Red and White
Gossip, like the wheels of a cart that have been abandoned, rolls around everywhere.
There are wars everywhere in Chang'an, and I want to make it known to everyone.
Even if I can't kill her, I will make her die of anger.
My big fire burned vigorously on Yongfufang, Xingningfang, Banzhengfang, Jingshanfang, Yongxingfang, Anxingfang, Taiji Palace, Furong Garden, Imperial City... and left not a blade of grass and no room for destruction.
During those ten days, the Luoyang Marquisate was in chaos, like a massacre.
With verbal battles and fighting, I need both civil and military skills to hold my ground.
In Luoyang Marquis Mansion, the killing is even worse than on the battlefield.
Heavy rain and raging waterfalls, regardless of dangers and obstacles, kings, princes, generals, princesses and ministers from all sides came one after another.
The embroidery is hooked with silk threads, and the North is in chaos. Where should I start?
It was so confusing that I have no idea how to recall the whole thing. If you force me to describe it in detail, I can only start from that night.
It can only start from the curfew in Chang'an that night.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, it all starts with Li Jiabalang and King Heng.
At dusk, Prince Heng was the first to hear about my marriage from Prince Yu. He stayed until dark and refused to believe it. Helplessly, he did not return to Prince Heng's house in the dark, but went to Prince Shu's house first.
When the Marquis of Luoyang married a musician, Balang immediately learned to tell it to Qilang and Youyu.
All the princes are in Yongfufang.
The princesses are all in Xingningfang.
Prince Shu ignored the curfew, the princess ignored her pregnancy, and he and his wife ignored breaking the curfew, the travel permits, the permits for traveling at night, the imperial guards, the floggings, the bows and arrows, and the strangulation.
My husband and wife climbed over the wall from Yongfufang to Xingningfang, and the king and princess just wanted to ask me whether the rumor was true or not.
They both nearly lost their lives, and I nearly lost my soul.
I was at a loss for words and just asked Prince Shu and his wife to go see Yang Yanji.
The king and princess looked at the musician through the screen.
Qilang whispered to me, "Better than Henu. He wouldn't dare scold you, let alone insult you."
Youyu also said, "Although he is a musician, I think he is better than a saint. At least he won't beat or kill you."
"No matter how good he is, he is just a musician after all. It is not good enough to just play musical instruments and sing. No matter how smart he is, there will always be some shortcomings. There are many rules in our area. It is not convenient to let him go out and make a fool of himself, which will bring shame to the Luoyang Marquis Mansion and your face. Let the two of us take him back to the Wang Mansion, teach him a good lesson, and return him to you when the time comes." Li Junling said.
"I also want to ask about his origins," said Wang Youyu.
I shook my head and refused, not because I was reluctant, but because I had other plans that I just couldn't tell you.
The King and Princess did not force it.
From that night on, Youyu and Qilang lived in the Luoyang Marquis' Mansion.
Always with me.
Princess Anyang came from the right. As soon as she entered the room, she asked me in surprise, "Sister, are you crazy?"
Princess Huayang came from the left. She stepped into the Marquis of Luoyang's mansion and answered for me with a laugh, "She's not crazy. Even if the Li family and we were all crazy, she wouldn't be crazy. She's just trying to satisfy herself. She doesn't care about Chang'an City, Taiji Palace, or the lives of all the gentlemen in the north..."
The person who understands me best is none other than Princess Huayang.
Yes, for the sake of my own satisfaction, I don’t care about the life and death of those irrelevant people, Yang Yanji, Zheng Zihuan...
I don't care who lives or dies.
The two princesses Huayang and Anyang lived together, needless to say.
Prince Heng dug a hole in the ground and crawled from Yongfufang into Xingningfang. Princess Shouyang of Prince Xin's Mansion also followed Balang, eating dust and crawling into the Marquis of Luoyang's Mansion.
The princess looked at Yang Yanji and said that her house was short of musicians. She asked me to reluctantly give him up and asked her to go somewhere else to play.
Shouyang refused to leave and just stared at Yang Yanji day and night without moving his eyes.
The princess has a childish nature and has been like this since she was young. The Li family is no longer surprised by it. I also treat her like a child and let her play.
In Xingningfang, Zheng Shaoqing of Taichang Temple asked for an audience outside.
His voice was like a bell, and he begged to see her again and again. The soldiers couldn't drive him away, and people came to see him. He acted recklessly.
