Chapter 234 Wen Yueyin: We will soon become princes and princesses
Xie Zhe lowered his eyes and looked at her.
The little princess who was spoiled and willful in the past was now more docile and gentle than any other concubine in his harem.
There was no emotion on his face, he just replied calmly, "Of course."
Without waiting for Wei Si to thank him, he held her hand and pulled her into his arms.
In full view of everyone, Xie Zhe picked up Wei Si and left the main hall.
Wen Xingluo watched the two of them disappear out the door, his hands gripping the wine cup so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
She wasn't a child anymore, she knew what was going to happen next.
As if sensing her uneasiness, Xie Guanlan silently held her hand tightly.
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Sleeping room.
Xie Zhe sat on the dragon couch, holding Wei Si's hands as she undressed him, and studying her features, "You want to kill me."
Wei Si raised her eyes to look at him.
She remembered that when Xie Zhe was young, his appearance was as bright as the sun in the sky, and he was the most handsome young man in the capital. Now he was old, his thin lips were even thinner, and his eye sockets were deeper and sunken than before, giving him a shrewd look that came from having seen a lot of vicissitudes of life.
He ascended to the most prominent position as a proton with nothing.
He has been in charge of the court for twenty years, with power highly concentrated. His spies are spread across all major counties and prefectures. He is like a giant dragon that controls the world invisibly, and is deeply feared by all the princes.
It seems that no secret in the world can escape his eyes.
Wei Si no longer followed the plan Xiangjun had designed for her and frankly admitted, "Yes."
The conversation in the hall was nothing but lies between two people.
She stared at the dragon pattern on Xie Zhe's brocade robe. "Every day I live, I want to kill you. I regret choosing you to be my consort. If I could go back to those days, I would definitely persuade my father and brother to kill you beforehand."
In the year when war broke out, she was still the carefree little princess in the palace.
Her biggest worry every day is why Xie Zhe hasn't replied to her letter yet.
After Xie Zhe returned to his fiefdom Yecheng, she wrote to him every day.
She likes to write to him.
She told him which flowers were blooming in the imperial garden, told him that her mother had forced her to eat bird's nest, which she didn't like, and even wrote about such trivial matters as the fact that she had received a new hairpin flower.
But Xie Zhe rarely wrote back to her.
That year, he went from replying once a month to once every three or four months, and finally he simply stopped writing to her.
She kept looking forward to it.
She waited and waited, but he didn't return to Beijing to marry her. Instead, she waited for him to lead his army in rebellion.
The past is too painful to recall.
Wei Si closed her eyes, suppressed the resentment and sorrow in her heart, and suddenly knelt down at Xie Zhe's feet.
She raised her head. "However, times have changed. I can no longer be as willful as I was back then. I'm a mother now, with five children. I have to plan for their future. Xie Zhe, you are the emperor now. Their future depends on your words."
Xie Zhe pinched her cheeks with his thumb and index finger and looked down at her condescendingly.
"Mother."
He savored the unfamiliar word.
Wei Si's eyes were like water.
She knew that Xie Zhe's mother died of complications during childbirth.
His father's concubine named him "Zhe".
To break, to break.
The intention is self-evident.
Not long after, the concubine was promoted to second wife. After she gave birth to her own child, she sent Xie Zhe to the capital as a hostage.
When Xie Zhe was young, he wielded a sword and wanted to be a knight who robbed the rich and helped the poor, and wanted to love the world.
But he himself has never had the love of his mother since he was born.
"Mother..." Xie Zhe repeated the word, seeming to be more interested in Wei Si. "So, it was for your children that you tried so hard to get the Mu family to tell me that you were in the southwest? It was for your children that you took the initiative to show your goodwill to me?"
Wei Si admitted straightforwardly, "Yes."
This reason seemed to convince Xie Zhe.
He leaned back slightly.
After Xiangjun's instruction, Wei Si is now quite adept at observing people's expressions and understands what Xie Zhe means.
She stood up with her brows lowered and took the initiative to undress Xie Zhe.
Although he was middle-aged, as an emperor, Xie Zhe took good care of himself and often rode horses and practiced archery. He was even braver and stronger than many young men.
He raised his eyebrows and looked at Wei Si.
Not quite satisfied with her clumsy attempts to please him, he turned over and pressed her under him.
Wei Si was in a trance for a moment.
When she was young, she had imagined her wedding night with Xie Zhe countless times.
But I never expected it to be in this way, with this identity.
The golden bells rang and the wedding candles burned quietly all night.
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The next day, the first snow fell in Chengdu.
The news that Wei Si was a princess of the previous dynasty spread like wildfire. Everyone praised the emperor for his kindness. Not only did he not kill the remnants of the previous dynasty, he even took their old friendship into consideration and wanted to take her to the capital for resettlement.
The Wen brothers and sisters were crowded on the street.
Wen Rufeng was just released from prison a few days ago. With nowhere else to go, he had to give up his identity as a scholar and help Wen Ruyun sell things on the street.
Wen Rulei was skeptical, "Second brother, is your business reliable?"
"Why is it unreliable?" Wen Ruyun was unhappy. "This is a gold-inlaid jade! I won first prize while shopping. The first prize is a 50% discount on a gold-inlaid jade. The person said that as long as I pay ten taels of silver, I can buy this gold-inlaid jade worth two hundred taels of silver. I don't know what a bargain it is! As long as we sell this gold-inlaid jade at a high price, we can get rich!"
"What's with the gold-inlaid jade thing?" a passerby scoffed. "Even a three-year-old knows this is a scam! The jade is just mixed jade, and the gold is just gold foil applied on top. This piece of gold-inlaid jade isn't worth even half an ounce of silver! Oh, and that person's lottery tickets are all for first prize. They're specifically trying to trick idiots like you!"
There was laughter all around.
Wen Ruyun's face turned pale and blue, and he muttered, "Impossible... How could a business genius like me be cheated?!"
"Big brother, second brother, third brother!"
Wen Yueyin suddenly ran over in a hurry.
Her cheeks flushed with excitement. "Have you heard? It turns out our mother was a princess of the previous dynasty, and she was once engaged to the emperor! Now the emperor is in the Zhenbei Palace, and he plans to take mother to the capital to enjoy life!"
The three brothers couldn't believe it, "Really?!"
"Why would I lie to you?! Who knows, the emperor might even marry our mother!"
Wen Rufeng swept away the dejection he had felt since being released from prison and said in surprise, "So, we're going to become princes and princesses soon?!"
"Yes!" Wen Yueyin excitedly said, "Good days for our family are coming soon!"
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