The original body lived in Jian Zhi palace. The place is located in a remote place. Because the original body"s personality, not many people will come to disturb her on normal days. This did save Su Qiang from a lot of trouble.
Now that His Majesty is gone, not to mention that she lost a favor when she thought of that nuisance Senior consort Duan and the female lead are not something easy to get along with. Coupled with the fact that the original body had done so many wicked things in the past, it"s already good enough that the eunuchs and palace maids are making subconscious detours, and standing outside with their hands over their hips, spitting, cursing her.
Inside the room, Su Qing hugged her knees and sat on the corner of the bed, her chin resting on her knees, her eyes staring at the distance in a daze.
She stayed up all night last night, but the marriage news was completely wiped out of her sleepiness. She huddled there, desperately thinking about the plot in the original book, except for a fragmentary and useless information, she did not remember any major events related to the original body at all.
Did she marry the Seventh Lord of Gu family?
How did she die in the hands of Seventh Lord Gu? Was it a dog blood love triangle?
Su Qiang trembled in her heart, she felt a little uncertain all of sudden. At the same time, she inwardly renounce in her heart—— this, this really a cannon fodder!
She sighed quietly, thinking to herself, since she"s already here, just take it step by step. And now she"s feeling a little hungry wanted to eat some warm food to fill her stomach.
When her personal maid Chun Tao walked in and saw Her Royal Highness huddled there like a small ball, her heart could not help but produced sour water, and her tears started falling.
"Your Highness…." She called softly, and saw Su Qing blink, turning her head to stare at her. It"s more precisely, she"s staring at the porridge in Chun Tao"s hands.
"Is it for me?" Su Qing whispered.
After waiting so long, I finally have something to eat
It"s just…..
She"s alone now, she doesn"t know if the other party is an enemy or a friend, so it"s better to be cautious. Thinking like this, she tried to suppress her hunger, took the porridge and put aside.
Chun Tao tried to hold back her tears, but when she saw Su Qing"s action thought that she dislikes the porridge and thinking of the food in the palace in the past, she couldn"t help crying and said while sobbing: "It"s all this servant"s incompetence and can only ask for these foods from the imperial kitchen. If it wasn"t for those who add insult to injury (idiom-hit a person who"s down), acting like a snub, Your Highness wouldn"t, wouldn"t….."
Eh?
There are still people who are good at cannon fodder these days? What novelty tricks?
Su Qing paused and looked at the maidservant thoughtfully. Then she leaned forward and lifted her hand to wipe the tears on Chuntao"s face. Blinking and pretending to be relaxed: "What are you crying? Don"t you see I"m fine, I"m just going to have a little hard time in the future."
Chuntao looked up at her unbelievably, and her tears fell like rain in Spring.
"Your Highness, you finally figured it out….."
Huh?
Su Qing was a little confused—— what did she mean by figured it out?
Chuntao didn"t notice her abnormality, lowered her head, wiped her tears, and said with sobbing: "Your Highness…. Your Highness has never spoken this softly to this slave before, but this slave knew Your Highness is kindhearted. It"s only to survive in the palace and pretended to be so cruel to this servant, this servant always knew, always knew…."
Su Qing: "……"
Thank goodness, fortunately you still have some kind-hearted.
"Since the day Your Highness saved this servant"s life, this servant vowed in my heart that I must follow and serve Your Highness." Chuntao suddenly kneels in front of her, and her eyes that look at Su Qing were full of firmness.
Su Qing paused and sat by the bedside helping her up. She then comforted her: "I fully aware of your good intention, it"s just that in the past I"ve been so reckless in handling the matters and have ignored too many details. Now I come to think about it, there were many flaws, would you like to tell me more in detail?"
"Your Highness please rest a.s.sured, Chuntao will say all I know and say it without reserve."
Oh, it turned out she"s a gossip queen.
From Chuntao"s mouth, Su Qing was able to understand more about this original body. It turned out that in the palace the original body relying on her convenient Imperial father"s dot on her, showed a good-nature on the surface but in a dark, she has done a lot of dirty things. Frankly said, she"s the same kind of white lotus. The worst thing is she like to go against the female lead and put her feet in everything. Because her convenient father felt guilty for Imperial consort mother, he not only didn"t reprimand, he instead rewarded her many precious things, precious calligraphy and paintings in private. This kind of favor has never been seen in the palace before, even the female lead would not receive the favorable from the emperor when she made a mistake. Because of this, the resentment between the female lead and the original body is also growing.
However, she"s now Su Qing and the convenient Imperial father of the original body is also gone. All these have nothing to do with her. But, when Su Qing thought about Su Yingruo" reaction in the hall this morning, she also has some preparation in her mind.
Oh G.o.d, tell me about it. It"s already unlucky to cross over into a novel, but also became a vicious cannon fodder who wants to steal the female lead"s crush. If her crush is a good guy that would be fine, but the original body was killed by him ah.
Headache.
Really headache.
"…..this servant is very relieved that Your Highness finally understand how to restrain yourself." Chuntao said to her with a smile.
