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"Bold!" I didn't have time to think about it, my body was already faster than my brain, and I shouted this sentence, everyone turned their heads to look at me, I was stunned for a moment, and Master Zhao also turned his head to look at me, I paused for a while, and continued, "This is Yangri Palace, how can you be presumptuous?" Collided with Your Majesty, why don't you kowtow to Your Majesty? ”

Master Zhao obediently kowtowed his head and said, "The concubine deserves to die, Your Majesty is angry." ”

King Ping was stunned when she made this fuss, she was not angry yet, and the words were intercepted by me, and Master Zhao kowtowed and confessed her guilt, and she couldn't send out her fire now.

"Prime Minister Xia Cheng has been in a high position in the country, and now that he has come to the strange place of Chenguo, it is inevitable that he will be bored, and he will ask you to dance, what do you have to complain about?" I continued to talk to Master Zhao.

"Concubine..."

"What kind of vision is Prime Minister Xia, I have already seen the world of life thoroughly, and I heard that Prime Minister Xia Cheng's husband and wife Qin Se and Ming, raised their eyebrows, and asked you to go just to watch the dance to relieve boredom, why do you spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?"

"Ten thousand concubines die."

"Your Majesty, Master Zhao is not a person in the palace, he doesn't understand the rules, he is a dereliction of duty, if His Majesty is angry, the minister is willing to be punished." I turned and saluted King Ping. King Ping raised his eyebrows, seemingly not angry. I thought about Prime Minister Xia again: "Prime Minister Xia, since Master Zhao has brushed your face today, I will not spare her easily, I believe that Prime Minister Xia Cheng is a humble gentleman and will not be like a girl." ”

Xia Naiqing seemed to want to attack me, but when he saw that King Ping didn't move, he said indignantly: "Everything is arranged by Prime Minister Zhou." ”

"Prime Minister Xia Cheng is really a lot of adults, so it's good, let's continue to listen to the music, don't spoil the interest." I then said, "Why don't you step down quickly?" Master Zhao kowtowed and retreated. I smiled and said, "Soft red, let's play "Shilang Gu" again." ”

Soft Red saluted and sang, and I sat down and continued to drink.

"Okay, you Zhou Yulan, you're so good now." He Yunsheng smiled, "You're very good at talking." ”

"Don't make fun of me, my legs have been shaking until now." I took a few sips of wine and exhaled deeply, "I'm really afraid that Xia Naiqing won't stop just now." ”

"You have lifted him to the sky, and if he doesn't let go, won't he give himself a good face?" Madame sandwiched a piece of meat for me, "It's just that how can I see, this Master Zhao is a little interesting to you?" ”

"Ma'am, I'm innocent." I'm busy.

"That's not good." Madame snorted and confiscated my wine.

Between the banquets, I drank a little too much, so I came out to breathe, and my wife called Qiu Ming to follow me, I walked out, turned around, and turned to the backstage where the singers and dancers were resting, I saw that I hit the fat powder pile, and I was going to leave, but if I looked closely, they were all girls I was familiar with, that is, the one in the midnight building, and then I looked carefully, and found my fourth sister.

"Yu Lan." The fourth sister also saw me and called me over.

"Fourth sister, why don't you go in and eat something?" I walked over and found Master Zhao sitting next to her, looking at me with a gentle face, I told her to look a little flustered, and hurriedly turned her head to look at my fourth sister.

"If you come and go with me, I can't eat it." The fourth sister said with a smile, "But I know about you at the banquet today, I know about the relief of the master at the banquet, just listened to the rain and listened to the snow to show me one by one, you are really bold, and you are also lucky to lose, Your Majesty is not angry, and Prime Minister Xia is not entangled." ”

"Wasn't it my luck?" I smiled, "Besides, Miss Zhao is the signboard of your Midnight Tower, if Xia Naiqing is leaving, and I don't say a word, you have to blame me when you come back." ”

"I don't dare to offend the Prime Minister." The fourth sister narrowed her eyes, leaned into my ear and whispered, "Shishi has never favored anyone for so long, but she just told me that she likes you very much." ”

I took a few steps back and shook my head.

