"It's just that parents will leave before you one day, and your elder brother and you each have their own homes, how can they protect you forever?" Shen Xinyan stroked her long hair and sighed.
"Mother thinks a little bit more. If I have to live a miserable life after getting married, why should I marry? I might as well pack up and live with Aunt Xu. It's so much fun to follow her all over the country. !” Wei Yingzhi disagreed.
Shen Xinyan rubbed her forehead with a headache.
It seems that Xu Sumin is not only affected by herself in this life, but also her daughter.
"Someday, I will let your Aunt Xu teach you a lesson!" She pinched her face again out of anger.
When Fang Birong came to visit, Shen Xinyan was still a little surprised.
In the past few years, Fang Birong has not been coming to the Duke's Mansion very often, but the relationship with the Duke's Mansion has been maintained quite well. At least the Eldest Princess is willing to see her every time and talk to her for a while.
But Fang Birong didn't come to Funing Courtyard to see her specially, it was the first time like today.
"It's rare for Madam to be free today, so Birong came to bother me with a cup of tea, Madam won't be disgusted with it?" Fang Birong said with a smile.
"It's my honor for Mrs. Wu to show her face. Chunliu, pour tea!" Shen Xinyan also smiled.
The two exchanged a few words of politeness, and chatted with each other for a while, before Fang Birong said slowly: "In the blink of an eye, Brother Lin has also reached the age of marriage, I wonder if Madam has someone in mind?"
"From Mrs. Friday's tone, could there be a good girl to introduce?" Shen Xinyan asked with a smile.
"Brother Lin is such an outstanding child, there are so many people in the capital staring at him! It's a pity that my beautiful girl was born later." Fang Birong also laughed.
The Xiu girl she mentioned naturally refers to her daughter Zhou Wanxiu.
"When girl Xiu grows up in the future, I'm afraid you, a mother, will still have to worry about it!"
"That's right, the girls here are all the debts of their parents!"
The two of them talked about the Children's Book again, and Fang Birong finally got to the point.
"A few days ago, my uncle's family returned to Beijing, but I haven't seen my niece Wanning for a few years. I never imagined that she would look like a fairy, and she would compare with all the girls in the house."
"Miss Zhou is indeed beautiful." Shen Xinyan guessed her reason for coming, and answered carefully.
"So Madam has seen her before." Fang Birong pretended to be surprised, and then slapped her forehead, "Look at my brain, the Duke and my uncle are officials in the same dynasty, it is not surprising that Madam recognizes niece Guanning, it's my brother Dao Lin I also go to visit my uncle from time to time."
Before Shen Xinyan could speak, she smiled again and said: "Brother Lin is a rare talent, and niece Guanning is a rare beauty..."
Shen Xinyan thought for a moment, did she come as a matchmaker for Zhou Guanning? But after looking carefully, she didn't miss the disgust that flashed across Fang Bisu's face when he mentioned Zhou Mao's family, so she dismissed the idea again.
It seems that matchmaking is false, but temptation is true.
"There are hundreds of girls in the family, and the niece is so beautiful, I'm afraid the matchmaker will step on the threshold." She took a sip of tea from the teacup and replied calmly.
Fang Birong has been staring at her closely, not letting go of every expression on her face, only to see that her expression is indifferent, and she can't see whether she likes or dislikes at the moment, and she is a little uncertain.
Was this intended for Zhou Wanning, or was it unintentional
"That's true. Such a beautiful woman has attracted all the sons to come to seek her. These years, I have been in office with my father, and I have always been protected by the son of the General Zhenguo's mansion..." At this point, she looked at her again. Seeing Shen Xinyan's expression, she was still calm, and she couldn't tell anything strange.
"Now that my uncle has this errand, and he will stay in the capital in the future, the marriage of this niece of Guanning will definitely go up to a new level. It is said that the candidate for the crown prince has been decided, but this is the crown prince's side concubine..."
Shen Xinyan was slightly startled, but Fang Birong grasped it sensitively.
It turned out that it was not intended! That's good.
With an idea in her mind, she calmed down a bit and said meaningfully: "Now that the three-year filial piety period has passed, His Majesty still has no intention of recovering. This person is naturally in a hurry, and niece Guanning is like this." The beauty of the sky and the beauty of the country, I think there must be a chance."
Shen Xinyan is not a fool, so it is natural to hear that the "someone in a hurry" she mentioned must be the former Zhou Shoufu.
It seems that the former chief assistant is not willing to stay silent like this! And with Zhou Guanning's appearance like that, it's no accident that he thought it would be no accident to use her marriage to become the crown prince.
This was his plan, presumably because he had already given up on Queen Zhou in the palace and planned to invest in Concubine Rui. However, with Zhou Mao and his wife's love for their daughter, it is impossible to agree. I am afraid that there will be a lot of suspicion between the Zhou family and his son.
It's all about this, but Shen Xinyan didn't respond in the slightest except for being a little surprised. Fang Birong was finally relieved.
That's good, since the Duke's Mansion has no intentions, she can act boldly. As for the old man's idea... She sneered secretly.
