Tianhuang nobleman

"Prince...Prince..."

Qi Xiaofeng opened her eyes slightly, and closed her eyes again when she saw that the sky was not bright, and frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"

Outside the screen, Jiang Deqing, the chief eunuch in charge of the Prince's Mansion, bowed and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, I just got the news that Princess Dunsu arrived last night and will enter the palace early this morning."

Hearing this, Qi Xiao rubbed his brows and sat up, Jiang Deqing turned around the screen and came in after listening to the movement, Qi Xiao got up and took off his pajamas, without Jiang Deqing waiting on him, he took the middle coat on the small table by the bed and slowly put on.

Jiang Deqing approached and gathered the curtains of the bed and hung them on the golden hook of the dragon. He turned around and took the clothes beside the couch to serve Qi Xiao to dress. While carefully adjusting the court clothes, he continued: "I'm afraid the princess will tell the emperor today. His Highness's marriage is about to start... The princess is really worrying, the emperor attaches great importance to Lingnan now, if His Highness can get married with Lingnan, it will be like getting the help of the Dongling clan, it will be beneficial but not harmful..."

Princess Dunsu is Qi Xiao's direct aunt. Ever since Emperor Wu and Empress Xiaoxian both ascended to heaven, Princess Dunsu is Qi Xiao's dearest person. What Princess Dunsu means is that Qi Xiao will do whatever he wants, but Regarding marriage, Qi Xiao has always avoided taboos. Jiang Deqing has served Qi Xiao for many years, so he naturally understood Qi Xiao's thoughts, and persuaded him in a low voice: "Now that the princes are getting older every day, Your Highness is not in a hurry... The servant has the same heart as Princess Dunsu, it's better to plan ahead for many things, besides..."

Qi Xiao turned around and took the ring pendant, pursed his thin lips slightly, lowered his head and slowly put it on, seeing that Jiang Deqing stopped talking, he smiled and said, "What's the matter? Let's continue."

Jiang Deqing carefully looked at Qi Xiao's expression, thought about his thoughts and smiled: "Besides, it's just a side concubine, if His Highness likes it, then there will be an extra person in our mansion to serve His Highness, if you don't like it, Just treat it as raising one more idler, it’s a big deal.”

Qi Xiao smiled and said nothing, turned around and left the inner room, Jiang Deqing hurriedly called the palace servants outside to come in and serve him.

In Chengqian Palace, the emperor looked at the booklet that Princess Dunsu handed over and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few years, the emperor has told me a lot, why did you bring so many things, brother-in-law?"

"The son-in-law is going to the Ministry of Officials to hand over the documents first." Princess Dunsu smiled in her eyes and said softly, "Because the heavy rain missed the emperor's Longevity Day, these are my punishments."

Princess Dunsu was just over forty years old last year. Because of proper maintenance, she does not show her age. She is still a beauty. As a concubine in the middle palace, she has a dignified and decent manner. It is very comfortable to speak with a smile like this. The emperor unconsciously slowed down his tone: "Miss Huang was joking again, but in fact it was just a birthday, what if I missed it, I said before that I don't need to come, the plague is rampant in the south, and the two months on the road, Huang Jie and brother-in-law It’s lucky that you don’t get any disease.”

Princess Dunsu nodded and sighed: "After a catastrophe, there must be a plague. Thanks to the emperor's blessing, my son-in-law and I are fine. I didn't think so at first, but when I came out, I realized that it was really flooded. This year's taxes... ..."

"It's still supportable." Qi Jing has recuperated and recuperated since he ascended the throne, and he has tried his best to make up for the shortfall of Emperor Wu's years of war. In the past few years, the treasury has become much richer. The emperor smiled, "Fortunately, only two provinces have suffered disasters."

Princess Dunsu nodded, as if casually said: "I heard...the whole of Lingnan is flooded?"

The emperor smiled: "Where, it's just that the south of Maoshan was flooded, it's not that severe... But they have a severe drought and then a severe flood, it's really not easy."

"No, I'm here to ask you to borrow food." Princess Dunsu smiled gratifiedly, "I've heard all this way, the son of Lingnan came to borrow food in person, the bustling road, what the people said can be written into a book , I heard the son-in-law said that the Lingnan prince stayed?"

There was a smile in the emperor's eyes. Lingnan is the fiefdom of kings with different surnames, and the confidant of the Daxiang emperors in the past is a serious problem. Now the Lingnan king bowed his head to the court for the first time when he was in power. Always modest, he said with a smile: "Dongling Bairen was originally here to negotiate with me about borrowing food on behalf of his father Dongling Yi. He is only 15 years old and has lived in the imperial city for a while. He admires the majesty of the imperial city and wants to observe it. Jiaohua, I don’t want to leave, I really like him, so I left him behind, that kid is as old as Hua’er, very handsome, what’s rare is that he’s very smart, very likable, see you more when Huang Jie comes back I must like it too, by the way, this is the tea they brought as a tribute, Miss Huang, try it..."

Hua'er, that is, Qi Hua, the second son of the emperor.

Princess Dunsu chuckled in her heart, since she was the proton sent by Lingnan, she didn't dare to "see more".

