Xian Xian

Chapter 114: Albizia

The eastern capital enters the rainy season, and the fine raindrops fall from morning to night. Today is another rainy day. Clouds in the sky are piled up in gray, the capital of ten thousand Buddhas is shrouded in the boundless sky, and the staggered stupas are washed black and bright by the rain.

The sound of golden duo on the pagoda passes through the rain curtain, jingle bells, jingle bells, and continues to spread to thousands of families.

Pei Ji’an took the umbrella and came back from outside. The servants of Pei Mansion met and hurriedly followed up and said: “Da Lang Jun, you are back. The servant will go to inform the old lady.”

“No need.” Pei Ji’an stopped the person, the whole person looked very tired, “You all get back, I am alone.”

The next person saw that Da Lang Jun was in a bad mood, so they dared not say anything, and bowed back after saluting.

Pei Ji’an was strolling in the winding corridor, with the sound of rain outside, Pei Ji’an’s mood was like a rain curtain, gloomy and gloomy.

Since he was born again, it seems that he feels tired easily, and he rarely feels happy. He wants to change the situation, wants to change the tragedy of the past life, but has been unable to do so.

When he was just born again, he saw his relatives who had died and was born again, and the Pei family that had not yet fallen apart, and he was more moved. While staying with his family, he made up his mind to change history and prevent the Queen from ascending the throne. He obviously exhausted all his efforts, but got nothing.

At first, he wanted to subtly, slowly figure it out, to wake up the emperor and Li Shan, and expose his wolf ambition after the open air. With the help of his father, Pei Ji’an became a close minister to the emperor as he wished. He reminded the emperor many times that he had tried all the words of predecessors, ghosts and gods, but the emperor did not believe it.

This is actually quite normal. To the emperor, Pei Ji’an is just a child of an acquaintance, but the Queen of Heaven is his wife who has been with him for twenty years. Who will the emperor believe, really don’t need to hesitate. Sometimes when Pei Ji’an said it was obvious, the emperor would still show displeasure. From the emperor’s point of view, Pei Ji’an said these words because he couldn’t understand the emperor’s distribution of power to the queen and cut off the interests of the family. Pei Ji’an had no choice but to converge and look for another opportunity.

As a result, he never found the opportunity to wait.

In July last year, Li Shan proposed to let Li Chaoge make a relationship. After Pei Ji’an heard that, regardless of speaking for Li Chaoge, he returned the marriage between him and Li Changle. Pei Ji’an never regretted this decision. Before he entered the palace, he had thought that Li Chaoge might not accept it, but he still did. He was sorry for Li Chaoge and Li Changle, he recognized them, but he couldn’t recognize his feelings in the previous life and was confused all his life? He didn’t want to be confused anymore in this life.

Even if he self-destroyed his career, lost Li Changle, and broke with Li Chaoge, Pei Ji’an still had no regrets. This is the rare peace in his heart. Now that he understands who he really likes, how can he continue to be married to Li Changle? It was Li Chaoge’s business that Li Chaoge didn’t forgive him, but it was Pei Ji’an’s business that Pei Ji’an rejected all the marriage contracts and pushed other women away.

Pei Ji’an didn’t regret it, but he had to face a series of reactions, that is, he fell out of favor with the imperial front?

The emperor didn’t trust Pei Ji’an anymore, and the queen later found an opportunity to transfer Pei Ji’an away from the imperial front, and sent him to a position where he was noble but could not see the emperor.

The queen has many eyes and ears, and Pei Ji’an has repeatedly said that the queen is arrogant, how can the queen not know? The emperor is disappointed, the queen is on guard, the family is in chaos, and Pei Ji’an hinders the goal of the queen’s ascension to the throne. On the trajectory.

Yes, the Queen of Heaven came to power, largely because the emperor and the prince were in poor health. This is something that cannot be changed by manpower. With Pei Ji’an alone, what can he use to contend with the trend of history?

By the early spring of this year, Li Shan died of illness, and the emperor couldn’t afford it, and the situation was exactly the same as in the previous life. Pei Ji’an gave up. Now even if he ran to the emperor, he directly shouted to the emperor that the queen was unruly, and she wanted the emperor to stand on its own.

One person wants to change the general trend of the country, and it is true that politics is the result of many factors. Even if Pei Ji’an changes the Pei family, it will not change the others. Not to mention, Pei Ji’an couldn’t even convince Pei Xiang.

