Madam Li was silent for a moment, then looked at her daughter and said, "You don't have to be angry about this. Be more open-minded. It's good for you that the Bei family has a queen. The emperor is not in good health, and she is just a face-saver. There is still a lot of time to live."
At this point, Li glared at her daughter with dissatisfaction, her tone filled with disappointment. "But you, I've raised you with such care for so many years. As the eldest daughter of the Bei family, you act so foolishly and without thinking."
"If my daughter doesn't act quickly, if it's too late, when the emperor issues an order, my daughter will be married into the palace and buried with the emperor."
Bei Shuxian was only glad that she acted quickly. She had no regrets, and Pei Hanxue was not bad either.
"You are the eldest daughter of the Bei family, carefully nurtured. How could your father and I allow you to marry into the palace? And you may not be chosen. You are too impatient."
Seeing that her daughter still didn't know she was wrong, Li continued, "Your father and I originally wanted to send you to a Taoist temple to recuperate for a year or two since you were ill before returning to propose marriage.
By then, you will have all the talented young men in the capital to choose from. But you are so foolish as to use your youth to plot against a poor scholar."
You can even bet on becoming the next emperor.
Her daughter was destined to be extremely noble from the moment she was born. Li's ambition had long been nurtured, and she was not willing to let her daughter marry an ordinary woman.
It would be fine if he was a hero saving a beauty who fell into the lake, but he drugged her and lost his youth.
Li's head is hurting a lot now. Although the Bei family has kept this matter secret, who knows if it has been spread out.
"Mother and father, why didn't you tell me earlier? You always hide things from your daughter. If you had told me earlier, why would your daughter be so anxious?"
Bei Shuxian was unhappy. She was confused at the time and only wanted to snatch Bei Lingyao's fiancé without thinking too much.
"There's nothing more to say now. I just hope he can get the top spot next year, or at least be in the top ten. Otherwise..."
Li didn't continue, but the unfinished meaning startled Bei Shuxian. "Mother, I've entrusted my daughter's innocence to him. If he dies, how can I marry into a good family?"
"Don't worry about that. Just stay in the mansion and don't have any contact with him for the time being."
There was contempt in Li's eyes, and she looked down on this future son-in-law.
So what if they are Jinshi? There are one or two hundred Jinshi every three years.
A child from a poor family would be of no value to the Li family if he couldn't get into the top ten.
She had carefully raised her daughter not to marry such a worthless poor man.
Bei Shuxian was feeling uneasy. Although she felt that Pei Hanxue was not worthy of her, she didn't want him to die.
Moreover, although Pei Hanxue was not born in a high-class family and his family had fallen on hard times, he was eight feet tall, handsome, gentle, and had the temperament of a scholar, no worse than the young talents in the capital.
It's not impossible to marry Pei Hanxue.
And this is the only man who has ignored her since she was a child.
She originally did it because Pei Hanxue was nice to that concubine sister. Although she only sent food and some small things, she put a lot of thought into it.
As the noble daughter of the Bei family, Bei Shuxian has been able to get whatever she wanted effortlessly since she was a child.
But her mother was strict and never allowed her to meet other men. She never even saw her cousins again after they grew up.
She also knew that her mother wanted her to become the most noble woman in the world.
I never thought that the one in the palace was about to die.
But because of the love between Pei Hanxue and her concubine, she felt unwilling to accept it.
Rather than marrying the man in the palace, she would rather marry Pei Hanxue.
She also wanted Pei Hanxue to look at her with such affectionate eyes, as if he only saw her in the world, and no one else was important in her eyes.
"Don't even think about telling him the news. He's going to take the imperial examination next year, and your father will keep him studying. He won't have the chance to see you."
Li gave up her daughter's thoughts.
Bei Shuxian left angrily.
Bei Lingyao noticed this scene at the Bei family and will return home tomorrow.
She wanted to take care of Emperor Kant's health, dress him up well, and let the people of the Bei family take a good look at him when she returned.
At this time in Yongshou Palace, the retired emperor was about to issue an edict to confer the title of First-Rank Lady on Lan Yuanshan.
No one would say that the queen's biological mother was not conferred the title of First-Rank Lady.
But when he thought of the Lan family who were convicted and exiled, the emperor calmed down and felt that what happened to the Lan family was strange.
More than ten years have passed since the incident, and the emperor has long forgotten about the Lan family.
If it weren't for Bei Lingyao, the emperor wouldn't care whether the Lan family was framed or not.
After all, Bei Lingyao's grandfather was the Minister of Works, and her uncle was a fourth-rank prefect, and they were both directly responsible for the incident in their jurisdiction.
In addition, the Lan family was an important official during the reign of Emperor Taizong.
There was a daughter named Concubine Lan during the reign of Emperor Taizong. However, when the retired emperor entered the palace, Concubine Lan had already died of illness and left no children.
Otherwise, the Lan family would have been liquidated by the emperor.
After all, Taizong and the princes' followers were removed and exiled by the retired emperor.
However, the Lan family was disheartened by Concubine Lan's death and left the center of power, so they were not affected.
After two years of ignoring the Lan family, the retired emperor began to reuse them again and appointed Bei Lingyao's grandfather as the Minister of Works.
Afterwards, the retired emperor wanted to choose the daughter of the Lan family to enter the palace as a concubine, but the daughter of the Lan family was already engaged to Master Bei.
At that time, Taifu Bei was just a Jinshi, the son of a sixth-rank Tongpan.
The Lan family intended to marry their daughter off.
Tutor Bei was indeed excellent. He gradually caught the eye of the retired emperor, who began to use him and made him a lecturer for the princes.
The princes come and go, but the lecturer remains. Master Bei’s lectures are humorous and interesting, and the princes like his classes very much.
The retired emperor was also very satisfied, and Tutor Bei became a favorite of the emperor.
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