Shen Yao pondered for a moment, looked up at Chen Xi, and said, "The youngest daughter of Dingguo Gong is still two years away. ”

Chen Xi was startled, and the roast chicken sandwiched on the chopsticks almost fell off.

"As for being scared like this?" Shen Yao laughed.

Chen Xi shook his head and said, "I, a mountain villager, am not worthy of Miss Xu...... Besides, Dingguo Gong is the only one daughter who is not married, Concubine De is staring at King Yu, and the queen is staring at her nephew Deng Hong, I think King Ning is also ......"

Shen Yao smiled: "In the past, I underestimated you, and you didn't want to do anything in your heart!" ”

Chen Xi smiled bitterly: "If I want to choose, I am naturally willing to live a simpler life." But these two things are not what I want to look for myself, they are all found by themselves......"

Shen Yao refilled him with a glass of wine and said with a smile: "It's just that you can tell me this, if you want others to hear it, I'm afraid that you will say that you are hypocritical and don't know what to do!" King Ning secretly scolded you for the title of 'Jin'. ”

A hint of innocence flashed on Chen Xi's face, and he forcibly suppressed his emotions and said: "If you talk about merit and ability, I won't lose to him Chen Ting!" Those of us who have followed the emperor since the northwest, no matter who is the 'King of Jin', I don't have a word! Only Chen Ting, in addition to being the emperor's nephew, what else can he come up with? ”

Shen Yao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You can dissipate your anger!" The emperor's princes have all been given to his family, and you are sandwiched between them. However, Jin Land is the land of the emperor's dragon xing, how can King Ning not be blushing? He is a person, seeing that he has made great achievements in Dingguo, and he can't wait to divorce his wife and marry again, he is a person who can only see wealth and nobility in his eyes, so let's stay away from him in the future. ”

"Anyway, I can't marry the daughter of Dingguogong." Chen Xi drank the wine in his glass and muttered.

"What? Are you willing to give it to Chen Ting? Shen Yao quipped.

"What!" Xu was drunk because of the wine, Chen Xi's face was slightly flushed under the lamp, "Brother Yao, let me tell you, you don't have to tell others." I, I'm interested in someone. ”

"Huh? Who's the best girl? Shen Yao asked quietly, but he secretly felt sorry for his niece. I haven't made a match, and the golden beetle has grown wings and flew!

"You don't know...... It's the ...... I met before following the emperor" Speaking of Du Mingxin, Chen Xi's inky jade-like eyes flashed brightly. "Over the years, I have followed the emperor to fight in the north and south, without saying anything, and I am still living a precarious life and licking blood with a knife, who is willing to marry the girl to me...... Anyway, now that I'm famous, I can settle down and start a business, and I don't know if the girl is still unmarried......"

"You have so many people under your command now, send someone to inquire!" Shen Yao breathed a sigh of relief, his niece still has a chance!

"I've already gone," Chen Xi scratched his head and drank another glass of wine, "I've been rushing back from Jiangnan these days, and it's not a taste to scratch my ears and cheeks in my heart...... I want to hear the news, but I am afraid to hear the news. ”

Shen Yao punched him with a smile and said, "I didn't expect you to be a lover!" What did the monks do in vain since childhood? ”

Unexpectedly, Chen Xi didn't fight back, but said quietly: "I have also been away from Shaolin Temple for all these years, and I realized that the abbot master was right. Everyone has their own fate, and my destiny and my heart are not in Buddhism. ”

Shen Yao put away the joking tone and said seriously: "It is not necessarily compassion to sacrifice one's life in the Buddha's door. With your and my current status, it can be regarded as a blessing to be able to assist the emperor to be a benevolent monarch and try his best to protect the peace of the party. ”

Chen Xi grinned and said, "Brother A Yao said yes. ”

*

On this day, Du Mingxin and the second master had an argument in the study.

"Father, how can you leave such a thing unchecked?" Du Ming said angrily, "Mrs. Cheng'an Hou personally came to me to ask for it, which shows that she attaches great importance to it. Since our family no longer wants to be close to the Hou Mansion, returning the token is also the minimum rule. You said 'lost' so lightly, what kind of conjecture did the Hou Mansion make? ”

The second old man rummaged through the cabinets and looked for something for a while, and he was a little anxious when he couldn't find it, but when he saw his daughter blaming him like this, he became even more angry: "If you can't find it, you can't find it, what can they do to me in the Cheng'an Hou Mansion?" Aren't they just afraid that you will have to marry you, let's send someone to say goodbye. ”

Du Mingxin held back his anger and asked, "What kind of token is that?" ”

The second master thought about it for a while, and said indiscriminately: "It's been a long time, who has nothing to do with it, and come out and see!" It is about a mutton fat jade pendant, with the emblem of the Lin family on it. ”

That's right! If it was an ordinary object, Mrs. Lin couldn't be so concerned. Du Mingxin saw that his father was so confused, so he had to take a fierce medicine: "If you say a word to withdraw from your family, will the Hou Mansion believe it?" Their family is going to marry the royal family, your fluttering words, in case the time comes, the emperor will punish the Lin family for a crime of bullying the king, aren't the Lin family afraid? ”

"Royal?" The second master was taken aback. Before he could ask, a person hurriedly rushed in from outside and asked Du Mingxin with a face: "You make it clear, who does the Lin family want to marry?" ”

Du Mingxin turned his head to look, but it was Du Mingyan who was so anxious that his cheeks were red.

"Marriage to the Royal. Lin Lang wants to be a princess. Du Mingxin stared at Du Mingyan's eyes tightly and said word by word.

"Impossible!" Du Mingyan said angrily, "Why did Cheng Anhou suddenly want to marry a princess?" ”

Having said this, the confused second master also came to his senses. He asked strangely, "Sister Yan'er, what do you mean by this?" Why are you so sure that Cheng Anhou will not marry a princess? ”

"I, I," Du Mingyan stammered when asked, and it took a long time before he said, "Didn't he have a marriage contract with Du Mingxin?" How can you stop your wife and remarry? ”

Du Mingxin squinted at her expression, strange, all this was too strange.

"Didn't his family come to say that they were going to quit their relatives?" The second master started to flip through the box on the Bogu shelf again, "Sister Yan'er, have you ever seen a jade pendant in my study?" The pattern on it seems to be a 'forest' character spelled together by several poles of green bamboo. ”

Seeing that Du Mingxin had been staring at herself, Du Mingyan embarrassedly fanned her with a handkerchief, and complained: "Father, why are you burning such a big brazier in your study!" The heat is dead! ”

"Why did you say that Cheng Anhou wants to marry a princess?" Seeing that Du Mingxin was still looking at herself, she asked angrily.

"Sister, why do you want to know so much?" Du Mingxin asked with a smile.

"I care about you!" Du Mingyan said coldly, "I don't want to say it!" ”

"Sister," Du Mingxin said to her departing back, "It's not my own thing, it's better not to think about it." Fate is such a thing, you can't cheat it, and you can't force it. ”

Du Mingyan stopped at the door for a moment, didn't say anything after all, opened the curtain and left.