The emperor's luncheon was placed in Qiwu Palace, which surprised the queen, in recent years, the emperor's lunch has almost been used by himself, and he is rarely with the harem concubines.

After lunch, the emperor lay on the couch to rest, and the queen spontaneously sat aside for him to press the scalp intimately, and after a cup of tea, the emperor opened his mouth and called her.

The queen immediately held her breath and stared, she guessed correctly in her heart, the emperor must have something to discuss here, and now this is about to speak.

The emperor took the queen's hand down, then sat up straight and looked at her and asked, "Does the queen know about Lu Zhenzhen's request for marriage in front of me?" ”

The queen was stunned, she guessed that something was wrong, but she didn't guess that it was this kind of thing, Zhenzhen, this girl is too, if you fall in love with which son, just come to her aunt and say it, why did she go to the emperor by herself?

Seeing that there was no displeasure on the emperor's face, the queen couldn't guess whether things were good or bad, so she had to ask out loud: "I don't know which son Zhenzhen has a crush on?" ”

"Hmph," the emperor first snorted coldly, and then laughed again, "The queen really doesn't know, I think if you knew, you wouldn't be sitting in the Qiwu Palace." ”

The queen chuckled in her heart and looked at each other strangely: "What does the emperor say?" ”

The emperor rubbed the wrench on his finger and said slowly: "She has a crush on my courtier, Pei Yuan. ”

When the queen heard this, she immediately cried bitterly, this girl fell in love with Pei Hao, why did she fall in love with Pei Yuan, and she was a little annoyed at the moment: "This child who has no eyesight." ”

"I see her very well-eyed, and the king who is deeply loved by the officials and admired by all the people, can't she still be liked by a little girl?" The emperor stood up, didn't look at the queen's expression, and just said something with a smile.

The queen couldn't hold what the emperor's attitude was, they were now in a state of incompatibility with Pei Yuan, what kind of excitement was this kid getting together at this time, but the matter had to be resolved, no matter how unhappy the queen was, she had to continue to ask the emperor what he meant: "The emperor agrees." ”

The emperor shook his head, the queen was obviously relieved, and then thought about it for a while, how could the emperor marry his mother's child to Pei Yuan.

The queen was relaxing, and the emperor threw her another problem: "What does the queen think this matter should be?" ”

The queen was stunned, she didn't want her mother's family to have anything to do with Pei Yuan, just because Pei Yuan was the biggest stumbling block to her son's ascendancy now, she couldn't wait for Pei Yuan to die immediately, how could she still want to marry her niece, but ......

The queen's eyes rolled, and she felt that this matter was not without benefit at all, so she considered it and said: "If the emperor agrees, it doesn't matter, this may be an opportunity for us to ease our relationship with Pei Yuan." ”

The emperor turned his head and frowned at the queen: "What do you say?" ”

"Zhenzhen, this girl, I understand, she will never do anything unfavorable to her mother's family, since Pei Yuan said that he has no intention of this position, why don't we sell him a good one, personally protect him, give him a beautiful daughter-in-law, and in the long run, he will always accept his heart. Wouldn't it be a pity that such a good courtier didn't 'reuse'. "As long as he doesn't think about the throne, he can assist King Kang well in the future, and it is nothing to give a niece to marriage, not to mention that this is what Zhenzhen's child asked for by himself.

The emperor didn't say good, he didn't say bad, he thought about it all night, and finally decided to adopt the queen's suggestion, and the next morning he mentioned this matter in front of hundreds of officials: "King Xian has been single for many years, and I forgot to be the emperor's brother, and yesterday it was the queen who mentioned it, and I felt that I owed King Xian for many years." ”

The emperor looked at Pei Yuan and saw that he didn't have the slightest intention of answering, so he had to continue to speak: "I discussed with the queen yesterday, Miss Zhenzhen of the Lu family has already passed the line, and her appearance is also very compatible with King Xian. ”

The Lu family is the queen's mother, and the emperor's decision has to make everyone below guess what is behind this matter, it seems that the royal family is still one, and I think my uncle will not compete with his nephew for the throne.

