Competing in the morning and evening

Princess Rui'an was able to persuade Emperor Chang to betroth her to a boy who had nothing to offer. Even Yuan Xizheng couldn't help admiring her ability.Although Yuan Xizheng received the will, how could the eldest princess's marriage be the same as the daughter of an ordinary family? Naturally, all the red tapes such as accepting dishes, asking names, najib, accepting levy, asking for a date, and welcoming in person are indispensable.

When the application period was over, it was approved that the day of great joy would be the beginning of summer in the coming year, and it was almost autumn.

In the past six months, Chu Yin has further absorbed the forces north of the Han River. Because he controls the border market and has sufficient financial resources, he has also bought a group of officials who can be used by others in the court, and his strength has grown further. solid.

Dongfang Jingyuan has basically replaced Yuan Xizheng as Chu Yin's number one counselor, and unless there are some major decisions, Chu Yin doesn't need to bother Yuan Xizheng too much.And Yuan Xi seemed exhausted to insist on marrying a princess.

Lu Zhu asked Yuan Xizheng what it was like to marry a princess, Yuan Xizheng sighed, and said: "I can't blame people for saying that there are two things you can't do in the world, one is to be a royal confidant, and the other is to be the princess' consort, so I was born Did both."

More than a month later, the autumn sun is shining brightly, a red palace wall, layers of rich doors, flying beams and painted eaves, and the sound of silk and bamboo are coming leisurely along the nine-curved corridor. At this time, the banquet is just right, and the wine is just getting stronger.

On this day, Princess Rui'an of the Southern Dynasty married Yuan Xizheng, a commoner Gongsheng.

In the deep palace, there are multiple curtains and curtains, layers of whale gauze, just like a fairyland.

Ruian was lying on the bright red dragon and phoenix brocade quilt, the phoenix crown on his head was still in place, and he rested his chin in his jade hand painted with cardamom and said leisurely: "Yuan Xizheng, if you really are the Ziqing of Yuan's family, marry the princess as his wife, and seal your marriage. Prince Consort, if you become the school secretary of Siku again, I don’t know if it’s your blessing or my Ryan’s blessing.”

Yuan Xizheng said helplessly: "You are the one who insisted on making things like this, and now you are blaming me again."

Ryan chuckled, and said: "I just think it's good to be like this. It will not only untie your siege, but also mine. Otherwise, if I don't marry again, the hair of the father, the queen, and the queen will all turn gray."

Yuan Xizheng sighed slightly, and Ryan said with a smile: "Why, do you regret it now?"

When she said this, she almost involuntarily thought of Li Yan.Ever since the news of Yuan Xizheng's marriage came out, Li Yan hadn't heard from him anymore, and Yuan Xizheng didn't think about him, but at this moment, the shadow of that person came to mind again. No matter how hard Yuan Xizheng tried, he was don't go.

"You really fell in love with someone."

Yuan Xizheng was shocked when he heard someone say it suddenly, and found that Ryan's face was almost touching his own.However, Ryan suddenly pulled him onto the bed. Yuan Xizheng was so frightened that his eyes widened, and he stammered, "You, you, don't make such a joke."

Ryan raised his finger and said softly, "Someone."

As soon as Yuan Xizheng regained his composure, he immediately heard slight footsteps outside the door, and was startled. Just now, he was so distracted that he didn't notice anyone approaching.

"You're not pretending, what are you thinking?" Ryan whispered.

"so what should I do now?"

Ruian's phoenix eyes were bent, and he smiled a bit wickedly, and said: "Naturally, the husband and wife are happy, so it's possible that the wedding night in the bridal chamber can only be done by raising eyebrows."

Yuan Xizheng licked his lips, looked at Ryan on the bed, and had nowhere to put his hands and feet.

Seeing Yuan Xizheng flustered, Ryan kicked Yuan Xizheng who was sitting next to him down impatiently, turned over and sat on it.

"Husband, they say that after a year of cultivation, we can cross the same boat, and if we cultivate for a thousand years, we can sleep together. This is a relationship that has been cultivated for 1000 years." Ryan said sweetly.

