Chapter 101 The Emperor's Thoughts
After Wen Yao realized what was happening, she was about to explode.
The eldest princess who had been watching silently suddenly spoke up: "I think Xiaoman is right, is the second young lady of the Wen family not well brought up?
Anyway, in our royal family, no princess can openly say that her sisters are not good in front of outsiders.
If you were heard, you wouldn't be able to avoid a scolding from the governess, not to mention a slap in the face, not to mention your mother's take action. ”
This statement was basically a slap in the face to Wen Yao. How could a girl who was directly criticized by the royal princess for having bad upbringing hold her head up high in the capital?
Wen Yao's eyes were red, she covered her red face and cried, "Every word I said was the truth, I don't know how I made the princess and the county lord angry, does telling the truth mean I have bad upbringing?
My parents certainly never taught me how to lie! ”
After she finished speaking, she covered her face and ran away crying, as if she had suffered a great injustice and insult.
The emperor has been paying attention to the movements of the female guests since the beginning.
King Qi, who had just shown no interest in Gu Chenran's affairs, clenched his fists in concern when he saw Wen Yao crying and running away from the crowd.
He could no longer sit still, so he stood up and bowed to the emperor and said goodbye: "Father, I have something urgent to do and need to leave early. I hope you will forgive me."
The emperor looked at Prince Qi with a subtle look and nodded slowly: "Go."
The King of Qi left in a hurry in full view of everyone and followed the direction of Wen Yao.
Is this still the King of Qi who is always known for his maturity and stability? Everyone was a little stunned.
The third prince, Gu Xuanwei, joined in the fun and spoke up again: "It seems that not only the Princess of Chen is amazing, but also the daughters of Minister Wen are amazing. Seeing how worried my second brother is, how come I didn't know when he would become so caring?"
The emperor finally couldn't help but speak at this time. He glanced at Gu Xuanwei and said, "Wei'er, why are you staring at others today? What's the matter? I saw that your second brother and fourth brother both have lovers. Do you also want your father to find one for you?"
Gu Xuanwei quickly admitted his mistake: "No, no, no, please let me go, father. I just want to complete the government affairs that you have assigned to me. I don't have any other thoughts at all."
The emperor snorted coldly: "Seeing you look so leisurely, I want to see if you have made any progress in this year's imperial hunting. If you come in last again, you will see how I will laugh at you!"
After being scolded, Gu Xuanwei touched the back of his head and smiled foolishly, as if he was used to being scolded by the emperor.
This actually also indirectly reflects the close relationship between him and the emperor.
The children that the emperor occasionally cares about may not be the ones he likes, but the ones that he often scolds must be the children that he is close to and willing to discipline.
This is the cleverness of this emperor. He has a total of nine princes of similar ages, and he knows that they are secretly engaging in factional struggles and want to seize the throne.
But he was able to treat everyone equally in his emotions. He even made a disabled and insane prince like Gu Chenran a king. It was impossible to tell which son he favored more.
In this case, if the princes want to become the crown prince, they must work hard, show their real talents and knowledge, and make some achievements.
After this interruption, no one on the emperor's side mentioned the matter of the female guests anymore.
It turns out that where there are many women, there are many troubles!
As for the female guests, everyone saw the King of Qi chasing after Wen Yao who was running away crying.
No one can afford to offend the eldest princess Mingzhu, and no one can afford to offend Prince Qi Wen Yao even more.
The Ninth Princess took the initiative to talk about other topics, and the matter was just lightly covered.
Everyone continued to pay attention to the warm-up matches that followed.
Xiaoman, however, was not interested in the warm-up match. She sat next to Wen Ling and chatted intimately. It seemed like she had endless things to ask Wen Ling.
The wives of Marquis Pingyang and Marquis Zhennan also moved their seats to Wen Ling's side. They were happy to be close to Wen Ling. Later, they started chatting with the eldest princess and found that the three of them had a lot of common topics.
Wen Ling, who was laughed at as stupid by the whole capital two months ago, now has a fixed circle.
But there are still people who dislike Wen Ling. In addition to Wen Yao, the Eighth Princess is also one of them.
The eighth princess's husband is the top scholar in the last imperial examination. He is slightly plump, with ordinary features except for a pair of round eyes and a few scattered red pimples on his face. It is normal to have acne at this age. Even if others compliment her, they can only praise her for being delicate and cute. After all, if they compliment her any more, it would be a bit of a giveaway.
There would be nothing wrong with such appearance on ordinary people, but she chose the third place winner who was more handsome than Pan An as her husband.
Compared with the third place winner of the imperial examination, whose appearance is comparable to that of a woman, the eighth princess’s appearance is really a bit disappointing.
Perhaps because of this, the Eighth Princess attached great importance to the Tanhua Lang, to the point of being a little worried about his success or failure.
Whenever the third place winner in the imperial examination looked at a young lady for a second longer than usual outside, the Eighth Princess would make a scene when she got home. This was something that almost the entire capital knew.
No one dared to discuss it openly, but there were many jokes behind the scenes.
The Eighth Princess had no grudge against Wen Ling, but at the birthday banquet of Marquis Pingyang's wife last time, she noticed that her husband's eyes were always on Wen Ling.
That look was extremely complicated, something the Eighth Princess had never seen in her husband before.
She knew that this matter was not simple and was investigating it secretly.
Sure enough, she found some clues and finally learned from Wen Yao that when the prince consort was bullied and fell into the water when he first arrived in the capital, he was rescued by Wen Ling.
Wen Yao said that Wen Ling told this matter when she returned home and that a man would come to marry her soon.
Later, Wen Ling even came to block the prince consort on his way, and after being rejected, she cried and chased him for a long distance.
The Eighth Princess kept this incident in mind from then on. She finally understood why the Prince Consort had such a complicated expression when he looked at Wen Ling that day.
Wen Ling also noticed that the Eighth Princess had been staring at her, her eyes full of scrutiny and inquiry.
Wen Ling asked Ting Yin in a low voice: "Who is she? Has she been staring at me since just now?"
Tingyin whispered back, "Madam, she is the Eighth Princess, the ungrateful man you saved in the cold winter, the princess you married after he won the third place in the imperial examination.
She has been staring at you. She must know about what happened between you and that ungrateful bastard! ”
Tingyin was very worried and quietly moved her position to block the Eighth Princess's sight: "Madam, we should be careful. I'm afraid the person who comes here has bad intentions! She is a legitimate princess. It's better not to provoke her if we can!"
Wen Ling said, "But from the look of the Eighth Princess, she doesn't look that petty. She shouldn't do anything unreasonable, right?"
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