Love on the Pillow: Pampering the Unscrupulous Queen

Chapter 19
The general's mansion was enveloped in a gloomy atmosphere.

Su Qing sat safely on the chair, calmly facing the complex eyes of General Su, Mrs. Su and the rest of the family.

"The Imperial Academy is already drafting documents, and the Ministry of Rites has also begun to make books and treasures. The emperor has already drawn up a date with the Qin Tianjian. On the tenth day of the next month, Li'er is going to marry the prince!" Su Lang shook the sword in his hand heavily. He slapped it on the table and said angrily, "Too much deceit!"

Mrs. Su took Su Qing's hand distressedly: "Li'er, there are rumors outside that the crown prince has become an idiot now. Do you really want to marry? If you don't want to, your parents won't." I will let you marry into the royal family and suffer!"

General Su's face was livid: "Nonsense, the queen mother has already issued an imperial edict, and the emperor has already agreed, so you and I can go back on our word?"

Madam Su's eyes turned red in an instant: "I'm just such a precious daughter as Li'er, how could I be willing to send her into the palace to suffer? If... If the crown prince will not recover in the future, then my daughter is alone in the harem, wouldn't it be... ..."

General Su sighed heavily, glanced at Su Qing, and remained silent.

Su Lang gritted his teeth and looked at his younger sister: "The emperor suddenly agreed to the prince's marriage, because he thinks that the already demented prince is easy to control, so he retreats so easily. Li'er, you have to think clearly. "

Su Qing looked at her parents and elder brother, and nodded slightly after a while: "Father, mother, brother, I have thought about it clearly. The prince was injured to protect me. Although the queen mother never blamed me, I have to bear the responsibility." This responsibility. What's more, the prince needs me now, and I don't want to leave her."

"As expected of my daughter, Su Fuguo, since Li'er has already made up her mind, madam, Lang'er, you don't need to say any more." General Su patted the table and said, "This matter is settled like this. Ma'am, go and get Li'er Prepare your birthday horoscope, if the palace sends someone to ask for it, send it over."

Mrs. Su wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief: "There are so many people throughout the ages, why is it that I, a silly daughter, are the most infatuated?"

"Ma'am." General Su looked back at his first wife, feeling guilty for a while, "Our Su family has no way out in this matter."

Madam Su remained silent.

Although General Su had always respected her, once her husband made a final decision on such a major matter, she could only obey.

Su Qing looked at the gloomy family and lowered her eyes slightly.Although she knew that her family was for her own good, she had no way of turning back.

Hearing Mrs. Su's question about the dowry, Su Qing bowed slightly and took her leave first.

"Father, mother, do you really want Li'er to marry?" Su Lang was still a little annoyed.Su Qing is the younger sister he grew up with, and also the apple of the eye of the whole family. If she were to marry an idiot, even if the other party was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he would not be willing.

General Su sighed: "Now there is nothing we can do. Our Su family is the only one. If we don't stand with the prince, the queen mother will not agree. This morning, His Royal Highness did not go to the court. The queen mother's order came out. The assistant minister agreed without the slightest hesitation."

"In the past, the prime minister, Li Guogong, and Han Shangshu all advised His Majesty to appoint a virtuous person as the prince on the grounds that the prince was too young. Heart, how can you not see it?" General Su frowned.

For a moment, the room fell into silence.

"Miss." After leaving the main room, Shi Qin took a careful look at Su Qing's expression. She always felt that Su Qing had become much quieter since the prince was injured.

Su Qing turned her head slightly, glanced at her, but suddenly stopped, and looked at some figures not far away who turned to the side door in a panic.

"That person seems to be An He, the girl next to Second Miss." Shi Qin also saw it, and frowned slightly, "What is she doing here when she has nothing to do?"

The main house here generally does not allow servants to come indiscriminately, and the people in that yard are not allowed to wander casually.

"If you still refuse to settle down at this time, don't blame me." Su Qing looked coldly at the direction the little girl left, and asked after a while, "Has the servant not come back yet?"

Shi Qin replied: "Shi Shu has come back and is waiting for Miss in the courtyard."

Su Qing nodded faintly, turned around and walked towards Chu Fengyuan: "You go and tell Madam right now, and say that you saw someone beside Second Miss outside the main room, and Mother will handle it herself."

Shi Qin nodded: "Your servant understands." After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked back.

When Su Qing returned to Chu Fengyuan alone, she saw Shi Shu waiting in the room with a booklet in her hand.

Seeing Su Qing coming back, the waiter immediately stepped forward and said: "Miss, I have already found out the origin of that dim sum shop. The owner of that shop is named Chang. It is said that he moved to the capital 15 years ago. There is no one in the family." , only one maid, and hired a pastry chef. However, according to his neighbors, this person spoke with a Beidi accent before, and gradually changed it later. "

"15 years ago?" Su Qing raised her eyebrows slightly, took the booklet from Shishu and opened it, "Speaking of which, Su Xuerou seems to be 15 years old now, right?"

Su Xuerou's mother, Aunt Qiu, was a nobleman in a brothel on the northern border, and the owner of this dim sum shop was also from the north. What's more, Aunt Qiu and Su Xuerou both liked to eat dim sum outside.

Such a coincidence is too subtle.

Su Qing flipped through two more pages of the booklet, then stopped on a certain page, her eyes became sharp.

Seeing this, the waiter said in a low voice: "That's right, there were two bad rumors about the young lady that came from this pastry shop. And they said they heard it from the servants of Su's mansion, saying that Miss is jealous, and punishes her servants viciously. But some time ago, someone came forward to suppress the rumors."

Su Qing turned another page and asked lightly: "Do you know who helped suppress the rumors?"

The waiter shook his head: "I don't know about this. However, I heard that a group of refugees outside the city are refuting the rumors. It seems that there is a porridge shed outside the city. It must be people who are familiar with the lady, so they will find a way to do this. Bar?"

"Refugees outside the city? Congee shed?" Su Qing was stunned for a moment, closed the booklet in her hand, and asked with a frown, "Why are there refugees outside the capital? What's the matter with the porridge shed?"

The waiter said: "Miss, you may not be clear. There was a heavy snowstorm in the northwest before, and many people in the north froze to death. The court had no money to allocate funds for disaster relief, so many victims fled to the south. It's just that the court issued a notice, Refugees and refugees cannot enter the capital, so there are quite a few refugees gathering near the capital."

"As for the porridge shed... this, I don't know about this." The waiter was also a little confused, who did a good deed without leaving a name, but wanted to leave this good reputation to his own lady?
Su Qing paused, then said: "In that case, let's go out of the city and have a look."

She was also curious as to who would do this.

(End of this chapter)