Seeing that Qi Wang really didn't seem to be interested in Shang Wanqing, Qi Heng breathed a sigh of relief. He thought for a moment and said tactfully: "An'an, the Minister of War has bad intentions. It's him who placed Chang'an next to you. I

I don’t think you should have anything to do with people from the business.”

Shang Bingjun obviously had bad intentions. It was not an easy task to send Chang'an to the palace. Since he placed someone next to Qi Wang, he must have a purpose, but he did not do it to let his daughter marry.

Qi Wang, you must know that Shang Bingjun would rather let his daughter marry a seventh-grade official than marry Qi Wang. There must be some mystery in this.

Qi Heng was groomed as the next emperor, and his political sense was much sharper. There must be monsters when things go against the norm, and Shang Bingjun must have some ulterior motive.

The more critical point is that after being tortured, Chang'an confessed that he was sent to Qi Juan just to find out Qi Juan's preferences and to prepare for Shang Wanqing to marry into the royal family in the future.

However, it turns out that Shang Bingjun did not want his daughter to marry Qi Wang. When he found out that Shang Wanqing might marry Qi Wang, his first reaction was to propose a marriage to Shang Wanqing.

The reason why he went to great lengths to send Chang An to the palace was not so that his daughter could marry into the royal family. This made no sense anyway. At this time, Qi Heng had another suspicion in his heart. He felt that behind Chang An, or should I say Shang

There are other people behind Bingjun.

They sent Chang An to Qi Wang's side, and they may have more plans than Qi Heng imagined.

Seeing Qi Heng start to lose his mind while talking, Qi Wang could probably guess what he was thinking. He silently put a chestnut cake into his mouth. After eating it, he said: "Brother, this year's pearl

Didn’t Auntie give us a New Year’s gift?”

Qi Heng was thinking about something. When Leng Buding heard what he said, his train of thought was instantly interrupted: "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

Aunt Mingzhu is the sister of King Qi. She married the king of Chu and became a concubine. However, due to poor health, Aunt Mingzhu only had one daughter, so she had no other children. Even that daughter was

He is weak and sick and needs to be cared for carefully.

Princess Mingzhu and the younger sister of King Qi, although they are not from the same mother, they have a very good relationship. Every year when the New Year is approaching, the people sent by Princess Mingzhu to give New Year gifts will come to Qinglan City early, but

This year I don’t know where it came from

I had a problem and it still hasn’t come up until now.

This matter should not be forgotten, but after Qi Wang disappeared, a lot of things happened in Qinglan City, and then there was the incident of the harem concubines inserting spies around them, so there were a lot more things.

Naturally, this matter was forgotten.

If Qi Wang hadn't mentioned it, Qi Heng would never have remembered that Princess Mingzhu should send her a New Year gift.

However, Princess Mingzhu has been married to the Chu Kingdom for twenty years. In the past twenty years, except for the New Year and holidays when she would send people to bring them gifts, she had no contact with them at other times, and she did not have a deep relationship with them in the first place.

, after not seeing each other for many years, how much of those feelings can be left? What maintains their relationship are the gifts sent back and forth.

"An'an, why do you suddenly remember Aunt Mingzhu's gift? You didn't care about these things in the past, so why do you remember it so clearly this year?"

Qi Wan smiled and said with some embarrassment: "Aunt Mingzhu's annual gift includes a special fruit. The fruit tastes very good when made into cakes, so..."

Qi Wang: "..."

It turns out that I didn’t remember Aunt Mingzhu’s New Year’s gift, but the cakes made from the unique fruits of Chu State.

Seeing that his brother was still looking careless, Qi Heng couldn't help but laugh. He raised his hand to touch Qi Huan's head, but then he thought that Qi Huan would be an adult soon, and it would be a little awkward to touch his head again.

When it was right, he patted Qi Wang on the shoulder and said, "Okay, if you really want to eat, if there is a caravan going to Chu State later, how about I ask them to bring some back to you? It's just that

It's a pity that those trees are difficult to adapt to Qi's environment, otherwise, transplanting some here would save you the trouble of worrying about them."

Qi Wang tried to save his respect: "I'm really just worried about the people Aunt Mingzhu is sending New Year's goods to, if something happens to them on the way..."

Looking at Qi Heng's face, you continued, "If I believe a word of yours, I am not your brother's expression." Qi Wang didn't say anything else.

Okay, his character of loving food has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Even though he didn't act again, the other party has already recognized that he is acting, and automatically made up some content that he didn't show. In a way, this can be regarded as a kind of

progress.

His acting skills have reached such a high level that the other party can already believe him without him playing the role, and the content will be automatically completed based on his character.

Well, he was pretty successful at being a salted fish.

Qi Heng is here with Qi Wang

He didn't stay there for long. He was very busy. Although it was still in the first month of the year, he had already started busy early.

Sure enough, with great ability comes greater responsibility. A salty fish like him can just live a leisurely life.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Qi Wang sent a message to the Annan Hou Mansion, saying that the plum blossoms in the palace were in bloom, and invited Shang Wanqing to enter the palace to appreciate the plum blossoms.

The post was in the name of Qi Wang, but the person who accepted it was Mrs. Hou. After receiving the post, she recruited Du Yueli and Shang Wanqing to tell the story about Qi Wang inviting Shang Wanqing to the palace to appreciate the plum blossoms.

came out.

Qi Wang had said that he would meet her after the New Year, but Shang Wanqing had not been sure about it until she saw the post and heard her grandmother confirm it.

.

The words Qi Wang said before were indeed not deceiving her.

