Kunning

When Jiang Xuening returned to the Flower Hall, she ran into the You Shi sisters who had rushed to deal with the matter in the middle of the road. Apparently they have also heard the news that Jiang Xuening, an outside guest, actually interfered in the affairs of their house. One has the "old grudges" in the previous flower hall, and the other has the current "new grudges". You Yue stared at her. Those eyes seemed to be able to spew fire.

Even You Shuang's complexion was not good, so she just said hello to her lightly.

Jiang Xuening also responded perfunctorily.

Liang Zi, the two sisters of Qingyuan Bofu, must be considered a knot.

But she doesn't care.

Who in the world is afraid of being hated by an ant?

After returning to the flower hall, the news of You Fangyin's "falling into the water" spread all over the world. Because they didn't know the specific facts, the rumors were even more outrageous than the facts.

It is said that it was a servant girl in the mansion who threw herself into the water because she could not bear the humiliation of the master's family;

Some said that she was a serious girl, but her aunt had just voted for the boudoir, and she couldn't think about it for a while and did something stupid;

Of course, the most widely spread is Jiang Xuening's words just now: This girl is a concubine from Youfu, she was bullied by evil servants, I'm afraid it's not that simple to "fall into the water"...

Because Yan Lin came to talk to her before, many ladies from aristocratic families in this flower hall usually followed the rules, but it was the first time to see such a blatant "private meeting". After Jiang Xuening left, she had a lot of criticisms against her.

And everyone originally thought about Yan Lin.

Who would have thought that the second girl Jiang would be killed halfway, and they would feel that if Shizi Yan dared to act like this before the crowning ceremony, it must be because the marriage was a secret affair.

Really pantothenic.

However, the matter of You Fangyin falling into the water was excluded immediately.

The lives of ladies from aristocratic families are boring, how can they resist the temptation of talking? It just so happened that the master's family had gone to take care of things, so some of them took the opportunity to go to Jiang Xuening's side to inquire.

Jiang Xuening then told what she saw.

Neither add oil and vinegar, nor say a lot.

After a while, the You sisters came back and said that a concubine in the mansion accidentally fell into the water. Fortunately, the women found out early and rescued her. Now they have sent a doctor to see it, so it's okay.

Of course, there was a look of rejoicing on everyone's face that "it's okay to be fine".

But these ladies from aristocratic families have already heard Jiang Xuening's words, and whose family has no quarrel? Some things can be understood as soon as you hear them, and Nei Li doesn't bother to believe the Youshi sisters' nonsense, but they are the masters, so they still have to give some face.

As for how to spread the word after the banquet is over, that is their business.

Then came the luncheon, appreciating chrysanthemums, and writing poems and paintings.

For Jiang Xuening, it was really boring.

If it hadn't been for Yan Linxian who said to wait for him in the sky tower after the afternoon, and to watch the lantern festival together at night, she might have left after seeing You Fangyin.

For the last half hour, she just sat on the sidelines, watching these ladies from aristocratic families play with ink and ink, meticulously tracing pictures of autumn chrysanthemums with different postures on each piece of rice paper laid out.

After a while, when everyone chooses a leader, the banquet will be over.

But no one expected that when the elegant banquet was about to end, there was a sudden voice at the door: "Princess Leyang is here!"

Princess?

Everyone in the hall was taken aback, and before they had time to look up, they hurriedly saluted: "Welcome the eldest princess!"

When Jiang Xuening heard this sound, her eyelids jumped, and she began to secretly hate herself for not leaving the meeting early.

But after thinking about it, I am now wearing women's clothing.

So he forced himself to relax the nerve that had suddenly tensed up, saluted along with the crowd in the corner, subconsciously buried his head low.

There were slight footsteps in front of the hall, and the sound of the rings hanging on the waist of the noble woman colliding.

Soon, everyone heard a voice from the top of their heads: "There is no need to be polite, the princess and Ashu just heard that the Qingyuan uncle's house banquet is not over, just stop by to see what it looks like, let's get down."

Word by word, like pearls and jade on a plate.

It's like fairy music, like heaven and man.

When everyone heard this voice, they couldn't help but think about what kind of fairy concubine Princess Leyang must be with such a beautiful voice.

Although the lady of the family is expensive, she has never entered or left the palace.

Most of the people had never seen the princess before, so after Yiping died, they raised their eyes to look at her.

However, the moment they saw the appearance of this princess, everyone was stunned for a moment, and there was a bit of strangeness in their eyes, and then a kind of pity was born, and they secretly said in their hearts: "It's a pity."

The Eldest Princess of Leyang, Shen Zhiyi, was born of the late emperor's favorite concubine, the Xian Huang Guifei. She has been doted on since she was a child, and her skin is delicate and white. Her facial features have inherited the delicacy of the imperial concubine. Sometimes there are sweet little dimples, which make people feel happy when they see it.

