Chapter 234: not what i want

Chapter 234: not what i want

Tongtian was silent for a long time, and said, "People always have what they want in front of them. If you can't ask for immortality, and ask for wealth and honor in the world, wouldn't it be bad?"

Chong Lan bit his lip and said, "I understand what the master means. Because I said that I have a good impression of Zhao Cong. If I can ask for immortality, he can't pay the price I want, but since I can't become immortal, then We are half a catty, and I have no position to feel unfair."

Tongtian sighed: "Isn't it?"

Chong Lan said: "But I have already chosen."

Tongtian said: "With me, you can regret it and choose again."

Chong Lan shook his head and said, "This is a bit pricey."

Tongtian said: "If someone dares to bully you, the teacher's door will be your backing."

Chong Lan looked at him and said, "Does Shizu want me to marry so much?"

Of course Tongtian hopes, because this is the script they have been preparing for more than ten years, how can they say that they will not act when it comes to the moment?

Tongtian said, "This is the right way for you."

Chong Lan said: "So, this is the best path for me arranged by the teacher's sect?"

Tongtian said, "Does it matter who arranged the best way?"

Chong Lan said: "It's important. What you think is best for me may not be what I want most, not what I want most, or what is best in my heart."

Tongtian said, "Is there any other choice?"

Chong Lan said: "Why not? All things naturally have destiny, but they also have a chance of survival. Master and uncle can change the world's temperament in the world, why should I follow the best path arranged by you? I don't want to marry someone in this world. , On the one hand, I don't want that fate, on the other hand, Zhao Cong is not my favorite man. I can become a woman like my uncle, and I don't need to marry a person to achieve the status of glory."

Tongtian said: "You girl, you are too naive. Your uncle has a husband, so he is your second uncle."

Chong Lan looked up at him and said, "So, am I fighting like my uncle and willing to take on everything, I...I am also qualified to stay by my uncle's side?"

Tongtian Sect Master couldn't help being stunned, he took a long time to digest this sentence. In the end, he was a great immortal who had passed away with the six fairies. Seeing Chong Lanyou kneeling under his head, he looked weak and small, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Chong Lan said: "I originally just wanted to cultivate into a righteous fruit and be able to stay by the side of my master, but I didn't dare to have any other thoughts. Now I know that I have no fate in the immortal way, and my master must be extremely disappointed with me. If there is punishment, I am willing to be punished.”

Tongtian said: "Since you chose it yourself, you regret it, and no one will help you."

Chong Lan said: "Everyone is like this, and everyone has no right to regret it. I never look at other things, so how can I regret it?"

Tongtian was silent for a while, then got up from the jade stone, waved his sleeves, and turned away the enchantment and the technique of moving mountains, and he also turned into a white rainbow and flew away.

Zhong Lan looked up at the sky, with tears still in her beautiful eyes, and the sadness in her heart was lingering, not strong, but lingering.

Chong Lan came back to his senses when he heard Li Bilian's screams in the distance.

She is a mortal, and there is no long immortal path to seek, and she does not want to be ordinary in the life of this mortal.

Ordinary life, marrying a good husband, a husband and a wife, and a mother with a child are the pursuit of many mortal women, but it is not hers.

Maybe she is greedy, unwilling to be ordinary and plain, willing to toss, and also has a heart for people who shouldn't be thinking, and it will never be fruitful. But she was willing.

...

Li Gongfu and Xu Jiaorong originally lived in Qiantang County for decades, and later developed well in Yangzhou because of Xu Xian. Li Gongfu was always angry with the county magistrate when he was eating at the yamen of Qiantang County, and at the invitation of Xu Xian, his family went to join Xu Xian.

The Xu family's medicinal herbs business has already done a lot. No matter it is logistics or warehousing, they all need management personnel. At that time, the apprentices around them were too tender, or their own family members were more suitable. Li Gongfu helped to manage these matters, and his daughter Bai Suzhen worshipped him with pity.

Xu Xian went to Beijing again, and entered the Tai Hospital. Many of the medicines in the Tai Hospital and military supplies had to pass through Xu Xian's pharmacy, and some businesses belonged to Xu Xian's former master and uncle. The Li family also wanted to help, but the Kyoto government was short of criminal talents. Li Gongfu had been a head arrester for decades and had more experience in handling cases than ordinary people, so he was hired as a bureaucrat.

Xu Jiaorong knew that her family was becoming more and more developed, thanks to Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen, although she didn't understand why they had to "reconcile" when they were clearly still in love. Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian have changed from husband and wife to business partners, and they have an incomparable tacit understanding.

