22. Chapter 22

Princess Chaoyang's age is not young, even though the royal princess has always married late, but after getting engaged, there must always be a year and a half of preparation time, the princess is no better than others, and the favored ones can also have a princess's mansion, which must be prepared in advance after the wedding date is set.

Therefore, the marriage of Princess Chaoyang was settled five days after the Qionglin banquet.

This time, he was also a young talent, and he was also a new jinshi who had attended this batch of Qionglin banquets, but he was not the top three as obvious as the top three on the top list, but the second son of a noble family who was slightly lower in the ranking.

"The noble family, the second son, can be admitted to the Jinshi by himself, and he can be regarded as capable. After hearing this, Princess Chaoyang commented on this marriage.

"I haven't heard of this Hu Weizhang's name, on the day of the Qionglin banquet, did my sister notice it?" Li Zhe thought carefully, a Qionglin banquet, he didn't even remember what the emperor said, he just knew that he was staring at Chaoyang and the Tanhualang. The others, with the same background board, He Zeng was really looked at by him, and he couldn't remember this tall and short, fat and thin person.

Princess Chaoyang shook her head, she was holding a long-handled palace fan in her hand, and she covered half of her face with a fan when she raised her hand slightly. - My father may give me a princess's mansion, so I am not afraid that I will not have a place to live, and everything else is the same. ”

Li Zhe raised his eyes, and through the palace fan, he could only see that Princess Chaoyang's eyelashes drooped, and there was no other expression, as if he had already accepted his fate.

Before he could say something about the atmosphere that had fallen silent for no reason, Princess Chaoyang took down her fan again and showed a bright smile: "Don't think so much, you are still young, why worry about this-I'm afraid that in the future, I will see less." ”

"How to ......" Li Zhe was about to refute, thinking that this "later" was after getting married, he swallowed the second half of the sentence, Chaoyang and his age, he should have avoided suspicion a long time ago, but the top people all got along well, just as they were relatives, don't say such things, but in fact, according to the ancient practice of kissing and kissing, they are not unable to get married.

Such a melon field and plum, after the morning sun gets married, naturally they can't see each other often. - Thinking of this, Li Zhe's excitement is about to fall a little, and the joy of finally changing the plot is gone, and he is a little more stunned.

So far, in addition to the princess, Princess Chaoyang is the most communicative with him, he knows her thoughts, understands her cleverness, and appreciates her broad-mindedness, when he thinks that she will marry someone in the future, she will be the caged bird that is unsightly for the rest of her life, and use all her intelligence and dexterity in the struggle between wives and concubines, he feels sad, and he really can't laugh.

"I can't say 'congratulations'. After a hasty farewell, Li Zhe strode away, startling the palace maid who had just come in with a plate of fruit, and muttered: "What's wrong, why did you leave now?"

"It's all too big, so it's going to be farther away. Princess Chaoyang said softly, looking at the sky, white clouds, it was a good weather, "It's getting cooler, this fan, take it." ”

The palace maid stepped forward and picked up the fan that the princess put down, and secretly wondered why the princess was unhappy when the marriage was decided?

In the past few months, Li Zhe has been very familiar with the road in the palace, and he strode straight away, wanting to leave the palace directly, but halfway through it, he remembered that it would be a little inappropriate to go out like this, and then he would turn around.

Would a character like Princess Chaoyang die like that? So, what happened where the plot didn't say it?

Li Zhe couldn't figure it out, and turned back to the Empress Dowager's palace with some irritation, and it happened that the emperor was also there, and the queen took a group of concubines and concubines to make various appearances, but no one noticed him absent-mindedly for a while.

After returning home, the eldest princess called him over and asked, "What's wrong with you? Unhappy? Isn't it because you don't want Chaoyang to marry someone else at this time?"

The eldest princess has always felt that her son and Chaoyang are all about the feelings of her sister and brother, otherwise why don't you see other princesses being put in the eyes of her son, but this stupid boy has always said no, isn't it that he didn't open up before, and now he suddenly understands?

"Mother, what do you think, I don't have it. ”

The eldest princess, who was still thinking about how to make the emperor's holy decree take back, was pulled by Li Zhe before retracting her thoughts, and when she heard this rebuttal, she felt more like a dead duck with a hard mouth, and she didn't say much, it was really too difficult to make this matter too difficult and difficult to operate, so it was better to let him twist his head like this, and when he got married, it would be too late to regret it.

Of course, out of some kind of compensatory thoughts, when Li Zhe left from the eldest princess, he took away a string of beautiful maids that could be called, and got some kind of hint that after the New Year, his age will not be young.

Li Zhe, who was full of worries and couldn't tell, was incompetent in his defense, so he simply didn't say anything, went back and turned his head and began to enjoy calligraphy and painting.

