Chapter 354 I don’t seek status, nor will I compete with the prince for favor
"What word?"
Xie Zan came over and his face darkened.
Xie Guanlan patted his shoulder with a half-smile and replied, "Third brother, work hard. With your looks, you can be a principal wife."
Xie Zan: “…”
Song Zheng was right, his elder brother was a sharp-tongued and vengeful person!
At this time, Lin'an Prefecture.
Wen Xingluo has walked out of the shadow of his mother's departure. He has been eating actively these days and taking a walk in the mansion from time to time as instructed by the doctor. Every time he walks on the osmanthus path under the warm autumn sun, his heart is unexpectedly gentle and soft.
She was thin, so her pregnancy wasn't showing yet, but she could still feel the baby's presence.
What the mother said seemed to come true. The child loved her very much and never bothered her.
She walked along the bluestone bricks for a while and unknowingly came to an elegant and quiet study.
She pushed the door open and walked in. The study was decorated in a simple and solemn style. There were many paintings hanging on the walls. She looked at them one by one. They were all calligraphy and paintings from the Wei Dynasty.
She had learned how to appreciate calligraphy and paintings when she was studying at Baihe Academy. After carefully examining a few of them, she discovered that they were all authentic.
I heard that Xie Zhe destroyed a lot of calligraphy and paintings from the Wei Dynasty in the early years of his reign. It is hard to believe that the owner of this study had collected and preserved so many calligraphy and paintings from the Wei Dynasty.
The most eye-catching calligraphy and painting among them is a painting called "A Picture of the Country and the People".
Wen Xingluo recognized the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas on the map. This was a map of counties and prefectures from the Wei Dynasty.
She walked through the bookshelves. In addition to the history books of the Wei Dynasty, there were also some court documents from the end of the Wei Dynasty. They were preserved in such a perfect and neat manner that it was amazing.
After passing through the moon-shaped door with carved patterns and walking further inside, Wen Xingluo was stunned.
The inner room was arranged as a ancestral hall.
There are more than thirty tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall. The owner cleaned it very cleanly and meticulously, and the tablets are spotless. There are also several plates of the freshest fruits and flower cakes in front of the spirits.
"The tablet of the King of Wei..."
Wen Xingluo's eyes swept over the names one by one, and he murmured softly.
Strictly speaking, the owners of these tablets were her ancestors. She hesitated for a moment, but still obediently lit a stick of incense for them.
A tall and thin figure suddenly appeared behind her.
Pei Lin stood sideways, her fair face adorned with a cinnabar teardrop mole, making her look exceptionally beautiful in the dim shadows. "What are you doing here?"
Wen Xingluo turned around and asked, "Is this your study?"
"Yes." Pei Lin did not shy away from the question, "Although I allow you to move freely in the mansion, it does not mean that you can enter my study. This is the last time."
Wen Xingluo looked at him.
After a while, she suddenly asked, "Pei Lin, how old are you?"
Pei Lin narrowed his eyes.
Although he didn't know what Wen Xingluo was planning, he still replied cautiously, "Eighteen years old. Why?"
Wen Xingluo was stunned.
Seeing that Pei Lin acted ruthlessly and experienced, she thought he should be in his twenties, but his face looked young and tender. She didn't expect that his actual age was only eighteen.
After a long silence, she said, "Aren't you tired of carrying eighteen years of hatred? When my fourth brother was your age, he wanted to go out and play all day long."
The sympathy and pity in the girl's eyes were too obvious.
Pei Lin was not happy.
He turned his back and looked up at the central painting, "River and Mountain, State and Society." "The Pei family lived for the Great Wei, and shall die for the Great Wei. The only meaning of my life in this world is to restore my homeland. Otherwise, Pei Lin would rather die."
The young man was wearing a dark green brocade robe with narrow sleeves, and he stood straight with a solemn and cold demeanor.
He stood quietly in the shadow in front of the screen, like the old and faded Xiangfei bamboo in the ancient painting of the Wei Dynasty. He was obviously young and tender, but also looked like a shadow accidentally left behind by the previous dynasty - stubborn and lonely, unable to stand the light.
