Chapter 36

In the Huaqing Palace where the queen lives, the queen Chen xinrou is carefully pressing the emperor's head.

"Your Majesty, you have white hair..."

Emperor Yan was in the year of dragon and tiger. He worried too much about state affairs. He had white hair on his temples. Chen xinrou's fingers slowly moved to the white hair, "Your Majesty, let me pull it out for you?"

Emperor Yan pressed her hand. "No, just let it grow. People will always be old. Now I think that my modest son can take a crown princess to assist him and give me a pile of Royal grandchildren, and I will be successful."

Emperor Yan sat with his back to Chen xinrou and didn't find that after he said this, Chen xinrou's properly maintained hands had already burst with green tendons, as if he was trying to endure something.

Chen xinrou took a deep breath several times before he said what he had sorted out in his heart: "Your Majesty is in the peak of spring and autumn, but you can't say such unlucky words. When it comes to the crown princess, is there a candidate in your Majesty's heart?"

Since ancient times, it has been the order of parents and the words of matchmakers. Even if the crown prince is as noble as one person and ten thousand people, he has no right to decide his marriage.

Emperor Yan pondered, "I think Xiao Qi is a good girl."

As soon as his voice fell, Chen xinrou's hand shook, and his sharp fingernail poked into Emperor Yan's temple. Emperor Yan hissed in pain.

"Your Majesty, forgive me..." Chen xinrou knew that she was impolite and quickly knelt down in front of the emperor.

Emperor Yan didn't think so. He helped the queen and asked her, "what's your opinion?"

Chen xinrou thought her caution was seen through. She was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground again. Her words were sincere and even squeezed out a few tears. "I inform your majesty that although the crown prince was not born to me, he was brought up by his concubines when he was still in his infancy. Although he was not his own, it was better than his own. Your majesty has seen it for so many years. Qian Er has both virtue and talent, It will be a bright King in the future. "

She sobbed a few times and then continued, "but Yan Qiqi, who had a crush on Xu Shizi before, forced him to marry in the Imperial Palace and even jumped into the river to commit suicide. Although this matter was suppressed by his majesty, no one in the palace knew it."

"She has no virtue and no shame. How can she be worthy of the crown prince?"

Emperor Yan's eyebrows tightened more and more, and Chen xinrou said more and more vigorously, "although Yan Qiqi is a princess, she has lost her virtue, and her mother died early. No one taught her etiquette, righteousness and shame. It's really inappropriate, your majesty!"

"Enough!" Yan Di roared, frightened Chen xinrou, raised his head and looked at him with tearful eyes.

"Xinrou, Linlang is your cousin. According to the seniority, aunt Qi can call you. Why do you bother to make what she said worthless?"

Linlang is the maiden name of Yu, Yan Qiqi's mother who has died.

As soon as I heard that Yu Shi, Chen xinrou's hands pulled together more tightly. Even if she didn't want to, she had to shut up.

"Your Majesty, my concubine is just..."

Emperor Yan closed his eyes, waved his hand and directly interrupted her, "please step back first. I'm a little tired."

"Yes..."

As soon as Chen xinrou left, Emperor Yan was the only one left in the main hall of Huaqing Palace.

He closed his eyes and slowly opened them. He took out a rectangular handkerchief from his cuff. This handkerchief was extremely incompatible with his noble and unparalleled identity. The edges and corners had been disconnected, but he was like a treasure. He put his face on it and whispered: "Linlang, your daughter is really like you. She is smart and clever. I didn't marry you in those years. Now my son marries your daughter, Is it God's compensation for me... "

In the luxurious and cold palace, only a few jumping candles seemed to silently respond to the emperor.

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When Yan Luoqing went to greet her mother at night, she found something wrong.

Usually, the steamed bass that the mother likes best didn't move, and the whole person seemed to have lost his soul. He sat on the couch with his eyes straight and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Mother, what's the matter with you?" Yan Luoqing stretched out her hand and circled Chen xinrou's neck. She was the only legitimate daughter of the queen and the favorite apple of her eye.

Chen xinrou was pulled back by the sweet cry.

"Here comes Qing'er. Have you had dinner yet?"

Looking at her absent-minded appearance, Yan Luoqing shook his head, "no, Qing'er wants to have dinner with her mother."

Chen xinrou was in full bloom. She asked the palace maid to bring a pair of dishes and chopsticks again and put them in front of Yan Luoqing. "Just today, the imperial dining room made your favorite braised lion head. Let's try it together."

"Well, I know my mother loves me most." Yan Luoqing observed Chen xinrou's reaction while talking about the recent events. Her mother seemed to have something on her mind.

"Empress mother, what's your problem?"

Chen xinrou looks at her beautiful daughter and doesn't know how to speak for a while.

It is reasonable to say that a woman has reached her position and has no desire in her life, but people are like this. They can't stop learning. They will only become more and more greedy and cling too much to what they can't get.

Yan Luoqing waved to the maids on both sides, "you all go down first. I'll talk to my mother for a while."

"Promise."

The maids filed out, leaving only two of them in the room.

"Ma Fei, can you say it now? What on earth makes you so sleepy? "

Chen xinrou patted his daughter's palm, "just, anyway, you'll know sooner or later. The queen mother doesn't know what to do. Give her some advice."

"Yes."

"Today, your father mentioned that he would hold a banquet in the palace to appease the officials frightened at the last hunting meeting, and to marry your brother Qian."

Yan Luoqing nodded hurriedly, "this is a good thing. Brother Qian is so big, but he doesn't even have a side imperial concubine. Does the father emperor say which girl he likes?"

Chen xinrou motioned to her daughter to hear her finish.

"The problem is here. It was good at first, but later, your father said that he wanted to marry the dead girl Yan Qiqi to the crown prince!"