Princess, he is rich enough to rival the country

For Qin Lu and Gu Yanshu, the imperial edict of the emperor's summoning actually came quite suddenly.

After all, it is not difficult to see from the emperor's performance these days that the emperor has been putting pressure on Prince Li's mansion, hoping that Qin Lu can compromise.

That appearance, it seems that Qin Lu will not bow his head, and never even think about stepping into the palace in this life.

Who knew that the emperor came to summon him before Qin Lu gave any response?

Even though he was surprised, in the end Qin Lu still followed the emperor's wishes and went to the palace with the people who came to deliver the decree.

Gu Yanshu found that the one who came to pass the decree this time did not seem to be the prince, nor the father-in-law who often came to the mansion to pass the message.

"That's Eunuch Liu in the imperial concubine's palace."

Xingren could see the doubts in Gu Yanshu's heart almost at a glance.

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Gu Yanshu's expression, and did not forget to add a sentence:

"Your subordinates have checked it out. Eunuch Liu came here with His Majesty's written order."

If it weren't for this, Xing Ren wouldn't go to pass the pass.

As soon as Xingren's words fell, Gu Yanshu's eyes flashed a flash of understanding:

To say that Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu have been married for some time, but Gu Yanshu still doesn't know much about Qin Lu's nominal mother and concubine.

Of course there is a reason why Gu Yanshu doesn't like to go to the palace to pay his respects, but it is also related to the attitude of Qin Lu and the imperial concubine.

When he married Qin Lu and went to the palace to pay his respects, Gu Yanshu discovered that the relationship between Xiao Lu and the imperial concubine was very mediocre.

Although Xiao Lu respects the imperial concubine, he is not close to her.

At that time, Gu Yanshu thought that he didn't know Qin Lu well enough, so he had a wrong understanding.

But after this period of time, Gu Yanshu found that the relationship between his Xiaolu and the imperial concubine was more indifferent than what he saw at the beginning.

Now Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu have been married for more than half a year, and it will be a full year soon.

However, usually, Gu Yanshu seldom heard his Xiao Lu mention all kinds of things about the imperial concubine.

If it is not mentioned on weekdays, perhaps it can be explained by Qin Lu's indifferent and indifferent personality.

But in the past, every time Gu Yanshu fiddled with something new and asked Qin Lu to send it to the palace, he would ask him to bring a copy to the imperial concubine.

Under normal circumstances, Qin Lu would always mention a few words when he came back.

For example, after sending it to the imperial study, Qin Lu would say a few words to his concubine when he came back, saying that his father liked it very much, and he was full of praise for it.

Occasionally, when the interest comes, I will describe in detail the reaction of the emperor at that time with Gu Yanshu.

For example, when the telescope was sent to the palace, the emperor couldn't wait to get the telescope.

Regardless of status, I want to try the following expressions immediately.

However, when it came to the imperial concubine, Qin Lu seemed speechless.

At most, at the end of the talk, bring a sentence "Mother and the concubine in the palace are very satisfied", no more, there will be nothing.

It seems that the imperial concubine was slaughtered in Qin Dynasty, and she is no different from other concubines in the harem.

On the contrary, Qin Lu's biological mother, Imperial Concubine Xianjing, was mentioned by Qin Lu even more times.

When Qin Lu talked about the demure imperial concubine, his tone would be much softer.

That attitude is completely different from when he mentioned the imperial concubine in the palace.

As time passed, no matter how slow Gu Yanshu was, he could feel Qin Lu's indifference towards the imperial concubine, the nominal mother.

Not to mention that Gu Yanshu is a very sensitive person.

Gu Yanshu presumably is a helper who does not help relatives. After realizing this, Gu Yanshu no longer mentioned anything about the imperial concubine in front of Qin Lu.

Even if you want to send things into the palace, you will not put the imperial concubine's share with the emperor's share separately and hand it over to Qin Lu, as it did at the beginning, but put it in the rest of the harem. Among the gifts of the empress.

Gu Yanshu can still understand if his Xiaolu has a cold feeling towards the imperial concubine.

After all, Qin Lu was originally a person who was very emotionally slow and did not show his emotions.

If Gu Yanshu and Qin Lu hadn't been thick-skinned after they got married, they would have pulled people straight to home plate on the first day.

Later, in order to close the relationship with his own deer, he didn't mind his cold face at all, and made a lot of efforts.

