Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 271 I am not a child anymore

The sky is getting dark, and the lights are flickering.

Outside the hall, the maids and guards kneeling on the ground.

Li Xuanye stood in front of the hall with his hands behind his back. He was wearing a pearl-gray silk singlet, with the cuffs densely woven with silver threads. The floating light flowed, and the clear brilliance was faint, like frost and snow falling into a green pool, which made his majesty even more impressive.

"Indulge the princess, run around in the city, and punish Yueyin for one year!"

"Yes." A group of maids and guards responded tremblingly.

Lingxi watched impatiently, opened his mouth, and swallowed the words of pleading.

How to do?Brother Prince seems to be really angry!
For Lingxi, Li Xuanye is both a brother and a father, and even scares her more than her father—the father is generous and submissive, and if she makes a mistake, she will be fine if she acts coquettishly.

But this brother is not necessarily...

The maid brought hot water up.

Zhao Xiwei rolled up his sleeves to help Li Xuanye clean his hands.

The jade bracelet on the bright wrist is shiny and flawless, making people feel at ease just looking at it.

Li Xuanye's eyes softened a little.

Lingxi moved over in small steps, raised his face and smiled "hehe", and said in a delicate voice: "Brother, Lingxi is wrong! Just talking casually just now! Brother won't let Lingxi leave the palace, and Lingxi will never leave the palace in the future Already!"

"Oh?" Li Xuanye nodded, not being moved by her coquettishness at all, "If you don't let me out of the palace, just leave the palace secretly, right?"

"I..." Lingxi choked for a moment, and became a little anxious: "My father agreed to leave the palace this time, if you don't believe me, you can ask my father!"

Li Xuanye's eyes were slightly cold: "Then Father knows that you left the palace to find Gu Hansu?"

"Well..." Lingxi faltered, unable to answer, narrowed her eyes, and laughed again: "I didn't say, but Father knows that I am going out to find friends, if I tell him that I am going to find Gu Doctor, father and emperor will definitely agree!"

Li Xuanye nodded lightly: "That's right, our Princess Lingxi is really powerful, treating the palace rules and regulations like nothing!"

"How can I..." Lingxi whispered back, "If the emperor doesn't agree, I can't leave the palace..."

Li Xuanye sneered coldly: "So it's all the fault of the father, who spoiled you too much?"

Lingxi lowered her head, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

As the emperor's favorite princess, she just wanted to go out of the palace to have fun. Is this a big mistake?
But for some reason, seeing Li Xuanye clung to the words Gu Hansu, she felt a little flustered and guilty.

"It's fine to go out of the palace, but you dare to ask the guards to clear the place for you." The voice was stern, and it seemed more and more ruthless.

Zhao Xiwei took the brocade scarf, wiped his hands for him, and persuaded softly: "Your Highness, the princess is still young, why should you be angry with a child like her."

Li Xuanye gently brushed her hand away, turned around and sat down in the chair, and looked at Lingxi: "What kid? You're already old enough to play with a boy all day long, what do you look like?"

Lingxi pursed his lips and argued, "I just stopped by to see him when I was shopping."

"It is not allowed to go to him privately again in the future, can it be done?" He asked.

Lingxi froze for a moment, straightened her lips, and refused to speak for a long time.

It's so boring to be alone in the palace...

The emperor did not have many heirs, and she was the only adult princess, and she was left in Zichen Palace to be raised by the emperor, and few court ladies and servants dared to play around her.

She could still be accompanied by Li Xuanye before, but since he moved out of the imperial palace and moved to the Eastern Palace, she felt even more lonely...

"What?" Li Xuanye looked at her coldly, "It's hard to make a decision?"

"I need to have friends!" Lingxi was frightened and annoyed by his staring, and shouted angrily: "Brother, I'm not a child anymore! I don't want to be locked in the palace forever, I want friends! I want to be free! "

Li Xuanye was stunned for a moment.

After thinking for a while, he suppressed his emotions, patted Lingxi's head, and coaxed: "Lingxi, it's okay if you want to make friends. Next time, let Father hold a flower viewing banquet and invite all the ladies from aristocratic families to accompany you." You play. It's not a big deal-but, men and women are different, how can you play with other men?"

Lingxi was not convinced: "Then you and your sister-in-law also go shopping hand in hand?"

Li Xuanye smiled angrily: "My sister-in-law and I are husband and wife, what are you and Gu Hansu?"

Without even thinking about it, Lingxi blurted out a sentence: "Then Gu Hansu and I can also be husband and wife!"

"Consonance!"

He suddenly shouted angrily.

Lingxi had never been scolded by him like this before, and she trembled in fright.

"You still want to be a husband and wife with him?" He stood up abruptly, and said sharply, "Do you know what you are talking about?"

There was silence all around.

Lingxi himself was also stunned.

Her eyes widened, but she didn't react.

I want to explain a few words, but I don't know where to start.

she just felt...

If only husband and wife can play together openly, then it's okay for her and Gu Hansu to be husband and wife...

But it’s only when you say it out that you realize how serious it is——

Li Xuanye stared at her for a while, but suddenly turned his head and looked outside the palace gate.

Turning around, there was exhaustion, disappointment, and sadness.

Lingxi's heart felt a sudden pain.

When she was still in her infancy, he had already been enlightened in childhood.

She was babbling, and he was familiar with poetry and books.

They read together, ate together, and stayed with their father together.

Later, his father gradually handed over important affairs of state affairs to him, and he had to get up very early every day to attend court meetings with his father.

Every time she sent him to the gate of the temple, she said goodbye to him reluctantly.

Just wait for him to come back early to have dinner together.

She firmly believes that her brother loves her very much, but he definitely has it.

But at this moment, he treats her like this...

She wanted to admit her mistake, but she also thought that it was related to her freedom.

Once she lowered her head, she would only be locked in the palace in the future, facing the group of obedient palace maids and guards. Thinking of this, she felt that life was extremely boring.

But without bowing her head, seeing her brother's eyes made her feel even more uncomfortable...

She looked at Li Xuanye motionlessly, like a stubborn child who had been intimidated, neither daring to talk back nor admitting her mistake.

Li Xuanye stared at the wind and snow outside the door for a long time before looking away. At this moment, the emotions in his eyes had been suppressed, and there was only a bottomless silence: "You are right, you are no longer a child, You need friends, you need freedom—”

After a pause, he said calmly: "After the new year is over, I will tell my father to let you move out of the Zichen Palace and move to the Princess Mansion."

"What did you say?" Lingxi stared blankly at him for a moment.

After regaining her senses, her eyes suddenly became hot, and tears rolled down her face. She burst into tears with a "wow": "I don't want it! I don't want to go to the princess mansion! I don't want to live alone!"

She was sobbing and sobbing, but Li Xuanye just looked at her coldly, with no intention of softening her heart at all.

"..." Zhao Xiwei saw that there was no way out, so he walked around the screen, brought hot water, and called softly, "Lingxi, come here."

Lingxi looked at her with teary eyes: "Sister-in-law..."

Zhao Xiwei softened his heart, and said softly: "Come here, sister-in-law will wash your face for you."

(End of this chapter)