On the carriage leaving the house, Ning Luoqing was not far away looking at Ning Qingqing who was in a moment of pride. Her tender fingers were tightly clasped on the door panel, and she was extremely angry. Her mother was punished like an ancestral hall, and she fell instantly, and her status was even worse than hers.
Concubine. What a hateful thing. All the things that originally belonged to her, her father forcibly gave to this bastard Ning Qingqing. She refused to accept it, absolutely not.
The Heaven-Sacrifice Ceremony at Donglinhuang Temple is held once every four years, and the main participants are these ministers and their families. Today's Linhuang Temple is the busiest scene in four years. Civil servants and military generals gather together. Those who go to Linhuang Temple
On the mountain, the gorgeous carriage formed a beautiful scenery. Ning Qingqing accompanied her father and sat leisurely on the carriage, without even the slightest smile as the carriage bumped along the way.
"Qing'er seems a little unhappy these days." Ning Lanfeng's majestic face rarely softened her words. But for Ning Qingqing, such gentleness has always been commonplace.
"Actually, my daughter has many questions to ask her father." Ning Qingqing's tone was calm, but full of doubts.
This father has always been busy with political affairs. Although the relationship between father and son is good, Ning Qingqing rarely sat and talked with her father like this before. Under Luo Shi's control, it seemed that she had never been given a chance.
This may be a good opportunity.
"Well?" Ning Lanfeng looked at Ning Qingqing gently, "If Qing'er wants to ask anything, daddy will answer." For some reason, he felt particularly warm at this time. He had always doted on this daughter. But before, he
He feels that this daughter will always be cold and alienated to him, making it impossible for him to get close to her. Being able to sit down and talk quietly like today is really rare.
"It seems that I haven't seen my mother since I was a child!" She said from the bottom of her heart. She raised her delicate and long Jieyu and looked at Ning Lanfeng with her watery eyes. "What kind of person is my daughter's mother? What kind of person does she have?"
What kind of life background? Why has my aunt been very dissatisfied with her daughter for many years? Is it really the daughter and her mother who robbed everything of her aunt?"
"This..." He never thought that his daughter, who found it difficult to ask him about things, would get to the point this time. "She is jealous of your mother. Dad and she are just a couple in name only. Always treating each other with respect is already the limit of dad."
.How could you have married me if your grandfather hadn't forced you to do so?"
Ning Lanfeng felt pain in her heart when she mentioned what happened ten years ago, "She just robbed your mother of everything, so much so that your father and your mother have been in love for many years and can't even give her a status."
Ning Qingqing's fingertips trembled. Seeing Ning Lanfeng's unbearable look at the past, she seemed to dare not ask any more questions. She made a calculation in her mind. If she guessed correctly, it should be that her father was dissatisfied with the family's marriage but refused to do so out of filial piety.
Not to marry. Xu later met his mother, and they fell in love at first sight. Then his mother gave up everything and got married to his father, and that’s how the rest of the story began.
Forget it, it was indeed fate. What could she blame? Luo Shi had her own pity, but he had tortured her for more than ten years for those things. What was wrong with her?
"Qing'er, actually you look a lot like your mother."
Ning Lanfeng smiled, looking at that face she thought of that Juechen woman.
"My daughter is very ugly and the man is unattractive. How can she look like my mother?" Ning Qingqing lowered her head with a sense of inferiority and touched the left side of her face with a trembling hand. The face she had been most inferior to since she was a child.
"It will recover one day, Qing'er, you believe daddy." Ning Lanfeng disagreed, still smiling warmly.
Ning Qingqing's expression was slightly startled, and she looked at Ning Lanfeng aggrievedly, "Daddy, when exactly will it be? You won't wait until Qingqing's old pearl turns yellow, right?"
"Haha..." Ning Lanfeng couldn't help but laugh and stroked his beard, "My daughter wants to get married?"
This was said by her father, who always felt a little shy, "No, I just feel it's unfair sometimes. Why can other girls be beautiful, but Qingqing can't?" That day when she was using the complexion lotion.
, that face has recovered to be fair and translucent, and can be broken by blows. She is so beautiful and confident like that.
"Qing'er, God has its own arrangements. So what if some women are beautiful? When they are old and young, their husbands will still be like fireworks in the willow alley. I believe that my father's appearance is just appearance. Qing'er has been reading poetry and books since she was a child, and she is extremely talented.
Qing'er will be able to find a man who doesn't pay attention to Qing'er's appearance. Only in this way can daddy leave you to him with confidence." Ning Lanfeng followed the guidance and taught eloquently.
"Is it really possible?" Ning Qingqing blinked, as if she felt very uncertain. If there was such a man in the world, so what if she devoted her life? But what she heard by the lotus pond that day made her break out in cold sweat.
Backflow.
Seeing her makes me sick? Why did she fall in love with such a man in the first place?
"Qing'er, it was because your mother misjudged the wrong person that she caused all the subsequent consequences." He raised his eyebrows, his voice filled with vicissitudes of life. Like a suffering person recalling the past, that kind of deep pain left Ning Qing.
