After Xie Xun took the child away, Qin Rushuang also lost sleep.
In addition, I was in a strange place, so I just rested with my eyes closed. At dawn, I opened my eyes.
It was still dark, and the Nanman Palace was eerily silent. A burst of rapid footsteps broke Qin Rushuang's mood.
"Little senior sister! Little senior sister! Help me!"
The eager footsteps stopped at the outer door, and then Mu Duo politely asked outside: "Sister, are you up? Can I come in?"
Qin Rushuang took back her thoughts and said, "Come in."
Mu Duo walked in in a hurry, as if he was being followed by some wild beast.
Seeing him like this, Qin Rushuang asked funnyly, "This is in the palace, and you are the prince. Who dares to mess with you? Why does it look like you are being chased by an evil spirit?"
Mu Duo picked up the tea cup next to him, panted, poured himself a cup of herbal tea, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't tell me, it's much scarier than the evil ghost!"
After he was able to breathe again, Mu Duo said to Qin Rushuang with a bitter look on his face: "Mother, he wants to kiss me again."
Before Mu Duo finished speaking, there was another sound outside, but it was the voice of a panting woman.
"Okay! You brat! How dare you say that the Queen Mother is scarier than evil spirits? I think your skin is itchy!"
Qin Rushuang looked outside and saw that the person who came was indeed the Queen of the Southern Barbarians.
Looking at the mother and son running and chasing each other, she suddenly understood who Mu Duo's quirky and sometimes blustering character was like at that time.
She didn't know whether she looked like the Nanman King or not, but looking at the Nanman Queen alone, she definitely looked like him!
Qin Rushuang just watched the mother and son chasing each other, not caring about their status at all. It was not until they both stopped panting that Qin Rushuang smiled faintly and said: "You are all tired from running, let's drink tea.
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The two of them sat opposite each other in front of the table. No one liked the other, and in the end it was Mu Duo who spoke first.
"Senior Sister, you are here to judge! I have been living abroad for many years and have just returned to Nanman. It hasn't been long. My mother is not in a hurry to contact me emotionally. Instead, she wants to marry me and wants other women to take care of me!"
The Nanman Queen rolled her eyes at her son and said, "Look how old you are! Are you twenty this year? Are you twenty-one years old? When your father was as old as you, you were already..."
"I have already been taken away! You are such unreliable parents!"
The Nanman Queen opened her mouth, but she couldn't find any words to refute.
"That can't be said. At least you were born, right? Even though you were taken away, you were still born!"
"Look at you again. You are all alone now. When you go back to the palace at night, there is no one to warm your heart. At this age, if you don't get married, no girl will like you!"
Mu Duo secretly glanced at Qin Rushuang. She was a little unsure, but she still raised her voice in a bluffing manner, "Who said I was alone? Didn't I have a woman I liked? It's just..."
"It's just that I have a house and children!"
"So what, I..."
"And people don't like you yet. Do you think it's annoying or not?"
Mu Duo opened his mouth wide and looked at the Nanman Queen in disbelief.
He never imagined that the person who gave him the final fatal blow would be his own mother!
He shouted with grief and anger: "Mom! How can you say that! I'm already miserable enough, and you want to add insult to injury!"
The Nanman Queen paralyzed her hands, not looking like a queen at all, and said disdainfully, "I am telling the truth. If you like her and she is willing to do it, then I will support you no matter what hardships and dangers come my way. But the problem is that Luo Hua is intentional.
You are ruthless, people are not interested in you, silly boy~"
"Listen to my mother's advice, the melons that are forced are not sweet. You might as well come to my palace more often and look at those portraits. My southern barbarian women are much more beautiful. If you don't like them, my mother will go and get them for you.
A female official from Daqi is also acceptable."
Mu Duo said angrily, "No! I just like the little senior sister! I want her! No one can do it!"
The Queen of Nanman also had a headache when she saw her son's lack of food and salt.
Now she suddenly regretted keeping Princess Hui in the Nanman Palace.
He had been reluctant to introduce the noble women of the Southern Barbarians to him before. Now that his sweetheart was by his side, it was even more difficult to do so.
The reason why the queen wanted to settle Mu Duo's marriage was not because her son fell in love with a married woman. The people of Nanman were open-minded, but she didn't value this.
The main thing is that I want my son to get out of his current situation as soon as possible.
In order for Qin Rushuang to come to Nanman as soon as possible, this silly boy captured two cities without even using a single soldier. Therefore, his younger brother took advantage of him, took the military power back, and gave him a deduction.
The crime of communicating with foreign countries.
It’s hard to say whether the Nanman King was aware of the intrigue, but his own son had just been recognized. He didn’t say a punishment, but he didn’t say let Mu Duo go either. He just boiled the frog in warm water and maintained a neutral attitude between the two sons.
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The Queen's abacus was good, she thought that the King of Nanman had just mentioned that Mu Duo was old enough to settle down, so why not just choose a concubine for him, and have a grand marriage, so as to divert it?
The sight of others.
For this reason, she even went to find out what the Southern Barbarian King had to say, and the Southern Barbarian King agreed very much with the Queen's approach.
But she had calculated everything, and she had figured out the Southern Barbarian King's thoughts, and the deal with Da Qi, but she had not figured out that this son would give her a temporary choice, and he was unwilling to meet those Southern Barbarian noble girls!
At this time, Qin Rushuang came to the palace, and Mu Duo didn't even want to take a look at the portrait, which made the queen very angry.
The Nanman Queen was not good-tempered either. She could distinguish between big and small matters very clearly, so she immediately ordered her subordinates: "Go and bring the backgrounds and portraits of those noble girls to Princess Huai and give them to her.
princess."
She turned to Qin Rushuang and said, "Princess Huai is also bored in the palace. Why don't you do me a favor and help this brat choose a princess for me."
"If he likes you, you can naturally understand his thoughts and know what kind of woman he likes."
After she finished speaking, without waiting for Qin Rushuang to refuse, she patted her shoulder and said, "This matter is settled. If Princess Huai can complete this matter for me, how about I promise you a benefit?"
Qin Rushuang originally wanted to refuse.
It is not easy for her to interfere in Mu Duo's life-long affairs. Being a matchmaker for others is a good thing, but if they become a bitter couple in the future, she will lose more than she gains.
Moreover, she regards Mu Duo as her younger brother and doesn't want to see him unhappy.
But the Queen's words were clear and concise, leaving no room for her to refute. She could only say: "Then I will try my best to enlighten him. I wonder what the benefits of the Queen's words are?"
Huang smiled and said, "You will definitely be interested."
"I heard that Emperor Da Qi is now addicted to the elixirs given to him by the fourth prince. Those things... I am not saying that anyone with a discerning eye is unreliable. And once the deadline comes one day, he will be caught off guard. There are many things you should know...
…”
Qin Rushuang knew the meaning of her words.
The queen was saying that she was afraid that Emperor Qi would leave suddenly in the future, leaving Qin Rushuang and Xie Xun little time to prepare.
Moreover, after taking the elixir, people always look energetic and radiant. No one can tell when Emperor Qi's death will be.
Of course, there is another reason...
That is, in these years, although Xie Xun had placed spies in the palace, his influence in the palace was not as great as that of Xie Yang, who followed Emperor Qi every day.
The issues mentioned by the Nanman Queen really have to be considered...
