The eunuch held the edict in his hand and looked at Yaoying with an embarrassed expression.
Yaoying was dressed in brilliant sunshine and her face was calm: "Since the Holy One has summoned me, why did you avoid seeing me?"
The eunuch forced a smile: "The Holy Master is in charge of all kinds of opportunities, and he is discussing important matters with the ministers..."
The voice got lower and lower, paused for a while, and then suddenly raised it again, "Please take the order, my lord, and I will go back to work!"
Yaoying smiled and stood in front of the steps, dressed in elegant robes.
The eunuch was captured by her face, and for a while he did not dare to urge again.
A smug laughter suddenly sounded in front of the platform, and the sound of her dress rustled on the ground, and Concubine Rong, who was dressed in Chinese clothes, came over surrounded by palace servants.
"Princess don't have to wait!" Concubine Rong looked at Yaoying with a smile on her face, and did not hide her schadenfreude, "The imperial edict has been issued, the imperial concubine is crazy and stupid, and the sage ordered this palace to take care of the princess's marriage. The princess is about to leave the cabinet, The sage is afraid that she will be sad when she sees the princess, so don't make it difficult for these palace servants, the princess will go back and prepare for marriage after receiving the decree."
She smiled coquettishly.
"I almost forgot... The husband that the princess is marrying is Chief Yelu. I heard that she is not too young! The old concubine will hurt people, and the princess is very lucky."
Chang Shi glared at Concubine Rong, his face ashen.
Concubine Rong looked at Yaoying and smiled.
Yaoying glanced at Xie Qing behind her.
Xie Qing understood, took two steps forward, waved his hand and slapped Concubine Rong on the face.
Before Concubine Rong could react, her maid first screamed in a heart-wrenching manner, and rushed forward to tear Xie Qing: "Bold!"
Xie Qing's face was expressionless, and he slapped his backhand again.
He was a warrior, and his strength was not light. Concubine Rong was dizzy after being beaten, and her well-maintained face quickly swelled up.
The palace maid was so frightened that she ran away like a headless fly, and the screams resounded throughout the palace.
Jin Wuwei arrived when he heard the sound, and did not dare to question Yaoying, he drew his knife at Xie Qing, and scolded: "Diao Nuxiu is presumptuous!"
Xie Qing didn't even look at Jin Wuwei, grabbed Concubine Rong's wrist and knelt at Yaoying's feet.
Concubine Rong's face was covered in blood, she struggled desperately, her head full of pearls and greens rolled to the ground, and cursed: "This palace is a dignified imperial concubine, you scoundrel, how dare you be so presumptuous, this palace will cut your head off! Seventh princess! , Ben Gong is your concubine, if you dare to humiliate Ben Gong today, Ben Gong will never give up! You wait, you wait for Ben Gong!"
The surrounding Jin Wuwei looked at each other in dismay, and took two steps forward boldly.
Yaoying glanced at them.
Jin Wuwei stopped immediately.
Yaoying motioned to Xie Qing to lift Concubine Rong's swollen face.
Concubine Rong knelt in front of the steps, her face was bruised, angry and frightened, and her whole body trembled.
Yaoying looked at her, "Aqing is the general of the Xie family, my most loyal guard, not a slave."
Xie Qing straightened his back secretly, always showing a hint of pride on his cold face.
Yao Ying's words changed, "Your real name is A Rong, you are the maid of the Xie family. Back then, you climbed onto the master's bed with my mother on your back. My uncle knew your nature and didn't ruin your deed. You still thank you. House servant, my aunt is your old master, if you dare to be disrespectful to the old master, these slaps are a small punishment."
Concubine Rong was trembling with anger: "Bengong is Concubine Rong who was proclaimed by the sage! You wait, I will let the sage discipline you well! You have no respect, you deserve to be sent to have a kiss!"
Yaoying smiled slightly, like a spring flower in full bloom: "The Yelu tribe wants to ask me to marry me, the sage and the ministers in the court are looking forward to taking me to exchange for the cavalry of the Yelu tribe, Arong, you are the sage's pillow, more than others. Know more about the saint, think about it, will the saint now make me unhappy for you?"
