Datang all-rounder

Chapter 45

Comrade Li Er paused and said: "Boy of the Wang family, I see that you are talented and knowledgeable, and you have achieved a little bit now, and you have made a lot of contributions to the court. Today, I will make you a man of Jingyang County, with a land of [-] acres, and you will be rewarded with food." One hundred stones, thirty catties each of gold and silver, and fifty bolts of silk."

Wang Ke was taken aback for a moment, thinking that this was for no reason, why did you give me a knighthood again?No matter, thank you first, I also have a thousand acres of land, I am the owner!Busy knelt down to thank you.

As soon as I stood up, Comrade Li Er said again: "My princess Shu, titled Lanling, is 15 years old this year. It is time to get married. Today, I decided to marry Wang Ke as my wife. I will announce it to the world tomorrow morning. Choose an auspicious day to get married."

All the ministers congratulated Wang Si and Wang Ke one after another. Wang Si was so happy that he knelt down to thank Comrade Li Er.Wang Ke was dumbfounded, standing there motionless.

Seeing Wang Ke like this, Wang Si thought the kid was being silly, so he hurriedly pulled Wang Ke, and said in a low voice: "Ke'er, hurry up and kneel down to thank you."

Comrade Li Er also sat there with a smile, waiting for Wang Ke to thank him, and deliberately teased: "You are afraid that Lanling will be young and hurt her body, so you want to help me take care of her, anyway, I don't I will leave it to you." After speaking, he laughed with all the ministers.

Wang Ke was pulled away by Wang Si, and Comrade Li Er's words made him come to his senses.

Wang Ke gritted his teeth, knelt down, and said with a serious face: "The emperor's favor for me, even though I will die, I will never forget it. But the emperor's edict, I absolutely dare not accept it!"

As soon as this remark came out, the ministers turned pale, and Comrade Li Er was furious.

With a gloomy face and cold eyes, he said, "Why, isn't my princess good enough for you?"

Wang Ke twisted his neck and said: "The princess's body is worth a thousand gold, so there is no reason why she is not worthy of the minister. It's just that the minister has his own heart, and I hope the emperor will do it!"

Wang Ke can't take care of so much now, he knows that as long as he says thank you, even if he agrees to the marriage, then he really has no hope in Nanping.

Because Nanping's status is different, if it's just a widow from an ordinary family, it's fine. I don't have any problem marrying in when I want, and I can arrange for myself to be a wife or concubine.But Nanping is a princess, once she and Lanling get married, Nanping will never be able to enter Wang's family.All my previous efforts will be in vain, and Nanping's newly established goodwill for him will disappear in a blink of an eye, blowing away with the wind.

Comrade Li Er held back the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "Today, I want to see whose daughter is better than my majestic princess. Tell me, who is it?"

Seeing that Comrade Li Er was so aggressive, Wang Ke knew that he had murderous intentions. If he couldn't say he was ugly today, he would definitely not be able to get out of this imperial study.Wang Si has never heard Wang Ke talk about this matter, and now that this matter suddenly arises, he is also very anxious. From ancient times to the present, he has never seen anyone who dared to resist the order not to marry the princess.

Qiaoqiao stepped forward and said to Wang Ke in a low voice: "Ke'er, the emperor thinks highly of you, so he married the princess. Hurry up and agree, who do you like, after the princess gets married, won't it be the same for you to marry as a concubine?"

Wang Ke said with a wry smile: "Father, this person cannot be a concubine, he must be a regular wife. That's why the child would rather die than obey the imperial edict."

When Comrade Li Er saw the two father and son talking in a low voice, he felt angry. He clapped his hands hard on the imperial case and said loudly, "Wang family boy, tell me who it is!" After speaking, he said to Wang Si: "Wang Qing, just stand there Step aside, I want to see who it is who can make your kid not even marry the princess."

Wang Si had no choice but to stand aside and look at Wang Ke anxiously.

Wang Ke looked at Wang Si, then turned to look at Comrade Li Er and said, "Your Majesty, to be honest, when I returned to Datang, when I saw this woman for the first time, I made up my mind to marry her. Because of her special status, I didn't even dare to tell my father and mother, I just want to wait for the time to invite the two elders to propose marriage."

"Special status?" Comrade Li Er was startled by Wang Ke's words.

In terms of special status, for these officials and officials, there are only two kinds of people, one is the royal princess; the other is the brothel girl.

But he doesn't even marry the princess, could it be a brothel girl?But it is very simple for a brothel girl to marry back home, just spend money to redeem her body and buy it back, and there is no need to make any protests not to marry the princess!

Comrade Li Er was really confused by Wang Ke, and he forgot to be angry, and asked: "What is your identity, so special?" He said and looked at Wang Si.

Wang Si was also very puzzled. During the time his son came back, he had never heard of visiting a brothel, and he only spent most of his time with Li Ke when he went out to play.The women I saw were also relatives of the emperor, and there was no one else. Seeing Comrade Li Er looking at him, he quickly shook his head to express that he really didn't know.

Wang Ke said so much, but he never mentioned Nanping. In fact, he didn't know what the consequences would be after mentioning Nanping.He knew that in the Tang Dynasty, especially the early Tang Dynasty, it was still very civilized, and it didn't pay as much attention to women's remarriage as it did in the later Song Dynasty.Several of Comrade Li Er's daughters remarried after her husband's death, but Comrade Li Er made the decision. Now that he has spoken out about this matter, he is really afraid that it will be harmful to Nanping if he speaks out.

