Chapter 38: The Number of Rites

"How did you end up here?" Hu Qing blinked a pair of watery peach blossom eyes: "Aren't you supposed to be in the capital?"

"I'm here to greet Your Highness!"

Shen Pengrun pursed his lips: "Greet Your Highness and wait in his palace, what door do you look at in this back garden?"

To outsiders, Shen Pengrun still calls Shen Mingyan her sister. Shen Pengrun thought, the girl just now said that the man in the back garden can't enter, if it's a relative, it should be okay.

Hearing Shen Pengrun ask Shen Mingyan, Zhou Ziyi hurriedly said, "I just passed the meal, and I guess I was eating." ”

"Let's go!" Hu Qing hurried to the back garden.

Zhou Ziyi hurriedly stopped: "You can't go in! This back garden is where the queen stays every time she comes over, and not everyone can enter." ”

"You can see clearly!" Shen Peng said angrily: "Who are we? That's how you treat guests in Da Zhou? Don't blame me for being polite!"

Sure enough, it's her mother's family!

Guo Ruoxue saw Zhou Ziyi arguing with the two from afar, and hurriedly ran over: "When you come to Da Zhou, you have to act according to Da Zhou's etiquette, is it possible that you don't have any etiquette in the countryside!"

"Ouch!" Shen Pengrun looked at Guo Ruoxue with a disgusted face: "You crazy girl with makeup still tells us the etiquette!

Guo Ruoxue immediately blushed: "I am the county lord of Longwu, the cousin of the prince's elder brother!

"Yo yo!" Shen Pengrun pouted again and again: "Aren't you divided into men and women? Since you are a woman, you can only be polite to stay behind! If you can run to our man's place, why can't we go to the back garden......

"You!" Guo Ruoxue didn't expect Shen Pengrun to say this, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

Although she is spicy, she has grown up in the palace since she was a child, and she can't be noisy compared to Shen Pengrun's habits in the rivers and lakes.

"Are you Zhou Rong's cousin?" Hu Qing blinked his eyes and smiled kindly: "So, you are also a member of the royal family?"

Guo Ruoxue was being angry with Shen Peng, and when she saw Hu Qing looking like she wanted to please her, she couldn't help but be angry again: "That's right! Although I am only the county lord, the queen loves me the most." Many times, I was asked to help persuade the prince's brother. ”

persuaded him to marry Sister Wenqian. It's just that Guo Ruoxue doesn't feel the need to talk too much to them, as long as they know her dignity.

"Really?" Hu Qing tugged at Shen Pengrun's sleeve as he spoke: "Second brother, I think we should have a good chat with this county lord!" After speaking, he kept giving Shen Pengrun a look.

Shen Mingyan fell asleep in the past few days, and Hu Qing didn't have a chance to speak, seeing that she had entered the territory of the Great Zhou, Shen Mingyan was placed in the palace again. Hu Qing's heart became more and more anxious. He remembered that Shen Mingyan said that he would not enter the palace. Then he, Hu Qing, wants to help Shen Mingyan fulfill this wish no matter what.

Zhou Rong got up early and wanted to take them to the army to have a look, but only Li Tianbao responded. Hu Qing and Shen Pengrun both said that they would stay and rest after a long journey.

As soon as Zhou Rong left, Hu Qing and Shen Pengrun discussed how to prevent Shen Mingyan from traveling north again.

Now's your chance!

"Of course it's true!" Guo Ruoxue became more and more unconvinced when she saw that Hu Qing doubted her dignity: "If you don't believe it, you can just find someone to ask." ”

"Okay! I believe it!" Hu Qing smiled on his face, and no one would be angry with him with a handsome face: "If you are really so powerful, I really need your help with something." ”

Seeing that Hu Qing's attitude changed so quickly, and his smiling face was so good-looking, he couldn't help but say, "You say!"

Hu Qing saw that Guo Ruoxue agreed, and hurriedly said: "You see it's hot today, why don't we go to your prince's brother's room and drink herbal tea and talk about it." I can't finish this matter in a sentence or two. ”

"Okay!" Guo Ruoxue said and walked back.

Hu Qing squeezed his eyes at Shen Pengrun and followed Guo Ruoxue.

Zhou Ziyi looked at the backs of the three of them, squinted his eyes for a long time, and only raised his hand and scratched his head until the shadows were gone.

Why did Hu Qing come along?

What would he tell Guo Ruoxue?

Ah!

Oops!

He's here to rob people!

He knows better than anyone else about the affairs of the Western Capital.

He couldn't stop Guo Ruoxue, so he had to tell Zhou Rong to go and let him think about countermeasures in advance. At least Zhou Rong won't be too angry with him.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ziyi hurriedly ran away.

It was getting hotter and hotter as we approached noon.

Zhou Rong's hall is very cool and pleasant.

But Guo Ruoxue still couldn't sit still and jumped up: "What?

"That's right!" Hu Qing nodded solemnly: "I originally asked our king to give marriage!"

"Ah......" Guo Ruoxue's mouth opened in surprise: "My prince brother won't be so unreliable!" In Guo Ruoxue's impression, Zhou Rong has always been unfeminine.

Hu Qing spread his hands: "Then it's true that your prince's brother and concubine went out to play in private?"

Tang Shilang used the excuse of the prince and the princess to play back to the county lord of Longwu and sent a message to Zhou Rong again. It's better to play than to be seriously injured in an attack, so Zhou Rong also let everyone unify their voice.

Seeing that Guo Ruoxue was silent, Hu Qing said again: "I'll tell you! The concubine is arrogant by nature, and she can't tolerate people the most, don't talk about your little sister-in-law, it's your queen mother, I'm afraid she won't buy it in the future, if she enters your royal family, you will definitely have no peaceful life." ”

"That's right!" Thinking about the situation just now when Shen Mingyan didn't take her in the slightest, Guo Ruoxue became angry.

"So!" Hu Qing enlightened step by step: "You can think of a way, or go back and let your queen mother think of a way, and this family business will be withdrawn." ”

"However, isn't their marriage contract a state affair between Da Zhou and your Wu Yue?"

Seeing Guo Ruoxue's tendons, Hu Qing hurriedly said: "It's a state affair, yes! But what the edict says is my father's righteous daughter, can't I just recognize the righteous sister who has a good temperament and can tolerate people?"

"Is this okay?" Guo Ruoxue pouted, imagining that it would be good to find a master who would let her sister Wenqian bully.

"Of course you can!" Hu Qing slapped the table: "First of all, she and I have a marriage contract first, marrying into your Great Zhou royal family is not in line with the etiquette, and secondly, she is the daughter of a merchant, and it will not be good for your prince's brother's reputation to spread in the future, and the most important thing is that she has a bad character." Do you think that this will lead your prince and brother to stop doing their job, and won't they harm your Great Zhou in the future?"

Hu Qing's words all touched Guo Ruoxue's heart, and Guo Ruoxue also slammed the table with her fists: "Okay! It's decided! I'll go back to the palace and talk to the queen!"