Cui Qiao's wife is not an ordinary person, she is the daughter of Li Longji's eldest brother, Emperor Li Chengqi, and was named the lord of Xiangyi County, which is the owner of the farm that Li Qing'an seized in Xiangyi County.

Mrs. Cui's name is Li Shuangfeng, and she did not marry Cui Qiao at the earliest, but remarried Cui Qiao after her husband's death and gave birth to a pair of daughters, Cui Yanyan and Cui Liuliu.

Maybe she inherited her father's genes, Mrs. Cui is very obese, but her bones are petite, which makes people worry about whether her bones can hold so much meat, sitting on the couch like a meat mound, her father died in the first year of Tianbao, and her father's death means that her backstage collapsed, and no one supported her, so last year, her husband was dismissed from Xiangguo, and she had no choice.

She was originally a very arrogant woman, but this year she has become very low-key, much more restrained than before, she is a typical person who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, although Li Qingan impeached her husband and removed her from power, which made her hateful, but at the same time, the person she is most afraid of is Li Qingan.

Mingyue and her daughter Cui Yanyan have a very good relationship, as a mother, she and Mingyue are also very familiar, but now it is different, in the past, Mingyue was a child and a junior, she can warn the younger generation with the attitude of an elder, and now Mingyue is Li Qingan's fiancée, no one in Chang'an knows, her eyes are very poisonous, and she saw at a glance that Mingyue's invitation was different, it was actually red yellow, it was a private post of the concubine, which made her jealous and envious.

"Mingyue, it's really the eighteenth change of the female university, you are getting more and more beautiful."

Mingyue Yingying saluted her and smiled: "Thank you Aunt Cui for the compliment, what about Yanyan and Liuliu, are they here?" "They're all here, in the side hall!" They are not like you, who promised a good husband and could sit in the main hall before they got married. ”

Mrs. Cui's tone was full of sour taste, her eldest daughter Yanyan was promised to her husband's protégé, Liu Feng, the county magistrate of Shuangliu County in Bashu, who married at the end of the year, the only thing her prospective son-in-law can get is the qualification of Jinshi, but what about Jinshi, can he compare with Li Qing'an's Anxi Jiedu envoy?

Mingyue smiled and sat down next to her, and Mrs. Cui's fat body barely moved to the side.

At this time, there were more and more people in the main hall, and the buzz was loud, and for the ministers of the imperial court, this kind of large-scale celebration of non-official business was an excellent opportunity to socialize, to harmonize feelings, to connect friendships, and to clearly compare the strength of the various factions.

At present, after the demise of Li Heng's tide file, there has been a three-legged situation in the DPRK and China, Li Party, Zhang Party, Yang Party, Li Party is the original Xiangguo Party, since the rise of Yang Guozhong, Li Linfu's sphere of influence has been attacked and uprooted, and it has been reduced a lot, and his Xiangguo Party has also been renamed Li Party, plus Li Linfu is not in good health, in addition to some of his henchmen, many people are not very optimistic about Li Linfu, and more or less have the idea of defecting to the Young Zhuang Yang Party.

Although Yang Guozhong was hit hard by Li Qingan last year, it could not change the momentum of Yang Guozhong's favor and rise, and it could only be regarded as a counterattack of the tide file.

Li Linfu had already arrived, and he was talking with Chen Xilie and several important ministers of the DPRK about some recent events.

"Gao Xianzhi wrote a letter to impeach Yizhou Taishou Cui Yuan for neglecting military affairs, and the local support was not effective, which led to his slow military training, and the princes have already heard about it!"

It was Chen Xilie who spoke, he was a servant of the Zuo Xiangmen, and was also in charge of the Ministry of Rites, Gao Xianzhi had a good personal relationship with him, Gao Xianzhi not only wrote to impeach Cui Yuan, but also wrote a letter asking him to give him support, so Chen Xilie was very indignant in this matter, but this also exposed a subtle psychological change in him, Li Linfu is getting old, his health is deteriorating, can he inherit Li Linfu's mantle? Therefore, he began to build his own power intentionally or unintentionally, Gao Xianzhi was the first person he considered, today he took this opportunity to say that Gao Xianzhi impeached Cui Yuan, to a large extent, he wanted to test Li Linfu's attitude on this matter, if Li Linfu was not very interested in this matter, then he would intervene.

