"Your Highness, what are you talking about?" he said, "I don't like that cheap maid."
But the more Prince Ping thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more he thought it was good.
"I've seen that bitch before, and she looks pretty good," he said.
"Your Highness, this is not a matter of how you look." Gao Xiaoguan shook his head and said, "This is impossible."
King Ping sneered.
"How is it impossible?" he said, "What kind of family does she belong to? What kind of family does your family belong to? How many people are vying to marry into your family but they can't."
"Your Highness, we are enemies now." Gao Xiaoguanren said.
"It is precisely because we are enemies that I want to marry her." Prince Ping said, with a faint expression of excitement on his face. "If you marry her, she will be yours. Her husband is your heaven. If she disobeys, you will deal with her."
When he said the word "clean up", Prince Ping couldn't help but clench his hands on his knees.
"Who said you should marry only those you like, and only those who are enemies should marry? Marry her back, and take revenge any way you want. Beat her with a whip, prick her with needles, starve her, humiliate her..."
As he spoke, Prince Ping's expression gradually flushed and his breathing became rapid.
The chamberlain standing beside him spoke hurriedly.
"Your Highness, marriage is not a trivial matter. Let Mr. Gao make the decision." He said.
"Why can't I, the king, make the decision?"
Prince Ping, who was interrupted from his thoughts, immediately glared angrily.
"The whole world is my subject, can't I make the decision?"
The high-ranking officer hurriedly responded, but the chamberlain didn't say anything anymore. Seeing Prince Ping regain his mood, he breathed a sigh of relief and went back.
"What your Highness said is true," the young official Gao said, "but Mrs. Cheng is an extraordinary woman. It's probably not easy to marry her."
Prince Ping smiled disdainfully.
"You were said to be arrogant in the past, but now it seems that you are nothing more than that, not as arrogant and arrogant as Mrs. Cheng." He said.
Gao Xiaoguan smiled with a bit of shame like a docile cat.
"Your Highness is joking. They are all outsiders who are jealous of my father's power and deliberately slander me. Don't you know what I am like at home? My father is very strict with our brothers." He said with a wry smile, "Otherwise, this time it will be the same with Cheng.
When Shiro was fighting in Desheng Tower, how could I be in such a mess? It was because I was afraid that my father would find out and punish me."
King Ping smiled.
"They are indeed in a state of embarrassment. You should have given them a good beating at that time, but now they are suffering in vain and are still being laughed at," he said.
"Your Highness is laughing. Please stop talking. If you keep talking, I will really be embarrassed to come out and see people." The young official said with shame, waving his hands.
"If you don't deal with Mrs. Cheng, you will never be able to see anyone in your life." Prince Ping said, "My parents ordered the matchmaker to decide on the important matter of marriage, so how can Mrs. Cheng make the decision herself?"
The high-ranking officials laughed.
"Your Highness is still young, is he going to be a matchmaker?" he said.
This smile made Prince Ping feel humiliated.
"I can't be a matchmaker, so what can the Queen Mother do?" he said with raised eyebrows.
"The Queen Mother?" The high-ranking officer was a little surprised and a little frightened, hurriedly waving his hands, "How could such a thing alarm the Queen Mother? Wouldn't it be a royal betrothal?"
Royal wedding!
Prince Ping's eyes lit up and he straightened his body.
"Wouldn't that be better?" he said with a bit of pride, "I don't believe that the Cheng family can refuse the Queen Mother's grace."
Gao Xiaoguan wanted to say something else, but Prince Ping waved his hand with a hint of impatience that could not be rejected.
"This matter has been settled. I will go and tell the Queen Mother that you should stop interfering." He said, "You have done me a favor by marrying Mrs. Cheng. I really hate her, especially if I don't want to
She hooked up with Prince Jin'an again."
The high-ranking officials hurriedly stood up and left their seats to salute.
"I dare not take it as a grievance," he said, "I have troubled Your Highness."