Bai Suzhen has always been reasonable, and she also gave birth to a very good son for the Xu family. As the daughter of the Xu family, Xu Jiaorong is honest and honest, so naturally she will not blame Bai Suzhen, but insists on persuading Xu Xian to ask Bai Suzhen to go back.

Xu Xian only said: "As long as you only have each other in your heart, marriage is just a situation. Yes, it's the icing on the cake. No, it won't fall apart. If the chance doesn't come, my sister doesn't have to worry about us. In fact, we are better than anyone else."

Xu Jiaorong really couldn't fault her, their relationship was indeed better than anyone else, and with a good kid like Shilin, there were countless others in the world.

Xu Jiaorong didn't care about the mysterious affairs of her younger brother and her husband. She took care of the Xu family's family affairs with peace of mind, and began to worry about her daughter's marriage.

After all, Li Bilian will be seventeen years old.

At this time, Xu Shilin had met a master teacher since childhood. His parents were there. He had extraordinary knowledge since he was a child, and he was not surrounded by goblins, so he was the champion of high school ahead of schedule.

Xu Jiaorong had no nurturing grace for him. Although she liked Shilin, Bilian had also worshipped her cousin since childhood, but Xu Jiaorong knew that this family was not worthy of her.

Xu Jiaorong was slightly disappointed when Bai Suzhen said that she wanted to protect Li Bilian as a matchmaker. But Xu Jiaorong also understood that with Bai Suzhen's ability, connections and vision, the person she was looking for must be better than her husband and wife, and she readily agreed.

Bai Suzhen has now been awarded the title of "Mrs. Xiaoyi" for her merits, and she took Xu Jiaorong to the palace.

The emperors and queens all lived in the Yanfu Palace built during the emperor's time. When Xu Jiaorong first entered the palace, she couldn't help but be fascinated by the gorgeousness here. As soon as I entered the Yanfu Palace, I saw that the chiseled pond was the sea, the spring was the lake, the pavilion was five steps, and the pavilion was ten steps.

Although it is not very good to be an emperor, the cultural and artistic accomplishment is extremely high. The design of the halls, pavilions and pavilions is elegant and delicate, the bronze sculptures of animals and animals in the garden are in various shapes, and the famous trees and strange rocks are extremely rare.

Xu Jiaorong opened her eyes like Grandma Liu, and soon she arrived at the Xuexiang Pavilion on the west side. Outside the pavilion, there were guards and an internal supervisor.

An inner prisoner stepped forward and saluted Bai Suzhen and Xu Jiaorong, and led them into Xuexiang Pavilion.

There is a couch in the pavilion, and a beautiful woman in an elegant and light blue skirt is leaning on the couch and watching the memorial. It is the Queen Xueji.

The emperor often took the memorials to the garden for review, Xuexiang Pavilion was one of them, but recently the emperor's body has not been very refreshing, so the queen reviewed it on his behalf. Xue Ji is very knowledgeable and has been the queen for many years.

Bai Suzhen and Xu Jiaorong came into the pavilion, and they were blessed: "The minister's wife sees the empress, the empress is a thousand years old, a thousand thousand years old."

Xue Ji put down the cinnabar pen and said with a smile, "Quickly flatten your body and give me a seat."

"Thank you for your grace!"

Another palace maid came in to make tea and serve snacks, Xue Ji smiled and said, "It's the first time I saw Mrs. Li, I heard Suzhen mention you long ago. Imperial Physician Xu was raised by your eldest sister like a mother, and Mrs. Li can It's not easy, it can be seen that Li Xiaowei is also a kind person."

Xu Jiaorong hurriedly said, "The queen's concubine is so high, it makes the courtiers feel ashamed."

Xue Ji said again: "I heard that Mrs. Li has only one daughter under her knees?"

Xu Jiaorong sighed and said, "The minister's wife is also very ashamed that she cannot give birth to a son for Gongfu."

Xue Ji said oddly, "Li Xiaowei never thought about taking a concubine?"

Xu Jiaorong's face was stagnant, let alone that Li Gongfu also had parents who died early, and the two of them made a good life after marrying her. They have been married for many years and have no children, and they have to raise their younger brother. Li Gongfu has never complained. Later, only one daughter was born. At this age, I am afraid that he will not be able to have a son, and he has never thought about taking a concubine.

Xu Jiaorong said: "My family is a rough guy, but it's not bad. If you are an old couple, you don't know where to put a concubine when you come home. If he has a daughter, he is a treasure."

