"Daddy, if you don't marry, you don't marry!"

Dressed in a scarlet peach and loosely curled up on the top of his head, he stood in the hall of Zuo Cheng's Mansion, and stood up from the seat of the lower head in spite of the etiquette in great anger.

Just now Zuo Cheng was picked up from Taoyuanju on the mountain in the northern suburbs to her long-lost home, as soon as she came back, Daddy and Auntie, several brothers and sisters-in-law, but they couldn't wait to prepare for her marriage.

She is the one who wants to marry into the palace, but she is the last to know, which is ridiculous.

The family was talking, laughing, and talking with great interest, but with this abrupt sound, the lively atmosphere in the hall instantly fell to the bottom of the glacier.

Zuo Cheng frowned, stroked his chest-length beard, and turned his eyes to the courtyard outside the hall.

Zuo Cheng, who is a dignified country, at this moment, he didn't dare to look at his little daughter.

"No, Daddy knows, you just came back, and you are reluctant to Daddy and Auntie, and a few brothers and sisters-in-law. But the marriage period is imminent, and the one who wants to marry you is the emperor, is it possible, do you want your father to resist and disobey the will? ”

has been in the temple for many years, Zuo Cheng is like a spring, and his youngest daughter's temperament is not the same, and he naturally knows it as a father. So, he knew it with affection, moved it with reason, and helplessly told the half-truths and half-truths of his heart.

"This ......"

Otherwise, she grew up in the mountains and forests of the northern suburbs since she was a child, she was careless, and her temperament was also extremely simple, Zuo Cheng's deliberately sad appearance really deceived her, she hesitated.

If the body is weak, even the temperament is generally soft. It's just that, in the eyes of others, perhaps cowardice is more appropriate.

The hall was unusually quiet, so quiet that only the shallow breathing of everyone could be heard.

"Daddy, you just came back, are you going to send Feiran away again......"

I snorted, but at the same time, I felt that everything in front of me was beginning to blur and mottle. She slumped back to her seat helplessly, a salty bead slowly brushing across her slightly flushed cheeks.

I don't know when, in the already quiet hall, gradually, there were only two left--Fei and her father, Lord Zuo Cheng.

Still sobbing, she covered her eyes, tears seeping out between her fingers. She was very sad, she thought that Lord Zuo Cheng was going to send her to a barren mountain and wilderness where no one was in sight.

"Not ......"

Lord Zuo Cheng walked over and squatted in front of his youngest daughter Fei Ran, seeing Fei Ran's appearance, Zuo Cheng's pair of horizontal sword thick eyebrows were about to be twisted into two knots.

He doesn't like to shed tears, or he doesn't like it, but he is afraid. Because, this familiar scene always reminds him of someone.

"Not really...... Otherwise, you listen to Daddy, Daddy didn't want to send you to the palace, but now in the Holy Lord, he needs a reason not to let him marry the princess of Liang Kingdom, so he discussed with Daddy, and said that it was a family affair between the emperor and your grandfather for his grandchildren. ”

Zuo Cheng said, and the calloused hand between his knuckles gently patted Feiran's shoulder. But Meifeng did not relax at all.

In the end, he was guilty of this matter.

Feeling the gentle soothing from Zuo Cheng, he sobbed, wiped his eyes with both hands, raised his head, and looked at Zuo Cheng again, only to find that Zuo Cheng had stood up and stood on the side.

"Daddy, but...... But if you just came back, and the only people you know are you, where is the palace, and if you go there, you will never see you again? ”

Obviously, Fang had wiped away all her tears, but she looked at the figure of Zuo Cheng who was carrying her again, and her eyes were still blurry.

"Hah...... Silly boy, the palace is not far from Zuo Cheng Mansion, if the emperor agrees, Daddy and Auntie can enter the palace to see you, and you can also go back to Zuo Cheng Mansion yourself. The emperor is pure by nature, and he is also very considerate when he wants to treat people...... Daddy promises that you won't be wronged in any way......"

Lord Zuo Cheng, who has always been known for his vigorous and resolute actions, has said a lot of verbose words very rarely, but as a father, he is more like a mother in front of him.

However, even if he said ten, hundred, or a thousand more sentences. He still had his back to Fei Ran, he didn't dare to take a second look at Fei Ran, she and the person in his memory had the same appearance of pear blossoms with rain.

Guilty for life, he was afraid that if he looked at it again, he couldn't help but send him to a place where no one could find it overnight.

"If this is the case, it is better to go......"

With an extremely dull echo, there was also a silver bell on Feiran's feet. She bowed her head and walked out, and under the porch outside the hall, the little girl Shuangcheng had been waiting for her there for a long time.

The words are divided into two ends, people come and go in Zuo Cheng's mansion, and the whole house is busy preparing all kinds of things for the young lady.

In the palace, the Ministry of Rites had set the date of Xuanyuan Jue's wedding as early as three or four months ago, and the palace and outside the palace had been preparing carefully and cautiously.

The emperor's wedding should be cautious, but this preparation was carried out in secret by repairing the palace for Xia Wan, the princess of Liang.

