My family's handicrafts are all alive!

However, this matter spread quickly in the capital, and the fact that Prince Shizhu used fake goods to propose marriage soon became a joke among the people.

Immediately, there was an impeachment report, saying that the prince was hypocritical, hypocritical, and using all false and despicable methods. He was really not suitable to be the future prince of a country, and asked the emperor to abolish the position of prince.

Some people even put all the credit for the previous disaster relief on the right minister who has resigned. Although this is basically true, no one has pointed it out before.

Although Prince Shizhu had been overwhelmed by the stars for a period of time, he immediately realized that it was his brothers who were ready to do something.

Dang even stopped paying attention to Kaguya Ji's situation, and tried his best to maintain his position as the crown prince.

Naturally, the prince will not be abolished. The prince has just stood up, so how could he be abolished now? Wouldn't that be hitting the emperor himself in the face!

But this incident still left the impression that the prince was unreliable in the emperor's heart.

Besides, Fujiwara didn't wait there, he didn't even react to Prince Shizhu's sudden action.

He was also worried that Prince Shizhu would succeed. After all, Prince Shizhu's reputation is so high now, if it was him, he would definitely not choose to offend Prince Shizhu.

If Kaguya Ji agrees to Prince Shizhu's marriage proposal, then his preparations will be over.

Fortunately, Kaguya Ji only recognizes treasures but not people, and Prince Shizhu has such a big face, but she was also driven out of the house mercilessly.

This incident gave Fujiwara Bubiwai a warning, never use fake products to deceive Kaguya Hime.

Among the five people who proposed marriage, he is the only one who has not acted yet. He just needs to wait for his daughter's fairy master to send the real Penglai jade branch, and he will win the final victory.

But did things really go as smoothly as he imagined?

After Prince Shizhu returned to the capital from Mount Huiye in Penglai, he was immediately attacked by his political enemies. Although he still had an advantage in the court, his reputation among the people quickly rotted, and everyone said he was a brazen person .

Persisting until the winter season, Prince Shizhu finally could no longer bear the wind direction of the people, and decided to attract the attention of the people elsewhere.

Then, a news came from the palace that Taketori Ong's family had a daughter who was known as the most beautiful woman in the world, named Kaguya Ji. The emperor wondered if Kaguya Ji was really as rumored.

Soon there was an imperial decree: Chuanzhutori Weng and Huiye Ji entered the palace to face the saint.

Sure enough, after the news spread, the attention of the people quickly shifted to the emperor.

The emperor wants to see Kaguya Ji, doesn't it mean that the always mysterious Kaguya Ji is finally going to show her appearance?

Prince Shi Zhu had this idea.

He hadn't even met Kaguya Hime before, so he just took this opportunity to meet her.

As for marrying Kaguya Ji as his wife, he no longer has this idea. The daughters of the princes and nobles in the capital are not bad, and they will not disobey him. He can do whatever he wants, no more fragrant than Kaguya Ji up.

After Fujiwara Bubi waited to hear the news, he immediately fidgeted.

He naturally had confidence in Kaguya's beauty. If Kaguya was attracted by the emperor when he entered the palace this time and wanted to accept Kaguya into the harem, how could he marry Kaguya?

Do you rely on the agreement between yourself and Kaguya Hime?The emperor doesn't recognize Penglai jade branches.

After thinking about it, Fujiwara thinks that he has only one way to go, and that is to settle the marriage with Kaguya Ji before Kaguya Ji enters the capital.

At that time, even the emperor will not have the face to compete with his courtiers for his wife.

Although it is not uncommon for emperors to rob courtiers, wives and daughters, they have basically left a bad reputation in history. Today's emperor is not someone who abandons his posthumous reputation for women.

So, Fujiwara Bubiwai, who "went out to find the fairy mountain", returned home and claimed to have found the legendary Penglai jade branch.

After a night's rest, he set off to meet Kaguya Hime the next day.

