The Empire and the Kingdom

Before the queen said anything, she wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, "Your Majesty, the crown prince has just passed away, and my concubine has selfish intentions and wants to have Jia Duo to accompany my concubine for a few years."

The emperor nodded.Even if the queen doesn't say anything, the emperor is not willing to marry the first-born princess.

After ensuring that her daughter didn't need to get married, the queen continued: "Yongning said a few years ago that he would be with Concubine Xian for life, and His Majesty also agreed. Mingxin and De'an are still young, so the only suitable candidates are Wen Chun and Yun." It's gone. The two of them are not a few months apart in age, and they are not too young now. You see, Your Majesty, they are both of the age to get married."

Don't say it, I don't think it. After hearing what the queen said, the emperor found out that his daughter was so old.Wen Chun has just turned 17, and Yun Yi is [-] years old.Coupled with the time for marriage negotiation and preparation, if they don't decide quickly, they will be old girls.

"Who is the Queen going to choose for marriage? Or both?"

The queen sighed, "Your Majesty, although Wen Chun and Yun Yi were not born to my concubines, as aunts, my concubines treat them in the same way. As for who to marry, it depends on how many princesses your majesty needs." That's right." The queen doesn't dare to reveal her thoughts directly now, the emperor's question is a trap, so she doesn't jump.

The emperor thought about it in his mind, marriages are usually married to neighboring countries, and Yun Kingdom borders six countries in total. At present, at least two princesses are needed, one to marry Anguo, which has just had a conflict, and the other to marry Sanguo, which has just bordered on the border. countries to establish friendship.Based on this calculation, both Wen Chun and Yun Yi should go out and make a kiss.

The emperor had planned in his heart, and the empress had already made up his mind.She knew that the two princesses needed to get married at present, so she brought up this matter, so as to ensure that Feng Jingsu would be married off, and she would marry to another country.

"I still need to think about this matter." The emperor did not express his opinion in the end, and he should tell the princess's biological mother about this kind of matter anyway.

After the emperor left, Caihe quietly asked the queen, "Your Majesty, will Your Majesty agree to allow Princess Yunyi to marry?"

The queen frowned, "It's hard to say. Seeing that His Majesty is so hesitant, maybe he will leave one between Wen Chun and Yun Yi. Anyway, there are still two princesses below, so it's okay to choose another marriage in two years. She looked at her beautiful fingers and murmured, "It would be nice if Wen Chun could be kept."

Only Caihe heard this. As the first-class court lady in front of the queen, she naturally understood what the queen meant, so she found a time to go to Youxia Palace of Chen Chongyi, and quietly asked the emperor to be in Wenchun and Yunyi. There is a story about choosing one of the two princesses to marry and get married.Chen Chongyi was worried that her daughter would go out and get married, but now she was even more anxious.

"Aunt Caihe, I beg you to help me, please the empress, Wen Chun has been cowardly since she was a child, and her health is not good. If she marries and goes to another country to make peace, she may not be able to survive!"

Cai He comforted Chen Chongyi a few words, "My Lady, Princess Wen Chun grew up beside Your Majesty and the Empress Empress, so the Empress Empress is naturally distressed. But now it's time to choose between the two, and the Empress Empress can't help it. If you want to stay Living in Princess Wenchun, you can't always rely on the Empress Empress, you have to think of a way yourself."

Chen Chongyi immediately understood Caihe's hint, and hurriedly asked someone to seal the money and secretly handed it to Caihe, "Thank you, aunt, for telling me, if we can keep Wen Chun from getting married, I will thank aunt again afterwards."

Caihe collected the money and left with a smile.

"Madam, according to Aunt Caihe, now I can only find a way to let Princess Yunyi go to marry, so as to keep the princess." Chen Chongyi's personal maid Xiutao said.

Chen Chongyi's squinted eyes shone brightly, "It's not that I'm cruel, Yun Yi is a capable person, and she can live a good life wherever she goes, but I can't be gentle, I can't let her go away." Marry and kiss!"

After the emperor came out of Fengde Palace, he went to Liuguang Palace, Fang Zhaoyi's bedroom.When Fang Zhaoyi heard that she wanted her son to marry the princess, although she didn't dare to make trouble, she still revealed her original plan.The daughter-in-law she is looking for is Guan Xuejing, the prostitute of the Guan family of the Duke of Anguo's mansion.This was not a temporary match, she had already fallen in love with it, but because Guan Xuejing had been studying at Feiyejin Academy, the Guan family directly rejected all proposals of marriage using this as an excuse.After Guan Xuejing came back, Fang Zhaoyi was about to ask her natal family to find out, but the emperor's decision had already been made before the Guan family's word was heard.

