Chapter Forty-Eight: Wrath and Marriage
"This ......" The eunuch glanced at Yuwen Qinglian quickly, laughed dryly, his face was embarrassed, and he hesitated between his words.
The other little eunuch's eyes rolled around, he squeezed the eunuch away, and interjected at the right time with a sneer: "Yuwen, how can we, the little eunuchs, know the matter of Your Majesty, you are too elevated to our minions." ”
"Uh, yes, yes." When the eunuch heard this, his eyes narrowed, but he woke up quickly, and quickly nodded in agreement.
Yuwen Qinglian Shui Yingdieying's eyes looked at the two of them one by one, and looked at them singing and harmonizing, but it was a tacit understanding, I am afraid that this trick was used to send away a lot of people who came to inquire about the affairs in front of the palace, these two eunuchs are the eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuchs, and they follow the eunuchs of Dongchang to listen to the palace at any time on weekdays.
Seeing that they are reluctant to disclose even the slightest bit of information at the moment, they know that something is indeed wrong, and the matter is very tense.
"It's Qinglian who is too presumptuous, since His Majesty has government affairs to deal with, then Qinglian is inconvenient to disturb more......" Yuwen Qinglian smiled apologetically, and handed the food box in his hand directly to the two eunuchs: "These are some small snacks made by Qinglian himself, I hope the two fathers-in-law will accept it." ”
The two eunuchs were stunned for a moment, their eyes paused on the food box for a second, and they were immediately flattered and waved their hands together: "I can't help it, I can't help it, this must be something that Yuwen everyone gave to His Majesty, our family, our family doesn't dare to ......"
"It's just some things that Qinglian has nothing to do to eat, and it's not worth paying too much attention to, and I hope the two of you don't dislike it." Yuwen Qinglian looked at them as softly as Qinglan.
The two eunuchs couldn't help but fall into dementia for a while, and after coming back to their senses for a while, they suddenly turned red with a thin white bearded face.
"That's, thank you."
"Thank you."
Yuwen Qinglian smiled slightly, shook her head to indicate that she didn't need to be polite, she glanced thoughtfully at the front of the hall with the door closed, and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly heard a special sound of ground friction behind her, and she moved.
Her apricot eyes are slightly dark, her skin is tender and her waist is slender, and she is wearing an unusually delicate cherry-colored Luo shirt, which is more and more lined like a spring flower, and she is more delicate than a flower.
"Master Hu." Yuwen Qinglian straightened his posture, smiled slightly, and bloomed in the clear water hibiscus.
Hu Lai braked and stopped, after three years, his baby face seemed to make him look as immature as a harmless and handsome young man, even though he was wearing an orthodox and strict silk unicorn red official robe, he looked at Yuwen Qinglian suspiciously, a pair of black lacquered glass eyes flashed a few hints of essence, and said strangely: "Yuwen Qinglian, what are you doing here?" ”
With his arrival, the palace people and guards around him saluted him one after another.
"Recently, the renovation of the pilgrimage palace is about to be completed, and I have come to express my gratitude to His Majesty on behalf of the Lord of Qingfeng Guan and the people who are grateful to His Majesty." Yuwen Qinglian's words were appropriate.
"Oh, for this, but His Majesty probably doesn't have the heart to pay attention to it at the moment, he's probably going to be angry!" Hu Lai scratched his pink cheeks, and he couldn't help but feel a little irritated between his eyebrows.
"Oh, what's the matter?" Yuwen Qinglian's apricot eyes showed a trace of care.
"It's not for that bad marriage, it's ...... Eh, anyway, it has nothing to do with you, you better hurry up and do what Your Majesty sent you to do, I have to hurry up and save the scene. ”
Hulai waved his hand impatiently at her, then threw the thorn to the eunuchs, and he went straight to push the closed door of the temple.
Yuwen Qinglian looked at the door that was closed after the restart, his eyes changed again and again, he pursed his lips, and secretly wondered in his heart: Is it because of the marriage? Could it be that Emperor Jing is unwilling, or is there something wrong with the marriage?
Listening to Hu Lai's words, Emperor Jing seems to have another thing to worry about, what is it?
Although it was not obvious on his face, Yuwen Qinglian had already turned thousands of thoughts in his heart.
On the other hand, it is said that Hu Lai stepped into the palace with a spirit of death, only to feel that as soon as he entered, it was at the opposite end of the climate outside, the outside was warm as spring, and the inside only felt that it had entered the cold weather of midwinter and October.
He shrunk his neck, and when he turned his gaze, he saw the group of officials who only knew how to pretend to be grandsons and knelt on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he really didn't come at the right time.
"Hulai."
There was a permeating and gloomy voice from the dragon seat in the hall.
Hu Lai immediately became a clever man, and hurriedly stepped forward to respond: "The minister is here, the minister is here." ”
"How long has it been since you left the palace?"
Hu Lai resisted the urge to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and stammered, "Well, it's almost three or three months." ”
"Three months? Lone thought it had been three years, but when he returned to the palace in a blink of an eye, he almost couldn't remember who was in charge of this dynasty! ”
This mocking sound suddenly made all the ministers kowtow in fear, and Hu Lai couldn't help but tremble and knelt down, and said, "Your Majesty is ......."
