Traitor Concubine Growth Manual

Chapter 26

Three days later, Chu Yan found the suspect who destroyed Jin Yuexiu's belt.

In fact, three days ago, she told Jinyue and Luosu in private that she asked them to check carefully among the maids in the embroidering room to see if anyone had any more jewelry in the room. After all, Jinyue and Luosu were the group of embroiderers The two girls with the highest status are much more convenient to do things.

Jinyue thanked Yu Chuyan for not holding her accountable for not being optimistic about the embroidery, while Luosu learned that her aunt, whose natal family was in the cold palace, was transferred to the Shanggong Bureau to guard the warehouse, and she was grateful to Chuyan. He was someone from Chu Yan's side, and he did his best to do things for her.

When Chu Yan saw the embroidered girl, she heard from Luosu that Jinyue lied that she had lost the golden scissors that the queen mother gave her for the first time. An emerald earring.

Chu Yan took the pair of earrings, the two emerald beads were crystal clear, the pearls flowed, and they shone brightly in the sun, very beautiful.

She looked at the embroidered girl calmly, "Where did you come from?"

The embroidered girl was only in her twenties, with a round face, not very conspicuous, her face paled with fright, she said tremblingly, "...I picked it up, I picked it up."

"Picked it up?" Chu Yan suddenly felt amused, "I can pick up such a good thing for you, should I say you are lucky or are others blind?"

Her eyes narrowed slightly, she stood up like this, and walked out, "Forget it, I can't control this matter, I'd better invite His Royal Highness to come here in person."

When the embroidered girl heard this, her round face turned pale, and she cried out with a crying voice, "Auntie, Auntie, I was wrong! I'm telling the truth, can't I tell the truth?"

Chu Yan paused, and said lightly, "If you want to say it, say it quickly, I don't have so much free time to listen to you crying."

She didn't turn her head back, but heard the truth she wanted from the embroidered girl, "Servant, this servant was instructed by Princess Qingyang to intentionally...destroy that belt so that my aunt would be punished by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Punishment..."

Qingyang, indeed it was her again.

Chu Yan turned around and looked at the crying man. Before she could speak, she heard the door suddenly being pushed open.

Everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction of the gate. The afternoon light suddenly shone into the room, and the tall and straight figure stood against the light, and even the edges seemed to be dyed with a layer of gold.

Surprisingly, it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince standing by the door.

Gu Qi stepped into the hall with a heavy expression, and looked around. There were only Jinyue, Luosu, Chu Yan, Hanzhi, and Xiu Nu who was kneeling on the ground and crying non-stop in the hall.

Chu Yan hurriedly saluted, "See Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Several maids of honor followed her to pay respects.

Gu Qi didn't respond, his eyes were fixed on the embroidered girl kneeling on the ground, and he ordered without hesitation, "Pull her out, fill the pot with boiling oil, scald her throat and hit her with another fifty slaps. "

The embroidered girl screamed suddenly, fainted in fright, and was pulled out by several eunuchs at random.

But Chu Yan's face was slightly stiff, and he regained his composure at random, and whispered to the maids around him, "You go out first, today's affairs will all rot in your stomach."

Since the prince wanted to scald the embroidered girl's throat, he definitely didn't intend to severely punish Qingyang. Chu Yan watched the maids leave, and finally met Gu Qi's eyes.

She kept silent, just looked at him like this.

Gu Qixian couldn't hold his breath, and asked her, "Why didn't you ask me?"

"What do you want to ask?" Chu Yan replied politely, using honorifics again.

Gu Qi was silent, and answered the wrong question, "I don't intend to pursue Qingyang's matter."

That's natural, for her, Zhao Chuyan, to bother the prince to mobilize people to punish the daughter of the eldest princess, how can people guess?
I heard that in the early court today, the ministers actually reached an agreement, and they were determined to persuade the crown prince to register as a crown princess as soon as possible. Even the crown princess candidate is no longer contested. Anyway, it is better to put their own daughters into the harem one by one. So stalemate.In case the crown prince has full wings in the future, how can they have the ability to force people into the harem?

Among them, her grandfather Zhao Wu and Shang Shuling Mu Qingzhuo had the toughest attitude.