The topic has turned to what Princess Dunsu needs. She stopped talking and continued to gossip: "I remember... the prince's birthday will be after the Longevity Festival, right?"

The emperor nodded: "Yes, Xiao'er's birthday is the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month."

"In a blink of an eye, Xiao'er is here too..." Princess Dunsu put down the gold-painted teacup in her hand, pulled out a silk handkerchief from her sleeve and pressed the corner of her mouth, "It's time to choose a princess for Xiao'er."

The emperor paused, and smiled faintly: "It's still too early, it's a good time for him to learn how to do things and make progress, marry a regular wife, and love each other every day, won't it delay the business?"

Princess Dunsu couldn't help laughing: "The emperor valued the crown prince too much, why did he forget that he was not a weak crown and married a wife? Speaking of which, you were earlier than Xiao'er, you just turned sixteen, remember? ? Before the big wedding, I came to the princess mansion and asked me if I could go back to live with the queen mother after the big wedding..."

Due to the premature death of his biological mother, the emperor was taken to Fenghua Palace in his infancy, and was raised by the queen of the middle palace. Princess Dunsu was almost ten years older than the emperor, and she lived in Fenghua Palace before she got married. She treats the emperor very well, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the eldest sister is like a mother. When talking about the past, the emperor smiled: "Sister Huang, do you still remember?"

Princess Dunsu smiled slightly: "I watched you and Emperor Wu grow up, why don't you remember?" When talking about Emperor Wu, Princess Dunsu's eyes turned slightly red, and she smiled again: "That's all, What are you talking about, or about Xiao'er's marriage, do you have any ideas in mind?"

The emperor was totally unwilling to bring up this matter, but after listening to Princess Dunsu gossiping softly for half a day, it brought back some childhood memories. It is not good that this juncture is too frustrating for her, so she smiled wryly. Said: "I really thought about it, but there is no suitable person. The princess will be the mother of the world in the future, and she can't be wrong. The emperor should be able to understand?"

Princess Dunsu nodded: "It's true...that's all, I just mentioned it to the emperor when I remembered it. I can say nothing about the candidate for the princess, but it's because the prince was young... Sigh, you I also know that I will inevitably love him more, the emperor is right, the crown princess is not easy to settle down... Is it possible to choose two side concubines for the crown prince first?"

The emperor smiled: "Is the emperor's daughter interested in any daughter?"

Princess Dunsu has three daughters and two sons. The eldest girl was married last year, and the second girl is fourteen years old this year, which is also the age to discuss marriage. The emperor guessed that Princess Dunsu probably wanted to kiss more, and he was most afraid of it. This kind of thing, when I was about to make a decision, I saw Princess Dunsu pursed her lips and smiled: "I went to work with my son-in-law, and I only see some country girls every day, how do I know what a daughter is? Let the empress worry about this."

Before the emperor could breathe a sigh of relief, Princess Dunsu smiled brightly and said, "That's right! Who said I don't know the daughter? I heard that the Lingnan son I just mentioned...has two sisters who are waiting to be married. .”

The emperor's smile froze at the corner of his mouth, and when he was about to say something, a man from the palace outside bowed in, lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, and said, "Your Majesty, the eldest princess, the crown prince has come to pay his respects."

The emperor nodded, and the palace servants bowed down. Not long after, Qi Xiao came in and greeted the two of them. Princess Dunsu repeatedly asked Qi Xiao to approach, and took Qi Xiao's hand to look carefully. Most of them are good, Qi Xiao is the empress Xiaoren who has passed away, very handsome, only a pair of phoenix eyes resemble Emperor Wu, the star eyes are sharp, not angry and majestic, a little more heroic, Princess Dunsu looks more and more like Qi Xiao His deceased parents suddenly felt sore, they smiled to cover it up, and said with satisfaction: "I haven't seen you for half a year, Xiao'er is taller again."

Qi Xiao smiled: "My aunt hasn't changed at all, her complexion is getting better."

Princess Dunsu turned her head and smiled at the emperor: "Listen, you can talk a lot..."

Before the emperor answered, Princess Dunsu laughed again: "What a grown-up, I just told your father to choose a side concubine for you, the Princess of Lingnan King, do you like it?"

The emperor twirled the emerald wrench on his thumb, hesitant in his heart, but with a gentle face, he smiled and said, "Miss Huang is really impatient..."

Although Qi Xiao felt that there was nothing wrong with it, but Princess Dunsu had been planning for him for many days, and she absolutely couldn't tear herself down, so she smiled calmly: "Marriage is a matter of course, you have to follow the orders of your parents and the words of the matchmaker, nephew. I dare not say too much."

Princess Dunsu hit the iron while it was hot, turned to the emperor and smiled: "Your Majesty, will you let me be a matchmaker?"

Princess Dunsu has a special status, even the emperor should be cautious and dare not lose face to her too much, and Dunsu must have come prepared for what happened today, if he insisted on blocking it, he might cause more trouble, the emperor suppressed his anger , looked at Qi Xiao and smiled lovingly: "I still don't thank your aunt for taking care of you so hard."