As soon as Duan Wang spoke, the scene froze, and everyone waited for Kwong Xiqing's answer to decide their own attitudes - even I began to look forward to it.

"King Duan came from afar, and it was hard all the way, so it's better to go back to the palace to rest first," she smiled with a spring breeze on her face, and seemed to have no mind about Kuang Xizhao's unauthorized departure from the fiefdom, "Tonight, I will hold a banquet in the palace to wash the dust for Qing." But he avoided the topic.

"Minister, thank you for your compassion." Kuang Xizhao bowed again, and then looked at the woman beside him with gentle eyes, and greeted her with warmth, not caring at all about those old-fashioned old women who were angry and angry, and the imperial historian who was rubbing his hands to join her - not to mention anything else, just this free and easy indifference taught me to have a good impression of this eldest sister.

No matter how deep Kuang Xiqing's city is, it is not easy for the other party to continue to show affection in front of everyone, cough a few times, and return to the palace with a large team. The rest of the officials also left on their own, only the guards who maintained order were still eyeing each other, looking at each other coldly with the black-armored knights brought by Kuang Xizhao.

Seeing that there was nothing to do with me, I was about to get into the carriage and go back to the house, but I saw the palace attendant next to Kuang Xiqing walking over quickly, and whispered to me: "Your Highness, the emperor has a message, please accompany you and go back to the palace together." ”

"yes, got it." As soon as the steps were stiff, I sighed secretly, and told Bingsan to go back and inform Yan Ke, after thinking about it, I pulled her aside and whispered, "Ask this king, what did Jiang Escort do...... Be careful, don't alarm anyone, and quietly come back to this king when the time comes. ”

She nodded in agreement, and I followed the palace attendant to Kuang Xiqing's Luanjia.

Nothing to say all the way.

After entering the palace, she followed Kuang Xiqing back to Shiyu Hall where she was dealing with political affairs. Her staff had been waiting for a long time, and I had offered to retire with the intention of finding a place to rest for a while so that I could meet the banquet in the evening.

Unexpectedly, Kwong Xiqing said that she kept me to observe her meeting with her staff; I couldn't figure out her thoughts, but I couldn't resist the order, so I had to find a corner and sit down under the oppressive gaze of those people—my eyes carefully swept around, but I saw that my mother-in-law-to-be, the emperor master Yunchong, was looking at me meaningfully, smiled slightly, and taught me to shudder.

- The eyes of this old fox are really terrifying, and I don't know what kind of character her eldest son, the famous Fu Gongzi, is?

As long as the thought of me being about to marry someone other than Jiang Zhuo, my stomach was like a fire, and the pain was mixed with the urge to nausea and retch, and I was so uncomfortable that I almost shed tears.

"Han'er, what do you think about King Duan's unauthorized departure from the fief?" When he was sitting on pins and needles, he couldn't help but hear Kuang Xiqing's question.

- What can I think? I didn't even know until the last minute that she was coming.

In front of such cronies and staff, Kwong Xiqing was the first to ask my opinion, what thoughts did he have?

Puzzled and not good at being silent, I thought about it and gave an ambiguous answer: "This king thinks...... King Duan returned to Guanlan without being summoned this time, and brought thousands of soldiers with him, what he planned must be extraordinary, and he should have prepared early. ”

The soldiers came to the city but entered alone, and it didn't look like it was for □□; Instead, I prefer to believe that she came to marry the charming woman next to her.

However, this is only my speculation, I can't do it, let alone listen to these courtiers.

"What Han'er said is true, King Duan just sent someone to hand over the excerpt two days ago, please return to participate in your Shao ceremony, I haven't replied yet, she has already come back with people and horses in a menacing manner...... He is worthy of being the commander of an army that is decisive in killing. Kuang Xiqing chuckled and took out a book from his hand and threw it on the table, his fingertips knocked on the armrest of the golden silk nanmu again and again, as if every blow was on people's hearts, which was very oppressive.

Is this the power of the emperor?

Everyone, including me, was silent, and no one dared to break the silence and bear the anger hidden under the calm smile.

"Zhuqing, do you remember that King Duan called the daughter he brought as his dependent?" With a pause in his fingertips, Kuang Xiqing suddenly threw out another topic, and the stiff atmosphere stagnated for a while, but turned enthusiastic.

The officials led by the military general Lu Yun began to crusade with righteous indignation against Kuang Xizhao's absurd actions that violated the norm and defied the condemnation of the world, and even raised the official to use this as an excuse to deprive her of the title of prince and demote her to a commoner.

They were extremely excited to criticize how the idea of King Duan wanting to accept a woman as a princess was heinous and heinous, as if this topic was deliberately left by Kwong Xiqing to ease the previous stalemate—but I could feel that the emperor who was smiling with satisfaction at this moment, there was a piercing coldness brewing in his eyes that were as deep as the abyss, and the quenched anger was far deeper and more difficult to appease than the previous impatience.

The funny thing is that this group of self-righteous staff members can't figure out the true meaning of the monarch at all, and they are still blindly adding fuel to the fire.

With my intuition, I'm afraid that Kuang Xiqing doesn't want to blame King Duan for this—at least, not for the crime of accepting a woman as a princess.

