"Your Majesty, I just arranged a marriage, and now I have the marriage of King Jing. The marriage of the Crown Prince has not been completed yet. I am afraid that the Ministry of Rites is too busy to handle it."
Pei Yuanjun watched the whole scene and chuckled at this time.
Pei Yusheng's heart skipped a beat and he quickly turned to Pei Yuanjun.
"What do you mean?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.
"I feel that there is no rush for this matter. Let the Crown Prince and King Jing pay their respects first. I am younger than both of them, and there is no rush for a hostess in the mansion." Pei Yuanjun smiled, with a bit of leisure and laziness, and it can be seen that he did not take the marriage seriously at all.
This was completely opposite to the expressions of joy that the mother and son had just shown when they looked at each other.
With his indifference, Concubine He and her son seemed to care a lot more, and could even be said to be very attentive. The emperor's gaze turned to Concubine He, and then fell on his son's face, as if he was checking something.
The imperial study became inexplicably quiet.
"Your Majesty, I am the last one to be granted marriage, so naturally I will be the last to get married. There is no rush." Pei Yusheng said hurriedly.
"Your Majesty, I am really not in a hurry. Having one more woman or one less woman in the backyard doesn't matter." Pei Yuanjun continued to smile with an elegant look. His raised eyes were filled with a slight ripple, as if unintentional, yet intentional.
"You all must expedite your marriages. Instruct the Ministry of Rites to speed up the process. We must not miss the auspicious day." The emperor coughed and said.
She stared at Pei Yuanjun with dissatisfaction. The most important thing was that he was about to get married and yet he was planning to find a witch.
"Thank you, father." Seeing that the emperor was angry, Prince Jing did not dare to explain any further.
"Your Majesty, I have to wait for my father to come back! I don't know where he has gone now. I have sent many people but can't find him." Pei Yuanjun sighed.
The old Prince of Yun has been away for such a long time. He would come back occasionally before, but now there is no news from him and no one knows where he has gone.
"I will send someone to look for Uncle Wang, but you can't slack off here. The Ministry of Rites has ordered you to speed up. Even if Uncle Wang is not here by then... even if I am still here, I will be more than enough to serve as your elder."
"Your Majesty, please treat me as your elder..." Pei Yuanjun said unwillingly.
"What? I can't be your elder anymore?" The emperor was unhappy.
“I dare not. The emperor is naturally my elder, but after all, my father is still here. I should find him and let him make the decision.” Pei Wujun said with a smile.
"Alright, alright, I will take care of this matter. You just go back home and prepare well. Although she is the daughter of the minister, I heard that she is very beautiful. You must treat her well in the future." The emperor warned. Looking at this prince, he felt exhausted. He is so old, but he has no sympathy for women. Has he not yet become wise
When I was his age, I didn't have three thousand beauties in the harem, but at least I had a deep love for the Empress Dowager, and I had many other concubines as well. They were nothing like him.
Could it be that there were no female relatives in the Prince of Yun’s Mansion to manage the internal affairs before, so Pei Yuanjun still doesn’t know the benefits of women.
Thinking about it this way, I felt even more annoyed.
He had looked down on the fourth young lady of the Qu family before, but seeing the attitude of his own family, he felt that even if she married into the family, she would not receive the slightest sympathy. Thinking of this, he felt quite guilty towards the fourth young lady of the Qu family. The more he thought about it, the more unreliable his own family seemed.
"As a minister, you naturally respect
"Your Majesty, in terms of appearance, it's not bad!" Pei Yuanjun said indifferently, "It's quite pleasing to the eye!"
"As long as you like him, you should treat him well and don't let him suffer any grievances." The emperor was really afraid that his stubbornness would come up again.
He seems to be fine at ordinary times and is very reliable in everything he does, but when that stubbornness comes up, it’s as if he becomes a completely different person. He loses his sense of propriety in doing things, like a child having a temper tantrum. How old is he!
The most important thing is that you haven’t gotten married yet!
The emperor was extremely troubled and could not let this matter fail.
"Your Majesty, rest assured. Even if I don't care about Minister Qu, but only because Your Majesty is worried about me and granted me a marriage, I will still treat this Fourth Miss Qu like a treasure. If anyone bullies her, it's bullying me. If anyone humiliates her, it's humiliating me. I will never let them off easily."
Pei Yuanjun said this with a smile, and it sounded like he was just trying to please the emperor, but Concubine He and Pei Yusheng did not dare to take it lightly. How could others offend this emperor
It seems that from now on, the fourth young lady of the Qu family will have to think carefully about her reputation.
Although not favored, it is at least a matter of face and should not be underestimated.
"It's the best that you think so. I heard that the fourth young lady of the Qu family is about to reach the age of marriage. I have asked the Queen to give her a set of headgear." Seeing that he was quite obedient, the Emperor's expression relaxed and he said with a smile.
"Then I would like to thank the Emperor and the Empress." Pei Yuanjun stood up and saluted.