Chapter 357 Almost Became Fujiwara Meihong's Stepmother

Ever since Prince Shizhu was rejected by Penglai Shanhuiye, he asked his cronies to investigate the only Fujiwara Bubiwai who still had a chance to propose to Penglaishan Huiye.

As a result, this investigation found out the place where Fujiwara Bubi and others forged the Penglai jade branch. From the craftsman who made the Penglai jade branch, Prince Carnation learned that there was no difference between the fake Penglai jade branch and the real one.

When he thought that among the five people who went to propose to Kaguya Ji together, Fujiwara could have the last laugh instead of waiting, he felt very unhappy, so he urged the current emperor to recruit Kaguya Ji into the palace.

He would rather Kaguya Hime be brought into the harem by his father than Kaguya Hime be married off by Fujiwara Bubi et al.

If he enters the imperial palace, when he becomes the emperor, he may still have a chance to kiss Fangze.

Although it would be embarrassing to spread it out, this kind of thing has long been common among the royal family, and its influence is probably not as good as when he was kicked out of the house by Kaguya Ji.

After the emperor issued an order, Prince Shizhu immediately sent someone to send several craftsmen who made Penglai jade branches to the village where Zhutori Weng lived.

Fujiwara didn't wait to make an agreement with these people, and would only pay after the proposal was successful, so these people have been busy for a long time for the fake Penglai jade branch, but now they haven't received a penny.

Prince Shizhu asked these craftsmen to stay in the village, wait for Fujiwara Bubiwai to come to propose marriage, and then come forward to expose him, then Fujiwara Bubiwai will be ruined.

On Xu Cheng's side, he discovered very early on that there were a few strangers living in the village. He had also lived in this place for more than a year, and he basically recognized every household. These few foreigners who suddenly appeared People immediately caught his attention.

After listening to the corners several times, Xu Cheng learned the identities of these people and what they were going to do.

Xu Cheng originally planned to ask Kaguya Ji to compare the real Penglai jade branch with the fake Penglai jade branch made by Fujiwara Bubi and others to find out the defects of the fake Penglai jade branch, thus rejecting Fujiwara Bubi and others.

Well now, the ready helper lives in the village and he doesn't have to do anything.

One day, Penglai Shan Huiye took medicine for his adoptive mother. The old man is old and has poor health. It is estimated that this winter will be difficult.

Fortunately, Xu Fu was here, prescribed a few medicines, and her condition was stabilized. Penglai Shan Huiye just took the opportunity to do her filial piety. After all, these two old people were the ones who raised her.

After the adoptive mother drank the medicine, she fell asleep. At this moment, Fujiwara's unbearable voice came from outside the room.

Penglai Shanhuiye hurried back to his room, and let Taketori Ong go to meet him.

Fujiwara didn't wait until he saw Taketori Ong, and immediately took out the box containing the Horai jade branch, and said, "I almost lost my life, and finally got this jade branch. Please show it to Kaguya Hime quickly."

Xu Cheng and Penglai Shanhuiye opened the box, and saw that there was also a poem attached to it: "After a long march of thousands of miles, I will never return without breaking the jade branch."

When Xu Cheng saw it, he complained: "Do people of your age like to write poems? If you don't write poems, you can't speak?"

Penglai Shan Huiye compared the real Penglai jade branch with this fake Penglai jade branch, not only did not find the difference, but heard Xu Cheng's sarcastic remarks, he angrily threw the fake Penglai jade branch into Xu Cheng's arms.

"Look at the difference between this thing and the real one."

Unexpectedly, Xu Cheng said without looking at it: "The craftsmen who made the fake Penglai jade branches are so skilled that there is no difference between the fake and the real one."

"Then what to do! Could it be that you really want me to marry Fujiwara!"

When Fujiwara Meihong heard this familiar name, she couldn't help but recall the figure named father.

Now that her father wants to marry her best friend, she is unwilling in her heart, but her identity makes it difficult for her to speak.

Xu Fu said with a smile: "Then you will marry someone else, Meihong will change her name to call you mother in the future."

