Chapter 4: The Storm Goes Away (4)

As soon as Qu Ning's zuihou voice fell, the emperor's face turned iron-blue, in the end, he was young and his qi cultivation skills were not enough, revealing a little truth. After he rarely revealed a short moment, about the true emotions of his future sister-in-law, the obvious anger and resentment, a trace of guilt quickly crossed his face, and his expression when he looked at Qu Ning was also a little unnatural: "Sister, you know everything?" "Whose hand is so long? It was not easy to persuade her to agree to the marriage, which is related to the overall situation and involves a lot. He tried his best to hide the news from this sister, just so as not to cause any unnecessary waves on the eve of the wedding.

Qu Ning nodded calmly: "Brother Emperor, I came here for this matter, I heard that Young Marshal Tang didn't want to marry me." There was not the slightest sadness in her expression, but there was only a deep pool of indifference.

The emperor couldn't help but be a little surprised by her calmness at this time - how many of Dafan's daughters' family can neither be shy nor sad when they hear that the marriage is not going well?

This was not what he expected. After a moment of silence, the emperor suddenly felt that his sister was like a completely different person since she agreed to the marriage. Rao is heart was surprised, he settled down but shook his head and said, "Third sister, don't worry. It's up to you to decide this. Since ancient times, major marriage events have been the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. How can a child talk to himself? If the surnamed Tang really dares to bear you, he is disloyal and unfilial, and there will be someone to crusade against him when the time comes. The emperor's eyes seemed to be casually scraping across Kong Jinghao's face, and he caught a glimpse of contemplation on it as he wished, and then he said slowly, "Sister, you go back to the palace to get married with peace of mind, and don't worry about the rest." ”

Qu Ning shook his head and smiled when he heard this, and the dimples on his cheeks were deep: "Brother, if it's really that simple, you don't have to seal my palace door and don't let people send newspapers in." The emperor didn't want her to say more, but it sounded like it seemed to look like it, and the content was not like what he thought before was to "cry, make trouble, and hang himself" and clamoring to withdraw from the marriage, so he actually listened to her finish, "Tang Shaoshuai, according to what the newspaper said, since he returned to the country and began to make an uprising and revolution, it has been ten years now. In the past ten years, the old courtiers who fought the world with his father have begun to pageant beauties, marry wives and concubines, and have children. But on the contrary, Tang Shaoshuai was clean and self-conscious, never participated, and he didn't even have a little star by his side. What does this mean? ”

The emperor and Kong Jinghao looked at each other almost with each other: what does this mean? That Tang Shaoshuai is said to have believed in that kind of Christianity when he was studying abroad, but he didn't like to take concubines. Isn't the foreigner's set of not taking concubines, not talking about inheritance, and not talking about fathers and sons? The surname Tang has forgotten his ancestors, what else is there?

Qu Ning smiled: "This shows that Tang Shaoshuai is a person with self-control and lofty goals. "The young man with strong blood, once famous, stepped into the flower shijie, but he was unmoved, and endured for ten years, when the people around him began to rise hedonism, he walked independently, and there was no sign of a series of courtesan celebrity female students showing haode, which is no longer a simple "self-control" can be summarized, if everything is as in the newspaper' As the lace news writes, then this person's firmness is moving, and on the other hand, his goal must be extremely ambitious.

"......" Sister/Her Royal Highness the Princess is really okay to speak for that bandit leader like this? Both the emperor's and Kong Jinghao's faces distorted.

Qu Ning's fingers tapped lightly on the newspaper, and began to count with a smile: "Among those people who showed him haode in the past, just what was written in the newspaper, there are many temptations that ordinary people will not refuse," she lowered her head and counted, the smile on the corner of her mouth shone, as if it was not her fiancΓ© who was surrounded by flowers and butterflies, "With the same background as him, there may be students studying in the United States who have a common language, beautiful city ladies who are chased by ordinary men, progressive students, revolutionary colleagues, oh, and the daughter of Tang Dashuai's right-hand subordinate, They are all kinds of different types of warblers and swallows, but none of them have entered the eyes of his Tang Shaoshuai. Brother Emperor, he didn't fancy any of those beauties, he didn't get married for a long time, but now he wants to marry me, will he be willing? This man, in her opinion, can be summed up in only eight words: perseverance is like steel, and heart is like iron.

