Playing bad and eating melons: The whole court is laughing? No, no

After Minister Jiang and his wife left the palace, the Empress led Aunt Shang to a side hall in Ning'an Palace.

All the noble ladies who entered the palace today, except Jiang Yueyang, are here.

"I've met the Queen."

The Empress raised her hand to excuse them from their formalities. "I'm sorry to trouble you ladies to stay in the palace for the next few days. Once this is over, I will let you return home."

"Yes."

The noble ladies did not dare to raise any objections. They knew so many secrets that could not be revealed. They were fortunate that His Majesty and the Queen did not pursue the matter.

He kept them in the palace temporarily, probably to verify whether Concubine Wan had an affair with the imperial physician.

This is to prevent them from leaking the news.

The usually amiable Empress now spoke expressionlessly, "My ladies, you should all know that royal secrets are not to be discussed by outsiders. You'd better keep today's events to yourself. When the Emperor is furious, not everyone can withstand it."

Hearing this, the ladies replied "yes" timidly.

"Also, you guys are just pretending not to know about Miss Jiang's special qualities, and I don't want to hear a single word about her inner thoughts."

"I will keep my mouth shut."

East Palace.

Prince Yuan Ye lowered his eyes and recalled what happened in the imperial garden. Why could they hear the thoughts of the girl from the Jiang family?

Are the things that the Jiang family girl said true?

Judging from the expression on my father's face, it seems to be true.

Concubine Wan...Eleventh Sister...

At this time, a young eunuch came trotting in from outside.

Yuan Ye looked up when he heard the voice and asked, "Is there any movement from the Emperor and the Empress?"

"Your Highness, the Empress has kept all the noble ladies attending today's banquet in the palace, and Aunt Shang has also gone to the Imperial Hospital to review all the records of the Empress summoning the imperial physicians."

In order to cover up the royal scandal, Emperor Yuan wanted to kill all the palace maids and eunuchs present today.

But the Queen Mother was kind and generous, and since it was not their fault, she decided to spare their lives.

He just warned them not to leak the matter, otherwise he would kill all nine generations of their clan.

Fortunately, the palace maids and eunuchs present today are all trustworthy people in the Princess's palace.

The Queen is very open-minded. It doesn't matter if it is leaked. It will be His Majesty who will be embarrassed.

"Empress Wan and..."

Yuan Ye didn't finish his words, but the little eunuch understood.

"I have secretly asked an assistant physician at the Imperial Hospital, and learned that Concubine Wan summons Imperial Physician Lu to check her pulse on the first or fifteenth day of every month."

On the first and fifteenth day of every month, my father would definitely stay in my mother's bedroom. She was very good at choosing dates.

Today is the fifteenth...

At that time, in the Jiang Mansion, Minister Jiang and his wife led a girl dressed in black clothes into the house.

The couple went straight to their daughter's yard - Lanyue Pavilion.

Jiang Yueyang had received the message from the maid as soon as her parents entered the mansion, and was standing outside the door waiting for them to come.

After a while, the couple arrived at Lanyue Pavilion.

"Dad, Mom." Jiang Yueyang trotted forward, "Are you all right? Why did His Majesty and the Queen summon you?"

Jiang Yueyang took Mrs. Jiang's arm and walked into the outer room, and poured them a cup of tea obediently.

"Let your father talk to you." Mrs. Jiang picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Jiang Yueyang looked at Minister Jiang.

"The Queen said she wants to marry into our family."

Jiang Yueyang felt like she was struck by lightning. Xiaogua was right.

"Dad, you won't agree to this, will you?"

Minister Jiang glanced at the pitiful girl and said deliberately, "You don't want to? He's the Crown Prince. Maybe you can become the Queen in the future."

[I'm not willing to do that! His Royal Highness may be very handsome, but he will definitely have many women in the future. I don't want to share a man with all those women. It will make me sick!]

Minister Jiang and his wife: "..."

What went wrong?

Isn’t their daughter not yet of marriageable age?

Haven’t you ever been out of the house?

Why do you know so much about the boudoir?

[Host, having three wives and four concubines is quite common here. Even if you don't marry the Crown Prince, you will still face the problem of sharing a man if you marry someone else.]

"Then I won't marry. My brother said he would support me forever. Otherwise, we should have agreed before marriage that we wouldn't take concubines or hang out in brothels."

Minister Jiang coughed twice.

Jiang Yueyang came back to her senses, "Dad, I don't want to. I know myself that I can't be the queen."

At this time, Jiang Xun rushed over after hearing the news and happened to hear what Jiang Yueyang said.

"Dad, my sister cannot enter the palace. She is not suitable for marriage. I can support her."

Minister Jiang subconsciously wanted to say that there is no girl who doesn't get married, but then he changed his mind and realized that his daughter's situation was indeed not suitable for marriage, so it would be better for her to stay at home.

As long as he lives longer, Huaizhi (Jiang Xun's courtesy name) will be able to keep her safe for the rest of her life after entering the court.

Seeing that Minister Jiang didn't say anything, the brother and sister shouted in unison, "Dad."

"Okay, okay, I didn't agree."

"Dad, you scared me on purpose." Jiang Yueyang pretended to be angry.

"I didn't." Minister Jiang argued, "The Queen Mother said that you two are still young and you can spend time together. You might even fall in love with each other in the future. She also told us as parents not to get in the way."

"That's unlikely, unless His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only wants me."

"What if he really only wants you?" Minister Jiang asked.

"Impossible! Even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing, the civil and military officials will not agree! Royal offspring are so important. I can't possibly have a bunch of them."

Madam Jiang couldn't help but poke her head, "Are you ashamed?"

"That's the truth! I'm not a pig. Giving birth to so many children will shorten my life."

The couple shook their heads, there was no hope.

Seeing this, Jiang Yueyang said with a smile: "Dad, Mom, you said that as long as I reach the age of marriage, I can go out whenever I want. Do you think it is possible to go out earlier?"

After she finished speaking, seeing that the two did not respond, she quickly added, "I don't understand anything. I will make a fool of myself at the coming-of-age ceremony."

"You can go out, but..." Minister Jiang gestured for the girl he had brought back from the palace to come forward, "but you must take her with you. She knows martial arts and can protect you and keep you out of trouble."

Jiang Yueyang turned to look at the woman in black and asked in confusion, "Dad, where did you find a girl who knows martial arts?"

"Don't worry about that. Just tell me whether you agree or not. If you don't agree, there's no room for negotiation."

"Promise, I promise." Jiang Yueyang was afraid that her father would go back on his word. "I have someone to protect me, so why not?"

[Host, this girl is the emperor's secret guard.]

Everyone present: "..."

[The Emperor's secret guards?] Jiang Yueyang was shocked. [Why did His Majesty arrange for his secret guards to follow me?]

[Maybe... protecting the future Crown Princess?]

ps: The system can only eat ripe melons (that have already happened).