The smile on Tang Xiaoshi's face gradually faded.

Han Nushi waved to the maidservants who were still playing with the snow: "Serve the princess to change her clothes and comb her hair."

"No need!" She raised her hand and said, "Bring a bowl of hot tea here." She turned and entered the pavilion.

Han Nvshi didn't understand what it meant, so she followed in.

Tang Xiaoshi sat down on the couch, took the tea bowl and drank it leisurely.

Once again, a palace maid came in to deliver a message: "His Royal Highness De Wang has been waiting in the front hall for a long time."

"Wait until this bowl of tea is finished." She said casually, holding the tea bowl, and warming her slightly cold fingers by the way.

After drinking a bowl of tea slowly, her body was warm, and when the maid came to report again, she got up lazily, put on her fur clothes and walked towards the front hall.

Walking to the corridor of the front hall, the guard saw that she just bowed and saluted without speaking, and she heard a deep voice in the hall.

"This king has been waiting here for two quarters, and I haven't seen Princess Xinghe yet. Is this how your country treats guests?" The tone was contemptuous and mocking.

He didn't hear any reply from people from Nanchu's side.

The strange voice said again: "I heard that when the princess of your country left Liangjing, General Zhao Lin went to see her off. General Zhao Lin is one of the few heroes in your country, and he is also the person I admire the most. I have met you several times on the battlefield. , it’s just that they are masters and cannot be friends. It’s not a pity to become rivals.”

Tang Xiaoshi didn't hear any response from Nanchu again, so she walked to the main hall door and glanced inside.The man sitting at the top was tall and tall, with a tall and straight posture, dressed in brocade clothes, with a serious and serious face, even with a smile, it made people feel cold, without any sense of intimacy.

"I kept De Wang waiting for a long time." Tang Xiaoshi smiled perfunctorily, and stepped into the main hall.

Go to the hall and bow to King De.

King De had already got up from the chair and took a few steps forward, bowed his hands and bowed back, looked at her face a few times, and said with a smile: "The princess has indeed kept me waiting for a long time."

"Just wait outside the city gate yesterday, right?" Her tone was cold.

King De sneered, and explained: "This king was rude, I couldn't get away yesterday, the princess forgive me."

She glanced at the other party lightly, and stopped talking to him about politeness. She went straight to the chair on the other side above and sat down, and glanced at the official who had just sat with her: "I'm here, Mr. Liu, go and get busy." Do something else."

Mr. Liu was stunned for a moment, and looked at her questioningly.Tang Xiaoshi nodded with a smile, and Master Liu took the order to retreat.

King De was slightly taken aback. He watched Mr. Liu go out before going back to his original seat and sat down. He looked at the person opposite him, with a delicate face, delicate eyebrows, and dimples at the corners of his mouth.Although she was still angry at this time, it did not affect her romantic spirit at all.The eyes are not as sharp as when others are angry, but a little bit cold, and there is no deterrence at all.

"Princess has worked hard all the way. I heard that she caught cold and fell ill on the way. I wonder if she is in good health now?" She beckoned the servant standing by the door to carry the stove towards Tang Xiaoshi.

"Thank you, King De, for your concern. There is no problem." Her attitude was still indifferent.

"My winter in Beiyong is no warmer than that in Nanliang, and the climate in Luocheng is cold and dry. Is the princess still used to it?"

"Maybe I'll get used to it in the future."

Li Qu laughed when he heard the words, nodded and said, "That's right, you can always get used to it."

Tang Xiaoshi glanced at him sideways, and suddenly saw the warm eyes of the other party, which completely did not match the tough and stern facial features, which made her doubt whether the person in front of her was the core or someone else.

"His Royal Highness, I have always wanted to ask you in person. Why did you choose to marry me by name? I am the most unfavored concubine among my father's many princesses. No matter what the purpose is, you should not marry I."

Li Qu sneered and waved his hands: "No, I have a purpose."

"For what purpose?"

Li Qu replied unhurriedly: "The princess's goal is your father, Emperor Liang, and the honor and disgrace of the Liang Kingdom. But this king's goal is General Zhao Lin."

Tang Xiaoshi's heart was shocked, and she stared at him in disbelief.

No one else knew about Xiao Dai and Zhao Lin except their close friends. Even after Xiao Dai forced Emperor Liang to die, this matter was suppressed by Emperor Liang. Only a few people in the harem The concubine and the courtiers who have experienced this matter only know about it.

It wasn't until Zhao Lin from Huaizhou came to see him off and sang the song "Huai Sang" that no one understood the meaning behind it.It's just that she was already on the way to get married.

Before Beiyong named him to marry him, even Emperor Liang and Empress Liang were not sure about her relationship with Zhao Lin. As Beiyong's prince, how could he know?

She stared at Li Qu for a long time in astonishment and doubt.

Li Qu smiled and said nothing.

After her mind flustered for a while, her heart tightened, and she asked, "Is there a Beiyong spy beside General Zhao?" And he was Zhao Lin's closest and most trusted person.

She panicked suddenly, many memories of Xiao Dai flooded up, as well as the one or two familiar military officer she met yesterday.At this moment, she can be sure that Xiao Dai has seen that military officer before, but she can't remember where Xiao Dai saw that person.

In the Battle of Heyangyuan, the reason why Zhao Lin was defeated so badly was that tens of thousands of soldiers from Daliang buried their bones in Heyangyuan.

Li Qu lowered his eyebrows and smiled: "The princess is really smart."

"Aren't you afraid that I will pass the news back?"

"Don't be afraid." Li Qu said calmly, "If General Zhao Lin still can't figure out why he was defeated, and can't clear up the minions around him, he is not worthy of being my opponent."