Yuan Xizheng has never seen the straightforward Ryan act like a daughter. With her soft words, Yuan Xizheng lay on the bed shivering, "Where did you copy it? You should copy a passage like a princess." Did you read it?"

"It's strange, the princess doesn't talk about love when she enters the bridal chamber, so should she still rhyme and make a fu?" Seeing that Yuan Xizheng remembered it, Ryan slapped Yuan Xizheng back on the bed.

"Should I be on top?" Yuan Xizheng whispered.

Ryan looked down at Yuan Xizheng's eyes, and asked maliciously, "Who taught you?"

Yuan Xizheng's face turned red all of a sudden, and there were pictures of Li Yan kissing her. When she looked up, she saw that Ruian was still full of curiosity, so she stammered, "You, do you want to be seen through?"

Ryan threw away the phoenix robe on his body, raised his eyebrows and said, "No matter who I, Ryan, marry, he will be below."

Yuan Xi let out a weak cry, and Ryan picked up the red gauze curtain and said with a smile, "You still don't get up to work."

"What?"

"A shaker."

"Why shake the bed?"

Ryan approached Yuan Xizheng, and said with a smile: "So that person only taught you half of it?"

Yuan Xizheng quickly put his hands on the bed rails, closed his eyes and concentrated on shaking the bed, and decided that no matter what topic Ryan talked about tonight, he would never speak again.

Yuan Xizheng shook the bed, and Ryan took out the jug, wine glass, and silver plate from under the quilt. Inside was a chicken that was roasted to perfection. Just now, I kept kowtowing, I finished kowtowing to the father, the mother, the empress dowager, the imperial concubine, and then accepting other people's thanks, concubine's, beauty's, and saluting to you, I haven't been able to eat well all day on something."

Yuan Xi listened to her complaints, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, her princess and maids handed over a small pastry from time to time, and she really didn't eat anything, but she was full of wine, and now her internal organs are so burned that she feels uncomfortable .

Ryan tore off a chicken leg and gnawed it meticulously. Yuan Xizheng had to say that she was a bit like a princess from this. Although her thoughts were vulgar, her manners were still gentle.

"It's too tiring to be married. I don't want to marry again in my life." Ryan muttered.

Yuan Xizheng was shocked, and said: "Don't you want to reconcile with me in two years?"

Ryan said quickly: "Don't stop, you want people outside to know that it's fake?"

Yuan Xizheng had no choice but to smile wryly while shaking: "Princess, you don't want to spend the rest of your life with me, do you?"

Ryan licked his oily lips and said, "This is not very good, do you still want to marry someone else?"

Yuan Xizheng said bitterly: "How can I marry someone else?!"

Ryan picked up the wine glass, smiled brightly and said: "You see, we are not quite suitable, you can't marry again, I don't want anyone to be my God!"

Yuan Xizheng took a deep breath, and Ryan drank the wine in his glass, beaming and saying: "So, if you have a sweetheart, don't forget to come and beg me then!"

Yuan Xi struggled to lower her head, shook the bed with her hands, and said helplessly, "How long will it take?"

Ryan rested his chin on the brocade quilt and said with a smile, "All night long."

Yuan Xizheng was really defeated this time, and he let out a long sigh.

In the early morning, Yuan Xizheng collapsed on the quilt, so tired that he couldn't even open his eyes, Ruian smiled and raised Yuan Xizheng's chin and said: "Hair like blue silk, eyebrows like distant mountains, he is really an enviable handsome man." .”

Yuan Xi struggled, pulled the quilt to wrap herself up, and said, "Please, stop playing, Ryan."

Ryan said leisurely: "Today, our husband and wife will accept congratulations from the princes and princesses together. If you can't get up, then I will go alone, and I can tell King Liang and the others casually...you are too tired to get up. "

Yuan Xi sat up abruptly, holding her head, with a look of remorse.

However, Ryan turned over and got up, and said brightly: "If your husband is well, I'll call someone to take a shower?"

