Hearing this, Li Rong smiled softly, opened the small golden fan in her hand, covering half of her face, and said with a crooked smile, "Then this palace is waiting for the good news from Lord Pei."
Pei Wenxuan bowed his head and saluted Li Rong.
Li Rong put away the small fan and walked out.
When she walked to the outer door, she saw the palace servants waiting outside. Li Rong's face became cold, and she instructed with the people next to her, "Wai Jia, go to the East Palace."
Shortly after Li Rong left, the queen slowly came back to her senses. After finishing her grooming for a while, she raised her voice outside: "Shande."
When the outer hall heard the call, Shande hurriedly trotted in, knelt in front of the queen, and said, "Niangniang."
The queen sat on the golden seat and said tiredly, "Call Pei Wenxuan in."
When Shande heard this, he was stunned at first, but then he realized that the queen should not know that Pei Wenxuan was outside the door, but he didn't talk much, only answered in a low voice, turned to the door, and said loudly: "Xuan Wenxuan is outside the door. , Pei Wenxuan has an audience—"
Pei Wenxuan saluted Shande, and then walked out of the door. The queen was sitting on the golden seat, supporting her forehead with her hands. Seeing him walk in, the queen raised her eyes and stared at the young man quietly.
Pei Wenxuan entered the hall with a calm expression, knelt down to salute, the queen looked at him, and after a while, she said slowly, "Are you outside the hall?"
If he entered from the outer door, he should not have appeared in front of her so quickly.
Pei Wenxuan knelt on the ground and said calmly, "Princess Fangcai asked Wei Chen to stay outside the hall and wait for her concubine's call."
The queen nodded, and Shande retired sensible and waited outside. The queen straightened up and said in a low voice, "I was talking to the princess just now, and you heard it."
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, and the queen knew that he was acquiescing. She was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "Your father left early, and there is no elder in the family who is planning for your future. It is useless to you to get involved in the affairs of the palace. What happened last night will not help you. , you don't want to mention it to anyone. After you go back, I will assign you another official position, and I will point you to the right marriage, so you don't have to worry."
Pei Wenxuan was silent, the queen seemed to have a headache, and said with her forehead: "What are you dissatisfied with?"
"Weichen Xie Niangniang understands Weichen's difficulties and plans a future for Weichen, but Weichen has one thing that I don't understand."
"What's the matter?"
"If Wei Chen backs down," Pei Wenxuan raised his head to meet the Queen's gaze, "Your Highness Princess, what should I do?"
"It's not something you think about."
The queen spoke coldly, and Pei Wenxuan looked at the queen and said calmly, "What if Wei Chen wants to consider it?"
"What do you mean?"
The queen frowned, and Pei Wenxuan said calmly: "Niangniang, Concubine Ning entered Weiyang Palace last night, coercing and seducing her, trying to tie Yang's family to the prince, and then she went to Concubine Rou's palace, Niangniang never thought, she went to Rou In the concubine's palace, what is it for?"
The queen froze: "You say."
"Now that Yang's clan is attached to the princess wholeheartedly, and Concubine Rou is being favored. When Concubine Ning goes to Concubine Rou's place, she must beg Concubine Rou to help Concubine Yang to marry the princess. But Concubine Rou and the queen prince are mortal enemies. If Concubine Yang and the princess form an alliance It's a good thing, how could she help? It can be seen that Yang's in-laws with the princess must have hidden dangers, and I hope your mother will think twice."
The queen did not say anything, she remained silent, and Pei Wenxuan continued: "The Yang family has the military power of Niangniang. But this military power, if the Yang family still has the strength to resist, then forming an alliance with the prince is complementary. If the Yang family is without water. Yu, just struggling to the death, to form an alliance with the prince is to pull the prince into the quagmire. The prince has no actual military power, and the only military power is the Shangguan family of the mother's family. The thing that Your Majesty is most afraid of now is that the prince is the eldest son. Abolished, I am afraid that the ministers will be angry and shake the country. But if the prince has made a mistake now, the niangniang thinks that with the cooperation of the Yang family and the Shangguan family, can the ministers and His Majesty be suppressed?"
"In your opinion," the Queen hesitated, "Now, what should I do?"
"Niangniang doesn't need to do anything," Pei Wenxuan said calmly, "These people each have their own plans. Now Niangniang and the prince only need to do two things. The first one is that after I leave Weiyang Palace, Niangniang will block me immediately. The news of entering the palace and the princess being with me last night."
"This palace has already done this." The Queen was a little strange, "Why do you want this palace to do this?"
"With His Majesty's eyes and ears in the palace, I can't hide what Niangniang did." Pei Wenxuan said indifferently, "If Niangniang targets Wei Chen, Wei Chen can gain His Majesty's trust. Therefore, the next thing the Crown Prince has to do is to prepare for impeachment. Yang's case, once the Yang family is in trouble," Pei Wenxuan raised his eyes and said earnestly, "The prince will impeach him immediately, and then promptly give a replacement for the position of General Zhenbei."
"Why is that?"
"In the future, the maiden will know."
Pei Wenxuan looked at the Empress: "I just don't know, now the Empress, can you trust Wei Chen?"
The queen looked at Pei Wenxuan. This person looked like he was in his early twenties, but he spoke clearly and thoughtfully. Even in the face of a high-ranking person like her, he was so calm, not like a teenager at all.
He quietly watched the queen, and after a long time, the queen said, "What are you asking for?"
Saying that, she stood up: "You are only an eighth-rank petty official, and you are involved in disputes in the palace. What are you doing?"
"If there is no Qingyunzhi, why not return with the crown?" Pei Wenxuan said indifferently, "Aren't the people above the court all asking for the same thing?"
