A relatively low-key carriage drove quickly out of the royal suburbs and entered the imperial city.
Following the eunuch's guidance, Mi Xiayao came to the familiar imperial study room again.
The news that she entered the palace overnight quickly spread in the royal suburbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Mi even had no choice but to take care of Mi Xiaobao, who was delivered overnight.
Probably because the person who was keeping the harem in check was not around, the first thing Mi Xiayao felt when she stepped into the palace was that she was inexplicably a little impetuous.
When the eunuch brought her to the door of the royal study, he shook out a whisk and said calmly: "Mr. Mi, please invite me."
She glanced at the eunuch who was watching the dishes being served, and her brows wrinkled slightly, but then they smoothed over.
Pushing the door and stepping into the imperial study, one sees the emperor sitting on the dragon chair, holding his forehead with one hand and closing his eyes to meditate.
Pei Xingyuan on the side stood with his fingers crossed, his eyes looking at his nose, and his nose looking at his heart.
Until both of them heard the movement at the door.
They all raised their eyes and looked towards the door.
Mi Xiayao turned her back and closed the door. When she turned around, she was caught off guard and met two pairs of straight eyes.
She was so frightened that she took a step back.
"I shouldn't have asked you, a girl, to come into the palace so late at night, but Pei Xingyuan explained your relationship in the excerpt above. I was really shocked."
The emperor was twisting the beads in his hand. He seemed to have been thinking for a long time, but he didn't understand these two people.
How did the two of them secretly plot against Chen Cang?
Mi Xiayao raised her eyes and glanced at Pei Xingyuan, who pursed his thin lips slightly.
This micro-expression was an emotion she had never seen before. For a while, she couldn't figure out what the emperor meant.
She thought about it for a long time, thinking about how to tell a lie so as not to fool him, "That's it..."
"So, you and this kid really raised a child together, but you didn't give the child a reputation, and you even let the child live as an illegitimate child in Mi's private garden?!"
The emperor frowned, his tone rose, and he began to become a little unbelievable.
This...the content of this question is different from what she expected on the way here.
The emperor seemed to get angrier as he spoke, and he slapped the table viciously with the hand that was twisting the beads.
Pei Xingyuan saw that the emperor's temper was getting worse, and he was eager to protect people, so he was about to continue speaking.
Unexpectedly, the emperor had the ability to predict in advance and raised his hand to stop Pei Xingyuan from speaking.
"You are not children anymore, especially Miss Mi. You have been married once before. How can you be so impetuous and casual! What do you think of as children!"
The emperor looked at Mi Xiayao angrily. After a while, his rationality gradually came back. He realized that this was too cruel to the girl's family, and turned to glare at Pei Xingyuan again.
Pei Xingyuan took a step sideways, his expression seemed to remain silent, but in fact he was leaning in the direction of Mi Xiayao little by little.
Until the two of them stood side by side.
"I originally thought that after everything stabilized, I would discuss the marriage with Mr. Pei in the long term. The child is still young and doesn't remember things..."
She wanted to restore her image a little, but she never expected that the emperor would not allow it.
"Master Pei?" The emperor was keenly aware of Mi Xiayao's title.
He narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze, "You and Pei Xingyuan usually call each other this way?"
"Your Majesty," Pei Xingyuan couldn't stand it any longer. He spoke despite the emperor's warning look, "Every couple has their own way of getting along. Miss Mi is introverted and shy, so we usually call each other "sir."
This is what I said...
Mi Xiayao couldn't help but twitch the corners of her eyes. She twitched the corners of her lips and smiled a little reluctantly, "That's it, Your Majesty."
The emperor looked at the two young men suspiciously.
"really?"
He still didn't seem to believe it.
Mi Xiayao nodded and blurted out: "Your Majesty, young people in Daqi now love this kind of formal and a little flirtatious title."
"Yeah?"
Mi Xiayao and Pei Xingyuan nodded in unison, "Yes!"
At first glance, this sounded like the same thing, and the emperor agreed with some hesitation.
Just when the two of them looked at each other, they both saw relief in their eyes.
The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon throne, thought of something and said: "No, you two are waiting for stability? What is stability? How could you, who cherish each other so much, not talk about marriage for the sake of stability?"
Mi Xiayao was stunned for a moment, "?"
She used to think that Prince Qin Qiao's thinking was crooked and logical, perhaps due to improper education in the Xu family. But now that she saw the emperor thinking like this, she suddenly became enlightened.
What is the impact of Xu family education?
This clearly means that like father, like son.
"This is an internal matter in Mi Nu's family. Your Majesty, as you know, every family has its own problems. Those uncles looked down on my status and kept preventing me from marrying Mi Nu.
"Why don't I want to get married with Mi Nu and grow old together..."
Pei Xingyuan took a step forward and raised his hands to bow.
His usually arrogant and easy-going demeanor has now turned out to be quite humble and pitiful.
Mi Xiayao witnessed the change in his behavior and looked at this man with superb acting skills in astonishment, skillfully showing off to the emperor.
This person!!!
What nonsense is he talking about!
Mi Xiayao frowned fiercely, and she was about to explain that it was not what Pei Xingyuan said.
But the emperor listened to his words.
Facts have proven that only men sympathize with men the most.
The emperor seemed to put himself in someone else's shoes, fantasized about himself, and finally looked at Pei Xingyuan with great pity.
"Master Pei is usually arrogant in the court, with a posture of asking everyone to submit a report. Now he is suppressed by a few people from the Mi family who have no official positions. It is really interesting."
After saying that, he sighed with some emotion.
Mi Xiayao reached out and tugged on Pei Xingyuan's sleeves, but the other party shook her off without hesitation.
Such a small gesture changed the mood once the emperor saw it.
He sat thoughtfully on the dragon chair, the beads in his hands clinking rhythmically for a moment.
There was a period of silence in the imperial study room.
"Now that you have met the love of your life, don't let it pass you by. I have watched Pei Xingyuan reach his current position as Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple..."
The emperor was groping for the beads in his hands faster and faster, and it seemed that he was thinking about what kind of position to give Pei Xingyuan.
Only in this way can the mouths of the uncles in the Mi family be silenced, and the young couple he is optimistic about be able to successfully discuss marriage.
"Let's do this. Let's first make Mr. Pei, the Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple, a third-grade Yazhong doctor. Your small house is too small. Let the palace servants plan for the vacant house in the inner city to be the residence of Mr. Pei. All of them are closed for testing.
From the third grade Wenxun, let’s take over from the Metropolitan Procuratorate over there.”