Empress Dowager Liu returned to Evergreen Garden after watching the sumo wrestling, and found that Guo Jiuchen had been waiting here for a long time.
When the sedan chair landed, Guo Jiuchen raised his arms and went over to help Empress Dowager Liu get off the sedan chair. Seeing the faint smile on Empress Dowager Liu's face, he asked with concern: "The queen mother seems to be in a good mood tonight? What happened to make you happy?" matter?"
Empress Dowager Liu glanced at him, supported Guo Jiuchen's arm and walked into the palace, said with a smile, "It's nothing, but I just saw the farce of fighting for favor on the Qingtai Terrace, and thought it was a bit ridiculous."
After entering the palace, the maids brought tea and water to serve, Empress Dowager Liu sat down on the soft pillow, took a sip of tea, recalling the scene on the ring just now, she still found it ridiculous, shook her head and put down the teacup, and said leisurely : "Before Aijia looked at Gu Min and thought he would be as important as his father. Unexpectedly, Aijia overestimated him."
Guo Jiuchen couldn't help being curious, "Oh? I don't know what Gu Shaojun did?"
Empress Dowager Liu used a sarcasm to describe how Gu Min surrendered her identity to wrestle with a group of soldiers in front of everyone in the harem in order to win the emperor's favor. Described it to Guo Jiuchen.
After finishing speaking, there was deep disdain in his eyes, and he sneered and said: "I think back then, Xu Wenjie's name spread far and wide, and his followers were like crucian carp crossing the river. His son is so unworthy, presumably his temperament must have followed that of his humble birth mother, indecisive, cowardly and incompetent, a dignified man, just imitating those concubines who flatter and invite favors, it's really ridiculous! But it's no wonder that the Gu family is just a The daughter of a petty official from a poor family background, so what if she has the chance to marry into the Xu family? A pheasant is a pheasant, what kind of dragon and phoenix can be born from the belly of a pheasant?"
As the empress dowager, Empress Dowager Liu usually had to pretend to be kind and magnanimous in front of people. She rarely spoke so harshly about a person like today.
Or to a person who has been dead for more than ten years.
Only Guo Jiuchen understood why the Empress Dowager Liu hated Gu Min's biological mother, the Gu Shi, so much. This had to be traced back to an old incident when Emperor Gaozong was still alive to draft girls.
At that time, Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu were both selected as show girls. Later, they both failed to be selected as palace concubines. After becoming palace ladies, they went to serve in Empress Xu's palace together.
What happened after that was like in many dramas, a pair of good sisters with deep affection, but in the end they turned against each other because they fell in love with the same man.
Empress Xu has a younger brother named Xu Wenjie, who is not only handsome and charming, but also has outstanding literary talents, and is quite famous in Beijing.
Xu Wenjie often went to the palace to pay his respects to the empress, so he would inevitably meet the Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu, who were maids of honor.
When Xu Wenjie reached the age of marriage, Empress Xu, as the elder sister, naturally had to worry about her younger brother's marriage. Empress Xu was very satisfied with Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu who were serving her wholeheartedly, so she decided to choose one of them to be her younger brother. Daughter-in-law.
Empress Dowager Liu came from a prominent family in Weinan, while the Gu family came from a humble background. Empress Dowager Liu was confident that Empress Xu would choose herself to be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family. After all, the marriage of the two clans would be of great benefit to the Xu family, but who would have thought that Xu In the end, the queen chose the Gu family from a small family to marry Xu Wenjie.
Not only that, Empress Xu later recommended Empress Dowager Liu to Gaozong as her concubine. In this way, Empress Dowager Liu was completely cut off from thinking about Xu Wenjie.
Seeing her former good sister and sweetheart raising eyebrows, while she herself was trapped in the deep palace, serving a man she didn't love at all, from then on, Empress Liu hated Gu Shi and Empress Xu deeply, and wanted to take revenge on those who harmed her. The thoughts of those who have fallen to such a dreary situation increase day by day.
Even today, these people have long been buried in the loess and turned into a pile of dead bones, and Empress Dowager Liu's resentment towards them has never dissipated.
Guo Jiuchen knew that even if he spoke to persuade Empress Dowager Liu to look at it, it would be of no avail, so he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and changed the topic.
"Empress Dowager, you ask this old slave to find suitable candidates for Princess Changping's son-in-law according to the birth date that Master Xuanci said. This old slave has already found some candidates recently. Please take a look to see if there is any suitable candidate."
Empress Dowager Liu took it over and glanced at it, then frowned dissatisfiedly, "Why are they all the children of common people? Why don't you even have a decent family background? How can you be a princess with such an identity?"
Now in Empress Dowager Liu's heart, this matter is not only as simple as choosing a son-in-law for the eldest princess of Changping, but also choosing a father-in-law for her reincarnated baby son. The relatives of the state look down on them, and their children will naturally be looked down upon. Of course, Empress Dowager Liu is not happy.
Guo Jiuchen said: "Forgive me, the empress dowager. The old slaves also ordered people to investigate the sons of the rich and powerful families in the capital, but there are very few who meet the conditions. People born in Renshen year are already twenty-one. At this age, his son has already married a wife, even if his birth dates match, he still can't tell him to divorce his wife and remarry, right?"
