Chapter 531 The Princess Who Was Widowed Early (24)
On the day Gu Changfeng ascended the throne, he cried until his eyes were red.
Emperor Rui had annihilated Marquis Mingji, but he died on the way back. Shi Yi personally wore mourning clothes and carried Emperor Rui's body back to Kyoto. On the day the coffin returned to the capital, the whole country mourned. On the high platform, Gu Changfeng's body was almost unstable. He was supported by the palace servants and subconsciously looked at the princess. His eyes happened to meet hers, but he could not see any sadness in her expression. He stopped sobbing and felt something was wrong.
Concubine Shu was promoted to Concubine Tai. She and a group of concubines knelt on the bluestone bricks of the palace road and watched from afar as the soldiers carried Emperor Rui's coffin. The soldier with an unusually tall figure suddenly turned his head to look at her. When she saw the soldier's face clearly, her heart, which was as stagnant as water, suddenly began to beat. Emperor Rui was not dead.
She quickly lowered her head and covered her heart. Many past events instantly hit her mind.
She recalled her first meeting with Emperor Rui. It was a dewy morning. She was not yet fifteen years old and her temper was at its most stubborn. Because she had a quarrel with the eldest princess in the palace academy yesterday, she was unwilling to go to the palace to accompany the eldest princess to study, and was personally escorted to the carriage by her grandmother in the mansion.
She was already feeling aggrieved. When she arrived at the gate of the academy and saw the prime minister's daughter Gou Lu scolding the daughter of the censor Liu Wei in public, she couldn't help it. She put her hands on her hips and blocked Liu Wei behind her, and scolded her loudly.
She was nobler than Gou Lu, so she didn't dare to confront her directly and left in anger. Liu Wei thanked her profusely and persuaded her to stop interfering in her affairs. She didn't understand why Liu Wei was so afraid of Gou Lu at that time, but she had already remembered Gou Lu's arrogant appearance in her heart, and she hated Gou Lu herself to the core.
She ran to the lotus pond angrily. She originally planned to relax and then go back to the academy for class, but she didn't expect the lotus flowers in the lotus pond to be so beautiful. She forgot the time because she didn't pay attention. As she looked, she wanted to pick one. As soon as she stretched out her hand, a pair of strong hands hugged her waist. She turned around and saw the Emperor Rui himself.
At that time, the Emperor Rui was still very young, not as young as he was at that time, and looked like an older brother. But the expression between his eyebrows was exactly the same as when the eldest princess looked at her. The eldest princess was the first child of the Emperor Rui, so she immediately determined that he was the Emperor Rui himself.
"Are you going to imitate the dead Holy Mother Empress Dowager and feed the lotus with your body?" She still remembers the first sentence he said to her.
She shook her head, pulled his hand away, and looked at the lotus pond. She was so scared that her face turned pale. It turned out that the bluestone bricks she was standing on were loose in front. If she didn't pay attention and went forward, she might really fall into the lotus pond. Although it was daytime here, the Holy Mother Empress Dowager had fallen into the lotus pond and drowned, so many palace people didn't dare to pass through here. She couldn't swim, and at that time, she really cried to the sky and the earth for help.
"I just think the lotus is beautiful and want to pick one." She stammered and lowered her head in shame.
"If you like it, take it." Suddenly, there was a fresh bud in her hand, with transparent water drops on it. She looked up in astonishment and saw him stepping towards Chaoyang Palace.
"Don't come here alone in the future. You won't know how someone pushed you down." His steady and powerful voice gradually faded with the rising sun. She shook the lotus bud in her hand and broke out in a cold sweat.
The Holy Mother Empress Dowager must have drowned as he said. The one who had such courage must be...
Later, many palace people thought that she was at odds with the Empress Dowager in order to please Emperor Rui. In fact, they were all wrong. She just wanted to repay Emperor Rui for saving her.
The next time she saw Emperor Rui was in her own Chunhui Palace. At that time, her identity was his new concubine in the harem.
There was a 24-year age difference between them, three years younger than his oldest child. The way he treated her was completely different from the way he treated his daughter.
He occasionally criticized the eldest princess, but doted on her most of the time. His attitude towards her was not cold, but it was definitely not warm either. It was also on the night she entered the palace that she became his. But her heart was empty. Because she knew very well that he would not have her in his heart, perhaps not in this life.
Later, she had a relationship with the fifth prince. She no longer cared about Emperor Rui's attitude towards her. Sometimes she secretly wondered whether Emperor Rui had already known about the relationship between her and the fifth prince, but every time Emperor Rui looked at her, his eyes were exactly the same cold. She thought that even if he knew, he would not care. The
fifth prince was not worthy of her love, but she had done something to let Emperor Rui down in her life. In the future, she would not have the opportunity to make up for it. He would not care either.
The coffin had gone far away, and the other palace maids and concubines had stood up and were ready to return to their own palaces, but she was still kneeling there alone. The female official wanted to remind her, but was stunned when she saw her face full of tears.
When Emperor Rui turned his head and looked at Concubine Shu, he knew that she must have recognized him, but he didn't care.
He has always been cold-hearted and rarely has feelings for people, but in essence, he is not a bad person. Although he doesn't like Concubine Shu, he has never forced her to do anything. He knew that she and the fifth prince had committed a shameful act of immorality, and he didn't blame her. Because the moment he summoned her to the palace, he had already done something unfair to this woman who was younger than his daughter.
Concubine Shu's identity destined her to stay in the harem, but now he is "dead", and she has completely regained her freedom. As the woman with the highest status in the harem, if she is willing, he has no objection to keeping a few male favorites. There are too many shackles imposed on women by the world, and if she can live more freely, he will be more happy to see it.
The new emperor has the assistance of his old ministers and his most intelligent eldest princess to guard him, so he doesn't have to worry at all. Therefore, he will not stay in the palace any longer, he wants to find his own life. It is time for him to learn more about the affairs of the people.
In the second month after the new emperor ascended the throne, Song Weicheng resigned and returned to the academy where he once lived. The princess invited him back to the princess's mansion in a high-profile manner.
Lan Yu, who looks like the former prince consort, has left Kyoto. Song Weicheng stays by her side peacefully, watching her gradually shed her original traces and be reborn into a new self. He witnesses her taking on her own world as Emperor Rui said and becoming a role model for women of her time.
[Mission completed, harvested [Life is a Sour Flavor]]
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