Foster son and husband

Chapter 302 Fanwai: Choice
In the imperial palace of the capital, the prince was very excited when he first heard the news that Ah Heng said that Meiyi was not dead and was rescued to the south of the Yangtze River. As if cold frost was covering his head, his lips were blue, he stood there for a long time, and said sadly:

"It was me, I killed her!"

Ah Heng shook his head: "It's her fate! But it's not bad. I met our family friend, that man is Xia Lin, who is good at medicine. Now I have taken her to Lingnan to find medicine, and I have to do my best to cure her!"

The prince murmured softly: "Xia Lin—what kind of person? He is luckier than me!"

"His Royal Highness, have you ever heard of Lingxuzi?"

"I heard from my mother that she was also called Xia Xueyuan, and she and Zhang Jingyun waited for me when I was born!"

"Xia Lin is Xia Xueyuan's eldest son! He went to Mao County to buy medicinal materials, and when he returned to the pier, he met an injured Meiyi, and brought him aboard a merchant ship. Uncle Xia only found out after returning home that he looked like a child of my Xu family."

The prince sighed: "Then I don't worry. It's better to be in Xia's house in Jiangnan than other people who don't know the details. I don't know how the kindness hurts. I hope they can cure her completely!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, Uncle Xia's medical skills are comparable to Uncle Jingyun's!"

When I returned to the Eastern Palace in the evening, the Crown Princess Sun Meifu had already stood at the door to greet her, and said politely: "Greetings to His Highness the Crown Prince! I have made the cod fish soup that His Highness loves, please..."

The prince said coldly: "The princess has a heart, but who told you that this palace likes to drink this soup?"

"Yes—the son of Duke Rong!"

"Ask him? You are capable! But you sold him in a blink of an eye, what else can you know in the future? I might as well tell you: I have never liked fish soup. That’s because someone told Ben Gong that it was very, very delicious, but Ben Gong was fooled and drank a small bowl. After that, I will drink fish soup, unless it is served by her, otherwise I will not drink it!”

The princess's face was pale, and she couldn't help blurting out: "Who is she?"

The prince was so sad when he thought of the past, he didn't pay attention to the abnormality of the princess, the word "Xu Meiyi" was swallowed by him - these women in the palace, including his mother, thought that Meiyi was dead, and he deliberately let them Knowing that she is not dead makes them think that one day she will come back, as long as she returns to the capital, it is possible to enter the palace and get everything they want!After thinking about it, why bother to use her as an example to make her feel uneasy even in the distance?Let her go, as long as she lives well, I will never bother her again!
Turning to look at the crown princess, she suddenly showed a gentle smile: "It's the side concubine Ling Bingyu——Yu'er's soup is not very good, but she is very good at telling jokes. As soon as I hear her tell a joke, I am willing to drink her soup !"

The crown princess watched the prince walk away, with no special expression on her face, but her hands in the sleeves were clenched into fists, and her nails were deeply dug into the flesh: So the prince has always lived in Ling Bingyu's room these days!Before Chen Lanyan reached Ji, the crown prince would not go to her place. Since their wedding, the empress and empress dowagers have sent teaching nuns in turn to remind the crown prince to spend the night in the rooms of the crown prince and side concubine Ling. The crown prince was very obedient and persisted for a month, but suddenly ignored her. Nummies, the nuns in the Queen's Palace were even scolded by him for not coming to her room because they were busy with government affairs. She was a little uneasy and went to ask the Queen for advice. The Queen said that the Prince is really busy recently. He has a gentle temperament and a soft heart , You have to take the initiative to approach him and care about him more, and he will come.She found a name to get close to the prince every day, and kept sending them delicious food and drinks, but the prince was really busy, and he couldn't get close to him from time to time. Yue, the crown prince went to Concubine Ling's place... This vixen, who usually has a stern face, can't tell that she is so calculating inside!
The prince is really tired of the concubine's tiredness, he can still treat her as a decoration when he sits there honestly, and always walks around him when he gets close, saying that she is a lingering soul and can't feel the lightness, It was like a lump of thick and heavy mud, which could not be shaken off even if it was wrapped around the body.

