surrogate wife

Xiao Yu'an was afraid that others would find out that he came to Xue's house and cause trouble, so he left after talking for a while.

Wen Yumu listened to the royal grievances in his head, sat there and sighed, "I don't know what happened to Ah Yi."

Xiao Shu almost moved the table next to the bed and said, "Ma'am, aren't you in a hurry?"

"It's not in a hurry, but it's inevitable that I'm a little worried." Although he was quite sure at the beginning, as time went by, he couldn't help but start to worry about Xue Yi.

Xue Yi drove all the way to Wen's mansion, and found Wen Changning. After explaining the whole story, Wen Changning's head was as big as a bucket, "I don't have much to say, let's go to the palace!"

He was flying all the way again, and heard that Wen Changning and Xue Yi asked to see him, and it was urgent. The emperor was quite curious, and when he saw them, he smiled and asked, "What's wrong, the house collapsed?"

Wen Changning said helplessly, "It's almost as if the house has collapsed."

He signaled Xue Yi with his eyes.

Xue Yi raised his robe and knelt down, the emperor was startled, "What is this for?"

Xue Yidao: "Your Majesty, I just received the Queen Mother's order at home to marry Princess Qinran to me, but I already have a beloved wife in my family, how can I marry someone else?"

After finishing speaking, he bowed respectfully, "So, I have no choice but to ask my brother to take me into the palace, and beg the emperor to help me."

After hearing this, the emperor felt suffocated, and hurriedly helped Xue Yi up, "Okay, don't make it so miserable, I'll ask what's going on first."

He beckoned to the palace man beside him, and the palace man took the order and left, and after a while, they talked back and forth.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Shu went to see the Empress Dowager today, and Concubine Shen of Prince Li Ke's residence also visited Concubine Shen. Concubine Shen went first, Concubine Shu went second. In the middle, the concubine Qinran who was serving beside Princess Qinran was summoned. Not long after Concubine Shu left, the Empress Dowager issued a decree."

"Shen side concubine, Shu concubine, Qin Ran?" The emperor frowned, "Why do you think so, tell me."

The palace servant said with a smile: "This old slave is just guessing. The side concubine Shen must have come to complain when she entered the palace. It's nothing more than the affairs of the county prince's mansion."

"Ms. Concubine Shu, rushing over next to Concubine Shen, she must know that what Concubine Shen said is about Concubine Xiao Zheng, and she wants to add insult to injury."

"As for Princess Qinran, there are some rumors in the palace that after she met Mr. Xue at the Wenhua Banquet, she began to fall in love with her. Presumably the Queen Mother wanted to fulfill her."

"As for why Concubine Shen and Concubine Shu met the Empress Dowager one after another, but in the end they ended up offering marriages, this old slave has no way of guessing, and needs to investigate further."

After hearing this, the emperor said angrily, "It's actually Concubine Shu! How does the empress manage the harem?!"

It's a bit unreasonable to vent your anger, the queen can't control where Xiao Shufei's legs go.

He also knew that he was venting his anger. He glanced at Xue Yi who was still kneeling and Wen Changning who was standing aside watching the play, and he simply waved his hands, "There is no need to inquire. Since they are all here, tell me to come together." Let's make it clear in front of the Queen Mother."

"Go and call the queen and Qinran to the queen mother's palace, and block the news from Yizhi, and don't spread it indiscriminately!" He gave another order to the palace staff.

The group of them rushed to Qianning Palace where the Empress Dowager lived. The emperor asked the gatekeeper, "Is the Empress awake?"

The palace man replied: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager took a nap just now and is awake now."

The queen mother in the room heard the voice and asked, "Did the emperor come to see me? Why are you standing at the door and talking?"

The emperor opened the curtain and walked in, followed by Xue Yi and Wen Changning.

"My son pays homage to the queen mother." The emperor saluted and was called out affectionately by the queen mother.

She exchanged pleasantries with the emperor, and then her eyes fell on Xue Yi, "Who is this lord?"

"This is Xue Yi." The emperor said.

The Empress Dowager smiled, "It turned out to be Master Xiao Xue, but you came to the palace to thank you?"

There was silence on the field, and the three brothers and sisters all felt the suffocation of being punched in the chest.

The emperor's brain buzzed, and he said with difficulty: "Queen mother, I am not here to thank you, but to ask you to take back the imperial edict."

No way, it's my mother.

Xue Yi knelt on the ground again, and begged: "The Empress Dowager Mingjian, I already have a beloved wife in my family, and I really can't marry another one."

The queen mother pulled her face down and said: "Huh, your wife Wen dared to disobey me and make friends with that Li Ke princess Xiao, you go and ask the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, whose family members dare to fight with his family?" contact?"

"If you keep such a blind wife, it will bring you trouble. If you like it, you can just demote her to a concubine."