Su Qing: "….."
See that, even a servant can"t stand watching it anymore, what a failure of this cannon fodder!
After dismissed Chuntao, Su Qing didn"t go anywhere for a whole afternoon. She carefully combining all the information she received and what she didn"t expect was that the original body has not reached the hairpin ceremony yet (reach marriageable age 15 birthday). On the Nine of May, the wedding day is her fifteen birthday. When she thought about it, she was only 19 years old in her previous life.
And this Chuntao, is her personal maid and two years older that Su Qing. Even thought she likes to cry, her temper is really good.
As for that Seventh Lord Gu….
Su Qing rubbed her eyebrows, and her little face wrinkled together because of distress.
Forget it, soldiers to be blocked, water to soil flooding. In any case, she is also a Ten Princess with the imperial edict of the previous imperial personally bestowed her marriage. No matter how bad she is, the Seven Lord Gu could not really chop her up with a knife.
Comforting herself like this, Su Qing laid down and turned over, without even having time to pull the quilt, she soon dozed off into dreamland.
For the next few days, Su Qing remains quietly in her room and not going out. Yet, even a fool could see that a good Older Royal sister of hers has done to her dowry. But, Su Qing doesn"t want to cause useless trouble and make others hate her for nothing. It"s just a dowry, it"s not a big deal has it or not.
Ten days pa.s.sed by in a flash.
Last night, Su Qing sat idly by the bed. She hadn"t been too far away from home in her previous life. Now, this body is only fifteen but to the point of getting married soon. It"s ridiculous to think about it.
She raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, got up and walked to the table, unfolded the wedding gown that was sent by the Ministry of Ritual. The material was very rough, Su Qing did not dislike it either. After changing, she sat in front of the mirror, took the comb to comb her hair slowly from head to tail.
When Chuntao came in, she brought the warm white porridge to her, and took the comb in her hand and combed Su Qing"s hair.
Su Qing asked in amusing: "Is it white porridge again?"
"En." Chuntao held back the tears in her eyes as she replied with choked: "I couldn"t get the egg, and no noodles, only this one."
"White porridge is quite good, I like it very much." Su Qing lifted the bowl and ate two sips. She suddenly remembers something, turned around and pa.s.sed the spoon to Chuntao"s mouth, tilted her head and said with a smile: "This porridge is a lot, I am not really hungry, why don"t you eat with me?"
Chuntao blinked a few times, but still could not hold her tears. She raised her hands to wipe the tears on her face and slightly opened her mouth to eat porridge. "…..Your Highness, this porridge is really delicious."
"See, I didn"t lie to you." Su Qing frowned with a smile.
By the time they finished eating porridge, Chuntao"s also finished doing her hair. She received the bowl and put it aside before hesitating to say: "When this servant came over just now, I seemed to see His Highness the Ninth Prince in the bushes outside the hall, but when this slave went nearer to take a closer look, the Ninth Prince immediately ran away.
The Ninth Prince, Su Shisheng.
The biological younger brother of her whom she hasn"t met yet.
She heard from Chuntao that Su Shisheng was adopted and raised by one of the concubines. Normally, there is not much interaction between the siblings. Even if they met, they only quarreled. Especially Su Shisheng, whenever he saw her was like seeing his enemy. If in his heart still care about brother and sister"s affection, how could he has never been here since the marriage was bestowed.
"Don"t bother, let him be."Su Qing said indifferently and took the red silk cover on her head, "With him or without him won"t make any difference. It"s enough to have you and me here."
Chuntao nodded with tears.
At this time, a palace maid came in from the outside and said it was time to set off, and asked the bride to go into the sedan.
Su Qing nodded, then held Chuntao"s arm and went outside the Jian Zhi palace hall. She quivered slightly on the sedan chair, and her nose couldn"t help being sour.
The sedan shook badly along the way. There was no gongs and drums beating sound. Even on the way to Gu Mansion, they traveled on the remote paths. Not to mention when she arrived at Gu Mansion, not even a soul comes to greet.
Su Qing could not help it lifted her veil and look out through the curtain. There was no red silk, no red lanterns, very quiet and deserted.
With a thud, the sedan steadily landed.
"Madam, time to get out of the sedan."
That was the voice of a strange woman which Su Qing had never heard before. She probably the maid of the residence. Su Qing took a deep breath, opened the curtain and walked out calmly.
The maid Shuang Qiao, who was waiting outside, didn"t expect Su Qing to come down like this, she was stunned for a moment before helping her into the room and set the person up to the bed.
"The Seventh Lord hasn"t come back yet, Madam will have to have a little longer." finished saying, she turned around and walked out, but when she heard the light respond "En", Shuang Qiao couldn"t help but looked back for a few more times, and then left with doubt in her mind.
More or less, she has heard of this ten princess. Although she didn"t receive much attention in the palace, and not bossy, but by no means she"s not a quiet master. In the secret she has done a lot of bad things, but why now…..
Shuangqiao shook her head and went out.
Forget it, master"s temperament is not something she can figure out.