Chang'an is good

Chapter 597 I remembered

"I'm very happy..." Li Zhiwei lowered his eyes and looked into Wei Miaoqing's eyes: "I am finally no longer the prince."

He jumped out of the small fish tank.

It turns out that after jumping out you won’t fall to death or die of dehydration, and it turns out that there is a vast sky and sea outside the fish tank.

But Li Zhi knew that the timing of jumping out was crucial... This opportunity was given by the imperial sister, and it was also guided by the Crown Princess all the way.

No, now she can no longer be called the Crown Princess, but the Princess? But... is she willing to be his Princess? Li Zhi is not sure.

Looking at the hand that was still pulling at his sleeve, the boy listened to his inner voice and changed the address to: "Qingqing..."

He said seriously, "Thank you."

"If it weren't for you, I would never have the courage to survive a life-threatening situation."

Wei Miaoqing was stunned for a moment. She was not sure why she was stunned. She subconsciously asked, "Am I that powerful?"

"Of course!" Li Zhi: "You are the most powerful woman I have ever seen in the world, except for the emperor's sister and the saint!"

Although there were two more powerful ones ahead, and Wei Miaoqing had always been competitive and never willing to admit defeat, how should I put it... Wei Miaoqing thought about it and was still convinced that he lost to the two in front.

"That's true..." Wei Miaoqing looked away slightly at Li Zhi's admiring eyes, loosened his sleeves, and tried not to look guilty: "In some aspects, I am indeed a little inferior to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess and the Saint."

While Wei Miaoqing was speaking, she secretly watched the young man's reaction out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that he still looked admiring and affirmative, she felt even more elated in her heart, and inexplicably thought that it would be better if he believed this for the rest of his life and never had the chance to go out and meet more powerful women.

Thinking of this, Wei Miaoqing was so excited that he couldn't help but take two quick steps.

Li Zhi hurriedly followed her: "Qingqing, you..."

Wei Miaoqing walked away and said, "Just say what you want to say. Why are you hesitating since yesterday?"

"I am... no longer the crown prince." Li Zhi lowered his eyes and said with a sense of inferiority: "Being Princess An may be very undignified."

"You make it sound as if I was honorable as the cheap crown prince's cheap crown princess." Wei Miaoqing was quite proud: "How could my honor have been given by you? My father, mother and brother are all here, who dares to call me dishonorable?"

Li Zhi looked at her quietly: "So what you mean is... you are still willing to be the Princess An?"

"Let's do it first." Wei Miaoqing said casually, with a broad perspective: "It's still a mess here, let's just do it this way first, so as not to cause trouble for everyone."

Li Zhi nodded obediently, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.

Wei Miaoqing saw this and said, "You should smile more often. You look very pretty when you smile. At first glance, you are not much less handsome than my brother."

She was so straightforward even when praising the man. Li Zhi's cheeks felt a little hot, but he still grinned obediently, though it seemed a little stiff.

The two men walked away while talking. After a group of servants and maids came with bags and boxes on their backs, they loaded them onto the carriage and saw the wheels rolling as they headed towards their new residence.

Not long after Wei Miaoqing and Li Zhi left, a member of the Cui family came over with a pot. When he saw the officials, he said that he was sent by the head of the family to invite them to discuss matters.

Upon hearing Cui Lang's invitation, the group of officials secretly exchanged glances.

The reason why they didn't go to Li Suining these days was that they still had some difficulty adapting to the new female crown prince and were inevitably a little hesitant. Secondly, they were concerned about the Cui family who now had the most power in front of the Crown Princess.

Most of the aristocratic officials in the court were removed one after another by the empress, and those who remained and followed the emperor to flee the capital were mostly from humble backgrounds.

Before this, the situation of disputes between scholars and commoners in the court had continued for many years. They had some grievances with the Cui family, and even worse, they were involved in the Cui family's conviction and imprisonment, which indirectly contributed to Cui Ju's suicide...

Although Cui Ju had excluded the lineage headed by Cui Lang from the Qinghe Cui family before his death, they all had the surname Cui after all. Cui Lang was young and a well-known playboy... There was no guarantee that he would not retaliate and exclude them.

What if they take the initiative to move forward and are embarrassed by the other party in public? Wouldn't that be completely embarrassing?
But who would have thought that Cui Lang would send someone to invite me today...

Since they have come to invite them, they will go and see... see what tricks Liu Lang is playing.

After discussing it privately for a while, they went with him under the pretext of "sounding out his strength".

Unexpectedly, Cui Lang was very enthusiastic. He greeted them with a smile and showed them enough respect.

Just when these officials tried to let down their guard, a huge pile of official business appeared in front of them. They were forced to get to work and had no time to think about anything else.

