Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 21 You Must Marry Him
"But!" Mrs. Xu still couldn't accept this fact, "Why should I live in the shadow of that dilapidated family, my dignified daughter, why should I be like other women, enduring that what my husband loves is someone else?"

"Why?"

Yiyang snorted coldly, "Didn't you insist on marrying him back then? The Shen family lost power, and he lost his soul. Who knows about the entire Taiyuan Academy? I told you then, he couldn't I love you wholeheartedly, but have you listened? Jiaojiao, you choose the way! You are no longer a child, you must be responsible for your choice!"

A bitter smile emerged from the corner of Xu's mouth, recalling the past.

Back then, Zhao Ziyi, Pan Anmao, and Zi Jiancai, dressed in white and elegantly moved the capital.

At that time, the unmarried women in Chang'an all wanted to marry into the Zhao family, and the most ardent and bold among them was Xu Yunjiao, the daughter of the eldest princess.

Because of her mother, she was able to go in and out of the palace often, and every time she waited at the Golden Horse Gate in advance, just to look at him from a distance.

But every time he smiled lightly and replied, "Hello, Miss Xu", and the rules were alienated.

She thought he had such a temper, until later, his teacher Shen Mu was banished to his hometown.

It was the rainy season when the queen mother suffered from leg problems again. Her mother entered the palace to take care of the queen mother. She quietly slipped out of the back door of Changxin Palace with an umbrella and wanted to go to Taichang Temple to find him as usual.

There were two horses carved from white jade at the entrance of Taichang Temple. She hid behind the horses, but saw him kneeling upright in the yard. That day he was wearing a blue bachelor's uniform, with wide shoulders and narrow waist. Just a back figure was enough to make her Heart blushing.

The drizzle suddenly turned into a torrential rain, and he was still kneeling motionless, Xu Yunjiao called him, "Hey, Zhao Ziyi, why don't you leave!"

He didn't look back and didn't make a sound.

An umbrella appeared overhead, and the world suddenly became silent.

"Hey, aren't you Shen Taichang's proud disciple? Why did he punish you to kneel too!" The girl of Sixteen Seven, giggling and her eyes brightened.

Zhao Ziyi raised his head indifferently, his eyes were endlessly desolate.

Xu Yunjiao's heart jumped suddenly, as if she had lost something.

In her impression, he was elegant, romantic, proud, confident... This was the first time she saw him in a state of despair.

That day, he knelt down until it was dark, and she held an umbrella for him until it was dark.

Later, she fainted in the rain, and in a daze, she only remembered that a pair of big hands hugged her waist, and she smiled contentedly.

When she woke up again, she had a fever and kept calling his name.The mother sighed and said that the empress dowager had already mentioned to the emperor that she would marry you to Zhao Ziyi.

The mother said, Jiaojiao, you have to think about this man, he will not have you in his heart.Do you know why he knelt in the rain?Because his teacher Shen Mu was demoted.You see, you have a fever for him, but he doesn't even tell you the truth, do you think he will treat you well?

But she didn't believe it, and replied, "Isn't that because the teacher was in trouble and he was uncomfortable?"This just shows that he is a good man who cares about love and righteousness!
Mother said: This man's affection depends on who he is. If it is not towards you, the more affectionate he is, the more sad you will be.

Now, it is exactly what my mother said back then.

Xu Yunjiao recalled all kinds of things in the past, and tears rolled down again.

She closed her eyes and said softly, "But I'm not reconciled."

"The one surnamed Shen is like a sharp fishbone stuck in my throat. Others can't see it or touch it, but only I know that the thorn is hidden in the flesh, and I can't swallow it or spit it out. It hurts me all the time."

"I was used to this kind of pain, but now that girl appears in front of me, it seems that the whole world is laughing at me, I am a failed woman, I can't even get my husband's heart... Mother, do I have to live forever in my life? Are you going to endure such pain?"

"Things have already happened, the child can't disappear, and you can't be divorced, what else can you do except accept the facts?" Yiyang said.

Xu Yunjiao sniffed. She had thought that she would be able to get support when she returned to her parents' home, but she did not expect that her mother's words would block her way out.

But if she went back to Zhao's house in such a sullen manner, she would feel too embarrassed: "I don't care, anyway, I can't accept that girl stepping on my head!"

Yiyang let out a sigh of turbidity, and repeatedly reprimanded: "You child, why are you so obsessive!"

Xu Yunjiao covered her eyes sadly.

"Now there is a mess of porridge in the court hall, not to mention the queen mother and the emperor, even the prince is on the line, all these forces have to rely on Zhao Ziyi to reconcile them; in the harem, Concubine Pei Gui is restless, but she has King Jin under her knees, fortunately If Zhao Ziyi's younger sister enters the palace, she can suppress one or two; then the border town of Xiliang is also in a stalemate, and she has to rely on Zhao Ziyi's younger brother to live and die."

"Your Majesty is frail and sickly, and the crown prince's foundation is unstable. At this time, you and the Zhao family fell out. Can you afford the consequences?"

Xu Yunjiao opened her mouth, not knowing how to argue.

But she was told to endure it like this, but she couldn't do it, so she could only bite her lip without saying a word.

Yiyang said so much in one breath, the pressure in his heart was relieved a little, and he softened his voice and said, "If you really hate her, quickly settle the marriage for her, it's just a dowry, it's just a dowry. You will feel at ease when you send out the Zhao residence!"

Xu Yunjiao was extremely resistant to this matter, but when she heard the sentence that the marriage should be decided immediately and sent to the manor, she still felt it was acceptable.

Yiyang saw her expression and knew that she was being persuaded, so he continued to persuade: "Don't worry, as her concubine, her husband's family will definitely not be better than Sister Yan, there is no way for her to steal the limelight! But you can't make it too ugly, after all, the family of Zhao's family is there."

Although Xu Yunjiao was reluctant, she had no other choice at the moment.

Yiyang sighed helplessly, and tucked the quilt for her: "It's getting late, you should go to bed, don't think about those things tonight, you can't change after thinking about them, you can only use them in vain. Tears and sadness! Look, these eyes are swollen like peaches!"

Xu Yunjiao looked at her mother, who was only in her 50s, but a few white hairs grew out of her temples.

With a move in her heart, she called out to her mother, and said coquettishly, "Will you sleep with me, okay?"

(End of this chapter)