Yuan Xi was competing with the princess to receive guests, so naturally she could no longer wear white clothes and green shirts, but followed the princess in a light yellow brocade robe, covered with a fox fur jacket.Princess Rui'an turned her head, looked up and down, and said with satisfaction: "If you only talk about this appearance, Ziqing is definitely second to none among the son-in-laws."

Yuan Xizheng bent down, made a bow and said: "Thank you, Madam Princess, for your compliment."

Ryan smiled, and the two came to the front hall side by side. They saw several princes and princesses sitting together drinking tea. When they saw the two of them coming out, they all got up and smiled: "You two masters are too neglectful."

Ryan didn't say a word, just looked at Yuan Xi with a smile and said: "Ruian woke up early."

As soon as her words fell, Yuan Xizheng clearly saw the eyes of these people turned to her, and couldn't help being embarrassed.Fortunately, the princes and princesses are all upright people. After all, Ryan is an outlier. Her words were like a stone falling into a lake, and only a few inexplicable eyes aroused.

"Ruian went to talk to the princesses, and the son-in-law will be handed over to us." King Rong Chuhao laughed.

Chu Yin also smiled slightly, and said, "We all prepared some congratulatory gifts for the son-in-law. Yesterday was too messy, so we just gave them to the son-in-law right now."

Ryan snorted, and said: "Don't give anything bad to bring down my son-in-law."

As soon as she said that, everyone laughed, and said: "Ruian can't take a bad son-in-law, where do we get this ability?"

Ryan didn't take it seriously either, but turned to the princesses and said, "There is a green calyx plum in bloom in my garden, so my younger sisters can go enjoy the flowers with Ryan, and leave the men to gossip."

Yuan Xi scrambled to sit down at the prince's table, and seeing not only Chu Hao on the table, but also Chu Min who had always been silent, the fire in Yuan Village seemed to be burning again in front of her eyes.Yuan Xi resisted the killing intent in her heart, smiled and chanted, as if she had met all the princes.

The gazes of the several princes fell on Yuan Xizheng's body, their eyes were neither good nor evil, and they didn't know what they were thinking.The princesses covered their lips and smiled. They were all unmarried Yunying. Although they were princesses, they had the mentality of young daughters. Most of them saw Yuan Xizheng for the first time. Now that they saw Yuan Xizheng being gentle and handsome, they thought that they didn’t know their future. No matter who the son-in-law is, he glanced at Yuan Xi and blushed away.

Seeing them walking away, Chu Hao said indifferently: "The son-in-law is so handsome, no wonder the women are happy to see it..." He glanced at Chu Yin leisurely, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid some men will also see you." Can't help it."

Chu Yin was so shocked that he didn't know how to answer him for a moment.

Yuan Xizheng showed displeasure on his face, and said: "I only know that King Rong is well-informed, but I don't know that King Rong is so fraternal."

Chu Hao smiled and said, "The fraternal man is not my king. I'm talking about Li Yan of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He sent your congratulatory gift to the Southern Dynasty in a hurry last night, but he proposed two new conditions for peace."

Yuan Xizheng was taken aback. The sudden appearance of Li Yan, who hadn't heard from him for more than half a year, made him a little at a loss.

Chu Hao's appearance is actually quite handsome, but because he is too jealous to be irritable, there is a deep Sichuan character line between his brows, which makes him naturally show a ferocious and murderous look when he is serious, making people daunting.But he was smiling at the moment, but Yuan Xizheng found out that Chu Hao's smile was also so ferocious, and he smiled and said: "One of them, Li Yan asked to send Princess Rui'an's son-in-law to Northern Qi as a hostage."

As soon as he said this, all the princes present were taken aback, and Yuan Xizheng himself was stunned.Others don't know such top-secret matters as Li Yanxin's terms for the peace talks, but Da Sima Chen Angwen naturally knows about it, and if he knows it, it is equivalent to Chu Hao knowing it.

On the second day of Yuan Xizheng's wedding, he made a joke about Chu Yin and Yuan Xizheng.

