Yuan Ying heard that she seemed to be very familiar with Si Hongjing.
Before she could ask anything, she heard the woman ask:
“Where did you buy this outfit, miss?”
Huh?
Is her ability to recommend products that strong?
Yuan Ying felt a little proud and replied:
“A friend gave it to me.”
The woman gave Yuan Ying a complicated look, hesitating to speak.
Yuan Ying was about to ask if there was something wrong when she heard a familiar voice.
“What happened up ahead?”
“This subordinate will go and see.”
The woman heard it too and quickly shouted, “Old Guo! I’m here! Come quickly!”
Yuan Ying took advantage of this opportunity to quickly turn around and slip away.
She felt inexplicably guilty.
Deputy General Guo arrived and saw his wife looking angry, saying that someone had publicly insulted the general.
If it hadn’t been for a young woman speaking up for her, she would have been beaten today.
After confirming that she was alright, Deputy General Guo looked behind her, looking puzzled:
“Where is the young woman?”
“She was just behind me…”
Guo’s wife looked blank.
The onlookers reminded her that she had just left.
“That young woman was so angry defending the general, why did she leave when the general arrived?” she wondered.
“Let’s thank her properly next time we meet her!” Deputy General Guo said, “What did those people who insulted the general say, and what were their characteristics?”
Guo’s wife quickly recalled the scene at that time.
When Si Hongjing arrived, he heard words like ‘ill-fated star,’ ‘doomed to kill everyone,’ and ‘prince.’
He paused, keenly aware of the fleeting panic on the faces of the people who usually loved and respected him.
They were afraid of him.
Si Hongjing clenched his fists.
After being disliked and humiliated in the imperial city for nearly ten years, he thought he should have been used to being treated coldly.
But…
At this moment, a bitter smile appeared on his lips.
“Go and arrest them. Find out their backgrounds,” Si Hongjing said.
“Yes!”
After Deputy General Guo left with the soldiers, Si Hongjing turned and walked towards the General’s Mansion, his figure desolate.
Guo’s wife opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing.
The general probably needed to be alone.
Meanwhile.
After Yuan Ying slipped away, she tried to open several closed doors along the street and finally opened one of them.
It was her courtyard.
She stepped in without hesitation, and her heart instantly felt at ease.
Yuan Ying sat down on the lounge chair and breathed a long sigh of relief before recalling the scene just now.
She hoped that those people’s thoughts were an isolated incident.
Otherwise… she really felt sorry for Si Hongjing.
She just wondered what Si Hongjing would feel after hearing those words, and if he would be very sad.
Thinking that Si Hongjing might come over later, Yuan Ying quickly went back to her room to change her clothes.
However, she waited until eleven o’clock.
When Si Hongjing appeared, his expression was one of loneliness that Yuan Ying had never seen before.
He forced a smile and greeted Yuan Ying, asking if she had encountered any tricky situations today and if there was anything he could help with.
“You don’t have to talk if you’re not in a good mood.”
Si Hongjing was stunned.
Yuan Ying pulled him to sit down on the chair and took two cans of iced beer from the refrigerator.
“Want a drink?”
“What is this?”
“Beer.”
Si Hongjing took it, his hand trembling from the cold, and then followed Yuan Ying’s actions to open the can: “It’s very cold.”
“Room temperature beer is just horse pee! It has to be iced!” Yuan Ying said.
Using ice to chill wine?
A bit extravagant.
Si Hongjing took a sip, the coldness dancing on his lips and tongue. The unfamiliar taste made him frown slightly, but he found it very refreshing.
Upon closer inspection, it also had a unique aroma.
“Refreshing.”
Si Hongjing took a few more gulps in a row, the icy water sliding down his throat, as if freezing the frustration of the day.
Everything was silent, except for the sound of cicadas and the breathing of the two.
Si Hongjing and Yuan Ying looked up silently at the bright starry sky in the countryside. After a long time, he finally spoke:
“I encountered some things today…”
Yuan Ying turned her head and listened quietly as he told her about what he had encountered, even though she was there at the time.
After Si Hongjing finished speaking, Yuan Ying asked:
“Have they caught the people?”
He was obviously stunned. Seeing that Yuan Ying’s expression was calm as if she hadn’t noticed what he had said, he repeated:
“The Astronomical Observatory said that my fate is that of an ‘ill-fated star.'”
“Bullshit ill-fated star, I say you have the face of wealth, prosperity, and family harmony!”
“Aren’t you afraid?”
Yuan Ying shook her head and asked, “If they are so good at calculating, why didn’t they calculate that you would have an adventure and meet me?”
For so many years, his fate had been a source of pain and a shackle for him.
People around him were afraid of him, and he didn’t dare to interact with others.
But today, Yuan Ying’s words gave him a sense of ‘seeing the moon through the clouds.’
“We have a saying here, ‘My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens’,” she added.
What a great saying, ‘My fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.’
All the doubts, self-denial, and pain of these years seemed to be completely shattered by this sentence.
“I am enlightened, thank you, Miss Yuan Ying, for your enlightenment.”
He finally had the courage to tell Yuan Ying about his background.
Si Hongjing is the seventh prince of Daqian.
But at birth, the Astronomical Observatory predicted that his fate was that of an ill-fated star, which would kill all those close to him.
The Daqian Emperor originally wanted to drown him, but his mother dragged her weak body after giving birth and knelt for three days and three nights, which saved his life. Since then, his mother also suffered from the root of the disease, her body was weak, and her legs were almost unable to walk when it was cloudy and rainy.
When he was eleven years old, he was sent to the border by the emperor, never to return to Beijing without an edict.
And his mother, a concubine without a clan, was detained in the palace and became a tool for the emperor to control him.
“I seem to understand a little,” Yuan Ying murmured.
With such an experience, and his own mother suffering in the imperial city, it is possible that he would seize power as recorded in the data.
But she absolutely did not believe that he would betray the country or slaughter the people.
“What?”
Yuan Ying shook her head and only comforted him: “My appearance is a historical variable. As for the words of the Astronomical Observatory, there is no need to believe them.”
Si Hongjing responded.
Her words were like a sharp sword that broke through the endless darkness for him for more than twenty years.
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She didn’t know, but he kept it in his heart.
…
The next morning.
Si Hongjing had just finished training the soldiers and returned to the camp when he saw Deputy General Guo walking in furtively.
“What’s the matter?”
“General, take some time to let us meet the General’s wife! Don’t hide her!”
“?”
“My wife told me! The girl who defended you yesterday was the one you gave the clothes to!”
“Impossible. Maybe she just happened to buy the same outfit,” Si Hongjing said casually.
“How is it impossible? How could my wife not know what she bought? Because this material is relatively rare in Dongping Pass, and there is only one of this ready-made garment in the clothing store!”
“…”
Deputy General Guo saw the general, who had been unresponsive, suddenly get up, walk in front of him, and ask:
“What did she do yesterday? Was she bullied? Was she injured? How… how did she defend me?”
“…”