Emperor Chengtai didn't say that he was flat, so Yong Ruo had no choice but to continue kneeling.
After a while, Emperor Chengtai slowly said: "In this draft, I have left two beautiful girls in the palace. One is Zhou Minrou, the daughter of Zhou Shuncai, the servant of the Ministry of Industry; the other is Xu Wan'er, the prefect of Tangzhou. Daughter of Xu Wei. What's your impression of them?"
Yong Ruo commented objectively without any emotion: "Your Majesty, these two girls are both very beautiful, and they are two beauties with their own characteristics."
"Is it just beautiful? What do you think of their temperament?"
"The concubine has only met these two girls once, and has never had a close relationship with them. I don't know what their temperament is."
"You didn't send anyone to Yuxiu Palace to inquire about it?"
"The concubine has always been loose, and has always been too lazy to do useless things."
Emperor Chengtai was silent, looked at Yongruo and said, "I plan to designate them as Prince Liangyuan, what do you think?"
Yong Ruo was silent for a while, and still made an objective evaluation: "The prince doesn't seem to like these two girls."
"I'm asking: What do you think?" Emperor Chengtai didn't allow her to evade at all, and pointed to the core of the problem, "If I designate them as the prince Liangyuan, will you be jealous of them? Will you compete with them and make the prince upset? "
Yong Ruo secretly sighed, and said to Feng Liao in her heart: Sorry!
She took a deep breath and said very frankly: "I will be jealous, but I will not compete with them to be jealous."
A faint look of anger appeared on Emperor Chengtai's face: "Do you know that 'jealousy' is the crime of 'seven outs'? Such an unworthy woman can't be tolerated around the crown prince!"
Yong Ruo chuckled: "The emperor has three thousand beauties in the harem, and he has probably never thought about a woman's mind.
"Everyone has the seven emotions and six desires. It is common sense in the world to have love because of desire, and to be jealous because of love, and it is the same for both men and women.
"There are roughly two types of women who are not jealous of their husbands and have a new relationship: one is a Buddhist master who has cultivated the six clean senses, and if he has no desires, he will not be jealous; , out of sight, out of sight.
"Therefore, the concubine believes that: being jealous or not is in the heart, and not bound by worldly dogmas and rules; being virtuous or not is in deeds, and will be different due to education.
"Women in the world, if they can not plot against others because of jealousy, they are already of good conduct; if they can restrain jealousy and make room for their husbands and concubines, then they are close to sages."
Emperor Chengtai fell silent, lost in thought.
"Jealousness and not jealousy lie in the heart, virtuousness and incompetence lie in deeds..." Empress Wei repeated these two sentences, nodded with a smile, and said to Emperor Chengtai, "Your Majesty, these two sentences of the Yong family are really Excellent!"
Emperor Chengtai glanced at Empress Wei, and then asked Yongruo: "You said that you won't compete with those two people, do you mean: Are you a virtuous woman?"
"The concubine's cultivation is not enough, all she can do is 'do not fight', she is a person of good conduct, but she dare not call herself a virtuous woman."
Emperor Chengtai tapped lightly on the armrest of the throne with his fingertips, and said lightly: "Get up and answer!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yong Ruo stood up, feeling a little numbness in his knees.
After pondering for a while, Emperor Chengtai said to Yongruo: "I have an errand for you to handle. If you do it well, I will reward you a lot."
Hearing this, Yong Ruo felt no joy in his heart.
The heavier the reward, the more difficult the task will be.
She had already guessed what the errand the emperor wanted to entrust to her. She absolutely couldn't and couldn't do that errand.
"I also ask the emperor to order." Yong Ruo lowered his eyes slightly and said very calmly.
Emperor Chengtai said: "You are the only good concubine in the East Palace. In the past, the prince was young, but it didn't matter; now that the prince is eighteen years old, it's outrageous to remain like this.
"The task I want to entrust to you is: you go and persuade the prince to agree to accept the Zhou family and the Xu family as good ladies. In the future, you will share the rain and dew with them, and you will be the continuous heir of the royal family earlier."
Yong Ruo felt extremely bitter in his heart: what the emperor wants to entrust to himself is indeed this kind of pimping job.
This errand not only made her sick, it was also a huge pit. The kind that kills people without paying for their lives.
If he accepts this job, no matter whether he succeeds or not, it will be a betrayal for Feng Liao who is trying to reject these two concubines.
What's worse: her personality in Feng Liao's heart will also completely collapse.
Feng Liao might think: Isn't it said that plum blossoms have the quality of arrogance and frost? How did you give in so easily
He might also feel that his admiration for her this year is just a joke.
When these thoughts flashed through his mind, Yongruo bowed to the emperor, and said very clearly: "I report to the emperor: If you are not in the position, you will not seek his own government. It is the duty of the prince concubine to persuade the prince to buy more concubines and extend his heirs. The concubine is just a good concubine of the Eastern Palace, so I dare not go overboard and do things that exceed my authority."
Both Emperor Chengtai and Empress Wei looked at her in astonishment, never expecting that she would dare to reject the emperor so straightforwardly.
"You are resisting the decree! Do you know?" Emperor Chengtai narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at her coldly.
"The censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the responsibility to persuade the king. I am not talented, so I dare not compare myself with those officials, but I also dare not blindly flatter me, knowing that this is inappropriate. Please, Your Majesty Mingchao."
