Chapter 23 Decree of Marriage
Everything seems to be calm again.
Jing Guogong's imprisonment was just a false alarm, and after returning home, he first went to visit Mrs. Qiao's room. Immediately, the mother and son hugged their heads and cried.
After a few days, Mrs. Qiao's body and bones were well repaired. In this disease, she saw the Qi family clearly, and became closer to her, but she liked the Qu family.
When it came to the Nanzhou flood, after listening to what Jing Guogong said, Qiao Mei knew that all this was Cao Wei's plan.
Cao Wei communicated with the governor of Nanzhou, and the two of them made a false report and the other was covering in the capital, with the purpose of bringing down the Jingguo Mansion.
"I have been in the small courtyard of the East Palace for the past two days, and every day Li'er has changed into the clothes of the next person to accompany me, and the father-in-law Xu next to the prince said that he took his mother to live and came to deliver food in person every day." Jing Guogong said happily.
After a pause, he said with a lot of emotion: "I guess Your Majesty may have known about this with the crown prince a long time ago, and he is waiting for Cao Wei, the old fox, to show his tail." β
Qiao Li threw a spiced melon seed into his mouth, and responded to his words with a smile, "No matter what, you just carried a false accusation, but you became the mother of Father-in-law Xu!" Hahaha...... Also superb! β
"Stinky boy!" Jing Guogong scolded angrily, "It's itchy again?" β
Zhou Shi watched their father and son arguing, smiled softly, Qiao Mei leaned meekly in her arms, listened to Jing Guogong's words, and said with a smile: "Daddy, the third brother told me yesterday that he originally wanted to climb over the wall and get out of the academy. β
"Qiao Jing!!"
"Daddy, Daddy...... Slow down, don't flash...... Ay! β
Qiao Li was sitting on the stone bench, looking at them, and a shallow smile appeared on his still immature face.
The sun above was hidden in the clouds, and the cold wind swept up a coolness, bringing up the smoky golden skirt of Qiao Mei, and those large clouds gradually dyed with light ink, and spread little by little.
The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings......
In order to appease the Jingguo Mansion, Emperor Zhaoren sent down a holy decree that stunned everyone again.
The person who came was a red man next to Emperor Zhaoren, and as soon as he came, Ah Hai's face turned into a pleated flower, and Jing Guogong and the others were still confused, so he took the holy decree and came out.
Everyone knelt down and saluted.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said: Miss Qiao Si Qiao Mei, skillful and gentle, outstanding appearance, I bow and hear very pleasantly. Now when the prince is suitable for marriage, he should choose a virtuous woman to match. β
"For the beauty of the beauty, Qiao Mei is specially promised to be the prince's concubine, and when Qiao Mei's ceremony is completed, since the prince marries, he admires thisββ"
Qiao Mei knelt and lowered her head to listen, she didn't react for a long time, and she took the yellow holy decree in a daze, and the delicate and cold touch on it came, and she came back to her senses.
This...... What she wanted, came so soon?
However, Xie Huaijin is he willing?
When Ah Hai and Old Madam Qiao were both smiling like flowers, Zhou's face had already turned cold, and Jing Guogong looked at her in embarrassment.
The Qi family next to him wrinkled his eyebrows and glared at Qiao Meng. Qiao Hui lowered her eyelashes and stood up, her weak face did not change, she only held her hand with wide sleeves and clenched it tightly.
Everyone only looked at the mahogany hall box that was tied with red silk flowers and carried into the main hall, and the box was opened again, and the gold plate jade and silk silk and satin exposed inside were all dazzling.
Mrs. Qiao rewarded a heavy amount of silver, personally sent Ah Hai out of the house, and when she came back, she hugged Qiao Mei affectionately, "Grandmother knows that my family's eyebrows are a competitive one!" When you were a child, you often went to the palace, and you got acquainted with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince early. Look, before you could finish it, he begged His Majesty to come to the door! β
As she spoke, the expression on her face became even more agitated, and the paleness of the previous serious illness had long since faded.
"Mother! What do you say! Zhou's hand holding the handkerchief trembled slightly, and the corners of his eyes began to redden, "How can you and I arrange the affairs of the prince and His Majesty?" β
Jing Guogong also shook his head at Old Madam Qiao and motioned for her to keep silent.
"Yes, yes." Old Madam Qiao naturally understood Zhou's thoughts. She let go of Qiao Mei, and reached out again for the personal maid to support, as if she had no intention of sighing, "I'm an old woman, where can I take care of your affairs, but this holy decree has been issued, and Meimei always can't resist and disobey it!" β
"Mother!" Jing Guogong frowned and said helplessly.
Zhou Shi red-eyed, threw his hand directly, and turned to leave.
"What is my sister-in-law doing in such a good manner? Meimei is about to be the crown princess, and she still has a face. If you want to be me, I don't know how happy I am! Qi pretended to be surprised and rushed to Jingguo's justice, and patted Qiao Meng's hand lovingly, "It's just that our family dreams, without this blessing, it would be ...... if she was a prince Liangdi"
Before she could speak, "Where is your turn?!" Jing Guogong raised his hand and swept the porcelain bone cup on the table to the ground, his face was already cold,
Qi Shi was suddenly taken aback, and Jing Guogong's long-standing majesty was revealed, overwhelming people, and looking at the teacup that was broken into pieces, she had to reluctantly hold up a smile and said, "I...... I'm just kidding......"
Old Mrs. Qiao was also very displeased when she looked at her as a demon, and her good mood was ruined, she said to the second master: "The second old man will take people down, and he will talk nonsense all day long!" She looked at Qiao Meng again, "Meng'er can't worry about anything, I really don't know how to be a mother!" β
"Yes, it's my mother's lesson."
The second master glared at Qi's family, and even pulled her, and the two took the maids back to Jinhua Courtyard.
And Qiao Meng was hugged behind them by Cui Er, and neither of them looked back at her.
Qiao Mei didn't look like it, although she was not close to this sister, she also knew that she had the most gentle character.
In her previous life, the Qi family had no children, and if she didn't have a businessman's maiden family as a backer, Mrs. Qiao would have asked the second master to divorce his wife. "Nothing to come out" has always been a pain buried in Qi's heart for a long time, and the second master lingers in the flowers, often ignoring his family, and the depression in her heart is difficult to solve, so she looks for Qiao Meng to vent.
Later, in order to let Qiao Meng climb the high branches, the Qi family wanted her to marry into the East Palace, but Xie Huaijin died. She remembered that there was a prince in her mother's family, and she wanted to cling to it, how did she know that the fifth prince had already captured Qiao Hui's heart.
In the end, after the Qi family's business collapsed, she had to marry Qiao Meng to a forty-year-old outsider as a step-room, so that the Qi Mansion could barely support herself.
But Qiao Meng did not resist, she once thought about ending herself with a foot of white silk, and she didn't want others to trample on her in vain, but she couldn't force Qi to kneel and beg her......
Qiao Mei didn't know these things, at that time, her heart was trapped in a world by Qi Medal, and she was willing to ignore the outside world, even the Jingguo Mansion.
If it weren't for Mama Lin and Qingzhu coming to the door, she would have really wanted to live a life like that......