Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 142
Even though the prince didn't speak in Wan Xia, he obviously liked it. She knew that the concubine hadn't come back yet, so when she saw Xiao Mingrui came, she wanted to talk about it, hoping that the prince would remember the old love, Can't empathize with others.

For Murong Wei, she still likes it very much. Such a good master must not make her sad. Besides, the master has fallen out of favor, and their life will be difficult.

"And this." Wan Xia ran over and took an embroidery stretcher, and there were still unfinished semi-finished products in the basket.

"This is the child's bellyband embroidered by the princess. You can see that the pattern on it is a fat baby holding a carp."

Xiao Mingrui turned his eyes and saw that it was indeed a big red bellyband, only half embroidered.

"It was still embroidering at first, but later... the princess stopped embroidering."

Xiao Mingrui felt sour for a while, the bright red color on the bellyband almost hurt his eyes, the chubby little baby had a round face, staring and laughing with big eyes.

He could feel how much joy Murong Wei felt when she was embroidering, and how much expectation she had in her heart.

The half-incomplete embroidery was like a missing semicircle, dim and pale, hurting his heart.

He knew what Wan Xia was talking about. Ever since Ai Chun's pregnancy was revealed, was she disappointed and sad with him?

It's like being woken up from a dream, it should be a real heart-wrenching pain.

Xiao Mingrui caressed the unfinished embroidery quietly, only feeling uncomfortable in his heart.

Why should he want her to understand?

He only remembered that he was working hard outside. In fact, she was also busy with housework at home. She was busy every day. She had to deal with the affairs of hundreds of people in the whole family, and she had to face the restlessness of the concubine's room. He went to make friends with the royal family, the minister's wife, and made things for him in his spare time. Speaking of which, who worked harder than whom?

She also put a lot of effort into this family.

They should have shared weal and woe and helped each other, not like this.

Wan Xia had already gone down, and he was the only one left in the house.

He took out the box where Murong Wei put her things.

It contained some hairpin rings he gave her, and she kept all the letters he wrote to her.

He looked at the letters one by one, and finally found a piece of old paper on which the poem he had read was written.

"If I love you... I will never learn to climb Ling Xiaohua, I will use your tall branches to show off myself;

I must be a kapok next to you, standing with you as the image of a tree.

We share the cold wave, the wind, the thunder and the thunderbolt;
This is the great love, here lies the steadfastness...Love, not only loves your stalwart body, but also loves the position you insist on, the land under your feet. "

Xiao Mingrui stared blankly at the poem.

He thought of how vigilant she was like a little squirrel when they first met. Later, on Ziwei Mountain, he was seriously injured. Facing the arrival of the enemy, she stood up resolutely and died generously. She said she would not regret.

She is a stubborn woman, she would rather not get love, or get love but complete love, not incomplete love.

This attitude also determines her behavior. She can do anything for him when facing a dangerous situation, but when facing emotional problems, she is always entangled.

Sometimes he would feel that she was innocent, but now, it seemed that such innocence would be destroyed by him.

Xiao Mingrui felt a pain in his heart.

If I love you... I will never learn from climbing Ling Xiaohua, I will use your tall branches to show off myself;

"Wangfei hasn't eaten yet?" Xiangtao asked cautiously.

"Yeah, I'm so worried." Lu'er sighed, "I don't know what the King of Qin said to the master? It made the master cry."

Xiangtao snorted, "The prince must have asked him to be a lobbyist. I don't know if he said something ugly. Otherwise, could the master be so excited?"

Just then, the door suddenly opened.

Murong Wei stood quietly at the door, seeing the two maids still guarding the door, she said: "Make some noodles, I don't want to eat anything right now."

Xiangtao responded happily, and hurried to the kitchen.

Murong Wei didn't say anything else, let's just eat some Xunzi noodles at night, and she doesn't know what she was thinking when she locked herself in the room.

Looking at the dark night, his expression was also fluctuating from joy to sorrow. It looked like he was a little happy, but also a lot of sad. He shed tears silently for a while, which made the two maids at a loss. I don't know when the master became sentimental. .

Who knew that after one night, in the morning of the second day, Murong Wei suddenly said after getting up: "Get ready, I'm going back home."

