Later, I became the prince of the group

The end of the year is approaching.

Finally, the rules for the exiles in the north have been settled. Although news comes back every day, after all, it is no longer a matter that must be discussed in the court every day, and the emperor is relieved a lot.

...and then began to worry about major events in Chu Yan's life.

In the eyes of the emperor, not to mention that his son just has a little heir and face problem, even if he is paralyzed and unable to move, he still needs someone to take care of him.

Don't look at the previous fool Chu Yan who has never been paid attention to, but when he is in his twenties and has not yet married, Emperor Chengxing will definitely point out a wife for him.

Now Chu Yan is the meat of Emperor Chengxing's heart. Naturally, he is very picky, and feels that no one is worthy of such a good prince as him.

But the key is to find a man.

Emperor Chengxing was also very tired. Every day when he kept the ministers in private discussions, he would ask about the situation of the young master with his private goods. At first, these ministers were not aware of it, thinking that Emperor Chengxing began to pay attention to Xiaoyi. After a long time, when the lady who came back from the queen heard the news, the ministers suddenly realized that they would either pretend to be deaf and dumb, or kneel down and cry "the emperor is merciful".

Emperor Chengxing: My greatest mercy is to spare you from death.

But on the face, he had to put on a face to appease him: "How do you say Aiqing? The position of concubine is an honor. Do you think my prince is not worthy of your son... that's all, I won't force you, let me Think again."

Only when Lord Liu Hou was asked, he hesitated incidentally.

In fact, two days ago, my wife was recruited into the palace by the empress, and she had already refused in every possible way, but now the emperor asked again, and it was very ignorant to refuse twice in a row.

Lord Liu Hou is a cautious and loyal general, and his specific performance is that he handed over the military power as soon as he said it. His old problem broke out, and he began to worry about whether he would anger Longyan if he refused.

As a result, after such hesitation, Emperor Chengxing made a decision as if he was afraid of his refutation, and directly pointed to marriage.

Once the emperor made a clear promise of marriage, it would be difficult to handle this matter.

Liu asked: I am not a minister, no minister is wronged.

Chu Hong: You clearly didn't refute just now, isn't it because of your intentions? Since Liu Aiqing has already acquiesced, there is no reason to change her mind, or is it that I have to put the princes in a row and let you choose to be satisfied?

Liu asked: ...

What can I do, His Majesty has already found a reason for the harmony between the monarch and his ministers, but you can't compete with His Majesty, can't wait to start drafting the decree without seeing Liang Ye?

Thank you Lord Ron...

As soon as the news came home, all the members of the Liu family were weeping unceasingly as if they were having a funeral, and the ministers who passed by were so frightened that they almost wanted to come in and say "sorry and change".

After knowing the whole story, these ministers began to gloat again.

There is no other reason, because there are three sons in the Liu family. The eldest son is away on the border all year round. Although he is not married, he is old and wants to inherit the family business, so it is not suitable. The second son is a bit masculine, but Mrs. Liu entered the palace some time ago He rejected the queen's marriage proposal under the pretext of "the second son has just been engaged and has not announced it", and immediately told the second son about the marriage after returning home. At this time, it is not easy to slap himself in the face. Young master Liu Qi.

This Liu Qi is also a wonderful thing, obviously his father and brother are all dragons and phoenixes in the family, somehow he raised such a rich man in the capital.

Urinating dishonestly, causing troubles in Liu's house and neighbors, when he was fourteen or five years old, he learned to raise birds, walk chickens, fight crickets, hang out in brothel theaters, knew nothing about civil and military strategies, not to mention piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, all day long. He just lays down to eat and asks for money, and occasionally meddles in the people's business, and the guards around him will whip him down if he doesn't agree with him.

Lord Liu Hou also couldn't control him a bit. After the youngest son was born, he stayed away all year round. He never gave his youngest father's love for a day. Master Hou felt a little guilty for growing up like this. Let him do it.

Now that the two of them are together, the ministers secretly laughed in their hearts: a match made in heaven.

This kind of fun can be regarded as a big topic of conversation in the capital. It didn't take long for everyone in the capital to know that the little overlord of the Liu family was severely beaten by Master Liu because he intended to resist the marriage.

