Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Jade is Deep and the Clouds Are Shallow
Mirror City, Ning Wangfu.
Bai Hao flipped through the folds of official information, thinking about what King Ning said.
The marriage between the Tan family and Ning Wangfu was originally just mentioned casually by Emperor Nanyue, but the right minister of Tan later used this to make an article, which led to the so-called marriage contract.
Tan Youxiang and Lan Zuo Xiang have been at odds for decades, and in recent years, Lan Zuoxiang has become a figure who leans towards the government and the opposition. This person who used to oppose the blue left, even if he had a little bit of power in his hands, now he can only dodge and retreat, lest he invite trouble one day.
Only this Tan Right Prime Minister is still stiff and stubborn with the Blue Left Minister.
Today, Tan Youxiang is weak, and the sword hangs around his neck. If you can borrow a holy decree that you got many years ago to marry King Ning's Mansion, and the two families get married, with King Ning as a backer, then life will naturally be much better.
And if Bai Hao became a relative to the eldest lady of the Tan family, it would indicate King Ning's position.
First, King Ning neither looked down on the daughter of the Na Tan family, nor did he want to be an enemy of Lan Zuo.
Second, although King Ning held the military power, he was also deeply feared and suspicious by the Nanyue Emperor, and he had never been involved in party disputes in the court.
Besides, who knows if the Emperor of Nanyue will take this opportunity to set up a plan to kill two birds with one stone.
Therefore, this marriage must not be done.
But how can the Holy Decree be disobeyed?
Bai Hao looked out the window and was worried, Yi Bai came in with tea and snacks at this time, "Master, let's eat something, you haven't eaten for almost a day." β
"Yi Bai, what do you say about the eldest lady of the Tan family?"
Yi Bai pouted and said: "I heard that the eldest lady of the Tan family has been pampered since she was a child, and she has a very spicy temperament, and she likes to use guns and swords, not like a girl at all." The master can't marry her. β
Bai Miao smiled and said, "Then what kind of girl do you like?" β
Yi Bai thought for a while and said, "Naturally, she is a gentle and generous, virtuous and virtuous girl." β
"It's boring."
"What's so interesting?" Yi Bai was puzzled.
"Meet the above."
"Then Miss Tan family, do you think it's funny? Does the master really want to marry the eldest lady of the Tan family? β
Bai Hao shook his head, "Bai Hao is only twenty-two years old, but I am six years older, not to mention the overall situation, there is no mercy between me and the eldest lady of the Tan family, I married her, but I mistook her." β
Yi Bai whispered: "Master, you look like this, and your age is not a problem......
"What are you thinking," Bai Hao took a sip of tea, "After all, rumors are just rumors, and they can't all be taken seriously." You go and find out, what kind of character is this eldest lady of the Tan family. β
"Yes."
As soon as Yi Bai went out, he saw Bai Wu coming towards him, "Is Bai Hao there?" β
"The master is in the room."
Bai Wu walked straight in.
"What are you going to do?"
Bai Wu found a cushion to sit on, unceremoniously took a piece of snack and put it in his mouth, "Your fiancΓ©e will be eighteen in half a month, you really don't plan to run away from marriage?" β
"Why should I run away?"
"Yes. Even if you become a relative, you can travel for two or three years in a year, and Tan Yushen can't do anything to you. The marriage became an ornament. β
"Tan Yu Shen ......" Bai Hao repeated the name, "This is the eldest lady of the Tan family?" β
"Eh, you don't even know people's names when you're about to get married, you can really do it-" Bai Wu mocked, "but people are quite good-looking, you may not be tempted when you see them." β
"Impossible."
"That's not necessarily, who said that the matter of fate is cleared? There is a certain number in the dark. β
Bai Hao said: "I won't marry her, this family business can't be done." β
Bai Wu ate the remaining half of the pastry with some surprise, "Why?" You're not trying to resist it, are you? β
"No why."
"No, why......" Bai Wu saw that his face was not good, and pondered for a long time, "You know everything?" β
Bai Hao glanced at him, "You can say whatever you want, and what are you hiding from me?" β
Bai Wu cleared his throat, "This is also a rumor, don't take it too seriously." I heard that this Tan Yu is deep, there is a childhood sweetheart named Shang Yunqian, this Shang Yunqian, he has lived in Tanfu since he was a child, and the two fell in love and made a private decision for life. β
"Oh? Is it," Bai Hao said coldly, "You're here today to talk to me about this?" β
Seen through...... Bai Wu wanted to use this matter to laugh at him, after all, his fiancΓ©e had a private agreement with another man for life, and it was disgraceful and shameless, but who knew that Bai Hao was not moved at all.
Bai Wu disguised it: "That's naturally not, I'll just say it casually, and you can listen to it casually, don't take it too seriously." Besides, aren't you also entangled with that little beauty in Dayan? β
"You don't talk nonsense about anything that doesn't matter."
Bai Hao laid out a piece of cooked propaganda and pressed it with a paperweight, and wrote the names of "Tan Yushen" and "Shang Yunqian" on it with a pen. Bai Wu leaned over and looked, "You still said you don't care, what are you doing here?" β
"Tan Yu is deep, Shang Yun is shallow. Just looking at the name, I feel that these two people ......" Bai Hao said and shook his head, "I guess it's hard to do." β
Bai Wu glanced at him, "You can't curse people like this just because they are 'deep' and 'shallow'." This would rather demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage! But then again, because of your marriage contract, people naturally can't get along with that little Langjun. β
Bai Hao shook his head again, "It's not depth, it's fate." β
"You...... You can't hope that people will get better. β
Bai Hao smiled: "You are wrong, I really hope that they will go to the end wholeheartedly." β
"Huh-" Bai Wu looked at him disdainfully, "Who believes you." β
"Bai Wu, you will also win the championship next year. Since you are the son of Ning Wangfu, this title will be inherited by you in the future, and some things should be understood. β
Bai Wu was a little tired and said: "I have calloused ears when I hear these words, don't teach me anymore." Isn't there still you, you are so smart and capable, maybe one day your father will pass on the title to you! β
There was a sense of uninhibitedness, sourness and helplessness in these words, Bai Hao looked at him with some sympathy, but in the end he did not speak.
"I've been a waste since I was a child," Bai Wu laughed at himself, "I can't study, I can't learn knives, sticks and guns, and I know all day long that I don't do my job." If it weren't for our mother's spirit in the sky, our father might have beaten me to death. You say, why don't I have such a good life as you, I can do anything, I can do anything, I can like everything. It's not like I ......."
"Do you think my life is good?" Bai Hao sneered and said very seriously, "Bai Wu, do you know how much I envy you? β
I haven't experienced the ruin of the country and the death of my family, I haven't seen my loved ones die in front of me, and I have been well protected since I was a child, so I will be so naΓ―ve and ignorant when I grow up. Where is it like him......
Incognito, shouldering the heavy responsibility of recovering the country, hiding his face to show others.
You can no longer use your previous name, abandon your former identity, hide your original appearance, and change your habits.
Can such a person still be called alive? Or is it already dead once?