Such as daily heart-to-heart talks.

Another example is that occasionally you insist on saying that you can't solve something that can be solved, and then ask your own Xiaolu for help.

After the end, if you praise your own Xiaolu so much that you can satisfy the machismo in his heart, etc., there will be no connection between him and Xiaolu today.

But the imperial concubine's attitude towards Qin Lu made Gu Yanshu feel a little confused.

Because the imperial concubine's attitude towards Qin Lu was even colder than Qin Lu's attitude towards her.

Before Gu Yanshu returned to Beijing from Yizhou, he had never received any news from the imperial concubine in the palace.

Even the fifth prince, Qin Hao, whose birth mother's status is not high, and has only obtained a concubine in the palace so far, Gu Yanshu can occasionally hear a few words from him.

For example, "Today, a mother concubine asked my younger brother to go there, and she talked about my younger brother for a long time, and everyone who listened to it hurts in the head."

Another example is something like "This year, Longjing is good, and the output is sufficient. Even the younger brother and the mother concubine got some, but the mother and the concubine didn't like it, so they gave it all to the younger brother. No, the younger brother wanted to give it to the emperor." Brother and sister-in-law also sent some."

Another example is "It's a good chance that my brother escapes fast enough, otherwise he will definitely be caught by the mother and concubine and taken to her palace to listen to his chanting!"

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When mentioning his mother and concubine, although the fifth prince complained mostly, he couldn't hide the intimacy in his tone.

Gu Yanshu could tell from just a few words in it that the fifth prince's mother and concubine would send letters to the fifth prince's mansion from time to time, asking him to go to the palace to meet with him.

Even if the fifth prince would refuse occasionally, he would still send someone from the palace to the fifth prince's residence from time to time.

Or some rewards or clothes from the emperor.

Although they are not expensive items, they are also a wish from my mother.

But for so long, Gu Yanshu was in Prince Li's mansion, but he never heard the letter from the imperial concubine from the palace, let alone a gift.

Apart from……

Qin Lu returned to Beijing from Yizhou, annoyed the emperor these days.

Ever since the news of Qin Lu talking with the emperor in the royal study that day came out, the imperial concubine seemed to have instantly remembered that she had Qin Lu, her son in name, under her knees, and she would always send a letter every day Come up to Prince Li's mansion.

In the beginning, Gu Yanshu didn't even know about it, until one day, when Gu Yan ran out of ink on his desk and was too lazy to let Xingren take it, he thought about going to Qin Lu's desk and using Qin Lu's.

As a result, as soon as he went there, he saw the letter from the imperial concubine, which was placed by Qin Lu's desk.

Gu Yanshu didn't have the habit of checking Qin Lu's letters in the first place, who knew it was such an unfortunate coincidence.

Gu Yanshu originally wanted to move the positions of those letters, but when he held them, he couldn't hold them firmly, and some of the letter papers fell out of the envelope.

Tianqi used a writing brush to write letters, and the writing brush was big, and the study rooms in Prince Li's mansion were all made of glass windows, so there was plenty of light.

In the process of picking up the letter paper, Gu Yanshu could see the content on it almost without looking at it deliberately.

I don't know if I don't read it, but I was shocked when I saw Gu Yanshu.

Scanning the past, the contents of the several pieces of letter paper are almost the same.

Persuade Qin Lu to bow his head to the emperor.

Gu Yanshu almost memorized all the words in it.

There is no overnight feud between father and son.

Why is the emperor's attitude so clear, let Qin Lu not lose the big because of small things.

What else makes Qin Lu not ignorant of flattery.

There were still a few sentences in it, which almost made Gu Yanshu laugh angrily.

What did you say that Qin Lu married him in the first place, but it was for the purpose of breaking his fate.

After his fate was broken, he shouldn't be kept anymore, but seeing that Qin Lu liked him, she didn't say anything.

Now seeing Qin Lu disregarding the overall situation for such a thing, she was very disappointed in Qin Lu.

What else is the right way to reconcile the yin and yang between men and women, and how can they last long with men?

Now that Qin Lu is so emotionally confused, he will definitely regret it in the future.

In those words, it is almost impossible to write Gu Yan as a chaotic enchantress who harms the country and the people and confuses people's hearts.

That is to say, Gu Yanshu knows his Xiaolu's temperament, so he will definitely not pay attention to the words of the imperial concubine. Regarding these letters, just read and pass, otherwise he will have to go to the palace to have a good fight with the imperial concubine.

