Chapter 235 Sudden Alert
Jiang Xinyue lowered her head shyly and smiled faintly, but she complained in her heart: Nonsense, it is a recognized fact that I am beautiful, do I need you to be here?
Cheng Daying is also beautiful, butterflies will dance around her!
Emperor Xuanwu touched his nose with a guilty conscience. He listened to Liu Daying and Cheng Daying playing songs in Xuanchu Xiu Palace several times in the past two days, and he didn't know if Yue'er was angry.
But this time, Cheng Daying's father and Jiang Yanxi found evidence that several officials under the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi were corrupt and took bribes and took human lives lightly.
According to the letter written by Jiang Yanxi, it was also said that it was thanks to Mr. Cheng's repeated rescue that Jiang Yanxi was able to smoothly embark on the journey back to Beijing.
If Cheng Shiting is really a good official who serves the country and the people, the court should also use him.
"Thank you, painter, please paint for me and the imperial concubine!"
Cheng agreed to this, but the emperor hadn't figured out how to start. Deep down in his heart, he still had the arrogance of an emperor. He felt that he was the king of a country and didn't have to look at other people's faces in everything.
Even if that person was the one he loved deeply.
Jiang Xinyue once said that she could accept that Emperor Xuanwu's body did not belong to her completely, but she must be the only one in her heart.
He didn't listen to much else, but he remembered this sentence more firmly than anything else. As
Xie Chenghui painted, his delicate eyebrows wrinkled. A good painter can feel the emotions of flowers, birds, insects and fish, and naturally can feel people's emotions better.
Why did he feel that... there was a kind of false intimacy between the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine?
Was it because he was too focused on painting that he saw it wrong?
"Thank you, painter?"
Emperor Xuanwu noticed his pause: "What's wrong?"
Xie Chenghui immediately came to his senses and apologized: "Maybe I just painted the portraits of the Emperor and Empress Xiaoxian Xuanwen, and I am a little tired. Please forgive me, Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine."
The emperor paused and said: "I am not considerate enough. I should have let you rest. That's all for today. Thank you, painter, come back tomorrow to paint portraits for me and the Imperial Concubine!"
Xie Chenghui didn't even look at Jiang Xinyue, lowered his head, and retreated respectfully.
The painting of the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine, which had only been started, was hung in the most conspicuous place in Chengqian Palace.
Jiang Xinyue turned her head to look at the Emperor. The Emperor hugged her from behind and rested his chin on her head: "I have asked people to send the portraits of me and the Empress to the Imperial Temple. The tablet of the Empress is also enshrined in the Imperial Temple."
He is an emperor in the human world. It is natural for him to enjoy the incense of the human world and he is not shy about it.
But isn't the golden crown of the Imperial Concubine a little too sharp?
It poked his chin and hurt.
Seeing Jiang Xinyue's puzzled look, Emperor Xuanwu pointed to the wall where their portraits were hung and said: "I asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to frame it specially. It is just right to frame our portraits. I want to put it in the most conspicuous place and look at it all the time."
Why?
When you and Cheng Dengying were being affectionate, you also wanted me, a pure little girl, to watch?
Jiang Xinyue changed the subject and looked at the lines drawn by Xie Chenghui: "Is painter Xie really that good? How come I can't tell?"
Just two or three strokes, what can you tell?
Oh!
You can tell that painter Xie is indeed very handsome. No wonder Concubine Yu paid special attention to what clothes he wore at the funeral of the Empress.
I don't know if he has proposed marriage yet. I will investigate his character. If he has all the conditions, I can introduce him to a partner.
She remembered that Jiang Xinyan was already fifteen years old this year, and it was time to propose marriage.
Emperor Xuanwu thought she was just curious about why he valued Xie Chenghui so much, and patted her little... It was not convenient to pat her head because of the big golden crown of the imperial concubine, so he patted Jiang Xinyue's little face instead: "Painter Xie is the legitimate son of Xie Bing, the first-rank scholar of the Hanlin Academy. He has been known as a child prodigy since he was a child. If he hadn't been studying abroad for many years and was obsessed with painting, I would have wanted to marry the eldest princess to him." The
eldest princess is twelve years old this year. Princesses in the royal family get engaged early, and it is common to arrange marriages first and then get married when they reach the age of college.
It turns out that Emperor Xuanwu has always regarded painter Xie as his son-in-law.
No wonder he likes him more and more.
"Why didn't the emperor let the eldest princess marry him later?"
"Everything should be done in moderation. If you like something to the extreme, it will hurt yourself. He is obsessed with painting and will ignore Yu'er's feelings. My daughter is a princess and has never been wronged in the palace. I will not allow her to swallow her anger after getting married."
After listening to this, Jiang Xinyue smiled and said, "The emperor is such a good father."
It's not a compliment, it's sincere.
But there is a sentence here that made Jiang Xinyue suddenly alert. The emperor said: If you like something to the extreme, it will hurt yourself.
He is too sober. He knows clearly that even if you like a person, love a person, you have to be reserved and can't give your heart 100%. He
still has reservations towards her.
Such a sober emperor is just playing the game of love with her, and he may not really love her.
Perhaps Emperor Xuanwu was also very conflicted. He wanted to love her, but he reminded himself all the time that he should not love her to the point of losing himself.
If things did not meet his expectations, he should not look for the reasons in himself, but should think about whether there were problems with others?
It was all because the dog emperor was too defensive. Her psychological strategy was only half successful.
Emperor Xuanwu, who just blurted out and spoke out of his feelings, and did not know what he said wrong, let her go: "I have approved all the memorials today. There are several new albizzia trees and roses in the Yu Garden. Yue'er, come with me for a walk?" The emperor
sent her a date request, and Jiang Xinyue, who vowed not to give up until she achieved her goal, of course agreed.
The Yu Garden has been extremely beautiful recently. It's not just the flowers that are beautiful, but also those charming little beauties who compete with the flowers for beauty.
Jiang Xinyue turned around and said to Xi Que, "Go back to the palace and ask Nanny Xiang to bring the Sixth Prince out to breathe some fresh air."
If the emperor wasn't there, Jiang Xinyue wouldn't bring such a young baby out.
She might run into some confused people who would beat the old teacher to death.
If she couldn't ensure the Sixth Prince's safety, it would be safer to keep him in Hexi Palace.
With the emperor here today, she wasn't afraid.
Who dares to attack the Sixth Prince unless her entire family is ready to die?
Nanny Xiang quickly brought Nanny Lu and the Sixth Prince to Chengqian Palace. When Emperor Xuanwu saw that his most beloved little prince was growing fairer and cuter, he couldn't help but take the child into his hands.
The scene of the family of three walking to the Yu Garden looked warm and harmonious.
Hidden under this tranquility was the colorful struggle among the concubines in the harem.
"Cheng Nianhe, the emperor likes me. What's the point of you playing the piano here all day to attract butterflies? If you don't leave, be careful that I will smash your piano."
The woman's angry voice came, and it was a little familiar.