Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 287 Young Master, Lichun is here to pick you up in Beijing!
"..."

Jing Li's opening was very abrupt and arrogant, which made all the dignitaries at the gate of the city couldn't help but cast their eyes on her.

next moment.

Someone caught a glimpse of his waterfall-like long hair and alluring side face, his eyes lit up, and he subconsciously exclaimed:

"What a peerless beauty!"

"Last month, on Yan Xiang's 50th birthday, Mr. Cheng Zhe from Jixia Academy presented a book of pictures of beauties. Mr. Wang was lucky enough to appreciate a few pages of it. After returning home, he couldn't sleep at night! But seeing this woman today, he felt At least half of the women in that album are far inferior to her!"

"Whose lady is this? If you dare to tell us to get out, you must have some serious background, right?"

"That's natural. Didn't you see Commander Xue and Yan Gao standing respectfully behind him?"

"By the way, why did Yan Gao show up here? It seems... this woman is from the palace!"

"What's wrong with the people in the palace? We are all important officials in the court, and even in the palace, few people have the right to call us out!"

"Shh-"

Suddenly, an old minister whispered:
"My lords, I know this woman's identity, she is Princess Jingli!"

Someone remembered:

"Princess Jingli? Is it the Princess Jingli who was bestowed by His Majesty to marry Mr. Fan Yu?"

"According to the days, today should be the day of Mr. Fan Yu's big wedding, right? Why can't there be a welcoming procession, and no one setting off firecrackers? This Princess Jingli doesn't wear a wedding dress and sits in a sedan chair, but instead comes to the north gate to wear a forbidden wedding dress. The armor of the guards, what kind of show is this?"

"Who knows! But my lords, don't blame me for not reminding you, Princess Jingli, like Princess Jingxi, is the biological daughter of His Majesty, with a respectable status, and is very different from the righteous daughters who were given marriages in the past!"

This statement came out.

Many dignitaries who already knew the inside story were silent.

Some dignitaries who heard this secret for the first time expressed their astonishment:
"Daughter? Who is her mother?"

"When did His Majesty have such a big daughter? Why didn't we hear any news?"

"Give your own daughter to Mr. Fan Yu. Your Majesty thinks too much of this scholar?"

"Tsk tsk, this princess has no less temper than Princess Jingxi at all. Mr. Fan Yu will suffer a lot after marrying her!"

……

While the dignitaries were whispering about Jing Li, Jing Li himself frowned slightly as he watched this scene on the top of the city, his face was full of displeasure:

"It seems that no one takes this princess's words to heart!"

"Yan Gao, have you written down the names of these people?"

On the side, the little eunuch bowed his head and said respectfully:

"His Royal Highness, I have written it all down."

Jing Li nodded slightly, and slowly pulled out the Imperial Guard's saber from his waist, and threw it down the city.

In the blink of an eye, the saber fell to the bottom of the city, and with a bang, it happened to be inserted into the coffin board of a coffin, scaring many women and maids to scream:
"what--"

"Kill, kill!"

……

"..."

When the dignitaries saw this scene, they were all shocked and angry.

They never imagined that they and others had no grievances with Jing Li, but the other party was so aggressive!

"His Royal Highness Jing Li!"

Jin Xian, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to stand up and question:
"Today is an auspicious day for you and Mr. Fan Yu. You should treat me to a glass of wedding wine instead of being stabbed!"

Someone echoed:
"Your Highness, it's not advisable to show your face outside on your wedding day!"

"It's not your business to meddle in this matter! I advise His Highness to hurry back and get married! When we finish our work, we will definitely bring a big gift and go to Mr. Fan Yu's house to ask for a glass of wedding wine!"

"Your Highness, it is rumored that the prince who rejected the Northern King is a lustful hungry ghost. In the northern border, he often did some absurd things such as robbing women and hiding women in golden houses. Your Highness is born with such a beautiful country, and he will be caught by that person later." See, if the other party has malicious intentions, it will be too late to regret it!"

"Yes, Your Highness, let's leave quickly! I heard from King Qingjiang yesterday that the son of the king who rejected the north had his eyes on Leng Weiwei, the widow of Bailu Villa, and after playing with her, he killed her and threw her away." Corpse Qingjiang, the corpse has not been fished out yet!"

……

Jing Li kept a sneer on his face, listening to the half-truths and half-false words of these dignitaries, he was unmoved.

The matter of bestowing the marriage has been given up, and Fan Yu from Jixia Academy has not come to him until now, and it seems that he is also conflicted about this marriage.

