Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

"My mother used to say that Dad abandoned you, just to rest you, and no longer want you to be his wife. He gave you a divorce, but now he's going to give other people happiness. What about mother-to-daddy? Do you still like Dad? "

I didn't expect that she would ask me this question.

It was unexpected that she could ask this question.

Recalling that when I married Pei Yuanxiu, everyone was saying whether I should marry, whether I should marry, or not, but she was the only one who asked me if I liked it or not.

And now she was asking me if there was still love for his father.

My daughter doesn't seem to care about worldly views, and she doesn't have too many shackles and shackles. She values ​​the relationship very much ...

However, it seems that the relationship is a little too heavy.

I thought about it and shook my head at her: "Mother doesn't love him, just like he doesn't love mother."

Her eyes flickered, and there was a hint of consternation and nervousness in her eyes, and she asked, "Well, do you hate him?"

"..."

I thought about it and shook my head.

This time, the light in her eyes was clearly chaotic.

Maybe, because this daughter appeared in front of me, she was so mischievous, innocent and ignorant, and maybe because I wanted to make up for the lack of motherly love these years, I have always taken care of her, and unconsciously, always will She considered the little girl when she first met.

But she really grew up.

I want to persuade her with words, but when I lower my head, I can see her clarified but serious eyes, with maturity and wisdom beyond this age flashing, but with a near reckless innocence, and Think about it from the ground, thinking about the unknown happiness she experienced in the past two days, but also endured the torment silently.

To perfuse her, it is no longer possible.

I said seriously: "Lier, Dad and Niang experienced a lot of things at the beginning, and a lot of things happened between us. But now, Niang has married your Dad, and your Dad is also giving to other people Happiness. There is no love or hate between us. "

"..." Lier hesitated before asking: "Then, mother doesn't love and hate her father, so what else?"

I smiled and said, "There is still Lier."

"So, apart from Lier? How could a mother neither love her father nor hate her?"

Looking at her big eyes, I thought for a while, and said softly: "Lier, the relationship between people is not only love and hate, in addition to love and hate, there are many other emotions. Admiration, Admiration, confidant, disgust, hate, disdain ... Too much, even the relationship between people is not just love or hate. These, for the time being, mother will tell you that when you grow up in the future, you will naturally understand."

She said, "Mother, isn't it big enough?"

I smiled and stroked her head, but did not answer her question, but just said softly: "Mother hopes, mother's children should never grow up."

"..."

She was obviously confused by me, but she seemed to understand something, and she looked down for a long time.

When she looked up again, she asked me another question: "Well, what about mother and father?"

"..."

"I asked my mother at that time, and my mother said, you might like A-Daddy. Then now--"

My heart seemed to be pierced by a burning needle, the pain that had been forgotten came to my heart again, and the blood on my face faded, leaving only a pale and pale.

I took a deep breath, pressed the pain in my heart, and said, "Lier, why do you always ask these questions today?"

She froze, and was about to say something, and I said, "You yourself said that you were already big. In fact, even if your father didn't show up, you should be a famous lady in the house next to your father. You should know what indecent assault a girl is. "

"..."

I smiled lightly, "Lier, you know you're ashamed."

She seemed to feel something after listening to me, and bowed her head.

I said, "Today, this is the last time you asked these questions. In the future, don't ask any more."

"..."

"When you understand, you will understand even if you don't want to understand, but when you don't, you won't understand even if your mother says it."

Maybe it was because my words were a bit heavy, or maybe she realized the meaning of these problems, her face turned slightly red, and after a while, she stunned and said, "Actually, I do n’t really want to ask These things, I just— "

"Just what?"

She raised her eyes and looked at me. The look was like a frightened kitten, and she said carefully, "Mother, Lier wants to ask her to agree to something."

"..." I frowned.

Although Lieer didn't grow up with me, after all, she has been reunited for so many years. I also understand that she grew up in a pet when she was a child. She didn't have the word "qiu" in her world, but now she is careful Said this "quest" to me.

I immediately realized what.

"Can your mother cross the river with me tomorrow?"

"...!"

This problem, like suddenly dropping a heavy stone in my deliberately calm heart lake, suddenly stirred up a fierce spray, and also caused layers of ripples.

I took a deep breath: "You want your mother to accompany you across the river? Why?"

As soon as she asked, she saw her eyes drooping slightly.

I immediately understood it, and regretted asking this sentence.

