Early the next morning, Li Jingyun sat up in bed, sobbing loudly. Li Mingda was woken up and quickly rushed over. "Hongxuan? Did you have a nightmare? Why are you crying?"
At this time, Li Shimin was already holding a court session.
Li Jingyun nodded repeatedly. Just thinking about the scene in the dream made her cry even harder.
Sister Xinxing was wearing the gorgeous makeup of a wedding day and a red wedding dress. She was forcibly stuffed into a sedan chair by several strong men she didn't know. Her face was full of tears. Father and Mother both wanted to keep her, but they were stopped firmly behind and could only watch helplessly as Sister Xinxing was carried away by the sedan chair and disappeared in an instant.
It should be because last night, after everyone left, Father told her that the Turks had sent someone to propose marriage to Sister Xinxing that she had such a nightmare.
"Those are all fake. Dreams are the opposite of reality. Don't be afraid. With the protection of the immortal master in the Taihe Hall, no evil spirits will dare to bully you."
Seeing her younger sister with red - rimmed eyes and a tear - streaked face, even having trouble speaking clearly, Li Mingda felt extremely heartache. Except for the time when Mother was seriously ill and dying, when had she ever seen Hongxuan in such a state?
Even when Cui Tian ridiculed the royal family for being unruly and unlearned, Hongxuan was just angry and dissatisfied, not crying so heartbreakingly like today.
"The immortal master? Maybe the immortal master can really help me." Li Jingyun seemed to have grabbed a life - saving straw. After wiping away her tears, she put on her clothes and rushed to the room where the system was enshrined.
She knelt on the futon and kowtowed several times firmly. "Immortal master, do you have any way to save my sister? Don't let her marry so far away to the Turks."
Li Jingyun ran very fast. Li Mingda chased after her and didn't hear clearly what Li Jingyun had just said.
She just knew to kneel down beside Li Jingyun.
The system sighed. It turned out that the little princess, who was highly favored in the imperial city and the apple of the emperor and queen's eyes, didn't grow up care - free either. She also had so many things to worry about. But as for the matter of stopping the princess from making a political marriage, he could only go with the flow and act according to the situation. Moreover, the incident was so sudden that he had no idea.
System: Don't be so sad for now. Go back to the villa and have a look. Maybe you'll get an idea.
Anyway, he could only give an idea, but it was Li Jingyun who had to do the actual work.
"The villa?" Li Jingyun murmured to herself.
There were still a few books in the Taoist scripture library that hadn't been printed, but it was almost done. What was she going to the villa for now?
Was it related to Sister's political marriage?
Did the immortal master have other hints for her in the villa?
"Yes, immortal master. Hongxuan understands." Li Jingyun kowtowed again before standing up.
Li Mingda asked curiously, "What did the immortal master say to you?"
"He told me to go to the villa and have a look. I don't quite understand, but since the immortal master said so, there must be a reason." Li Jingyun said and nodded to herself, thinking that what she said was very correct.
After the incident in the scripture library, she almost felt that she was growing into a person like her elder brother, who could handle all kinds of things well.
But when faced with Sister Lizhi being pregnant and in critical condition, or Sister Xinxing or some other sister having to marry far away to the Turks and never seeing them again, she would still be flustered and at a loss, not knowing what to do.
The system indicated that actually he didn't have any idea for the moment. Telling Li Jingyun to go to the villa was not for her to find any hint, but just to let her enjoy the autumn scenery outside Chang'an City and relax.
Whether it was Princess Changle or Princess Xinxing, it would be a long time before anything happened, long enough for her to get enough points to exchange for life - saving pills.
"Let's go. I'll go with you and have a look."
Both Li Mingda and Li Jingyun were straightforward people. They said they would go and they did.
Soon, the eunuchs prepared the carriage. During this period, they had gotten used to it. Princess Chengyang would randomly take several princes and princesses out early in the morning. They would either go to the printing workshop in the villa or visit Princess Chengyang's mansion. They would come back in the evening when it was just getting dark. After so many trips, even the coachman was familiar with the route.
No one knew why this time the carriage was frighteningly quiet. Both princesses were silent.
The carriage also traveled very fast. They arrived at the villa in just over an hour.
Su Gui rolled up his trouser legs. Dressed like a farmer, he was walking in a hurry with a fish in his hand. He squinted his eyes and took a closer look at the carriage, then immediately stopped and waited for Li Jingyun to get off the carriage.
"Greetings to the princess."
"Get up. Haven't you gone to study again?" Li Jingyun was no longer surprised at all to see Su Gui in the villa now.
This guy seemed to regard the villa as his home and came to have a look every now and then.
However, his academic performance was very good. The last time she went to see, the articles and poems he wrote had won high praise from the old master Wang Ji. He always boasted to her that he could read ten lines at a glance and never forget what he read.
It was really strange. Was there really such a smart person in the world? Even if he didn't focus on studying at all, he could still learn well. Why couldn't this person be herself?
At the latest, she would also have to enter the Hongwen Museum to study next year.
"Your Highness is wrong. We have a holiday for the autumn harvest so that we can go home and help with the harvest. Since there's no need for me to take care of the fields at home, I came to the villa to have a look." Su Gui said with a smile.
"I see."
Li Jingyun nodded and didn't say much. She pulled her sister and walked inside.
Su Gui didn't say anything either. He followed behind them, thinking about how to cook this fish properly for lunch today. Should he make it into fish slices? Salted fish? Steam it or boil it?
Everything in the villa was normal. The masters in charge of printing were doing their own jobs. When they saw Li Jingyun and the others coming, they all saluted and greeted them, and also reported the progress. Currently, the printing work was under the responsibility of the Secretary Province. The official in charge of supervising the craftsmen here was Secretary Lang Zhang, a sixth - rank official.
Li Jingyun really wanted to ask everyone, "Has anyone of you received an order from the immortal master? Do you have something to say to me?"
But reason finally prevailed, and she didn't ask this question.
Otherwise, the news that she was haunted by something evil would probably spread to the ears of His Majesty and the common people soon.
Finally, they came to the side of Li Dami and her kids. Li Dami was leisurely eating the forage. Dabao and Xiaobao were playing around, and Erbao was almost falling asleep in the shadow.
Three months had passed, and they had grown a lot. When they were just born, Li Jingyun could pick them up effortlessly, but now she couldn't pick them up at all. In fact, the biggest one, Erbao, was even heavier than Li Jingyun.
When Dabao saw Li Jingyun coming, it immediately pounced on her and rubbed against her arms. Its soft and white fur rubbed against Li Jingyun's body, which was very comfortable.
Su Gui had helped deliver the three of them, and he usually took good care of them. He would come to graze the sheep when he didn't have classes. A noble young man like him had made himself into a sheep - herder.
He had raised these sheep so well that they were all chubby.
"They're so cute. It's a pity we can't take them back to the palace to raise. Otherwise, it would be very comfortable to hold one to sleep." Li Mingda's reaction was similar to Li Jingyun's. She stroked Erbao's fur and was suddenly licked by Xiaobao, which made her burst out laughing.
"However, Dabao, why have you lost so much wool? Won't you go bald?" Li Jingyun looked at the pieces of wool on her clothes and was having a headache about how to deal with it.
Then she thought that the fluffy Dabao would suddenly become bald. No, she couldn't accept it at all!
"I heard from the nearby farmers that sheep do shed their wool in autumn. It's very normal."
At this time, the system suddenly appeared: This wool can be spun into thread and woven into sweaters to keep out the cold in winter. Making the first sweater and opening a sweater factory can earn fifty points.