A faint blush appeared on Shang Wan's fair face, and she was afraid that people would say she was not reserved, so she lowered her head to cover up her emotions. But the way she sat there with her head bowed, she looked exactly like her little daughter Hanchun.

Seeing her shy look, Mrs. Hou and Du Yueli also had smiles on their faces.

"In the past, I didn't hear that His Highness was close to any daughter. As soon as our family Wanqing went to the New Year's Eve banquet, His Highness took his fancy. Only a few days later, he invited our Wanqing to come and enjoy the feast.

Mei, I know that our family Wanqing is blessed."

Madam Hou was naturally happy that her granddaughter could marry into the royal family. The humble concubine before could enter the palace and become a concubine. Although she was just a nobleman, she insisted on giving her dead mother a status because of her status.

, this matter made Mrs. Hou and Du Yueli feel stuck in their throats. Now Shang Wanqing has the opportunity to be the prince's concubine, and she will be the prince's concubine in the future. A favored prince's concubine and an unfavored nobleman, they can still tell which is more important.

Won't you come out?

Mrs. Hou and Du Yueli teased Shang Wanqing together, which made her blush. She couldn't stay in this room any longer. She stamped her feet, turned around and ran out.

Seeing her daughter leaving in a hurry, Du Yueli couldn't help but have a big smile on her face. Just thinking of the terrible man at home made her mood drop.

Shang Bingjun felt that he was very reasonable. He came twice and was ignored by the Marquis and his wife twice, so he refused to come again. He even sent a servant to deliver a message to her, saying that if she dared

If Shang Wanqing has any contact with His Highness, he will divorce his wife.

Because of this incident, Du Yueli completely lost her heart towards Shang Bingjun. She was not afraid of Shang Bingjun divorcing his wife. Just because she had kept her filial piety to Shang Bingjun's parents, Shang Bingjun was not qualified to divorce his wife.

She, not to mention the fact that she is the second young lady of the Annan House, represents the face of the Annan House. Unless Shang Bingjun is planning to completely fall out with the Annan House, otherwise he would not dare to divorce his wife at all.

Divorcing his wife is nothing more than a threat to her.

However, even the threat made Du Yueli feel very unhappy.

She couldn't figure it out. If the marriage between Shang Wanqing and His Highness came to fruition, they would become relatives of the Emperor. His Highness was favored, he and His Highness were brothers, and their relationship was very good. Even if they were

When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future, His Royal Highness's status will not be reduced.

Why is he so blinded by lard that he refuses to agree to this marriage?

Seeing that Du Yueli was not in a good mood, Mrs. Hou thought for a moment and guessed why she was in a bad mood.

"Remember what happened to Bingjun again?"

Du Yueli nodded. In front of her mother, she had nothing to hide and directly told Shang Bingjun about threatening her with divorce.

"It's ridiculous, has Shang Bingjun been the Minister of the Ministry of War for a long time, and has his brain been damaged? Can he do such a thing? Yue'er, don't worry, as long as I am here, Wanqing's marriage will be done

It's not his turn to intervene yet, you can go pick out clothes and jewelry for Wanqing, but I still insist on letting Wanqing be the princess, so I want to see if he dares to divorce you."

Seeing her mother's domineering appearance, all the depression in Du Yueli's heart disappeared instantly.

"Mother, I'll go right away. I worked so hard to give birth to this child. Why should he let my daughter suffer? He chose all the previous daughters-in-law carefully. Why did he just do it casually when it was my daughter's turn?

Then he sent him away? He was dreaming."

After briefly speaking to Mrs. Hou, Du Yueli left in a hurry.

However, after Du Yueli left, the expression on Mrs. Hou's face became serious, and she was not at all relaxed in front of Du Yueli.

This thing is so abnormal.

Back then, when Shang Bingjun was only a fifth-grade captain, he dared to provoke the young lady of their Annan Marquis Mansion. From this, it can be seen that he is an ambitious man.

And the wives he married to his four sons were all daughters of court ministers. For the sake of their children’s in-laws, those

The ministers also took good care of him. In order to have a relationship with the royal family, he even sent his eldest daughter into the palace to become a concubine.

Shang Bingjun's rapid promotion to the position of Minister of War is inseparable from his ambition.

He is such a diligent person and is willing to do anything as long as the benefits are sufficient.

Shang Wanqing is the legitimate daughter, and she is favored by His Highness. If nothing unexpected happens, there is an 80% chance that she will take the position of the prince's concubine.

If she really becomes the prince's concubine, given how favored the young highness is, it will definitely be of great help to Shang Bingjun's career.

He continued to prevent Shang Wanqing from getting involved with His Highness, and even threatened to divorce his wife. Such behavior was completely contrary to his usual habits.

Is there really no problem in this? Why is he so insistent on not letting Shang Wanqing be with His Highness?

Mrs. Hou vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but she was locked up in the back house and could not learn anything more, so she had no choice but to come back and tell him about the matter.

As soon as Mr. Hou came back that night, Mrs. Hou sent someone to invite Mr. Hou. She sent the two men out and ordered her servants to guard outside and no one was allowed to come near.

Seeing Mrs. Hou's behavior, Mr. Hou was a little strange and couldn't help but ask: "Madam, what are you doing?"

Mrs. Hou didn't waste any more words with Mr. Hou. She directly told all the inappropriate things about Shang Bingjun. Finally, she said that Shang Bingjun even divorced his wife, trying her best to prevent Shang Wanqing from getting involved with His Highness. relation.

"Master Hou, I am just a housewife, and I don't know much. However, Shang Bingjun's behavior in this matter is really strange. I feel that this matter is not that simple. Maybe he is hiding something. What do you think, Mr. Hou?"
To be continued...