Some people say that when people get old, their hearts become softer, and they will naturally pity the old and the poor, or in other words, pity the old and cherish the weak.

However, both the Queen Mother and the Emperor scoffed at this sentence. If you want to have that kind of spare time for compassion, then you must first ensure that you are strong, otherwise, a person who has nothing, what can he do to help others after pity? In addition, the old and weak also need to have something to pity, if it is the kind of guy who is old and does not die as a thief, or a weak person who is ungrateful, it is simply a white-eyed wolf!

Therefore, although the queen mother and the emperor have a lot of sympathy for the clan, there is only one premise, it must be a respectful and courteous clan.

is like this emperor personally promised to choose a son-in-law with the two princesses of the right age, their fathers and ancestors have always stood firmly on the side of Emperor Ruizong and the current queen mother and emperor until their deaths. As for the rest of the families, such as the heir and the king, whose son has just been removed from the clan and is seriously ill, there are also two daughters in the family, but who will care about this after the emperor?

And the reason thrown by the emperor also blocked the mouths of civil and military officials very well. Isn't it natural for a father to choose a son-in-law for his daughter? And there is no orphan daughter in the same clan who is married by her father, and the emperor, as the real patriarch of the royal family, is not it natural for him to come forward to marry? As for the other county lords and daughters with lower titles, no one wants the emperor to take care of them all.

Because that means that the court may have to spend a lot of money!

Although the repercussions of such a thing are quite large, but it is mainly concentrated among the children of the official eunuchs, so the common people are a small discussion, and it is not as strong as when they heard that the princess was selected from below the seventh grade and the family of scholars. It's just that the Son of Heaven said casually, but the etiquette department was so busy that his leg was broken. Because they are completely responsible for the pre-selection and preliminary screening.

And after Chu Kuan, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the pen, personally came to contact the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites with a smile and a groan, and copied a list of more than 100 people, some people who wanted to make some small moves also died down. If the initial screening sifs out some of the wastes that everyone knows are not successful, it will be counted, and if the people that the emperor may like to be sifted out, the result will be really unimaginable.

In this chaotic atmosphere, although the last Princess Yongping's Yuehualou Literary Meeting had only ended for a few days, no one cared about how the talented man who won the championship in one fell swoop and was ignored would feel. Even the attention that Princess Yongping herself has received is not greater than this incident, and people are at most talking behind their backs about who this talented princess will be.

In the afternoon of this day, when the sedan chair that came out of the palace finally landed at the door of the Zhao Guogong Mansion, the porter in front of the door learned from the guards who came who it was, and it was naturally dumbfounded.

You must know that although the Zhu family is strictly speaking both a noble and a relative, Princess Yongping and the eldest lady have been at odds for many years, unless there is a big day like Mrs. Tai's birthday, Princess Yongping will never come to the door.

A few porters reported that some people were lying inside, and some people stepped forward to meet the pannier chair and said some unbounded flattery. It wasn't until Mother Li and Mother Jiang came out at the same time and brought Mrs. Tai's words that they let them go with relief. Mother Jiang placed the guards and servants who accompanied her, and in the end, only two palace maids followed Mother Li to protect the sedan chair and went straight inside.

When Princess Yongping stepped on a high ladder and came down from the sedan chair, the first thing she saw was the woman standing at the door of the hall to greet her. For her, compared to Mrs. Tai, who always sees her so many times a year on various occasions, the woman in front of her, wearing an autumn-colored robe, with no jewelry in her black and shiny sideburns, and a pair of white jade bracelets on her wrists, looks very unfamiliar.

However, in the face of that somewhat indifferent look, she instinctively trembled in her heart, and then lowered her head, bent her knees slightly, and called softly: "Auntie, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”

Even if she returned to the Zhaoguo Mansion from Zhaoming Temple, these days, the person who went to the banquet everywhere to brush up her sense of existence was Zhu Ying, but Jiuniang lived in a simple place, and at this time, Princess Yongping's title of aunt, she naturally felt that it was a very strange experience. She was involuntarily stunned for a moment, and then she reached out to help.