"Huh?" Xiang Tao was so startled that her eyeballs almost fell out.

"Princess, do you want to go back?" Lu'er was taken aback for a moment, and then became happy: "Hey, I'm ready now, servant girl!"

"Princess, are you not angry?" Xiangtao asked cautiously.

Murong Wei looked at herself in the bronze mirror. The woman in the bronze mirror had a slightly worried expression on her face, and her crescent eyebrows were slightly frowned. She shook her head: "No matter what, let's talk about it when we go back, we have to go back."

Xiangtao was a little puzzled, but she didn't want Murong Wei to stay here, so she greeted people happily to pack up her things...

A group of people left in a carriage and returned to the capital in less than half an hour.

Seeing that the palace was approaching, Murong Wei stroked her abdomen, her expression gradually became firm.

After entering the palace and getting out of the car, the servants of the palace were very surprised to see Murong Wei appear.

Murong Wei got ready on one side, but Xiao Mingrui on the other side still didn't know, got up early in the morning to practice some boxing, but felt gloomy in her heart, still looking around, feeling lonely, not even a confidant.

Su De served in front of Xiao Mingrui early in the morning, seeing that the prince was not in a good mood, although the breakfast was rich, he didn't know what to eat, and he didn't know what to use.

It happened to be a rest today and he didn't have to work, so Su De said, "Master, do you want to ask Mr. Li to speak?"

Xiao Mingrui thought about it, and he didn't know how to meet Murong Wei for a while. Although he loved her deeply, he was afraid that Murong Wei would refuse for a while, and he would have no self-esteem at that time, wouldn't it be even more uncomfortable.

So he called Li Jishan to the study to talk.

Seeing Xiao Mingrui's gloomy look, Li Jishan asked, "Your lord is unhappy because of the concubine's affairs?"

He is a very shrewd person, since Aichun's incident broke out, and the princess left again, he knew it would not be so easy to settle.

Although he knew that Xiao Mingrui had some unavoidable reasons, of course Li Jishan didn't know about the affairs between their husband and wife, so he just used common sense to deduce that it's normal for a woman to be jealous.

"What do you have to teach, sir?"

Li Jishan said with a smile: "Your Highness is so sad. If people know about it, they will think that His Highness is a seed of infatuation. I know that His Highness and the princess are in harmony, and there may be some estrangement for a while, but this husband and wife quarrel at the head of the bed and make peace at the end of the bed. Your Highness Don't worry too much. As for the concubine, is there any woman in the world who is not jealous? The prince should persuade the concubine that this matter should not go on for too long, or His Majesty will not like it."

Xiao Mingrui is smart in everything, but at this moment he has no idea, of course he knows what Li Jishan said, but Li Jishan is not clear about the conflict between Murong Wei and him.

"Mister doesn't understand." Xiao Mingrui sighed: "Don't worry about this matter, Mister, I will take care of it myself."

Just as he was talking, Xiao Mingchen came.

Seeing Xiao Mingrui and Li Jishan discussing about Murong Wei, Xiao Mingchen snorted: "Brother, I want to talk to you about something."

Seeing what he said, Li Jishan resigned knowingly.

Seeing his angry look, Xiao Mingrui frowned and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"I went to see my sister-in-law yesterday." Xiao Mingchen said firmly, "I said all the things that are inconvenient for you to say. If the second sister-in-law is a smart person, she should know that she has come back."

Xiao Mingrui was taken aback: "What did you tell her?"

"It's nothing." Xiao Mingchen snorted: "She's stubborn, I'll wake her up! Why do you let her bully my brother like this? I can't see my younger brother! She just has too special ideas, and the maiden didn't learn well. Is it okay if you dare to confront your husband like this?"

Xiao Mingrui said angrily: "This is between me and her, how can you scold her? She is your sister-in-law and my wife!"

If it wasn't for the fact that the other party was his own younger brother, Xiao Mingrui would have opened his mouth and called for someone to cross him out!

Although he knew that Xiao Mingchen was doing it for his own good, but he couldn't allow others to bully Murong Wei, he couldn't bear it himself, just looking at Xiao Mingchen's tone, how many ugly things did he say at that time?