"Your majesty's decision and concubines dare not refuse to listen, but the concubine must make a good sacrifice. There must be someone in the third prince's mansion who can take care of the inner courtyard." Fang Zhaoyi said aggrievedly.

The emperor knew that no one wanted to marry the Princess Heqin. At the beginning, he asked the prince to marry the princess of the Li Kingdom to strengthen the crown prince's position, but now the third prince married the princess of the Ling Kingdom to share the country's worries.It would be fine if Princess Heqin met someone with a gentle personality, but if she met someone who was unruly and willful, she would have to bear with it even if there was a lot of trouble in the mansion. This was indeed wronging the Third Prince.

"You mean you want to marry the third son a side concubine?"

Fang Zhaoyi nodded. "The third miss of the Guan family..." She also wanted to marry Guan Xuejing to be the third prince's side concubine, so that she would have the power of the Guan family to support the third prince.

The emperor nodded, "I will consider this matter, and I will definitely not wrong the third child, don't worry."

Although the emperor did not explicitly agree to the third prince's marriage of Guan Xuejing as his side concubine, Fang Zhaoyi thought that the emperor just couldn't agree directly.She couldn't wait to spread the news, and also wanted to take the opportunity to test the reaction of Guan's family.

Xue Ai has been helping Feng Jingsu in the garrison for several days in a row. Sometimes Feng Jingsu cannot come out in time due to something in the palace, so Xue Ai handles the affairs by herself.Now everyone in the Garrison Mansion knows this Miss Xue San who has no official position but is very useful.

When she heard the rumors outside, she burst into tears from laughing.

"Why is it so funny?" Opposite her was Guan Xuejing, one of the rumored protagonists.

Xue Ai got up and walked in front of Guan Xuejing, and patted her on the shoulder, "The future prince and side concubine, um, is the same as I was back then."

Guan Xuejing jumped up all of a sudden, "Xiao Ai, don't talk nonsense! I don't want to be a prince and side concubine! Whoever dares to marry me will be beaten to death, you know? The kind that dies thoroughly!"

Xue Ai continued to cover her mouth and laugh.Sister Guan's fried hair looks so cute!

"What are you laughing at?" Feng Jingsu, who came out late, walked in, took a look at Guan Xuejing, "Why did you blow your hair?"

"Hic!" Xue Ai was so amused by this sentence that he burst into laughter and began to hiccup.Feng Jingsu hurried over to coax her, patted her back and gave her water, but Xue Ai still hiccupped.

Guan Xuejing looked at the two people showing their affection unscrupulously in broad daylight, and rubbed her eyes. She had an illusion that she was back in the academy, watching the masters shamelessly showing off their affection all day long, with handfuls of dog food It's as if you don't want money.In fact, I was raised by dog ​​food these years.After finally going down the mountain and returning to the capital, will the days of being forced to eat dog food continue?

"Huh? Sister Guan ran away. Hiccup!" Xue Ai turned around and found that Guan Xuejing had disappeared.

"She probably went to find someone who can smooth her hair." Feng Jingsu frowned, why is this hiccup not good?

Xue Ai understood, covered her mouth and continued to laugh, hiccupping while laughing, and finally made Feng Jingsu laugh. "You're like a little hen laying eggs."

Xue Ai frowned, pouted with puffed cheeks.It just pouted for a short while, "Hi!"

"Hahaha!" The two primary school guards at the gate glanced at each other, not understanding what was wrong with Princess Yunyi, and laughed so wildly.

Guan Xuejing ran to Feng's house, and when Feng Qianzi saw her, she said, "The third prince and side concubine are here."

Guan Xuejing continued to frown, rolled up her arms and sleeves and said, "I'm going to make it clear to the emperor that I won't marry the third prince, and it's impossible for my family to let me marry the third prince. Let's go and make his spring and autumn dream come true." !"

Facing the runaway Guan Xuejing, Feng Qianzi just slightly raised her eyelids, "Since your family won't let you marry, why are you so angry?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Guan Xuejing's violent running action stopped immediately, "That's right." Then she sat opposite Feng Qianzi like a deflated ball.

"Qianzi, don't you worry about me when you hear the rumors?" Seeing Feng Qianzi so calm, she was a little sad.

