Lu Kang seemed to think of something, and hesitated to speak: "Could it be ......"

"You know why?" Bai Junzhuo immediately asked.

"Look at the phoenix crown on the head of the Queen Mother, the skeleton is made of ivory, and the boots on her feet are wrapped in a layer of elephant skin, which is a birthday gift from the fourth prince to the Queen Mother."

Bai Junzhuo was shocked and lowered his voice: "Elephants are social animals, and the death of their companions will make them particularly irritable. Could it be that the fourth prince mentioned that he knew this, so he dedicated these things to the Queen Mother and wanted to murder the Queen Mother? ”

Lu Kang shook his head: "Impossible, the fourth prince would not have known in advance that the prince of the Southern Barbarians had sent an elephant over, and if he really planned to murder the queen mother, he would not have rescued her just now." ”

"Makes sense." Bai Junzhuo nodded: "Could it be that the gift prepared by the fourth prince was known by this Wuguda, so he specially prepared an elephant and wanted to murder the queen mother?" ”

Lu Kang thought for a while, stretched out his hand and poured a glass of wine for Bai Junzhuo: "Bai girl, don't worry about this, this is a matter for Your Majesty and your master, you and I just do what you are told." Eat more and talk less. ”

"Oh......" Bai Jun closed his mouth reluctantly, picked up his chopsticks and ate.

The second half of the banquet was calm, and the queen mother and the emperor left first, and after a while, the ministers also dispersed one after another.

Originally, Yin Mu accompanied the Queen Mother back to the palace, but Yin Xun also followed. All the way into the queen mother's bedroom, the queen mother walked to the soft couch and sat down, and asked them: "What's wrong with you two brothers, you can't invite the mourning family on weekdays, why did you come with you today?" ”

Yin Mu chuckled, instructed the grandmother to prepare a soothing tea, and brought it to the queen mother: "Today is the queen mother's birthday, how can the sons and daughters accompany the queen mother for a while." ”

The Queen Mother took the tea, looked up at him and said, "Is there really anything else?" ”

Yin Mu shook his head and said, "No." ”

The Queen Mother looked at Yin Xun again and asked him, "What about you?" Is it just to accompany the mourning family? ”

"Erchen really wants to accompany his mother, but Erchen still has something to ask for." Yin Xun knelt down as he spoke, and without waiting for the queen mother's reaction, he spoke: "Erchen and Bai Junzhuo are in love with each other, and ask the queen mother to give you a marriage." ”

Yin Mu saw that he had finally said it, and sighed slightly. knew that this younger brother would not listen to persuasion, and it was really in vain that he wasted his scheming.

The Queen Mother quietly fiddled with the cup in her hand, and did not react much, only asked lightly: "Do you really want to marry her?" ”

Yin Xun spoke earnestly, nodded and said, "Erchen will not marry her in this life." ”

The Queen Mother closed her eyes, seemed to think for a while, raised her hand and said, "You get up first." ”

Yin Xun looked up at her and shouted, "Queen Mother......"

"The mourning family also likes this little girl, and she has made great contributions and has been made an official." The Queen Mother interrupted him, and when Yin Xun heard her say this, a happy expression appeared on her face.

"But if I marry you as a side concubine, I will inevitably wronged her."

Yin Xun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Queen Mother, Erchen did not plan to marry her as a side concubine, but a concubine." ”

The Queen Mother's eyes suddenly became fierce, and she asked him, "You marry her as a concubine, what should Yunyue do?" ”

"Erchen doesn't plan to marry Miss Fujia." Empress Dowager Yin Xun looked at her and did not back down in her attitude.

"You ......" The Queen Mother patted the couch and stood up, stretched out her hand to point at Yin Xun, Yin Mu saw this and hurriedly got up to help her and said, "Don't be angry, the ninth brother didn't mean to disobey you." ”

The Queen Mother stared at him for a while, her expression regained her calmness, she sat down slowly, sighed and said, "The child is older, and he doesn't listen to his mother's words anymore." ”

Yin Xun had no choice but to lower his head and soften his tone: "The queen mother's words are serious, in the hearts of the sons, the queen mother has always been the first place. It's just this matter, Erchen wants to be the second master himself. ”

The Queen Mother sighed heavily, raised her hand and said, "That's it, you go back first, and the Rong Ai family thinks about it." ”

"Will you give an answer to Erchen in three days?" Yin Xun asked reluctantly.

The Queen Mother was a little helpless on her face, but after all, she just nodded lightly and said, "Three days will be three days." ”

"Thank you, Queen Mother." Yin Xun got up and left Jingyang Palace.

After he left, Yin Mu asked, "Is the queen mother going to marry Bai Junzhuo to the ninth brother?" ”

"Or else?" The Queen Mother asked rhetorically: "Don't you know his temperament, the mourning family only complained that he spoiled him too much in his early years, which made him more and more disobedient." ”

"Erchen thinks that with Bai Junzhuo's identity at this time, it is not considered a high climb, maybe it is really a good marriage."

"Identity?" The Queen Mother sneered, "The marriage of the royal family depends only on the identity, but also on the entire family behind that person." What does her Bai family have? ”

"Queen Mother's ......"

"Okay, okay," the Queen Mother interrupted him impatiently: "Knowing that you two brothers have a good relationship, you don't have to persuade more, let the mourning family think about it." You should go back and rest early. ”

Yin Mu had no choice but to stop talking, nodded and said, "The queen mother should also rest early, and the sons will retire." ”

Yin Mu walked out of Jingyang Palace, the Queen Mother closed her eyes and thought for a while, then called the supervisor Mama Cao to serve her to rest, but saw the palace people come in and say: "The Queen Mother, the prince of the Southern Barbarians asks to see." ”

"Him?" The Queen Mother frowned slightly, it's so late, he hasn't left the palace, what are you doing to find her?

