The first time Gu Huaiqing saw Jingchen was in a restaurant in Pingjiang City.
Jingshao sent a letter to him that Prince Rui would come to Pingjiang to look for him in the near future, so he had another reason not to go back. Anyway, there was a capable Prime Minister Huai to handle all the government affairs for him.
That day was sunny and sunny, Gu Huaiqing went to drink at the restaurant he frequented by the Qingshui River, and saw that his favorite window seat had already been occupied. He frowned unhappily, grabbed Xiao Er and threw a piece of silver over: "Let the people there move the place."
The second child held the silver in embarrassment. This young man is a frequent visitor, but the one who is sitting now is also dressed in luxurious clothes and can't afford to offend him. He felt a little troubled for a while, and weighed the silver in his hand. He threw the towel over his shoulder and walked over there.
Jingchen sat alone on the table by the window, looking at the Qingshui River outside, observing the bustling scene in Pingjiang City. The guards sat next to each other and did not dare to disturb. At this moment, Xiao Er came over suddenly.
"Guest officer, I'm really sorry, this small seat was reserved for that young master earlier, do you think I can change it to the next table?" The little Er pointed to Gu Huaiqing who was not far away.
The guard over there was very displeased, and was about to get up to reason, but was stopped by Jingchen with his eyes. Jingchen followed Xiao Er's hand and saw a man in a snow-white shirt standing not far away, with a handsome face and a noble temperament, not like an ordinary rich boy.
While that person was looking over, Gu Huaiqing was also looking at him. He was handsome, not angry, but more importantly, he looked like Jing Shao! Gu Huaiqing was stunned for a moment, and immediately walked over quickly: "Little Er, I asked you to find a seat by the window, it's not convenient, how can you let someone move your seat!"
Xiaoer stared at Gu Huaiqing in a stunned manner, seeing that he had no intention of asking for money back, he hurriedly followed his words and accompanies him a few words.
"I collided below, and I hope you forgive me." Gu Huaiqing smiled and cupped his hands at Jingchen. Jingchen glanced at him. He could see the twists and turns of it clearly, but he didn't know why the man changed his mind. , replied lightly: "It's okay."
Gu Huaiqing looked at the person in front of her. She clearly looked similar to Jing Shao, but their temperament was very different. That calm and noble temperament unconsciously attracted people's attention to him, but it made people afraid to be straight. See. Although he roughly guessed the identity of this person, Jingchen didn't know who he was. Thinking of this, Gu Huaiqing suddenly had an interesting idea.
King Huainan has always been romantic and unrestrained, and when he encounters beautiful women, he can't help but go up and make fun of him. Because of his good skin, few people will face each other coldly, except for Jing Shao, the guy who only knows how to shake his fist. So, Gu Huaiqing, who was going to eat and drink, consciously sat opposite Jingchen and said with a smile: "meeting is fate, I see what is on the waist of the young master..." Then he aimed at Jingchen's waist, thinking that he would definitely He will have something like a saber. He is a good treasure, and he has a conversation about appreciation one or two. After looking around, he was at a loss for words. Jingchen has no sword around his waist!
"What?" Jingchen frowned, feeling that the man was a little inexplicable.
"Uh... The jade buckle is not bad," Gu Huaiqing was stunned by the stare of the person on the opposite side, and he said it smoothly, "Can you lend me a look?"
Jingchen's face suddenly turned black.
All this is the beginning of evil.
And today's Sheng Yuan Emperor, looking at the Taizu Handwriting in his hand, only felt a headache.
It is said that it is a manuscript, but there are very few things about governing the country. Most of them are some small things that Taizu accidentally wrote down on a whim, but he wrote the most about the fief of Huainan.
Taizu said that he fought the world together with the three anti-kings, but Gu Xi was the closest to each other. The two became brothers and often fell asleep together. Among them, Taizu used a whole page to describe Gu Xi's beauty, and Jingchen's mouth twitched when he saw it. What happened later was full of sighs. The folk customs of the previous dynasties were not like this. Men could not marry men. The Taizu set the Dachen Law and insisted on listing male wives. However, no matter how hard he tried, the King of Huainan did not succeed Marry Taizu.
