As long as no one specifically mentions this matter, the emperor will not know, this north is far away from Kyoto, and no one will be bored to see what is at the end of the canal.

Xue Chen thought so, so he didn't take it to heart, but he never thought that there were really people who were so boring.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Su Qiange didn't want to cause trouble with the people, so he had to nod.

"Ge'er, I have something to show you." Xue Chen suddenly spoke, his voice a little nervous.

Su Qiange looked at Xue Chen's empty hands, then at the still lively crowd behind him, and said with some confusion, "Here, is there anything else I haven't seen?" ”

"Naturally, and most importantly!" Xue Chen took Su Qiange's hand and stood by the steps of the pavilion and clapped his hands at the crowd.

The crowd that was still lively just now quickly quieted down, and quickly formed five teams in front of Su Qiange, and the five people led by Zheng Yi and the four were actually them.

"What are you?" Su Qiange was stunned for a moment, she pointed to the fireworks in their hands, and the doubts on her face deepened.

Zheng Yi and the others didn't answer Su Qiange's words, but they each turned around and gestured to their team, and they moved again.

The originally neat team was disrupted like this, and Su Qiange stood in that place, not knowing what they wanted to do.

"Ge'er, this is for you."

Xue Chen's voice sounded in his ears, with obvious nervousness, Su Qiange turned his head to look over, only to see Xue Chen holding two jade pendants in his hands.

Su Qiange picked up the two jade pendants and found that they turned out to be a pair, and the gap between the two pieces could just be combined.

On the top of the jade pendant is a lotus flower, which was engraved on the two jade pendants separately at this time, Su Qiange took a closer look and found that the two jade pendants were engraved with a word, "song"

"What is this?" Su Qiange rubbed the jade pendant with her fingertips, wanting to imprint every trace in her heart, she spoke softly, but at some point, tears had fallen.

Xue Chen raised his hand to wipe away the tears on Su Qiange's cheeks, with a look of pity, "Ge'er, I'm sorry, I lied to you that I was busy with the canal these days, but it's not, I'm just thinking about how to give you a gift that surprises you." ”

"So, you dug it out and carved it yourself?" Su Qiange suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Xue Chen was covered in dirt and his hands were covered with blood blisters, so he had prepared this for himself.

"How's it going, are you still satisfied?" Xue Chen smiled awkwardly, to be honest, he didn't have any confidence in his heart, several big men had studied it for a long time, this was the most thoughtful gift they could think of.

After all, Su Qiange was not short of money, and all the precious things would not necessarily make her happy, so several people made suggestions, and finally decided to let Xue Chen personally make a gift for Su Qiange.

"I remember that your Danqing painting is good, why is this flower so ugly?" Su Qiange was complaining, but he grabbed the jade pendant tightly in his hand, but he didn't dare to push too hard, he was afraid of losing it, and he was afraid of being crushed by himself.

"But Xue Chen, I like it very much, thank you." Su Qiange didn't wait for Xue Chen to explain, so he added another sentence.

Xue Chen's heart went up and down, and finally fell steadily after hearing the words I like very much, he reached out and hugged Su Qiange in his arms, lowered his head and kissed the tears rolling down her cheeks, and said softly, "Ge'er, this time I will return to Beijing, please ask the emperor to give me a marriage, marry into the Hou Mansion, and be my wife, okay?" ”

Su Qiange gently moved out of Xue Chen's arms, reached out and clasped the ten fingers of Xue Chen's hand, felt the temperature of his palm and the heartbeat sound from his wrist, met his eyes, and said a word seriously, "Okay!" ”

"Really?" Xue Chen almost jumped up, he hugged Su Qiange into his arms and confirmed it again.

"Good!" Su Qiange deliberately lengthened his voice, with a little doting in his tone, there was no way, Xue Chen at this time was like a child.

"Great, great." Xue Chen hugged Su Qiange in a circle, and the cheers became higher and higher.

Zheng Yi made a gesture with the four obedients, and several people raised their hands to their team at the same time, and whispered, "Begin." ”

The crowd became lively again, and they took out their fire crackers, lit fireworks, and waved them in mid-air.

"Ge'er, look." Xue Chen stopped his movements and asked Su Qiange to look at the crowd.

It turned out that these five teams put five words in front of Su Qiange, just now because it was too dark to see clearly, at this time the crowd lit up fireworks, Su Qiange saw those words clearly, "May I be happy." ”

"Miss Su, may you be happy with Ping Nanhou forever!" The crowd spoke in unison and sent the most beautiful blessings to the two.

Su Qiange was already speechless with excitement, she tried her best to squeeze out a smile, held her eyes in her sockets, and bowed respectfully to the crowd, "Thank you, thank you." ”

The fireworks slowly went out, but everyone blessed Su Qiange's hot heart, but it will never be extinguished, for the people, Su Qiange is their patron saint, but for Xue Chen, Su Qiange is the person he will cherish in his life.

Despite all the reluctance, this beautiful and happy night still passed, and Su Qiange and Xue Chen also embarked on the journey back to Beijing.

In the imperial study, the atmosphere was weird, Princess Ping'an stood opposite the emperor, and wanted to speak several times, but she forced the topic down.

"Your Majesty, do you have anything to do with me?" After struggling countless times, Ping An still had the courage to ask, after standing here for so long, her body was almost frozen.

"Ping'an, why haven't I heard you mention Pingnanhou recently?" The emperor didn't look up, just put a secret letter into the brocade box on the table, and asked lightly, the tone seemed to be chattering, and it seemed to be questioning something.