Emperor Chengtai's breath was firmly blocked in his chest.
Empress Wei looked at Yong Ruo from the side, both admiring and worried.
"You are really eloquent!" Emperor Chengtai snorted coldly, "It's a pity that you are not the imperial censor, and you don't have the armor protection of 'no offense for words'. If you are just a Liangdi of the Eastern Palace, if I want you to die, All you need is a three-foot white silk."
Yong Ruo said without even thinking about it: "The concubine naturally understands that my life, death, honor and disgrace are all in the hands of the emperor. But as a human being, you should always have a bit of integrity. Immediately broke the spine."
The tone in Emperor Chengtai's heart was even more blocked.
His breathing gradually became heavy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?!"
Yong Ruo sighed deeply and long, and said with a sad expression: "Of course I am afraid! I am afraid of death, and I am also afraid that my death will affect the father-son relationship between the emperor and the prince; After his death, he was devastated, without the vigor and will he has now... In that case, the concubine would be a sinner of the imperial court!"
"Since you are afraid, why should you be so strong?"
"Because the errand assigned by the emperor is not what a concubine should do."
"What if I canonize you as a concubine?" Emperor Chengtai said suddenly, "If you become a concubine, it is your duty to set up a concubine for the prince and take care of the family. I can abandon the family opinion and give you the greatest Decent; but you also have to be a virtuous woman who can set an example for the world, so as to live up to my praise for you."
Crown Princess...
Yong Ruo sighed inwardly: This is also a trap.
She would rather become an abandoned woman than jump into this pit and become a "virtuous woman".
Even the granddaughter of the eldest princess and the first-line granddaughter of Jian Guogong failed to become the crown princess, but she, a commoner woman, can become the crown princess? Why? Naturally, you have to rely on "virtuous virtue"!
If she becomes a crown princess, the emperor, empress, and the whole world will also watch how long the miracle of her counterattack as a commoner will last, and will look at her every word and deed with a magnifying glass.
If she wants to secure that seat, she can only turn herself into a female zombie, trying her best to be virtuous... De De De De...
Living like that is too tiring and aggrieved.
She would never want to live like that. I can't live like that.
Yong Ruo solemnly made a blessing to the emperor: "The crown princess is the future empress. The concubine comes from a humble background and has little talent and virtue. How can I take on this important task? The emperor should choose another lady from a famous family."
Emperor Chengtai and Empress Wei looked at her in extreme surprise.
"You don't want to be a princess?" Cheng Tai's eyes widened with disbelief.
Yong Ruo sighed softly: "It's not that I don't want to, but that I don't dare. As the saying goes: People are valuable if they know themselves. I know that I am not that material, so I dare not steal a high position."
The main hall of Kunde Palace fell into silence.
Both Emperor Chengtai and Empress Wei couldn't recover for a long time.
Although the eunuchs and maids waiting around all lowered their heads in a submissive gesture, their eyeballs kept rolling around, wishing they could look up and pay respects to Emperor Yongliang.
What kind of strange woman could refuse the temptation of being a princess? Dare to fight against the emperor? !
"Get out!" After a while, Emperor Chengtai spat out these three words coldly through his teeth.
Yong Ruo bowed politely and left, quickly rolled out of Kunde Palace, and faintly heard the sound of porcelain being smashed in the palace.
She supported the court lady and walked slowly towards the East Palace. There was no pleasure in her heart for having offended the emperor, only the infinite sadness of being about to lose her love.
Feng Liao, I really miss you...
If there is a future between us, the ray of hope lies in your future choices. Although I also know that the possibility of this is very low...
Her heart was miserable, her nose was sore, and her eyes quickly filled with moisture.
As she walked back with stiff steps, she raised her head slightly, her eyes wide open without blinking. She was afraid that if she blinked, tears would come out of her eyes.
Hua Rou whispered something beside her, but she didn't listen to a word.
After returning to the East Palace, Yong Ruo looked up at the distant sky above the red walls and yellow tiles, and her vision gradually became clear—the tears in her eyes had dried up.
Not long after she returned to the East Palace, people from Kunde Palace sent a batch of new tribute materials, saying that she had picked them before.
Yong Ruo looked at the materials indifferently, and asked them to put them into the warehouse. These materials have nothing to do with her.
At night, Yong Ruo was extraordinarily unrestrained between the beds...
Afterwards, she lay in his arms, hugged him tightly, and called his name for the first time: "Feng Liao..."
Feng Liao raised her eyebrows in surprise: "Huh?"
"Let's make a deal!"
"What agreement?"
"First, no matter what happens in the future, never feel hopeless; second, if the other person is not by your side, take care of yourself and look forward to the moment when we meet again; third, do what you should do every day, stick to it Bottom line, refuse to indulge and degenerate."
Feng Liao was a little puzzled: "I have no objection to making such an agreement. But why did you suddenly mention this? Something is wrong with you tonight... Did something happen?"
He frowned deeply: "If something happens, don't hide it from me!"
Yong Ruo smiled, but his eyes were a little moist: "Fourth, remember the four words 'great wisdom is as stupid'. I don't want to say, so don't ask. Just like I don't ask about your 'backup plan'. This is also … a kind of trust.”
Feng Liao thought for a while before saying, "Okay! I won't ask any more. Then let's make an agreement, and you must abide by these four promises!"
"Well! It's natural." She closed her eyes, retracted her arms, and hugged him tighter.