So the wedding wine is naturally impossible to drink.

As for those people's slander against the prince of the North...

As a maidservant who has lived with Jiang Qingyu in Ziyan Courtyard for 12 years, Jing Li knows this sick young master very well.

With Ziyanyuan's family background, it is not very generous to support the young master, himself, and Xiaoman. How can there be spare money for the golden house to hide the beauty?Besides, if that sick young man is really a hungry ghost, how can he and Xiaoman be perfect all the time?

Simply ridiculous!
However, when the last sentence fell, she became interested:

"and many more!"

"You said just now that the prince of the North refused to play with Leng Weiwei, the widow of Bailu Villa, and killed her and threw her body in Qingjiang?"

A senior official nodded and said:
"That's right! King Qingjiang held a banquet at Huayue Tower last night and invited more than [-] civil servants and military generals. He accidentally said this after drinking, and many people heard it!"

"By the way, I heard that King Qingjiang held a banquet to apologize to Commander Xue Fang, but Commander Xue said he was busy with official duties and didn't go."

"Is it?"

Jing Li didn't understand what it meant:

"What does this have to do with Commander Xue? Why did King Qingjiang apologize to him?"

Just listen to the official master explain:
"It has a relationship! It has a big relationship!"

"Your Highness, I'm afraid you don't know yet? The widow Leng Weiwei of Bailu Mountain Villa was going to Beijing to marry Commander Xue as a concubine! The two have a marriage contract and plan to get married soon, but they don't want to go out. This thing!"

"There are many bandits in Qingzhou. Leng Weiwei and a group of people from Bailu Mountain Villa boarded the fleet of Xiong's family in Bingzhou. They thought it would save some unnecessary troubles, but who would have expected that they would meet the prince of the North on board, and not only lost He lost his body and lost his life!"

"Because her body was dumped in Qingjiang, the King of Qingjiang thought he was at fault, so he invited Commander Xue to a banquet and begged for forgiveness!"

Hearing the narration of Master Guan, not only the other dignitaries, but also many people who were watching were filled with righteous indignation!
"Really? I never thought that the son of the Prince of Refuge is such a person!"

"What's the matter? Which official in the capital city hasn't played with one or two women to death? Don't look at the age of the prince of Jubei who is only less than twenty, but in terms of power, he is much bigger than this group of officials! Understandable!"

"I thought the Prince of the North was not that kind of person! His elder brother, Mr. Jiang Qingshu from Jixia Academy, treats people kindly, is virtuous, and doesn't even discuss studies in the same room with female students on weekdays. Call him a nerd, why is the other person with the same father and mother, but he is a lecher, a lecher..."

"Hey, how many Mr. Jiang Qingshu are there in the world! How many rich and powerful people are there who don't play with women?"

"I still don't believe it! How credible are King Qingjiang's words? He himself robbed women in Qingzhou, filled his mansion with hundreds of charming women, and regarded the whole Qingzhou as his hunting ground. Who has the qualifications to criticize others? From my point of view, maybe he played with the widow of Bailu Villa to death, and then planted it on the head of the prince of the North!"

"What you said... yes, it's not impossible!"

"But anyway, the most embarrassing thing about this matter should be Commander Xue, right? His concubine, who hadn't passed the family, was toyed to death, and her body was dumped in Qingjiang. There is no hope of revenge, so I can only endure this breath!"

"That's not necessarily true! Didn't you see that he is stationed at the north gate today?"

"Ah, you mean..."

……

The noisy discussion of the common people spread to the top of the city, making Jing Li frowned.

It has to be said that Xue Fang helped herself a lot this time when she left the palace and came to the north gate, which made her have a good impression of the commander of the imperial guards.

So she didn't want to see the other party and Jiang Qingyu become enemies.

"Commander Xue..."

Jing Li looked at the team in the north that was slowly approaching the capital, and at the same time called Xue Fang, and explained for Jiang Qingyu:
"Please believe that I have been in the Ziyan Courtyard of the Jubei Prince's Mansion for 12 years, and I know this newly promoted Prince Jubei's son very well. As a person, he may take advantage of your fiancée verbally. , but absolutely will not do such a nasty thing!"

Xue Fang didn't respond, but just looked at the north quietly.

He naturally knew that what King Qingjiang said at the banquet yesterday was all lies, because the other party had privately sent a guard to find him and explained the truth.

Leng Weiwei did not die, nor was she insulted by the prince of the North.

