063. Dongting marriage
Li Yuanxiu was thinking about something next to him. Now even he could see a little bit of Zhao Dongting's thoughts.
He thought to himself, "Does it be time to report to the Empress Dowager and let the Emperor take the concubine?"
At that time, there were quite a few royal relatives and nobles who married in their teens, and some had children when the emperor was fourteen or five years old.
The royal family attaches great importance to the continuation of bloodlines than the people.
Le Wu looked at Zhao Dongting foolishly, but said, "Your Majesty, do you really want to go to my servant's house?"
Zhao Dongting said strangely: "What's wrong?"
Le Wu looked down and looked down, "My sister said, if you say you want to go to my house, tell me not to take you there."
"Why?"
Zhao Dongting was a little anxious.
Le Wu blushed and said, "Anyway, that's what my sister told me."
She doesn't want to see me?
Zhao Dongting fell silent, his face a little dull, and the excitement just now disappeared. He originally wanted to see Le Chan's father, but he didn't expect that Le Chan had expected that he would not let him go to her house.
Or is it because I am too young?
Zhao Dongting knew in his heart that when he called Le Chan's name in his dream, Le Chan must have seen some of his thoughts.
At this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little worried about gains and losses.
When Le Wu saw Zhao Dongting like this, she was silent.
After a while, Zhao Dongting sighed and said, "Dad, go to inform Liu Hongyi, and I will ask him to have dinner in the palace tonight, and let him bring his wife, family, and the Miss He Qingyi from Kangding Escort Agency."
After the victory of Benzhou Island, Zhao Dongting asked about Liu Hongyi's white cat's letter, and also remembered that he said at the city gate that he wanted to reward He Qingyi.
Li Yuanxiu took the order.
Le Wu pouted and plucked up the courage to ask, "Master, do you like my sister?"
Zhao Dongting was really embarrassed, and did not answer positively, just said, "Did you even see it?"
"You've called her name out in your dreams."
Le Wu murmured softly, "You are so young, how could you understand these things?"
She is the only one who dares to speak like this in front of Zhao Dongting.
After hearing her words, Zhao Dongting was silent and really didn't know how to answer.
Le Wu said again: "But my sister has a marriage contract, and she said... she will not see you again until she gets married."
When she said this, her head lowered slightly, feeling a little embarrassed to face Zhao Dongting.
At that time, he attached great importance to the words of the matchmaker. Even if Zhao Dongting was the emperor, it would not be convenient for him to forcefully break up other people's engagements. Even if he really insisted on doing this, it would have a great impact on Le Chan's reputation.
Zhao Dongting was still silent and just sighed softly.
He really liked Le Chan and did plan to force Le Chan, but after he arrived in Leizhou, he realized that even if he was an emperor, he could not do whatever he wanted. He had unparalleled authority, but he still wanted to set an example for all the people.
But, did you just give up like that?
Zhao Dongting didn't want to.
I traveled to the Southern Song Dynasty and became the emperor, and could not even get the woman I loved. What else is the point?
As he thought about it, he became a little worried and said to Le Wu and Ying'er: "Le Wu, Ying'er, you guys go down first, I want to rest."
Le Wu and Ying Er nodded and left the house quietly.
Zhao Dongting looked inside the house blankly, and his heart kept struggling violently. He didn't want to do those miserable things, and he really liked Colechan.
Time slowly reaches night.
Liu Hongyi was naturally flattered when he learned that the emperor invited his whole family to the palace for food. He asked his wife, Xi Yi, and the maid Xiao He to dress up carefully, bathe and burn incense, and dress up properly. He waited until He Qingyi came home and walked into the palace.
An eunuch was waiting at the gate of the prefectural palace. When he saw Liu Hongyi coming, he hurriedly took them to the room where Zhao Dongting specially had a meal.
In the past, in Lin'an, the emperor naturally had a palace that specializes in eating, and an institution like Guanglu Temple specifically served the emperor to eat. It was just a remote place in Leizhou. Ge Lijun used it to recruit soldiers and horses when he got a lot of money. Therefore, the prefect of the prefect is of course far less prosperous than the Lin'an Palace. The place where Zhao Dongting ate was just a room.
Of course, this room is not small, it must be hundreds of square meters square, with carved phoenixes inside, full of dazzling colors.
There were dozens of book cases on the ground, and Liu Hongyi and others were taken into it, and they became nervous inexplicably. His wife He Huixiang hugged her husband's arm tightly. She had never seen the emperor before, and she was only thinking about what the emperor looked like, but she almost thought of Zhao Dongting as a god with three heads and six arms.
Xi Yi and the maid Xiao He were even more nervous, and shrank their necks and secretly glanced at the interior decorations.
He Qingyi has a free and easy personality and has met Zhao Dongting again, so he has to be calm.
The eunuch asked them to sit down attentively, but they didn't dare. Liu Hongyi hurriedly refused, "The emperor has not arrived yet, so I'll wait while standing."
As he was speaking, the eunuch there was already screaming: "The emperor is here."
Zhao Dongting took Ying Er, Li Yuanxiu and walked into the yard and walked towards the room with the sign "Healing Heart Palace" hanging.
Liu Hongyi and his wife knelt on the ground. Xi Yi, He Qingyi and Xiao He also knelt down quickly and said, "Kow to the Emperor."
Zhao Dongting smiled, "General Liu, Mrs. Liu doesn't have to be too polite, just get up!"
Then he took the lead in walking into the house, sat down at the innermost desk in the house, and waved his hand, "Send the meal!"
But Liu Hongyi and the others dared not sit.
Zhao Dongting said, "Sit down!"
As he said that, he pointed to the desk in front of him and said, "You just sit next to me."
