Chapter 77 Meeting the Queen Mother
Xie Xunfeng saw that Xiao Shentian suddenly mentioned the third princess just now.
He knew that he had nothing good to say.
Follow Eunuch Chang.
But as I walked along the road, I found it looked familiar.
Xie Xunfeng said to Eunuch Chang, "Eunuch Chang, where are you going? Isn't this the way to the Imperial Ancestral Temple? Didn't you say you wanted to see the Emperor?"
Eunuch Chang turned around and glanced at Xie Xunfeng and said, "Xie Junzi is a smart man, can't he guess it?"
"The emperor is in the Taimiao?" asked Xie Xunfeng.
Eunuch Chang smiled and nodded.
They arrived at the gate of the Taimiao, and this time, led by Eunuch Chang, they entered the Taimiao unimpeded.
When I reached the door of a small house in the Taimiao, I heard the old lady's laughter and the emperor's voice.
Eunuch Chang knocked gently on the door, then whispered, "Queen Dowager, Your Majesty, thank you for the hostage."
Xiao Shentian's hearty laughter was heard in the room, and he said, "Mother, I just mentioned him, and here he comes!"
Then a kind voice came from the room and said, "Let him in."
Xie Xunfeng walked in.
At first glance, Xiao Yiran was standing behind the empress dowager with a slightly blushing face and a big smile on her face.
After seeing Xie Xunfeng come in and their eyes met, the blush on her face became even more intense.
The Queen Mother was dressed very simply and elegantly, and her face looked somewhat Buddhist.
Xie Xunfeng is very good at judging people. This empress dowager should be a good person.
"Xie Xunfeng, there's no need to act stupid since there are no outsiders here. Why don't you bow when you see the Queen Mother?" Xiao Shentian spoke when he saw Xie Xunfeng in a daze.
Xie Xunfeng also bowed and said, "Greetings, Queen Mother!"
The Queen Mother looked at Xie Xunfeng, smiled slightly, and then said, "No need to be polite, please sit down."
Xie Xunfeng didn't hesitate and just sat down.
The Queen Mother looked at Xie Xunfeng for a few times, and then said, "Not bad, not bad, a handsome man. I was worried about you before. Now, I feel relieved to leave Yiran to you."
"What the Queen Mother means is... can you let Yi Ran marry me?" Xie Xunfeng asked anxiously.
Xiao Shentian said to Xie Xunfeng, "What good things are you thinking about? You haven't completed what you promised me..."
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Thank you, son of a proton. It's not that I don't want to marry Yi Ran to you. You should know that the current situation in Da Xia is complicated and undercurrents are surging! You have offended the Queen's family again!"
"I heard that you have some martial arts skills and some brains. But ask yourself, are you really capable of marrying Yiran and protecting her? Although you are the eldest son of the Great Zhou, you have no support in the Great Zhou. The people of the Great Zhou wish you would die in the Great Xia. Now, you have no support in the Great Xia either. People don't really want to target you yet. Can you still rely on your own courage to protect Yiran?"
Before Xie Xunfeng could speak, the Queen Mother continued, "Don't tell me you can... I don't believe it. Even if you really have a way to protect Yi Ran, Yi Ran will still have to live in fear all the time... I believe you don't want that either."
Xie Xunfeng listened to the empress dowager's well-organized words and immediately understood what happened in the hall today.
It’s not that Xiao Shentian has come to his senses.
But Xiao Shentian has a military advisor.
"Queen Dowager, you are right! But I don't have the strength to protect Yi Jing now. Queen Dowager, you have something for me to do, right?" Xie Xunfeng agreed truthfully.
After all, this is indeed true.
Even if he was a man standing at the top of the world in his previous life.
But I came to this strange world.
He really has nothing.
No one will be afraid of him.
Even the strength of this body is far from being a match for that world.
With his current physical condition, he is confident that he can defeat a hundred people alone.
But what if the opponent is one thousand or ten thousand?
He has no confidence.
The Queen Mother was quite satisfied with Xie Xunfeng's answer and said, "That's right, I heard about your cooperation with His Majesty. So we are one family... I won't beat around the bush with you. Didn't I ask the Emperor to ask the princes to come up with a way to raise money in the palace today?"
"The eldest prince has the help of Wu Guozhang and even the help of the Yuan family in Jiaodong."
"The other princes all have princes helping them! Only the Fourth Prince has no help, so I want you to help the Fourth Prince."
The Queen Mother was quite direct in what she said.
After hearing this, Xie Xunfeng said with a bit of a smile, "Queen Mother, why do you think I have the ability to help the Fourth Prince... And this time we are raising a full one million taels of gold... This is not an easy task! You think too highly of me."
The Queen Mother smiled faintly and said, "If you can't even solve this problem, then I really misjudged you!"
Xiao Shentian fanned the flames and said, "I think so. Didn't they say that you spent more than 20,000 taels of gold in Hua Man Lou just to make a girl smile? It shows that you must have a way to make money... Now I ask you to help me find a way to raise 1 million taels of gold, and you are shirking it like this. In my opinion, you don't really want to marry Yi Ran..."
When Xie Xunfeng heard Xiao Shentian talking about Hua Manlou, he subconsciously looked at Xiao Yiran. Her expression was indeed not so natural.
"Yi'ran, don't listen to His Majesty's nonsense. I went to Huamanlou to help His Majesty investigate the case! I didn't do anything." Xie Xunfeng hurriedly explained.
When Xiao Yiran heard Xie Xunfeng's explanation, her face turned slightly red again.
"Why is it the Fourth Prince? Queen Mother, if you want to find a backer for me, the Fourth Prince should not be the one I want!" Xie Xunfeng asked the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "What if we want to support him to become the future crown prince?"
