Reborn Concubine Queen

Chapter 247 The Xiao Family Comes (1)

The eunuch delivered the decree according to the rules, and after Elder Shi led the Shi family to kowtow to thank him, he came forward with a flattering smile, bowed his waist and cupped his fists and said, "Congratulations to the Shi family! As the saying goes, this big It's hard to die, there must be blessings, and now Miss Nine has agreed to this sentence!"

Master Shi smiled humbly, and took out a bag of silver from his sleeve and handed it over: "Congratulations, congratulations. Eunuch Meng, this is a little care from us, and I hope you will always accept it."

The eunuch who delivered the decree accepted the money as a matter of course, and smiled and said: "How embarrassing. Oh, Lord Hou is too polite! We are all in the capital, and the surname is the princess, Miss Jiu is still alone. One copy, after this, I'm afraid the rich and powerful are still behind!"

Master Shi's heart skipped a beat, he exchanged a glance with Third Master Shi Shi Jingran in surprise, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Borrow your father-in-law's auspicious words, and end your father-in-law's auspicious words!"

After finally sending the eunuch away, the three masters of the Shi family breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the old lady Meng had sent Nian's mother over for questioning, they had to rush to the nunnery to answer.

The old lady Meng slumped on the bed and crossed her legs and said: "I heard that the eunuch passing the decree in front is the son of Eunuch Su, the chief eunuch next to the emperor. Boss, did he say anything?"

Mr. Shi replied with a complex expression: "Mother, things are abnormal, I'm afraid there must be something weird! I just heard what Eunuch Meng said, the emperor seems to want Qing'er to go to the frontier to get married!"

Master Shi Er disapproved and said, "Brother, Eunuch Meng never said such a thing. Third brother, do you think so?"

On the contrary, Master Shi San looked like he had nothing to do with himself, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and said slowly: "If Qing'er can really go to the frontier fortress to get married, that would be a good thing. Qing'er is unmarried and has a child. Who doesn't know, who doesn't know, even if she is named princess by the emperor at this moment, who is willing to marry, who is willing to wear this green hat? I see, there are nine out of ten marriages."

Mr. Shi stroked his beard and said: "The emperor's behavior these days is very unpredictable. If the marriage is true or not, it is hard to say now. After all, whoever is married to the frontier is going to use the real princess. Isn't it a temporary substitute?" The princess married her. But if this is the case, then Qing girl will be wronged."

"Brother, younger brother doesn't like to hear that." Shi Jingran pulled his face and shouted, "She has been out of the house for many years without permission, discrediting our Shi family and making us unable to hold our heads up in Beijing for so long. If we can really get married now The frontier fortress can be regarded as saving some face for the Shi family, and it is not in vain for my years of upbringing!"

The three masters in the nunnery were arguing, and Mo Wu, who was listening to the news outside, was startled when he heard the news, hurriedly left the nunnery quietly, and hurried back to the Yangliu courtyard: "Miss, something serious is not right."

Shi Yiqing was holding a book of common sayings and was reading it with great interest. He glanced at Mo Wu and asked indifferently, "What's the matter? I made you so anxious."

"My miss, you still have time to read!" Mo Wu panicked, "The three masters in the nunnery are clamoring to marry you to the frontier fortress!"

Shi Yiqing was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, smiled half-believingly, and continued to look at the notebook in his hand.

Mo Wu rushed forward to grab the script, "Miss, why don't you believe it?"

"Who says I don't believe it?" Shi Yiqing stretched out his hand to ask for it, but seeing that Mo Wu didn't give it, he twitched the corner of his mouth in a dull manner, "As long as you can leave here, it doesn't matter where you go."

Mo Wu never thought that Shi Yiqing would be so indifferent, so he jumped up and down anxiously: "Miss, have you ever thought that if you are really ordered by the emperor to go to the frontier fort to make a kiss as the three masters said, then the young master... I mean, the young master Qi'er will be with you." What about the young master! When the time comes, how can you tell them to behave!"

Shi Yiqing tilted his head to look at the glazed cup on the table next to him: "This is the emperor's decree, what can I do? Is it possible to resist the decree and not obey it? At that time, my father will say that I am a bastard, it is the key point." The catastrophe that killed the whole family. You hope so?"

Mo Wu stared blankly at Shi Yiqing who didn't take it seriously, he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, he didn't know what to do, when Zhu Xi, who came in to serve him, saw him, he smiled lightly: "Miss has already made up her mind, Still calling you to worry?"

Shi Yiqing looked back at Zhu Xi, smiled but said nothing.

Mo Wu was stunned, seeing that Shi Yiqing's smile was still calm, he hurriedly walked sideways to Zhu Xi's place: "Sister Zhu Xi, do you mean that the young lady has already made up her mind?"

Zhu Xi smiled while holding the teacup to be cleared: "I didn't say that, if you want to know, you have to ask Miss."

"Good sister, just tell me." Mo Wu pestered Zhu Xi and refused to ask her to leave, "Miss made it clear that she didn't want to tell me, so just tell me."

