in2ebook Chapter 286 You're attracted to A Yan
Chapter 286 You're attracted to A Yan
Chapter 286 You're attracted to A Yan
The courtyard of Prince Chen's Mansion was very quiet. Quan Qinghua still did not have many servants. All those desperate secret guards who had been carefully selected and trained by him over the past ten years had died under Ye Feizhou's sword.
Sometimes he felt very lonely, as if the only thing that could keep him company for a long time was the occasional wind blowing around him. However, the wind of Beiqi was different from Guiyue. He was a person without support. Beiqi didn't want him, and Guiyue didn't belong to him either.
The world is so big that there is no place for him to stay.
"Quan Qinghua." Someone called him softly from behind. Quan Qinghua turned around and saw Feng Zhaolian in a red gauze dress. She said to him, "I'm going to leave in the next two days. Do you want to go back to the Moon with me?" Quan Qinghua was stunned and asked back, "I am a member of the Northern Qi royal family. Why should I go back to the Moon with you? And why do you have to use the word 'return'?"
Feng Zhaolian said, "Because you have been living in Guiyue for these years, you have been in Guiyue since the day I met you. You have always kept your mansion in Tantian City, which is much more magnificent and lively than your home in Beiqi. Quan Qinghua, if you come back with me, I can talk to my cousin the emperor and ask him to remove all the servants given to you in the palace. From now on, you can choose who you want to use. How about it?"
Quan Qinghua shook her head, "It's nothing. Guiyue was just my temporary shelter during those years. I was a hostage sent by Northern Qi. Now that the hostage has returned, how can I go back on my own? Feng Zhaolian, don't be too naive. Besides, do you really think your cousin will listen to you? If he really listened to you, there wouldn't be any talk of a marriage at the New Year's Eve palace banquet."
Feng Zhaolian pouted and found a stone chair to sit down. But she didn't sit properly, one foot was on the chair opposite, and her skirt was lifted up as if it was a man's robe, like a big shot. Although Quan Qinghua was used to her careless habit, she couldn't help but remind her: "Girls should sit and stand properly. With your attitude, even if you are willing to marry to Northern Qi, I'm afraid the Northern Qi royal family won't want you to enter the family."
"Tsk!" Feng Zhaolian rolled her eyes. "Do they need to give in? Even if I never get married, I will never have anything to do with the Northern Qi royal family. So you can rest assured. I will not harm your Quan family."
She took a deep breath when she said this, "The air in Beiqi is fresher than in Guiyue, maybe because your capital is colder! The air smells much better when it's frozen, which makes me really reluctant to leave here. But no matter how reluctant I am, I have to go back... Quan Qinghua, as you just said, if my royal cousin really listened to me, he wouldn't have secretly planned this marriage behind my back, my father, my mother, and my concubine. So you see, my situation in Guiyue is also becoming difficult. If my royal cousin has such thoughts once, he will definitely have them a second time, and it's hard to guard against. It shows that everyone is the same. Just because you are born in a certain place doesn't mean that place will treat you well. You can't ask Beiqi to treat you a certain way, and I can't expect Guiyue to treat me a certain way. What kind of life we can live in the future depends on ourselves."
She held her chin and looked at Quan Qinghua, "Of course you can stay in Beiqi and dwell on the past endlessly. But at the same time, you can also choose to return to Guiyue, ignore the troubles from now on, and be an idle noble. Quan Qinghua, the choice of how to live is in your own hands. You are not like me. I have a father and a mother. Even if the world is big, I can't escape from their palms. But your parents are gone. Although you are a royal family, you have become rootless because of your years of being a hostage. Then Beiqi should not be very attractive to you. Why do you have to stick to it?"
Quan Qinghua didn't answer, but just walked over and wanted to sit down facing her.
Feng Zhaolian took her feet down with a smile, and symbolically swept her sleeves onto the stool as a gesture of invitation.
Quan Qinghua really had no way to deal with this princess. "This is my home, don't act like you are the host and I am the guest. Feng Zhaolian, I am very grateful that you can say these things to me, and I am also very grateful that you consider me and arrange a way out for me. I am even more grateful that you have taken care of me for the past nine years, so that I don't feel too uncomfortable living in a strange country. But gratitude is gratitude, some things can't be written off as easily as you said. My life is not as easy as you think, and the affairs of Northern Qi are not as easy to let go as you say."
"What can't you let go of?" she asked him, "Family? Friendship? Or love?" In her previous life, she heard Ah Heng say that there are only three kinds of emotions in the world: family, friendship, and love. Other than that, any other emotion is a derivative or evolution of these three. So what is Quan Qinghua obsessed with? "Do you have a girl you like?"