Chu Hao gritted his teeth in his heart and thought: You think you are married to Rui'an, you have Jingzhou's strength outside, and Rui'an's small actions in front of the emperor from time to time, so you think you can stand up in front of me, Chu Hao. Because of a broken arm, I want you, Yuan Xizheng, to know that if you don't follow Chu Hao, your end will be worse than death.

Chu Yin also heard about this for the first time, he subconsciously went to see Yuan Xizheng in panic, but saw Yuan Xizheng lowered his head in a daze, but he didn't see any trace of panic, only a slight embarrassment between his brows.

A surge of anger rose in Chu Yin's heart, but he only said lightly: "This is too strange. In ancient times, only princes and princes have been taken hostages. I have never heard of a son-in-law being taken hostage."

"I'm also confused, but when Li Yan was here, everyone said that he might be more interested in concubines than in princesses from the Southern Dynasty." Chu Hao said leisurely.

As soon as his words fell, someone sneered and said: "Although the third brother and I were not born of the same mother, why does the third brother hate me so much, Ryan, and wish that Ryan would go to hell and be a widow?"

In the blink of an eye, Chu Hao saw Ryan standing in the corner of the hall, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He blamed himself in his heart for getting carried away, and didn't even notice that Ryan had gone and returned. He sighed and said, "Ruian, this is a major national event, Brother Huang I don't want to."

Rui'an raised his eyebrows and said: "Yuan Xizheng is my husband, if I don't know for sure, no one can take him as a hostage!"

Chu Hao smiled and said: "You have to ask your Sixth Brother for help. You must know that he is in charge of the most elite soldiers and horses in the Southern Dynasty. In the future, there will be a war between the north and the south, so you have to ask your Sixth Brother's wishes." I don't want to lead the way for you, Royal Sister Rui'an!"

Chu Min frowned and didn't answer, but Chu Yin said, "If he doesn't go, I'll go!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone was stunned, Chu Hao sneered and said: "Could it be that the ten emperors guarded Jingzhou and guarded their feelings... Or are you just like Ruian, who really can't bear to fight against each other, and even made this kind of joke about manipulating a car?" .”

Chu Yin slapped the table with his palm, shaking the teapots and cups on the table. He glared angrily and said, "Brother Sanhuang may look down on me and other princes who don't have a prominent family, so I humiliate you again and again. Peili. But a man has tolerance and tolerance, and I will not give an inch in this matter of Yuan Xi's dispute."

"My lord." Yuan Xi Zheng muttered.

Everyone in the same seat had never seen Chu Yin get angry. Probably no one thought that this lukewarm prince would one day slap the table and scold Chu Hao, so they all looked at Chu Yin with furious eyebrows in a daze, and even Chu Hao felt angry for a while. They all forgot to fight back.

Chu Yin sneered, grabbed Yuan Xizheng's arm with his backhand, and said, "Yuan Xi argues for the public, he is the king's aide, and in private, he is my brother-in-law. I can't protect my subordinates, and I can't protect myself." My sister's happiness, what does a man have to stand in the world." His hand was so strong that Yuan Xizheng couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"Well said." Ruian's vermilion lips parted slightly, and he said with a sneer: "If King Rong feels really scared, he can go and talk to his father, and exchange Ryan's happiness for the rest of his life for a moment of comfort for you."

Chu Hao glanced at the princes present, and saw that all of them bowed their heads in silence. At this moment, he deeply realized that he is no longer what he used to be. He has never responded to every call, and has never been silently resisted by a group of people.

Chu Hao suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "Since you and others value friendship so much, then my lord is optimistic about the success, so I will take my leave."

"No." Ruian uttered two words between his teeth, and Chu Hao was so angry that he immediately walked away.

As soon as he left, the other princes naturally couldn't sit still, and they left one after another, and a party broke up unhappy.

Seeing that everyone had dispersed, Ryan smiled lightly and said, "I didn't expect you, brother ten, to lose your temper, and you can still calm people down quite well."

Chu Yin let out a long breath, and said with a wry smile: "Ruian, you made fun of Brother Huang. Is this king too impulsive?" He asked Rui'an, but his eyes were on Yuan Xizheng.