Pei Sang doesn’t believe that the Queen of Heaven will become emperor at all. From Pei Xiang’s point of view, how could a woman have the desire to become an emperor? It is true that the diva is a bit hotter, and has a bit more power, but it is only a female stream. It is normal for her to be vicious to Concubine Xiao Shu and Queen Wang, but Li Shan and Li Huai are both her sons. How could a mother do anything to her son? Xiang Pei, including the elders of the Changsun family and Cao family, all felt that the Queen’s current plan was to support her son ascend to the throne. After the new emperor became the throne, she would naturally retreat to the second line and be the empress dowager with peace of mind.

Pei Ji’an reminded everywhere that there was no result, and he could not directly explain that he was born again, he had experienced the following things again. Pei Ji’an was depressed and finally accepted the fact that he could not stop the Empress from enthroning.

Yes, the Queen of Heaven has been conspiring for ten years, step by step, and deep-rooted. Why does Pei Ji’an think that he can stop the Queen alone? Pei Ji’an had to retreat to the next best thing, preparing for the next move that was made at the beginning.

Abandoning the queen is the best policy, Li Shan called the emperor the middle policy, supporting Li Huai as the next policy, and Wuhou ascending the throne is the next policy.

Pei Ji’an now doesn’t want to block the Queen. He just wants to plan ahead and try his best to protect Li Huai, Pei’s family, and Changsun’s family during the great purge in the early days of Empress Wu’s administration. When Li Shan was seriously ill, the central government was in a downturn. Pei Ji’an invited himself to be a servant by Li Huai’s side. Pei Ji’an came to Li Huai as he wished and became a close minister of the Zhao Palace.

Later, Li Shan died of illness, and the emperor gave off a white-haired man to a black-haired man. However, the time left for the emperor is running out. Even if the emperor feels sad, he still has to cheer up, and make him the prince, Li Huaili, his youngest son, who was never trained as an heir before.

It is July, the third month that Li Huai enters the Eastern Palace. Before Li Huai, he never thought that the throne would fall to his head. Therefore, he has been devoted to eating, drinking and having fun over the years, and he has never cared about government affairs. Suddenly such a big burden fell on Li Huai, not only Li Huai was stunned, but also other officials in the court.

Pei Ji’an helped Li Huai by handling a series of etiquettes and arranging exchange documents. After all, Pei Ji’an stayed with the emperor for a long time, knew the documents well, and with Pei Ji’an’s support, Li Huai finally passed the adjustment period of his new identity smoothly.

Now Li Huai is gradually getting started with the affairs of the East Palace, and he looks more and more like a prince. But he has no political accumulation at all, no one in the court, no generals, and he has no political literacy, and his foundation is very shallow.

Pei Ji’an has been detained in the East Palace these days, helping Li Huai recruit forces. The more he understands, the more he understands how weak Li Huai is. How can such a new prince compete with the queen?

Pei Ji’an was so tired that he couldn’t get more tired, even when he returned home, he was worried and rarely smiled. Thinking of something in his heart, he accidentally bumped into a maid. When the maid saw that it was Dalangjun, she hurriedly knelt down and bowed: “Dalangjun forgive me, but the slave and maid have nothing to do. I don’t know if Dalang is here.”

Pei Ji’an waved his hand. It was because he hadn’t seen the road before hitting the person, it’s not about the maid. Pei Ji’an was surprised when she saw the things in her tray, and asked, “What is this?”

“This is the Quanfu kit, which contains longan, lychee, jujube and other fruits? It is used by the cousin.”

Pei Ji’an thought that longan, dates, etc. were things for seeking children. What would Gu Mingke do with these? Then Pei Ji’an remembered that tomorrow is Gu Mingke’s marriage.

Before the big marriage, parents will put up a variety of pleasing signs in front of the bed of the newlyweds for good signs, most often with multiple children and multiple blessings. Gu Mingke is like that, and he also wants to come to Li Chaoge.

Pei Ji’an’s expression faded almost instantly. Now Pei Mansion is preparing for the wedding ceremony. The maid said these words was pleasant, but for some reason, Da Langjun’s expression turned gloomy after she finished speaking. The maid was anxious and didn’t know what she had done wrong.

Pei Ji’an coldly looked at the two big red kits in the tray, the silk embroidery pattern on the top made Pei Ji’an’s eyes hurt. He clenched his fists hard, reminded himself with pain that he should not lose his temper, and then said lightly to the maid: “Give me something, just because I have something to see him, I will send it for you.”

The maid hesitated. Da Langjun looked unhappy just now. Why do you want to give her the tips? But the master said that the maid had no right to question. She respectfully complied and presented two exquisite kits to Pei Ji’an.