That person had been invisible before, and it was all just as if he didn't have his own son Xiaolu. Now when the emperor heard that the emperor wanted to make his own Xiaolu the crown prince, he started to point fingers?

It was also at this time that Qin Lu returned to the study, and when he saw Gu Yanshu's actions, he knew the cause and effect of it.

I was afraid that my family would be angry because of the words of the imperial concubine, and I would be subdued for a while.

That is to say, the imperial concubine couldn't see Qin Lu's reaction, if she saw it, she might be so angry that she would fall on her back.

Later, the imperial concubine still did not give up sending letters to Prince Li's mansion every day, but Qin Lu almost didn't even look at it, so he asked someone to deliver the letter to Gu Yanshu.

Said to let him handle it.

Qin Lu didn't look at it, but Gu Yanshu occasionally took a look.

While relaxing, I was also afraid that the imperial concubine had something important to do.

Who knew that these days, the letters of the imperial concubine would be filled with such words over and over again.

Persuade Qin Lu to be soft and focus on the overall situation.

He also said that in the future, holding the country in his hand, what kind of beauties he likes can't be obtained?Why did you hang yourself on the tree with your neck twisted at that moment of Gu Yanshu?

Now the emperor summoned Qin Lu to enter the palace and did not let his father-in-law pass the news. Instead, he let Liu Gonggong from the imperial concubine's palace come, presumably because he knew the attitude of the imperial concubine.

Do you want Eunuch Liu to persuade your little deer again?

It has to be said that Gu Yanshu has indeed grasped the thoughts in the emperor's mind thoroughly.

As Gu Yanshu thought, the emperor sent Eunuch Liu to persuade Qin Lu.

In the emperor's heart, Qin Lu was able to soar into the sky at the beginning because he was selected by the imperial concubine at a glance and took it under his knees.

Even if Qin Lu is not close to the imperial concubine, he will definitely obey her words.

Now it is very appropriate to send someone from the imperial concubine to do ideological work for Qin Lu.

However, there is a saying that it is beautiful to think about it, but the reality is cruel.

On the way to the palace, Eunuch Liu was really trying to do ideological work for Qin Lu.

In the end, Qin Lu did not hear a word.

In the end, seeing that Eunuch Liu was really noisy, he simply said, "If you talk nonsense, I will make you speechless in the future!"

When he said this, Qin Lu's tone was very flat, but the threat and seriousness in his words made Eunuch Liu dare not ignore it.

Having been by the imperial concubine's side for many years, Eunuch Liu naturally knows that King Li will do what he says.

Immediately, he didn't dare to show any air, and immediately closed his mouth, as quiet as a quail.

The emperor's plan fell through.

It is said that knowing a son is like a father, when Qin Lu came to the imperial study, the emperor saw Qin Lu's expression, what else did he not understand?

While cursing Eunuch Liu in his heart for being useless, he could only pretend that he didn't notice anything, and chatted with Qin Lu about things.

The emperor's idea is also very good. First, he had a heart-to-heart talk with Qin Lu to arouse the father-son relationship between the two fathers and sons.

After the atmosphere and emotions are in place, he will be moved by Qin Lu with affection and reason.

When the time comes to persuade Qin Lu to compromise, the two each take a step back.

He will no longer force Qin Lu to accept his side concubine, and Qin Lu will not kill him and have no heirs.

He gave Qin Lu a woman from a humble family background, and let Qin Lu leave an heir. At that time, he would leave his mother and keep his son, which would not be considered as destroying the wish between him and Gu Yanshu to be a couple for life.

If Gu Yanshu still minds this, then he will declare to the public that the child conceived by the woman is the son of the clan, and there will always be no mistakes.

Who knew that Qin Lu didn't like the emperor at all, he just took a look at the emperor who wanted to talk to him, and said straight to the point:

"I don't know what the father and the emperor called the children and ministers here today?"

After finishing speaking, I didn't even forget to add a sentence:

"My son never regrets his choice. It was the same in the past, it is the same now, and it will be the same in the future."

The meaning of the words is very obvious:

If it's the same as last time, ask the side concubine and the heirs, it's better to wash up and go to bed early, I said no, just don't!

With such a resolute attitude, it almost didn't mean that the emperor was overwhelmed with anger.

