Chapter 70

The old prince of Dan Guo was the first to toast to the emperor and said a few auspicious words. The Emperor replied, “The East Sea has been pacified, the Western Qin has surrendered, the Minister of Love has ensured the stability of the Northwestern Ministries, and the dynasty will naturally prosper for generations to come.”

After His Majesty finished drinking, the old prince made a toast to the Empress: “You are younger than before.”

When he said this, the Empress’ face changed color. The emperor was not pleased: “The one you saw before is not her, this is my Empress Zhang.”

The decree to depose the Empress and install a new Empress had already been distributed to the various vassal states. This old prince either didn’t care about the affairs of the kingdom, or he was deliberately mentioning the pot that doesn’t boil.

The old prince raised his cup and punished himself, “I have made a slip of the tongue, please don’t blame me.”

Seeing that the emperor did not continue to pursue the meaning, then poured another cup, said: “Today, I would like to plead with the Empress for one thing.”

After saying this, he called out, “Bao Zhu.”

Rong Xiang saw saw the little county princess stand up and bowed.

“This is my youngest daughter, who has reached the age of marriage negotiation. There are no men in the Dan Kingdom who can meet her eyes. I would like to ask the Empress to help me choose a good marriage for my youngest daughter in the Kingdom.”

The Empress hummed softly and said, “Since you are requesting this Palace, this Palace will do you this favor.”

The song and dance continued, and King Qing accompanied the old prince with a drink as the host.

After the dance, the dancers left the stage, and the old prince swept a glance at the princes in the hall, staring at Zhou Xianyang and asking, “I wonder which one of your highnesses captured the Lord of Western Qin alive.”

Zhou Xianyang turned sideways to say something to Xiangmian and paid no attention.

The emperor said, “It’s the fourth son of the emperor, King Yuh.”

Only then did Zhou Xian Yang raise his head and raise his glass.

“I didn’t expect to be so young, Your Majesty has taught your son well.”

The emperor smiled, “Your eldest son is now in charge of the Dan Kingdom, and I’ve heard that he’s also a capable and capable person.”

“That’s not as good as His Highness Yul Wang’s ability to build a career. It is only a pity that ……”

“Unfortunately what?”

“It’s a pity that Yu Wang already has a royal consort, otherwise such a young, handsome young man, isn’t it the perfect candidate for a son-in-law?”

Rong Xiangmian heart only feel that he does not have good intentions, but hate face can not show half a point.

The emperor laughed: “You are late, King Yu and his wife are newlyweds.”

Hearing His Majesty say this, Rong Xiangmian was finally relieved.

Seemingly sensing the change in her mood, King Yu held her hand and smiled lightly.

Rong Xiangmian’s heart is seen through, she is ashamed and annoyed, but she can’t take offense, she tries to pull her hand out, but her grip gets even tighter.

Zhou Xian Yang laughed at her, she is usually a smart person, why is she being silly at this time. Dan Guo colluded with the sixth uncle to do things everyone has not forgotten, how would the emperor let the prince and their relationship.

After the feast, it was moved to the West Garden martial arts field, arranged all kinds of horse racing, archery and other programs.

In addition to the imperial family, several royal clansmen and important court officials and their families were also invited to watch. The two sides of the field were divided into male and female guest seats.

Seeing his father, Rong Sang lowered his body from afar and slightly saluted him. Then he took his seat with the Empress and several royal sisters-in-law. At this time, he realized that the family of the Eldest Princess House had also come.

Eldest sister is like a mother, and this is even more true for a concubine emperor.

When the late emperor was alive, the current empress dowager was not high, the emperor and the eldest princess were raised in the then empress’s lap. The empress is certainly a virtuous mother of the Palace, but the true love of mother and child is rarely given to the emperor. The side of the eldest sister will give the emperor meticulous care.

Sister and brother and experienced the danger of seizing the throne together. So, after the throne, gave the Princess House supreme honor. Even the original Empress Yu, all respect her three times.

Just now the Empress Zhang is a favorite on the throne, and have the support of the Marquis of Yongan, but took out a person under the paragraph, the Princess is also unwilling to compete with it. Every often into the palace only to visit the Empress Dowager, and then the number of times into the palace is less and less.

After everyone has met one by one, the Princess said to Rong Xiangmei smile: “Yu Wangfei, how is the newlywed days? Has King Yuh treated you well?”

Rong Xiangmi smiled and played coy, only nodding her head.

The Eldest Princess adds, “Xian Yang has suffered a lot since he was a child, you must take care of him with all your heart.”

“Sang-mi remembered, don’t worry Eldest Princess.”

Originally thought that the pleasantries would end here, who knew that the Eldest Princess suddenly looked unhappy and rebuked Rong Xiangzhi standing behind her, “When you see Princess Yu, you don’t salute?”