Concubine Rong was stunned, her mouth opened weakly, her anger was replaced by fear bit by bit, and she trembled even more.
At this time, there was a light sound of horses' hoofs under the long steps.
Jin Wuwei looked around and saw the people on the horse's back with a look of surprise on their faces.
The two eunuchs hurried into the hall to inform them without paying attention to reading the marriage edict.
"Pei Gong is here! Pei Gong is here!"
On the steps of the Highness, several palace servants surrounded a tall and strong white horse, helping an old man to dismount.
The old man's head was wrapped in gauze, and he was dressed in an indigo-colored round-neck robe. His face was old, and his temples were gray.
"Pei Gong!"
From the front hall, the corridor to the platform, there was a diligent call, and several eunuchs received orders from Li De, carrying soft sedan chairs and rushing to the old man's side.
"Pei Gong is here, and the sage is very happy. He has brought several prime ministers to welcome him. Please take a sedan chair and enter the temple!"
Pei Gong had passed his old age, he was in a trance, his eyes were cloudy, he raised his face, looked around, and his eyes fell on Yaoying.
Concubine Rong's face immediately flashed with joy.
The Pei family in Wei County was a close friend of the Li family. When Li De revolted, the Pei family followed. Duke Pei's brothers and sons all died in battle, and he himself was seriously injured to save Li De. Although he saved a life, his body completely collapsed, and he has stayed in Wei County to cultivate.
Li De respected Pei Gong very much, and once said in public that Pei Gong was like his biological father.
The Pei family and the Xie family were at odds. Everyone knew that Pei Gong had repeatedly expressed his contempt for Xie Wuliang in public.
Concubine Rong shouted: "Pei Gong! The daughter of the Xie family is disrespectful and beats the concubine! Please ask Pei Gong to be the master of the concubine!"
Chang Shi did not expect that the Pei Gonghui, which is thousands of miles away, would suddenly appear in front of him, with fine sweat crawling on his forehead.
He blocked Yaoying: "Princess, you should avoid it first."
Yaoying shook her head and glanced at Concubine Rong: "The account is not over yet, you wait."
Concubine Rong shuddered.
Yaoying turned around and walked towards Duke Pei.
Chang Shi stomped his feet in a hurry.
Yaoying walked up to Duke Pei and gave him a junior salute.
Pei Gong looked at her, nodded, and stretched out his hand.
The eunuch next to him hurriedly said: "Pei Gong, the sage said that you are old enough to take a sedan chair..."
Pei Gong sneered, pushed the eunuch away, and patted Yaoying lightly with an old, thin hand, "I've grown a lot taller."
Yaoying chuckled lightly: "You are stronger than before."
Pei Gong's cloudy eyes flashed a smile: "Coax me again."
The crowd was stunned.
Before the long steps, Li De, the emperor who hurried to greet Duke Pei, also had a surprised expression on his face.
Prime Minister Zheng Yu, Governor Pei and other ministers followed behind Li De, watching Duke Pei and Li Yaoying talking, laughing, and walking up the stairs.
Pei Gong has always hated the Xie family. He has never had any dealings with the Seventh Princess all these years. How can they be so harmonious
Dudu Pei was Duke Pei's nephew, and he greeted him with a smile: "I didn't know your old man was here, and my nephew apologized to my uncle."
Pei Gong glanced at him coldly, ignored him, and walked to Li De with Yaoying's support, posing to pay his respects.
Li De hurriedly supported Duke Pei and said with a smile, "Why are you here?"
Pei Gong directly pushed away Li De's outstretched hand, "The old and old body is useless, so I want to ask the Holy One for the last thing."
Li De didn't speak, and his eyes fell on Yaoying who was standing beside Pei Gong.
Pei Gong stood on Yaoying's hand and said slowly: "My knees are desolate, and only Yulang is the great-grandson left. Back then, the sage Jinkou Yuyan promised to bring the princess down to the Pei family. I think the seventh princess is smart, smart, gentle and generous. , I want to ask the saint for a favor, but I don't know if the saint can be willing?"
