In the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Emperor Yongzheng was sitting on the dragon throne, high and mighty. The people standing in the two rows at the bottom were all the royal family.
As soon as Xiangli entered Taihe Palace, she immediately became the focus of everyone's attention. The imperial concubines were discussing her and asking which family she belonged to.
The other gege were also discussing her, but unfortunately, the way they looked at her was filled with resentment and jealousy because Xiangli had stolen the limelight from all the other gege present.
"Lin 'er, why do I feel like there are many Ge Ge staring at me the moment I came in? Did you have pockmarks on your face?”Xiangli leaned against Lin 'er's ear and asked.
The situation was so obvious that even a muddle-headed person like Xiangli and Gege noticed it.
"Don't worry about them, you should quickly think about the congratulatory words you want to say to the emperor!”
"Just casually say it. I, the emperor, am not familiar with him.”
"Miss, how dare you say such a thing? Do you know that you will be beheaded!”Lin 'er warned Xiangli in her ear. Fortunately, His Highness and the Fujin were busy chatting with others. Otherwise, if His Highness heard it, Xiangli would definitely be reprimanded again.
"But this is the truth!" Xiangli didn't feel that what she said was inappropriate.
Lin 'er couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard what Ge Xiangli said.
Not long after, the imperial relatives and officials all walked up to the Emperor to congratulate him. One after another, if they were to make the Emperor happy, they might even be promoted. Everyone racked their brains to think of something nice to say to please the Emperor.
"Your Majesty, today is your birthday. Yu Long wishes you a long life, and the heavens protect you. Emperor Yongzheng is blessed with a hundred cities, and this is what the people want.”Yu Long and Wu Nong spoke softly, hoping to please the Emperor.
"Good, well said. As expected of my most beloved Yu Long. I didn't dote on the wrong person.”Emperor Yongzheng twirled his beard and laughed heartily.
"Thank you, Emperor." Only then did Yu Long leave happily.
"Next."
The person behind Yu Long was Xiangli. She timidly walked up to the Emperor and stared at him with her beautiful eyes wide open. This was the first time she had seen the Emperor up close. Although she was not familiar with the Emperor, it was still quite shocking to see him up close. She did not expect the Emperor's face to look so dignified. It was so stressful that she almost forgot the congratulatory speech she had prepared just now.
" Ge Ge, tell me quickly!" Lin 'er stood at the side and used her lips to speak to Xiangli, who was in a daze.
Only then did Gege Xiangli come back to her senses. She thought to herself that she could just make sentences like Gege Yu Long. Hence, she smiled brightly and said to the Emperor," Emperor, Xiangli wishes you a long and peaceful life. Heavenly years, Yongzheng Emperor…"
As soon as he said that, everyone present sucked in a breath and broke out in a cold sweat for Xiangli. This was not a congratulatory speech at all, it was simply wishing the emperor a short life!
Before Xiangli could react, she had said something wrong. Just as she was about to continue, the Fujin had already rushed out with a pale face. He covered Xiangli's mouth and stopped her from saying anything. She did not want to be sentenced to death!
"Emperor, I'm sorry! My daughter is young and ignorant. Please don't hold it against her. I'll bring her back now and teach her well.”As soon as the Fujin finished speaking, he pulled Gege Xiangli in a panic and didn't forget to cover her mouth. He ran out of Taihe Palace like a wisp of smoke and soon disappeared.
The Fujin's only thought right now was to hurry home and pack her things before leaving overnight. In fact, the Fujin also understood that if the Emperor really wanted to capture him, he would be caught sooner or later. However, he would run as far as he could.
After the Fujin and Xiangli Gege left, everyone thought that the Emperor would be furious and order their entire family to be raided. They thought that a tragedy was about to happen, but not only did it not happen, the Emperor laughed out loud instead. Everyone present was puzzled and did not understand what the Emperor was thinking.
"I didn't expect that someone would dare to say such words on my birthday. It's really an eye-opener! Which family is she from?" The Emperor was also beginning to feel curious about her.
"Reporting to the emperor, it's all this minister's fault for not teaching well. After this minister returns, this minister will definitely teach this little daughter well.”The prince spoke with trepidation, afraid that he would accidentally offend the emperor and kill his entire family.
"The Qing family makes it seem as if zhen is very unreasonable. How can zhen be such a petty person? If I order your entire family to be executed just because of this unintentional remark, then wouldn't I be a barbaric, unreasonable, and violent emperor?”
Hearing the emperor say this, wangye let out a sigh of relief. He had thought that he would not see tomorrow's dawn. He would definitely teach Xiangli a good lesson when he got back. She had scared him so much that his soul almost flew away.
"The emperor is indeed the emperor, he is indeed magnanimous and forgives past grudges. Even your son couldn't help but feel heartfelt admiration.”The Drunken Wei Prince walked out from the side and said to the Emperor.
