From the summer day of the fourth year of Xihe, when he saw Bai Chenghuan in Beishan Temple, until this moment, the Zhang family had never seen such a Bai Chenghuan.

The majesty is deep, and the words are fierce.

The former harmony is all in vain.

Zhang's face was so red that it almost dripped blood, and all those ambitions were discouraged—

After this incident, the daughter's reputation is completely gone, and in the powerful family of the capital, who would ask to marry someone who annoyed the queen's mother?

And the reputation of the Loyal and Righteous Bofu ...... Zhang didn't want to think about it anymore.

But Shi Wanrou didn't care about these at all, so when Zhang got up from the ground in embarrassment and was ashamed to pull her away, she shook off Zhang's hand and pointed at Bai Chenghuan angrily:

"Bai Chenghuan, did you call me here today on purpose to discredit me? Auntie is so good to you, that's how you treat her mother's family?!"

Bai Chenghuan coldly met her eyes that could almost burst into flames, and there was finally a chill in her voice:

"Miss Shi said carefully! Even if this palace asked you to come to the spring banquet on purpose, did this palace ever let you slander others? Did you ever let you stretch out your hand and point at this palace? Or does it mean that in Miss Shi's heart, this palace is comparable to a god, and she knows everything about what you are going to do and what you say?!"

"Duchess Weiguo is the stepmother of this palace, and this palace has always respected her, so this palace can't tolerate Miss Shi's behavior, doesn't Miss Shi know in her heart that what she does will implicate the reputation of Duchess Weiguo?"

Bai Chenghuan couldn't suppress the anger aroused in his heart after a few questions-

It's just that she's not satisfied, why should she get involved with her mother? Just sowing discord in front of everyone, how could she not know that Shi Wanrou was not only competitive, but also so vicious and stupid?!

She thought that if she hadn't taken care of her mother, she would let her jump like this?

Bai Chenghuan endured this evil breath in his heart, turned his head and said:

"Qiuyue, you personally send Miss Shi to appear in the Spring Garden, and hand it over to Uncle Zhongyi and Mrs. Uncle Zhongyi to discipline!"

Qiu Yue immediately responded, and walked in front of Shi Wanrou, who was obviously still indignant:

"Miss Shi, please, the queen is magnanimous, and she doesn't care about Miss Shi's various faux pas today, Miss Shi should cherish her blessings!"

Qiu Yue felt that Bai Chenghuan's handling was indeed too magnanimous, so she said these words to Shi Wanrou, which could be regarded as a reprimand.

Shi Wanrou was immediately furious:

"You are a slave, you dare to teach me a lesson!"

Bai Chenghuan on the high seat immediately took the case:

"Even if it's a slave maid, it's also a slave and maid in this palace, an upright fourth-grade female official, why can't she teach you a lesson?"

The ladies who were originally only quiet on the sidelines as spectators immediately realized that the queen mother was really angry, even if they really wanted to see the tragic end of Shi Wanrou, they all knelt on the ground:

"The queen is angry!"

The spring is bright, but Bai Chenghuan, who is standing on the high platform, is full of frost, but there is sadness in his eyes that no one can understand.

She's not angry, she's cold.

In the past, she didn't like Shi Wanrou's cousin, and it was more out of careful thinking about competing for favor in front of her mother, but today, she really dislikes Shi Wanrou!

"Huanhuan!"

When everyone was trembling, on the stone bridge connecting the two sides of the river, the emperor took a group of children of the family and walked over.

Whether it is the emperor or the children of those families, all of them are young and heroic, and they even have bright beads of sweat on their foreheads, but it is a pity that the emperor's face makes the young people who should be bright dare not come out.

It's just that they are looking at each other across the river, what is happening here can be heard clearly over there, Xiao Shaotang originally saw that Bai Chenghuan was still able to handle Shi Wanrou with ease, and he did not mobilize everyone to participate in the affairs of the female dependents.

But at this time, when he saw that Shi Wanrou was still so arrogant, he knew that he was wrong.

There are many times when he hopes that his Huanhuan can be like Lu Pheasant, the queen of Han Gaozu, like Duguyun, the founding queen of Daqi, or like any decisive, cold-blooded and cruel queen in the history books, so that she will not be bullied, will not be a queen, and will be hurt by others because of her soft-heartedness.

Even a little bit of it wouldn't make him as angry as this moment.

"Huanhuan. ”

He walked up to her, took her hand, and a pair of phoenix eyes covered the waves in his heart:

"You shouldn't be angry, with such a person, why should you be angry?"

