The next day when Jinguo Grand Princess arrived at the temporary palace, Empress Su said first before she could mention this matter, “Jinguo, you’ve come just at the right moment. I want to ask for your advice!”
Without giving Jinguo Grand Princess the chance to speak, she sent her subordinates to take some portraits, “Prince of Zhao has grown up. It’s time to discuss his marriage. These days I’ve been looking for girls from several families for him, but I cannot make a choice, so I haven’t told him yet. Can you give me some advice? “
Hearing this, Jinguo Grand Princess was noncommittal. She only took these portraits and looked at them one by one. The girls in the portraits are either pretty, childish but graceful, or cherubic. The names and official positions of their fathers and brothers were written at the bottom of their portraits. In terms of appearance and family background, they were indeed the perfect candidates for the Princess Consort. Obviously,
Song Yixiao instantly invited her into the room and ordered her maids to withdraw after serving tea. Then she told her the whole story, “I don’t want to hide the truth. My mother-in-law intended to marry off Yourui to Helou Xiuzhuan (Helou Duhan) in the past. However, it is less than a year after Grand Secretariat Pei passed away. Yourui is so broken-hearted that she doesn’t want to talk about her marriage. Hence, Xubai and I have been in contact with Helou Xiuzhuan several times and know his temperament. He may not be to Princess Yushan’s liking. We want to tell the Virtuous Consort about this originally. The problem is that we don’t have much contact with her, so it will be brusque for us to say this hastily. That’s why I decide to write to you.”Jiang Muting pondered, “In this way, not only Yushan keeps thinking about Su Shaoge, but Helou Xiuzhuan doesn’t like Yushan either.”Of course, she understood that the so-called “not be to Princess Yushan’s likin
The next day, as expected, Qiu Shuxia denounced the Crown Prince openly, saying that “He is nepotistic, mediocre and incompetent, and can’t even control over his bodyguard. How can we entrust the state to him?” The faction of the Eastern Palace, who were worried about the Crown Prince’s injury, had not yet considered how to rebut him when Emperor Xianjia, who hadn’t shown up for a long time, once again stepped forward to help the Crown Prince circuitously!He first summoned Prince of Wei and Prince of Zhao to the palace and scolded them for a few trivial things. Then he announced that they would be fined their official salary for half a year!For Prince of Wei and Prince of Zhao, it’s nothing to lose their salary for half a year. After all, neither of them was short of money. It didn’t matter if they were fined for half a year or ten years.However, the attitude of the emperor towards this matter made people who supported their fight for the th
“His Majesty is putting me in a dilemma!” A candle on the top of the gilded candlestick glowed suddenly like a flower. According to local folklore it was an auspicious omen. Gu Shao, who was holding a Go stone in the light, did not wear a joyful expression. On the contrary, he showed a bitter smile, “It is obvious that the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue are of great importance for the fight of the throne. Now two of them are under the command of the Crown Prince, and the Ministry of Revenue also begins to fall into the hands of him. In fact, Jin Suke in the Ministry of Personnel chose to turn to the Crown Prince because he failed to teach his children in a proper way and thus was caught out!”“What’s more, what his children have done has been spread out partly before, so it cannot be seen as a vulnerable point!”“Even though Jin Suke is still working for the Crown Prince, he may not be loyal to him if the Crown Prince
According to the rules on the boat, the boatman must rescue anyone drowning in the water, regardless of the social status of the victim.Now the boatman only claimed that he found a person floating on the water who looked like a noble person without mentioning saving the drowning person. Obviously, he must have confirmed that the person was dead.Encountering a floating corpse before they started enjoying the boat ride was definitely not an agreeable thing, but it was not the boatman’s fault. After all, the person in the lake was nicely dressed indeed. No wonder he didn’t dare to pretend that he didn’t see the corpse. The victim was wearing a craped coat inlaid with the gold wire and decorated with the linked-pearl pattern, and a curving-front silk robe with the pattern of sihe ruyi cloud. She also wore a brocade belt around her waist. The thumb-size pearls on the belt glistened in the sun so brightly that they were really dazzling. Under the robe, a piece
Madam Lu recognized what she implied and had a glint of sympathy in her eyes, saying with a soft voice, “It’s given by your father indeed. I’ve never seen the box before, so I don’t know what’s inside either. Your father handed it over to me and only said you should keep it well. Maybe it is a keepsake?”“Is it?” Song Yixiao stared at the box and didn’t take it until she hesitated for a while, but immediately, she passed it to Jinxun by the bedside, gesturing for her to put it away. “Thank you for visiting me. I wonder how the brother and sisters are doing.”“They are doing fine.” Madam Lu was quite disappointed to see that Song Yixiao didn’t open the box to her face. Then she tried not to show her feelings by stroking her hair and then pretended that nothing had happened, saying, “By the way, back then, Yijiao and Yiyao couldn’t be safely born without your help!”Song Yixiao replied, “You and they have been blessed, and Aunt Yun is an excellen
“The boatmen were the first to see and also to retrieve the corpse from the water.” It’s OK if Yuedeng hadn’t mentioned this matter. When she mentioned it, Jian Xubai frowned slightly. It’s rotten luck to meet a floating corpse when people went to the lake for sightseeing, let alone that Song Yixiao was pregnant.Naturally, he didn’t want to get involved in it at all. He thought for a while, and said to Yuedeng, “We just happened to hear of this and ordered them to salvage the corpse. In fact, we are confused about the whole matter. Now our mansion is trouble-ridden, and I cannot move around freely because of my injury. So you can just let the boatmen go with them! “Hearing this, Yuedeng transmitted the message to the subordinate from Prince of Yi’s mansion. That man was naturally dissatisfied, but he didn’t dare to say anything, so he had to take the boatmen back to report on the completion of his task.It is unknown that how he explained thi
“I know. You can bring it to my husband and let him take a look.” Jiang Muting was dejected for her marriage and she might think of Prince of Wei and his wife when she heard about “Daiguo Grand Princess”. Thinking of this, Song Yixiao didn’t take the invitation card and just let Liyu walk away.Unexpectedly, before Liyu turned around, Jiang Muting said, “Wait a minute!”Then she asked, “Does Daiguo Grand Princess invite all of the supporters of the Crown Prince or just some people of his side?”The point of her question, of course, was, “Is Marquis Boling among the invited guests?”“It’s said that Marquis Fuyang’s mansion is going to celebrate the birthday of the Grand Princess ceremoniously. Almost all the families in the mountain have received the invitation cards, and Marquis Boling should be no exception.” Before Liyu’s voice had died away, a pleasantly surprised look flashed in the eyes of Jiang Muting. But even if it was true
“What does His Majesty mean?” Even womenfolk who were not interested in the affairs of the previous dynasty couldn’t help muttering to themselves. When the Crown Prince was injured for protecting his son, Emperor Xianjia not only visited him in person, but also reappointed Gu Shao as the Prime Minister, which caused disorder for Prince of Wei and Prince of Zhao!As a result, since these days, everyone believed that the emperor was determined to ensure that the Crown Prince would ascend the throne in the future. Why did he come here today?Emperor Xianjia had celebrated the birthday of his sister before, but he would only come when her age was the multiple of ten.However, today was just an ordinary birthday of Daiguo Grand Princess. Besides, from a political point of view, it was also inappropriate for him to attend the birthday banquet of Daiguo Grand Princess in person.In this way, people here couldn’t help muttering: Was the em