Emperor Xuan Jing did not give a definite answer before. After a few vague words, he praised Rong Suihe again, mentioned Sheng Weiqiao meaningfully, and said something about hoping that they would grow old together with the Shu sisters. The son showed off his gifts and left.
He left with his front foot, and Queen Meng arrived belatedly.
The Queen blushed and looked very uncomfortable. As soon as she entered the palace, she knelt down and came to apologize to the Queen Mother: "My daughter-in-law has been feeling unwell for the past two months, so she came here late. I beg the Queen Mother to punish me!"
Originally, Empress Dowager Meng was a little angry when she saw that Empress Meng had never been there.
If not, the Queen wasn't there just now, so she didn't have to be in the battle herself, and she wouldn't be furious at being squeezed out by the Shu sisters because she was single and weak.
Even if Emperor Xuan Jing had not expressed his position on the spot, the Queen Mother would not dare to imagine what the consequences would be if she was unable to stop the adoption on the spot.
But after all, she was her biological niece. When she saw Empress Meng's face, she was immediately surprised. She originally planned to beat up Rong Shuihe and Sheng Weiqiao, but she didn't think about it and casually waved her leg to ask them to leave... Of course, she had just vowed to stay. The meal was completely forgotten. Before Rong Suihe and his wife could walk out of the palace, they pulled the queen to ask questions and asked with concern, "Why don't you tell the imperial doctor if I'm not feeling well?"
"My daughter-in-law is thinking that if the imperial doctor is passed down, the queen mother will probably know about it. You are already worried about those confinement periods, so why should you worry about your daughter-in-law anymore?" Empress Meng said thoughtfully, "Anyway, you have to worry about it. It’s not something urgent…”
If he came from the east, he could not hear clearly because he was already far away.
Sheng Weiqiao was worried and couldn't help but ask the palace attendant who was leading the way: "Is the Queen sick? What is it?"
"The slaves have always been serving in Xinshou Palace." But the palace servant shook his head and said he didn't know, "I don't know what the queen's body is like."
"Don't worry, since the Queen Mother can come to Xinshou Palace to explain to the Queen Mother in person, it's obviously nothing serious, otherwise she would have been bedridden long ago, wouldn't it?" Rong Suihe saw this, winked, and comforted softly, "It's probably just a minor illness, and it will only last a few months."
Sheng Wei and Qiao Minghong would find someone to ask the Shu sisters about what he meant, and only then did he feel reassured.
When they left the palace, Yuan Liuguang and his wife were following Princess Gaomi's instructions and took Yuan Donglai, whose cheeks were swollen, to plead guilty in the Sheng Mansion.
According to the thoughts of Princess Qingfang and Princess Gaomi, no matter how much the Sheng family doted on Sheng Weiqiao, seeing the eight-year-old Yuan Donglai being beaten like that, they would have to seek justice after all, right
However, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law underestimated the degree of partiality of the twenty-four filial piety father. Sheng Lanci inexplicably ushered the three members of the Huaiyuan Hou Mansion into the main hall and shut up, wondering what the Yuan family was doing with a little girl with an injured face. , just after hearing the beginning of Yuan Liuguang's story, his expression suddenly changed: "Is his sweet girl okay? Did she get burned?!"
Yuan Liuguang went and said: "The third brother and sister Jiren have their own destiny and are safe and sound."
"I'm sure it's okay?!" Sheng Lanci took a deep breath and looked at him with a heavy gaze, "Is there something wrong but it was hidden?!"
Princess Qingfang, who was waiting for him to apologize on her daughter's behalf, laughed angrily: "They just came over from the palace just now. The third brother and sister served tea nicely. What's the matter?"
"Since we can raise a ruthless little guy who kills his relatives at a young age, why can't we force his sweet girl to serve tea even though she was injured?!" However, Sheng Lanci glanced at her coldly. Come here, he said cheerfully, "Besides, even if his sweet girl wasn't burned at the time, she would have been frightened... Forget it, he has no intention of shutting up with us now. He has to go to the Mi Zhen County Prince's Mansion immediately to see with his own eyes. How is the child?"
Before Princess Qingfang came out of the cabinet, although Princess Gaomi was in poor health and missed Rong Suihe who was living abroad, she had always been her sweetheart. However, as the legitimate daughter of the Gaomi Prince and his wife, she was still the eldest daughter. It is also possible that a group of people have grown up supporting you.
She came from a privileged background, and had seen countless jewels and beauties since she was a child. She considered herself to be a knowledgeable person, and she couldn't help but feel that her eyes had been opened at this moment, and she had forgotten to care about what Sheng Lanci said about her daughter. Cruel and cruel, parricide is contrary to ethics." Chichi said, "The newlyweds will not return home until March..."
