Chapter 9 Choosing a Marriage
This poem has no special meaning.
When Lin Wancheng was picked up by the Dongchang Factory, he could no longer remember what happened before, so he didn't know his name.
After being taken to the East Factory, the factory recognized her as her adopted daughter, and by the way, he flipped through the book and gave her a name - Wancheng.
"Wan Cheng..."
Xiao Jingyan opened his thin lips lightly, repeating this name.
Lin Wancheng shrank at the end of the bed and shivered: "Third Brother, you... came here specially, just ask my name?"
Hearing the sound, Xiao Jingyan came back to his senses and raised his eyes.
Lin Wancheng was frightened by the look of his eyes and his shoulders shrank, and he said bravely: "You see, it's still late, I'm going to pay my respects to the Queen Mother at dawn. Why don't you... go back and rest too?"
The implication is that, get out quickly.
"And, it's really not good for you to be discovered."
Men and women are not allowed to get along with each other. What's more, as a prince, he climbed over the wall to visit the princess's bedroom at night. If this is discovered, Xiao Jingyan will not know whether she is dead or not. She is not far from death anyway.
After all, Xiao Jingyan's mother is the queen, and she is now a thorn in the queen's side. Under the protection of the queen, Xiao Jingyan was punished and confined at most. As for her... she still doesn't know how to torture her by the queen.
After all, Princess Mingyang's biological mother, Concubine Shu, was always regarded as a "demonic concubine" by the queen back then. Then she was the daughter of the "demonic concubine". In the eyes of the queen, she was all a disaster and deserved to die!
"Hiss." Xiao Jingyan took a breath and leaned forward again, his breath approaching: "Why are you so afraid of me? Am I scared?"
"No, how could that happen?" Lin Wancheng blinked and squeezed out a bright smile.
"The third brother Yushu is in the wind, and he is the pride of heaven, and he is more beautiful than Pan An. How could he be terrible? Hahahaha."
"I just didn't know the true identity of my third brother two times, so I felt a little offensive and a little ashamed."
This girl has good ability to tell lies with her eyes open.
Xiao Jingyan sneered, but he didn't expose it.
After he left the palace in the afternoon, he carefully investigated it.
Although the words of the General of Zhenbei were clear. He said that he picked up a girl on his way back to Beijing a month ago. He only took her back to Beijing out of kindness. Later, he accidentally discovered that the one he brought back was Princess Mingyang.
This is not very credible.
Not long ago, he asked the guards to monitor Lin Wancheng, and finally found that this girl had secretly opened many shops in the capital, and had a wide range of things, first with ordinary rouge and water powder, and then with omnivorous taverns.
The earliest store dates back to three years ago.
This time is seriously inconsistent with the time when the general returned to Beijing.
So he concluded that this girl must be an impostor. Judging from her timid appearance, she was probably forced to enter the palace.
But Xiao Jingyan still couldn't figure it out and felt that there were many contradictions.
First, Lin Wancheng was very timid. He discovered it when he met twice before. When he saw him, he looked like a mouse and a cat.
When he took the opportunity to take her pulse, he found that her pulse was not smooth and her heartbeat was very fast.
Second, Lin Wancheng is not short of money, and can even be described as wealth.
A guard stole the account book from her store and handed it over. He looked through it carefully and found that no one of the girls' shops has ever lost money since the door was opened, and they are all making steady profits.
So, why did she pretend to be a princess?
Even though I was afraid of death, I still had to go to the palace even though I knew it was a death sentence.
Who is Lin Wancheng working for?
When Xiao Jingyan thought of the person behind her being manipulated by her every move, she held her hand hanging down beside her and went crazy with jealousy.
Just then, a sound came from outside the hall:
"Princess? Princess, are you awake?"
The palace maid heard the movement inside and pushed the door open.
Xiao Jingyan pressed his eyebrows and had no choice but to leave the window.
Before leaving, he did not forget to say to Lin Wancheng:
"Remember, be careful in your words and actions in the palace. When I am not in the palace, if you have any problems, send someone to take my jade pendant and find the commander of the Jinyiwei. He is my person. If you see the jade pendant, you will definitely be able to protect you from peace."
"..." When Lin Wancheng came to his senses, there was no longer Xiao Jingyan's figure around.
The palace maid happened to come in, and Lin Wancheng casually said a few perfunctory words and sent the person back.
"Jade Pendant?" As if thinking of something, Lin Wancheng lifted the quilt down, and with the candlelight, she opened the drawer and took out the fish-shaped jade pendant from it.
During the day, she asked Chun'er to throw it away.
But Chun'er felt it was too expensive, so she put it in her jewelry box.
"Seeing the jade pendant is like seeing me."
Could it be that he deliberately left the jade pendant?
Thinking of this, Lin Wancheng felt a little sad. She had naively thought that he had accidentally left it here.
It turned out that it was done on purpose!
"What does he mean?" Lin Wancheng looked at the jade pendant in his hand, and felt mixed feelings. If he looked at it according to his words, this jade pendant was of great significance. Then why did she ask for it in her previous life without hesitation?
And now...
She had nothing to do with him at all, so why did she give her this jade pendant?
Could it be that he knows what?
For a moment, Lin Wancheng seemed to be holding a hot potato and restless.
In the second half of the night, Lin Wancheng did not sleep at all. As soon as it dawn, Chun'er brought the palace maid in to wait for her to wash and change clothes.
She dozed off and paid tribute to the Queen Mother. Before leaving, she hesitated for a while and put Xiao Jingyan's jade pendant in her arms.
She no longer wants to suspect anything, life is important!
This is her only amulet now.
If it is really time to reveal the situation, the East Factory may not have time to save her, so it would be more reliable for the Jinyiwei to look at her.
Anyway, there are many ways out, why not do it!
Just treat it as Xiao Jingyan's apology for giving her poisoned wine in his previous life, she reluctantly accepted it.
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"Mingyang pays homage to the emperor's grandmother."
"Get up and go up and have breakfast with Ai's family."
"Thank you grandmother."
Lin Wancheng took the hem of his clothes and got up from the ground.
"Sit down." The empress dowager looked at her, her eyebrows were quite kind.
Lin Wancheng responded softly and sat aside obediently.
She heard from her adoptive father that when Concubine Shu was alive, the Empress Dowager stood on the side of the queen openly and secretly, and suppressed Concubine Shu.
However, at present, the Empress Dowager is pretty good to her, without any merits and failures, and not as strict as the Queen.
"Is it still accustomed to living in the palace? Didn't have a good rest last night?" The empress dowager observed carefully.
"I'm still used to it when I go back to the emperor's grandmother. Mingyang was only awakened by the wind in the middle of the night, so he didn't sleep well."
"That's right, I don't need to pay my respects if I feel unwell."
Lin Wancheng smiled and said, "Why would she dare? If she didn't come to pay her respects, the queen could peel off her skin!"
Chapter completed!