Empress Chu

Seeing the indifferent smile on the young man's face, the crown princess sighed in her heart, all the daughters of the Xie family were of average appearance, and all the men of the Xie family were good-looking.

Although she had never met the concubine whom she had known halfway, she was described in letters from her family as being very good looking, no different from Xie Yanfang.

But it doesn't matter how good-looking she is, Xie Yanfang is the only one who can treat her like a younger brother, not even her fellow brothers.

"The third brother must marry a wife who is very good-looking." She said.

So that children can grow up to look good.

Xie Yanfang laughed: "The elder sister is like a mother. After leaving Dongyang's house, I seem to be still with my mother."

The crown princess scolded.

A court lady hurried over and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness, please come over." She added, "It's in the training ground."

Xie Yanfang stood up in response, and the princess stood up, telling: "Don't compare your strength with His Highness, His Highness's stone locks are getting heavier and heavier, and many people have been injured and crushed to death. You can't have any injuries."

"You only have one life, and it's enough to do it once." Xie Yanfang smiled lowly, "Sister, you are the princess now, and I don't need to work hard."

That's right, as long as she is the Crown Princess and will be the Empress in the future, even if the Xie family has no real power, no one in this world would dare to mess with her. The Crown Princess pursed her lips and patted him on the shoulder: "Go quickly."

Xie Yanfang turned to leave, the Crown Princess called again: "Don't rush to leave after talking with the Crown Prince, I will let Yu'er come back, he is studying, you have not seen him as an uncle yet."

The eldest son of the crown prince and princess, named Yu by the emperor, is six years old this year.

Xie Yanfang smiled and said hello.

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The prince, who was only wearing single clothes and bare arms, threw down the stone lock, took the towels handed over by the riding and arching entourage, and looked at Xie Yanfang while wiping off his sweat.

Xie Yanfang walked around the stone lock, looking eager to try.

"Would you like to try?" the prince asked with a smile.

Xie Yanfang shook her head: "I didn't lift His Highness's stone lock back then in Dongyang, let alone now."

The prince's eyebrows and eyes were full of hostility: "Really? So you Xie family have no pride now, and you are not even willing to assign you to do things?"

Behind Chapter 34

Unlike Yang's and Zhao's Xuanhe, who controlled the government, since the crown princess got married, no one from the Xie family was an official in the capital. Those who were originally officials either resigned or were sent to the county.

The descendants of the Yang family and the Zhao family, regardless of their names and surnames, even the son of a favored servant, would like to be assigned an official position, while Xie's, Xie Yanfang, a famous son like Xie Yanfang, is at home leisurely.

The Crown Prince has proposed several times over the years to ask Xie Yanfang to become an official, but Xie Yanfang has always refused for various reasons. After declining for so long, the Crown Prince's already bad temper has been irritated.

"Gu's marriage to your Xie family is not just for the purpose of having children." The prince said coldly, his eyes full of hostility, "Xie Sanlang, you have said that marrying Gu is a punishment for you. Being so comfortable doesn’t feel like being punished.”

The third prince became more and more condescending, but the father still turned a blind eye. Zhao's arrogance became more and more powerful, while Yang's was clearly invincible.

Mrs. Xie still hid behind to enjoy leisure.

He granted Xie's royal status not because of being a good person, nor because he was obsessed with the beauty of Xie's daughter.

It's a three-party struggle, so that he, the superior, can save worry and effort.

"Your Highness, I have been wronged." Xie Yanfang said, with a helpless expression, "The best way to help His Highness is by not doing anything now."

The prince sneered: "Tell me about your fallacy."

"The third prince can't stay anymore." Xie Yanfang said.

The prince was taken aback, as if he had seen 13-year-old Xie Yanfang again. At that time, he was standing under the hill, looking at the boy who suddenly appeared on the hill. The boy was dressed in white and held a crossbow in his hand. Fairy, but the fright it brings is like a ghost.

Although he was not afraid of killing people and hated the third brother very much, he never dared to think about getting rid of the third brother - his father was still there.

"Do you think he is a chicken dog?" The prince scolded, and said to get rid of him, "He is deeply loved by the father, and he has Zhao's saddle and horse, and don't really think that he is just hiding to study like this." .”