The emperor slapped the table with an angry expression: "My sister is one of the most noble women in the world, does he dare to be willing?!" Kong Jinghao behind him also bowed slightly, obviously thinking so.

Come on, my good brother, this kind of talk is just self-deception. The smile on the corner of Qu Ning's mouth stiffened: she knew that the appearance of her body was good, and she also knew that her current identity could be regarded as a strange commodity in the eyes of some people, but for Tang Shaoshuai, women's beauty was about equal to dung, and the so-called advantages of other identities were just thorns in his eyes.

The fact is that the more noble and prominent her status is, the more that man doesn't want to marry her.

Waving his hand weakly, Qu Ning sighed: "Fortunately, if my brother says more, it doesn't matter if Tang Shaoshuai wants to marry me or not. The important thing is that this kind of self-purity and self-control of his has become his 'incompetence' and even a sin in the eyes of his relatives and those who care about him. So Tang Dashuai wanted to force him to marry me in a hurry, and the wedding date was set in such a hurry. On the other hand, in the eyes of some people who have conflicts with the Tang family and value our royal status, they hope that this marriage will not be successful. Therefore, Tang Shaoshuai's own wishes are not important. What is important is the face of the Tang family and the value attached to this marriage. "Poor Tang Dashuai has to start the salute with such a thunderous speed, obviously he doesn't want to give Tang Shaoshuai a little time to react!

Tang Zhong himself is not in a hurry to get married and have children, and is willing to think about dedicating himself to his ideals, but the people around him are impatient.

Although compared with the past, the door of the country has been opened, and the wind of Western liberalism has blown into China, in the final analysis, the idea of passing on the family is still there. In her previous life, this idea was still plagued even into the twenty-first century.

Tang Zhong's progress compared to the anxiety of the people around him is simply a tragedy! It is always difficult for people to understand people who have advanced with the times.

"People who have conflicts with the Tang family ......" the emperor repeated this sentence gently, his face showing a bit of contemplation.

He immediately understood: "Sister, are you talking about the Feng family?" ”

The Tang family is in charge of the northeast, and the Feng family is in the southwest. The two families are almost divided into two countries, and they also have almost equal seats in the Diet. If anyone who wants to see Tang Shaoshuai get married and have children the most, who most wants the Tang family to have no heirs, I am afraid that it must be the Feng family.

If the marriage between the Tang family and the royal family does not come to fruition, then the first person who secretly celebrates with his hands will be the Feng family. The emperor only thought that this matter hurt the royal family's face, and Qu Ning reminded him, and then he suddenly realized: It turned out that someone else should be more anxious about this marriage.

"So, this time, if we want to make our entire palace public, and force me to go out naked, who will it mean? When I got married, I was empty, and whose face was it? The corners of Qu Ning's lips hooked slightly, and the inducement in her words was very obvious.

The emperor's eyes suddenly lit up, he thought for a while, Zuihou stood up excitedly and paced repeatedly, and slapped his high-five: "Yes, why didn't I think of it!" He didn't take a few steps and suddenly realized something, and turned his head with a tiger face, "Who said that sister, you want to go out naked, how can you casually hang on to your daughter's mouth like this!" Okay, okay, my brother will handle this matter for you, so you better go back and prepare your wedding dress as soon as possible. ”

Qu Ning's purpose of coming today has been achieved: the emperor has his own way to let the Tang family go to this for them, she believes that she dare not say anything else, she can at least get a dowry equal to the value of the dowry.

She breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart: she didn't want to find trouble, but unfortunately the dowry was directly related to the quality of her future divorce days, and she couldn't push it, and she couldn't let it. As for whether the mastermind behind the scenes is the Feng family? Heavy or?

As long as those people in the Tang family believe that it was the Feng family who did it behind their backs, even if it was for Tang Shaoshuai's own face, they would not be able to back down, they had to come up with this hand on her behalf and let her marry out in style.

That's enough.

When the goal was achieved, she didn't dwell on it anymore, smiled and blessed her body, and pointed to the honey cake on the table: "Brother, remember to taste it, I made it myself." ”

"My sister's craftsmanship and heart, I will definitely not waste it." The Emperor nodded.

Qu Ning said goodbye and went out with peace of mind.

She stepped out of the palace gate and was about to walk back to Shoukang Palace, but she had just passed the imperial garden halfway, but suddenly heard a loud call from behind: "Her Royal Highness Princess, Her Royal Highness Princess......"

