A few days later, Princess Chunning met Gu Jichang again.

When the brother talked to his ministers about political affairs, Princess Chunning felt that she was not suitable for listening, so she whispered to Chen Qingqing: "Sister-in-law, let's go there for a walk?"

Chen Qingqing glanced at Gu Jichang and smiled and said, "No, they will finish the talk in a while."

Princess Chunning is not a young girl who is not very experienced in the world. She has been immersed in the palace for so many years, and she keenly noticed Chen Qingqing's eyes.

Princess Chunning also looked at Gu Jichang.

Gu Jichang had a good ears. When he heard that Prince Chunning had left, he was anxious and couldn't help but look at Princess Chunning. As a result, the two of them met in the air. Facing Princess Chunning's beautiful eyes, Gu Jichang's heartbeat suddenly increased, and he quickly lowered his head, and his slightly black side face turned red, just like a girl in the boudoir who saw her lover.

Princess Chunning was stunned for a moment, then looked at her brother.

Li Zhi knew that his sister had guessed it, so he said to Gu Jichang, who had a blushing face and a thick neck, "Okay, you go back first."

Gu Jichang:...

This made him leave? He hadn't talked to Princess Chunning yet. Is the emperor going to match him with the Princess?

Although he muttered in his heart, the emperor's order was difficult to disobey. Gu Jichang bowed respectfully and reluctantly glanced at Princess Chunning's skirt before leaving.

As soon as Gu Jichang left, Chen Qingqing quickly left.

Princess Chunning is older than her and more experienced than her. Chen Qingqing feels that she is not useful enough in this matter. Li Zhi obviously thinks so, and last night he agreed that his brother would come forward in person.

"What do you want to do with your brother?" Everyone left, Princess Chunning asked with a frown.

Li Zhi looked at his sister, and Feng's eyes showed care: "You are only twenty-five, do you really want to live alone for the rest of your life?"

As expected, it was as she guessed.

Princess Chunning smiled and said calmly: "Why are you alone? I still have Wanwan, Xiaoxiao."

Li Zhi sighed: "They will always grow up and get married."

Princess Chunning still smiled: "Then I will go to the palace to join my brother and sister-in-law."

This is of course a joke.

Li Zhi didn't answer this, glanced at the direction where Gu Jichang left, and he asked in a low voice: "What do you think of Yong'an Hou?"

Princess Chunning said directly: "He is your minister and has nothing to do with me. I don't know him, nor do I want to know him."

Li Zhi nodded, and then said concisely: "When we met the late emperor in Yangzhou, that year, Marquis Yong'an was one of the guards on the boat. A few days ago, he told me that you have always been the only one in his heart for the past ten years. Ayu, when I was a minister, I met Gu Jichang, and there was indeed no woman around him."

Princess Chunning had just guessed that Gu Jichang liked her, but she couldn't guess that Gu Jichang actually liked her for ten years.

In ten years, she gave birth to two daughters for Emperor Qingde. She also changed from a cardamom girl to a mother of two children, to a widow with a dead husband, and to a widow who could not remarry at all.

Touching his face, Princess Chunning smiled sarcastically: "What does he like me? It's just this face."

Li Zhi said: "He likes your face, and may also like the other person, but his love remains unchanged for ten years. I think my sister can try to understand him more, maybe..."

Princess Chunning shook her head and smiled, "I don't know how to try, and I don't want to remarry anyone. My brother tells him for me and let him marry another virtuous wife." After that, Princess Chunning stopped giving her brother a chance to talk too much, and stood up and left like a walk in the garden.

Li Zhi looked at his sister's thin back and looked sad.

He didn't know if his sister would take Gu Jichang to heart, but Li Zhi knew that his sister had many concerns. She was worried that her remarriage would affect the evaluation of the brother and sister, especially his emperor brother, in history books. She was worried that her two daughters would not accept it and that her daughters' reputation would be implicated.

Every piece is a burden that ordinary people can't imagine.

Li Zhi didn't want his sister to live so tiring, but he couldn't force his sister to marry a man she didn't like because of concern.

When he met Gu Jichang again, Li Zhi only said one sentence: "You are not young, please get married as soon as possible."

Gu Jichang's heart was cold.

"minister……"

Li Zhi waved his hand and signaled that he didn't need to say much.

Gu Jichang smiled bitterly and bowed his head to retreat.

When he returned to the Hou Mansion, Gu Jichang drank a lot of wine.

Mrs. Gu got the news and came to see her son. She was blind and asked her maids to help her sit on the chair next to her son, and then she turned her back.

Gu Jichang was lying on the table with the wine pot in his arms. When he saw the blind mother, he covered his face with the wine pot and said drunkenly: "What are you doing? Go back to sleep."

Mrs. Gu was blind and not blind. Her son was thirty next year and refused to marry her. She knew that her son had someone in his heart. Her son also said that it was a married woman. On the day the woman became a widow, the son ran over to tell her when she was happy that she had the chance to drink daughter-in-law’s tea.

Mrs. Gu had long been looking forward to this bowl of daughter-in-law tea. At first, she was dissatisfied with her son's concern for a married woman, but in the past ten years she had already realized that her eldest son was a kind of infatuated person.

"Does other people refuse to marry you?" Mrs. Gu hit the nail on the head.

Gu Jichang didn't say anything, his face was on his arms, and the cuffs gradually became more wet. I don't know if it was the drink at the corner of his mouth or something else.