In the name of studying, gathering contacts and fame, the third prince has countless people and money.

Xie Yanfang said with a smile: "So Yang is in the light and I am in the dark, so I can do things better for His Highness."

The prince said: "How to do it?"

"The Yang family is very powerful, everyone is staring at them, it is inconvenient for them to do many things, and they can't make friends with many people, so we will come." Xie Yanfang said, taking out a volume of documents, "This is the one I have visited over the years. People, there are famous families, there are also talented people who live in seclusion in the mountains, and there are some dusty people who look inconspicuous but will be useful when necessary."

The prince reached out to take it and opened it, a smile appeared on his face, and the hostility in his eyes dissipated: "Not bad, not bad, uncle can't do these things, such as this—"

He pointed at one of the names, annoyed and laughing at the same time.

"A few years ago my uncle visited him, and when he heard about it, he ran away overnight over the wall with his pack on his back."

That person doesn't necessarily want to work for him, but he dislikes Yang's reputation and doesn't want to be with him.

Compared with the Yang family, the Xie family is indeed more favorable.

When the prince was about to look away, he slid past a name and paused.

"This Chu Ling—"

Xie Yanfang knew that the prince would have doubts.

The prince regards himself as brave, but he doesn't like to be brave without submitting to him, so he doesn't like Chu Ling.

He explained: "Although this Chu Ling disrespected His Majesty, disobeyed the imperial decree and was self-righteous, and was abandoned by His Majesty, he has still been able to serve as General Guard for more than ten years. It can be seen that His Majesty must still have an unresolved relationship with him. A person may say a word at a certain moment, which can play a big role, so keep it as a backup—”

The prince laughed, sometimes being smart is not omnipotent.

"Sanlang, what you said is correct." He said, "But Chu Ling is going to die."

Xie Yanfang really didn't know this, she looked surprised: "I don't know anything about it."

"It's not surprising that you don't know." The prince said with a smile, "He is a person who has never heard of it. Who would care about his news."

Chu Ling is dead, who cares.

Xie Yanfang asked curiously: "Your Highness, how do you know?"

"Father told the orphan." The prince said casually, "If he wants to die, he should die, and he still has the face to write to the father, what? Do you want to be sealed after death?"

It's really funny, the prince laughed.

Xie Yanfang didn't smile, but with a thoughtful expression, she asked, "So, apart from His Majesty, no one else knows?"

The prince laughed: "So what if others know? Does he still have the face to tell people that he is going to die? I wish he would die soon."

Said and waved his hand.

"Since you don't want to be an official, then just choose someone from your family to send to Bian County to take over Chu Ling's position. It doesn't matter, and it won't be too eye-catching, so as not to be taken by the Zhao family."

Xie Yanfang said oh.

Is this yes or no?The prince stared, the boy seemed to be distracted.

"What are you thinking!" he said.

Chu Ling, Xie Yanfang slipped the name in her mind, and said: "No wonder his daughter came back to the capital, so it was to send the baby birds back to their nests."

Still thinking about Chu Ling, the prince waved his hand: "Don't think about it, it's not worth bothering about, it's an irrelevant person."

"No." Xie Yanfang smiled, "Although it's not important, but this time I can do my part for His Highness. Of course you know about the third prince's literary conference."

The prince sneered: "Gu even knows that after he finished the literary conference, he will let these gathered scholars spread out their talents and become sages, no matter how old or young they are."

The Zhao family and the third prince couldn't wait anymore. The emperor was not in good health. If the emperor died and the prince was justified, no matter how hard they tossed about it, it would be useless.

Xie Yanfang said: "Your Highness, you don't need to care about these little tricks."

The crown prince laughed: "Of course Gu doesn't care, the incompetent boy, what can he do with words, Gu just waits for him to make a fuss, Gu Zhengchou has no reason to kill those treacherous people who committed trouble."

Xie Yanfang smiled and nodded: "In the face of status and power, favor is vulnerable. However, before that, His Highness can also embarrass the Third Prince."

The prince looked at him: "Gu doesn't bother to disturb his literary society."

The more condescending the third prince is, the more he wants to be a broad-minded elder brother. There is no need to offend his father for a literary meeting.