Yuan Xizheng was silent for a while, got up and gave him a deep bow, and said: "King Liang, please rest assured, if the Northern Qi invades the Southern Dynasty, Ziqing will definitely let them go home."

Chu Yin looked at Yuan Xizheng's black hair in his eyes, his eyes were very light, and then he said gently: "This king... trusts Ziqing."

Ryan looked at the two people in front of him and frowned slightly.

Yuan Xizheng sent Liang Wang away, and when he returned to the hall, he saw Ruian drinking, so he smiled and said: "You never leave your cup, I know, I know you are for entertainment, I don't know, I still treat you as a dignified princess." Grief is hard to get rid of."

Ryan's green fingers shook the wine glass slightly, and said with a smile: "How do you know that I am for entertainment and not sorrow?"

Seeing that the look in her phoenix eyes was rather subtle, Yuan Xi hurriedly said, "Princess, Ziqing wants to go out for a while, to meet some old friends."

Ryan waved his hand slightly, and said with a smile: "My son-in-law will come back earlier, don't let Ryan miss you."

Seeing Yuan Xizheng running away in a hurry, she couldn't help but chuckled, and leisurely poured herself another glass of wine. A maid came in and whispered, "Princess, Princess Liang, please see me."

"Zeng Chuyu..." Ryan frowned slightly, and said, "Let her in."

After a while, the charming Zeng Chuyu stood in front of her. She was covered with a white gauze with flowing cloud patterns, and a goose yellow soft satin skirt. , if she hadn't been wearing a happy bun, she would have been regarded as Yunying, an eighteen-year-old maiden.

For a moment, Ryan thought of Yuan Xizheng in his heart.

The robe on Yuan Xizheng's body is either white or green, and his long hair is always tied up casually by a handkerchief, but it makes people feel that he only stands there, the willows are slightly blooming, and the spring and moon are thick. People dressed in commoner clothes.

"Chu Yu greets the princess." Zeng Chuyu said respectfully in a soft voice.

Ryan quickly stretched out his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be too polite."

Zeng Chuyu stood up, and said softly, "Chu Yu married King Liang, and the eldest princess married Chu Yu's brother. The princess was overjoyed. Chu Yu shouldn't bother her, but now she feels that she has a close relative, so she can't help thinking about it." Come and bother me."

Even if Ryan likes to be straightforward, he can't help but have a good impression of this soft-spoken and gentle sister-in-law. It's a pity that she first met Yuan Wanru, who has a clear love and hate.Yuan Wanru hated this sister very much, but Yuan Wanru was deeply appreciated by Ryan, so Zeng Chuyu's actions inevitably made a discount in Ryan's heart.

"Sister-in-law Wang is polite." Ryan said plainly, she is a person who can't hide, and never needs to hide.

Zeng Chuyu turned his head and said, "I haven't brought the things here yet."

Qingxiang hurriedly came forward with a tray, and said, "Your Highness, these are some congratulatory gifts chosen by the princess herself."

Ryan glanced at it, and found that it was not some exquisite jewelry, but a very ordinary dagger. It was very short and dark, but it attracted Ryan to reach out and touch it.

"Choke!" The dagger came out of its sheath, the voice was clear, cold light radiated everywhere, Ryan's floating hair was broken in response to the light, Ryan's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "What a dagger!"

Zeng Chuyu smiled and said: "This is the prince's collection. Its name is Mrs. Xu's dagger. "Assassin Biography" once recorded: Yan Taizidan sent Jing Ke to assassinate King Qin Yu to seek the world's benefits. Gold. Envoys use medicine to extract it. To test people, blood drenched strands, and everyone will die, so they pretend to send Jingqing. This dagger is not only sharp, but also inherently poisonous, but it is too old. How poisonous is it? Chu Yu It’s unknown, but it’s still a magic weapon.”

Seeing that Ruian looked at the dagger repeatedly, she couldn't put it down, so she smiled and said, "My lord gave this sword to Chu Yu. It was originally in case of emergency, but Chu Yu has no strength to hold it. It's a waste, the princess is a hero among women, so Chu Yu gave it to the princess as a gift."