It's a man's voice.

Fortunately, at this time, most of the eunuchs and guards in the palace had already been released, and there was no one to guard the road, otherwise this would have become a big scandal. Disturbed by this call, Qu Ning turned around with a faint frown, and nodded to the man who was panting and running over, his voice was light and cold: "Mr. Kong." ”

Her voice was not always gentle, on the contrary, it seemed to bring a bit of solemnity in the autumn wind.

Kong Jinghao only felt that the heat all over his body was like a basin of ice water suddenly extinguished, but he had already run here, so naturally he would not retreat halfway, after all, there were some words that he had secretly practiced many times.

It's really like a bone in the throat, not vomiting and unhappy.

"Your Highness, you have been wronged." He sighed and said, "Marrying such a thief is really wronged by a golden body like you." I only hate the weak strength of the Weichen people, although they have the intention to kill the thief, but they are unable to return to the sky. And you endure for a few years, if you have the opportunity to ......"

His voice is beautiful, and his voice seems to contain infinite love and affection.

If it falls on the ears of ordinary women, it may make people's hearts sway, and it is difficult to control themselves.

But the woman in front of Kong Jinghao just waved her hand and bent her knees gently: "Mr. Kong, there are some things you yourself know you shouldn't say." In that case, I won't be able to listen to it. Leave. ”

Kong Jinghao was stunned, he reached out to grab the hem of the woman's clothes that was about to slip off his eyes like a swimming fish, and said hurriedly: "Your Highness, are you angry with Weichen?" I don't want you to be wronged like that......"

Why didn't he understand.

Qu Ning turned her head helplessly and looked at the man's upright and handsome face.

Kong Jinghao in front of him was dressed in a long shirt, his appearance was handsome, he was born in the branch of the Kong family in Shandong, and his whole body was full of a kind of scholarly anger - that's right, if it sounds good, it is called bookishness, and if it is ugly, it is called pedantry.

He has been in the palace since he was nineteen years old as the emperor's staff, because the palace is not secret now, and the emperor has a heart, so he has met her a lot of times. And Qu Ning, as the emperor and "one of the most noble women in China" in his eyes, as her development and appearance gradually became mature and gorgeous, it is not surprising that many times in his eyes have captured lingering persistence and the flame of desire.

This person's thoughts about her are not overnight, but he didn't say anything before, and today...... Qu Ning suddenly realized in her heart: Perhaps, it was because she was stimulated by the incident of "someone fighting".

For such a scholar, maybe if she doesn't say it thoroughly, he won't understand, right?

Qu Ning was silent for a moment, then sighed and spoke: "Do you think there is any point in saying such things now?" Or do you think you're Fan Li and I'm Xi Shi? Do you think I really don't know what you and my good brother are planning behind your back? She paused slightly, perhaps because these words had also been suffocating in her chest for too long, and there was no one around, only the sound of cicadas was left, covering their voices here, and her speed of speech became faster and faster because of the fluctuations in her emotions, "Even if it is Fan Li and Xi Shi, the ending of zuihou cannot be boating on the West Lake!" How can a broken mirror be round again! Mr. Kong, do you know what I admire the most? ”

This is a rhetorical question, when Kong Jinghao was intimidated by her brighter and brighter eyes at this time, she had already given the answer herself: "If you don't make peace with your relatives, you won't pay compensation, you won't pay tribute, the Son of Heaven will guard the country, and the king will die!" In the two hundred and seventy-sixth year of the country, until the last emperor died in the coal mountain, they did it. What about you? ”

Qu Ning's voice gradually rose higher.

She couldn't forget the teacup she had broken when she first heard them negotiate compensation for the land cut.

It was the man in front of her who said to her brother, 'If you want to go outside, you must first settle inside.'" He also said, 'It is better to be with a stranger than with a domestic slave.'"

History is always strikingly similar.

It was the man in front of her, in order to keep her brother's throne, that Zuihou came up with a way to sign a series of contracts with the powers, and give up the land wealth to outsiders in exchange for their support for his throne.

She persuaded her brother, but the woman's cry was completely ignored.

