Lady Zhao

Chapter 101

On the fifth day of April, three days before Emperor Liang's birthday, the whole country was full of joy.The prince of Lan Kingdom came to visit with his envoys. The two countries are adjacent to each other and have very close diplomatic relations. Before Emperor Taizong, the monarch of Lan Kingdom sent his daughter to marry him.Over the past hundred years, Daliang has a vast land and rich resources, and is becoming more and more prosperous. Lan Kingdom, as an ally, will naturally come to offer a congratulatory gift, and the prince himself is enough to show that he values ​​it.

As the officials receiving the envoys, Zhao Hongsheng and Zhao Yuanli were too busy to stay home these two days. It was rare for Zhao Wenwan to see Zhao Yuanli, and he was in a hurry. He only wanted to accompany Prince Lan to appreciate the folk customs of the capital, and he disappeared after a few words. people.

Thinking about the recent rumors, Zhao Wenwan felt a headache for her eldest brother.Prince Lan also wanted to marry Princess Daliang to stabilize the relationship between the two countries. After all the calculations, the chances of Yongping were not small. It was even rumored in the palace that the emperor admired Prince Lan. In the column, the rumors of the marriage are even more clamoring.

The eldest brother should have heard about this attitude of accompanying a rival in love...Zhao Wenwan was secretly thinking whether to prepare a few sacks?
It's just that Zhao Wenwan's sack hadn't had time to give it to the eldest brother, when he heard news from the palace that the Holy Majesty was going to announce a happy event on his birthday, and the wind was pointing directly at Prince Lan and the princess of the royal family. That's too late.

It was night, the breeze was gentle, the weather in April was just right, it was not too cold, it was a good time to sleep, Zhao Wenwan was lying on the bed but couldn't sleep, suddenly heard knocking on the door outside, and then the maid who was watching the night, whispered Zhao Wenwan hurriedly put on his clothes to have a look when he heard the movement, and found that the elder brother was stamping the door with a complicated expression, followed by a young servant with his head drooping.

"It's so late, brother has..."

"Sister Wan." The servant behind Zhao Yuanli raised his face and called out embarrassingly.

"..." Zhao Wenwan was quite frightened, and hurriedly dismissed the night guard maidservant away and told her not to talk nonsense. After sending her away, she looked at Yongping who was pretending to be a servant, and then saw the little girl hanging behind her. When I was packing the burden, I turned my attention, and sure enough, there was someone who was more anxious than her.

"Yongping will stay with you for one night, and I will find a way to send her back tomorrow morning." Zhao Yuanli obviously also had a headache, rubbed his forehead, and said in a very low voice.

Yongping was clutching the small bundle, his face showed a trace of grievance, his eyes as big as a deer were somewhat stubborn, and he was about to speak up when he asked Zhao Wenwan to stop him, looking at the situation of the two, he might have had an argument, according to Eldest brother has a heart that would never do anything that would affect Yongping's reputation, and Yongping dared to sneak out of the palace, probably because he was planning to elope, but elder brother can't just ignore it.

"Don't worry, brother, I will take good care of the princess." After finishing speaking, he gave his brother a comforting look and closed the door.

As soon as the two doors were closed, the stubborn look on Yongping's face collapsed, and he looked at Zhao Wenwan with pleading eyes, "Sister Wan, what should I do?"

"Sleep well with me today, let's talk about what's going on slowly." Zhao Wenwan resisted the urge to touch her head, and comforted her, and then recruited Xueyan's waiter to change clothes and wash, without Yongping saying, Zhao Wenwan also probably knew what happened.

As soon as Xue Yanfu came in and saw Princess Yongping, she was quite frightened, but fortunately she closed the door cautiously and went out after she waited steadily, and finally heard that she went to replace the maid on duty for tonight.Zhao Wenwan sighed in his heart, Xueyan was the most caring person who could get things done without his own instructions.

The two got under the covers, but neither felt sleepy.

"I don't want to marry that rotten prince." Yongping suddenly said, then turned over, lay on the bed and looked at Zhao Wenwan pleadingly, "Sister Wan, can you ask brother Yuanli to send me back tomorrow, please?" ?”

Zhao Wenwan's loss of speech, the consequences of not sending her back, the crime of kidnapping the princess...

In the next moment, Yongping fell back dejectedly, stared at the top of the bed curtain with his eyes open, and muttered softly, "But this will bother you."

Yongping's capriciousness is temporary, she is not unreasonable, on the contrary, she escaped from the palace privately because she was too clear, mostly to see Zhao Yuanli.She cried and cried in front of her father, and made a fuss, but her father was unmoved, as if she had made up her mind, and when she thought about it, tears filled her eyes, and the thread was broken The beads generally fall on the pillow.

Listening to her words, Zhao Wenwan felt a little distressed towards the strange and sensible Yongping, "It would be great if Prince Lan could voluntarily give up marrying you."

Yongping, who was originally decadent, rolled his eyes twice when he heard the words, as if he was inspired, he slowly stood up and whispered in Zhao Wenwan's ear, his eyes were sly and full of ghosts, "Sister Wan , you reminded me, what did you think of that idea just now?"