Just when Wang Ke was in a dilemma, Fang Xuanling and Wang Si whispered a few words, then Fang Xuanling walked up to Comrade Li Er and whispered something in Comrade Li Er's ear.

After hearing this, Comrade Li Er said, "Boy of the Wang family, what I said today will not change. I will give you two days to think it over. You'd better come up with a perfect plan, otherwise I will kill people. "After speaking, he walked away.

The ministers did not expect such an ending in the end, and they didn't know what to say. Seeing that Comrade Li Er had left, they all stood up quickly and walked out, leaving this place one after another.

Wang Si pulled up Wang Ke who was still kneeling on the ground, sighed and walked outside.

Wang Ke drove home in a daze, and when he got out of the car, Wang Si dragged him into the study.When the people in the mansion saw the master and the young master coming back, their faces were ugly, and they didn't even dare to bring tea.Seeing this, Mrs. Wang asked Wang Ke's two aunts and Dongyue to go back to her room first, and brought tea into the study in person.

In the study, Wang Ke was sitting there with his head drooped, and Wang Si was walking back and forth in front of him with his hands behind his back, neither of them spoke.

Mrs. Wang put down her tea, stopped Wang Si who was walking around and asked, "Master, what happened? Can you tell my concubine?"

Wang Si sighed and told her what had happened briefly, and Mrs. Wang was filled with sorrow and joy.The happy thing is that the emperor actually promoted Wang Ke to marry the princess to him; the sad thing is that Wang Ke, a brat, dared to resist the order and not marry the princess.

Wang Si walked for a while, finally stopped, stared at Wang Ke and asked, "Ke'er, you are at home now, you can tell your father and mother, who is that woman?"

Wang Ke knew that sooner or later he had to speak out, and now that he said it at home, he could still let Wang Si and Mrs. Wang calculate for himself.So he said: "I haven't mentioned this matter to my father and mother all this time, just because I think it's not too late, so don't blame me for seeing my father and mother here!"

Wang Si couldn't help getting a little angry: "Just tell me, who is this person. Things have come to this point, now what can you do if you blame me! The key is how the emperor should explain it."

Only then did Wang Ke realize that it was useless to say anything now, and it was the right way to simply speak out at this time.

He raised his head and said, "The girl my son likes is Princess Nanping."

"Princess Nanping!" Both Wang Si and his wife exclaimed.

They never expected that their son resisted the decree for a long time and almost couldn't get out of the imperial study room, so it turned out that he wanted to marry the emperor's other daughter.

Wang Si also suddenly understood the meaning of what Wang Ke said in the imperial study about his special status.

Now Wang Si also felt a little tricky. Comrade Li Er said very well that he must marry Lan Ling to Wang Ke.The emperor's golden words will never be changed. In this way, Nanping will not have the opportunity to marry into the Wang family (Wang Si never considered Nanping's widow status at all. In that era, it was normal for widows to remarry), Because the royal family will not agree to two princesses marrying the same person from the same family at the same time.

But now it seems that Wang Ke will not agree if he does not marry Nanping.This is really a dilemma.The only good thing is that this time Wang Ke's head won't fall off, after all, both sides are princesses, Comrade Li Er won't favor one another and chop off Wang Ke's head.

Wang Si was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do, Wang Ke suddenly asked: "Father, what did Mr. Fang tell you just now in the imperial study?"

"Oh, Mr. Fang asked my father, who do you usually go closest to and associate with. As a father, you are best with the third highness in normal times, and you are only with your highness, the princess, and the son-in-law at ordinary times. Tell him about the play."

Seeing that Wang Ke suddenly asked about this matter, Wang Si hurriedly said what he and Fang Xuanling had said.Then he asked, "Why, what's the problem with this?"

Wang Ke shook his head and said: "It's okay, I'm thinking about what Mr. Fang will say to the emperor after talking with my father, the emperor didn't kill my head right away, but I want my son to think about it."

After speaking, he stood up and wandered around in the study.Wang Si's father looked at Wang Ke.I didn't know what he thought of, and I didn't know how to ask him, so I just sat on the chair and looked at Wang Ke who was turning around without saying a word.

Suddenly Wang Ke stopped, turned around and said loudly: "I understand, now it's up to the emperor to do. Haha, this is the emperor's embarrassment."

Looking at the dancing Wang Ke, Wang Si asked curiously: "Ke'er, tell me what's going on, why do you want to see the emperor now?"

Wang Ke beamed and said: "Master Fang must have told the emperor after talking with Dad, let the boy go today, and spend two days to ask who are the people who associate with the boy, and find out from these people Who is this woman whom the child falls in love with?"

Wang Ke grabbed the teacup on the table, drank it all in one gulp, put it down, and continued, "Among these people, the best friends with children are the Third Highness Ke and Cheng Huailiang, the son-in-law of the Cheng family. The Third Highness knows about me, so she must not dare to hide it in front of the emperor. Haha, they are all princesses, what do I think the emperor will do? It's not that I won't marry the princess now, but that the emperor is marrying someone who is not human."

Hearing Wang Ke's analysis, Wang Si couldn't help laughing, but said worriedly after laughing: "But today the emperor said in front of so many ministers that he would marry Princess Lanling to you, and in the end he would marry Princess Lanling. It is so resolute that it will never change, what should I do with such golden words?"

Wang Ke was reminded by this, and his mood sank after just getting better.

After a long time, he said with a gloomy expression: "Look, I think the Third Highness will come to our house tomorrow night. Then we can ask the Third Highness what the situation is before making plans. If it is still like this, the child can only fight The risk of being beheaded has to be resisted. I can't be sorry for Princess Nanping!"

(End of this chapter)