northernbook Chapter 194 Seduction and Threat
Chapter 194 Seduction and Threat
Chapter 194 Seduction and Threat
Riding on the horse, Lin Xuan saw Cheng Chuliang beside him giggling all the time, and asked curiously, "What did Princess Qinghe tell you?"
Cheng Chuliang smiled innocently: "I didn't say anything."
Lin Xuan was a little speechless, did you keep giggling without saying anything?If you don't want to say it, forget it.
In the carriage, the more Princess Yuzhang thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong, and asked suspiciously: "Sister, when I put the pheasant slave to sleep, did anything happen between you and the Marquis of Jingyang County?"
Li Lizhi blushed when she thought of the beauty at that time, and said falteringly: "I'll just...wait for you outside, what can happen?"
Princess Yuzhang asked suspiciously: "If that's the case, why are you blushing?"
"I was a little tired when I was just flying the kite." Li Lizhi explained.
Even if Yuzhang is her best sister, she is too embarrassed to tell Yuzhang about such things.
Lin Xuan and Cheng Chuliang escorted the princess all the way to the gate of the palace.
When the carriage was about to enter the palace gate, Li Zhi stuck out his head and said, "Jingyang County Marquis, don't forget what you promised me."
Lin Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness!"
Li Zhi smiled and put down the curtains.
"Pheasant slave, what did the Marquis of Jingyang County promise you?" Princess Yuzhang asked curiously.
Li Zhi said: "The Marquis of Jingyang County promised to give me some things to play with."
Princess Yuzhang looked at Li Zhi, then at Li Lizhi, as if she understood something.
……
A very exquisite and luxurious carriage slowly stopped at the door of Lin's house.
A woman got out of the carriage, accompanied by two guards, and came to the porter's room.
The woman asked, "Excuse me, is the Marquis of Jingyang County at home?"
Wu Ke said: "My son is at home, what's the matter with this young lady?"
The woman smiled and said: "I'm just a maid. My lady wants to see the uncle of Jingyang County. This is a greeting card. Please pass it on."
Wu Ke didn't expect that the woman in front of him was just a maid. He felt that her temperament was not inferior to that of a lady from a wealthy family.
"Wait a minute, girl, I'll go in and report." Wu Ke took the invitation and walked in.
The woman walked to the side of the carriage, and said respectfully: "Miss, young master, the greeting card has been delivered."
"Sister, it's enough for us to just invite him to come. Why do we have to come to visit? Although Lin Xuan is a marquis, he is still not worthy of our aristocratic family." Cui Zhifeng said disdainfully.
Cui Yuxiu frowned slightly, and said, "Shut up, if you dare to talk nonsense after a while, you can go back to my family!"
She really didn't understand why father sent Cui Zhifeng to be with her.
……
Lin Xuan was drawing blueprints in the study, and he promised to give Li Zhi toys, but he dared not forget.
It would be troublesome if Li Zhi complained to Empress Changsun.
"My lord, the concierge sent a greeting card, saying that someone wants to visit you, but he is already at the door." Chunyue walked in and said.
Greetings?
Lin Xuan said, "Let me have a look."
When Lin Xuan saw the name on the greeting card, his brows frowned.
How could the Cui family come to visit him, and the name is still a woman.
Lin Xuan hesitated for a while, but still planned to meet and see what the family wanted.
"Chunyue, tell Wu Ke to bring the guests at the door to my study." Lin Xuan ordered.
"Yes!"
When Cui Zhifeng saw that Lin Xuan was receiving them in the study, he almost exploded.
For their official visit, it's fine if Lin Xuan didn't greet them in person, but he even received them in the study, completely ignoring their family.
Cui Yuxiu was also a little dissatisfied, but she knew the purpose of coming here, she didn't show it, and gave Cui Zhifeng a warning look.
Lin Xuan smiled, but didn't mean to stand up to greet him.
"My lord, these two are going to visit you." Wu Ke said, cupping his hands.
"You go down first."
Lin Xuan said to Chunyue, "Serve tea."
"I don't know what's the matter with you two coming here?" Lin Xuan asked with a smile.
Cui Zhifeng sneered and said, "The Marquis of Jingyang County is so majestic, it's fine to receive us in the study, but he doesn't even know how to stand up to greet us and invite guests to sit down?"
Cui Yuxiu didn't stop it, Lin Xuan was indeed going too far, it's better to let Cui Zhifeng make a fuss.