Before he finished speaking, the ministers had already changed their expressions.
The eunuchs and guards had long since retreated silently, and Concubine Rong was also helped down by the palace maid, and the sound of wind filled the corridor.
Li De was silent for a while, and then said with a smile: "Pei Gong, it's not that I can't bear Qiniang, but I have already agreed to the marriage proposal of the Yelu tribe."
Duke Pei raised his eyelids: "Oh? How did I hear that the princess who is going to marry the Yelu tribe is Princess Fukang?"
The minister sweated profusely.
Li De looked at Yaoying again.
Yaoying's eyes lowered.
Pei Gong looked around and saw that all the ministers bowed their heads in a guilty conscience, their eyes fell back to Li De's face, and he said calmly: "Will the sage lose his trust in me? But I heard it with my own ears."
Prime Minister Pei had an embarrassed look on his face, he didn't dare to respond, and it was not good to respond.
Duke Pei's children and grandchildren all died for Li De, and they were all there when Li De made his promise.
Li De sighed: "Invite Duke Pei to enter the hall, and I will discuss the ins and outs with Duke Pei."
The wrinkles on Pei Gong's face trembled twice, but he did not move: "The sage does not need to spend this effort, I have already heard people detail the proposal of the Yelu tribe."
His voice rose abruptly, and his turbid eyes surged with anger.
"The Holy Master had no intention of giving marriage, and the Zhu family's daughter was arrogant and self-willed, and promised marriage indiscriminately. The Holy Master did not want to break the trust of the barbarians, so she could only grant marriage, but the Zhu family's daughter repented and refused to marry. At this time, the Yelu tribe changed her mouth and said that she wanted to marry the seventh princess. , the sage wants to recover Liangzhou... As for you..."
Pei Gong's eyes swept away from the ministers' faces one by one.
"You are grateful for Zhu's kindness and do not want to see Zhu's daughter marrying far away. Since the Yelu tribe took the initiative to ask for a replacement, you are naturally overjoyed, so you encouraged the sage to agree to the marriage proposal of the Yelu tribe and marry your own daughter, right or not? !"
He shouted, and the ministers were startled and almost fell to their knees.
Pei Gong looked at Li De and said word by word: "Sir, dare to ask whether the Wei Dynasty's surname is Li or Zhu? Zhu's daughter Jin Gui, Li's daughter is Caojia? Letting her fool around, just because her surname is Zhu, they only have the Zhu family in their hearts, and is there still the emperor of Shengshang?"
The ministers' hearts were pounding and sweating profusely. When they heard the last sentence, they thumped and fell to their knees.
"The Holy One is clear! The ministers have no such intentions!"
Pei Gong sneered: "This matter is all because of the Zhu family's daughter. If it wasn't for the Zhu family's daughter, how would the Yelu tribe have the courage to ask for the princess of the Li family? I want to retake Liangzhou, do I have to rely on Yelu? Lu tribe?"
The ministers were speechless.
Pei Gong glanced around and said slowly: "The Xie family has run Jingnan in successive dynasties, and is full of loyal and righteous people. The Hu clan went south, and the people of the Central Plains were slaughtered. The Xie family was far away in Jingnan, and he resolutely led the army north to help the Zhu clan fight against the enemy.
"Twenty-five years ago, a famine broke out in the Dajiang area, and people died of starvation. Diseases were rampant. Wherever the victims fled, the local officials ordered them to be expelled. Only Jingnan Xie Wuliang opened the city gates to treat the victims, and set up a porridge shed and a medical center to live and work. There were countless people, and the people in the north and south of the Yangtze River fled to Jingnan, and he took good care of them all. When the epidemic was over, he sent people to send the victims back to their hometowns without forcibly detaining them."
"Twenty-one years ago, Sheng Shang was defeated in Fuzhou, tens of thousands of Wei troops were killed in the river valley, and Wei County was also occupied by enemy troops. The Xie family sent troops to solve the danger of Wei County, and donated food to help Sheng Shang recruit troops and horses, and recruit Jingnan nobles for Sheng Shang. , in just one year, help the sage to recover all the lost ground and make a covenant with the sage."
