It was naturally not a good sleep.
Chu Qianyi tossed and turned, but still felt like there was something stuck in his throat.
She had no idea that the spider she swallowed in her dream was actually in her stomach, and it was not just an ordinary spider, but a Heart Gu.
She tossed and turned like this, and finally fell asleep near dawn.
The dream was what she had always wished for, the red wedding veil, the wedding candles, and the face she had been looking at for fourteen years. She had already memorized every hair of that face.
When she woke up, it was already noon. Yun Rou came in, her voice full of worry, "My little ancestor, you are awake. If Yuan Feng hadn't left with the young master, I would have asked him to call a doctor."
Chu Qianyi suddenly sat up, "Aunt Yun, what did you say? They left?"
"Yes, I don't know why the young master is suddenly in a hurry to go to Miaojiang. I heard that the place is full of snakes, insects, rats and ants. I don't know why he insists on going there..." When Yun Rou said this, her eyes were obviously full of worry.
But what she was worried about was not Chu Qianxiu's health, but the matter between him and Chu Qianyi.
It's easy to tell that the two must have had a quarrel, otherwise why would they go their separate ways overnight?
Chu Qianyi recovered from his shock and realized that he had not told Chu Qianxiu the truth.
It's hot today, who would wear such thick clothes when sleeping? He had seen her last night, and he just ran away like that, what a bastard!
He deserved it for not knowing! He deserved it for having his position as crown prince taken away from him!
Chu Qianyi thought so and said angrily: "Let's go back to the capital!"
"We're going back now? They shouldn't have gone far..."
"Go back! Go back immediately!" Chu Qianyi said firmly.
He, Chu Qianxiu, is a bastard. What kind of friendship does she have for him? She must marry a man of her dreams and then instigate her father to make a young handsome boy the crown prince. She will wait for him to come back and make him mad to death!
So when Chu Qianyi returned to the palace, the first thing he did was to look for Su Bei. He did not apologize for leaving the palace, but said, "Mother! I want to recruit a prince consort!"
Su Bei was shocked for a moment. "You are only fourteen, why are you looking for a consort? Besides, you have been away from the palace for quite a while, don't you plan to tell your mother what you are doing?"
"I didn't do anything, I just went out for a walk." Chu Qianyi naturally couldn't talk about the awkward night between her and Chu Qianxiu, "Mother, my daughter will be a 15-year-old next year. She will get married sooner or later, so why not choose one early..."
Chu Qianyi can be said to be both sweet and salty. She is ruthless when it comes to catching bugs, but she is also a soft girl when she acts coquettishly. Su Bei was pestered by her for a long time. There was really no way, so he had to perfunctorily say: "Okay, okay, I will discuss with your father and see how to choose a better prince consort. By the way, do you prefer civil or martial arts?"
Chu Qianyi was really fooled by Su Bei. She thought about it seriously before saying, "Let's go with the martial arts."
This way, I can beat Chu Qianxiu up.
Su Bei continued to deal with her perfunctorily for a while, then held her down, and then summoned Yun Rou to ask her what had happened in the past few days.
Yun Rou was also confused, but she remembered very clearly that something big happened during these days.
"Your Majesty...Your Majesty and Yuanfeng got married on the road..." Yun Rou blushed abnormally.
"Huh?" Su Bei was shocked. "Say it again!"
"Yuanfeng and I are already married..." Yunrou said it again honestly.
Su Bei almost popped his eyes out, "You just got married like this, don't you think it's hasty? Yuanfeng has an old mother, and you didn't even hold a wedding banquet..."
"So I only told Her Majesty about this matter. We will hold the banquet after he comes back with the young master..." Yun Rou's voice became lower and lower as she spoke.
This was indeed a hasty matter. It would have been natural at the time because of the feelings we had, but she still has an elderly mother to look down on. Wouldn't she be looked down upon later?
Su Bei sorted out his thoughts and said, "I will arrange your marriage when he comes back. But first, tell me what happened to Qian Yi and Qian Xiu's two children?"
"I don't know either. On the third day after our marriage, the eldest prince asked Yuanfeng to go with him, and the princess asked me to accompany her back to the capital. If the place where the young master went was Miaojiang, did he know something?"
"It's hard to say... We can't say it either. If we say it, it will seem like we don't want to give him the throne. Although he is obsessed with poison all day long, he is not really suitable to be the emperor of Wu Country."
That's right. Chu Qianxiu was obsessed with poison and didn't study hard. He never practiced martial arts and never cared about state affairs. He was really not good enough to be an emperor.
There is no solution to this problem.
Su Bei had no choice but to discuss with Chu Younan and ask him to find out what his daughter was thinking.
Veteran General Chu Younan stepped in, but when he came back, his face was darker than the bottom of a pot, "Find her a prince consort! Is there no one who wants my daughter?!"
Su Bei was puzzled. "What happened?"
"That bastard Chu Qianxiu! He sneaked into Qian Yi's room at night, and after he lifted the quilt, she ran away! You say Qian Yi may not be as beautiful as the fishes that sink to the bottom of the water, but she is not too much of a beauty, right? Why does he despise her?!"
Su Bei was speechless. It was just that he was looking at his own child and he thought she was perfect no matter how he looked at her. How could there be a distinction between the two words "sinking fishes and falling geese" and "beautiful as the moon and flowers"?
However, she was still very angry about Chu Qianxiu's behavior of pulling off someone's quilt and running away, so she went into the kitchen and made more than a dozen kinds of snacks for Chu Qianyi, all of which were made with papaya, kudzu powder and milk.
She herself has a magnificent life, why should her daughter be despised? !
The matter of recruiting a prince consort was put on the agenda, and the two met several times in the imperial study, discussing how to find a prince consort who was both talented in civil and military affairs.
After all, if one only knows martial arts, he might seem a bit rough, and it would not be good if he is not considerate enough.
The two men discussed twenty-four plans, but before they could decide which one to use, the envoy from the North really arrived.
He came to report a death. Just a few months ago, Bei Yanming died.
"Before his death, the Emperor said that he missed you, his niece, and hoped to have a lasting friendship with the Wu Kingdom, so he wrote a special letter."
The envoy handed the letter to Tang Jiang.
Chu Younan took it and frowned as soon as he saw it.
Su Bei also leaned over to take a look, and she was furious.
"The retired emperor also brought a gift for the emperor and empress." The envoy said, taking out an exquisite brocade box.
When the brocade box was opened, there was a palm-sized thing inside, which looked like a metal dog.
The dog was placed on the ground, and the envoy flipped a switch behind it, and it started walking.
Su Bei and Chu Younan looked at each other and were both shocked instantly.
This thing should be a mechanical beast, and it is more powerful than the electric toys Su Bei has seen, because it is moved by a mechanism and only needs a little external force to keep moving.
The most shocking thing was not this, but that Bei Yanming said in the letter that he ordered people to create hundreds of large mechanical beasts and put them in the hands of reliable people. The Wu Kingdom must marry a real princess to the North, otherwise his people will control the mechanical beasts to attack the Wu Kingdom.