However, half an inch below the left eye, near the end of the eye, there is a scar.

Although the color is slightly lighter and not too long, it is particularly eye-catching and glaring on such a flawless face, making it hard not to notice it. The original beauty of a face is completely lost by this scar, which makes people sigh, "There is a crack in the pearl, and a gap in the beautiful jade".

It was a disfigured face.

Even if you use powder to cover it, you can still see it clearly.

There is such a beautiful voice, but there is no appearance to match it.

Jiang Xuening knew that the scar on Princess Leyang's face was left when King Pingnan invaded the capital twenty years ago. At that time, she was just a newborn baby who was taken from the nurse by the rebels. As a hostage, he slashed her face with a dagger, threatening the other royal families who were hiding in the imperial city to show up.

Later, Qin Wang's division arrived and quelled the rebellion.

Shen Zhiyi, who is a princess, is of course safe and sound, but such a scar has been permanently left on her face, which has accompanied her since she was a child until now.

Although twenty years have passed now, all those who have experienced that incident in the court and the palace, seeing the scar on her face, can't help recalling the incident that soaked the palace with blood—

The scar of Princess Leyang is the shame that King Pingnan's rebellious party drew on the face of the great dynasty of Dagan!

It is precisely because of this that the current Holy Majesty loves this younger sister very much.

As long as Shen Zhiyi has any request, as long as it does not involve the survival of the country, he will satisfy it. Even if she wanted to pluck the stars in the sky, Shen Lang would ask someone to try to see if she could pluck them before giving up.

Shen Zhiyi grew up in the court, and since she was a child, she has seen the eyes of countless people looking at the scar on her face, some with pity, some with pity, some with sarcasm, and she even occasionally changes from some beautiful faces I can see their inner voices on the faces of the palace maids: So what if it is the princess of the empire? With this scar, her good looks are broken, and she is really inferior to lowly palace maids like them.

When she was young, she didn't know the meaning of these gazes.

After getting older and understanding, it turns from anger to hatred, and from hatred to sadness.

Let me ask all the women in the world, who can really not care about their own appearance?

Shen Zhiyi glanced around, and she caught everyone's eyes looking at her, only one person in the corner buried his head and did not lift it up, keeping his head down all the time.

It's strange.

When she was in the palace, she was used to being watched by others like this. Although she felt like a thorn was planted in her heart at this moment, she didn't have an attack. She just said indifferently: "Just keep painting."

Everyone was startled by her sweeping eyes, and quickly withdrew their gazes.

Now that the princess has spoken, they dare not refute.

So everyone returned to their original positions, those who painted continued to paint, and those who wrote poems continued to write poems.

Jiang Xuening also breathed a sigh of relief, and went back to continue pretending that she didn't exist at all.

But before she could sit down again, Shen Zhiyi came directly towards her, stood in front of her, and said, "Are you Jiang Xuening? Look up."

"..."

I really don't know why this ancestor noticed himself again!

Jiang Xuening is no longer a queen. Compared to her status as an imperial princess, she is just a young lady of an ordinary minister's family. There is a gap in status and status, and she dare not disobey her. She raised her head according to her words.

At this moment, undisguised amazement flashed across Shen Zhiyi's eyes, but after a while, it turned into a bit of mournful envy, and she sighed softly: "I came here today for you. "

Jiang Xuening's eyelids started to twitch wildly again.

But Shen Zhiyi said: "It's no wonder that Yan Lin who no one can subdue is devoted to you, so good-looking, even if I see it, my heart will be moved, it's really enviable..."

She was attending a banquet at Duke Cheng's mansion in Japan today, but when she arrived, she heard that her brother Shen Jie had gone to Qingyuan uncle's mansion. Shen Zhiyi was always attached to this gentle and good-tempered brother, and later she heard that she had been with her since she was a child. Yan Lin, who had played until he was a child, was also over there, so he asked someone to ask. Only then did I know that Shen Jie went to Qingyuan uncle's mansion because of Yan Lin, and Yan Lin went because of a certain official lady.

This made her curious.

Seeing the end of the banquet at Duke Cheng's mansion, he dragged Xiao Shu, the eldest lady of Duke Cheng's mansion who was close to him, here to see who the legendary "Second Miss Jiang" was.

Shen Zhiyi knew Yan Lin's virtue, and had never been very interested in women.

If he can be seen by him, there must be something extraordinary.

So when she took a quick look just now, she noticed the only figure with her head down. She approached her and asked her to look up. There is no beauty, it is unforgettable at first sight.

Jiang Xuening wailed from the bottom of her heart, "What kind of evil fate is this?" Hearing Shen Zhiyi's meaning, it seemed that she came to see her because of Yan Lin, so she met her even if she didn't want to.

