The king was wrong

"Menghan, do you know your mistake?"

Because it was still early, there was no one in the main courtyard, so the housekeeper brought Qi Yaoqing into the main hall to sit down, said "The prince will be there soon" and disappeared.There were only three masters and servants left in the huge main hall. Qi Yaoqing's face was stained with frost, and he no longer had the gentleness of the past, and asked Menghan seriously.

At this moment, Menghan also knew that he had lost his composure in the garden just now, and if he failed, he might cause Qi Yaoqing a whole lot of trouble, so he didn't judge for himself at this moment, and knelt straight in front of Qi Yaoqing, bowing his head and said: "Master , I know I was wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"Slaves shouldn't lose their composure in the garden regardless of matters, and cause trouble for the young master."

"anything else?"

"Slaves...shouldn't have disregarded the young master's intentions and kept the young master from what they heard this morning..."

"Hmph, do you still know that this is ignoring me?" Qi Yaoqing snorted coldly, "Then can you tell me now, what happened to make you so nervous!"

Seeing that Qi Yaoqing was angry, Meng Han finally stopped hiding, and while shedding tears, she talked about what she heard when she went to fetch water early in the morning.

It turned out that Wei Yanxi did not go back to the courtyard alone after leaving the new house last night, but went to the courtyard of Xinna's side wife Xue Hanxue with great fanfare.

Who is Xue Hanxue?She is the most precious daughter of Xue Hegui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, with excellent appearance and family background. Little Wei Yanxi is two years old, and she has been in love with Wei Yanxi for many years, and she will not marry unless she is King Yong.However, His Royal Highness King Yong hasn't even taken a concubine in the past 20 years, so she has been stubbornly staying in her boudoir, which made her parents very worried.

Unexpectedly, this time King Yong got married, Wei Yanxi not only married Princess Zheng in accordance with the imperial decree, but also privately asked Master Shang Shu to ask his precious daughter to be his side wife.Master Xue feels good when he hears this, although he is a concubine, but no matter what, she is a concubine of Prince Yong's mansion, how can ordinary people compare to it?Besides, in this way, my daughter finally got what she wanted, right?Now that my daughter is married, I and my wife can rest easy.So without hesitation, Master Shang Shu immediately agreed to the marriage.

Hearing this, you may feel that it is nothing. After all, as the famous Prince Yong in Lanchao, it is not a big deal to marry another concubine besides the concubine.But it’s okay if you only have one side room when you marry the princess. In fact, Wei Yanxi not only carried Xue Hanxue in, but also Wu Ranyue, the concubine of Wu Xiaoguang, the servant of the Ministry of Industry, and Linglong, the top card of Zuifenglou. , one was made a concubine, and the other was made a concubine.

Wu Ranyue is easy to get along with. Her father, Wu Qiqiong, is an honest and down-to-earth person, so even she has developed a calm and introverted personality since she was a child, and she doesn't like to provoke disputes.It's okay for her to be a concubine, at least she should have the same etiquette and rules.

But that Linglong girl was different.She was famous when she was in Zuifeng Tower. In her early years, not only was she beautiful, but she was also one of the best in the capital. I don't know how many nobles in the capital willingly bowed down under her pomegranate skirt.

Who would have thought that the Linglong girl was arrogant and arrogant, and she didn't care at all about the dandy children of the aristocratic families, and even threatened that she would marry if she didn't marry in this life, and if she wanted to marry, she would marry a general who was capable of both civil and military skills.

Who is the great general capable of writing and fighting?Wei Yanxi naturally did her part.

So, at the same time Qi Yaoqing entered, there were three more women in King Yong's backyard.One is a lady from a big family, one is a jade from a small family, and the other is from a brothel in Chuguan, they are all different.And Wei Yanxi didn't even look at Qi Yaoqing, and Xue Hanxue gave Xue Hanxue a long face on the wedding night.From Meng Han's point of view, King Yong's actions clearly embarrass the princess!

Qi Yaoqing heard Menghan crying and said this, her face was tense, and she didn't make a sound for a long time.Meng Qi also stood aside with a pale face, opened her mouth, and finally chose to remain silent.

The whole room was quiet, only Menghan's suppressed sobbing was left, which made people worrying.