What would Murong Wei think, would she think that she did it?
"Brother." Xiao Mingchen got up and shouted: "Okay, I'm not a human anymore, right? Shouldn't I be talking about her? She left like this, being extremely irresponsible and putting us all at a disadvantage. Look A big brother should laugh at us tomorrow, he can't even cure a woman, and he still wants to seize the heir? Besides, what I said is wrong, I asked her to take a step back, think for you and stop being self-willed, it's just..."

He frowned and said: "My good sister-in-law really thinks very differently from ordinary women. She just said that if I were a woman, who would be willing to take a concubine for her husband? That would be smiling on her face and crying in her heart." , Said I don’t understand, what is this thing. She seemed to be angry, and said she didn’t want to see me, so if she didn’t see me, she would disappear, but I think, after weighing the pros and cons, she will come back.”

Of course he couldn't understand it as a man.

However, Xiao Mingrui understood it, and his expression became ugly in an instant, and he said angrily: "You bastard..."

He got up and walked around the room, thinking that Murong Wei didn't know why she was sad at the moment, Xiao Mingchen ran over and said some inappropriate words, if this stalemate continued, there was really no way to explain it clearly.

Xiao Mingrui thought of Zhuo Wenjun's "White-headed Song" written by Murong Wei, and knew that she was most concerned about the white-headed inseparability, but he didn't seem to realize it until now.

The thinking of men and women is very different. Men mostly think about their careers, while women mostly think about their feelings.

But at this moment, he suddenly understood that Murong Wei was also suffering in her heart.

She had always hoped that after marrying him, he would be with her forever, as a couple for the rest of their lives, but in reality?
There are so many women among them, Zhang Yuqian and others are not non-existent, if they are not ignored, they can be treated as if they did not appear.

He has always been self-satisfied, and feels that it is all right to use these women as shields. Murong Wei doesn't like their appearance, but there is nothing he can do about it.

In fact, for Xiao Mingrui, even if he really asked to get rid of him, so what?

It's just a few women who can't stand on the stage, even if they are gone, who can say anything!
I'm afraid Murong Wei has endured enough, right?

Although he has seen some things, he has never seriously thought about them, but with such a real little wife, some problems are magnified enough.

Murong Wei is annoyed that these women appear in front of her, and she doesn't like wasting time and energy fighting with these people. Fortunately, after her rectification, these people are much more peaceful now.

But as soon as Ai Chun's incident happened, these people would be ready to move. Murong Wei even hurt her face and prestige among servants and concubines because of this incident. She didn't even notice that the people around her seduced the prince. Shame, that's weird.

"Why did I mess with me? Isn't it because of my second brother? Let's not talk about the present. If it goes further in the future, she will still be like this when she enters the palace. Does it mean that she will have to die when you accept the concubine?" of?"

Xiao Mingrui glanced at him, but didn't speak.

He looked thoughtfully at the sky outside the window, thinking of the poem.

"If I love you... the Ling Xiaohua who will never learn to climb, use your tall branches to show off yourself,

I must be a kapok next to you, standing with you as the image of a beautiful tree.

Together we share the cold wave...

Xiao Mingrui was in a daze, as if he had realized something.

He doesn't care what love is, if he loves it, he loves it, and he doesn't want to care whether the two should stand together, but now that he has met Murong Wei in this life, he knows that he cannot escape in this life.

He is willing to spoil her and love her, but does he take some things for granted?

He turned a blind eye to some problems, thinking that Murong Wei was a smart person and would definitely be able to solve them, but in fact she did.

But that doesn't mean she likes it.

Just like that time when he faked his death in Jiangnan, Murong Wei was also very angry when he came back, annoyed that he kept her secret from her and frightened her. Afterwards, he promised her that he would be open and honest with her when encountering such things in the future.

But when it comes to Aichun's matter, he still hasn't been honest with her.

Whatever the reason, he was broken and she was disappointed.

It's that simple.

Why can't everyone be open and honest?

Xiao Mingrui thought of this, and suddenly said decisively: "I want to go out."

Xiao Mingchen wondered, "Where is Second Brother going?"

"Go and pick up your sister-in-law."