As soon as Wen Changning couldn't hear it well, he quickly interrupted Xue Yi who was about to speak, and said with a smile: "What is the Queen Mother saying? The wives of dross don't go to court. If it spreads, the world doesn't know how to arrange it." Where are you and the emperor?"

The Queen Mother said indifferently: "I don't care about these false names."

The emperor found his position at this time, and said: "Mother, you don't care about yourself, you should also think about your son. Do you want your son to become a stupid king who is scolded in the drama?"

"Forcing the minister's wife, what is this called?"

At this time, the palace servants came to report that the Empress and Princess Qinran had arrived.

The Empress Dowager's decree was casual, until now, the Empress and Qin Ran didn't know that she had made the decree of giving marriage without saying a word.

Princess Qinran became anxious immediately, and hurriedly knelt down at the Empress Dowager's feet, hugged her thigh and said: "Mother, please take back the imperial edict, I don't want to marry Lord Xue."

The queen mother was surprised, "Why don't you want to? I asked the waiters around you, and they told the truth. If you don't like it, then why are you always restless after the Wenhua banquet?"

Princess Qinran panicked and burst into tears, "I, I, I really don't like Lord Xue... Queen Mother, it's true, you have to believe me."

The emperor gave Wen Changning a wink, he understood, and pulled Xue Yi back out silently.

The queen and the emperor cooperated tacitly, waved away the left and right palace people, and said softly: "Qinran, there are no outsiders here now, so just boldly say what you think in your heart."

Princess Qinran kept shaking her head, "What I said is true, I really don't like Master Xue, please, Queen Mother, I don't want to marry him."

At this time, the Queen Mother finally believed that she was really resisting, and couldn't help but said: "Then which one do you like, is it some other son and lord at the Wenhua Banquet?"

Princess Qinran covered her face, tears leaked from her fingers, "No, no, I don't like anyone, I don't like anyone..."

Why is the life in this palace so suffocating, can't she just think about it secretly?

"This..." the queen mother said: "You child, if you don't like it, you don't like it. If you cry so hard, why do you do this, the queen mother will not eat you."

Qin Ran lay on her lap, sobbing softly.

With her appearance like this, it was obvious that she had someone in her heart, but she was resolute in her refusal to tell, and was even hiding it almost desperately.

Is it because that is an absolutely impossible person?

Empress Xu looked at Qinran's back thoughtfully, thinking in her heart, it couldn't be Xue Yi, because the queen mother had already issued an order, even if it was wrong, it was not hopeless, and it would not make her so desperate.

At the Wenhua Banquet, who is absolutely impossible?

Could it be... A figure suddenly flashed in the queen's mind, could it be him? !

Yes, yes, the queen suppressed the shock in her heart, the more she thought about it, the more she resembled it.Perhaps women are always extra sensitive in this regard, she is almost sure.

It never occurred to me that the Empress Dowager bestowed a marriage to separate the husband and wife, but Princess Qinran wanted to marry another...

She silently swallowed this conjecture into her stomach, making up her mind not to speak out.

Qin Ran resolutely refused, and the Empress Dowager was also a little embarrassed, and complained to the emperor: "It's all the fault of the Wen family. I insist on making friends with the Xiao family. If I didn't annoy him, I wouldn't make an order impulsively."

The emperor raised his forehead, "What am I supposed to do, it's just a small matter of socializing in the back house, why did this happen?"

The queen mother said dissatisfiedly: "What is the small matter of dating in the back house, my lord, you don't know the role that the women in the back house can play, and the things that are inconvenient for men to talk about are all said through the contacts in the back house." .”

"The Wen family and the Xiao family have a good relationship. In the eyes of outsiders, even Xue Yi and Li Ke have friendship!"

The emperor said: "I know about this, but the queen mother still doesn't understand men, especially these men in officialdom."

"Hey, what they value most in their hearts is power and status. Not to mention the friendship between Mrs. Hou Zhai, even if they have a deep personal relationship in private, the last thing that affects the head is the butt."

"Xue Yi has nothing to rely on behind him. The only thing he has to rely on is that Mr. Wen and I value him so that he can rise to the top. His ass is naturally sitting on my side, and he will never lean on others."

"I also have supervisors, and he hasn't even spoken to Li Ke."

The Empress Dowager regretted it a little, but she still insisted, "That's not okay, Wen's doing this is just provoking me, and I can't let him push me?"

The emperor said: "If you don't come out like this, I can reprimand him, but after you do this, I won't be able to do anything to him."

"Mother, in fact, even if Wen Shi and Xiao Shi are on good terms, it won't affect anything at all. If you are not happy, just ask him to come into the palace and reprimand him a few times. But if you really break up their husband and wife, I dare not use Xue Shi It's okay, I can only call him a wealthy and idle man's son-in-law for the rest of his life."