Xie Yanfang said: "Your Highness doesn't need to come forward, Chu Ling's daughter has already taken the place of His Highness."

Chu Ling's daughter?The prince was puzzled: "How do you say it?"

Xie Yanfang smiled: "I don't know who ordered the third prince, or maybe Chu Ling's nephew got the post from the Wenhui through opportunism, but that post was taken away by Chu Ling's daughter in public, calling his cousin unworthy."

When the excitement in the building just started today, he knew it, and he immediately knew how this person would use it.

"Third Prince's Wenhui disdains even a woman. Isn't this Wenhui ridiculous?"

Chapter 35 declares

The princess sent her cousin away, but was not able to relax, and the two princesses came to look for her.

The emperor does not have many heirs, only two princes and three princesses, one princess is married, and the remaining two princesses have not yet married.

The emperor didn't bother to care about it, and the two princesses were happy too. Being married is not as comfortable as being a princess.

The princess was born in a noble family, and the manners in the boudoir are stricter. The two princesses don't like to come to her very much. When they come, they just ask for something.

Sure enough, he was angered by the third prince.

"Wangchun Garden belongs to my father, my third brother holds a cultural meeting there, why don't we let us go to play?"

"It is said that we are inviting scholars from all over the world. Haven't we read books?"

The princess asked: "Is it just not letting the princess go?"

The temperaments of the two young masters are similar to those of the third prince, and the siblings hate each other, if it's just a quarrel between brothers, it has nothing to do with their East Palace.

The princess obviously knew that there would be such a question, so she curled her lips. The prince's brother is not an amiable brother. Since she dared to come, she had the confidence to come.

She shook her head and sighed: "If you don't like us, it's fine. What the third brother said is not to let all the girls go."

The crown princess tied the needle and thread in her hand: "Perhaps I'm afraid it will be boring, after all, it's a scholar's business."

"That's not true, what the third brother said is really ugly." The other princess said, "He even said that the so-called study of women is done with evil intentions, and that going to the Wenhui is just to meet men privately."

Talking and crying.

"This is too humiliating. As a prince, how do you say such a thing? How do people in the world think about it? How do women in the world still study."

The women in the family of the aristocratic family all want to study, so they should be educated and reasonable.

If the words of the third prince are spread, it will offend the family, right?

Will the prince brother be interested?

These words were indeed inappropriate, the Crown Princess frowned, and the third prince's behavior became more and more outrageous, but what can she do, as the emperor's wife, to reprimand her?

It's best for the prince not to get involved.

"Why are you crying!" The prince's voice came from the outside, "What does it look like to be a princess crying and crying! Whoever bullies you, you just fight back!"

The two princesses were too frightened to cry, the third prince hated what he said, and the prince dared to beat others.

"Brother Prince, other people are fine. We dare not fight Third Brother." They said, flattering and begging, "Only Brother Prince can fight."

The prince laughed: "I don't need to show up."

The two princesses looked at each other, and were about to stir up the flames again, when the prince said, "Someone has already come forward to fight."

Who in this world would dare to beat the third prince except the prince?Even the emperor was reluctant to touch the third prince's finger. The two princesses were surprised, and the crown princess looked over in confusion.

"Chu Ling's daughter just won over her brother and took away the posts from the Wangchunyuan Literary Society." The prince said, his expression was full of sarcasm, and he laughed. A woman can't compare to it, how could she have the face to ridicule women and say that women are not allowed to participate."

He pointed out.

"Go, you tell him, you don't bother to participate in such a literary meeting!"

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The two servants respectfully sent Xie Yanfang out, and when she was about to reach the door, a court lady chased her out.

"Third Young Master, Third Young Master." She called urgently.

Xie Yanfang turned around.

"Third Young Master." The maid gasped and said, "Why are you leaving? The Crown Princess has brought His Highness back, and I'll wait for you to see her."

Your Highness, firstly, he really forgot, and secondly, it would be better not to see, Xie Yanfang said apologetically, "I have something to do, so I won't be here this time."

The maid said aloud, and said hastily: "The third son has not seen the young highness yet, the young lady often mentions you to the young highness, and the young highness admires the young master very much."