"Second brother, don't go!" Xiao Mingchen still wanted to come up to persuade him, but he saw that Xiao Mingrui had already strode out.

Xiao Mingchen said angrily: "I knew I wouldn't tell you."

Xiao Mingrui was turning around the verandah, when he suddenly saw a beautiful figure approaching from a distance, accompanied by servants and palace servants, at this moment he took a closer look and was startled.

It turned out that the person was none other than Murong Wei.

"Wei'er?" He was surprised, happy and suspicious in his heart, Murong Wei said so decisively that day, how could he come back?

But no matter what, at this moment he was overjoyed. Seeing Murong Wei came back, it seemed that his whole life had become more exciting. became lighter.

Xiao Mingchen also saw Murong Wei from afar, and was overjoyed, and said to his brother: "Second brother, let me tell you, women still need to be disciplined, you see this is my credit."

"Shut up!" Xiao Mingrui turned around and cursed.

This brat is just making trouble for him!

After finishing speaking, he strode forward and bumped into Murong Wei head-on.

"Wei'er, I'm going to pick you up." His tone was light and joyful: "It's good that you come back. You're not angry anymore? Why..."

Why are you willing to come back?Wasn't it so decisive before?So what happened?
Murong Wei raised her eyes and looked at him with a calm expression, bowed her body and said "Wan Fu", and said: "There is no way, I am pregnant, and the child cannot live without a father."

Xiao Mingrui suddenly petrified, dumbfounded.

The surroundings were suddenly silent, even Lu'er, Xiang Tao and the others who came back with Murong Wei were dumbfounded and looked at her in surprise.

This happened so suddenly that everyone was too shocked to react.

The two couples stood facing each other like this, the sun shone in from the slanted thorns, and they were both wrapped in a gorgeous halo.

The breeze is coming, the birds are singing, and they seem to be singing about this wonderful time.

The surrounding colors suddenly became brighter, the sluggish crowd, the beauties standing gracefully, and the handsome men all formed a strange picture in an instant in the courtyard where hundreds of flowers were blooming and bees and butterflies were flying.

The two of them looked at each other for almost ten seconds, and almost a lifetime passed.

It was Murong Wei who had a calm expression, glanced at Xiao Mingrui's dumbfounded look, and snorted: "I'm going back now."

After finishing speaking, he bypassed Xiao Mingrui and went inside.

"Hey!" Xiao Mingrui finally came to his senses, first he was shocked in disbelief, then he was ecstatic, if it wasn't for the presence of so many people, he almost wanted to dance, and chased after him faintly, trying to go up to support Murong Wei, for a moment, didn't know where to put his hands, and his reserved appearance made it impossible to see that this was a majestic prince.

The palace servants who followed immediately started discussing with a coaxing sound, the voices were buzzing non-stop, whispering to each other about this important matter.

Xiangtao exclaimed excitedly: "The princess is happy, that's great, Bodhisattva bless you!"

Lu'er was also full of brilliance. As the people around Murong Wei, they were both prosperous and hurt. Now that Murong Wei is pregnant, how could such good news make them not excited?
Xiao Mingrui accompanied Murong Wei all the way into the house and still couldn't react, Xiao Mingchen also heard what she said, but he didn't turn around for a long time.

"It's not such a coincidence. It's bad this time. Seeing how the second brother looks like, he must be protecting his shortcomings." He rolled his eyes and said in his heart: "I'd better apologize to Murong Wei earlier, now that she's back, There can't be any more fuss."

He was also wronged because of his elder brother before. After all, to him, Murong Wei was an outsider, and his elder brother was the person he respected and admired the most since he was a child.

When things happen, people naturally think of their loved ones first.

No, when Murong Wei entered Tianxiangyuan, Xiao Mingrui was still a little dizzy, his eyes were filled with joy beyond words, and he started to giggle a little: "Wei'er, you are happy, how about I ask the imperial doctor to take a pulse?"

Murong Wei was both curious and amused when she saw his silly appearance, the emotions of pregnant women are easy to change, but seeing him now, for some reason, she became sad and cried inexplicably.

