Chapter 156: The Son of Heaven Accepts a Concubine
After a burst of dust, Jiang Ning patted his horse and came to Li Yun'er, stretched out his hand and said, "Yun'er, Xianggong hasn't taken you on a horse yet." Let's take a good look around today. ”
Li Yuner's beautiful eyes were full of excitement, but she hesitated:
"Xianggong, I'm physically inconvenient and can't stand the bumps, you better take Luoxian and Ming'er's two younger sisters."
"It's okay, just walk slowly."
"Hmm."
Li Yun'er sweetly stretched out her white and tender soft thorn and put it in Jiang Ning's hand.
With a gentle pull, she snuggled into her father-in-law's arms.
Jiang Ning carried the reins and walked slowly forward.
Li Yun'er shrank back and got closer to him.
It was as if it had shrunk into a small ball.
"Don't be afraid of Yun'er, Xianggong is here."
Jiang Ning caressed her supple and shiny three thousand green silks.
After walking for a long time, Li Yun'er slowly became bolder, and said coquettishly:
"Xianggong, can you hurry up? It should be fine. ”
Jiang Ning looked down and just happened to see Li Yun'er's pretty face.
A pair of black apricot eyes seem to have a bottomless autumn water.
The beautiful eyes are flowing, and the colors are overflowing.
Jiang Ning couldn't help but bend down and kiss lightly on the delicate pink lips of his little wife.
"Hurry up, then."
He straightened up again, picked up his speed slightly, and took Li Yun'er on the Qianmo path in Huangzhuang.
After walking around for a while, the two returned to their original places.
Jiang Ning turned over and dismounted, hugged Li Yun'er and carefully put him on the ground to stand firm, and immediately looked at Su Luoxian and Lu Qingming, who were looking forward to it.
"You two, who will come first?"
The two women glanced at each other, and their pretty faces were full of irrepressible joy.
"Master, just now the concubine and Sister Luoxian crossed the fist, and it was the concubine who won."
Lu Qingming's beautiful eyes flashed, walked up to Jiang Ning, and opened her arms.
Jiang Ning pinched her delicate nose dotingly, hugged her gently, and turned over on the horse together.
"Yikes!"
Lu Qingming snorted, and when she came back to her senses, she found that she had buried her head in Jiang Ning's chest.
"Sir, it seems to be quite interesting to ride a horse like this."
Jiang Ning smiled, holding the reins in one hand and wrapping Jiao Niang's slender and soft waist with the other.
By the time he had walked around with Su Luoxian, it was already sunset.
Zheng Fangrui has been standing in place, full of hope that she can also ride with Jiang Ning.
It's just that this hope sank little by little with the passage of time.
Just when she thought that she had no part for herself, she suddenly heard a gentle word coming:
"What are you doing stupidly, wait any longer, it's getting dark."
"Sir?"
Zheng Fangrui raised her head suddenly, and saw Jiang Ning stretching out her hand to herself with a smile, her beautiful eyes suddenly flashed with tears, her pretty face turned red, and she put Rou Yi on it shyly.
The two of them rode slowly towards the place where the sun set.
Until she returned to the mansion, Zheng Fangrui still felt as if she was still leaning on her broad and solid chest, and her heart couldn't stop trembling.
Under the playful gaze of Li Yun'er and her daughters, she covered her face and ran back to her room.
Following.
Jiang Ning glanced at the corridor not far from the window, and Meng Wanning, who was sitting with Zhu Houzhao, said to He Yuyao:
"I'll leave this matter to you."
Just yesterday, after Meng Wanning returned home, she directly confessed the fact that she had recovered her memory.
Everyone cried with joy, but Jiang Ning couldn't help but worry about her identity.
"Don't worry, my lord, Miss Wanning had a simple past, and no one in the court knew that she was the daughter of the accident in the military camp that day.
It's just that the slave family has a word, I don't know whether to say it or not? ”
Jiang Ning smiled dumbly: "Between you and me, what else can't be said freely until now?" ”
He Yuyao's pretty face was happy, and she said coquettishly:
So the slave said.
Since the adult entered the official career, it has only been more than a year, but he is already a supreme minister.
Therefore, it is also different from the rest of the important ministers of the court.
They have been appointed as scholars in the imperial examination, successively served in prefectures and counties, and have many connections and deep influence in the local area.
And this is exactly what the adults lack, the foundation is really a little shallow, and now it all depends on His Majesty's trust.
If you enter the palace as your cousin again this time, you will definitely be even more feared, especially those courtiers who are involved in the harem.
This is very inconsistent with the plan that adults have set up now to keep their eyes on the obscure.
What's more, it is difficult for anyone to predict how it will develop in the future, especially after Your Majesty and Miss Wanning have children, in case the three of them become tigers......"
He Yuyao didn't say it thoroughly, but Jiang Ning still understood the meaning.
He couldn't help but fall silent.
