The Peerless Concubine of the King's Favorite

Chapter 182 Princess Banquet, Concubine Selection Conference? (4)
"I don't know." Zhao Shenghao lowered his eyes, avoiding Chu Qing's probing eyes, and said indifferently.

Another answer.

Chu Qing pursed her lips and looked at Zhao Shenghao without saying a word.

In the end, do you really not know, or do you not want to investigate further, so you don’t know?

However, no matter what the answer is, from Zhao Shenghao's performance, Chu Qing is sure that those who want to hurt Zhao Shenghao must be people he considers close to him.

"A dude who has been murdered many times, yet remains unharmed, wouldn't it be strange?" Chu Qing raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

Zhao Shenghao smiled coquettishly, and he looked at Chu Qing: "So, the emperor gave me blessings, wealth and longevity, so all the guards in the palace will be predators who came down from the battlefield, so, every six months, the slaves in the mansion will come and go I have to change batches, so for half the time of each year, my whereabouts are very elusive and difficult to trace."

"The emperor is protecting you? Why is he doing this to you?" Chu Qing is not an idiot, there is no one other than the emperor of Nanchu who can do this.But why did he go to great lengths to protect his brother's son?
Ever since she first traveled to this era, she had heard that King Xiaoyao was favored by the emperor, and now she heard from Zhao Shenghao himself that she understood how subtle this favor was.

Chu Qing's question made Zhao Shenghao's smile slowly shrink, and the emotions in his eyes were complicated: "I also really want to know the answer."

Chu Qing stared at him for a long time, and finally sighed: "Forget it, I don't want to know too much about your royal affairs. You can share the same room, but you have to sleep in separate beds." She is not the old-fashioned kind of woman, on the contrary she is good at She who is good at doing business is more flexible.

Sleeping in the same room doesn't mean that she has lost her virginity. Anyway, she already bears the name of Princess Xiaoyao. Even if she leaves in the future, who will believe her innocence?

Besides, she never intended to marry, and the word 'chaste' was dispensable to her.

"Qing'er agreed to marry me?" Zhao Shenghao swept away the haze in his eyes, and looked at her with a deep smile.

"Wrong!" Chu Qing corrected: "It's just an agreement. Also, I saved you from the pain of forced marriage, and saved you from remarrying some people with ulterior motives in desperation. Then, relatively, what about my reward?" ?”

"What reward does Qing'er want?" Zhao Shenghao followed her in every possible way, and he was willing to spoil her like this, what should you do?

Chu Qing's eyes turned sharply, and he smiled and said, "Why don't you give me the idle property in your palace, how about I help you invest and manage money? If you invest in Jiuming Company, I guarantee that you will get a considerable amount every year. dividends."

Zhao Shenghao said with a smile: "When you enter the palace, you are the hostess of the palace. All the property in the treasury will naturally be handled by you."

"Okay! It's a deal!" Chu Qing clapped his hands, his eyes were as bright as stars.

When Jiuming was developing, it needed to bring in a lot of funds to expand its scale and ensure turnover.Rather than cooperating with those companies for small troubles, it is better to cooperate with Zhao Shenghao.This is a big piece of fat, isn't even Zhao Shenggao thinking about it.

"I promised Qing'er everything, can Qing'er promise me one thing?" Zhao Shenghao asked suddenly.

"What?" Chu Qing asked subconsciously.

Zhao Shenghao changed into a more comfortable posture, and said lazily: "The emperor was afraid that I would be wronged, so he ordered Princess Lunxiao and the eldest princess to hold a banquet in the former mansion with the purpose of choosing a concubine. When the time comes, please clear me." Er force to come out on top and stand out."

so troublesome?Chu Qing frowned slightly. "I'm just a merchant's child, how can I go to this kind of banquet?"

"Could it be that Qing'er forgot again, you are not an ordinary merchant's daughter, but a legendary woman with a sixth-rank mandate. According to the court rewards, your status is much higher than that of ordinary noble women. When I see you, I have to salute." Zhao Shenghao smiled like a fox.

Imperial orders, enjoying the imperial salary, and relatively being coerced by the imperial court.

At the beginning, when Chu Qing made this move, she never thought that the emperor would give her such an imperial edict so generously. At that time, what she thought was that other than money, it was just a folk title.

"Zhao Shenghao, my six-rank order is not planned by you secretly." Chu Qing looked at him with a sneer.

For a woman with an imperial order, her marriage is subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court.Even if it's the wedding date, the court doesn't designate marriage. If Chu Qing wants to marry someone, he has to write a memorial and report it to each other. Only after getting the imperial approval can he start the marriage.

Now, her imperial status just happened to be a stepping stone for her to participate in the Concubine Selection Conference.

"Qing'er really flattered me. Could it be that I still have the ability to make predictions?" Zhao Shenghao defended with an innocent face.

Chu Qing sneered and said nothing, and told her rationally that the man in front of him who was as pure as a banished fairy was definitely not as pure as his appearance, let alone a kind person.

While she was calculating him all the way, it seemed that she was also being calculated by him unintentionally.

"It's getting late at night, Qing'er should go to bed earlier. Tomorrow, the post for the banquet at the Princess' Mansion will be posted at the mansion. I am waiting for Qing'er's attendance." Zhao Shenghao ended the topic tonight in a timely manner, and after leaving, he was just like when he came , turned into a breeze and disappeared without a trace.

The next day, after Chu Zhengyang left the house, the invitation card from the princess mansion was delivered to Chu Qing.

Looking at the big bronzing characters on the invitation card, Chu Qing smiled coldly, causing the four servant girls to automatically and consciously avoid them, hiding far away, not daring to approach easily.

"Miss, the people from the third prince's side are here again. This time, they are willing to raise their stakes and offer 5000 taels of gold. Either Jiuming will win the mining rights and cooperate with the third prince, or they will withdraw from the competition and pave the way for the Hexi Chu family. .” Fusu frowned and reported.

This time, the envoy of the third prince seemed to have lost his patience and asked Jiuming Company to give him a choice.

If he chooses neither, Fusu can imagine that Jiuming Company will be strongly impacted or even destroyed in the near future.

"Miss, the Third Prince is going too far. How dare you threaten us like this?" Jiujiu said unhappily.

You He and Xing Rong also looked at each other, feeling a little worried.Although the Jiuming Company has developed rapidly during this year and has emerged among the national companies, it is still vulnerable to the imperial power.

"Ming Liu, why don't you speak?" Jiujiu shook the silent Ming Liu.

After the latter was shaken awake, he frowned and said, "I was thinking, this third prince is sick and weak, and he is not favored. Why does he want to collect the world's wealth so much? Does he really love money, or does he have another purpose?"

Ming Liu's words brought silence in the room, and in the end, everyone turned their gazes to Chu Qing who had never spoken.

Chu Qing smiled slightly and said: "The third prince has ulterior motives, everyone knows. I don't care what his purpose is now, what I think about is how to choose in order to make Jiuming the final big winner."

(End of this chapter)