Lin Xuan was riding on the horse and saw Cheng Chuliang beside him who kept giggling. He asked curiously: "What did Princess Qinghe tell you?"
Cheng Chuliang smiled naively and said, "I didn't say anything."
Lin Xuan was a little speechless. You kept giggling without saying anything? Just forget it if you don't want to say anything.
In the carriage, the more Princess Yuzhang thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, and asked doubtfully: "Sister, when I put the pheasant slave to sleep, nothing happened between you and the Marquis of Jingyang County, right?"
Li Lizhi's face turned red when she thought of the charming scene at that time, and she said hesitantly: "I just...waited for you outside. What could happen?"
Princess Yuzhang asked doubtfully: "If that's the case, why are you blushing?"
"I was just a little tired from flying the kite," Li Lizhi explained.
Even if Yuzhang is her best sister, she is embarrassed to tell Yuzhang about this kind of thing.
Lin Xuan and Cheng Chuliang escorted the princess all the way to the palace gate.
When the carriage was about to enter the palace gate, Li Zhi stretched out his head and said: "Marquis of Jingyang County, don't forget what you promised me."
Lin Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness!"
Li Zhi then smiled and lowered the curtains.
"Pheasant slave, what did the Marquis of Jingyang County promise you?" Princess Yuzhang asked curiously.
Li Zhi said: "The Marquis of Jingyang County promised to give me some things to play with."
Princess Yuzhang looked at Li Zhi and then at Li Lizhi, as if she understood something.
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A very exquisite and luxurious carriage slowly stopped at the door of Lin's house.
A woman got off the carriage and, accompanied by two guards, came to the gatehouse.
The woman asked: "Is the Marquis of Jingyang County at home?"
Wu Ke said: "My young master is at home. What can I do for this young lady?"
The woman smiled and said: "I am just a maid. My young lady wants to see Jingyang County Uncle. This is a greeting card. Please pass it on."
Wu Ke didn't expect that the woman in front of him was just a maid. He felt that her temperament was not inferior to that of a young lady from a wealthy family.
"Girl, wait a moment, I'll go in and report." Wu Ke took the invitation and walked in.
The woman walked to the carriage and said respectfully: "Miss, sir, the invitation has been delivered."
"Sister, why can't we just invite him to visit us directly? Why do we need to visit him at home? Although Lin Xuan is a marquis, he is still not good enough in front of our aristocratic family." Cui Zhifeng said disdainfully.
Cui Yuxiu frowned slightly and said: "Shut up, if you dare to talk nonsense later, you will go back to my family!"
She really couldn't understand why her father sent Cui Zhifeng to be with her.
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Lin Xuan was drawing blueprints in the study. He promised to send toys to Li Zhi, but he didn't dare to forget.
It would be troublesome if Li Zhi went to Empress Changsun to complain.
"Sir, the concierge sent a greeting card, saying that someone wants to visit you, and they are already at the door." Chunyue walked in and said.
Greetings?
Lin Xuan said: "Bring it to me and take a look."
When Lin Xuan saw the name on the greeting card, he frowned.
How come the Cui family came to visit him, and the name is still a woman.
Lin Xuan hesitated for a while, but decided to meet and see what the family wanted to do.
"Chunyue, please inform Wu Ke and ask him to bring the guests at the door to my study." Lin Xuan ordered.
"yes!"
When Cui Zhifeng saw Lin Xuan receiving them in the study, he almost exploded.
They paid a formal visit, but even if Lin Xuan didn't greet them personally, he actually still received them in the study, completely ignoring their aristocratic family.
Cui Yuxiu was also a little dissatisfied, but she knew the purpose of coming here and did not show it, and gave Cui Zhifeng a warning look.
Lin Xuan smiled and had no intention of getting up to greet him.
"Young Master, these two are the ones who want to visit you," Wu Ke said, cupping his hands.
"You go down first."
Lin Xuan said to Chunyue: "Serve tea."
"I wonder what you two are here for?" Lin Xuan asked with a smile.
Cui Zhifeng sneered: "The Marquis of Jingyang County is so majestic that he just received us in the study, but he doesn't even know how to stand up to greet us or ask guests to sit down?"
Cui Yuxiu didn't stop him. Lin Xuan did go too far. It would be better to let Cui Zhifeng make a scene.
