I Am This Type of Woman Chapter 53: City
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It snowed continuously for two or three days and finally stopped.
Rong Xia sat on a chair covered with a soft cushion with the word "Tuanfu" and quietly let the eldest princess look at her.
"A distinguished guest is here. I wonder what your honor is for Mr. Rong?" The tea in the hands of the eldest princess was steaming. She was sitting upright, with a polite smile on her rosy cheeks, but only There is no intention of getting close.
"I came here today just to pay my respects to His Highness." Rong Xia took a sip of tea. The tea is the best royal tea, with a total output of less than two kilograms per year.
"Uncle Rong is here for you," the eldest princess smiled lightly, "I am very good."
"Your Highness is in good health, so I can rest assured." Rong Xia put the tea cup on the coffee table, "It is said that this kind of tea is not good for the stomach, so it is better for Your Highness to drink less."
The eldest princess's eyes suddenly became sharp. Her eyes stayed on Rong Xia for a moment, and the smile on her face disappeared little by little: "Uncle Rong is quite a worried person."
"The younger generation's parents died early, and the elder brother passed away early. No one cared about the younger generation, so the younger generation simply developed the temperament of worrying about himself." Rong Xia lowered her eyelids, bowed her head slightly, and her attitude was very respectful.
Seeing him like this, the eldest princess chuckled and said, "People who love to worry are said to have a calm temperament. I wonder if Uncle Rong can be stable?"
Rong Xia hugged her fists towards the eldest princess: "The juniors will do the same, of course."
"Tell me," the eldest princess said calmly, "Why did you come here today?"
"Your Highness, I would like to know why my father and mother died."
The sun shone into the room through the window lattice. The eldest princess's eyelids trembled slightly, and then she wiped the corners of her mouth: "I don't know what you mean by this."
"Junior thinks that Your Highness should understand." Rong Xia looked at the eldest princess and refused to give in.
The eldest princess looked at the outstanding young man in front of her with a dazed expression, as if she saw Lin who looked at her in the same way decades ago. Lin's biological mother was born to a talented person in the harem, that is, her younger sister. After getting married, she was demoted to a commoner because she was involved in the struggle for the throne, and later committed suicide.
The Lin family did not live well in the Lin family, because everyone knew that the late emperor did not like those ministers or princesses who had helped other brothers, so the Lin family did not treat her favorably because she had royal blood. However, Lin was very beautiful and was very good at calligraphy and painting. In the end, she was begged to marry back by her predecessor, Cheng Anbo.
Theoretically, she was Lin's aunt, but Lin's biological mother had already been expelled from the royal family and demoted to a commoner, so Lin could only call her the eldest princess in front of her.
Fortunately, her biological mother was not favored by the late emperor, so her son can now be put into important use by his majesty. No one knows better than the eldest princess that there is no so-called father-son relationship towards the late emperor, but more hatred. That's why after he ascended the throne, he rehabilitated some people who had been punished by the late emperor and gained a reputation for benevolence.
Rong Xia calls himself junior in front of her at this moment, probably because he wants to remind her that his maternal grandmother is her half-sister, even though this sister has been eliminated from the royal family tree.
The room was quiet for a long time, until the eldest princess could no longer bear it and coughed several times, breaking the deathly silence in the room.
"Your Highness," Aunt Chang walked in worriedly.
"Back off." The eldest princess wiped the corners of her mouth. Her lips were as red as blood. Grandma Chang glanced at Rong Xia and saw that the princess was resolute, so she had no choice but to retreat.
"Lin died of lovesickness beans," the eldest princess said calmly, "red beans give rise to lovesickness, and lovesickness breaks one's heart."
Rong Xia's eyelids trembled: "Who is it?"
The eldest princess asked: "I thought you understood."
Rong Xia was silent for a moment: "If that's the case, why did you leave me behind?"
The eldest princess’ eyes slowly swept over Rong Xia, and she suddenly smiled and said: “I watched your majesty grow up today. He is kind-hearted and cruel, but he has a hobby that I don’t know whether it is good or bad. , or this is a problem shared by most of the Jiang family royal family, that is, they love beauty."
"Whether you are a man or a woman, as long as you are good-looking, you can arouse his rare compassion." The eldest princess smiled with a hint of mockery, "You can survive because you are talented. You're smart, and...you're good-looking."
In the eyes of the eldest princess, Rong Xia is indeed very good-looking. Looking at the whole capital, almost no one can match her.
"Your Highness," Rong Xia suddenly looked at her, "Have you ever regretted it?"
"People who were born in the royal family are not qualified to say this word." The eldest princess picked up the tea cup calmly, not caring whether she could drink the tea, she lowered her head and took a sip, "If I didn't act step by step, then I would The fate will be the same as your grandmother."
The eyes of the eldest princess are calm and peaceful, as if all the deaths and conspiracies have been drowned by time and have no impact on her at all.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for telling this junior," Rong Xia stood up and bowed deeply to the eldest princess, "Please take care of yourself, Jingting Marquis Mansion still needs you."
"I can't protect them," the eldest princess looked at the young man who saluted her, and suddenly said, "Logically, you should call me aunt."
She stood up slowly, took out an inconspicuous small box from the drawer beside her, and handed it to Rong Xia: "You have grown up, and I have never given you any gifts. This one is mine. Let’s meet and greet.”
