Ah~~~ What a moving, holy, great, beautiful, pure love!

This man with a good house feng shui is indeed a good person in the social sense, but Princess Xiangyang herself doesn't want to marry.

Princess Xiangyang winked at Xu Yanmiao: My father is so stubborn... What should I do?

Xu Yanmiao whispered to Princess Xiangyang and made a "retreat first" gesture with her mouth.

Princess Xiangyang nodded solemnly, took a silent breath, and then turned to the old emperor: "Dad!"

The old emperor crossed his arms: "What's wrong?"

Princess Xiangyang: "Dad, marriage is a big deal, how can you take it lightly? Let your daughter go back and think about it! No matter how good he is, you can't be impulsive!"

The old emperor raised his eyebrows as if nothing had happened: "How could I be impulsive? Don't worry, Dad will naturally ask the Jinyiwei to investigate him, including him, and count three generations up."

Princess Xiangyang choked and tried to struggle: "But what if he is a hypocrite?"

The old emperor said lightly: "If he can pretend for a lifetime, he is a true gentleman. Judging by deeds, not heart."

He frowned again: "You just need to prepare for your marriage in the palace. You will get married soon, and you should go out of the palace less recently. And don't talk about using Xu Yanmiao as a shield anymore, Such words are hurtful. And... "

Princess Xiangyang ran away.

What else? She didn't want to listen!

The old emperor looked at the concubine's fleeing appearance, and the corners of his stern face immediately turned up.

Xu Yanmiao was lowering her head and thinking about the reason to resign, but she didn't see it at all. Otherwise, he would understand that Gao Xiang didn't need to be so nervous about the enemy - her father was just teasing her.

*

Before Xu Yanmiao could think of a reason, the old emperor impatiently gave her a task and drove her away.

Princess Xiangyang looked at his expression curiously: "What mission?"

Xu Yanmiao's face was strange: "Let me go to worship the prime minister of the previous dynasty on his behalf."

Princess Xiangyang: "...My father, he really misses the prime minister of the previous dynasty."

Xu Yanmiao coughed and said, "Let's talk about why you don't want to find a son-in-law."

Princess Xiangyang glanced at him.

Xiao Bai Ze has always been bold in his heart, but on the surface, he is cautious to a certain extent.

However, now he needs help from others, so he really can't make fun of him.

The princess sighed, "My father found a perfect person before - at least perfect on the surface, and he likes him very much. Yao Hai, you say, I'll find someone to beat that guy up, and beat him every time I see him, he will go to beg my father not to marry the princess, right?"

When being called by his courtesy name, Xu Yanmiao was still a little uncomfortable.

- Colleagues basically called him Xu Lang. Most of those with lower official positions than him respectfully called him "Xu Shizhong". Although he was given a courtesy name, it was not often used.

But there was no other way. Gao Xiang didn't like to call him Xu Lang. Calling Xu Yanmiao with his full name - it was okay before the courtesy name was given, but after the courtesy name was given, calling him like that among peers was an angry curse! So, he could only call him by his courtesy name.

Xu Yanmiao: "What if he is a man who cannot bend under the weight of power?"

Princess Xiangyang: "He is just a man who cannot bend under the weight of power, not someone who likes to be beaten. Who would want to run away after being beaten like this?"

[I looked it over... Hmm, it seems that he does not have a tendency to like being masochistic.]

Princess Xiangyang widened her eyes.

Is there anyone who likes to be masochistic?

What kind of person likes to be beaten!

Xu Yanmiao thought for a moment, and then said: "Besides, this is just the one that His Majesty likes very much. If you don't like this one, there are many other candidates. I'm afraid that he won't tell you when the time comes, and will directly arrange the marriage, and you can't disobey the order."

Princess Xiangyang: "Tsk!"

Why can't she kill everyone with a bloody pestle?

——Those who are urged to get married, how can they not be crazy.

Xu Yanmiao tapped his aching head and said, "I have a case where giving birth at a young age can easily result in two deaths. Why not delay it for a few years?"

Princess Xiangyang was stunned for a moment and looked away guiltily, "I told my father that I don't want to have children."

So this reason is no longer valid.

Xu Yanmiao tapped his head again: "So, just say you like talented people, let him write a poem or an article and see, literature carries the message, after reading it, you can say the three views... that is, the concepts are not in line. To put it more simply, you have seen more of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Queen getting along with each other, you envy their mutual understanding and support, and you don't want to fail to get along."

Princess Xiangyang's eyes continued to drift: "I told my father that I like warriors. As for why we can't get along, I also said that, and my father said that I can get along with anyone."

