Chapter 39
After speaking, the room was silent, and the Empress Dowager Shen was stunned and met the eldest princess of Zhaoyang, who also didn't know what to do, and was surprised, reciting a Bodhisattva manifestation, wanting to decide the marriage between the prince and Shen Xiaoshen, but before she could open her mouth, she heard Shen Xiaoshen, who had been crying silently, suddenly and incoherently said:
"His Royal Highness the Prince's cousin, what is this talking about!"
Qi Caicai glared at a pair of deer eyes into copper bells, and he couldn't believe what he had just heard, the prince of Xindao was scolded and confused, right? Or was he possessed by evil spirits? No, no, there are Bodhisattvas in this room! That is, he was enlightened by the Bodhisattva of Fuxian, and he really discovered that he had loved Shen Xiaoshen since he was a child? But no matter what the reason, this result is not what Qi Caicai wants, who wants to marry into the East Palace as a resentful woman! Who wants to see him and Jiang Lu idle you and me Nong!
Sensing the eyes of the Empress Dowager Shen and the eldest princess, Qi Cai cleared his throat and cried again, crying while saying:
"If my cousin is forced to marry Xiao Shen for this reason, how can Xiao Shen be at ease!"
The prince opened his eyes and said hoarsely: "This is my responsibility, cousin doesn't need to mind." ”
Under the guidance of the Empress Dowager Shen, the prince thought carefully and thoroughly, no matter whether Shen Xiaoshen deliberately did it or not, he jumped into the lake like a ghost at that moment to save her, and he had a skin-to-skin relationship, so he should be responsible for this woman's reputation. The name of the concubine is just to add more decorations to the East Palace, and his wife is only one person, whose name is Caicai.
The Queen Mother was so eager to let Shen Xiaoshen approach her, since his belief was stronger than a rock, there was no need to force an innocent woman to the point of committing suicide for the sake of her girlfriend's reputation.
There are too many people with no bones left in the interest dumping, but the prince does not want Shen Xiaoshen to become a dead soul under the family scepter, perhaps because she made him think goodbye for a moment, and the inexplicable familiarity unconsciously affected his decision.
Later, Qi Caicai angered the Empress Dowager Shen and was sent back to the Shen family in advance, which shows that the Empress Dowager Shen is by no means such a kind old man on the face.
According to the reason that even if the children of his nephew's family behave inappropriately, as an elder, he should not arrange a carriage for a person who has just woken up from falling into the water to send him back, usually the Empress Dowager Shen is naturally concerned about her reputation, but when she has a good opportunity, she dials it again and again, but Shen Xiaoshen is like an elm pimple, and she recognizes the reason of death and is unwilling to force the prince to be, and she doesn't remember what she has taught, so she messed up the marriage. That is, her own child, Empress Dowager Shen did not find a reason to punish her, otherwise it would be inevitable to be slapped with real strength, out of sight and out of mind, and regardless of whether Shen Zhiwei and his wife were in the mansion, she packed her luggage and threw Xiao Shen into the carriage.
It's not as intimate as the eldest princess of Zhaoyang, who has no relatives and no reason. Worried that Xiao Shen was unwell on the road, the eldest princess of Zhaoyang let the maids beside her who knew a little about medicine accompany Xiao Shen to wait.
The bump of the carriage disturbed Qi Caicai's thoughts, and he couldn't guess why the prince had changed his attitude, but whether the prince was joking or not, Qi Caicai didn't regret it, when he said that he was going to marry her, he thought that he would be Gujing Wubo's heart surging up, and he wanted to accept it immediately, this reaction made her panic, and she couldn't help but avoid the prince.
Now that I think about it, I still have a red face, although I know that this sentence has nothing to do with love, but it seems to have fulfilled a dream of Shen Xiaoshen, and after being imprisoned in Dongyuan for six years, my long-cherished wish was finally fulfilled, and a piece of heart was resolved, so Qi Caicai would not be greedy for this fleeting prosperity, reason would eventually dominate, and tell himself to tell Shen Xiaoshen that they should refuse, they should be Shen Qinwei, and the family and the country are all more important than the love of men and women.