Ruian caressed the dagger with his fingers, put it back into the sheath with a choke, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law Wang praised it absurdly. In fact, although Mrs. Xu's dagger is good, Jing Ke couldn't turn things around with it, let alone it was used by a martial artist. It's useless for Ryan to take it, so my sister-in-law can take it back and give it to a more suitable person!" She said lightly and put the dagger on Qingxiang's plate again.

Zeng Chuyu couldn't help showing embarrassment, Ryan yawned, and said embarrassingly: "To tell you the truth, Mrs. Wang, Rui'an barely slept last night, and now she can't hold it anymore. Mrs. Wang, you can play whatever you want, and Ryan will go to sleep for a while."

Zeng Chuyu hurriedly said: "Princess, you rest first, I'll go see Brother Ziqing."

Rui'an smiled slightly, and said: "Ziqing is now the prince's son-in-law and captain, and Wang's sister-in-law is the concubine of Liang Wang. Everyone pays attention to her every move, so let's wait for Rui'an to sleep enough, and play hostess with Ziqing to invite brother and sister-in-law for a while. She covered her mouth and yawned again, saying, "Ryan is resigning."

Seeing her walk away, Zeng Chuyu couldn't help clenching his hands into fists.

Qingxiang was also a little at a loss, Zeng Chuyu said lightly: "Let's go."

The two of them got out of the mansion and got into the carriage, and Qing Xiang whispered: "What's the matter with Ryan, it seems that he likes this dagger very much, but he refuses..."

Zeng Chuyu sneered, and said: "She is telling me, don't think that if she chooses an aide in the prince's mansion as her husband, she will help the prince to do things against the sky... No matter how good Mrs. Xu's dagger is, Jing Ke can't do it. It can turn things around..." Zeng Chuyu slapped the carriage window, gritted his silver teeth and said, "I, Zeng Chuyu, don't believe that she can stay out of it."

Qingxiang said: "I really didn't expect it. I thought that with Rui'an, the prince would be able to benefit greatly."

Zeng Chuyu seemed to have calmed down, but said calmly: "As long as she marries Ziqing, she will already be the prince's man in the eyes of others. She can't help but pretend to be lofty, and she can do whatever she can."

"I don't know if Master Ziqing can persuade her."

Zeng Chuyu was silent for a while, before saying: "Ziqing has always had an idea, if he didn't say it before, he won't say it later, not to mention he has doubts about me, in front of him, I must say a lot of mistakes."

Qing Xiang said: "I think Ruian must have been instigated by Miss Wan Ru, otherwise it's fine, why is she hostile to us as soon as we meet?"

Zeng Chuyu didn't speak, but his eyes twitched a little, he gritted his teeth, and said, "Forget it, she won this game. Ryan is not an easy character, you can see that she can put away her favorite things freely, It can be seen that her heart is extremely hard, I hope she can take care of the person she loves freely..."

Qingxiang has served Zeng Chuyu for a long time, and he knows that she is very powerful and cruel, but every time she sees her murderous eyes, she still can't help but feel frightened.Although Zeng Chuyu has cultivated some confidantes, they are not as deep as Qingxiang's ties, and they are getting more and more involved. Whenever thinking about this, Qingxiang's back will feel chilly.

"Your Majesty, I think Miss Wanru has always been a hindrance to your Majesty, why does your Majesty keep her?" Qing Xiang changed the subject.

Zeng Chuyu sighed and said: "Ziqing is already suspicious of me, how can I easily find out Yuan Wanru's whereabouts, not to mention that the prince's important matter is the most important thing, the prince must not be involved in this matter, we can only do this first."

While the two were talking, the wind blew the car curtain, and in a blink of an eye, the two saw Yuan Xizheng sitting in an underground wine shop, leaning against a wooden pillar, with his wrist resting casually on his knee, holding a wine glass and laughing happily. Watch the person in front of you gag.

Zeng Chuyu looked indifferently at Yuan Xizheng, who had a free and easy expression, and the carriage passed by the door of the restaurant.

That glance seemed very short, but it seemed very long.