Some time ago, Gu Mingke moved out of the house on his own initiative. The Pei family was busy with other things and had no time to take care of him. Now that Gu Mingke is about to marry the princess, such a major event must leave Pei’s house, so Gu Mingke was also taken back to Pei’s house.

But everyone knows that this is only temporary. After 10% of the marriage, Gu Mingke will move to the princess mansion. Pei’s house is only a transitional residence. So, during this time, Gu Mingke and Pei’s family are in peace, only the last few days are left, and no one wants to have trouble.

When Pei Ji’an came to the West Yard, the sound of rain gradually decreased, and Ding Dong Ding Dong smashed under the eaves. Lu Qi was packing her things. She saw Pei Ji’an and quickly walked out to say hello: “Pei Dalang Junan.”

Pei Ji’an nodded slightly and asked, “Is my cousin in there?”

Pei Ji’an felt strange to himself when he said the two words “cousin”. How long has he not called this title? Since breaking up in the princess mansion that day, Pei Ji’an has never called his cousin Gu Mingke again.

Besides, Pei Ji’an always felt that Gu Mingke was not his cousin. In other words, he is not Gu Mingke.

Pei Ji’an had no evidence, but his body instinctively told him that something was wrong with that person. At this moment, Pei Ji’an naturally uttered the words “cousin” to the Gu family’s maid, but once facing Gu Mingke’s face, Pei Ji’an no longer meant to be close.

Lu Qi crossed her hand and said: “Lang Jun is inside, please come with the servants and maids.” Gu Mingke had heard people coming from outside, but he was unmoved and still focused on reading the Lv Shu in front of him. Lu Qi introduced Pei Ji’an into the house, served hot tea to the two, and then quietly stepped back.

The scent of tea was lingering, and the mist was smudged in mid-air. Pei Ji’an and Gu Mingke were sitting quietly opposite each other, as if there was a layer of fog between them, they were clearly close at hand, but they seemed to be in the clouds.

After a while, Pei Ji’an took the lead? “Tomorrow is Shaoqing’s wedding, congratulations to Gu Shaoqing.”

“Thank you.” Gu Mingke nodded lightly. There are people in Pei’s family who are too busy for the wedding. Looking around, they can see red dresses everywhere. However, he, the client, sits quietly in the room, holding a book in his hand, as calm as an outsider. When Gu Mingke replied, he glanced at Pei Ji’an by the way. He carelessly said, “Take care of Pei Siyi? Your body, you seem to have lost a lot since the last goodbye.”

Pei Ji’an is now transferred to Li Huai and has become a minister of the Eastern Palace, worshiping You Shiyilang.

Pei Ji’an did lose a lot of weight. Bad news in political affairs one after another. The prince died of illness, the emperor was weak, the queen was in power, and Li Huai was weak. Everything went in the direction that Pei Ji’an didn’t want; and? In internal affairs, Gu Mingke and Li Chaoge are about to go. The big wedding, both inside and outside the capital are celebrating the wedding of these two people. How can Pei Ji’an feel relieved?

Pei Ji’an pulled the corners of her lips, and there seemed to be sarcasm in her tone: “Gu Shaoqing is so expensive and so busy that he still remembers me, which really makes me flattered.”

Gu Mingke was not happy or angry, looking at Pei Ji’an quietly. Gu Mingke doesn’t care about Pei Ji’an, but Pei Ji’an is his target, and Gu Mingke always guarantees that Pei Ji’an is alive.

Speaking of it, Gu Mingke hadn’t paid attention to his real mission of going down for a long time-assisting the wolf to cross the catastrophe. Gu Mingke has been eager to wait from the very beginning, and slowly turned to recklessly, until now he has completely let go.

When Gu Mingke agreed, he thought that this task would be over soon, but it would only delay him for two or three days at most. Now, Gu Mingke is ready to stay in the world for 40 to 50 years.

He really doesn’t understand, it’s just to cross the catastrophe, how can it be so slow? After the immortal ascends, because he has been away from the crowd for a long time and does not know the sufferings of the world, the heavenly court often arranges important immortals to go down to the earth, feel the rise and fall of the world, appreciate the various states of the world, and only after the mental breakthrough can he restore his memory and return to the heavenly court. Because he wants to sharpen Pei Ji’an’s mind, Gu Mingke will not interfere with Pei Ji’an’s life, let alone help him solve problems. He will only push Pei Ji’an when necessary to help him break his heart as soon as possible.

