female concubine

Zhao Ci sent the King of Chu to Zhaohua Pavilion, and after comforting him for a while, he went back to answer his orders.

"His Majesty."

"how?"

"Prince Chu is just a child. Marriage is a big event. His Majesty loves King Chu, and he didn't send someone to talk about it in advance, so that he can be prepared. There is someone in Prince Chu's heart, and most of them are at a loss for His Majesty's sudden marriage. The child was impulsive. Just now, the prince asked the villain, worried that the future Princess Chu would be ugly, and the villain explained it to him, and the prince thought that Princess Chu chose him because of his good looks."

In the inner palace, only Zhao Ci could speak to the emperor like this.

The emperor's eyes were deep, imprinted with the faint fire light in Funing Hall, "He is really naive." Then he sighed softly: "It's so good to be naive, An Ning!"

"Is the person in his heart the granddaughter of Uncle Shanyin?" The emperor turned his head and asked Zhao Ci.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Uncle Shanyin's son died 20 years ago. The person in the hearts of the six kings should be the daughter of Uncle Shanyin's second son."

He remembered that Uncle Shanyin's wife only had a pair of children, the emperor stroked his beard and thought about something, "Since she is a concubine...it's not a bad treatment for her to be a concubine."

"Your Majesty is wise."

The next day, away from the hustle and bustle of people at night, the sound of horses and carriages in the early morning, the water of the Bian River is still flowing, and the boats full of cargo come and go frequently.

In the early morning of this morning, the news of the marriage had spread all over Tokyo. The Founding Duke's mansion is comparable to the prince's hidden residence. The maid and servant just picked up the broom and cleaned up the mansion, preparing for the big wedding in the near future.

"Where's that little slut from the Xiao family!"

"Presumptuous, whose family are you from, dare to run wild in our Duke's mansion?"

Early in the morning, someone ran to the gate of the Duke's mansion to yell at him. The owner of the house went to attend the court meeting before dawn. Now he has not come back, and there are people coming and going on the street, so the female envoy had to rush back to report to the lady.

"Girl, people from the Earl's Mansion of Shanyin have come to make trouble, saying that you have robbed her of her husband!"

"Uncle Shanyin?" Xiao Youqing frowned, "Uncle Shanyin is also a hero among individuals, how could he have such ignorant children?" Ignorance is a polite word, what she really wanted to say was stupidity.

"Let her come in and see me."

"Yes!"

The sound of cursing came from outside the mansion to the mansion, all the way to the middle hall, Xiao Youqing sat quietly on the seat of the rightful lord, looking at the angry visitor, "Bring tea..."

"No need!"

She beckoned others to retreat, and there were only two women left in the middle hall facing each other.

"Obviously King Zhao is interested in you, why did you marry King Chu?"

"That's what the officials mean."

"Nonsense!" Li Linxuan vetoed, "Yesterday, I, Weng Weng, came back from Da Nei and said that the imperial concubine had already appointed me as the candidate for Princess Chu."

Her words made Xiao Youqing slightly startled, "The noble concubine wants you to be the princess of Chu?" Then she stood up and looked at her, there was nothing unusual about her, she couldn't figure it out, "It shouldn't be."

Since ancient times, there has been a clear distinction between the concubine and the concubine, and the current dynasty valued birth even more, and she had heard that Uncle Shanyin's family was released from death row.

"Even if the imperial concubine wants it, it's the emperor's will."

"My cousin has never met you. If your family didn't insist, how could the official family give you the marriage?"

It doesn't seem stupid, of course she won't say what is in her heart, "Cousin," she laughed outrageously, "It's really kind," she said coldly in an instant, "The emperor's order has been issued, my The birthday horoscope has also been handed over to the empress, you, if you come here and make a scene, aren't you afraid of losing the face of your earl's mansion?"

"Why, isn't King Zhao the same? What's more, King Zhao is asking for you. My cousin and you have never met..."

"It seems that even though the Sanyin Earl's Mansion is not in the court, the news is still very well-informed."

"Are you so proud of breaking up others?"

"Break up?" Xiao Youqing looked at her, and saw helplessness, anger, and jealousy in his eyes, "Did the King of Chu personally say that he liked Miss Li? Did he ever go to the Earl's Mansion of Shanyin to propose marriage?"

Seeing that she was speechless, Xiao Youqing pressed tightly: "Or, is it just your wishful thinking?"