Ping'an frowned, "Your Majesty, you forgot that I was brought back by you on the way to the north." ”

"Pingnanhou escorted Zuo Ye back to Beijing some time ago, do you know?"

The emperor didn't care about Princess Ping'an's blame, she had always been arrogant, and it was common for her to be neither big nor small in front of him, he didn't mind, or rather, now his mind was not on these.

"Yes, but it's only been back for two days." Princess Ping'an nodded, a little aggrieved, but she seemed to have accepted her fate.

"Ping'an, Xue Chen is in charge of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, and he is very capable, if you still want to recruit him as a concubine, the emperor will help you."

The emperor only looked at Princess Ping'an at this time, and his tone was gentle and full of love, completely with the expression of an elder brother loving his sister.

But Ping An knew that behind this love, there were too many things she didn't want to mention.

"But the emperor, the Marquis of Pingnan and that Su Qiange are talented and beautiful, and they are really safe......"

As early as the last time she went to the north, she made it clear to Xue Chen, and Princess Ping'an made up her mind to bury her love for Xue Chen deep in her heart.

"Ping'an, you have to remember, you are a princess, the entire Great Cloud Country, as long as it is what you want, the emperor will not let you down, do you understand?"

The emperor didn't give Princess Ping'an a chance to continue, just stared at her eyes and emphasized to her word by word.

Princess Ping'an knew that she couldn't refute it, so she had to nod, "Your Majesty, Ping'an understands, I've bothered you." ”

"Good, you are the most noble princess of the Great Cloud Kingdom, how can you be wronged?"

The emperor continued to speak, with a slight demagogy in his tone, which made Ping An feel scared unconsciously.

"Peace thanks to the emperor's grace. If the emperor has nothing else to do, then Ping An will retire first. ”

"Let's go down." The emperor waved his hand, and half lay back on the dragon chair a little tiredly, rubbing his eyebrows irritably.

After a long time, the emperor got up, opened the brocade box, and read the secret letter again, there were only a few numbers on it, but he couldn't ignore it, "Your Majesty, the canal is open, and the people have set up a stone tablet, thank Xue Chen and Su Qiange." ”

"Xue Chen, Xue Chen, what should you do if you let me take you." After a long time, the emperor threw the secret letter into the torch and groaned.

The first thing Xue Chen and Su Qiange did when they returned to the capital was to enter the palace to meet the emperor, one was to inform the canal about the canal, and the other was to let the emperor marry the two.

For this reason, Xue Chen deliberately changed into a court dress that he hadn't worn for a long time before entering the palace. Xue Chen was already magnificent, even if it was the coarse linen clothes on weekdays, it was difficult to hide the nobility on his body.

What's more, Pingnanhou's court clothes are much more elaborate than those of other officials, and after Xue Chen wears them, the temperament of the whole person has improved a lot, standing on top of the court, he is not half a point worse than the person on the dragon chair.

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live, Wei Chen is here to restore his life."

"Pingnanhou, please get up, this trip to the north is still going well?" The emperor's face was full of smiles, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes.

The courtiers couldn't look directly into the emperor's eyes, Xue Chen didn't notice anything wrong, and still respectfully respected, "Thanks to the emperor's blessings, the construction of the Grand Canal is going well, and the drought in the north and the flood in the water town are solved together, all relying on the emperor's wise decision." ”

"If it weren't for Ping Nanhou's proposal, I wouldn't have been able to make a decision, this matter was successfully completed, it was all the credit of Ping Nanhou, what reward do you want, just say it." The emperor waved his hand, very atmospheric.

"Thank you for the emperor's grace, and Weichen dared to ask the emperor to marry Weichen."

"Marriage? What Ping Nanhou said, but Princess Ping'an? ”

The emperor pretended to be confused, and said the words Princess Ping'an with a smile.

Xue Chen hurriedly opened his mouth to deny it, but he was very puzzled in his heart, "The emperor said that he laughed, Princess Ping'an has golden branches and jade leaves, Weichen really doesn't dare to climb high, the person in Weichen's heart is Su Qiange, Su Yushi, and ask the emperor to marry the two of us." ”

"Su Yushi, said that she went back to Beijing with you this time, why didn't she follow you into the palace?" The emperor smiled, did not answer Xue Chen's words, and directly changed the topic.

"Back to the emperor, Su Yushi is not a court official, and this time when he returns to Beijing, he is not allowed to enter the palace without a summons from the emperor."

Xue Chen didn't know what medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd, but he could only answer his question.

The emperor nodded, and then pretended to be tired, "That is the case, then in two days, I will invite Su Yushi to come to the palace to take a turn, by the way, Pingnanhou, you come back this time, you haven't seen Princess Ping'an, it's okay to go to her palace for two days, the little girl has a temper, only you can control her." ”

After the emperor finished speaking, he didn't care about Xue Chen, and got up and left directly, leaving Xue Chen to stay where he was, looking puzzled.

After Su Qiange returned to the restaurant, she asked the account room to send the account book to her room, but after reading it for a long time, the account book still stayed on the first page, but Su Qiange had already snickered many times.

Probably reminiscing about the fireworks that night, or because the jade pendant on his body was too presence, in short, it was the first time that Su Qiange was so eager to hear the news of Xue Chen's return from the palace.

"Girl, Pingnanhou is here!" The voice of the little guy came from outside the door, and Su Qiange hurriedly answered and got up to open the door.