Very good, these two roads are also blocked.

Xu Yanmiao: Stare -

Princess Xiangyang smiled and lowered her head: "Who could have thought it would be such a coincidence? You also thought of those few methods."

Xu Yanmiao: "Then it still has to be completely resolved from His Majesty. Otherwise, even if this prince consort is resolved, there is still that prince consort. The most abundant thing in the world is people."

Princess Xiangyang looked expectant: "Then how should we do it? Xu Yaohai, you are knowledgeable..." "

Let me think about it. This matter can't be rushed. Just tell His Majesty that you want to contact that young man privately and test his character - as many days as you can delay, things will turn around sooner or later."

"Okay." Princess Xiangyang became happy again: "The former prime minister's tomb is in his hometown. Now the tomb is thirty or forty miles outside the capital. It was built for him by the people at that time. There is also a small temple nearby. If you want to leave the city, we will hire a donkey cart. It's too tiring to walk."

Xu Yanmiao raised a thumb.

*

The former prime minister was a good prime minister who cared about the people. Even more than 30 years after the founding of the new dynasty, there were still unburned incense in front of his tomb.

Xu Yanmiao put down the food box containing the offerings and took out pancakes, mung bean porridge, red bean porridge, leek boxes, dumplings, and a bowl of clear soup noodles from it.

These were all specially instructed by the old emperor, and he also asked Xu Yanmiao to say a few words in front of the grave.

After Xu Yanmiao bowed, she opened her mouth three or four times, but could hardly speak.

Princess Xiangyang made a gesture and said, "I'll go somewhere else."

After the people left, Xu Yanmiao prepared herself several times before she could say the words that she had been thinking about thousands of times.

"Prime Minister Wang, my emperor sent me here to tell you a few words."

"He said--"

"These cakes, porridge, and dumplings are all very cheap food. If he had eaten them often instead of becoming a beggar on the street, he would not have joined the rebels later."

"This bowl of clear soup noodles only costs three cents."

"On weekends back then, flour alone cost three hundred cents per pound, not to mention the price of clear soup noodles." "

Now that the country is peaceful and the people are living a good life, I brought these ordinary foods with me in case you don't believe me. The poor people don't have to eat a bowl of clear soup noodles only during festivals. As long as they are a little more diligent, they can eat a bowl every two or three days."

"Well, do you regret surrendering to me in an attempt to destroy me?"

*

On a stormy night, the yellow-faced man burst into the house.

He did not even wait for the imperial examination, and returned home in despair. His skinny sister, who was as thin as a chicken, stood on a small stool, feeding the livestock through the window. When she turned around and saw him, she shouted in surprise: "Brother!"

The first sentence the yellow-faced man said was: "Help me take off my shoes!"

The little sister hurried over, using all her strength, pressed her whole body on, leaned back, and pulled hard, just like a fiberline worker pulling a fiber by the Yangtze River. With a "pop" sound, the pair of shoes on the yellow-faced man's feet were pulled off.

"Hiss--" The yellow-faced man gasped.

No wonder he asked his little sister to take off his shoes. The shoes were full of bloodstains and the soles of his feet were bloody. But before he took off his shoes, his feet were numb and he had no sense of pain when he walked.

"To save some money, I walked three or four hundred miles home. I have thick flesh, so it won't be a problem."

The yellow-faced man had just finished explaining when the sadness of failing the exam came back again, almost drowning his heart. He couldn't help but howl out loud: "Little sister! Mom! I didn't pass the exam!"

There was the sound of the quilt being lifted in the room, followed by the sound of something being knocked over. After a while, his mother came out in a hurry and sat beside him. Her big hand, as big as a palm leaf fan, gently patted his back: "It's okay, it's okay. If you don't pass the exam, we can take it again. Didn't you say that there will be another one in three years?"

The yellow-faced man smelled a stench of urine, and after careful identification, he found that it came from the room, and there was also a moldy smell from the corners of the wall that had been splashed with liquid for many years. When he saw that there were some water stains on his mother's trousers and hems, and she was only wearing socks but no shoes, he suddenly understood - his mother had just gotten out of bed, and there was a spittoon at the foot of the bed, and she must have kicked it over.

The man would definitely use this as an excuse to beat his mother when he saw the house was dirty. He might have cared about her before, but now he failed the exam and could not become an official.

"Mom, leave quickly!" The yellow-faced man was anxious: "Take my little sister and leave quickly!"

"Leave? Why do you suddenly say you want to leave?"

Seeing that his mother hadn't reacted yet, the yellow-faced man became even more anxious: "That man will beat you."

