The queen answered for Zhao Fulan: "It's called the 'Yueyue Dance'. Fulan specially prepared it for today. She said she wanted to entertain the bride with colorful clothes and make you and the queen mother smile."
After hearing this, the Queen Mother said: "This child has a heart. Come, Fulan, come to the Ai family."
Zhao Fulan stood up and walked over with gentle steps. A chamberlain had already brought a brocade stool over and placed it under the Queen Mother's chair.
The Queen Mother pulled her to sit down, looked her over and over again, and said to the Queen: "Fu Lan was born like a fairy daughter, which compares to the granddaughters of the Ai family."
"The Queen Mother, Fulan is just as beautiful as a willow tree. How can she deserve such praise from you? These princesses are all noble people, with extraordinary looks and extraordinary demeanor. They are called real fairies." Zhao Fulan will The business exchanges were made with sincerity, which made the Queen Mother beam with joy.
"Listen, this little mouth can really talk." The Queen Mother held Zhao Fulan's hand and turned to the queen: "Has Fulan been betrothed to someone else? If not, the Ai family would like to ask Fulan to be their granddaughter-in-law. "
The queen said: "Fu Lan went to the Immortal Sect of the World to learn magic since she was a child. She just returned home not long ago. My eldest brother also said that he would keep her at home for a few more years."
The queen knew that Zhao Fulan was a disciple of the Immortal Medicine Sect. If it were normal, she would not hide it like this. However, the reputation of the Immortal Medicine Sect has been very bad recently, and she subconsciously did not want people to know that Zhao Fulan was a disciple of the Immortal Medicine Sect. , it was blurred by just "the Immortal Sect of the Outer World".
Fortunately, the Queen Mother was not interested in those sects and did not ask further questions, "Although a good girl is not afraid of marrying late, Fulan is not young after all, and it is time to look at her. Such a good girl will never be cheap in the future. Which kid?"
Zhao Fulan just lowered his head as if shy and did not answer the conversation.
The Queen Mother: "Fulan, how about the Aijia find you a good husband?"
Zhao Fulan said softly: "My queen, I already have a sweetheart."
The Queen Mother immediately became energetic and asked, "Who is it?"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Fulan said: "My daughter doesn't know either."
"Ah? How could you not know about your own sweetheart?"
Although Shen Yizhi didn't deliberately listen to the conversation between the Queen Mother and Zhao Fulan, she had good ears and they didn't mean to avoid others when they spoke, so word by word reached her ears.
She was feeding Nian Nian soup, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but cursed in her heart, what kind of trouble is Zhao Fulan going to do again?
It’s not that she is unfounded, but there is always a feeling that she is here for herself, or to be precise, Gu Xueting.
Let’s see what Zhao Fulan said.
Zhao Fulan took out an emerald green gourd from the brocade bag at her waist. The gourd was no bigger than the size of a thumb, but it was green, moist and lovely, and it was definitely not ordinary at first glance.
She rubbed the gourd's belly and fell into memories: "My daughter entered the palace when she was four years old, but she fell asleep in the rockery cave due to fun. When she came out, it was already dark. Just when she was scared, a man who was not much older than me appeared. My 20-year-old brother showed up. Seeing how sad I was crying, he took off the jade gourd from my waist and gave it to me, and made me happy.
"When I stopped crying, he took my hand and took me to a place where there were people. After that, I kept trying to find him, but I could never find him. For so many years, I have always carried this jade gourd with me. I hope to meet that brother again one day.”
She raised her eyes and said, "The Empress Dowager, my sweetheart, is the owner of this jade gourd. If I am lucky enough to find him, I will dedicate myself to him and repay his kindness back then. If I can't find him, I will do it myself." If that happens, then my daughter will never marry again in this life.”
"Oh, what do you say? How can you not get married? Since there are traces of this jade gourd, just find its owner. What's the difficulty? When the time comes, the Ai family will make the decision for you, and everything will be done for you. No worries." The Queen Mother patted Zhao Fulan's hand.
Zhao Fulan was so moved that she immediately stood up from the brocade stool and saluted the Queen Mother: "I am very grateful."
"Get up quickly." The Queen Mother stretched out her hand to give her a hand, "But what if that person already has a wife?"
Zhao Fulan lowered his eyes and said calmly and firmly: "It's okay to be a side room."
The Queen Mother frowned: "You are the legitimate daughter of the Zhao family, the emperor is your uncle, and the prince is your cousin. Who in this world cannot marry? How can you be reduced to being a concubine?"
Zhao Fulan knelt down in front of the Queen Mother and said in a mournful voice: "The Queen Mother, I have been thinking about that person day and night. I have been deeply in love with him for a long time. If I can't marry that person, I might as well end my life."
The Queen Mother sighed heavily, as if there was nothing she could do about it: "That's it, the Ai family will help you."
Zhao Fulan entered the stage with a song "Inviting the Moon Dance", which strongly attracted everyone's attention. Her fairy-like and pure appearance attracted the hearts of many people present.
Those people never took their eyes off her from the beginning to the end, paying attention to her all the time. Naturally, they did not miss what she said to the Queen Mother.
Some people thought in their minds, since Ms. Zhao doesn’t know what the owner of the jade gourd looks like now, why not pretend to be one? If I can get away with it by luck, I can get a beauty like Miss Zhao into my house. If I can't, there will be no loss.
So—
“The Queen Mother, Your Majesty, to be honest, the jade gourd in Miss Zhao’s hand belongs to me.”
A slightly plump man stood up.
This man is a county king, strictly speaking, he is the emperor's cousin.
Zhao Fulan looked at this person and sneered in his heart, how dare someone like this even miss her? Really desperate.
“Seriously? Then tell me, is there any mark under this jade gourd?”
ah? Is there a mark under the gourd? The prince was dumbfounded, touched the back of his head, and said with force: "It's been more than ten years, how can I still remember it? But when I was a child, I did save a little girl in the palace and gave her a jade gourd. She is right.”
Anyway, he made up his mind to pretend to be the owner of the jade gourd.
The Queen Mother looked at Zhao Fulan and asked, is it him?
Zhao Fulan shook his head.
“Come on, Anping, Fulan said it’s not you, so stop messing around here.” The Queen Mother said with a headache.
She always knew that this nephew was a bit of a rogue, but she didn't expect that he could even pretend to be someone's benefactor.
The prince of Anping County was even more stubborn: "Auntie Huang, why am I just fooling around? This jade gourd is obviously mine..."
The emperor shouted: "Okay, Anping, sit back."
The emperor spoke, and Gu Sui, the prince of Anping County, sat back reluctantly. The two friends next to him winked at him, but their ridicule should not be too obvious.
Gu Sui picked up the grapes on the table and threw them at the two of them, but they caught them, peeled them off and threw them into their mouths to eat.
The emperor stretched out his hand towards the Queen Mother: "Mother, please show me the jade gourd."