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Chapter 188 It¡¯s better to miss each other than to meet each other

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    Entering the North Garden, where the flowers and trees were withered, the eldest princess fell into a whirlpool of memories.

    Because of her mother, she was sent here since she was five years old. When she was fourteen, she was made a princess and left. She lived in seclusion in this North Garden for a full ten years

    Her mother¡¯s name is Cao Luoying, the beloved daughter of Cao Cha, the magistrate of Sanming, Fujian Province. She is well-educated and unparalleled in beauty.  After being selected into the palace, she won the favor of Emperor Jiajing. She was soon named Concubine Duan and gave birth to the emperor's eldest daughter, Princess Chang'an.  Three years later, Ning'an was born again.

    But in the 21st year of Jiajing, the famous "Renyin Palace Incident" happened.

    In order to seek immortality, Emperor Jiajing was bewitched by alchemists to collect a large amount of menstrual blood from thirteen or fourteen-year-old palace maids to make elixirs.  In order to keep these palace ladies clean, they are not allowed to eat during menstruation. They can only eat mulberry leaves and drink dew like silkworm babies. Anyone who dares to disobey will be immediately executed.

    The maids were miserable and unbearable. Finally, under the leadership of a girl named Yang Jinying, more than ten people sneaked into the Yikun Palace where the emperor stayed that night, and strangled Jiajing's neck while he was sleeping.

    Jiajing woke up from his dream and was about to shout, but someone stuffed a cloth into his mouth.  The maids controlled the emperor, covered his face with a Huang Ling rag, then took out the noose prepared in advance, put it around Emperor Jiajing's neck, and then pulled hard together.

    It¡¯s a pity that the palace maids in panic tied the rope into a tight knot, but they couldn¡¯t strangle him to death.  The palace maids were anxious, so they pulled out their own hairpins and hairpins, and stabbed Jiajing randomly, pricking the emperor into a bloody gourd

    At this time, Concubine Cao Duan and Concubine Wang Ning, who were sleeping, screamed in fright, and finally alerted the eunuchs and guards outside, and captured the assailants.  When Queen Fang heard the news and came over, she found that Jiajing had become a bloody man with breath coming in but not breathing out. She hurriedly ordered the imperial doctor to rescue her and ordered people to torture the maids severely.

    Although the result of the interrogation was that Concubine Cao Duan had no knowledge of it, Empress Fang had always been jealous of her special favor. She insisted that the emperor spent the night at Concubine Duan, so she must have known about it. Then while the emperor was unconscious, she ordered Concubine Cao Duan and Concubine Duan to be killed.  Wang Ning and his concubine were executed together in the palace, and more than ten people from their clans were implicated.

    Jiajing survived the disaster and woke up not long after.  Knowing that Concubine Cao Duan was killed by Queen Fang under the pretext, he couldn't help but let Concubine Shen adopt her two daughters.

    But after the death of Concubine Cao Duan, who in the harem is not afraid of Empress Fang?  Especially after the palace coup, Emperor Jiajing no longer dared to live in the Forbidden City. He abandoned the concubines in the harem and moved to Xiyuan alone.  The harem was completely dominated by Queen Fang, so she naturally wanted to eradicate the two evil descendants left behind by Concubine Cao Duan.

    Although Concubine Shen's status was only lower than that of the queen at the time, she did not dare to keep her two sisters by her side, so she found an excuse to send them to Baiyun Temple and asked her brother to raise them on her behalf.

    Concubine Shen¡¯s brother is Guanzhu Shen. He reluctantly took over these two hot potatoes and placed the two sisters in the North Garden.

    ??~~

    In the winding stone forest path, Princess Ning'an seemed to be telling Liu Shanggong, but also talking to herself:

    "A few years later, my sister who depended on me also passed away, leaving me alone, growing up alone in this North Garden, year after year, no one cares"

    "How did Your Highness survive those days?" Liu Shanggong was sent to Ning'an only after Queen Fang's death. She knew Ning'an's past, but this was the first time she told her in such detail. She couldn't help but  He took out his handkerchief and wiped his tears.