Watching the high-ranking official walk out of the palace gate, the steward who was standing on the steps to see him off frowned slightly.
"Sir, are you just going to let this kid deceive His Highness Prince Ping?" a chamberlain said in a low voice.
The steward smiled slightly.
"That depends on the result of the deception." He said, "If it is a plot against Mrs. Cheng, it is not an exaggeration."
"Then do you really want your Highness to go and tell the Queen Mother about the marriage?" the young chamberlain asked.
"Go ahead, Your Highness, this is a good idea." The steward nodded with a smile, "You know that Mrs. Cheng is so arrogant and close to the Prince of Jin'an County. This is never a good thing. Marrying into the Gao family like this will make the Gao family
It couldn’t be better to take care of it.”
The waiter nodded and looked relaxed.
The high-ranking officials who got into the car laughed.
"I didn't expect His Highness to be so smart. I just said a few words and he came up with this idea," he said.
The attendants laughed with him.
"What do the officials think of this method?" he asked.
Gao Xiaoguanren stroked his short and fat chin and squinted his eyes, thinking about the moment when the little girl walked in from the door in Desheng Tower.
"That bitch is really good-looking." He said with a slight smile.
The banquet in Desheng Tower dispersed, and the drunken officials excused themselves while laughing and talking, stopping Cheng Silang who was about to get up.
"You guys have private things to say when you are lovers." Several colleagues joked and closed the door without any explanation.
The room became quiet. Cheng Silang, who had always been smiling, stopped smiling and breathed out a bit tiredly.
Mrs. Zhu stood up and walked to the window and opened it. The spring wind slowly swept away the stale smell of wine in the room.
"Mr. Cheng." She poured a cup of hot tea and said softly, "Are you tired?"
Cheng Silang sat upright and took it.
"Thank you." He saluted and said after a moment's hesitation, "You are tired too."
They all put on a show in front of others, just to show others.
Madam Zhu shook her head and smiled slightly.
"The slave family will not be tired, that's how the slave family should be," she said.
Cheng Silang sighed softly.
"No one is born this way," he said.
So, this is fate.
"Silangjun, please don't say anything that makes the slave family sad." Mrs. Zhu smiled and reached out to hold Cheng Silang's arm. "The slave family feels that we should live in the present."
As the gentle beauty approached, Cheng Silang panicked and hurriedly ducked away.
Miss Zhu jumped into the air, froze for a moment, covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Shiro-kun, what are you hiding from?" she said.
Cheng Silang smiled.
"Miss Zhu, you don't have to do this," he said.
Madam Zhu smiled in confusion.
"Officer, what should I do?" she said.
"Just stay the same as before." Cheng Silang said, avoiding Mrs. Zhu.
Madam Zhu looked at him, stepped back, straightened her figure and saluted.
"Cheng Langjun, Zhu Heng apologizes to you." She whispered.
"No, no." Cheng Silang said hurriedly, "It's not because of that. That matter has nothing to do with you, little lady. It's something I have to do myself."
"Mr. Silang, do you resent Zhu Heng?" Mrs. Zhu said with her head lowered.
"No, no, I don't resent it." Cheng Silang shook his head and said, "If you want to resent it, you can only resent yourself. After all, Madam Zhu didn't deliberately use me at that time. Instead, she excused me everywhere. She wanted me to leave. It was my own fault.
reason."
Madam Zhu raised her head and looked at him with a smile.
"Really?" she said, "Zhu Heng also hates himself."
Having said this, she picked up the tea bowl.
"The slave family respects you."
Cheng Silang also hurriedly picked up the tea bowl. The two looked at each other and drank each.
"Shiro-kun."
Looking at Cheng Silang who was getting up to leave, Mrs. Zhu called him back.
Cheng Silang turned back somewhat puzzled.
"Silang-kun, do you regret it?" Miss Zhu asked.
Cheng Silang smiled.
"My sister said that there are no ifs in the world. What's been done is done, and you have to look forward." He said, and then he saluted and left.