Pei Yuan didn't care what others thought, he endured it and didn't speak, until the end of the early dynasty and after the hundred officials retreated, then he refused: "The emperor's marriage is not a matter of worrying about the emperor's marriage, what is that Miss Zhenzhen, the emperor should give her to another family." ”

The emperor was a little unhappy, but he still patiently asked: "King Xian doesn't like it?" This Miss Zhenzhen, whether it is her appearance or talent, is also ...... in this capital."

"It has nothing to do with these, the minister's brother has his heart, but now is not the time, it is inconvenient to inform you, and the emperor's heart and brother will understand it." Pei Yuan refused again.

Pei Yuan refused to give marriage, and others did not know about it, so after leaving, they were discussing when the holy decree of marriage would be given, and when King Kang would be given the position of crown prince.

The same is true of the Shen family, Shen Jiajue always felt that this matter was not simple, and she couldn't help but ask Shen Xiang during lunch: "Father, what do you mean by saying that the emperor is doing this, is this to win over the king in the name of marriage?" ”

Shen Xiang pondered for a moment and nodded and replied: "It should be like this, it seems that King Xian's strength has posed a big enough threat to the emperor, but the emperor didn't dare to touch him, so he would think of such a way, using the daughter of the queen's mother family to marry a prince, which is equivalent to using a princess to make peace with the enemy country in wartime." ”

Shen Jiajue said helplessly: "It seems that we still have to serve a straw bale emperor in the future." ”

"Are you talking about Pei Yuan, the king of Xian?" Shen Jiahe listened to the conversation of his father and brothers, and his heart was like a cat's paw.

Shen Jiajue nodded: "Yes, although there is no decree yet, the emperor only said that if King Xian has no objection, he will make an edict in the near future, and I estimate that this matter will be in a few days at the earliest." ”

Shen Jiahe bit his chopsticks, but still asked: "He didn't refuse?" ”

Shen Jiachen glanced at Shen Jiahe strangely, but still replied: "No, we can't think of any reason for him to refuse this matter, I heard that Miss Lu Zhenzhen is also the premier beauty in the capital, I don't know if my sister has seen it at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet that day?" ”

Shen Jiahe shook her head unconsciously, there were many daughters at the banquet that day, how did she know who was chastity and who was fake, she suddenly felt that the food in her mouth had no taste at all, it was really difficult to swallow, so she barely drank a small bowl of soup and lasted until the end of lunch.

When he returned to his yard in despair, Shen Jiahe looked at the empty courtyard and remembered the night Pei Yuan came over, obviously the two had exchanged hearts the day before, but he was about to accept the emperor's marriage in the next second.

Could it be that the men here want three wives and four concubines?

Shen Jiahe scratched his head irritably, and saw Bai Ying pruning flowers and branches in the yard, so he called her to come close and ordered: "You go to King Xian's Mansion and ask our rabbit back." ”

"Is Miss going to raise it herself?" Bai Ying asked after putting away the scissors in his hand.

Shen Jiahe hummed in a muffled voice, Bai Ying saw that her face was a little bad, and she didn't dare to ask more, so she quickly called a carriage and went to King Xian's mansion.

Pei Yuan sat in the glazed hall and sorted out the treasure he bought for Shen Jiahe, and when he saw Liuyu running in from outside, still holding the rabbit in his arms, he asked out loud: "What are you doing here?" ”

Liuyu stepped forward and looked at Pei Yuan cautiously and asked, "Lord Wang, have you offended Sister Shen recently?" ”

Pei Yuan was stunned: "No, what's wrong?" ”

Liuyu pursed her lips, not believing it at all: "If the prince didn't offend Sister Shen, how could Sister Shen send Bai Ying to ask for this rabbit we raised, I heard Bai Ying say that Sister Shen seems to be very unhappy." ”

Pei Yuan looked at the rabbit in Liuzhen's arms, it has been raised for a long time, but it is not afraid of people at all, this will jump out of Liuzhen's arms and go straight into his arms, so that Pei Yuan couldn't help but smile, he touched the rabbit's head and ordered: "Call Bai Ying to come in and talk back." ”

When Bai Ying entered the Liuli Palace, she saw the rabbit lying in Pei Yuan's arms obediently, and she didn't dare to catch it at the moment, but said, "Miss told the slave maid to come and bring the rabbit back." ”