"If the queen mother is tired, the slave will go out and let him leave." Mama Cao immediately spoke.

The Queen Mother hesitated for a moment, shook her head and said, "No need, let him in." ”

The palace people went out, and after a while, they welcomed Wu Guda in.

Wu Guda saw the Queen Mother, and his fat body knelt down to the ground with his head down, and he didn't look at the Queen Mother or speak.

When the Queen Mother saw him coming alone, without a single entourage, she asked him: "It's so late, what is the important matter for you to come to see the mourning family?" ”

Wu Guda raised his head at this time, his face was full of guilt and sadness, and said to the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother, I am here to apologize, when I chose the elephant in the Southern Barbarian Country, I deliberately chose a young female elephant, just for fear that it would be disobedient and scare the Queen Mother, but I didn't expect it to be ...... just now If I really hurt the body of the Queen Mother, I, I don't have the face to go back to Southern Xinjiang again! ”

"Hehe," the Queen Mother sneered, her eyes seemed to have a knife in her eyes, and she looked at him and said, "It's because you didn't hurt the mourning family, so you didn't have the face to go back to southern Xinjiang." ”

"No, no, how is that possible?" Wu Guda said with a hippie smile: "The Queen Mother is like a god in the hearts of the people of our Southern Barbarian Country, who in our Southern Barbarian Country does not know that the Queen Mother of Li State is the real ruler of Li State." The Queen Mother, a woman, takes care of Nuoda's Li country in good order, it's simply, it's a goddess! ”

The Queen Mother still sneered, turned her head away from looking at him, and said coldly: "Since the Mourning family is like a god in your Southern Barbarian Country, why did your father and emperor be so ambitious to annex the small country between the southern Li State and the Southern Barbarian State?" ”

"Nothing!" Wu Guda hurriedly denied: "It's normal for small border countries to have friction, and for so many years, our Southern Barbarian State has never crossed the border of Li State for half a mile without permission, and there is absolutely no ambition, no ambition." ”

"I didn't cross the border of the Li State, not because you have no ambition, but because you are afraid of General Weiyuan." The Queen Mother interrupted him indifferently.

"No, no, no! We have no ambition and no guts," Wu Guda shook his head like a rattle, and said to the Queen Mother: "Our Southern Barbarian Country is now busy with civil strife, and the Queen Mother also knows it, and she definitely won't have the mind to trouble the Li Kingdom." ”

"That's right, the mourning family knows that the king of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom has no intention of political affairs, and several princes are busy fighting for the throne." The Queen Mother's eyes were sharp, and she seemed to be able to see through him: "But who knows that you don't want to come over to assassinate the mourning family and make meritorious contributions and seize the position of the king of the Southern Barbarians?" ”

Wu Guda lowered his head and did not dare to speak, completely frightened by the queen mother's momentum.

"As long as the mourning family sends troops now, it is a matter of being able to capture the Southern Barbarian State." The Queen Mother paused, changed her tone and said, "It's just that the mourning family is also old, so it is inevitable that they will be soft-hearted." Thinking that you Nanban and Li are also brothers, you must be in harmony with each other and keep the peace of the two states, don't be ignorant! ”

"I, we ......" Wu Guda was forced to blush, and he couldn't say a word.

"The mourning family just reminds you, don't try to play any tricks in your little Nanban country, to be honest, the mourning family will naturally not touch you." The Queen Mother raised her hand and said, "Okay, you get up and tell me why you came to see the mourning family so late." ”

Wu Guda smiled again, and said with a somewhat obscene expression: "Since ancient times, there have been many friendly exchanges between the two countries, and I, Wu Guda, am thirty years old, and I haven't even married a princess, and I want to ask a princess from your Li country to be a princess, so that I can marry Li Guoyong Qin and Jin." If I become the king of the Nanban in time, the princess must be the princess of the Nanban. Please also ask the Queen Mother to be fulfilled! ”

"You want to marry the princess of our Li Kingdom?" The Queen Mother glanced at him up and down, with some contempt in her eyes, but there was nothing in her tone, and said: "My Li country has always had many princes, and there are very few princesses. Now there are only two unmarried princesses, one is the three-year-old granddaughter of the mourning family, so naturally she can't marry you. One is General Hongyin, who kicked the elephant's leg at today's dinner, five years older than you, do you want it? ”

Wu Guda's eyes rolled, although the female general was old, she looked pretty good. But her foot strength is too amazing, and she can kick her legs away, not to mention his body? What if it doesn't go his way and kicks him to death?

He hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no." ”

"That's it, there is no princess suitable for you here in the mourning family." The Queen Mother laughed and said: "If you have the good of Longyang, the Mourning family can also reward you with a vassal king of the same age and good looks." ”

Wu Guda waved his hand again and again: "No, no, I don't like to play with my ass." ”

His language was so vulgar that the Queen Mother was so angry with him that she couldn't help but smile: "In that case, you don't want to kneel here anymore to delay the rest of the mourning family, go down." ”

Wu Guda seemed a little disappointed, patted his knees and stood up, and glanced at the Queen Mother pitifully before turning away helplessly.

He was just about to leave the gate of the dormitory, when the Queen Mother seemed to remember something, and suddenly called out to him: "Slow! ”