Chapter Seventy-Four: On the Farce
Cheng Qiao didn't take those words in Zhu Xingxin seriously at all, after all, even if the emperor himself said that the emperor's wedding was uncountable, you must know that there are two palaces of the queen mother pressing it. Throwing the letter aside, she left the matter behind.
She didn't take it to heart, but the emperor in the palace was forced to go to the hospital in a hurry by the queen mother of the two palaces who urged her to marry, and she didn't wait for Cheng Qiao to reply to the letter, so she let the accompanying Huang Jin and Huang Gonggong travel thousands of miles from the capital to Chengjia Village, Taowu Town.
A bright yellow holy decree caught Cheng Qiao off guard, and his face was full of astonishment. She was bent on quickly dressing back to the modern era to save He Yan. And the key to whether she can go back depends on the pool of spiritual water in the backyard, if she runs to the capital to be trapped in the palace, how can she go back? Being a queen is certainly beautiful, but that is not what she wants.
Cheng Qiao, who has always been cheerful, was so sad that his face was wrinkled, and he couldn't sleep at night and couldn't think of a proper solution. The other party is the emperor! You can't offend him too much, you have to come up with a way to get the best of both worlds to reject him. I couldn't think of a way, so I could only find her strong mother to find a way.
Her mother is shrewd in business, but she can't come up with a proposition for a while, and the holy decree has been issued, wouldn't it be disrespectful to resist the decree if she doesn't go, it's a big crime to rob the family and exterminate the clan. Cheng Qiao's mother didn't want her daughter to go to the capital, and after thinking about it, there was only one trick to procrastinate, serving good wine and good food to make Huang Gonggong and his party entertain and comfortable, and it could be delayed for a day.
Huang Gonggong may have followed his master to and from the Cheng family many times, he is an old acquaintance, and he didn't think much about the obviously overly enthusiastic hospitality of the Cheng family's mother and daughter.
Father-in-law Huang stayed at Cheng's house for a few days, and in the end he was worried about the important things that the master explained, and he was not dizzy by Cheng Qiao's mother's soup, and mentioned that he wanted Cheng Qiao to go to the capital with him.
It was inconvenient for Cheng Qiao to come forward in this matter, so her mother replied: "Father-in-law Huang, this matter is too sudden, the family must prepare well, after all, the girl's marriage is a big deal, isn't it?"
Under the persuasion of Mrs. Cheng's incorruptible tongue, Huang Jin finally agreed to postpone the departure date for a few more days, thinking that his master was willing to wait for a few days no matter how anxious he was.
This delay lasted for another three days, and the mother and daughter didn't come up with an idea, but Zhuangzi came up with an uninvited guest.
"A group of outsiders came to Taowu Town, and they smashed our Cheng family's shop when they saw it, which is unreasonable...... The leader is a girl in red, she looks very good-looking, but her temper is too unbearable, and our restaurant is not immune, all kinds of fault-finding and picking, her gang of people is too cruel, she beats people when she sees them, and scares the guests away, boss, what do you say this business is going to do...... "Standing in the hall complaining is the guy Huzi of Taoyuan Restaurant.
The restaurant was smashed inexplicably, and the other party came from a lot of background, so the shopkeeper sent him to report to the owner. The young man lived up to the trust of the shopkeeper, while complaining indignantly about the other party's evil deeds, and at the same time showing Cheng Qiao's mother and daughter his bruised face, which was not the incompetence of his subordinates, but the meaning that the enemy was too strong.
After listening to Huzi's words, Cheng Qiao's mother frowned and asked, "Do you know what the other party is from?"
Huzi shook his head and said, "This group of people has only arrived in ......the past few days," he said, and glanced at the eldest girl sitting next to Mrs. Cheng, "Listen...... Listening to the girl's words, it seemed that she had come from the capital, and ...... It seems to have some misunderstanding with our girl!
"Me?" Cheng Qiao's eyes widened, his face full of puzzlement. What are you doing with me? She was stable in ancient times, and she had been staying at home, and she didn't go out of the door, when did she offend someone? She was just sitting at home and lying down, and her knees hurt inexplicably. Wait a minute...... She seemed to remember something, and glanced at her mother.
Mrs. Cheng understood and asked Cuiru to take the tiger down to heal her injuries and take medicine. When the servants in the hall retreated, the mother and daughter glanced at each other, and Cheng Qiao spoke first: "This capital is coming for me again...... Mother, do you think it's for Zhu Xing?"
Mrs. Cheng shook the fan in her hand, looked at her daughter silently, and motioned for her to continue.
"My daughter remembers that Zhu Xing mentioned in the letter that Empress Dowager Zhang intended to let Zhu Xing marry her distant niece, and that girl came from the capital to target her daughter everywhere, I'm afraid it's that one......"
Mrs. Cheng quietly listened to her daughter's analysis, put the fan in her hand on the desk on the side, and her eyes flickered slightly: "If it is really Qiao'er, you guessed, my mother has a note that you don't have to go to the capital......
As soon as she heard that she could not go to the capital, the sadness on Cheng Qiao's face finally lightened, and she rarely showed a rare smile these days, pulled her mother's sleeve and shook it a few times, and couldn't wait to ask: "Mother, what can you do to sue sù?"
Mrs. Cheng unhurriedly picked up the fan, covered half of her face, and beckoned to her daughter, asking her to come over with her ears.
