No one can persuade the Eldest Princess to decide. In the end, the houses were separated under her auspices.
This family was divided suddenly, but it was also divided quite smoothly. The Fang family of the first room made a mistake, and she no longer has the right to speak; the second room Wei Junhang has not returned, and Shen Xinyan is originally a wealthy family, and it doesn't matter how much or how little is divided; Seeing that the other two concubines from the concubine had no objection, naturally they dared not say much.
It's just that, no matter if it's the second wife of the eldest family or the third wife of the concubine, they are all unwilling to separate the family without exception.
Needless to say Fang's, but for Wei Junxian and Yang's couple in the third room, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. The family has not been divided for a day, and they are still the third master and third wife of the Duke's Mansion. But if this family gets a point, if they move out of the mansion in the future, the glory of the Duke's mansion will have nothing to do with them.
Shen Xinyan couldn't persuade her for a long time, she watched the eldest princess divide up Nuoda's family, and felt mixed feelings in her heart.
People from each room stood in the hall, watching silently as the eldest princess pushed away Wei Chenglin's support, leaned on crutches, and left tremblingly. At this time, she was no longer the mighty Jinghe eldest princess, but an ordinary old woman whose heart was broken by her most trusted junior.
Shen Xinyan sighed, and looked at Wei Chengqi who was shaking his head and clenched his hands. Wei Chengzhao and Wei Chengyue brothers stood beside him, one on the left and one on the right, blocking Wei Junxian and the Yang couple's scolding view for him.
No matter what the Fang family did in private, or the separation of the Duke's family, it is not a glorious thing after all, Shen Xinyan will naturally not let people spread it out, at least she has been in charge of the affairs of the mansion for so many years, she can still do this .
Regarding Wei Chenglin's injury, she naturally would not give up. Is it difficult for offspring? Not long after her son got married in her previous life, Zhou Wanning became pregnant. She didn't believe that her son would encounter such a thing in this life.
Although the Eldest Princess was hit hard, she lived most of her life and experienced countless winds and rains, but she calmed down after a few days, and devoted herself to healing the wounds of her eldest grandson.
It's a pity that all the highly skilled imperial physicians in the palace were invited, but the results all disappointed them.
"I see that our mansion seems to be a little bit unlucky lately, why not hold a happy event to get rid of the bad luck." Yang suggested.
"Happy event? What happy event is there now!" the eldest princess sighed.
"To tell you the truth, Brother Zhao is getting older. I want to make an appointment for him. This girl is not someone else. She is my natal niece. She has already reached her age at the beginning of the year." Yang Shi salivated, explaining her purpose.
Shen Xinyan understood.
Wei Chenglin is the eldest among the younger generation of males, but he has never been able to make an appointment for marriage. Naturally, it is not easy for Wei Chengzhao, Wei Chengyue and other younger ones to pass him by.
But Yang's daughter-in-law was married at the beginning of the year, and this marriage cannot be delayed any longer.
The eldest princess rubbed her forehead and understood what she meant.
It seems that the marriage of the eldest grandson cannot be delayed any longer. If he does not marry a wife for a day, the marriages of brother Zhao, brother Yue and brother Qi will also be hindered.
"Since you have a candidate, let's book this marriage first!"
Yang readily agreed.
Make an appointment first, then try to choose a later date for the wedding, and leave enough time for Wei Chenglin, the second roommate. With his conditions, it is estimated that he will not fail to find a girl he likes.
She was thinking like this, completely unaware of the imperial physician's diagnosis of Wei Chenglin.
***
When Shen Xinyan arrived, Wei Chenglin was instructing Zhimo to hand over a bag of silver taels to Ping Yan's family. When she saw her coming in, he wanted to get up and salute, but Shen Xinyan stopped him.
"Ping Yan has been with me for many years. Now that he is gone like this, his family will definitely feel uncomfortable. I heard that he has a younger brother. I want to promote him to the outer courtyard and learn from Steward Wei. I don't know what my mother wants. ?" After Shen Xinyan sat down, Wei Chenglin finally explained his plan.
