Chapter 117
Rong Xiangmian saw that Zhou Xian Yang is like a magic barrier, not moving, maintaining the posture of bending over, hands on her face, staring dead in her eyes, very strange, busy pull down the handkerchief: “are wet, why put my face?”
“I’m sorry …… I’m sorry ……”
Zhou Xian Yang eyes, sadness and surprise at the same time, repeated these three words softly. He figured out a lot of things at once.
Why, when he first met her in the lantern forest at the City God Temple, he thought of her as the third girl; why she liked to raise black cats; why she planted a patch of Jianlan flowers in front of her bedroom.
He originally thought that the Rong family girls had similar eyebrows and eyes, kept the same cat at home, planted orchids, and used the same handkerchiefs made by Mama Wei.
Now it seemed to be him who was incredibly stupid. He recognized her early on, she had married him long ago, and yet he had gone through such a big circle to come to the point of peace with her.
Zhou Xian Yang suddenly burst out laughing, wrapped his arms around Rong Xiangmian’s waist, picked her up, and spun her around a few times.
“What are you doing? Put me down, are you crazy?” Rong Xiangmian slapped his shoulder and struggled.
Zhou Xian Yang didn’t let go, instead he laughed loudly and said, “Yes, I’m mad with joy!”
Rong Xiangmi was spun around by him and shouted, “I’m going to throw up!”
Only then did Zhou Xian Yang stop, put her into a rocking chair, and crouched down in front of her knees: “God has been so good to me! My intuition didn’t lie. The person I’ve been thinking about for so many years turned out to be my favorite married wife. You don’t know how happy I am!”
“What are you talking about?” Rong Xiangmian frowned and pushed him away with both hands.
Zhou Xian Yang immediately apologized again, “I deserve to die, I was wrong, I was wrong ……”
Rong Xiangmian had never seen King Yu lose his temper like this before and was frightened, “What the hell is wrong with you?!”
Zhou Xian Yang picks up the side of the pad and asks, “The pad you’re using, why is it embroidered with Xiangshi’s name?”
Rong Xiangshi was a bit embarrassed, “She thought the pattern was too petty and refused to use it. I couldn’t be bothered to tell mama Wei, so I brought it into the palace myself.”
Is that so? Zhou Xian Yang almost died from his own anger.
He held Xiangmian’s hand and once again asked the question he had asked when they first met on the night of the Lantern Festival: “In the winter of the 12th year of Longzhi, you went to Yonghua Palace, right?”
It’s been so many years since then, and Rong Xiangmian was small at that time, if she hadn’t seen this paddle, she would have long forgotten about it.
“Yes, at that time it seemed like I had just entered the palace, and when I heard that madam had brought my sister to Yonghua Palace to ask for peace, I quietly went to find her for something.”
“You used this silk handkerchief to cover your face at that time?”
“How did you know?”
“We met in the small garden outside Yonghua Palace. It was cold that day, and there were a few dwarf pines growing extremely well. You were wearing a tufted red jacket with a white fur collar, leaning against this style of palace lamp, and told me: as long as you live, there is hope ……”
Speaking here, Zhou Xian Yang choked a little, he kissed the back of her hand, like kissing a lost and found treasure.
Rong Xiangyang froze for a moment before realizing, “You are that …… that little chamberlain?”
“Yes, you don’t recognize me?”
“That was a little chamberlain who was pitch-black and as thin as a monkey. How could it be you?”
Zhou Xian Yang was even more certain, and put Rong Xiangmian’s palm on his face, “That day when mother was sent out of the palace, I went to see her off quietly in disguise, and my face was specially smeared with charcoal ash to prevent it from being recognized.”
“No wonder ……,” Rong Xiangyang understood at once, “No wonder you were crying like that.”
Zhou Xian Yang was chagrined, “I was there when I heard you call the Duchess of State ‘mother’. Concubine Shufei also told me that it was madam who brought her third girl into the palace, so I took you for the third girl. Why did you say at that time that you had a sister and no mother?”
