Chapter 24: The Great Prince
Xiao Chongdao didn't have any official position, and his family relied on Concubine Xiao Shu. He was a martial artist, and the sage pointed him out a small officer, with a team of several hundred people in his hands, and he was named an idle second-class baron.
It's just that he has always been willing to drill into the camp and coax the saints, and this army has already changed a lot of his own people to enter, and he has the intention of raising private soldiers!
Xiao Yan doesn't think there's anything wrong, the saint loves Niangniang, and it's just a private soldier of a few hundred people, and the saint won't care.
Even their Xiao family thinks that after a hundred years of saints, this world must belong to the five princes, her little cousin.
So it doesn't matter what outsiders talk about her.
She knocked on the door of Xiao Chongdao's study, and was a little puzzled: Why did my father lock it today?
Unexpectedly, it was a strange young man who opened the door, about twenty-four or five, looking ordinary, but his face looked a little familiar.
She thought about it for a while, but she didn't bother to avoid suspicion.
I heard the man chuckling: "Uncle Xiao, this king is shocked by Sister Yan." ”
Dare to call her sister Yan, Xiao Yan remembered, this is the eldest prince in the palace, Duan Shiyi.
has an average background, and her biological mother is still a concubine and has no favor. The mother's family is not angry, and the county order is only. However, he himself has done a good job, and he has been praised by the saint several times at the court meeting this year.
However, Xiao Yan didn't take him seriously, and saluted him perfunctorily without any patience.
Before he could be blessed, he stopped him.
"No need, just be just an ordinary brother today." The eldest prince smiled and looked very amiable.
Although he looks ordinary, because he was born in the royal family, his temperament is different from that of ordinary people. He played with the jasper wrench in his hand, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and sat down again to discuss things with Xiao Chongdao, politely.
Xiao Yan went to the back room to wait by herself, there were outsiders there, she definitely couldn't tell her father about these things.
When the eldest prince left, it was already dark, and he felt rude, and hurriedly confessed, and was about to leave.
Xiao Chongdao seemed very happy today, and asked Xiao Yan to arrange a banquet and invite the eldest prince to stay for dinner.
Unable to resist the warm invitation, the eldest prince had no choice but to stay, and told the little servant to go and talk to the eldest princess and go back later tonight.
More than halfway through the unitary time, several people entered the banquet one after another, including Xiao Chongdao and the eldest prince, Xiao Yan, and Mrs. Xiao, because it was a family banquet, they did not pay attention to the separate seats and sat down.
Mrs. Xiao is in her early forties, and she still has charm. Because of the presence of the prince, he dressed up a little grandly, put on makeup on his face, wore a royal blue colored sleeve moire cardigan, and had jade jewelry on his head, and took Xiao Yan to toast to the prince with a smile.
Xiao Yan also went to change her clothes, a water-blue dark flower butterfly pattern gown, a light-colored pleated skirt underneath, with a little makeup, under the yellowish light, it was really beautiful and picturesque.
It's not that Xiao Yan wants to dress up herself, it's her natural beauty, and Mrs. Xiao has to ask her not to lose her courtesy.
Thinking that the eldest prince had already married the daughter of the Ministry of Works, she let down some precautions. After all, in the past few years, Xiao's mother used this similar excuse to let her get in touch with other young men.
"Sister Yan has grown up a lot, and now she takes care of the house for her uncle, and her uncle is becoming more and more relaxed, and she looks much younger." The eldest prince and their family talked about family life.
Xiao Yan only felt fake, she didn't know what was going on, but she hadn't seen him for five or six years, okay?
Making such an intimacy makes her sick.
Her face was blank and she didn't pay attention to his words, although she had never had a good face for any man except Lu Xiaowen.
Xiao Chongdao was a little embarrassed, so he wanted to ask the eldest prince for guilt.
The eldest prince shook his head, pressed Xiao Chongdao's hand, and whispered with relief: "Uncle Xiao's difficulties, Shi Yi has also heard about it in the palace, and it is okay." Sister Yan is still young and ignorant, she is not targeting me. ”
Xiao Chongdao can have dealings with the eldest prince, which means that he and Concubine Xiao Shufei both think that he will not cause any obstacles to the fifth prince.
The real opponent is the third prince, the concubine of the queen.
Wooing the eldest prince may also be able to help them. And the attitude of the eldest prince has also changed from being unclear before, to now being willing to stay in Xiao's Mansion for dinner, and he is much closer.
At that moment, Xiao Chongdao burst into tears: "The eldest prince is sympathetic to the ministers... Ay! "Drink a glass of bitter wine, for Xiao Yan's sake, this wine is somewhat sincere.
The eldest prince smiled silently, the Xiao family... Not easy.
The banquet was over, and the guests and hosts were happy.
The eldest prince was full of wine, and his steps were a little vain, and he entered his residence in the palace, the Changning Courtyard of Yonghe Palace.
The eldest princess was guarding the door, and immediately greeted him, took him from the little girl's hand, and said with a worried face: "How much has you drunk, this is a person who has never been drunk!" ”
The eldest prince saw her face clearly, and only then did he recognize, oh, Gao.
He smiled at her and comforted: "It's okay, Uncle Xiao is enthusiastic and drinks more." ”
After hearing this, the eldest princess was even more worried, and she was embarrassed: "Do you really want to make friends with the Xiao family, master, if you want to fight, I..."
was interrupted by the eldest prince: "Don't say this anymore, what is my identity, Xian Niang already knows, doesn't she?" ”
He was not angry, nor resentful, but still so gentle.
The eldest princess resisted the urge to cry and hurriedly responded: "Hey, it's okay for me to be like this, then I will live a good life with my lord." In the future, if we have a title, we will go to the fiefdom. ”
The eldest prince hugged her and sighed: "Xian Niang is the best." ”
Gao Wenxian is also beautiful, if Xiao Yan is like a rose blooming wantonly in a hundred gardens, Gao Wenxian is like a neatly trimmed autumn chrysanthemum in the imperial garden, dignified and elegant.
Each is fine, but once they match, in the eyes of those who like roses, Qiu Ju will be overshadowed.
After turning off the lights and entering the tent, the eldest princess stared at the tasseled tassels on the top of the tent in the dark, losing sleep.
She was always uneasy in her heart, she was afraid that the eldest prince and the Xiao family would get too close, that Xiao Yan she had seen, it was very beautiful... Although there is a relationship with Concubine Xiao Shu, the master will not... But she was always scared inexplicably.
Maybe that's why women have nothing to do in the backyard for a long time, and they always suffer from gains and losses.
The master treated her very well, there were no side concubines, and the two concubines were still drinking the soup of avoiding children. If she can conceive a child for her grandfather as soon as possible, there will be the emperor's eldest grandson in the saint.
Holding her lower abdomen, the eldest princess thought a lot, and finally felt sleepy and fell asleep.
The next day, he received an order and asked the eldest prince to follow the army to conquer in person.
This is good news, although the eldest princess is worried, but the prince still has so many soldiers guarding it, he only needs to sit in the rear, and there is not much threat.
But this credit is first-class, and when I come back, I am afraid that I will be able to have a title and open a house by myself. The first prince to open a palace in the Holy Lord, the meaning is naturally different.
The corners of the eldest princess's eyes and eyebrows were smiling, and she went to Shun Concubine to report the good news, and Ganquan Palace was also very happy to hear the news.
The eldest prince began to get busy, and he could not come back to sleep until late. Sometimes even the eldest princess can't wait, so she falls asleep first, and only feels that the person next to her is lying down in the middle of the night.