The Princess's Notebook

As soon as these words came out, the affection between the two of them disappeared completely. Zhao Feiran suddenly straightened his body and maintained the demeanor of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Pretending not to know the meaning of Shiqi Niang's words, "I am the best young man in the world, but that's not enough!"

Hearing the voice, Shiqi Niang's heart skipped a beat and her thoughts became a little confused.

However, what she wanted was just an ordinary young man, but... the person in front of her was too dazzling.

"I... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is extremely handsome, with a graceful figure and a noble status. He is extraordinary. How can a young lady like me be worthy of him? Did Your Highness know about His Majesty's decree?"

Zhao Feiran was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't know what the second half of her sentence meant.

"what for?"

Shiqi Niang stopped under the mahogany column, half of her body leaning against it casually.

"Look, I am just a girl who is not presentable and has no merits. Now I am appointed as the Crown Princess, which has damaged your highness's reputation and made the outsiders sneer. I think there must be a reason for such an outrageous imperial decree. I am insignificant and cannot know the reason, so I am asking this question and hope your highness can solve the problem."

This is simply fat meat handed to your mouth.

After hearing this, the man smiled and said, "So what if there is a reason?"

While speaking, I was already thinking about the beauty under the lamp and the fairy under the moon, and the lingering thoughts and longings between them.

Madam Naihe looked around and continued, "If there is a reason, my life in the palace will be much better. I don't know what it is, and I am always worried. I don't know when I will lose my life."

In an instant, Zhao Feiran's heart broke into eight pieces.

He shouted sharply, "Is that what you're worried about?"

"Should I worry about someone else?" Shiqi Niang spread her hands, somewhat puzzled.

Zhao Feiran was so angry that his chest was knotted and his breathing was uneven. "Have you ever thought that I knew about this marriage in advance and even told His Majesty about it!"

"What?"

The young lady stared with a pair of watery eyes, in which the twinkling palace lanterns were reflected. The dark night was quiet and the eyes were as bright as stars.

Zhao Feiran wanted to say "you are a fool without a brain", but before he could say it, he regretted it. This stupid girl was not the first day to be so irritating, so he comforted himself, don't be angry, there is still a long time to come.

"I told His Majesty..." What should I say? Zhao Feiran thought about the fifty strokes of the cane and couldn't say anything against his will. He hesitated for a while and said, "I told him...I told him that I am not young anymore and it is time for me to get married. It would be nice to have a princess as the crown princess."

Shiqi Niang suddenly realized, "So, your Highness only wanted to choose a Crown Princess, and for some reason, your Majesty specifically chose me, right?"

"you!"

Zhao Feiran was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly, and he didn't even care about his manners. He walked around the column in front of Shiqi Niang several times.

After a while, he finally felt much better. "Have you ever thought about..."

I never thought that you were asked for by me.

Such words were already on the tip of his tongue, but seeing her bright smiling face and calmness, Zhao Feiran swallowed back the words that were about to burst out.

"Haven't you thought about anything?" Shiqi Niang suddenly said.

The boy's heart was flattened and rounded, then squeezed together, thrown into the air, and came back to life.

He could not speak, he could only feel his heart beating and his eyes were dizzy.

Shiqi Niang continued, "Have you ever thought that His Majesty actually doesn't care about status and family background, and thinks I'm a very good young lady?"

Her words seemed sincere, but also seemed like a test. No matter what, they were all dancing wildly in the boy's heart.

For a moment, he felt that all his sincerity had been wasted, and he even felt a little sad.

"I am blind. The Chenguang Palace is only a few steps away, go by yourself. I am busy with government affairs and have no time to talk to you."

After all, walk away.

His back passed through the corridors and passed through layers of palace lanterns, appearing and disappearing at last.

Shiqi Niang still leaned against the column, without the slightest bit of noble lady's demeanor, and did not come back to her senses for a long time. It was not until the female official behind her came forward to greet her that she slowly walked forward.

Chenguang Palace is a two-story building that is not very spacious. After stepping over the steps, a palace maid was waiting to speak. The exquisitely carved main door slowly opened, and the dazzling and brilliant light came into view.

The hall was not very spacious and comfortable, with a large round wooden table, three or five official hat chairs, and a variety of hanging screens on the outside, and desks lined up. Buddha's hands and white jade ancient chimes stood on the top of the desk, and on the other side were brushes, inkstones, brush washers, paperweights and other daily necessities. On the west side of the main room, the stairs spiraled up, as if entering the second floor.

Shiqi Niang followed the female official's instructions and led her inside, listening to her introduction.

She was talking about the autumn hunting painting and landscape hanging screen prepared by the queen... After going up to the second floor, she was talking about the golden tent sprinkled with flowers, which was sent by Princess Jing'an a few days ago.

The female official was not someone who did not understand the expression of others, she just said a few words. Seeing that Shiqi Niang looked a little tired, she called for someone to come and help her wash. After a lot of trouble, Shiqi Niang finally changed her clothes, asked Jingui to sleep outside, and sat at the dressing table to remove her makeup and hair.

