Chapter 162: Tilting the Concubine
Oh? Emperor Changping sighed with interest.
"Your Majesty, the identity of your subordinates is really not worthy of the third princess." Xue Wuyi sighed.
"When you came back last year, you didn't mention it, could it be that you have a sweetheart this year?" Emperor Changping actually gossiped.
"Hmm." Xue Wuyi nodded resignedly.
"Then let's do things quickly, it's time to get married, get up." Emperor Changping patted Xue Wuyi's shoulder.
Xue Wuyi listened to Emperor Changping's words, and a bitter smile appeared on his face.
"What? Isn't it a human girl who doesn't want to? Hahaha" Emperor Changping looked at the expression on Xue Wuyi's face and laughed.
Xue Wuyi pursed his lips, and was really guessed correctly by Emperor Changping.
"You are really ......" Emperor Changping pointed at Xue Wuyi regardless of his image.
"Your Majesty ......" Xue Wuyi spread his hands helplessly, he really wanted to say to Emperor Changping what Liu Meiniang often said: Please be kind.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you, if you like it, you have to go for it."
Emperor Changping and Xue Wuyi sat down and seemed to have found a common topic.
"Fight?" Xue Wuyi asked rhetorically.
"Yes, if you don't fight for it, how do you know it's impossible? In fact, back then, Linglong didn't like me at first. Emperor Changping suddenly spit out a name from his mouth, which surprised Xue Wuyi.
The name of the concubine seems to be what is called Jade Linglong.
"Don't be surprised, I don't allow them to mention Linglong, because they only scold Linglong." Emperor Changping sighed and continued.
It seems that the person sitting in front of Xue Wuyi at this moment is not Emperor Changping, but an ordinary man, missing the person he once loved deeply to his friends.
"I went to southern Xinjiang that year, drove a personal expedition, and when I saw Linglong, I fell in love with Linglong, and at that time Linglong was like a fairy who fell into the mortal world, making people unable to take their eyes off."
Yu Linglong is actually the princess of the southern Xinjiang royal family, that young Emperor Changping drove the expedition in person, and the southern Xinjiang royal family asked Yu Linglong to disguise herself as a woman from an ordinary family to deceive Emperor Changping, but she didn't expect it to be really successful, and Emperor Changping fell in love with Yu Linglong at first sight.
In fact, at the beginning, Yu Linglong was unwilling, Yu Linglong had someone she liked before this, that man saved Yu Linglong's life, and got along with Yu Linglong for a long time, because there was something to leave, promised Yu Linglong, and would definitely come back to marry Yu Linglong after the matter was over.
Yu Linglong began to swear to the death that she was unwilling to obey the orders of the king of southern Xinjiang, but the king of southern Xinjiang threatened with his life.
In addition, Yu Linglong didn't wait for the man she liked, so she had to agree to the proposal of the king of southern Xinjiang.
Yu Linglong successfully approached Emperor Changping, and soon won the love of Emperor Changping, it was because of the help of Yu Linglong, as well as a military deployment map that had been stolen, that Emperor Changping did not succeed in attacking the southern Xinjiang, and at the end of the second year, the class returned to the dynasty and brought back Yu Linglong.
Yu Linglong always thought that Emperor Changping didn't know about her stealing the defense map, but in fact, Emperor Changping knew about it.
It was because of the relationship between Jade Linglong that Emperor Changping later signed a contract with Southern Xinjiang, and Southern Xinjiang paid tribute every year after that, and submitted to Daqi.
And Emperor Changping also knew that Yu Linglong had always had someone in his heart, and that person was Emperor Rong Lie of Beirong.
When Emperor Changping returned from southern Xinjiang with Yu Linglong, he met Rong Lie on the way.
Rong Lie originally came to attack southern Xinjiang with the Beirong army, and wanted to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie, but he didn't expect Emperor Changping to withdraw his troops in advance, so he met the Beirong army on the way back from the Great Qi army.
At that time, the forces of Daqi were still stronger, and Rong Lie was not a fool, and of course he would not clash with Emperor Changping.
It's just that Yu Linglong almost fainted when she knew Rong Lie's identity.
And Rong Lie looked at Yu Linglong, as if he was not surprised at all, in fact, Rong Lie had long known Yu Linglong's identity, and even saved Yu Linglong before he planned it.
In order to get some secrets of southern Xinjiang from Yu Linglong.
Yu Linglong didn't have a scheming city, and she didn't expect Rong Lie to just use her.
In fact, Rong Lie also found out that he fell in love with Yu Linglong after returning to Beirong. Although Rong Lie also came to attack Southern Xinjiang, he wanted to find Yu Linglong and bring her back to Beirong.
Yu Linglong knew that this matter was naturally very devastating, and in general, Yu Linglong was the saddest person in it.
She likes Rong Lie, but Rong Lie uses her from beginning to end, and her father asks her to seduce Emperor Changping for the sake of profit.
But Yu Linglong herself didn't do anything wrong.
After seeing Rong Lie, Yu Linglong also gave up, although she still loved Rong Lie deeply, but this kind of Rong Lie made her strange and scared, and in the end she chose to follow Emperor Changping back to Daqi.
Rong Lie also looked for Yu Linglong several times later, but was finally blocked by Emperor Changping.
Back in Daqi, Yu Linglong was not happy, but Emperor Changping tried his best to coax Yu Linglong to be happy, and over time, Yu Linglong was also moved by Emperor Changping's intentions.
In the end, he fell in love with Emperor Changping.
But the good times didn't last long, because Emperor Changping favored Jade Linglong too much, so the government and the opposition scolded each other. Yu Linglong also had a bad child before, because she was accidentally framed by a harem concubine and had a miscarriage.