As a result, Pei Ji’an wasted his time not to speak, and also affected his superior’s superiors, staying in the world together.

Gu Mingke has already seen it now, as long as Pei Ji’an is not dead, he can toss about the rest of the matter.

Pei Ji’an didn’t know what the people in front of him were thinking. He looked at Gu Mingke’s beautiful and almost monster appearance, and felt a kind of airless daze.

Obviously when Pei Ji’an was born again, the situation was not like this. At that time, he was full of ambition, and Gu Mingke was weak and sick, and passively avoided the world. Everyone guessed that Gu Mingke would not be long alive. Only two years later, Pei Ji’an has repeatedly hit a wall, his career and marriage have been messed up by him, and his relatives and friends are accusing him. However, Gu Mingke went straight up, and his career was prosperous, regardless of whether he was well-known in the Korean or the people. Now, Gu Mingke is about to be a princess.

It seems that the initial situation has been adjusted. When he was in the palace, the family princes were still joking, maybe? Gu Mingke got married before Pei Jian? Who knows that Gu Mingke really got married before Pei Ji’an?

The subject was Li Chaoge, the former wife of Pei Ji’an.

The two sat opposite each other, nothing to say to each other. Gu Mingke didn’t want to waste time with Pei Ji’an anymore, so he asked: “The Secretary of the Right is here today, so what?”

If you have something to say, you can leave if there is nothing to do.

Pei Ji’an took out a pair of kits from his sleeves and placed it on the case: “This is a kit for the whole blessing. It is hung by the bed tent the day before the wedding. It can bless the husband and wife and be beautiful.

Pei Ji’an laughed at himself in his heart. I really didn’t expect that one day, he would give the former wife’s current husband a gift package and wish them “many children and many blessings.” Pei Ji’an knew that Gu Mingke had nothing to envy, but he changed from Substitute One to Substitute Two, a shadow used by Li Chaoge to see things and think about people. This is really not something to boast about.

But Pei Ji’an always felt angry when he looked at the red decorations in front of him, the brocade of Albizia flowers.

Gu Mingke didn’t expect to have this kind of exquisiteness. The customs of the world have changed a lot over the years, especially weddings, with many more etiquettes that Gu Mingke has never heard of. Gu Mingke accepted and said, “Thank you. Anything else?”

Gu Mingke almost wrote the guest on his face, and Pei Ji’an naturally didn’t intend to sit for a long time. He stood up, took a few steps, and stopped inexplicably.

Gu Mingke was quite unbearable? Tolerable, he held a public attitude, restrained his emotions, and asked Pei Ji’an as calmly as possible: “What’s wrong?”

Pei Ji’an didn’t care about the bad tone of Gu Mingke’s tone. He turned around and looked at Gu Mingke with a complicated look: “You should know that Princess Sheng Yuan was adopted by a foreigner when she was a child and grew up in Jiannan.”

Gu Mingke nodded, indicating that he knew. Pei Ji’an also said: “She met a man in Pingshan when she was young, but it was a pity that the two passed by. After that, there was no fate.”

Gu Mingke didn’t understand what Pei Ji’an said, so he looked at Pei Ji’an quietly with cold eyes, waiting for Pei Ji’an’s next words.

Pei Ji’an met those cold, dark and indifferent eyes, and could hardly help but want to lower his head. It seems that just looking directly at these eyes is already extremely disrespectful.

But Pei Ji’an gritted her teeth and said the rest: “She married you, not loving you. The person she really loves is the man who appeared in Pingshan that year. For many years since then, she has been looking for a more refined look. A man with a cold temperament happened to meet you after coming to Dongdu. You are not what she really wanted, you are just a substitute.”

Gu Mingke was slightly startled, then thoughtfully. It turns out that there is still such a thing, it is no wonder that the previous life Li Chaoge took Pei Ji’an aggressively and was paranoid almost crazy. It turned out that the root was actually in Pingshan that year.

Before Gu Mingke went to Pingshan to capture Peony before resetting the timeline? That is to say, Li Chaoge of both generations saw him. After the former world Gu Mingke arrested Peony, he immediately returned to the heaven for trial. After that, he never went to the world, so Li Chaoge naturally couldn’t find him. Unexpectedly, Li Chaoge focused on Pei Ji’an.

Pei Ji’an is an immortal after all, and every move is different from a mortal. Regardless of his appearance, Pei Ji’an’s immortal spirit resembled Gu Mingke.