"Xiao Shaotang, what are you going to do......"

didn't let her get angry, but she clearly sensed his imminent outburst of anger, and the cold just now instantly turned into worry again.

After all, she was afraid that her mother would worry about the affairs of the Zhongyi Uncle's Mansion!

Xiao Shaotang patted the back of her hand comfortingly:

"Don't do anything, don't worry, leave everything to me. ”

After speaking, he turned around and looked at the crowd who were already kneeling on the ground in black.

"Shi Wanrou, today you slandered the prince of Chengen and the princess of Anguo, and called the queen's name behind, and even pointed at the queen with your finger, so disrespectful, I should have chopped off your fingers...... But I thought about it, the queen is pregnant, and it is not appropriate to see blood, besides, for a person like you, such a punishment is probably too light, so I will simply reward you with a good marriage. ”

Xiao Shaotang said slowly, the corners of his thin lips gradually outlined a touch of ill-intentioned arc, and the young genius who was originally as bright as this bright spring suddenly added a bit of cynicism.

Others don't know, but Bai Xianghuan can see it clearly-

Today's Son of Heaven used to be a famous gentleman in Yuzhou, when he was serious, he could compare with all the scholarly children, but when he was not serious, he could indeed make people hate itchy.

This is a good marriage...... Bai Xianghuan felt that he liked to hear it.

"But I'm not an unreasonable person, since it's a marriage, I naturally want you to be willing to do it, so I'll ask you first, all of you here today, is anyone willing to marry Miss Zhongyi as a wife?"

There was a sudden silence on both sides of the riverbank.

Miss Zhongyi has such an incident today, who would dare to marry?

Xiao Shaotang's gaze swept over anyone's body, and everyone was trembling.

In the dead silence, Shi Wanrou's face turned pale.

She didn't want to be casually assigned to marriage by Xiao Shaotang, but when she was asked like this in public, no one answered, and it was also a shame that she couldn't forget until she died!

In the future, everyone can point to her nose and despise her, look, Shi Wanrou, even if the emperor asks, no one wants to marry you!

Xiao Shaotang inspected the circle with great satisfaction, and then said with a slight smile:

"It seems that no one is willing to worry about me, is it possible that Miss Shi's marriage has to be delayed until someone is willing to marry you, so that I can fulfill it?"

"Your Majesty, Weichen is guilty, Weichen rebels against his daughter's relatives, don't dare to bother the emperor!"

Because Zhongyibo was not higher than the emperor and could see far, he didn't know what was going on here, so he fully understood at this time, and hurriedly kowtowed to ask for guilt.

"Uncle Zhongyi doesn't have to refuse, I can ask again. ”

Xiao Shaotang blocked him back with a word.

I didn't know my goddaughter as soon as possible, and only now did I say that I didn't dare to bother, and it was too late.

"Let me ask again, is there anyone who can share my worries and marry Miss Shi back?"

Xiao Shaotang was still smiling slightly.

This time, many people have something in their hearts.

Marrying Shi Wanrou is naturally not a good thing, but the emperor asked at this time, eight out of ten is to find someone to marry Shi Wanrou back, so that she can suffer for a lifetime.

This, for them, is really not a difficult task.

Soon, a concubine from the Anguo Mansion who came to attend the spring banquet spoke up:

"The grass people are willing to share the emperor's worries!"

With the first, there was the second, and soon, there were people answering one after another, but most of these people were unpaid concubines in the families of the powerful people in the capital.

In the end, even Xu Chengle, the concubine of the Weiguo Mansion, spoke up:

"The grass people's mother is Miss Shi's aunt, and the grass people are also willing to kiss and share the emperor's worries!"

He had understood what the emperor meant.

At this time, the candidate expected by the emperor must not be the proud son of the heavens, but a person who has no ability and no identity, and can give the greatest humiliation to Miss Zhongyi Bofu.

And he happens to be such a low-to-the-dust concubine.

After trembling in the Weiguo Mansion for so many years, there has never been any opportunity to show up, and like today, the opportunity to let the emperor take a more look, if you miss it at this time, you probably won't have it again in this life.

Why don't you give it a go!

Even, as long as he thought about his mother-in-law's expression when he learned that he had married her noble niece, even if he had never had any deep hatred with his mother-in-law, he still felt indescribable happiness-

Didn't he look down on him, and treat them as if they were nothing? He just wanted her to be in his eyes for the rest of his life!

From the time the concubine in the Anguo Mansion spoke out, until Xu Chengle actually wanted to marry his daughter, Zhongyibo and Zhang's faces became more and more blue, and they were about to faint.

If she marries those people, her daughter's life will be completely ruined, but it is just a little better than Xue Yuntao at the beginning!