But in the end it was his son, or even his most promising son, the emperor calmed down his emotions and began to follow the procedure he had set at the beginning.

First, he talked to Qin Lu about the eldest prince and Duke Ning's mansion.

After Ningguo's mansion was ransacked, the lineage of the eldest prince and the imperial concubine seemed to be completely silent, and there was no more movement.

He also talked about the second prince and the fourth prince.

Among the emperor's sons, the second prince had the lowest sense of existence and the most mediocre talent.

The second prince's talent, to say that he is mediocre, is already a bit polite. If he hadn't cared about being his own son, the emperor would even have said something stupid.

Don't say anything else, just talk about the snow disaster in Shaocheng last time.

The people were already dissatisfied with the negligence of the government. After the second prince left, he did not care about the feelings of the people and took the people into custody. It is simply ignorant!

Since then, the emperor has disliked this son in his heart.

After all, in the emperor's heart, people can be stupid, but since they know they are stupid, they should talk less, watch more and do less.

You can never go wrong by following in the footsteps of others.

It's just that the second prince is stupid, and he likes to make his own opinions, how does the emperor like it?

Besides the second prince, there is the fourth prince.

The emperor could see that his fourth son was indeed better than his elder son.

After all, a person's talent and intelligence, even if the master tries hard to hide his clumsiness, can rarely be hidden from the emperor's eyes.

Even abandoning Qin Lu's achievements in the frontier, the fourth prince is even better than Qin Lu.

However, if the emperor had to choose, between the eldest prince and the fourth prince, the emperor would even choose the eldest prince.

The emperor didn't elaborate on the reason, but only said "the fourth child... his heart is too hard".

Although Qin Lu didn't understand what the phrase "the heart is too hard" meant, he didn't even understand why his father rejected the fourth child because of this reason.

After all, Qin Lu had heard his own Ruanruan mention it a few times, and from his Ruanruan's words, this hard-heartedness should be counted as an advantage of a king.

However, after seeing the emperor's expression at this moment, Qin Lu knew that the emperor didn't want to say anything about the fourth prince, so he didn't ask any more.

At the end, the emperor talked about the fifth prince.

To say that among the emperor's adult sons, the fifth prince is probably the one who is most similar to him.

No matter in terms of talent or knowledge, he is not as good as his elder brothers, but he is not a fool, and he is a little clever.

If Tianqi was in a peaceful and prosperous age, it would be a good choice to have a prince like the Fifth Prince.

But unfortunately, Tian Qi is not.

It is not that Tianqi is not in a peaceful and prosperous age, and now it is even a waste of time.

No matter whether it is for public or private purposes, or for the five princes, the emperor does not want to entrust this burden to the five princes.

It would be a good thing for him to appoint the fifth prince as the heir, if he had a lighter sense of responsibility, at least it would be easy.

But Yu Tianqi is not a good thing. If the king's sense of responsibility is lightened, the people will definitely suffer.

But if the sense of responsibility in his heart is a little stronger, the common people will be well, but the fifth prince will not be well.

The emperor himself was judged as "mediocre". After more than [-] years in power, no one understood the hurt of these two words better than him.

In this regard, the emperor only said, "Although you and I are monarchs and ministers, we are also father and son. I also have a heart to love my son. The road is difficult. I have suffered so much, so naturally I don't want my son to suffer again. "

Not to mention other than that, the fifth prince had no intention of succeeding to the throne at all. As soon as the grown-up princes finished speaking, Qin Lu immediately understood what the emperor meant to him:

Wanting to appoint him as the reserve is not only because he is suitable, but also because now, Qin is the only choice for the emperor and Tianqi.

Even Qin Lu fell into a long silence after hearing these words.

However, it is one thing to understand some truths in your heart, and another thing to practice them.

In the end, Qin Lu only said one sentence to the emperor:

"The concubine has a deep affection for my son and minister. Without the concubine, there would be no son and minister today. My son is unwilling to do anything wrong to the princess."

At this time, Qin Lu's attitude had softened somewhat.

How could the emperor fail to see this?

Even if he couldn't hold back, he immediately hit the snake with the stick:

"Some things, there's not a way to have the best of both worlds."

After finishing speaking, the emperor didn't even think about it, so he expressed his thoughts about leaving his mother and keeping his son.

The emperor thought very well in his heart, and he didn't know that this plan directly hit Qin Lu's wooden cangkou.