That's right, sharing the bed with her is that feeling, tired and disgusting. After a month of marriage, I slept in her room for more than ten nights under the pressure of my mother. Every time I woke up, I was haunted by her. During the day, I was dignified. It's not flattering for a demure person to sleep, he doesn't care if he sleeps sideways or vertically, he is most afraid that her chubby thighs will reach his chest, otherwise she will hug him tightly like a pillow, and in the end she will simply hug him. Push him out of bed, and after that time he will use this as an excuse not to go to her room again.

In fact, there was only one time to actually touch her, that was on the wedding night, and seeing the blood on the Yuan handkerchief was considered a major event.

He knew clearly in his heart that the reason for the sudden change of candidate for the crown princess was because of his mother who had put him on top of his heart since he was a child, so he could hold back and keep silent, but what happened to the queen mother? It's too unreliable!
Of the two side concubines from the Chen family, one was not as good as Ji, which reminded him of the promise he made to Meiyi: get married first, and then perform the conjugal ceremony after reaching Ji.He also took care of this cousin of the Chen family.That Ling Bingyu was even more ridiculous, she didn't say a few words, she went to bed and took off her clothes three or two times, and then took off his clothes, he struggled for a long time at first, but then he felt that she was more real than the Crown Princess, without hypocrisy, don't tell me Sweet talk is another kind of honesty, right?
In short, it was all meaningless and extremely boring. Later, when he overheard the quarrel between Meijuan and Jinling King, his inner grief and pain became more intense, and his resentment towards his mother and concubines and concubines became more profound.

The friendship between the royal father and Xu Hou is obvious to all, as the son of heaven, he only pays a little attention to the children of the Xu family, has seen the fierceness of good intentions, and is unwilling to impose the royal will on the beautiful family—the second prince Lin'an Wang Zhao Fan secretly Like Meiyi sisters, Meiyi disappears, and instead seeks to marry Meijuan, the emperor knows that the fifth prince Jinling King also likes Meijuan, so Xu Hou asked her daughter who she would like to marry, and let her make the decision.The King of Jinling was not angry, and as soon as he saw Meijuan entered the palace, he arrested him to threaten and lure him. As a result, Meijuan told him that he would marry King Lin'an, and King Jinling was hit hard. The two quarreled in the rock cave in the imperial garden. Remembering the good intentions in the cave, I can hear it clearly.

The King of Jinling was almost shouting: "Why did you choose him? You clearly know that I am the one who cares about you the most! For you I am willing to do anything, practice hard and study poetry, books, classics and history... A long time ago, the prince secretly said to Meiyi I said that sentence, but I said it in front of you and everyone - I like you!"

"Will that work? Now the crown prince is marrying the beauty of the Sun family. Where is the good intention? Only foolish women believe in sweet words. I didn't promise you anything!"

Meijuan's voice was soft and gentle, as if she was talking about something unrelated to herself: "I said something at that time, you may not remember it, because you only think that your own wishes are supreme, and you don't care about other people's wishes at all. idea!"

"It's not like that, Meijuan, I, I really didn't hear what you said!"

"Then you can't mention anything about the past to me today!"

"Meijuan, you are too domineering!"

"Little girl dare not! Please forgive me, Your Highness!"

There was silence, and then the King of Jinling compromised: "Okay, I remembered, you said at that time: Don't marry a royal family!"

"Under the whole world, don't be the land of the king, and the shore of the land, don't be the subject of the king! As a courtier's daughter, how dare the little girl say such a thing? If your highness wants to ask a crime, just ask, why bother to trap the little girl in injustice?"

"Meijuan, stop pretending!"

"I don't want to pretend, it's you who are entangled with me! If you don't obey the emperor's order, you will die. I have decided now, and I will marry the second prince!"

"Give me a reason!"

"It's simple: he was not born to a queen!"

"It's too simple, make it clear!"

"Do you want me to die? This is the palace!"

"Don't worry, this is my forbidden place—me and the prince's. This fake stone cave has a stone gate. No one knows about it. Our brothers accidentally found out. My guards are guarding the outside, so no one can come in!"