Although the concubine was finally found out, it was just a little-known promise, and Emperor Changping also executed the woman, in fact, everyone knew that there was someone else who wanted to harm Yu Linglong, and that woman was just pushed out to block the knife.
After Yu Linglong lost her child, she was depressed all day long, and Emperor Changping became more and more cautious, spending almost all of his time with Yu Linglong.
The better Emperor Changping treated Yu Linglong, the more everyone hated Yu Linglong, and it didn't take long for Yu Linglong to die.
Emperor Changping was depressed for a long time.
I thought I would never mention this matter to others again, but I didn't expect to talk to Xue Wuyi today.
Xue Wuyi didn't expect that there would be so many stories between Emperor Changping and Yu Linglong.
When Emperor Changping spoke, his face was sometimes smiling, sometimes sad, but there was no nostalgia at all, as if Yu Linglong was still alive. Never left.
"So, sometimes, I like to go for it."
In the end, Emperor Changping patted Xue Wuyi's shoulder and said earnestly.
Xue Wuyi let out a sigh and nodded solemnly.
"Since you don't like the third princess, and I don't force you, will you still participate in the palace banquet tonight?"
Emperor Changping asked.
"Your Majesty, the subordinates of the palace banquet will not participate." Xue Wuyi said with a smile.
How many people want to participate in the palace banquet, but Xue Wuyi doesn't like this scene, he also knows that Emperor Changping's attitude towards him now, there is no sincerity, more is just because of his interests, some words are just listened to, and there is no need to take them to heart.
"Okay, you can step aside." Emperor Changping waved his hand and motioned for Xue Wuyi to leave.
Xue Wuyi knelt down and saluted respectfully.
Xue Wuyi had already walked away, and Gonggong Li came to Emperor Changping.
"Your Majesty, this is left by Xue Gongzi." Father-in-law Li is holding a box.
"Open it and take a look." Emperor Changping raised his chin.
Gonggong Li opened it, and it was full of silver and gold tickets.
"Count." Emperor Changping said with a pale face,
This is the rule of survival, Emperor Changping has never explicitly asked Xue Wuyi to contribute how much silver to the treasury every year, but Xue Wuyi will be summoned into the palace every year when he returns, and he will leave a large amount of silver when he leaves.
"Your Majesty, Xue Gongzi said it was 200,000 taels." Grandpa Li is overjoyed.
Xue Wuyi was really generous, 200,000 taels, and he could raise an army of 100,000 horses for three months.
This saved a lot of money for Emperor Changping.
"Let's take some rewards to Xue Zimo for a walk, in addition, King Chun's house in the capital, renovate it, change the brand, and send it to Zimo too." Emperor Changping said casually, and Gonggong Li nodded and wrote them down one by one.
Xue Wuyi got out of the palace and got into the carriage, there was still goose feather snow outside, and there were many carriages on the road hurrying to the palace, most of them came to attend tonight's palace banquet.
Xue Wuyi leaned against the carriage, and a sense of desolation welled up in his heart.
Back at the gate of the Xue Mansion, the Xue family's housekeeper seemed to have been waiting for a long time.
"Second young master, the master said that tonight's palace banquet wants you to enter the palace together." The housekeeper saw Xue Wuyi jumping down from the carriage and hurriedly stepped forward and said.
Xue Wuyi didn't pay attention to it, and Uncle Liu hurriedly put the prepared cloak on Xue Wuyi, and stuffed a delicate stove into Xue Wuyi's arms.
"No, no." Xue Wuyi was about to enter the gate, and then he said impatiently.
"Second young master, don't let the little one do it, the little one is also acting on orders." For Xue Wuyi's attitude, the housekeeper didn't dare to attack when he was full of anger.
"Acting on orders? After so many years, the palace banquet only remembered me? How? I haven't been in the palace, I don't understand any rules, take advantage of tonight's palace banquet, you want me to make a fool of myself, so that I can be a foil for Xue Ziqian? If I didn't guess wrong, when you enter the palace today, you have to discuss the marriage of Xue Ziqian and Li Wanwan, you go back and tell your master, I went, whether Xue Ziqian's marriage can be successful or not is not good, anyway, who in the capital doesn't know that I Xue Zimo is not educated, and he is a gentleman. After Xue Wuyi finished speaking, he entered without looking back.
The housekeeper stood at the door of Xue Wuyi's house and was stunned for a while, and did not come back to his senses until the door was closed.
"That's what he said?" In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Liang Min sat on the main seat, and when he heard the butler's report, his eyebrows were tied into a knot.
"Yes, ma'am." The butler wiped the sweat from his head.
"Alright, you can go down." Liang Min waved his hand.
The butler answered, and left.
"Mother, why do you ......" Xue Ziqian stepped forward to persuade Liang Min.
"Qian'er, my mother is planning for you, I also know what you want to say, you want to tell my mother, don't compete with that Xue Zimo anymore, right?" Liang Min said earnestly.
Xue Ziqian nodded.
"He's doing business well now, don't you notice that when he comes back this time, your father has a much better attitude towards him? No matter what, he couldn't be given a chance to be in the limelight, and he originally wanted to take advantage of this palace banquet...... Forget it, Niang will find a way, you behave well at this palace banquet, Concubine Liang Niangniang has already mentioned to the emperor about you and Li Wanwan, if it goes well, I will give you a marriage tonight, and when the time comes, ......" Liang Min said all his plans.
"Thank you, Mother." Xue Ziqian's heart sank, Liang Min paved almost every step for him, and he must not live up to his mother's expectations.