The Princess Yongtai's Mansion is located in Yongshengfang, just across a street from the imperial city. It covers an area of ​​one thousand acres, which is equivalent to the total land area of ​​two hundred ordinary farmers. It is the largest and most luxurious princess's mansion in the Jin Dynasty.

There are countless pavilions and towers inside, and many rare treasures and plants that are not even found in the palaces of the nobles.

Even the Noble Consort De, the leader of the Four Consorts, was quite jealous of the current emperor's favor for his younger sister.

In Jingyi Hall, Princess Anle was twisting her head in the arms of Princess Yongtai, acting like a spoiled child: "Mother, my daughter's lifelong happiness depends on you, please go to the Lu Mansion and ask for a marriage for me! Anyway, I have decided on him. His family background is not so good, but at least he has the title of an earl's mansion, and he is good-looking and the top scholar. If he becomes your son-in-law, it will not disgrace your status as the princess."

Princess Yongtai Li Yuqiu has been accompanying the empress dowager in the palace these days. The empress dowager has suffered from heart disease. After all, the emperor is in a high position and is not as good at coaxing people as his little daughter. She is not very considerate, so he misses this old daughter very much and summons her to stay in the palace for a few days.

Unexpectedly, she had just returned to the princess's mansion when she heard her daughter say that she had fallen in love with the new top scholar and was trying to get her to go to someone else's house to discuss marriage.

Although she had always spoiled her daughter and granted her every request, marriage was no joke after all, so she decided to give her verbal consent first to calm her daughter down, and then find out more about Lu Xiuzhu's character.

The son-in-law Zhao Qi just walked in and heard the conversation between the mother and daughter. He immediately asked, "What son-in-law?"

Princess Yongtai glared at her husband and said, "How can you be a father if you don't know anything about your daughter's worries?" Then she looked at her daughter jokingly and said, "Our Anle has grown up and she said she has a crush on the number one scholar in the imperial examination. She asked me to go to the Lu Mansion to propose marriage!"

Zhao Qi couldn't help but glance at his daughter. Seeing her shy look, he knew that Yongtai was not joking.

Although Anle was spoiled too much by Yongtai, she was his biological daughter after all, and he had to care about this important event in her life.

"I heard from an old friend who teaches at the Imperial College that the new number one scholar is the son of the Earl of Chiayi. Although his family is a little down and out, they have been relying on the widowed old lady Lu to support them in recent years. But number one scholar Lu is handsome and can write well. He has a promising future. If he really likes Anle, he would be a good match for her."

Princess Yongtai was immediately displeased when she heard what her husband said, "What do you mean if he likes Anle? Anle is my only daughter, Yongtai's, and the daughter of your Zhenxi General's mansion. Even if they are the sons of my brother's concubines of low rank, it is Anle who can choose them! Lu Xiuzhu is a kid from a poor earl's mansion, can he not like our Anle?"

Zhao Wuyou was very unhappy when he heard his father say this, and said aggrievedly: "I know that in my father's heart, I will never be as good as cousin Qin from my uncle's family. If you like cousin Qin so much, why don't you be her father!"

Although Zhao Qi was born into a family of military generals, as the youngest son, it was his responsibility to have children and continue the general's bloodline. Therefore, although he grew up with his father in the southern Yunnan border area, he was brought up as a scholar since childhood.

In his heart, a virtuous woman is easier to marry than a beautiful woman. He should marry a virtuous woman. His daughter is so spoiled and willful, and she doesn't know what household chores are. The number one scholar may not necessarily be interested in her.

But in the Princess's Mansion, the Princess is the ruler and he is the subject. He did not want to argue with Princess Yongtai, and felt that he should not hurt his daughter's feelings, so he changed the subject and asked, "Even though Anle is interested, she still needs to ask if Mr. Lu has an engagement. It is very rude to come to propose marriage so rashly."

This question touched upon the crux of Zhao Wuyou's problem. She knew her father. If she said that Master Lu was already engaged, but she planned to snatch Master Lu away from her, her father would rather contradict her mother or lock her up in the ancestral hall to reflect on her actions.

She said angrily, "Father, if you don't want your daughter to marry the man she loves, forget it! I will go to the palace to ask my grandmother for a marriage. With my grandmother's decree, Master Lu will have to marry me even if he doesn't want to!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Qi's face suddenly turned ugly after hearing this. He stood up from his chair and scolded, "You are just fooling around! If someone doesn't want to marry you, do you want to force them to marry you? You are a princess with royal blood flowing in your body, how come you don't have the slightest bit of dignity and self-respect?!"

Anle was so angry that she started crying.

Her father had never spoken to her in such a harsh tone. She even felt that he looked at her with some disgust. But why? She was obviously born into a noble family. Her father should treat her like the apple of his eye!

Seeing her daughter crying in anger, Princess Yongtai also said angrily, "Zhao Qi! Who are you insinuating about? Are you blaming your brother for granting you the marriage and forcing you to marry me?"

Zhao Qi said angrily: "You simply don't know what you are talking about!"

After saying that, he turned and left the princess's mansion, heading towards the Zhenxi General's Mansion, leaving Princess Yongtai behind to smash things all over the room.

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