Chu Yan looked at Gu Qi, he came to look for her, but because of this matter?

There were only the two of them left in the hall, and Chu Yan found that there seemed to be many such times recently, and she was always alone with him unconsciously.

She didn't speak, but listened to Gu Qidao, "You should know what happened in the court today."

His tone was very cold, his eyes were dark, and he was obviously angry about it.

Chu Yan smiled, "Yes, I know."

His tone was relaxed.

Gu Qi became angry all of a sudden, his complexion sank, and he looked at Chu Yan fixedly, "You know? That's it?"

"Otherwise, what else does His Royal Highness think of me? Rebel against grandfather, rebel against aunt, say that I don't want to marry you at all, don't want to be a princess at all, and then become an unfilial descendant of the Zhao family?" Chu Yan thought it was funny, and turned around. Looking out the window, "Your Highness is thinking about your own difficulties, but have you ever thought about Chu Yan's difficulties? You don't want to marry me, so do I just want to marry someone who doesn't love me? But just like you have no choice, I There is also no choice."

She looked at the sparrow on the branch in fascination, and said briskly, "It is said that there is no choice, but Your Highness still has other choices. After all, there are many candidates for the crown princess. Without me, there is still the Mu family." Miss, Miss Shen...Compared to Chu Yan, His Highness is considered lucky."

The wings flickered a few times, and the sparrow flew away from the branch. Chu Yan withdrew her eyes regretfully, and turned to look at Gu Qi again, "As for the matter of Princess Qingyang, His Highness can handle it as he likes. I never asked you to do anything for me, so you have no position to ask me to do anything for you."

This was too straightforward, it was nothing more than telling Gu Qi that she did not ask him to hold Qing Yang accountable for her, so he did not want to blame her for Duke Ding's affairs in court.

Gu Qi looked at Chu Yan without changing his expression, but clenched his fists tightly in his cuffs.

In her eyes, is he just a puppet prince with no real power?Because of her fledgling and young age, she was repeatedly coerced by ministers, and she couldn't even make decisions about her marriage...

Gu Qi knew that he should not vent his anger on her, but because of his powerlessness, he could only choose to vent his anger.

At this moment, Wanxi's voice suddenly came from outside the hall, "His Royal Highness, Duke Dingguo asked His Highness to see His Highness in Huayan Hall, saying that there was chaos at the border in Xijiang, and His Highness asked His Highness to call an emergency political meeting in time to discuss countermeasures! "

Wanxi had never been so anxious before, her voice became sharp and piercing, the two people in the hall were startled, Gu Qi's expression immediately changed, strode to the door, and pushed the door open, "What did you say?"

Wanxi looked flustered, "Ding Guogong said, General Huaiyuan sent an urgent letter today, Xijiang sent troops to besiege the northwest border, and had already attacked beyond Huaicheng, the general is leading the garrison to guard the city gate, requesting His Highness to send troops immediately support!"

Xijiang is a nomadic people outside the northwest of the Xuan Dynasty. They are good at riding and shooting, and have a fierce nature. They launched a war against the imperial court more than ten years ago.Although the war was won, the court also suffered heavy losses. It can be said that it was a battle that hurt both sides.

Because both sides suffered heavy setbacks, the emperor appointed Zhuo Ding'an as General Huaiyuan. Since then, he has been stationed on the northwest border. Once there is any change in the western border, he will react immediately.

Gu Qi did not expect that Xijiang would once again launch a war against the imperial court at this time. At present, the officials are forcing marriages. Qin Yuanshan is a civil servant, and the Xiao family brothers and others are too young, have no meritorious service, and have never obtained important positions in the court. Come on, who is he going to send out?
General Huaiyuan was standing guard at the border, but if the imperial court wanted to send troops to support them, it had to select another general to lead the troops. Gu Qi's expression turned ugly, because he knew it well and could convince everyone to take on the task. Now there are only two generals left.

Dingguo Gong Zhao Wu, Shang Shuling Mu Qingzhuo.

The two people who forced the marriage the hardest turned out to be the ones he had to rely on now.

What Gu Qi understands even more is that no matter which one he chooses, the choice of the crown princess will eventually be settled.

