The old Duchess of Liguo was talking about Xiao Yuchen, and Tang Shuyi was also talking to Cuizhu Cuiyun about the county lord of Jianing.

"Good looks, good temperament." Tang Shuyi thought about the scene she had with the county lord of Jianing before, and said, "And it looks like a smart one." ”

"To be able to take my younger brother from such a distant fiefdom to Shangjing, I have suffered a lot on the way here." Cuiyun put a cup of ginseng tea in Tang Shuyi's hand and said.

Tang Shuyi snorted, "Her biological mother died early, her father remarried, I heard that her stepmother gave birth to a son, and she is about the same age as her younger brother, so if you think about it, you know that life is not very good." ”

Some lords' families, for the sake of the title of the siblings of the mother, can beat you to the death, not to mention that this is not a mother's birth.

"Alas, it's also a miserable one." Cuizhu Road.

Tang Shuyi took a sip of ginseng tea, "Although no one wants to have this kind of difficult experience, it may not be a good thing to have this kind of experience." Who can have smooth sailing in this life, difficult experience, can train a person's will and ability to deal with things, and then encounter major events will not be defeated all at once. ”

Such a girl, if she grows up, will be a qualified housewife in the future.

With this thought in his heart, Tang Shuyi couldn't hold it down anymore. She began to analyze the possibility of Xiao Yuchen and the county lord of Jianing. First of all, the two of them are a good match. The county lord of Jianing was born in the prince's mansion, and this status can only be married under the marriage, but not at high marriage, unless he can marry the prince of a certain country, but she is unwilling to think about it.

If you marry, you are a duke and a marquis. The Marquis of Yongning's Mansion is in the lord's house in Shangjing, although it can't be said to be top-notch, but it's definitely not bad.

Then Xiao Yuchen and the county lord of Jianing are of the same age, and the two have experienced life and death together, which can be regarded as fate. The rest depends on whether the emperor will agree.

In fact, although Prince Duan's Mansion is a prince's title, it has been separated from the current emperor by a generation. The first Prince Duan is the brother of the former emperor's mother.

Now that this emperor is jealous of his own brother and his son, he shouldn't be jealous of his cousins, right? And Prince Duan is not a vassal king, and he has no military power, but he has a large number of fiefs and is richer.

Of course, as a member of the royal family, the status is naturally transcendent.

Everything only depends on the emperor's intentions.

"Go back and pay more attention to the Liguo Mansion and the Lord of Jianing." Tang Shuyi and Cuizhu and Cuiyundao.

The future son-in-law should be selected well in advance, and the future daughter-in-law is the same. Moreover, Xiao Yuchen is eighteen years old, and he will be twenty years after next year's spring, and it is almost time to get married.

........

On the second day, after breakfast, the county lord of Jianing took his younger brother Li Jinghao to the palace together. Yesterday they asked the palace to hand over the sign, and the queen asked people to reply, and the emperor was very happy to hear that their sister and brother had come to Beijing, and wanted to meet their sister and brother in the queen's palace.

These polite words, the county lord of Jianing also listened to them. On the way to the palace, she whispered to Li Jinghao: "I met the emperor and queen for a while, and behaved well-behaved and obedient, and the emperor asked you about reading and practicing martial arts, and the answer was mediocre." ”

Li Jinghao nodded, "Sister, don't worry, I understand." ”

Since he was a child, he has lived in an environment where he has been suppressed by his stepmother, and he has long known how to hide his clumsiness.

The county lord of Jianing snorted, looking at the hazy scenery outside through the window screen, today's palace is very important, and there can be no mistakes.

When I arrived at the gate of the palace, I took out the sign of Duanwangfu, and the palace people who guarded the gate immediately let me go. When the two entered the palace gate, they saw two sedan chairs parked on the side of the road, and a woman who looked like an aunt in charge walked towards the two, curtsied, and said, "But the lord of Jianing and the prince of Duanwangfu?" ”

The county lord of Jianing nodded, and the aunt smiled and said, "The queen knows that you two are coming over today, so she let the slave wait here early." The county lord and the son get on the sedan chair. ”

The county lord of Jianing bowed slightly towards her, and at the same time lowered his heart, at least the queen was very kind to their sister and brother on the surface. got on the sedan chair and walked for more than a quarter of an hour to the queen's bedroom.