The fourth sister got up, pulled me to a corner where there was no one to speak, and said, "I know Dong Aoi's temper, and I don't expect Master Zhao's life to be as good as Soft Qing, but you can come to Midnight Tower to see her." ”

"Recently, the mission of the country has visited, where do I have time to go to the Midnight Tower? Besides, now that Lord Liu's family has also moved to the Midnight Tower, if he bumps into me and goes to the Midnight Tower, he will have to join me again! I tried my best to prevaricate, "Besides, it's impossible for my house to raise a singing and dancing troupe, do you want to kill your brother?" ”

The fourth sister was slightly stunned and sighed: "The truth is all for you to occupy, what else can I say?" I just think that the girls in Midnight Tower are very pitiful, you look at Soft Red, she has lost so much weight for Du Duzhen, and Soft Green has entered the Hou Mansion, but the last time I went to the Hou Mansion to see that her face was not as good as in the Midnight Tower, I feel sorry for them. ”

"I know, Fourth Sister." The fourth sister worked hard to support the entire Midnight Building alone, and the girls in the Midnight Building were all personally selected by her, some of them she brought out of the workshop, and some of them were met on the side of the road, but every one of them she treated her well from the bottom of her heart, and she didn't want to see every one of her grievances. But I can't accept Master Zhao, I don't have any admiration for her, and my familiarity and liking for her are not even as good as soft green... No, Master Zhao is also my Peach Blossom Tribulation... Thinking of this, I thought of Wu Zipei who fell from the city gate.

Qiu Ming came over at this time and said: "Xiangye, it's been a long time since you came out, and you should be anxious if you don't go back." ”

I was about to leave, so I used this as an excuse to say to the fourth sister: "Fourth sister, I'll go first." ”

"Go, go, go." The fourth sister didn't know why she had a sad face, waved at me, and turned to leave.

After the palace banquet, I didn't take Master Zhao's matter to heart, and the next day I went to talk to Xia Naiqing as usual, I refused to let go of the tariff issue, and I was unwilling to reduce the tariff, and Xia Naiqing tried every means to reduce the tariff on the country, so I said it for two hours, and I didn't get any results.

Xia Naiqing is really as the third brother said, vigorous and resolute, speaking very loudly, several times he got up and asked the guards to press back, I sat in front of him like a pins and needles, the anger in my stomach was nowhere to go, and my heart said You are not happy and I am not happy, who is better than whom?

I don't know if it's because of Master Zhao's business, Xia Naiqing was dissatisfied with me, and deliberately made things difficult, and for a whole day, there was no progress on the tariff issue. I went home very depressed, and as soon as I got back, I collapsed on the Taishi's chair, and I didn't want to say anything.

Since Lu Ying and my sixth sister have been close, Huang Wantong has often wandered around the Xiangfu alone, and then he came to me again, handed me a wicker of Guanyin willow, and said: "Xiangye, the backyard of the Xiangfu is simply a small garden, it's all April, and it's still blooming so well." …… How not to be happy? Did Prime Minister Xia Cheng give you a look? ”

"Let me lower tariffs, it will not be possible in the next life." I said sullenly, "Sooner or later, the conversation will collapse." ”

I thought about it for a while, and then remembered that the national teacher said that Han Fu would also send someone to win over Xia Naiqing, and I felt a bad chill, thinking that the task assigned to me by the national teacher was too difficult, what else could I do with Xia Naiqing, a person who was cunning and couldn't splash oil and salt?

"Although Xia Cheng is in a high position, but in terms of status, Hou Ye is higher, and our country is still martial, and we attach more importance to military power, if you can win the vote of Hou Ye, it is still possible." Huang Wantong said.