I don't know who spread the rumors about it, even the person in the palace had heard about it, Liu Wen was summoned tremblingly, thinking that the emperor was going to lose his temper, how could he have expected that Emperor Chengxing would send a large sum of money with a wave of his hand The award not only made Liu Qi the county duke, but the words were also full of comfort.

Master Liu Hou is not good at beauty, he has one wife and one concubine in his family, the concubine is the aunt who was brought up by the maid of the house, and has nothing to do with her.

Counting now, there are seven people in the family, five of whom have titles.

Many people realized this, and the original schadenfreude secretly added some bitterness.

When another snowfall came in the capital, Chu Yan was allowed to go out of the palace to visit his palace, which was mostly repaired.

This is the former site of a royal palace in the time of the first emperor. The place is secluded but not remote. The main roads and small roads lead to the West City, separated by a Huayang Lake.

It is said that this house was originally built for the fifth prince, who was the fifth younger brother of the first emperor, but the young prince fell ill before he could be crowned king and leave the palace, and the built house was left empty.

In terms of seniority, Chu Yan had to call the fifth prince an uncle.

Because the house had never been owned by anyone, and Chu Yan was too old to move out of the palace in a hurry, Emperor Chengxing decided to put the palace here. What's more, there is no rush, we have to wait until the beginning of spring to plant, so in just over a month, the palace is already liveable.

The palace was very lively, and the people from the Ministry of Industry were still repairing some remote courtyards. The butlers, guards, maids, and servants given to him by the empress before, and added by the emperor from time to time... are all here.

Having lived in the central palace for so long, Chu Yan didn't have any superfluous feelings about this luxurious palace. After a casual walk around, he took Xiangying and Xiaoning out for a walk in Xinqing.

This little eunuch entered the palace when he was young, and he hadn't been out for ten years. He had already forgotten everything outside the palace, and he was more excited than anyone else when he came out this time, almost leaving his master behind.

Chu Yan only felt cold, so she found a teahouse and borrowed a stove from the shopkeeper to keep warm, and let Xinqing entertain herself.

Xinqing rubbed her head in embarrassment: "How can I leave my master, I'll serve you here."

"Get out." Chu Yan saw through his hypocrisy at this time, and pointed to the stairs ruthlessly, "When you come back, bring some small things that my little daughter likes to Wantao, if you can't find us, just go back to government."

The sixth princess, whose real name is Chu Wantao, and whose baby name is Taoer.

The emperor thought that the sixth princess was close to Chu Yan because she was bought by a pony and a swing, but she didn't know that it was just because Chu Yan called the little girl by her name—the sixth princess thought she was a big girl.

Xinqing was assigned a legitimate task, and happily ran away without a trace.

There is no private room on the second floor of the teahouse, but it is separated by three screens. Except for Chu Yan, there is only one other table, and there are three people on the table with four teacups, as if they are waiting for someone.

Chu Yan didn't pay much attention to them, but soon there were new guests upstairs. When passing by that table, someone suddenly said "Hey" and joked: "Isn't this Mr. Liu San? When I saw you, I thought you were afraid to go out after staying in your boudoir."

Someone deliberately answered: "Brother Zhu, why did you forget that Young Master Liu intended to resist the marriage, so he was beaten by the Hou Ye more than a dozen times and locked up for several days, that's right!"

The group of wealthy children behind the man burst into laughter.

There was no response from the other table, Chu Yan only felt noisy, and had no interest in the grievances and grievances of this group of people.

Unexpectedly, the provocative person talked about it, and it came to him.

"I'm afraid that after a while, you will become Concubine An, so you won't be able to get together with our group again? Thinking about it this way, I really can't bear to part with Brother Liu, a good son of a family, but in the end, tsk, followed a fool .”

Someone thought it was too much, and cleared their throat to persuade: "Young Master Zhu, that is the prince after all, let's not say a few words."

"Is there anything you can't say? My son is just telling the truth and kindly reminding our future Princess An." The son surnamed Zhu didn't know how to restrain himself, "Liu Qi, you have done a lot of evil, and now you have to accept it. I heard that the prince has a violent temper. Remembering the past, even the Third Prince took revenge, let alone you as an outsider, hmph, I am waiting to see what happens to you!"