"you!"

"I won't play tricks with you. The water is deep in Tianjiao. You, the Earl of Shanyin's Mansion, and you alone can't protect him!"

"He is a prince, the son of an official family, do you still need to protect him?"

"Based on your words!" Being protected is too good, it's not a good thing, walking by the water, how can you not get your clothes wet, "If you enter the mansion, I think he will be in a difficult situation in the future!"

Xiao Youqing spoke so seriously that Li Linxuan was speechless.

"Let's go." Xiao Youqing turned his back to him, "Just pretend you haven't been here before today."

"The Xiao family is full of nobles, money and power are not lacking, what are you trying to do with him?"

Figure him what?

Xiao Youqing's mind flashed the elegant young man at the crown ceremony the day before yesterday. Long before King Chu returned to Beijing, rumors in the palace that she looked like today's emperor had spread throughout Tokyo. He boldly sold the portrait of the King of Chu privately in the market.

"It's a picture of him, it looks good!"

Xiao Youqing dropped the words, and left straight forward, Li Lin froze in place, no matter how much she scolded her, it was useless and useless, what she could do was to resign herself to fate.

"Girl, she's gone." Xiao Youqing's personal envoy walked into her room, but she didn't see the girl talking, she just looked down at something.

"Isn't this... girl, the portrait you bought from a shop the month before last. At first, I thought it was Prince Zhao when he was young."

"It's the King of Chu," Xiao Youqing said, "If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't know that there are such good-looking men in this world, how can a portrait describe them?"

"Prince Chu is only seventeen this year, and is three years younger than the girl. A young man must have a unique character."

"It doesn't matter if it's big or small, if there are so many interests involved in it, how dare you think otherwise."

"Even so, he will be the girl's husband in the future after all, a husband and wife can be kind for a hundred days."

Xiao Youqing showed an extremely rare smile, "I hope so."

As soon as the court came down in the morning, the emperor received the ministers in the Chuigong Hall to review the papers.

"Your Majesty, Chen Shilang and Lu Neihan are asking to see each other."

"Chen Yu and Lu Wei? What are they doing here? Let them in."

"Sir, I respectfully invite Sheng An."

"The two gentlemen came to see me?"

"Your Majesty, I didn't see the King of Chu return to his residence last night. I only learned that the King of Chu was banned in Zhaohua Pavilion after today's court meeting."

"Why, if I discipline my son, I still need to report to the two Qing's family?"

"I dare not wait."

"It's just your majesty, the king of Chu has been in Shu for three years and you have ignored him, and now you are back in the capital..."

The Emperor of Chu knew that Lu Wei would use the past as an argument, so he cut off Lu Wei's words, "Before the King of Chu returns to Beijing," the emperor walked behind the two kneeling people, "The Secretary of the Imperial City reported to me that he was in Kaifeng Mansion. In the brothel, I saw an incredible person." Bending down among them, "Qing, do you want to know who it is?" Preemptive strike.

"His Majesty?"

"One of you is a member of the army of the King of Chu, and the other is the attendant of the King of Chu, who is his closest and most trusted person. Don't you know when he will return to Beijing?"

Chen Yu and Lu Wei were courtiers, and they were also members of the palace chosen by the emperor when the king of Chu left the cabinet.

Immediately throwing out a secret report from the Secretary of the Imperial City, he was furious, "The prince is out of the cabinet, and I have chosen you as counselors. Sir, is this how you teach my son?"

"The ministers are incompetent in teaching, and the crime of dereliction of duty, I ask your majesty to come down."

"Yesterday, he resisted the decree and made a big fuss. I just let him stay in Zhaohua Pavilion to reflect."

"But the king of Chu has just crowned the ceremony, and His Majesty bestowed the marriage, is it too hasty?"

"During the crowning ceremony, why didn't you say sloppy?"

"This…"

"He's not young anymore. I married him a daughter from the Xiao family. What's not to like about him?"

"When you marry a wife, you should marry a virtuous person. The King of Chu is generous by nature, but Xiao Shangshu's daughter... I have heard about it for a long time. She is very powerful. She is not a suitable candidate for the princess. Please think again, Your Majesty."

The emperor put his hands wide in front of his forehead, "I don't want to refute the papers handed over by the founder of the country. Now that the edict has been issued and everyone in Tokyo knows it, how do you ask me to take it back?"

"Then please Your Majesty lift the confinement of King Chu."