The announcement that Princess Lian had returned home shocked everyone in the yard.
Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng were shocked, while City Lord Wu was furious.
He strode forward, pointed at the so-called Princess Lian who was just crossing the threshold and said, "Take her away! Take her away quickly!"
The woman looked at him in surprise, with a puzzled look on her face, and asked loudly, "Father, why are you kicking me out? His Royal Highness the Lotus King sympathized with his daughter for not fulfilling her filial duties to her parents for a long time, and specially allowed her to go back to her parents' home to visit her relatives. Why did you kick me out anyway, father?"
The girl who was supporting her looked as if she wished she could find a hole to crawl into.
City Lord Wu stamped his feet in anger, "What nonsense! Don't go crazy, go back to the manor quickly, don't embarrass me here!"
"Father!" The woman was also a little angry. "I am His Royal Highness Prince Lian's man. You must not be so rude to me!" After saying that, her tone immediately softened. She quickly walked a few steps to the city lord and coaxed him, "Father must be blaming me for being away from home for too long. Don't be angry, okay? I'm back! I brought you and mother a lot of gifts, all selected by His Royal Highness Prince Lian and me." As she spoke, she turned around and said to the servants outside, "Hurry up and bring in the gifts that His Royal Highness brought to my father! Be careful, or I'll chop off your heads if you break them."
The Lord of Wu City stood there with a dark face, staring straight outside, but he saw servants carrying things in baskets, and when he looked carefully, he saw that the baskets were filled with snow and even ice. His face became even uglier.
Feng Yuheng and Xuan Tianming looked at each other in bewilderment. Bai Ze was stunned, staring blankly at the woman in red pointing at the baskets of snow cubes and saying, "Your Highness Prince Lian heard that my father is usually frugal and has never eaten vegetables in his life. These are the vegetables that your Highness asked someone to buy from Guanzhou and sent them here at full speed. I will ask the kitchen to cook them later so that my father can have a taste."
The woman had a look of pride on her face as she spoke. She didn't think there was anything wrong with pointing at a lump of snow and insisting that it was a vegetable. The phoenix crown made a crisp sound when it moved, which made her look very beautiful.
Lord Wu raised his hand and wiped his face, then gently patted the woman's arm and said like coaxing a child: "Okay, your father knows your... your husband and wife's intentions, so I will accept these, and you can go back!"
"Back?" The woman's voice was a little higher. "What are you going to say? Father, are you getting old and confused? I came all the way from Kyoto to see you. I have been walking for more than a month. I just entered Bincheng today. Why are you chasing me away as soon as I enter the door? No!" As she said that, she pushed the City Lord Wu away and walked inside. As she walked, she said, "Where is my mother? Did she make my father angry again in the mansion? That's why my father is so unhappy? Don't worry, my daughter is back. I will definitely make the decision for my father. You... eh?" She finally saw a group of people in the yard, Xuan Tianming, Feng Yuheng, Bai Ze and the other two accompanying soldiers. The woman stopped and looked at them strangely, tilting her head as if thinking seriously. After a while, her eyes suddenly lit up: "I know who you are! The ninth prince of Dashun and Princess Ji'an, right?"
Feng Yuheng smiled at her kindly, "Do you recognize us?"
When City Lord Wu saw her talking to him again, he hurried forward to stop her, but Xuan Tianming raised his hand to stop her and said, "It's okay."
Then the woman said, "Of course I recognize him. These past few days, I've heard people on the street mentioning that the Ninth Prince of Dashun has entered Bin City, wearing a golden mask and looking very majestic. They also said that Princess Ji'an is a skilled doctor and is also pretty." She looked at the two of them as she spoke, and after a while she smiled and said, "She is pretty and majestic, but compared to our Royal Highness Prince Lian, she is still a little bit behind. Do you mind if I say this?"
Xuan Tianming shook his head and said nothing. Feng Yuheng said, "Miss Wu just said that she had just entered the city today. Why is she now saying that she has heard rumors in the city for a few days?"
When she asked this question, the woman in red was stunned. She was stunned on the spot, frowning, tapping her head with her hands, and wondering, "Really? Did I say I just entered the city today? Yes, I entered the city today, but where did you hear those words from?" After thinking for a while and not understanding, she was free and easy, and simply gave up thinking, and smiled and said to Feng Yuheng, "My memory is not very good. You also know Qian Zhou Tianhan, maybe his brain is frozen. Are you my father's guests? Don't rush to leave, I just returned to my mother's house today, and I happened to run into you two. This is also fate. Speaking of which, my husband is Prince Qian Zhou, and His Highness the Ninth Prince is Prince Da Shun, and they are of equal official rank. If there is nothing important, stay and let me show my hospitality!"
Xuan Tianming looked at Feng Yuheng with amusement, the meaning in his eyes was very clear: You have the final say.
Feng Yuheng thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to Miss Wu."
The woman in red laughed happily, took Feng Yuheng's hand and said, "The princess should call me Princess, not Miss Wu. But it doesn't matter. We are not in the palace now, nor in the capital. We can just call each other friends. You can just call me by my name. My name is Wu Lisheng."
"Li Sheng." Feng Yuheng pondered, "The sound of the first month, I guess... I guess the princess was born in the first month."
