Bai Zhi was very dissatisfied, "What are you doing, Master?"
"What for? Of course I'm helping you. Didn't you see Prince Duan and the Princess talking to each other? Do you still want to stand aside and listen openly? As a servant, you don't even have the decency to do this?"
"You can't leave Prince Duan and the princess alone in the room. That's ridiculous!"
"Come on, what do you think of Prince Duan and the Princess? Stand guard at the door and don't let anyone disturb them. The two of you are talking about serious business inside!"
Although Bai Zhi was very worried, she had to admit that what the eldest master said made sense, "Oh, I understand."
Qin Qingyao also knew that Prince Duan had something serious to say, so before he opened his mouth, she said, "I brought four secret guards with me when I went out!"
This sentence seemed to be warning Prince Duan not to do anything that might cause misunderstanding, but as smart as Prince Duan was, he immediately understood that Qin Qingyao was actually telling him to speak more slowly because someone was listening.
"Don't worry, Princess. The four of them are all outside the building. Even if you grow ears all over your body, you can't call them."
Haha, she said she came here to try her luck, but it was obvious that she came up because she saw the secret guard and knew she was here!
"Okay, then what does His Royal Highness Prince Duan want to tell me?"
"I won't marry Ming Ruoxi."
Prince Duan's serious and solemn expression, as if he was taking an oath, made Qin Qingyao laugh. Although she knew it was inappropriate to kick someone when he was down, she found it inexplicably funny to see him get humiliated!
"Oh, who do you want to marry?"
Prince Duan stared at Qin Qingyao for a long time, until Qin Qingyao's hair almost stood on end, and then he said, "Is this important?"
"No...it's not important, but if you don't want to marry Ming Ruoxi, why don't you tell the emperor? What's the point of telling me?"
Ling Jingxuan, "The emperor has issued an edict and it will not be changed. I can only tell you this."
"That's weird. What do you mean you can only tell me? We're not that close!"
Prince Duan looked at her with amusement, "Why are you so sensitive? Are you afraid that I will fall for you, a married woman?"
"Then please explain clearly. This princess is so outstanding, there will always be dogs coveting good meat!"
Prince Duan himself couldn't explain why he felt like laughing when Qin Qing called him a dog. He felt depressed all morning, but now he felt better.
He took a sip of tea and continued, "Don't you always know what will happen in the future? Didn't you foresee such an arranged marriage?"
"What if I foresaw it? What if I didn't? The Emperor has granted me this marriage. How can I change it? Besides, if you knew about it in advance, could you have changed anything? Are you going to kill Ming Ruoxi to silence her?"
Ling Jingxuan shook her head. "I'm not asking you to help me change this arranged marriage. I want to ask you, how can I get rid of this arranged marriage?"
Qin Qingyao: What the hell?
Ling Jingxuan said with a look of certainty, "I know I will never marry Ming Ruoxi, but I haven't figured out a way to justify breaking off the engagement without causing the Emperor to dislike me even more."
"I'm really tired of thinking about it by myself, so I want to ask you for help and take a shortcut."
Qin Qingyao's cheeks couldn't stop twitching. This guy is quite smart, but unfortunately, all this content is seriously beyond her scope and she can't solve it!
"Or, even if you can't figure out how I got rid of it, I want to know, if you were me, what would you do?"
"If I were you?" Qin Qingyao almost vomited when she thought about marrying Ming Ruoxi!
"Yes, you can speak freely. After all, you've already called me a dog, so there shouldn't be anything you dare not say. If what you say is unpleasant, I will forget it once I leave the house and will never bear a grudge!"
Ling Jingxuan said this fluently, and it seemed that he didn't even notice that he had so calmly accepted that he was the dog that Qin Qingyao was talking about who was eyeing the meat.
Is this an indirect admission that he is eyeing this piece of 'good meat'?
Considering that everyone is on Lin Xiafeng's kill list, Qin Qingyao really began to think seriously: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Even if it was just to distract Lin Xiafeng and prevent him from concentrating on harming her and Dugu Yu, she had to let Prince Duan live a few more days!
But after thinking about it seriously for a long time, she found that this was really too difficult!
This is a society ruled by the emperor. The emperor's words are the law of heaven. The imperial decree has been issued. Anyone who says no will be beheaded. How do you want her to solve this problem?
"Your Highness, if—I mean if! If I had the special ability to make my wishes come true, do you know what outcome I would most hope for?"
"What's the result?"
"I hope Ming Ruoxi can marry Lin Xiafeng's brother and become her sister-in-law!"
Ling Jingxuan, "..."
"Think about it, Ming Ruoxi bullies her sister-in-law at home all day long, which shows that she is not a kind person."
"Lin Xiafeng started out as a poor, hungry concubine, and has fought her way to where she is today. Even the Crown Prince is at her feet, and she can even manipulate your marriage. How can she be easily provoked?"
"I really want to see how Ming Ruoxi will live under the same roof with such a capable sister-in-law after she becomes someone else's sister-in-law!"
