Marrying Gold and Jade

When Li Quan mentioned this, his heart surged. "After entering the military camp, Her Royal Highness the Princess pretended to offer a beautiful woman to deceive the enemy leader. After entering the camp, she personally cut off Amohan's head. Now she is riding back to the capital, waiting to present it to Your Majesty!"

The lost land in the northwest was lost during the turbulent times of the previous dynasty. Since Emperor Xianzhen ascended the throne at the age of seven, the lost land has become a source of worry for him.

The war broke out and then stopped, and then started again. It happened that the new Tatar leader was unprecedentedly powerful, and no one could gain an advantage.

That Amohan was the youngest son of the Tatar Khan. He was brave and good at fighting. He had defeated the powerful soldiers of Daxing several times. But now he was killed by his daughter!

"A tiger father will have a dog daughter. Pingyao is worthy of being my daughter!"

In the face of great joy, her recklessness in taking risks was ignored, and only her achievements were seen.

Mingyuan knew that he would not listen to anything else at this moment, so he knelt down and said, "Congratulations, Father."

Emperor Xianzhen asked again: "When will Pingyao return to the palace? Go and prepare a palace banquet. I want to let everyone in the world know that the princess of Daxing can also surpass his Tatar prince!"

"Yes! I will report this to Her Majesty the Queen and welcome the Princess back to the capital with great fanfare!"

This is a happy event, but Mingyuan felt worried after hearing it.

The downfall of the Lu family had dealt a heavy blow to the prince's morale. Now Pingyao had made "great contributions". After all, she was the prince's sister, and this was tantamount to adding fuel to a dying fire.

"Pingyao killed the Tatar prince himself?!"

After returning to the palace, she told Lin Yu about this. Lin Yu almost couldn't react. Thinking of the day when she and he stood in the dark courtyard of Wangyue Pavilion, she complained for a long time.

Even if he believed that she could stay in the military camp, Lin Yu could not have imagined that she would be able to achieve such great success so soon.

"She should thank me then," Lin Yu said half-jokingly, "If I hadn't persuaded her to ask His Majesty for help, she would have been locked up in the princess's mansion with her husband, and she wouldn't have had this great opportunity to make a great contribution."

In a blink of an eye, Mingyuan's face was gloomy and there was no sign of joy on his face.

"Are you not very happy?"

Even though she had never asked him in person, she was certain in her heart that Mingyuan returned to the palace to seize the throne.

I heard from Lin Ji that the Lu case had been settled, and A Yuan had also contributed a lot to it.

But compared with Pingyao's achievements, it seems to be mediocre.

At the same time, Xu Jinxuan was also shocked by the news. He had been keeping a low profile for these days and finally worked with others to push the Lu family down, but the prince had some good news.

The situation suddenly changed again.

When the Queen received the news, it was the Prince who came to the palace himself and told her.

Unlike everyone else who focused on Pingyao's achievements, her first words were: "Offering a beauty? She presented herself as a beauty to the Tatar camp?"

Even though he didn't like his sister's swordplay, the prince said, "Those who accomplish great things don't pay attention to small details. If it weren't for the girl from Pingyao who bewitched the enemy leader, I'm afraid that ordinary people wouldn't be able to cut off this head."

"She also killed people and beheaded them."

The prince didn't know how to respond to these two sentences. He only felt that the queen was in a daze today, with a pair of dull eyes, and he didn't know what she was thinking.

He had no choice but to stand up and say, "My father has asked you to organize a palace banquet. When the banquet is held, my mother must welcome my little sister in a grand manner."

The queen's brows never relaxed until her son left.

She had been worried for many days and knew why her son was happy, because although the Lu family had fallen, Pingyao had made contributions on the battlefield.

When she comes back, the situation for them and their son will be much better.

But the queen just couldn't be happy. The worries that had accumulated for many days only added to her worries.

The news from the post station said that the princess would arrive in the imperial city in three days.

During the time that Xu Jinxuan returned to the palace, he had never had a meal with his father, the emperor, except for palace banquets. But tonight, he made a rare move and invited Emperor Xianzhen to have a meal at Chonghua Palace.

Li Quan went with them, and when he arrived, the table was already filled with dishes.

"Your Majesty, this..." He wanted to say that it was against the rules. After all, everything the emperor used had to be made by a special person, and someone had to test it for poison before it was served.

Emperor Xianzhen, however, was mindful of Xu Jinxuan's temper and the fact that he was rarely willing to sit down and have a meal with him. He was afraid that this rule would push him away, so he just waved his hand at Li Quan.

Sitting down with the others, Emperor Xianzhen glanced at the table and spoke first: "I finally waited for you to have a meal. Tell me, what's the matter?"

I heard that the little girl has been living in Wangyue Pavilion recently. He always used this matter to keep his son in suspense, hoping that he would sit down and have a good talk with him for the sake of others. Emperor Xianzhen wondered if this time it was also for her.

Xu Jinxuan poured a glass of wine for someone else and poured the second glass into his own cup.

A cold voice said: "Today, it's for my mother."

When mentioning Concubine Ling, the emperor's smile faded.

"You said."

"I remember when I was three or four years old, my mother was trapped in this palace. Even I couldn't see her. I could only hear her crying in the palace for days."

"Then I made a mistake, and you locked me up with me."

The last thing Emperor Xianzhen wanted to think about was this old story, but he knew very well that only by talking about it openly and having a heart-to-heart talk with others could the relationship between father and son be restored.

"Your mother was framed."

"Who framed her?"

Emperor Xianzhen raised his head and tried his best to find similarities between himself and the person opposite him.

But in the end, I have to admit that he looks more like his mother.

Perhaps because of this, every time he saw his son, he felt particularly indebted.

The emperor was silent for a moment, and Xu Jinxuan said, "You have always known that my mother, your two concubines, and one son were all harmed by the queen."

The lively array of dishes on the table made the father and son seem particularly silent.

After a long while, Emperor Xianzhen said, "I will give you an explanation..."

"How can I explain? She is the biological mother of the crown prince and the princess. If you are willing to explain, you could have explained it to my mother back then."

He pressed on step by step, and was about to point at Emperor Xianzhen's forehead and say: You have let my mother down, and now you want to let me down too?

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought that Pingyao's military achievements are also her amulet."

Originally, everything was going according to plan. He only needed to continue taking action after the Lu family fell, and naturally, someone would join him in overthrowing the queen and the prince.

Now they could only urge and force the emperor to execute the queen before Pingyao returned to Beijing.

"As for how she framed my mother, the heir to the throne, and the imperial concubines, Your Majesty, do you want me to tell you again? Perhaps if I ask her now, the Seventh Master will be willing to testify."

"enough!"

He should have thought that this was a Hongmen Banquet. He slammed the table and stood up, breathing disorderedly.

He was about to happily welcome his daughter home, but his son forced him to deal with the queen immediately, which might lead to a break between him and his daughter.

Emperor Xianzhen admitted that he was indebted, but he also felt that choosing this time was too unfair to Pingyao.