Chapter 7: Face Saint
"Xiaotong, you just wait here, so as not to lose your dignity in front of Your Majesty. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Mu Lixuan glanced back at Zige and said lightly. Zige bowed his head, knowing that his little abacus would not escape his eyes after all. And Mu Lixuan is still thinking about her, and before she is completely ready, any direct contact with the emperor will be an adventure.
Zige raised his eyes to look at Lian'er again, and saw that she had a bitter face, as if she was quite worried that she would face the saint alone, so she winked at her and smiled comfortingly. Lian'er nodded lightly, and took a broken step and left with Mu Lixuan.
"The slave is Wei Fang, the girl can wait here, it's windy outside, stay under the porch and don't get cold."
A smiling eunuch took over the conversation smartly, and raised his hand to point behind a beaded curtain by the door, which was warm and quite hidden, and did not obstruct the entry and exit of others. Zige smiled gratefully at him, then stood behind the bead curtain with his hands down, and peered silently.
The warm pavilion became very quiet for a while, and you could hear the clear sound of dripping and the whirring wind outside. Several palace maids and eunuchs all stood by the door with their heads bowed, motionless, like statues, and the eunuch Wei Fang, who had just spoken, seemed to be the consul in the cabinet, and had been wandering in front of the porch since several people entered, as if they were trying to know the progress of the things inside, but they were trying to hide their intentions.
After half a pillar of incense, several princes came out of the back room one after another. Gao Zhan walked in the front, with an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, and without noticing Zige, he walked out of the warm pavilion with his head held high. Chu Jiang, who had been waiting outside for a long time, stepped forward and saw him bowing his head slightly, and his face was slightly happy.
"Second brother! Second brother, don't leave ...... yet."
A young man with red lips and white teeth shouted loudly, and chased after him, he looked like he had just passed adulthood, his long hair was high, and his skin was better than snow, but he was a beautiful woman.
When Gao Zhan heard this, he stopped and looked back at him, as if he had expected this to happen.
"Fifth brother, my father has already made a decision on this matter, and it is useless for you to plead with me."
Although he didn't say much on his face, his voice was a little cold. The fifth prince, Gao Yu, stood by the door, bit his lower lip, and cast his pleading gaze to the two behind him again.
"Third brother...... Fourth Brother...... Don't you have anything you can do? ”
The third prince, Gao Huan, and Gao Zhan's mother, have always been close, and they have always been only Gao Zhan's horse, so they just glanced at him silently, and then brushed their sleeves away. The fourth prince, Gao Cong, is easy-going, always smiling and welcoming, and has always had little power in the court, so he can only persuade him with kind words.
"Fifth brother, although the north is a bitter cold place, Tuoba has gradually risen in national strength in recent years, and the son of the world is said to be a talent, and Su Su will not necessarily be unhappy if he marries in the past."
Gao Yu's eyes were slightly red in a hurry, but he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only shake his head and sigh. After Gao Cong said a few words, he also excused himself and left in a hurry.
"Yu'er, don't worry."
At this moment, Gao Zhenfang walked out slowly, wearing a wide court robe, which made him more and more shapely. Standing in the sun, he reached out and gently patted Gao Yu's shoulder.
"Big brother...... That's Su Su, it's our sister, it's my sister......" Gao Yu lowered his head and clenched his fists, "I promised her that I would protect her safety and joy, but now my father is ......"
The word 'sister' seems to have stirred Gao Zhen's heartstrings somewhere. The smile on the corner of his lips stiffened slightly, and then he said: "The father has not yet made a clear decree on this matter, and the Tuoba mission has not set off for Beijing, so everything has taken a turn for the better. If you go back and discuss with your mother, maybe Bo Wanghou will have a way, but I don't know. ”
"The second brother is calling for wind and rain in the court, although he has the means, he refuses to help, the third brother and the fourth brother are even more rudder, and the eldest brother, your own situation has always been bad, but Fang Cai is still helping me speak in front of my father. People's hearts are warm and cold, and you can see it at a glance. A very shallow smile appeared on Gao Yu's face, and he raised his hand to salute Gao Zhen with a solemn expression, "Yu'er thanked Su Su for her eldest brother's compassion. ”
Gao Zhen frowned slightly, but he avoided the past, and there was a reproach in his tone: "Since you said that Su Su is our sister, you shouldn't do these false courtesies again." Isn't it right for the eldest brother to do something for Su Su? ”
Gao Yu was stunned for a moment, then realized that he was contradictory, and hurriedly blamed himself: "It's Yu'er who is confused." I'll go to my mother to say goodbye to my mother, and say goodbye to my eldest brother first. ”
Gao Zhen nodded, watched him walk away quickly, and then looked back, only to see Miao Qing's figure waiting silently in the shadows.
"Miao Qing, didn't I let you wait in the car first?" Gao Zhen saw that his clothes were thin, and he was already dissatisfied, and saw that he was behaving slowly when he saluted, so he couldn't help but say again, "Although the weather is good today, the wind is cold, and you have a wound on your leg, so you shouldn't have come out to attract the wind." ”
Miao Qing lowered his head and said without humility or arrogance: "It's okay, leave Your Highness to others to serve...... I'm not at ease. ”
Gao Zhen sighed lightly, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go home." ”
Zige took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention in the pavilion, poked his head out from behind the bead curtain, and looked at a master and a servant leaving calmly, but his heart was like a mixture.
Fang just hid behind the curtain and eavesdropped on a few people, and she had roughly guessed the whole thing. In recent years, the rise of Beizhou Tuoba has occupied the old land of Xianbei, the lord of the northern border, and learned from Daqi to reform the military and political system, and the national strength has been increasingly revived. His Majesty no longer wants to use the iron-blooded hand of the strong suppression of the northern territory back then, but instead uses the way of gentleness to maintain the rare peace and prosperity of the present.
However, unlike Nanzhao, which is a friendly neighbor country, if you want to rebuild the old friendship with the barbarian country in the north that once met each other, Daqi has to show full sincerity, and marrying the princess is the best choice. And now there are few princesses of appropriate age in the palace, presumably His Majesty thought about it, and finally chose Gao Su, the sister of the fifth prince Gao Yu, the princess of Qinshui.
Zige fiddled with the broken jade bead curtain, but sighed softly like Gao Zhen. Gao Su is twelve years old this year, which is the same age as when he had an accident, and at the beginning of February, the girl was not aware of her thoughts, so she was going to be sent to the miserable place in the north by a marriage letter, far away from her relatives in her homeland, and went to raise her eyebrows with the barbarians. Mo said that she was a princess, even the children of ordinary people, and it was difficult to bear such an arrangement.
For the sake of his own sister's happiness, the fifth prince Gao Yu did not hesitate to alarm the holy driver, and also asked His Majesty to take back his fate, which was a brotherly relationship.
And Gao Zhen spoke for Princess Qinshui, but in order to fulfill the regret of not being able to protect himself thoroughly?
Zige stood gloomily in place, listening to the crisp sound of the collision of the bead curtains, and was speechless.