But the moment her hand was about to touch the person, Princess Yongping took a step back like a snake and scorpion.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Jiu Niang's mouth drooped slightly, and then she said lightly: "I don't dare to be called a princess, I don't know if you will come suddenly, my mother has a little cough in the morning, and her body is not good, so I ordered me to wait here, and I also confessed to the princess." Yingying went out to the banquet this morning, and she had to go to take stock of accounts in the afternoon, but she didn't happen to be there. ”

After Princess Yongping subconsciously withdrew from that step, she knew that she had done the stupidest thing in the world. Even if she is not like Zhu Ying, who has no heart and lungs, she didn't even notice such a thing, but perceiving it doesn't mean that she will show it, especially at this juncture. She bit her lip to the death, only to find that she couldn't make up for it.

Can she still say to Jiu Niang, I'm sorry, I was dizzy just now? As for why I was dizzy, did I think that you might be my mother? You must know that when Concubine Yu went to visit Jiuniang in Zhaoming Temple in the past, except that she was too young, so she was taken every time for a few years, and then she almost all used various reasons to shirk it, and in the end, Concubine Yu only took Zhu Ying with her.

She lowered her head deeply and said in a low voice, "I'm not here to find Zhu Ying...... I'm here to see Mrs. Tai and your aunt. ”

When Jiu Niang saw Princess Yongping, she already had such a guess in her heart. She nodded faintly, then turned to lead the way. Although she may be the daughter of her own concubine who was finally born, she was cold to Princess Yongping as early as when she was young, and later avoided it, she was cold, even if Concubine Yu repeatedly apologized, she had already decided on one thing in her heart.

Her daughter, only Zhu Ying, who she owes a lot. And what she is most sorry for is her future son-in-law Zhang Shou, who has been placed in the countryside because the Queen Mother has taboos. As for Princess Yongping, who has been a beautiful girl in the sky since she was a child, and is loved by thousands of people, but she retreats from her, how can she afford to climb high?

Princess Yongping followed Jiuniang into the main room of Qing'an Hall with a complicated mood, bypassing the screen, she saw that Mrs. Tai was reclining on the soft couch in the center, as if she was closing her eyes to recuperate, and on the pedal in front of the soft couch, a little girl was beating her legs for Mrs. Tai. It wasn't until she seemed to hear their footsteps that she opened her eyes slightly.

But then, she sat up straight with the support of the two girls on the side, and then pulled her shoes and went to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Princess Yongping hurriedly took two quick steps, stepped forward and said, "I am a junior, don't be polite." ”

"It's rare for the princess to come, I'm slacking off."

Mrs. Tai bent her head slightly, but after all, she sat down only when Princess Yongping took her seat. When Jiuniang came over and stood beside her, she gently took her daughter-in-law's hand, and waited for a moment to hesitate for a moment and sit diagonally beside her, but she snatched the beauty from the little girl's hand and beat her leg one by one, she didn't stop it, just smiled at Princess Yongping.

"The princess is about to have a good time, why do you have time to come here?"

The four words of a good thing were like sharp steel needles, which instantly pierced the heart of Princess Yongping. She tried her best to put aside all her worries, raised her head and looked directly at Mrs. Tai and said, "Auntie, I know that I came here today to be really presumptuous, but although I told my father, he didn't think so. I...... I don't want to get married! ”

Mrs. Tai had already expected Princess Yongping's intention, and the words she heard at this time did not surprise her. After all, if Princess Yongping is a sweetheart and takes the emperor as her temperament, as long as it is not a messy cat or dog, she will definitely be happy to give it to her. But it was so decent, Princess Yongping said that she didn't want to get married, but the emperor naturally wouldn't agree.

She leaned on the big pillow, glanced at the sides, and saw that Mother Li immediately retreated quietly with Yutang Yulan and the two little girls, and the two palace people who had just come in with Princess Yongping were also busy leaving, so she said softly: "Is the princess worried that after you get married, Concubine Yu will be lonely and lonely, or are you worried that after you get married, you will no longer be the pearl of the emperor's palm?" ”

The first half of the sentence was the reason that Princess Yongping wanted to come up with, but the second half of the sentence hit her heart again. She gritted her teeth and wanted to deny it, but Mrs. Tai didn't give her a chance at all.

