Chapter Twenty-Three: Playing Fool 2
"Don't panic, maybe we misunderstood, Your Majesty said that the prince was coming to visit us, but he didn't say that he would come today." Qinghe Hou found himself a step down, and said in a matter-of-fact manner, "His official rank is higher than mine, although he wants to marry our daughter, but he can't be too eager, right?" Wait patiently, since he said it in front of His Majesty, he will definitely come. β
Mrs. Qinghe Hou was skeptical, she had already heard that Feng Xianji was not a serious person, not to mention that he was five big and three rough, and he was still licking blood on the knife edge, and she couldn't say which piece of scorched earth she would die one day, she was not very optimistic about this family business.
"Don't talk nonsense in front of your daughter." It is worthy of being a husband and wife for more than 20 years, and the Marquis of Qinghe has already seen that his wife is lukewarm to this family business, he said, "The person ordered by His Majesty personally, we can't resist it, if you say too much in front of your daughter, it will inevitably make her have other thoughts." Besides, whoever has soldiers in this world now has the right to speak. Don't you see that Your Majesty has to please him, otherwise you can let our daughter become a princess? Speaking of the last sentence, Qinghe Hou lowered his voice.
Mrs. Qinghe Hou pursed her lips and said, "We have been divided into peace for most of our lives, but we don't want to fight for glory and wealth, just look at the Xu family, what's the good thing about fighting for power and profit?" All I want is the safety of my children, and that's enough. β
The Marquis of Qinghe didn't think the same as her, but since the emperor had taken a fancy to them, they couldn't retreat, otherwise they would cause murder.
"Alas, it's also the blame that the Xu family's fate is not good, otherwise they should be in front of us now." Qinghe Hou regretted the authenticity.
This couple is considered to be a clear stream in the famous circle of the capital, and they don't think about getting promoted and getting rich, they only care about raising their children to live their own lives, and it is no wonder that Zhou Suizhi suggested to the little emperor to choose this family, which is indeed much more peaceful than others.
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On Xiaoling's side, Tang Feng's news came not too late. Before Feng Xianji left the Heart Cultivation Palace, the people in the palace had already brought the news outside. Feng Xianji rode to the door of the palace, and Tang Feng happened to receive the news.
"The fifth lady of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, why is there no impression in this palace." Tang Feng has been acting as the queen for so many years, and she has to meet a lot of officials and relatives on large and small occasions, as long as she has shown her face in front of her, she will have an impression. But this Miss Li Wu, she really has no clue at all.
It was still the lotus root that recalled, and she said, "Don't blame the master for not remembering her, the daughter of the Li family seems to have never entered the palace, and in the past, there were banquets with her family members in the palace, and Mrs. Qinghe Hou went alone." β
"So, there's no more portrait of her?"
"We don't have one here."
Officials above the fifth grade have the treatment of bringing their relatives into the palace to ask for peace every festival, and this time is also a good time for women of appropriate age to show their faces in front of their masters. If you look out, you may be favored by the emperor, and you can also be favored by other female relatives a little later, so that at least there will be no embarrassing situation in the marriage where there are women in the family and no one cares. But Qinghehou's family seems to have made up their minds not to take this route, raising their children behind closed doors, and not bringing them out to see if they look good or bad.
"In this way, he is still indifferent to fame and fortune." Tang Feng said leisurely.
Lotus Root knew that the King of the Southwest came here last night, and she probably had some guesses in her heart, seeing that the master was so concerned about the marriage of the King of the Southwest, she couldn't help but say more, "No matter how good-looking it is, it looks good, but our mother." β
Tang Feng was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at her, "You girl, what do you compare her to this palace?" It scared her.
The lotus root hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty, "The slave and maid have lost their words, the slave and the maid should die, how can you compare an unpopular woman with the master!" β
Tang Feng held his forehead, this misunderstanding seemed to be deeper.
"Get up."
"Thank you, Master, for your grace." Lotus Root got up and said hesitantly, "There is one more thing that I haven't told the master." β
"Say."
"Before Your Majesty mentioned the Li family, the King of Southwest said that he had plans to marry the princess at the beginning of the year, but for some reason the marriage was put on hold." The lotus root didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and transferred the words to Tang Feng as it was.
"Who is he going to marry?" At this point, Tang Feng was really a little curious.
"It is said that it is the fourth daughter of the criminal minister Xu Hua." Lotus root cautiously went to see Tang Feng, others didn't know that she did know some inside information, the master and the Xu family seemed to have a common enmity, and when Xu Hua committed suicide, the master also went to see him in prison.