Gu Mingke felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, no wonder Xu Mijing chose him to help the greedy wolf through the catastrophe. It turns out that the previous life of the greedy wolf failed in the calamity, and there are also reasons for Gu Mingke.

After Pei Ji’an finished speaking, he has been waiting for Gu Mingke’s response. In the end, Gu Mingke was not angry. Instead, he showed a suddenly realized expression. When he looked at him behind, he was vaguely apologetic. Pei Ji’an was irritated by that look, and couldn’t help but reminded: “Do you know what a substitute is? You are just the shadow of another man. Every word and deed, every move you make is fantasised by her as someone else.”

Gu Mingke nodded and said calmly: “Okay, I get it.”

Pei Ji’an was shocked, what did Gu Mingke say? Pei Ji’an has no way to understand: “A substitute is more than a red apricot going out of the wall? Excessive. Don’t you mind such a shameful shame?”

Gu Mingke has anything to mind. However, if a man is a substitute for another for life, it is indeed very humiliating. Gu Mingke expressed his understanding. He felt fragile after being used as a substitute for Pei Ji’an. He said very kindly: “It’s okay, I don’t have to worry about these things between me and her. If you have a bad sleep recently, then do more things. Don’t miss the past. No matter what happened, it’s already over. People have to look forward.”

Gu Mingke could tell at a glance that Pei Ji’an was not sleeping well during this period, and his memories of previous lives often fell into dreams, which disturbed him. Gu Mingke couldn’t understand what he was suffering, but now Pei Ji’an and Li Chaoge have nothing to do with each other. Tomorrow will be Gu Mingke’s wedding. When it comes to human kinship, Pei Ji’an still wants to call Li Chaoge’s cousin. Pei Ji’an is entangled in the dream again, I am afraid it is wrong.

Pei Ji’an was shocked when he heard Gu Mingke’s words. Is Gu Mingke really a man? His wife has something to do with him. He actually said he didn’t care about it?

Pei Ji’an left as if he had lost his soul. After Pei Ji’an went out, Jiao Wei sneaked in and asked: “My son, what did you say to you just now?”

“It’s nothing.” Gu Mingke returned to the table, adjusted his sleeves, and continued to flip through his Lüshu. “It’s just gossip.”

Really? Jiao Wei didn’t believe it, when Pei Ji’an walked out, it seemed that the sky had fallen. Jiao Wei fumbled left and right in the room, and finally couldn’t hold back, and asked quietly: “My son, the mansion is preparing for your wedding these days. This is obviously a big happy event, but the man who is in despair looks very disappointed. Happy. He repaid his marriage to Princess Guangning some time ago, son, do you think Mr. Lang is…”

“Jiaowei.” Gu Mingke raised his voice. He lifted his eyes from the book and glanced at Jiaowei coldly. “Chang thinking about yourself, don’t say anything wrong. Unfounded things, who allows you to arrange them? ”

Jiao Wei was frightened by this look. The son of the family is very easy-going most of the time, but once it becomes true, it is like a thundering sky and a million corpses. Jiao Wei’s legs trembled, and he dared not say more. He saw something on the table, he saved it to please, and said quickly: “What is this thing, red and vulgar, put it here to get in the way. Son, I will throw them out now.”

Jiao Wei said that he was about to come to get the kit. He thought very well. The son of their family has a lofty temperament and a light taste. They only like to use light colors for clothes and accessories. This kind of red and green is definitely not in the eyes of the son. However, Jiaowei’s hand hadn’t touched the kit, and suddenly he felt a cold air rushing from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head, as if a knife was hanging on his neck.

Jiao Wei looked up in horror and saw the son looking at him blankly and said, “Get out.”

The goose bumps on Jiaowei’s body burst, so how dare to keep it anymore, quickly grabbed his tail and slipped away. After Jiao Wei left, Gu Mingke continued to read the book without turning a page for a long time.

After a while, he raised his hand and inadvertently brushed the two tips. The kit was cleaned in an instant, and there was no more Pei Ji’an smell.

Pei Ji’an didn’t know where the incense came from. The smell was so strong that he couldn’t concentrate. Gu Mingke was finally satisfied with the cold fragrance inside and outside the kit.

He thought he could always concentrate this time, but after a long time, Gu Mingke only read a few lines. Gu Mingke kept replaying what Pei Ji’an had just said in his mind. Pei Ji’an said that Li Chaoge had been thinking about the man Pingshan had met before, and he was also thinking about it in this life.

Gu Mingke thought of the large acacia flowers on the kit, the meaning of many children and many blessings.