Jiaolan Palace, named after the fragrant trees planted everywhere, is also the largest palace garden in Xiliu Palace.
When it was time for lunch, a group of palace maids and eunuchs serving the meal were blocked outside the door.
Kang Guang, the eunuch in charge of the Jiaolan Palace, said to those people: "The Queen has said that there is no need to pass on the food yet. I am talking to the Sixth Prince inside!"
You all go down first and come back when I call you. "
"But it won't be new after a while," said the head eunuch.
"Replace it when it's stale. Are you dead?" Kang Guang glared at him, "I'm afraid of hitting my head if a leaf falls!
Let me tell you clearly! Even if it's not fresh, I can't blame you. It's not going to leave my eyes soon! "
Inside, Concubine Xian was sitting on a short couch, and the sixth prince Zhu Gan was standing in the middle of the floor.
He clenched his hands into fists, puffed out his chest, and his cheeks could be seen tense from behind.
"Mother, this is my lifelong event! Even if it is the elders who make the decision in the end, can't they ask me what I personally mean?!" the Sixth Prince said sadly and angrily.
The Concubine Xian sighed in frustration, as if she was suffering an unspeakable amount of pain: "Gan'er, I know you don't want to do it.
But you are no longer a child. The queen left me here today and took the initiative to bring up this matter. Do I dare not to continue? "
"What about my father... Where is my father?" The sixth prince was like a drowning man, desperately looking for something to grab.
"The Emperor will not ask questions," Concubine Xian shook her head with difficulty and glanced at her son, her eyes filled with unbearable and helpless expressions, "You are still young after all, and there are some things that you cannot see through at the moment."
"Why? Didn't she also propose to my father that she would give the toad to Gu Ming?" The Sixth Prince said stubbornly, "Didn't my father not agree? Why don't you care about me now?"
"She was not a queen at that time, just a concubine." Concubine Xian patiently explained to her son, "Daxia has always had rules, and the marriage arrangements of the princes are decided by the queen.
The marriages of the princes before you were all planned by the deposed queen, and the emperor did not reject any of them.
Now that the new queen has only been in office for a few months, your marriage is the first marriage she has planned, and you are her own niece.
From what I know about His Majesty, he is somewhat unwilling and will not reject it. Instead, he will safeguard the queen's dignity and take care of the Yao family's face. "
"Their dignity and face are all at stake, should I deserve death?!" The Sixth Prince cried, "Why should I marry such an ugly person? I'm not a businessman. I want to get a big golden toad to attract wealth!"
"Why do you kid speak so freely? What if someone listens to you?" Concubine Xian hurriedly covered his mouth.
"That's what it is!" The Sixth Prince gritted his teeth, "With a flat face and a big mouth, it looks like he is going to eat people at any time. One of the two toad eyes has now been replaced with a dog eye.
With his kind of virtue, beggars and beggars would shy away from him when they see him. If she hadn't looked so scary, she wouldn't have frightened the monkey and scratched one of her eyes! "
"Shut up! Why are you getting more and more outrageous?!" Concubine Xian was so angry that she slapped the Sixth Prince twice, but she did it lightly. "Calm down, my ancestor! You don't know this thing about me?" My heart has already been bruised."
"Concubine, why are the Yao family so bullying?! I am a prince, but I have to suffer this insult!" The sixth prince's fists were clenched white.
"My child! If possible, which mother wouldn't want her son to marry a satisfactory woman?
But we can’t afford to offend the queen, and we can’t afford to offend the Yao family! Our lives are both in their hands!
The rule passed down from Taizu is that princes cannot be crowned kings, and they cannot crown their brothers as kings until the new emperor comes to power.
In the future, the prince will become the emperor, and the queen will be the queen mother. Whether to ban you or not, and where to ban you, is all a matter of words. "
Concubine Xian told her son the greatness of it.
"But...concubine mother..." The sixth prince knew that his mother was right, but he just didn't want to accept Yao Wanyi. "I hate her so much. Even if she is ugly, she is also despicable..."
If the Sixth Prince were asked to rank the women he hated, Yao Wanyi would definitely come out on top.
The second place is far behind her.
He had hated this arrogant, domineering, and ugly woman before, but now he felt sick even more when he thought of her.
Now that the queen wants him to sleep with such a woman, his life will definitely be shortened.
"Good boy, I know I have wronged you! But who told your mother to be incompetent!" Concubine Xian also started crying.
She cried in a low voice and covered her mouth with her handkerchief desperately.
But the more mute and throat-blocking crying, the more sad and painful it seemed.
The sixth prince was a filial child. Seeing his mother so sad, he quickly knelt down and wiped his mother's tears.
Concubine Xian grabbed his hand and begged, "Son, since you were reincarnated into the emperor's family, you are more helpless than a child from a poor family.
I know very well how much the Queen loves her only niece.
If she tried her best not to, she wouldn't force it, but the follow-up would never make things easier for you and me, mother and son.
Can't you see how cruel she is and how domineering the Yao family is?
My son, you are the only piece of flesh I have in this life.
Besides, you also know my temperament. I have always been aloof from the world. I just wish you a safe and smooth life, and I can close my eyes.
No matter how bad this daughter of the Yao family is, if you marry her, you will have a gold-encrusted amulet.
Today, the Queen told me that if you don't want to, you will be sent to the border.
The Huns and the Han people have been fighting for years, and you are a prince. If you are captured, you will only be held as a hostage. You and I will never see each other again in this life. "
"Mother, I understand what you are saying, and I don't want you to worry.
But I...but I...I really want to vomit when I think about her. "The sixth prince looked in pain and pressed his hand on his chest, as if he was trying his best to endure it.
"Mother knows, mother knows. But if you don't bear it, you will suffer disaster.
I don’t think the daughter of the Yao family is born with three heads and six arms. She is domineering, and she needs to abide by the rules of womanhood when she gets married. "Xian Fei tried her best to comfort her son.
"Mom, do I really have to agree to this marriage?" The sixth prince still refused to give up.
"Son, stop having extravagant hopes and accept your fate!" Concubine Xian held her son's face, tears welling up in her eyes, "You have to remember, the word "tolerance" has a knife on your head. From now on, don't show your love in front of outsiders. I am not even half-reluctant about this marriage.
You have to remember that the Queen is not forcing you, and the Yao family is not forcing you. Only I forced you.
If you are resentful or hateful, then only resent me! "
The sixth prince hugged his mother tightly, a painful cry coming from his chest.
It was sunny outside the window, and it was a rare good weather.
(End of chapter)
