This was the question, but Sheng Weiqiao knew in his heart that it was probably the case.
Because although Princess Deping has the opportunity to come to Zheng Guogong's Mansion today to congratulate Meng Bijun, she is a guest here, and Meng Guiyu, as a descendant of the Meng family, is half the owner; and in such a big place as Zheng Guogong's Mansion, the front yard and the back yard are The house is separated by high walls and alleys. As a female guest, Princess Deping will not be able to find Meng Guiyu on the Meng family's property unless she gets the full support of the principal of the Duke's Mansion, let alone get together. Meng Guiyu went to plot against him.
But if she really has the principal of the Duke's Mansion as a reinforcement, given the huge disparity in status and power between the first and fourth rooms of the Meng family, even if Meng Guiyu sees through her scheme, he may not be able to escape.
As for other places, not to mention whether the two met by chance, it is said that although Meng Guiyu is famous for being short of money, it is only relative to the circle he is in now, which can be said to be the top circle of the Great Mu Dynasty. , not even able to afford a few slaves.
When he was away from home, his personal servant would take care of his food and drink. How could Princess Deping get involved
There is only the Queen Mother's Xinshou Palace, which is where Princess Deping lives with Concubine Mo. Although she is not the owner of Xinshou Palace, she can be considered a local snake after living there for more than ten years.
In order to improve the status of the fourth room, Meng Guiyu often walked around Queen Mother Meng.
Under this situation, he went to Xinshou Palace more times. Perhaps when he went to the palace, Princess Deping had the opportunity to plot against him, either because of long-term planning or by accident.
... Fortunately she failed, otherwise the entire Meng family would probably die of stupefaction.
After all, these brothers and sisters seem to be working hard to climb up. It is estimated that it is too late to marry the children of someone with both money and power. If you marry someone who wants power but not power, and wants money but not money, you will not only be disliked by the Gaomi Palace, but also because of your relationship with Gaomi. It is impossible for Wang's bloodline to gain the trust of the Meng family. It can be said that Princess Deping has done a lot of harm but no benefit. It would be strange if the four members of the Meng family didn't collectively vomit blood!
Sure enough, Meng Guihuan frowned and nodded. Seeing Sheng Weiqiao, he was surprised: "Didn't the Queen Mother say anything?"
Although the title of Princess Deping was given to her by Empress Dowager Meng, the same sentence still applies: If Empress Dowager Meng really loved this unrelated granddaughter, she would still let her be twenty years old. No, after the New Year, now it is In the first month of the year, you are twenty-one years old and you are still wasting your time in the palace
But Meng Guiyu is the nephew of Empress Dowager Meng, and the nephew whom the Empress Dowager has loved very much in recent years. After suffering such a loss in the Empress Dowager's palace, the Empress Dowager should be angry with him because of her emotions!
But Sheng Weiqiao has never heard of this matter in the many days he has been in Chang'an. When Princess Deping came to the Queen Mother before, she didn't look like she had such an embarrassing moment with the Meng family
Not to mention anything else, she is here today to congratulate Meng Bijun!
Sheng Weiqiao was doubting herself when she saw Meng Guihuan covering her mouth with a handkerchief and smiling, saying: "Miss Sheng San, don't you think that although my aunt did not punish Princess Deping, she allowed her to stay in Xinshou Palace as before? You can move around as you like, just talk to Chi Zuosi, and you can come to my uncle's house to congratulate my fourteenth sister... "
"In this way, she can watch other women of the same age marry and become wives, and most of them even have children. Our generation, who are four or five years younger than her, are also preparing to leave the government, or at least plan to She falls in love with her husband; and from time to time she hears about whose son is noble and handsome, but none of this has anything to do with her... What punishment can make her more uncomfortable than this?"
Sheng Weiqiao: "..."
Well, although Empress Dowager Meng does not seem to be a harsh person, she is a winner after all who has survived under Concubine Rou. This level of harshness is completely beyond what Sheng Weiqiao's level can predict...
He also heard Meng Guihuan say: "Moreover, my aunt told Princess Deping kindly at that time that she had not yet left the palace at such an old age, and my sixth brother was both talented, beautiful, and of good conduct. The most rare thing was that the family had a simple population and no one." My parents need to be taken care of, and here I am with my seventh brother and tenth sister, and they are not difficult people to get along with!"
After counting Meng Guiyu's conditions one by one, and seeing that Sheng Weiqiao was just looking at him curiously, looking forward to the next step, with no intention of being attracted by such a ready-made son-in-law, Meng Guihuan sighed secretly and returned to the topic in dialect, "... Aunt. It is human nature to say that Princess Deping would have such thoughts. The only blame is that the Gaomi Palace and Concubine Mo are too cruel. No matter how big the wrong things Concubine Mo has done in the past, she is still childish and innocent. What's more, Princess Gaomi is also too cruel. That’s all, it’s common for a royal concubine to dislike a concubine’s daughter. Concubine Mo and King Gaomi are both blood relatives of Princess Deping. It’s really outrageous that they allowed the royal concubine to delay Princess Deping’s flowers letter like this. People can’t understand!”
"Also, Princess Gaomi gave birth to two daughters. The eldest daughter, Princess Qingfang, is seven years older than Princess Deping. The eldest son born after leaving the palace is about to get married! The second daughter, Princess Huihe, is much younger than Princess Deping. Two years old, the marriage was arranged five years ago. If the husband's elders hadn't passed away on the eve of the wedding, and the husband-in-law Ding You had to postpone the wedding, he would probably be a mother by now."