Pei Yuan returned the rabbit to Liuyu and motioned for him to send the rabbit back to the backyard, then looked at Bai Ying: "What else did she say?" ”

Bai Ying shook her head: "I just feel that the young lady is not very happy, and the slave maid also thinks it is strange, but I didn't dare to ask more when I saw that her face was not good." ”

Pei Yuan nodded, he probably guessed what Shen Jiahe's unhappiness was, it is estimated that she knew about the marriage this morning, this is to make trouble with himself again, thinking of this Pei Yuan is a little funny: "Go back, this rabbit is still here, you go back and tell your young lady, just say that this king will personally send it to her at night." ”

originally thought that after Bai Ying went back and returned according to what he said, Shen Jiahe would obediently wait for him to come to the door, but what Pei Yuan didn't expect was that he planned to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion at night with gifts to explain to Shen Jiahe, but as soon as she entered the door, she started with herself.

Her offensive was urgent and fierce, and she didn't give him a chance to speak, and the two fought more and more, and soon the movement became bigger and attracted the maids in the courtyard.

Bai Ying hurriedly shouted loudly to the guards, and someone outside the courtyard also rushed over with lanterns, Pei Yuan had no choice but to stop opposite Shen Jiahe, and shouted at Bai Ying and Bai Wei: "Don't shout, it's this king." ”

The people in the courtyard were stunned for a moment, but fortunately, Bai Wei reacted in time and drove all the maids out of the courtyard, and at this time, the people outside the courtyard also rushed over, Pei Yuan looked over and saw that it was Shen Xiang and his wife, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"The prince of Xian broke into the prime minister's mansion at night, which really impressed the old man." Shen Xiang looked at Pei Yuan coldly, and his tone was very unkind.

Pei Yuan watched Mrs. Shen pull Shen Jiahe into the room, and then looked at Shen Xiang and said: "This king just came to explain some things to Ling Qianjin, but he didn't want to be treated as an ordinary squire by Ling Qianjin." ”

Shen Xiang snorted coldly, obviously not believing this kind of statement: "Is there anything that can't be solved during the day, you have to climb the wall and slip through the window in the middle of the night?" Although my little daughter is a divorced person, she also wants a reputation and a clear reputation, did you not think about it before doing things? ”

Pei Yuan apologized again: "This is the fault of the juniors, it is the juniors' inconsiderate thinking, and I hope that Lord Shen can forgive the juniors for the sake of the juniors' sincere treatment of Ling Qianjin." ”

Shen Xiang looked at Pei Yuan in surprise, he made the information in Pei Yuan's words a little stunned for a while, and ignored his title of self-surrender, but this time and place is not a good time to talk about things, but his attitude has improved a lot: "Today's incident should not have happened, the prince should go back." ”

After Pei Yuan left, Shen Xiangjing went straight to Shen Jiahe's room: "What is the matter between you and King Xian?" ”

Shen Jiahe didn't dare to continue to hide it, and only confessed to the fact that he lived in King Xian's Mansion before: "My daughter is also forced to do so, and I ask my father not to be angry." ”

Shen Jiahe's confession did not reassure Shen Xiang, although Pei Yuan has always been a prince they are very optimistic about, but this is only the opinion in the officialdom, in his selfish heart Shen Xiang and Shen Jiahui have the same idea, he doesn't want his daughter to have anything to do with the royal people.

Now that Pei Yuan's prestige in the court is getting bigger and bigger, whether he will sit in that position in the future, or whether he will have a dispute with the royal family, is something they can't foresee now, if he really comes to this point, then he will once again push his daughter into the fire pit.

Mother Shen saw Shen Xiang's brows tightened, and knew that he was no less worried than herself: "If you can't rest assured in your heart, why don't you ask Pei Yuan to come over and talk." ”

Shen Xiang shook his head: "What are you talking about?" In what capacity can I talk to him? ”

"It's okay to rely on him to break into the Prime Minister's Mansion at night, and Jiahe has a deep friendship with him, so he may not know it!" Mother Shen sighed, "I always can't guess why she is unhappy during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and now I think about it, I am afraid that it is all because of Prince Xian, and many young ladies did not convey their love to King Xian that night, I am afraid that your stupid daughter is jealous." ”