"What are you talking about? I watched you grow up. In my eyes, you are just like my son..." The emperor paused here, sighed deeply, and said to Concubine He and Prince Jing on the side: "Go down if you have nothing to do!"
This meant that they were asked to leave and only Pei Yuanjun was left.
"Your Majesty, I'll take my leave!" Concubine He said softly.
After Prince Jing bowed to the emperor, he followed Concubine He out. After leaving the imperial study, he turned slightly and looked behind him, with a sinister look in his eyes.
He is obviously the biological son of his father, why is he so concerned about a cousin
"Prince Jing, please send Miss Liu out later!" Concubine He calmly pulled her son's sleeve, fearing that he would show anger here.
"Yes, mother!" Prince Jing came back to his senses and followed Concubine He. It was originally a happy occasion, but now that Pei Yuanjun had interfered, he didn't seem so happy anymore.
In the imperial study, under the incense burner with the fragrance wafting around, the emperor's expression relaxed a little. He leaned back and no longer tensed his back. This way of sitting made him much more comfortable.
"You really don't want to marry the daughter of the general?" the emperor asked again, his brows tightly furrowed, his eyes fixed on Pei Yuanjun.
"I don't want to marry her." Pei Yuantan said lazily.
"Why?"
"There is no need for so many reasons. I don't care who I marry. If the emperor hadn't urged me again and again, I would not want to get married. It's good to live alone. Why should I find another person to suffer?" Pei Yuanjun said casually, his lips curled up, his delicate eyebrows revealing a bit of elegance and indifference.
As if he doesn't care about anything.
But it was this expression that made the emperor feel a dull pain in his chest. He put his hand on his chest and coughed twice in a hurry. Li Quan hurriedly sent the warm tea to the emperor.
superior.
The emperor finally recovered after taking a few sips.
"You... put aside the matter in the Western Prison for now." The emperor took a deep breath, then slowly relaxed, turned his head away, and said.
"Your Majesty, I think it's a good idea. Why should we let others take charge?" Pei Yuanjun said indifferently.
"Your reputation... do you still want it?" The emperor said with a look of disappointment, "I only wanted you to have a reputation, but you actually did it."
The Western Prison is the so-called hawk and dog.
"As long as I am loyal to the emperor, this reputation actually doesn't matter." Pei Yuanjun was very leisurely, completely unaware that his reputation outside was enough to stop a child from crying at night.
"No, from now on, it will be the same as before. You don't have to go to the Western Prison for the time being. Just tell my subordinates if you have anything to do. Slowly, I will let you get rid of the Western Prison, and someone will replace you, and you don't have to go anymore." The emperor said in a deep voice. Thinking of the word "hawk and dog", he felt uncomfortable.
"Your Majesty, actually the Western Prison is quite good. My reputation as a minister is very strong and no one will dare to embarrass me from now on." Pei Yuanjun said lightly.
"No!" The emperor was a little excited and shouted subconsciously. After he finished shouting, he realized that he had lost control. He slowed down and said, "Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your future princess. You can't let people say that she married a vicious monster!"
"What does it matter? Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog. If she follows me, then she will naturally follow me. If I can't protect myself in the future, I will naturally not be able to protect her. By then, this so-called reputation will be worthless!" Pei Yuanjun had been lazy all the time, and only at the end he lowered his eyes and sighed.
There was an indescribable sense of decadence, as if nothing he did was of any interest.
"You...what nonsense are you talking about!" The emperor's hands trembled heavily and he said sternly.
"Your Majesty, I was talking nonsense! As long as Your Majesty lives forever, I will have nothing to worry about!" Pei Yuanjun waved his sleeves, leaned back and smiled.
The emperor's face darkened. He did not relax because of Pei Yuanjun's joke. His brows were tightly locked in a frown.
After a long while, he asked, "What brings you to the palace today?"
"I have nothing to do. It's just that this incident happened in my house, and I came here specially to watch the second half." Pei Yuanjun smiled charmingly.
"What do you mean?" asked the emperor.
Pei Yuanjun then casually told the story of Liu Lanxin coming to Prince Ying's mansion to find him, and the story of him calling Prince Jing over. After that, he smiled and said, "General Fuguo is relieved now. With a good son-in-law like Prince Jing, you don't have to ask me about the affairs of the most famous young masters in the capital."
"General Fuguo really cares about this daughter!" The emperor snorted in dissatisfaction.
"I heard that the daughter of the general was born to the woman he loved the most, so he naturally valued her more. Otherwise, the woman's bloodline would be cut off."
These words hurt his heart. Since he was born to the same person he loved, how could he not care about her
Pei Yuanjun's thin lips curled up slightly, and his smile faded, "Your Majesty, this excitement is over, I will take my leave first!"
"Go first!" The emperor's hands trembled twice again. He looked at Pei Yuanjun's figure walking away, and suddenly turned his head and coughed loudly. Li Quan hurried forward and gently stroked his back...