But no matter how much Empress Pei tried to please her, Mingtai remained unmoved, and even said bluntly: "Thank you very much for your favor, the Queen. It's just that this little daughter, Wei Chen, has always been spoiled by Wei Chen. She is most intolerant of the red tape.
She cannot be a dignified and virtuous Crown Princess, and Wei Chen only has one daughter. She just wants to keep her by her side. If she gets married in the future, she will find a husband who is close to the Ming family and can move between the two families at any time. The Crown Prince
The Ming family cannot afford to have a concubine, please choose someone else."
Such a blunt refusal made Queen Pei very angry at the time.
However, the Ming family was famous for protecting shortcomings. In addition, the Ming family also produced the first female general who had never been seen before or since. Her portrait is still hung in Lingyuan Pavilion and is enshrined by the royal family.
This Lingyuan Pavilion was built under the orders of Emperor Zhao himself. All the officials who made great contributions to Zhao are enshrined in it, among which Mingyu's portrait is at the top of the list.
It is a unique honor to be able to enter the Lingyuan Pavilion as a woman and outperform all men to secure the first place. Therefore, the Ming family had the confidence to openly refuse Queen Pei's marriage proposal.
"Empress, concubine, there is a rumor here that Qi Jue has a crush on someone, and this person is not from the Ming family."
When Queen Pei heard this, most of her anger subsided, "Oh, there is also this matter. You should talk to me about it."
"This woman, the Queen, you must also recognize. She is the concubine who was divorced by the eldest son of the Pei family earlier, Yan Mingzhu."
Hearing the name Yan Mingzhu, Queen Pei frowned, "She? A concubine with vulgar behavior. How is this possible? Where did you get the gossip? It's too unreliable."
Although Queen Pei was extremely cruel to Concubine Zhuang and her son, she still didn't believe that Qi Jue's vision could be so bad that he would actually look at a concubine who was a arrogant, vulgar and abandoned woman!
"Queen, please don't worry. Please listen to my concubine tell me in detail. This happened at the polo match not long ago. I also heard from Xiao'er that my cousin's equestrian skills are quite good. In the first game
Polo match, won like the moon,
If you win polo, won't you get a jackpot? As a result, Yan Mingzhu turned around and gave the Yuanyang jade buckle to Qi Jue. What no one expected was that Qi Jue not only
Accept it and wear it directly on your body!"
Queen Pei's identity would not allow her to attend such a polo match, but she was also very aware of Dazhao's customs. "The jackpot won at a polo match is always given to the person you like. If the other person accepts it, you can
Represents mutual love,
Are you telling the truth? Qi Jue really accepted it on the spot and even wore it directly on his body? Doesn’t this...do he not know the meaning of giving away this lottery?"
Shi Taiyi went on to tell another more exciting story: "Afterwards, Qi Jue personally participated in a men's polo match. Queen, guess what, he actually gave the gold hairpin he won to Yan
pearl,
And it was still worn directly on her temples. Previously, a woman wanted to get close to Qi Jue, but she was thrown directly into the lake without even touching the edge of his clothes. At that time, they said that Qi Jue did not understand how to care for women.
Now look at it, it’s not like I don’t know how to care for women, but I haven’t met the woman I like, and I’m accepting jade buttons and giving hairpins. If you say it’s not interesting, you won’t believe it, right?”
A high-ranking prince from the Tian family, who had a lot to choose from at the age of twenty, ended up falling in love with a concubine?
Moreover, this concubine is a woman who was divorced by the Pei family!
Queen Pei instantly felt relaxed and breathless, almost laughing out loud with joy.
"If this matter is true, Concubine Zhuang will be so angry that she will vomit blood if she knows that her precious son has fallen in love with the concubine who was divorced by my natal family and is also a concubine.
Can’t wait to see this scene!”
But after laughing, Queen Pei thought of another question, "If Qi Jue really marries this cousin, at most it will only make the world think that he has poor vision, but it will not have a substantial impact on him.
Far from enough.”
"It's not enough. The Queen must not forget that Yan Mingzhu's biological mother's surname is Yuan."
With such a reminder, Queen Pei immediately thought: "The Yongyi Marquis Mansion is suspected of collaborating with the enemy, but His Majesty personally ordered Dali Temple to retry the case, and even if he is convicted, Yan Mingzhu is only the granddaughter of the Yuan family. If
By then, she and the Yuan family will be completely separated, and she will not be able to drag Qi Jue into the water."
"My Majesty, please don't worry. Madam, do you know what your Majesty's biggest challenge is?"
Emperor Zhao's biggest enemy? Empress Pei pondered for a long time and suddenly remembered: "It's Emperor Xuan of the previous dynasty!"
When Emperor Zhao was still the king of Qin, the Jokhang Emperor was his uncle Xuan Emperor. Later, because Emperor Xuan was incompetent and the people were in dire straits, Emperor Zhao launched a coup in Jinzhou, and under the name of the Qing Emperor, entered the imperial capital and seized the throne.
But after all, he had obtained the throne by killing his own uncle. Emperor Zhao would not listen to anyone mentioning Emperor Xuan's name. Anyone who had anything to do with Emperor Xuan would be killed without mercy.
"Your Majesty will retry the case of Marquis Yongyi's collaboration with the enemy, firstly because of insufficient evidence, and secondly because of the Yuan family's hundreds of years of garrison in southern Xinjiang. Your Majesty is afraid that if you handle it easily, the world will judge you, but if the Yuan family and Emperor Xuan
It’s related…”
Shi Taiyi whispered a plan in Queen Pei's ear.
After finishing speaking, she lowered her head again, with a very harmless and docile look, "This is just a little trick of the concubine. It is only for the Queen's reference. If the Queen feels it is inappropriate, I will treat it as a concubine and never say anything.
"
"I will consider it. Okay, it's getting late. You can go to the side hall to copy the "Female Ring". There will be no other sex in the side hall except you and your maid. You can watch it yourself.
Let’s do it.”
Queen Pei's subtext was to ask Shi Taiyi's maid to copy it for her, while she turned a blind eye.
Shi Taiyi immediately showed an expression of great surprise and said, "Thank you, Queen, I will retire."
After Shi Taiyi left, Queen Pei wrote a letter and gave it to her personal maid, Aunt Lu, "Give the letter to Qin'er, he will know what to do."
As soon as Shi Taiyi entered the side hall and closed the door, she showed a smile that showed her success.
"Next, we just have to sit on the sidelines and watch them dog bite dog, and we will reap the benefits."
But this time, Yan Mingzhu took the newly made wheelchair to Baekje Hall.
After several days of recuperation, Yuan Jinshen's health has improved a lot. It was just because he fell from the cliff and soaked in the ice spring for too long that he injured the nerves in his legs.
Although Yan Mingzhu has been treated with acupuncture and medicine, and his recovery has been much faster, he is still unable to walk on his legs in a short period of time.
"Second cousin, the wheelchair is ready. Do you want to try it?"
Yuan Jinshen propped up the bed with his hands, sat up and was about to answer the call, when he saw Lin Sangzhi walking over in a few steps, and picked him up without saying a word!