"Then why did you choose the prince?"
The queen stared at Pei Wenxuan, and Pei Wenxuan pondered for a moment, telling the truth.
"Wei Chen, I can't bear to see Her Royal Highness being humiliated."
"Do you like my son?" The Queen was a little surprised, and Pei Wenxuan was speechless.
After a while, he bowed his head respectfully and said, "I wish to plant the phoenix tree in the courtyard and lead the phoenix to drive home."
The queen looked at Pei Wenxuan, she was silent, and after watching for a long time, she finally said, "Go ahead."
"Wei Chen retire."
Pei Wen announced the salute, and then got up calmly.
He walked out of the gate slowly, and a eunuch came out and led him to the soft sedan chair.
After he got into the soft sedan chair, it didn't take long for him to feel that the sedan chair was in the wrong direction.
He has been in and out of the palace for many years in the last life, and he has long been familiar with the palace. After picking up the curtain for a while, he knew that the sedan chair was turned in the direction of the imperial study.
After a little thought in his heart, he knew that Li Ming had the news of Weiyang Palace, and it was estimated that he had been summoned.
Pei Wenxuan calmed down and pretended to be in a light sleep. When the sedan chair stopped, he heard a call: "Master Pei?"
He pretended to wake up from his sleep, opened his eyes in a trance, and saw the smiling eunuch in front of him, he was a little dazed: "Sir is..."
"The servant is accompanied by your Majesty's attendant Fu Lai. Your Majesty summoned Lord Pei and asked Lord Pei to move."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan pretended to be shocked, then hurriedly walked down from the sedan chair, and followed Fu Lai into the courtyard of the imperial study.
He was trembling, followed Fulai, and asked, "Does your father-in-law know why His Majesty called me?"
Fu Lai smiled: "Adults should have some in their hearts."
Pei Wenxuan's expression changed, but he didn't speak. When he reached the door, he saw Yang Quan already standing there. Pei Wenxuan walked over and saluted Yang Quan. Fulai ordered the two to wait here and walked in.
After Fu Lai entered, Pei Wenxuan glanced at Yang Quan and said with a smile, "What are you doing today, Mr. Yang?"
Yang Quan glanced at Pei Wenxuan coldly, and said indifferently, "Begging for a kiss."
"The lord may be disappointed." Pei Wenxuan folded his hands in front of him, stood up straight, and whispered, "I'm afraid this matter is settled."
"What do you mean?"
Yang Quan raised his eyes to look at Pei Wenxuan, who said with a smile, "Sir, why did I turn back last night?"
Hearing this, Yang Quan's expression changed drastically.
Others could not hear anything, but Yang Quan knew very well that no one should know about the ambush he set up last night, but Pei Wenxuan not only knew about it, but also went back and even saved the princess and spent the night alone with the princess.
"Your Majesty is the Lord of Shengming," Pei Wenxuan said in a low voice, "Mr. Yang has nothing to be unwilling to do, so I'd better go back to the northwest, where the Sanger flowers are very beautiful."
Sanger flowers are the flowers sprinkled on the coffin during funerals in the northwest. Most people in Huajing do not understand, but Yang Quan is sure of Pei Wenxuan's meaning.
Pei Wenxuan was the concubine who had already been appointed by default. Something went wrong yesterday, and the emperor asked him to come over and use his Yang Quan as a wedding dress to pave the way for Pei Wenxuan and the princess.
And the Yang family is doomed to die. Not only does the emperor know all this, but the emperor even told Pei Wenxuan this ignorant idiot, so that he can show off in front of him.
Seeing Yang Quan's fury, Pei Wenxuan smiled and didn't speak. At this moment, the voice of the emperor summoned came from the hall.
The two entered the hall together, Li Ming was looking at the book, the two saluted, and Li Ming did not move above.
Li Ming took a long sip of tea before raising his eyes and said, "Here you come?"
Having said that, Li Ming looked at Pei Wenxuan and said first, "Pei Aiqing, get up."
Pei Wenxuan immediately answered yes with joy, then got up and stood on the side, Yang Quan knelt on the ground and clenched his fists.
Li Ming glanced at him and said indifferently, "What are you doing here?"
"Weichen came here today to ask your Majesty for marriage."
Yang Quan spoke respectfully, and Li Ming raised his eyebrows: "Begging for a kiss? Who do you want to marry?"
"Wei Chen is pleased with Princess Pingle," Yang Quan said stiffly, "I also ask Your Majesty to decree the marriage."
"So," Li Ming nodded, but said, "I have to think about this matter again. Pei Aiqing," Li Ming turned to look at Pei Wenxuan, and stood up, "Let's go to the garden with me."
Pei Wenxuan responded, hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Ming, and walked past Yang Quan. When he reached the door, Pei Wenxuan suddenly remembered: "Your Majesty, Lord Yang is still kneeling."
"Oh." As if he suddenly remembered, Li Ming turned his head to look at Yang Quan and said indifferently, "Get up, if you have nothing else to do, go back."
After speaking, Li Ming led Pei Wenxuan and walked slowly towards the imperial garden.
When he got to a place with few people, the surrounding attendants didn't keep up. Pei Wenxuan helped Li Ming and listened to Li Ming slowly say: "I heard that you saved Pingle last night."
Pei Wenxuan didn't speak, and Li Ming raised his eyes: "Why don't you speak?"
Pei Wenxuan stopped, and after a long time, he took a deep breath, as if he had made a major decision, went around in front of Li Ming, and knelt down toward Li Ming.
"Weichen begs Your Majesty," he kowtowed deeply, his voice mournful, "Save Weichen's life!"