She is clear about the future fate of the Eldest Princess Leyang.

After the Yongyihou Mansion, which was originally in charge of the military power, was implicated in the old case of King Pingnan and exiled, within two months, the northern Tatars were ready to move, claiming that the new king would succeed to the throne, and wanted to ask Dagan to marry the princess as his concubine, but the emperor did not want to use Yongyihou again. Mansion, sent Princess Leyang to marry.

Four years later, the Tatars had finished recharging their energy and stored up their energy, and they completely invaded with troops.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty only welcomed back the coffin of the princess.

At that time, the emperor had changed to Shen Jie.

In his grief, he overturned Shen Lang's conviction for the Yongyihou's mansion, rehabilitated the Yongyihou's mansion, and enabled Yan Lin, who had been exiled for four years. Yan Lin also finally got the chance. He led his troops to quell the border chaos, expelled the Tatars, and killed the barbarians until he dared not cross the Dagan territory.

After that, it was Jiang Xuening's "disaster".

She remembered that when they first met in the previous life, she was dressed as a man, but she saw that Shen Zhiyi cared too much about the scar on her face, so she took the fine pen that others used to trace lanterns at the lantern festival, dipped in a little cherry powder, and put it on She had drawn that scar for her under her left eye.

At that time, Shen Zhiyi mistook her for a man and had feelings for her.

Later, I found out that she was a woman, so naturally I couldn't bear it.

But before going to Tatar to get married, she specially invited herself to paint her the same makeup as when they first met, and then sat quietly in front of the makeup mirror, looking at the delicate face in the mirror , but two lines of tears flowed across his cheeks.

After Shen Zhiyi left, Jiang Xuening also asked herself many times: If there was another chance, would you still draw that stroke for her when you first met?

There was no answer.

She thought she wouldn't.

But now, when Shen Zhiyi stood in front of her alive again, and she really had such an opportunity, Jiang Xuening realized that her answer was: I will.

"His Royal Highness is a beautiful country, the most dazzling pearl in the entire Daqian dynasty, how can Xue Ning take care of it?" She looked up at her, and smiled slightly, "You don't have to envy your daughter."

It really sounded like closed-eyed compliments.

Shen Zhiyi was disgusted the first moment she heard it.

But when she caught her eyes, she found that her words were very serious and sincere, and she was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Xuening turned around and even pulled her to the unoccupied painting table in the far corner, lightly picked up a tube of fine brush, lightly dipped it in a little bit of cherry powder, said "I'm offended", and then moved closer to the painting table. Go forward and lightly draw a few strokes on the scar under Shen Zhiyi's left eye.

The originally glaring scar suddenly turned into a crescent-like powder.

Like a falling petal.

When she backed away, the palace servants who were following Shen Zhiyi had already let out a low exclamation, their eyes were astonished.

Jiang Xuening only said: "Some scars, if His Highness cares too much in front of people, everyone will know that this is His Highness's soft spot, and they can use a knife and gun to hurt His Highness; but if His Highness shows it to others, he doesn't care, or pretends not to care, people will You don’t know what His Highness’s shortcomings are, and you can’t hurt them. Your scars are originally the glory of the dynasty, why should you be ashamed of them?”

Shen Zhiyi was completely stunned.

No one had ever said such a bold word to her, it was very straightforward and sharp, but it was like a breeze like water, blowing over her heart and healed some wounds.

She stared at the Jiang Er girl who was meeting for the first time in front of her, and couldn't look away.

After Jiang Xuening finished that stroke, she felt at ease, and thought about it again: Although she has crossed paths with Princess Leyang again, she still doesn't know how Xie Wei will deal with her in this life. If she can curry favor with Her Royal Highness, then If Xie Wei wanted to do something to her, he had to weigh it up if he was not sure.

There's nothing wrong with that.

It's just that when she concentrated her eyes and looked back, she saw Shen Zhiyi's eyes staring at her at this moment, and suddenly her scalp went numb!

this look...

How can it be the same as the previous life? !

She subconsciously looked down at what she was wearing: it was indeed a woman's dress.

But why this look...

In the blink of an eye, an unprecedented idea suddenly appeared in Jiang Xuening's mind, which made her tremble all over, and couldn't help but arouse a series of goosebumps—

Who said that in the previous life, Princess Leyang must have fallen in love with her because she disguised herself as a man and mistakenly thought she was a man?

It is not necessarily impossible for the same situation to have another explanation—

That is, seeing her dressed as a man, but with a feminine look, so she gets close to her, but the eldest princess herself may not know it!

if it is like this…

Jiang Xuening's finger, which was still clinging to the paintbrush before it could be put down, suddenly became stiff.

At this moment, under Shen Zhiyi's staring gaze, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and only three words popped out of her numb head—

Ruined.