Ling Lanyu bit her lip, but did not make a sound.
Princess Mingyue quickly opened her mouth again: "I think this may not be a good thing."
"A good thing?" Yun Shang glanced at Gong Sijia with a smile that was not a smile: "Wangfei, tell me, how did this become a good thing."
Gong Sijia's face was calm, without the slightest sign of panic: "Your Majesty sent us here this time to express our Youyue Kingdom's friendship with Xia Kingdom, and hope to make friends with Xia Kingdom."
"It's just a state-to-state relationship, relying on verbal promises alone, naturally there is no restriction. If the diplomatic relationship can be established through the method of peace, it will naturally be... the best."
After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but look at Yun Shang's face.
This time, he completely exposed his fox tail.
Yun Chang smiled, with a casual look on his face, but he seemed completely lifeless.
"Marrying? It's really a good idea." Yun Chang raised her eyelids: "The princess said, what kind of marriage is this marriage? What does the princess mean, marrying the princess to our country of Xia? I don't know, the princess thinks, Who is the best princess to get married to from Xia Kingdom?"
For some reason, Gong Sijia always felt a little embarrassed when she heard Yun Shang's question: "Since ancient times, most of the marriages are between princesses and emperors."
"Oh..." Yunshang dragged out the ending: "So, Youyue Kingdom wants the eighth princess to enter our Xia Kingdom's harem."
Gong Sijia nodded: "Under such circumstances, this is the best way. It can not only stop the people talking, but also take this opportunity to lay the foundation for the friendship between our two countries. Empress, what do you think? "
"Ben Gong?" Yun Shang laughed: "Ben Gong naturally feels bad."
Gong Sijia's eyes widened, as if she couldn't believe it: "The empress thinks it's not good? Why? Could it be that the empress has a better solution?"
Gong Sijia didn't wait for Yunshang to reply, and then continued: "Once those rumors spread yesterday, His Majesty's reputation will definitely be affected. Even if His Majesty and Empress want to clarify, I'm afraid they won't be able to. On the contrary Why don't you just admit this matter and take Lan Yu into the palace, when the time comes, the people outside may even praise His Majesty, saying that His Majesty is so brave."
Yun Chang laughed: "Just now, the concubine asked me why she felt bad, but I can answer your question..."
"There are three reasons. First, the princess and her party came all the way from Lucheng Yunzhou. They must have heard a lot of rumors about your majesty and this palace along the way, right? This palace is jealous and doesn't allow your majesty to accept concubines."
Gong Sijia suddenly raised her head, her eyes were full of disbelief, she had never seen a woman who would talk about her jealousy all day long.
It seems that being jealous is not a shortcoming, but rather an advantage.
"Secondly, just now, the eighth princess of your country said that the person who accompanied her to watch the Lantern Festival last night was a guard beside her?"
"My palace sent someone to ask. The stall owner by the lake said that the princess and that man were holding hands at that time, and that man was assassinated while buying lanterns for the princess."
"Go to the lantern festival together, hold hands, and buy lanterns for the princess? This is not what a guard should do."
"Look at this palace, the princess and that man are more like a pair of little mandarin ducks. Since the princess and the guard are in love, then naturally this palace and His Majesty cannot separate such a lover..."
After Yun Shang finished speaking, she didn't look at the wonderful faces of those people, she just picked up the teacup and drank it slowly, then put the teacup down slowly.
On the contrary, Gong Sijia couldn't wait any longer: "Then the lady said, what about the third one?"
She had to listen to all three of Yunshang's reasons before she could refute.
Letting Yunshang say a few more words can also give her more time to organize her words.
Yun Shang didn't know what Gong Sijia's plan was, but she didn't try to keep her secret, she just smiled and said: "The third thing, did I say before that I don't believe that the person who is with the princess is His Majesty, because, His Majesty was with the palace at that time."
"Although Wangfei didn't ask me where I was and His Majesty were and what they were doing at that time, I can tell you all directly."
"At that time, Your Majesty and this Palace were at the edge of Mingyue Lake, probably less than 100 meters away from the Eighth Princess and the guard who the Eighth Princess said looked similar to Your Majesty. At that time, Your Majesty was guessing lantern riddles. Win a river lantern for this palace."
As soon as Yun Shang said this, the expressions of the four people kneeling in the hall suddenly changed.
They have thought about countless possibilities, but they have never thought about this one.
Ling Lanyu bit her lip and muttered to herself: "Impossible..."
The smile on Yun Shang's face deepened a bit: "I and Your Majesty witnessed everything that happened at that time, and it was very exciting."
The minds of the four people kneeling in the hall were all blank, and they were silent for a long time, as if they were so shocked by Yun Shang's words that they lost their words.
Yun Shang still said with a smile: "The princess and the guard are afraid that after confirming that the rumors have spread, they are afraid that they will disappear in the post for too long and attract suspicion, so they left?"
"The princess left too early. I didn't know that after discovering those rumors, my palace and His Majesty sent people back to the palace and asked someone to bring a guard of honor to pick us up outside the palace. All the people in Jincheng saw with their own eyes that I went up to the palace together with His Majesty, and returned to the palace together. They also knew that His Majesty was not assassinated, and they even went to guess the lantern riddles and won me a Lantern King."
Yun Shang pointed to the river lantern on the side: "Look, that is the river lantern that His Majesty won for the palace last night, is it beautiful?"
"The rumors and gossips between His Majesty and the Princess that I mentioned before do exist, but today there are very few of them. Instead, there are rumors about the deep love between His Majesty and the Empress. Besides, there is another rumor..."
Yun Chang glanced over the faces of the pale faces, with a bit of indifference: "But the rumors may not make you so happy."
Several people just knelt down and did not respond to Yun Chang's words.
Yun Shang sighed faintly: "The rumors were also about the princess, and they were talking about what happened last night."
"Rumors and rumors say that the princess came to Jincheng and fell in love with a commoner in our Xia Kingdom. Only that commoner's appearance resembles His Majesty by three points, so she was mistaken."
"Rumors also say that the princess and that young master agree in love and have promised each other for life, so they went to the Lantern Festival with that young master last night."
Yun Shang hooked the corners of her mouth: "This rumor is spreading in the city today. As the princess said, if you want to clarify, I'm afraid you can't."
"I think it's for the sake of the princess's reputation. The princess is not as good as... just marry?"