"His good girl suffered such a big crime just after entering the house. He is very capable of taking care of those customs?!" Sheng Lanci's face was ashen and he didn't even bother to greet them. He stood up and walked out. As he walked, he ordered, "Prepare your horse." , ask for the fastest one!"
Unexpectedly, he asked her to rush over immediately to confirm her daughter's safety!
"Sheng Shanda!" Princess Qingfang was stunned by the situation, and Yuan Donglai, who was ignorant, was suppressed by the murderous aura that was flowing through his body at this moment and did not dare to say anything, but Yuan Liuguang's eyes flashed, but he walked steadily without moving. After taking a sip of tea, he said slowly, "We are both fathers. I think I know a little bit about your current mood. Because of this, should we consider this matter in the long run?"
Sheng Lanci stood behind the threshold and waited for Dongren to prepare his horse. Hearing this, he turned to look at him and said with a sneer: "It's your own fault that you are so ruthless. A good couple is so anxious to find someone at the door." Under the guise of apologising, I begged the Sheng family to give us an explanation. How could it be that if the Sheng family asked for an explanation to us, did I say something that empathizes with my feelings?"
Princess Qingfang didn't understand what he meant, and frowned when she heard this: "My daughter is not bad, but are the three brothers and sisters doing a bad job? You keep saying what you say to explain to them, can you not only protect the three brothers and sisters from the beginning to the end? What explanation did you give me?!"
"The Sheng family's ancestral home is Nanfeng County. To be honest, I never thought about asking my dear girl to marry in Chang'an." Sheng Lanci didn't even look at her, and kept talking to Yuan Liuguang, "Bun Nao Just like what her aunt said when her father-in-law and mother-in-law came to our house to propose marriage that month, Guainan has always believed that he is the jewel in the hands of the three families in Nanfeng County, and it won't be true until she leaves the cabinet!"
"That matter is simply because they didn't know how to teach their daughter. The third brother and sister are Buqiao, and the third brother is Buqiao." Yuan Liuguang nodded calmly, gave his wife a cold look as a warning, and finally said gently, "But sir, please think about it. After all, the princess is the sister of the third brother. Even if the third brother comes back soon, there is still a gap between him and his blood relatives, but after all, blood is thicker than water. As the saying goes, if you don’t see it when you look up, you will see it when you lower your head... A good son-in-law like the third brother is not wrong either. You can meet her all day long, otherwise even if you dote on your daughter, you will definitely not agree to the marriage, right?"
Sheng Lanci narrowed her eyes, looked at him for a while, and then said calmly: "I am a famous person. Although I don't know if I think so in my heart, or not, it is just what I say with my mouth. Just say a few more words to me!"
As he walked back to his original position and walked east, his cold eyes turned around Yuan Donglai before he looked back and continued expressionlessly, "The three of them have always been in the south. People from the frontier are far away from Chang'an, so it is inevitable that there will be a lack of etiquette." Zhou, please don’t ask for forgiveness!”
Yuan Liuguang nodded calmly: "I guarantee in the name of my late father that this matter will never happen again!"
"Please!" Sheng Lanci heard this and said nothing more. She took a sip of tea and made a direct leg gesture to see off guests.
... After leaving the Sheng Mansion, Princess Qingfang asked her husband in a confused manner: "Does what I just said to him mean anything?"
"What do you mean?" Yuan Liuguang glanced at her coldly and sneered, "Just now, Concubine Mu asked us to bring Dong Lai over to apologize. He said it was best not to do that, but I didn't listen. I didn't come unless I begged! Come here! After that, I really wanted to fight with Sheng Xinzhang... I didn't want to think about the dowry of the third brother and sister. It couldn't show the importance she received in her parents' family?! It turned out that such a thing happened in the new house on the day the third brother and sister came out of the palace. Wouldn't it be my place? My third brother and sister’s parents, will I give in at that time?!”
The commander of Qingfang County opened his mouth, but he was speechless before: Indeed, before Sheng Weiqiao left the cabinet, could the King of Gaomi come to the door in person and reiterate that it turned out that he was murdered by the younger generation of her husband's family on the day she left the cabinet. As a member of her mother's family, what if at that time Who knows if the Gaomi Palace in the East will think that the daughter of the Sheng family is just a paper tiger, but is actually easy to bully, so he will intensify his efforts to target Sheng Weiqiao? !
She was a little annoyed at her omission, but from the perspective of Yuan Donglai's birth mother, she couldn't help but feel resentful: "I really don't know where the Sheng family has such confidence. They spoil the third younger brother and sister like that. I'm also afraid that the third younger brother won't be able to bear it one day." What is the temper of the third brother and sister?"