"Eleven years ago, the Chu army made a sneak attack. The Xie family defended Jingnan in order to contain the Chu army, to cover the people crossing the river, and for the great cause of the sage. Xie Wuliang, a weak scholar, defended the well-equipped southern Chu army for more than a year. moon!"
"Later the food in the city ran out, and I was really powerless to resist the Chu army."
"The Xie family is full of heroes."
Duke Pei said loudly: "Before the city was destroyed, Xie Wuliang asked his own soldiers to cut off his head and present it to the Chu army to quell the anger of the Chu army. In order to protect the people in the city, Xie Wuliang did not slaughter the city."
As he spoke, the sound of the wind suddenly became shrill.
The ministers looked solemn and said nothing.
Eunuch Pei raised his eyes, and two rays of light shot out from his turbid and old eyes: "Sacred Lord, thank the family for worrying about the country and forgetting their home, sacrifice their lives to help the poor, worthy of the ancestors, worthy of the people, and even more worthy of the sage! The people of Jingnan will not Forget the kindness of the Xie family! Concubine Xie is the sister of Wuliang Xie, she has only one son and a daughter, the concubine is sickly, the seventh princess is sincere and filial, serving soup and medicine, and staying around, how can you bear to let the seventh princess marry?!"
His tone was cold and sharp.
"Your Majesty, the name of the seventh princess was named by Xie Wuliang. If Xie Wuliang was still there, would you let the seventh princess marry away?"
Li De's face was cold.
The ministers knelt on the ground and did not dare to say a word, but their faces showed emotion and shame.
As Pei Gong said, when they learned that Yelu Chief wanted to marry the seventh princess, they were all relieved - Zhu Luyun didn't have to marry.
They did their best to save the last bit of Zhu's bloodline, completely disregarding the life and death of the Seventh Princess, and facing Xie's shamelessly!
Li De had a panoramic view of the courtiers' sighed expressions.
Pei Gong first mentioned the promise of the year, then asked whether the courtiers were still loyal to the Zhu family, and then mentioned the Xie family.
If he insisted on letting Yaoying go to the marriage, it would not only chill the hearts of noble families such as Pei and Xie who followed him, but also make the old ministers of the previous dynasty fearful, and Dudu Pei and others would be even more indignant.
At the beginning of the new dynasty, he tried his best to balance the old officials, aristocratic families, noble families, poor families, and military generals of the previous dynasty, so as not to let any one party dominate, but the aristocratic family gradually controlled the court.
He couldn't let the loyal ministers chill at this time.
The turbulent undercurrent in the courtroom is far more important than the 10,000 cavalry of the Yelu tribe.
Li De weighed it again and again and quickly made a decision.
"The Yelu tribe is seeking to marry Princess Fukang."
The words fell, and the ministers did not raise any objections.
The wind whistled in front of the palace.
Yaoying stood beside Gong Pei, sweating on her clothes, her heart was beating like a drum, and she slowly closed her eyes.
A few years ago, she accidentally saved the life of Pei Gong's great-grandson Pei Yu. Pei Gong promised to do something for her, which must have nothing to do with Li Zhongqian and Xie Guifei.
When she found out that Li Xuanzhen actually wanted her to marry her, she immediately thought of Duke Pei.
Fortunately, Duke Pei is a promise-keeper.
…
Li De stayed with Duke Pei and discussed with him about the gift of marriage.
Yaoying retire.
Prime Minister Zheng watched Yaoying walk away with a complicated expression on his face.
Yesterday, his son Zheng Jingqiu came to him and said that he was in love with the seventh princess, and asked him to help persuade Li De to prevent Li De and Donggong from marrying the seventh princess instead.
The Zheng family and the second prince discussed marriage, although it was not settled later, but as long as the Zheng family took out the marriage letter and token that they had prepared before, and the seventh princess cooperated, they could still convince outsiders.