"You guessed right." Li Sheng said, "My biological mother gave me the name, and she loved to play the sheng." Then she turned around and said to the servants with a serious face, "Hurry up and carry these vegetables to the kitchen, and ask the chef to cook some delicious dishes. I want to entertain His Highness the Ninth Prince and Princess Ji'an." After that, she instructed a maid on the other side, "Go and tell the Fifth Aunt to clean up and have dinner together later." After giving all the instructions, she took Feng Yuheng's hand and said with a smile, "Let's go! Let's go to the Binghua Hall to sit down."
Feng Yuheng was dragged along a small path by her. City Lord Wu walked to Xuan Tianming with a helpless look on his face, made a gesture of invitation, and sighed, "Your Highness, please come in! The Ice Flower Hall is where the City Lord's Mansion entertains guests, and it does have some scenery." As he spoke, he looked at the woman in red walking in front, and said helplessly, "I'm sorry to make you laugh, Your Highness."
Xuan Tianming finally had time to ask, "Princess Lian?"
City Lord Wu quickly waved his hands: "What Princess Lian? It's just her own fantasy."
As they were talking, Li Sheng's voice came again, clear and pleasant, saying to Feng Yuheng: "In fact, the north also has its advantages. The people here are straightforward and don't have those scheming minds. Just like me, although I am a princess of the royal family, my airs are for outsiders to see. Once I return to my parents' home, I am still my father's daughter, so I don't have to follow those broken rules."
Feng Yuheng nodded, "That's great. This princess doesn't like to put on airs. By the way, where is His Royal Highness Prince Lian now? Didn't he come to Bincheng with the princess?"
"Just call me Li Sheng." She told Feng Yuheng, "You Dashun people fight whenever you want. The royal family is in chaos right now, and everyone is worried about this battle. But my husband doesn't like fighting. He went to Songzhou a few days ago, and I think he will be back soon."
"Oh." Feng Yuheng pretended to be very interested, "I wonder how many years it has been since Li Sheng and His Royal Highness Prince Lian got married?"
Li Sheng was stunned, and confusion appeared in her eyes again. She thought seriously for a while, but still couldn't remember it. She had no choice but to ask for help from City Lord Wu: "Father, when did your daughter get married?"
Lord Wu had a dark face and was unwilling to answer, but Li Sheng was unwilling to give up. She ran a few steps back and asked again, "When is my daughter's wedding? You know my brain doesn't work very well sometimes, so please tell me. Otherwise, if His Highness asks me about it in the future, what should I do if I can't answer it?"
City Lord Wu was so angry that he stopped and raised his hand to slap her. But when he saw Li Sheng's heavily made-up face and her eyes full of grievance, he couldn't bear to slap her.
He sighed heavily and put his arm down, then pointed at Li Sheng's bright red wedding dress and said, "You're still wearing your wedding dress, how many years can you stay married?"
"Hmm?" Li Sheng lowered her head and glanced at herself, and suddenly realized, "Ah! Could it be that today is my wedding with His Highness? No, no!" Then she shook her head, "The wedding was a long time ago. I just wore this wedding dress because I thought it was beautiful. If you don't believe me, father, look, this wedding dress is old. It's obviously not new." She studied her clothes, "Looking at the newness of the material, it should have been worn for at least two years. I married His Highness the year I became a virgin, and it has been two years now." After saying that, she happily ran back to Feng Yuheng and told her, "It's been two years."
Feng Yuheng reached out and held her wrist, chatting casually, but he secretly pinched her wrist pulse, but did not find anything abnormal.
They soon arrived at the Binghua Hall, and several people sat down at Li Sheng's invitation. Li Sheng sat next to Feng Yuheng and moved closer to him.
Lord Wu reminded her, "Li Sheng, sit further away and don't get too close to the princess."
"No." Li Sheng shook her head seriously, and told City Lord Wu seriously: "This princess has a very nice smell, like the smell of His Royal Highness the Lotus King, I like it."
"Shut up!" City Lord Wu was angry and frightened. The Ninth Prince was still sitting here, but she said that his wife smelled like another man. Isn't this courting death? He quickly stopped Li Sheng and said, "Come sit next to your father."
Li Sheng frowned and shook his head, "No."
Feng Yuheng didn't mind. He took Li Sheng's hand and said to City Lord Wu, "If she likes it, let her sit." Then he asked Li Sheng, "You said I smell like His Royal Highness the Lotus King? What is that smell?"
Li Sheng thought for a moment and said, "That is a special kind of spice. It is taken from the bones of an animal in the northernmost part of Qianzhou. It is soaked with thirty-six medicinal herbs for forty-nine days, then dried. The bones are ground into powder and put into an incense burner. When they are burned, they become that kind of incense."
Feng Yuheng was very interested in Li Sheng. It was not difficult to see that this woman had some mental problems. Princess Lian's words were probably mostly her own imagination. But apart from her identity, she spoke of other things in an orderly manner, which was very strange.
What was even more strange was that... after she met the Lotus King, a strange smell remained on her body. The smell was very faint, and no one else could smell it except herself and Xuan Tianming who slept with her. And besides her, Ban Zou also had this smell.
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