Chapter 392 The courtiers and wives meet the king of Huainan
"today?"
Xie Yixiao thought to herself, considering Zhou Muqin's ambition, no one in the imperial city would envy her for having such a glorious engagement yesterday, but she herself is so ordinary. Comparing the two, she would probably go crazy with anger.
Isn’t this a day set to bring about unhappiness?
"It's exactly today." Jiang said something she knew before she asked, "I heard that Xu is a school teacher. He is neither too good nor too bad. He just managed to pass the exam and became a scholar.
Then I have no ability to move forward.”
According to the status of the Zhou family, Zhou Muqin is considered to be matched with a scholar.
Although the Zhou family has a noble relative from the Changning Marquis Mansion, the Zhou family themselves cannot help. The Changning Marquis Mansion also has its own girl, and her cousin's status is average.
However, it is enough to establish a foothold in the Imperial City. With a local scholar in the Imperial City, the two of them can live a good life and live a comfortable life.
But Zhou Muqin may not be willing to do so in his heart.
After all, her sweetheart was Gu Zhixuan, the prince of the Hou Mansion. That scholar was far different from the prince of the Hou Mansion, Tan Hualang.
"Your aunt is a good aunt. She has been working hard for her in the past few days and wants to find a good marriage for her. However, people from rich and powerful families do not like her, and some students from poor families who have good prospects do not want her either."
Zhou Muqin's admiration for Gu Zhixuan was well known to everyone. Many people said that she was wishful thinking, and apart from her relatives from the Changning Marquis Mansion, the Zhou family had nothing to offer.
To put it more profoundly, in the future when Gu Zhixuan gets married and becomes the master of the family, I don't know whether the new Mrs. Changning Hou will be willing to associate with the Zhou family.
After all, no one wants to get close to a cousin who loves her husband.
Xie Yixiao couldn't say anything bad about the Zhou family, so he sat aside and listened quietly. After Jiang talked for a while, Gu Ying and Gu Yan came. Xie Yixiao asked Mingxin to bring the prepared gift cakes and gifts.
Give them sugar.
"Yesterday, it was delivered from Duke Rong's mansion, and I left a copy for each of you two."
Gu Ying didn't expect to be able to share these things, and she immediately burst into joy: "Thank you, cousin. My cousin treats me the best."
She thought to herself that she was right to listen to what her cousin told her. Occasionally, she could get some good things. Although the cakes and candies were not expensive things, they were sent to her by Rong Guogong's house for engagement, so their meaning was different.
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It shows that her cousin still values her very much.
Xie Yi smiled and raised her eyebrows, finding it a little funny that Gu Ying could actually say nice things now. Did she think she would only be sour?
Gu Yan also smiled: "Thank you, cousin."
Xie Yixiao still has a good impression of Gu Yan. The little girl is simple-minded and timid: "It doesn't matter, and there is no need to thank you. You just like it."
Xie Yixiao stayed at the Changning Marquis Mansion all morning, and left after having lunch with Jiang at noon.
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On the other side, Mrs. Zhou, after finishing the engagement matters at the Zhou family, went to a restaurant as agreed and met Li Chongyang.
Li Chongyang, the king of Huainan, was very handsome, with eyebrows on his temples and a handsome face. He was not as upright and bright as Gu Zhixuan, with bright wind and bright moonlight, but he had the nobility of a noble grandson.
But somehow, Mrs. Zhou actually felt a little afraid of him.
"My wife pays homage to King Huainan."
Li Chongyang was only accompanied by Zeng Qing, who was standing next to him. His eyes fell on Zhou who was performing a worship ceremony, and his eyes were slightly focused, but he did not let her get up.
He had previously proposed to Marquis Changning to marry Gu You, but the Marquis Changning's disapproval made him feel like a stick in his throat. He felt that the Marquis of Changning's house really didn't appreciate him, and even looked down on him.
"Mrs. Changninghou?"
"My wife is here."
After Li Chongyang opened his mouth, he remained silent for a while, tapping his fingers lightly on the table. Zhou, who was kneeling down below and listening to the tapping sounds, felt a little frightened for some reason.
"You wrote to me before, saying that you wanted to marry your daughter Gu You to me, but is it true?"
"Hui Wangye, of course it's true." Zhou bit her lip.
Li Chongyang reached out and poured himself a cup of tea, and said slowly: "But I mentioned this matter to Marquis Changning before, and Marquis Changning rejected me."
Zhou's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly said: "These are all the words made by the Marquis in anger. So many things happened at that time, the Marquis of Changning was embarrassed, and the Marquis was also angry for a moment, so he rejected the prince."
"The prince is the grandson of the emperor. If the girl in the house can get married to the prince, our Changning Marquis Mansion will naturally dream of it."
"Oh?" Li Chongyang raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth became more and more depressed. His whole person looked cold and cold, and it seemed as if there was anger boiling under the coldness, and he was about to break out of the cage the next moment, "This is true.
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Zhou lowered his head: "Of course it is true."
Don't blame her for lying. Gu You has a bad reputation now. Anyone who is willing to marry is a man who is also willing to have a bad reputation. The Zhou family is not willing to allocate her daughter to such a person.
Moreover, Marquis Changning seemed to have no intention of marrying Gu You off. He probably wanted to keep Gu You in prison like this until he died.
Gu You was her biological daughter. How could she bear to see her end up like that, imprisoned in You Ruoyuan for the rest of her life until she died.
Zhou felt so heartbroken that she was suffocating just thinking about it, and couldn't sleep all night long.
At present, only by finding King Huainan can Gu You see the light of day again.
Li Chongyang sneered, his eyes were cold and cold, the tea cup in his hand vibrated on the table, and the tea cup hit the table, making a sound.
"Mrs. Changning Hou, do you think this king is a fool? Is he so easy to deceive?"
Mrs. Zhou panicked and said hurriedly: "I don't dare, I dare not, this matter..."
"Since Madam Changninghou said this is true, why don't I ask Marquis Changning now and ask him if he is really willing to promise his daughter to me?"
Li Chongyang almost crushed the tea cup in his hand, feeling that Changning Houfu was really brave.
The couple didn't discuss things well, did they want to treat him like a monkey?
If he really believed her, wouldn't he lose face if he invited someone to propose marriage and was kicked out if he was rejected?
Previously, people in the imperial city pointed fingers at him because of the matter of snatching a bride. Many people felt that he had tarnished his grandfather's reputation. They said that Prince Zhaoming was so upright and brave, and that he was not worthy of being a man with such bad moral character.
The bloodline of Prince Zhaoming.
Even the emperor seems to have a strong opinion of him now.
And he seemed to have stepped into a strange circle. The more things went wrong, the more he thought about getting married to Gu You and changing his destiny.
Because of this marriage, Li Chongyang was already in a state of confusion and was very fed up with the disrespectful promotion of the Marquis of Changning.
Zhou's heart trembled when she heard this. She knew that this matter could not be deceived, so she hurriedly apologized: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, this is not my Marquis. I don't know what kind of madness he has. I don't want a good marriage."
"My wife came to see the prince today because she wanted to make plans with him."