The news that King Xiaojun was going to marry a merchant widow as a continuation soon spread in the capital.

It's not that the emperor himself or the attendants in the Qiande Palace are not strict-mouthed, but that King Xiaojun runs to the lady's mansion every day rain or shine to visit, which has fallen in the eyes of many people.

However, Huo Yanzhi, who was in the palace, knew later than other nobles, after all, the recent war in South Vietnam has been deadlocked, and the drought in the northwest also requires a lot of money and food, and no important minister has the courage and interest to tell him this kind of gossip, and the well-informed queen has not seen him for several days.

When she learned about this from her mother, Mrs. Qin, the queen didn't react much, but just regarded it as a funny anecdote in the market.

She touched her abdomen, which was already slightly protruding, and said casually: "Doesn't my mother always like to listen to the rumors of those long-tongued women, why did she suddenly change her temper?" But what did someone say to you? ”

Mrs. Qin's face was a little stiff, and she seemed to hesitate to say something, but after her eyes fell on the queen's stomach, she changed her mind again.

She reluctantly said: "This is not an ominous rumor, maybe, one day the mother will be able to see the widow among the women she meets!" ”

The queen finally became interested: "So, this matter is really true?" ”

She pondered for a moment, and then smiled: "King Xiaojun's temperament is really, he doesn't seem to be much younger than his father, and he still wants to come out of it." Also, although she is the biological son of the eldest princess, she has barbarian blood on her body, and she grew up in that kind of uncivilized place since she was a child, and it is normal for her etiquette to be rude. If he really wants to marry that lowly merchant woman, even if he is not afraid of being embarrassed, Zongzheng Temple may not agree. ”

Mrs. Qin said: "Although he bears the title of a county king, his father is the old king of Tubo, and Zongzheng Temple is afraid that he will not be able to be his master." If he really wants to marry, he will directly bring the merchant woman back to the Tubo Royal City to get married, and the six rites will be complete, and in the end, Zongzheng Temple will still have to pinch his nose and recognize this princess of the new county? He is also His Majesty's uncle, but I am afraid that His Majesty will not be able to take care of this ridiculous thing. Left and right are the faces of our Daqi royal family, alas! ”

Although Mrs. Qin is married to a military general, her maiden family is a scholarly family, and she herself has been raised with strict upbringing, and she pays special attention to whether she and the people around her do things in line with the word "etiquette".

Under her influence, the queen became the "female master" in Huo Yan's heart, so she was quite worried when she heard this.

"Mother, according to what you say, even Your Majesty can't come forward to obstruct it, what else can be done? Could it be that we can only watch King Xiaojun be willing to be lowly and ruin the reputation of the entire royal family? ”

When Mrs. Qin saw that the queen had taken the bait, she was faintly proud in her heart, but she was still hesitant on her face.

"It can't be said that way, if King Xiaojun takes his new wife to live in Tibet for a long time, and then does not return to the capital, after two years, this matter will be slowly forgotten."

"Impossible!"

The queen said categorically: "Don't you know? Since the new king of Tubo succeeded to the throne a few years ago, King Xiaojun couldn't stay in the west, and he used to come to Daqi for a month or two at most in a year, and now he is here almost half of the time. I am afraid that his power in Tubo was attacked by the new king and had to retreat. In the long run, when the new king's wings are growing, he may have to retire in the capital! ”

Mrs. Qin sighed: "Then, I'm afraid that there is no way, I can only hope that the eldest princess who has not yet married will be more open-minded, and I also hope that the future concubine will not mind these little things." ”

Huo Yanzhi has been on the throne for three years, although he only has two little princesses who are still babbling, but the first emperor is a lover, in addition to this throne and the country, he also left several underage princess sisters to Huo Yanzhi as an inheritance.

As the queen, of course, the Qin family also has to preside over the selection of sons-in-law and weddings of several eldest princesses, and just got married last year, and there are still two left that are less than the age of the year!

Thinking of the possible bad effects of the matter of King Xiaojun, and the added workload to her follow-up work, the queen suddenly felt a headache.

After some deliberation between mother and daughter, the queen quickly came to a conclusion.

King Xiaojun's ridiculous marriage has to find a way to stir up the yellow.

As Mrs. Qin said: "The courtiers don't want it, and the little prince in the future will still call that kind of lowly businesswoman an aunt." ”

The queen also didn't want to have a relationship with a woman from that background, because King Xiaojun was the emperor's elder, and she had to follow the short merchant woman, and she wouldn't swallow this kind of grievance honestly.

Half an hour later, outside the palace gate.

With a satisfied smile, Mrs. Qin gracefully got into her carriage.

"Su Shi, with a lowly background like you, you still want to climb high branches? Just wait to fall into the dust! ”

At the same time, in an ordinary alley in the south of the capital.

The girl in blue clothes carried a boxy medicine bag in her hand, walked quickly to the door with a small wooden sign of "Song House", and knocked on the door with a rhythm of three long and two short, without making a sound, someone inside came to answer the door.

Jinxiu frowned and asked, "Why have you been there for so long?" But what kind of herbs are missing? ”

Siluo smiled playfully, handed over the paper bag, and followed Jinxiu into the stove.

"Nothing. No one is lacking, and there will be no shortage of our wife, and the shopkeeper is not stupid. Madame is still asleep? ”

Jinxiu sighed and said worriedly: "Madame's problem, every year at this time, I have a head wind, and I haven't seen it for a few years." Alas, I only heard that it is easy to recur old diseases in spring and autumn, but I didn't expect ......"

