Rong Xiang hurriedly thanked the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother said to Ye Xuemei and Wan Delin: "Today, the mourning family has prepared wine and food, and the two of you will eat here with the mourning family!" ”

After Ye Xuemei and the Queen Mother sat down, Wan Delin poured a glass of chrysanthemum wine for each of them that she had brought in advance. Ye Xuemei tasted it and said: "This chrysanthemum wine is sweet in the mouth, and it has a fragrance of chrysanthemums, it is indeed a good wine!" ”

After hearing this, Wan Delin smiled and said: "I made this wine myself, if the girl likes it, I can ask someone to send the girl a few more jars!" ”

Ye Xuemei replied: "Where is this, since it is brewed by Wan Shilang himself, it must be a rare thing, so it is better to keep it for yourself!" ”

"Girl, don't excuse yourself! I remember that the girl lives in the Rui Mansion now. When I go back, I will send a few altars to the palace of King Rui. ”

When Empress Dowager Wan heard Wan Delin say this, she couldn't help but smile and said: "It turns out that there is no wine, but it depends on the talent!" ”

When Ye Xuemei heard this, she was slightly surprised, "Why did the Queen Mother say this?" ”

"Before you came, the emperor came to see the mourning family, and he also tasted Delin's chrysanthemum wine, saying that it was very delicious, and said that he wanted a few jars, but he said that there was no wine. How do you know that Xuemei, you have excused yourself and said no, but he has to think of a way to send it out, isn't this a matter of talent? ”

Wan Delin knew that the Queen Mother was ridiculing him, he was a little embarrassed to laugh, and said: "My nephew also just remembered that there was still wine in the cellar that had been brewed before, so he gave it to Miss Ye!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan knew that he was embarrassed, so she didn't continue the topic, but said: "Okay, don't talk about it, let's eat together, otherwise it's going to be cold!" ”

Wan Delin is a very talkative person, and he will say some interesting things when he was an official in Jiangning, which caused the Queen Mother and Ye Xuemei to always smile from ear to ear. Therefore, this lunch was quite relaxed.

After lunch, a word came from the Xingde Palace, saying that the emperor had summoned him, and he must have asked something!

After Wan Delin left, Empress Dowager Wan stepped forward and asked Ye Xuemei, "Are you interested in accompanying the mourning family to Shanglin Garden to enjoy chrysanthemums?" ”

Ye Xuemei said: "Being able to accompany the Queen Mother is a blessing for Xuemei!" ”

She came to Shanglin Garden with the Empress Dowager Wan, where a lot of chrysanthemums were planted. Autumn is the season when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, whether it is a house or a mountain side roadside, you can always see the figure of the gentleman in the chrysanthemum. And there are a lot of precious varieties planted in the Shanglin Garden, such as the ink peony, the jade feather tube, the Yaotai jade phoenix, the green autumn wave, a ball of snow, the side marigold, etc., countless, the whole Shanglin Garden is dotted like a cloud, people are like it, there is often a feeling that it is still in spring.

When passing by a pavilion, Empress Dowager Wan and Ye Xuemei sat in together. Immediately, a palace man placed the tea cup with the fruit on the stone table made of white marble.

Empress Dowager Wan took a sip of the green tea soup brewed in Longjing after the rain, and said, "Xuemei, what do you think of this child Delin?" ”

Ye Xuemei listened to Empress Dowager Wan's question, frowned, carefully considered how to answer, and after a while, she said: "Wan Shilang is funny and humorous, he is a very good person!" ”

"Delin, this child, grew up under the watchful eyes of the mourning family, although he was born in a noble family, he is more diligent and hardworking than those children of poor families. He was able to have today's achievements because he got it on his own, and the mourning family never interfered. When he was twenty years old, his family betrothed him a family affair, and the two were married in harmony. It's a pity that the child was not blessed, and he died only two years later. In the time when the child had just left, Delin described it as withered, and the mourners looked at him, and their hearts were really uncomfortable. It's been five years since this happened, but Delin is more tired than fifty years! ”

"I didn't expect Wan Shilang to have such a poignant past!"

"The brother and sister-in-law of the mourning family wanted to renew the strings for him several times, but he just refused!"

"I think it's Wan Shilang who can't let go of his deceased wife!"

"The dead are gone, but the lives of the living go on. You say, don't you? ”

"Give Wan Shilang some more time, he should be over!"

Empress Dowager Wan looked at Ye Xuemei and said with a smile: "What about you?" Have you ever put it down? The mourning family knows that Emperor Xia has hurt you deeply, but you can't be in this state all the time. Even if you live in King Ning's mansion, King Ning will take care of you in every way, but he will never be able to take care of you for a lifetime, and these plans still have to be done. ”

Empress Dowager Wan's words made Ye Xuemei's hand clenching her handkerchief tightly, and she replied: "The revenge has not been avenged, how dare you think about those things?" Everything can only be thought about after the great revenge is avenged! ”

"The mourning family has already told the emperor that when the time is right, the emperor will send troops to attack the Xia Kingdom. Besides, isn't there still your cousin? In the end, these revenge things are better left to the men to do! How about marrying Delin if you want? ”

Ye Xuemei hurriedly knelt down and said to the Empress Dowager Wan: "Empress Dowager, Xuemei has never thought about this matter, please ask the Empress Dowager to give Xuemei a while longer, Rong Xuemei think about it carefully!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan's face collapsed in an instant, but after a while, her smile returned to her face, "Okay, since that's the case, the mourning family will give you a period of time to consider." However, the mourning family still hopes that you can be the nephew and daughter-in-law of the mourning family! ”

After the two said these words, Ye Xuemei left in the soft sedan chair when she came.

