Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 17

It was getting late, and the dinner party was about to begin.

Chu Yan followed behind the prince, and before entering the hall, she consciously stepped aside, and when Gu Qi looked back at her, she smiled slightly, "Your Highness, please go first, and Chu Yan will go in later."

Gu Qi's expression didn't seem to have changed much, but upon careful observation, one could find that the corners of his tightly pursed lips softened a little, and the pure black eyeballs were also stained with a gleam of approval.

Chu Yan also looked at him and smiled, knowing that he understood her intentions—if the two of them walked into the hall together, what would other people think?Gu Qi didn't want her to be a princess, and naturally he didn't want to create any illusions for others.

She is a smart person who knows the times and will not cause him the slightest trouble.

After Gu Qi stepped into the hall, Chu Yan dawdled behind the pillar for a while, and then went in after hearing the people inside shouting to see His Highness the Crown Prince.And everyone's attention was on the crown prince who was sitting, and naturally fewer people paid attention to her. She quietly slipped into the seat on the left from the side, and sat behind Zhao Ronghua.

After seeing her, Zhao Ronghua finally breathed a sigh of relief, but still frowned and whispered in her ear, "Where did you go? I asked Shu Qiu to look for you, but there was no one there. You are so big. Tell my aunt to worry about you..."

Chu Yan hurriedly grabbed her hand, pretending to be pitiful and coquettish, "Just now I misremembered the time, so I ran here early. Fortunately, His Royal Highness took pity on me and let me go into the study to read."

When Zhao Ronghua heard this, his eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at Gu Qi who was sitting at the table, but unexpectedly met his gaze—to be precise, the person Gu Qi was looking at was Chu Yan.

Secretly delighted, Zhao Ronghua's brows and eyes were tinged with a smile, could it be that his son is interested in Chu Yan?

She patted Chu Yan's hand and smiled approvingly, "Good boy."

Chu Yan sighed in her heart, she only hoped that this good boy would stop becoming a bad boy in the eyes of the prince because of the stupidity of his teammates.

After staying in the palace for more than nine years, and attending countless such dinner parties every year, Chu Yan no longer feels anything, sitting there in a daze, waiting for the prince to speak routinely, and then the ministers routinely say a few words about the festival Blessings are nothing more than wishing good things for the mountains and rivers, prosperity for the country, stability for the people, and prosperity for the family and everything.

But today, after the several important ministers finished speaking, they looked at each other, and the hall suddenly fell into silence, as if something was about to happen.

Gu Qi's eyes changed slightly, and he looked at the last person who hadn't spoken yet - Dingguo Gong Zhao Wu, his grandfather, and Zhao Ronghua's father.

Zhao Wu has a high position and authority, and he should be the last one to speak every time, but today he just sat there without moving.

Gu Qi smiled and raised his glass to toast him, "Does Duke Ding have something to say?"

A short distance away, he and Zhao Wu's eyes met. The elderly man looked at him with searching eyes, but his eyes were calm, as if there was only a faint smile, waiting for Zhao Wu to say goodbye to the festival. speech.

Zhao Wu stood up, picked up the wine glass and drank it, and said loudly, "I have watched His Highness the Crown Prince preside over the Shangsi Festival dinner for many years, and my heart is full of emotions. Today's blessings are three: [-]. I wish the Xuan Dynasty prosperity and the people live and work in peace and contentment." Second, I wish the country stability, no wars and troubles, and three wishes...."

He paused for a moment, with deep meaning in his eyes, staring at Gu Qi, and slowly said in a deep voice, "Three wishes, His Royal Highness the crown prince will register as a crown princess as soon as possible, and spread branches and leaves for my Xuan Dynasty royal family, so as to calm the hearts of the people."

The old and powerful voice echoed in the hall, and the audience was silent, no one spoke.

Gu Qi's eyes were slightly cold, his face remained unchanged, even though the corner of his mouth was still smiling, his voice became a bit cold, "If so, then I thank Duke Ding for his blessing."

