Good luck and marriage: marrying the governor of Dongchang

Chapter 148 Overturned

After Shen Haoxuan's second daughter, Shen Qingyue, came back from the palace, Shen Qingwu went directly to her.

"Second sister, you don't know how much our eldest sister is going too far. She slapped her face several times in public today. What's even worse..." Shen Qingwu said angrily while covering her swollen cheeks, "She actually Bewitching Daddy in front of Daddy, telling Daddy not to get too close to Prince Gao of Northern Qi."

Shen Qingwu rolled her eyes and turned away the other maids around her.When there were only the two of them, he lowered his voice to sow discord in Shen Qingyue's ear, "Second Sister, Daddy originally wanted to use Prince Gao as a guest at our house to match you and Prince Gao's marriage. Now because of what Eldest Sister said, Dad has changed his mind. My Second Sister, if you can marry Prince Gao, then you will be the Queen of Northern Qi in the future."

Shen Qingyue has always been smarter than her impatient younger sister.She could guess what kind of medicine was sold in her third sister's gourd.

However, she also heard some bad rumors in the palace this time.

In addition to sending the two princesses to the Northern Qi Dynasty and Xiliang to get married, the emperor in the palace also planned to select a few talented and beautiful women from among the official maidens in the court as the dowry of the two married princesses. To Xiliang and Beiqi.

The Queen's Empress has drawn up a list of dowry women.

She is Nan Tan's number one beauty, so she will leave Nan Tan with her dear princess and marry her as a dowry.

But her third sister was able to marry Princess Zhaode and go to Northern Qi because of her straight temper and lack of intelligence.

Princess Zhaode was born to Concubine Yuan, the younger sister of the Empress Empress, and she is extremely beautiful.

The empress was worried that if she, the number one beauty, married Princess Zhaode as a dowry, Princess Zhaode might fall out of favor in Northern Qi.So he made a fuss on the list, asking her to go to Xiliang with another princess as a dowry.

Xiliang.

How old is the new emperor of Xiliang, and his harem doesn't need to choose a concubine yet.

Lu Huaiqi, the actual ruler of Xiliang, was rumored to be a fake eunuch.However, even if he is a real eunuch, the woman he loves the most is his wife who just died, and it is impossible for him to bring Nan Tan's princess and dowry daughter into the backyard of the Dudu's mansion.

Excluding these two, even if Nan Tan's princess concubine can really go to Xiliang, she will at most be randomly assigned an idle prince to be the princess.And her status as a dowry girl can only be the prince's concubine.

How could this make her happy?

Shen Qingyue's dense eyelashes blinked and blinked, her eyes only glanced at Shen Qingwu's face, she already had a decision in her heart.

"Third Sister, I will go and persuade Daddy." Shen Qingyue replied perfunctorily, not caring about the change of the elder sister Shen Qingli in her heart.

that night.After Shen Qingyue purified herself and burned incense, she sat in front of a piano platform in a white silk brocade long-sleeved robe.Not long after, the melodious and brisk sound of the piano echoed in the backyard.

Shen Qingli went to bed early tonight because of a headache.

She had a dream.She dreamed that a man pressed her between the sheets. In the dream, she opened her eyes wide to see the man's face clearly, but the man's face was always hidden in the dim light.

She couldn't see his face clearly, and was attacked by him again. When she finally sank, she broke free from the dream.

Luo Yi, who was serving her, knew that she was having a nightmare, and hurriedly brought up a sweat towel.Shen Qingli took the sweat towel and wiped off the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.

Vaguely heard the sound of a piano.Luo Yi's mind turned quickly, and seeing that her eldest lady seemed to be paying attention to the sound of the piano, she said to her directly, "Miss, this must be the second lady in the mansion playing the piano. In our mansion, there is only the second lady." I play the piano the best."

Shen Qingli reached out and rubbed her temples. Although she hadn't met her second sister yet, listening to the sound of the piano, she felt extremely speechless towards her.

Anyone with a little bit of brain can guess that she is playing the piano without sleeping at night, the purpose must be...

"Luo Yi, go and close the window." Shen Qingli said, lying sideways on the bed again.

No matter how you say it, Shen Qingyue is also Nan Tan's number one beauty, she must be smarter than Shen Qingwu.But now, she hastily used such a simple method to seduce/lure Prince Gao in the mansion.

Then she might have encountered some kind of problem, which made her have to sacrifice her face and arrogance to fight for a bright future for herself.

Shen Qingli thought about Shen Qingyue's motives, her eyelids sank, and she gradually fell asleep again.

In the dream, she was again held in the arms of a man whose face she couldn't see clearly, asking for it crazily.

The crescent moon in the sky gradually westward.At the east gate of Nantan Capital City, the soldiers guarding the city were dozing off with long wooden guns in their hands, and the sound of hurried hooves came in the night.

The closed city gate was knocked after a while, and the guarding soldiers woke up from their dreams and hurriedly looked down at the city gate.

In the night, under the city gate, a soldier in armor waved the emergency message in his hand, and shouted in a panic, "Open the door! [-] miles away from the border, hurry up!"

The soldiers guarding the city quickly opened the city gate, and the urgent report from eight hundred miles was delivered to the emperor in the palace as quickly as possible.

Officials above the third grade in Nantan were summoned into the palace overnight by the emperor.After everyone arrived, the emperor of Nantan asked the eunuch to circulate the eight hundred miles urgent report from the border.

"You have also seen that Xiliang's army broke through our Yingzhou, Qizhou, and Cangzhou overnight... These three cities are the food warehouses for our entire Nantan. After Xiliang's army broke through these three cities, , they will have food and grass. It seems that the day when they break through the capital is coming soon. Dear dear friends, we, the monarchs and ministers, are united in facing the national calamity. Now tell me, is there any way to relieve the crisis in our Nantan .”