"As the saying goes, there's no room for two tigers in one mountain. If we end up bringing Ming Ruoxi to the Lin family and letting them fight each other, we can prevent the battlefield from spreading too far and affecting innocent people!"
Prince Duan clapped his hands, "Excellent! The princess is indeed extremely intelligent and has never disappointed me!"
Qin Qingyao was shocked by Ling Jingxuan. How could you say that? It seemed like you had a lot of expectations of me.
"Hey, just talk. Why are you staring at me? It's scary!"
Prince Duan retracted his gaze, lowered his head and smiled. He was truly charming and charming, enough to capture the hearts of thousands of girls!
"No matter what, you saved me this time. If Princess needs my help in the future, I will do my best to help you!"
After saying this, His Royal Highness Prince Duan stood up and left, as if he was going back to put out a fire, leaving Qin Qingyao alone and dumbfounded.
"Heh...heh...there's no need to say you're willing to die. How about you hold Lin Xiafeng and die together?"
Qin Qingyao's words were based on assumptions, but the reality was that Ming Ruoxi loved Prince Duan and had already been granted marriage. How could she possibly marry into the Lin family again? Wasn't that stupid?
Qin Qingyao thought this was an impossible task, but soon she realized that she was too naive!
Three days after the imperial decree granting the marriage came down, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory calculated the auspicious date for Ling Jingxuan and Ming Ruoxi based on the eight characters sent by the Lin family. It was the eighth day of the eighth month of this year, which was two and a half months later.
Qin Qingyao was depressed when she heard this date. Damn, isn’t this my wedding anniversary with my husband?
Spending their first wedding anniversary at someone else's wedding? That's too much!
This date is three months earlier than the wedding date of the prince and Lin Xiafeng. According to the auspicious date calculated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory, the prince will marry Lin Xiafeng on the tenth day of the eleventh month.
On the eighth day of June, the old dowager of Prince Yi’s mansion celebrated her 70th birthday.
The emperor wanted to show his filial piety and invited her to the palace to hold a birthday banquet.
But the old concubine herself was unwilling to go. Firstly, she was old and liked the hustle and bustle, and did not like the restraints in the palace.
Secondly, as a winner who fought her way out of the harem, she knew clearly how many souls were waiting for her in the harem who were unwilling to see her have a good life!
She didn't want to show off in front of those people and make them rush to call her down to reunite with them. She also planned to strive to live a few more years, at least to live longer than the old woman in the Yang Mansion!
This grand banquet was still held in Prince Yi's Mansion. It was rare for a person to reach seventy years old. Even for an ordinary person of high age, it was a good omen and should be respected, not to mention the status of an old concubine.
Therefore, Prince Yi has booked the largest theater in the city since the first day of June, and has been holding performances one after another every day, which are free and open to the public for the enjoyment of the people!
On the special day, the palace distributed birthday peaches and birthday cakes, which were set up along three streets and were surrounded by people.
Those who came to the palace to give gifts and celebrate the birthday started lining up at the side door before dawn, and they wanted to line up outside the city gate.
Of course, people of Dugu Yu and Qin Qingyao's status can just walk in through the main door and don't need to wait in line at the side door.
At noon, even the emperor and the empress left the palace and came to the prince's mansion to celebrate the old concubine's birthday.
After lunch, they returned to the palace. However, the princes and nobles stayed behind and chatted with the old concubine to cheer her up.
In the evening, the Prince Yi's Mansion, which was bustling with joy, suddenly exploded in a small-scale incident.
The reason why it was on a small scale was that no one dared to offend the Old Concubine Dowager and Prince Yi at this time, so they could only keep it hidden.
This is a bizarre story. If no one had seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed it!
Ming Zhengyan, the eldest son of the Ming family, was drinking tea and chatting with a group of children of officials. After drinking too much water, he wanted to go to the toilet.
But today the palace was packed with guests and the toilet was really crowded. He couldn't find a place and was almost unable to hold it, so Ling Jingyue had no choice but to take him to her room and let him use the toilet.
Although it is a bit embarrassing, it is better than suffocating to death.
But who knew that Ming Zhengyan started to unbuckle his belt as soon as he entered the room. When he was halfway through unbuckled, he let out a scream, and was so scared that he lost his urge to pee.
Because he saw a naked man and woman entangled together on Ling Jingyue's bed.
He was quite familiar with the man, the second son of the Lin family, Lin Chengxuan, and he was even more familiar with the woman, his own sister, the future princess of Prince Duan's Mansion - Ming Ruoxi!
The scream startled Ling Jingyue who was waiting outside. She rushed in to check what was going on, but was almost blinded by the white spot on the bed.
Ming Zhengyan had reacted by now and knew that he had done something wrong. He shouldn't have made it public, shouldn't have called out, and definitely shouldn't have let the prince in.
But Ling Jingyue had already seen it, and it was too late.
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