Otherwise, with Lin Xuan's current attitude, it would be difficult to talk about it for a while.
Now she found that taking Cui Zhifeng with her was not useless at all.
"I usually treat bad customers like this." Lin Xuan said lightly.
"Evil guests? You actually said we are evil guests?" Cui Zhifeng couldn't react for a while.
His grandfather is the head of the Cui family, and his father is the future head of the family. No one has ever talked to him like that.
"If you are all right, I can only see off the guests!" Lin Xuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.
Cui Yuxiu said, "We came here this time to discuss something with the Marquis of Jingyang County."
"Oh? Let's talk about it first." Lin Xuan said with great interest.
He also wanted to see what the family was planning to do, otherwise no one else would see him.
Cui Yuxiu said: "Our Cui family is willing to marry a woman from the Cui family to the Marquis of Jingyang County."
Lin Xuan looked at Cui Yuxiu with the eyes of an idiot, and said: "You don't know that I have an engagement with Princess Changle, right? Your Cui family has the guts to compete with the emperor for a son-in-law, but I don't have the guts to ask the emperor to divorce the engagement."
"The Marquis of Jingyang County misunderstood, I was talking about Ping Wife." Cui Yuxiu said.
She didn't say anything on purpose just now, just to see Lin Xuan's attitude.
"I've heard of a flat wife, but it's the first time I've heard of a son-in-law marrying a flat wife. Are you sure His Majesty won't trouble me?" Lin Xuan asked.
Cui Yuxiu said: "Since we brought it up, there must be a solution. Don't worry about this, Lord Hou."
"Tell me about your request. I don't believe you will be so kind and give me a woman." Lin Xuan said.
Cui Yuxiu said: "We only have one request, and that is the method of making colored glaze. Don't worry, the Marquis of Jingyang County, we won't sell the method in the Tang Dynasty after we get it, and won't let the Marquis have no way to explain it to His Majesty."
Lin Xuan sneered: "So I have to thank you? But I can't do your request."
He told them so much just to know their purpose, and now that he knew, he didn't want to flirt with them anymore.
Cui Zhifeng said in disbelief: "The daughters of our Cui family are of noble status. Everyone in the world is proud to marry a woman with five surnames. You still refuse to marry you as a common wife?"
Lin Xuan looked at Cui Yuxiu playfully, and said, "If it's this girl, I can consider it."
"You think beautifully, my sister is the first daughter of the Cui family, not to mention a flat wife, even if you only marry my sister, you are not worthy." Cui Zhifeng said disdainfully.
Lin Xuan sneered and said: "So, your Cui family wants to exchange a side branch girl for the method of making colored glaze. I have to say, your abacus is really good."
Of course he knew that it was impossible for the aristocratic family to marry his daughter-in-law to him. What he said just now was because he guessed Cui Yuxiu's identity was not easy, and he deliberately tried it out.
Cui Yuxiu glared at Cui Zhifeng, and said: "Master Hou misunderstood, it's not that the Cui family doesn't want to marry a daughter from the direct line to you, but His Majesty won't agree."
Lin Xuan said disdainfully: "Didn't you just say that there is a way? Now His Majesty You Shuo will not agree, and there are no fools like you."
Cui Yuxiu said: "Your Majesty will not care about the women of the collateral line, and it is impossible for the Majesty of the direct line of women to agree to it. The truth in the middle, I don't say that Lord Hou knows it."
Counting the members of the Cui clan, there are at least hundreds of thousands, and of course Li Shimin doesn't care.
But the direct line is different. If Lin Xuan marries a woman from the direct line of the Cui family, Li Shimin will worry that Lin Xuan and the Cui family will get together, and it is impossible to agree.
There are many heroes in the Tang Dynasty now, and they all married women of the five surnames Qiwang, but that was before, after Li Shimin succeeded to the throne, in order to suppress the family, this situation was not allowed to happen.
"Then there is nothing to talk about." Lin Xuan said.
Cui Yuxiu frowned, she didn't expect Lin Xuan to be so reticent.
"Master Hou, the other families are also paying attention to the method of making colored glaze. They haven't come here now because our Cui family persuaded them. If Lord Hou refuses to agree, the methods of the other families will not be as gentle as the Cui family's." .” Cui Yuxiu said.
Lin Xuan sneered, is this the threat of seduction?
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