The civil and military officials looked at each other in blank dismay.

In the past, Xiliang, who was still weak and could be beaten by Nantan, is now like a country of tigers and wolves. There are no generals in Nantan who can hinder Xiliang's progress.

The crown prince Taifu Zhou Mu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Xiliang rejected our request for a marriage marriage some time ago. Our envoys are still fighting for it. At this time, it is already a bit difficult to let Xiliang let us go. Impossible. Weichen suggested that it is better at this time...to completely abandon the path of compromising Xiliang and only please Beiqi."

Only to please Bei Qi?
This is helpless, but also sad.

Even if they only please Northern Qi now, Northern Qi and Nantan are separated by hundreds of thousands of miles, when the Northern Qi army sends troops to help Nantan, two-thirds of Nantan's territory may have already fallen into the hands of the Xiliang army.

The whole court, from the emperor down to the civil and military officials, were all silent and had no voice.

This night was destined to be a sleepless night for them.

No one dared to think how long Nan Tan could survive.

After some civil and military officials returned to the mansion, they wanted to let their wives and daughters escape from the capital in disguise before the Xiliang army captured the capital.In such an atmosphere, people in the entire capital are in a state of panic.

After Nantan's emperor heard the news, he issued an edict ordering people to strictly guard the gates of the capital to prevent the female family members of civil and military officials from leaving the city.

Affected by this incident, Shen Qingli, who originally wanted to sell Zhu's dowry and leave the capital, was also affected.

Zhu's dowry can't be sold at a good price, and the two of them can't leave the capital.

Gao Yunzhan approached Shen Haoxuan several times, hoping that Shen Haoxuan could help him get the Tongtian Wall.Aunt Zhang, Shen Qingyue, Shen Qingwu, and others in the mansion were all persuading him, hoping that he would hug Gao Yunzhan's thigh tightly.

In this way, when the capital of Xiliang is destroyed, they will have the possibility to escape.

Shen Haoxuan didn't listen to what they heard this time, and kept looking for excuses to hang on to Gao Yunzhan.

Gao Yunzhan is not a fool either, he saw Shen Haoxuan's perfunctory.Fortunately, there was another battle report from the front line saying that Xiliang's army had overwhelmed the border and captured two cities in a row within a few days. Nan Tan was already on the verge of subjugation.

Gao Yunzhan took advantage of the fire to rob, and when he returned to the palace, he simply abandoned the plan to ask Shen Haoxuan to help get the Tongtian Wall, and directly asked Emperor Nantan to hand them over the Tongtian Wall, and they sent troops to protect Nantan.

After Nantan's emperor hesitated again and again, he finally had no choice but to agree to Gao Yunzhan's request.

For this reason, the palace also prepared a practice banquet for Gao Yunzhan.

On the night of the practice banquet, the palace was brightly lit, and all court officials, Chinese and military officials were required to bring their female relatives to participate.

When the moon is on the brows, the banquet hall of the entire palace is already full of people, and the fragrance is shining. If it weren't for the army of Xiliang to be stationed hundreds of miles away from Nantan Capital City, people who don't know would think it was What about Nan Tan's celebration banquet?

During the banquet, Nan Tan's emperor raised his wine glass and toasted Gao Yunzhan from afar.

"Prince of the Northern Qi Dynasty, we Nantan will all rely on His Highness the Crown Prince from now on."

Gao Yunzhan didn't pay attention to Nan Tan who was already dying.After hearing what Emperor Nantan said, he only smiled hypocritically, "Since His Majesty Nantan treated Gu with such kindness, Guzi will not insult His Majesty's hospitality. Gu has already repaired a letter and sent it back to Northern Qi. Northern Qi's reinforcements are already on their way to Nantan."

He had indeed written a book for his father, Nan Tan said that it was too small to let Xiliang swallow it all by himself.When their Northern Qi army arrived in Nantan, they would naturally fight against the Xiliang Tribunal.

With Gao Yunzhan's words, Emperor Nantan and the civil and military officials all breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone raised their wine glasses one after another, and cheered with Gao Yunzhan again.

Shen Qingli and other female relatives sat in the banquet of the female relatives.According to Nantan's rules, men and women cannot sit together after the age of seven.But Nantan wanted something from Northern Qi this time, hoping that Gao Yunzhan could take a fancy to Nantan's women who hadn't left the court.

Emperor Nantan said flatteringly, "Prince Gao, you are our distinguished guest from Nantan. Tonight, I have specially prepared some entertaining programs. You can enjoy them, Prince Gao."

After Emperor Nantan's words came to an end, all the beautiful and talented people in the women's family table tried their best to make Gao Yunzhan happy.

Shen Qingli has been sitting quietly in the women's seat, watching those women play all kinds of tricks in order to become Gao Yunzhan's woman.

I feel a little sad.

Although she doesn't like Nan Tan.But when a country is about to be captured by the enemy, the men in this country are helpless, but they push the women out.

Such a country is really sad.

On the other hand, Xiliang... a weak country in the past, under the governance of Lu Huaiqi, who was nine thousand years old, now has a tendency to eat Nantan and become the overlord.

Just as the dinner was about to end, a young eunuch rushed over with an urgent report in his hand.

"Report to the emperor, it's not good. The Xiliang army stationed hundreds of miles away sent someone to hand over the letter of war. It is stated that in five days, all the Xiliang armies will gather together to capture our capital city of Nantan."

Such a news hit the hall, and the lively and noisy atmosphere in the hall disappeared in an instant.

(End of this chapter)