"This...isn't that good?" Zhao Wenwan opened his mouth with a dry smile, clutching his little heart.

Yongping showed a look that reassured Zhao Wenwan, and there was a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth. The emotions of the people around him changed so fast that Zhao Wenwan couldn't react.

At the same moment, in the Palace of Yanxi Palace, Gu Jingxing, who had been recruited into the palace overnight, frowned to comfort the flustered Concubine Yue, and drove out everyone except his confidantes and nurses.

"Where do you think she's going? It's all Ben Gong, I have spoiled her!" Concubine Yue said angrily, beating her chest.

Gu Jingxing guessed where the person had gone, but he just cared about someone and didn't intend to say it out, he only said that he would definitely find him back to reassure his mother and concubine.Concubine Yue was in a state of chaos at this time, so she did not notice Gu Jingxing's concealment.

It's just that the two of them hadn't talked for a while, when a bright yellow figure lifted the curtain and walked in, his steps were windy and angry.

"emperor."

"emperor!"

Nanny knelt on the ground first, Concubine Yue panicked and saluted and almost lost her composure, thanks to Gu Jingxing who secretly helped her.

"Why is the emperor free to come here so late?" Concubine Yue tried her best to maintain a stiff smile on her face, and there was still a trace of luck in her heart, praying that the emperor would not know...

Emperor Liang's expression was uneasy, and he snorted heavily after sitting down, "Why, are you planning to hide such a big thing as Yongping running out of the palace?"

Concubine Yue trembled when she heard that she was pouring tea, and a few drops of tea splashed out, "The emperor forgives me, it's because my concubine didn't discipline me well, and my concubine just found out..." As she spoke, she burst into tears.

"Yongping was brought up by the concubine. Such an old man left as soon as he said it, without knowing it. The concubine's heart was like sinking in ice water. It was all concubine... taught by the concubine, how come……"

Emperor Liang, who was pretending to be angry, looked at Concubine Yue's pear blossoms with rain, crying sadly, and a look of embarrassment crossed his face.

The latter looked away lightly, pretending not to see, anyway, people didn't make themselves cry.

"Ahem——Okay, concubine, I don't mean to blame you, just get up." Seeing that his son would not help, Emperor Liang had no choice but to pull himself up and help him up from the ground, "It's so cold on the ground."

"Your Majesty..." Yue Guifei was still sobbing softly, and gradually calmed down under Emperor Liang's comfort, with a guilty expression on her face.

Gu Jingxing could see that Emperor Liang didn't intend to pursue it, so his previous attitude made people think deeply. He clearly favored Zhao Yuanli before, why did he...

Probably aware of Gu Jingxing's silence, Emperor Liang coaxed Concubine Yue for a while, glanced at Gu Jingxing with a little deep meaning in his eyes, and told him to follow him to the Imperial Study Room without any ups and downs in his voice.Outside the palace of the imperial study, the gray-haired servant held a dust whisk in his hand, bowed his eyes and waited, even breathing very lightly, for fear of making the slightest sound, the atmosphere of the two who had just entered was not very good.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Liang withdrew his followers, not even one from Zhongshushe.

The atmosphere was tense.

Gu Jingxing stood under the hall, and the candles were brightly lit, making him tall and tall.

"Do you know where Yongping went?" Emperor Liang said.

Gu Jingxing half-closed his long and narrow eyes, still with a cool look on his face, met Liang Emperor's imposing gaze and said indifferently, "Yongping, Xu went to Erchen's place, and the two of them missed it."

"Hmph." Emperor Liang snorted softly through his nose, "If you say that the imperial concubine favors Yongping, you, as an elder brother, will not give up." Obviously he knew that Gu Jingxing was not telling the truth.

Looking at this child who is not surprised by favor or humiliation, Emperor Liang sighed in his heart, there is appreciation, and there is debt... Among so many children, the only one who can't see through is the person in front of him, and he has grown into this worrying person without knowing it. Emperor Liang felt a little complicated about his temperament.

If this is the queen's child, why should he worry...

For a while, neither of them spoke, and the silence spread to every corner of the imperial study, creating a suffocating atmosphere.

"Father?" Gu Jingxing waited and waited, and finally interrupted Emperor Liang's distraction and called out.

Emperor Liang drank tea to cover up the darkness in his eyes, and for a while he seemed to give in resignedly, "Bring Yongping back as soon as possible, the majestic princess of a country... Cough, I, the emperor, can still harm her! "

Upon hearing this, Gu Jingxing secretly glanced at the bearded Emperor Liang, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said at this moment, "Imperial father should know Yongping's intentions?"

"..." Emperor Liang thought of his daughter who had made nine bends and [-] bends, and couldn't help but feel a sense of embarrassment. He immediately said with a serious face, "As a child of the royal family, she was born to be a country, how can she say what she is!"

"Oh." Gu Jingxing lowered his eyes, unable to see his emotions clearly.

"In short, bring people back as soon as possible!"

Gu Jingxing raised his eyebrows, said lightly that the minister took orders and then left, leaving Emperor Liang to ponder his last expression, and after thinking for a long time, a sentence came to his mind for no reason.

Meat buns beat dogs——

(End of this chapter)