The best princess

Chapter 27
Following Qi Yibei into the garden, Fu Youran tried her best not to look like a frivolous old man, but is the imperial garden built too delicately?Fu Youran's eyes are about to blur again. Along the way, there are strange stones and beautiful trees, and there is no trace of artificial combination. Looking at the thick and winding appearance of the ancient cypresses and wisterias, I am afraid that they will survive for a hundred years. The surrounding pavilions, mountain and rock bonsai Even the passages under the feet are carefully paved with pebbles of different colors, forming a series of different patterns, characters, flowers, scenery, dramas, allusions... along the road It's fun to watch.

Looking at Fu Youran's busy eyes, Qi Yibei smiled and said: "You have to live in the palace for a while, so there is no need to be in such a hurry."

Fu Youran withdrew her gaze, pursed her lips and said, "A broken garden, no one has seen it before."

Fu Youran has indeed visited the Jade Garden. Note that it is the "Jade Garden", not the "Royal Garden".

I think that after the richest businessman in Anyang County, Mr. Yu, returned to his hometown in a good mood and built a magnificent mansion, especially the garden, which was the focus of construction. With a mentality of showing off, Master Yu decided to open the Yufu Garden for the villagers to play. She and Lin Xiyue went to watch it at that time, but only once, because the villagers in Shili Ba Village were too enthusiastic and saw the garden. The beautiful flowers and plants in the garden all want to take them back as souvenirs. When they see the strange trees that are not growing well, they scramble to use manure to irrigate them. After a long time, the trees in the whole garden grow better, but the smell is also strong. Master Yu had no choice but to announce that the garden would be closed for renovations. Since then, the gate of the "Jade Garden" has never been opened again.

Listening to Fu Youran talking about these folk anecdotes, Qi Yibei only felt novelty and didn't disturb them, just occasionally smiled knowingly, talking and listening to each other, and gradually walked towards the center of the garden.

On the other side of the imperial garden, the empress and a group of courtiers were admiring the lotus by the flower pond, accompanied by a noble lady and a beautiful and elegant girl.

It is said that after the empress’s first choice of concubine was vetoed by the empress and the prince, she also did some self-reflection. If the empress’s family was already powerful enough, there was no need for any marriage policy to stabilize the prince’s status and Her posthumous position, but the bad thing is that Emperor Zhaotai showed his intention to abolish the establishment from time to time a few days ago, which made the queen go to the doctor in a hurry, and she firmly grasped the prince who had a good impression of the prince and was also the most trusted by Emperor Zhaotai. General Ye Qing hoped to get the support of the military, but unexpectedly it had the opposite effect. Fortunately, now that Emperor Zhaotai has changed his views on the crown prince, she no longer needs to force the crown prince to be difficult, and can comprehensively and comprehensively choose the crown prince. Make considerations.

First of all, this family background cannot be bad,
Secondly, the appearance must be passable, and the same mistakes cannot be repeated because of the appearance problem.
The third and most important point is to observe filial piety. The "filial piety" here refers to a "filial" daughter who knows how to deal with the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

There are two people who are most popular in the princess concubine election this time. One is Xue Xuanning, the daughter of the current prime minister, and the other is Yan Peiruo, the daughter of the Shangshu of the Ministry of War. For nothing else, just because Yan Shangshu has always supported King Huai, and I believe no one likes people who are against him everywhere, so there is no need to discuss it, PASS!

As for Xue Xuanning, she looks dignified and graceful, everyone knows that she is the mother of the country, and her family background is good, but Prime Minister Xue always flaunts justice and ignores the disputes in the East Palace. This is why the queen didn't choose Xue Xuanning in the first place. I don't know. There are too many factors.

But up to now, it seems that the crown princess can only be born between the two of them. Under the choice, the queen announced the prime minister's wife and Xue Xuanning to enter the palace early this morning, and used the name of visiting the imperial garden to shorten the distance between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. In fact, Mrs. Xue, who had high expectations for her daughter, was naturally very happy. As soon as she received the order, she urged her daughter to dress up and rush into the palace in a hurry.

Xue Xuanning's nobility and tranquility left a very good impression on the queen, and she was thinking of finding the prince to come to cultivate her relationship as soon as possible, when she saw the prince turning out from the side path, talking and making gestures, foaming and dancing, The girl next to the prince was listening attentively with a smile on her face. Mrs. Xue asked a little nervously: "Ma'am, who is the daughter of an adult family that the girl next to the prince is?"

The queen shook her head lightly, and said to the maid next to her, "Go and invite the prince over here."

Here, Fu Youran was talking excitedly, Qi Yibei gently tugged at the corner of her clothes, "The queen mother is over there."

Fu Youran looked up and asked, "Do you want to go there?"

"Nonsense." Qi Yibei looked at the maid walking towards them, and said in a low voice: "This one is called Hanmei, and the other is called Manyue, who is the queen mother's personal maid." He raised his chin again, "Then The older one is the wife of the current prime minister, and that woman is the prime minister's daughter named Xuan Ning."

"Ms. Hanmei Layue Xuanning..."

"It's Manyue!"

Fu Youran glared at Qi Yibei, stopped making a sound, and greeted the court lady, and then came to the queen. The queen looked at Qi Yibei for a while, and then said kindly to Fu Youran: "Prince, do you still remember?" Xuanning?"

