Chapter 21: bet
The bright yellow prince's suit was embroidered with a delicate four-clawed dragon pattern with multicolored silk threads, which looked very luxurious. Prince Yunxuan walked slowly with a warm smile on his face, like a gust of wind blowing past. He has only passed his weak crown years, but he has been crowned prince for a long time, and his face is more mature and confident than other princes.
Yun Ke saluted respectfully, but felt a little sigh in his heart.
The prince was born by the former queen, so he was sealed as soon as he was born. It is a pity that the former queen died of illness shortly after giving birth to him, and the current prince was raised by the current queen. What about yourself? His mother was just a little palace maid. After giving birth to herself, Xiang Xiaoyu died. He was fostered in the name of Concubine De from a young age. He was nominally a brother to Yun Yi milk, but in fact he was used by Concubine De to give her A **** for his own son to pave the way. In the last life, he was not reconciled, so he took every step of the way. In this life, he still follows this path, gaining Yunyi's trust little by little, and then waiting for the opportunity to move, but he has lost the repressed anger and dissatisfaction of the previous life. Willing to.
Maybe he has already boarded that position once, and he is a little open to everything.
Yun Ke felt that in this life, he was like a passerby who was watching from the sidelines. Although he will still follow the old path before and once again ascend the throne to become the ruler of the world, he has lost a sense of pride, more vicissitudes and calmness. He is just playing his role conscientiously and well. , Everything that has happened is already under his control. It is a bit boring to live this day, but he has to live like this. If he does not win the battle of the princes, he will die.
After bowing with Yun Yi, he said lightly, "My younger brother and the fifth emperor are just talking about a little girl, and they can't get into the ears of His Royal Highness." He didn't want to talk about Gu Yuqi's name in front of others. In the first life, he watched her burn to death in front of him. In this life, she was just going back to the old way, just like him.
For a woman who would be his concubine sooner or later, he naturally didn't want others to pay too much attention, but Gu Yuqi in the previous life was as bright as the stars holding the moon, which Yun Ke couldn't deny. Different from the previous life, Gu Yuqi in this life seems to be famous earlier than in the previous life.
He has not been crowned king, nor married, and living in the palace, he has already heard of Gu Yuqi's name, how smart she is, and how she can discuss with the contemporary Hongru Chen Hanlin, and how much she knows etiquette, Even the teaching nanny next to the queen was full of praise for her.
"Oh?" The prince was rather interested, "Could it be that our Seventh Emperor's younger brother has also begun to fall in love? Let's talk about it, but who's daughter is in your sight. If it is suitable, I will talk to my mother and point her to her. You are."
"His Royal Highness, stop joking." Yun Ke's eyelids moved slightly, and he bowed, "If the royal aunt listened to it, it would be bad. It would be offensive to other people's daughters."
"Where can it be abrupt?" A gentle voice came, and several people in front of the door looked at it together. In the depths of Merlin, a luxuriously dressed woman came, surrounded by palace maids and women. The maid, she is about forty years old, but she is well maintained, so she looks only thirty years old. With a face like a pink peach, high eyebrows, and a golden nine-winged pearl on his head, he has a filigree phoenix hairpin, and there is a bit of royal style and majesty in his nobility.
"I have seen the imperial aunt." The three of them bowed in unison, and the prince took the initiative to walk over and hold the hand of the noble woman. She is the hostess here, Princess Pinghu.
"The ceremony is exempted. It's not in the palace." Princess Pinghu herself was considered ill-fated in her life. She married several times, but she had nothing to do, so she looked at the three nephews who were like zhilan and jade trees in front of her. Heartily like it. As she gets older, she is more and more afraid of living alone in the princess's mansion, so she always likes to hold some parties and call out the nephews and nieces in the palace to make it fun. She is amiable, and the princes and princesses all like this aunt who has no pretence and always thinks for them.
"Today, this palace has called so many noble ladies, and also called you a few, but it's not just for you to take a look first. If there is a good one, pick it up first." Princess Pinghu said in a low voice, and then turned to her three nephews. blinked. "Don't be taken first by others."
Prince, Yun Yi both laughed, and Yun Ke also slightly hooked the corner of his lips.
"Xiao Qi, aren't you born to laugh?" Princess Pinghu patted Yun Ke on the shoulder and said with a bit of dissatisfaction, "Isn't this a piece of painstaking efforts by the aunt Huang?"
"Aunt Huang is always thinking about her nephews, and they are naturally happy." Yun Ke said with a hand.
"You kid, look every time you go. I really don't know how your mother and concubine taught you." Princess Pinghu smiled, "Look at your fifth brother, wherever he goes, he always looks like he is smiling, so lovable. like."
"It's my nephew, isn't it?" Yun Ke said with his head lowered. He was like this in his last life, with Yun Yi's foil everywhere, De Fei won't allow him to stand out from Yun Yi, his smile is much prettier than Yun Yi, but he can't laugh, he can only follow Yun Yi like a shadow. behind the wings. Rather than saying that he is Yun Yi's younger brother, it is better to say that he is Yun Yi's sidekick. Even his marriage had to make way and pave the way for Yun Yi. He was really unwilling in the last life, but in this life, he just smiled faintly in his heart, because Yun Yi was already a dead person in his eyes. Does it make sense to fight with the dead?
Princess Pinghu's intentions were good, but there are so many noble girls in this warm pavilion, and there are only a few who are really qualified to marry into the royal family. Where it is his turn to choose, others choose the rest, and it is his .
