The next morning, the weather was excellent. The sun is warm, the spring breeze is warm, and the coldness of early spring is less, it is a good time to go out to enjoy the spring, but Man Yao is welcomed into the palace by the people sent by Emperor Lintian early in the morning.
The palace of Lintian Kingdom is resplendent and majestic, even better than the palace of Qiyun Kingdom, Man Yao can't help admiring secretly in his heart every time he passes by.
Led by the commander of the imperial guards, she entered the Qiankun Palace, and through the bead curtain, she saw a man in a dragon robe with a stern face above the high position. Her eyes were sharp to see people's hearts, obviously there was no expression in those eyes, but she clearly felt an invisible pressure, which made her slightly nervous involuntarily. The majesty that belongs to the emperor has been felt. Her imperial brother Emperor Qiyun is very gentle, at least in front of her.
Taking a deep breath and concentrating her thoughts, she slowly entered the hall. The civil and military officials in the hall were separated on both sides, turning their heads to look at her.
I saw her wearing a phoenix crown on her head, covering her face with a bead curtain, and wearing a brocade red robe embroidered with colorful phoenix patterns. Her slender waist was tied up, making her look more and more cramped, and the long tail of the robe was spread behind her in white On the floor tiles, the soft red arc slowly moves forward with her graceful steps, like a flowing color ink painting by a famous artist, it is infused with infinite life, which looks extremely pleasing to the eye.
Emperor Lintian sat up straight, his eyes moved slightly, although he couldn't see her face, but the calmness of her demeanor and the elegant and refined temperament in her bones were incomparable. Such a woman doesn't look like the ugly and willful Princess Rong Le in the rumors!
Man Yao walked to the center of the hall, slightly bowed his knees and saluted. "Rong Le greets His Majesty the Emperor Lintian!" The voice was clear and ethereal, and the tone was neither humble nor overbearing.
Emperor Lintian raised his hand and said in a flat voice, "Princess is free from courtesy!"
After Man Yao got up, she felt a burning gaze coming from the left side. She glanced lightly, and saw a man wearing a prince's court dress with a meaningful smile on his mouth. The Ninth Prince of Zhiyuan, seeing her looking over, blinked at her, with an expression of waiting to watch the show.
She frowned slightly, and quickly glanced around, only to see a man in front of the Ninth Prince looking at her with mockery and disdain. The vermilion crimson gauze robe and the white jade crown with double dragons playing with pearls should be the prince of Lintian Kingdom. With such a mocking and disdainful expression, she naturally understood the reason. Smiling faintly, she looked away indifferently, and said to the man following behind, "Xiao Sha, present the gift prepared by the emperor to His Majesty the Emperor Lintian."
Xiao Sha stepped forward holding an exquisite gift box in response, and said in a long way: "Your Majesty, my brother is grateful for the generous gift from His Majesty, and I will return this treasure, Your Majesty please accept it with a smile!"
The inner supervisor took the gift box and carefully opened it before sending it to the imperial case. I saw a pair of exquisite and small white jade cups on the orange-yellow brocade in the box. The base of the jade cups is long and lying on a plate, and the rim of the cups is engraved with a picture of a phoenix dance. A rare and rare treasure.
Emperor Lintian held up the jade cup and looked at it carefully, his eyes moved, "White jade glazed cup!"
After seeing it, a well-informed minister exclaimed: "I heard that the white jade glazed cup was handed down a hundred years ago. There is only one pair in the world. Its value is inestimable. This cup is used to make tea. The fragrance of tea is refreshing. If it is summer Drinking water from this cup can cool off the heat and quench thirst, and make people feel refreshed and comfortable all over the body, which is wonderful!"
The ministers were in an uproar, and Emperor Lintian smiled and nodded, his brows stretched. "Emperor Qiyun gave me such a precious treasure, Yang Aiqing, write a book for me, thank you to Emperor Qiyun."
Xiao Sha knelt down on one knee and said respectfully: "Your Majesty Lintian Emperor, before I leave for Princess Feng, my emperor has a few words, and I order my humble servant to convey them to Your Majesty."
Emperor Lintian said: "Please speak!"
Xiao Sha raised his eyes and looked directly at Emperor Lintian, without any fear in his eyes, he said word by word: "My emperor has said that the white jade glazed cup is indeed a rare treasure, but compared to Princess Rong Le's position in my emperor's heart, it is nothing like that. It's not even one ten thousandth. I hope your country can treat our princess well, so that the two countries can conclude a century-old peace treaty."
After hearing this, Emperor Lintian laughed, but the smile only stayed on his lips, "It's natural, the princess is the peace envoy of Lintian and Qiyun, even if she marries the emperor's son, she is still our country's honored guest, and she will never neglect her." Reason!" After finishing speaking, he paused, and then said: "As for what happened yesterday, when King Li goes to court, he will definitely give the princess an explanation."
Manyao smiled lightly, and said politely: "Your Majesty is serious!"
Emperor Lintian looked at her appreciatively, with a calm demeanor and decent speech, worthy of being the phoenix of a princess of a country. At this moment, a palace guard hurried into the palace, knelt down on the ground, and reported nervously: "Your Majesty, Li Wang, His Royal Highness Li Wang..."
Emperor Lintian frowned, and asked in a deep voice: "What's wrong with him? It's been more than an hour since you were asked to summon him into the palace. Why haven't you seen him enter the palace yet?"
The guard lowered his head tightly, his voice was trembling, and he replied: "The servants of Prince Li's mansion said...that King Li is resting and cannot go to court..." His voice became lower and lower, until it was as low as Almost inaudible, like mosquitoes and flies. However, every single word clearly fell into the ears of everyone, causing a storm in everyone's heart.