If the big house borrows Zhou Guanning to become the crown prince, will Zhou Mansion still have their fifth house from now on? Even the queen in the palace would not agree.
I didn't expect that the gentle and elegant chief assistant back then would be no different from an ordinary bad old man after losing his power. She was indeed young and ignorant back then.
With the answer, this trip is considered worthwhile, Fang Birong naturally didn't intend to stay for a long time, changed the subject and talked about the gossip in Huijing, and then left.
Shen Xinyan ordered Chunliu to send her out.
Knowing Zhou's plan, Shen Xinyan naturally would not hide from Wei Junhang, and told him exactly what Fang Birong had revealed.
Wei Junhang frowned after hearing this: "Master Zhou is still unwilling to give up, but he has not seen the situation clearly until now. There is already Zhou Mao in the Zhou mansion, so how could His Majesty use him again? It is tied to His Majesty's heart, and it has already changed."
Shen Xinyan didn't understand the affairs of the court, so she said with a little worry: "I'm not afraid of such things, but just in case. It's easiest to do calculations with your mind and no mind, so you can't relax."
"Don't worry, ma'am, I will take this matter into consideration."
After getting his words, Shen Xinyan finally relaxed a little bit. Unconsciously thinking of her daughter's words again, she complained a little, "That girl Ying'er is really helpless."
After hearing this, Wei Junhang laughed loudly: "This girl is not wrong, as the daughter of a Duke, a little arrogance is nothing!"
"You still have the nerve to praise her?" Shen Xinyan was helpless.
"I know what Madam is worried about. She is worried about her future marriage. Madam is too worried. Based on her background, even if she is a poor girl, there will be a lot of people coming to marry her."
"Ten 'big families' are not as good as one 'good family'!" Shen Xinyan glared at him.
Wei Junhang laughed again, and after receiving the anger from his wife, he quickly hid his laughter, cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "Ma'am, don't worry, which woman from a rich family has no temper? What's more, our Ying It's not like she's brainless and reckless. On the contrary, her lightning skills are something that many women raised in deep boudoirs lack, so people will appreciate her."
Shen Xinyan shook her head, then sighed again, not wanting to argue with him about her daughter anymore. Anyway, in this life, she has to keep her eyes open to pick a son-in-law, lest she regret it in the future.
More than half a month later, Shen Xinyan and her daughter were reconciling accounts. In the past few years, not only the chores in the house, but also the dowry shop under her name, she also let her daughter share a part.
The little girl always complained at the beginning, but as time went by, she got a taste of everything after getting used to it.
"Ma'am." At this moment, Chunliu walked in with an ugly expression, and seeing Wei Yingzhi was there, she swallowed her words.
"Let's stop here today. You go to your grandmother first and see if she has any opinions on the proposed menu." Shen Xinyan closed the account book and said to her daughter.
"If you want to drive people away, just say it, but you have to give a reason." Wei Yingzhi muttered, and ran away under her mother's stare.
"Speak, there is something bad to report."
"Pingyan sent people back and forth, and the prince rescued the three girls of the Zhou family who fell into the water."
Shen Xinyan frowned: "Can anyone see it? No matter what, keep this matter from me first, and don't allow any news to leak out!"
Although it was a matter of necessity, it could be regarded as a skin-to-skin relationship. If word spread, she would have no choice but to recognize this daughter-in-law even if she didn't want it anymore.
Chunliu also knew that the situation was serious, she had been with Shen Xinyan for so long, she could see that Shen Xinyan was not willing to have anything to do with that Zhou family, and naturally she would not be happy for her son to marry this Wednesday girl.
"Don't worry, ma'am, I have already ordered."
"I remember that Brother Lin went out with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today, why did he go out with the girl on Wednesday..." The voice stopped abruptly, and Shen Xinyan remembered what Fang Birong said that day.
Could it be that the crown prince was the one planning this matter today, and her son just acted as a 'hero' again
A few days later, things took a turn for the worse. Suddenly, there was a "good story" in Beijing that the four sons of the General Zhen Guo's mansion rescued the beauty. The third girl, the woman who is as beautiful as the Nine Heavens Xuannv descended to the mortal world.
The rumors intensified, and when Shen Xinyan heard it, the rumors had already spread to the point where the two houses were about to make a marriage for the "fourth son of the hero Murong" and the "three girls of the beautiful Zhou's house".
"Huh? It's so strange, it was Miss Wednesday who was rescued by the prince, how did she become Mr. Murong Tao?" Chunliu naturally also heard such words, and couldn't understand it.
Shen Xinyan couldn't figure it out at first, but after thinking about Murong Tao's attachment to Zhou Guanning in her previous life, she secretly thought, could it be that Murong Tao preemptively released all of this
In her previous life, Zhou Guanning was married, but Murong Tao was still infatuated. She secretly caused troubles for her son, and later even secretly colluded with Prince Cheng's son, cooperating internally and externally, pretending to be a "rebel" to marry Zhou Guanning to him. kidnapped.
Of course, he was able to successfully take people away because of her "credit" in the previous life.