    "When spring comes, I will plant flowers and trees. Don't look at me like this, but less than half of the flowers and trees in this garden are planted by me." Princess Ning'an said quietly, but her eyes were fixed at the foot of a rocky mountain ahead.

    "That spring, right there, I met him"

    After saying that, she involuntarily walked around the frozen lake and came to the octagonal pavilion under the stone mountain.

    There is an artificial stone mountain in each of the three gardens in the east, west and north of Penglai, symbolizing the three sacred mountains of Taoism.  At the foot of the stone mountain in Beiyuan, there is a pavilion called "Yu Xian Pavilion", which has exquisite murals of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. There are also two couplets hanging on the pillars. One is "Riding the wind and waves, driving a flying boat, each showing his magical powers and swimming in the sea."  , and the other is "Ask the Eight Immortals where they are going, and they will go to Yingzhou with laughter."

    Princess Ning'an kept looking at those murals and couplets, and for some reason she shed tears.

    Liu Shanggong was afraid that the eldest princess would be too sad and hurt her body, so he hurriedly followed her to comfort her, and then persuaded the eldest princess who was crying to leave.

    After the two figures disappeared into the stone forest, a low call suddenly came from behind the pillars of Yuxian Pavilion.

    "Ning'an"

    Zhao Shouzheng appeared with tears on his face.

    His hand is tightHolding a semicircular jade pendant tightly, the two small seal characters engraved on the jade pendant are the word "Ning'an".

    ¡°What Zhao Shouzheng came to pay homage to in Xiao Penglai today was the unforgettable first love buried in the North Garden

    His eyes were already shallow, but when he saw the eldest princess crying so hard, he also wiped away her tears in the hiding place.

    Zhao Shouzheng couldn't help but show up and wipe away her tears like he did before, but his feet were nailed there like roots, unable to move at all.

    Because he has to consider the consequences of doing so.

    Zhao Shouzheng knew that although the society in this dynasty was declining and women's morals were declining, the requirements for the princess' reputation and integrity were still extremely high.

    The little girl he comforted back then is now a high-ranking eldest princess, and she is also a widowed eldest princess.

    ¡°If people see her secretly having a tryst with another man, Ning An¡¯s reputation will be completely ruined.

    On the other hand, after this year of beatings, Zhao Shouzheng is no longer the nerd who doesn't care.

    He knows that he no longer belongs to himself alone, he is still his father's son and his son's father.

    Everyone places their hopes on him. He cannot ruin his future and let his father and son down because of his own willfulness

    What if we meet?  It just adds to the worries.  It's better to pretend nothing happened and continue living a peaceful life

    This is good for both of them.

    But the right choice often brings pain.  Zhao Shouzheng felt at this moment that he was about to be suffocated by the sadness and loss.

    When Ning'an comes back, let's talk

    ??~~

    He waited in the Yuxian Pavilion for a long time, and thought that the eldest princess had already returned to the palace. Then he carefully came out of the North Garden, hid in the corridor and looked at the Moon Gate.

    Seeing that the Jinyi guards guarding the gate had withdrawn as expected, Zhao Shouzheng finally felt relieved and left Baiyun Temple as if running away.

    Outside Baiyun Temple, all the people of the same age were almost going crazy with anxiety. They waited until the princess' honor guard left and then went in to look for their brother.

    But he saw Zhao Shouzheng coming out of the mountain gate.

    Everyone¡¯s anxious hearts finally fell back into their stomachs, and they quickly gathered around him.

    Seeing everyone of the same age, Zhao Shouzheng¡¯s mouth twitched and he didn¡¯t know how to explain it.

    ¡°Master, pretend to be lame.¡± Fang Wen suddenly appeared and supported him.  "It's just that it's down to the crotch. Find a place to rest for a while."

    "You're such a thief" Zhao Shouzheng was overjoyed when he heard this, but immediately his heart tightened and he looked at Fang Wen and said, "You saw everything just now?"

    ¡°I didn¡¯t see anything, I just found the master.¡± Fang Wen said hurriedly and obediently.

    "Say the same to the young master?" Zhao Shouzheng asked worriedly.

    ¡°You say that to everyone.¡± Fang Wen nodded.

    "Good boy." Zhao Shouzheng breathed a sigh of relief.

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