The lake water is light, and the pink lotus and the jade stand. The surface of the water seems to be covered with layers of golden fish scales, and the lake surface is wrinkled and waveless by the breeze, and it is full of sparkling waves.
"Princess, my servant, I beg you to come down. If you drop the servant's head, you won't be able to keep it." Aunt Xinfen was sweating profusely while standing under the tree. On her left was a row of people kneeling on the ground and kowtowing. The eunuch, on the right is a group of palace maids with their hands raised.
The maids were slender, and they stared at the man on the tree. The man moved a little, and the maids hurriedly moved towards her.
The eunuchs bowed their heads and cried, "Your Highness Princess, the servants are begging you."
"Shh, don't make a fuss," Meng Eqi hugged the tree trunk and crawled forward, "I want you to look good when I scared away my snow ball!"
Xue Tuan is her cat, with snow-white eyes hiding a whole empty blue, Meng Eqi loves it very much. The only fly in the ointment is that this cat is extremely fat and fat, and her favorite is to climb trees on weekdays.
As soon as it climbed a tree, it was too frightened to go down. People are often asked to hold it down, but it is not allowed to hold it by anyone other than Meng Eqi. It can be a very willful cat.
At this moment, the snow group shrank tremblingly among the layers of leaves, and its chubby figure looked delicate and pitiful to Meng Eqi.
"Fat cat, see if you dare to climb trees in the future!" Meng Qi sighed and arched her body forward again. The maid below was so frightened that she hurriedly followed her.
Meng Qiqi is the darling of today's sages, and the flesh in his heart is not enough, he has to be the most precious piece.
Even if she is not the emperor's biological son, according to her seniority, Meng Qiqi should call the emperor uncle.
When Meng Qiqi's biological mother, Princess Chunxian, was still alive, their mother died early, and the long princess alone protected the current emperor all the way to the throne. At that time, the eldest princess had suffered all kinds of hardships for her younger brother. When Meng Eqi was born, the eldest princess had a difficult childbirth, so she passed away like this.
Her father treated the eldest princess with great affection, and left a letter for Meng Qiqi to read again in the future. After that, he also hanged himself and went to Huangquan to follow the eldest princess.
On the day when the emperor lost his sister, he passed out crying in the early morning, and when he woke up, he wrote a eulogy to express his condolences. After that, he loved Meng Eqi as his own daughter, but the princesses born by him in the palace were not even half as favored as Meng Eqi.
The emperor was afraid that she would be wronged in Meng Mansion, and often brought Meng Eqi to live in the palace.
Later, he simply built a building for Meng Qiqi near the water in the palace, with dark blue walls, red doors and golden tops. The interior is gorgeous, the inner walls are piled with jade bi, the ground is covered with gold foil, and even Meng Qiqi's inner room is full of rhino horns, ivory, pearls and gems of various colors that the Northern Yan Kingdom paid tribute. Even if the lights are not lit at night, the eyes will be dazzled by the pearls and treasures that reflect each other. A total of 631 blue gems are set on the flower board, and a night pearl is placed in each corner of the palace, a total of nine. The project took a full year to complete. The emperor personally named the residence 'He Manman', so that Meng Qiqi would see the brilliance reflected from the gemstones when she slept at night, thinking that she was in the Milky Way and was in the company of the stars.
As soon as this special favor came out, everyone in the world knew that the emperor had a very favored princess with a foreign surname, named Meng Qiqi and numbered Laiyi.
The princess of Laiyi, Meng Eqi, ran rampant in the palace, and no one dared to stop her.
Now Meng Eqi has the protection of her grandmother at home and the support of the emperor's uncle outside. She is indescribably precious in the capital, and her twelve years of life can be well-deserved golden branches and jade leaves.
"Meng Laiyi—" A crunchy female voice sounded under the tree. A girl of about twelve in the first grade approached with a fan. She was wearing a skirt sewn with clusters of begonias, with a hairpin full of golden hairpins and jasper. Delicate demeanor.
She approached the tree and looked up at Meng Eqi, who was lying on the tree, and sneered, "You are climbing the tree again. Tangtang is jumping up and down all day for the princess, and I don't know how to behave."
Meng Qiqi sat on the branch and waved to her: "Cui, it's you!"
The face of the woman standing under the tree suddenly turned red, and she stomped her feet angrily: "I've changed my name now, I'm not called Xie Cui anymore, please call my title Yongning!"
Princess Yongning Xie Cui, oh no, now she has changed her name to Xie Yaohua. Xie Yaohua was the only princess in the entire harem who dared to oppose Meng Qiqi, besides the emperor. She was born by the current queen, and her status was equally noble.
In the past, when Meng Eqi saw her, the two would fight against each other, and Xie Yaohua was often the loser. But today Xie Yaohua is obviously prepared.
She raised her head and proudly said to Meng Qiqi: "Well, you should sit here for a while, lest you marry Beiyan and never see this scene again."
Meng Qiqi didn't even look at her: "I won't marry far away, you are my uncle's biological daughter, and if I want to marry, I will marry you!"