Siluo snorted: "It can be seen that the doctors in this world are all people who deceive the world and steal their reputations, and what kind of miracle doctors do they have, they can't even see the head wind!" I see, most of what the prince said is the same for the imperial doctor. It's been a few days, and there is no one to see, so I think the emperor is unwilling to lend us someone. ”

Jinxiu glared at her: "With your mouth, you know nonsense!" His Majesty the Emperor is also someone you can choreograph? That is, there are no people living next to us, do you understand the ears on the wall? If someone hears your words and runs to report it to Lord Jing Zhaoyin, saying that you are talking about the Son of Heaven in vain, you will be finished! ”

Siluo pouted, unwilling to listen to Jinxiu's preaching, so she found an excuse to see if Madame had woken up, and ran into the back room.

Unexpectedly, when I went in, Mrs. was not sleeping as Jinxiu said, but leaned on the head of the bed in a daze, sitting there in a daze.

Siluo hurriedly brought a cup of hot tea over: "Madame, do you want to moisten your throat?" ”

As soon as Su Shi took the teacup, the courtyard door was knocked on the same rhythm of three long and two short.

She was a little helpless: "Go, go and open the door for the county king." Just don't have to bring him in, just like yesterday. ”

Siluo went as she said, and when she opened the courtyard door, she saw that there was the prince of the county who was heroic, bright-eyed, and not angry.

The little girl looked curiously at the young man in the blue cloth robe behind him: "I've seen the county king." This is—"

King Xiaojun said: "This is the imperial doctor borrowed by this king and His Majesty. Oh yes, what's your last name? ”

The young man's face was distorted, but he still replied respectfully: "Back to the prince, Weichen's surname is Chen, and his name is Calamus." ”

King Xiaojun nodded suddenly, and said to Siluo: "This is Imperial Doctor Chen, take him in to see your wife." ”

Imperial Physician Chen cut the pulse of this "merchant woman who is said to be very favored by the king of Xiaojun" through the veil tent, and listened to her describe the symptoms, and sat there and muttered for a long time before hesitating to propose that acupuncture and moxibustion might be more effective than taking medicine.

King Xiaojun coughed: "This, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." After all, Mrs. Su is different from you men and women......"

Through the gauze tent, Su Shi helplessly glanced at the man who refused to stay outside the screen honestly, and said with a smile: "What the prince of the county said is wrong. Although I was honored as a lady, I was not from a noble background, and I didn't have so much red tape to worry about. Besides, at the age of this Imperial Physician Chen, it's okay to be my son, what else is there to taboo. ”

As she spoke, she motioned to Siluo to lift the veil and show her sick face directly.

King Xiaojun wanted to retreat behind the screen, but he felt that Imperial Physician Chen was an outsider who could be present, and he didn't seem to have a reason to retreat, so he paused, but he didn't dare to stare directly at Su's family, and his heart was still beautiful, and he felt that he seemed to be accepted by Su's as an "insider" by Su's family.

Imperial Physician Chen was stunned for a while before he began to take the needle, but this moment was enough to make King Xiaojun dissatisfied.

Although Imperial Physician Chen was young, he had also been in the palace for two years, and he had learned well in observing words and feelings, and he soon noticed something wrong from the faces of the three people around him, and hurriedly defended himself.

"It's rude. I just listened to my wife's words, and I guessed that my wife was about the same age as my mother, and I was a little surprised to see that my wife was still so young. ”

After explaining, he didn't care if he would be misunderstood, and only looked for acupuncture points.

Silo didn't realize that there was him, but she was a little happy: "A lot of people say that!" If it weren't for the fact that she had combed her hair in a bun, she would have been accosted by someone who had not left the cabinet when she went out. ”

"Silo!" Su Shi drank her in disgust.

The little girl didn't think much about it, and said to herself: "I heard that the girl was born six or seven points similar to her wife, if the girl comes back one day, you two go out together, and others must say that they are two sisters, not like a mother and daughter!" Madame, do you say? ”

Su Shi had two golden needles pierced on his head, and it was difficult to move, so he could only stare at Siluo with more stern eyes.

Unexpectedly, when Imperial Physician Chen heard this, his originally steady hand suddenly trembled, and he almost scratched Su's sideburns.

This little mistake was seen by King Xiaojun, and he was very dissatisfied, and even slandered the honorable cousin in the palace in his heart.

"What do you mean to let me go to the Taiyi Bureau to find someone by myself, and I will not stop me if I am willing to come, the emperor who dares to love knows that those old guys are unwilling to lower their bodies and come over, so they specially got such a descendant to coax me? Hmph, if it's cured, if it's cured, if it can't be cured......"

To the surprise of King Xiaojun, the next acupuncture did not appear any more thrilling, and it ended smoothly.

It's just that when she went out to write a prescription with Siluo after pulling out the needle, Imperial Doctor Chen lowered her voice and asked the little girl two words.

"You just said that your girl was born very similar to this lady?"

Siluo nodded yes, and he asked again: "Then, your girl has already left the cabinet?" ”

Siluo's eyes widened: "Oh my God! Do you want to ask our girl for a kiss? Doctor Tai, you are too abrupt. I just don't hear these words, you write a prescription and hurry back. ”

Doctor Chen: ......