As soon as she sat on the dressing table, she remembered what the maid said before she left. "Madam, the two dressing boxes on the dressing table were sent by His Highness yesterday, saying that they were for you to use. He also said," the maid couldn't help but laugh softly, "he also said that he didn't understand these things, and if you think they are not good, he will send some better ones tomorrow."

The dressing box the female official mentioned should be the two huanghuali boxes on the left side of the bronze mirror.

Shiqi Niang kept thinking about the words of the female official, and stared at the box in a daze. Her confused eyes seemed to be focused on the box, but also seemed to be looking through the box to somewhere else.

The candlelight flickered, and the red-lacquered box emitted a warm glow. After a long while, the wandering spirit Seventeenth Lady reached out and moved the box to her side, examining it carefully. The continuous twisted swastika pattern was not a style that girls usually liked, and it was a bit rough.

Shiqi Niang stared at it and laughed.

Slowly opening it, the room was filled with golden light, blinding the eyes. Shiqi Niang was startled for a moment before she looked straight in. She saw countless red gold jewelry and earrings of various colors. It seemed that some rich family didn't know how to organize themselves, and everything they liked was put together, without knowing the word "appropriate".

She chuckled, took them out one by one, looked at them for a moment, and then put them back.

The gentle night breeze blew in through the half-open window, ruffling the gauze curtains and stirring people's hearts.

She opened another box. Unexpectedly, this box was even more dazzling than the previous one. It was filled with pearls, not jewelry or pearl flowers, but rows of pearls, neatly arranged and extremely round.

Shiqi Niang picked one up and looked at it. As soon as she looked at it in the light, she felt something was wrong.

I couldn't believe it and read it again and again.

She exclaimed: What an idiot! Which man would give a young lady pearls that have not been pierced yet?

Is this asking her to find a craftsman to string beads together one by one?

After putting everything away, I suddenly felt something was not right, so I took out the pearls one by one and looked at them carefully.

There really wasn't a single pierced hole.

The young lady stamped her feet. She didn't know why she was so stupid as to watch it again. She only knew that she looked like Zhao Feiran at night, as if someone had put a spell on her.

The sky is full of stars and high. The young lady who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night walked to the window quietly and leaned against the fence to admire the moon.

While enjoying the moonlight together, Zhao Feiran in the East Palace also did not go to bed.

It was said that when Zhao Feiran asked for the emperor's order that day, he asked the empress to help him. Without checking anything, the empress mentioned the incident that year, which caused the emperor to be scolded a lot. After that, he was turned away for several days. Such bad consequences naturally had to be attributed to the good son Zhao Feiran.

Therefore, the next day, His Majesty summoned Zhao Feiran to ask him if he really wanted a daughter of a lowly official to be the Crown Princess. Zhao Feiran agreed without hesitation. His Majesty did not say anything at first, but after about half an incense stick of time, he wrote the imperial edict himself and ordered Zhao Feiran to go out and receive fifty strokes of the cane.

The people in the palace are all shrewd people, so they are not good at using a board. However, no matter how speculative they are, they will not get better without a good day.

This morning, when Zhao Feiran heard that the queen had sent someone to pick up Shiqi Niang to the palace, he immediately felt as light as a swallow. He changed his clothes to see her, but she was only concerned about whether she could save her life.

She's an idiot!

With His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as your strong backer, there is no need to worry about these things.

Thinking of this, Zhao Feiran got so angry that he stood up and gulped down a few gulps of cold tea.

Unfortunately, this woke up the eunuch Song who was on night watch outside. He tiptoed in and said, "Oh, my Lord, you can't drink cold tea. Be careful not to upset your stomach. I'll bring you a pot of hot tea."

"Get in here! Where are you going? It's almost the second watch. Are you going to tell the entire East Palace that I haven't rested yet?!"

Supervisor Song was not surprised and kept apologizing.

Before he could finish his sentence, Zhao Feiran asked again: "Is the Inner Supervisor still my Inner Supervisor? Why is there no one serving tea at night? "

Eunuch Song was helpless and pitiful, so he could only apologize.

I cried in my heart: My Lord, have you forgotten your own rules? In all these years, which dog slave from the inner court dared to enter the palace at night? Only I, seeing that you came back with a face as black as the bottom of a pot today, risked my life to enter.

Why, why are you still criticizing the people in the Neizhijian?

Without waiting for Song Dajian to respond, Zhao Feiran muttered to himself, "Don't worry about it."

There was no conversation for a long time. Zhao Feiran did not let anyone leave, which made Song Dajian worried, so the two of them started to argue.

Finally, it was still the Chief Eunuch Song who could not stand the gloomy atmosphere and thought: "Your Highness, the Chief of Works reported that the man you requested has been found. It will be delivered around tomorrow afternoon."

Zhao Feiran was distracted and asked, "Who is it?"

"A few days ago, His Highness found a lot of Dongzhu, and also instructed me to ask the Director of Works to find an embroiderer with exquisite craftsmanship who can make both jewelry and clothes..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Feiran suddenly remembered the box of Dongzhu.

He immediately blamed himself: You idiot, giving such a big gift, I don’t know what the girl will think?

Humph, I will go get the Dongzhu back tomorrow and give it to my mother. No, I will give it to Feifei instead!

Let’s see what you, Wang Shiqi, can do!
(End of this chapter)