To be honest, even if Leng Weiwei died after being humiliated, Xue Fang wouldn't feel so sad. He has always been ungrateful to women and doesn't think much of them.

And his reputation in the capital, nine times out of ten, is also due to the matter of women. He married more than a dozen concubines in half his life. However, because some of them were married by him using shady means, and later turned around and sent a few out, his reputation was ruined.

Xue Fang has always believed that brothers are like brothers and women are like clothes. He has only one brother, Xue Mu. As long as the two of them do not fail and rise up step by step, then the Xue family they belong to will be able to prosper.

In the process, what's the point of sacrificing a few women?
But this time, it's different.

Xue Fang had to do something for Leng Weiwei's "death".

It's not because he likes Leng Weiwei so much, nor is it because Leng Weiwei's "death" caused him to lose a lot of benefits.

It's just because he, like the group of dignitaries in the city, has to show his loyalty to Jing Hong, and show a look of incompatibility with the Jubei Palace, in order to gain the trust of Jing's lineage, and to be promoted to rank!
"Your Highness..."

Xue Fang sighed softly, and said:

"Humble job also believes in rejecting the behavior of the prince's son."

Hearing this, Jing Li couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief:
"That's fine."

"Commander Xue, how about I ask Prince Jubei to treat you to a drink some other day, clarify this matter, and clear up the misunderstanding?"

Xue Fang shook his head slightly:

"Not yet."

"Your Highness, I don't dare to get too close to the prince of the North."

"I would also like to advise you, after meeting today, completely forget about Prince Rejecting the North."

"..."

As soon as these words came out, Jing Li couldn't help trembling all over.

She has always been smart, and she can understand many things at once.

"It's him……"

"Are you finally going to attack the Jubei Palace?"

The birds are gone, the good bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead, and the lackeys are cooking!
Under the city, the dignitaries brought their wives, maidservants, and handymen, all wearing mourning clothes, and weeping around the coffin. The common people were arguing about Jiang Qingyu playing with the widow. Believe in this son of the King of the North who won the tenth state for the Chu State.

But many of the common people have already been bribed by the dignitaries, so the voice of support was quickly drowned out by the voice of reprimand.

At the same time, on the city, Xue Fang, the commander of the imperial guards, looked at the north coldly, holding the saber at his waist with his right hand, and a flash of determination flashed in his eyes.

"Son..."

"On this north gate, apart from Lichun, I'm afraid there are very few people to welcome you."

"perhaps……"

"You shouldn't be in Beijing this time!"

Sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere, Jing Li's eyes were lonely.

She realized that this time when Jiang Qingyu entered the capital, she might encounter extremely dangerous situations, and every step she took would be like walking on thin ice!
One wrong step, and the entire capital city will become his enemy!

The entire Jubei Palace will also be lost forever!

At this moment, Jing Li felt extremely helpless.

She is just an unfavorable princess, and even a decent official would not take her orders seriously. There is only Yan Gao, a young eunuch of the seventh rank of Houtian, who can be trusted a little, and she can't influence the attitude of the Jing family at all. Jiang Qingyu couldn't be of much help either.

"I'm so useless!"

Jing Li clenched her hands into fists, feeling a sense of helplessness in her heart.

But in the next moment, she saw the young man in the carriage several miles ahead, who seemed to have discovered her, stood up, and waved towards her.

So she smiled again,
"Sir, long time no see!"

"Today, even if the entire North Gate is against you, Lichun will stand with you!"

……

At this time, the people in the city also began to notice the arrival of Jiang Qingyu and his party:
"I'm coming!"

"I heard the sound of horseshoes, it seems that the prince of the refusal north is about to enter Beijing!"

"Look! Someone has appeared!"

"Looking at the armor, there is no doubt that it is the Anbei Army! Hey, why are they marching on foot? Why don't they ride horses when they have war horses?"

"Look, there's someone on horseback!"

"No, that's not a person, it's a corpse! There are many, many...corpses!"

……

Seeing the corpses on the horses, both the common people and the dignitaries were shocked and frightened.

The capital is peaceful, and even a group of thieves and bandits can't be found within a hundred miles. On weekdays, they see miserable corpses. I have seen such a battle of thousands of corpses gathered together!

"Why are there so many corpses?"

"In the end what happened?"

Someone in the crowd voiced their doubts.

And in the next moment.

They heard the pretentious dignitaries start to cry loudly, the crying was shrill and tragic!
"Son, that's my son!"

So everyone understood that this son of the king who rejected the North had brought the corpse to the dignitaries.

(End of this chapter)