Qi Yaoqing didn't know how to feel at this time.He had guessed that Wei Yanxi would make things difficult for him long before he married into the palace, so he was not surprised by what he did last night.However, if according to what Menghan said, Wei Yanxi went to Xinna's side wife's courtyard to spend the night just after leaving the new house for marriage, then this is not simply making things difficult but insulting.

As the concubine of Prince Yong, the prince stayed in another woman's room on the night of his wedding. Would anyone believe him?Even though he was a man, he couldn't bear such bullying.

Of course, or maybe it was because he was a man that he had to suffer this kind of humiliation.

"Okay, don't cry." After an unknown amount of time, Qi Yaoqing finally took the lead in breaking this weird silence.His complexion relaxed a little, and he raised his hand to signal Meng Han to get up.

"Young Master..." Meng Han choked up his voice, knelt on the ground stubbornly and did not move, "I don't understand, the young master didn't let the prince down, the prince...why did he treat the young master like this!"

She still couldn't understand the sadness that Menghan said, the young master is such a good person, it's nothing more than being forced by the queen and the master to marry into Prince Yong's mansion, why even King Yong is doing this to him now!

Since one of them didn't want to marry and the other didn't want to marry, why did King Yong agree to this marriage?Not only did this move break the young master's wings, but now it makes him even lack the dignity that a princess should have. Doesn't Wei Yanxi feel ashamed in his heart!

I have to say that Meng Han is still a bit naive, naively thinking that as long as King Yong is unwilling to marry the royal family, he can not marry, but he doesn't know that it is because of the royal marriage that there is no room for maneuver.

Although Menghan didn't know the twists and turns of the royal family, Qi Yaoqing knew it all too well, so even though he was angry, he didn't blame Wei Yanxi.Didn’t Zhu Yaozi say it before, that Wei Yanxi has long been attached to her? That’s something that everyone in the capital knows. He didn’t marry for 20 years, but in the end it was nothing. It is understandable for a wife to resent herself when she enters the house.

"My lord...should have his own considerations." Qi Yaoqing shook his head, but he finally spit out such a sentence.

"But……"

"It's nothing." Before Menghan finished speaking, Qi Yaoqing interrupted: "Remember both of you, this is Prince Yong's Mansion, not Qingshui Garden, and the prince is not someone you can talk about casually. Let me hear you talking about these gossips, pack up my things and go back to the Duke's mansion!"

Qi Yaoqing's expression was not good at the moment, and he suddenly realized that Wei Yanxi hadn't come to the main courtyard until now, and there was not even a servant in the main hall, so it was very unusual for the three of them to sit and talk here. !

Judging from the situation along the way just now, Prince Yong's Mansion is definitely not a place where even the servants in the main courtyard cannot afford to be invited.What happened this morning is very likely a trap, Wei Yanxi may be trying to use Menghan's mouth to deliberately lure him into making mistakes, so as to use this as an excuse to make another blow.Maybe even he himself is hiding somewhere and paying close attention to every move here!

Qi Yaoqing looked around calmly, making sure that there was indeed no one there, and then locked his eyes on Meng Han who was still a little emotional.

Do less and make less mistakes, do more and make more mistakes. Judging from Meng Han and Meng Qi's current cultivation base, it is not enough to survive in the palace. For a while.If there was a day when even he couldn't protect them... Qi Yaoqing closed his eyes, then...let Yaozi take good care of them both, and it's worth following him.

After making up his mind, Qi Yaoqing didn't hesitate anymore, he waved his hand wearily and said: "Okay, since you are entering the palace today, you don't have to go with me, go back to the courtyard and wait."

Menghan raised his head when he heard this, and looked at Qi Yaoqing in disbelief: "Young...Young master?"

Seeing that Menghan was about to cry again, Qi Yaoqing quickly explained: "It's not what you think, there are so many people in the palace, I can't even take care of myself, let alone the two of you. Instead of going, let me break up." Heart, it's better to stay in the palace and guard the yard for me."

It wasn't until Qi Yaoqing said this that the two felt relieved - it turned out that the young master didn't want him anymore.But while they were relieved, they couldn't help worrying about Qi Yaoqing, worrying whether he could handle the one in the palace alone.