His mother didn't leave, and after hearing this, she didn't sit at the table and cry as usual. Instead, she had a slight smile on her face.

Even my little sister was smiling, as if she was not afraid at all.

The yellow-faced man looked at this and that, very confused. He didn't know why his mother and little sister had such an attitude.

Then the younger sister said happily: "Brother! Dad was beaten to death!"

The yellow-faced man widened his eyes: "What!"

The younger sister chuckled: "After Dad was beaten to death, Mom added a salted egg to my meal that day!"

"He died well!" The yellow-faced man smiled: "You should add two salted eggs, and you can have my own too."

Then he worried: "Why was he beaten to death? Did he get into trouble?" It would be

best if his father died, but it wouldn't affect him, his mother and the younger sister, right?

His mother also spoke, still with a smile on her face: "Mom just found out that gambling is illegal and you will be arrested and beaten with a hundred sticks. Your father was old and was beaten to death directly."

"What? Is this illegal?" The yellow-faced man was surprised with a hint of joy.

It was not easy for him to learn to read, how could he know these laws.

The younger sister said in her clear voice like silver bells very happily: "Several officials broke in that day, arrested my father and took off, which scared my mother and me. I lay in front of the window and watched them strip off my father's pants and beat him. Mother used a water wheel to draw well water, handed it to those officials, and asked what happened. She also took more than ten copper coins - the money was originally intended for my father to buy Xinghua Village Fenjiu. But the officials confiscated the money and gave me a candy."

Hearing this, the yellow-faced man felt something was wrong.

He guessed that the one who beat him up was probably the yamen runners, but how could the yamen runners not take money?

Unless... they didn't dare to take it.

The yellow-faced man asked hurriedly: "Besides giving candy, did they say anything else?"

"Well... it seems that they said, brother, you are really capable and you can even know the boss in Beijing. They sent someone to come here quickly and told the county magistrate about my father's gambling, and asked the county magistrate..."

The tone of the next words was a little strange. It was obvious that the younger sister was imitating others' words: "Enforce the law impartially."

"From Beijing..."

The yellow-faced man was confused: "But I don't know anything..."

His mother saw that he seemed to be unable to remember, and was also confused: "Isn't he someone you know? He also asked the official to give me money, saying that if we can get a divorce, we can get a divorce. If not, I should take the second girl to find you while the child's father is injured and lying in bed. I thought you borrowed the money from him."

"By the way. The official also said that the official in Beijing is surnamed Xu."

"Xu--"

The yellow-faced man turned his head abruptly and looked in the direction of the capital.

This surname is not common, and it is even more difficult to mistake him for a kind-hearted person.

"It's him..."

It was the examiner who was soft-hearted and let him into the examination room after he was late. He remembered that this person's name was...

"Xu...Yan...Miao..."

"Xu...Yao...Hai..."

"Dong——"

With a heavy sound, the yellow-faced man knelt down in the direction of the capital, as if countless gratitude was poured into his heart.

"Thank you... Thank you so much..."

*

"Is this okay?"

After paying respects to the prime minister of the previous dynasty, Xu Yanmiao went to find Princess Xiangyang. At the same time, he briefly tracked the affairs of the yellow-faced man's family. He was relieved when he found that the government office he wrote to did not perfunctorily deal with the matter and really arrested the gambler according to the law.

He was too general and did not realize that the gambler who abused his daughter and wanted to pawn his daughter was directly beaten to death by the local county magistrate in order to please him, his superior, and the yamen runners were hinted .

"Xu Yaohai--"

Princess Xiangyang was calling him.

Xu Yanmiao raised his head and waved: "Here!"

Princess Xiangyang smiled and ran over with a large bunch of rapeseed flowers she had just picked.

The girl had a rosy complexion and wore a blue men's suit that was easy to walk in. She ran beautifully and powerfully. When she smiled, her two sparkling eyes looked like two pools of autumn water sparkling in the sunlight.

Not far away, the scholar who seemed to be outing had a pounding heart and had even considered when to ask relatives to bring gifts to the wedding banquet.

This made Xu Yanmiao's existence very glaring in his eyes.

The little servant next to the scholar looked at the expression of his own eldest son and his eyes lit up.

The eldest son had not found a man of his dreams for many years, and the mistress had been worried for many years. She had tried both men and women, but to no avail. It turned out that his standards were so high.

"Da Lang, should we go ask who the girl is from and ask a matchmaker to come and propose marriage?"

The scholar had reached the end of his rope and fell into his good nature again, staring at Xu Yanmiao without saying a word.

