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"Shousui on New Year's Eve today, what are you doing in this kind of place." The smell in the room was so sweet that Feng Xie smelled very uncomfortable, "Why don't you stay in the mansion?"

"Mr. Qi Chang ignored the tradition of ancestor worship on New Year's Eve and ran out alone to spend time and wine. Wouldn't it be better to spread the word?" Qi Lang looked up at him and said with a smile, "I can't just invite you to my house openly. I can choose such a place, and I hope His Highness will not dislike you."

Feng Xie sighed, and his pretty eyebrows frowned imperceptibly: "It doesn't matter."

"Actually, I have nothing else to do. I want you to come here, but I just want to say something about the New Year's Ankang." Qi Lang drank the wine slowly, looked at him and said, "It's going to be night soon. Entering the palace, why make yourself so tired?"

"Troublesome times, I have no other choice." Feng Xie calmly took the cup on the table, smelled something sweet, and then put the cup back calmly, "Now you don't meddle in political affairs, and you don't care about Qi's family affairs either. , let my father feel at ease a lot, and solved a lot of troubles for me. I want to thank you, Jun Yong."

"Your Majesty called me into the palace once after the First Battle of Dingbei," Qi Lang looked at him with a half-smile, "ah, you don't need to thank me, I'm just doing it for myself—compared to this, are you curious? What did the emperor call me into the palace for?"

"Even if I'm not curious, wouldn't you still tell me?" Feng Xie raised his eyes to look at him, and said firmly, "I don't believe that you went out of your way to invite me to meet on New Year's Eve, just to tell me a happy new year."

"Why is His Royal Highness so smart?" Qi Lang laughed loudly and stood up. He should have been flirting with the men and women around him before, and his clothes were loosely opened. How can he have the same yang and demeanor as before? The appearance of the elegant eldest son, "Your Majesty summoned me into the palace, released my confinement, and asked me to marry my elder sister—"

"In your generation, your eldest sister is the only daughter from the Qi family. Her status can be described as honorable. If the emperor wants you to marry me, it is also to win the hearts of Zhongyang nobles." Feng Xie said without any surprise, "But her Marriage can cause headaches for many people—you can’t be suspected of forming a party for personal gain, and your family background should not be too low. You also need to have the trust of my father. My father must have thought twice before proposing the marriage to your elder sister. of."

"That's true, so I'm also very curious who the emperor will marry my eldest sister to," Qi Lang turned to look at him, and said with a smile, "In the end, guess who——"

Seeing his inexplicable expression, Feng Xie felt his heart tremble: "Who?"

"The emperor said that after General Ningyuan leads the Zhanlu barracks and is promoted to a general, he will marry the two of them immediately." Qi Lang approached him, looked him straight in the eyes, and said word by word, "You should I understand what he meant by looking for me directly—"

Of course I understand——Qi Lang didn't go on, but Feng Xie clearly understood what he wanted to say—Emperor Qingyuan didn't discuss with him, and directly told Qi Lang that he would give Qi Lin and Chu Shao a marriage, which meant that This marriage is already a certainty in Emperor Qingyuan's heart, no matter whether the parties agree or not, it needs to be so.

It's too suitable, and there is no reason to refute——Although Chu Shao is an upstart, but limited by his background, it is impossible to form a huge power group by himself.Moreover, Emperor Qingyuan clearly understood Chu Shao's absolute loyalty to him, and bestowing marriage to Qi Lin undoubtedly closely connected the Qi family with the royal family.

Countless reasons rushed through his mind, but Feng Xie still stood up with a pale face, and blurted out without thinking anything: "This is inappropriate, I don't agree!"

Qi Lang stared deeply at him, as if he could see clearly what he was thinking.Feng Xie realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, lowered his eyes slightly, and said dryly: "Ah Shao... I know the temperament of General Ning Yuan best. If he is asked to marry a woman he has never met before, he will be absolutely unwilling. You Eldest sister has a marriage like this, so she won't be happy..."

Qi Lang smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up, with an inexplicable hostility in his smile: "He is eighteen years old, and he is not threatened by a high-achieving master. This marriage can be consummated no matter how you think...as long as he is not a broken sleeve... I'm going to get married after all, my elder sister is both civil and military, and her looks are considered first-class, besides Princess Lu, is there any woman in Zhongyang who can compare to my elder sister?"

I don't know which word in the words stimulated Feng Xie, he frowned and stared at Qi Lang, his lips were trembling because of inexplicable emotions: "When Ruxue insisted on marrying him, it was still the same, it was not a woman's appearance. The problem is that he..."

He didn't go on talking, Qi Lang also suppressed his smile, and stared at him carefully until Feng Xie gave up first, turned his head and left without saying a word, Zhu Hong's sleeves fluttered in the air, and the door slammed down ring.

Qi Lang sat down again, poured himself a glass of wine, all the emotions in his eyes gradually turned into a cold indifference, with some dangerous cunning.

"Sure enough..."