Sometimes Gu Jichang felt that he was unpromising, so why did he have to hang himself on a tree, but he just couldn't forget the glance ten years ago. Through the drizzle, she descended to earth like a goddess and seduced his soul away.

Mrs. Gu waited for a while, but her son didn't say anything. She started to talk to herself: "My son is in a good position. Although he has scars on his face, he is still handsome. He is so young and powerful, and he is still infatuated with her. Normally, as long as you don't do anything to make her angry, the woman will definitely be willing to marry you."

Gu Jichang opened his eyes.

Mrs. Gu continued: "If you didn't offend her, it must be a problem with her. Is her husband's family or her parents' family not allowed her to remarry? Or is she reluctant to leave her children around her?"

Gu Jichang's heart moved.

She had two daughters, two daughters of the late emperor, and their biological father died in his...

Wait, he stimulated Emperor Qingde once, but Emperor Qingde was so angry that he died of anger after listening to Eunuch Shi's words, so he had no revenge on his father with her daughters.

However, he was one of the heroes to overthrow Emperor Qingde. The two little princesses would still hate him. Even if they didn't hate her, she would also worry about the hatred of the children. Even if she was not worried, the two little princesses were too young, and she would definitely not be willing to leave her daughter. If she didn't want to leave, she would have to take her daughters with her when she remarries, but that was Emperor Qingde's daughter. Even if he dared to be their father, civil and military officials, what would the people in the world say? She said that she forced her daughters to recognize the thief as her father?

Gu Jichang suddenly felt no more uncomfortable because his sweetheart was in a worse situation than him. She was like living in a cage and not seeing the light of day.

"Mom, I want to continue waiting for her."

"Yeah, it's up to you."

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Six years later, Princess Chunning's eldest daughter, Princess Wanwan, got married, and Li Zhi, the emperor's uncle, was a matchmaker himself.

Four years later, Princess Chunning's second daughter, Princess Xiaoxiao, was in the same position as the age to talk about marriage.

But Princess Xiaoxiao fell in love with a hypocritical and romantic prince.

Before Li Zhi got the news and sent someone to investigate the prince's background, Princess Chunning suddenly received a letter, which not only clearly listed the names of the singers who had slept in various brothels, but also provided the address of the house where Fengliuzi lived in two outdoor rooms.

The envelope is signed with a small blue paper umbrella pattern.

A scarred general's face suddenly appeared in Princess Chunning's mind.

In the past ten years, she has also seen Gu Jichang several times. Every time she is on the way to enter or leave the palace. Every time Gu Jichang will kneel on one knee to salute her. Sometimes she will deliberately ignore her. Sometimes she will sweep over and bump into the man's dark eyes that are suppressed and passionate.

She had not specifically inquired about Gu Jichang, but Gu Jichang never married him at all. Rumors of him began to spread throughout the capital. Some said that he was injured on the battlefield and could no longer be a husband, while others said that he actually liked the male style...

One year or two, in the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.

Gu Jichang's eyes told Princess Chunning that he was still waiting for her.

Not only did he wait, he also silently cared about her, even her daughter.

Because of Gu Jichang's information, Princess Chunning easily persuaded her daughter. The next year, the sixteen-year-old Princess Xiaoxiao got married and married a man of good luck.

At this time, Princess Chunning was already thirty-six years old, and Gu Jichang was even more in his forties.

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Both daughters were married, and the eldest princess's mansion seemed to be deserted all of a sudden.

Shen Qingqing was worried that Princess Chunning was lonely, so she asked Princess Chunning to come to the palace to discuss family matters every few days.

However, on the way to the palace or out of the palace, Princess Chunning never met Gu Jichang again.

Princess Chunning thought of the letter Gu Jichang sent to her before her daughter got married. It was the second letter he sent to her in the past ten years. Princess Chunning touched the envelope and always felt that Gu Jichang might say something that made her embarrassed this time, so she kept hiding it at the bottom of the box. Two months passed and she had never read it.

That night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and Princess Chunning couldn't sleep for some reason.

By the way, she quietly opened the cage and took out the letter.

The moonlight outside the window was bright, Princess Chunning pushed open the screen and read the letter in the moonlight.

In the letter, Gu Jichang said that he was going to lead troops to the frontier to resist the Huns, and said that he had a premonition that he might not be able to come back this time. After writing this, only the word "take care" and a familiar small green umbrella remained.

It was late at night and Princess Chunning suddenly heard the sound of raindrops falling to the ground. She lowered her head in confusion and found that the letter paper was wet and there were two more tears.

Another month later, good news came from the frontier, saying that the Huns had surrendered.

The next day, when Princess Chunning entered the palace, Shen Qingqing looked at her and finally told another news from the good news: Gu Jichang was ambushed while leading his troops to chase the enemy, and was finally forced to the cliff, jumped off the cliff and committed suicide, and would rather die than surrender.

Facing the concerned eyes of the little sister-in-law, Princess Chunning lowered her eyes and sighed: "What a pity for a general."

When he returned to the eldest princess's mansion, Princess Chunning suddenly fell ill.

It was just a minor illness in Qiu Han, but after he recovered, Princess Chunning began to refuse Chen Qingqing's invitation and stayed in the door from then on.

When winter comes, the manager reports that there is an umbrella maker outside the door asking for advice, claiming that he has a green paper umbrella in his hand, and the eldest princess will definitely like it.

Green paper umbrella?

Princess Chunning's heart thumped, and after a moment of calming down, she said lazily: "Bring it in."

Two quarters of an hour later, the manager came over with a tall man in a cloth clothes.
To be continued...