"What are you worried about? It's just a rumor. I like to spread it. Your mouth grows on others, but your brain grows on you." She glanced at Guan Xuejing, "Your brain probably isn't on your body."

Guan Xuejing pursed her lips in grievance, being despised again. "I'm so wronged, you still say me."

Feng Qianzi pouted at the chessboard in front of her, she took the sunspots and made the first move. "It's you who have no brains, and you still blame me for calling you? You look like you are coming from the defense mansion, right?" Seeing Guan Xuejing nodding, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, "Princess and Xiaoai are two A fox, a big fox with a little fox, have you seen Feiyun from Xiaoai's house? Now that the little fox has grown up and become a spirit, it's just your brain," she pointed at Guan Xuejing's head , thought for a while and then pointed to Guan Xuejing's heart, and finally put down his hand irritably, "Where is your brain?"

Guan Xuejing was so wronged that she still didn't dare to speak.

"In the future, the two of them will tease you and you will give less reaction. After a long time, they won't be interested, and they will naturally bully others." Feng Qianzi shook her head, only Guan Xuejing's mind, and kept talking to those two foxes all day long. It's a shame that people don't want to harm Guan Xuejing, otherwise Guan Xuejing would be helping to count the money after being sold.

Guan Xuejing smiled, "You are the best to me, the princess and Xiaoai know how to make fun of me."

"They are laughing at you for being mediocre." Feng Qianzi said angrily.

As expected, Guan Xuejing was the only one who bothered me. Duke An didn't go to the emperor at all. How could it be possible for his Guan family's prostitute daughter to become the prince's concubine?Even a concubine has to weigh it.Of course, An Guogong also understands that the current emperor will not let the Guan family be tied up with any prince. With 30 troops in his hands, the Guan family can only be loyal to the emperor, otherwise it will be too dangerous.

A few days later, the emperor decreed to marry Guan Xuebing, the eldest daughter of Duke Anguo's mansion, to the third prince as his side concubine, and at the same time decreed to marry Tang Yun, the second concubine daughter of Duke of Qi's mansion, to Guan Lin, the third son of Duke Anguo mansion, as his wife.

It has to be said that the emperor really took a lot of thought to check and balance the courtiers.

The Guan family suddenly had two more happy events, whether they like it or not, they have to arrange it intensively.

Xue Ai sighed, "There are so many marriages in the capital this year."

Feng Jingsu was looking at the roster she had compiled, "You are the only one in the capital who can write so well in small letters with hairpin flowers."

Being praised, Xue Ai came over, "Sister Su's handwriting is so beautiful too."

Feng Jingsu's handwriting was handed down by Yun Zuimo, the teacher who specializes in calligraphy in the academy, and it emphasizes meaning rather than shape.Beautiful is really beautiful, but ordinary people can't appreciate it when written.Especially the job of writing a roster is far less suitable than the neat and elegant lower case with hairpin flowers.

Feng Jingsu held Xue Ai in her arms, and kissed her on the cheek, "My Xiao Ai is really capable."

Xue Ai leaned her head on her shoulder, "Sister Su, now that my crisis is resolved, have you ever thought about your matter?"

Feng Jingsu had already heard the faint news from the palace that the emperor wanted to choose someone between her and Wen Chun to marry, but she was not worried.After the emperor understood her abilities, he would not easily let her go on a marriage fraternity, or even let her marry easily. "Don't worry, I'm fine."

Feng Jingsu said rest assured, Xue Ai was really relieved.She hugged Feng Jingsu's waist, "This is the best."

Xue Ai's emotion is not unreasonable, Xue's family is also preparing for Xue Ying's marriage now, and Pan's focus has been on preparing a dowry for Xue Ying recently, completely ignoring Xue Ai who runs out every day.

Xue Ai had just returned home when she saw Xue Zhi approaching, "Second Sister, hello." She had a sweet time with Feng Jingsu outside, and when she came home, she greeted everyone with a smile on her face.

Xue Zhi was sent by Wang to give gifts to Xue Ying. When the eldest lady went out, Wang's concubine also prepared a gift for her, so that she would look good, and Xue Zhi would reciprocate when she married Pan.

Xue Zhi didn't get angry when she thought of Xue Ying's smug look recently, she was clearly at the end of her rope, how could she go out for a while, and come back to see a bright future?Seeing Xue Ai made her even more angry. If Xue Ai insisted on the jewelry matter, would Xue Ying still marry the Seventh Prince?I'm afraid it's not the same as Xue Ai, who will go to the nunnery to be an aunt for a lifetime of meditation.

