After Gu Qingyan left, Chu Xiyun was going to Fengqi Palace to see the palace, but not far away, a little eunuch passed the word, saying that His Majesty asked the third princess to meet him.

Chu Xiyun hadn't seen the emperor for a few months, so she was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and followed the little eunuch to the south study.

Since the palace was haunted, the emperor tossed it, and provoked the Wufeng Mountain Lu Tianshi to die in the palace due to madness, the emperor seemed to jump out of the quagmire of flowers and jade, and he couldn't hear the name of flowers and jade, and checked the palace up and down, and strengthened the guard and control of the palace.

The emperor was shocked and suspicious, but he couldn't find the person behind the ghost, so he could only order people to stare at all parts of the palace. Although this guarding and control, as well as keeping an eye on it, did not have any great effect on the Gu family's hidden stakes buried deep in the depths of the palace, it was not without benefits.

The garrison of the imperial palace is twice as strict as before, and the most intuitive advantage is that there is a disturbance in the palace, and the emperor can get the news in time.

The third princess, Chu Xiyun, stopped Gu Qingyan from speaking and handed over the letter, and she didn't avoid people, so the emperor naturally got the news as soon as possible.

After the emperor got the news, he remembered her daughter, and ordered someone to call Chu Xiyun to the south study.

Chu Xiyun thought all the way about what the emperor was looking for her to do at this time?

The emperor has always been bad to the queen and Chu Yan, but she was still very good to her daughter, but this year, a lot of things have happened, the emperor has changed, her mother and her brother have become more estranged and disputed with the emperor, and she rarely comes to the emperor.

She pondered all the way to the south study, and when she saw the emperor, she saluted and respectfully shouted, "Father." ”

If it was in the past, Chu Xiyun would be respectful to the emperor, but he didn't have such a blanket look, and his tone would not be flat, he would always have a coquettish tone. Nowadays, there is a hint of alienation and alienation in respect.

The emperor raised his eyes and glanced at Chu Xiyun, her daughter, the queen's concubine, the only concubine in the palace, she was born higher than all the princesses, the queen had to teach strictly, he stopped a few times, gradually, to the pampered became an arrogant character, and later because she liked Gu Qingyan, after learning that An Gu was married, she went to the queen angrily several times, the queen asked her to give up, she cried with the queen, and kept saying that the queen was towards An Huajin, and there was only a niece in her heart without her daughter, for a while, I didn't even go to say hello to the queen, and I was close to him.

Now, he found that Chu Xiyun has really changed a lot, not only let go of Gu Qingyan, but also became a good sister with An Huajin, but after not seeing her for a few months, this behavior has become a very dignified lady, and the rules and etiquette are not wrong at all.

The emperor couldn't tell what it was like in his heart, in short, it was not good, he frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Yun'er, are you estranged from your father?" ”

Chu Xiyun straightened up and looked at the emperor, she hadn't seen her for a few months, his father himself tossed himself old and thin, as if he was ten years old, she shook her head, "It's just that I haven't seen my father for a long time, not only me, but the sisters in the harem are probably all very much missing their father." ”

I can talk more than before.

The emperor's face softened, and he beckoned to her, "Come and sit in front of my father." ”

Chu Xiyun walked up to the emperor and sat on the low stool opposite him.

The Emperor asked, "What have you been doing lately?" ”

"Learn the rules and embroidery from Mama."

"Oh? You've learned the rules and embroidery? The emperor was surprised, "Didn't you use it to be willing to learn?" ”

Chu Xiyun lowered her head and said in a slightly sour tone, "After the queen mother closed the palace and didn't come out, Concubine Liang asked all the sisters to learn the palace rules well. ”

After the palace banquet, the emperor gave an order to let the queen think about it behind closed doors, and remove Chu Yan from all positions and think about it behind closed doors, but he didn't restrain Chu Xiyun, but the emperor respected the king, and the concubine in the palace was in power, although Chu Xiyun had the queen's instructions to stay in the palace and don't do anything, but she couldn't bear to take the palace rules to clean up the people, Chu Xiyun didn't make a mistake, she could only detain all the princesses together to learn the palace rules, thinking that Chu Xiyun's temperament would definitely not be able to bear to make trouble, but she didn't expect that she really learned the palace rules obediently and skillfully, not noisy or noisy, Concubine Liang couldn't grasp the handle if she wanted to clean up.

As soon as she said this, the emperor was speechless. He didn't like Chu Xiyun's alienated appearance in front of him, but the reason was him.

The queen and Chu Yan were punished, it was all his order, the palace is a place to eat people, and the princess who is not protected by the queen mother's brother, even if she is a concubine, must pick up her tail and be a man.

Maybe this is the reason why Chu Xiyun changed her temperament, and it is generally because she has been tortured a lot during this period of time.