Everyone could tell that she was joking when she said this, but Fujiwara Meihong, who had complicated thoughts, took it seriously, shook her head immediately, faltered, and took a long time to express a completed sentence.

The general idea is that he does not want Penglai Shanhuiye to marry his father, and hopes that Xu Cheng can help him find a way.

Xu Cheng looked at Fujiwara Meihong, who was mixed with the feudal ethics and rationality of this era, and no longer did nothing, and asked Taketori to ask Fujiwara Bubiwai about the detailed process of finding Penglai Yuzhi.

The purpose is naturally to delay time, and when the craftsmen who ask for payment arrive, everything will be solved.

Although Penglai Shanhuiye and the others didn't know Xu Cheng's specific plan, they still chose to believe in Xu Cheng's arrangement.

Taketori Weng couldn't wait to see Fujiwara again, and asked, "Where did this tree grow? It's extremely precious and beautiful!"

Fujiwara replied: "Listen to me, this summer, I set off from Namba Port by boat. At first I didn't know where the fairy mountain was, so I let the ship drift with the wind. If fate came, I would naturally see the fairy mountain. "

"The ship drifted for a long time, and finally left our country. Sometimes the wind and waves are so strong that it seems to sink the ship into the bottom of the sea. Sometimes it is blown to an inexplicable land by the wind, and some ghosts come out of it, and I am almost killed by them. Sometimes I lose I became a lost person in the sea. Sometimes the food ran out, and I ate the grass roots. Sometimes I fell ill and had no one to ask for help, so I had to resign myself to fate."

"After drifting like this for a hundred days, at the time of the hundredth day, I suddenly saw a mountain floating on the sea in the distance. A woman dressed as a fairy came down from the mountain and used a silver bowl to fetch water. From the mouth of the woman Knowing that this is Mount Penglai, the woman's name is Baoqian Liuli, and she flew back to the mountain after answering our questions."

"Let's talk about that mountain, which is very steep and almost impossible to climb. On the way I climbed the mountain, I saw many exotic flowers and plants, which were not found in the world. After I found the Penglai jade branch, I didn't want to stay for a long time. I hurried back by boat. I just arrived home yesterday. , came here directly today.”

After listening to it, Taketori Ong casually praised Fujiwara Bubiwai, and Fujiwara Bubiwai was secretly thankful, thinking that his plan had been successfully completed.

But suddenly six men came into Huiye Ji's yard.One of them was holding a stick with a note hanging from it with the text of the petition.

He said: "The craftsman leader of the Craftsmanship Institute Hanbu Neimalu said: We and the six people have been working hard to make jade branches. We have been exhausted for more than a hundred days, but we have not received a single penny. Please pay immediately. for distribution."

Taketori Weng was taken aback and asked, "What did these craftsmen say?"

Fujiwara couldn't wait for Zhou Zhang to be embarrassed, and was speechless.

For the first time, Fujiwara Meihong hated her father from the bottom of her heart when she saw her father in distress.

If her father wanted to marry Mount Kaguya Horai just because she didn't know which side to take, now her father's unscrupulous deceitful marriage has completely aroused the anger in Fujiwara Meihong's heart.

Chapter 358 News from the Phoenix

Unlike Fujiwara Meihong, Horai Shankaguya was surprised and delighted by this sudden turning point.

Penglai Shan Huiye blinked her beautiful eyes and asked, "You did this?"

With his hands on his hips, Xu Cheng said proudly, "Of course not."

Penglai Shan Huiye said unhappily: "It's not because of your air."

Immediately ignore Xu Cheng and let Taketori take the petition from the leading craftsman into the house.

I saw that the petition read: "The prince lived in seclusion with us humble craftsmen. For more than a hundred days, he ordered us to make exquisite jade branches. At that time, he was favorably promised: on the day of success, not only will the reward be abundant, but also Confer the official title. We think about it, this is what the prince's wife, Kaguya Hime, needs, and we should receive the reward from here, and please give it today."

Penglai Shan Huiye's frowning expression just now changed into a smile, and he wrote a poem: "Fantasy words are really shameless, who do you want to deceive by forging jade branches?"