Xie Jin, as the Taichang Temple Minister, also participated in it, and everything was arranged seamlessly. Inside and outside the palace, except for Xia Zhengde and Xia Wan, the brothers and sisters of Liang Guozong, and the palace people and internal servants who served in their residences, no one was unclear.

Maybe you know, but you don't hear much, but you only know that Xuanyuan Jue wants to choose a concubine from the family of the daughter of the courtier's family.

Some people also say that the candidate has already been decided, and it is nothing more than to choose one from the youngest daughter of the Zuo Cheng family, the head of the civil official, and the daughter of the nephew of the Dangong Gongzi, anyway, even if she loses this time, she will enter the palace as a concubine in the future.

Since Xuanyuan Jue "joked" a long time ago that he wanted to marry Zuo Cheng's youngest daughter and Dan's nephew, Zuo Cheng gradually alienated Dan's father-in-law, who had been cooperating for a long time.

In the past few months, under the instruction of Zuo Cheng, the nephew of Gonggong Dan, who is in charge of the camp in the northern suburbs, has been involved in several books by idle officials of all sizes.

Up to now, in the time of the first emperor, the civil and military generals who were still "living in harmony" have become more and more like fire and water in the court, as if they have a common hatred.

As soon as he got off the court, Xuanyuan had not gone far on his front foot, and he heard a few ministers arguing in the palace on the back foot.

"The emperor is the pride of the sky, the respect of the Ninety-Five, and he has to choose a very noble daughter, gentle and virtuous, so that he can afford the position of the Phoenix Palace. In terms of family background, this point, the daughter of Lord Zuo Cheng, who can I compare? ”

"That's a mistake! The selection of Fenggong is to be cautious, but now that the emperor has been on the throne for three years, it is the first priority, I heard that the youngest daughter of Zuo Cheng's family has been weak since she was a child, and she has been raised in the house in the northern suburbs for many years before taking it back, I am afraid that it will be difficult to accept the grace. Although my daughters are not as proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting as the daughters of your adults, they are all fit and healthy......"

Xie Jin and Xu He, who were accompanying them, listened to such a quarrel, looked at each other, and looked cautiously ahead. Suddenly, he realized that Xuanyuan had found a place to sit down, his right hand on his cheek, and his left hand was tapping on his knee with two knuckles according to the rhythm of the leaky pot.

Do you sit down and listen to the quarrel between the civil and military sides, or sit down and wait for the two to hear enough of the quarrel of the ministers?

"But you've heard it all? When you heard it all, you came to the imperial study to look for me. ”

Xie Jin and Xu He, from Xuanyuan Jue's face, could not see a trace of emotional turmoil, but the more peaceful they were, the more they felt that Xuanyuan Jue's heart was actually angry sea.

Seeing that Xuanyuan Jue's departing figure had been covered by the figures of the palace attendants who followed, and walked far, Xie Jin and Xu He hurriedly took a few steps, passed through the palace road, and came to the imperial study.

When they were summoned by Tongbu, the residual sweat on Xie Jin and Xu He had not disappeared, and cold sweat appeared on their foreheads. Even they didn't know whether it was the sweat from the trot or the sweat from entering the oppressive study.

Xuanyuan Jue was one step ahead of the two, but it was not only Xuanyuan Jue who was waiting for the two, Taifu Xie and Zuo Cheng were also waiting in the imperial study early in the morning.

"Minister Xie Jin (Xu He) knocks on the emperor!"

Xuanyuan glanced at the two of them, and hurriedly put down the piece he was looking at, waved his hand to signal them to get up, and glanced at Mrs. Xie and Zuo Cheng, who were standing side by side one after the other.

Seeing that all the palace servants serving in the imperial study had retreated, Xuanyuan Jue did not go around in circles. Single-handedly, he went straight to the ground and explained things.

"I have decided to take Lord Zuo Cheng's youngest daughter into the palace as the queen, the ancestral covenant, the order of the parents, I am afraid that this Liang country will still take the opportunity to send troops in the name of my repentance marriage."

Xuanyuan took a sip of the bitter tea soup in his hand, and turned his gaze to the four people under him, as if waiting for an answer, an answer that coincided with what he was thinking in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the wedding is approaching, even if you can hide it from Xia Zhengde and Xia Wan now, how can you hide it from the world on the day of the wedding? According to Yichen, it is better to put the two brothers and sisters under house arrest, and tell Liang Guo that the two are sick. ”

Zuo Cheng stroked the long beard on his chest, his brows furrowed, in fact, this matter is already tricky, and his idea is really not a clever idea.

"Lord Zuo Cheng, this plan is not a good strategy. If it is true that the Liang envoy and the princess of Liang Guo are under house arrest, if they are said to be sick, the emperor will get married here, and Liang Guo will not see the princess enter the Feng Palace, and secondly, he will not see the letters for a long time, and sooner or later he will be suspicious, and he may be in trouble one day. ”

As soon as Zuo Cheng's voice landed, Mrs. Xie immediately replied, making every sense of the sentence, and made every effort to make Zuo Cheng's omissions.

"Then just don't do it, let the emperor order to kill Liang Envoy and Princess Nachangle immediately, and the letter told Liang Guo that the two of them were infected with the epidemic and died."