Empress Dowager Liu said in disbelief, "I don't believe the Ai family. There are so many rich and famous families in the capital. Could it be that no one who meets the requirements can be found? Have you taken care of the errand assigned by the Ai family?"
Guo Jiuchen thought for a while in silence, before he hesitated to speak: "In fact...there really is one, but this old slave thinks that this person is not suitable for Princess Shang."
"Why?" Empress Dowager Liu frowned, "Who is that person, let me tell you."
Guo Jiuchen looked at Empress Dowager Liu solemnly, and said in a low voice, "It's the young son of General Dingbei's family, Lin Che."
Empress Dowager Liu was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "What? It's him?"
Guo Jiuchen nodded, "The reason why this old slave didn't write Lin Che's name on it was because he was worried that if the Lin family married the princess, they would be more inclined towards the emperor. Don't forget, the queen mother, the emperor has always praised the Lin family. The meaning is obvious."
Empress Dowager Liu's gaze was fixed. She never expected that Lin Che would be born on Xin Chou's day in the year of Renshen, and Lin Che's name also had "wood", which fulfilled Master Xuanci's requirement of having wood in his life. And she also knew tonight that Princess Changping had a crush on Lin Che. Could it be that the two of them were destined by fate?
"Queen Mother, Queen Mother? What are you thinking?" Guo Jiuchen couldn't help reminding after seeing Queen Mother Liu in a daze for a while.
Empress Dowager Liu came back to her senses, waved her hands and said, "It's nothing, you said just now that you were worried that Lin Che would become a son-in-law, and the Lin family would fall to the emperor, right?"
Guo Jiuchen nodded, and Empress Dowager Liu sneered, "Then find a way to create a rift between the Lin family and the emperor?"
Guo Jiuchen blinked, "What does the Queen Mother mean?"
Empress Dowager Liu raised her hand to touch her neat bun, her eyes showed a gloomy and calculating look, "The Lin family has enjoyed a high prestige in the military these years, in order to avoid the situation where the masters of the Lin family are powerful, the military power in the hands of the Lin family should also be Once it is accepted, why not take this opportunity to use the name of the emperor to accept the military power in Lin Zhenyue's hands. At that time, there will be separation between the Lin family and the emperor. Even if Princess Changping marries, there is no need to worry that the Lin family will fall to the emperor. "
The Dingbei General's Mansion without military power is like a tiger with its teeth pulled out. At that time, not only Princess Changping, but also the entire Dingbei General's Mansion will have to be controlled by her.
"Using military power as a betrothal gift for the eldest princess is a good story to spread," Empress Dowager Liu glanced at Guo Jiuchen triumphantly, and said with a smile, "What do you think?"
Guo Jiuchen bowed deeply to Empress Dowager Liu, and flattered: "The empress dowager is wise! This old slave is truly convinced!"
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Shen Ying had someone carry Gu Min, who had fallen on the ring, back to Chengxinzhai. The young man has a strong recovery ability, and before the imperial doctor came, Gu Min had already woken up by himself.
When Shen Ying heard the little eunuch report that Gu Shaojun was awake, she hurried in from the outside, but when she got inside, she deliberately slowed down her pace, did not approach the low bed where Gu Min was lying, just watched from a distance, and asked calmly :"woke up?"
Gu Min slowly sat up from the couch, stood barefoot on the ground, stood up, and apologized to Shen Ying: "I have soiled the emperor's bed, please forgive me."
Here we go again, pretending to be respectful on the surface, but in fact we are still fighting with him.
Shen Ying didn't understand where Gu Min came from to be so aggressive, and suddenly got into a confrontation with him, the anger that had just subsided in her heart almost burst out again, finally bit her molars and held back, flung her sleeves and walked away Going out, he said coldly, "If you know you are dirty, go take a bath first, wash yourself clean, and then return to my words!"
This time Gu Min did not disagree with Shen Ying, perhaps he himself knew that wearing sweat-wet clothes was uncomfortable, so he obediently went to the bath room to take a bath.
After bathing and changing into clean clothes, Gu Min returned to the emperor's bedroom.
Ningshen incense is lit in the room, the fragrance is light, and it smells quite calming.
Shen Ying sat on the Arhat bed, half leaning against the low table on the bed, holding a book on geography and humanities in her hand, and flipping through the lamp.
He was only wearing a thin pajamas, the wide sleeves couldn't hang up, and they slid down and got stuck on the elbows, revealing the two arms of the skin-colored bully Saixue inside, and the bun on the top of the head was because the fixed golden crown was removed , became a little crooked, loose and loose, with a few strands of hair hanging down and floating beside the cheeks.
There is no need to deliberately maintain the majesty of the emperor like in the daytime, take off the dragon robe and the crown, and Shen Ying, who is about to go to bed, looks lazy and casual, and looks like he is just an ordinary person.
In Gu Min's mind, a few lines of poetry inexplicably emerged.