The door closed and the room became quiet again. Madam Zhu sat on the floor without moving for a long time.
"But, I regret it." She murmured.
When night fell, Saturday Lang walked into Jiao Niang's courtyard and immediately saw the woman leaning on the porch, shrouded by lanterns on both sides, exuding a different look from the day.
She was holding a pendant in her hand and looking at it slowly.
"What is this?" Zhou Lang asked.
"Grasshopper." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Grasshopper? This is made of thin bamboo skin and is lifelike.
"Where did it come from?" Zhou Lang asked.
"It was a gift." Cheng Jiaoniang replied.
This guy Qin Shisanlang must have given it to him. Zhou Zuorang curled his lips.
I want to say something but I don’t know what to say. This woman never takes the initiative to speak. Even if you ask me, she will only answer questions and answers. She doesn’t know how to be polite or strike up a conversation.
I really don't know what she was thinking in such silence.
After sitting like this for a moment, Zhou Lang simply stood up and walked away. After walking a few steps, he looked back and saw that the woman still raised her head slightly, as if she was looking at the pendant again, but she didn't seem to be looking at it.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Lang couldn't help asking.
"Look at the stars." Cheng Jiaoniang replied without looking away even a little bit.
Stargazing?
Saturday Lang looked up at the sky. The night was getting darker and the stars were getting brighter.
It's pretty cool, but what's the point?
He curled his lips and walked away.
"Madam." Banqin stepped forward and added a cloak to her, and also looked at her, "Do you want to see her very late tonight?"
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded and pointed at the starry sky.
"Look, the star is getting brighter and brighter, but it's not enough," she said.
Which one? Which one?
Banqin looked up, and there was no difference in her eyes at all about the stars in the sky. However, the lady said that if one shines, it must be bright. She nodded seriously.
"Then what is enough?" Banqin asked.
"The time, place and people are favorable." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "Now that the time and place are favorable, the rest depends on the people."
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"Oh my God, my son, you have actually become a matchmaker."
In the palace, the Queen Mother exclaimed, looking at Prince Ping who was kneeling in front of her, dumbfounded.
"Empress, this is not a matchmaker, this is business." Prince Ping said with a straight face.
The Queen Mother looked at the imperial concubine with a smile.
"Look, look, should we, Prince Ping, do some business first?" she said.
The imperial concubine half smiled and half shook her head.
"Fourth brother, don't be ridiculous. This is not something that your child can talk about." She said, "Besides, if you tell Mrs. Cheng to a high-ranking official, wouldn't it be a joke?"
"That's not a joke, that's turning a joke into a good story." Ping Wang Surong said.
Turn a joke into a good story?
The imperial concubine and the queen mother were stunned for a moment.
"Now the Gao family's fight over Mrs. Cheng in Deshenglou has become a joke. If we don't find a way to solve it, the Gao family will remain a joke in the eyes of the world for the rest of our lives. But if this fight turns into a marriage, there will be no fight.
When they got to know each other, the conflict of feelings turned into mutual sympathy, wouldn't that become a good story?" Prince Ping said, "Does the empress really hope that the Gao family will become a joke like this? As long as Mrs. Cheng is around, the Gao family will always be a joke.
"
The queen mother and the noble concubine looked at each other.
Of course they don't want the Gao family to become a joke, as that would do them no good.
"If you put it this way." The imperial concubine spoke first, her eyes sparkling, "This marriage is really good."
The Gao family is no longer a joke. The disgusting and tabooed Mrs. Cheng has become a member of the Gao family. After becoming a member of the Gao family, she is naturally in the hands of the Gao family, and the Gao family is the one they feel most at ease with.
People, this really kills two birds with one stone.
The Queen Mother obviously thought about it and nodded slowly.
"Yes, there should be an explanation for this ridiculous thing." She said, raising her head and looking out the door, "Come here, Mrs. Cheng family is here. The Ai family will be the matchmaker."