The emperor softened his tone a little, simply skipped this stubble, and asked her directly, "What did you do when you stopped Gu Qingyan just now?" ”

Chu Xiyun's heart was cold, sure enough, his father was because of this, if she hadn't heard about Gu Qingyan's appointment to the court today and asked him to send a letter to An Huajin, his father would not have thought of her as a daughter, all he could think of was the new woman in Chuxiu Palace.

She whispered, "Erchen wrote a letter to Cousin An, and when I heard that Master Gu had entered the palace today, I bothered him to send it to Nanyang. ”

The emperor nodded, "I thought that you still admired Gu Qingyan, so you wrote letters to him. ”

Chu Xiyun was startled and immediately shook his head, "Erchen didn't like him for a long time. ”

The emperor distinguished her expression, and saw that she didn't seem to be cheating, he was really frightened, and he said, "Now that they have canceled the marriage contract, if you like Gu Qingyan, you may not have ......."

Chu Xiyun's face suddenly turned white, "Erchen doesn't like it!" I don't like it at all. ”

The Emperor was silent for a moment, "You should also be at the age of marriage. ”

Chu Xiyun thought to herself, if there was no such a big incident on the day of the palace banquet, her mother would have arranged for her to be married, she lowered her head and said honestly, "The queen mother once secretly showed me a school-age son who has never had a marriage contract in Beijing. ”

"Oh?" The Emperor asked, "Who was chosen?" ”

"There is a list, the queen mother said to look carefully, it is not yet decided."

The emperor nodded, he naturally didn't forget that day Jiang Yunzhi said that he liked the third princess Chu Xiyun and didn't like the fourth princess, so he dismissed her from his post in anger and let him think about it behind closed doors in the mansion for half a year.

He asked, "The little marquis of the Guangcheng Marquis Mansion, Jiang Yunzhi, do you know it?" ”

Chu Xiyun thought about it carefully, "It seems that we have seen one or two sides." ”

"What do you think of him?"

Chu Xiyun was stunned, Jiang Yunzhi's reputation is very good in Beijing, and among the nobles, he is also the top of the ranks, everyone says that in the generation of the Marquis of Guangcheng, there is a Jiang Yunzhi, who is the hope of the Marquis of Guangcheng, not only good, but also versatile, and is a figure who is both civil and military.

She lowered her head, "Erchen is not familiar with him. ”

She didn't think that the emperor asked her how, she said okay, she would let her marry Jiang Yunzhi, although she studied the rules behind closed doors for a while, but she also heard that the emperor punished Jiang Yunzhi because of her, this matter, originally she also felt ridiculous, but the fourth princess rushed to her palace angrily that day and cried and scolded her, she understood a rough idea, as for where the fourth princess got the news, it was naturally Concubine Liang.

She didn't believe it, so she asked the people arranged by Chu Yan in her palace to ask Chu Yan, and Chu Yan replied that it was true.

At that time, she was shocked for a long time, but Chu Yan asked her not to think about it, Jiang Yunzhi was just using her as a baffle to block the marriage. When she heard this, she naturally didn't think much about it.

Now that the emperor asked, what could she say?

The emperor nodded, and said in an unclear tone, "Your marriage, I will discuss it with your mother, you are not young, settle it as soon as possible." ”

Chu Xiyun nodded, "The sons and daughters are all up to the father and the queen mother. ”

The emperor asked again, "What did you say in your letter to Xiao An'er?" ”

Chu Xiyun said honestly, "Originally, I wanted to go to my brother's mansion to meet my grandfather today, but I heard that my grandfather didn't see anyone, so I thought about asking my cousin about my grandfather's preferences and some living habits, and when my grandfather saw me, I would prepare some gifts for my grandfather." ”

The emperor also wondered, what kind of operation was it when the old Nanyang King went out of the palace that day and saw no one? Not only did the courtiers not see him, but his daughter and granddaughter were also gone, was it really unwell? That day, he was obviously in good health.

Couldn't get anything from Chu Xiyun, the emperor waved his hand at her, "The rules are good, so as not to learn the rules now if you allow marriage, and you must not slack off in the future." ”

"Yes."

The Emperor waved his hand, "Go!" ”

Chu Xiyun was pardoned and withdrew from the south study.

After leaving the south study, the cold wind blew, and she felt a layer of cold sweat on her back, before, she was not afraid to see her father, but now she didn't want to see his father and was afraid to see him. She lied, what she gave An Huajin was not one letter, but two letters, including her mother, what she wrote in the letter was not what she said to the emperor at all, but also about her marriage, but what she said was that she wanted to marry Nanyang, and asked An Huajin if there was a way, and she didn't know what to write in her mother's letter, and the queen mother didn't show her.

Anyway, the letter has already arrived in Gu Qingyan's hands, even if his father doesn't believe what she said, it is impossible to see her and her mother's letter from Gu Qingyan's hands. That's why she dared to lie.