Xue Ji smiled lightly and said, "I see, Li Xiaowei is a treasure! It's easy to ask for priceless treasures, but it's rare to have a lover, this man, the most difficult thing is that there is a beginning and an end, most men can only share Wealth cannot be shared through adversity. Mrs. Li herself is affectionate and righteous, and she is married to a good man who is hard to find in this dynasty. If we women can have such a husband, what more can we ask for?"

Xu Jiaorong couldn't help laughing when she thought that the husband who often bickered with her and was treated by her, said, "Noisy for a lifetime, and suddenly old."

Xue Ji let out a long sigh. She had also been married to the emperor for seven years, and she was almost halfway to the end of her life as a queen.

Xue Ji said, "I've also seen that child of your family, Bilian, and I like it from the bottom of my heart. She came from a kind family, and she was taught by Mrs. Xiaoyi. Now she is serving as a messenger in the Huguo County Master's Mansion, but she is good luck."

Xu Jiaorong said, "It's just a yellow-haired girl from a small family in our family. How can you say good luck? I just want her to live a smooth and safe life."

Bai Suzhen knew the purpose of entering the palace, so she had asked Xue Ji and Xu Jiaorong to talk before, and then she said, "Why should I be so arrogant? Bilian is really good, how many women in this world can practice under the county master's gate. Woolen cloth?"

Xu Jiaorong smiled and said, "It's not that she taught me well."

Bai Suzhen said, "You raised them well."

Xue Ji smiled and said, "If one of you is well raised and the other is taught well, don't fight."

Xu Jiaorong was very moved when she saw that the Queen was so beautiful and her temperament was so kind, but it was the first time she entered the palace and was cautious.

Xue Ji said again: "I only gave birth to a daughter for the emperor. I know that being a mother loves her daughter, and the emperor also regards Jing An as an eyeball, so she understands the feelings of Li Xiaowei and his wife very well. This daughter, When I was a child, I was afraid that she would be hungry and cold, and when I grew up, I would be reluctant to let her get married, but I was afraid that she would miss the flowering period, and it would be difficult to find a good family in the future. After this marriage, I am afraid that the marriage will be higher or lower. If you marry high, you are afraid that she will be bullied by her in-laws and won't be able to help; if you marry low, you are afraid that her life will be poor, and poor and lowly married couples will be sad. Life is really hard to be perfect."

These words went to Xu Jiaorong's heart, and she felt that the queen was reasonable, both kind and motherly demeanor.

In fact, to ask for Zhao Cong to marry Li Bilian, it is also possible to only decree the marriage, but the two families do not get along, and it will be more difficult for them to get along as a young couple in the future.

Xue Ji should be used to being a virtuous queen, and it is not difficult to receive people like Xu Jiaorong. If she can achieve ten points, she will not be six points.

At this time, Xue Ji said: "The emperor and I have no children. We just adopted King Yan. He is an excellent child. We like him very much. Now he is also the age of marriage. The former emperor asked me to choose a couple for him. A young lady asked him to choose his own princess. Guess what happened to him, it turns out that when the county lord was on behalf of the Tianbei tour last time, King Yan had seen Bilian. He chose it himself, and I only became his mother and wanted to fulfill him. "

Xu Jiaorong was stunned, she was afraid that she would be wrong, and she didn't know how to speak.

Xue Ji said, "Don't Mrs. Li want to marry me?"

Xu Jiaorong got up quickly and waved her hand: "No, no... I... We are just ordinary people, how can Bilian be worthy of King Yan?"

Xu Jiaorong looked at Bai Suzhen anxiously, Bai Suzhen stepped forward to support her arm and said, "Sister, don't worry, the Queen is not joking, and the Queen also likes Bilian very much. With the Queen as her mother-in-law, what's wrong with my sister? Relieved?"

Xu Jiaorong said embarrassedly: "Suzhen, although I want to ask you to be a matchmaker, the status of this King Yan is too high, and our family Bilian is really unworthy."

Xue Ji smiled and said, "Is Mrs. Li afraid that Cong'er is a playboy? But Cong'er was chosen by me and the emperor from the clan, but she is a talented person."

Xu Jiaorong said, "But our family Bilian doesn't know anything about the royal family, so I'm afraid she will offend her."

Xue Ji said: "Your husband and wife taught her honesty and generosity through your words and deeds; you also learned the arts of civil and martial arts from Suzhen; and then you have experience with your uncle, and you will know great love and benevolence. Such a good-fortuned child is worthy of King Yan, and it is also our love for King Yan's sincerity. Mrs. Li needn't worry too much."