"Jiao'e with a slanted bun is lying late at night, the pear blossoms are calm and the birds are on the branches.
It's hard to tell people what's on your mind, and tell the blue sky and bright moon. "
How many things are hidden in the bottom of the heart of the person in front of him, and he can't tell others?
But turning around and thinking about it, isn't he the same, there are too many things squeezed in his heart that he can't explain to others, because once he speaks out, the world will be turned upside down.
Therefore, he has no position to accuse the emperor of hiding something from himself.
It's just that he couldn't get angry.
However, Shen Ying obviously has no intentions for him, doesn't like him and doesn't trust him, but she can pretend to be deeply in love with him without changing her face, teasing him to seduce him, saying vows of eternal love, but in her heart she can only use .
He was even more angry than himself, so stupid that he took the emperor's playfulness seriously, and even fell in love.
He didn't dare to speculate at all, what the emperor would think in his heart when he successfully coaxed him into taking the bait with false affection.
Are you laughing at his innocence and deceitfulness, or are you complacent because you played him?
There is another possibility that when he thinks about it, his heart will be pierced like a knife, that is, the emperor said he likes him, but in fact he hates him very much in his heart, and has no affection at all.
If this is the case, all the joys and joys that have been there before will become a joke, and that is the cold and bone-chilling despair.
Shen Ying had heard Gu Min's footsteps coming in a long time ago, but kept her head up, wanting to see what Gu Min would do.
In the end, I still couldn't bear to be stared at by Gu Min silently. I couldn't help but raise my head, put down the book in my hand, and patted the bed under me with a cold face, "Come and sit." Obedient, the phoenix eyes slightly opened, pretending to be vicious and said, "If you still dare to lose your temper with me, I will let someone come in and tie you to the bed, don't toast and refuse to eat..."
Before he could finish his threatening words, Gu Min stepped towards him, Shen Ying's heart relaxed, her tone softened, and she changed her words, "It's more or less the same."
Gu Min chose a seat on the Arhat bed and sat down, not far or near to Shen Ying.
In front of outsiders, Gu Min always gave people an impression of being unsmiling, restrained and deep, but only in front of Shen Ying, he would reveal some of his true feelings, but tonight he became extremely silent.
The jumping fire light shone on Gu Min's drooping eyebrows, covered by his long eyelashes, and cast two long shadows under the eyelids, making it even more difficult for people to see the emotion in his eyes.
"How long are you going to lose your temper with me?" Shen Ying took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, she took the lead to break the silence, and pulled Gu Min's arm, "Isn't it just a mirror? I will compensate you Can a hundred be okay?" Pausing for a while, he shook Gu Min's arm twice, as if acting coquettishly, and said in a soft voice, "Don't be angry? Huh?"
Gu Min's Adam's apple moved up and down, and his voice was dry, "I'm not angry."
Shen Ying heard that his voice was a bit dry, and looked down on the table. There was only his teacup on the table, so she lifted the lid of the cup, lifted her own cup and handed it to Gu Min, "Drink first."
Gu Min looked at the teacup in front of him, raised his eyelashes and looked at Shen Ying, feeling a stab in his heart, are you acting again?
But after hesitating for a moment, he still took the teacup, thanked him and drank two sips of water.
Shen Ying watched him finish drinking the water, and then continued to ask: "If you're not angry, what's wrong with you today? Don't you think I can't see it? It's just an entertainment performance, why are you working so hard? If I didn't call stop, you Are you going to keep competing until you are knocked down in the ring? Do you know how many people are waiting to see your jokes?"
Gu Min didn't say that one of the purposes of his coming to power was to let people see his jokes, especially the queen mother, so that the queen mother could feel that he was a clown who only knew how to make public favors, so that the queen mother could completely dispel her wariness towards him.
Another purpose, he simply wanted to vent, not to fight against anyone.
Gu Min said in a low voice: "The emperor misunderstood, I just wanted to compete with the sumo wrestlers in the Habayashi Army for a while, and I was aroused to be competitive again, so I lost my sense of proportion. Please forgive me crime."
After Shen Ying listened, she thought about the authenticity of Gu Min's words, and asked suspiciously: "Really?"
Gu Min looked directly into Shen Ying's eyes and nodded.
Although Gu Min nodded, Shen Ying still felt that Gu Min's appearance when he came to pay his respects in the afternoon was obviously an act of anger with him.
But Gu Min refused to admit that he was angry because of the mirror. If it wasn't the mirror, what else could it be?Shen Ying really couldn't think of it.
Shen Ying wanted to make the dull atmosphere a little easier, so she joked: "If you are really not angry, then give me a smile?"
Gu Min asked blankly: "How does the emperor want to see the minister laugh?"
Shen Ying blinked in confusion, "How would you laugh?"
Gu Min said earnestly: "The minister will smile slightly, laugh heartily, smile with open eyes, hide a knife in a smile, smile on the surface and not smile, etc. I don't know which kind the emperor wants to see?"
"I want to see..." Shen Ying pursed her lips, slapped the table and said, "Smile on the surface!"
