Chapter 506: Asking for Marriage
Fortunately, the second prince and Xue Wanqing did not stay for long, and after saying a few words, the two returned from the same way.
He Linwan and Li Yu waited for them to leave before they came out of hiding.
"How is this second prince a person?" He Linwan asked.
Li Yu thought for a while, "He has a relatively gentle temperament, he used to be very quiet in the palace without fighting or grabbing, and his sense of presence is the smallest among the princes." After he was born, His Majesty didn't pay attention to him, and the people in the harem took even more neglect of him after his biological mother's death, and no one knew that he had a high fever once, or a little palace maid found out and begged the queen, and the queen sent a doctor to cure him, and since then he will secretly take care of him from time to time. ”
He Linwan smiled mockingly, "The queen mother naturally doesn't dare to take care of him openly, in case he is thought to be the prince raised under the queen's knees, his situation will only be more dangerous." ”
Li Yu nodded, "He respects the queen very much, he rarely enters the palace on weekdays, and every time he enters the palace, he is to greet the queen." ”
He Linwan and Li Yu didn't stay long, chatted a few words and left the second prince in the small bamboo forest.
During the day on the second day, when He Linwan saw Xue Wanqing, he couldn't help but look at her a few more times, but he didn't see anything, Xue Wanqing had the same aura as usual, and he didn't know if it was because he was covering up his kung fu or because he didn't care so much about the second prince.
However, He Linwan was not very interested in other people's private affairs, and he didn't pay much attention to them after that.
At the same time, Jialan, who has been searching for which princess is the most favored in the past few days, but to no avail, is offering advice to him.
"Your Highness, my subordinates have a clever plan to find out which of the two princesses has a more noble status. ”
Jialan, who had just been able to get out of bed and walk around, immediately became interested, "Oh, let's talk about it!"
The subordinate said: "Your Royal Highness may wish to give a few meeting gifts to the ladies and princesses of the harem of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this meeting gift, there are valuable and not so valuable, these ladies and princesses are usually difficult to distinguish between high and low status, but the expensive gifts will eventually fall into the hands of the favored people, I heard that this is the customary rule of their nobles in the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
Jialan stroked her palm after listening, "Wonderful! If this plan is useful, this king will be rewarded!"
The subordinate thanked him happily, thinking that thanks to the fact that he had accidentally heard the news from the mouths of the two guards, otherwise he would not have had the opportunity to receive His Highness's reward.
So on the second day, Jialan sent a box of jade jewelry to the harem to all the high-ranking ladies and two princesses, saying that his injury had been cured, and thanked Da Zhou for taking care of him during the time he was injured. A few years ago, the Daji Kingdom defeated a tribe, and the place where this tribe is located specializes in beautiful jade, so they lack gold, silver, iron, and good jade, these gifts seem to be valuable, but they are nothing to Jialan.
To the queen and the palace ladies are a pair of bracelets, the color of the bracelets are very good, even if the palace concubines who are accustomed to seeing luxurious jewelry are very happy to get gifts, two of them have the best color of the bracelets, the queen got a pair, and the other pair was given to Concubine Ande, in fact, the concubine is qualified to compete with Concubine Ande, but she has always shown people with a simple image, if it is something else, she may have to fight for face, but even if the jewelry wins, it is not beneficial to her reputation for virtue, so the concubine Xian let it out without thinking about it.
The gift to the two adult princesses is two jade crowns suitable for unmarried daughters, these two jade crowns are very delicate workmanship, and the materials are also very exquisite, but if you put them together and compare them carefully, one of them looks very crystal clear in the sun, the jade material is like flowing water, without a trace of impurities, and the jade material of the two pairs of bracelets obtained by the queen and the concubine is on a par with the jade, which is the best of the best.
Chunyang and Huyang are used to seeing good things, and they both like this lotus jade crown very much, and both of them want it.
Huyang first said to the queen: "Queen Mother, my newly made skirt is the most suitable for this jade crown, so you can reward it to Huyang." ”
Chunyang couldn't allow Huyang to climb on her head before, and now it was when she didn't like Huyang, how could she give her things, and immediately sneered: "Queen Mother, I also like this jade crown, you can reward it to me." ”
The queen frowned, looked at Huyang, and then at Chunyang, but did not speak. These two people have been fighting for everything recently, and the queen has a headache.
Huyang said angrily: "I took a fancy to it first." ”
Chunyang didn't let in the slightest, "I'm my sister, so I should pick first." ”
The queen looked at Concubine De and Concubine Xian, Concubine De lowered her head and drank tea, as if it was none of her business, Concubine Xian frowned, but still shouted Huyang.
"Huyang, it's just a jade crown, why not give it to Chunyang?"
Or that sentence, what Concubine Xian cares about most is her name, and she lets out this kind of irrelevant things such as clothes and jewelry on weekdays, in order to gain a good reputation, of course, she will not let anything other than clothes and jewelry.
Huyang glanced at Concubine Xian with some grievances, and looked at Concubine Shang Xian with some sternness, she pouted and turned her head and stopped talking.
Chunyang glanced at Huyang proudly, and motioned to her maid to put away the jade crown, because she was in a good mood after winning Huyang again.
He Linwan also heard about Jialan's gift to the harem, and listened to Mu Lanping say that Chunyang deliberately wore a new dress and brought the jade crown to show off in front of Huyang, which made Huyang angry and cried, but He Linwan couldn't help laughing.
Jialan, who got the result she wanted, also smiled and generously rewarded the subordinate who offered the plan.
On the second day, Jialan dragged his unhealed body and personally wrote a long letter of asking for relatives and handed it to Emperor Tiancheng, Jialan described in a very sincere tone that he fell in love with a princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty at first sight, thought about it day and night, and did not marry the affectionate friendship, begging Emperor Tiancheng to marry this princess to him, he will cherish it, and will do his best for the friendship between the two countries all his life.
Who is this princess who fascinates Jialan? Of course, it is Princess Chunyang.
The courtiers couldn't say anything against Jialan's sincere excerpt, although the poems quoted by the envoy of the Great Ji Kingdom on the excerpt were a bit nondescript, but it was good to have the intention to arrive, and they couldn't be too demanding of a foreigner.
Anyway, for most of the courtiers, the marriage is irreversible, and it doesn't matter to them which princess they marry, Jialan herself fell in love with Princess Chunyang, isn't it just right? As for where Jialan saw Princess Chunyang, how did it come so quickly to the point where Feiqing would not marry, and the courtiers turned a blind eye.
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