C68 Chapter Chapter 68

The palace.

"Imperial Brother, is there anything urgent that you need me to do at this time?"

"You brat, what's with all the clothes you're wearing right now? You finally got it?" The Emperor couldn't help but tease him, this only brother's marriage matter has been troubling him and the Empress for a long time. Now, he actually had a girl that he took a fancy to. How could he not surprise the Emperor?

"If you know the answer, ask." Duan Shuang coldly snorted.

"I don't believe that you won't be able to find out?" In the entire Great Yan, perhaps only Duan Shuang had a direct expression towards the Imperial Messenger.

The Emperor smiled awkwardly.

"You brat, you really don't have a good expression at all." The Emperor scolded with a smile.

"If there is only this matter, then I will leave first. In the future, don't summon me for such a boring reason." Duan Shuang still had the same indifferent look, and planned to turn around and leave.

"Wait." The Emperor called out to Duan Shuang.

"Mother has set up a banquet tonight. We'll leave after we eat."

Ci Yuyu Palace.

"This son greets Mother." The Emperor and Duan Shuang both respectfully bowed towards the Empress Dowager who was sitting at the main seat.

The Empress Dowager was the birth mother of the Emperor and Duan Shuang. When the previous Emperor was present, she was only ranked as a concubine and was not very favoured.

However, this Empress Dowager was not obsessed with getting the Emperor's favours at that time. Instead, she spent all her attention on her two sons and became the most dazzling two among the princes.

Even though she did not get the favour of the former emperor, because of the two princes under her, their status in the Palace was also different.

Thus, she was rather intimate with the Emperor and Duan Shuang's mother.

"Both of you are busy. It is not easy to gather all of you for a meal." The Empress Dowager smiled as she looked at her two outstanding sons.

"It is all because of Duan Shuang. If he's willing to enter the Palace more often, what's so difficult about it?" The Emperor immediately pushed all the responsibility to Duan Shuang.

Duan Shuang did not refute and agreed faintly.

"That's right. Yun'er still hasn't become a family. If he has a princess, even if Yun'er has no free time, he will be fine. At least, he will have a wife to talk to me, this old hag." The Empress Dowager's hint was sufficiently obvious.

"This entire palace of wives is still not enough?" Duan Shuang asked back.

"You brat." The Emperor couldn't help but curse when he saw Duan Shuang using him again.

"How is this the same? If you really can't settle it, I think Wanxin is the best." The empress dowager did not accept Duan Shuang's challenge and continued to guide her towards her goal.

"Mother, you don't know that Duan Shuang already has a woman he likes." The Emperor immediately poked Duan Shuang's short hair. In terms of teasing Duan Shuang, the Emperor would always be like a child and would never tire.

" Oh?" The Empress Dowager's expression changed. "Which family's young lady is she from?"

"That's not what I meant. It was Imperial Brother who misunderstood." Duan Shuang couldn't help but glare at the Emperor.

"What does that have to do with it? You're not young anymore. If you like it, you can marry into the prefecture and become an Imperial Concubine Test. That Zhen'an King's Mansion of yours is really vast. " The empress dowager straightened her expression.

"However, the position of the Empress Dowager still belongs to me, Wanxin." The Empress Dowager's words were rather forceful.

"If we are still talking about these matters, I will go back first. There is still a large pile of official documents that have not been dealt with in the residence." Duan Shuang was already starting to get impatient.

"Child, you are always like this. Alright, alright, alright. Let's not talk about it anymore. If you're busy, you should eat first. Come on in."

After the banquet, after the Emperor and Duan Shuang left, the Empress Dowager asked wet nurse Xi beside her, "Did you investigate it clearly? Which family's young miss is it? "

"Empress Dowager, she is the granddaughter of Bai imperial physician back then, Bai Jiegeng." wet nurse Xi replied.

"Bai imperial physician? Didn't he disappear? Why did his granddaughter suddenly appear again? "

After wet nurse Xi explained the cause and effect of the incident to the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager suddenly sneered, "It seems like this Bai Jiegeng is also not a good person. She did not expect that she would actually confuse Xun Er to the point where she even gave the jade pendant to her. " The Empress Dowager knitted her brows tightly.

Currently, the situation in the Jiang family was getting worse and worse. Wanxin would only be able to hold the Jiang family if she became Concubine Zhen'an King. This position must not be given to someone who appeared out of nowhere.

"Summon her into the Palace tomorrow. I have to take a good look at what is so special about a girl that can make Xun'er fall in love with her."

"Yes, Empress Dowager." wet nurse Xi agreed.