Chapter 43: Piercing
"Today's festive season, you are all the relatives and friends of Concubine Shu, so you don't need to be polite and just treat it as your own banquet." Emperor Yuanxi, who was sitting on the main seat, looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and his tone was gentle.
The lady concubine Niangniang, who was resentful because of the words of Song Wu'er's mother and daughter, saw that the emperor had earned some face for her in person, and she was happy in her heart, and she was busy sitting next to Emperor Yuanxi and taking care of it carefully.
Song Wu'er, who was sitting with the Zhao family, had been staring at King Yong'an intently since he entered the palace, as if he wanted to stare him alive.
This King Yong'an is the prince born to Concubine Liu, the second oldest among the princes, and his temperament has always been dull and introverted, his status is not as good as that of the prince, and he is not as diligent as the king of Nan'an in terms of taking the initiative to brush his face in front of the emperor, so his sense of existence among the three brothers is simply low. Song Wu'er, who married King Nan'an in his previous life and visited the palace from time to time, has never seen a straight face a few times, and most of his understanding is only known through the mouths of some idle people.
Perhaps it was because this King Yong'an usually concealed his edge too ruthlessly, and when the King of Nan'an and the prince competed for the throne, the two parties had a tacit understanding and forgot him directly to the back of their minds. Later, the prince died violently, and the king of Nan'an was sterilized and abdicated without children for life, and the position of the ninety-five supreme of the Yuan Dynasty naturally fell into his hands.
Speaking of which, King Yong'an seems to have stepped on the throne like a shit luck, she Song Wu'er is also indispensable, when King Yong'an ascended the throne, the carpenters and ceramics in the capital even took him as the prototype to create a "god of fortune", which was popular throughout the city for a while and was bought by various portals and placed in the house for worship, and even the temple where Song Wu'er was located also specially vacated a room to put him on it.
Now that I finally have a chance to admire the demeanor of the god of fortune back then, of course Song Wu'er has to take a good look. Unexpectedly, her nymphomaniac-like starry eyes fell into the eyes of the prince, and she became a fool who coveted the beauty of King Yong'an and fell in love at first sight.
Sure enough, he had read too much of the book, and was brainwashed by the sour love story, and the prince was a little unhappy to look at Song Wu'er and King Yong'an back and forth, and only drank the sake in his hand sullenly.
"By the way, Concubine Shu, you mentioned to me not long ago about the marriage between our Jingyuan and the daughter of the Song family, how are you handling it now?" Emperor Yuanxi, who was whispering with Concubine Shu, remembered that the Lou and Song families had not yet made a decree to give marriage, so he hurriedly asked out loud while everyone was there.
The people who were still messing around and chatting with each other about family things suddenly stopped and looked at Emperor Yuanxi and Concubine Shu with embarrassment.
Chu Mi'er, who was hiding far away in the corner, turned red when she heard the words, took out a handkerchief that was crumpled into a mess and quietly wiped her tears, and couldn't help glancing at the somewhat uncalm King Nan'an from the corner of her eyes.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little wrong, Concubine Shu was afraid that Emperor Yuanxi would have some doubts, so she hurriedly stabilized her mind and replied softly:
"Thanks to Your Majesty's concern for Yuan'er, everything went smoothly, but when the concubine found the person from Qin Tianjian to set the date, there was a small accident, but please rest assured, this matter can be solved by the concubine in the near future, and the concubine will personally explain it to His Majesty when the good day is chosen."
King Nan'an and Chu Mi'er committed a taboo, if this matter spreads, it will definitely damage the majesty of the royal family, and the face of the Song family, who was "abandoned" before the marriage was decided, was naturally ugly. Therefore, the Song family and Concubine Shu tacitly pressed this matter a long time ago, and only took it out in private and said, refusing to easily pick things on the surface to make it difficult for the two families.
And Concubine Shu also calculated the temperament of the Song family, so she dared to delay in front of the emperor in front of everyone, and then asked Emperor Yuanxi for marriage after convincing Song Wu'er.