Just as she was talking, the internal supervisor came to report, saying that the Royal Highness of Yan had come to greet her.

Not long after, I saw a man wearing a purple python robe entering the Xuexiang Pavilion. I saw that his body was like a pine and bamboo, and he looked like Pan An. When he saw it, he felt that the walls of the hall were glowing, and this romantic demeanor was unforgettable.

Xu Jiaorong was unavoidably curious to read more, and she was stunned when she saw it.

Zhao Cong greeted him, asked a few words of courtesy, and then walked out in a dashing manner, Xu Jiaorong still hadn't recovered.

...

Xu Jiaorong followed Bai Suzhen out of the palace and returned to the Sijin mansion where she lived. Neither Li Gongfu nor Li Bilian came back, so she just sat and thought about it.

After finally waiting for Li Gongfu to come back, she wanted to say something but couldn't say it. Li Gongfu couldn't see it and said, "Old lady, you can hold back your words for a long time. I'm starving to death. Didn't you cook?"

Xu Jiaorong just remembered and said, "Cooking? Oh, I didn't cook."

Li Gongfu said: "Aiya, old lady, you are getting more and more outrageous, and you usually teach me a lesson."

A few years ago, the Xu family had accumulated money to buy this house. There were few people in the family, and Bi Lian was not at home very often. The couple were not used to using servants and maids. Xu Jiaorong took care of the housework by herself.

Xu Jiaorong said, "I didn't cook for a day, so what happened! Old man, did you go to the public gate to become an official again, and want to find a reason to take a concubine? I tell you, don't think about it!"

Li Gongfu shook his head and said, "The older you get, the more difficult it will be to deal with. Where's Bilian, hasn't she come back? Is it in the county master's mansion or the county master's mansion?"

Bai Suzhen sealed Mrs. Xiaoyi, but she still lived with Cen Biqing, who was also a frequent visitor.

When Xu Jiaorong heard Bi Lian, she became excited again and said, "Old man! In the past, you didn't know the sky and the sky, and you thought that your daughter was even a favorite concubine. Do you remember?"

Li Gongfu said, "Remember. Of course my daughter is fine. I don't think anyone's daughter is as good as mine."

Seeing his complacent expression, Xu Jiaorong was both angry and funny, and said, "Your nonsense may be coming true."

"what?"

Xu Jiaorong said: "Today, Suzhen took me into the palace and met the Empress. The Empress is beautiful and amiable. No wonder she is the empress, and the people in the DPRK and China all praise her."

Li Gongfu said: "You mean... Could it be that the queen wants our family Bilian to enter the palace to serve the emperor? Not really."

Xu Jiaorong said, "You are talking nonsense! The queen is saying that she likes our Bilian and wants to marry her to His Royal Highness King Yan."

"His Royal Highness Yan?" Li Gongfu was taken aback, "His Royal Highness Yan was originally the seventh-generation grandson of Taizu, and he left home to study art since he was a child."

"You know a lot."

Li Gongfu said: "The home of King Yan was originally in Jiaxing House, and King Yan's biological father was the county magistrate in Jiaxing County. I went to Jiaxing County on a business mission in the early years and dealt with King Yan's biological father. , and he just entered Beijing this year, so it's not easy for someone like me who met him a few times when he was humble."

Xu Jiaorong said: "I think you are a pig head! Since you know someone and they have made a king, even if you can't see him, you should send a congratulatory gift."

Li Gongfu said, "Aren't you supposed to do these things?"

Xu Jiaorong said, "You still talk back! If you don't tell me, how would I know?"

Li Gongfu said, "Okay, all right, old lady. Didn't you say King Yan just now?"

Xu Jiaorong said, "It was you who brought me back to King Yan's biological father, and my thoughts were disturbed by you."

Xu Jiaorong only told Li Gongfu about what happened today, and Li Gongfu was surprised and happy when he heard it. At this time, he did not know that if King Yan became the emperor, he would inevitably have to accept a concubine.

Li Gongfu asked again: "If the palace wants to confer marriage, isn't the daughter about to get married? She hasn't stayed at home for a few days in recent years, so why is she about to get married?"

...

Li Bilian could see that Chong Lan was absent-minded and unhappy on the way back from the safari, and she went to Duke Yi's mansion to accompany her for a long time.

Afterwards, because Mrs. Yi Guogong, who lived alone at home, warmly kept her for dinner, Bilian came back with a light meal.