So Gu Min moved the corners of his mouth, his expression was as stiff as a dummy, Shen Ying laughed out loud when he saw the "puchi", stretched out his hand to poke Gu Min's cheek, and jokingly said, "What kind of skin are you?" Laughing but not laughing, I see that laughing is uglier than crying."
Gu Min put down the corners of his mouth, and his expression returned to expressionless, "Is the emperor satisfied with my minister's smile?"
Shen Ying stopped laughing and moved her fart.Buttocks, sat down towards Gu Min, "Since you said you weren't angry, why are you so stern? What happened to make you unhappy?"
Gu Min turned his head slightly to avoid Shen Ying's gaze, "It's nothing, the emperor is overthinking."
Shen Ying bumped Gu Min with her shoulder, and said jokingly: "If you don't tell the truth in front of me, you are deceiving the king, do you know that?"
Gu Min stabilized his body, exhaled deeply, turned his head to look at Shen Ying seriously and said, "Your Majesty, it's not that I want to deceive you, but that everyone has something to hide, do you understand?"
It's not that he doesn't want to say it, of course he also wants to ask why Shen Ying teased him like this.
But sometimes once things are revealed, it will only put both parties in an awkward situation.
If the emperor knew that his lies had been seen through, would the emperor still be sitting here chatting and laughing with him like he is now?
of course not.
So it's better to pretend that you don't know, at least, you can maintain the present and keep some dignity for each other.
"Okay, if you really don't want to say it, then I won't force you." Shen Ying clapped her hands, "However, you have to tell me, how can I make you forget your troubles and be happy?"
Gu Min smiled lightly, "I'm fine, the emperor doesn't have to worry about me."
Shen Ying looked at Gu Min's side face, suddenly raised her eyebrows and had an idea, so she leaned over to Gu Min, quickly kissed Gu Min on the face, and asked with a smile after the kiss: "How is it? Did it make you happy?"
Gu Min raised his hand and touched his face, feeling a little helpless in the face of Shen Ying's teasing, "Your Majesty, you really don't have to do this."
Shen Ying curled her lips, pretending to shake her head in frustration, "Then it seems that I don't have the ability to make your troubles go away."
Gu Min secretly pinched his palm with the hand hidden in his sleeve, reminding himself that he must harden his heart and never be moved by the emperor's hypocrisy. The emperor did all these things just for fun, and he couldn't take it seriously!
Gu Min: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, let's rest earlier."
"Okay, take a rest and rest, then blow out the oil lamp." Shen Ying pointed to the lamp placed on the low table.
Gu Min was surprised, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
Shen Ying plausibly said: "Even if you go to sleep, you have to turn off the fire here. This is called saving fire, you know?"
Gu Min didn't want to argue with him over such a trivial matter, so he moved over to remove the lampshade from the lamp, and then blew out the oil lamp inside, and in just one breath, the flame flickered and went out.
It's just that the light on Luohan's bed was dim, but candles were still lit in other places in the room. Dim yellow light flowed over, and the atmosphere seemed to have changed suddenly.
Gu Min turned off the light, and was about to get up and get out of bed, but Shen Ying grabbed his sleeve from behind, and before he turned his head, Shen Ying hugged his neck from behind.
Tianzi's thin and slender body, but with a temperature that cannot be ignored, covered him from behind. Gu Min suddenly felt that his eyes were blurred, and his eyes seemed to have lost the ability to distinguish objects. He even lost the ability to think in his brain.
"Will this make you happy?" Shen Ying asked in his ear.
Gu Min suddenly clenched the clothes that he could grab, and clenched his teeth, ordering himself to stay awake, fake, all fake, and must not be confused!
Shen Ying felt the stiffness of his body, secretly wondering what happened to this man today?Why is concentration so strong all of a sudden?He could bear it all, but he wasn't like the usual him at all.
So he decided to increase the dose.
A wet kiss, all the way from the tip of the ear to the root of the ear to the chin... Finally, the hug moved from behind to the front of the body, the kiss landed on the lips, and the tip of the tongue tried to open the man's thin lips, hoping to get a response from the man .
"Is that so? Are you happy?" Shen Ying felt as if she was kissing a piece of wood, and couldn't help being a little annoyed. She bit Gu Min's lower lip slightly hard. No one likes to play a one-man show on the bed. If there is no response, he is not willing to do it up.
Shen Ying slumped her shoulders and sighed weakly, "What are you angry about? If I did something wrong, wouldn't I be able to compensate you?"
"The emperor is right, but the minister is wrong." Gu Min's voice suddenly became extremely hoarse.
Shen Ying: "Huh?"
Gu Min turned his head, the eyes of the two of them met in the dim light and shadow, but they seemed to miss each other. Before Shen Ying's eyes could freeze on his face, Gu Min had already hugged Shen Ying and turned over and pressed him on the ground. Arhat on the bed.
He knew that he was wrong, and he was wrong too much. He knew that the emperor was playing tricks on him, but his heart would still be damned uncontrollably, like a moth to a flame, it had become an instinct .
Forget it, life is like a play, since we are all actors in the play, before the end of the play, we might as well beat the gongs and drums and perform to our heart's content.