Li Zhe doesn't have such a pure mind, but after holding the Buddha's feet, his calligraphy and painting level has also improved greatly, which also makes his interest even stronger.

At first, I was a little irritable, but when I looked at it, my heart sank into it, and I didn't think about anything else.

Princess Chaoyang's wedding date is set at the beginning of the summer of the following year, and there is more than half a year to prepare, when Li Zhe goes to the palace again, no one directly leads him to play with Chaoyang, and it is different whether he is intimate or not.

Li Zhe just sighed, and he was not interested in cultivating a brother-sister or brother-sister relationship with the emperor's other daughters, the key is that the mothers of those daughters are not fuel-efficient lamps, don't look at the fact that there is no one with a son now, but the forces behind them are really not as simple as Xiang Concubine.

There are no sisters and brothers who can talk and chat, Li Zhe is not at an age that he can't chat with the Queen Mother, it's a grandmother, a full relative, but watching a group of emperors and concubines and the queen perform a family drama, watching it once is enough, and I definitely don't want to watch it a second time.

There is another option, he can go to the emperor, from a certain point of view, this emperor's uncle is really a very interesting person, there is no harm in being closer, and it can be regarded as hugging his thighs.

However, there has long been gossip in private that he may be made the heir by the emperor, if he is too close, wouldn't it prove that there is such a thing?

Li Zhe, who doesn't want to change his mother's surname for the time being, and is not ready to worry about it, said decisively, let's play our own games.

So the next time the eldest princess entered the palace, he took the initiative to say that he would not go.

The eldest princess was afraid that he would be bored at home, so she specially held a banquet when she arrived in early winter, invited some people to come to the house to play, and each family brought the young master and girl out, and all of a sudden, it was like a small blind date.

Actually, that's really how it was spread outside, Li Zhe is two years younger than Princess Chaoyang, and it is legitimate to look at his fiancée at his current age, and it is rare for the eldest princess to hold any banquets, and each family has to be a little careful, and dress up their own girls and bring them out, of course, the young master also has to be brought, first, if it is excellent, let people know, and secondly, let them see if there is a girl who has caught their eye, naturally, just don't rob people with the eldest princess.

Li Zhe has never entered the academy, he has not been too attentive to reading since he was a child, although he is a great Confucian enlightenment, but he has not studied much seriously, and he has not gotten any big Confucian blue eyes to worship him, not even a senior brother, there is no prince in the palace as a companion, and ordinary noble families are not looked down upon by the eldest princess, so they have little contact with each other......

The eldest princess felt that her son had been a little unenergetic recently, so she thought about the trivial matters of life carefully, and really found this loophole, why didn't she find a companion for her son to read at that time?

Mama Qin didn't remind her on the side, where did she not find a companion to read back then, it was clear that she was not satisfied with what she found, and it was not good to force it to be satisfied. Let's take that Hu Weizhang as an example, the second son of a good noble family is not unfavored, why do you have to come here as an errand to accompany the study! If it is a prince and a princess, the son of the princess is naturally not worth it.

In the end, it is better to have a shortage than to be indiscriminate, plus His Royal Highness fishes for three days and dries nets for two days, and he goes to the palace to play at every turn.

The eldest princess didn't care so much, so she quickly brought the family together, and asked her son to find a friend who could talk, so as to save her loneliness.

Hearing the meaning of the eldest princess, Li Zhe supported his forehead a little, he was really confused, he was an otaku in ancient times, he really thought he was alone?

According to the princess's wishes, he bought new clothes, and even the accessories were all replaced with new ones, and he dressed them up in a suit, even if it was not a big red envelope, Li Zhe felt that he was also a display shelf.

The whole event of the banquet is as follows: appear, be pulled out by the princess to appear in front of a group of ladies - exit, lead the young masters to their own garden to hang out, or can also compose a poem or two - and then appear and send off guests.

Completing the whole process is actually not too tiring, what kind of identity does Li Zhe have, all the noble ladies want to call him "Grandpa Guo", he should accompany the guests to follow the young masters, and he can go how he wants, no one dares to urge him if he wants to go, and some people who understand the foundation of their identities and are willing to flatter him, how can they make any sincere friends, but they can just say two words.

I have to say, only in such a position, I found out why flattering villains are easier to be reused, at least people's attitudes are good, the smiling face is there first, it's not that it's unwelcome, the others, even if it's a genius in the world, a cold and arrogant face, who knows if you hate me or hate me or hate me, who is so M to stick it up!

Li Zhe picked the two of them that looked pleasing to the eye, and his attitude was okay to say a few words, knowing the origin of his identity was considered to be an acquaintance, and the others were not forced, he didn't come to expand his social circle, so it was better to think about what to send to Chaoyang to add makeup to Chaoyang when he had this time.