Chapter 26: Peach Blossom Forest Watches People

  The outside world is indeed more real than the palace, although it snowed heavily recently; but now the streets can't see any snow, and there are many people on the street; originally, the clothes worn by the people of the imperial capital were a bit like Song Dynasty costumes, with flat shoes and simple yet elegant clothes, no wonder when I designed something similar to Tang Dynasty clothes, the empress would say I have talent.

  "Hey, isn't that peach blossoms?" "Dad, look quickly, the peach blossoms are blooming, take a look."

  Since I got out of the palace, I've been messing around in the carriage all the time. My king father and three other ministers are smiling at me, fortunately this carriage is big enough for me to mess around.

  "Dad, why are the peach blossoms blooming now? Look, so many have opened!"

  It's not that I'm being overly surprised, it's just that I've been here for so long, every day is either learning how to be a queen or sleeping in bed, and such a large peach blossom forest like this one is really hard to come by.

  The old master Wang stretched out his head and took a look, saying: "This is the home of Bai Xue Shi, and this peach blossom was planted by him personally."

  "What? I quickly withdrew my head and admired White Qi Xue with great admiration: "Uncle Bai, you are so amazing, it's really beautiful." Then, involuntarily recited: "The river flows outside the city, peach blossoms pass by, spring breeze outside the window, and the fragrance of Dou Ruo Xiang."

  "Beautiful poem." Bai Qi applauded and cheered, with a delighted face: "The princess has great literary talent. 'By the city's edge, water flows, peach blossoms pass; outside the curtain, spring breeze, and the fragrance of wild pears.' The princess must like it, so I'll give this peach blossom forest to the princess."

  "Ah?" I was just reciting a poem, and it's not even an original one, but rather something copied from someone else. It just happened to fit the scene, so there's no need to give me the whole thing. "No, no, no, Uncle Bai, this is something you personally planted, it must be very meaningful to you, I couldn't accept it; if Uncle Bai doesn't mind, I'll come to your peach blossom forest every day from now on, and we can exchange poems together. I hope that at that time, Uncle Bai won't think I'm being too mischievous and ruining your peach blossoms."

  Leng Chenxiang stood beside Ou Qing General, nodding incessantly, I suppose my words made them think I'm a sensible kid, even my Wang Ye old father had the same expression.

  "Bai Lao Di, the little princess is right. I think one day we should all go to your Peach Blossom Forest together to drink and compose poems, what do you say?" suggested Lord Cold.

  "Great, those brothers must come, and little princess you, I hope to appreciate your literary talent again at that time." White Qi praised me so much, if I couldn't produce good poetry at that time, wouldn't it be a disaster? Only then did White Qi say: "Then the younger brother will take his leave first, and wait for the arrival of all the dignitaries at that time."

  After we got off the carriage, Gongzi Xiang asked me very seriously: "Can the princess answer an old minister's question?"

  I remember when I first met Cold Minister and Ou Qing, I called them uncle. At that time, we were still in the imperial study. When I came back out of the imperial study, Cold Minister and General Ou Qing said to me, "At your age, you call us uncle, it's like you're not showing respect for our age." They were around 55 years old at the time, if I told them I was already 25 years old. It would be awkward to call them grandfather instead of uncle. But no matter what, they didn't believe me when I said I was 25 years old. There was nothing I could do about it, so later on, whenever I saw them, I called them Grandfather Cold and Grandfather Ou.

  "What does Grandpa Leng want to ask me? Fei Xue knows and will definitely answer you." He looked at me so seriously, my heart felt fuzzy.

  "Princess, how did you know that the Crown Prince and Lin Baowei, as well as the Second Prince...?" Gong Qing possibly didn't dare to speak of their private matters, fearing I would be saddened by it.

  So I helped him say "Is it emotional?"

  The General Yu in the car and even my old dad perked up their ears wanting to hear what I had to say.

  "On the night of the banquet hosted by Emperor Uncle for me, when Lin Miss saw Long Yue Ling reject Yan Ruyi Miss, I saw a very pleased expression on her face; also, after she finished performing and proposed that I perform, her face was full of anticipation to see me make a fool of myself. Moreover, during her performance, Long Yue Ling kept staring at her with a very focused gaze. In my opinion, when a man publicly rejects a woman and then focuses his attention on another woman afterwards, it's likely that the latter is someone he deeply loves or cares about.

  I analyzed one by one: "However, Lin Miss has deep intentions, she wants me dead, every time we meet she doesn't even greet me properly. I think she must be jealous of me; I believe Long Yue Ling came to find me today also because of Lin Miss's idea, that's why I acted like that today."

  "I didn't expect that the little princess, at such a young age, would be so observant. I remember that night, you were eating all the time, and I thought you weren't paying attention to anyone at the banquet." said Cold Minister.

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