“Did I say that?” Rong Xiangxian no longer remembers such details, “I made it up off the top of my head I guess …… didn’t want to reveal my identity.”
Zhou Xian Yang cried and laughed, so many coincidences and misadventures, it really made him lose his temper, he asked again, “When we got married, didn’t you say that you only entered the palace in the first year of Shengping?”
Rong Xiangmian remembered that the night of the wedding, is Linlang signaling her not to talk too much, now have to explain: “According to the ancestral system, I should have been the new year after the Lantern Festival to accompany the princess in the palace. Only because the first year of the waxing moon, the palace had a big event, the sixth princess cried more than, said the fourth brother ignored their …… At that time, Empress Yu and Li Guifei are involved in the storm, the palace is in chaos, the court is also in turmoil, it is the Shufei temporarily in charge of the harem, Niangniang Hui went to find her to help.
When His Majesty was in a rage, they didn’t dare to bother, so they quietly arranged for Mingyue and I to be secretly taken into the palace to accompany the Sixth Princess. This was known only to the people in the two palaces and to Sister Lu and others who were responsible for the entry and exit of the destined women. It was only after the New Year, when His Majesty installed a new Empress and changed the year’s name to Shengping, that we made public appearances in the palace.”
Zhou Xian Yang looked annoyed, “No wonder, I asked His Majesty, Royal Concubine and Hui Guifei, and they all said that you entered the palace in the first year of Shengping. I should have asked you face to face, I should have asked clearly. I misidentified someone, I really deserve to die.”
Rong Xiangxian had not been able to care about being angry, as soon as he mentioned this, all the previous grievances instantly came back, “You sent her to board the cloud brocade, went down to help her fight for the color, and you still want to …… do everything to her from …… ”
Said tears are no longer uncontrollable, large balls rolled down. Those tears dripped onto Zhou Xian Yang’s hands, as if they burned him.
He hurriedly wiped Xiang Xiang’s tears, “It’s my fault. At the Lantern Festival, I saw your third sister at the City God Temple and thanked her for her guidance and help, she didn’t deny it, so I didn’t think much about it. And I am worried that mentioning this will make you angry, and it is not good to explain to you in detail. I’ve never been a trusting person, but I’ve made a mistake in this case, I’m so stupid!”
Zhou Xian Yang said, pulling her hand towards himself. Rong Xiangyang clenched her fists and really gave him a few whacks, “Pissed me off you!”
“You can beat me however you want, punish me however you want. Just don’t leave me, okay?”
At this moment, Aimi remembered that she had already made her peace. She picked up the divorce letter that had fallen to the ground, remembering how she felt when she wrote down every word, her heart was so sour that she couldn’t go in or out, and she was aggrieved any way she could.
Zhou Xian Yang was heartbroken and took her into his arms, giving her his shoulder to lean on and gently stroking her hair.
Gradually, the sound of crying lowered, Zhou Xianyang only whispered in her ear: “Today you are busy all day, first rest, nourish the spirit, later ……”
“Does what you just said still count?” Rong Xiangmian crouched on his shoulder and spoke with a nasal tone.
Zhou Xian Yang thought back for a moment before realizing that she was referring to the divorce.
“Count.”
Rong Xiangmian straightened up, wiped away her tears, put away the book of peace and divorce, and said with her eyes downcast, “Take your people and go back to the Yulong Mansion. Find a suitable time to get this over the clear path, in the future, I want to live a quiet and self-contained life.”
Saying so without lifting her head, she went back to the bedroom.
She hadn’t slept much in the past few days, having labored for several days, coupled with a headache from crying, she slept this sleep without knowing the world.
When she woke up, she found that Lin Lang was already waiting outside the house. Upon seeing her get up, Linlang immediately made a big salute: “When the girl was busiest, the slave girl was not able to wait on her side, the girl is sorry.”