"It's difficult to win over Marquis Lu, although your master is not familiar with political affairs, he is not a fool, if he can't get any benefits, how can he help me in vain?" I sighed and said, "Besides, you are a native of the country, and if you help me like this, I wonder if you want to take some benefits from me." ”

Huang Wantong glared, waved his hand and said, "I just said a few words casually, when did I help you?" ”

I said: "I know, if you and you help me, it is our duty not to help me, and I don't expect the two of you to help me anything." ”

was so provoked by me, Huang Wantong was immediately unhappy: "Of course I can help you." ”

I waved my hand pretending to be disinterested: "Go ahead, let me be quiet for a while." ”

"Xiangye!" Huang Wantong stood still and said, "Chen Kingdom is now in civil strife, what you are most afraid of is the interference of the State of Si, and it is not the worst thing to interfere, the worst thing is that the Kingdom of Si falls to King Yuwen." And the Lu family is the one who is in charge of the most soldiers in the country, if you win the support of the Hou Ye, it means that you have no worries. ”

"I know what you're talking about." I leaned on the Taishi's chair, hoping that she could reveal something more, "But how can I win the support of the Hou Ye?" There has to be a promise, right? And I couldn't win the support of Hou Ye. ”

"Master Hou likes the sixth girl, can't you see it?"

Lu Ying likes my sixth sister, I can see this, but does Lu Ying really like my sixth sister? Or is it just a temporary freshness? They have only been together for ten days, how much can they know about each other? Marriage is a lifelong thing, can you decide based on this understanding alone?

Huang Wantong saw that I didn't speak, and said: "If you marry the sixth girl to Hou Ye, you will definitely be able to get a promise from him, think about it, since you are Hou Ye's brother-in-law, Hou Ye can't face you?" Once two families get married, can't they help each other? ”

"No way!" I said these two words almost subconsciously, the sixth sister has no mother like me, and she has never been out of Wucheng since she grew up so much, I am not even willing to marry her out of the city, how can I bear to marry her to the country? Luzhou is so far away, if she is bullied, who will she talk to? Who can support her? Moreover, it is true that once the marriage is married, Lu Ying will agree to my request, but on the contrary, at some moments, I also have to agree to Lu Ying's request and contain each other.

Huang Wantong frowned and said, "Xiangye..."

"The sixth sister grew up with me, how can I bear to marry her off as a marriage tool?" I thought of He Yunsheng's sisters again, although they were all princesses, and in the end they all married elsewhere, which was even more unbearable.

"Hou Ye likes the six girls so much, I look at the six girls and I like Hou Ye, it's just what you love and I want, why did it become a political marriage in Xiangye's mouth?"

Huang Wantong said this, I kind of understand, she didn't come to help me kindly, she came to persuade me for Lu Ying, Lu Ying had already made up her mind to marry my sixth sister, if I could marry my sixth sister, the beauty was in my arms, and there was a prime minister's wife and brother, wouldn't it be a great thing?

After sending Huang Wantong away, I was even more depressed, and when I went back to the room, I saw that my wife was embroidering, and my wife who had been with me for many years knew what was on my mind as soon as she saw my expression, and asked, "The meeting didn't go well?" He put down his things and said, "Come here, I'll rub your head." ”

I walked over and pillowed on my wife's lap, she rubbed the acupuncture points on my head, and I told her about the tariff and the sixth sister in a sullen manner, and only then did I remember that I didn't want my wife to be involved and worry with me.

"Marry the sixth sister to the country, don't talk about you, I can't bear it, but this reminds me of a word, Ci is not in charge of the army." Madame's voice came from above her head, "You are also the same, since you sit in this position, you can't be soft-hearted, there are some things, for the sake of the country, you have to do, right?" After all, there is a country first, and then there is a home. ”

I sighed and said, "That's the reason, but I'm not happy in my heart." ”

"I know, I know." Madame comforted me and said, "You probably don't let me know about the affairs in the palace, I know that you are raising the fetus for me with peace of mind, but it's not good for you to hold it alone, so it's better to talk to me." ”

"If you really marry the sixth sister, do you think the sixth sister will complain about me?"