He Yuyao thought that he had said the wrong thing and made him angry, so he pursed his mouth tightly, his hands were entangled and rubbed with the embroidered handkerchief, and he looked nervous and pitiful.
Seeing this, Jiang Ning felt a little pity in his heart, and said: "You also have some truth in what you said, people's hearts are unpredictable, who can know what will happen in the future?" ”
He Yuyao hurriedly said:
"Exactly. Therefore, the meaning of the slave family is that it is better to send a letter to the acting king and let the acting princess accept Wanning as a righteous daughter.
In this way, not only does he have a clean and innocent identity that matches enough, but the relationship with the Marquis of Wu'an has never been broken.
After all, Miss Wanning and her wife are like sisters, and in a sense, adults and Your Majesty are brothers-in-law. ”
Jiang Ning groaned: "It's a big matter, I'm going to ask Wanning's opinion." ”
With that, he got up and walked out of the house, came to the corridor, pulled Meng Wanning aside, and whispered about it.
"Wanning, there are indeed many people in the court who are eager to get rid of me as soon as possible.
If you enter the palace as my relative, I am afraid that you will be watched by the inner and outer courts from time to time, and even in danger.
And under the banner of acting as the king's house, there is no need to worry about so much.
Of course, if you really don't want to do this, it doesn't matter, just enter the palace from the Wu'an Hou Mansion, and your cousin will definitely protect you. ”
Meng Wan stared at the look of emotion, bit her lip, and said, "Brother, I want to ask him." ”
"Okay."
Jiang Ning nodded.
Meng Wan walked up to Zhu Houzhao in a curling manner, repeated Jiang Ning's words, and said seriously:
"Xiao Huang, do you really like me?"
"Of course. I will never fall in love with anyone else in my life except you. ”
Zhu Houzhao said firmly.
Meng Wanning said word by word: "Okay, I want you to marry into the palace as my Qingqi person." ”
"This, isn't it good to be the righteous daughter of the acting king, or the cousin of Jiang Shixue?"
Zhu Houzhao hesitated.
Meng Wanning pursed her lips, her eyes were slightly red, and the pear blossoms brought rain:
"This is what you keep saying that you like me and don't care about any of my status?
I don't want to live in secrecy forever.
Furthermore, if my identity was discovered by the courtiers a day later, wouldn't it be for nothing that they would have taken my cousin's handle and impeach him for concealing his identity and sending me to the palace for the purpose of plotting against me.
How does this make him deal with himself, and how do I deal with myself? Do you want me to live in guilt forever? ”
As she spoke, she lifted her feet and was about to leave.
Zhu Houzhao was anxious, hurriedly hugged Meng Wanning, and said loudly:
"I see! I will announce to the world that you will be admitted to the palace, and as you are a clear person, I will see which one dares to stop you without knowing whether you are alive or dead.
In the future, I will make you the queen and our son the prince!
I will govern the world into splendid rivers and mountains, and then hand it over to him! ”
Meng Wanning snuggled in Zhu Houzhao's arms, and said with a smile: "I don't want to be a queen, it's not interesting at all." ”
"Hehe, just don't cry."
Zhu Houzhao gently wiped away her tears.
Jiang Ning stood aside and smiled with satisfaction.
Following.
The news that the Son of Heaven was going to marry a Qing man and enter the palace as an imperial concubine quickly spread throughout the capital.
The officials in the court almost fainted on the spot, and they wrote letters to advise.
Soshu flew into the leopard's house like snowflakes.
Zhu Houzhao ignored them all and directly asked Liu Jin to burn them.
Pity the old scholars, who are constantly working hard at home, must let him take back his life.
Jiang Ning began to transfer the generals of the Yuan Shen Machine Battalion from the inner factory and placed them in the Tianxiong Army.
Even Sima Yang, the former left-hand man of the Zuoye army, was sent over.
From top to bottom, coupled with the fact that Xu Tai and others are being won over day by day, they can be regarded as completely controlling the Tianxiong Army.
A few days later.
Ding Yan, the squire of the Ministry of War, sent someone to invite Jiang Ning to the Yamen of the Ministry of War.
"My lord, you asked Xia Guan to pay attention to the news of various pirates day and night, but you are a little eyebrows.
But it's not a wolf, it's the red-haired Western Fanyi, the Franco pirate mentioned by the adult.
They probably numbered hundreds of men, several large ships, and attacked the kingdom of Manraka.
The kingdom of Manraka was weak and was quickly captured by pirates.
The king fled to a small island with the remnants of his army, and sent people to Liangguang to spread the message, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would send troops to help him restore the country.
After receiving the news, the Liangguang Yamen went to the military headquarters. ”
Jiang Ning's brows furrowed tightly.
If the country of Manraka is gone, it will be gone, but the geographical location of Manraka Island is very important.
Next to it is the Strait of Malacca, if it is controlled by this group of pirates, it will be very unfavorable for the Ming merchants to trade at sea in the future.
"This official will go to His Majesty."