Otherwise, with Lin Xuan's current attitude, it would be difficult to talk about it for a while.
She now found that bringing Cui Zhifeng with her was not useless at all.
"I usually treat bad customers like this." Lin Xuan said lightly.
"Evil guests? You actually called us evil guests?" Cui Zhifeng was a little unable to react for a moment.
His grandfather is the head of the Cui family, and his father is the future head of the clan. No one has ever spoken to him like this.
"If you are fine, I will have to see you off!" Lin Xuan was too lazy to talk nonsense to him.
Cui Yuxiu said: "We came here this time to discuss something with the Marquis of Jingyang County."
"Oh? Let's talk about it first." Lin Xuan said with great interest.
He also wanted to see what the family was planning to do, otherwise no one else would see it.
Cui Yuxiu said: "Our Cui family is willing to marry a daughter of the Cui family to the Marquis of Jingyang County."
Lin Xuan looked at Cui Yuxiu like an idiot and said, "You don't know that I have an engagement with Princess Changle, right? Your Cui family has the guts to compete with the emperor for a son-in-law, but I don't have the guts to go to the emperor to break off the engagement."
"The Marquis of Jingyang County misunderstood, I was talking about a common wife," Cui Yuxiu said.
She deliberately didn't say anything just now, just to see Lin Xuan's attitude.
"I've heard of equal wives, but this is the first time I've heard of a prince-in-law marrying an equal wife. Are you sure His Majesty won't cause trouble for me?" Lin Xuan asked.
Cui Yuxiu said: "Since we have proposed it, we will definitely have a solution. Mr. Hou does not need to worry about this."
"Tell me what you want. I don't believe you are so kind as to give me a woman." Lin Xuan said.
Cui Yuxiu said: "We only have one request, and that is the method of making colored glaze. Don't worry, the Marquis of Jingyang County. If we get the method, we will not sell it in the Tang Dynasty, and we will not leave the Marquis with no way to explain to His Majesty."
Lin Xuan mocked: "So I have to thank you? But I can't do this request of yours."
He talked to them so much just to know their purpose. Now that he knew it, he didn't want to make excuses with them.
Cui Zhifeng said with some disbelief: "We, the Cui family women, have a noble status. Everyone in the world is proud to marry a girl with the fifth surname. I want to marry you as an equal wife, but you still don't agree?"
Lin Xuan looked at Cui Yuxiu playfully and said, "If it is this girl, I can consider it."
"You think so. My sister is the legitimate daughter of the Cui family. Let alone an equal wife, even if you only marry my sister, you are not worthy." Cui Zhifeng said disdainfully.
Lin Xuan sneered and said: "So, your Cui family wants to use a girl from the side branch in exchange for the method of making colored glaze. I have to say that your calculation is really good."
Of course he knew that it was impossible for the noble family to marry their legitimate daughter to him. What he just said was because he had guessed that Cui Yuxiu's identity was not simple, and he was deliberately testing it.
Cui Yuxiu glared at Cui Zhifeng and said: "The Marquis has misunderstood. It's not that the Cui family is unwilling to marry a direct daughter to you, but that His Majesty will not agree."
Lin Xuan said disdainfully: "Didn't you just say there was a way? Now His Majesty Youshuo won't agree, and the deceivers are not as deceptive as you."
Cui Yuxiu said: "Your Majesty, a woman from the collateral line, will not care about it, and it is impossible for your Majesty, a woman from the direct line, to agree. I don't even know the truth behind it, even the Marquis."
There are at least hundreds of thousands of Cui clan members, so Li Shimin certainly won't care.
But the direct lineage is different. If Lin Xuan marries a direct lineage girl from the Cui family, Li Shimin will be worried that Lin Xuan and the Cui family will get together, and it is impossible to agree.
There are many heroes in the Tang Dynasty who are married to direct descendants of the five surnames and Qiwang. But that was before. After Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, in order to suppress the aristocratic family, this was not allowed to happen.
"Then there's nothing to talk about." Lin Xuan said.
Cui Yuxiu frowned. She didn't expect Lin Xuan to be so unsophisticated.
"Master Hou, other families are also paying attention to the method of making colored glaze. They haven't come here now because our Cui family has convinced them. If Master Hou doesn't agree, the methods of other families will not be as gentle as the Cui family.
." Cui Yuxiu said.
Lin Xuan sneered, is this a threat after being seduced?