Marry a wife to be the emperor

Pei Qinghong came back to Pei's mansion later than Pei Yan. Except for special days, he and his father went back separately. The carriage that came to pick him up did not come today, but the one that Pei Yanchang sat in was still parked. over there.

Pei Qinghong lifted the sedan chair curtain and got into the carriage. He saw Pei Yan closing his eyes and resting his mind at a glance. He yelled "Father" and sat down beside him, and the carriage began to move slowly.

"How long has daddy been waiting for me today?"

Pei Yan opened his eyes and looked at him, still with the smiling fox face, slowly turning the white jade wrench finger in the right hand with his left hand: "I haven't waited too long, I have already told him to go back to pick up your carriage at home, waiting for you here Let's have a good chat, father and son."

Pei Qinghong groaned and waited for his father to speak, but Pei Yan was silent for a while, and then mentioned the two orders of the Supreme Emperor: "About today's going to court, the Supreme Emperor changed the Chongyang holiday to three days. What do you think he intends?"

"I don't know, but it's a good thing that the holiday has become three days. Besides, Dad may have forgotten that my birthday happens to be on the third day. In this way, I don't have to bother to make adjustments in the future. It's a good thing."

People in the Pei family have to spend a day with their family members on their birthdays. No matter how busy Pei Qingyi and Pei Yan are, they will spare this day to spend time with their families. There are officials' rules, Da Lan is stricter about the system, and Pei Qinghong has to go to make adjustments all the time if he wants to have a holiday this day, and it is very troublesome to approve the procedures.

It was okay when Pei Qinghong was a small official before, but now there are many things, and a new official has taken up the post, and he has to bear the burden of the Taifu, and he has to stay in front of the emperor from time to time, and it is not so easy to ask for public leave.

"It's true, is Mu Zhi's job as a tutor handy?" Pei Yan is still very concerned about his second son. Although the other party married a man and cannot have children, the development of the other party's official career He is the best of his three sons. When he retires from the officialdom, the entire Pei family will be mainly supported by Pei Qinghong.

Pei Qinghong shook his head: "Perhaps the emperor was just on a whim. His majesty's other teachers are teaching these days' arrangements, and my son has nothing to teach. He stays in front of the emperor for less than half an hour every day."

Pei Yan pondered: "Your Majesty, don't get too close. The Empress Dowager Zhang asked your mother to have a talk with her earlier, and your mother has gone to other places to avoid the limelight in the past few days. What if the Empress Dowager is here today?" Dao's purpose of unmasking the mask may be the desire to regain control of the government, so don't be too anxious to stand in line."

Pei Qinghong nodded again: "My son knows." The courtiers usually only guessed five or six points about the Supreme Emperor's mind. The other emperor did a good job back then, and suddenly abdicated to the current young emperor.That mask has been worn for many years, and now it is about to be taken off again. Maybe the other party has suddenly figured out that he wants to accept the harem and take back the throne.

Back then, there were so many controversies about the reign of the Supreme Emperor. A big reason was that the other party had been unwilling to marry a concubine and had no intention of adopting the wishes of other royal families. It was very important for the emperor to have no successor.The courtiers tried desperately to fill the Supreme Emperor's palace with women, but none of them succeeded. They also executed many unlucky maids who said something wrong or tried to climb into bed. Tai Shulan might abdicate because he thought the courtiers were too annoying.

"Your Majesty is thinking of taking off the mask. Could it be that he has someone he likes?" Pei Qinghong raised this conjecture, but it was also difficult for him to imagine what kind of woman fell into the eyes of the Supreme Emperor. After all, there are so many eyes staring at him, the Supreme Emperor If there is really a plan to marry a concubine, there will be more or less news, and there is not much basis for guessing.

Pei Yan shook his head: "This may be relatively small. Judging from the performance of the emperor and the queen mother, there are no unfamiliar women around the emperor. If this is the case, he should have established a concubine first, instead of telling us a statement. The son is going to pick up the imperial decree."

"Did the father ever see the appearance of the Supreme Emperor?" Pei Qinghong was a little curious about this. He had been an official for six years, and it was only six years since the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne and abdicated. The other party had been wearing a mask when he was on the throne. It is also rumored among the people that the Supreme Emperor was born wearing a mask, but according to what Pei Qinghong knew, ten years ago, when the other party was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, he did not have that strange white jade mask on his face.

Pei Yan has been an official for fifteen years. Ten years ago, he climbed to the position where he could go to the Jinluan Hall to meet the emperor. He should have seen the Supreme Emperor. However, no one mentioned the Supreme Emperor's mask, and Pei Qinghong never asked about it.