The queen mother said: "Why is this? He has become our own son-in-law, isn't he closer?"

The emperor sighed: "That's because I know him well. He loves his wife deeply. If he insists on forcing them to leave, he must have resentment in his heart. It will be like a stick with barbs, and it will hurt if you hold it."

The Empress Dowager said disconsolately: "You don't agree, and Qin Ran doesn't want to. I was a villain in vain, but I didn't get anything in the end, and I even made you complain."

The tone already softened.

Empress Yingying bowed: "The empress mother's loving heart is all for the emperor and Qinran, they naturally understand."

The emperor also said: "Yes, Queen Mother, I know that you are the most reasonable."

Qin Ran also stopped crying, hugged the Queen Mother's thigh and looked at her expectantly, and even shook her coquettishly.

Ai Ai said in the late dowager period: "But the imperial decree has already been issued, so I will take it back..."

"Forget it, it's okay to lose face this time because of you guys. It's all my fault that I was too anxious and didn't ask clearly."

The emperor said: "Mother, don't worry, I have a solution."

After that, he said seriously: "The queen listens to the order."

"Shu Concubine Xiao's misbehavior, in order to seek revenge, falsely passed on the Queen Mother's will, the crime is unforgivable, and ordered to be thrown into the cold palace."

"At the same time, the Guangping Marquis Mansion has no way to educate the daughters. They use concubines as concubines and despise the royal family. It is against the rules and regulations. They deprive them of their titles to make an example of others!"

The queen's heart trembled, "The concubine accepts the order."

Even though Concubine Shu, whom she hated the most, was unlucky, she was not too happy, but felt palpitated again by the emperor's ruthlessness.

Why would she have to sympathize with Qinran, if she fell in love with someone she could never love, she would be the only one.

Fortunately... she is the queen, as long as she doesn't make any serious mistakes, she will always be the most respected master of the harem in his heart.

……

After the matter was settled, after leaving the palace and saying goodbye to Wen Changning, Xue Yi returned home.

Wen Yumu has already walked back and forth in the house in a leisurely and anxious manner from the beginning, "Why haven't you come back yet, can something really happen?"

Can't.

No matter how you think about it, there shouldn't be anything wrong, the emperor still wants to use Ah Yi, how could he be too forceful?

Forcibly forcing the courtiers to reconcile, what kind of brains can do this, the emperor will not really let the queen mother do this, right?

Suddenly, he heard the sound of someone on the roof stepping lightly on the tiles.The sound was soft, almost like a cat treading on fallen leaves.

His mind tightened, is it the royal guard?Was it sent by King Li Ke or the emperor?

Not long after, Xue Yifeng pushed the door open and came in, hugged him, and said excitedly: "Mumu, it's okay, it's okay, we won't be separated."

Only then did Wen Yumu's heart drop to the ground, and he hugged him back with a smile.

Xue Yi roughly talked about his experience after entering the palace, and Wen Yu said: "The emperor is a natural monarch with a big heart, so he will naturally distinguish right from wrong, and will not care about these trivial matters."

"The Empress Dowager is also eager to love her daughter, so I misunderstood."

"Actually speaking, Yu'an and I met in Weimo. At that time, I didn't know that there were a lot of inside stories, but even if I knew later, would it make me give up my friends because of this? Then who am I?"

"If I really turn around and abandon my friends, the Queen Mother will look down on me."

Xue Yi looked at him with some doubts, wondering why he spoke so strangely today.

Wen Yumu winked at him, smiled and said 'hush', then pointed to the roof.

Xue Yi understood, and took advantage of the situation and praised a few words.

After a while, Wen Yumu smiled and said, "He's gone."

Xue Yi hugged him and kissed him hard, "It's really getting more and more cunning."

Wen Yumu pinched his face with a smile, "Well, you're not bad either."

……

The dark guard returned to the palace and told the emperor and queen mother what he had seen and heard.

The emperor smiled and said: "Queen, I just said that they are not people who don't know what is good or bad."

The Queen Mother also felt comfortable listening, snorted and said, "It's a bit more knowledgeable than I thought."

The emperor rubbed his chin, squinted his eyes and said: "Well, that Wen's craftsmanship is good, if the queen mother is not feeling well, ask him to come into the palace to cook you something to eat."

"Remember to leave some for me."

The queen mother laughed and scolded: "I've grown so big, I'm still so greedy."

"So Wen's craftsmanship is really good?"

"Of course it is true!" the emperor said: "I have eaten at Wen's house a few times, and every time I come back after eating, I feel that the imperial chef has cut corners, and it just doesn't taste that good."

The Queen Mother then said: "Then I will call him next time, and you just have to wait to eat."

The emperor thanked him happily: "It's still my mother who loves me."