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In the guest room of the west wing of the Cheng family, Mrs. Cheng said to Huang Jin with a smile: "These days are sluggish, Zhuangzi is really boring, why don't you go to Taowu Town with the people's wife?"
Huang Jinxin said that he wouldn't be able to go to the capital for a while anyway, so he might as well obey the wishes of others, so he didn't shirk it, and just said: "The guest is as good as the host." ”
said that he was going to visit Taowu Town, but it was just a pretext, and this line took the carriage unhurriedly and only went to Taoyuan Restaurant. Mrs. Cheng was still afraid that the bullying girl in red would run away after beating people, and told Huzi to rush back to the restaurant first, and she must let the shopkeeper's idea try to drag the other party down, and she took Cheng Qiao and Huang Gonggong to arrive later.
The shopkeeper lived up to his trust, and in the end kept people. When Cheng Qiao and the others arrived, the two parties were facing each other.
That girl is probably spoiled by her family, and she is lawless when she speaks, if she is put into modern times, she will be a second-generation official with a brainless father, and she is annoying with her words.
"Where is your girl, let her get out and see me......" Seeing that no one paid attention to her, she continued to scold, "What's the matter, if she doesn't dare to show up, then don't blame this girl for unceremoniously smashing all your Cheng family's shops!"
Not to mention that Cheng Qiao was scolded by name and felt uncomfortable, even Huang Jin frowned after hearing these words, and said with disdain in his heart: Whose girl is so noisy, she is so uneducated.
When he entered the restaurant and saw the girl's face clearly, Huang Jin's face changed, this ...... I couldn't help but feel bitter in my heart, and I wanted to turn around and leave as if I didn't know her, and when I saw the mother and daughter of the Cheng family who were following behind me with a courteous face and no idea, I didn't know how to advance or retreat for a while.
A group of people blocked the door of the restaurant, and it was difficult not to attract attention.
The girl in red naturally glanced at Huang Gonggong in front of the crowd at a glance, ran over and asked: "Okay, you Huang Jin, you run really fast, but this girl has found it! Quick, take me to meet that slut! I want to see where she is sacred, so that the emperor will never forget her!"
Cheng Qiao, who was scolded as a "slut", gasped, this girl is really brain-dead!
Huang Gonggong, who was questioned inexplicably, suddenly pulled his face down. He is also a royal eunuch, except for the emperor and the queen mother in the palace, who is not polite to him, even today's majesty is also a yellow companion, and he has never called him by his name. This girl relies on the support of a queen mother, and she does her own thing in the palace on weekdays, but now she is so open-mouthed outside. He was very unhappy in his heart, but he didn't tear his face, but just arched his hand and said: "Our family is here by order, why do we need to hide." It's that Miss Zhang is not in the palace to accompany the Empress Dowager Zhang, so I'm afraid it's not appropriate to take these guards to smash them among the people, right?"
"Okay, you Huang Jin, you dare to talk to me like this, wait for me to go back to the palace and tell Aunt Sù......" The Zhang girl pointed at Huang Jin and said.
Huang Jin's drooping face became blue and white for a while, and it was not easy to attack in front of Cheng Qiao's mother and daughter, and the two of them froze like this. Cheng Qiao couldn't stand it anymore, so he stepped forward and whispered in his ear, "Gonggong Huang, who is this girl?"
Huang Jin replied helplessly: "Miss Cheng, it's hard to say. ”
The girl in red was sharp-eyed, and when she heard Huang Jin call her Miss Cheng, she immediately understood that this was the main person she was looking for, and immediately walked up and down Cheng Qiao, looked her up and down, and then said disdainfully: "You are just like this......" There was a lot of disappointment in her words.
It seems that Cheng Qiao's appearance looks extraordinarily well-behaved and easy to bully, and Miss Zhang, who has to make inches, pointed at Cheng Qiao and said: "The emperor must be confused for a while to want to marry you as the queen, this girl is here today to persuade you not to daydream!"
Can you chat, no wonder you don't have friends! Cheng Qiao slandered this second-generation official in his heart, but he tried to squeeze out a touch of crimson after being humiliated in front of him, and looked at Huang Jin aggrievedly: "This is ...... Father-in-law Huang ...... "With tears in his eyes, he stomped his foot and turned around in shame and ran to the carriage parked outside the restaurant.
Seeing this, Mrs. Cheng's face was also difficult to look at, she had been kind and angry all this time, and she looked like a person with no temper, and she became powerful at this time: "Grandpa Huang, what does this mean?"
Huang Jin felt that although he was really wronged by being angry, he still explained: "This girl is the distant niece of the Empress Dowager Zhang, the Empress Dowager...... The Queen Mother intends to let Her Majesty make her the queen......"
Mrs. Cheng immediately asked: "Since the Queen Mother already has a candidate for the queen in her heart, why did Her Majesty issue an order to let my family Qiao'er go to Beijing? Fortunately, I haven't gone on the road yet, and if I go, won't I suffer that great shame?" Huang Gonggong, I see...... My family Qiao'er is blessed with a thin life, and I am afraid that I will not have the life to enter the palace. After speaking, he glanced at Miss Zhang, flicked his sleeves and walked out of the door.
Leaving Huang Jin alone to face the fierce Zhang Meizi, the bitterness in his heart, looking at the battle of the Cheng family's mother and daughter, if he doesn't solve the problem in front of him, he is afraid that the things that His Majesty will explain will not be able to be achieved.