Rong Xiang saw busy to help her up, Lin Lang refused and kowtowed again, “Many thanks for the girl’s compassion, rewarded the silver and sent it to my father decently, Lin Lang is unable to repay.”
“Why are you saying such foreign words?” Rong Xiangshi finally dragged her up, “Taking care of the aftermath must be very tiring, you don’t need to come to me as an errand boy for a few days, have a good rest.”
Lin Lang sniffed and refused, “Miss, let me work. Only when I’m busy will I have no time to think about anything, no time to be sad. Feiyun Feixue has taken on a lot of work for me during this period of time, it’s just time for me to fill in.”
Seeing that she insisted, Rong Xiangshi agreed, and wanting Feiyun Feixue to be looser, he called Meng Zhenru to come into the bedroom to listen to the work.
“Yesterday, third sister was unwell, go and find a granny and go to the State Duke’s Mansion to ask how third sister’s condition is.”
Meng Zhenru promised to go.
Even if she didn’t want to care, this matter still had to be resolved.
Linlang gave Rong Xiangmian her hair bun as usual, and just halfway through pulling it up, she heard Xiangmian say, “No need, comb the hair style I used to have in my boudoir.”
Linlang hand a beat, she came back today did not see Yu Wang, also did not see the small north, already felt wrong, with the small south of the inquiry, only to realize that a big deal. At this moment, she didn’t dare to persuade, but could only do as she was told.
Meng Zhenru after a while into the room, seems to have something to say, do not know how to say. Linlang looked out and asked softly, “Is there something wrong?”
Meng Zhenru attached to her ear said, Linlang nodded, told her to wait on the sidelines.
Waiting for Xiangmian to finish his breakfast, Lin Lang came forward and said, “Our car is not yet set, the State Duke’s Office sent a granny to pass on the message.”
Rong Xiangmian’s mind moved, knowing that what he had agreed with his father and mother yesterday was bound to change his mind.
“What did it say?”
“That granny said that the third girl went back to the house last night to ask the doctor to see her and diagnosed a happy pulse. The Duke of State invited you to return to the house.”
“……”
Rong Xiangmian’s heart was envious, Xiangzhi was really a lucky person, all her life she had people to protect her, and now that her parents couldn’t protect her anymore, there was a child to protect her.
She immediately called for Zhen Ru to come, “Tell that granny that I know. Congratulations to Third Sister and Third Brother-in-law, I’ll go home to see my sister after lunch.”
Although Lin Lang was steady, she had already heard about the events of the past few days this morning, and was very abhorrent of Rong Xiangzhi’s behavior. At this moment, knowing that the Princess would never make things difficult for a pregnant woman, her heart was both aggrieved for her and helpless.
“Miss, what are you going to do?”
“What else can I do?” Aimi got up, ready to go and order some gifts.
“Just let it go?”
“She has a child, so naturally she can’t be punished for seclusion anymore. Even in the law, there is a provision for a pregnant woman to be given a lighter punishment for her crime and to pay for it with money. Otherwise, it would be bad if anything happens to the child.”
“Then let’s wait until she gives birth to the child, at least she can’t do anything wrong during the time she’s pregnant.” Lin Lang was a bit indignant.
Rong Xiangshi sighed lightly, “If Xiangshi gives birth to a child …… the child cannot be without a mother.”
After saying this, Linlang was also silent. She knew that this was the girl’s heart problem, the girl was absolutely unwilling to let this world have one more child that could not see its mother.
She sighed as she followed behind her and said to Meng Zhenru again, “Today, you will join me and follow Wangfei back to her mother’s home.”
Zhenru immediately nodded, and quietly asked, “This time Wangfei goes, she might be embarrassed by that side on account of her stomach, should we send someone to the royal residence to say something?”
Linlang’s word “no” just reached her lips and stared at Zhenru: “Yes.”