After she left, Wan Delin, who was supposed to be on the emperor's side, came out and asked, "Auntie, how is it?" Did she say yes? ”

Empress Dowager Wan stretched out her hand to look at her royal blue armor and said, "She doesn't seem to want to marry you!" ”

Saying this, Wan Delin immediately knelt at the feet of the Empress Dowager Wan, "Auntie, my nephew has taken a fancy to her, so I want to marry her!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan looked at him like that, and said angrily: "You get up, what do you look like?" Do you really like her that much? ”

"Yes, aunt! It's so stunning, how can my nephew not like it? ”

Ruoqiu, who was on the side, saw Wan Delin's appearance, so he smiled lightly: "Wan Shilang hurry up, the Queen Mother only said that she didn't want to marry, but she didn't say that you can't get married!" ”

When Wan Delin heard this, he immediately became overjoyed, "Since this is the case, thank you aunt!" ”

Empress Dowager Wan looked at Wan Delin in front of her, and said coldly: "This marriage, you are decided, she has to marry if she doesn't marry!" ”

Gongliang stopped in the south courtyard and looked at the folds handed by the military defense battalion, although his eyes were watching, but he couldn't see it in his heart anyway, and his eyes glanced at the door from time to time.

After seeing Ye Xuemei come back, she hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is it?" Are you alright? ”

Ye Xuemei shook her head, "It's not good!" ”

"What did the queen mother call you into the palace?"

Ye Xuemei's brows frowned, she knew that the Empress Dowager Wan called her into the palace not just to attend the banquet, but she never thought that the Empress Dowager Wan would actually give her a marriage.

After seeing that Ye Xuemei was silent, Rong Xiang on the side replied: "The Queen Mother recruited the girl into the palace to give the girl a marriage!" ”

As soon as he heard the word marriage, Gongliang's face turned pale instantly, and he forcibly stopped the emotions in his heart and said, "Then you agreed?" To whom are you going to be betrothed? ”

"I didn't say yes. It's the new right squire of the criminal department, Wan Delin! ”

"I know him, he is the nephew of the queen mother, after Yu Xiyi's accident, he was transferred to the capital by the imperial brother, it seems that soon, he will become the secretary of the criminal department!" After saying these words, he was silent for a long time, and then said: "Since you don't want to, then I will enter the palace and return to the queen mother!" ”

"No, don't!" Ye Xuemei stopped, "At this time, you should be completely involved in this matter, and it is best not to have any relationship!" ”

"But I can't watch you marry someone else!"

"What are you saying these things for? I want to hear what is true in your heart! ”

When seeing the most thorough conversation between the two of them ever, Rong Xiang deliberately found an excuse to leave. Gongliang Yuzhi looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, he knew that he couldn't let go of her no matter what, since that shocking glimpse many years ago, he was destined to be entangled with her for the rest of his life!

"Actually, I saw you long before Emperor Moxuan's birthday banquet. At that time, I was invited to go to Xia Kingdom, and before the birthday banquet began, I wandered around the market casually. Unexpectedly, he saw a farmer who took his cow's tongue to the government to judge the case, saying that his cow had been cut off by someone else, and he wanted the government to find the person who cut off his cow's tongue. ”

However, the government could not conclude the case, saying that it was difficult to find the perpetrator. At this time, a veiled woman came up to the farmer and told him to go back and slaughter her cattle for the neighbors. If anyone goes to the government to sue him for killing cattle at that time, then he is the murderer! The farmer did as she was told, and when he returned, he slaughtered cattle to entertain his neighbors. In the afternoon, a man went to accuse him of slaughtering the cow. The government arrested the person who came to complain, and after careful interrogation, it turned out to be the same as what the veiled woman said. ”

It turned out that the man's neighbor was jealous when he saw that he had raised the ox well, and he cut off the cow's tongue in the night. Originally, he wanted to wait until the cow died in pain due to bleeding before falsely accusing him of abusing the cattle. Because it was illegal to slaughter a ploughing ox without permission, he cut off the cow's tongue, which would have led to the man's arrest and imprisonment. Unexpectedly, after having this strategy, the murderer was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and finally harmed others and himself! And the woman with the veil is you! ”

"The farmer himself was also very pitiful, his only cultivated cow died, and if he wanted to go down to the field again in the future, he would have nothing. When I saw that he was pitiful, I gave him some taels of silver afterwards and told him to buy cattle and start over! ”

Ye Xuemei listened quietly to what he said, with a look of surprise on her face, "You mean that the person at that time turned out to be you?" ”

"Why, did you notice me then?"