" Zhuanwei, you describe me too well, hehe…" At this moment, Emperor Yongzheng smiled amiably.
"Your son is merely speaking the truth. If the emperor is really happy, then your son has a presumptuous request.”A glint flashed through the eyes of the Drunken Wei Prince.
"It's rare for you to have a request from this one. Tell me.”
"Forgive your son for being bold. Anyway, the man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried. If possible, I wonder if you can betroth Xiangli to your son.”
The moment Dhuanwei Baylor said this, everyone present was shocked. They had never thought that the conceited Dhuanwei Baylor would actually ask the Emperor to bestow a marriage to an unknown little Ge Ge.
In Taihe Palace, many of the ladies were heartbroken. They had thought that they would still have a chance to marry the Dhuanwei Palace Lord, but now…sigh! If she married the Drunken Wei Baylor, her status would naturally rise along with it, because the Drunken Wei Baylor was the person the Emperor valued the most.
But now that the Dhuanwei Prince already had a partner, and even though she was just an unknown Gege, her peerlessly beautiful face made people feel greatly jealous and realize that they were not even one-tenth as beautiful as her.
It was no wonder that the usually arrogant Zhuan Wei Baylor would ask the Emperor to bestow a marriage upon him.
Yu Long felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She stood rooted to the ground. She did not expect her beloved Zhuan Wei Prince to be attracted to that uneducated little Ge Ge. No matter what, her status was several levels higher than that of Xiangli Ge Ge. Where was she going to put her face? Moreover, she had already said in front of Gege that the Drunken Wei Palace Lord would definitely be hers.
Ever since she was young, there had never been anything she couldn't get, including the Drunken Wealthy Prince. She couldn't take this lying down, and she couldn't take it lying down. Xiangli snatched her love away, and she would definitely make her pay the price.
"So it turns out that the Dhuanwei Prince has taken a fancy to Xiangli Gege. On my birthday, if he were to bestow a marriage on the spot, it would be considered as an even greater joy. However, I feel that it still depends on Xiangli Gege's wishes. If she agrees, there would naturally be no problem on my side.”
"Your Majesty is wise. If my daughter knew about this, she would definitely be overjoyed. Moreover, her partner is such an outstanding Langjun like the Drunken Wei Baylor. To be able to marry the Drunken Wei Baylor as his wife is the dream of many noble ladies. My daughter must have cultivated for three lifetimes to have this honor!”His Royal Highness stood by the side, drumming his drums. After all, having a son-in-law like the Drunken Wei Baylor would help him raise his status in the Imperial Court.
"Emperor, the Drunken Wei Prince is so outstanding. If he only married an ordinary Ge Ge, wouldn't that be looking down on the Drunken Wei Prince and be an insult to his noble status? He had always heard that the Zhuan Wei Baylor was brave and good at fighting. What he needed was a virtuous and elegant wife, not a little girl who was uneducated like a commoner. It could be seen from the congratulatory words that Xiangli Gege said to the Emperor just now.”Yu Long couldn't hold it in anymore and stepped forward to speak.
"Yu Long, that's not right. The commoners are also citizens of the Qing Empire. Everyone is born equal. You shouldn't insult them with such contemptuous words.”Drunken Wei Baylor said with conviction.
"Duke Wei, if you don't draw a clear line between the nobles and the commoners, it's hard to guarantee that they won't rebel.”Yu Long retorted, unwilling to be outdone. Her intention to oppose this marriage was already very obvious.
"Alright, stop arguing. I have my own decision on this matter. The Qing family!"
"Your subject is here."
"I think it's better to go back and ask Xiangli for her opinion first! If she agrees, you can report it to her.”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Emperor Yongzheng could not help but sigh in his heart. Why did it involve someone else's marriage?
When the Fujin saw his highness enter, he anxiously asked,"Your Highness, how is it?"
"I'm fine! Don't worry. Eh? Why did you pack so much soft stuff? Where are you going?"
"Where are we going? I was scared to death when I heard Xiangli say such unbridled words to the emperor. That's why I quickly packed up so many things and prepared to escape at any time. I'll run as far as I can.”
"It's good that you're fine! Mother, you can rest assured. Sit down and eat some pastries! I was in a hurry to pack just now. I'm so tired now!”Xiangli sat at the side, leisurely enjoying the hot pastries.
"You…this brat, do you know that because of your words, we might all be beheaded? Do you know that? I was so scared that I almost fainted just now, but you're still in the mood to eat pastries here!”His Highness angrily pointed at Xiangli and scolded her.
"It's not all my fault. I'm not nervous when I see the emperor! I've never seen him so close before, so it's inevitable that I'll be scared!”Xiangli said innocently.