Civil and military officials, princes and princes all have different complexions. Dare to directly resist the decree, King Li is absolutely alone in the court, he doesn't even bother to find an excuse, and it's still in front of the princess of Qiyun Kingdom.
Offending the emperor's supreme dignity is losing the face of Lintian Kingdom. What a serious crime this is!
In the solemn and solemn hall, there was a sudden silence. Everyone was worried and held their breath, for fear that a careless move would bring about a disaster of death and become the emperor's punching bag. Especially the few ministers who tried their best to promote the marriage, the palms of their clenched hands were wet and sticky, and there was a factor of rage in the air that condensed in mid-air, forming a suppressed sense of fear, hovering above their heads incessantly, revealing The blood slowly penetrated into their bodies through the pores of the skin, and then rapidly expanded and spread, like a poisonous vine.
Cold sweat dripped on the clean white floor tiles, and the sound of popping was extremely clear in my ears. The kneeling guard kept his head lowered, wishing he could hide in the cracks in the ground.
Such a depressing and tense atmosphere made even Man Yao's heart hang up unconsciously. It was as if there was a huge balloon beside her, and someone was desperately inflating it. Seeing that the balloon was getting bigger and bigger, she didn't know when the balloon would suddenly explode with a bang.
After a quarter of an hour like this, in this extremely depressing atmosphere, it is absolutely a test of a person's inner endurance. However, the expected explosion did not come, and she saw the angry eyes of Emperor Lintian, with deep eyes What is hidden is a touch of imperceptible helplessness.
The Emperor Lintian's face was as deep as the sea, and he suddenly turned to the Ninth Prince who was beside him. The Ninth Prince froze, and quickly lowered his head, screaming in his heart that something was wrong, he was being watched by his father! Sure enough, before he started to worry, the emperor's deep and majestic voice came from above, "Old Nine, you and Commander Xiang go to Li Wangfu to summon him, no matter what method you use, you must take him to the palace! If this is done I will give you a lot of rewards. If you can’t do it, you won’t have to go to court again in the future.”
The Ninth Prince's eyes lit up when he heard this sentence, but the next sentence made his smile froze on his lips. Emperor Lintian said again: "You will go to the western suburbs to guard the imperial tomb for the rest of your life."
He opened his mouth wide in surprise, although he was the only person who entered Li Wang's mansion without notification, but if he offended Seventh Brother, he would not have a good life in the future, and the miserable life of guarding the imperial tomb is not human If you want him to stay there for the rest of his life, he might as well cut him off! He couldn't help but blurted out: "Ah? Father Emperor..." He just opened his mouth, but was blocked by Lintian Emperor's sharp gaze like a blade. The wish said: "My son obeys the order."
After receiving the decree, he complained incessantly, turned around frowningly, and the moment he passed by Man Yao, he saw her standing indifferently, her eyes behind the bead curtain were clear and quiet, as if nothing big could cause a wave, he couldn't help but Feeling bored in his heart, he glared at her fiercely, and thought to himself, this woman put him in a dilemma, but still acted like nothing happened, it's really disgusting. Princess Rong Le, this beam is settled!
Man Yao received his gaze and just smiled casually. The people who watched the theater finally saw themselves in it.
All the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, the Ninth Prince had always been in close contact with King Li, and it would probably be no problem if he went. Your majesty is still wise!
Emperor Lintian's expression softened a lot, so he started chatting with Manyao, asking about the customs and customs of Qiyun Kingdom, and Man Yao answered them one by one, neither perfunctory nor endlessly boastful, the words were measured Mastering it very well, Emperor Lintian smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
In this way, half an hour passed unconsciously. Suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the main hall, it must be the arrival of the arrogant King Li!
Manyao didn't look back, but noticed that the face of Emperor Lintian suddenly changed, the corners of his mouth that were still smiling just now twitched visibly, the originally deep face turned angry, and the harmonious atmosphere in the whole hall suddenly subsided. to freezing.
The fine dust in the breeze seemed to come from the underworld, and the cold feeling filled the hall in an instant, exuding a strange atmosphere, penetrating into the depths of people's hearts, making people shudder.
There were bursts of gasps in her ears, and she saw the expressions on the faces of the civil and military ministers and the princes constantly changing, which were extremely colorful. No matter if it was big eyes or small eyes, no matter whether they were handsome or ugly, all of them were wide-eyed, and the eyeballs almost fell to the ground. The look in those eyes, was it shock? Is it anger? Is it horror? Can't believe it? There is also a part of admiration that is not afraid of death!
She couldn't help wondering, what kind of scene would cause the emperor of Lintian Kingdom and a group of courtiers to express so many expressions in an instant? She couldn't help but look back, first she saw the Ninth Prince who walked into the palace, his handsome face had a stiff smile, that smile seemed to be pulled from the corner of his mouth, his eyes flickered, as if he was trying to escape Dare to look at the emperor above the high position, but bite the bullet and move forward at an extremely slow speed, just like a fish on the chopping board, obviously looking at the shining knife in front of the head, but has to jump forward, because the back is burning. oil in a boiling pan.
She looked past him and looked at the legendary man behind him who was unparalleled in wisdom but perverse and arrogant. Just like those ministers, her eyes widened in surprise.
This is King Li—Zongzheng Wuyou? !
He has come, but whoever dares to go to court in this way like him is definitely a person who has lived through the past and made the present, and can be called the only one in the past and the present!