After rebirth, I became Little Marquis’s Bai Yueguang

Chapter 16

When Xiao Yinghuai came back, what he saw was his wife sitting under the lamp, meditating.

He waved his hand and turned away the waiter who was about to come up to greet him. The female officer who was standing aside pursed her lips and smiled when she saw his action, and then left silently.

Xiao Yinghuai walked over gently and said softly: "What's wrong? Something happened at home?"

The eldest princess was startled and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her husband was back: "You are back. Are you done with things in the eastern suburbs?"

Xiao Yinghuai nodded: "It's all done, so I hurried back."

The eldest princess glanced at the sky outside and said, "It's already so dark. If it's too late next time, just take a day off and don't rush back."

"I know." Xiao Yinghuai always obeyed in front of his wife, but he hesitated for a while and said: "But, what will I miss you?"

The eldest princess of Jinyang has been married to Xiao Yinghuai for many years, but she is still not used to her husband being taciturn and often making shocking remarks when they get along in private.

She glanced at the inner room and saw that the attendants had already retreated. Then she pushed her husband and said, "What are you talking about? Let no one hear you again."

Xiao Yinghuai didn't care. The eldest princess of Jinyang was his wife, so what if people heard about it?
He gently embraced his wife: "What's wrong? When I came in just now, I saw you sitting alone under the lamp. What happened at home?"

Princess Jinyang was a little hesitant to tell her husband. After all, it was just her own guess.But she didn't want her husband to worry, so she finally said, "Yun Yue just came and asked me to make him some new sets of clothes."

Xiao Yinghuai was a little confused by what the eldest princess of Jinyang said. When the eldest princess saw her husband's eyes looking blank, she knew that he didn't understand what she meant.

She simply pointed it out: "You don't know your son? He always wears whatever he has. When has he ever cared about dressing up?"

"Do you think this kid has someone he likes?"

Xiao Yinghuai finally came to his senses and was a little puzzled: "I remember some time ago, weren't you still worried about his unrequited love? Yesterday, I heard someone said that Jianing was in trouble in the palace because of him."

Did you suddenly find someone you like?
"It's not because of other things, right?" Xiao Yinghuai said: "Didn't His Majesty ask this boy to go to the Yulin Guard recently? It's just a fresh time for him to take office, so it's normal for him to have to wear two sets of clothes."

The eldest princess glanced sideways at her husband: "What's normal is normal. When did Yun Yue care about this? When he was a marquis, when the imperial edict arrived, he always wore an old robe and came out to receive it."

"Besides." Princess Jinyang continued: "You still don't know the traditions of your Xiao family?"

Xiao Yinghuai suddenly laughed, remembering what happened back then.

When he first came to Beijing with his father, he passed by the eldest princess of Jinyang on the long street entering the palace.

A startling glance will be remembered for a lifetime,
When Xiao Yinghuai went back, he told his father that he wanted to marry the eldest princess of Jinyang. Xiao Yinghuai's father almost didn't come back.

At that time, the East Palace and Sun Dang were fighting fiercely. As the prince's sister, the eldest princess of Jinyang was already a known princeling.

The Xiao family has guarded the border for generations and holds heavy border troops.Easily falling to either side at this time will have an immeasurable effect on the situation.

Similarly, the Xiao family's position was delicate. If they chose the wrong side, they would be in a desperate situation, so Dingyuan Hou at that time refused without even thinking.

It's a pity that the Xiao family is a stubborn family. The old Marquis Dingyuan broke three of his sticks. Xiao Yinghuai knelt down in the ancestral hall and bit her to death because she wanted to marry the eldest princess of Jinyang.

Seeing that his father refused to agree, Xiao Yinghuai sneaked away to Youzhou, the most dangerous place at the time, threatening that if he was not allowed to marry the person he liked, he would die alone and die at the border gate.

He was the only child of Xiao Yinghuai's generation in the Xiao family. Mrs. Marquis Dingyuan almost fainted on the spot when she received this letter from her son.

Seeing his wife crying at home every day, and his son staying at the border like a stubborn donkey and never coming back, the old Marquis Dingyuan had no choice but to compromise, and Shangshu proposed for his son to marry the eldest princess of Jinyang, who was still Princess Shuyi at the time.
The eldest princess of Jinyang married out of political considerations, but Xiao Yinghuai only cared about being good to his wife.

Although Xiao Yinghuai returned to the border not long after they got married, the couple spent less time together and more separation.But Xiao Yinghuai would write to his wife every once in a while, and the relationship between the couple was getting better and better.

