Chapter 333: Forced Marriage

Although Meng Xiyan was not sensitive to these twists and turns, he was not stupid and soon discovered the emperor's purpose.

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The emperor is urging her to get married again, and Meng Xiyan is having a headache.

After the performance, many people of the same age came over to toast him, and they were often accompanied by one or two young women.

Meng Xiyan's second illegitimate sister had reached the age of marriage, so Meng Xiyan brought her to attend the palace banquet.

She was almost pushed out of the crowd by those people.

Meng Xiyan has always kept her by his side.

Until a woman in a dark dress came with two young women to talk to the second sister.

When Meng Xiyan saw her, his face and eyes darkened slightly.

Afterwards, Ying Zhilin took the opportunity of toasting and drank a few glasses of wine before pretending to be drunk.

He winked at his second sister, handed over the socializing to her, and leaned back in his armchair to doze off.

Seeing this, others felt too embarrassed to go up and disturb her, and at most they would pull the second sister aside to talk for a while.

The emperor was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at the queen, complaining: "Look at that useless Meng Xiyan.

I invited all the eligible and outstanding girls in Beijing to come in front of him, but he pretended to be drunk!

I'm so angry!

Arranging a marriage for him would make me lose ten years of my life."

The Queen smiled slightly and said, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. It is obvious that Xi Yan does not want to get married.

The more you urge him, the more rebellious he will become, and the less he will want to get married.

Children need to be coaxed."

"Lao Meng and Xiao Bai still don't have a grandchild, and I'm so worried! I'm so worried!"

If it hadn't been at the banquet, the emperor would have been so angry that he would have slapped his thigh.

Finally the banquet was over.

Meng Xiyan quickly gestured to his second sister to help him leave.

Unexpectedly, they had only taken a few steps when the emperor's chief steward came over.

The chief steward stood opposite Meng Xiyan and said with a smile: "General Meng, the emperor wants to see you."

Meng Xiyan said with a big tongue: "I... I'm drunk. I will go to the palace tomorrow to pay my respects to the emperor."

The chief steward said with a smile: "General Meng, the emperor asked me to count the cups. With your alcohol tolerance, you won't even feel dizzy after drinking those few cups."

Meng Xiyan put down his hand that was supporting his forehead awkwardly and said, "Please lead the way, eunuch."

He asked his second aunt to take his second sister home first, while he followed the chief steward to see the emperor.

Meng Xiyan followed the chief steward to the side hall.

As soon as he entered the door, he bowed deeply and said, "Your humble servant greets the emperor."

The emperor smiled and waved his hand: "Get up quickly, get up quickly."

Meng Xiyan's scalp tingled when he heard his laughter.

The emperor kindly offered him a seat and some tea.

Meng Xiyan's back was straight, as if he was sitting on pins and needles.

The emperor first chatted with him about family matters, and then asked him with a smile: "There are so many noble ladies here tonight, is there any one you like?"

Meng Xiyan had no choice but to stand up again and kneel down again: "Your Majesty, I... don't want to get married yet."

The emperor could hardly hold back his smile. "You kid, you're already in your twenties, why don't you want to get married? The children of your peers have already started school."

"I hope the emperor will grant my wish." Meng Xiyan kowtowed heavily and refused to give in.

His forehead hit the ground with a thud.

The emperor's heart trembled when he heard this, and he quickly asked someone to help Meng Xiyan up.

Meng Xiyan refused to get up, with his forehead pressed to the ground, motionless.

The emperor, who was originally in a pleasant mood, suddenly became angry.

He asked in a deep voice, "Then tell me, what's the name of the girl you like? I will snatch her away from you and grant her to you in marriage."

"Your Majesty, please don't make things difficult for her. I don't want to jeopardize her reputation." Meng Xiyan pleaded.

The emperor was completely furious, and his beard stood on end with rage.

He slammed his hand on the table, his voice sinking: "You protected him so well, yet you dared to disobey my order!"

"I was wrong, Your Majesty, please forgive me.

The person that girl likes is not me. I don't want to make things difficult for the woman I like, and I don't want her to be criticized because of me.

I don’t want my feelings to become a burden to others.”

"If you don't want to embarrass that girl, you come to embarrass me!" The emperor was so angry that his chest hurt.

When Meng Xiyan was fifteen years old, the emperor began to arrange a marriage for him.

At that time, Meng Xiyan was still a young man with a sense of justice. He said that he had a girl he liked and that she would be coming of age in a year. He would ask someone to ask her opinion and then ask the emperor to grant them a marriage.

A year later, when the emperor asked him again, he learned that the girl had been promised to someone else by her family and even the wedding date had been set.

The emperor wanted to choose another woman for him to marry.

But he couldn't let her go for a while.

He wanted to wait a year for the woman to get married, and then he would discuss it again if he gave up.

So he went to the frontier and followed his father to gain experience there.

After the wedding date, the emperor wanted to grant them another marriage.

Meng Xiyan ran up to him and made a scene, saying that the woman was not happy after marriage and he wanted to wait a little longer, maybe she would divorce and then he would have a chance to marry him.

"You, you, you... look at how worthless you are, it really makes me mad!" The emperor almost fainted from anger.

So it was delayed again and again, and six years passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the years, the emperor has sent people to investigate the woman's background.

But the people he sent out were soon discovered by Meng Xiyan.

From then on, he was like a man practicing silent meditation and never mentioned the woman again.

In order not to arouse suspicion, he would not even look at any woman other than his family.

The emperor even suspected that the person he liked was the little girl Wen Yan.

He specially sent someone to check it out.

The reason why Meng Xiyan is nice to Wen Yan is because Meng Chifei likes her.

Meng Xiyan kept the secret so well that after six years, the emperor was unable to find the woman.

Thinking of the past, the emperor became even more angry.

"I didn't expect that your Meng family would be full of love-struck people." The emperor sneered. Seeing that a storm was about to come, Meng Xiyan was already prepared to be punished.

The emperor sighed and said, "I originally wanted to take advantage of the New Year to pick a good wife for you and finalize the marriage before you set off for Jinyang Prefecture.

When you go to Jinyang Prefecture to take up your post, I will ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to help you arrange your wedding, and you can get married when you come back.

The Queen is right, a forced melon is not sweet. Since you have no intention of getting married, I will not force you anymore.

You can wait for that woman as long as you want, it’s all up to you.”

"However, Lao Meng and Xiao Bai can't be without descendants.

Since your marriage is not going well, one of you will have to get married, since you don't want to get married.

Then let Chi Fei work hard."

Meng Xiyan's heart skipped a beat: "Your Majesty, what do you want to do?"

The emperor said, "I don't want the incense of Lao Meng and Xiao Bai to be lost. If you are unwilling to take on this responsibility, Chi Fei should not refuse."

"No." Meng Xiyan immediately retorted.

He knows Chi Fei best.

She is just a silly girl who has not yet opened her mind to love. She has no one she likes and feels that it doesn't matter who she marries.

So, she didn't like Sun Rulan before, and even hated him a little.

But his parents said that his grandfather had arranged a marriage for them, so Chi Fei agreed.