The person who kept his mouth shut and forbearance finally stood up, picked up the teapot, and poured it on everyone's head without any explanation.

"Liu Qi!!!" Chu Yan heard someone yell.

The man ran away after pouring, his movements were neat, and he ran downstairs without looking back. Obviously, he had done this kind of thing many times. His two companions chased him out quickly, but one fell behind. The provocative sons and brothers Hold your breath.

There was chaos in the teahouse.

Although Chu Yan knew that he had a marriage contract with the young master of the Liu family, he didn't care much about it, so he didn't react to it before, and now he heard the words "doing a lot of evil", he couldn't help being curious.

Xiao Ning and Xiang Ying behind him only heard some rumors, and they didn't know much about them, so Chu Yan went downstairs to check out and asked the shopkeeper pretending to be curious.

It turned out that Liu Qi was the leader of a gang of dudes earlier, and Mr. Zhu was the leader of another gang of dudes. The two parties were not pleasing to the eye, and there were many conflicts. Mr. Zhu suffered a lot, and Liang Zi's knot became deeper and deeper.

This time Liu Qi was accused of marriage, and the dandies around him did not dare to surround the prospective princess in order to avoid suspicion. The former majestic little overlord became alone, and Mr. Zhu took a sigh of relief, spreading Liu Qi's story everywhere With all kinds of embarrassing things, Wang An was described as a devil outside, so that those who were often bullied by Liu Qi could gloat together.

Mr. Zhu dared to arrange Chu Yan in this way, because of the government of Chengguo behind him, and his aunt is the current imperial concubine.

Although the empresses and concubines have different positions in the harem, the influence of the mother's family is equally strong, and even the Zhu family has the meaning of overshadowing the Jin family of the empress' mother's family. When the emperor knew about it, he just turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye, and sometimes even temporarily handed over the management of the harem to the noble concubine because he picked out the queen's minor faults.

Over time, the empress became cold-hearted, so she no longer participated in those right and wrong, and only guarded her children with peace of mind. Instead, she saved the emperor's heart a little bit. Later, although the empress had always held the seal, the noble concubine established it in the harem The right to speak has not changed.

Even if Chu Yan didn't have deep feelings for the empress, there was absolutely no reason for the people under the imperial concubine's wings to scream at him. Since the young master Zhu said that he had a violent temper, he didn't mind telling the truth, but it's a pity that those people arrested him. When the person was out of breath, he left in a hurry.

There is ample time.While thinking about it, Chu Yan planned to go shopping elsewhere, but unfortunately, before walking out of a street, Xiangying let out a soft cry.

Looking up, the irritated Young Master Liu was chatting and laughing with several girls.

Looking again, there are lanterns and paper flowers hanging on the eaves, which are gorgeously decorated, and the girls outside are well-dressed and have a graceful figure-the brothel is undoubtedly.

Chu Yan helped his forehead. He had just learned that the future concubine that his father said was "a family of bells and lanterns, a man of high spirits" was actually a dandy who was personally angry with God. Before he had time to digest it quietly, he had to see it with his own eyes. It's too exciting to be green.

Fortunately, the old mother blocked the door and did not let him in. The little boy jumped for a long time, but felt ashamed, so he gave up and went into an alley.

Crossing that alley is Huayang Lake. Chu Yan reasonably suspected that he was going to jump into the lake, so he turned around and followed.

Sure enough, the young master was standing by the lake, kicking the stones under his feet one after another.

He also murmured: "Anyway, you don't love me anymore. When you catch me in the lake, you will regret it."

"I don't want to live anymore! There is no point in living! I still want to get married! I can't get married even if I die..."

"Why hasn't my brother come yet..."

Chu Yan: "..."

Xiangying and Xiaoning took a few steps back very considerately, and put mushrooms against the corner of the wall, pretending not to see the embarrassing scene of the future princess.

In an instant, Chu Yan became the one who came out, especially conspicuous, and there was no way out.

It just so happened that the young master turned his head, crying stuck in his throat, judging from his embarrassing and complicated expression, his sense of shame seemed to be still alive.

The two stared blankly for a long time, and the young master suddenly said eagerly: "Are you sent by my brother?"

Chu Yan was expressionless: "No."

Then he pointed to the surface of the lake: "Continue to dance."

Liu Qi: "..."

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