After entering, the sister and brother knelt down and saluted, and the queen got up to help the two of them personally, and said with a smile on her face: "I received your post yesterday, and this palace only knew that your sister and brother came to Beijing." ”

The county lord of Jianing had a little apology on his face, "When I arrived in Beijing the day before yesterday, it was already very late, and I was afraid of disturbing the rest of the emperor's uncle and aunt, so I handed over the sign yesterday." ”

The queen took her hand and looked up and down with a smile, and then turned her head to look at Li Jinghao with pity, "This palace is still when you were a child, your mother took you to the palace to see you once, Jinghao is the first time I have seen you." ”

After speaking, she sighed, "Your mother is such a good person, I didn't expect it to be early..."

She wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and the tears of the county lord Jianing and Li Jinghao had already flowed. The queen was stunned when she saw this, and then said, "It's no wonder that the palace mentioned your sad matter." ”

At this time, the county lord of Jianing and Li Jinghao were already in tears. The queen frowned slightly, but still asked softly, "What's the matter?" But what grievances have you suffered? ”

The county lord of Jianing pulled Li Jinghao and knelt down in front of the queen again, crying: "Aunt Huang, help!" ”

"It's... What's going on? Get up, have something to say. ”

The queen was about to bend down to pull the sister and brother up, when a voice came, "What's the matter?" ”

The queen looked up and saw that it was the emperor, hurriedly saluted, and then said: "Jianing and Jing Hao, when they come, they cry and shout for help." ”

The emperor walked over with a frown, the county lord of Jianing and Li Jinghao turned their knees in the direction and knelt in front of the emperor, the county lord of Jianing raised his face full of tears, looked at the emperor and said, "Uncle Huang, help, someone wants to kill us." ”

"Who dares! My royal descendants, who would dare to kill? The Emperor walked over to the edge of his chair and sat down, "What the hell is going on, you two get up and say." ”

The county lord of Jianing and Li Jinghao got up, and the queen asked them to sit on the side. The emperor said with a calm face: "Say it." ”

The county lord of Jianing wiped the tears on his face with a handkerchief and said, "More than a month ago, I was enjoying the scenery by the lake in the mansion when I was pushed from behind and fell into the lake at once.

I shouted for help, but there was no one around, and there were always a few mothers-in-law guarding the lake on weekdays, but there was no one on that day. I struggled so hard that I drank so much water that I was almost dying, but my maid arrived and saved my life. ”

"Your maid didn't follow you all the time?" The queen asked.

The county lord of Jianing shook his head, "They were taken away. ”

"You didn't tell your father about this?" The emperor asked.

The county lord of Jianing looked aggrieved but didn't know how to speak, and the emperor saw this and said, "You say." ”

"I told my father, and my father said that he wanted to investigate, but he checked and checked, and in the end my father said that I slipped and fell into the lake by myself." The county lord of Jianing began to cry silently, "But... But all the people in the house who involved me in falling into the lake died. Uncle Huang, although I am not smart, I am not a fool, this is obviously... It's clearly ..."

She looked speechless, and at this time, Li Jinghao, who was beside her, clenched his fists and said angrily: "Obviously it was done by the princess, but my father favored her." ”

Both the emperor and the empress understood that the princess in his mouth was the current princess Duan. The emperor sighed with a calm face, "Confused! ”

He believed a little bit in the words of the county lord of Jianing, under normal circumstances, the eldest son of the lord's family was five or six years old, and he would play an excerpt to ask for the title of the prince. But the eldest son of Duanwangfu is more than ten years old, and he has not seen Duanwang's excerpt to ask for the title of the prince. What's going on, just think about it.

It is nothing more than that the mother of the eldest son died, and the later stepfamily lost the mind of King Duan, and King Duan wanted the children of the stepfamily to be knighted. But it is the rule for the eldest son to take the title, unless the eldest son is crazy or dead.