"Hey, Wei'er, why are you crying again?" He frantically comforted her, Murong Wei leaned on the kang and wiped her tears: "Don't worry about it."

Xiao Mingrui smiled bitterly and said, "Are you still angry with me? I was going to pick you up, but the fifth brother went to find you, right? Don't pay attention to the nonsense that brat said. He is ignorant, so don't be sad about it." You said let me think about it, I have been thinking about it for the past two days, what did I do wrong..."

He put his arms around her and said seriously: "You know, I'm busy with a lot of things every day, and sometimes it's inevitable that I overlook some things. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I promised you that I'll be honest with you in the future, no Tell you this matter, no matter what, it's all my fault, I lied to you, made you sad, and made you lose face in the mansion, this is my fault. "

When Murong Wei heard him say these words of apology, the blocked emotions in her heart gushed out, thinking of those heart-wrenching words Xiao Mingchen said was grievance: "Don't say it, maybe your brother is right, you shouldn't have married me back then ...Maybe you will be much happier if you marry someone else. Marry a woman who is obedient and virtuous, she will obey your words, she will not embarrass you because of this, she will not be like me. Do you regret marrying me?"

Speaking of this, tears have flowed down like pearls.

She actually stopped Xiao Mingchen's words, feeling very uncomfortable. She was both embarrassed and suspicious of his accusation: If Xiao Mingrui hadn't married her back then, wouldn't his life be better now?
Xiao Mingrui was taken aback, and angrily reprimanded: "What nonsense is that brat? Wei'er, you are not allowed to say such things. There is no such assumption in this world. It is useless. Tell me, I love you, don't you?" Really? I never regret marrying you, I always feel that marrying you is the greatest luck in my life, there are many women in the world, but there are three thousand weak waters, I just want to take a spoonful to drink."

Murong Wei's eyes were dim with tears, and she asked slowly: "But it's true?"

Xiao Mingrui was really happy in his heart: "I don't regret it, just like you said, I never regret it."

Seeing that she didn't speak, Xiao Mingrui apologized and said: "There is no serious conflict between you and me, what do you mind, I probably understand now. We have known each other for so long, since you married me, I once promised you to be a pair for life. People, but all along, there are other people in the house, always making you uncomfortable. You said you don’t want to be a dodder, I know, I understand. But I never regarded you as a useless woman. Sometimes I also have It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm used to taking on things alone. I'd like to pamper you and respect you. I know you don't want me to work so hard and want to help me, but how can I give up? You are busy every day Things inside and outside the house are enough to worry about."

Murong Wei's heart trembled, but he spoke so tenderly and softly, and what he said touched her heart. The man in front of her was indeed doting on her very much, and he always held her like a baby. Listening to him say this now , Murong Wei is also a little sour.

"It's not that I don't want to be a little woman." She said, "Actually, I have something wrong, and I forced it. I'm already very happy that you can think of this. I shouldn't force you to understand my thoughts, after all, men's thoughts are the same as Women are different. Seeking common ground while reserving differences may be the best way between us. I'm not really asking you to do something difficult. Just, I hope you don't lie to me again. If there is a first time, there will be a second time. For the third time, I can't bear to be deceived again and again. In fact, my idea is very simple, I just hope that there is someone who loves me, doesn't deceive me, and respects me. My lord, don't let me down again. here……"

She pointed to her heart: "I won't be able to bear it here."

Xiao Mingrui's heart surged, he hugged her tightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm sorry, Wei'er, it won't happen, and I will never lie to you again."

"Emotions need to be managed, and they are very fragile." She said seriously: "Let's protect it well in the future, shall we?"

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

"I'm also wrong. I'm just friends with Xiao Jinglan. He likes to joke. He deliberately made you angry that day. I was very angry at that time, and my words were a little irrational."

"I'm not good either. I should have told you earlier, Wei'er, hit me." He suddenly held her hand.

Murong Wei raised her eyebrows, raised her hand and beat him on the chest a few times, "It's time to beat me, I was so sad that day."

Xiao Mingrui noticed that her fingers were still a little strange, the originally beautiful nails were clipped flat, and there were some new pink tender flesh on the fingers, he felt pain in his heart, and cursed: "Damn it."

(End of this chapter)