Faced with the anticipation on his second son's face, Pei Yan shook his head in embarrassment: "At that time, the Supreme Emperor was still the second prince, and there were no rumors of him wearing a mask in the palace, but my father had never seen his real face. Rong." At that time, the second prince's sense of existence was too low, and it was said that he was the child of a court lady, his appearance was not particularly outstanding, and he was not favored by Emperor Jianlong at that time, so he had no chance to meet the second prince. Later Tai Shulan appeared in front of people, who was already wearing a strange mask.

When he and Lan Min were having dinner in the room, Pei Qinghong was still thinking about the Supreme Emperor and his mask.Although he was single-minded, he still ate much faster than the other party. When he was waiting for his meal to finish, he watched Lan Min bring up the matter of the Supreme Emperor again, and used his chopsticks to pick from the belly of the delicious peach blossom mandarin fish. A piece of snow-white fish came out and put it in the other party's bowl: "Has Zijue heard about my courtship?" He doesn't like fish very much, but he has a mother who likes fish. relatively understandable.

Lan Min's hand holding the chopsticks paused, and said, "Why did Mu Zhi ask this?" Then he picked out the few thorns on the fish meat with concentration, and put the delicious fish meat that was so tender that it melted in the mouth. When he chewed it carefully, he looked elegant and refined when he ate, but the speed was not particularly slow, and he looked like a real nobleman.

Pei Qinghong didn't think much about it, the Lan family was very particular about eating well, and it's not surprising that they could cultivate such a handsome nobleman.

He put the chopsticks with the vegetables in the evening, and propped his chin in fists to explain: "It's nothing, it's just that the Supreme Emperor has been wearing a mask for a long time, and today he issued an imperial decree saying that he will take off the mask. I want to ask what kind of appearance Mu Zhi thinks is under the mask."

"It should be very handsome." After chewing the fish, Lan Min said this. No matter whether it is Lan Min or the status of the Supreme Emperor, he has always been stingy with praise, but he still spares no effort to praise himself, let alone what he said is the truth. His face was indeed very handsome, with eyebrows flying into his temples, and his face was handsome and handsome.

"Why do you think so?" Pei Qinghong was a little surprised. It was rumored among the people that the Supreme Emperor was so ugly that he covered his face. If he was really handsome, there was no need to wear a mask.Even if his appearance is really shocking, it is even more necessary to take off the mask. According to his ability and status, no one would dare to attack him.

"It's nothing, it's just intuition." Lan Min replied without saying anything more. He didn't want to talk to Pei Qinghong about many palace secrets. It was impossible and unnecessary to talk to him in this capacity.

Pei Qinghong didn't ask any more questions. He had just thought of it temporarily, and he didn't insist on getting an answer from the other party.The atmosphere here is harmonious, but the secret room in another part of the mansion is gloomy and tense.

The several masters of Pei's mansion all occupy their own courtyards, and what Pei Qinghong can manage is his own courtyard, and there are some secret rooms in the mansion that he does not know about.If he could see the scene of his father's secret room, he would be amazed at the hidden secrets in his mansion.

Pei Yan's personal study room didn't have many things, and the beam design was unique. There was basically no place for a gentleman to hide on the beam. After locking the door, he checked the room again, and then dragged the big wooden box under the bed in his bedroom. come out.

This bedroom was fully cleaned yesterday, so there is no need to worry about the traces of the wooden box revealing this secret room.He took out the jewelry box from the box, opened it with the jade pendant hanging on his body, took out a key with a strange shape inside, moved an inkstone on the table to a special position with one hand, and then put the The third brick in front of the bookshelf in the room was removed, and the strange-looking key was inserted in, and the door of the dark room opened quietly.

Taking a luminous pearl lotus lantern bestowed by the emperor and a sharpened knife, Pei Yan walked down the long tunnel entrance. He walked down the long, dark and narrow tunnel entrance for an unknown amount of time. , the line of sight gradually widened, and there was a brightly lit palace in front of him, but looking carefully, there was no open flame, and the lamp sockets were all inlaid with night pearls of various sizes, and the torch was also made of gold, but some fluorescent substances were smeared on it.

No matter the decoration or the style, they were all preferred by the royal family of the former dynasty. The incense burner in the corner also burned incense, which was the favorite of the royal family and nobles of the former dynasty.This small palace is not very popular except for these cold valuables. On the half-person-high jade table, there is an auspicious beast carved from white jade. Beard, the face is not very majestic, but the black eyes are carved with obsidian, and there is a little red between the eyebrows. It looks like Bai Lin, the auspicious beast who protected the former royal family.

Pei Yan stared at the appearance of the jade carving for a while, and the curtain made of pearls was pulled up by a hand. The skin exposed by that hand was an extremely healthy wheat color, and the young voice made Pei Yan stunned. Zhong called back: "You are here."