The foolish king's marriage to the ugly concubine

Chapter 22
Seeing this, the Empress Dowager did not make a sound to stop her. She also wanted to hear how Prime Minister Mu explained that she had no objection to giving Prince Rui an ugly concubine, but she would never allow such a rampant concubine to dare to beat her .

Listening to the words of the two, Chu Xuanjin glanced at Mu Xinran intentionally or unintentionally with her sharp eyes. It was rumored that Prime Minister Mu had an ugly concubine daughter who had no talent, no virtue and no face. Could such a waste be the woman in the palace?Faced with the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the prince, she didn't change her face. Even though she was ugly like a ghost, she didn't have the slightest feeling of inferiority. Standing proudly beside Chu Xuanyu, she would not be concealed by Chu Xuanyu's peerless appearance. It seemed that she had her own arrogance elegance.

With a slight movement in her heart, Chu Xuanjin became a little interested in this Princess Rui who was replaced by Prime Minister Mu, and her eyes became more and more naked when she looked at her.

Mu Hanbo wiped the sweat from his forehead, then suddenly knelt down on the ground: "I ask the emperor to forgive me."

"Prime Minister Mu devoted himself to the Western Chu Kingdom, what is his fault?" Chu Xuanjin asked knowingly, with a puzzled look on his face.

"Yeah, Prime Minister Mu, you haven't answered my king's question yet! Why do you suddenly ask the emperor for forgiveness? If you ask for forgiveness, you must ask this king!" Chu Xuanpu's bent eyes widened a little, but Still smiling.

"Your Majesty, I deserve death for my crimes. I just hope that your Majesty will be kind enough to let this old minister return home after years of hard work and no merit." Prime Minister Mu bowed his head and kowtowed.

Unexpectedly, Prime Minister Mu would make this move. Everyone was slightly stunned. Chu Xuanjin said in surprise: "What is the crime of Prime Minister Mu? Since I ascended the throne, if it wasn't for Prime Minister Mu's full assistance, how could I have brought the Western Chu Kingdom to the throne?" The governance is well-organized, if Prime Minister Mu is really wrong, he will not have to disarm and return to the field, and besides, I can't lose Prime Minister Mu, so you can talk about it after getting up first."

Chu Xuanjin's words reassured Mu Hanbo a lot, and he stood up slowly with Mu Xinyu's support, as if to show that he was not young.

"The emperor's gift of marriage is the supreme honor of the Mu family. They happily bought the dowry and married the minister's eldest daughter to Prince Rui. Ran Er married Prince Rui, after all Ran Er has a bad reputation outside..."

"Prime Minister Mu, what you said is wrong. Why do you say that your eldest daughter has a bad reputation outside? She is the most beautiful woman in Western Chu. How many princes and nobles want to marry her has not had a chance yet! Even the king wants to see Miss Mu's face." Fangrong, such a beautiful woman, I'm afraid there will be no stigma if it's too late to praise her?"

"Oh! Lord Yu doesn't know, actually... the woman standing next to Lord Rui is the eldest daughter of the old minister."

"What? You said that this ugly monster is Miss Mu?" Chu Xuanpu stared at Mu Xinran's face in disbelief with her bright handsome eyes wide open.

Mu Xinran slightly hooked the corner of her lower lip, and an unbelievably fast cold light flashed in her dark eyes, but it was still noticed by Chu Xuanjin who had been paying attention to her.

Chu Xuanjin couldn't help squinting her eyes slightly, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"Exactly." Mu Hanbo replied affirmatively.

"Prime Minister Mu, it's fine for you to deceive the king, but you still have to deceive the emperor and the queen mother? Who doesn't know that Miss Mu is as beautiful as a flower, but you actually said that this ugly monster is Miss Mu? Do you think we are blind? "

Chu Xuanpu raised his eyebrows and looked at Prime Minister Mu with a half-smile, intending to find out.He also wondered why he didn't see Princess Rui, it turned out that his wife of the Third Emperor was always in the hall, and she looked so 'special'!
"With Prime Minister Mu's personality, he would never dare to lie to me. It's not too late for the fourth brother to ask Prime Minister Mu to finish his speech."

Seeing what Chu Xuanjin said, Chu Xuanpu couldn't refute him, and sat back in his seat resentfully, but his cunning eyes were still rolling restlessly, looking at this one and then that .

"Your Majesty, the eldest daughter of the minister is Mu Xinran, who was born to a lowly concubine. She was born on the same day as the second daughter of the old minister, Mu Xinxiu. , so the reputation outside is not good, and the servants in the mansion all regard the second daughter as the eldest lady, and under the false rumors, the world will not know that the eldest daughter of the minister is actually Mu Xinran."

"This time when His Majesty bestowed the marriage, the imperial decree specified that the elder lady of the old minister should marry Prince Rui together. The old minister did not dare to disobey, but he stayed up all night last night. After much deliberation, he felt that the youngest daughter is really not worthy of Prince Rui, so Report the truth to the Emperor today, and hope that the Emperor will find out clearly, it is not a minister who lied to the Emperor, tampered with the holy will, and put a fake princess in the hands of Prince Rui, it is because the world does not know the truth, and people follow what they say, and this is what happened today."

"Ha! You mean that this woman is also your daughter, and she is the most famous ugly girl in the world?" Chu Xuanpu didn't hide the sneer on his face, and he didn't know whether he was laughing at Prime Minister Mu or Mu Xin Ran's ugly.

Mu Hanbo bowed his body and looked carefully at the emperor, but met a pair of sharp eyes, his heart was shocked, a coolness emerged from the soles of his feet, and instantly rushed to his limbs.

"Oh! I naturally understand that Prime Minister Mu dare not lie to me, but why do you say it now? I originally had good intentions to marry a good concubine for Prince Rui, but now because of this oolong, I married the ugly girl that the world ridiculed to Rui Wang, people say that people's words are scary, if others don't understand, they will say that I deliberately stuffed a useless woman into Prince Rui, and bullied him with mental insufficiency, Prime Minister Mu, how do you want me to deal with it?"

There was a hint of chill in the calm and waveless voice, which made Mu Hanbo's hanging heart tighten even more. Hearing the last sentence, Prime Minister Mu's legs softened: "Your Majesty, the old minister deserves death! The old minister is really not I did it on purpose..."

"Isn't it intentional? Was it intentional?" Chu Xuanpu asked innocently.

Mu Hanbo kowtowed his head and scolded Chu Xuanpu fiercely in his heart. If he fell down today, it must be the 'credit' of Prince Yu!
"Your Majesty, I'm really innocent. How dare I frame the Emperor? I don't even dare to slander the Emperor even if I'm so brave!"

"Your Majesty, please forgive my father, he really didn't do it on purpose!" Mu Xinyu saw Prime Minister Mu kneeling and kowtowing, while the Emperor and Empress Dowager had inscrutable expressions on their faces, she knelt down in panic and begged for mercy repeatedly .

After a while, Chu Xuanjin spoke peacefully, as if the coldness just now was just Mu Hanbo's illusion. "What's the intention of Prime Minister Mu's move? I didn't punish Prime Minister Mu, but just asked Prime Minister Mu what to do next. Why are you so flustered?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty..."

Mu Hanbo's heart finally fell back to the original place, and he hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, and Mu Xinyu kowtowed quickly after seeing this.

"Humph!"

The empress dowager's cold snort sounded suddenly, and Mu Hanbo's heart tightened again. Thinking of the empress dowager calling him here, could he blame him again?

(End of this chapter)