Mingda was more honest than Bai Cheng. When Manbao asked her, she nodded and said, "I quite like him."
Man Bao couldn't help but wonder, "What do you like about him?"
Mingda couldn't help but smile and said, "I think he is very similar to you."
Man Bao:...How does she look like Bai Er? She is obviously so smart!
Mingda smiled and narrowed his eyes and said: "That's it, this energy is very similar, and he is not only healthy but also happy. I know that you are not afraid of us, and he is not afraid of us, so you don't want to get anything from us.
I am very happy to be friends with you, there are few such people around me."
What Mingda didn't say clearly was that it wasn't that there weren't many people around her, but that there were only two or three of them.
It’s Sister Chang Yu. They have a deep relationship with each other. But in the beginning, including now, she was good to her not only because of their sisterly love since childhood, but also because she is the daughter of the emperor and his mother.
Although Mingda didn't care about this, he cherished it especially when meeting friends like Zhou Man and Bai Erlang who didn't go out of their way to please her just because she was the legitimate princess, nor did they want to get anything from her.
She said: "It's not that I have to recruit him as my consort, I just think I like him quite a lot. Seeing him with you, I can't help but laugh and feel happy."
She smiled and said: "If you didn't ask, I wouldn't tell you that marriage is an important matter of my parents' orders. I don't know what kind of consort my father will choose for me."
Man Bao asked: "Don't you ask?"
Mingda shook his head slightly, but then nodded and said: "Father will tell me, there is no need for me to ask specifically."
Man Bao thought for a while and couldn't understand, "How could you be so careless? This is the person you will spend the rest of your life with."
She said: "I can't. If we live together in the future, we must first look good, otherwise we will be depressed in the future."
Mingda couldn't help but laugh out loud and asked: "So you chose Bai Shan instead of Bai Erlang?"
Man Bao's eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "What are you talking about? How could I choose Bai Er?"
That is simply unthinkable.
Ming Da thought about it and found it unimaginable. She couldn't help but laugh out loud and asked her, "But in the eyes of outsiders, in fact, the conditions between their cousins are almost the same. Although Bai Shan's family background is better than Bai Er's,
But Bai Shan lost his father when he was young, and Bai Shan has two parents and two brothers. This alone makes him infinitely better than Bai Shan. In terms of friendship, you knew each other earlier and are from the same village. Why did you choose Bai Shan instead of him?
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Man Bao opened his mouth slightly and was speechless for a while, "This, what do you want to say like this? It's something I have never thought of."
Mingda said: "Yeah, it's something I've never thought about. I never thought about marrying him, I just thought I liked him."
"Then have you thought about it now?" Man Bao said, "You must have thought about it now."
Mingda did not deny it, and said with a smile: "Since it has been mentioned, naturally I can't help but think about it, and my thoughts only last for a moment."
"Yes, I was shaking a lot just now." Man Bao complained, and then asked: "Then what do you think?"
Mingda smiled and said, "Let nature take its course."
"I don't believe it. You have never been obedient. Why are you so obedient now?"
"I have only ever heard people say that Sister Changyu is disobedient. This is the first time I have heard someone say that I am disobedient."
"That's different. Princess Changyu looks fierce and complains, but she never says no to the arrangements of Your Majesty and the Empress. But you are different." No matter how docile Mingda behaves, he has a lot of ideas in his heart.
Mingda saw her looking like she was breaking the casserole and asking for the truth, so he took off his shoes, sat cross-legged on the couch and said, "Okay, it doesn't hurt to tell you."
She said: "My father said he wanted to propose marriage to me, but he looked at several families and was not satisfied. I think it is impossible to make a decision this year."
And the Queen Mother's health is even worse. If she still can't make an engagement after this year, she will have to wait at least two more years before proposing to get engaged. With all her busy work, it may be three years before the engagement happens.
Therefore, when she speculated that the marriage might not be finalized, Mingda naturally would not take the initiative to mention her petty concerns about Bai Erlang.
Besides, "Three years may not sound like a long time, but it seems to be a long time. Bai Cheng will be crowned by then, right?"
Man Bao said: "Senior Brother Bai only got engaged after he was crowned. He is not very old at this age."
Mingda paused after listening, and then said: "Okay, there is a little more..."
She said softly: "Three years later, I don't know if I will still be alive."
Man Bao was startled and said hurriedly: "What do you mean? Although you are weaker, you are not that bad, right?"
Mingda smiled bitterly and said: "That's you. In fact, many people inside and outside the palace know that I have been weak since I was born, and I am only a little better than Yin or the Yin family."
She said: "He and I are two famous sick men both inside and outside the palace. We seem to be better now, but I don't think we can cure the deficiencies we were born with."
"So I'm not sure what kind of consort your father wants to choose for me," Mingda said: "Is it to collude, to win over, or just for the short time I have left in the future?"
Man Bao didn't expect her to think so much, and after a while he said: "No wonder you always have low energy, you think too much."
"Why don't you ask His Majesty?" she said, "He loves you so much, I think he will discuss it with you."
Mingda shook his head, "I don't want my father to be in trouble, so let's wait and see what kind of consort he wants to choose. If it's the first two, I won't mention it. If it's the last one, I'll have to consider it."
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Man Bao: "Why are you still thinking about it?"
It sounds like her junior brother's chances are very slim, only one in six.
Mingda said: "Of course I have to consider it. If I am not in good health at that time, the front leg will marry in and the back leg will die. Wouldn't it mean that I will become a widower in vain?"
Man Bao: "...you think too much."
So when they returned to Chongwen Hall, Man Bao and Bai Erlang said: "Mingda said that we should think about it. She doesn't want you to become a widower."
Bai Erlang glared, "You still went to ask her?"
"You have to ask someone what they want before you propose marriage, right?" Man Bao said, "But now I know that she doesn't hate you, and she actually likes you, so you can work hard towards the emperor."
It's your parents' order, so naturally you must first obtain their parents' consent before you attack the rightful owner. Isn't this fair and aboveboard?
Bai Erlang became worried, "Why are you trying so hard? I can't see Your Majesty either."
Man Bao thought for a moment and said, "I see you occasionally, how about I send you a message?"