Then he asked Taketori to return the fake Penglai jade branches and poems to Fujiwara Bubiwai, and asked Taketori to drive him away.

Fujiwara turned on the red temperature mode when the temperature was a little worse than waiting for him. After reading the poems written by Horai Shan Kaguya, his cheeks immediately turned red.

Holding a fake Penglai jade branch in his hand, he wished he could smash it into pieces, but in front of Taketori Weng, it was not easy to get angry, so he had to take a team of people who came to make an appointment in full view, and took the bamboo torch in a desperate manner. Weng's family left.

Penglai Shanhuiye left those craftsmen just now, and ordered Zhutori to give them a lot of money.

The six people were very happy, took the money and left the village.

However, after Fujiwara left the village, the more he thought about the appearance of those craftsmen, the more angry he became. The fake Penglai jade branch in his hand had already been thrown on the stone by him and smashed to pieces, but the anger in his heart could not be dispelled.

So, instead of waiting for his brain to heat up, Fujiwara did something he would never do normally.

He ordered the retainers who came with him to ambush the six craftsmen by the roadside.

At night, I finally saw the six craftsmen who returned with a full load of money.

Fujiwara's unequaled anger had subsided a little over time, but he heard the conversation among the six craftsmen.

"I listened to Prince Shizhu's arrangement, and I got the reward we deserved."

"That's right, Patriarch Fujiwara, I don't think he intends to pay!"

"Yes, every time I ask him to pay, he refuses!"

……

Hearing these few words, Fujiwara couldn't wait to be furious, and immediately ordered his subordinates to beat up these craftsmen until their heads were bloodied, and their money was also taken away.

The money was robbed, and the six craftsmen had to flee for their lives.

Seeing that the person who caused his failure was beaten to the ground, the anger in Fujiwara's heart gradually dissipated.

When everything was over and the scene became silent, Fujiwara Bubiwai finally calmed down looking at the bloodstains on the ground.

Fujiwara Bubiwai stood there and sighed: "The shame of my life is nothing more than this. Not only can I not get Kaguya Ji, but if this matter spreads, I will be ridiculed by people all over the world."

Fujiwara didn't think so the more he thought about it, it would be better if he didn't take action against these craftsmen, but it's too late now.

If he wanted to keep what happened tonight a secret, he would not only kill all his subordinates, but also find a way to kill those craftsmen.

But those craftsmen belonged to Prince Shizhu, even if he succeeded by chance, with the energy of Prince Shizhu, it would be a matter of time before he found out the truth.

At that time, his reputation may be even worse than the previous few who used fake products.

But if he didn't do anything, those craftsmen would definitely publicize the matter when they returned to the city, and he would still be ruined.

After thinking about it, Fujiwara didn't wait to find out that there was no way for him to retreat!

He is a person who attaches so much importance to his reputation, his reputation is even more terrible than death to him.

He couldn't help but hated Xu Cheng who hadn't returned for a long time, and even hated his own daughter.

But the other party is a fairy, and now he doesn't know where he is, and the hatred that Fujiwara couldn't wait for dissipated after a while.

Fujiwara, who had nowhere to retreat, didn't wait any longer. He said goodbye to his clansman and retainers, and after ordering the team to return to the city, he fled into the deep mountains by himself.

Afterwards, the Fujiwara family sent many retainers to look around, but they still couldn't find Fujiwara Bubiwai, so they thought that Fujiwara Bubiwai was probably dead, but that's another story.

Now, after Fujiwara Bubi waited to leave in a daze, Fujiwara Meihong became restless.

Seeing this, Penglai Shanhuiye apologized and said that he shouldn't have been so mean just now, but Fujiwara Meihong didn't respond.

Xu Cheng knew that she was worried about her father's safety, so she said, "I'll accompany you to see him, no matter what, he is also your father."

Fujiwara Meihong nodded lightly, but her eyes were full of bewilderment, maybe even she herself didn't know how to do well now.