"The emperor, who are you to call him the emperor! To think that I gave you such a beautiful appearance, but the words that come out of your mouth are so difficult to be refined. I really don't know who you inherited it from?”Wangye was about to die from anger.
"Mother speaks so gently, so I think I inherited this from you!”Xiangli Gege still said recklessly.
"You still dare to talk back to me!"
"I'm just being honest.”
"I think I need to hire a teacher to teach you the three obedience and four virtues, especially the words of a woman. I've decided to hire a stricter teacher to teach you the words of a woman. Otherwise, with just your mouth, no matter how beautiful you are, you will be divorced.”
"Divorced? I'm living well at home. Why should I be divorced?”Gege Xiangli was instantly confused.
"Dhuanwei Baylor asks the emperor to bestow a marriage today, hoping that the emperor will betroth you to him.”Today, when he found out that the Drunken Wei Baylor was interested in Xiangli, he was finally a little gratified.
"It can't be, right? I don't like him! Why did he ask the emperor to bestow a marriage?" When Xiangli heard this, she frowned slightly.
"It's your own business if you don't like him. The marriage of your children should be decided by your parents. You must marry the Zhuan Wei Prince!”
"How can you marry me off so casually? I'm the one getting married, not you!" Gege Xiangli retorted, unwilling to be outdone.
"Alright, then let me ask you, who do you like?”
"I…have someone I like, but I can't tell you!”Xiangli said sweetly. When she thought of the person she bumped into today, her heart was filled with joy. She really wanted to see him again. "He's a thousand times better looking than the Zhuan Wei Bei Lei!”
"Would the person I love be better than the Drunken Wei Baylor? Do you know how many daughters of prestigious families dream of marrying him? He's now the emperor's favorite. If you marry him, you'll be able to enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth.”
"I'm not even close to him. Why should I marry him?”
"Since ancient times, the marriage between Baylor and Gege has never been decided by oneself. So, no matter how much you refuse, it's useless. I'll definitely agree to it.”The prince's attitude was unusually firm.
"Why are you like this? I already told you that I don't like him, but you still want me to marry him. It's fine if I marry him, but you still want to hire a teacher to re-educate and reform me. Are you unreasonable?”When she heard that Ma insisted on marrying her to Zhuan Wei, Xiangli Gege was full of anger. Marriage was her own business. She didn't need others to decide her lifelong happiness for her! "And I hate, I hate classes!”
"Look at you. Is this how you talk to your elders?”His Highness was also angry now. It was all his fault. Xiangli had spoiled her too much when she was young and did not teach her the three obedience and four virtues well. That was why she was so unrestrained today.
"Who told you to marry me off to someone else?”Xiangli Ge Ge turned her head away, not wanting to have any more unnecessary arguments with His Highness.
"I'm doing this for your own good. Do you understand my painstaking efforts? There are no parents in the world who are wrong!"
"I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand! I don't want to hear it anymore." Xiangli covered her ears with both hands. She didn't want to hear any explanation.
"You…you'll stay at home and attend class tomorrow. You're not allowed to go anywhere. I'll ask the teacher to come to class early tomorrow morning. Lin 'er will come with you and help me look after Ge Ge.”
Lin 'er stood foolishly at the side and felt strange. Why was she involved?
"You can't ground me like this!”Xiangli argued with his highness.
"If you want to go out and play, fine. Unless you let me know that your little mouth won't say anything nonsense. What the Headmaster says to me counts, but what you say to me doesn't count.”After the prince gave a promise to Gege Xiangli, he quickly left.
"Then you might as well cut off my tongue!”Xiangli shouted at the back of his highness, but his highness did not turn around. Xiangli stomped her feet in anger, and her originally fair cheeks turned red. "I'm so angry, I'm so angry!”
Don't be angry, Ge Ge." Lin 'er stood at the side and comforted Xiangli.
"How can I not be angry? I already said I didn't want it, but my Amma still casually wanted to marry me off to someone else. How can there be such a heartless Amma!”
"There's nothing we can do about it. Who taught you to be born into a noble family? Marriage is not something you can decide on your own, so I think Ge Ge, you should listen to his highness and obediently attend class tomorrow! But frankly speaking, I also think that you need to strengthen the part of the woman's speech.”
"You…I'm just a straightforward person, but at least I'm not a hypocrite.”Xiangli was too proud to admit that she was wrong.
"Ge Ge, you should just accept your fate! I'll help you wash up. You still have to wake up for class tomorrow morning! Didn't His Highness just emphasize that he would ask the Headmaster to come earlier tomorrow?”
"I want to make that teacher back off in the face of difficulties, representing my silent protest. Don't think that you're so great just because you're the Headmaster. I don't buy that.”A hint of intelligence flashed in Xiangli's sparkling eyes.
"Then…what do you want?”Lin 'er asked worriedly.
"Humph! I want that teacher to get out of my sight.”A series of schemes had already formed in Xiangli's mind. She was a person who kept her word.