Thinking of this, Yun Ke turned his face slightly and looked at the prince and Yun Yi.
In the previous life, one of them married the daughter of the Duke of Zhen as the prince concubine, the daughter of the Duke, a noble family with a deep background, and was very beneficial to the prince. Yun Yi married Zhang Wanyi, who was supposed to marry him, as his concubine. And he married the second daughter of Murong's family, the minister of military affairs, as the concubine. Unfortunately, this Princess Murong had a bad life and died in childbirth, leaving him a son and then letting go.
When he ascended the throne in the future, the widowed Zhang Wanyi was admitted to the palace and named Concubine Hui, because she remarried and opposed her as the queen. Years later, after waiting for a long time to hang in the air, the old guys will take it lightly, and Zhang Wanyi will be the next one, but who knows that the longer the time, the more stories will be born around that position. At the beginning, he was very annoying, but after a long time, he also chewed out a little taste, and used the suspension of that position to eliminate many people with bad intentions.
After Gu Yuqi died, the other forces in the DPRK had been cleaned up by him, but he lost his interest in making Zhang Wanyi his post.
Every time Zhang Wanyi acts coquettishly with him, arguing that he wants to be the queen, Gu Yuqi's figure always appears in front of his eyes.
Damn Gu Yuqi!
Yun Ke realized that his thoughts had been taken away by that woman, and his heart froze, his hand under the embroidered robe clenched his fist tightly, tearing off his thoughts of Gu Yuqi.
"By the way, whose girl are you talking about?" Princess Pinghu asked curiously. "Tell it to your aunt too?"
"Aunt laughed. It would be disrespectful for me to wait for my brothers to talk about other girls behind their backs." Yun Yi said with a cup of hands.
Yun Ke sneered in the bottom of his heart, hypocritical, now he knows it's impolite to talk about people behind his back, what about just now?
The more Yun Yi said that, not only Princess Pinghu, but even the Crown Prince Yun Xuan was interested, "Five Emperor Brothers, don't sell off. Let's just say who it is." The Crown Prince said with a smile.
"That's right, what's there to hide?" Princess Pinghu put her elbow on her nephew and said with a smile, "Originally, my aunt's heart is to find a daughter-in-law for you, so there's nothing disrespectful."
"The nephew and the seventh brother said that she was the direct daughter of the Hou family of Dingyuan. I heard that she is a talented girl, and we heard her recite a poem just now. Although the words are not fancy, they are better than Chen Hanlin. Said. Looking at her light movements, she should have also learned martial arts. Seventh brother said that even if she learned it, it was nothing more than embroidering her legs. The nephew argued with the seventh brother." Yun Yi smiled and recounted what happened just now. again.
Princess Pinghu's eyes lit up, "If what you said is true, isn't the daughter of the Dingyuan Hou family both civil and military? What does she look like?"
"She is still young, but she is an uncompromising beauty." Yun Yi said with a smile, "Does that make you abusive?"
"Pedantism!" Princess Pinghu became interested, "In a while, I want to see this lady Houfu well. I also heard something about her, and I heard that she came from Jiangnan. That place. A beautiful girl. By the way, it will be winter hunting in a few days. When the time comes, Ben Gong will call her with her, and then we can try her out, don't you know if she will be able to fight? If we make a lot of money, When this palace is a village, I bet that she is really good at both civil and military?"
Originally, Yun Yi had already made Yun Ke unhappy talking about Gu Yuqi, but now that Princess Pinghu took Gu Yuqi as a bet, he was even more unhappy in his heart. It's just that now he still has to rely on Yun Yi, and he can't lose the face of his Princess Pinghu now. He can only lower his eyes slightly to suppress the unhappiness that surged up in his heart.
"It's a good feeling." The prince applauded and smiled, "It's just that if the royal father finds out, will he blame us?"
"We won't talk about it. How would the emperor know?" Princess Pinghu was so excited that she couldn't stop it! She was always bored by herself, but now that she has finally found a fun thing, how can she easily give up. She is His Majesty's imperial sister today. She has been spoiled since she was a child, and she was kind to the emperor back then. Naturally, she does what she says.
Although the crown prince was worried, but seeing his aunt happy, he followed suit, "Although Dingyuan Hou was born in the military, he has been at the border for so many years. I heard that this Hou's lady has also recently entered Beijing, where is there any chance? If she learns martial arts, then Gu will bet that she will not be able to do martial arts." After speaking, he took off a piece of beautiful jade hanging from his waist and handed it to Princess Pinghu, "If Gu is lost, my aunt will take this jade pendant to the winner. That's it."
"Okay." Yun Yi didn't want to be outdone, he touched his waist and realized that the jade pendant hanging on his waist was not as good as His Royal Highness's, so he couldn't take it out, so he said with a fever, "Chendi Jing There is a mansion in the suburbs, so let's take that mansion."
"You don't feel heartbroken for a mansion to exchange a piece of jade for the crown prince?" Princess Pinghu was really happy now, "Bengong said it first, no matter whether you win or lose, I will take 30%." After she finished speaking, her beautiful eyes turned towards Yun Ke made a gesture, "What is Xiao Qi betting on?"
"My aunt laughed. It's not that my aunt didn't know that my nephew is very poor." He said flatly, "The two imperial brothers can just bet. The nephew is watching."
"You are worthless!" Princess Pinghu raised her hand and gave Yun Ke a shudder, "Your lucky draw, this palace is out, you can say what you are betting on."
Yun Ke became increasingly unhappy in his heart, but his face remained calm, "Then let her bet on martial arts."