After Xiaoshen left Jujing Garden, the eldest princess of Zhaoyang sat quietly with the Empress Dowager Shen for a long time, seeing that the Empress Dowager Shen was gloomy, she selfishly wanted to joke a few words, but she took a fancy to the Shen family's Nizi after today's events, which inevitably made the Empress Dowager Shen angry and resentful against Shen Xiaoshen, or comforted the Empress Dowager Shen,
"Do you think you're so angry with yourself? If you want me to say that the child is the most honest and heartfelt in the family of the generations of daughters of your Shen family, what is the gain and loss in front of you, and you say that although she rejected the marriage, why didn't she plant a seed in the bottom of Chen'er's heart? The person I sent to help him came back and said that Chen'er was riding a horse not far away and not close to protect the child all the way back to the city. ”
After a pause, he sighed again: "You and I have also come here since the time of our little daughters, who hasn't dreamed of the days of a lifetime and a couple?
Empress Dowager Shen knew that Zhaoyang was talking about the emperor and the Xiao family, but she didn't think that the prince would be a person who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and she was too lazy to justify.
Unwilling to dwell on this, Empress Dowager Shen changed her words and said: "The Holy Lord has done a decisive job this time, leaving no room for half a point, the old man of the Jiang family should go crazy." ”
The eldest princess of Zhaoyang was silent, but she also felt that this was not like the emperor's style of acting, how could Jiang Guifei, who had been favored for so many years, just pour it for six thousand taels of silver, the real reason behind this should be as long as the emperor himself knew.
Outside the Qinzheng Palace, Mrs. Jiang asked to see again, and the little eunuch guarding the door still repeated in a wooden manner that His Majesty had not woken up from a nap, and had ordered no one to disturb him.
Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she jumped to her feet, but she still remembered her duty as a courtier, and waited outside the door for a cup of tea, but she didn't see any movement in the hall, and she shouted inside in anger: "Your Majesty, the old minister has something important to see, and I hope to spread the news." There was no reply in it, so he reread it and shouted.
When the door of the hall opened when he shouted for the third time, Mrs. Jiang squeezed in without saying a word, but was stopped by Gonggong Lu, and said with a humble body:
"The miscellaneous family has asked the Taifu to say goodbye, don't embarrass us, the Taifu also knows that there are many affairs in the past two days, and he has traveled a long distance to the royal garden, and the saint is tired, and he drank the decoction to calm the nerves and help him sleep before resting, if the Taifu has something to come and see tomorrow?"
"Can you afford to delay the major affairs of the state? Get out of the way, the old man will not go back until he sees the saint today. Mrs. Jiang didn't like the perfunctory appearance of the eunuch in front of the palace, so she leaned her neck into the door and shouted to the palace: "Your Majesty, the old minister asks to see you, Your Majesty." ”
"Hehe, Your Majesty, aren't you going out?"
At this time, a woman's coquettish laughter came from the hall, followed by an ambiguous moan, which startled Mrs. Jiang and hurriedly retracted her neck.
Only then did Gonggong Lu close the door and ask with a smile: "Master Taifu, do you still want to go in?"
"Hmph! The old man will come back tomorrow. Jiang Taifu had to admit that the emperor used this trick well, and hatefully put down the next sentence and turned his head to leave.
The emperor listened to Jiang Taifu's words, put down the pen and signaled that the newly promoted Concubine Li could come over, folded the pages with the two names written on them into the envelope, sealed them and handed them to the imperial eunuch who had just come in, and then reflexively hugged Concubine Li's waist and said with emotion:
"Ai Fei feels that the old man is not like your general, staring at the tiger, coveting everything from the Son of Heaven. ”
Giving the emperor a squeeze on the shoulder, Concubine Li thought for a moment before replying in a non-standard Chinese: "The Ayatollahs are ambitious, and the king of Persia was almost forced to give up the throne, and the concubines implore Your Majesty to let the Ayatollah never return to Persia. ”
The emperor smiled and said nothing, Ayatollah should never have dreamed that the eyeliner he had chosen to send to Dayong was actually the person of the king of Persia.