What happened during the period is unknown, but Taizu finally wrote it on the handwritten note, warning the descendants who saw this handwritten note, not to take the initiative to violate the Huainan fief, and to withdraw the vassal, he must marry the king of Huainan, and Willful list of various rules.
Jingchen closed the notebook and sighed lightly. Taizu said that he was allowed to marry a male wife, but it was only after so many years that the laws and regulations were perfected again and again, and the folks also formed unwritten rules for the sons to marry male wives. The reason why the emperors of the past dynasties failed to recover Huainan was that if they wanted to marry, the king of Huainan had to be willing to marry him.
"Report to the emperor, Cheng Wang asks to see you." The eunuch chief reported.
"Let him in." Jing Chen rubbed his eyebrows.
"My brother sees the emperor, my emperor..." Jing Shao knelt down to salute, but was interrupted by Jing Chen before he finished speaking.
"What's the matter?" Jingchen waved his hand to get him up, and the eunuchs retreated wisely.
"Brother," Jing Shao consciously got up, got close to his brother, and glanced at the yellowed booklet in Jing Chen's hand, "What exactly is written on the Taizu's notebook?" The more Jing Shao thought about it in the past two years, the more he felt Taizu must have a spirit in the sky. When he destroyed Huainan, he was suddenly framed by many people, and finally died in Fengyue Mountain. In this life, he did not fight seriously, but Emperor Hongzheng insisted on withdrawing from the vassal, and Taizu took it early. go. Therefore, he particularly wanted to know what was said on the Taizu's handbook.
Jingchen pressed the handkerchief under his palm and didn't show it to him: "what are you doing here?"
"Oh, Gu Huaiqing has entered the capital, and she has to live in my mansion." Seeing the sudden change in the emperor's brother's eyes, Jing Shao thought that he had said something wrong, so he shrank his neck and said solemnly, "My brother came to report, The King of Huainan came with the last instruction of Taizu and asked to see his brother."
Taizu's last instructions were written by Taizu himself before his death and handed over to the king of Huainan.
The fact that King Huainan brought Taizu's legacy to the capital soon spread throughout the capital.
There was a lot of discussion in the court, all guessing what Taizu's legacy was. Jingchen vaguely guessed what was in it, but when Gu Huaiqing read it out in front of the civil and martial arts of the Manchu Dynasty, he still felt that the veins on his forehead jumped suddenly.
Gu Huaiqing stood in the center of the courtroom, looking up at the handsome emperor on the dragon chair, waiting for him to speak with a half-smiling smile.
The courtroom was so quiet that the silver needles fell to the ground, just because this Taizu's legacy was too shocking to the world!
"Since there is such a legacy, I should obey the meaning of the Taizu," Jing Chen's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at Gu Huaiqing with a deep look, "Qing can continue to guard Huainan, and pay taxes and tribute as usual."
Gu Huaiqing's eyes flashed a trace of disappointment, but the emperor's reaction was also expected, and he immediately knelt down to thank him: "I should do my best to protect Huainan for my emperor."
In the third year of Shengyuan, the King of Huainan read out the last words of Taizu, returned to the main city Danyang in April, and invaded Jiangzhou in May.
"Your Majesty, the King of Huainan has acted erratically in the south of the Yangtze River based on the teachings of Taizu, and Huainan is 800 miles away from Beijing.
"Your Majesty, the treasury has already been depleted in the past few years. Now the overall situation has been decided. It is a time when recuperation is urgently needed. It is really not appropriate to start another war."
Jing Chen was sitting behind the desk in the imperial study, listening to the discussions of several important ministers expressionlessly. He was so upset that he glared fiercely at a certain prince of the town who was drinking tea.
Jing Shao was secretly stuffing some snacks into his mouth, when his royal brother glared at him and almost choked, he quickly took a gulp of water.