What is the difference between the emperor's proposal and what Li Mingpeng did back then?

This kind of idea of ​​leaving the mother and keeping the child from the beginning is even worse than Li Mingpeng.

At this moment, Qin Lu could even clearly remember the disgust in his soft eyes when he heard Zhi Ge's report about what Li Mingpeng had done.

The kind of disdain for people like Li Mingpeng emanating from the bottom of my heart.

Qin Lu was even sure that if he dared to nod at this moment and follow the emperor's plan, the consequences would be even more serious than if he wanted to take a concubine.

Immediately, Qin Lu's attitude that had just softened had a new change, and the way he looked at the emperor also gradually changed.

But at this moment, Gu Yanshu is completely unaware of the conversation between the emperor and his own deer.

After sending Qin Lu out of the mansion, Gu Yanshu turned his head and went back to his room, and began to look at the account books of these days.

Now it has entered autumn, although the autumn tiger is still grinding people, but compared with the previous days, the sun is much cooler.

Businesses such as department stores are still booming, but the income from "refreshing" is much less.

If it was in the past, Gu Yanshu would definitely not have cared about it.

But now...

Thinking of the two mountains that prevented him and his own deer from running towards the road to freedom, Gu Yanshu immediately thought about ways to make money again in his mind.

Now that the weather is getting colder, the income from refreshing will definitely decrease day by day. If this is the case, then you have to quit the new product!

It's like refreshing a particularly hot milk tea, which can be made not only as an iced drink, but also as a hot drink.

At that time, hot milk tea will be launched, and in conjunction with the marketing plan of "the first cup of milk tea in autumn", which was once popular in later generations, it will be another wave of refreshment.

In addition, in later generations, the most popular food for foodies in winter should be hot pot!

Although Gu Yanshu eats relatively light food on weekdays, when it comes to hot pot, Gu Yanshu is a real red pot party.

Think of the red chili pepper, spicy red oil, boiling hot pot, topped with sliced ​​meat, hairy tripe, shrimp slippery, etc., dip it in a bowl of oil...

Thinking about it, Gu Yanshu felt that the saliva in his mouth seemed to be unable to contain it.

But if Gu Yanshu wants to quit the hot pot, the biggest problem facing Gu Yanshu now is the pepper.

Correct.

So far, Gu Yanshu has not seen chili peppers in Tianqi.

Occasionally there are some spicy dishes, in which there is also a seasoning called "red fruit".

Although this red fruit also has a spicy taste, it is not as pure as chili.

And besides the spicy taste, the red fruit also has a bit of pungent, bitter and astringent taste. Generally speaking, it is not delicious.

It is also because of this that Gu Yanshu has been in Tianqi for so long, but he has not been able to eat a meal of red and spicy hot pot that satisfies him.

They also sent people to other countries and went to sea to search, but so far, they still haven't gained much.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanshu thought that the last time he sent people to sea was before he left Beijing.

Calculating the time, these people should be returning to Beijing soon.

I don't know if these people can bring him some surprises this time?

As the saying goes, Cao Cao will arrive as soon as Cao Cao, and when Gu Yanshu was thinking this way, Xingren walked in from the door, and told Gu Yanshu in a low voice:

"Your Highness, the team you sent out a few days ago has returned. It is said that among the items brought back this time, some items were specially ordered by the princess."

"What kind?"

Gu Yanshu thought about the several objects that he had specially confessed to the underground people, but they were all rare objects!

Even if he finds one kind, it is already a rare harvest, but now Xingren told him that there are several kinds?

Thinking of this, Gu Yanshu couldn't sit still, and quickly stood up from his seat.

"The subordinates are not too clear about it. They can only see some red and white fruits, which look a little strange."

Just when Gu Yanshu got up, Xingren also gave Gu Yanshu an answer.

Xingren just took a look at the picture album that Gu Yanshu handed over to the people who went to sea, but he didn't know exactly what was on it.

Now seeing the objects brought back by the people below, apart from the color, naturally I can't tell why.

But he didn't know that his words had revealed too much information to Gu Yanshu.

Red!

White!

Gu Yanshu suddenly had a guess in his mind, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes:

If it were really the two things he was thinking about at the moment, Gu Yanshu would have even seen a steady stream of money rushing towards him.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanshu's pace immediately accelerated a little, and after a while, he came to the front hall of the palace.