"The sixth sister grew up reading the books of sages, so she is naturally sensible, even if she is sad in her heart, she is also reluctant to leave her hometown, how can she complain about you?"

"It's okay to blame me, at least she has a thought in the country."

"Tonight, you talk to the sixth sister about this and find out." Madame helped me up, got up and poured me a cup of tea.

I nodded, and after dinner, I went directly to the sixth sister's room. The sixth sister is skillful and can often make some kitsch things, because the fifth brother often watches her work in the sixth sister's room, and I went in to find that the fifth brother was lying on the table watching the sixth sister make clothes.

"Yu Lan! Yu Lan! The fifth brother was very excited when he saw me coming, "Clothes! Three hundred and sixty! Button! ”

I walked over and saw that there were hundreds of buttons on a single coat, and I couldn't help but admire: "The sixth sister's hands are really clever." ”

The sixth sister smiled and said, "If you have nothing to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, what are you looking for me in the middle of the night?" ”

I looked at the fifth brother, who had already hugged the table leg tightly and said, "Don't go out, don't go out!" ”

"You just said it directly, did you come to ask about Hou Ye Lu?" The sixth sister said lightly.

“… Be. "Before I could speak, the sixth sister had already said my intentions, and I could only come down.

"I grew up in the Prime Minister's Mansion since I was a child, and I have read so many books, and I have also seen the lives of Hou Ye's sisters, so naturally if something like this happens to me one day, I am not so surprised." The sixth sister said that she didn't care, but there were tears in her eyes.

Seeing this, the fifth brother shouted: "Yu Lan is not well-behaved, Yu Tong is crying!" ”

"Sixth sister, do you really like Lord Lu?"

"I don't hate it, maybe I like it, but I don't like it enough to be willing to go to the country with him." When the sixth sister said this, a teardrop dripped down and dripped on her clothes, "Lu Ying actually came to ask me, I didn't care about it, I thought it was just a joke, but that day Miss Huang also came to me and told me a lot of benefits if I married Chenguo, I remembered that you come back every day with frowns, headaches are becoming more and more frequent, it must be something that is not good, if I can solve these things when I marry, I am also willing." ”

"Sixth sister! I don't want you to sacrifice your whole life because of this! ”

"Yulan, listen to what you said!" The usually gentle sixth sister's voice suddenly sounded, glared at me and said, "You are not an ordinary child of a family now, you are the prime minister of Chen Kingdom, of course, everything comes first with the country!" Don't I, Zhou Yutong, even have this awareness? ”

When the sixth sister said this, I was already in tears and speechless.

"I know you love me, I can't bear me, and I can't give you a choice, but I don't have a choice, and you don't have a choice." The sixth sister turned her face away, "Go, take the fifth brother out together." ”

The sixth sister didn't look at me again, nor did she wipe her tears, just stood there straight, standing behind the lamp, I felt for the first time that the slender back of the sixth sister was so strong.

Later, King Ping named the sixth sister as the princess of Jialing and married Lu Ying, and Lu Ying also stood on our side, I don't know what method he used to persuade or coerce Xia Naiqing to agree not to move the tariff, and negotiated everything. Privately, Lu Ying also gave me a promise, promising that he would never send troops to interfere in Chen's internal affairs, and if there was any movement of troops in the court, he would let me know first.

When we were sending them out of the city, our family went, and we looked at the carriage from afar, and refused to go. The fifth brother pulled my sleeve and said, "Yu Lan, where is Yu Tong going?" The lady choked back tears and said, "Fifth brother, sixth sister is going far away." ”

"When will Yu Tong come back?" The fifth brother asked, "How far is it, what do I want Yu Tong to do?" ”

I can't answer the fifth brother's question anymore, and I'm afraid that as soon as I open my mouth, tears will fall.