Rebirth after waste

Chapter 33

"Oh?" The emperor smiled, "Ashu also loves famous horses?"

"Yes." Zhen Jieyu said with a smile, "When the concubine was in her boudoir, she loved to ride a horse with her father and brother out of the city, but after entering the palace, she hasn't ridden for a while."

The emperor lowered his eyes and seemed to think of something, "Yes, this is the first time I see you..." He smiled softly, "Well, it's rare that you made a request, Ashu, and I will let you go once."

He walked up to Zhen Jieyu and handed her the whip with his own hands, "Bao Ju is hot-tempered, my concubine should be careful."

Zhen Jieyu didn't answer, but walked straight to the BMW.The emperor looked at her back with a deep smile in his eyes.

The style of horse riding was very popular in the Jin Dynasty. Both men and women were proficient in riding skills. Folks often saw children aged seven or eight riding horses galloping between the fields.Coming down to the racecourse with His Majesty today, all the concubines were already planning to ride horses, so they all changed into light riding clothes.

Seeing Zhen Jieyu holding the rein and stroking the Maxima's mane just like His Majesty did, Ming Chongyi said coldly: "She is clever, and she is here to please His Majesty."

After hearing her words, Ling Guiji turned her head and saw that His Majesty was watching Zhen Jieyu with great interest, but she didn't expect to hear her, so she gave her a warning look.

Ming Chongyi pursed her lips unwillingly when she received the look from her friend, but didn't say anything more.

Suddenly there was a burst of applause from the racetrack, they looked along, and saw that Zhen Jieyu had turned over on the horse's back, pulled the reins, the white horse neighed towards the sky, raised its front hooves, jumped forward, and started to gallop in the arena.

Zhen Jieyu was wearing a goose yellow riding outfit today, and her hair was neatly tied up in a bun. Looking from a distance, she was riding a horse with an unusually sassy figure.Coupled with her usual cowardly and overwhelmed posture, her every move is as soft as catkins in the wind, this sassy look is even more rare at this moment.Many concubines noticed that the emperor looked at her with a smile in a trance, as if recalling something from the past.

A sharp neigh broke everyone's chaotic thoughts, and after looking around, they found that the unattractive Maxima suddenly went berserk, leaping and galloping in the arena, shaking Zhen Jieyu off the horse!
Zhen Jieyu clenched the rein tightly, trying to stabilize her body.The surrounding Habayashi guards rushed up like a tide, but they couldn't get close.

"Ashu!"

At the same time as the emperor's shout sounded, Zhen Jieyu was knocked off the horse, like a piece of white silk flying in the air.

The emperor jumped and caught her slender body before the guards approached.

The concubines were all startled by this accident, so they rushed to get together at this moment.Yu Shuyi was the first to ask, "Sister Zhen is all right, is there any injury?"

Zhen Jieyu nestled in His Majesty's arms, her face pale.A bare hand gripped his collar tightly, even the knuckles were slightly white.

The emperor ignored the others and only looked at Zhen Jieyu, "How about Ashu?"

Zhen Jieyu's lips trembled, and after a long time, her eyes turned red and she shed tears, "You caught me."

The emperor was taken aback.

"I didn't expect to be rescued by you once." She spoke incoherently, and looked more and more tender and pitiful, "I really didn't expect."

The emperor stared at her blankly, and suddenly sighed softly, "Okay, don't cry." His tone was indescribably soft, "Little lady is not beautiful when she wears makeup when she cries."

Hearing this, Zhen Jieyu trembled all over, and tears flowed more urgently.The beauty of hibiscus weeping dew moved all bystanders.

The Chollima dedicated to His Majesty suddenly went berserk, something like this had never happened before.According to the rules, each imperial horse will be checked by several horse trainers, and it will be taken to the Inner Court Racecourse only after it is confirmed that there is no problem.But even under such cautious circumstances, something like this happened.

Empress Zhenjieyu was thrown off her horse abruptly. Regardless of whether there was a serious injury or not, it was enough to punish a group of people with dereliction of duty.However, these are not the most important.Just the thought that this horse was first tested by His Majesty gives one the chills.

If His Majesty really rode that horse...

This matter is too big, and there are too many hidden possibilities.

When Zhen Jieyu fell down, King Ning's face turned pale with fright, and he knelt aside, unable to speak.It wasn't until the emperor picked up Zhen Jieyu and wanted to leave that he walked forward on his knees and kowtowed suddenly, "Imperial brother Mingjian, minister... I don't know why this horse behaves like this!"

The emperor ignored him, and just ordered lightly: "Lu Chuan, investigate this matter thoroughly."

Lu Chuan hurriedly made a promise.

Seeing that he seemed to be holding Zhen Jieyu and was about to leave, all the concubines stood there in a daze, wondering if they should follow.

However, after walking a few steps, he stopped again, turned his head and scanned the crowd, and finally landed on Gu Yunxian, "I will send Ashu back to Cheng'an Palace first."

She didn't know why he explained such a sentence to her, so she could only slightly nod her head, "The concubine understands. Send it off to Your Majesty."

In the evening, Zhuang Lingyi had tea in Gu Yunxian's Hanzhang Hall.The fragrance of the freshly cooked "purple bamboo shoots" overflowed, Gu Yunxian looked at the tea in the cup, and suddenly remembered that the first tea she cooked for that person was purple bamboo shoots.