Wen Xingluo was speechless.
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The banquet for selecting the emperor's husband is in full swing.
Wei Ying took Wen Xingluo to the front yard and lay on the high wall to watch the fun.
She pushed aside the branches in front of her and said, "I heard that Xie Guanlan has entered Lin'an City. Let's find out where he is."
Wei Ying was still looking, but Wen Xingluo saw the man at a glance through the crowd of young people.
At this time, the men who came to participate in the draft gathered in the courtyard, and the steward distributed them scarlet brocade robes of uniform style according to their sizes.
Someone curiously asked the steward, "Why do we have to wear red clothes?"
The steward replied, "The Empress doesn't mind the color, but the Princess likes crimson clothes, so Imperial Master Pei specifically ordered you all to wear crimson."
Holding up the new clothes, one person excitedly said, "I'm sorry, brothers, it looks like I've won this first round. You probably don't know yet, but I look especially graceful in a scarlet dress!"
Xie Zan stood nearby with his arms folded, and asked curiously, "Who is this person? He looks familiar."
Xie Guanlan stared at the man, suppressing his anger, "Chen Yu."
When Shen Yu saw Xie Guanlan, he was frightened like a mouse seeing a cat.
He walked over holding Feiyi and bowed awkwardly, "My Lord..."
Xie Guanlan's forehead was throbbing with veins. "Why are you here?"
"My father asked me to come..." Chen Yu stammered, "My father said that as long as I serve the princess well, all the Shu brocade business in the Jiangnan area will belong to our family in the future..."
Xie Guanlan laughed angrily.
After a moment, he took a deep breath.
He was a man who could remain calm even in the face of a crisis, but he actually lost his composure in front of Shen Yu.
He pursed his lips, then took the red dress from Chen Yu's arms and tore it into rags in public bit by bit.
Chen Yu: “…”
He looked at the mess on the ground, and was shocked and felt aggrieved. He wanted to cry but didn't dare.
He looked at Xie Guanlan timidly, "What do you mean, my lord? You won't allow me to participate in the selection? But I don't seek any status, and I won't compete for your favor. I... I just want to serve the princess..."
At the end of the words, facing Xie Guanlan's increasingly out-of-control cold gaze, Shen Yu even trembled with fear at the end of his voice.
Xie Guanlan shifted his gaze away from him and glanced at the men around who were watching the excitement.
accurate.
Very unhappy.
From childhood to adulthood, he had never felt such jealousy and bitterness as he did at this moment.
He wanted to drive these men out and keep them all away from his Ningning.
Compared to him, what are they?!
Someone spoke up for Chen Yu and said, "You're really bullying me! They say the talent show is a fair competition. How could you deliberately ruin someone's new clothes? Are you going to let them participate in the talent show?! If I were you, a jealous person like you should be removed from the talent show list! What's the point of being good-looking? After all, you're just a narrow-minded jealous husband. Unlike me, I can tolerate my princess taking twenty imperial husbands at the same time!"
"Yes, remove him!"
Others echoed.
Xie Zan looked at his elder brother, raised his eyebrows, and took a few steps back calmly.
The man became more and more excited as he spoke, "I'll report this to Master Pei and have him remove you from the list!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked backwards with a sweeping kick!
The man screamed and knocked down several people who were causing trouble. The other men all fell silent, then glared at Xie Guanlan and attacked him together without any prior agreement.
Xie Guanlan's expression remained normal, and there was even a hint of sneer on his thin lips.
But in just a moment, a large number of people fell down in the yard, wailing.
Xie Guanlan brushed off his crimson robe and raised his eyes slowly and indifferently. "I'm new here and don't know the rules of Jiangnan. If I was a little heavy-handed, I hope you will forgive me. Also, although this selection hasn't officially begun, both the first place and the princess title belong to me alone. Do you have any objections?"
Everyone: “…”
Can they really object?
And if I heard correctly, he just called himself "Mr. Xie".
Everyone looked at him in fear.
Could it be that this young man before him is the renowned Commander Xie from the north?!
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