After speaking, he glanced at Li Linfu out of the corner of his eye to see how he reacted?

Li Linfu's health is indeed not good, the excessive labor and government affairs in the past few years have overdrawn his health, and now a little discomfort is a serious illness, he has just recovered from a serious illness yesterday, and he didn't want to come today, but the concubine's birthday is extraordinary, he had to support his weak body, at this moment he is slowly drinking tea, Chen Xilie's words he didn't seem to hear, but no one noticed, Li Linfu's eyes fell on the body of Li Heng, the king of Liang, not far away, he sat alone in the corner, Everyone avoided him like a plague god, and Li Linfu hadn't seen Li Heng for a year, only to see that his temples had turned white.

He sighed in his heart, he and Li Heng fought to the death back then, but in the end, they cheapened Yang Guozhong for nothing, Li Linfu glanced at his son Li Wei again, and gave him a look.

Li Wei understood, immediately took a glass of wine, and walked towards Li Heng, at this time, Wang Heng on the side saw that Li Linfu did not react, so he smiled and said: "Xiangguo may be more concerned about the matter of broken leaves!" ”

"I'm not very worried about the Battle of Broken Leaves."

Li Linfu retracted his thoughts, he spoke, his voice was very hoarse, full of fatigue from recovering from a serious illness, he said slowly: "With Li Qing'an in charge, he is familiar with the situation, there will be no suspense in recovering the broken leaves, but I am very worried about Nanzhao." ”

Speaking of this, Li Linfu glanced at Chen Xilie, and a bright color like an awl flashed in his godless eyes, as if he saw through Chen Xilie's selfishness, Chen Xilie was weak for a while, and couldn't help lowering his head, Li Linfu snorted in his heart, and continued: "The Nanzhao issue is not only related to the safety of the southwest frontier, but also involves the infiltration of Tubo into Bashu, the land of Yizhou is fertile for thousands of miles, if it is occupied by Tubo, it will be the misfortune of our entire Han nation, I will not be the slightest ambiguity at this point, tomorrow I will talk to the Holy Lord about this matter, If Jiannan's troops are insufficient, we can transfer the troops of the five Lingnan Prefectures to Shu, no matter what, there is still logistics and grass, if Cui Yuan is sluggish, he will be immediately dismissed and replaced. ”

Speaking of the last sentence, Li Linfu's voice became stern, and his tone was raised a few degrees, even Zhang Yun not far away heard it, he smiled and nodded to Li Linfu, expressed his appreciation for his opinion, and continued to talk to several literati about the improvement of literary style.

Yang Guozhong has not come at this time, his Yang Party members are all around Wei Jiansu and Cui Qiao, Wei Jiansu is the servant of the ministry, no matter where he is, there will be no fewer people who stammer him, it can be said that Wei Jiansu's defection to Yang Guozhong is a painful self-help action of the Wei family, and the consequence of following the tide file is that Wei Jian and Wei Tao were all degraded, and the Wei family suffered a heavy blow, and Wei Jiansu not only became a powerful servant of the ministry, but also served as Xiangguo for a year, and he was still stable, and the Wei family had hope of revival again.

Compared with Wei Jiansu to get the support of the family, Cui Qiao is much more bleak, he was despised by the family because he married the daughter of the clan, plus last year he was dismissed from the post of Xiangguo, was deposed to Yizhou as a Taishou, this year's New Year back to Boling to worship the ancestors was treated coldly, except for a few young people who wanted to come to Yizhou to seek a job, the Cui family almost ignored him, which made him both embarrassed and remorseful, this time he rushed back to celebrate the birthday of the concubine, but also wanted to find a way, to see if he could return to the center of the court.

