Li Chenfeng sat down to eat tea again, except for Jasper and Mama An, the rough palace maid who cleaned up the hall was led out by Green Jade.

Seeing that Li Chenfeng was silent, Empress Dowager Cui sorted out the hem of her embroidered peony skirt with her hands, "It's hard to speak?" ”

Li Chenfeng put down the teacup and grinned heartily, "It's not difficult, the imperial grandmother will definitely rely on me." ”

Empress Dowager Cui sighed, turned around and waved her hand to Mama An, "Go to the mourning house and bring the eight-treasure phoenix hairpin." ”

Li Chenfeng hurriedly said, "Imperial grandmother, I can't help it!" That phoenix hairpin was put on by your great-grandmother when you entered the palace! ”

"What's the deal?" Empress Dowager Cui raised her eyebrows, stood up and walked to the window, and said, "Grandmother is old, and that phoenix hairpin is too gorgeous, so it is not as festive for young people to wear it." ”

"How can she be worthy of such an object," Li Chenfeng said sullenly, "You can just pick something that you don't use often and reward it." ”

Empress Dowager Cui chuckled when she heard this, "She is not worthy of such an object, but she deserves you to come to your grandmother to ask for grace?" ”

"Humph!" Li Chenfeng said stiffly, "A country girl, I am willing to follow my mother's last wish to marry her into the palace, what is she not satisfied with!" ”

Li Chenfeng's biological mother, Li Guifei, once had a friend named Zhou Meier when she was in the boudoir, and when she was not married, the two young girls who were pregnant with spring privately set a baby kiss for the child who had no shadow. If they are all boys, then they are brothers, and if they are girls, they are sisters. If it is a man and a woman, and the age is appropriate, then become a husband and wife, and grow old.

This is a joke in the boudoir, and later Li Guifei entered the palace as a concubine, and she had no contact with Zhou Meier.

When Concubine Li Guifei was dying, she missed the carefree time when she was young, so she also mentioned this interesting incident in the weak Li Chenfeng. Li Chenfeng was born as a prince, and it was impossible to marry the daughter of a small family. Li Guifei only said to Li Chenfeng, "Feng'er, in the end, the mother lost her trust." If one day you can meet the friend who grew up with her mother, you will greet her for her. ”

Although Li Chenfeng was young at the time, he also took these words to heart. Later, Li Chenfeng left the palace to build a mansion and found Li Guifei's former best friend.

It turned out that not long after Concubine Li Guifei entered the palace, Zhou Meier married the second young master of the Guan family, who opened an embroidery house in the local area. Zhou Mei'er has not come out for three years, and the second young master Guan has set up a three-room aunt. In the fourth year, Zhou Meier gave birth to a daughter who died in childbirth, and the second young master Guan straightened out the eldest aunt.

Soon after Zhou Mei'er passed away, the Guan family changed, except for the eldest aunt who helped the right, the other aunts ran away and rested, leaving only four young children waiting to be fed. Second Young Master Guan was so angry that he vomited blood, so he could only take his wife and children back to the countryside to farm, barely making ends meet.

Zhou Mei'er is dead, and Li Chenfeng doesn't have to greet Concubine Li Guifei. But when he heard that Zhou Meier really gave birth to a daughter, Li Chenfeng was very interested in what this girl who should have married him looked like.

Li Chenfeng still remembered what it was like when he led the guards who accompanied him into the courtyard of the Guan family.

The Guan family had only five simple thatched houses, and the front of the houses was simply enclosed into a courtyard by a fence made of dry branches. A boy of seven or eight years old sat on the ground in the courtyard and played, and a younger girl stood on a small stool to wash her clothes.

Li Chenfeng was shocked when he saw it, the poverty of the Guan family was something he had never seen when he grew up so big, and this was not a place for people to stay at all. He had already found an excuse to say that he was passing by to ask for saliva to drink, but how could he drink in such an environment.

Li Chenfeng just wanted to turn around and leave, but was discovered by a boy playing in the courtyard, and the boy shouted as he ran into the house, "Mother, mother, outsiders are here!" ”

In a moment, Zheng, the daughter-in-law of the second young master of the Guan family, walked out of the house. The Guan family originally opened an embroidery room, and the Zheng family naturally recognized that the materials on Li Chenfeng's body were not vulgar things, and the polite Ying Ying asked Li Chenfeng what was the matter after a blessing.

Li Chenfeng's original words were hard to say, so the guard behind him said, "I'm thirsty, come in and ask for water." ”

Seeing that Li Chenfeng didn't speak, Zheng asked the younger girl to take the guards to drink water.

At this time, a girl of thirteen or fourteen years old carried a bamboo basket half her height into the courtyard.

As soon as Zheng saw the girl, his smiling face immediately changed, and when he saw that there were only a few wild vegetables and mushrooms in the bamboo basket, he picked up the bamboo strips with chicken and duck feces on the ground and beat them. While beating and scolding, "You little prostitute, you only pick up these foods for half a day, what do you let the family eat at noon?" See how your dad cleans you up when he comes back! ”

The girl walked around the bamboo basket to avoid Zheng's beating, and only screamed, 'Mother, mother's ......' but did not beg for mercy.

Seeing that he couldn't hit the girl, Zheng shouted at her and said, "Kneel!" ”

The girl landed on her knees, and the bamboo strips then rained down on the girl's back, on her legs.