"Well, you asked me to say: Meiyi and I are twin girls, she died because of the prince, how can I marry you again? Meiyi has always wanted to marry the prince, and spend the rest of her life with him. There are more concubines who will abandon her because of her old age, but she is not afraid of these, she said that she has no regrets if she has loved! But now she has no chance to love, the queen used her, and cruelly Abandon her aside, do you know how the queen did it? In order to convince the emperor that good intentions are not suitable for the prince, and Meifu is a good match, she took your cousins ​​from the Chen family and the Sun family to act and did three bad things to frame Good intentions! These are what I saw with my own eyes. I don’t believe the prince didn’t notice it. The queen is the mother. It’s right to respect and support the mother. It’s bound to hurt the good intentions. Family affection should always come first. I understand this, so I understand this No complaints! I can only blame my sisters for being stupid, but I don’t want to do such a stupid thing—do you like your cousin Meiling? She is the real princess appointed by the queen for you. If I promise to marry you, the next The one who will die is me—maybe it will be worse, because I don't want to commit suicide, the queen will ask someone to kill me!"

"You! Xu Meijuan!"

The King of Jinling was angry and laughed: "You can die for the prince if you are kind, why can't you die for me?"

"Because it's not worth it!"

The usually elegant and courteous Meijuan is cold and arrogant and contemptuous: "Meiyi loves the prince, do I love you? To be honest, if Meiyi doesn't die, I will also run away from home. It's so boring to marry properly. I like a free life. Like Uncle Jingyun, Song Hegege, you can do whatever you want, go wherever you want, it’s great! But the Xu family has lost face once, lost a daughter, and my parents can’t bear it if the same thing happens again , so I endured it, life is only a few dozen years, live it!"

The King of Jinling was serious: "Meijuan, Second Emperor Brother is not good enough for you, you change it, choose me!"

"You really flatter me, I am not worthy of him!"

"No, you are the best! I may not be worthy of you, but I will do my best to love you and protect you! I am not a prince. A prince is born to shoulder a heavy burden. He can't be willful. I can! What do you want to do, you have to live I agree to any kind of life! I can contribute and even sacrifice my life for the sake of the country, but it is impossible for anyone who wants to change my destiny and meddle in my life!"

King Jinling's coercion, confession, and even public entanglement were of no use to Meijuan. Meijuan knelt in front of the queen and said that she would marry Lin'an King. After getting married, it is time to hold a wedding for the second prince, King Lin'an.

As soon as the news came out, King Jinling rushed into Kunning Palace, carried the beautiful family members back to his Chenxu Palace in front of the Queen, and shut the two of them into the bedroom and closed the doors and windows. King Lin'an was furious when he heard the news , rushed over, kicked the door away, King Jinling and Meijuan sat on the bed, Meijuan saw King Lin'an, her eyes lit up, and she yelled softly:
"Second Highness, save me!"

King Lin'an's eyes were red, and he drew his sword and slashed forward. The two brothers met each other with swords and guns. The tall and burly King of Jinling was blocked by him twice, and he kicked out the door. By chance, the emperor, empress, and concubine Jing arrived, and after seeing them all, the emperor was furious, the empress was shocked, and concubine Jing shouted:
"Second Highness!"

He rushed forward and held down the second prince who was crying so hard that the emperor was so angry that he sternly ordered the guards to tie up King Jinling, lock him up first, and strictly ordered that he would not be given food or drink until he was dealt with.

The queen panicked, and knelt down in front of the furious emperor to beg for mercy for her youngest son. The emperor looked at King Lin'an who was lying on the ground, unable to get up, and Concubine Jing, who was crying pear blossoms raining down, and snorted coldly: "You should call the imperial physician first, Look at where Fan'er is hurt. Don't worry, they are all my sons, and I will deal with them fairly—whose fault is, how should be punished, and I will never be lenient!"

The emperor left, and the king of Jinling was also escorted away by the guards. The queen called for the imperial doctor and followed to see where the guards were going to lock the king. Concubine Jing saw that the queen didn't care about her mother and child, she gritted her teeth and told people to arrest him. The son was carried back to his own palace for nursing, and the courtyard quickly calmed down. Then Meijuan walked out of the room, patted his chest with a pale face, and looked dumbfounded, trying to avoid the busy maids of Xuchen Palace She slipped away, but found that two eunuchs who usually followed the King of Jinling were following her closely. Meijuan stopped and asked:

"What are you two father-in-law doing with me?"

A young eunuch bowed and said, "Miss Meijuan is a member of King Jinling, we have to protect you and send you home safely!"

Meijuan changed color and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? You can't bear the crime of ruining my reputation!"