Xiao Shaotang seemed to be very satisfied and nodded:

"Yes, you are all loyal to me. Miss Shi, you have to pick and choose!"

"Courtiers don't marry!"

In the end, anger and humiliation still crushed Shi Wanrou's last trace of fear—if she was to be humiliated and manipulated like this, she would rather die!

Although the reason why she came to this spring banquet today was originally to find a second fool as a place to live for the rest of her life, even Bai Xianghuan and Xu Chengle she considered it, because of these two people, one she thought was honest, and the other was a concubine who couldn't turn out of her aunt's palm.

But she didn't think about being prevaricated in such a way!

What she wants is a marriage in which she can absolutely control the situation, not a marriage that makes her lose face and the emperor intervenes!

Even with the same result, she couldn't accept such a process!

"Not married?"

Xiao Shaotang repeated it gently, and then felt Bai Chenghuan scratching his palm behind him.

"Xiao Shaotang, I've already made her pay......"

The voice behind him was as weak as a kitten, and it tickled in my ears.

She probably couldn't bear to see Shi Wanrou so embarrassed, otherwise she wouldn't have let Qiu Yue send her away.

But Xiao Shaotang only hesitated slightly, turned back slightly, and ruthlessly refused:

But I don't think it's enough to make her understand what it means to be self-inflicted. ”

He broke free from the soft hand and waved the wide sleeves of his robe:

"Miss Shi doesn't want to choose someone to marry, so it's okay. According to the laws of Daqi, those who are disrespectful to the queen can be cut off to the official, confiscated family property, and even, not registered as a slave, I don't know, Miss Zhongyi Bo, which powerful mansion do you want to be a slave?"

The emperor said casually, but it was enough to make Zhongyibo and Zhang's souls scatter, and the two pleaded with trembling voices:

"Your Majesty...... The emperor is gracious! Please forgive the emperor!"

"It's not that I refuse to be gracious, but the eldest lady of your mansion refuses to ask for a good marriage, and she only wants her family to be ruined, what can I do?"

The Emperor smiled slightly.

Zhongyibo burst into tears in an instant.

At the beginning, her daughter did something wrong and was pressured by the eldest princess of Huijun, who was still the son of King Qin at that time, and also took action with righteousness, and later helped each other in various ways.

But why is this the case today?

It's just a short moment, and Zhongyibo thinks very clearly-

He looked back at his daughter.

In the past, his daughter was arrogant, he was always reluctant to beat and scold, and he was even uneasy to say something heavy to her.

Even if she had a love affair with the concubine of the Xue family privately, and provoked the eldest princess of Huijun to come to the door to put pressure, he was only worried that his daughter's life would be ruined, but he didn't expect that there would be a disaster for the family on this day.

Shi Wanrou had already been struck by lightning when she heard the emperor's words, but when she saw her father's gaze at this time, she was completely cold-

What kind of eyes did my father have......

It's remorse, it's blame, and there's disgust and plea that can't be ignored.

He hoped she would agree, right?

Shi Wanrou, who had been raising her jaw strongly, slowly lowered her jaw, and tears flowed out.

She and her father were silent as if they were in silent confrontation, and the smile on the emperor's face, which should have been blurred, was so clear at the moment.

It turns out that the emperor can really control the power of life and death of the people in the world.

Shi Wanrou, who had no fear in front of Xiao Shaotang and Bai Chenghuan, had always been because of her aunt, finally realized this completely, but unfortunately it was too late.

"My son......"

Zhang looked at her husband and then at her daughter, crying almost out of breath.

And in this silent confrontation, all the emotions in Zhongyibo's eyes finally gradually turned into disappointment.

He spoiled this daughter a lot, took what he wanted, and raised her to this day, and when the whole family had to pay the price for her willfulness, she was still hesitating!

What kind of heartless daughter did he raise?!

The soft spring breeze came to her face, and Shi Wanrou's tears were quickly blown away by the warm spring breeze, leaving only dry tears.

But she knew that the spring of her life had passed away.

She softened her knees and knelt down:

"Since the emperor is Longen, the courtier, choose Xu Chengle. ”

It's already so, but what else?

Xiao Shaotang smiled slightly, and looked back at his queen:

"Huanhuan, you see, someone is like this, she bullied you, if you don't step her into the dust, she won't know, bullying people also has to have capital. She doesn't have this capital, so you can bully back, remember?"

But on the face of the young queen dressed in Mingyi, there was only a dazed look that gradually spread:

"But Xiao Shaotang, even if I was bullied back like this, I wasn't happy at all. ”