Li Chenfeng couldn't stand it, so he asked the guards to step forward and grab Zheng's arm holding the bamboo strip. Zheng turned his head and glared at Li Chenfeng angrily, and shouted, "This is our family's family matter, even if you are a rich master, it is not your turn to interfere!" ”

Of course, Li Chenfeng knew that this was someone else's family matter, and he couldn't interfere, he just wanted to let people stop the Zheng family, and the girl would take the opportunity to run away.

But who knew that the girl was kneeling there like that, not crying or laughing, as if the previous beating had not been on her.

"Yo~ Are you feeling sorry for this little prostitute?" Seeing Li Chenfeng's eyes looking at the girl, Zheng Shi smiled instead of being angry, "If you take a fancy to it, take it away with two taels of silver." ”

Li Chenfeng snorted contemptuously, "There is no shortage of girls in the master's mansion. ”

As soon as Zheng heard this, the bamboo stick in his hand hit the girl's back again, "The goods that lose money are not even worth two taels of silver, just like your plagued mother, they are all broom stars!" ”

The girl who didn't move at all reacted, only to see her turn around and look at Zheng like a wolf, and said viciously, "My mother is not a broom star!" ”

"Dead girl, you're still hard-mouthed! Your mother is not a broom star, and after her death, the Guan family will be defeated! You're not a broom star, and you're not even worth two taels of silver. The bamboo strips in Zheng's hand hit the girl's back one after another.

The girl didn't hide, but looked at Zheng like a wolf and said, "My mother is not a broom star!" No! ”

Zheng was frightened by the girl's eyes, and he didn't mention one more word on his lips, but the bamboo strips in his hands were drawn more densely.

When the girl saw that Zheng no longer mentioned that her mother was a broom star, her eyes were closed, and when she opened them again, there was no color in her eyes. There is no joy, no sorrow, no sorrow, no anger, it is as empty as a deep well, and there is no color of life in sight.

With just one glance, Li Chenfeng fell in.

"Hard mouth!" Empress Dowager Cui nodded Li Chenfeng's forehead, and then sighed, "Although the mourning family and your father said that they were not allowed to interfere in your marriage, this time it was really nonsense!" How can the thirteenth son of the dignified emperor marry a rural village girl? Doesn't this make the ministers laugh to death? ”

Li Chenfeng picked up the hot tea on the table, his eyes no longer looked at the Empress Dowager Cui, and said, "I have already been to my father's place, and the holy decree will come down in three days, and I will marry Ge Yuhe, the second daughter of Ge Zhongqiu, the right Shangshu, as the princess." ”

Emperor Yonghe was by nature modest, and he was also the golden mean in governing the government. Although this move has been sought after by a large number of people, the drawbacks are endless. Ge Zhongqiu and Zhu Xian, as the left and right scholars of the Dashun Dynasty, helped Emperor Yonghe provoke most of the country, and they are both indispensable figures in the court.

On weekdays, these two people talk and laugh in the court, but in private, they form a party and a camp, and they are incompatible.

In the twelfth year of Yonghe, the crown prince Li Chenyi was ordered to marry Zhu Xian's eldest daughter Zhu Wan'er and became the crown princess. And Ge Zhongqiu's eldest daughter married Cui Xuan, who was Uncle Cui Guo in the thirteenth year of Yonghe, and was in a fourth-rank official position in the court.

Although the emperor is modest, he is very obsessed with the power in his hands. The crown prince's age is getting older day by day, and his power in the court is becoming more and more stable day by day, which has invisibly caused huge psychological pressure on the emperor who is still in his prime.

Now that the emperor wants to marry Ge Zhongqiu's second daughter to the thirteen princes, the meaning of this cannot but make people think more.

Empress Dowager Cui's heart tightened after hearing this, and she still smiled on her face, "Very good, the mourning family has long heard that the little daughter of the Ge family looks like a fairy, which is very painful." ”

"What does it have to do with me?" Li Chenfeng poured all the tea in the teacup into his mouth, and said to the Empress Dowager Cui, "Anyway, my father asked me to marry me, it is nothing more than adding two pairs of dishes and chopsticks in the house, and adding more people to wait for it, what else." ”

"Alas......" Empress Dowager Cui sighed, "You kid, it's really hard for you to make such a concession for that country woman." But it's impossible for this daughter of the Ge family to be a side concubine, you ......"

"Of course I do." Li Chenfeng said, "That's why I came to my grandmother to ask for grace." With your reward, even if the daughter of the Ge family is domineering to the sky, you can't bully her anywhere. ”

Empress Dowager Cui nodded and took the box in Mama An's hand, but did not hand it to Li Chenfeng, "Then this Fengchai mourning family can't give it to you now, but wait for your happy day to give it to your civilian concubine, so that she can not be wronged in the palace." ”

Li Chenfeng was happy when he heard this, helped Empress Dowager Cui to sit down again, and said flatteringly, "It's still grandmother who loves her grandson and thinks thoughtfully for her grandson." ”

Empress Dowager Cui poked Li Chenfeng's forehead dotingly, and said with a smile, "You child, when will you bring her to your grandmother?" ”

Li Chenfeng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, remembering the stubborn figure, not stubborn, empty eyes, and sighed, "Forget it, people like her will not attract you old people, I will hide it myself." ”

Empress Dowager Cui laughed, "This hasn't passed the door yet, you will protect it." If you want to let someone tie her to the palace to accompany the mourning family for a few days, let you hide ......"

Li Chenfeng immediately coquettish, "Grandmother ......"

For a while, there was laughter and laughter in the Changle Palace.