His limbs were as heavy as if filled with lead, and he couldn't lift them up for a long time. Finally, he turned his head to look at Chu Yan with difficulty, and smiled like self-deprecating, "That's fine, after all, I have to make a choice." , it can be regarded as reducing your burden, and it can be regarded as a relief of my concern."

He left a look of innocence, and then stepped out of the embroidery room without hesitation, and went to Huayan Hall.

Chu Yan was left in the empty hall, and seemed to understand the choice he would make. After all, the young prince could not escape the end of being a crown princess by the side of the ministers, and had to compromise with fate.

After listening to Ding Guogong's analysis of the war in Huayan Hall, Gu Qi summoned the Minister of Military Aircraft for an emergency meeting.Two hours later, the tea was cold, and he locked himself in the hall for a whole night, not letting anyone in.

He stood alone on top of the empty hall, full of unwillingness and arrogance in his heart, just because before he could open his mouth to send troops, Mu Qingzhuo and Zhao Wu claimed one after another that they were "old and weak, and their spirits were not as good as they were." "Yesterday" and "Recently, my health has become worse and worse, I have more energy than energy", what is the meaning of such excuses? Gu Qi knows very well that they are nothing more than forcing him to make a choice.

He looked at the icy golden palace, at the magnificent dragon chair, at the jade seal as immobile and as stable as Mount Tai, and at this all-too-familiar hall.

He is the crown prince of the Xuan Dynasty and the future king of thousands of people, but what if he has the people in his heart?His courtiers are so rebellious, they insist on seeing him cornered, and insist on forcing him to bow his head and admit defeat!

He frantically smashed all the memorials on the desk to the ground, like a miserable beast, but it was useless, such childish and powerless behavior was just to remind him how useless he was.He even couldn't help hating his father and mother, because they left the palace so easily and left this mess to him who was young and rootless.

In the end, Gu Qi slammed his fist on the vermilion pillar, squatted down slowly, and sat powerlessly on the cold floor.

The battle of trapped beasts is roughly the same.

In this way, he locked himself in the Huayan Palace for a whole night, and no one could persuade him.

On the second day, Wan Xixi, who was in a state of anxiety, waited until the prince pushed the door out, but only received an imperial edict.

He stared blankly at the prince who stepped out of the hall, that young and resolute face was the same as yesterday, but there was something different in his eyes. In the pure black eyes, a certain once bright brilliance seemed to have died overnight.

But what he didn't know was that it was Gu Qi's only weakness and hope that died.

To be a king, you probably have to go through such a process, phoenix nirvana, rebirth from the ashes.

In the 27th year of the Xuan Dynasty, when the prince was in charge of the country, there was a riot on the border in Xijiang, and the subordinates committed crimes above.The prince made a prompt decision and sent Dingguo Gong Zhao Wu to lead his troops to support General Huaiyuan and repel the rebellious army in western Xinjiang.At the same time, the imperial edict was specially issued to make Chu Yan, the daughter of the Zhao family's legitimate daughter, the crown princess, and the wedding will be decided after the war subsides.

Zhao Wu thanked the emperor for his kindness, and from now on he led his troops to march westward.

There was joy in the Yuanxi Palace, Zhao Ronghua was especially happy, he kept holding Chu Yan's hand and talking about this and that, trying to make a dowry for her, and looking forward to how beautiful and moving she would be on the wedding day.

But the protagonist of this happy event looked out of the window thoughtfully, looking in the direction of Yong'an Palace.

Should she thank God for her blessings or lament her ill-fated life?When she was planning to take it slowly and focus on attacking her heart, when she finally attracted him a little bit, such a war happened, which seemed to fuel her, but actually pushed the prince's heart further and further away.

She knew that at this moment, that person in Yong'an Palace must be a thousand times more disgusted with this marriage than before, and all the efforts she had made before could not be worth the fatal blow brought to him by this war.

Because this war is not just a war between Xijiang and the Xuan Dynasty, but also a war between the officials above the court and the prince without gunpowder, and her future husband, who is still young and fledgling, has been defeated in such a mess. The power to fight back.

Becoming a princess overnight, what kind of fate awaits her?
(End of this chapter)