Zhang Yuan was overjoyed when Concubine Yun said this. He quickly asked someone to remove the table of meat and sent some vegetables to the imperial kitchen. Then he looked at the table of meat replaced with vegetables, smiled at Tianwu and said, "How about it? I can't control you, but someone else will!"
Tianwu had drunk some wine before, and now he was a little drunk and bold. He slammed the table on the spot: "How did she know what I was eating? What's the matter? The concubines in the harem are so powerful now that they dare to place spies around me? Go, call all the servants in Qiankun Palace to me. I must solve this case today and find out who the spy is!"
He was drunk and making a lot of noise, but Zhang Yuan was not moved at all. He just stood there without saying anything. Then he saw the maid from Yuehan Palace leaning towards the emperor again and said calmly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty smelled the meat here, so she asked me to come and take a look. Your Majesty also said that the emperor would definitely say that she had planted an accomplice here, but even if she did, what would happen? This is your Majesty's concern for the emperor. If the emperor doesn't care, we will withdraw now."
Tianwu suddenly lost his ability to play, and waved his hands repeatedly: "No need to withdraw, no need to withdraw, just care about us, just care about us, how about you send a few more people over? Or this is also fine, in Qiankun Palace, except for Xiao Yuanzi, all other people should be replaced with people from Yuehan Palace, how about that? Go back and ask your queen if it's okay, if it's okay, let's do it today."
Zhang Yuan stood by and rolled his eyes, "Why don't you just change me? I still want to serve Concubine Yun and don't want to stay in Qiankun Palace anymore."
"Shut up." Tianwu showed no mercy. "Even if you die, die in Qiankun Palace for me. Stop talking nonsense." Then he looked at the palace maid with hope.
The young maid shook her head and said, "No, we don't have that many people to serve us, not to mention they are all maids. Could it be that the emperor wants more young women to serve us?"
Tianwu almost bit his tongue. What else could he say? He looked at Feng Yuheng for help. Feng Yuheng could only speak for him helplessly: "Father meant that he was very happy that mother thought of him and sent someone to take care of him all the time. Please tell mother after you go back that the meat meal on father's side has been removed and replaced with vegetables. Your Highness and I will go to pay respects to mother later."
The palace maid smiled and nodded, "Her Majesty is waiting for His Highness and the Princess." After saying that, she bowed to Tianwu again and then retreated.
Tianwu let out a long sigh, and looking at the table of green leafy vegetables, he also lost his appetite. Xuan Tianming became excited, and ordered Zhang Yuan to give Tianwu a bite of each dish. Seeing Tianwu eat it all, he nodded, "It's good to eat it, otherwise you won't be able to explain when mother asks about it later. No wonder Li saw that you have gained a lot of weight in the past few months. It turns out that you eat like this every day. Aren't you afraid..." He asked Feng Yuheng: "What is the name of that disease?"
Feng Yuheng said: "Three highs! High blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high blood lipids."
"Yes!" Xuan Tianming nodded, "It's a terminal illness, you can handle it yourself!" After saying that, without waiting for Tianwu to reply, he suddenly changed the subject and said to Zhang Yuan: "Call someone to bring that Yuan...now call her noble lady? Invite noble lady Yuan and tell her that the Eighth Prince wants me to bring something to her."
Zhang Yuan took the order and left. Tianwu frowned to show his dissatisfaction: "Why not just find a servant to deliver it? Why did you call him over?"
"Since Shufei has become a noble lady, she is also a new person. Let's meet and see." Xuan Tianming shrugged and said coldly, "I heard that they have been making trouble for Hengheng during the time I was away from Beijing."
Tianwu was happy, "Don't worry, your wife won't be bullied, I'll support her." After saying that, he glanced at Feng Yuheng, "Isn't that right?"
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Yes, father is very supportive of his daughter-in-law."
Tianwu was so happy that he drank two more cups. Not long after, Concubine Yuan arrived. She was a little flustered when she came. When she saw Tianwu, she knelt down and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I am here to see you. Your Majesty called me in time, but I didn't have time to dress up. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Tianwu didn't even look at her, as he was picking out the meat to go with the stir-fried vegetables with a knowing look on his face. He only said, "You can wear whatever you like. I don't care. It wasn't me who asked you to come here today. It was Old Eight who asked Old Nine to bring something back for you. Just tell him."
Yuan Guiren was embarrassed, but she couldn't get angry, so she had to stand up and looked at Xuan Tianming and said politely: "Ming'er, did your trip go smoothly?"
Xuan Tianming had no mood to greet her. He just stared at her with interest for a while, then asked in confusion: "What do you call me, my noble lady? Ming'er?" Then he asked Zhang Yuan in confusion: "When did our Dashun change the rules? Can the nobles in the palace call the prince by his name?"
