came that they would take a carriage to the prefectural city the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Then our whole family can celebrate the festival in the prefectural city."
Just as Li Shiyue said, Li's mother and the others had already driven to the prefectural city.
With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, the number of people coming and going at the city gate has been countless these past few days.
The people queuing to enter the city watched as a troop of armored cavalry emerged from the gate, clearing the way, followed by several very luxurious carriages.
Someone in the ranks muttered, asking whose house this was, especially since there were even Xuanjia cavalry as guards!
One of the kind-hearted men lowered his voice and said, "In this place of Andong, who else could it be?"
Upon hearing this, the man realized that this must be the family of the Prince of Zhenbei.
This was indeed the family of Prince Zhenbei. Princess Zhao Changying's carriage was at the front, followed by Consort Zhou's carriage with her sixth daughter from the Prince's residence, and the last carriage was the one that Yan Jiuniang had mentioned, with her seventh sister, a young man who looked no more than seven or eight years old, and her wet nurse.
The reason why there were only children and wet nurses in the carriage of the seventh sister was that she and the young man's biological mother were only concubines, not consorts.
The princess said she was going to the Hanshan Temple outside the city to pray for a peace charm. Any woman in the palace who wanted to go had to get the princess's permission before she could go with them.
If the princess doesn't agree, the women in the backyard won't be allowed to leave the house.
Consort Zhou was at least a concubine, and she had given birth to two sons and a daughter for the Prince of Zhenbei. She said she wanted to go with the Princess to ask for a peace charm, and the Princess naturally wouldn't refuse her request.
But what is the status of the seventh sister's aunt in the Prince's mansion?
She was just lucky to have given birth to a son and a daughter for the Prince of Zhenbei.
If you really want to say something, the concubine in the Prince's mansion was nothing more than a plaything.
The concubine didn't have the face to go out of the mansion with her children to ask for amulets for peace.
Therefore, the seventh sister took her younger brother and wet nurse and sat in a carriage.
The carriages of the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion were all made of fine horses. Even though they were not going very fast to accommodate the women, it still made the sixth sister, who rarely went out, feel a little uncomfortable.
Because the sixth sister was not feeling well, their group stopped halfway through the journey.
It was when they stopped the carriage and the sixth sister was helped off the carriage by the maid to catch her breath that Li's mother, who was driving halfway, was forced to stop the carriage by the roadside.
Li Xiatian got out of the car and looked ahead, just in time to see her sixth sister being helped out of the car.
Li Xiatian turned to Li Qiutian, who was stretching her arms and legs, and said, "Sister, the daughters of the princes are truly precious."
We were just trying to catch our train, and then we had to stop and wait for someone to relieve themselves.
"Silence!"
Li Qiutian glared at Li Xiatian, signaling her to keep her voice down so that the guards blocking the way nearby wouldn't hear and cause trouble for their family.
Li Xiatian stuck out her tongue at Li Qiutian and whispered, "That's true."
With this delay, we don't even know if we'll be able to get into town today.
If we can't get in, we'll have to stay at someone's house for the night.
Zheng Meiniang took a fruit and walked over, stuffing it directly into Li Xiatian's mouth to shut her up.
After Li Xiatian finished eating the fruit and played with the grass by the roadside for a while, the guards of the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion started moving again, and the mansion's convoy continued on its way.
"Ptooey, ptooey," Li Xiatian spat out the dust that hit him as the Prince's convoy passed by.
As she was about to take a sip of water to rinse her mouth, the sound of horses' hooves clattered over as soon as she opened her mouth.
Li Xiatian, his mouth agape, was filled with dust kicked up by two galloping horses.
"Cough cough, ptooey, ptooey, why am I so unlucky? Who is it? Running a horse so fast?"
Li Xiatian looked up at the two horses that had already run quite far ahead and saw that the two men were both wearing Taoist robes and had their hair styled in a cow-nose style.
Zheng Meiniang handed over the water pouch, "Still looking!"
Is your mouth clean? Hurry up and rinse it!
“Mother, they look like two Taoist priests.”
Zheng Meiniang glared at Li Xiatian, who had no choice but to open the water pouch to rinse his mouth.
The two people Li Shiyue said were Taoist priests were Yan Jiu Niang's mother, Yan Xuefei, and her senior brother, Li Mingfeng.
Many years ago, Yan Xuefei chose to become a Taoist nun instead of a lay Buddhist at a nunnery. She became a disciple of Li Qingyun, the abbot of Qingyun Temple, and became Li Mingfeng's junior sister.
Even if she becomes a nun, she will always have something to care about in this mortal world.
After all, who wasn't born of parents?
Yan Xuefei's biggest concern is Yan Jiuniang.
After receiving the letter sent to the Taoist temple by Jiang Huijun, she immediately informed Li Qingyun that she wanted to return to the prefectural city to question the Prince of Zhenbei.
One of the conditions Yan Xuefei agreed to allow the Prince of Zhenbei to recognize Yan Jiuniang was that Yan Jiuniang could not be betrothed to anyone without Yan Xuefei's permission.
To arrange a marriage for Yan Jiuniang, Yan Xuefei's consent is required.
When Yan Xuefei saw what Jiang Huijun's letter said, that the Prince of Zhenbei had so casually arranged a marriage for Yan Jiuniang without her consent or even asking her, and that the man she was engaged to was from Guanzhong, which was a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Andong!
Yan Xuefei was so angry that her eyes turned red!
"It wasn't enough that he betrayed me; he even tried to use his own daughter!"
That very night, Yan Xuefei decided to go down the mountain and return to the prefectural city.
Later, Li Mingfeng persuaded her to stay, and she went down the mountain the next day to return to the prefectural city.
Yan Xuefei originally wanted to go back to the prefectural city alone, but Li Mingfeng was worried about her going alone, so he said he would go with her.
Yan Xuefei naturally rejected him.
However, Li Mingfeng said to her, "You are my junior sister. How can I just stand by and do nothing when Jiu Niang is in trouble?"
With one more person comes one more force. How could my junior sister know that I can't play a role?
"Let me go. Otherwise, how can my master and I rest easy if you leave?"
So the two of them went down the mountain together, bought two horses and some dry food at the cattle and horse market in Qingyun Town at the foot of Qingyun Mountain, and then set off.
As luck would have it, Yan Xuefei and Li Mingfeng were galloping along the official road when they passed right by the Prince's entourage.
After passing the Prince's entourage, the two horses left Li Xiatian with a cloud of dust, causing him to eat a mouthful of dirt.
Fate is so wonderful!
With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, I wonder what kind of show will unfold in the city when all the characters from all sides make their appearance.
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