Rong Xiangzhi’s face was stunned as she stared at her fourth sister and did not lower herself. She habitually waited for Rong Xiangshi to say, as she did at home, that there was no need to be polite between sisters.

However, Rong Xiangshi just stood peacefully.

This was a palace occasion, where state etiquette was greater than family etiquette, and just now, her second sister’s second brother-in-law had also saluted her. Otherwise, it would be used for an article or even impeached.

Now the eldest princess also sent words, Rong Xiangmian more will not be ungrateful, here to pretend what sisterly love.

The atmosphere was silent for a while, the Princess frowned in dissatisfaction, Rong Xiangshi finally gritted her teeth, seemingly enduring great humiliation, and lowered herself to the ground, “Consort Yu is well.”

Rong Xiangshi smiled, “Sister is well.”

Only then did the Princess gesture for Xiangmian to take her seat.

Rong Xiangmian is the least senior princess, sitting at the end of the royal consort, and then let the maid go to ask the two sisters to come and sit.

Rong Xiangchi did not come over, still standing honestly behind the eldest princess.

She was puzzled when Rong Xiangyu quietly attached herself to her ear and said, “The news that father and mother intend to betroth third sister to King Yuhang, I don’t know who leaked it to the Eldest Princess’s residence.”

“Ah?” Rong Xiangmian was shocked, how can this be?

“Third sister came home crying the other day, saying that the eldest princess was already not too easy to get along with, and now she is even more pinching her at every turn, rebuking her at every turn. She doesn’t dare to make the slightest mistake.”

“What did Wen Zhongqing say?”

“He is okay, said that the marriage is the parents make the decision, relatives marrying is about family interests, how can she be blamed for this?”

Rong Xiangxian nodded, “That’s good, a husband who looks toward himself will have a much better life.”

“Having said that, Wen Zhongqing made it to the top of the list, and now that he’s joined the civil service, he doesn’t have many days at home, so in the end, he can’t protect her. Alas, I have advised mother before, but it’s a pity that she couldn’t listen to me, and in turn harmed third sister.”

What they did at that time, although it chilled Rong Xiangshi, but right now, she was in the end comfortable in the Yuhuang Mansion, and was quite saddened by her third sister’s situation.

“Or, let’s save up a few more bureaus and place an invitation for third sister to come out and play more often, so that she is less detained in that mansion. By the way, when I can go out, we go together to see your family’s thousand gold …… your child’s full moon wine I didn’t drink it, you look okay, have you nourished yourself in the month?”

“Well, I was just about to say this ……”

Sisters chatting about parents and short stories , the field of those in the state dynasty, the important ministers and good generals fighting to fight the scene, simply do not have the heart to see.

Duan Fei, General Qi, Rong Xiangwang, a few sons of the Zhang family and a cadre of military generals have been on the field, and the ministers from the Dan country to perform martial arts competitions.

The army of good hands, and the people of the Dan country are grown up on horseback, bow and horse riding and shooting kung fu is naturally needless to say, the two sides win and lose each other, the scene is warm.

Dan country finale appearance, is a rather heroic general, dark skin. The old prince of the Dan Kingdom solemnly introduced to the emperor, “This is the divine archer of the Dan Kingdom that is not encountered for a hundred years, Kunlun.”

“Divine Archer?”

All the military generals were a bit unimpressed by this pompous name, and the emperor immediately assigned the most powerful bow and arrow battalion lieutenant to compete with him.

A lieutenant went to prepare the target, but the old prince reached out to stop him, “When we shoot arrows on the grassland, we don’t shoot at dead things, we shoot at living things. Let’s see who shoots down more!”

Said, there are two dan country warriors pulling an iron cage over, the cage closed densely, dozens of species of birds, chirping, various colors of plumes, very beautiful.

Rong Xiangmei followed the palace painter to learn painting, observed many birds. Recognized at once, there are lively green-backed tits, elegant white-eared painted eyebrows, beautiful red-tailed water robins, and five-colored birds ……

Such lovely birds and finches, but they have to give their lives for people to play for fun.

Although that bow and arrow battalion lieutenant had also drawn his bow and shot birds and finches, but that was all done when hunting, and had not been specially trained on weekdays. Moreover, these birds and sparrows are small, at best larger than sparrows, not the kind of hunting will be shot.

The emperor looked at his face and knew that he was not sure, smiled and said, “Aiqing do your best can.”

So the two of them mounted the horse, back to the iron cage. When the cage was opened, the birds flew into the air in unison. The two immediately ran away from the horse, each bow and arrow.

Rong Xiang see see heartbreaking, hands together, eyes closed silent prayer: shot, shot, shot ……

Arrow feathers “rustling” out of the air, some slow-flying birds were instantly shot down, the crowd erupted in applause.

Rong Xiangmian opened his eyes sadly and met the gaze of Xian Yang last week.