The Empire and the Kingdom

"How did you grow up and become more and more cute?" Feng Jingsu pulled her body, "I thought you would be like your father when you grow up."

Xue Ai smiled, "Sister Su, what kind of Xiao Ai do you like?" She has been working hard to grow into the look Feng Jingsu likes.

"As long as it's you, I like everything." Feng Jingsu put a piece of meat to Xue Ai's mouth.

"Ahh!" Xue Ai bit it away.

Changning County Prince's Mansion, Meng Shiqi told Princess Zhao what she saw in the Phoenix Tower after returning home. "Mother, elder brother and Miss Xue... do you know about this?"

Mrs. Zhao smiled when she heard this, "Why are you panicking? It's always girls who suffer from this kind of thing, and your brother will be fine."

"It's true to say that, but that's the eldest lady of Xiangfu. Why did she go out with elder brother? I always feel that she has some intentions." In the eyes of the younger sister, it is good for the elder brother to be incompetent.

"Even if she wants to marry into our family, she is worthy of your brother as the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but she has a bad reputation as a widow, but I can't explain the matter of the Seventh Prince, so she shouldn't be a woman." Burden." Mrs. Zhao thought, "If it really happens, your brother can take it easy. Xue Xiang is now a person that Princess Yunyi relies heavily on. You see, even Xue Xiang's other daughter-in-law stays with the princess, saying yes Accompanied by reading, but the princess doesn't study anymore, why should I read with? Isn't it just to get closer to the princess? If Xue Xiang is really a sensible person, he has arranged people around the princess so early, no wonder he is so relied on now. Although our family has a high title, we don't have real power like Xue Xiang." The more she said, the more beautiful she said, "Yes, Shiyang is a smart child, and he even knows how to take care of his family."

Meng Shiqi always felt that something was wrong, but she only took a look at this matter, and she didn't know if it was true or not.

When they arrived at the farm of the prince's mansion in the suburbs, Xue Ying was brought into a room by Meng Shiqi, and the two couldn't wait to make out.

Xue Ying kissed Meng Shiyang's lips, "My lord, you said you would marry me, when will you come to my house to propose marriage?"

Meng Shiyang tore off Xue Ying's skirt with her hands, and said with a joke: "The Seventh Prince died not long ago, why are you in such a hurry?"

Xue Ying lowered her eyes, "The marriage of the seventh prince was forced by the first empress to agree to my father's agreement. The marriage between my third sister and the prince was also the same. The first empress has always wanted to win over my father, but we are all just tools to win over." She said A crystal teardrop fell down.

Meng Shiyang bowed her head and kissed her tears away, "I know you are innocent, don't cry, I will tell my mother when I get back."

Xue Ying's eyes lit up all of a sudden, "Is what Shizi said true?"

"You don't believe it?" Meng Shiyang's hand had already touched Xue Ying's chest.

"I believe it." Xue Ying's cheeks were flushed, and she could bear the passion brought to her by Meng Shiyang softly.

As soon as the news of the Seventh Prince's death reached Xue Ying's ears, Xue Ying knew that she could not sit still.In fact, she felt a sense of relief after the death of the Seventh Prince.After all, even if the Seventh Prince does not die, she is not a good match, she will only suffer after marrying.But what can I do now?Do you want to ask Xue Xiang to find another good marriage for yourself?Don't say she can't get out of Wei Ying Pavilion, even if she can get out, will Xue Xiang pay attention to her?Even if Xue Xiang is willing to take care of this matter, but he has become a widow, and it is not easy to find a good marriage. Just look at Xue Ai. Now that Xue Xiang loves Xue Ai so much, it is not because he has not found a husband's family. ?And my age can no longer wait.

After being imprisoned for so long, she has become smarter, knowing that she must go out first before she can think about anything else.She used the gold and silver jewelry in her hand to bribe the two women guarding the gate of Weiying Pavilion and a woman at the corner gate in the backyard, so that she could sneak out.

Because Weiying Pavilion has been quiet recently, Mother Chen completely ignored Weiying Pavilion.Only the maid in the Yingying Pavilion found that Xue Ying was missing, and originally wanted to report it, but was frightened by the two gatekeepers, saying that they were all responsible for the loss of the eldest lady, and they would all be sold. As soon as she got scared, she didn't dare to say anything. She only hoped that Xue Ying would just go out to play for a few days, and then come back quietly.

This matter was concealed like this. Mother Chen didn't know, and Xiang Xue didn't know, but Feng Jingsu knew.She arranged secret guards around the Prime Minister's mansion, of course, not to monitor Xue Ying, but to monitor Xue Xiang.

Feng Jingsu learned that Xue Ying escaped before Xue Ai was injured. Originally, she was watching Xue Ying die with the mood of watching the fun, and it would be a disaster to keep her anyway.But after Xue Ai was injured, she changed from a bystander to a participant. She sent someone to guide Xue Ying and Meng Shiyang to hook up together.A dude and a down-and-out daughter, isn't that a good match.

When Meng Shiyang met Xue Ying, she just felt that it would be for nothing if she was sent to her door. After all, she was a daughter of the Xiangfu, and ordinary people did not have this kind of opportunity.

Xue Ying felt that the royal family couldn't consider it, and there were too many surprises.Aside from the royal family, who else has the highest family? The Meng family is also a county king after all, and Meng Shiyang is both the eldest son and the only son. As long as he can marry, the entire county prince's mansion will be his own, no worse than marrying the prince.

She knew that Meng Shiyang was fickle, but she was sober now, what she wanted was not a husband, but a chance to marry into a noble family.Meng Shiyang can play as long as she likes to play, as long as she is the future princess of the county and the actual mistress of the prince's mansion.