"In comparison, although Princess Deping survived the incident at the Gaomi Prince's Mansion, it was really aggrieved and difficult!"
"It's just that now the Gaomi Palace and the Meng family are evenly matched. Even though my aunt is the Queen Mother, and her surname is Meng, she can't rashly cross over from the Gaomi Palace to Concubine Mo and decide on Princess Deping's marriage... So I can only not punish her for plotting against my sixth brother. What happened, you even helped hide it!"
Meng Guihuan sneered when she said this, "However, my aunt wanted to hide it from her, but she knew that she was not worthy of my sixth brother at all. She was afraid that after the matter was successful, my aunt would favor him and prevent her from getting what she wanted. Before delivering the tea to my sixth brother, he arranged for a bunch of people to bear witness! As a result, my sixth brother discovered that the tea had been manipulated and left angrily to report it to my aunt, and the matter had already spread!"
"After my aunt announced that she wanted to be silenced, everyone has stopped talking about it publicly. Who doesn't know who she is in private?"
Pointing towards the main hall of Manjuanzhai, "Tell me, when we came here just now, why were those ladies so far away from Princess Deping? Not only did they think she was despised by the Gaomi Palace, but she had not yet left the cabinet at such an old age. The main reason is that she is afraid that a soft-hearted person will get entangled with her and cause trouble to the unmarried brother at home!"
"After all, you also know that although this person is the princess, she has a relationship with the Gaomi Palace. If she marries her, God knows, will she be hated by the palace together? Not to mention the Meng family and the Gaomi Palace. It’s never been a good deal. Even if you sympathize with her, you can’t take advantage of her!”
Sheng Weiqiao said with a complex expression: "The attitude of the Gaomi Palace towards this princess is also strange. Back then, concubines and concubines and so many children of concubines had troubles. It can also be said that this princess got Princess Mo's love." She managed to survive because of this. But now it seems that she has not left the cabinet, it seems that Mrs. Mo doesn’t care about her anymore, is the palace just so indifferent? "
Could it be that the Gaomi Palace had the same idea as Queen Mother Meng, and felt that letting Princess Deping live as an old girl like this would torture her more than killing her
I don’t know what kind of hatred makes King Gaomi, as his biological father, indifferent to Princess Deping’s situation
Sheng Weiqiao was a little doubtful. Could it be that the princess was not a bloodline of King Gaomi
But judging from how Concubine Mo saved her granddaughter, it doesn't look like... After all, even if Princess Deping is the daughter of Concubine Mo, Concubine Mo's direct niece, there is no need to ask which of the nieces this son is related to
In particular, Concubine Mo, as one of the late Emperor's favored concubines, could survive to this day and live a pretty good life, all because of this son!
Even if you love your niece, you wouldn't know that your niece had cuckolded your biological son and still keep the child who represents your son's shame, right
Concubine Mo is the biological mother of King Gaomi, not the adoptive mother!
But if Princess Deping is indeed a blood relative of Concubine Mo and King Gaomi, it is said that Princess Deping was still very young when the incident in Prince Gaomi's palace happened. What kind of crazy things did Concubine Mo have to do to make this only a fluke? The flesh and blood of those who escaped that "epidemic" are still being angered to this day
Or is it such a serious anger
"Who knows?" Meng Guihuan also shook his head and said, "Fourteen, oh, it was fifteen years ago now. When the epidemic happened, I was still holding it in my hands! What I know is not the same. A lot. I feel a little regretful when I say it, because it is said that Princess Gaomi has not appeared in front of people since that incident. I heard that she is quite a beauty and a talented woman. A few years ago, someone even got drunk at a palace banquet. I miss her beauty and grace, but it’s a pity that no one of our age has seen her.”
"Fourteen... fifteen years ago?!" Sheng Weiqiao originally ruled out any suspicion of Sheng Suihe because Meng Guihuan said last time that the third son of the Prince of Gaomi was a sick man, but now when he heard the specific time, he felt confused "Hey," he thought to himself, "I was so lost last time that I actually forgot to ask in which year the epidemic occurred in the Gaomi Palace... Fifteen years ago, wouldn't this be the time when my brother was living in Tortoiseshell Island?!"
As for the third legitimate son of the Gaomi Prince's Palace, he is a sick man...
Now that they are of the same age, it may not be unexplainable: after all, being ill is just a matter of poor physical health, and it does not mean that you will definitely die if you have a terminal illness.
Sheng Weiqiao had heard before that some people take medicine all day long, just like eating, but they just can't die after more than ten or twenty years. On the other hand, there are some people who are as strong as a cow on weekdays, and it seems that they can at least live for a long time. Passed away suddenly when he was still in his prime at the age of 180, maybe 30 or 40!
Maybe Sheng Suihe is the kind of person who looks dying, but actually can't die at all, and even gets stronger quickly after a lot of trouble
She was having ups and downs in her heart, trying hard to conceal her emotions, when she heard Meng Guihuan say: "Oh, people of our age, there are still people who have seen her, that is, the Lord Jingshu! It is said that she once wrote a poem lamenting the separation of flesh and blood, The poems praying for Huan Ping's safety were circulated to the Gaomi Palace and were known to the Gaomi Princess. The princess was also very talented when she was young. Perhaps she had the idea of sympathizing with each other and summoned County Master Jingshu once. "
"But it was just once. Later, I heard from County Master Jingshu that Princess Gaomi had a noble bearing and a cold expression. It was probably because she was so shocked after losing her beloved son in her early years that she had a head full of white hair, which was shocking to look at. shock!"
"This is all right!" Sheng Weiqiao pinched her palms hard to restrain herself from losing her composure on the spot!