The palace was brightly lit, like daylight.
The lanterns were red, blue and yellow, making the palace glow.
From time to time, a few bouquets of fireworks were lit up in the night sky, causing people to look up frequently to appreciate the rare beauty.
Ruan Ruan followed Xuan Liye and the others to play in the Royal Garden. He was familiar with this place, so he made him the king of children.
...
Xuan Liyu took Shen Zhiyuan and Cheng Jinting to a remote pavilion in the Imperial Garden, and their entourage was on duty nearby.
"Brother Shen, Brother Cheng, please help me. I'm nineteen years old this year and I haven't married yet." Xuan Liyu was stunned as soon as he opened his mouth.
Shen Zhiyuan laughed and said, "Are you kidding me? You don't want to get a wife! Otherwise, how could you not get one?"
He always thought that Xuan Liyu didn't work hard enough to marry Cheng Shushu.
At least Xuan Liyu didn't tell the emperor, empress, or Mr. Cheng these two years.
Cheng Jinting sneered: "How can we help you? You are His Royal Highness, what girl can't you marry?"
Xuan Liyu was speechless, thinking that they understood him and would stand by him and help him.
"I know it's my fault, but you also know that the Cheng family has a rule that daughters of the Cheng family are not allowed to enter the palace as concubines or queens. I like Miss Cheng, so I can't let the Taifu change the rules. It will hurt the Taifu.
I have tried some methods in the past two years, but they are of no use."
"You know, it is better to give up early."
Cheng Jinting hit Xuan Liyu hard .
"This rule has been in the Cheng family for eighty or ninety years. Six or seven generations have followed it. No one dares to break the rule. If you let my grandfather break the rule, doesn't it make him shameless to face his ancestors?"
"I The second cousin is right. It is because of this rule that the Cheng family has been able to stay in the capital for more than a hundred years. Several generations of people have been able to reach their current position through strength and loyalty to the royal family."
Shen Zhiyuan looked at Xuan Li with a serious expression. feather. "If all the aristocratic families were like other aristocratic families who relied on sending women into the palace to compete for favors and seek power, they would probably have been on the list of the nine clans to be executed. The Dai Viet royal family has wiped out the mother clans of several queens and concubines for more than a hundred years?"
"..." Xuan Liyu shut up and didn't dare to speak because he felt guilty.
Speaking of the queens and concubines in the harem in the past dynasties, there were about ten of them who were executed by the nine clans.
Who wouldn't be afraid of it?
Dai Viet's past emperors were all sentimental and ruthless, and it was considered a traditional activity for the Nine Clans to kill their concubines.
Any emperor who doesn't kill two or three concubines and queens from the nine tribes is no longer considered a normal person.
And his father had already killed two concubines from the nine clans.
This kind of thing is hereditary.
In fact, he was also worried that he would do such a thing.
"Grandpa will never agree to your marriage. I advise His Highness the Crown Prince to give up! It will do no good to anyone if you delay it any longer."
Cheng Jinting sneered and was dragged off by Xuan Liyu. His eldest cousin was already sixteen years old. Yeah, it's probably going to be even harder to find a good family.
"Brother Cheng, I sincerely love Miss Cheng. I will never marry her unless she is in my life. I will never let her down or betray her. Otherwise, I will be struck by lightning and die a good death."
Xuan Liyu raised his right hand and vowed. Make an oath.
"I have been holding on for four or five years, otherwise the East Palace would already have the crown prince and concubines. In the past two or three years, I have been fighting against my mother, stepfather, and emperor to marry concubines. It is not that I have done nothing. It's just that the Taifu, I I don't have the nerve to beg him. "
Mr. Cheng is his tutor. As a student, even His Royal Highness cannot be so thick-skinned. "Let's put aside this matter, but there is another ancestral precept. Our sons of the Cheng family do not take concubines, and daughters of the Cheng family do not take concubines, and sons-in-law are not allowed to take concubines."
Cheng Jinting's voice was cold, and there was a cold light in his eyes. A blade was inserted into Xuan Liyu's heart.
"Your Highness, can you do it?"
"I can do it, otherwise I would not offend Miss Cheng. I have long known the ancestral precepts of the Cheng family. Since I have chosen her, I have already made preparations for the harem. She is alone."
Xuan Liyu fell in love with Cheng Shushu at first sight and has liked her for many years.
In the past two years, he had made up his mind not to marry anyone but her, so he expressed his feelings to Cheng Jinting and asked him to help him.
In the end, he didn't even help himself.
Seeing Xuan Liyu's serious look, Cheng Jinting was a little moved. The main reason was that his eldest cousin also liked Xuan Liyu. Unless he didn't marry her, she would not have been engaged at the age of sixteen.
He sighed and said: "You should make it clear to the emperor and empress first and ask them if they are willing to help you and bring them into your camp. Otherwise, the parents of both sides will be resistance."
"Well, the Imperial Palace will mention it to them tomorrow. They should agree with Miss Cheng, but she is the only woman in the harem, which is probably more difficult for them to accept."
Xuan Liyu laughed and cried, feeling a little frightened at the thought of a tough battle to be fought tomorrow.
At this time, Shen Zhiyuan laughed out loud with a strange expression.
"Brother Shen, what are you laughing at?"
"Elder cousin, why does your smile make me feel a little bad and scared?"
"I have an idea, but I don't know if His Highness the Crown Prince is willing to cooperate? If this If the show goes well, if nothing happens, we will get married in March or April."
Shen Zhiyuan's lips curled up with a wicked smile.
Xuan Liyu was stunned, acting?
"Brother Shen, please tell me."
"In the past few years, you have not had a woman in the East Palace. The outside world has long secretly spread that the reason why you are not close to women is because you are masculine and have the habit of Longyang.
At present, the emperor and the empress do not I'm worried about your orientation because you often assure them that it's normal." "If His Royal Highness hugs a fair-faced and
handsome
little eunuch in front of them tomorrow, do you think they will be scared?"
" " Yes."
"You take advantage of their fear and tell them that you will never marry a princess or touch any woman in your life. You only want to play with the little eunuch. Do
you think they will be very scared and angry?" "
Of course I will."
"After half a month, when they have nothing to do with you and agree to make any conditions to satisfy you, you propose that there can only be one woman in the harem, and you only marry one princess and how many children you have for them. "If you have grandchildren, you will never marry or have children."
"What a great idea."
Shen Zhiyuan continued: "At this time, they will hesitate, but you have to hold on, don't give in, and continue acting. In a few days, they will lower their demands and find you a princess."
"Just pretend that you are not satisfied with any of them. , finding all kinds of faults, saying that any girl you choose will be a disaster to her. In addition to giving her status and rights, you can't give her feelings or your body."
"After they feel guilty, you tell them that they should look for someone who is frigid. Or there is a girl who is a good polisher, so neither party owes the other anything."