There were some words that she had held in her heart for too many years, but now in the face of this man, she almost blurted out, and she did not pause at all: "Mr. Kong, do you know how big the remaining area of our country is now?" Do you know how many national treasures have been lost and never recovered? Do you know that because of your groveling, our countrymen are inferior citizens in front of those foreigners? The indemnity in the year of Wuxu, and the land in the year of Gengzi...... Which one wasn't behind you? Mr. Kong, I won't be with you! Even if I betray my relatives and leave me alone, I will never be with you! Because one day, you will be nailed to the pillar of shame by history, for those so-called expediency measures of yours! Mr. Kong, your name is Tang Zhong Thief, and you call yourself Weichen in front of me, but in fact, in my heart, you are the biggest traitor! And I, I'd rather sleep next to a thief than be in the company of a traitor! Kong Jinghao, did you hear clearly, you and I definitely can't be all the way! I don't love you, I won't love you, and I can't be with you! When hell freezes over! ”

This is the first time Qu Ning has revealed her true thoughts in front of Kong Jinghao.

Perhaps because of the undisguised fierce resentment in her words, or because of the burning flame in her eyes, the kind of boredom that was difficult to hide, Kong Jinghao actually felt that his mind was blank: before he finally made up his mind today to confess his feelings to the princess before she got married, he never thought that he would get such a scolding of the head.

No blushing. There is no heartbeat. Not moved.

Some are just hatred and disgust.

weishenme? What went wrong? Aren't they supposed to ...... Shouldn't they have the same goals and pursuits? Didn't she like him at all?

They are the Confucian family, but they are the most staunch royalists!

Kong Jinghao paused for a long time, and Zuihou only held back one sentence: "But if it weren't for me and my colleagues in it, Bixia would have been forced to abdicate or even be forced out of the palace, and even her life may not be saved." ”

Qu Ning stared at this face for a long time, and she nodded expressionlessly: "If my brother dies because he refuses to sign those humiliating traitorous treaties, I am willing to die with him." Or, if I'm lucky, I'll do everything in my power to avenge him. But now......" she let out a long sigh, "he is my dearest relative, although I can't persuade him, I can't hurt him, but I ...... in my heart, "Righteous killing relatives, this word is easy to say, but it is too difficult to do, people are emotional animals after all, "so I can only treat myself as dead, don't look at it, don't listen to it, don't say it......" She let out a long sigh, her face was a little complicated, she shook her head, her expression gradually calmed down, and she returned to her original calm appearance, It seems that the person who accuses this man like a roar is not her. Years of silence and years of silence, but all because she and them have never been the same people.

That's it. Men and women do not kiss, with the relationship between you and me, it is best not to zaijian in the future. Qu Ning's words were cold.

Kong Jinghao stood in place as if he was frozen, staring at her back as Nana left.

This is the woman he fell in love with at first sight, and it is the woman he finally mustered up the courage to confess his heart to her.

No, this kind of ending, he can't accept it!

Kong Jinghao clenched his fists in the shade of the tree, pressing his joints to a crackling sound, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out of his teeth: "Qu Ning...... You wait, I will definitely marry you. ”

No, if you and I are not all the way, then who can you be with, all the way? Who in this world will accept you as much as I adore you?

When the Tang family falls, the emperor will marry you to me, and at that time, I will naturally reverse your current distorted thoughts......

Kong Jinghao walked away with a gloomy expression. After waiting here, calm finally returned, and on the side of the red wall, two men dressed in military uniforms walked out.

The one in front has a cold face, and the one in the back has a hippie smile.

I saw that the one in the back gave the person in front an elbow: "How does it feel to see your daughter-in-law early?" ”

"......" The man dodged and nodded, but didn't say anything.

The moment behind him was stunned: "Huh? Didn't you cry and cry not to marry her? "Why didn't you blow up your hair when you heard him say the word daughter-in-law at this time? Then he reacted at once and laughed, "Could it be that you like it when you see it?" Not to mention a marriage with feudal decay? ”

The man finally spoke, his voice low and steady: "People who can say such things are not feudal decay. Yes, I will marry her. ”

He turned and glanced at the man behind him, "Let's go back." ”

"Aren't you here to quit your family!!" knew that meeting him would dispel his thoughts, why did he try his best to beg for him to let Young Marshal Tang enter the palace!

"No, let's go back......"

"Aren't you afraid that she said that to you on purpose?"

"Who can teach her to say such things? Little Emperor? Or is it that Kong Jinghao? ”

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The voices of protest faded into the wind, and the garden returned to calm.