Cui Lang treated them with no hostility.

In a political struggle, which side doesn't want to fight to the death? But now that the struggle is over, we should move on.

His grandfather's death did not make him hate anyone, but was to find a way for Cui to survive.

He brought his clansmen to work for his master. His master is now the crown princess and will need people in many places in the future. How could the Cui family alone take on all the tasks?
This piece of meat is not something they can have all to themselves. It is not a good thing for one family to dominate alone. Being jealous and exclusive in public is even more self-destructive. It would be better for him to take the initiative to recruit and appease the people for his master, and get a "good" reputation from both sides - making his master less worried, and these officials would have to be respectful and grateful to him. In this way, is there any reason for the Cui family's position to be unstable?
After settling these officials, Cui Lang left with his hands behind his back, humming a little tune.

Yihu followed behind and asked curiously, "What beautiful thing are you thinking about, my dear?"

"You should call him the head of the family, the head of the family!" Cui Lang corrected Yihu, but did not answer Yihu's question. He continued to hum the song, his mouth almost stretched to his ears.

He was thinking that if he could do his job well and his master was happy, he might be willing to help him arrange a marriage in the future...

Cui Lang thought about it and looked towards the direction of Fan Yang. There was basically no war there. He heard that Mianmian was already on the way to Taiyuan.

Before that, he needs to do more so that he can brag about it to Mianmian later!
Cui Lang thought about it, quickened his pace, and went to find something to do.

It was already afternoon.

Li Suining took over the crown prince's jade seal in the Jin Temple, indicating that she would become the crown princess. However, the handover process of crown prince affairs was still cumbersome, and she was trapped in the meeting hall for several days.

At this time, after the officials who had been busy for most of the day left one after another, Li Suining also walked out of the meeting hall, stood on the stone steps, stretched his stiff arms.

Li Suining saw an official bowing respectfully towards a place in the courtyard when leaving, so he walked down the stone steps to look.

A tall and straight dark blue figure stood quietly in the late spring afternoon. As if he had noticed something, he turned sideways and looked over.

"When did you come? Why didn't you ask someone to inform him?" Li Suining walked over and looked in the direction he had just looked at, only then did he see Adian sitting on the top of the wall.

"Your Highness!" Ah Dian bit a candy man in his mouth and urged Li Suining: "Come up and bask in the sun! Rest your eyes! The sun is going to leave and we won't be able to see it soon!"

Hearing Li Suining's "OK", Cui Jing was just thinking about asking someone to bring her a ladder when he saw her looking up and grabbing Ah Dian's hand that he was holding out to her. She then easily jumped up and said to him, "Cui Ling'an, you come up too!"

The officials who came later couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw the Crown Princess climbing up the wall. Some wanted to dissuade her, some reminded her, "Your Highness should be careful." Some shook their heads and left, whispering, "Your Highness is still young at this age, so don't be too strict..."

"You speak as if you and I can restrain each other..."

The man choked and said, "You and I are not good enough, but the Grand Tutor can still be counted on... I think Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess still respects the Grand Tutor very much."

"It's only the Master..."

The voices of the crowd faded away and the surroundings became quiet.

Li Suining sat on the wall facing the outside of the courtyard, with her hands on her sides and her legs hanging down, enjoying the evening breeze and watching the sunset, relaxing for a while in this rare leisure time. Adian and Cui Jing sat on her left and right, looking into the distance with her.

There are two pear trees under the wall, with branches and leaves slightly taller than the wall. The pear blossoms in Taiyuan bloom half a month later than those in the south. It is already the end of spring and the petals are just beginning to bloom. When the wind blows gently, the tiny petals scatter and float.

From time to time, Adian reached out to catch the petals, then blew hard on his palm, and with a "whoosh" sound, sent them farther away.

Soon, a cat's meow was heard, and Adian saw a black and white cat on the other side of the wall. He was so craving for cats that he ran along the wall to catch cats.

Li Suining called him and asked him to be careful.

"Got it!" Although Adian answered, he lowered his voice to a level smaller than a mosquito so that only he could hear it, for fear of disturbing the cat.

When Ah Dian stood up, he bumped into the branches of a pear tree, and a large piece of snow-white petals fell down, covering the top of the wall and Li Suining's sleeves like accumulated snow.

Ah Dian chased the cat all the way to the roof behind him. He accidentally stepped on a tile and heard a roar from the backyard: "... Ah Dian, it's you again!"

Li Suining smiled happily, and swung his legs gently: "It feels like I'm back in Xuan Ce Mansion again."

Cui Jing: "We are still short of a pot of wine and a plate of chestnuts."

Li Suining turned to look at him: "How did you know?"