"What are they afraid of?" Yuan Liuguang heard the words and sneered, "Didn't I understand what Ming Hong Sheng Xinzhang meant? The people standing behind the three brothers and sisters were not from the Sheng family, but from the three powerful families in Nanfeng County. To put it exaggeratedly, the entire Nanfeng County is standing there!"
"In the eyes of the nobles in Chang'an, the third brother and sister may just be the daughters of a wealthy family from a small place. With good luck, they became the county lord and became the county princess!"
"But in Nanfeng County, as long as the three powerful families are here, she will be the most favored, ruthless, and untouchable jewel!"
"No in the past, no now, no in the future... There is a gap between his third brother Yue Ruoguo and his third younger brother and sister, and the three powerful people will not look away!"
"Not only are they unable to look around, but they are far away from Chang'an and are not respected by the imperial court. They do not behave like gentlemen!"
"It's okay to be ungentleman, the key is whether they have money!"
Yuan Liuguang said indifferently, "People die for money and birds die for food. I think that if they want to buy dowries from the three powerful families in Nanfeng County to their three younger siblings... what kind of desperado can't buy them?" "
He smiled sarcastically, "Even the servants around us may be tempted by the silver reward!"
He also said, "No, please," he hinted to Sheng Xinzhang. After the incident got bigger, even though Dong Laiqiu was accused of murdering her parents at a young age, the three younger siblings would be afraid of slapping a child of her age for the sake of the maid. It was inevitable for everyone to talk about it, and there were very few good men like the third brother. If there was a big quarrel, it would not be a good thing for the third brother and sister if the couple got into trouble. Sheng Xinzhang took a step back for the sake of her daughter. ...I thought he just called him to stop him?"
"I thought he would seriously go to the county prince's mansion tomorrow and confirm with his own eyes that the three siblings are well and then stop?"
"He told me that he would most likely ask the third brother why he failed to protect the third brother and sister. After that, he would go to the palace to find his father-in-law for an explanation!"
"After all, if my father-in-law had wronged his sworn promise, he would have wronged the three younger siblings and treated them as his own!"
"I'll think about it for myself. If I really go to all this trouble, what's the benefit except that the whole family will be disgraced and laughed at by the Meng family?!"
"Dong Lai just got a scratch on her ear. It looked scary for the past two days. It will take a few months for her to recover and she will be back to normal. How can she be better than the maid who knew whether she would get a scar that day?"
"And I can give her a little more memory for her temper... I can be smarter, lower my head, apologize kindly, and get the sincere forgiveness of the three siblings. This will not only show that our family is generous and tolerant, but also indirectly give Dong the best." Lai restored the impression, even if the incident was leaked later, and people knew that after Dong Lai was beaten, we not only came to the house to apologize, but also took full responsibility for the fault from beginning to end. When I talk about this gossip, whether it is towards the three younger brothers and sisters, not towards us ?!”
"I don't even understand the simple principle of taking retreat to make progress. How dare I get involved in the affairs of my two younger brothers, each of whom is more preoccupied than the other?!"
Princess Qingfang hesitated for a long time, then said bitterly: "Since I plan to retreat in order to advance, I don't feel sorry for Dong Lai at all. Why don't I tell him? He doesn't know my thoughts, so naturally he can't feel sorry for my daughter. !”
Yuan Liuguang did not answer the words and said calmly: "So I saw it tomorrow? A third brother is no longer easy to mess with. The third brother and sister at that time were also spoiled, and her mother-in-law would blindly protect her... That Rong Qingzui Princess Huihe and Princess Huihe neither saved my life nor raised me. I left my well-off confinement child alone, and I didn’t ask for my son and daughter to work as a spearman for them... I’m afraid if I act like that again, He can just bring in a few concubines and give me something to do!"
Princess Qingfang couldn't help but have red eyes when she said that: "Could I have already taken a liking to the person and use that to make excuses?"
"I can take care of myself!" Yuan Liuguang did not answer the question directly, but said calmly, "He will send me and Dong Lai back to the house later. I really want to go to the county prince's house to explain things to my third brother and my third brother and sister."
After a while, Yuan Liuguang arrived at the Mi Zhen County Prince's Mansion alone.
He entered smoothly, but after being led to the flower hall for tea, a steward came and apologized and asked him to wait for a while, because the prince and his wife had just answered from the palace and were having dinner at that time.
When Yuan Liuguang heard this, he knew that there was probably a disturbance in the palace, so he asked the steward.
After listening to the steward briefly explain what happened, he frowned.