Why else? She already knew that it was her father, and she also felt for the first time the father's love passed on from her biological father. This child who had left her parents not long after birth, even with the pampering of Pei Yuanxiu, Han Ruoshi And Han Zitong's care, but after all, not with her biological parents, she cannot be without regrets, nor can she have no desire.

She hopes that I can cross the river and stay with her with Pei Yuanzhang.

Thinking of it this way, a sourness burst into my heart immediately, but my brows gradually wrinkled.

Accompany her across the river with Pei Yuanzhang?

Lier said: "As long as one day, will you and dad play with me?"

"..."

Looking at her eager look, I almost agreed to it, but was pulled back intellectually.

I can forgive others, but it does not mean that I will forget the pain so quickly. I will never forget the more than two years when I was imprisoned in the cold palace by Pei Yuanzhang, and I will not forget the day of hiding in the water stupa | Day and night, not to forget those days around Chang Qing, every day afraid to see him, every day is like walking on thin ice.

I can't forget who made me escape that life.

He paid almost the cost of life and ruined half of his face. Now he wants me to cross the river to meet with Pei Yuanzhang. This is undoubtedly a tiger's entrance. Although he seems so peaceful and gentle every day, but As long as he had that idea together, with an order, I would fall into the original predicament again.

I ca n’t spend that second half of my life!

I thought about it, and said euphemistically, "But my mother—"

But before I finished, Lier said timidly, "Dad may be leaving."

"……what?"

"Dad, he may be leaving."

"He's leaving?"

"Um." She nodded, her eyes seemed slightly red, and said, "After shopping today during the day, Dad took me to the restaurant to rest for snacks and heard about books. We were sitting on the second floor and drinking tea. , Suddenly I heard a loud voice downstairs, as if someone was falling, crackling, it was scary. "

There was a cluck in my heart.

Lier said, "I thought, downstairs was singing Wu Sheng's drama."

"Then Pei-your father, how is he?"

"He? He's just sitting there drinking tea, like nothing."

"..."

"The storyteller was terrified. Later, he also gave him a piece of silver to reward him and tell him to tell the story well."

"……and after?"

"Later, Lord Wu came up, and his face was very ugly. Ask him to" step "and two people went to the other compartment to talk. In fact, I heard that Lord Wu said that someone was injured, as if What else was said-'crisis', and asked him to return to Beijing. Mother, returning to Beijing means returning to Beijing, right? "

"Someone injured? Who was injured?"

"I don't know, but it looks like it should be his guard."

"..." I frowned.

Lier's description is not too clear, but I fully understand it.

Pei Yuanzhang was assassinated today!

However, the man who assassinated him was obviously not fully prepared, so they read the book on the second floor. The assassin was found only downstairs and was captured after a while of fighting. Wu Yanqiu came up and asked Pei Yuanzhang to move. The command to expose his identity in front of Lier was just like those days he spent in Yangzhou when he lost his memory. He asked Pei Yuanzhang to return to Beijing, apparently aware of the seriousness of the problem.

Yangzhou Mansion was the place where Liu Qinghan took back, and the court himself, assassins appeared again!

What does this mean? !!

And Wu Yanqiu said that "the crisis is heavy," and asked him to return to Beijing, that is to say-he is going back to Beijing!

He's leaving! ?

Although I do n’t know what his purpose of coming to Jiangnan was, his presence in Yangzhou did cause a lot of sense of crisis to many people in the south, and even the entire Central Plains became unstable. Otherwise, why is it apparent that he has been recovered by the court? In Yangzhou, assassins actually appeared. If he wanted to leave, he could indeed restore the peace he had before.

but--

Will he really leave?

We have been guessing what purpose he went down to the south, but now almost nothing happened. Is he really just going out to the sea to run for the "non-existent" Franco machine guns, now he will be empty-handed. Back to Beijing?

I was a little hesitant for a while.

If you think about it, I really can't think of it, and I don't see any other purpose for him going south.

Moreover, he is now a Mansara after all, and has a different identity from the previous prince. Even before facing the Longtan Tiger Cave like Huisheng Medicine Shop, he dare to go to the life and death agreement between Hongye Temple and Changmingzong. It's different.

If there were assassins in Yangzhou, as Wu Yanqiu said, it was indeed a crisis, and he really should not stay outside the imperial city.

Well, maybe he really has to go.

I looked down at Lier and saw that she was also looking at me. Her big eyes were full of hope and hope: "Mother, I hope that mother will also cross the river before Dad leaves. The three of us stayed together in Yangzhou for a day. May I?"