Later, when Empress Zhaoming, the then Crown Princess, was pregnant with the second prince, the situation in the palace was very bad, and the inner palace was basically controlled by Concubine Sun.

The eldest princess of Jinyang entered the palace to accompany the crown prince, but was subsequently plotted against. The imperial doctor diagnosed that she might have difficulty conceiving in the future.

The eldest princess recalled that she was so full of tears at that time that she wrote a letter to Xiao Yinghuai and told Xiao Yinghuai about the incident, saying that she wanted to separate from him.

After Xiao Yinghuai learned about the matter, he immediately requested the order, killed two horses, and hurried back to Shengjing covered with travel.

The first time he saw the eldest princess, he said: "We are inseparable."

There would be nothing if there were no children. If the princess likes children, they can adopt her from a side branch, but Xiao Yinghuai's wife will only be Yan Zhen for the rest of her life.

It was not until this incident that Xiao Yinghuai truly entered the heart of the eldest princess.

Fortunately, within a year, the couple was lucky enough to have a child, Xiao Yunyue.

This is why the relationship between the queen and the eldest princess is so good, and why the palace values ​​and tolerates Xiao Yunyue so much.

People in the Xiao family are all wolves, and they will never let go of someone they like easily.

Back to the present, the eldest princess had her mother's intuition and felt that Xiao Yunyue seemed to have moved as a red star.

Xiao Yinghuai originally thought that his wife was troubled, but now he knew that it was probably just his son who liked someone, and he felt relieved.

"The child is already so old." Xiao Yinghuai stood up and poured a cup of tea for his wife: "Weren't you worried a while ago about what he would do if there was no one he liked?"

The eldest princess was still a little worried: "You said that this child has never been with any girls. I didn't find any signs, and I don't know when he fell in love with other girls. He has never suffered any setbacks. What if..."

Love is the word that is most likely to hurt people.The eldest princess has a loving mother's heart and is always afraid that Xiao Yunyue's emotional dissatisfaction will hurt him.

Xiao Yinghuai said: "Then let him go. This will happen. As parents, let him try it out on his own. I believe this kid Yunyue knows what he wants."

Seeing what the princess wanted to say, Xiao Yinghuai hugged his wife and said, "Okay, I'll find a chance to ask the child tomorrow. It's getting late, so go to bed early."

Xiao Yunyue didn't know that what he wanted to hide had been guessed by his mother.He was afraid that his mother would find out, so he got up early the next morning, packed up, and went to the palace, planning to go directly from the palace to the lantern festival later.

After speaking to the emperor from the palace and receiving new official uniforms and official seals, it was already dark.The palace servants already had lanterns in their hands and were ready to light up the lanterns everywhere in the palace.Xiao Yunyue rarely dressed up carefully today. Because he had not yet reached the crown, his hair was only tied high into a ponytail with a golden unicorn crown.

The dark red round-collar Lan robe is woven with gold thread, and the turned-out collar reveals the lining of the brocade with clusters of four small nests and pairs of phoenixes.He wore a golden mud quilt tied around his waist, and even the boots specially made for him by the eldest princess, exuding an indescribable youthful spirit.

When he left the palace, he asked Nanguan who was following him: "Is my collar not crooked?"

Nan Caring sighed silently, then shook her head and said: "Master, you have asked me no less than ten times today whether your collar is crooked and whether your crotch is straight."

Xiao Yunyue usually had no interest in things like lantern festivals, but today he couldn't control the excitement in his heart.

There was still a long way to go from the palace gate to Xipingfang where the lantern festival and market were located. Seeing that he was still well dressed, he hurriedly walked to Xipingfang with Nanguan.

On the Yuan family side, Yuan Miaoyi and Yuan Lingheng were still saying goodbye to Madam Tai.

Yuan Fuwei had already led Liu Shutang and Yuan Shurong out earlier, and told the wife to take Rong'er to see the fashionable items in Lin Chunting Pavilion.But he hadn't come back by this time, so people in the mansion could guess that the Marquis had taken his aunt and the third lady to watch the lantern festival.

Although he knew his father was partial, Yuan Lingheng was still furious.He always felt that his sister must have suffered a lot when he was not at home.

Although Yuan Miaoyi repeatedly explained to him that she didn't care, Yuan Lingheng just concluded that she was too sensible and didn't take it seriously.

He was now a piece of Mrs. Yuan Tai's heart, so when he proposed to take Yuan Miaoyi out to watch the lantern festival alone, Mrs. Yuan Tai did not object and only asked him to take good care of Yuan Miaoyi.