The little eunuch bowed his head: "The King of Jinling said that we are only following orders, please understand Miss Meijuan!"

Why can't Meijuan see the fifth prince Zhao Hua's thoughts on her?Unconvinced that sons of the royal family have privileges, they can marry if they want, and if they don’t want to, why can’t she take the opportunity to pick brothers to fight, make them go crazy, and disgust the emperor and queen?Anyway, she is just a weak woman waiting to be picked, what's wrong with her?Zhao Hua is not stupid enough to kill his brother, if he doesn't think about her, then liking her is fake.No matter what the ending is, she can't escape the fate of marrying the royal daughter-in-law. Marriage cannot be independent. It's useless to like Song and elder brother, so it's the same to marry anyone.

But girls value their reputation and innocence the most. After all, it is not about her alone. It is about the face of her parents, brothers, and the family of the Xu family.

"you……"

"Miss Meijuan, please don't worry, as long as you care about the King of Jinling wholeheartedly and know how to behave in front of the emperor and the Duke, we people in Xuchen Palace will not talk nonsense!"

Meijuan rolled her eyes, this is the noble prince who competes with his brothers for women, this kind of indecent means is also used!

The king of Lin'an was kicked in the upper abdomen and coughed up two mouthfuls of blood. He recovered after a few days of recuperation. The emperor's disposition came down: King Lin'an first kicked the door and drew his sword to slash people, and he swallowed the pain himself. The king of Jinling showed no mercy to his brothers , The attack is vicious, with this strength and ruthlessness, it is better to go to battle and kill the enemy. It happened that there were frequent small wars in the northwest, so he ordered Jinling King to go west to defend the border for three years!

The queen fainted after hearing the news: Does this mean that she was exiled?King Jinling is the direct prince, he is only 15 years old, how can the emperor be like this?Too cruel!

But the emperor Jinkou said that the king's order must not be violated, the empress cried her eyes swollen, asked the prince to help intercede, and moved the empress dowager to no avail, and said to leave immediately, leaving Beijing within three days, without delay!

The King of Jinling thanked him frankly, but made a request to the emperor: In order to be able to fight the enemy with peace of mind, please marry Xu Meijuan to Zhao Hua, a soldier on the frontier!
The emperor stared at his son for a long while, sighed, and finally nodded in agreement, and said in front of the queen, prince, Xu Junying and others: Make an appointment, and come back to marry in three years!

The King of Jinling complied with the emperor's order to apologize to the King of Lin'an, and made some compensation. Three days later, he set off for the northwest frontier. During this period, he wanted to see his beautiful family, but was repeatedly rejected, so he had no choice but to give up. He was already engaged and belonged to him. If she doesn't see her, she won't see her again. When she comes back in three years, where else can she go?In order to prepare for leaving Beijing, he didn't have time to go to the Xu Mansion to find her in person, so he had time to ask Kang'er to convey a few words on his behalf on the eve of leaving Beijing: I will come back in three years to marry, and you will definitely feel honored. My wife, she should love her all her life and never break her promise!If you die in battle, you can go wherever you want according to your wishes, and marry someone who is responsible and capable of protecting you...

Meijuan was embroidering the handkerchief while listening to Kanger's sentence by sentence, the last sentence made her needle and thread slow down.

On the outskirts of the city the next morning, a young man in red was riding a white horse in front of the King of Jinling's team. Blushing, she threw a roll of silk handkerchief to him:

"I couldn't sleep last night. I embroidered twelve veils. I'll give them all to you! Maybe no one told you that I don't know how to be a girl, but I can only embroider veils and roses. If you like it outside For other flowers, you can throw it away!"

"No throwing, no throwing! I only love roses!"

The King of Jinling smiled, took the veil and unfolded it for a look. There seemed to be a faint fragrance, and he said with a smile:
"These roses are embroidered really well, even better than those embroidered by Sizhenfang in the palace! The fragrance is also good, Song He gave it to you, right? I'm leaving, you can't always go to him! Remember you are engaged , the fiancé is fighting outside, don't be playful, wait for me to come back!"

"Just wait three years!"

"A word is settled!"

Two years later, Meijuan followed her parents to Jinling, south of the Yangtze River, to visit her newly married sister Meiyi, and when she returned to the capital half a year later, she saw Zhao Hua, King of Jinling who entered the city almost at the same time. Mouth: "How did you become like this!"