In the northern suburbs of Zhongyang City, the Xuanjian Camp.

Chu Shao nestled in the military tent, looked over and over at the piece of uncut jade in his hand, and praised: "It's really top quality. There are not many jade offerings in the southern border this year. I didn't take it seriously when His Majesty said to reward me. I don't think so. Such a superb piece."

"It's really the best," Fang Ziyu had just tasted and played with carefully. "Although I haven't seen very good jade materials, according to the book, good jade has warm tentacles, a color like creamy fat, and is pure and flawless. It's true."

"Isn't this thing just a rock? What's so good about it?" Shen Amber wiped her iron gun aside, and said contemptuously, "You've been looking at it all night, even if it's valuable, don't you still lack valuable things? No? Look at it like this, what do you plan to use it for?"

"Go, go, what do you know?" Chu Shao glared at him, looked at the jade material in his hand and said with a smile, "Shangyuan Festival is my brother's birthday, and now it's coming soon, I'm thinking, I have to give it to him on his birthday too." It would be nice to have an ingenious gift, it just so happens that there is this piece of jade..."

"You are not in Zhongyang on the first day of December this year, what did His Royal Highness give you?" Fang Ziyu asked curiously.

"He wrote a pair of calligraphy and gave it to me. He said in a strange way that he wanted me to hang up in the general's mansion." Chu Shao thought for a while, raised his head and smiled, "But I don't want to move out, so I told Qin Mu to hang up with him. I went to the study—anyway, his study is mine, so there is no difference, hahaha. I still remember the content of the calligraphy, it seems to be the first half of "Liuzhou Getou"..."

"His Royal Highness personally wrote a pair of calligraphy for you, so you plan to carve a jade pendant for him?" Shen Amber looked at the blazing sun gun in her hand, as if to see if it was bright enough, "Come on, don't be too whimsical... "

"Oh my god, brother Xiaohu, you are like a roundworm in my stomach." Chu Shao exclaimed before he finished speaking, "That's exactly what I planned, otherwise why didn't I go back to Zhongyang on New Year's Eve? The purpose of nesting in this crappy place in the northern suburbs is to give him a surprise."

Shen Amber: "..."

"Are you serious?" Fang Ziyu took the piece of jade from him, and sighed, "The carving technique is very complicated, can you learn it in such a short time? Don't waste this great jade..."

"I have already invited a master craftsman to teach me," Chu Shao replied proudly, "Don't worry, I was very good at making clay figurines and carving wood carvings when I was young, and besides, it was given to the prince's brother, how could I miss it.

In a flash, it was the Shangyuan Festival. In the early morning of this day, Chu Shao rode his horse back to Zhongyang early in the morning.Carving jade is indeed not as simple as he imagined. The jade material is hard but fragile, and it may be completely destroyed if you don't pay attention. He carved carefully for half a month and finally had a finished product. Although it is not perfect, he can finally get it shot.

It's just that he also paid a terrible price for this. After these days of raising in Zhongyang, the injuries on his body are almost healed, but this trivial incident has added many tiny wounds to his hands.

Chu Shao put the carved jade pendant into his arms, and when the hand holding the rein was inattentive, the pain made him grin his teeth.Chu Shao thought to himself, after giving the gift, he must cry in front of him about how hard-won the jade pendant was.

The sacrificial ceremonies of the Shangyuan Festival were complicated and there were many trivial matters. Feng Xie was picked up by the female official Miaoer in the mansion early in the morning, and began to put on sacrificial dresses and various jewelry layer by layer, which lasted for an hour or two.When Chu Shao dismounted and returned home, he happened to meet Feng Xie who had just finished packing and was going to get into the carriage, and couldn't help being stunned.

Dayin's sacrificial dress is mainly the light gold and purple of the royal family, and the neckline and skirt are bright red, which is very flattering, and at the same time extremely complicated, and the silver brocade python dark pattern embroidered under the corners of the clothes can be seen while walking .

Feng Xie's crown is very high today, with nine pearls symbolizing status, and the red gold hairpin shines brightly in his hair.The pearls in the ears are the same color as the pearls in the hair, the brilliance is refracted between the actions, the thin lips and the eyebrows are lightly cinnabar, noble and gorgeous, but he was stunned for a moment.

"What are you doing standing there?" Feng Xie saw that it was Chu Shao, and asked with a frown, feeling a little annoyed at the fact that he hadn't shown up on New Year's Eve, "The sun armor is hanging in the study room, just ask Miaoer to change it with you." ——Look at your hair, it's frizzy, what does it look like, let the emperor and his subjects see it, and they will say you..."

"You are so beautiful today, why don't you just look at it for a while longer?" Chu Shao blinked at him, and quickly interrupted him, "Okay, okay, I get it—you wait for me at the door for a while, and I will immediately That's good. By the way, Your Majesty will hold a banquet at noon this year, right? Then no other arrangements are allowed after the Shuanghua Festival tonight, and I have a surprise for you."