"Third sister just came back? So happy, but did something interesting happen outside?"

Xue Ai smiled, "Elder Sister is getting married, I'm so happy for Eldest Sister."

Xue Zhi nodded, "Isn't it? If you say it's really incomparable, she is also a prostitute. At the beginning, the third sister was accused of marriage and could only be a side concubine. Look at the eldest sister, she became the main concubine directly. This feng shui took turns. Back then I thought the third sister was lucky, but I didn’t expect the eldest sister to have the last laugh.” In order to mock Xue Ai, Xue Zhi even brought out her most hated concubine.

The smile on Xue Ai's face remained unchanged, "Second sister is right. I'm a hard-working person, so my younger sister is envious of second sister, and I don't have any troubles in this regard." She left after finishing speaking.

Xue Zhi was stunned, smacking the meaning of this sentence, and suddenly realized that Xue Ai meant that she was not a prostitute, so it was not up to her to marry the prince. "Not only can you pretend to be stupid at such a young age, but your mouth is also so poisonous. No wonder you are a widow. You deserve it!"

After delivering the things, she returned to Xihaiju and complained to Wang, saying that she was ridiculed by Xue Ai for not being able to marry the prince.No matter how calm Wang is, she still loves her daughter. Although Xue Zhi is a concubine, her food and clothing costs are no worse than that of Xue Ying, a concubine. To make up for it, she also learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting very well, so why can't she marry the prince?

"Zhi'er, don't worry, mother will send a message to the palace immediately, last time your aunt said that there might be a chance, so many days have passed, mother will ask again." Seeing Xue Ying getting married, Wang was of course also anxious.

Wang Zhaoyuan helped the fifth prince in Xue Zhi's favor, seeing that there was no hope. Even if Feng Qianzi, the ideal daughter-in-law that Wang Guifei wanted, did not agree, Wang Guifei did not intend to accept Xue Zhi.It doesn't matter if she is a side concubine, a noble concubine, but if she is a main concubine, not to mention other things, Xue Zhi's concubine's background is a bit low.

Just when Wang Zhaoyuan was disheartened and ready to see the other princes again, Chen Chongyi took the initiative to extend an olive branch.

"The sixth prince is willing to marry Miss Xue as his concubine?" Wang Zhaoyuan was a little surprised.She had also considered the sixth prince before, but seeing Chen Chongyi's high spirits, she tried it for a while, and Chen Chongyi didn't pick up the fight at all, she knew that this matter was useless.Now that Chen Chongyi took the initiative to come to her, it should be related to the rumored princess marriage in the palace.

Sure enough, Chen Chongyi put forward the conditions very clearly, as long as Princess Wen Chun would not marry, the sixth prince could marry Xue Zhi as his concubine.Wang Zhaoyuan did not dare to agree to this condition, and she told Wang about this condition just as Mrs. Wang entered the palace.

"This..." Wang was also in a dilemma. "The Sacred Heart is unpredictable, who can guarantee such a thing?"

"What if my brother-in-law helps?" Wang Zhaoyuan felt that although it was difficult, there was still a chance. Otherwise, with Xue Zhi's background, any prince willing to marry as a concubine would be ridiculed in the future.

Mrs. Wang shook her head, "Master Xiang has a very strange temper recently. Let's take the matter of the eldest lady before. She was already punished, but she dared to run away secretly. If it was in our Wang's house, wouldn't she be beaten to death directly? But Not only did Xiangye not lose his temper, but he agreed to the Seventh Prince's marriage, and even canceled the previous punishment, probably because he was afraid that something would happen to the eldest lady." She sighed, her eyes were a little lonely, "Now Xiangye has been gone for a long time. Come to my yard, I heard that I don’t even enter the back house recently, just rest in the front yard. Let him take care of this matter at this time, I don’t think there is a big chance.”

The author has something to say: Xue Ai: The prince's side concubine.

Feng Jingsu: The prince's side concubine.

Guan Xuejing: Stop talking!Bite you!

Feng Qianzi: The prince's side concubine.

Guan Xuejing: Woohoo, Qianzi, you bully me too!

Feng Qianzi: Are you the prince's side concubine?

Guan Xuejing: Of course not.

Feng Qianzi: Then what did you promise?

Guan Xuejing: Huh?

Feng Qianzi: Idiot.