Chapter Four Forced Marriage (2)

Qiao Hongxi sat in the sedan chair and returned home, thinking all the way back:

Why did Prime Minister Pei fall in love with my Songyu?When did he meet Songyu?What an honorable gentleman he is, how could he meet my Songyu?Or did I offend some insidious villain who gave him the portrait of my Songyu?

But the most important thing now is not how Pei Xiang fell in love with Songyu, but how to push this marriage off.Not to mention that it is absurd for a man to marry a man, let's say that the identity of the other party is not allowed—Pei Xiang, Pei Rongbai, this person is a powerful minister and a treacherous minister, although he is not in the officialdom, but he has heard a little about Pei Rongbai's actions,Knowing that he covers the sky with one hand and excludes dissidents from forming cliques for personal gain in the court, all the officials fear him like a tiger and wolf, even His Majesty and the Queen Mother respect him three-pointed.

Although his Qiao family is not a scholarly family, it is just a lowly merchant, but it is an innocent family after all, how can he marry his son to such a treacherous minister?

However, Pei Rongbai is so powerful that he asked His Majesty for a marriage decree. If I don't agree, I will be disrespecting the decree. If I don't do it, it will bring disaster to the whole family...

Sigh, don't know where this little evil has provoked Pei Rongbai, the plague god!

After Qiao Hongxi returned home, she went directly to Qiao Songyu's yard. As soon as she got to Qiao Songyu's side, before she could speak, she heard the parrot excitedly say:

"Congratulations, master! Congratulations, master!"

Qiao Hongxi was so angry that her entire face turned black.

Qiao Songyu saw that Qiaozui had a good word, and immediately looked at her father excitedly, thinking that her father could praise her a few words, but in the end she saw her father's face stretched so much that he scolded:

"Congratulations on your size! Little Nianzhang, you are about to face disaster!"

Qiao Songyu was stunned: What did I do wrong that Daddy wants to curse me like this?

"Let me ask you, how did you know Prime Minister Pei?" Qiao Hongxi asked straight to the point.

Qiao Songyu became more and more confused: "Prime Minister Pei? Who is Prime Minister Pei?"

"It's the current Prime Minister Pei Rongbai!" Qiao Hongxi said angrily.

Qiao Songyu shook his head, his big black eyes were as puzzled as Qiaozui's mung bean eyes: "I don't know him..." Then he said, "Since he is the current prime minister, how can I know him!"

Seeing her son's innocent and bewildered face, Qiao Hongxi's heart softened again, thinking that the two of them had never met before. If so, how did Prime Minister Pei fall in love with my Songyu?

"Father, why did you suddenly ask me such a question?" Qiao Songyu stuffed a melon seed into his mouth, and asked as he ate, "Could it be that you have something to ask for Prime Minister Pei? Then you might as well go to the second brother, heI know a lot of people from the imperial court..."

Seeing her son's innocent face, Qiao Hongxi couldn't help sighing, and said, "Oh, Prime Minister Pei has taken a fancy to you and wants to marry you as his wife."

Qiao Songyu opened her mouth wide in surprise, the melon seeds she just ate stuck to her mouth: "What did you say, Dad?"

"Prime Minister Pei wants to marry you! I have asked His Majesty for the imperial decree of marriage, and it will be sent to Qiao's residence soon!" Qiao Hongxi repeated, making the matter very clear.

"Is Prime Minister Pei blind? Or is there something wrong with his brain?" Qiao Songyu wanted to say more, but her father covered her mouth and stared at her:

"Speak carefully! Be careful that walls have ears!"

"Father! This is at my own house, where did you get it!" Qiao Songyu pushed away her father's hand, although she was not convinced, but she still lowered her voice, "If it wasn't for that, why would he want to marry a man like me?What about it? Could it be that the capital can’t find a beautiful woman?”

He felt that if Pei Rongbai wanted to marry him, he must have taken a fancy to his beauty.

"Your father, if I knew why, I wouldn't have come to ask you!" Qiao Hongxi said in a broken voice.