Seeing that Mrs. Xie pointed out the shortcomings, Zuo Cheng, who was worried about his youngest daughter's entry into the palace, had always been touted by a group of courtiers, and he felt that Mrs. Xie was finding fault at the moment, and without waiting for Xuanyuan Jue to make a statement, he immediately came up with another idea.

It's just that the anger brought by the blow on the face is not much more clever than the method of house arrest.

"Lord Zuo Cheng couldn't help but think it through, and killed him lightly, using his death as an excuse, Emperor Liang was afraid that he wouldn't believe it, but instead gave them a good excuse to send troops! Now that the military power of the DPRK and China is still in the hands of Gonggong Dan and others, how can they be so hasty? ”

"If Lord Taifu has an opinion on Chu, he can admonish him directly in front of the emperor, and he doesn't have to be so calculating about people's mistakes and not letting go!"

Although Mrs. Xie's words were slow and long, it was like a finger gradually pinching the seven inches of a poisonous snake that spit out a letter and intimidated others, grasping the omission in Zuo Cheng's words, and taking the opportunity to attack head-on.

Zuo Cheng, who had been troubled a lot for several days, was stimulated by Mrs. Xie's words, as if the medicine letter had touched the flame of Xingwei, and the whole anger exploded.

In front of Xuanyuan Jue, the two of them sneered at each other.

Xu He on the side, even Xuanyuan Jue, who was sitting on the seat, muttered in his heart, although this Zuo Cheng was arrogant in the front dynasty, but he also had nothing to do with Taifu Xie, why did Taifu Xie look so aggressive today?

Others don't know, but how could Xie Jin not know his own Lao Tzu's thoughts, if nothing else, the youngest daughter of Lord Zuo Cheng's family was originally the daughter-in-law candidate of Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie.

Although Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie only met once a few days ago, at the ceremony prepared by Lord Zuo Cheng for his youngest daughter, the couple felt that this girl named "Chu Feiran" was a perfect match for their own son, although it seemed that their temperament was too soft, but Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie saw her, and the girls from other families couldn't look down on her.

However, before Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xie could ask for a matchmaker, they heard the news from other ministers that the girl was going to enter the palace.

Is this because he felt that his daughter-in-law was robbed by the emperor, and it was not easy to ask the emperor, so he sent his resentment on Zuo Cheng?

Xie Jin sighed softly and subconsciously shook his head, and this action was immediately looked at by Xuanyuan Jue.

Seeing the situation in front of him, and thinking back to these days, when Taifu Xie saw him, he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and he was depressed, and Xuanyuan Jue actually guessed seven or eight points in his heart at this time.

Originally, he thought that he had sealed Xuanyuan Qi to Linchuan, and Taifu Xie was full of opinions about him......

"Master Taifu, Lord Zuo Cheng, there is no need for the two Aiqing to have much dispute here. If I want Xuanguo to take the first action in this matter, I will always be at a loss, I think, as long as I find a way to let Liang Guo take the initiative and not marry the princess of Changle, this matter can be consummated, do you have a high opinion? ”

Sensing that there was some rather awkward atmosphere in the imperial study, Xuanyuan cleared his throat and restrained the back-and-forth between Taifu Xie and Zuo Cheng.

"Emperor Shengming, this loss-making thing, should always let the Liang country do it, the ministers are stupid, and now they really can't think of an idea, you have this word, I think the plan has been made in the chest, and the ministers are listening."

Zuo Cheng was about to speak, but when Taifu Xie saw it, he opened his mouth one step ahead of him, and respectfully waved to Xuanyuan Jue, and at the same time, his eyes glanced at Zuo Cheng on the side proudly.

If it weren't for Xuanyuan Jue still being there, and his youngest daughter was about to enter the palace, I was afraid that Zuo Cheng would come up and knock down Mrs. Xie's hair crown with one punch, and then scuffle with Mrs. Xie.

"I also want to thank Master Taifu for his clever memory back then, and there was no detailed writing on the marriage contract between the two kingdoms of Xuanliang, only that the princess of Liang married into the marriage of Xuanguo to repair the good of the two countries. Liang Guo was afraid that he didn't think much about it at that time, but now, it just so happens that he can choose one of the princes and nobles to marry. Can you choose between the two adults? ”

Xuanyuan smiled, fortunately, he re-read the marriage contract with Liang Guo yesterday, so it was not that he regretted his marriage first.

But new problems have also emerged, the best candidates for marriage are the royal family, but the imperial veins of the Xuanguo Kingdom have been sparse for several generations, and there are even fewer suitable candidates, not to mention, the first emperor was quite suspicious of the clan because of the problem of the successor candidate, and he was degraded and degraded, and the exiled were exiled, and the rest were far away, even if they were summoned now, they couldn't catch up.

Then we can only retreat and select from the children of the family, except for the children of the generals who now hold the military power, the civil ministers and princes who already have families, those who are still young, and those with a good family background, so after such a calculation, there are only two candidates left.

It was Xuanyuan Jue who was now standing in the imperial study who summoned Xie Jin and Xu He.