Lin 'er began to feel a headache when she heard Xiangli's words. This meant that she would have to become an accomplice.
Before dawn, Gege Xiangli woke up early and woke up Lin 'er. After interrupting her sweet dream, she began to set up traps sneakily. Once the Headmaster entered the door, he would not be able to escape at least three of her moves.
Gege Xiangli was still secretly delighted. She could guarantee that the teacher would not be able to continue teaching and would leave on his own in less than a day! When she thought of this and the teacher's embarrassed look, she was full of energy and couldn't wait to go to class.
Anyway, it would be better if Ma Ma replaced him. It would be the same if he was replaced. As long as it was the Headmaster, she would kill him! Moreover, there would only be more and more traps.
The mischievous Xiang Li was sitting in her seat in high spirits, waiting for the Headmaster to come in and teach. She still had an innocent and studious look on her face. No one knew what she was planning.
"Ge Ge, is this really okay? Is there something wrong?" Lin 'er whispered in Xiangli's ear.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen." As soon as Gege Xiangli finished speaking, she heard the door open with a bang. She excitedly held Lin 'er's hand and said,""It's coming, it's coming! The Headmaster was here. The show was about to begin.”
Finally, the door was opened. The bright sunlight shone on the tall teacher. He looked valiant and handsome. The sunlight shone on his deep, knife-like outline, making him look even more heroic.
Gege Xiangli recognized him at first glance. The teacher was not some old man at all. He was the handsome man who kissed her on the street that day. He was the man she could not forget. He was the man she liked.
When Lin 'er saw him, she gasped in shock. Wasn't that the person who kissed Miss on the street that day? How did he become their teacher?
Xiangli Gege was stunned when she saw him. Just as Lei Yuan put his hands behind his back and was about to take the first step forward, Xiangli Gege was a step faster than him. She wanted to run over and warn him that there was a line on the ground that he must not step on. In the end, she accidentally stepped on that line, and a bucket of water poured down on her head, drenching Xiangli Gege's entire body.
" Pfft…" Xiangli accidentally drank a few mouthfuls of water and immediately spat it out. She didn't expect to be drenched so badly.
"I really didn't expect you to welcome me in such a funny way. You're really thoughtful. It seems that you'll be a good student.”Lei Yuan gave Xiangli a smile that could charm a woman to death.
"This…this was an accident, an accident!”Gege Xiangli explained casually, but in her heart, she secretly felt that it was a pity. This mechanism took her a long time to set up, but she did not expect to be drenched like this.
"Go back to your seat. I'm going to start class.”
Lei Yuan was about to walk to the podium and sit down when Xiangli Ge Ge hurriedly ran over and stopped him.
"No, you can't sit in that seat!”
At that moment, three sharp arrows flew out of nowhere and landed on the wooden board behind Xiangli's hair. Just a little bit more and it would have hit her head. She looked at the arrow on her head and was so scared that her face was about to turn pale.
"It's not good for a girl to play with this kind of arrow! It's very easy to hurt yourself." Lei Yuan helped her pull out the three arrows from the wooden board.
"I don't know who placed this. It's really tasteless and immoral.”Gege Xiangli was basically scolding herself by saying that! She was the one who had designed all these traps. She had been proud of them when she had installed them, but now she had destroyed them all.
Lin 'er, who was at the side, frowned as she looked at the tragic situation!
Lei Yuan's sexy thin lips curled slightly. Just as he was about to put the book on the table, Xiangli, who was still in a state of shock, saw him. She did not care that she was almost shot by the arrow she had set up just now and quickly stopped him.
"You can't put it on!"
It was as if it was predestined. Before Xiangli could explain, Lei Yuan had already placed the book on the ground before her. Xiangli thought about it and instantly fell into the hole that she had dug with Lin 'er in the morning. Her beautiful face was already stained with dust.
She didn't need the Headmaster to teach her what it meant to dig her own grave.
Oh! Heavens! Lin 'er covered her eyes at the side and turned her head away. She could not bear to see Gege Xiangli's embarrassed look. No matter what, Gege Xiangli and her were masters who were like sisters.
"Are you alright? Why would there be a hole here?”Lei Yuan calmly asked Xiangli who had fallen into the hole.
"Yeah, that person really put in a lot of effort to dig such a deep hole.”Xiangli smiled bitterly. She had thought that the Headmaster would not be able to dodge her three moves, but she was the one who could not.
"I'll pull you up." Lei Yuan stretched out his strong arms and pulled her out of the hole.
She was drenched in water just now, and the thin silk clothes she was wearing just happened to stick to her body completely, revealing her beautiful body without hiding it. That graceful appearance made it difficult for people not to have fantasies when they saw it.# Daguan Review Passed: Daguan Time:1024201810:43AM
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