It is clear to my eyes.
"then……"
In his deep old eyes, waves gradually appeared. Just like a drop of clear water dripping in, causing ripples.
She was the eldest daughter of the He family back then, and he was also in his prime. Her courage to go against the world gradually gained a place in his picky heart. After ten years of getting along, they went from being childhood sweethearts to dancing under the moonlight.
Qin. Because of filial piety, he married her. Because of hatred, she married him. From then on, they were strangers to each other. Until that time, he accidentally found her in a cave while performing official duties. Only then did he realize that she was not living a happy life.
, her husband tortured her in every possible way. When she fled that home, her three-month-old baby had already suffered a miscarriage.
He was so angry that he personally beheaded the man who dared to bully his beloved and took her home. But he did not dare to disclose her identity in any way. It is precisely because of this that Luo Shi has been targeting her. But because of her
He had the ability to protect himself. Luo Shi had always been unable to do anything to him. Until that year, Qingqing was already three years old. However, due to the root cause of her miscarriage, her body became weaker and weaker. Eventually she died. And with her passing, Ning
Qingqing has been without a mother since she was a child. I don’t know when, her face gradually grew birthmarks like spider webs. So that such a perfect girl was finally despised because of her lack of appearance. Ning Lanfeng because she spent all day
Busy with official duties, he secretly taught Qing Qing martial arts so that he could have a way to protect himself in the event of an accident.
The memories of the beautiful woman are gone, and the tears are hard to hold back. Ning Qingqing has never thought that her father, who has always been serious and angry, has such a tender side. When his mother passed away, his father must have been so sad. Ning Qingqing didn't know that it was Luo Shi who owed
What was her mother's was what her mother owed her. But no matter what, she had spent more than ten years tolerating it and didn't owe that woman anything.
"A daughter will accompany her father on behalf of her mother, and she will always accompany her father."
Just when I was feeling sad, the car had stopped.
"Sir, Linhuang Temple has arrived." The coachman said respectfully.
Ning Lanfeng didn't say anything else, opened the curtains and stepped out of the car. He reached out and helped his daughter out. The place where the carriage stopped was still some distance away from Linhuang Temple. After walking up for half a moment, the destination was the same as before.
Normally, all the ministers got off the train. The huge Linhuang Temple was filled with civil servants and their families. Of course, small gangs of barbarians and envoys from the surrounding small countries to the east were also on the main platform several feet high.
There stood an old abbot in a feather coat, waiting for something silently. The voices of the ministers chatting could not be heard. But Ning Qingqing followed her father to the place where he should stand without saying a word.
"I heard that the emperor is unwell, and it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is presiding over the heaven-sacrifice ceremony today." A minister next to Ning Qingqing said to another minister.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" The minister's eyes widened several times. "I heard that His Highness the Crown Prince is idle all day long and is a playboy. Even if he is rarely seen in the classroom, the Tutor doesn't seem to have a very good impression of him.
.I am really worried..."
"Oh, that's what you said." Hearing the words of the minister, he was also a little worried, "I really don't know what's going on with the emperor. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is so important. To put it harshly, the prince is still a child, how can he take this responsibility?
Such a big responsibility?"
"Yes!" The minister couldn't help but shake his head, and his wrinkled face frowned, "Brother Ning, what do you think of this matter?"
Only then did Ning Lanfeng collect his thoughts, looked at the minister, and said seriously after thinking for a while, "The emperor has his own intentions, but Ning thinks that His Highness the Crown Prince is smart and sensitive, and is a person of great talent. In fact, he is not the best in the pool.
Objects. Pretend that they will become great things in time. As for this ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, it is the first time for the prince to preside over such a large-scale ceremony. It is inevitable that there will be something wrong. But after all, the prince is still young, and those of us who are ministers can help if we can. It is absolutely impossible.
Any sign of disdain."
"Haha, brother Ning's analysis makes some sense. The prince needs to grow up, and this is indeed a good opportunity. I just hope there will be fewer mistakes." The minister felt a lot happy for a while, although he still had hidden worries.
When he glanced at the woman beside him, he couldn't help but be curious, "Who is this child?" In the past, during the heaven-sacrifice ceremony or other activities in the palace, Ning Lanfeng often brought his eldest daughter in addition to his wife.
.This girl who rarely appears has attracted the attention of the ministers.
"This is my little girl Ning Qingqing!" Ning Lanfeng seemed to be unspeakably proud when introducing his Qingqing, "Qing'er, I haven't met these two uncles yet."
Upon hearing this, Ning Qingqing bowed respectfully, "Qingqing has met Uncle Yun and Uncle Xu."
"Haha, has Qing'er ever met your uncle?"
He didn't know that this girl could actually know his last name. He felt a little ashamed when he thought that he didn't even know who this child was. But in his eyes, this girl was indeed more comfortable to look at than Ning Luoqing. I don't know from that aspect.
.Anyway, I can't see how repulsive she is from the bottom of my heart. Although I have never seen his appearance, the aura revealed from all over her body makes people feel that this girl is extraordinary. She must be a slim and good-natured child.