The little book boy knew what his husband was thinking at a glance, he just thought that a gentleman should not take away someone else's preferences. But in his opinion, as long as the marriage is not really completed, he can snatch the girl away.

So he raised the corners of his mouth and chattered: "Da Lang, that young man is also very handsome, maybe he is the girl's brother. If I don't ask, I'm afraid he will leave."

But would you call your brother by his full name?

The scholar shook his head: "Let's go."

Under the book boy's hesitant gaze, he walked away, looking back every few steps.

[Wait a minute? ! ]

[Lin Zhi fell in love with Gao Xiang at first sight? 】

【Who is Lin Zhi... huh? ? ? The eldest brother of the third class and the 85th, the one that the old emperor is very optimistic about? 】

Princess Xiangyang immediately looked at Xu Yanmiao in horror.

Wait, how did this Lin Shi suddenly jump out? !

【Hiss——This can't be known to the old emperor, otherwise, in the eyes of the old emperor, the man has feelings, no matter whether the concubine is interested or not, he will definitely treat his daughter well, and then directly issue an imperial edict to grant the marriage...】

Oh! Do you need to say this!

Princess Xiangyang was so anxious that she urged directly: "Xu Yanmiao, what do you say about my father urging me to get married!"

——I was so anxious that I forgot to shout.

Fortunately, Xu Yanmiao was not sensitive to this matter.

Xu Yanmiao: "Actually, I have come up with a method, maybe we can try it. I just don't know if it will work."

Princess Xiangyang: "What method!"

Xu Yanmiao was afraid that there were Jinyiwei around, so she lowered her voice: "Although your father is a little stubborn, he really wants to do good for you." [

He is just a little bit of a straight man. ]

The Jinyiwei around him almost wanted to cover their ears.

Whenever Xu Lang criticized His Majesty, they didn't have to listen!

Princess Xiangyang nodded vigorously.

Yes, her father is like that.

Xu Yanmiao: "So, I was wondering, can we think in reverse? If your father thinks that you will not have a good life no matter how you marry, will he really push you into the fire pit?"

Princess Xiangyang nodded vigorously: "Then what should we do..." After a pause, she imitated Xu Yanmiao awkwardly: "Think in reverse?"

At the same time, she muttered in her heart: This wording is really strange, I don't know if it is a word from heaven or a dialect learned from some tribe.

Xu Yanmiao coughed.

[I'm sorry, Your Majesty, although you gave me a car before, but for the sake of my good brother, I still have to stick by you! ]

"You are like this..."

The more Princess Xiangyang listened, the weirder her expression became, but she was vaguely eager to try.

*

The old emperor was basking in the sun in the Yu Garden.

He was in a good mood and said to the eunuch: "I am old now. I don't have the mood to lie down for an afternoon. My bones are all soft."

The eunuch was also old. He sat on the stool specially given by the old emperor and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is not old at all. He is still strong and sturdy. When he walks out, people are thinking, where did this burly man come from? He looks only forty or fifty years old. He wants to carry bags at the dock. My God, how much money can he make in a day!"

The old emperor laughed.

He really had the figure of a pure military general, with broad shoulders, thick arms, and strong thighs. Outsiders dared not to provoke him.

"But I'm really old, in my sixties or seventies. I used to be unafraid of the changing seasons, but now I have to take medicine."

He stretched out his hand, and the eunuch beside him quickly brought the half bowl of thick black medicine soup. The old emperor raised his head and sipped it, and wiped his mouth casually: "Let's go to the empress's palace."

I miss my sister .

As soon as I arrived at the Pepper Room, I saw the ivory-white vase with rape flowers that Empress Dou liked. I knew at a glance that they were picked when they were in full bloom.

"Is Shengxian here?"

Empress Dou nodded with a smile.

The old emperor cursed: "This daughter was raised in vain. She only knows to be filial to her mother. She can't remember her father at all."

"Who can't remember!" Princess Xiangyang came over from the side hall and took out the fried stinky dried tofu she brought back from outside the palace from her small pocket. She held it up and put it close to his nose affectionately: "Here! It's fresh out of the pot!"

The old emperor snorted and laughed: "You know what's good for you."

As he opened his mouth and took a bite of the fried stinky dried tofu, he heard his daughter say: "Dad, I want to get married."

"Puff——"

The dried tofu choked directly, and the old emperor couldn't help but look at the daughter several times in surprise after eating a large cup of tea.

The daughter smiled at him coquettishly.

The sunlight shone through the shadows of the trees and the window frames, falling on her white teeth, bright and shining.

The old emperor was surprised: "Shengxian, have you figured it out?"