"But young master, the empress's place..." Meng Qi hesitated to speak, but how could Qi Yaoqing not understand what she meant?

"Don't worry." Qi Yaoqing nodded to reassure her, "No matter how you say it, you are the elder sister on the bright side, so you won't embarrass me too much."

Qi Yaoqing gave them a few more simple instructions before driving them back, and then sat quietly in the big main hall by himself, waiting to see His Royal Highness King Yong's next move.

"Hey, why is the princess still sitting here?"

Not long after Meng Han and Meng Qi left, the butler who had left in a hurry earlier left and came back, and asked Qi Yaoqing in surprise before he stepped through the door.

Qi Yaoqing took a sip of her tea with lowered eyes, but did not answer.

Seeing him so calm, the butler was a little uneasy.He scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a sneer: "That...Princess, it's getting late, the prince has already set off on horseback, look...you also..."

"Let's go then."

Qi Yaoqing didn't ask Wei Yanxi why he left alone, nor why he was a princess, but after sitting for so long, he rushed into the palace without even having a bite of breakfast, so he got up and walked out the door.

"By the way," Qi Yaoqing suddenly stopped after taking two steps, turned his head to look at the butler, a mocking smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and asked him, "I don't know how to enter the palace, but I have to walk out of the palace by myself." past?"

The butler was taken aback by his question, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "No, how could this happen? The carriage you will take is waiting at the door, please, princess."

"Well, that would be great." Qi Yaoqing smiled unabated, flicked his sleeves and walked towards the gate, leaving only the butler staring at his back thoughtfully.

This princess... doesn't seem to be as incompetent as the rumors say...

In fact, Qi Yaoqing thinks this way: Although it is understandable that Wei Yanxi is dissatisfied with taking the title of princess, he is also a victim anyway, and he does not want to just marry into Prince Yong's mansion and lose his official career.Since His Royal Highness King Yong doesn't want to get along well, let's just forget about it. The left and right don't owe Wei Yanxi anything.

第一 次 相见

"he's gone?"

In the hidden private room behind the main hall of the main courtyard of King Yong's Mansion, His Highness King Yong was leisurely peeling oranges while asking the butler who had just entered the door.

"Yes, my lord." The butler stood still in front of him, and bowed his head respectfully and replied: "The princess just left in a carriage alone."

"Oh? You left by yourself? Didn't you bring those two servants with you?"

"Hmm...no. The concubine doesn't seem to want them to get involved in these matters too much. According to this old slave, she is afraid that they won't be able to control their emotions, and they will be like this morning."

Wei Yanxi had already been told about Meng Han's loss of control in the garden this morning, so he was not surprised when he heard the butler's words at first.

"Hmph, I didn't expect him to love his subordinates." Wei Yanxi raised her eyebrows, "They stayed in the front hall for so long, what did they talk about?"

"This..." The housekeeper paused, but soon decided to report the truth: "The old slave was afraid that the princess would find out, so he didn't dare to get too close. I only vaguely heard that girl named Menghan crying and telling the princess about you. In the morning, the order was passed on, and the other man named Meng Qi didn't say a word from the beginning to the end."

Wei Yanxi casually stuffed a piece of crystal clear orange petals into his mouth, and asked nonchalantly, "How did he react?"

"The old slave stood behind and couldn't see Wang Hao's expression clearly, but he was quite calm when he heard the voice."

"What did he say?"

"The princess said that the prince must have his own considerations, and told the two girls not to talk about the master at will, otherwise they will be sent back to the Duke's mansion, and they are not allowed to follow."

"Ha, send it back to the Duke's Mansion?" Wei Yanxi couldn't help laughing out loud, "He is really cruel, even the two maids who are closest to him are willing to send them back. Ling, don't you really want to become a lonely family?"

The butler saw that his prince mocked the princess without any sympathy, and after hesitating again and again, he tried to defend Qi Yaoqing: "Actually...the prince, according to this old slave, the princess should do this to protect those two girls... "

"Of course this king knows." Unexpectedly, after the old steward defended the princess with trepidation, Wei Yanxi nodded with a face of course: "That's why this king finds it interesting. He would rather live in the palace by himself. It's really interesting not to have two maids stay with you."