When the sedan chair landed, Guo Jiuchen raised his arms and went over to help Empress Dowager Liu get off the sedan chair. Seeing the faint smile on Empress Dowager Liu's face, he asked with concern: "The queen mother seems to be in a good mood tonight? What happened to make you happy?" matter?"
Empress Dowager Liu glanced at him, supported Guo Jiuchen's arm and walked into the palace, said with a smile, "It's nothing, but I just saw the farce of fighting for favor on the Qingtai Terrace, and thought it was a bit ridiculous."
After entering the palace, the maids brought tea and water to serve, Empress Dowager Liu sat down on the soft pillow, took a sip of tea, recalling the scene on the ring just now, she still found it ridiculous, shook her head and put down the teacup, and said leisurely : "Before Aijia looked at Gu Min and thought he would be as important as his father. Unexpectedly, Aijia overestimated him."
Guo Jiuchen couldn't help being curious, "Oh? I don't know what Gu Shaojun did?"
Empress Dowager Liu used a sarcasm to describe how Gu Min surrendered her identity to wrestle with a group of soldiers in front of everyone in the harem in order to win the emperor's favor. Described it to Guo Jiuchen.
After finishing speaking, there was deep disdain in his eyes, and he sneered and said: "I think back then, Xu Wenjie's name spread far and wide, and his followers were like crucian carp crossing the river. His son is so unworthy, presumably his temperament must have followed that of his humble birth mother, indecisive, cowardly and incompetent, a dignified man, just imitating those concubines who flatter and invite favors, it's really ridiculous! But it's no wonder that the Gu family is just a The daughter of a petty official from a poor family background, so what if she has the chance to marry into the Xu family? A pheasant is a pheasant, what kind of dragon and phoenix can be born from the belly of a pheasant?"
As the empress dowager, Empress Dowager Liu usually had to pretend to be kind and magnanimous in front of people. She rarely spoke so harshly about a person like today.
Or to a person who has been dead for more than ten years.
Only Guo Jiuchen understood why the Empress Dowager Liu hated Gu Min's biological mother, the Gu Shi, so much. This had to be traced back to an old incident when Emperor Gaozong was still alive to draft girls.
At that time, Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu were both selected as show girls. Later, they both failed to be selected as palace concubines. After becoming palace ladies, they went to serve in Empress Xu's palace together.
What happened after that was like in many dramas, a pair of good sisters with deep affection, but in the end they turned against each other because they fell in love with the same man.
Empress Xu has a younger brother named Xu Wenjie, who is not only handsome and charming, but also has outstanding literary talents, and is quite famous in Beijing.
Xu Wenjie often went to the palace to pay his respects to the empress, so he would inevitably meet the Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu, who were maids of honor.
When Xu Wenjie reached the age of marriage, Empress Xu, as the elder sister, naturally had to worry about her younger brother's marriage. Empress Xu was very satisfied with Empress Dowager Liu and Mrs. Gu who were serving her wholeheartedly, so she decided to choose one of them to be her younger brother. Daughter-in-law.
Empress Dowager Liu came from a prominent family in Weinan, while the Gu family came from a humble background. Empress Dowager Liu was confident that Empress Xu would choose herself to be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family. After all, the marriage of the two clans would be of great benefit to the Xu family, but who would have thought that Xu In the end, the queen chose the Gu family from a small family to marry Xu Wenjie.
Not only that, Empress Xu later recommended Empress Dowager Liu to Gaozong as her concubine. In this way, Empress Dowager Liu was completely cut off from thinking about Xu Wenjie.
Seeing her former good sister and sweetheart raising eyebrows, while she herself was trapped in the deep palace, serving a man she didn't love at all, from then on, Empress Liu hated Gu Shi and Empress Xu deeply, and wanted to take revenge on those who harmed her. The thoughts of those who have fallen to such a dreary situation increase day by day.
Even today, these people have long been buried in the loess and turned into a pile of dead bones, and Empress Dowager Liu's resentment towards them has never dissipated.
Guo Jiuchen knew that even if he spoke to persuade Empress Dowager Liu to look at it, it would be of no avail, so he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and changed the topic.
"Empress Dowager, you ask this old slave to find suitable candidates for Princess Changping's son-in-law according to the birth date that Master Xuanci said. This old slave has already found some candidates recently. Please take a look to see if there is any suitable candidate."
Empress Dowager Liu took it over and glanced at it, then frowned dissatisfiedly, "Why are they all the children of common people? Why don't you even have a decent family background? How can you be a princess with such an identity?"
Now in Empress Dowager Liu's heart, this matter is not only as simple as choosing a son-in-law for the eldest princess of Changping, but also choosing a father-in-law for her reincarnated baby son. The relatives of the state look down on them, and their children will naturally be looked down upon. Of course, Empress Dowager Liu is not happy.
Guo Jiuchen said: "Forgive me, the empress dowager. The old slaves also ordered people to investigate the sons of the rich and powerful families in the capital, but there are very few who meet the conditions. People born in Renshen year are already twenty-one. At this age, his son has already married a wife, even if his birth dates match, he still can't tell him to divorce his wife and remarry, right?"