Rong Xia did not accept the wooden box, but said: "What does Your Highness want this junior to do?"
"What to do?" The eldest princess laughed, her laughter was a little strange, "I don't need you to do anything. Originally, I planned to take this thing into the ground, but since you are here today, it means that it is related to You are destined."
Rong Xia took the box and said seriously: "In the future, this junior will take good care of Jingtinghou Mansion."
"Good boy." The eldest princess patted Rong Xia's shoulder gently. Her movement was very light, but Rong Xia felt the weight of her hand.
"No need," the eldest princess seemed relieved, "Everyone has their own fate. You can protect them for a while, but you cannot protect them for a lifetime."
"I will give them the last amulet before I leave."
Rong Xia squeezed the wooden box tightly: "Junior is willing to help you."
The eldest princess smiled and said nothing. She opened the window, looked at the young man carefully, and slowly waved her hand: "Go back."
Rong Xia felt that he was in a very strange mood, feeling happy and uncomfortable at the same time. When he walked to the door, he looked back behind him.
The eldest princess stood in front of the window, with the sun shining on her body. She was as kind as a female Bodhisattva in the temple. Rong Xia couldn't help but think, what a charming woman this princess was a few decades ago?
On the day when the snow stopped, Banhua got up a little later than usual. By the time she finished washing up, the sun was already halfway up in the sky. The snow in the yard had been swept clean, and even the snow hanging on the branches had been swept away. The remaining ice was beaten clean by the servants.
"Princess," a nun came in, "Your Majesty, please go to the main hall, there are guests."
Banhua is a little strange, what kind of guest does she want to meet?
Walking into the main hall, Ban Hua saw Rong Xian sitting next to Ban Heng.
"Uncle Rong?"
"Princess," Rong Xia stood up and bowed to Banhua, "Thank you very much for lending me the umbrella the past two days."
Borrow?
Banhua was stunned for a moment. Wasn't that umbrella given to him? Why did it become borrowed?
After everyone chatted for a while, Rong Xia returned the umbrella to Banhua and said apologetically: "I don't know where the pendant on the umbrella handle fell. I felt very guilty, so I replaced it with a new one." Pendant."
Banhua then noticed that the ruby originally hanging on the umbrella handle had turned into a jade-carved peony. This peony was extremely beautifully carved. Banhua fell in love with it just by looking at it: "Uncle Rong, you are so polite. , it’s just a pendant.”
"My princess had good intentions when I borrowed my silk umbrella, but I lost it. It's my fault." Rong Xia's smile got even bigger, "It's good that your princess doesn't mind."
Ban Heng, who was sitting next to him, looked at his sister and Cheng Anbo happily chatting with indifference and took a sip of tea in boredom. What did Uncle Rong mean?
"Your Majesty," Rong Xia seemed to have eyes on the back of his head. Knowing that Ban Heng was bored, he started talking to him again, "A few days ago, a member of the disciples got a fighting **** from nowhere. He said it was for breeding. I was playing to relax. But I don't know how to play these things, and I didn't know what to do with the fighting **** for a while. I heard that the prince has a taste for fighting cocks. I wonder if I can send the fighting **** to your mansion? If you don't accept it, I'll just take it. You can use it in the kitchen to make soup."
When Ban Heng heard about the cockfight, he immediately nodded and said: "Don't make soup. This kind of chicken costs hundreds of taels of silver. You can just send it over. I promise to raise it well and strong. Invincible in the capital!"
"Then there's Prince Lao." Rong Xia's face suddenly showed a sense of relief that troubles had been solved, and this expression greatly pleased Ban Heng. Who said he was useless? Didn't he help Rong Xia solve a problem?
The world always looks at others with prejudice, which is not a good habit.
"By the way, sister, aren't you planning to go to your grandmother's house today?" Ban Heng glanced at the sky outside, "It's almost noon, why haven't you set off yet?"
"Last night, the nun next to my grandmother told me that she was going to the palace and wouldn't let me go there," Banhua said helplessly, "I originally found some interesting things and wanted to send them to my grandmother. ."
"Why don't you wait until grandma comes back before sending her there?" Ban Heng knew that his sister had nothing to do recently, so he liked to go to his grandmother's princess house. "After lunch, I will go with you."
"Yes." Banhua nodded, unconsciously playing with the jade peony pendant on the umbrella handle.
"It's a coincidence," Rong Xia suddenly said, "I just visited Her Royal Highness the Princess below. No wonder Her Royal Highness is dressed up, it turns out she is going to the palace."
"Have you met grandma?" Banhua turned to look at Rong Xia and asked a little strangely, "Then why doesn't she have time to see me?"
"Probably because I will only stay for a while before leaving?" Rong Xia smiled, "Her Royal Highness the princess loves the princess so much, if you go, she probably won't want to enter the palace."
"Really?" Banhua touched his chin, stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll go into the palace to have a look. The last time Your Majesty lived forever, I didn't even have a good conversation with the Queen."
As a princess favored by the emperor and empress, Banhua had the right to enter the palace at any time. However, after she turned fifteen, she intentionally reduced the number of visits to the palace.
"I have something to do and I have to go to the palace to see Your Majesty. If the Princess does not mind, I would like to go with the Princess."