"I don't know what's going on at Cheng'an Hall." Zhuang Lingyi suddenly said, "Ah-Hang lost his temper today, and the concubine didn't follow him to the racecourse. Who would have thought that he would have missed such a good show."

"It was indeed a good show." Gu Yunxian said coldly, "The Chollima presented by King Ning went crazy, and it happened so coincidentally that he fell Zhen Jieyu."

Zhuang Lingyi heard her subtext, and said: "My sister is suspicious. This time, Chollima was suddenly frightened and went mad. Someone secretly tampered with it?"

"Naturally." Gu Yunxian said, "Looking at the descriptions between His Majesty and Zhen Jieyu this afternoon, I'm afraid that falling off the horse this time will bring out some old things."

"Bringing out old things?" Zhuang Lingyi frowned, "What old things?"

"Of course it's an old matter between Jing Fushu and His Majesty."

Zhuang Lingyi frowned even tighter.

"Actually, I've been wondering for so many years, how did Your Majesty know Jing Fushu in the first place." Gu Yunxian said, "I always think that it won't be after Jing Fushu became her younger brother and sister."

She turned her eyes away and looked at the magnificent sunset outside the window.So gorgeous, but will eventually dissipate.

As ridiculously sincere as she used to be.

Gu Yunxian still remembers that when she first heard the name Jing Fushu, it was less than a year since she became a princess.

Aci hesitantly told her the rumors she had heard from the maid of Jiaofangdian: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had visited the palace several times to pay homage to the Empress, and met Princess Zhou.

"The king of Zhou is weak and sick, and he rarely goes to the palace to pay homage. It is always the princess of Zhou who goes there on her behalf. It is not uncommon for the two of them to meet. But the slaves heard that the two of them spoke very naturally, as if they were old acquaintances. The princess's witty words Lianzhu, you even made His Royal Highness laugh!"

She was stunned at the time, and forced herself to calm down and said, "No, His Highness is a person who understands etiquette and will not do anything ridiculous. He just... cares about his younger brother, so he chatted with his younger brother and sister a few more times. You Don't spread the word about it."

She said this on her lips, but she really understood in her heart that her husband is really not a person who knows etiquette.

Ah Ci complied, and was about to retreat, but was stopped by her again.After waiting for a while, I heard my young lady slowly ask: "That Princess Zhou, what's her name?"

"The concubine's surname is Jing, and her maiden name is Fu Shu."

Jing Fushu.

Because the king of Zhou was weak and sick, His Majesty and the Queen spared him the morning and evening meditation. It was rare for Gu Yunxian to see this little uncle, and he was even less familiar with his newly married concubine.Usually, when you come and go between sisters-in-law, no one mentions her, so she never cared about this younger sibling.

She didn't expect to remember her name in this way for the first time.

A month later, Gu Yunxian met her across the Bise Liusi by the Baiyu Bridge in the palace.

At that time, Jing Fushu and Ji Xun were standing side by side by the Zhuoqu Pool, talking while admiring the scenery.Gu Yunxian stood far away, only seeing Ji Xun's happy smile on his lips. In his impression, he only smiled at her like this when he was newly married.

She was still in a trance, but Jing Fushu suddenly turned her head and met her dazed face.As if something long-awaited had happened, she raised her eyebrows slightly, and there were cool sarcasm and pity in her eyes.

Ji Xun also found her, a little surprised: "Why are you here?" Looking behind her empty back, "Where is the person following you?"

She also wanted to ask him, where did the people who followed them go?His lips trembled, but he still endured it.

Jing Fushu stepped forward, blessed her body, and said in a voice like Huang Ying: "The concubine sees His Highness the Crown Princess, Your Highness is safe."

She looked at her and said with difficulty: "Yes."

At that time, although Ji Xun didn't like her very much, he treated her kindly: "It's windy today, you don't wear so little, so don't hang around outside, go back early."

She was silent after hearing the words: "Your Highness won't go back with the concubine?"

"I still have something to do, I will go to the mother's place to find you later." After finishing speaking, he led his younger siblings away, leaving his wife who was married by Ming Mei to stand still, standing like a puppet.

The first meeting between Gu Yunxian and Jing Fushu ended in her defeat, and Jing Fushu's sarcasm and pity eyes at that time remained in her memory and could not be erased.

At that time, she didn't understand what was so good about that woman, why Ji Xun would approach her regardless of etiquette.The more I couldn't figure it out, the more sad I became, and finally I couldn't sleep all night.But at that time, there was some comfort in his heart, no matter how much he liked her, it was impossible for him to accept her.He is the crown prince, and now His Majesty is very old, and seeing that he is about to inherit the throne, it is absolutely impossible for him to do such a thing.

Thinking about it now, it's ridiculously naive.

After Zhuang Lingyi and Gu Yunxian said those words, she was in a daze, and called out tentatively, "Sister?"

Gu Yunxian was startled, and then realized, "Look at me, I left you here in the cold."

"What did sister think of just now?"

"Some things from the past." Gu Yunxian said, "I felt sad at the time, but now I feel nothing. It's all over."

Yes, it's all over.Now she is no longer the woman she used to be who foolishly loved her husband but didn't know how to please him. She put away her infatuation and replaced it with scheming.

This is a war between her and Jing Fushu.She has to win.

(End of this chapter)