Empress Dowager Liu said in disbelief, "I don't believe the Ai family. There are so many rich and famous families in the capital. Could it be that no one who meets the requirements can be found? Have you taken care of the errand assigned by the Ai family?"
Guo Jiuchen thought for a while in silence, before he hesitated to speak: "In fact...there really is one, but this old slave thinks that this person is not suitable for Princess Shang."
"Why?" Empress Dowager Liu frowned, "Who is that person, let me tell you."
Guo Jiuchen looked at Empress Dowager Liu solemnly, and said in a low voice, "It's the young son of General Dingbei's family, Lin Che."
Empress Dowager Liu was stunned for a moment, and then said in surprise: "What? It's him?"
Guo Jiuchen nodded, "The reason why this old slave didn't write Lin Che's name on it was because he was worried that if the Lin family married the princess, they would be more inclined towards the emperor. Don't forget, the queen mother, the emperor has always praised the Lin family. The meaning is obvious."
Empress Dowager Liu's gaze was fixed. She never expected that Lin Che would be born on Xin Chou's day in the year of Renshen, and Lin Che's name also had "wood", which fulfilled Master Xuanci's requirement of having wood in his life. And she also knew tonight that Princess Changping had a crush on Lin Che. Could it be that the two of them were destined by fate?
"Queen Mother, Queen Mother? What are you thinking?" Guo Jiuchen couldn't help reminding after seeing Queen Mother Liu in a daze for a while.
Empress Dowager Liu came back to her senses, waved her hands and said, "It's nothing, you said just now that you were worried that Lin Che would become a son-in-law, and the Lin family would fall to the emperor, right?"
Guo Jiuchen nodded, and Empress Dowager Liu sneered, "Then find a way to create a rift between the Lin family and the emperor?"
Guo Jiuchen blinked, "What does the Queen Mother mean?"
Empress Dowager Liu raised her hand to touch her neat bun, her eyes showed a gloomy and calculating look, "The Lin family has enjoyed a high prestige in the military these years, in order to avoid the situation where the masters of the Lin family are powerful, the military power in the hands of the Lin family should also be Once it is accepted, why not take this opportunity to use the name of the emperor to accept the military power in Lin Zhenyue's hands. At that time, there will be separation between the Lin family and the emperor. Even if Princess Changping marries, there is no need to worry that the Lin family will fall to the emperor. "
The Dingbei General's Mansion without military power is like a tiger with its teeth pulled out. At that time, not only Princess Changping, but also the entire Dingbei General's Mansion will have to be controlled by her.
"Using military power as a betrothal gift for the eldest princess is a good story to spread," Empress Dowager Liu glanced at Guo Jiuchen triumphantly, and said with a smile, "What do you think?"
Guo Jiuchen bowed deeply to Empress Dowager Liu, and flattered: "The empress dowager is wise! This old slave is truly convinced!"
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Shen Ying had someone carry Gu Min, who had fallen on the ring, back to Chengxinzhai. The young man has a strong recovery ability, and before the imperial doctor came, Gu Min had already woken up by himself.
When Shen Ying heard the little eunuch report that Gu Shaojun was awake, she hurried in from the outside, but when she got inside, she deliberately slowed down her pace, did not approach the low bed where Gu Min was lying, just watched from a distance, and asked calmly :"woke up?"
Gu Min slowly sat up from the couch, stood barefoot on the ground, stood up, and apologized to Shen Ying: "I have soiled the emperor's bed, please forgive me."
Here we go again, pretending to be respectful on the surface, but in fact we are still fighting with him.
Shen Ying didn't understand where Gu Min came from to be so aggressive, and suddenly got into a confrontation with him, the anger that had just subsided in her heart almost burst out again, finally bit her molars and held back, flung her sleeves and walked away Going out, he said coldly, "If you know you are dirty, go take a bath first, wash yourself clean, and then return to my words!"
This time Gu Min did not disagree with Shen Ying, perhaps he himself knew that wearing sweat-wet clothes was uncomfortable, so he obediently went to the bath room to take a bath.
After bathing and changing into clean clothes, Gu Min returned to the emperor's bedroom.
Ningshen incense is lit in the room, the fragrance is light, and it smells quite calming.
Shen Ying sat on the Arhat bed, half leaning against the low table on the bed, holding a book on geography and humanities in her hand, and flipping through the lamp.
He was only wearing a thin pajamas, the wide sleeves couldn't hang up, and they slid down and got stuck on the elbows, revealing the two arms of the skin-colored bully Saixue inside, and the bun on the top of the head was because the fixed golden crown was removed , became a little crooked, loose and loose, with a few strands of hair hanging down and floating beside the cheeks.
There is no need to deliberately maintain the majesty of the emperor like in the daytime, take off the dragon robe and the crown, and Shen Ying, who is about to go to bed, looks lazy and casual, and looks like he is just an ordinary person.
In Gu Min's mind, a few lines of poetry inexplicably emerged.
"Jiao'e with a slanted bun is lying late at night, the pear blossoms are calm and the birds are on the branches.
