Chapter Seventy-Three: Pen Ppals
This time Zhu Xing did not go and returned, but what made Cheng Qiao depressed was that she still couldn't return to modern times through the guò waterhole. The disappointed expression naturally fell into the eyes of the personal maid, and immediately made up for it: The girl really loves Zhu Gongzi deeply.
Cuiru also cleverly wrote Cheng Qiao's sweetheart in a letter to her mother-in-law, and as soon as her mother-in-law knew, Mrs. Cheng had no secrets to speak of.
After Cheng Qiao was dismissed from the Liu family, Mrs. Cheng pondered looking for a better and more suitable partner for Cheng Qiao, and with Liu Hong's lesson, she was stricter in her control, and she must have seen it in person and felt worthy of her daughter. Guangyuan is so big, and the conditions she put forward are a bit harsh, and she can't find a suitable person for a while. When he was worried, he learned that his daughter already had someone he liked, so he didn't even have the intention of doing business anymore, so he took his servants from Guangyuan to Zhuangzi overnight, intending to give Cheng Qiao a big surprise.
Seeing his mother-in-law who loved him, Cheng Qiao was also very emotional. When she woke up, she was on the boat, for her, she hadn't seen this Mrs. Cheng for a long time, and for a while, her true feelings were revealed, and she actually forgot all about the "Cheng Qiao" little girl running away in a bad mood;
The mother and daughter made love, and in the end, Mrs. Cheng couldn't bear it and asked if her daughter had a sweetheart.
Cheng Qiao was stunned at first, and when she figured out that it was Cuiru's girl who revealed it in her letter to her mother, she glared at her gossip-hearted personal maid fiercely, and then told Mrs. Cheng with tears and laughter that the person referred to in the other party's letter was Zhu Xing.
Waving her hand to let Cuiru and the others retreat, Cheng Qiao's mother and daughter locked themselves in the room and whispered.
"Mother, it's not what Cuiru said at all!Zhu Xing, do you remember? About five or six years ago, when he was only so old, he borrowed a night in our Zhuangzi......" Cheng Qiao explained to her mother while making a gesture with her hand, "Didn't you sue me at that time, his status was noble, maybe the prince of Guangyuanxing?"
After Cheng Qiao's reminder, Mrs. Cheng finally had some impressions of Zhu Xing: "Could it be that the person mentioned in Cuiru's letter is the prince of Xingwang?
"I also happened to save him again......" Cheng Qiao felt that the boat was stuffy on the way back from Guangyuan, so he went to Jiang Xinzhou to rest, and then found that Zhu Xing, who was injured and arrowed, told Mrs. Cheng what happened one by one, "Later, after he recovered from his injuries and returned, the court issued an order for him to succeed to the throne of Xing, but a few days later, the first emperor died." The first emperor did not leave an heir, and the court chose him to succeed him in accordance with the rules of the royal ancestors. Well...... This person has only been gone for a few days, and he may be on the throne when he arrives in the capital in a few days. ”
After listening to it, Mrs. Cheng only felt that the story that happened to her daughter sounded more bizarre, exciting, and inspirational than the drama, and it was not an exciting thing that the future emperor of this dynasty actually lived in his own Zhuangzi. Mrs. Cheng remembered that Cuiru said in the letter that her daughter and this one were in love, and every time she left her daughter, it was like losing her soul, and what was even more rare was that this one was also deeply affectionate to her daughter, and she also proposed to marry her several times.
After the excitement, Mrs. Cheng calmed down and thought about it, Cuiru's girl didn't know Zhu Xing's true identity from beginning to end, just as he was an ordinary rich son, but the other party was the future emperor...... At best, their Cheng family is just a local gentry, where is it qualified to climb to the royal family? Moreover, she only has such a daughter as Cheng Qiao, and she also expects her to leave a descendant for the Cheng family to carry forward the family business, if the daughter enters the palace, won't no one take over the Cheng family's great business? If she takes another 10,000 steps back, she will treat her daughter as a mother in the palace, and according to her temper, where can she stand serving a husband with other women, and the general environment of the palace is not good, and she has to beware of vicious competition from opponents.
Mrs. Cheng felt worried when she thought of these unprovoked reasons, and I have to say that she was a little worried.
