At this time, Cang Qiao looked at him, looked him up and down, sneered, and without saying a word, he helped Xiao Qizi away like an old Buddha.
Shangguan Hongye suddenly felt like he was holding his breath and felt unhappy all over.
What's going on with this damn gelding's expression on his face - you're an idiot?!
Ming Lanruo also got off the carriage. Seeing him standing here with an annoyed and depressed look on his face, he said coldly: "Your Highness, I am not your real princess. There is no need to bring my companion into the city."
She didn't want to see Emperor Ming.
Of course, she believed that Emperor Ming only wanted to see his son and his sweetheart Cang Qiao, and did not want to see her as an eyesore.
"Ming Lanruo, do you have to do this? I have returned to the court after a great victory. As the princess, you will accompany me to receive the officials who came to greet me. It is an honor and duty to attend the dinner. I remember that you wanted to attend with me before..."
Shangguan Hongye was stunned and couldn't help but ask.
Ming Lanruo interrupted him calmly: "No, I don't like it now. I just want to go back to Concubine Ming's Mansion to see my child. Your Highness, Prince Qin, can go and participate in the welcome ceremony and banquet."
Every time he returned to court after a victory, he would wear red sleeves all over the city, and all the girls would like him. If she, the fake princess, did not go, he would receive more flowers and embroidered handkerchiefs.
After saying that, she waved to Jing Ming, telling him to prepare the carriage.
Shangguan Hongye raised his hand to stop her, frowning: "You were not like this before!"
In the past, when he was still in the army, every time he returned to court after a victory, she would stand in the front row of the crowd to greet him, looking at him with admiration, and throwing flowers and embroidered handkerchiefs at him like other girls.
But she is outstandingly beautiful and has always been the most eye-catching and bright one, as straightforward and enthusiastic as a bush of roses in full bloom.
At that time, he always felt that girls were so "unreserved" and even "arrogant" in trying to show off their girlish beauty in front of a man, losing the graceful and shy beauty of a woman.
The queen mother also didn't like her, thinking that she was too independent-minded and would not be a gentle, virtuous or even obedient and easy-to-control queen.
Therefore, although he often saw her and teased her because of her status, he did not include her as a candidate for his first wife.
But what he always remembered was that she often said in those love letters that she hoped to share the glory of "victory and return to court" with him one day -
As his wife.
Now, by some strange combination of circumstances, they have come full circle and finally become husband and wife.
Hasn't she already obtained this honor that she has longed for? Why does she seem not to care at all?
"Because people grow up and change. Your Highness, how many times do I have to say this?" Ming Lanruo was a little impatient. How long would he keep talking to her here?
Xiaoxi is still waiting for her at the door!
Shangguan Hongye was silent for a moment and suddenly asked: "I remember that I had a bad relationship with you before I was nine thousand years old. He punished you at every turn. Is he still like this now?"
He suddenly changed the topic, Ming Lanruo's delicate eyebrows slightly twisted: "What does Your Highness want to say?"
Shangguan Hongye looked at her: "He was in your room a few nights ago. Did he punish you again?"
Ming Lanruo: "..."
Sure enough, this man heard it. That bastard Cang Qiao must have let him hear it on purpose. He is really a lunatic!
She lowered her long eyelashes and said ambiguously: "So what if it is, so what if it is not? What does this have to do with Your Highness?"
Now that he has made good excuses for her, let's use them.
Shangguan Hongye frowned: "Then stay away from him. I can give you the protection he can give you."
Ming Lanruo sighed softly: "Your Highness, I think you are really confused. What kind of protection have you given me?"
Shangguan Hongye was suffocated, and for a moment he couldn't remember what kind of protection he had given her. After a while, he reluctantly said: "When you and I get married, isn't it just to protect you?"
Her father didn't like her and even wanted to kill Ming Guogong. He was willing to take the risk for her and hide the news that Ming Guogong was not seriously injured, wasn't he?