Mrs. Xue hurriedly brought her daughter to present to Fu Youran, Qi Yibei took the opportunity to wink, Fu Youran blinked clearly, according to the "Dajin Times" report, the two daughters of Xue Yan fought for the crown princess throne , but the indecisive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not have a clear attitude. It is said that he could not let go of anyone, and the psychological struggle was very painful. From this point of view, Lao Qi should have a good impression of these two women, and he can do everything for Yan Peiruo Leaving Beijing secretly, she naturally had to be warm and considerate to Xue Xuanning.

Taking a step forward to help Xue Xuanning who was behind Mrs. Xue, Fu Youran ignored everyone's surprised eyes, and said rather proudly, "Sister Xuanning is so beautiful, how could I forget it."

As soon as the words were finished, Fu Youran saw Qi Yibei's expression of eating a fly. Could it be that he made a mistake?

Xue Xuanning said with a smile that wasn't a smile: "The young girl and His Highness only met once five years ago, and His Highness still remembers it?"

"Ah?" Fu Youran was taken aback, it's impossible, right? "Five...five years?" Xue Xuanning should have been an eleven or twelve-year-old girl five years ago. No wonder everyone has weird expressions. They probably think that the prince is too fake. Alas, false reports have killed people. .

Seeing Fu Youran's embarrassment, the queen coughed lightly, "Prince, why don't you introduce your friend to me?"

Fu Youran hastily let go of Xue Xuanning, and moved closer to the queen, "Mother, the girl I mentioned yesterday is her, her name is Fu Youran, she is..." It took a long time, but "yes" did not make a name for herself.

The queen frowned slightly, secretly blaming the prince for being reckless, how could she casually accept commoner women into the palace?
Qi Yibei observed his words and quickly said, "Going back to the empress, the little girl Fu Youran is Mr. Mo's adoptive daughter. She just arrived in the capital yesterday, and this morning she followed her adoptive brother into the palace to greet the emperor on behalf of her adoptive father."

"Mr. Mo?" The queen became interested, "But Mo Yanchen?"

Qi Yibei bowed slightly, "Exactly."

"Have you met the emperor?"

"Yes."

The queen nodded, "I haven't seen Mr. Mo for a few years in a blink of an eye, is he okay?"

Qi Yibei quickly said yes, "Father always thinks about the kindness of my mother in the past, this time I specially asked You Ran to come and see my mother."

Only then did Fu Youran really accept it, this old Qi, he brags and doesn't write drafts, and when he tells lies, he doesn't bat an eye.

The Queen laughed and said, "Mr. Mo is too out of touch."

Qi Yibei lowered his eyebrows and said obediently: "The adoptive father often said that if there was no empress back then, how could there be a marriage between him and the adoptive mother."

The queen sighed, "It's a pity that Ling'er was not blessed, and died after giving birth to Wei Tian, ​​which also made your adoptive father have thoughts of world-weariness. I still think about it, and I don't know whether it was right or wrong to match Ling'er with him at the beginning. .”

Qi Yibei knelt down on the ground lightly, lifting the skirt, "Your Majesty, the adoptive mother is the love of the adoptive father in this life. Although the time we meet is very short, it is enough to talk and comfort for a lifetime. The adoptive father is weak. If it is not for the empress, he may still be alone. How can there be brother Wei Tian at his knees?"

Qi Yibei is worthy of being the son of the queen's direct relative, he has thoroughly studied the queen's psychology, and knows how to say it to the queen's benefit.

Whenever Emperor Zhaotai misses Mo Yanchen, he always brings up this matter, and blames the queen for letting Mo Yanchen have children, and even retreats in the end. Staying in your own camp, who would have thought it would end like this, these few words of Qi Yibei were right in the heart of the queen, the queen smiled, stretched out her hand to support Qi Yibei, and said inadvertently: "If the emperor listens to these If so, I won’t always blame Bengong.”

Qi Yibei chuckled, "These are the words from the heart of the adoptive father, so naturally we should tell the emperor."

The queen felt relieved, and affectionately rolled up Qi Yibei, and pretended to be angry at Fu Youran: "Yi'er, why didn't you say that the one who wanted to join the palace was Mr. Mo's adopted daughter? If I knew earlier, I took you leisurely into the palace early in the morning."

Fu Youran opened her mouth, but didn't make a sound, should I have known?She still wants to know, what are they talking about?After listening to it for a long time, she was still confused, so she simply stopped arguing, and the queen said again: "Is Youran living at Weitian's place now?"

Qi Yibei nodded in agreement, the queen disagreed and said: "Although we are sworn brothers and sisters, we still need to avoid suspicion, why not stay in the palace for a while, I believe the emperor also wants to know more about Mr. Mo's recent situation."

"Youran dare not disturb your empress," Qi Yibei understood what the empress meant, and said: "The emperor has allowed Youran to enter the palace with his brother-in-law at any time, and Youran will definitely speak to the emperor about some words from the bottom of his heart as soon as possible."

"It's so good." The empress was naturally in a good mood after being able to resolve the knots in her heart for many years, and she became much closer to Qi Yibei in terms of words.

Seeing that the empress had a heated chat with this unknown woman, and her own daughter was left out in the cold, Mrs. Xue became a little anxious, and interjected at an opening, "I don't know which mansion Miss Fu was the daughter of before she and Mr. Mo got married. ?”

(End of this chapter)