Cheng Qiao watched her mother on the side for a while and was happy and worried for a while, but she couldn't guess her thoughts, she just felt that her mother was really thinking too much. took her arm and shook it, and said coquettishly like when she was a child: "Mother, you really misunderstood." Cuiru is nonsense, not at all like she said, in fact, Zhu Xing and I are ordinary best friends......"
Well, it's just a simple good friend, Cheng Qiao emphasized.
Mrs. Cheng glanced at her suspiciously, Cheng Qiao immediately changed her words, stretched out her hand, and used her thumb and index finger to draw a length: "Okay, I saved his life, of course he will be grateful to me, so he may be more ...... to me than a close friend It's a little bit better, but that's a little bit. ”
She was still hard-mouthed.
Mrs. Cheng still stared at her face and didn't speak, and after a long time, Cheng Qiao's heart became a little hairy, and she simply broke the jar and shouted, "Okay, okay." He said that if I couldn't get married, he would marry me. But the premise is that I really can't get married, mother, do you think that no one wants your daughter like this, so you can only beg to marry him......? Besides, he's going to be the emperor, and there will be a shortage of women around him in the future? Then again...... Mother, can you really bear to marry me to the capital? Once you enter the palace, it will be difficult to meet your daughter in the future......"
Cheng Qiao's original intention was to be affectionate and reasonable to Mrs. Cheng, but as soon as her words fell, she was hugged into her arms by Mrs. Cheng with a sad face, "Girl, my mother knows that you are bitter in your heart." Forget about him, no matter how good he is, you and him are not suitable...... Mother will find you a better family than him!"
What do you know...... Cheng Qiao rested her head on Mrs. Cheng's shoulder, no matter how she felt that the style of painting was wrong, it was almost the opposite of what she imagined, and it instantly plunged her into a deep depression.
However, she was not depressed for long, and Zhu Xing had already come to the capital by the way. The new emperor ascended the throne, the world granted amnesty, eliminated corrupt officials, reduced taxes and a series of policies for the benefit of the people, even the Cheng family, who was far away in the town, also felt some benefits brought by the new policy.
Cheng Qiao was still trying to find a way to travel back to modern times, and when he heard the discussions of the stewards in Zhuangzi, he sighed: "Fortunately, it is not crooked, it looks like a Ming Jun, but we still need to make persistent efforts." "Don't become an emperor who ignores the government and indulges in cultivation as the history books say. Of course, the last half of the sentence was said in my heart.
Only then did he swear that he assured Mrs. Cheng that he and Zhu Xing did not have a deep friendship, and within a few days, Cheng Qiao was slapped in the face. Zhu Xing was not afraid of trouble, and sent her a letter from the capital.
In Mrs. Cheng's strange gaze, in the smile of Cuiru's eighth wife, Cheng Qiao opened the envelope and roughly browsed the contents, or just some daily trivialities, and there was no heartfelt affection, or any discordant content.
Cheng Qiao was relieved to read it carefully. Zhu Xing mentioned in the letter what happened after he left the Cheng family, said some interesting things he saw along the way, and talked about some trivial and unpleasant things that happened before he ascended the throne, and complained to her about all kinds of bad things in the capital.
This letter looks like a normal letter to communicate with a friend. Cheng Qiao was still thinking about whether to reply to the letter, and remembered that the other party was an emperor, and even if he wrote a reply, he was afraid that there would be no way to send it to the palace, so he simply forgot about it.
A few days later, Zhu Xing's second letter arrived.
This letter mainly talked about the events after he ascended the throne, and talked about how he fought against those old ministers in the DPRK and China and implemented the new policy. If Zhu Xing was in front of her, he must have begged for praise with a smug face, Cheng Qiao's mind inexplicably flashed this thought, and for a moment, the appearance of Zhu Xing and He Yan actually coincided in her memory.
Belch...... How could Zhu Xing be He Yan! He must have not seen He Yan for too long, so he hallucinated. Cheng Qiao immediately shook his head, put aside the unbelievable thoughts that appeared out of thin air in his heart, and continued to look down, but he said some things in the palace, the queen mother's old lady widow has been bored for a long time and wants to be a matchmaker, he has not yet sat down in this dragon chair, so he stuffed the palace maid into his palace, of course, he confiscated it, the queen mother couldn't make a plan and found a girl Zhang to come over, it seems that she is still the daughter of one of her distant relatives, and only embarrassed Zhu Xing half to death.