He deliberately avoided the last blessing, as if he hadn't heard anything, as if the other party's speech was no different from previous years.

But Zhao Wu obviously didn't intend to give up so easily, so he looked around on the spot, and then several important court officials including Jing Zhaoyin raised their glasses and stood up, and said loudly, "I wish your highness the crown prince's appointment as soon as possible, Spread branches and leaves for my royal family of the Xuan Dynasty, so as to calm the hearts of the people!"

Such a powerful voice resounded through the hall, followed by all the courtiers raised their glasses and stood up, shouting the same words.

Such a situation made Gu Qi unexpected, his eyes were now occupied by haze, even though his face was still calm, his hands in his sleeves were clenched into fists.

What does it mean?Force him to register as a crown princess?
He looked around at the courtiers below, and saw Mu Qingzhuo, the silent minister in the crowd. Mu Qingzhuo and Zhao Wu had never dealt with each other, but this time they stood there indifferently. Obviously, they were with Zhao Wu on this matter. Wu stood on the same front.

Anger suddenly rose in my heart.

How could he not know what these people were thinking?
He is the prince, he is already 23 this year, and he is already at the age to take a concubine, but the emperor left in a hurry, so he just left a pile of mess for him. He is obviously the prince, but he is always under the control of this group of people who rely on the old and sell the old , unable to let go of his hands and feet to do great things.

Take the first time to re-set taxes in Huainan as an example. At that time, there was a famine in Huainan and the harvest was extremely bad. He pondered for a few days in the study and discussed with Qin Yuanshan, Prince Gong and others for a long time before formulating a new tax reduction. regulations.But who would have thought that this group of old fellows were chattering about in the early court, thinking of ways to confront him.

In fact, Gu Qi knew it well. They clearly understood the importance and feasibility of this decree, but they wanted to obstruct it. They had to argue with him for several days before they were willing to make any concessions.

This kind of behavior is not for anything else, just to show their importance in the court, just to tell him that this young prince is not free to do whatever he wants, he has to keep them in mind at all times, Do not neglect.

As for the establishment of the crown princess, it is obviously not that Gu Qi can marry whoever he likes into the palace. This has something to do with the power of the court, and it is also closely related to the future status of the courtiers' family in the court.

If he casually said that he wanted to take a woman who had nothing to do with the government, I am afraid that this group of old people would jump out at the first time, protest collectively, and entangle him with countless morning courts earnestly, and then write a letter to remonstrate, which is even more exaggerated , he had no doubt that they would collectively kneel outside Huayan Hall to plead for orders.

Gu Qi was restless, and even wanted to blame his father for leaving him in such an embarrassing situation.

It's better to let him ascend the throne directly, at least the emperor's majesty can overwhelm these old courtiers who have nothing to do, can't they?
Keeping his eyes on the crowd, Gu Qi's anger has filled his eyes, even though they are far away, Chu Yan can still see his anger burning.

It would be false to say that he does not sympathize, Chu Yan also understands the forbearance and anger he has been unable to do for so long. After all, the crown prince is still fledgling, and he still has to rely on these old courtiers for many things.However, Qin Yuanshan, the Xiao brothers and several princely descendants whom the emperor favored for him were still young, and although they had already started to hold positions in the court, their influence was still not comparable to this group of people.

She looked at the silent Gu Qi, and felt that this kind of him was far from the real person with a clear face and soft eyes in the study just now.

Sighing helplessly, she reached out to help the jade hairpin dangling on the bun.

At this moment, there was silence in the crowd, and no one made a move. She raised her hand, which was not noticeable to the people around her, but it was very conspicuous to Gu Qi who was seated.

Gu Qi's eyes fell on her face, but he saw her looking at him quietly, and slowly said four words to him with unreadable mouth shapes, "Encircle Wei and save Zhao."