After finishing speaking, Tang Feng's expectant eyes instantly returned to normal. Lotus Root thought she was angry, but she heard her say, "The trick is just to deceive the little emperor." Bengong dared to assert that when he said this, he probably didn't even know what pastime the fourth lady of the Xu family liked to do in her prime. β
"Why don't you know." Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. A tall figure stepped into the outer room, with a momentum like a rainbow and a flying spirit.
"Xu Zhu, seventeen years old, good at pipa, likes green the most, and entertains himself by embroidering and writing poems on weekdays."
Tang Feng mentioned that he said it, and what he didn't say was like a treasure.
"Oh? So where is she now? Tang Feng asked with a smile.
Feng Xianji "......"
"If the prince really likes her, he doesn't care if she's okay now?" She chuckled and put on a look of "don't want to pretend to be a lover saint here".
He knew where she was, but it was better not to say it for now. I can't tell why he is pretending to be stupid, but his intuition tells him that shutting up is the best response at the moment.
Sure enough, seeing that he was speechless, Tang Feng laughed, feeling a kind of pride that "nothing can escape my eyes".
"Lotus root, go make a cup of oolong tea for the prince." Tang Feng said.
"How do you know that this king likes to drink oolong tea? Can't this preference escape the mother's discernment? He sat down across from her.
Tang Feng chuckled lightly and said, "Even if I ask the lotus root to give you a dragon well, you will probably answer like this." β
This time, Feng Xianji was really speechless.
"Getting back to the point, does the prince really want to marry the daughter of the Marquis of Qinghe?"
"What do you think?"
"The Marquis of Qinghe holds the power of prevention in the capital, although the soldiers under his command are not as good as one-fifth of the prince's, but the capital is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it is much more convenient for him to act than you in the southwest." Tang Feng really thought about it for him, "If you have greater ambitions, this is a good opportunity to win over the military forces." Although the Qinghe Hou family has always been low-key, but everyone has it, doesn't he want to go down in history with the prince? If he follows the prince, why is his Li family line underdeveloped? β
"You mean I can marry this Miss Li Wu?"
Tang Feng nodded, "If you operate properly, you will have an extra pair of eyes and a pair of hands in the capital." The little emperor wants to restrain you, you can do the opposite and let him suffer this dumb loss. β
She did think about him from the perspective of the future development of the situation, and her analysis was reasonable, and she had roughly the same opinion as the strategists in the palace. From this, we can get a glimpse of what kind of demon concubine and adulterous concubine, that is, the world's understanding of her is too narrow, and they only know one and don't know the other.
He sighed helplessly and said, "I'm tired of hearing these words in the mansion, but I didn't expect that I couldn't hear anything new here from you." You're so boring. β
Tang Feng glanced at him, he didn't know what kind of rat poison he was selling in his gourd, and he really planned for him and even got a "boring" evaluation, so he knew that she wouldn't mention this stubble.
"You're right, I also know that marrying this Miss Li Wu will definitely have more advantages than disadvantages." Feng Xianji played with the objects on the small table, and let the pen pad turn between his fingers, "Just one point, I won't use my marriage as a bargaining chip to join this gamble." As he spoke, he fixed his gaze on her face.
Tang Feng was speechless for a while. The two looked at each other, each taking one side of the camp. She is for revenge on someone who can devote herself to the "battlefield", and he is for the "war" and can gamble anything except his own people. Looking at it this way, it's her little woman who is more open-minded.
"The prince is so naΓ―ve." She suddenly looked up and sighed.
There are so many affectionate men in this world, why is he not one of them? How many Jinshi and later abandoned their wives and children to marry a high-ranking daughter-in-law, and how many treacherous ghosts let their wives go to the court to marry another in the name of their future...... She has seen too much, so she has long been disappointed in human nature. But from which stone did the person in front of him jump out of?
"Laughing, I'm not naΓ―ve, but afraid." Feng Xianji smiled lightly and put down the pen pad, "That's what my former princess taught me. β
After he mentioned it, she remembered that he had married a wife, but his wife had a thin life and went early.
"Are you worried about the princess, and you don't want to give in?"
"Concerned?" Feng Xianji's eyes widened and he sneered, "If she knew that I was thinking about her, I am afraid that she would have to crawl out of the grave and draw a line with me again." β
Hearing him say this, Tang Feng breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.
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