He shook his head, "No."
"Do you have a confidant or brother who bows his head to the ground?"
He shook his head, "Neither."
"That's family affection. You can't let go of your relatives in the Quan family?" She thought carefully and remembered that Quan Qinghua seemed to have a good relationship with the little emperor, so she asked him, "Do you want to help the little emperor who hasn't even grown all his hair yet?"
Quan Qinghua frowned when she heard this. "What did I say about you just now? There are ways to stand and ways to sit. Let me add one more thing: you should also speak with the reserve of a girl. From childhood to adulthood, have you ever seen a girl speak like you?"
Feng Zhaolian grinned, "I've never met her before, but since I came to Northern Qi and met Ah Yan, I found that she and I are actually the same. The only difference is that she can't really eat rabbits. She thinks they are cute little animals that can be raised but not eaten. As for other aspects, we are really similar."
"Almost?" Quan Qinghua shook his head. In his impression, the Fourth Miss Ye was indeed a little special. For example, when they first met in the carriage, she could let the maid apply medicine to her without caring that he was present. At the palace banquet, she was also very good at talking back to people, which opened his eyes. But other than that, there was nothing more special. He had never heard Ye Wenyan say such things as "the hair has not grown out yet". So he retorted, "She is much better than you." "Oh!" Feng Zhaolian laughed, "She is still her. Didn't you hate her like an enemy before? It's only been a few days, and she has become her own? Quan Qinghua, let me ask you, do you like Ah Yan?"
"Huh?" Quan Qinghua was stunned. "What did you say?"
She repeated it again: "I ask you, do you like Ye Wenyan?"
"Nonsense!" He stood up with a bang. The usually calm and expressionless Prince Chen suddenly became furious, ruining the good atmosphere that had been built with great difficulty. "Princess Guiyue, this is Northern Qi, please be careful with your words."
Feng Zhaolian was unmoved and not afraid, she just held up her chin and looked at him, "If you didn't like her, why did you let her go just now? Quan Qinghua, you can pretend in front of others, but you can't pretend in front of me. I know what kind of person you are. After so many years, have you ever let go of someone you hate? Your method has always been to put them to death, to kill them all, to root them out, and to watch people walk away in front of you, you have never done such a thing. And you said something about repaying the teacher's kindness, do you really think so? A person who will never give up will talk about gratitude or not? If you really think your teacher has done you a favor, you would not have gone to the general's mansion that day and blocked Ah Yan in the mansion."
Feng Zhaolian believed that he had seen through His Royal Highness the King of Dust. "Since the first time I saw you in Guiyue, I knew that you looked calm and indifferent on the surface, as if you didn't care about anything. Others can take your things at will, even the handful of native land you brought from Northern Qi, you can let them snatch it away and scatter it on the land of Guiyue. But that's just on the surface. In fact, you care about everything that people think you don't care about. You will pay back double for all the injustices done to you by others. Those who bullied you and excluded you all had a bad end. Those who scattered the native land you brought, one was blinded, one was lame, and another had two fingers broken. I know you did it, but I didn't expose you because they deserved it."
Quan Qinghua felt a little uneasy. The desire to stay away from Feng Zhaolian that she had been having for the past ten years came back to her.
He didn't know when this emotion started, he only knew that this Guiyue Princess had a way of seeing through people's hearts. But she saw through them but didn't say it out loud. Every time he saw her, she looked carefree, but when she said something inadvertently, she could frighten him for days.
Just like now, Feng Zhaolian casually mentioned the fate of those people, which she had never mentioned in the past ten years. He even thought that the things he had done were unknown to the world, but he didn't expect that the Guiyue County Lord knew everything.
But how old was Feng Zhaolian that year? Five or six? Did she know it at the time, or did she find out later?
"Why? Are you scared?" Feng Zhaolian was so angry that she laughed. "You weren't scared when you did those things. How come it's been almost ten years now, and you're scared now? Don't worry, I won't report you. Besides, so many years have passed, and now you've returned to Northern Qi. What's the point of reporting you? And I also said that they deserved it. They must be taught a lesson for promoting the homeland that others brought from their hometown. The lesson you gave them was still too light. If it were me, I would have killed them."
She waved her hands at this point, "I'm getting off topic. I'm not bringing this up to argue with you about who was right and who was wrong. I just want to say that you are such a person who can't tolerate any grain of sand in your eyes. Since you hate Ah Yan so much, how could you let her go quietly? This is illogical. So after thinking about it, I can only come to one conclusion - you fell in love with her!"