Then he looked at Ying Er, Le Wu and Li Yuanxiu next to him, "You can sit in front of me, there is no need to be so reserved."
Le Wu used to have dinner with him in the bedroom. He smiled and ran down to sit down. The imperial chefs who followed him from Lin'an were quite good at craftsmanship, and these days made this little foodie gain several pounds.
Ying Er and Li Yuanxiu knew that Zhao Dongting was not as stubborn as the emperor before. After hesitating, they both sat behind the desk.
After waiting for everyone to sit down, Zhao Dongting smiled and said to He Huixiang: "My wife sacrifices herself for justice and is very loyal, which makes me admire her!"
He Huixiang's face suddenly turned red, and she stuttered and didn't dare to answer.
Although she is a scholarly family, she has never seen any great world after marrying Liu Hongyi. She has never seen even Ge Lijun, let alone the emperor.
Zhao Dongting knew that she was nervous and didn't care, and said, "I have appointed you as a fourth-rank master, and a reward of 100 taels, and a maid who will be given five examples to lead the world."
He Huixiang was even more at a loss when she heard of such a great reward.
Liu Hongyi quickly pulled her sleeve gently, "Isn't it hurried to thank you."
He Huixiang stood up and walked to the hall and fell to the ground, "The girl thanked the emperor."
Zhao Dongting smiled and said, "Now you are a fourth-rank master, and you can no longer call yourself a civilian girl."
He Huixiang blushed, still a little at a loss.
Li Yuanxiu took out the imperial edict of Xiu Ruihe framed with a gold-plated scroll from her sleeve, walked to the hall and handed it to He Huixiang, "Congratulations to Madam."
He Huixiang took the imperial edict and looked at Zhao Dongting again. Then she stepped back, her hands still trembling.
Although Zhao Dongting is just a child, she is the emperor after all, and she feels that her legs are a little weak.
Zhao Dongting smiled, looked at He Qingyi again, and said, "Miss Qingyi, you are not married yet, it is not appropriate for me to sign you as a wife. You took the risk of sending a letter to me. You are no match for men. Let me tell you what you want me to reward you?"
Although he knew that Ge Lijun would be rebellious, Liu Hongyi, the white cat sent a letter and told the exact time, which was indeed a great help to the court.
He Qingyi said: "Minister girl..."
She wanted to speak but stopped, but looked at Xi Yi next to her and said shyly: "The people's daughter depends on the emperor's wishes."
Zhao Dongting had such a good eye. Seeing her face strange, her eyes looking at Xi Yi were tender and how could she not understand?
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Xiyi was really lucky. Unfortunately, he liked Le Chan, but there was such a big age gap and she had a marriage contract.
He didn't know that Xi Yi used to jump into Kangding Escort Agency and always helped, so He Qingyi had him in his heart.
Otherwise, taking such a big deal as risking delivery of letters may affect the entire escort agency, how could He Qingyi easily agree to him?
But at that time, women were always ashamed to speak of such things, regardless of being introverted. It was already rare for He Qingyi to look at Xi Yi in a concealed manner.
Zhao Dongting looked at Xiyi with a smile, "Xiyi, your white cat has made contributions to delivering the letter, what official do you want?"
Xi Yi bowed and said, "Emperor, Caomin wants to be the official of Leizhou and benefit the people."
Liu Hongyi couldn't help but snorted softly, "No wonder I asked you to join the army, you didn't even go. It turned out that he was thinking of becoming an official."
He Huixiang whispered: "Master, Xi Yi studied the books of sages every night, and was unwilling to join the army, so there was nothing wrong with being an official."
But she knew that her master treated Xiyi as his own son, and only wanted Xiyi to inherit his mantle and become a general who galloped on the battlefield.
Liu Hongyi looked at his wife with a gentle face and said nothing.
Zhao Dongting knew that He Huixiang was deliberately telling her that "studying hard every night to the books of sages" and did not care about the woman's thoughts. He said to Xiyi: "Then I will let you be the county magistrate of Haikang County first, but I can agree to you first. If you can't manage this Haikang County well, don't blame me for dismissing your official position and giving you a free position. The lives of the people are not allowed to be joked about."
Xi Yi walked to the middle with a happy face, knelt down on the ground, "Black and thank the emperor."
Zhao Dongting waved his hand and said, "In addition, I am a matchmaker for you and let Miss He marry you as a wife, how about it?"
He Qingyi's face suddenly turned red.
Xi Yi was stunned, then looked at He Qingyi, and couldn't stop being happy and said repeatedly: "Thank you the Emperor to give the marriage."
If he didn't like He Qingyi, he wouldn't have thought of He Qingyi first when he delivered a letter.
Li Yuanxiu said next to him: "Mr. Xi and Miss He are handsome and beautiful, and they are made together by heaven. The emperor is so beautiful that he is adult..."
Although he is a master and has excellent skills, he has been staying in the palace for a long time and is easy to use.
Zhao Dongting felt it was interesting and said, "I have appointed Miss He as a fourth-rank master. After your wedding, the imperial edict will be sent to your mansion."
As he said that, he looked at He Qingyi, "Miss He, your grade is higher than Xi Yi, so you must take good care of him for me in the future."
He Qingyi nodded shyly, almost burying her head in her chest. Her pretty face was flushed and delicate, which made Xi Yi stunned.
When Zhao Dongting saw their affection, they were in love with each other and couldn't stop thinking of Le Chan again.
At this time, a group of imperial doctors and palace maids came in, and everyone stopped talking and had a meal with peace of mind.
At the end, Zhao Dongting also said that he would let Doctor An go to see Liu Hongyi and He Huixiang for infertility, which made the couple very happy and thanked each other, and then took Xi Yi and the others back happily. There was no need to say much about his gratitude to Zhao Dongting.
Chapter completed!