Stuffing the last bite of orange into his mouth, Wei Yanxi dusted his hands and stood up, while walking outside, he said casually: "Okay, since the concubine has already set off, it's not too late for the king to go, right? Wei, take my king's horse!"

Wei Yanxi left in high spirits, leaving only the butler standing there helplessly—what did the prince think, could it be that he was so happy when he left the house two steps later than the princess?

The housekeeper felt that he was becoming more and more incomprehensible to his master's thoughts...

And at this moment in front of the palace gate.

Facing the tall and majestic Nangong Gate, Qi Yaoqing just stood there with his hands behind his back for half a quarter of an hour, without saying a word and expressionless.

He clearly remembered that the butler said that the prince took a step ahead, right?Besides, the prince is riding a horse, but he is riding a carriage, right?He didn't believe that the thousand-mile steed under the throne of Yong could not run as fast as his carriage!

He had asked the guards guarding the gate before, thinking that Wei Yanxi had come earlier than him, so he should have gone in, but the two guards said that they didn't see King Yong's shadow at all this morning, and even asked Qi Yaoqing if he could go first After entering the palace, he told him with an apologetic face that it was best to wait for King Yong to come and go in together. After all, Qi Yaoqing's current identity is Princess Yong, and it is always bad to enter the palace alone without a summons.

Now Qi Yaoqing finally understood that King Yong was tripping him up again!The weather in midsummer was already hot, and now the sun was high, and there was not even a shady place in front of the palace gate that could block the sun.The coachman who brought him ran away so early that he couldn't even see his shadow, so Qi Yaoqing had no choice but to bear it under the bright sun.

The key point is that he didn't even take a sip of breakfast!

Qi Yaoqing was hot and hungry at the moment, and he had a deeper understanding of Wei Yanxi's torture methods.

When the fine beads of sweat gradually condensed into a whole drop under the scorching sun, and slid down the thin chin to the ground, and after a splash of water, Qi Yaoqing finally heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance.He snorted coldly in his heart: Finally here?I have been waiting for almost half an hour.

Wei Yanxi drove his horse to arrive, and from a distance, he saw the thin figure standing with his hands behind his back in front of the palace gate.He was wearing a crescent-colored long-sleeved gown today, which stood out against the red-painted palace gate.He just stood there so straight, like a green pine, still exposed to the scorching sun, the heat wave hit, and the summer wind rolled up his clothes, standing still.

In this hot summer day, just looking at Qi Yaoqing's crescent-colored figure gave Wei Yanxi a...cool feeling...

Shaking his head and throwing away these messy thoughts, Wei Yanxi turned over and jumped off the horse, and walked towards Qi Yaoqing who was not far away.

"Wangfei came so early, but this king is late."

Qi Yaoqing turned his head slightly, and sure enough, he caught a glimpse of a black figure walking towards him.

It seems that King Yong really likes black clothes.Qi Yaoqing couldn't help muttering something in his heart, but his face remained calm as before, he turned around and saluted respectfully: "I have seen the prince."

He lowered his head and stared straight at Wei Yanxi's black clothes with a thin gold border embroidered at his feet, but he didn't hear Wei Yanxi's response after waiting for a long time.

Until his neck was sore, Qi Yaoqing finally raised his head tentatively, wanting to see what was going on with Wei Yanxi.

Unexpectedly, the moment he raised his head, he met Wei Yanxi's distorted face due to astonishment and astonishment.

"Little... Xiaoqi... sister?"

Wei Yanxi was so shocked right now, she even wondered if she was dreaming.He never thought that his princess would have such a face!

The familiar face in memory is vividly in front of my eyes, with similar outlines and similar facial features, but the girl's eyebrows and eyes have not yet opened ten years ago, and although her appearance is stunning, she is still a little immature.Unlike the person in front of him, his eyebrows are like spring mountains and his eyes are like phoenix tails. From time to time, a few strands of blue hair are blown to his ears by the summer wind, slightly covering his thin and sharp chin, making him look like a peerless man with even more elegance behind him. Floating like a fairy.

But he is "he", not "she".

"My lord?"