Since he had agreed to go out with Yuan Lingheng the day before, all the necessary things had been prepared.

There is no rule in Dayan that women cannot show up in public, especially today is a rare lantern festival.The streets are full of well-dressed men and women.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, but there were crowds of people on the street, and lanterns of different shapes were lit everywhere, dyeing the long street in a warm color.

On both sides, there are the cries of vendors, selling some folk delicacies, some gouache, rouge, hairpin rings, and the most exquisitely made lanterns.

Not long after he left the house, Yuan Lingheng bought Yuan Miaoyi a lantern in the shape of a swimming fish. The head and tail of the fish would swing as it walked, making it look like it was really alive from a distance.

Yuan Miaoyi was a human being in two lifetimes, and her mentality had long been different from that of women of the same age.It's just that even though she will get haircut in the second half of this life, she is still a little girl in Yuan Lingheng's eyes.

"It's really lively. I heard there will be fireworks in the palace tonight." Bai Zhi, who was following Yuan Miaoyi, said, "Girl, we have to go there early."

Yuan Miaoyi was carefully guarded by Yuan Lingheng. She smiled when she heard the words and said "good" in a warm voice.

No matter in her previous life or in this life, she has actually never seen the lantern festival.In her previous life, she was a princess. Even if she held a lantern festival, she could only stay in the inner palace.

Although she later left the palace and built a mansion, the battle for the throne at that time was at a critical moment, so she could not make any mistakes. She was scheming in her sleep every day, let alone going to watch the lantern festival.

Dayan does have a lantern festival every year during Yuan Zheng, but when she first came here she had to observe mourning for three years and could only stay at home during the holidays.

I don't know whether it was Yuan Fuwei's actions today or Yuan Lingheng's coming to comfort her later on not to care about her father. Yuan Miaoyi thought of her father in her previous life for a long time, which was so far away that she buried it deep in her heart.

To be fair, her father was not a good father.There were countless beauties in the harem and they gave birth to countless children.Then he allowed his children to fight to the death for the top position.

By the time she came to Dayan, when everything was about to settle, the princes were almost gone.

But when it comes to being an emperor, her father is actually a pretty good emperor.

When her father took over the throne, the Qian Dynasty was already in decline.Official positions are redundant and people's livelihood is in decline.Her father worked hard and planned for decades to save the declining dynasty and restore the ability of the people to celebrate the festival.

But his power alone is ultimately limited.The crumbling dynasty will return to its past if one is not careful.Therefore, he allowed the prince to fight to the death because he wanted to have an overview of the overall situation like a chess player.

He wants to choose the most suitable successor for this dynasty with the heart of an emperor.

Yuan Miaoyi was the quickest to understand the emperor's deep thoughts, so she was the quickest among all the princesses to choose the right candidate.

It's just that when she was still young at the time, she was deeply surprised by her biological father's cold-bloodedness and indifference, and she found it difficult to accept it for a long time.

It was not until later that she left the palace to build a mansion and saw more scenes that she had never seen in the palace before that she understood some of her father's painstaking efforts.

He is not a qualified father, but he is a competent enough king.

Knowing that I am guilty of me is only the Spring and Autumn Period.

Perhaps she was obsessed with thinking about the events in her previous life, but Yuan Miaoyi only heard someone shouting from behind: "The fireworks are about to start!"

Then the crowd surged, and she and Yuan Lingheng were separated from each other at some point.She was not afraid, and slowly moved to the edge where there were few people.

Yuan Miaoyi knew that her brother must be anxiously looking for her at this time. As long as she was not carried too far by the crowd, Yuan Lingheng might be able to find her after a while.

But the crowd was too crowded. When Yuan Miaoyi looked in the direction of Yuan Lingheng, she didn't notice that the bamboo lamp stand next to her was already crumbling due to the crowd.

She seemed to hear a creaking sound, but it was too late to move away from the shelf.Yuan Miaoyi could only turn sideways and close her eyes. She was already prepared to be hit on the head by the shelf.

Then she heard a somewhat familiar voice: "Be careful!"

Then the expected pain did not come. It seemed that someone was supporting the bamboo frame beside her, and she heard the sound of fireworks blasting into the sky.

Yuan Miaoyi slowly opened her eyes and looked over, right into the young man's dark eyes.It was Xiao Yunyue who appeared at some unknown time. He was holding up his front and looking at her worriedly.

The bright fireworks behind her bloomed with a twinkling color in the young man's eyes as he stared at her seriously.

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