The third princess of Da Siguo acted boldly. On the day of the emperor's birthday banquet, she asked the emperor to give her a marriage in public, but was rejected in the end.
This matter is no longer a secret, it spreads everywhere the next day.
At that time, there were many ministers' wives and concubines in the palace at the banquet. Although one and two don't talk about it, they actually look down on the third princess very much in their hearts.
The birth mother of the three princesses, Concubine Yan, was originally just a dancer, but she was favored by the emperor because of her outstanding looks and kept her close by her side. favorite.
If the third princess loves beauty, the fifth prince is also handsome and handsome, but the rules of the Daye royal family are there, so his status as a prince is a burden instead, and the third princess is not without regrets.
This woman is very shrewd and has a very clear mind. Knowing that the prince of Daye Kingdom will not marry the daughter of another country as his wife, she is afraid that it will be useless for you to go to him. Besides, she actually does not want to leave Dasi to marry another country.
In Dasi, she is a noble princess, aloof, rich and rich, if she marries to Daye to be the concubine of the prince, stay away from her own country, if she is bullied by others and has no one to support her, it seems totally unworthy .
The third princess knew that her father did not dare to offend the Great Ye Dynasty, and wanted to have a closer relationship with them.
Da Siguo lacked military strength, had wealth but no strength to protect it, so it could only bow down to the powerful Da Ye Dynasty and pay generous annual offerings every year in exchange for the other party's protection.
But King Da Si was also worried about what would happen if things went on like this. He was uneasy, especially in the past few years that Yan Kingdom had become stronger and stronger, and it was actually a potential siege for Da Si Kingdom.
The third princess could also inquire about the holy intentions from her mother and concubine, so she naturally wanted to seize this opportunity to share her worries. She knew very well that the reason she could live such a comfortable and comfortable life was because of her father's two points of love That's all, the emperor is her biggest backer, and she cannot lose his father's favor.
Don't think that princesses are born noble, but you don't know how many princesses in the palace are not cared for by the emperor, and they are not favored by the emperor. Their lives are not even comparable to eunuchs and female officials with a little bit of power.
Furthermore, Concubine Yan, the biological mother of the third princess, is gradually passing away, and her appearance will no longer be. One day, she will lose her last bit of favor.
She knew that the emperor hated dull and clumsy people the most, so the third princess had always been lively, cheerful, enthusiastic and generous in front of her father.
King Da Si was afraid that once Daye started to cooperate with Yan State, it would be too late if the two countries joined forces to destroy Da Si State.
So the Emperor Dasi was very happy when people came from the Great Ye Dynasty this time, and he warmly entertained the five princes and the others.
Seeing the young entourage around the fifth prince, he expected them to be courtiers of Daye, so he was very supportive of Sangong's initiative.
It's just a pity that his goal was not achieved in the end.
Instead, Gu Qingci took the opportunity to quarrel with Li Chengze and lost his temper.
Anyway, in the end, he was coaxed by Li Chengze.
The next day, Gu Qingci asked the maid to inquire about the third princess.
In fact, there is no need to inquire too much, the maids in this mansion are originally from the chief ministers, and the princes and princesses of the royal family know some basic information.
No, as soon as Gu Qingci asked a question, the maids told me what they knew.
After hearing this, Gu Qingci didn't take it seriously. The princess's biological mother was of low status, and she didn't have a natal family. She didn't know how to restrain her temper. She was so bold when she came out of the court, and even showed her love to a strange man in public.
I can't even figure out why the Emperor Da Si loves such a princess with a strange temperament.
It doesn't matter if you can't figure out what the chief minister thinks, Gu Qingci just wants to take care of her husband.
So she said with a little worry: "Sir, why don't we go out for a few days? To avoid meeting that third princess again, it's very annoying."
Li Cheng was surprised for a while, and said: "You still avoid people? My husband thought that officials are not afraid of everything."
Gu Qingci curled her lips and said, "I'm not worried about my husband, who made him fall in love with others."
Li Cheng was amused, stretched out his hand to pinch Gu Qingci's face, raised his eyebrows: "The more you grow up, the more you will talk back?"
Gu Qingci pretended not to hear, pinching the handkerchief and looking around, looking busy.
Then I heard Li Chengze say with a slow laugh: "I'm going back in two days. What are you avoiding? Besides, they don't dare to do anything. The Emperor Da Si treats the Fifth Prince very politely, so how dare he offend him?"
Gu Qingci said in her heart that the third princess didn't have any good intentions. She knew Li Chengze's identity, so why didn't she know that she was his wife? Maybe it was because she felt that as long as Li Chengze liked her, she was not important at all. Make way for her, the princess!
Just thinking about Gu Qingci makes her very angry. If she were to run into that princess again, she might rush up and slap her.
It's too shameless to hook up with someone else's husband-in-law.
Sure enough, Gu Qingci didn't ask Li Chengze to go out with her today, so he stayed in the other courtyard, pestering him to teach her how to write.
Li Cheng couldn't see that she had committed a crime at her daughter's house and got tired of him.
