“What does His Majesty mean?” Even womenfolk who were not interested in the affairs of the previous dynasty couldn’t help muttering to themselves. When the Crown Prince was injured for protecting his son, Emperor Xianjia not only visited him in person, but also reappointed Gu Shao as the Prime Minister, which caused disorder for Prince of Wei and Prince of Zhao!
As a result, since these days, everyone believed that the emperor was determined to ensure that the Crown Prince would ascend the throne in the future. Why did he come here today?
Emperor Xianjia had celebrated the birthday of his sister before, but he would only come when her age was the multiple of ten.
However, today was just an ordinary birthday of Daiguo Grand Princess. Besides, from a political point of view, it was also inappropriate for him to attend the birthday banquet of Daiguo Grand Princess in person.
In this way, people here couldn’t help muttering: Was the em
Fortunately, Song Yixiao was asked to stay just now. Finding that everyone was quite embarrassed, she mediated and said, “It’s really strange. After all, this is the palace of Aunt Daiguo. Prince of Wei asked the Marquis to come out to talk. How can he hide this from Aunt? Princess Consort of Wei is still pregnant, but Prince of Wei comes to worry about Muting’s marriage. If Aunt knows this, how can she not give it another thought?”“Madam Song, you are right. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, let’s leave separately now!” Yuan Xuepei intended to keep a distance from Jiang Muting, so after hearing her words he responded, “Lady first!”Seeing this, Song Yixiao nodded to him and then left.She left straightforwardly while Jiang Muting was reluctant. On the way back, her pace was inevitably slow.Song Yixiao knew her thought but she didn’t reveal it, and walked slowly with her. After a long walk, Jiang Muting suddenly stopped. She
Jian Xubai naturally accompanied his wife to come there. When they entered the warm chamber, they saw Daiguo Grand Princess sat on the seat of honor and members of the Jiang family were all here except Jiang Muting.They were all expressionless, so the atmosphere in the warm chamber was thick with tension. Ji Mingfei was kneeling down alone on the ground while he looked very leisure. When he saw Jian Xubai supported Song Yixiao to the chamber, he even looked up and down the pearl head-ornaments beside Song Yixiao’s temples.Seeing this, the couple both frowned, and they subconsciously thought of something!A moment later, they finished regular salute, and Daiguo Grand Princess asked them to sit down. When they were seated, she directly asked, “Xubai, you and your wife come here just in time. It is said that when Yixiao left the banquet to sober up today, she ran into the girl of the Jiang family. At that time, Prince of Wei and Marquis Boling w
Before Daiguo Grand Princess answered, Jian Xubai, who hadn’t spoken since he came in, chuckled lightly and said with a casual air, “In fact, although what you said just now does make sense, you still failed to mention one possibility. That is, it was a deceptive trick of a thief crying ‘Stop thief‘!”He raised his hand to stop Daiguo Grand Princess from flaring up. “Aunt, please allow me to elaborate!”“If you can’t elaborate on it clearly, don’t blame me for not showing respect for your mother!” Daiguo Grand Princess looked at him coldly for a moment and then said sternly. “Your mother always indulges you but I just won’t allow a junior to act presumptuously!”“Actually, this matter is very simple. Even if Miss Jiang walked to Cousin Mingfei’s room on her own, she went there definitely not to meet him,” Jian Xubai just smiled at his aunt’s threat and then touched the tea bowl casually, saying. “It was not necessarily the case that Cousin Ming
Not hurried at all, Jian Xubai said in a calm and composed manner, “Aunt, since you want to make it clear, how can the juniors not listen to you?”“What you said just implies that I instigated Madam Tu and Madam Liang to scheme against Jiang Muting with the internal strife of Marquis Boling’s mansion!” Daiguo Grand Princess kept sneering. “Then tell us why I dragged my nephew into this? There are only Mingfei and Zifu for the young generation of the Ji Family. After all, I’ve watched him grow up. Even if he is a bit badly reputed, why would I add fuel to the fire?”Speaking of this, she glanced at Jiang Yin and the others with disdain, “The Jiang Family doesn’t want Mingfei to marry their daughter. How can I expect my birth daughter to look unhappy every time she comes back?”What she said did make sense somehow. Although Princess Consort of Wei took away the position that was not for her at that time, her love rival suddenly became her cousin’
“Lord Jiang, it’s not difficult to guess,” Yuan Xuepei was about to say something when Jian Xubai suddenly interjected. “You know, Miss Jiang has feelings for Xuepei. If she knew that Xuepei was in danger, how could she stand by and watch? Besides, although Cousin Mingfei is a bit dissolute, he is not a despicable man. When he saw Miss Jiang enter his room, he couldn’t do anything inappropriate. However, his reaction, in Miss Jiang’s eyes, was mistakenly related to Xuepei. It was not difficult to find out the truth, but as they talked it through, it would be embarrassing to shout for help at that time.”After all, Jiang Muting had already been in the room for a while. If she cried for help back then, how could she not be suspected of indiscretion?Moreover, Ji Mingfei didn’t do anything to her. Any girl who didn’t want to badger Ji Mingfei would choose to remain silent and see if she could not be found and preserve her reputation.Jiang Yin was
Next day, the news from the imperial palace was the same as what Jian Xubai said. One of the Nine Concubines, Concubine Chen was pushed out to take the blame for somebody else. The Empress Dowager’s maid Yuguo came to Grand Princess Daiguo’s residence to read the decree that the grand princess’ two maids used to be Noble Consort Cui’s and had been bought over by Concubine Chen. They had been arranged by Noble Consort Cui in name. Concubine Chen did that behind the scenes in order to cause the fight between Cui and Daiguo.Concubine Chen did that because she had fought for the emperor’s love with Noble Consort Cui in the early years, but unfortunately, she gave birth to three princes yet none of them survived, while all Cui’s sons survived and even her eldest son became the crown prince, so she bore a grudge against Cui and wanted to make use of Grand Princess Daiguo to harm Cui.The “truth” had been found, so the punishment was logical. Concubine Chen was d
Consort Cui was planning to counterattack Grand Princess Daiguo, trying to win the Empress Dowager’s heart back, while outside the temporary palace, most people were talking about Jiang Muting.“The people from the palace investigated, so all people know that Muting loves Marquis Yuan.” Wei Yinlian came to see Song Yixiao early in the morning and told her as soon as they met. “It happens that the secret spreads that she and the Master Mingfei were locked up in a room! Now all people talk about her and speak randomly. Many remarks are…offensive to the ear!”Then she added, “Fortunately, after the members of the Jiang Family went back that day, they shut the door and refused to see any guest. Otherwise, these days, only the ones who watch the fun will annoy them to death. I have heard that Lord Jiang is writing a letter to admit his error and ask for punishment. He confessed…”She paused for a while and then continued with a complicated expressio
Fortunately, Yuan Xuepei didn’t let the Jiang Family down.Next morning, Jian Limiao sent a message to the Jiang Family’s residence, saying that he was entrusted by Marquis Boling and came to propose marriage for him.Jian Limiao was in poor health all the time. When he was invited in, he couldn’t help but cough several times, so after he was seated, he apologized, “Marquis Boling wanted to ask his maternal uncle Prince of Hengshan to come, but the Dowager Consort passed away in the fourth lunar month, and the prince is still in mourning for his mother, so he can’t get involved in the happy events such as marriage. Marquis Boling hasn’t contacted his elder relatives for a long time, so after considering for a long time, he entrusted me as he is a good friend of Xubai. If he neglects your feelings, please forgive him.”It was not that Yuan Xuepei hadn’t contacted his second paternal uncle for a long time. After all, at the beginning of last year