"Let me ask you, what is that in your hand?" Shangguan Yue stared at the dagger with her beautiful eyes.

"Dagger." Xie Yao replied coldly.

"But Princess Jing gave it to the prince?" Shangguan Yue asked in a deep voice, her face turning slightly pale.

Xie Yao paused, "Do you know it? Does this dagger have a name?"

If there was a name, she wouldn't have to use it.

Shangguan Yue immediately stood on the spot and murmured: "Is this really that dagger? Didn't the prince say that this is the only one in the entire arsenal that cannot be given away?"

Xie Yao raised her eyebrows, Chu Han had said this before?

But since Chu Han attaches so much importance to this dagger, it must have a name.

Since Shangguan Yue didn't say anything, she could just ask Chu Han directly.

Looking at Xie Yao's leaving figure, Shangguan Yue's eyes were dark and forbidding.

After Xie Yao left, she went directly to the study and then to the Chaoyang Palace. Unexpectedly, Chu Han was not in the palace.

It doesn't matter, let's wait until Chu Han comes back before asking about the name of the dagger.

To her surprise, Chu Han didn't come home all night.

Early the next morning, Xie Yao and others were summoned by Emperor Zhaochu.

"Eunuch Liu, did your father tell you the reason for this summons?" Xie Yao asked.

"Princess Han has high regard for me. How can I know the emperor's thoughts?" Eunuch Liu responded with a smile. "But I do know that the emperor also summoned His Highness Prince Han."

Xie Yao's heart moved slightly, "Thank you so much, Eunuch Liu."

"Princess Han is welcome."

When Xie Yao rushed to the imperial study room, Chu Han hadn't arrived yet.

"My daughter-in-law has met my father." Xie Yao saluted.

"No gift." Emperor Zhaochu's voice was a little cold, and he paused, "I heard that the Crown Princess once planned to take a concubine for Lao Wu, but you rejected it?"

Xie Yao was speechless. Is there anyone left to settle accounts with the Queen of Autumn?

When did this all happen?

"Yes, Father." She could only answer according to the attitude she had told the Crown Princess before, otherwise it would be the crime of deceiving the emperor.

"Why don't you want to take a concubine for Lao Wu?" Emperor Zhaochu asked.

Xie Yao didn't know how to answer for a moment, because she had never thought of the reason, and the Crown Princess had never asked. Why did Emperor Zhaochu not only bring up old things again, but also get to the bottom of it?

He quickly ran through many reasons in his mind and picked the most reasonable one and said: "The time for my daughter-in-law's wedding to the prince is still short, so there is no need to rush the matter of taking concubines."

"Are you saying that my mother and I are worrying blindly?" Emperor Zhaochu shouted in a low voice, full of momentum.

"My daughter-in-law doesn't dare." Xie Yao lowered her head.

I thought to myself, why hasn't Chu Han arrived yet?

If I had known she would have walked slower on the way, I wouldn't have been scolded for arriving first.

"Don't you dare?" Emperor Zhaochu's voice was cold, "I think you are very brave!"

Xie Yao lowered her head and lowered her eyes, thinking secretly.

Why did Emperor Zhaochu reprimand her like this?

Just as he was about to reply, Chu Han also arrived. After bowing, he stood aside and deliberately did not look at Xie Yao. "I wonder what the father is calling his ministers here for?"

Emperor Zhaochu glanced at Xie Yao coldly, then withdrew his gaze, his eyes cold, "Lao Wu, you spent the night in the camp last night, how could there be so many important things to deal with in the army?"

Xie Yao understood clearly that Chu Han did not come back last night and went to the military camp.

But this little thing is worthy of Emperor Zhaochu calling them all over early in the morning?

"To inform my father, I am formulating a training plan. Although General Xie Lian has won successive victories at the front, I believe that we cannot be careless or take anything lightly at this moment."

"Now that Dong Ao is defeated, once the other two countries unite to suppress us, we will be under great pressure and have to guard against it." Chu Han's words were very beautiful, neither humble nor overbearing, and well-founded.

Emperor Zhaochu stared at Chu Han deeply and said, "When your two lieutenants recover from their injuries, you can hand over military affairs to them. You are a prince, you don't have to do everything personally."

"My son, I understand." Chu Han responded.

There was a brief silence in the imperial study room, and then Emperor Zhaochu spoke again, with a slightly calmer tone than before, "Lao Wu, how is your relationship with Princess Minghui?"

"We have met several times and talked with him several times." Chu Han answered steadily and glanced at Xie Yao subconsciously.

Xie Yao didn't notice Chu Han's gaze, because when she heard Emperor Zhao Chu's words, she knew what today's theme was.

At the palace banquet, Princess Minghui had made her expression very clear, but was rejected by Chu Han, a straight man, and even the gift was given to Emperor Zhaochu.

No wonder Emperor Zhaochu just mentioned the matter of the Crown Princess letting Chu Han take a concubine.

This time, Chu Han might not be able to escape.

"That's very good." Emperor Zhaochu nodded with satisfaction, and his voice directly carried the emperor's pressure, leaving no room for comment, "I have asked Princess Minghui, and decided to grant you a marriage, and choose a good time and auspicious day to get married."

"Father, no." Chu Han said immediately with a solemn expression.

Xie Yao was a little surprised.

First, Chu Han’s attitude was unexpected. How dare you resist so strongly even when Emperor Zhao Chu granted you a marriage?

The second is the unexpected word "granted marriage" spoken by Emperor Chu.

Those who could make the emperor ask for marriage were basically the main wives, and only a few were side concubines. As Princess Minghui, it was very difficult to marry Chu Han as a side concubine.

Even if Emperor Zhaochu wanted to issue a decree to divorce her from Prince Han's palace, and then let Chu Han take Princess Minghui as his concubine, he should issue the decree to divorce her first, and then grant a marriage, right?

Now that she still occupies the position of principal concubine, she wants to be married again. What does it mean?

"Why don't you agree?" Emperor Zhaochu narrowed his cold eyes and looked at Chu Han.

Chu Han hesitated for a moment, "There is already a principal concubine and a side concubine in Erchen's mansion. As Princess Minghui, being a concubine to Erchen is already wronging her, let alone a concubine."

"My son suggested that it would be safest to see which of the other princes have vacancies for the position of concubine, and then marry Princess Minghui."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Emperor Zhaochu was angry, and the breath around him instantly became cold, as if a wall was pressing down from above his head, making it suffocating.

"I don't dare, please teach me." Chu Han immediately knelt down.

Xie Yao also knelt down, with doubts in her eyes.

She didn't expect that Chu Han would refuse at this time.

Emperor Zhaochu has obviously taken this matter seriously. Wouldn't refusing it be tantamount to going against Emperor Zhaochu?

"Prince Han!" Although Emperor Zhaochu gradually withdrew his pressure, his tone was still cold, "Since I have decided to grant a marriage, I will not miss the identity of Princess Minghui. She married into Prince Han's palace as an equal wife.

Her status is equivalent to that of a royal concubine."

“Lao Wu’s daughter-in-law, do you agree to Princess Minghui’s entrustment to Lao Wu as her equal wife?”

Xie Yao didn't expect that Emperor Zhaochu would ask her again. She immediately understood that the beatings she had given her before were all in preparation for the present, and she immediately agreed.
Chapter completed!