Prime Minister Zheng refused: "You offend the East Palace for the Seventh Princess, and your future career will be completely ruined!"
Zheng Jing resolutely said: "As long as the Seventh Princess can be saved, my son is willing to leave office forever."
Prime Minister Zheng was helpless and reluctantly agreed.
Zheng Jing immediately went to the Seventh Princess to discuss how to make a statement. He was happy when he left, but he was downcast when he came back.
Prime Minister Zheng frowned and asked, "Did the Seventh Princess taunt you?"
The son's aptitude is mediocre, and he is often ridiculed.
Zheng Jing shook his head: "The Seventh Princess didn't ridicule me."
Li Yaoying didn't ridicule Zheng Jing, she was surprised that Zheng Jing offered to help, thanked him for helping him in the snow, thanked him for his kindness, and finally said: "Sanlang is a talented person, he must be the backbone of the country in the future, and should not ruin my future. Saburo Don't worry about me, I already have a way to protect myself."
Prime Minister Zheng scoffed, how can a little lady protect herself
However, he still admires Li Yaoying's calmness in the face of danger, and he can still think about Zheng Jing's future at this time.
He thought that Li Yaoying was coaxing Zheng Jing when he said there was a way to protect himself.
Never thought that she would be able to invite Duke Pei.
Prime Minister Zheng frowned.
Chang'an and Wei County were thousands of miles apart, and Duke Pei should have left long ago. At that time, the Yelu tribe hadn't written to ask for marriage.
Li Yaoying must have sent a letter to Duke Pei when he found out that the East Palace wanted her to marry her, so Duke Pei came so timely, the edict of conferring marriage had not been issued, and the sage could change his mind at any time.
This kind of courage is really rare.
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The news of Li De's withdrawal of the marriage edict soon spread to the East Palace.
Zheng Biyu sighed softly, she didn't want to see the seventh princess bury her life for Zhu Luyun's willfulness.
Wei Ming was disappointed.
Li Xuanzhen's reaction was calm, neither irritated nor relieved.
He just let out a faint snort, turned his head and called his staff, and continued to discuss how to stop Zhu Luyun from marrying her.
Li De did not agree to get married. Chief Yelu was very disappointed. He wrote to see him and made more promises. Li De was busy with Duke Pei and did not meet him.
Chang Shi told Li Yaoying worriedly: "Head of Yelu is not a thief, he bribed the officials of Honglu Temple, and wanted them to persuade His Majesty to marry."
I don't know what happened, but Yelu Chief, who had never seen Yaoying, suddenly seemed to have fallen into evil, as if he must get Yaoying.
At this time, Yaoying had already obtained Duke Pei's marriage certificate, and a big stone fell in her heart: "Nothing, with this marriage certificate of Duke Pei, no one dares to force me to marry."
Chang Shi Xindao too.
Now that Duke Pei is protecting the Seventh Princess, Xiao Xiao did not dare to act rashly. When the Second Prince came back, there was nothing to worry about.
Chang Shi looked forward to Li Zhongqian's early return.
After waiting for more than half a month, I finally looked forward to the battle report sent from the south.
Chang Shi opened the letter, the smile condensed in the corner of his mouth, his eyes darkened, and he fell to the ground.
The letter was quickly delivered to Li Yaoying.
On the letter was a line of unfamiliar handwriting: Two days ago, the right army led by the King of Qin was ambushed and the entire army was annihilated.
The author has something to say: The second brother can't take the lunch box, the monk... Well, the monk is chanting.
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By the way, I am asking for the pre-collection of the next book, "Wearing as the Daughter of a Traitor", the imperial examination competition article, and the daily life of relying on the father of the traitor~
Suddenly found out that the old man who lives with each other will become the notorious first cruel officer, the whole family is destined to be cannon fodder, what should I do
Mingyao spread out his hands: what else can we do
What should I do if I am forced to marry the son of the enemy before I am proud
Mingyao smiled: Of course, it was to harm him, to piss off his whole family, and to live up to the reputation of the daughter of a traitor.
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