Wei Jiansu is one of the sycophants he wants to shoot, coincidentally, his seat happened to be with Wei Jiansu, which made him very happy, before the banquet, he kept toasting to Wei Jiansu, which made Wei Jiansu feel impatient, everyone surrounded Wei Jiansu and left Cui Qiao aside, Cui Qiao was extremely bored, he looked towards his wife, but unexpectedly caught a glimpse of Dugu Mingyue and his wife sitting together, he was stunned, no! Didn't his wife sit with Xu Heng's wife? How did you change places? But Mrs. Xu sat elsewhere.

Of course he knew that Dugu Mingyue was Li Qing'an's fiancée, and to some extent she represented Li Qing'an's attitude, could it be that Li Qingan wanted to reconcile with him Cui Qiao? Impossible, if he Cui Qiao is still Xiangguo, there may be this possibility, but he is now just a small Xiazhou assassin, how could Li Qingan still think of him.

Could it be that Dugu Mingyue doesn't understand this? Maybe that's the case, just thinking of this, Cui Qiao's thoughts turned around, and he reacted suddenly, he understood, Dugu Mingyue came for Jiang Wuyi's marriage contract, it must be like this, she will be Li Qing'an's wife in the future, Jiang Wuyi's marriage contract She can't care about it, Cui Qiao couldn't help but sigh a little, Dugu Mingyue is worthy of being a lady from a famous family, this kind of thing Li Qingan is not easy to come forward, she came forward to solve it, marrying a wife should be like this!

As Cui Qiao's guess, the reason why Dugu Mingyue changed seats and sat with Mrs. Cui was indeed for the marriage contract of the dance clothes, and her sister's dislike of the dance clothes was affected by emotions, but she Mingyue couldn't do what she wanted like her sister.

She will be Li Qing'an's wife, it is her bounden duty to maintain her husband's reputation, Wuyi's marriage contract was not dissolved and she followed Li Qing'an, if the matter spreads, not only Wuyi will be blamed by the world, but also Li Qing'an's reputation will be damaged, of course she will not write a letter to Li Qing'an to send Wuyi away, but to find a way to cancel the marriage contract between Wuyi and the Cui family, so that Wuyi can follow Li Qing'an justifiably.

She and Mrs. Cui have been chatting for a while, they are all homely, and she can't say it explicitly about the marriage contract in dance clothes, so she must remind Mrs. Cui implicitly.

"Madam, a few days ago, Li Yuanjun sent someone to send some Anxi native products, which contain dozens of jars of the best Jiaohe wine, I know that Uncle Cui likes Jiaohe wine the most, and I will have someone send it tomorrow."

Mrs. Cui smiled with joy, the best Jiaohe wine is a tribute, and it can't be bought on the market at all, although she is the county lord, but after her father died, this kind of tribute can't be her turn, Li Qing'an is the envoy of the Anxi Festival, of course, he will send this kind of tribute and good wine to his family, Mingyue is willing to give her this kind of good wine, of course, she is overjoyed.

"Then thank you Mingyue!"

Receiving favors, she was also a little embarrassed in her heart, so she thought about how to exchange courtesies, and then Mingyue smiled again: "The Cui family is the first family in the Tang Dynasty, and I also know that the Cui family has very strict rules, but some things become pedantic if they are too strict, which will make the world feel unkind, Mrs. Cui thinks?" ”

Mrs. Cui has never had a good impression of the Cui family, she has been married to Cui Qiao for nearly 20 years, she has never participated in the sacrifice of the Cui family once, and she has never returned to Boling Benzong with her husband, the Cui family looks down on her, she looks down on the Cui family even more, after listening to Mingyue's words, she pouted and said: "The Cui family's broken rules, only they talk about it, arrogant for hundreds of years, in the end they are not human ministers?" If they have the ability, they can also start a dynasty! ”

Mingyue poked out a little tone, and then smiled again: "Actually, I think every household should have rules, this is undoubted, but some rules should also be in line with the times, such as women remarrying, many men hope that women can be widowed and observant for a lifetime, but they don't consider women's pain at all, but our Datang is much more tolerant, after the death of her husband, women can remarry, this has become the consensus of Datang from the royal family to the common people, but the Cui family has stubbornly adhered to the outdated concept unchanged, and even the widows who have not passed through the door refuse to let go, Just because there is a marriage contract, I have to bind others for a lifetime, and I am a bit unkind. ”

Mrs. Cui herself is her husband who died and remarried Cui Qiao, Mingyue's words can be said to have reached her heart, but she also understood the words in Mingyue's words, isn't it the dead ghost son Cui Ming born to her husband's ex-wife? She also understood the purpose of Mingyue's change of seat, Cui Ming's widow followed Li Qing'an, so Mingyue wanted to cancel the marriage contract.