Ming Lanruo almost laughed out loud: "Your Highness, that's a deal. Without me, how could you have captured Gujiazhai so quickly and become a major contributor to the pacification of Northeastern Xinjiang?"
Many people in the court have even reported that he, the fifth prince, is the pillar of the country. They say that he is more suitable to be the prince than Shangguan Zhou.
Although she didn't think Emperor Ming would depose the prince so easily, but now that the black market has been destroyed and the prince's influence in the Northeast has been uprooted, the prince is obviously much weaker.
"Aren't all these benefits I gave you after we got married? I don't owe you anything." Ming Lanruo raised her eyebrows.
Shangguan Hongye was silent for a moment and looked at her with hot and bright eyes: "So Ming Lanruo, you and I are a perfect match. As a real couple, what's wrong with having a child for me?"
He took a step closer and looked down at her: "You have the ability to help me achieve my great cause, and I have the ability to protect you. If I succeed to the throne, you and the Ming family will surely be glorious."
Ming Lanruo looked at him expressionlessly for a while, and finally couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Your Highness, how did you say these words so confidently? Do you think that after saying so much, I still wanted to refuse but still welcome you?
Still like you?"
Your father first killed my mother's whole family, and now he's still trying to kill my father's whole family. You justifiably asked me to use my ability to help you become emperor, and asked you to reward me and my whole family for surviving?
"Why can't you be confident, have power and money to protect the people you want to protect and get everything you want? As for whether you like it or not... are you like those ladies who read too many words and think you like someone?
What's the big deal?"
Shangguan Hongye frowned, as if he couldn't understand Ming Lanruo's choice.
"Why is it not a big deal to like someone?" Ming Lanruo stopped and asked calmly.
Shangguan Hongye suddenly shook his head: "You women like to read storybooks and watch those actors playing love, hate, and hatred. Don't you know that men have written storybooks from ancient times to the present? Those stories are all used to deceive you women.
When it comes to love, family and children, don’t fight for power with men!”
Ming Lanruo paused and looked at Shangguan Hongye quietly: "Really?"
Shangguan Hongye raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it? Have you ever seen any storybook from ancient times to the present where it was written that a man would give up a good future that is easily available to him for emotions?"
"The troupe in the palace often plays Qin Xianglian in "The Case of the Beauty", "The Legend of White Snake", and even "The West Chamber"... all of them are heartless people. In the eyes of you women, the heartless people are just because men and women have different ideas.
"
Ming Lanruo was speechless for a moment and laughed at herself: "Your Highness is right."
Shangguan Hongye looked at her steadily: "I know that you resent me for taking advantage of you in the first place, but our men, ranging from emperors and generals to traffickers and pawns, have been taught from the moment they were born that fighting for power is a hero."
He paused and continued to say to her calmly——
"When we men choose a wife, no matter how nice we talk, vowing to each other, or sweet words, we will definitely measure whether you are a woman who can meet our bottom line needs. So I was wrong at first, but I didn't do anything wrong.
.”
"What His Highness said today is quite interesting. Lan Ruo is willing to hear the details." Ming Lanruo found it strange. Did this man tell her the truth today?
When Shangguan Hongye saw that she was willing to listen to him, Cang Qiao had already led those people from Dongchang away again.
He simply asked someone to bring the horse over. He took the lead and crossed his long legs, climbed onto the horse, and nodded the horse beside him prepared for Ming Lanruo: "Actually, for a woman like you, riding in a carriage makes you look tame. Riding a horse seems
It’s more suitable for you, but do you want to ride with me?”
Ming Lanruo smiled and responded: "Okay."
He actually made her a little bit interested. Let's listen to what he had to say.
As she said that, she glanced at Jing Ming and made a gesture, asking Jing Ming to take several carriages and escorts from Concubine Ming's house to go first, while she got on her horse and walked with Shangguan Hongye.
When Shangguan Hongye saw that she was persuaded by him, his mood suddenly improved.
Sure enough, if you can't treat Minglan in the sweet-talking, slimy way a man treats a woman, you should still use the same way a man treats a man.