Tens of thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind, and he seemed to see Chu Yan slyly saying to him in the study: "National affairs and wars have nothing to do with me, a girl, but what I learned from it is that the art of war There can also be many variants, which can be applied to different things... This is the so-called encircling Wei and saving Zhao—a tactic of attacking the enemy's rear strongholds to force the attacking enemy to retreat."

Under such countless twists and turns, he suddenly calmed down, withdrew his emotions bit by bit, smiled slightly, and asked Zhao Wu, "Then according to Duke Ding, how should the crown princess be chosen?"

All these old things in the palace are people who want to promote themselves into his harem, and if the daughter of a family becomes a princess, then the whole family will follow and be honored.Now their united front is to get him to be a concubine, but if he throws the issue back, they will probably be the ones who should cause internal strife.

Zhao Wu was taken aback immediately, when the matter of concubine registration was raised before, the crown prince always prevaricated them with state affairs, he just wanted to make plans when he was full-fledged and strong enough to fight against them in the future.But today he was uncharacteristically uncharacteristically, and had no objection to this, and instead asked about their candidate for the crown princess.

Before Zhao Wu opened his mouth, Mu Qingzhuo said leisurely, "His Royal Highness, since Duke Dingguo has something in mind, there must be a suitable candidate. I see that the few daughters in Zhao's mansion are all as good as Ji?" ? Perhaps Duke Ding intends to select a suitable person from among them, and this is a concern of the ministers."

As soon as Mu Qingzhuo uttered his words, he mocked Zhao Wu for impatiently wanting to put members of the Zhao family into the seat of the crown princess. Zhao Wu's face darkened, and he said with a fake smile, "My minister is panicked. How can Lord Mu be like this?" Deep thoughts? This minister is just thinking that His Highness the Crown Prince can become a concubine as soon as possible, so that the branches and leaves can be spread as soon as possible. This is also a great joy for my Xuan Dynasty. How can my children of the Zhao family be involved? But Master Mu is so arrogant. Said, I think of Miss Mu in your house, didn't you come to the palace a few days ago and was summoned by Zhao Ronghua?"

Zhao Ronghua is the crown prince's biological mother, since the crown prince's mother summoned Mu Nianqiu in person, the meaning is self-evident.

Headed by the two most powerful courtiers, everyone began to talk one after another, and the point of attack that was originally aimed at Gu Qi suddenly became a conflict between the courtiers with ulterior motives.

Gu Qi didn't speak, and let them tease each other secretly, but their eyes couldn't help looking at the girl who was looking at him quietly.

In the crowd, she was dressed in a fresh and outstanding green dress, like a slim green bamboo, with the edge of the morning dew, and the breath of silence and tranquility, she entered the eyes with an irresistible posture.

The corners of her lips were slightly raised, showing the cunning of a little cleverness, and this little trick saved him - only the two of them knew it.

Gu Qi is not a king who has gone through a lot of wind and waves like an emperor. Now he is not only fledgling, but also has too many skill points that need to be improved. He is completely different from the almighty male protagonist in YY novels, who has almighty golden fingers to serve him.

And this made Chu Yan extremely satisfied, because if he was too powerful, how would she have the chance to play tricks?

In her previous life, she was used to workplace struggles, but she didn't have the ability to participate in them herself, because she was lazy, and because she didn't have the capital to fight in the first place, but she is different in this life, she can choose her own way of life, and she has a sufficient background And potential to rise up, who can be like a swan but also willing to shrink in the nest and be an ugly duckling?
Chu Yan smiled, and there was real joy in her eyes, rather than pretending to be seen by someone.

In her previous life, Zhao Chuyan was not a traitor concubine, but she was deliberately labeled as a traitor concubine and a villain. Then in this life, she will run wildly towards the avenue of traitor concubine from now on.

Gods block and kill gods, Buddhas block and kill Buddhas—please allow her to borrow this line that appears very frequently in Gongdou dramas for a while, and use this line as a motto for encouragement.

(End of this chapter)