She used to drink wine and eat chestnuts on the roof of Xuan Ce's mansion.

Cui Jing still looked at the direction of the setting sun: "General Adian mentioned it."

Li Suining seemed to remember something when he heard this. He was stunned for a moment, then calmly asked him, "Cui Ling'an, why did you break the formation for me in Dayun Temple and deceive His Majesty?"

Cui Jing said truthfully: "Because I noticed that you were unwilling to recognize the saint."

Li Suining: "So you've been on my side from the beginning—"

Cui Jing didn't know what she meant, so he waited for her to continue.

"You treated me differently from the beginning, and you insisted that you had never seen me before?" Li Suining: "We clearly have met before."

Cui Jing was stunned and turned to look at her.

She looked as if she had exposed his lie: "I saw you in the snow a long time ago, right?"

Cui Jing knew that she was not lying to him, and was even more surprised: "How did Your Highness know..."

Li Suining glanced at the rooftop behind him and said, "A few days ago, Adian told me that you told him in person on the rooftop of Xuan Ce's mansion that you had seen me once."

Cui Jing thought about it, as if he had said it, and fell silent.

At that time he didn't know she had returned, and he never imagined that a casual remark would become evidence to expose his lies in the future.

"But..." he said, "I don't think I ever told General Dian where I saw him..."

But she was certain that it was "in a snowfall".

"I just remembered it." Li Suining looked at the white pear blossoms on his shoulders and said, "There must have been a lot of snow on you that day."

The evening breeze and pear blossom snow at this moment accidentally opened the page of wind and snow in her memory.

Cui Jing raised a hand and gently brushed away the petals on his shoulders, hiding the discomfort in his eyes: "Your Highness actually remembered."

"Of course, I've always said that I seem to have seen you somewhere, but you just don't admit it." Li Suining said, leaning closer to him, lowering his head to compare his eyebrows and eyes: "Your eyebrows and eyes are deeper than ordinary people, and your brow bones are very beautiful. Although you were young at that time, you left a deep impression on me."

Cui Jing looked into her scrutinizing eyes and said, "At that time, I was...very embarrassed."

Li Suining smiled and said, "But good-looking people can be very good-looking even when they are in a mess."

Cui Jing's ears felt slightly hot, even though her eyes were pure and she was only giving objective praise.

Then I heard her curiously ask: "How old were you then? Were you ten years old?"

Cui Jing silently straightened his back and emphasized, "Your Highness, the years you and I have spent in this world are similar."

Li Suining was stunned for a moment: "...Who asked this? I asked you how old you were at that time, why did you answer irrelevantly?"

Seeing Cui Jing's expression, she vaguely understood something and said, "Cui Ling'an, you don't think I would make fun of you with this, do you?"

Cui Jing no longer dared to look her in the eye. He looked at the gradually becoming more beautiful sunset and said, "Your Highness, please just remember me as I am now."

"That won't do." Li Suining supported his hands at his sides, swung his legs and looked at the sunset: "I've remembered it, I can't forget it."

Cui Jing laughed at her "rogue" behavior, and then said: "But I don't know what Your Highness looked like when he was a child."

"When I was a kid, I was awesome."

Li Suining said in the evening breeze in a generous and leisurely tone: "I have eaten more than ordinary children since I was a child, and I have never been sick. I could climb trees at the age of five, and I could pick up Ah Xiao, who was the same age as me, at the age of six. When I was eight or nine years old, the princes who were no more than five years older than me could not beat me. I could pin them all to the ground and beat them. After I turned ten, I was not only good at fighting, but also ranked first in my studies. Among a group of princes, the teacher only liked me."

Cui Jing smiled knowingly: "It's really amazing."

“There were times when I was embarrassed.” Li Suining said, “But all those times were for tempering. It’s enough as long as I am strong now.”

"You are very powerful now." She said: "Looking at the world now, who dares to make fun of Cui Lingan of Xuan Ce Mansion?"

Cui Jing turned to look at her: "Your Highness can--"

Li Suining said without hesitation: "I won't."

Cui Jing's smile deepened a little, and after a moment, he said: "Your Highness, I am leaving."

Li Suining looked at him and asked, "Another urgent report from Yinshan?"

Cui Jing nodded.

This was why he came to find her today.

After Li Suining asked about the content of the urgent report, he said, "Then go ahead."

When Cui Jing agreed, a pear blossom fell on his brow.

Li Suining looked at it for a while, then raised his hand and gently brushed it away for him.

After brushing it off, she did not retract her hand. That hand fell on the young man's straight shoulder, and the other hand also stretched out, leaning over and gently hugging the young man who came to say goodbye.

The pear blossoms fell like rain, and Cui Jing forgot to breathe.

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