Holding my chin in boredom, listening to Kwong Xiqing and his staff seriously move on to the next topic, my upper and lower eyelids began to fight, accompanied by the sound of buzzing conversation, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

When I woke up again, I was lying in a soft and wide bed—wasn't the big bed on which I could roll six and a half times the dragon bed that Kwong Xiqing used? The smell of ambergris fills the bed tent all year round, which is the best proof of this.

How could I sleep here?

I couldn't help but take a deep breath of the refreshing fragrance, and I heard a gentle female voice say lightly: "Awake? ”

Looking sideways, Kuang Xiqing, dressed in bright purple clothes, held a book in her hand, half-leaning on the bedpost, her green and jade-like fingertips slowly turned the page in an orderly manner, and her every move was with an indescribable graceful gesture, which was pleasing to the eye.

"Hmm......" I didn't want to admit that I was fascinated by her fingers, and I looked away a little embarrassed and answered in a low voice.

"Heh, now that you're awake, get up and change your clothes, and the dinner is about to begin." She chuckled, her fingertips gently ruffling my hair, smoothing out my messy strands, before standing up and calling for the attendants to change their clothes.

"Okay." I don't think anyone can refuse such a pampering smile, especially when this person is still the supreme emperor of the world, this thoughtfulness has become a unique honor, enough to teach anyone to indulge in it and get carried away.

I can't help but ask myself: If I didn't have Jiang Zhuo in my heart, would I ...... to her I don't know, and I don't want to think about it anymore.

After getting dressed neatly, Kuang Xiqing and I slowly walked towards the Mingde Hall surrounded by a group of palace attendants; The main hall is a place dedicated to court meetings, and the side halls are often used to hold all kinds of grand banquets.

When we arrived, the hall was already full of officials, only the emperor's throne and the two seats in her hand were still empty—it seemed that only the protagonist of today's feast, King Duan, had not yet attended.

After Kuang Xiqing and I sat down, the banquet hall, which was still a little talkative, fell silent in an instant, and everyone looked at the only empty seat with different expressions.

I took a sip of the sweet wine sent by the palace attendant, but I received a cold glance at Kuang Xiqing's warning, so I had to put down the wine cup and obediently sip the clear soup with the oil flowers removed.

When the bowl of clear soup was about to bottom, the palace attendant finally raised his voice to announce that King Duan had arrived, and the woman who attended the banquet with her was the woman she called her inner family.

"The minister is late, please forgive your majesty." Although she kept asking for forgiveness, her expression was not very frightened, as if she was sure that Kuang Xiqing would not pursue it.

And that's exactly what happened.

Kuang Xiqing just smiled slightly: "King Duan doesn't have to be polite, the time is just right, let's start the banquet." ”

Seeing Kuang Xizhao leading the woman to sit down, she just ignored it and continued: "King Duan has been out of the palace for many years, you might as well try the skills of this imperial kitchen, but it is still the taste of the year." ”

“…… Obey the order. I turned my head to look, but saw Kuang Xizhao's blue eyes darken sharply, as if remembering something sad, and paused for a moment before reluctantly replying.

In addition to this episode, with the help of the Maiko musicians, there are officials who are good at welcoming and praising virtues, but they also maintain the happiness of the monarchs and ministers on the surface.

Until the end of the banquet, Kwong Xizhao put aside the wine cup and brought up the old things again, breaking the whitewashed peace in one fell swoop.

"Your Majesty, please take Jiang Lanyi as the princess." I don't know if I drank too much wine, Kuang Xizhao shook a little when he stood up, his fair cheeks were also flushed, and only the pair of sea-blue eyes were amazingly bright.

I coldly watched as the laughter that was talking stopped abruptly, and Kuang Xiqing, who was on the throne, put down his chopsticks leisurely, took the silk scarf and dipped the corners of his mouth, and said lightly: "The stamina of this wine is so great that even King Duan can't bear the drunkenness and talks drunk...... Come and send King Duan back to his house to rest. ”

"Minister......" Kuang Xizhao took a step forward and was about to refute, but was intercepted.

"Your Majesty, the prince is not strong enough to drink, please let the concubine send the prince back to the house to rest." The man was dressed plain white and did not use powder, but he still couldn't hide his graceful posture and delicate appearance, even if he knelt on the ground humbly, he didn't lose his charm at all - it was Jiang Lanyi who Kuang Xizhao insisted on marrying.

Speaking of which, this "Princess Duan" is also surnamed Jiang.

I wonder if my "Princess Ling" has the possibility of having the surname Jiang?

Suddenly, he thought of it, and laughed at himself...... I'm afraid it's hard.

"I'm ready, let's go down." Kuang Xiqing frowned very quickly—you can't notice it if you don't look closely—and then waved her hand, and immediately a powerful female official in the inner court stepped forward and set up the slightly drunk Duan Wang left and right, and took her out with Jiang Lanyi.

A banquet ended hastily, seemingly calm but surging.

I know that Kuang Xiqing is euphemistically rejecting King Duan's request, and I also know that King Duan is by no means such a person who is sent lightly, and she will inevitably bring it up again at tomorrow's court meeting.

At that time, I was still worried about how this matter would end - although I vaguely supported King Duan in my heart and hoped that she would get what she wanted, I didn't have much hope.

But what I didn't expect was that at the court meeting the next day, Kuang Xiqing actually agreed to this request that caused an uproar in the entire Dawu=waves.