In the Chongming Hall, the emperor was sitting in front of the royal desk, with the small piece of bright yellow cloth in front of him.
After a long while, he asked,
"I thought I would never see this thing again, but I didn't expect it to appear like that."
His voice was full of sighs, and his expression was complicated, as if he was excited but also seemed to be hiding some pain.
Zhao Lin, the eunuch standing on one side with his head bowed, replied,
"Maybe it was God's will, but I didn't expect that person to be the wife of Duke Zhen Guo... It's a pity that Gu is not her biological daughter."
When the emperor heard what he said, he looked up at him and said,
"You...were the girl she protected after all. How was she doing in the past?"
Zhao Lin hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said,
"The Duke of Zhen Guo was deeply devoted to his wife. After her death, she stayed in the frontier and never returned to the capital. She grew up under the second wife Ruan."
"I heard life was not going well."
The emperor's face turned a little ugly when he heard this.
In any case, a girl from Zhenguo Duke's Mansion should have been raised well and supported by others.
The emperor's face darkened and he ordered,
"It just so happens that she is now Jing Heng's daughter-in-law. She opened my private treasury and sent the things to the queen, and rewarded them in the name of the queen."
For no reason, the emperor was reluctant to reward him with things, especially to a young new wife.
After arranging the rewards, the emperor again focused on the bright yellow cloth.
He had thought many times about what kind of wife he would choose for Jing Heng.
Grand and dignified, gentle and virtuous, thoughtful and thoughtful...
These are not bad, these are great.
It's so good that it eliminates human nature, good and evil, abandons instincts and emotions, and lives with a mask on every day and every moment.
It's survival, not life.
It's cold at high places, but people at high places are not gods either.
God does not need warmth and sincerity, but people do.
He recalled that when he saw the little girl, he was first frightened, followed by nervousness, but in the end, after she said those treacherous words, the look on her face seemed relieved and relaxed...
This is very good. It is indeed worthy of Jingheng's risking his life to get it back.
The emperor felt that it would be a pity for such a girl to marry Jingyi Hou Lu Wenze.
After Pei Jinting, who was read by the emperor, was driven away by the queen, he was stopped by a female official next to the queen not long after.
"Young Master, today we have a lotus appreciation banquet. In order to cater for the occasion, the Queen has ordered people to make lotus leaf soup. Because there is a banquet, the Queen is very busy, so she wants to ask the Young Master to be sent to Chongming Hall to relieve your Majesty from the heat..."
Seeing Pei Jinting's eyebrows furrowed and his face becoming more solemn, the female officer paused slightly and said again,
"The empress also knows that she is in trouble for the young master. It just so happens that she and the young lady are meeting guests in the garden at this moment. It would be better if the young master picked up the young lady and sent them off together..."
Pei Jinting tapped her slender white knuckles behind her back and looked at the blooming pomegranate outside the palace wall. The red color when she applied lipstick to Gu Qingyuan today flashed through her mind.
The eyebrows are slightly raised, the thin lips are slightly pursed,
"Well, lead the way."
Perhaps it was because of the banquet held in Fengyi Palace today that Pei Jinting walked all the way and did not see Gu Qingyuan, but first met those elderly ladies and madams.
Usually these ladies would avoid him when they see him, but his reputation is really too bad.
I'm afraid that getting involved with him will ruin my girl's reputation.
Pei Jinting sneered in his heart, now that he has a wife, there is no need to be afraid of these people.
He looked calmly as the ladies greeted him with every word.
Pei Jinting didn't take it seriously and walked closer and closer to the garden of Fengyi Palace. He frowned and asked the female officer leading the way,
"Where is the young lady now? Didn't the empress take her to meet guests?"
The queen would only take her to meet the matrons of the house, after all, Gu Qingyuan would have to socialize in the future.
The garden of Fengyi Palace is very large, with each step providing a view. Pei Jinting wanted He Zheng to ask where Gu Qingyuan was, but he thought he wouldn't be able to find out for a while.
Why don't you go to the back garden and see the queen?
However, what I didn't expect was that even if I bumped into the ladies of the house on the way ahead, I would bump into many noble ladies who were attending the banquet in the palace on the way behind.
Some are sitting opposite each other among the flowers and playing the harp, some are reciting poems and composing poems in twos and threes by the stream, or some are painting with brush and ink under the ancient trees.
Although Pei Jinting was a libertine in the past, he never provoked these noble ladies. He once said that the noble ladies followed the rules one by one, which was too boring and not as colorful as the prostitutes in Hualou.
The ladies were very angry after hearing this, resenting him for comparing a noble lady with the prostitutes in the flower house.
In fact, everyone behind the scenes said that Pei Jinting did not provoke the noble daughter, but he was afraid that the noble daughter's father, brother and family would cause trouble.
Because of this, Pei Jinting didn't recognize any of these gorgeously dressed girls.
On the other hand, those noble ladies came up to him shyly and timidly, saying hello to him, saying their family names and talking about their fathers and brothers.
Most of them are from the prince's lineage, and there are also some officials who are neutral and cannot be identified as factional.
If he had talked about gossip, Pei Jinting would have walked away long ago, but these people were talking about things related to his father and brother.
Moreover, thinking that Gu Qingyuan was still in the hands of the queen, Pei Jinting had to act lazily and say a few words carelessly.
When no one is around, his deep and dark peach blossom eyes are thoughtful.
He glanced at the female officer leading the way, raised his eyebrows casually, and glanced at He Zheng.
Then he turned around and walked back towards the direction of the queen's palace.
When the female officer saw him turning around and leaving, she immediately went to chase him, but He Zheng stood in front of her.
The female officer said anxiously, "Guard He, what do you mean? Why did the young master go back?"
He Zheng looked at the female officer sharply, ignoring her angry look, "Auntie, the young master has seen through your trick, what do you mean?"
The female official looked shocked and wanted to catch up, but was stopped by the cold-faced He Zheng. She had no choice but to stamp her feet, hoping that the queen would get it done.
Facing the Queen's inquiry, the crow feathers in Gu Qingyuan's eyes trembled slightly, and her face turned as white as if she had plastered the wall.
Her fingers clenched the hem of her clothes and slowly released them.
Wasn't this all something she had expected?
The wind blowing from a distance fell on Gu Qingyuan's face, bringing with it the chill of winter and scratching her cheeks.
Makes you breathless.
In this suffocating atmosphere, Gu Qingyuan moved her gaze out the window. Some heavy clouds gathered in the sky, blocking the sun.
I wonder if it will rain.
"What do you think?" The queen asked forcefully as she picked up the tea cup on the small table, opened the lid and poured out the tea soup. She kept her eyes on Gu Qingyuan.
Under the Queen's forcing gaze, Gu Qingyuan lowered her eyes and raised a faint smile at the corner of her mouth.
For some reason, the queen's heart skipped a beat when she saw that faint smile.
In Feng Yi Tianxia's years, even when she faced that bitch Lu Guifei and almost had her position as the crown prince snatched away, she had never felt like this before.
"What? Are you unwilling to accept my conditions?" the queen couldn't help but ask.
After saying that, the queen saw Gu Qingyuan raise her eyes and slowly shake her head.