The Peasant Girl's Glory

Chapter 188 Disobedience

"Zheng'er, happy event!"

Mrs. Zhou said it was a happy event, but there was no smile on her face. Zhou Xuezheng was a little surprised, "What's the happy event?"

Mrs. Zhou glanced at Shen Furong, "Furong is going to be recognized as a princess, so she will go to the Northern Qiang Kingdom to have a kiss!"

Mrs. Zhou's words were so startling that Zhou Xuezheng almost couldn't grasp the curtain in his hand.

The word "Harmony" fell in his head like a thunderbolt, making his mind go blank for a moment.

He knew that in order to welcome the arrival of the envoys of the Northern Qiang Kingdom, the palace had specially held a reception banquet, and many people secretly said that the empress would choose a suitable noble girl to be the princess at the banquet and go to the Northern Qiang Kingdom to meet her relatives. .

He didn't go to the palace banquet because of a temporary incident at Dali Temple, but he didn't want to hear such appalling news as soon as he returned to the palace. I wonder what happened at the palace banquet today?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuezheng hurriedly asked, "Mother means that the Queen Mother intends to choose Furong to marry? What the hell is going on?"

Madam Zhou sneered and was about to answer when Shen Furong suddenly got up and got out of the carriage, still holding her Yu Ruyi in her arms:
"Dad, don't worry, I won't go and kiss, you see, the emperor also gave me a jade Ruyi, this is to do what I want!"

As she said, she stood still outside the carriage, turned her head to look at Mrs. Zhou inside the carriage, those clear eyes seemed to be able to see through the deepest part of people's hearts:

"If grandma doesn't want to give up this opportunity to sell her daughter for glory and honor the lintel, doesn't the Zhou family still have Zhou Yue? It's better to let her go and kiss."

After she finished speaking, she stopped looking at Mrs. Zhou, and took the lead in holding Yu Ruyi up the stone steps into the mansion.

Old Madam Zhou fell down at her remarks, shaking her hands, pointing at her for a long time, unable to utter a complete sentence.

How dare this dead girl dare to speak to her like this, it's really becoming more and more unruly.

She actually wanted Yueer to go to the kiss instead of her. Yueer was a beautiful girl who had been raised by her side since she was a child. She had an extraordinary relationship with her grandparents.

When Shen Furong stepped into the gate of Zhou Mansion and disappeared in a blink of an eye, Madam Zhou turned her head and said coldly to Zhou Xuezheng:

"Look, this is your good daughter. She is so rebellious, isn't she afraid that outsiders will say she is rebellious?"

Zhou Xuezheng looked suspiciously at Mrs. Zhou, "Mother, what does Furong mean? Could it be you..."

When Old Madam Zhou heard the words, she felt guilty, and her heart tightened, but she calmly insisted:
"Am I wrong in making plans for this family? If Furong can be recognized as a princess and go to the Northern Qiang Kingdom to have relatives, our Zhou family will become a royal family in the future. Enjoy the honor of the noble..."

Zhou Xuezheng heard the words, and there was a deep disappointment in his eyes:

"Mother, Furong is my daughter, how can you exchange her for benefits?"

Mrs. Zhou persuaded bitterly:
"I know that you are interested in Furong, but it is also for the sake of the family and the country, and serving the country is the duty of our Zhou family as ministers. In the face of justice, we should take the overall situation into consideration, and it is our duty."

Zhou Xuezheng shook his head, "If you can't even protect your own daughter, what's the point of being an official? No matter what, I will never agree to let Furong go to the Northern Qiang Kingdom to be with her!"

After Zhou Xuezheng finished speaking, the curtain in his hand slowly slipped from his hand as if he could no longer hold it.

After a while, Mrs. Zhou also got off the carriage, standing in front of the gate of Zhou Mansion with complicated eyes, staring at the back of Zhou Xuezheng hurriedly entering the door.

Knowing that her eldest son was not reconciled, and now she went to find the girl Furong to inquire about the situation, a calculation flashed in Mrs. Zhou's eyes. She had already expected such a result.

However, this is only the result, not the end.

She only needs to wait patiently now. As long as the emperor's decree of marriage comes down, no one can resist, and everything can only be a foregone conclusion.

***

Because an envoy came to the capital, Prince Yan Zifeng also became busy.

Now that the crown princess Feng Qi is pregnant, this is a big happy event. He is happy in his heart, no matter how busy or tired he is, he feels full of energy. Even watching the muddy water splashing after the rain turns into gorgeous fireworks.

When Xiao Tianmo appeared, Yan Zifeng was sitting at the table with a pen in his hand, ready to write something on a book.

Seeing Xiao Tianmo entering the door, he blinked and said with a smile:

"Nothing goes without going to the Three Treasures Hall. If you have anything, just say it!"

Xiao Tianmo was not polite, "His Royal Highness, the minister wants to marry Zhou Siqing's daughter Zhou girl as his wife, and asks His Highness to help the minister to ask the emperor for a marriage decree."

Yan Zifeng looked at Xiao Tianmo in disbelief:
"Didn't you keep saying that you didn't plan to marry a wife?

My Highness remembers that when I came back from the border, every family in the capital could not wait to put the girls of the right age at home directly into the gate of your general's residence. I heard that even the threshold has been changed three times within five days. You didn't even move your brows. Want to take heart? "

Xiao Tianmo raised the corners of his mouth, and a touch of tenderness flashed in his eyes:
"I didn't meet the woman I liked before, but now I have the person I like. The word love, when it comes naturally, I want to ask for a result."

Yan Zifeng said happily: "It's a matter of course, haha, my Highness should support you, but since you want the emperor to confer marriage, you should go to the imperial court to ask for it."

Xiao Tianmo raised his eyebrows and glanced at Yan Zifeng, "Your Highness, is this not planning to help the minister? Neon, the minister suddenly remembered that His Highness came back from the border and was in the inn outside the city, with Miss Feng Qi..."

Hearing this, Yan Zi jumped up risky, and immediately interrupted Xiao Tianmo's words:
"Don't mention the things about Chen Zhi's rotten millet, my Highness will help you!"

Feng Qi is now the crown princess who has passed the Ming Road. In order to protect her, he can't let people know that they once met in the middle of the night.

Xiao Tianmo raised the corners of his mouth with satisfaction, of course he could ask someone to go to Zhou Mansion to propose marriage, but just looking at the appearance of the envoy of the Northern Qiang Kingdom today, I am afraid that he has already set his sights on Shen Furong.

In order to avoid extracurricular problems, he could only ask the emperor to confer marriage and completely cut off those potential threats.

……

On the Golden Palace.

Wu Yanji, the envoy of the Northern Qiang State, with Wu Yuanlie and others, is discussing with the emperor and Queen Yu about the marriage:

"I don't know, His Majesty the emperor, have you chosen the princess and the pro-princess?"

A gleam of light flashed in the emperor's eyes, and he slowly opened his mouth and said:

"To tell the truth, I don't have a princess of the right age to marry. I plan to choose a noble daughter from the daughters of high-ranking officials in the clan to be my righteous daughter, and she will be named a princess and marry to the Northern Qiang Kingdom. .

But please rest assured, envoys, the righteous daughter and the mother daughter are the same to me, and I will not favor one over the other. "

After Wu Yanji and Wu Yuanlie looked at each other, Wu Yanji said:

"That is, to choose a concubine for me in Beiqiang, I wonder if we can choose it ourselves?"

The emperor pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes and asked:

"I don't know which noble girl the envoy likes? But it doesn't matter."

Wu Yanji didn't hesitate at all, "It's the girl who performed the trick today. I wonder if she has a marriage match?"

(End of this chapter)