Mrs. Cui's mind turned very fast, now Li Qing'an is the envoy of the Anxi Festival, the official of the frontier, if her husband can reconcile with him, it will also be good for her husband's future, Mrs. Cui's mentality is quite similar to the mentality of a certain island country in later generations, after being beaten to the ground, she will become subservient, but obey, Mrs. Cui not only did not think about finding Li Qing'an for revenge, but thought about how to reconcile with Li Qing'an, "I understand what Mingyue means, in fact, I have asked the master several times to dissolve this marriage contract, and everyone has been dead for almost ten years, What are you doing with a daughter-in-law who hasn't passed through the door? The key is that the old woman in the family is biting the rules of the Cui family, but don't worry, she won't live long, she is sick, and she has not recovered, at most a few months, I promise you, when she dies, I will immediately ask the master to cancel this marriage contract. ”

Mrs. Cui gritted her teeth with hatred for her mother-in-law, her daughter's marriage was never completed because of Mrs. Cui's opposition, and when she died, she immediately let her daughter marry, and she didn't care what nonsense she was about mourning.

Mingyue got this affirmative reply, and her heart relaxed, she wanted to say a few words of sympathy for Mrs. Cui, but it can be seen that Mrs. Cui gritted her teeth, and this idea was dispelled.

At this moment, the eunuch at the gate shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!" The concubine has arrived! ”

The hall suddenly fell silent, the dancers retreated, the courtiers and their wives stood up, a moment, a team of palace maids and eunuchs walked in, followed by a large group of guards holding Jin Ge walked in, and finally the Tang Emperor Li Longji and the concubine Yang Yuhuan appeared at the door of the palace surrounded by a large group of palace maids and eunuchs, Li Longji was dressed in ordinary clothes, wearing a gauze hat, he walked vigorously, his face was filled with a rare look and glory, as if some kind of happy event fell from the sky, shrouded him.

However, Yang Guifei was dressed beautifully, wearing a bright yellow eight-panel three-zhang long skirt, with a narrow light face around her arms, light steps, and a ringing on her body.

Behind them followed a large group of people from the Yang family, the three Yang sisters were all dressed up and followed Yang Yuhuan's side, while Li Longji was followed by Gao Lishi and Yang Guozhong, Gao Lishi was as calm as usual, unmoved, and Yang Guozhong was half-bowed, whispering and laughing with Li Longji from time to time, his eyes were full of a pampered and proud look.

Li Longji's posture made the civil and military officials in the hall look at each other, which clearly showed his support for Yang Guozhong.

Li Longji and his entourage walked through the main hall, and the ministers bowed down and saluted: "See Your Majesty, see Niangniang!" ”

The ladies also gave salutes together, and the posture was thousands of and magnificent.

Li Longji carried Yang Guifei into the main seat, the Yang sisters sat on the side seat next to them, Yang Guozhong sat back in his seat, just behind Li Linfu, as soon as he sat down, Li Linfu turned his head and asked, "Yang Shangshu, what happened?" ”

Li Linfu knows Li Longji very well, and Li Longji is in good spirits today, so something big must have happened.

In front of Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong didn't dare to be arrogant, he immediately said respectfully: "Back to Li Xiangguo, the saint received a express report on the road, what is it, the saint refuses to say." ”

The spirits of the people around him were lifted, could it be that there was news from Broken Leaves? At this time, Li Longji couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, stood up and waved his hand: "Everyone, please be quiet!" ”

The hall immediately fell silent, Li Longji glanced at everyone, and laughed loudly: "Today I ask the concubine, what is the best gift you got this year?" ”

This sentence made everyone's necks stretch, but they were also slightly confused, this should be the last thing to say every year, it is a finale, how can it be said in advance this year?