The so-called King of Huainan invaded Jiangzhou, in fact, Gu Huaiqing swallowed another city in order to force the marriage, and then stayed on his stomach; and the treasury was depleted, it was Jingshao who went out to fight the war, and hid a lot of money, and later turned it over honestly. Jingchen is gone, and even Gu Huaiqing turned in his share. But these can't be said on the bright side. Those Qian Jingchen can only be kept temporarily. If they are directly filled in the treasury, it will show Jing Shao's crime. So Jing Chen had no choice but to stare at his brother a few more times to vent his anger.
"The queen has passed away and the harem has no owner. Why didn't the emperor agree to the king of Huainan..." Ma Zhuo whispered.
Several old ministers looked at each other, not daring to make a sound.
"Do you think so too?" Jingchen scanned the crowd.
"What Ma Shilang said is reasonable, but this matter needs to be discussed in the long run..." The Minister of the Household replied in a low voice. The kings of Huainan have never been willing to marry into the palace. It is rare to have a special one who is willing to marry. If you accept Huainan just like that A fief is a great deed for the benefit of future generations. But the emperor didn't want to marry, and they didn't dare to say more. After all, the emperor has never accepted a male concubine, and he has never favored a man since he left the palace and established the mansion. He must not like men... right
When the ministers left, Jing Shao saw that his brother was in a bad mood, so he also smeared oil on the soles of his feet, but Jing Chen grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to play chess with a sad face.
Looking at the full plate of black and white Zi Jingshao gave him a headache. He had never had any talent for qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, let alone playing against his brother, only the fate of being killed.
Jingchen watched his younger brother wrinkled his nose and was killed in pieces, and his disturbed heart gradually filled with joy: "you don't talk about learning from Hanzhang, but you still haven't made progress so far."
"Old Jun Qing coaxed me to play, but refused to play with me." Jing Shao scratched his head and didn't know where to put it next, so he just stuffed it in a random place. Sure enough, he was caught by his brother and ate several.
"Xiao Shao," Jing Chen looked at his younger brother, who had a smile on his face when he mentioned the princess, "when Hanzhang was not named a marquis, did you ever think about letting him go?"
"Ah?" Jing Shao held the chess piece for a while, although he didn't know why his brother asked this suddenly, he honestly shook his head, "I didn't think about it."
"If he married you, he could only be trapped in a square inch of the inner house. Can you bear it?" Jingchen didn't make any more decisions and stared straight at Jingshao. This was what he couldn't figure out these days, he asked himself It's not that he didn't care about Gu Huaiqing, but he didn't know whether he was greedy for his appearance or really moved, but just thinking that such a person with peerless elegance would be trapped in the harem and fighting with a group of women, he felt agitated.
Jing Shao heard the meaning of his brother's words, and flexibly turned the Heizi in his hand between his fingers: "I pity Junqing, but I know even more that I will never like others except Junqing, and he has no me. It's not necessarily that I can live happily, as long as I can be with him, I will do my best to give him whatever he wants, and I will not make him feel wronged."
Jingchen listened to his brother's words quietly, and didn't say anything.
"Brother..." Jing Shao looked at his brother and finally couldn't help sighing. Before going out, his concubine repeatedly warned him that he could not directly persuade him about his brother and Gu Huaiqing, because Jingchen, as an emperor, must have thought more carefully than him. Since ancient times, the beauty of the country has not been able to have both, and now with such a good opportunity, he never knew what his brother was hesitating, but it turned out to be pity for Gu Huaiqing...
After his brother left, Jingchen sat in the imperial garden and watched the flowers fall.
"Every generation of Huainan kings is called Gu Huaiqing, so did you have another name when you were a child?" It was he who looked at the man's delicate face and asked out of nowhere.
"Give me the jade buckle, and I'll tell you." Gu Huaiqing in memory smiled with a malicious look on her face.
"It's fine if you don't say it." At that time, when I saw his smile, I thought it was very beautiful, so I didn't care about his rudeness.
"Feng Xi," Gu Huaiqing grabbed his jade button and laughed upside down. The Prince of Huainan should name him with the suffix Xi, "When I was young, my name was Feng Xi."
In February of the fourth year of Shengyuan, the anniversary of the death of the queen, the courtiers asked to establish a new queen. In March, Emperor Sheng Yuan announced the decree, respected the last instruction of the Taizu, married Gu Huaiqing, the king of Huainan, and withdrawn the fief of Huainan. Emperor Sheng Yuan appreciated Huai Xiang's talent and was named Zuo Xiang.