Xie Yaohua shook his fan and chuckled: "But Beiyan's envoys are meeting with the royal father in the imperial study at this time. They named Princess Laiyi who wanted to marry the Chu country, and you are the only princess who came down. Is it me who can't?"
what! ? Uncle wants to take him to kiss? !
Meng Qiqi couldn't sit still on the tree. She had lived a smooth life since she was born in the state of Chu, and anyone who saw her would have to smile. It made her sometimes wonder if Yue Lao and the others forgot to make a stumbling block for her. If she really kissed her this time, she could even think of what a miserable life she would have in a foreign country in the future.
And more importantly, she hasn't found Sheng Jiayan yet!
That's right, Sheng Jiayan has not appeared since she was born twelve years ago. The only person surnamed Sheng beside him was an old friend of his father. The old friend was a general, stationed at the border and had a son.
But his son's name is Sheng Shitou, not Sheng Jiayan.
What's more, Meng Qiqi had seen this stone, and he grew fat and fat at his age, and he often made himself disgraced, which could not be linked to Sheng Jiayan.
Meng Eqi was afraid that Yue Lao would set a hurdle for him, so he slid down the tree quickly, and made the group of palace maids scream in shock. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she carried her skirt and ran to the imperial study without looking back, followed by a group of exclaimed eunuchs and palace maids.
After she left, Xie Yaohua laughed smugly, then she pondered a few times and said, "No, wouldn't it be boring if Meng Qiqi married out of the palace? Let's go and see!"
In the imperial study room, Emperor Chu Xie Chongming was chatting and laughing with the envoy from Beiyan, and in his words, Emperor Chu joked: "Laiyi is naughty, if there is a chance in the future, let her go to Beiyan to live for a while, If she really likes it, it's not impossible."
Meng Qiqi heard it from outside the door, pushed aside all the servants who were blocking her, and rushed in.
"No!" she shouted: "Uncle, I don't want to marry out!"
Xie Chongming didn't expect her to rush in suddenly, so he pretended to be angry and said, "Nonsense, who asked you to break in, my uncle is discussing political affairs, get out!"
After he finished, a palace servant came to pull Meng Qiqi.
Meng Eqi took out the knife in her waist in a flash. She thought about whether to threaten her own life. After thinking about it, she was afraid that she would accidentally scratch herself when so many people rushed over, so she pulled it over. The hand of the Beiyan envoy closest to her held the dagger against the pulse of his wrist.
"Don't touch me, or I'll let his blood splatter on the spot!"
She was not tall enough to smear the envoy's neck with a dagger, so she had to hold his big hands and said viciously.
Who knew that Xie Chongming could not laugh or cry because of her actions. He said in a good voice, "You are also twelve years old, and it is not too early to start seeing your husband's family at this time. What's wrong with Beiyan's young and talented son? "
Meng Eqi snorted coldly: "Laiyi has a high vision and is unwilling to marry far away. I have a lot of talents in Chu, why come to Yi to pick my husband and my husband to another country! Does my uncle want to use me as something to stabilize the diplomatic relations between the two countries? Let's make a deal, if I'm just an item that my uncle used to win over others, what's the difference between the pair of Warring States luminous cups that my uncle gave me at the wedding ceremony of my eldest sister!"
Meng Eqi was considered a broken jar, and she was afraid that Emperor Chu would nod her head and marry her out.
If that time comes, where should she find Sheng Jiayan!
Xie Chongming's face turned pale, and the Beiyan envoy was still present. Meng Qiqi dared to come out in such a dignified manner. The majesty of the emperor is the most inviolable. He only listened to him sternly: "You bastard, how dare you be presumptuous with me! You are an emperor. People in the family, food, clothing and expenses are all the fat of the people. When the people worship the royal family, they want the royal family to be responsible to the country and to them. If you can get a good prince and attract talents for the country, then the thousands of people will not be able to support you in vain. A few years! Even if you don't want to, you should encourage it. If you only care about your own wishes, what's the use of the people's support for you?"
It was the first time that Meng Qiqi saw him so angry. Knowing that she had succeeded in angering Emperor Chu, she quickly took out her trump card, and while wiping her tears, she cried and scolded, "Who asked for their support, I didn't take the initiative to ask them for support. , and don't be someone who protects them. Laiyi is a woman, so don't protect the people in Laiyi!"
After all, she threw the dagger to the ground angrily, and ran out crying.
Although Xie Chongming was angry, his love for Meng Qiqi had already overshadowed his anger. He hurriedly asked the palace servants to chase after him: "Follow me quickly, if anything happens to Laiyi, your heads will be unnecessary!"
The Beiyan envoy shivered as he listened to it, and he began to wonder if he had heard the incredible family affairs of Emperor Chu.
Sure enough, Xie Chongming looked back at him with a rather gloomy look, and then pretended to be kind: "I made the envoy laugh, and I have come here a long time ago. I have a bad personality. You go down with the palace servants to rest first, and the marriage will come later."
The envoy was amnesty, and quickly thanked him again and again and left.
This Princess Laiyi was as rumored as she had been told. She was beautiful but had no education at all. It seemed that she must not let the prince marry such a woman back.