Cheng Qiao thought of the scene of Zhu Xing being surrounded by a group of warblers and swallows, and his expression of crying and laughing, and almost didn't laugh at his stomach. At the end of the letter, Cheng Qiao saw Zhu Xing ask if he missed him, and gave a contact information, as long as Cheng Qiao found someone to send the letter to the post station, someone would send her letter to him at that time, and repeatedly told her to reply to herself.
This...... Is His Majesty the Emperor planning to be a pen pal with him? Cheng Qiao understood Zhu Xing's thoughts.
However, since the new emperor personally ordered her to write a letter, how dare she disobey the order, and hurriedly found a letter paper and asked Cuiru to study ink for her on the side. Fortunately, her calligraphy is not bad, but the strokes of some traditional characters are not very clear, although the writing is pitted, it is finally not exposed.
The content of the reply letter is also very simple, and it can be summed up in four words: Don't read it. To continue to dig deep into the digging lines behind these words, Cheng Qiao means that you are always the emperor, so don't worry about me thousands of miles away, everyone goes back to their own homes, finds their own mothers, and lives their own lives.
The letter was written and sealed with wax and sent to a post station in Taowu Town, Cheng Qiao actually wanted to go in person, she was very curious about who would send her letter to the emperor, could it be the legendary flying fish suit embroidered spring knife?
Zhu Xing received Cheng Qiao's reply, and seemed to be encouraged, and the letter came more frequently. In a recent letter, he mentioned that he couldn't stand the matchmaker Empress Dowager Zhang, and he had all kinds of grievances against the girls she found, and of course he didn't forget to assure Cheng Qiao that he would return all the girls intact.
After reading the letter, Cheng Qiao was in a good mood, and quickly replied to a letter, mentioning that Zhu Xing would take his mother into the palace, and that the aunt would be evenly matched with the aunt in order to reduce the burden on him.
After Zhu Xing received the letter, he felt that she was a great good, and immediately ordered to go to Guangyuan Xing's palace to pick up her mother into Beijing, which was a very small matter, and those pretentious ministers in the court wanted to oppose him, making things extremely complicated.
Of course, the final result was that Zhu Xing won and took his mother to the palace with the etiquette of the queen mother. With his own mother in the ring with Empress Dowager Zhang, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and after dealing with state affairs, he also had more free time to write to Cheng Qiao, saying that he was so pitiful that he was alone in the palace, and he didn't have a confidant, and now those old ministers were all left by the previous dynasty, and they were not of the same heart as themselves, Zhu Xing didn't even dare to fully trust them, he was harmonious on the surface, and he was against him in private. Reading between the lines expressed how good it would be if someone could accompany him by his side, and Xiang Cheng Qiao could give her advice, and finally asked Cheng Qiao if he would like to come to the capital again.
Cheng Qiao just built yì He might as well open Enke and choose a few good seedlings to cultivate himself. Zhu Xing is still so young, he just needs to slowly build up his own power. As for going to the capital, forget it, she is so comfortable here, of course, she didn't forget to tell Zhu Xing, the Cheng family's heirs are weak, and she is still responsible for inheriting the ancestry, and the most unfortunate thing is to find a son-in-law or something. Cheng Qiao said this in order to cut off the emperor's thoughts about himself, but he didn't expect it to be counterproductive, the emperor was stimulated, and directly expressed his heart in the reply letter, willing to marry Cheng Qiao as the queen, and will follow the example of the first emperor Xiaozong's uncle, only marry the queen alone, and will not accept concubines for life, only willing to be with her for the rest of his life.
Cheng Qiao knew that there was an emperor in this dynasty who only married one queen, that is, the Empress Dowager Zhang and her husband, who Zhu Xingxin disliked very much, but he didn't expect Zhu Xing to say this to himself. The young man's sincerity is too valuable, Cheng Qiao is reluctant to hurt him in every way, and he doesn't know how to reply to the letter at all, so he can not only refuse the other party's kindness tactfully, but also not make the other party sad.
His Majesty in the palace is still looking forward to the letter, the queen mother of the two palaces has been fighting back and forth a few times, and finally reached an agreement, the emperor is not small, it is time for a big wedding, and the draft is being prepared.