Zhu Xi couldn't be bothered by her, so he could only smile helplessly. Seeing that Shi Yiqing didn't object, he said, "I just sent a decree to promote the young lady to the princess, and within two days I asked the young lady to marry and go to the frontier fortress. Didn't he tell Man Tianxia that the emperor didn't want his sisters and daughters to suffer, so he appointed a lady from a family to be the princess and asked her to marry in the name? The emperor wants to be a benevolent monarch, how could he be willing to say such words? of?"

She paused, put away the teacup in her hand, and then continued: "On the other hand, if the young lady is really married to the frontier fortress by the emperor, don't say that the young lady will show her ambition with death, and don't ask outsiders to criticize, just say Young master's own father, how could he let the young lady marry him? When the time comes, he might be crowned a confidante in a rage, and a mutiny will come, isn't it the fault of the emperor?"

Seeing that Zhu Xi seemed to know some inside information, Mo Wu thought that Shi Yiqing didn't regard Zhu Xi as an outsider, and didn't hide some things from her. Seeing her kind and reasonable analysis, he felt relieved and relieved With a sigh of relief, he said, "If Miss had told me this earlier, why would I be so nervous?"

Zhu Xi leaned closer to Mo Wu, and said softly, "Miss can't say this, you have to learn to read words and expressions."

Seeing Zhu Xi going out to clean up the red sandalwood box in his arms, Mo Wu thought about going back to Shi Yiqing's bed, and asked in a low voice: "Miss, do I need to tell the young master about this?"

Shi Yiqing had heard Zhu Xi's high-spirited talk a long time ago, and understood Mo Wu's careful thinking, so he just pretended not to see it: "It's not easy to ask Uncle Zhong to tell him that things are not yet settled, so it's better not to make an oolong. By the way, Tomorrow, you take Xing'er out of the mansion to Prince Qi's Mansion, and pick up Pan'er and Mammy Xu back. There are too many things that happened these days, which made Momo Xu worry. You should tell Momo well on the way I understand, I have to explain to her when I can save it."

Mo Wu complied, and seeing that Shi Yiqing had no other orders, he went down to do his own work.

Shi Yiqing once again picked up the book of secular Chinese, but couldn't read a word, his thoughts became more and more confused, so he had to throw it aside, got up and went to the table to practice calligraphy and meditate.

Although Emperor Mingqian of the previous life never appointed a lady with a foreign surname as princess in his later years, he did have a marriage relationship with a frontier fortress.Shi Yiqing vaguely remembered that in the past few years, the big man in Huairou fell in love with Emperor Minggan's most spoiled daughter, and intended to exchange the three cities of Yanyun and Yun, which he captured by force, in exchange for the princess.Her Royal Highness Princess Naihe looked down on this profuse sweater, so the emperor asked a little-known county magistrate of the royal family to marry him. The Huairou sweater was very angry. The Great Khan beheaded the county head and sent him back to Beijing, shocking the government and the public.

At that time, Shi Yiqing had already lost a daughter, and only the county head's mother could clearly understand the heart-piercing pain. No matter how close someone else was, they were just bystanders in the end.

The hand holding the Langhao pen trembled, Shi Yiqing regretfully looked at the already formed character "forbearance", which was destroyed in this way, and lost interest, so he put aside his faults and stared at the stone inkstone in front of him in a daze.

Shi Yiqing didn't know if she would do what Zhu Xi said, if the emperor really promulgated the decree and asked her to go to Huairou to kiss her, she would die to show her ambition, or would she wait aggrievedly for Gao Qichang to save her.

She didn't know which one she was inclined to.

"Miss." Shi Yiqing looked up at Mo Wu with a complicated expression in a daze, "Mrs. Xiao is here, and she is waiting in front of the living room. The old lady sent someone over to ask Miss to come and talk."

Shi Yiqing lowered his eyes and smiled wryly: "It's supposed to come, it will come after all."

Since returning to the capital, Shi Yiqing has avoided people from Xiao's family everywhere. Because of Xiao Yongqi's incident, she felt ashamed in her heart, and she couldn't even make a gesture of apologizing. In the boudoir.

Shi Yiqing came to the living room, bowed down to pay respects with etiquette, but felt his heart beating like thunder, and couldn't hold it back: "Qing'er pays respects to auntie, please greet auntie."

Madam Xiao, who was sitting on it, smiled hypocritically: "It turns out to be Princess Yuanhe, but I dare not be your obeisance."

Shi Yiqing knelt down on his knees: "It's Qing'er's fault, don't get angry with Auntie, if you get angry, you won't get well."

Mrs. Xiao just held the tea bowl and didn't look at her.

The eldest lady who came to accompany the guests hurriedly smiled and said: "Mrs. Xiao Haihan, remembering that Miss Xiao Qi has always been good friends with Qing'er, and Qing'er called you aunt again, you have a lot of adults, don't go to the same level as Qinger .”

After sighing, Mrs. Xiao wept and said: "I came to your house today to congratulate you. I never thought that as soon as I saw your nine girls, I would think of my Qi'er who died for no reason. Although Yongqi She wasn't born by me, but since she was born, she grew up in my arms, and I doted on her so much, so why just say no? Is she the same as your ninth girl, It's just that I went somewhere to play, and I was playing on a whim, and I forgot to come back?"

She panted to calm down, and asked Shi Yiqing in a hoarse voice, "Have you seen my Qi'er?"

(End of this chapter)