As soon as Li Bilian came back, her parents told her about her marriage, and Li Bilian couldn't help being stunned.

Although she had met Zhao Cong, Zhao Cong had not yet passed on to the emperor at that time, and knew that he was both civil and military, but she always thought that Zhao Cong and Chong Lan were a talented and beautiful couple.

In recent years, Li Bilian has always had one person in her heart, that is Xu Shilin.

But Xu Shilin is so handsome, so young and talented, and her family background is higher than hers, she always feels that she is not worthy of it.

All she had to do was try her best to get close to his world and learn from Bai Suzhen, hoping to be worthy of her. However, Xu Shilin has always only regarded her as a cousin, and is close to her, but there is no love between men and women. She was a girl, so she was embarrassed to say it first in such a situation, vaguely hoping that Master Bai Suzhen would be satisfied with her and hired her.

Li Bilian said, "How could I possibly marry King Yan?"

Xu Jiaorong said, "I heard from the Empress that it was King Yan who chose you."

Li Bilian shook her head and said, "Impossible."

Li Bilian still deeply remembers the look in Zhao Cong's eyes when he looked at Chong Lan, the girl is delicate, she will not see it wrong, what is it if it is not love?

Chong Lan is better than her in everything, why did King Yan choose her?

Xu Jiaorong said, "The Empress said that in two days, the emperor will issue an decree."

"No!" Li Bilian hurriedly ran out, her movement was so fast that neither Li Gongfu nor Xu Jiaorong could catch up.

When Li Bilian went out of the house, she originally planned to find Bai Suzhen, but she hesitated when she thought that Bai Suzhen brought Xu Jiaorong into the palace today, and she was afraid that she wanted to facilitate this.

"Could it be that Uncle Lan is absent-minded and unhappy today, because the Queen Mother wants to give me a marriage to King Yan? Then am I not a despicable villain who robs people of love?"

Li Bilian ran to Duke Yi's mansion, but she stopped again when she was about to reach the gate of Duke Yi's mansion.

"If I go to Uncle Lan at this time and tell her that the queen has a crush on me and wants to give her marriage to King Yan, she is afraid that she will misunderstand me, thinking that it is false that I am looking for her to restore her happiness, and it is true to show off. , then what should we do? It's a pity that Brother Shilin went to Jingdong Road as a transporter, otherwise he is so smart..."

When she thought about Xu Shilin, Li Bilian couldn't help but feel helpless and sad, but it was not sad, she didn't have it, it was the kind of girlish feeling of sadness but not hurt.

"The trouble should end it."

...

At night, Zhao Cong was still reading in the study, but it was not a moral article from the Four Books and Five Classics, but a book borrowed by Xu Shilin and Bai Suzhen.

It was their mother and son that had compiled the volumes of Zhang Su's lectures and apprenticeships in Yangzhou and the annotations made by Xu Shilin in recent years.

Zhao Cong studied in Xuandu, and the ordinary knowledge of this world is not new and profound to him, but Zhang Su's works still let him clear the clouds.

Zhang Su stood on the shoulders of giants in a thousand years, and also on the basis of the experience of so many characters in previous lives.

Whether it is economic, financial and financial knowledge and laws, or political and war discourse, all of them are well established.

Zhao Cong is a person who never forgets it, but he has read it several times. When he sees the examples cited in it, he always has the urge to explore the truth.

He was immersed in his own world, when suddenly a dark shadow flashed outside the door, and a flying knife flew in through the window and nailed it to the post.

Zhao Cong didn't disturb the servants of Prince Yan's mansion, he took the flying knife and took a look at the note on it.

Zhao Cong walked out of Prince Yan's Mansion from the back door and went to the tavern in the market. Although there was no curfew in this dynasty, it was not a festival or celebration, the sky was dark, and there were no customers in the tavern.

I saw a young girl in a green shirt sitting at a table by the window, dressed in a beautiful and slender figure, but she was sitting under the lamp with a pearl flower on her head and pearl earrings on her ears, which reflected her. The complexion is as smooth as jade.

Zhao Cong smiled slightly: "Miss Li."

The author has something to say: Recently, I watched the old TV series "Hidden", which is really good. There is a scene that is very touching. When the male and female protagonists get married, they have been going around for so many years, and the person who wants to marry can't get married. The male protagonist married the female protagonist who was never thought of before and was absolutely not in the aesthetics, and the love grew over time. love deeply.

Fate, I really can't tell, how difficult it is for mortals to be as they originally wished. Zhao, Zhong, and Li were all like this, and so was Xue Ji. :