"I still remember that the concubine's favorite gift the year before last was the Snow Lady, and last year it was the colorful pearl necklace presented by King Yong, so what will it be this year? This year, there is King Qing's cold ice jade flute, there is An Lushan's flying silk stepping cloud horse, there is Li Xiangguo's thousand cups of not drunk blanket, and there is Yang Shangshu's white jade beauty carving, these are rare treasures, I thought that the best gift this year would be selected from the middle, until I and the concubine walked halfway and suddenly got a gift, the concubine finally decided, do you want to know what this mysterious gift is? ”

The hall was quiet, almost everyone didn't dare to breathe, for fear of missing the news, and everyone's curiosity was raised, what is it?

At this time, Mrs. Cui smiled at Mingyue in a low voice: "The news I suddenly got on the road can't be that my country has offered some rare treasures!" ”

Mingyue smiled, in fact, what is it, she doesn't care very much, it has nothing to do with her, she looked at Yang Guifei, her heart suddenly jumped, Yang Guifei actually nodded to her and smiled.

"What is it?" Li Longji poured a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Everyone is full of wine, please raise your glass!" ”

Everyone poured a glass of wine and raised the wine glass, Li Longji said loudly: "On the way, I received a flying pigeon express from Anxi, telling you a good news, Anxi Festival has made Li Qingan regain the broken leaves for the Tang Dynasty, this is the best gift of the concubine this year." ”

The hall was stunned for a moment, and suddenly there was thunder of joy, and the cheers resounded throughout the hall, Li Longji was in high spirits, raised his glass and shouted: "For our victory, drink this cup!" ”

"For victory!" There was a shout in the hall, and everyone drank the wine.

After the cheers calmed down a little, Yang Guifei stood up and said loudly: "Although this is the news of the Tang Army's victory, it still makes me happy, according to the usual practice, I also want to return the salute, Miss Mingyue, please come out!" ”

Everyone's eyes brushed towards Dugu Mingyue, Mingyue's face was crimson, she slowly stood up, and walked to the center of the hall in full view of everyone, she gave a salute: "See Your Majesty!" See the mother! ”

There was a lot of discussion in the hall, and many people only heard that Dugu Mingyue was Li Qing'an's fiancée, but today was the first time they saw her, only to see her ice skin and jade skin, delicate as fat, beautiful as a closed moon and a shy flower, every move, with the posture of Ban Ji continuing history, and Xie Ting's posture of Yongxue, and when she stood with the beautiful concubine Niangniang, she didn't feel inferior at all.

The sound of admiration in the hall was everywhere, it turned out that there was such a beautiful woman in Datang, Zhao Xuming, who was sitting in the back row, was angry and hateful, and slammed the wine glass on the table, feeling very painful in his heart, but Li Jiao, the king of Guangping in front, was gloomy in his heart, he only felt that he had no chance to get Mingyue, but he missed it.

Li Longji's eyes lit up, and he secretly admired in his heart, such a beauty, it's a pity!

Yang Guifei felt pity in her heart, and she said softly to Mingyue: "Li Qing'an gave this palace such a generous gift, and this palace wants to return him, but he is far away in Anxi, and this gift is still on you." ”

"The mother is loved, and the concubine doesn't dare to be a concubine!"

Yang Guifei smiled gently, and said loudly to the ministers: "This palace has obtained the consent of the saint to officially crown Dugu Mingyue as the lady of Gaochang County, and from now on, Miss Mingyue is the sister of this palace." ”

There was an exclamation in the hall, the women envied Mingyue for being so young that she had a three-grade fate, and the men only hated that their lady was not the sister of the concubine.

Mingyue was moved in her heart, and hurriedly gave a deep salute, "Mingyue thank Your Majesty for your kindness!" Thank you for your kindness! ”

Li Longji stroked his beard and smiled, Li Qingan lived up to his expectations and took down the broken leaves for him, this gesture of grace he must do, Yang Guifei beckoned to Mingyue, and said with a smile: "Mingyue, come here, you sit next to me today." ”

Mingyue stepped forward, Yang Guifei took her hand and sat down, and there was a fierce applause in the hall.

(To be continued)