Dashun has a rule that when a prince sees a concubine in the palace, he should call her "mother concubine", but this is limited to concubines, but does not include people like noble ladies. On the other hand, when noble ladies see the prince, they still have to respectfully call him "Your Highness". Yuan Guiren stood here today and openly called Xuan Tianming "Ming'er". Everyone knows that she has been a concubine for more than 20 years and has not changed her way of speaking. But if she violated the ancestral rules, she violated the ancestral rules. No one would consider why she violated it. Now that Xuan Tianming asked about it, Yuan Guiren was stunned for a moment, her legs trembled, and she immediately knelt down again: "Your Majesty, I spoke out of turn."
Emperor Tianwu was still not going to say anything, and poured himself another cup of wine. Seeing that this approach was not feasible, Concubine Yuan quickly said to Xuan Tianming: "Please forgive me, Your Highness the Ninth Prince."
Xuan Tianming nodded and said, "It's good that you know you're wrong." But he didn't ask her to stand up, and continued, "This time when I went south, I met my brother a few times. My brother was very satisfied with the marriage arranged for him by Yuan Guiren. He also asked me to bring a message to you, saying that he would definitely treat Miss Lu well in the future, and would bring his wife to be filial to you. In addition, my brother found a lot of rare items in the south, and asked me to bring them back in advance. Some are for you, and some are for Miss Lu. The things have been placed outside the palace by the servants. When you go back later, the servants will accompany you to send them back to the palace. Well, my brother has conveyed my thoughts on your behalf, and it is not convenient for you to stay here for long, so go back now."
She finished her words quickly, her heart was stabbed, and she was blocked. She immediately drove the people away. Yuan Guiren felt that she was about to spit out a mouthful of blood in her heart, but she tried her best to suppress it. At the same time, she kept thinking in her heart that Feng Jinyuan's "family of three" would definitely show something after arriving in the South Realm, which could help to clear her blocked heart a little. However, no matter how much she tried, she was still blocked. Looking at Xuan Tianming, Feng Yuheng, and Emperor Tianwu who only knew how to eat and drink, Yuan Guiren suddenly felt that she was kneeling here for no reason! How harmonious is that family of three? Why is she kneeling here like a vixen raised by the old man?
Just as she realized that she was a fox spirit, Tianwu said to Xuan Tianming, "This dish is good. Ask the imperial kitchen to make another one later. Bring it to your mother when you go over. She will definitely like it. I remember that there used to be wild vegetables like that in the mountains. Your mother liked them very much. If you have time in the spring next year, go to the mountains and pick some for her to relieve her longing."
Xuan Tianming nodded and said nothing. Feng Yuheng took over the conversation: "Don't worry, Father. It's spring here and wild vegetables will be available in April. Even if Your Highness doesn't have time, Ah Heng will take people to pick them. Then I will tell Mother that this is Father's order. Mother will be happy to hear it."
Tianwu was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, and he kept praising Feng Yuheng for being sensible and likable. The three of them sat around the table, enjoying themselves. Zhang Yuan glanced at Yuan Guiren, walked closer and asked her, "Guiren, why are you kneeling here waiting for something when you're not leaving?"
Concubine Yuan came back to her senses at once, glared at Zhang Yuan fiercely, then kowtowed to Tianwu, without saying a word, and hurried out of the hall.
Outside the Qiankun Palace, the servants Xuan Tianming brought into the palace were waiting there with a bunch of gifts. When they saw Concubine Yuan coming out, they hurried forward to pay their respects, and then followed her silently to the palace. Concubine Yuan actually wanted to throw all these things away, but then she thought, after all, they were bought by her son, so she couldn't bear to throw them away, so she could only swallow her anger and accept them. But after she returned to her own palace, she sat there and felt uncomfortable no matter how she thought about it. Looking at the things brought back from the south, she couldn't throw them away, and they were still an eyesore. Even though she was worried about Fu Ya and the others rushing to the South, she still couldn't swallow the anger.
Yuexiu advised her: "Master, be patient and wait for peace. It will be the New Year in about ten days. His Highness the Eighth Prince is on his way back to the capital. When His Highness returns, everything will be fine."
"Hmph." Concubine Yuan snorted coldly, "What is the situation now? I dare not even send a letter, for fear that something will go wrong along the way. When the New Year comes, the emperor will grant Mo'er and the girl from the Lu family a marriage. When the emperor opens his mouth, how can we reverse it?"
"Master." Yuexiu stepped forward and whispered, "After all, the emperor has to have both parties present to grant the marriage. It's not possible for you to show up and Prime Minister Lu to show up to finalize the matter. Otherwise, the matter would have been finalized at the hunting ground that day. So, if you want to mess up this marriage, or delay it, you have to start from here."
"How do we do it?" Yuan Guiren frowned and said, "Mo'er is already on the road now. Can we ask him to go back the same way? Besides, it's not safe for us to send the letter out. The content of the letter was changed last time. Now who knows how many people are waiting to rob us on the road."
"Master." Yuexiu pulled her gently, "We don't have to target the Eighth Prince! Don't we still have Miss Lu? Why don't we..."
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