Qi Yaoqing frowned involuntarily, and pursed his lips uncomfortably under Wei Yanxi's eager gaze, not knowing what he was acting.Little Seventh Sister, who is Little Seventh Sister?Why did Wei Yanxi call out such a name to him?Could it be that he looks a lot like a certain woman he knows?

Qi Yaoqing touched his face subconsciously, thinking that it shouldn't be, although he was a little bit delicate when he was young, but he got better with age, even the one who always took pleasure in mocking him The dead pork loin is admitted!

In fact, Zhu Yaozi's original words were as follows: "Well, I guess no one would use 'beautiful' to describe you when you go out now. Although you are still beautiful...you are more beautiful than me, but compared to when you were a child, you are already beautiful. It's okay!"

So, Qi Yaoqing still thinks too kindly of his best friend...

Looking back to the present, Wei Yanxi suddenly woke up from the dream after seeing Qi Yaoqing subconsciously touching his face, and couldn't help rubbing his eyes.

This is really astonishing, he never imagined that his newly married concubine would have a face that is [-]% similar to that of Xiao Qi, who he has been looking for for nearly ten years!If Qi Yaoqing hadn't been sure that he was a man, I'm afraid I would really have thought that he was Xiao Qi.

but……

Wei Yanxi stared at Qi Yaoqing's face in a daze.

If Qi Yaoqing looks so similar to Little Seven, is it possible that Little Seven is from the Qi family?

"Do you have any sisters in your family?"

Wei Yanxi asked suddenly, he stared at Qi Yaoqing, his tone was anxious and full of expectation, as if he was eager to prove something.

Qi Yaoqing looked at him blankly, not knowing what he wanted to do.What does it have to do with King Yong whether there are sisters in your family?Could it be that he still plans to take another concubine from Duke Sheng's mansion?

Barely suppressing his suspicions, Qi Yao cleared his mind, and said calmly: "There is only one elder sister in the family, and she is the current queen, and the prince knows about it. As for the younger sister... the two concubines of the father each have a daughter. One age is thirteen, the other age is fifteen, both of them can be regarded as... my younger sister."

"Do they look similar to you?" Wei Yanxi asked immediately.

Qi Yaoqing frowned and looked him up and down, thinking what happened to King Yong today, and he was interested in asking him about the Duke of Sheng.But without much hesitation, he replied patiently: "Not at all. The chief minister followed his mother, only three points similar to his father, and my mother had only one son, a minister, until her death."

"Ah, it's not like..." Wei Yanxi lowered his eyes when he heard the words, looking very disappointed, "Yes, one thirteen, one fifteen, how could it be..."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Qi Yaoqing suddenly felt that His Royal Highness King Yong, who had always been majestic, seemed to be a bit shorter at the moment. His lonely face and worrying about gains and losses made him look no longer superior, but a bit ordinary human vitality.

"Well... If it is similar, the two cousins ​​of the uncle's family are somewhat similar to the minister. They are now one eighteen and the other twenty, but the one who is twenty has been married a year ago. .”

Combining Wei Yanxi's words and expressions before and after, how can a person as delicate and transparent as Qi Yaoqing fail to see through?I am afraid that this King Yong met a woman who looked somewhat similar to himself in his early years, and secretly fell in love with her, which led to him never marrying and staying alone for many years.

It's just that the two cousins ​​of the uncle's family have really met King Yong?Why have I never heard of it?

Qi Yaoqing looked at the sky, seeing that the sun had already risen very high, if he spent any more time at the gate of the palace, he would be blamed by his narrow-minded elder sister.He put aside these doubts for the time being, saluted Wei Yanxi respectfully, and persuaded: "My lord, it's not too early to forgive me for talking too much. My lord and my minister...shouldn't it be better to go to the palace to meet the Holy One as soon as possible?"

He said it humbly, for fear that Wei Yanxi would get angry with him because of his self-assertion, and if the person inside heard it, he would inevitably be ridiculed again.

It's a pity that Qi Yaoqing looked forward and backward for a long time, and finally came up with a good wording, but Wei Yanxi was full of his little sister at the moment, and didn't care what Qi Yaoqing said at all.

"Okay, let's go."

Just like that, the two walked towards the palace gate one after the other.