Zhao Ruxi responded very simply: "Yes." ”

Kang Shilin nodded and did not speak for a while.

He had to think about what to do.

After a while, he said, "In the evening, I will go into the palace and talk to the emperor." ”

He comforted Zhao Ruxi again: "Don't worry." The emperor loves talents. Putting you in Hanlin will hinder your reputation, and as long as I remind you, he will not do it. ”

Zhao Ruxi nodded: "Okay, then I'll leave this matter to Master." ”

After Zhao Ruxi said goodbye from the Kang Mansion and got into the carriage, Qingfeng asked, "Girl, why don't you tell the ...... about this matter" She stretched out a slap and said to the fifth prince, "Say it." ”

Zhao Ruxi shook his head: "It is not appropriate for him to intervene in this matter, only my master is the most suitable." ”

If Xiao Lingyan knows, I don't know how anxious I am. But he is a son, unless the relationship between the two of them is revealed, what reason is there to stop Xiao Qi from putting her in the Hanlin Academy? Their relationship cannot yet be announced.

Cen Guifei's status in the palace has always been embarrassing, and her relationship with Xiao Qi is extremely cold, so it is even more impossible for her to stop this.

Only Kang Shilin is Xiao Yu's elder and has a close relationship with him. He is Kang Shilin's little apprentice, and he pleaded with Xiao Qi for the reputation of the little apprentice, which couldn't be more reasonable. Even if Xiao Qi didn't agree, he wouldn't blame Kang Shilin.

……

In the palace, Cen Guifei was about to take a lunch break when she heard a report from the palace maid, saying that His Royal Highness King Qi wanted to see her.

"What is he doing here?" Cen Guifei said, let the palace maid Xuan Xiao Lingyan come in.

As soon as Xiao Lingyan came in, he said, "Mother, I have something to tell you." ”

Generally speaking, when Xiao Lingyan said this, he asked Cen Guifei to retreat left and right, and if there was something that people couldn't hear, he would tell her.

Cen Guifei looked at her son's serious face, so she waved her hand, and the palace maids in the palace retreated.

"I want to tell you alone." Xiao Lingyan glanced at the big palace maid beside Cen Guifei.

These people are the sons of the family who entered the palace with Cen Guifei, and their parents and relatives are still in the Cen family, and they are Cen Guifei's henchmen. But the stakes were very high, and he didn't want the second person besides Cen Guifei to know.

Concubine Cen Guifei instructed the palace maid: "You stay outside." With that, she took Xiao Lingyan into the inner room.

The struggle in the palace is too strong, and it is related to life and death. Cen Guifei has been in charge of the Middle Palace for many years, and her palace is specially arranged, speaking in the inner room, outsiders can't hear it clearly even if they stand at the door.

Xiao Lingyan saw that the palace maid was automatically guarding the door, so he said in a low voice: "Mother, I want to marry Zhao Zhiwei as my wife." ”

Cen Guifei looked at him in surprise, but after thinking about it, she immediately took it for granted.

The last time she saw Zhao Zhiwei, she liked this girl very much. Now she has also been admitted to the top of the middle school, and her talent is outstanding, and it is not unusual for her son to take a fancy to her.

The youngest son is seventeen years old this year, but he doesn't think about getting married at all, which makes her worried. At this time, she took the initiative to propose, and she still liked a very good girl, and Cen Guifei was overjoyed.

She said, "Okay, I'll go and ask your father for an order on your behalf." As he spoke, he tried to stand up.

Xiao Lingyan grabbed her: "You listen to me after I finish speaking." ”

Cen Guifei had no choice but to sit down.

"Zhao Zhiwei's master is Mr. Deadwood, and her senior brother is Wu Huaisi and others, and she is also highly appreciated by Peng Guoan and others. It can be said that all the people around her are royalists, and if I marry her, the crown prince and the third emperor brother will definitely feel the crisis and cause sabotage. ”

"Zhao Zhiwei, she is different from other family girls. Suipingbo's mansion is weak, and she has no family strength to protect her; She has to come out to be an official again, and it is impossible for her to stay at home all day, which increases the danger. If the crown prince and the third emperor brother want to deal with her, there are too many opportunities to attack. But I married her because I admired her talents, not to imprison her in the back house. So before I got married, I didn't want to expose her too early. ”

When Cen Guifei heard this, her brows furrowed: "But you have to prepare for getting married, right?" The candidate for Princess Qi is uncertain, and it will definitely not work. ”

"The second brother didn't get married until he was nineteen years old, and I'm not in a hurry, and it's not too late to get married next year or the year after. I don't need to prepare anything to get married, I already have a mansion, and if I need anything, I can buy it in the name of arranging a new house. ”

"Silly son, if you don't decide to marry, why would other girls wait for you? Zhao Zhiwei is also sixteen years old this year, right? At this time, their family must be looking at each other. Cen Guifei thought that her son didn't understand, and looked at Xiao Lingyan like a fool.

"In this matter, I will secretly go to Zhao Zhiwei to express my intentions and ask her to promise to wait for me. You don't have to worry about it. Now the problem is that her father named her as the champion, and she will enter the Hanlin Academy. With her status, do you think it is appropriate for her to stay with her father and do things? ”

Cen Guifei originally had a ridiculous expression, but when she heard this, she immediately became serious.

She knew that her son was arrogant, and in the past two years, she had mentioned many noble daughters of the family, and her son refused all of them. Now I finally take a fancy to Zhao Zhiwei, and Zhao Zhiwei is her daughter-in-law. How could she let her future daughter-in-law follow her father-in-law to do things?

Regardless of whether Xiao Qi will think about Zhao Zhiwei or not, his reputation alone is not good. What is it like for a son to marry a woman next to his father? It will inevitably become the first obstacle to the son's family affairs.

"And what do you want to do?" She asked, "How can I help you?" ”

"Father is coming to your palace for the night tonight, right? When the time comes, you mention it to him and ask him to agree to Zhao Zhiwei's request for release. As for the reason, from a woman's point of view, you said that you don't want a generation of talented women to end up in a disgraced fate. Just participating in the imperial examination, Concubine Jin's mother and daughter repeatedly targeted Zhao Zhiwei; If Zhao Zhiwei stays by his father's side, I'm afraid he won't live next year. ”

As a traverser, Xiao Lingyan wanted to complain very much about the rule that Xiao Qi would come to Cen Guifei for the night on the fifteenth day of every month.

In ancient times, the original wife was still very maintained, and on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, the husband got the wife to spend the night.

Although Cen Guifei is not a wife, the queen has been dead for many years, and she is in charge of the middle palace again. If Xiao Qi didn't come to her for the night, the concubines in the palace would definitely not obey her. Therefore, Xiao Qi formed an unwritten rule, he would come to Cen Guifei on the fifteenth day of every month.

However, in the past, when he was dedicated to Concubine Jin, when he came to Concubine Cen to spend the night, he would sleep with a quilt.

In the eyes of Xiao Lingyan, a modern person, Xiao Yu might as well not come. What did he think of Cen Guifei?

But now it gave Cen Guifei a chance to speak.

If she deliberately went to Xiao Qi to say that, Xiao Qi and the people around him would definitely think more, and the news would soon reach Concubine Jin's ears.

But if she had brought it up unintentionally in the evening in small talk, there would have been no flaw.