So I let her teach her like a child who is learning calligraphy, supporting her hand in hand, stroke by stroke, stroke by stroke, stroke by stroke, let the pen fall on the white rice paper.
This is not the first time, Gu Qingci's handwriting has no bones, so she just said that it would be good for her husband to teach her personally.
Whether it was taught well or not, I can't tell it for the time being, but Gu Qingci has some habits of Li Chengze's writing, and the turning point of writing is the same as his writing style.
After writing a few sheets and throwing them away, I read the book again, and looked up to see that Li Cheng was making a fuss on the paper.
I leaned over and took a glance, and I could probably see that they were some policy topics. I saw people reading these books in the carriage before.
Gu Qingci asked: "Is Xianggong going to participate in Qiu Wei next year?"
Li Cheng kept his eyes on the paper, and gave a faint "hmm".
Gu Qingci doesn't know how good Li Chengze is, but he trusts him inexplicably in his heart, thinking that his husband-in-law is the best at everything.
They can't come here and just stay in the house every day.
Li Cheng stayed with Gu Qingci for a day, but it was impossible to get tired of her all the time.
Besides, it's only a few days, and I'm about to leave soon. I still have to meet people with the fifth prince, and meet the princes and ministers here for a while.
Where is it necessary for the fifth prince to take the initiative, there is no shortage of banquets, drinking and literature meetings, and the posts are sent one by one.
Li Cheng and they went. Gu Qingci is a girl, and there is no wife here to invite her, and it is not easy to follow Li Chengze.
It should be noted that male guests at a banquet are male guests, and female guests are female guests, and they are separated.
So he couldn't go, he snorted, and then called Yuan Bao in front of him, and told him to take care of Li Chengze, saying, "Don't let cats and dogs come over all at once, you know."
When he said this, Gu Qingci deliberately spoke loudly in the yard, for fear that others would not hear him.
Li Cheng sighed in his heart, he was probably the only one who could sneer at calling the princess a cat or a dog.
I don't have the slightest eye for this kind of thing. I live in another courtyard of other people's land. How many eyeliners are there, so I have to say such things.
It's not a big deal, but if people bear a grudge, it will be a troublesome thing to make a stumbling block later.
Li Cheng does not advocate this way of doing things. He himself is gentle on the surface, but keeps everything in his heart.
I don't blame these six girls for being unruly and mean when they got married, they really lack a string in their minds, they are too simple and straightforward.
Yuan Bao naturally responded with a lot of voices, just barely raised a few fingers to the sky, and swore that he would take good care of his master.
Li Cheng followed the fifth prince's carriage and left, and several carriages walked slowly on the road.
Gu Qingci took a few glances before turning around.
It's okay to stay alone in the yard and just look at the flowers and the pond to pass the time.
There are two maidservants beside Gu Qingci who were brought by Yu Lianfu. The magistrate Mr. Fang is a smart man, seeing that Gu Qingci did not bring maidservants by his side, he turned around and prepared two for her.
After reading a book for a while, having some snacks at noon, feeling bored, talking to the maid about her son, Gu Qingci went to take a nap.
He was just sleepy, when suddenly he heard someone yelling, Gu Qingci reluctantly opened his eyelids despite being tired.
Seeing something wrong with the girl in front of her eyes, she rubbed her eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong?"
The maid hurriedly said that Yuan Bao, who was next to the uncle, sent a little girl to pass the message, saying that the old man was entangled and couldn't get away.
Gu Qingci panicked, and sat up all of a sudden: "Is it entangled by someone, is it the princess!" For a moment, she thought of the dirty tricks in the house that her mother had told her before. Posting it upside down destroys the relationship between husband and wife.
The more I listen to it, the more I will remember it in my heart.
Hearing that Li Chengze was being entangled by the princess at first, he was anxious and angry, thinking that the princess was a shameless person, and if she had to do something to come out and be in charge of her husband-in-law, it would be a good thing!
So she didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly asked the maid to dress her up, got into the carriage, let the girl who came to deliver the message lead the way, and went out.
The carriage ran very slowly on the street, and arrived in front of a mansion in a while.
The little girl took out a sign and showed it to the gatekeeper, and then brought Gu Qingci and her maids in together.
Walking around in this huge mansion.
Sure enough, a banquet was being held here, and the maidservants walked back and forth on the road, holding tea, fruit and snacks, or holding potted plants and the like.
Gu Qingci held the corner of his clothes, frowned, and urged: "Hurry up! Where is Mr. Xiang?"
"We'll be there soon." The little girl said quickly without raising her head.
Finally, Gu Qingci was brought to a well-proportioned courtyard. There was an octagonal pavilion inside. Water-pink silk gauze was hung on several sides of the pavilion. When the wind blew, it would sway around.
The girl pointed there from a distance: "Mr. Li stays there, Madam can go." After speaking, the girl turned around and left.
Gu Qingci was only in a hurry, and didn't notice anything, so she walked quickly to the octagonal pavilion.
When she was only two or three steps away, she couldn't help shouting first: "Msanggong—"
At the same time, he stretched out his hand and opened the long gauze curtain—
However, there was no figure of Li Chengze inside, the woman sitting on the chair was the princess from yesterday!