In order to tie Meng Shiyang, she didn't care about chastity, and cooked rice with raw rice, Meng Shiyang would recognize it, and so would Xue Xiang.

While the two were having a good time, the farm's kitchen was cooking. The cook knew that this was a meal for the nobleman, so she didn't dare to be sloppy at all.The freshly slaughtered old hen was stewed in the casserole, and the cook was sitting at the door choosing dishes, completely unaware that something had been dropped into the chicken soup in the kitchen.

Qinzheng Hall, Feng Jingsu just came back from the apse.The emperor asked her when she would publish the imperial edict.Once the edict is issued, everyone will know that the emperor is awake, otherwise the edict will be fake.

Feng Jingsu didn't care at all, she told the emperor that the decree could be issued tomorrow.Her reaction was too calm, and the emperor began to suspect that she had a new conspiracy. In fact, Feng Jingsu really didn't have any conspiracy, but after so long, she had already controlled the court situation.Once the imperial edict is issued, there must be turmoil in the court. She just took this opportunity to kill chickens and monkeys. Her knife has been sharpened, but she doesn't know which chicken will jump out.

Back in the front hall, she buried her head in the memorial again.Now her daily life is so monotonous and boring.Originally, there was Xue Ai by the side, even if they didn't speak, the two of them occasionally looked at each other sweetly.It's a pity that even the only bit of sweetness is gone now, so Feng Jingsu really has every reason to hate Mrs. Pan.

Yushu came in and said in a low voice, "Princess, the secret guard sent back news that the medicine has been taken."

Feng Jingsu raised her head, "Is that medicine really effective?" She was a little curious, "How effective is it?"

"Uh..." Yushu was at a loss for words, she had never used it before, how did she know? "Should... be very useful, the secret recipe in the palace."

Feng Jingsu nodded, and both master and servant showed malicious smiles.Doing bad things is really addictive.

Xue Ying has been living in Meng Shiyang's house for the past few days. The small courtyard is not big, but Meng Shiyang has arranged for Xue Ying to have maidservants. Although there are fewer people, they serve her very wholeheartedly. That group is much better.Now Xue Ying is only waiting for Meng Shiyang to go to the Prime Minister's mansion to propose a marriage, and then she can go home and get married.

As soon as Meng Shiyang returned to the Prince's Mansion, he was caught by Princess Zhao, who held him for questioning.Meng Shiyang never cared about this kind of thing, since he asked him, he honestly admitted it.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao asked Meng Shiyang what she planned.Meng Shiyang only said to obey her parents' orders, which meant that it was fine to marry or not.Anyway, the person has already been obtained, so he is still satisfied with Xue Ying for the time being, she is gentle and considerate, and well-behaved in bed.

Mrs. Zhao hurried to discuss the matter with the King of Changning County. When the King of Changning County heard that his son had touched Xue Xiang's eldest daughter, he was frightened into a cold sweat.He and Xue have been ministers for so many years, but he knows the power of this old fox.It's just that now is not the time to teach his son a lesson. Since Meng Shiyang doesn't care, he hastened to prepare a generous gift and invite the most famous matchmaker in the capital to propose marriage to the prime minister.

Xue Ying thought about proposing marriage every day. When Meng Shiyang told her that the matchmaker was already on his way to the prime minister's mansion, she hurriedly sneaked home.

The process of returning home was unexpectedly smooth, and the maids and mother-in-law of Weiying Pavilion saw that she really appeared, and they were all rejoicing, and no one would tell about it.The fact that Xue Ying sneaked out of the house was concealed like this.

The matchmaker came to propose a marriage. This kind of thing should have been done by the mistress, but Mrs. Pan is already crazy, Mrs. Wang was also rejected by Mrs. Xue because of Xue Zhi's matter, Mrs. Jiang is gentle and does not cause trouble, but her background is too low, it is impossible In charge of the overall situation in the mansion, so now it is Chen's mother who manages the backyard.

The matchmaker was scratching his head, who should I talk to?Go directly to Xiang Xue?She was a little apprehensive.

After much deliberation, she still found Mrs. Wang.He explained his purpose and gave a gift.Because of Xue Zhi's relationship, Wang secretly hated the matchmaker, and subconsciously wanted to refuse this marriage.Why would Xue Ying be favored by the county palace if her daughter is still suffering outside?

Just when she was about to open her mouth, she suddenly changed her mind. She had already fallen out of favor, and if she took the initiative to make decisions on such a big matter, she might get a divorce paper.Thinking of this, she asked the matchmaker to go back first, and she asked Xue Xiang before replying.

The matchmaker left, but she was staring at the gifts in a daze, if only for Xue Zhi.

During this time, Xue Yi has been living very peacefully. She likes this lonely but regular life very much. She learns to read, embroider and calligraphy every day.

Today she was practicing calligraphy in her room, and was called to Xihai Residence by someone sent by the Wang family.

"Mom, you are looking for me."

Mrs. Wang dismissed the maid, took her to the room to show her the gift from the matchmaker, and told her everything in detail.

After hearing this, Xue Yi said, "Mother, it's fine if you tell your father about this matter. The elder sister was not born by you, and it's not up to you to make decisions." A difficult thing to do.

"Yi'er, your second sister is still suffering outside. How can the eldest lady get such a good marriage? Anyway, the county prince's mansion is only going to marry the daughter of the Xue family, why not..." She looked at Xue Yi full of expectations, expecting The youngest daughter can be sure of her own ideas.