Although Gu Huaiqing was regarded as the successor, but because it was the last instruction of the Taizu, and the Queen of Yuan was brought by the palace, the wedding was held very grandly. Ten miles of red carpet, the whole world celebrates.
Jingchen pushed open the door of Fengyi Palace's inner room, opened his slightly drunk eyes and looked at the person sitting in front of the red tent, the wedding dress similar to his own, embroidered with gorgeous golden phoenix, lining his handsome face , more and more charming.
He walked over slowly, picked up the wine cup on the table, Jingchen handed a cup over, but he was not in a hurry to drink it, just looked at him quietly: "is it worth it?" Abandoning everything just for him, who bears the burden of the world, Is it really worth it for someone who is destined to not be able to devote all their energy to him
Gu Huaiqing shook the golden cup in his hand, got up and crossed arms with the emperor: "How can the emperor be so ignorant of the style of the bridal chamber flower candle night."
Jingchen didn't ask any more questions, and only drank his glass of wine with him.
Jingchen took his newly married queen and lay down on the large bed. The candlelight reflected on Gu Huaiqing's face through the red curtain. In the dimness, it was a bit coquettish. Caressing the soft blue silk, he sighed softly.
"Why does the emperor sigh?" Gu Huaiqing stretched out a slender finger and tapped it on his lips, "The good night is short, the emperor should not waste time."
Jingchen slowly loosened the phoenix-embroidered belt, exposing his well-proportioned chest, and dropped a light kiss on it: "since you are willing to marry me, I will not disappoint you."
Gu Huaiqing bent her long and narrow eyes and quietly waited for her husband to strip off all his clothes. Then, he turned over and pressed the emperor under him: "The emperor rests, the minister will serve him."
"No," Jing Chen frowned, feeling that this approach was a bit inappropriate, and turned over to hold Gu Huaiqing down, "What is the proper way for the queen to turn over on top of me?"
"Your Majesty forgives your sins," Gu Huaiqing said without any sincerity, pressing down with force, "It's true that I miss the Emperor day and night, and I can't bear such a slow torture, so..." Saying this, one hand was already Slip into the dragon robe.
The emperor got married and stopped the court for three days.
During these three days, the emperor has never stepped out of the Fengyi Palace. People in the palace talked a lot, and they all said that this male queen seemed to be especially favored.
A year later, Mu Hanzhang went to the imperial study to submit the memorial that he had handled for the emperor these days, and Jing Shao, who had nothing to do, followed his princess into the palace to watch the fun.
"Why don't you see the Queen's Sister-in-law?" Jing Shao looked around, didn't my brother say that Gu Huaiqing could help me approve the memorial
"The queen is a little tired. I asked him to rest in Fengyi Palace." Jingchen looked at the memorials with a blank face. He felt that Mu Hanzhang had no problem with it, so he put it aside and picked up the new memorials and began to criticize them. .
Jing Shao understood in an instant, gave his brother a tacit look, and pulled his princess away.
After everyone left, Empress Gu who was wearing a phoenix robe, walked out from behind the screen, leaned over to the emperor with a shy face, and said to please, "I'm tired of sitting, can I lean on you?"
Jingchen turned a deaf ear and continued to criticize the memorial. The Queen Mother consciously leaned over and slowly rubbed the emperor's waist.
"If you are like this again, I will put you in the cold palace tomorrow." Jing Chen snorted coldly, but unconsciously leaned against the people around him.
"How can the emperor be so ruthless," Gu Huaiqing frowned, lying on his shoulder aggrievedly, "My concubine is pregnant now, if I go to that cold place, I am afraid that the child will not be able to be saved."
Jingchen rubbed his forehead with a headache, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "As the queen of a country, it's not proper to talk nonsense!"
"The emperor actually suspects the concubine!" Gu Huaiqing's expression became even more bitter, "The concubine will prove her innocence to the emperor now." As he spoke, he put his hand into the emperor's shirt.
"… roll!"