"You are not worthy to be his opponent!" She said angrily.

Li Qu shook his head with a disdainful chuckle: "Princess has never heard that soldiers are not tired of deceit? Does the princess still talk about benevolence and righteousness on the battlefield?"

She glared at him angrily, but Li Qu turned a blind eye. He fiddled with a jade pendant around his waist, and then untied the jade pendant and handed it to her: "I came here in a hurry today, so I didn't prepare a gift. This jade pendant should be a present for my king's meeting."

Tang Xiaoshi didn't even look at it, but turned to look at the nearby heater.

Li Qu was also not angry, and put the jade pendant on the small table.

"The princess was raised in the deep palace and didn't understand the court situation. Of course, she doesn't need to understand it in the future. The eighteenth day of the first lunar month is the day of our wedding." Li Qu stood up and walked out.

She stared at the tall and mighty figure, grabbed the jade pendant and threw it at the opponent's head.

Li Qu dodged sideways, stretched out his hand to grab it, looked at the jade pendant, and said, "I have never taken back what I sent out." After speaking, he threw the jade pendant into the stove next to Tang Xiaoshi, and the tassels immediately ignited .

His voice turned cold immediately, and his tone was a little threatening: "I can't get anything I want." Xie Ning smiled, "Even if it's a princess, it's the same."

She cursed a few words in her heart, and after Li Qu left, she calmed down and suppressed her anger, and then looked at the stove beside her. A round piece of white jade the size of a palm was being roasted on top of the charcoal fire, and there were two lines of writing on the back.

She was startled, and immediately asked someone to take out the jade pendant.

When Bai Yupei was cooled, scrubbed and handed over to her, she immediately flipped through the back and found two poems: Tao Yaoyao doesn't know summer, and Yingjiu Jiu doesn't know winter.

She hurriedly turned over the front, and it was carved with patterns of flowers and birds.

"Princess, what's so strange about this jade?" Seeing her nervous expression, Han Nushi carefully asked.

"This……"

In Xiao Dai's memory, this jade pendant was originally given to her mother and concubine by Emperor Liang, because the meaning of these two poems was not good, Qi's mother and concubine didn't like it.Xiao Dai didn't understand it when she was young, but she saw that the sculptures of flowers and birds were lifelike and very beautiful, so she wanted to go.

The jade pendant had been lost many years ago. I can't remember exactly when and how it was lost.

How could it be in Li Qu's hands?

"Han Nushi, secretly ask someone to ask if De Wang Li Qu has been to our Daliang capital."

Han Nvshi didn't understand what she meant, seeing that her expression was wrong, she didn't dare to ask further questions, so she took the order to retreat.

A few days later, Han Nvshi reported that Li Qu had never been to Daliang, let alone the capital.

"Never?"

"That's what I heard. However, if he went secretly, only those close to him would know about it, and it would be impossible to inquire about it."

"Yes!" She looked at the jade pendant in her hand.Now the blue tassels are re-braided and tied.It seems that this matter can only be asked Li Qu face to face.

Li Qu hasn't been here since that day, but Ning Changshi of the palace comes here every now and then, and some other princes and nobles in Beiyong are all dealt with by Mr. Liu and other Nanliang officials. She hasn't seen him at all, even King De's younger brother King Kang came, but she didn't show up either.

She also seldom goes out of the other hall, not because she doesn't want to see how prosperous Beiyong Emperor is, but because Xiao Dai's body is afraid of the cold, she really doesn't dare to be cold.Otherwise, I will have to lie in bed for another ten days and a half months, and suffer.

Until New Year's Eve, the Beiyonggong Palace banquet, De Wang appeared again in the other hall in the afternoon.

He was wearing a black cloak, standing under a plum tree in the front yard, the plum blossoms had not yet bloomed.He pressed a plum branch with his hand, and seemed to be examining the buds carefully.

"Does the princess like plum blossoms?" Li Qu asked without answering, as if he believed that the person behind was her.

"No!" She replied coldly.

Li Qu looked back and smiled: "I forgot, the princess likes peach blossoms, and the peach blossoms are shining brightly. The princess is also like a delicate peach blossom."

She squinted at him: "can I go now?"

Li Qu pursed his lips and smiled coldly, and walked up to her in a few strides.

They each got into the carriage, and there was a stove burning in the carriage, and Han Nushi handed her a hand stove.She asked him to open the window to see what Los Angeles looks like.

Because of New Year's Eve, the streets were relatively deserted. Passing through the market, most of the tea and wine shops on both sides were closed, and the prosperity of Los Angeles was not seen.

The carriage stopped at the gate of the palace, she got out of the carriage and changed her pace.

At this time, there was still some time before the palace banquet, and she didn't want to see those Beiyong officials and wives, so she found an excuse to walk nearby.

Li Qu saw that she was in a normal state of mind, and said: "There is a small pavilion not far to the west, there should be no one there, the princess can go there to rest." Then he walked ahead to lead the way.

She paused and followed.

Li Qu asked the servants to bring in two heaters, and within a short while, the small pavilion became warm, even a little stuffy, and Han Nushi took off the fur coat for her.

Li Qu fiddled with the charcoal fire with pliers.She got up and walked over, took out the jade pendant from her body, handed it to him and asked, "Where did King De get this?"

Li Qu's hands froze, his expression froze for a moment, and he said sneeringly: "The princess took it out, and this king thought that the princess would throw away what this king gave me like a piece of trash."

"You gave me this thing because you wanted me to ask you? Since I asked today, why should your Highness beat around the bush?"

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