Chapter 364 - Luo Mingzhu’s Belated Marriage (2/2)

“More serious than our affair?” Feng Yuran said with an enchanting smile, as he did not come closer this time but just blinked his eyes and tucked Mo Xuetong’s hair behind her ears.

“I won’t tell you anymore.” Mo Xuetong pouted and murmured, depressed.

“Okay, okay, okay, you keep saying and I’ll listen to you.” Feng Yuran said with a smile. Looking at her smart watery eyes and florid face, and the flush on her tender and jade-white face, he could not resist his desire to kiss her and hug her into the arms to let her melt into him. He reached out his hands to embrace her tightly. “Oh, it’s still one more year ahead! Why has the time not arrived?” thought by Feng Yuran.

“Is Li Youmo really a rakish dude? What happened to his former wife?” Seeing him did not make fun of her, Mo Xuetong collected her thoughts and asked.

She had never thought that her grandmother would become relatives with Minister Li by their children’s marriage. How could Mo Xuetong rest a.s.sured for Li Youmo’s fame and his deeds? Knowing Feng Yuran was a good source of information, she came to find him immediately.

“Li Youmo’s former wife was not killed by him. The girl had been in poor health when they got married. But they had been gotten engaged since childhood. It was said that she was sick before their marriage. Minister Li wanted to retract the engagement, but Li Youmo thought the girl would die definitely by the withdrawal of the marriage, so he just married her. But unexpectedly, she died soon after their wedding ceremony. And it badly affected Li Youmo’s fame, and Minister Li rather regretted about it.” Feng Yuran made the matter clear as he hugged her gently.

Mo Xuetong’s eyes flickered, and she asked in puzzlement, “If so, Li Youmo is not a rakish dude, but a righteous person?”

If a woman was forced to break off engagement by a man, she almost had no way out in such a condition. To Mo Xuetong’s surprise, Li Youmo insisted on marrying that girl, even if he had to bear the name of losing his wife afterward. It was undeniable that he was a righteous man. But why was he so bad in other’s words?

Mo Xuetong really couldn’t figure it out.

Feng Yuran smiled but did not reply. Instead, he took up the cup of tea on the table and took a sip, then, handed it to Mo Xuetong.

Mo Xuetong responded quickly this time. She immediately took the teacup, turned her head one side, and snuggled up to him fawningly. Then, she said sweetly, “Just tell me. Why did the rumor go like this?” She had to sell her charms for the sake of her cousin’s happiness.

Seeing her clinging snugly in his arms, Feng Yuran was in a good mood and decided not to keep her guessing. He held her slender waist with a smile and answered her leisurely, “Doesn’t your elder sister enjoy a good reputation? And You Yuecheng also enjoys a good one? But how about the fact?”

He squinted at her with some amorous feeling and boasted finally, “Your husband has a bad reputation, but what do you think now?”

His glance seemed to claim the credit, as his eyes glittered with charms. Mo Xuetong immediately understood it. She raised her small face and glanced at him who was waiting for her reply. Then, she nodded her head dramatically and praised turgidly, “My husband is naturally the best. No matter how the rumors go outside, I just know that my husband is the best.”

The words were favorable to Feng Yuran’s ears. He blinked his eyes and pinched Mo Xuetong’s pink face, then, burst into a laugh, “Sure enough, Tong’er knows me the best!” After saying it, he could not help kissing her flushed mouth.

Well, the rumor was not credible. Li Youmo was a pearl that had not been found. But Mo Xuetong still had a question, so she pushed his head away, took a breath and continued to ask, “My senior uncle is a commander to lead the soldiers. Now, my cousin is going to marry the son of the minister of the Ministry of War. Will your royal father fear it?”

Since ancient times, seldom exchanges were allowed to make among promising officials, especially those with the military power of different political parties, otherwise, it would induce calamities. Take the Ding General Manor as an example, the manor held a quarter of the military power of the Qin Kingdom, so he could support the childless Empress Dowager to the throne as the first person in the harem.

Then, he sent the Empress into the palace to ensure her to be firmly in the dominant place just second to the Empress Dowager in the harem, though the Empress did not have a child. No one would believe that it could achieve without the Duke King’s holding military power.

Now, Mo Xuetong’s senior uncle also held a quarter of the military power. If he became relatives with the Minister of the Ministry of War through their children’s marriage, would the Emperor not know the underlying meaning? Would the Emperor not fear it? Merely with a strange jade, the Emperor had seen the entire General Manor as a thorn. At present, Fu General Manor was going to become related to Minister Li of the Ministry of War. Would Fu General Manor be accused of rebelling in collusion? What’s worse, it was the crucial moment of fighting for the throne. No one could tell whether a common marriage would become an excuse for the Emperor to deal with Fu General Manor.

Thinking of the fall of Fu General Manor in the last life, Mo Xuetong was rather uneasy, afraid that any carelessness would irritate the Emperor. She opened her watery eyes round and pulled Feng Yuran’s sleeves.

Seeing her nervous and coquettish look, Feng Yuran laughed brightly. Then, he raised up his beautiful eyes, cuddled her and said to her ears gently, “Tong’er, just feel a.s.sured. It is my royal father’s decision to make them related through marriage.”

“The Emperor’s decision?”

As for that the Emperor deliberately arranged Mo Xuetong’s cousin to marry Li Youmo, it was not discussed firstly whether the Emperor cared about if Li Youmo would ruin Mo Xuetong’s cousin’s lifetime happiness, but it looked strange that the Emperor purposely linked the Mo Xuetong’s senior uncle and the minister of the Ministry of War together. “Was the Emperor integrating military forces?” thought Mo Xuetong.

As for the military force of the Great Qin, one quarter was in the Duke Ding’s hands, one was in Fu General Manor’s, one was in the King of Xian’s, and the rest were scattered. The three took the largest share, equally. Among them, Duke Ding and the Fu General were both old and well-known families enjoying hundreds of years. Only the King of Xian had the royal blood. But nowadays, Lady of Xian and the Empress Dowager were too close, so it was possible that the King of Xian had become members of the Empress Dowager’s part.

At this time, the Emperor arranged the marriage between the families of the Commander-in-Chief and the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the underlying meaning was not so simple! Mo Xuetong’s eyes blinked, and she fell into silence. “What does the Emperor mean? At this point in fighting for the throne, King Yan failed, and only King Chu and Feng Yuran are left. Of course, King Ning, Feng Yuzhen, whom the Empress Dowager supports secretly, is not counted in. But if Feng Yuzhen wants to be the Emperor, he has to prepare the military forces as well!” thought Mo Xuetong.

Would the Emperor know that King Ning was going to rebel, so he deliberately integrated the military forces?

She had a bold a.s.sumption, but she didn’t know whether to speak it out!

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