The emperor's expression changed, his hearty and doting smile gradually faded, and he closed his eyes and said, "Yu Zhao... that kid has always been aloof, and few people can invite him. Although your father is the emperor, he can order him to teach you, but I'm afraid he might be unprepared and neglect you."
"No." Bo Chi smiled sweetly, and gently lifted the long hair beside her ear with her fair hands, like a shy and timid girl who has someone in her heart introducing her lover: "Yu Zhao...Brother is very gentle. No matter what I ask her to do, she will do it seriously without complaint. I think she is a good person."
At this point, the emperor finally sensed something strange in her words and actions. He looked at the servants around him with a strange look and asked tentatively, "So, you and Yu Zhao get along pretty well?"
Bo Chi nodded obediently.
The emperor narrowed his eyes, and many thoughts and speculations popped up in his mind at this moment. Finally, he laughed again and said as if teasing casually: "Since you admire Yu Zhao so much, why don't I enthrone him as your consort, how about it?"
Bo Chi turned her head with a slightly red face, perfectly covering up the raised corners of her lips, and stamped her feet shyly and said, "Father, how can you say something that makes a girl embarrassed in public!"
The emperor smiled and coaxed her, but his heart was calm.
The girl did not refuse at the first time.
This attitude has silently answered his question.
It goes without saying whose power should be weakened between the poor top scholar and the powerful young general.
There was just one thing that made him hesitate.
If Yu Zhao didn't love his little princess...
"Your Majesty, the young general wants to see you." The eunuch's voice suddenly sounded outside. The emperor came to his senses and asked Bo Chi to leave first. Then he tapped the armrest and said after a while: "Let him in. I just happen to have something to ask him."
**
After Bo Chi left the imperial study, he did not ask what Yu Zhao had reported.
However, after a few times, the queen summoned her over, hugged her and coaxed her for a long time with anger and pity.
Only then did Bo Chi realize that Yu Zhao was so efficient. Not only did he expose the fact that Ke Hui was hiding his secrets about his wife and children, he also found out that Ke Hui was on the list of people who had committed favoritism and corruption.
A large number of officials were removed from their posts, and Yu Zhao became the most popular official for a time, and his reputation among the people became increasingly strong.
So after the Queen finished scolding Ke Hui, she changed the subject and held her hand, saying worriedly, "Your father asked me two days ago what I thought of Yu Zhao. After thinking it over again and again, I said some good things about Yu Zhao. After thinking deeply, I'm afraid your father has already made up his mind and plans to let Yu Zhao be your consort."
Bo Chi was immediately delighted: "Really? That's great!"
The queen with a sad face: "..."
After staring at the heartless and silly girl for a while, the queen accepted her fate and said, "Forget it. It has come to this. There is no need to say anything else. Go back to the palace and prepare for it. I believe that in a few days, your father will grant you the marriage."
Bo Chi had long thought about bullying Yu Zhao after getting married and venting his anger, but now that he had received the good news, he felt like he was floating when he left.
After returning to the palace, she flew around like a butterfly, putting on this tasseled hairpin and packing that gauze silk skirt, always ready to go out for her wedding carrying a small package.
One or two days passed, and the imperial decree granting the marriage did not come down. Yu Zhao's secret letter was delivered to Bo Chi by Chun Yuan again. Bo Chi was a little confused, but she still dressed exquisitely and beautifully, with her long, smooth black hair loose, and left the palace excitedly.
The place that Yu Zhao agreed to meet this time was not in the small teahouse, but by the moat.
It is spring now. The willow trees on both sides of the lake are sprouting and growing branches, swaying their green branches in the wind. The calm lake surface is also rippling in the breeze, and the sparkling waves are extremely pleasing to the eye.
The scenery here is beautiful, but it is too far from the imperial palace, so not many people are walking around. Only the guards come to patrol from time to time.
Before Yu Zhao set the meeting place here, he seemed to have given some instructions, so that Bo Chi stood by the lake for a while without running into anyone.
But to be on the safe side, she still wore a veil to cover the lower half of her face.
Not long after, Yu Zhao came over in a hurry.
She was still dressed in brocade, with her black hair neatly tied up. Her bright face was cold and stern, which made people feel afraid and dare not offend her.
Bo Chi, however, had no such concerns. He took a quick step forward and threw himself into Yu Zhao's arms. He said happily and proudly, "You came at the right time. I have a secret to tell you."
Yu Zhao subconsciously put his arm around her waist. After listening, he took a deep breath, held her shoulders, and said with a complicated look: "I also have a secret...I want to tell the princess."
Bo Chi said arrogantly: "I'll speak first!"
Yu Zhao pulled the corners of his lips, wanting to laugh but unable to, so he could only say softly: "Okay, Princess, go first."
Bo Chi curved his eyes, leaned close to her ear and whispered, "We are getting married. Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"
Yu Zhao did not speak, but remained silent for a long time, so long that Bo Chi suspected that she had said something wrong, and felt a little helpless and bewildered. Then she said in a low voice: "Princess, I... am actually a woman."
It was a simple sentence, but she said it awkwardly and with difficulty. The hand holding Bo Chi's shoulder was unconsciously exerting force, as if she was afraid that Bo Chi would run away.
Bo Chi frowned slightly, feeling a little pain from being pinched by her, but she could see that Yu Zhao was not in a stable mood, so she remained silent and said, "Is this the secret you want to tell me? Oh, I already knew it."
After hearing this, Yu Zhao was stunned and confused: "You knew I was a woman, why did you let me take responsibility when I touched your feet?"
Bo Chi looked at her suspiciously: "Why, you are not happy?"
Yu Zhao hurriedly said: "No, I just, I just don't understand."
Before she came, she had thought of thousands of possible reactions of Bo Chi, but she never expected that Bo Chi already knew her secret. This made her stunned, yet at the same time, she inevitably felt secretly happy.
——Is she not the only one who fell in love at first sight?
"What's there to not understand?" Bo Chi said frankly, "I recognized you from the first moment I saw you. Besides, who else can protect you after knowing your true identity, except for this princess?"
She raised her head proudly, and the pearls on her hairpin swayed slightly: "So I advise you to marry me obediently, and don't force me to kneel down and beg you."
Yu Zhao wanted to laugh when he heard this, and tears welled up in his eyes as he laughed.
She hugged Bo Chi in her arms, her voice trembling slightly, but with a greedy and possessive tone: "Princess, you bumped into me by yourself."
"From now on." Yu Zhao and Bo Chi intertwined their fingers, and said in a low and stubborn voice: "Even if I die, I will never let go."
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