Otoharu

Chapter 524 Love With Dignity

Li Meier felt that she could understand Sun Xiaowu's mood, because she felt the same way when she was about to marry Shanqing's brother, but the road Sun Xiaowu was about to take was destined to be full of crises and ups and downs.

"I used to think that as long as I could be with the prince brother, I would not be afraid no matter what difficulties I encountered, but I still overestimated myself. After this incident, I was afraid. I found that compared to loving the prince brother, I still love myself more, which makes me feel guilty and feel sorry for Brother Prince." As Sun Xiaowu spoke, tears flowed down again, she seemed to be extremely uncomfortable, and kept crying uncontrollably.

Li Meier helped her wipe the tears off her face with a handkerchief, and tried to comfort her in a calm tone, "Silly girl, everyone in this world loves themselves more. If you don't even love yourself, who would?" Come to love you, you don't have to feel guilty about it, this is human nature, and I want to tell you, even if you marry the prince in the future, don't put him first, you don't have to lose yourself for anyone, No matter how much you love him, love without self-esteem will not be happy. Love is based on the respect of both parties. Even if the person you love is the most honorable person in the world, you don’t have to become Humble, because two people who love each other are equal to each other."

These principles are influenced by Jiang Shanqing's subtle influence on Li Meier. At this time, most women regard their fathers as their heavens and their husbands as their heavens. Women have no self and only live by men.

But brother Shanqing told her that this is wrong, women are also independent people, as long as they are independent people, there is no reason to depend on others to live, everyone should live for themselves, they are all independent and dignified people.

Listening to Li Meier's words, Sun Xiaowu's eyes widened in surprise. Since she was a child, no one had ever said this to her, and there was no such rhetoric in the female virtue ring. She could imagine that Li Meier's words would be deadly. Putting it outside, she would definitely be criticized as treason by those old scholars, but she somehow felt that what Sister Mei said was really good and made sense, as if a ray of light pierced into her somewhat ignorant consciousness.

"Sister Mei, I still don't quite understand some of what you said, but you said it so well, I feel much better in my heart." Sun Xiaowu finally stopped crying, and even showed a smile, but her face There were still wet tears, and his eyes were red and swollen from crying, which looked very funny.

Seeing her like this, Li Meier couldn't help laughing, and quickly asked the maid outside the door to come in with a warm water handkerchief, and some summer ointment for reducing swelling that she made herself. The ointment is rubbed around the eyes, so that the swelling can go down faster.

Sun Xiaowu felt much better immediately, and the area around his eyes was even colder, which was very comfortable.

Li Meier asked Baozi to bring ice cubes, wrapped them in a handkerchief, and applied Sun Xiaowu's eyes. This two-pronged approach will reduce the swelling faster.

Sure enough, about two quarters of an hour later, Sun Xiaowu's eyes were not so red and swollen, they were only reddish, and Li Meier applied some gouache on her, and it was almost impossible to see that she was crying.

Xu Shi cried happily, and Sun Xiaowu was in a much better mood, but thinking of Sun Zhongyuan's marriage, he still couldn't help but feel depressed, and sighed: "I was happy that the third brother didn't need to be a princess, Thinking that he can always find the woman he likes slowly, how could he have thought that...such an accident would happen. "

"Isn't this marriage still undecided, so stop moaning and sighing, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge." Li Meier can only comfort Sun Xiaowu in this way at the moment.

Sun Xiaowu reluctantly nodded with a smile, and only hoped that Lu Zhiwei's face would be healed, so that this marriage could have a better chance.

The mother and daughter of the Sun family didn't stay for long and left.Although Sun Xiaowu was reluctant to part with Li Meier, the Earl's Mansion was in troubled times at this time, and she and her mother could not come out for too long.

After seeing off Sun Xiaowu, Li Meier's heart was really heavy for a few days, but she was soon distracted by another big news.

There was another news about the draft in the palace.

Li Meier was very surprised to know the news, because the general election in the palace is usually every three years. I heard that there was a general election just last year, so why is there another draft this year.

Because the draft is a matter of the Ministry of Finance, Li Meier later learned more details from her neighbor, Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li's husband is the supervisor of the household department. Although the official position is not big, he still manages a lot of things.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Jiang are still speculative, so they will come over to hang out when they have nothing to do.Because the imperial court wanted to draft another talent show, she deliberately came here.

Mrs. Li is also very curious about the draft, because there is no woman of the right age at home, so she just listens to it.

"Didn't you say that the draft was just last year, why is the emperor choosing a concubine again?"

The wife of the Li family drank the sour plum soup cooked by Li Meier, and replied with a smile: "I also heard from our master that this draft was proposed by the concubine Yun. Your majesty was a little hesitant at first, but the queen empress also joined us. Admonish, Your Majesty will approve."

Mrs. Li felt a little strange when she heard it, and couldn't help but said: "The Empress and Concubine Yun are really virtuous." It's really unheard of for her husband to find a concubine.

Mrs. Li covered her lips and smiled when she heard Mrs. Li's words, and said: "Old lady, this royal family is different from ours. If the empress is not virtuous, she can sit in that position, and I have heard that the empress The reason for agreeing to this draft is mainly to choose a few more concubines and concubines for His Royal Highness."

Li Meier was just listening to the commotion, but now hearing what Mrs. Li said, she couldn't help frowning, and asked: "Didn't it mean that the candidate for the crown princess has already been decided? It's almost time to make the final decision." .”

"The crown princess is the crown princess, and the side concubine is the side concubine? How can the dignified prince only have one wife? She is going to be the emperor in the future, and the six courts of the Three Palaces will naturally be indispensable." Mrs. Li thought that Li Meier was too young to understand , and explained to her.

Li Meier remained silent, but she was already worried about Sun Xiaowu in her heart. The empress advocated this draft because she was probably looking for someone who could control her to divide Xiaowu's favor. After all, the Wu'anbo Mansion is not a queen. It is normal for the empress to be afraid of people of that faction.

"And you also know that we don't choose those whose family backgrounds are too prominent in our big week's draft. I think the family backgrounds of Empress Empress and Concubine Yun were ordinary. choose among them.” Mrs. Li said again.

(End of this chapter)