It's hard to tell people what's on your mind, and tell the blue sky and bright moon. "
How many things are hidden in the bottom of the heart of the person in front of him, and he can't tell others?
But turning around and thinking about it, isn't he the same, there are too many things squeezed in his heart that he can't explain to others, because once he speaks out, the world will be turned upside down.
Therefore, he has no position to accuse the emperor of hiding something from himself.
It's just that he couldn't get angry.
However, Shen Ying obviously has no intentions for him, doesn't like him and doesn't trust him, but she can pretend to be deeply in love with him without changing her face, teasing him to seduce him, saying vows of eternal love, but in her heart she can only use .
He was even more angry than himself, so stupid that he took the emperor's playfulness seriously, and even fell in love.
He didn't dare to speculate at all, what the emperor would think in his heart when he successfully coaxed him into taking the bait with false affection.
Are you laughing at his innocence and deceitfulness, or are you complacent because you played him?
There is another possibility that when he thinks about it, his heart will be pierced like a knife, that is, the emperor said he likes him, but in fact he hates him very much in his heart, and has no affection at all.
If this is the case, all the joys and joys that have been there before will become a joke, and that is the cold and bone-chilling despair.
Shen Ying had heard Gu Min's footsteps coming in a long time ago, but kept her head up, wanting to see what Gu Min would do.
In the end, I still couldn't bear to be stared at by Gu Min silently. I couldn't help but raise my head, put down the book in my hand, and patted the bed under me with a cold face, "Come and sit." Obedient, the phoenix eyes slightly opened, pretending to be vicious and said, "If you still dare to lose your temper with me, I will let someone come in and tie you to the bed, don't toast and refuse to eat..."
Before he could finish his threatening words, Gu Min stepped towards him, Shen Ying's heart relaxed, her tone softened, and she changed her words, "It's more or less the same."
Gu Min chose a seat on the Arhat bed and sat down, not far or near to Shen Ying.
In front of outsiders, Gu Min always gave people an impression of being unsmiling, restrained and deep, but only in front of Shen Ying, he would reveal some of his true feelings, but tonight he became extremely silent.
The jumping fire light shone on Gu Min's drooping eyebrows, covered by his long eyelashes, and cast two long shadows under the eyelids, making it even more difficult for people to see the emotion in his eyes.
"How long are you going to lose your temper with me?" Shen Ying took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, she took the lead to break the silence, and pulled Gu Min's arm, "Isn't it just a mirror? I will compensate you Can a hundred be okay?" Pausing for a while, he shook Gu Min's arm twice, as if acting coquettishly, and said in a soft voice, "Don't be angry? Huh?"
Gu Min's Adam's apple moved up and down, and his voice was dry, "I'm not angry."
Shen Ying heard that his voice was a bit dry, and looked down on the table. There was only his teacup on the table, so she lifted the lid of the cup, lifted her own cup and handed it to Gu Min, "Drink first."
Gu Min looked at the teacup in front of him, raised his eyelashes and looked at Shen Ying, feeling a stab in his heart, are you acting again?
But after hesitating for a moment, he still took the teacup, thanked him and drank two sips of water.
Shen Ying watched him finish drinking the water, and then continued to ask: "If you're not angry, what's wrong with you today? Don't you think I can't see it? It's just an entertainment performance, why are you working so hard? If I didn't call stop, you Are you going to keep competing until you are knocked down in the ring? Do you know how many people are waiting to see your jokes?"
Gu Min didn't say that one of the purposes of his coming to power was to let people see his jokes, especially the queen mother, so that the queen mother could feel that he was a clown who only knew how to make public favors, so that the queen mother could completely dispel her wariness towards him.
Another purpose, he simply wanted to vent, not to fight against anyone.
Gu Min said in a low voice: "The emperor misunderstood, I just wanted to compete with the sumo wrestlers in the Habayashi Army for a while, and I was aroused to be competitive again, so I lost my sense of proportion. Please forgive me crime."
After Shen Ying listened, she thought about the authenticity of Gu Min's words, and asked suspiciously: "Really?"
Gu Min looked directly into Shen Ying's eyes and nodded.
Although Gu Min nodded, Shen Ying still felt that Gu Min's appearance when he came to pay his respects in the afternoon was obviously an act of anger with him.
But Gu Min refused to admit that he was angry because of the mirror. If it wasn't the mirror, what else could it be?Shen Ying really couldn't think of it.
Shen Ying wanted to make the dull atmosphere a little easier, so she joked: "If you are really not angry, then give me a smile?"
Gu Min asked blankly: "How does the emperor want to see the minister laugh?"
Shen Ying blinked in confusion, "How would you laugh?"
Gu Min said earnestly: "The minister will smile slightly, laugh heartily, smile with open eyes, hide a knife in a smile, smile on the surface and not smile, etc. I don't know which kind the emperor wants to see?"
"I want to see..." Shen Ying pursed her lips, slapped the table and said, "Smile on the surface!"