I asked A Xiang and Yuan Xiaojiang to come in. That night was the first time I met Zheng Zihuan.
Zheng Shaoqing questioned me in front of all the princesses, kings and wives.
What's wrong with him?
What is it about him that is not to my liking?
Why do I just look down on him?
How is he inferior to this musician?
I said, he is not good in any way, nothing meets my expectations, and he is not as good as Yang Yanji.
I looked down on it before, I look down on it now, and I will never think about it in the future. I just look down on it.
After he finished speaking, Zheng Shaoqing cried and spat out a mouthful of blood. He knelt down and told me that he would change. He begged me not to marry anyone else and asked me to marry him.
I begged him not to stain my Luoyang Marquis Mansion with blood.
I asked him to get up and get out.
He and I had nothing to do with each other from beginning to end.
It has always been him, always coming to harass me under the guise of relatives. If he doesn't vomit blood that night, I will shoot him with an arrow.
He was wishful thinking and didn't care about my wishes at all. He came to question me in public, forced me to marry him in person, and interfered with my marriage.
Do you want everything to go according to his wishes and everything to be as he wishes?
He thinks he is a saint, he thinks he is an emperor?
Even saints have times when they are unhappy, and even emperors have things that are not to their liking.
Do you want me to endure the disgust, swallow my anger, and marry him unwillingly, so that he can be happy and satisfied?
There is no such good thing in the world.
Everything was instigated by Zheng Zihuan. He was full of grievances but had nowhere to complain. Those who didn't know the truth probably thought I was a heartless person.
I was wrong, of course I was wrong. My mistake was that I didn't break my own bones, didn't kneel on the ground, and kowtow and cry to beg him to marry me.
Vomiting blood, it’s good to vomit, it would be better if you vomit to death.
Chang'an, Luoyang, there are groups of men who have worked hard for me, so many that they can fill the East China Sea Lake in Taiji Palace.
If each of them spits blood for me, I should marry them one by one?
Then wouldn't I be a sex object for everyone?
Zheng Zihuan wiped the blood clean and walked out slowly...
The next day, the sun rose and shone on the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang in the east and west.
The men were all in the imperial city, the officials were all in the court, and they were crowded back and forth on Suzaku Street.
My wife arrived before noon.
The first person to enter the Luoyang Marquis Mansion was Madam Dou, my sister-in-law's sister-in-law.
"Getting married is a good thing and a happy event, but now, the Yan family is headed by your sister-in-law. Who will take care of things for you when your sister-in-law is not around?" Mrs. Dou asked after drinking her tea.
That spring, my sister-in-law took Yan Qi and Yan Lin back to Luoyang to worship their ancestors at the Yan family.
"All the affairs in Luoyang are managed by my sisters-in-law. They have worked hard. I have left home and have my own ideas about everything. I also have help with the marriage, so you two sisters-in-law don't have to worry about it." I said.
"It's better to wait until autumn, when your sister-in-law and your two nephews come back. Then the wedding will be more lively." Mrs. Dou suggested.
The Yan family's mansion, his uncle's Taoist temple, the ancestral temple and family property, and many other things in Luoyang are waiting for his sister-in-law to take care of. The three of them will not be able to return to Chang'an until autumn.
Yan Qi and Yan Lin are members of the Yan family. Whether the Yan family is good or bad, whether I live or die, and whether the mistress lives or dies, Dalang and Erlang have to bear the internal strife of the Yan family.
My biological parents were reckless and dissolute when they were young, so I shouldn't blame them. However, my eldest sister-in-law was the most innocent and the one most implicated in this matter.
If the mistress of the Yan family is not a good mistress, how can she be a good mother-in-law?
In the Yan family, in front of the mistress, my sister-in-law never dared to breathe.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the mistress died in spring?
I sent the mistress to see my eldest brother, and waited for my sister-in-law to return to Chang'an. Only then could everything go smoothly and I could truly be the head of the family.
"After autumn, I will be twenty years old. Women in Chang'an either don't marry or marry early. Who would wait until I'm this old? It's too late for me to wait for autumn..."
I laughed at myself and Mrs. Dou said no more. She took a sip of tea, sat for a while and then left.
By the time my eldest sister-in-law came back, it was already autumn. One spring, one summer, one autumn, and one day longer, I would be restless if the mistress of the Yan family lived...
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