In front of her parents and brothers, Meijuan blushed and pulled away his hand: "You have just changed, go and look in the mirror yourself!"

After more than two years of exposure to wind, rain, and sun, Zhao Hua's clear complexion turned into a healthy bronze color, and his black and white eyes became clearer and more agile. A little bit of the supercilious arrogance that princes often have, more calm and capable temperament, and their personality seems to have become clearer and more straightforward. Yimeifang plucked the flowers from the tall branches.

Because of his many meritorious service, the emperor granted him the permission to return to Beijing half a year earlier. The Jinling Palace has already been built, and he can marry the princess only after Qin Tianjian calculates a good date.

It takes a long time for good things to happen, even if Jinling King is such an impatient and hard-to-serve master, it will take three months before the wedding banquet is considered to be completed. More than that, a wedding caused a sensation in the entire capital.

The sweetness of the wedding night in the bridal chamber is only relative to Zhao Hua. He can't wait to swallow Meijuan. Meijuan complains that he is revenge, Zhao Hua smirks:

"Then you are miserable, you will take revenge for the rest of your life!"

And his compensation and appeasement made the bride overjoyed, and she kissed him several times. He said: "I have asked the emperor, and I have obtained permission. After marriage, we will go back to the fief and live a free life! You are not with the good intentions. Can't we be separated? We will live together in Jinling City from now on, okay?"

Meijuan was overjoyed and depressed again: "But I have to leave my parents and brothers, what should I do?"

Zhao Hua bit her delicate pink lips: "Then I don't know, I just want to marry a wife and make my wife and children happy!"

"No, you have to take care of my natal family!"

"Okay, I'll take care of it! In fact, it's very easy. The river that Meiyi jumped leads directly to Jinling. The heavy ship takes more than a month, and the express ship arrives in only half a month. It's very convenient to travel between the two places!"

Meijuan pursed her lips: "Who doesn't know this, let me tell you!"

Zhao Hua was stunned: "Then what are you going to do?"

"I want to take my parents, brothers and sisters with me..."

Zhao Hua laughed out loud: "I just found out that you are so stupid today! Hundreds of members of the Xu family follow us to Jinling and I can keep them rich for the rest of their lives, but will they go? Is your father willing to give up the fame he earned so hard?" ? Zhao Meijuan, only your husband is willing to do this for you!"

"My name is Xu Meijuan!"

"Changed, your surname is Zhao from today!"

"No!"

"say it one more time!"

"..."

The prince saw a young and familiar face at his younger brother's wedding, and he chased after him. Finally, in the side yard, he caught up with Qin Shiyan, the fourth lady of the Qin family who was about to get in the car and leave. The shining star eyes are too similar to Meiyi!
For more than two years, the concubine grew up and became fatter and fatter. Later, she had to hide in the palace courtyard and could no longer show her face. After the queen mother fell ill and lay down, Chen Lanyan lived in the Palace of Compassion and Ning to serve her filial piety. Ling Bingyu died, for unknown reason, it is common and commonplace for one or two concubines to die of illness in the palace courtyard.The prince excused himself to be busy with government affairs, and he had no intention of picking beauties, and intentionally or unintentionally rejected the queen's repeated proposals to choose a side concubine for him. It was three personal maids...

The crown prince's fall into such a state undoubtedly made the empress lose all face. The concubine she chose for her own son would miss her.

Just when the queen was anxious and sad, the prince came to her and told the queen mother that he wanted a side concubine, but he had to call the name himself, and the queen mother just took it into the palace.

Qin Shiyan, the youngest daughter of Qin Boqing, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, is 14 years old, and Xu Meiting, 15 years old, was born to Xu Junxuan, the Minister of History. She is the eighth among the sisters of the Xu family.She moved into the East Palace one after another, and welcomed five beauties at a time. The crown prince just asked the queen to do something. The only one who really cared about her love was Qin Shiyan. Xu Meiting had met him in the Xu residence before. That's right.

A year later, there were frequent happy events in the East Palace. The side concubine Xu Meiting gave birth to a daughter, and the concubines Liang Qiyue and Wang Shouzhen became pregnant successively. There was no news about Qin's side concubine, but she was the most favored by the prince.

(End of this chapter)