Princess Xiangyang nodded: "I accidentally met the person you chose for me before..."

In fact, she didn't pay attention to it at all, but it didn't stop her from making up a story.

"It seems... it's really good."

The old emperor was immediately surprised.

He had previously shown that he didn't care about the wishes of the lady and insisted that she get married. It was indeed a teasing to his daughter, but it was also true that he hoped she would get married.

In Gao Tiezhu's simple values, how can people not have a family. Men have to have a family, and women have to have a family too. This is a matter of course.

- Oh, Xu Yanmiao doesn't count, and Xiao Bai Ze is not a human being.

Princess Xiangyang lowered her head and played with her fingers, as if she was shy as a girl: "Daddy, love must be a beautiful thing, right?"

The old emperor was subconsciously startled, and before he could react how to reply.

Then he heard the lady's voice full of longing.

"Together in joys and sorrows, to be together till old age, to be together through life and death... Dad, isn't it beautiful?"

The old emperor always felt something was wrong, but he still nodded hesitantly: "It is true..."

Princess Xiangyang held her face with bright eyes, as if she couldn't help herself: "Dad! You don't know, Lin Lang is so handsome, so noble..."

"Wait, wait, who is Lin Lang?"

"Of course it's the ideal husband you chose for me, Lin Langjun Lin Zhi! Dad, he is really... so kind, so good, so wise and brave! He is like a god! I want to cherish him, love him, and pursue him. I am going to be crazy about him!"

The old emperor: "???"

What the hell is this? What god?

Princess Xiangyang gently tugged at the old emperor's stiff sleeve and said, "Daddy! Please give us a marriage!" She

immediately retorted, "No, no, I can't give us a marriage. Love can't be forced! If he doesn't like me, he will be in pain and will die. But if I can't be with him, I will be in pain and will die."

The old emperor: "..."

Your father is also in pain and will die!

What the hell is this?

Is his daughter possessed by evil spirits?

"Daddy, do you think he already has someone he likes?"

Princess Xiangyang bit her lip, tears welling up in her eyes: "Ah~~~~~"

The old emperor was startled and wanted to pull his chair back three feet: "What's wrong!"

Princess Xiangyang's eyes were filled with tears: "Dad, my heart aches just thinking about him having a lover! It hurts so much! I love him so painfully! Dad, I want to drink! I want to get drunk! I..."

"Wait a minute, don't get drunk first." The straight old emperor had never seen such a battle before, his hair stood on end: "What does it matter if he has a lover? You are his wife, and let his lover be his concubine..."

"But his heart is there! With his sweetheart!" Princess Xiangyang: "And their love must be beautiful and great. How can I be so selfish to desecrate their love. I am here to join this family, not to destroy it!"

The old emperor's subordinate holding the fried stinky dried meat shuddered in consciousness, and two pieces of stinky dried meat slid out of the bag and fell to the ground.

Princess Xiangyang held her heart in her hands, looking pitiful and resentful, as if she had been immersed in her own world: "If Lin Lang has a sweetheart, I am willing to be his sweetheart's equal wife. As long as Lin Lang is happy, he can treat me like a kitten or a puppy."

"There is a world in a man's heart, and a woman can only occupy a small corner. And in a woman's heart, there is only one man, and that man is her whole world."

"Dad~~~~"

"I have never encountered love before, I don't understand how pure and flawless it is, and how touching it is. I even quarreled with you, Dad, and didn't want to get married. I was really too much. Fortunately, I met Lin Lang today, and I finally understood your painstaking efforts..."

Help, help, help!

How could this happen! Is he forcing his daughter too much? !

The old emperor turned around and found that his sister had left at some point: "?"

He looked again and saw a corner of the queen's robe at the door.

The next moment, the corner was gone.

"!!!"

Sister! Take me with you!!!

"Dad~~~~"

It was the familiar three-syllable tone of one word again. The old emperor, a tough guy who never frowned even with a sword, shuddered.

"What, what's wrong?"

"Dad!" His daughter looked at him expectantly: "I want to hear the story of you and mother, the moving, sacred, great, beautiful, and pure love story between you and mother."

The old emperor had a toothache.

He seemed to see his fifth daughter back then... No, Wanshou didn't have this back then!

A sacred and great love!

Love ass!!!

"You go back first."

"Dad!" When the old emperor saw that his daughter was about to start another series of parallel sentences, he interrupted her: "I think you are still young, let's put the marriage aside for now."

Princess Xiangyang: "Dad! How can this be, love..."

"Someone come--" the old emperor shouted, almost breaking his voice: "Send the princess back!"