So Gu Min moved the corners of his mouth, his expression was as stiff as a dummy, Shen Ying laughed out loud when he saw the "puchi", stretched out his hand to poke Gu Min's cheek, and jokingly said, "What kind of skin are you?" Laughing but not laughing, I see that laughing is uglier than crying."
Gu Min put down the corners of his mouth, and his expression returned to expressionless, "Is the emperor satisfied with my minister's smile?"
Shen Ying stopped laughing and moved her fart.Buttocks, sat down towards Gu Min, "Since you said you weren't angry, why are you so stern? What happened to make you unhappy?"
Gu Min turned his head slightly to avoid Shen Ying's gaze, "It's nothing, the emperor is overthinking."
Shen Ying bumped Gu Min with her shoulder, and said jokingly: "If you don't tell the truth in front of me, you are deceiving the king, do you know that?"
Gu Min stabilized his body, exhaled deeply, turned his head to look at Shen Ying seriously and said, "Your Majesty, it's not that I want to deceive you, but that everyone has something to hide, do you understand?"
It's not that he doesn't want to say it, of course he also wants to ask why Shen Ying teased him like this.
But sometimes once things are revealed, it will only put both parties in an awkward situation.
If the emperor knew that his lies had been seen through, would the emperor still be sitting here chatting and laughing with him like he is now?
of course not.
So it's better to pretend that you don't know, at least, you can maintain the present and keep some dignity for each other.
"Okay, if you really don't want to say it, then I won't force you." Shen Ying clapped her hands, "However, you have to tell me, how can I make you forget your troubles and be happy?"
Gu Min smiled lightly, "I'm fine, the emperor doesn't have to worry about me."
Shen Ying looked at Gu Min's side face, suddenly raised her eyebrows and had an idea, so she leaned over to Gu Min, quickly kissed Gu Min on the face, and asked with a smile after the kiss: "How is it? Did it make you happy?"
Gu Min raised his hand and touched his face, feeling a little helpless in the face of Shen Ying's teasing, "Your Majesty, you really don't have to do this."
Shen Ying curled her lips, pretending to shake her head in frustration, "Then it seems that I don't have the ability to make your troubles go away."
Gu Min secretly pinched his palm with the hand hidden in his sleeve, reminding himself that he must harden his heart and never be moved by the emperor's hypocrisy. The emperor did all these things just for fun, and he couldn't take it seriously!
Gu Min: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, let's rest earlier."
"Okay, take a rest and rest, then blow out the oil lamp." Shen Ying pointed to the lamp placed on the low table.
Gu Min was surprised, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
Shen Ying plausibly said: "Even if you go to sleep, you have to turn off the fire here. This is called saving fire, you know?"
Gu Min didn't want to argue with him over such a trivial matter, so he moved over to remove the lampshade from the lamp, and then blew out the oil lamp inside, and in just one breath, the flame flickered and went out.
It's just that the light on Luohan's bed was dim, but candles were still lit in other places in the room. Dim yellow light flowed over, and the atmosphere seemed to have changed suddenly.
Gu Min turned off the light, and was about to get up and get out of bed, but Shen Ying grabbed his sleeve from behind, and before he turned his head, Shen Ying hugged his neck from behind.
Tianzi's thin and slender body, but with a temperature that cannot be ignored, covered him from behind. Gu Min suddenly felt that his eyes were blurred, and his eyes seemed to have lost the ability to distinguish objects. He even lost the ability to think in his brain.
"Will this make you happy?" Shen Ying asked in his ear.
Gu Min suddenly clenched the clothes that he could grab, and clenched his teeth, ordering himself to stay awake, fake, all fake, and must not be confused!
Shen Ying felt the stiffness of his body, secretly wondering what happened to this man today?Why is concentration so strong all of a sudden?He could bear it all, but he wasn't like the usual him at all.
So he decided to increase the dose.
A wet kiss, all the way from the tip of the ear to the root of the ear to the chin... Finally, the hug moved from behind to the front of the body, the kiss landed on the lips, and the tip of the tongue tried to open the man's thin lips, hoping to get a response from the man .
"Is that so? Are you happy?" Shen Ying felt as if she was kissing a piece of wood, and couldn't help being a little annoyed. She bit Gu Min's lower lip slightly hard. No one likes to play a one-man show on the bed. If there is no response, he is not willing to do it up.
Shen Ying slumped her shoulders and sighed weakly, "What are you angry about? If I did something wrong, wouldn't I be able to compensate you?"
"The emperor is right, but the minister is wrong." Gu Min's voice suddenly became extremely hoarse.
Shen Ying: "Huh?"
Gu Min turned his head, the eyes of the two of them met in the dim light and shadow, but they seemed to miss each other. Before Shen Ying's eyes could freeze on his face, Gu Min had already hugged Shen Ying and turned over and pressed him on the ground. Arhat on the bed.
He knew that he was wrong, and he was wrong too much. He knew that the emperor was playing tricks on him, but his heart would still be damned uncontrollably, like a moth to a flame, it had become an instinct .
Forget it, life is like a play, since we are all actors in the play, before the end of the play, we might as well beat the gongs and drums and perform to our heart's content.
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