"Ever since you followed the emperor out of the palace back then, but on the grounds of rewarding talents, you held a Yuehualou literary meeting, and the competition was for art and literature, not poetry and songs, I know that your heart is very big. Of course, if you were a prince, you probably wouldn't be so blatant. You are thinking about it, you are a princess, and Concubine Yu has no son, so the emperor does not care. ”

Princess Yongping never expected her mind to hide from those smart people, but she was really exposed by someone so straightforwardly, she still couldn't avoid being ashamed, so she simply said bluntly at this time: "So what? The queen treats all the concubines and princesses in the palace as thorns in the flesh, if I can't appear valuable, wouldn't I be at her mercy? ”

"The Queen Mother and the Emperor are still there." Mrs. Tai simply spit out a few words, and seeing that Princess Yongping was speechless, she suddenly laughed and said, "Princess Deyang's situation is much worse than yours, but how did she do it?" The third prince and the fourth prince are still princes, and even the emperor personally enlightened them, if you want to say that they are jealous, they are deeper than you, but how did they do it? ”

"Princess, now it's not the Han and Tang Dynasties, even if you are rich and rich, it is impossible to recruit countless talents, even if you recommend talents and the emperor wants to use them, it will never be exceptional. So, it's time for you to stop, if you really appreciate who you like, tell the emperor directly, with the emperor's love for your daughter, you will definitely agree. ”

Princess Yongping finally couldn't sit still anymore. She stood up and said angrily: "I have appreciated more than one person, but I just hope that they are the pillars of the imperial court, and I have never thought of marrying them!" I'm not Zhu Ying, just looking at people's handsome appearances, I stick them directly like kraft candy! Why do women have to get married, why can't women be officials! ”

Seeing that Mrs. Tai narrowed her eyes slightly, the expression on her face was clearly cold, Jiu Niang even threw away the beauty casually, and her face was full of anger, Princess Yongping knew that her intentions today were not only completely empty, but also deeply offended them, but the unwillingness and grievances in her heart all broke out at this moment.

"You think I'm a princess, my mother is only my daughter, and my father loves me very much, so my life in the palace is very good...... But the favor of the father is just rootless duckweed! My mother has always been indifferent to me for so many years, no matter how much I try to be good to her, she never feels as if Zhu Ying is more like her daughter than me! ”

"It turns out that you've been jealous of Yingying." Jiu Niang laughed and said something straightforwardly that made Princess Yongping angry. However, she has been so temperamental for so many years, and she doesn't care at all about angering this golden branch and jade leaf.

Yingying's temperament, love and hate are clear, and she never hides it, so there are many people who like her, and there are also many people who hate her. The emperor likes her, that is, he likes her unpretentious straightforwardness, and the queen mother has always been cold to me, but she also likes Yingying, it is precisely because she and the queen mother, like Mrs. Tai in the past, are resolute, decisive and refreshing, and don't care what others think. ”

When she said this, a faint smile appeared on her face: "I used to avoid living in Zhaoming Temple because of a momentary mood, and every time she came to see me, she would talk about her own affairs, no matter how big or small. Every time, she would beg me to come back. When I was silent, she would lose her temper, but the next time she came, she would still be the same and would not complain. ”

"A person who will say something in his heart and has always been cheerful and cheerful, and a person who has something in his heart but can only hold back and greet with a fake smile, do you think that with your father's and your mother's years of experience and vision, you will not be able to see it? Do you think they prefer Yingying just because Yingying could be their biological daughter? ”

Princess Yongping had already been crumbling by Jiu Niang, however, although she tried her best to try to stabilize her body, she fell back into the chair when she heard Mrs. Tai's next words.

Yingying is a big person, so in the past, she never thought much about the old things before she met Ah Shou, and after meeting Ah Shou, she just fought for Ah Shou, and didn't think about it at all, when the three of you were born on the same day, would there be any other hidden secrets. I don't know where you heard or noticed it, but I just want to tell you one thing. ”

"Since you did that back then, no matter how suspicious you are in the future, whether there is evidence or not, you are the daughter of the emperor and Concubine Yu, Princess Yongping. Yingying is the daughter of Jing'er and Jiuniang, the eldest lady of our Zhao Guogong Mansion. The emperor said that he would never regret it, and Jing'er and I were the same. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Tai sat up straight again and said lightly: "So, if you don't want to marry, you don't think those who should be selected don't like it, you shouldn't come here, but you should tell the emperor clearly." If you think that a woman should not just be a husband and a child, then you should also say it to the emperor, instead of coming here to ask us for help. Outsiders can't interfere in royal affairs! ”

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