"Who decides the marriage?"
The official Shangshu looked up sharply with a miserable white cheek that seemed to be permeable, and happened to meet the cold emperor's iron-gray eyes with no emotion, those eyes were like a cold day and a cold night, which made people feel cold all over their bodies.
"The ministers are guilty, and the ministers are willing to bear all the punishment."
The ministers and ministers who were summoned in the palace also endured the cold and fear, and kowtowed vigorously to ask for guilt.
"Your Majesty, you have been on the throne for more than two years, and there is no concubine or concubine in the harem, let alone an heir, which is not in line with etiquette, even if you want to take off the head of the old minister, the old minister must do it." With an old face of resoluteness and determination, the elder of the pavilion prostrated deeply on the ground, and his words were loud.
When Emperor Jing heard this, he sneered, so it was such a large group of courtiers who went to his death to plan for him?
"Heh, since that's the case, in order to realize your loyalty to the dynamic world, you will all be dragged out of the body and beheaded!"
Everyone in the hall was shocked and sat down on the floor in disbelief.
The orderly Praetorian Guards came forward to pull people in order, and none of the ministers who were so angry dared to beg for mercy, and none of them resisted.
Jun Dinghong, who was standing under Emperor Jing's dragon seat, glanced at the group of ministers whose heads were hanging in suspense, and couldn't help but clench his fists and kneel on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, although this matter is disrespectful without your consent, the matter of choosing a concubine has always been prepared by emperors, although because you are not in the ministers to publicize this matter, some of them are arrogant, but it is not an unforgivable crime!" ”
Emperor Jing coldly took his hand, and a chill of the frozen abyss suddenly hit Jun Dinghong, Jun Dinghong only felt a fishy sweetness in his throat, and the huge pressure slammed down, almost making him stumble to the ground.
And Hu Lai looked at Jun Dinghong's anger, and then looked at the ministers who were dragged away, and said loudly in a hurry: "Your Majesty, the ministers have a matter that needs to be privately exchanged, and this matter is related to marriage. ”
Emperor Jing stood up slowly, stared at Hu Lai coldly for a moment, and with a swing of his long sleeves, he took the chief eunuch of his personal eunuch and turned into the side hall.
Hu Lai saw that there was still room for discussion in this matter, so he secretly sighed.
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Emperor Jing, who was still angry, stayed alone in a closed space, and how much pressure he needed to bear, I am afraid that no one could feel it more deeply than Hu Lai at this moment.
His heart was pounding, the cold sweat on his back was wet and dry, dry and wet, and he brewed for a long time with a dry mouth before he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, although the specific whereabouts of the person you ordered to find before have not yet been specified, but just some time ago, the minister got a message that has not yet been traced......
The breath of the frozen earth in the room suddenly stagnated.
Hulay's eyes lit up in vain...... Good show.
"Look ......"
Hu Lai was bold, and hurriedly handed the piece of royal card that he had prepared before to Emperor Jing.
Emperor Jing looked at it, his expression changed for a few moments, and finally said.
"It'...... Where did it come from? ”
Hulai hurriedly replied: "Yes...... Sent by the new emperor of the Ying Imperial Kingdom. ”
It turned out that the real reason why Mu Lige did not hand over the imperial decree to Nu was because he had already returned this hot potato to Chaoyuan Kingdom, which could be regarded as a kind of surrender and a temptation.
Emperor Jing flipped the imperial decree in his hand and watched it for a long time, his cold phoenix eyes did not blink for a moment, and he said lightly: "Does this have anything to do with what you want to say?" ”
"Yes, of course, wait, Your Majesty, there's another letter here, and you'll understand what it's like after you read it......"
Emperor Jing took the letter and read it quickly, and was silent for a long time.
"So, the lonely person is in the hands of the people of the Ying Imperial Kingdom at this moment?" When he spoke again, his face was as calm as a snow lake, and there was no trace of waves.
"Originally, the minister was not sure, but the minister got a message from the spy sent to the Ying Imperial Kingdom not long ago, which was about the angry marquis of the Ghost Snake Country."
Emperor Jing's eyes glared at him and motioned for him to continue.
Hu Lai felt that he was thin-skinned and timid, but he couldn't help such a sharp and focused opinion under His Majesty, he couldn't resist lowering his eyelids, swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva, and then said: "I heard that the Marquis of Nu would invite the Imperial Kingdom of Ying to go to the Kingdom of Chaoyuan together, the minister couldn't figure out what kind of dictatorial and tyrannical Marquis wanted to do this, and the Ghost Kingdom would never announce the protection of a certain country with such a bang and drums, and after thinking about it, the minister thought that this might be because the Imperial Kingdom of Ying had something that made the Marquis of Nu have to do it." ”
"This letter, do you think this is a threat to the Ying Imperial Kingdom?" Emperor Jing's greedy voice was like a mountain spring covered with snow, and ice slid through the bottom of people's hearts.
“…… Uh, maybe it's just a deal? Hu Lai felt that Mu Lige must not be so stupid, so he replied stubbornly.