"That's what it should be, you just have to make up your mind." Naturally, Shen Xinyan would not refute his face on these trivial matters.
And she felt very sorry for Ping Yan's death.
"I heard that Murong Tao of the Zhen Guo General's Mansion was also seriously injured. The time of the injury was almost the same as yours this time. Could it be that he was on business with you last time?" Simply asking him about the healing of the wound, Shen Xinyan suddenly ask.
Wei Chenglin's eyelids trembled, and then he said nonchalantly: "The last time my boy was ordered by the emperor to hunt down the missing Prince Cheng, as for what kind of errand General Murong did and why he was injured, my boy doesn't know." gone."
Is that so? Shen Xinyan's eyes couldn't hide her doubts.
"Then who plotted against you last time at the Summer Resort?" Shen Xinyan asked again.
"It's Murong Tao."
Shen Xinyan was not surprised: "What about you? It was found out that it was Little General Murong who was the black hand. Have you ever thought about how to get revenge on him?"
Wei Chenglin had already been prepared, and faced her question without any confusion, he said calmly: "My boy was planning to set up a good situation to teach him a lesson, but if he didn't obey His Majesty's will, it would be here, and my boy had no choice but to shelve the plan for the time being, and planned to wait Make plans after you finish your errands."
Seeing that Shen Xinyan only said "So that's the case", he couldn't guess whether she believed him or not, but he was very sure that if his mother didn't believe it, he couldn't find any evidence.
"And your marriage, what are your plans?" Shen Xinyan sipped her tea, but still asked this helplessly.
In the past few days, Mrs. Yang ran to her when she was free, and asked about Wei Chenglin's marriage either explicitly or secretly. Regarding this, Shen Xinyan also had a headache.
Ever since Wei Chenglin proposed to marry Zhou Guanning last time but was rejected by the Eldest Princess, his marriage has come to an impasse. The eldest princess did not let go, and he also used silence to express his unwillingness to marry other women. Both the mother-in-law and the grandson refused to give in to each other, which made Shen Xinyan, the biological mother, at a loss as to what to do.
In all honesty, she was on the side of the Eldest Princess. No matter what Zhou Wanning's temperament was, she would never accept her as her daughter-in-law in this life. But the eldest son has the posture of not marrying unless he is a prince.
"The child is so crippled now, so don't delay other girls. Although the elders and children are in order, it is not impossible to be flexible, and the life-long affairs of several younger brothers cannot be delayed because of the child alone." Wei Chenglin sighed.
"What do you mean by that? Could it be that you plan not to marry for life?" Shen Xinyan asked with a frown in her heart.
Wei Chenglin was silent.
"Not to mention whether it can be cured in the future, but the imperial physician's initial diagnosis only said that the offspring was difficult, and he never said that there would be no heirs. You..." Seeing that he really meant this, Shen Xinyan became anxious.
Wei Chenglin still didn't speak.
Shen Xinyan persuasively tried to persuade him, she said a lot, but she still didn't see the slightest sign of letting go, and she suddenly became angry.
Looking at the back of her leaving in a flick of sleeves, Wei Chenglin lowered his eyes to hide the complexity in his eyes.
At this time, Wei Junhang was eager to return home, and ordered someone to pack his luggage and set off for Beijing early in the morning. The carriage went outside the city, and he inadvertently lifted the curtain to look out the window, and suddenly saw a haggard old man on the side of the road. Holding a jar wrapped in blue cloth in his arms, the old man staggered forward.
"Stop!" Wei Junhang ordered loudly, and when the carriage stopped, he jumped out of the carriage and walked quickly to the old man: "Uncle Zhong!"
The old man stopped, looked at him slowly with cloudy eyes, and asked hesitantly, "Are you..."
"Uncle Zhong, I'm Wei Junhang! Do you still remember?" Wei Junhang was inexplicably surprised to meet an old friend.
The old man squinted his eyes and looked him up and down. After a long time, he suddenly realized: "You are the old Duke... Caomin has seen the Duke!"
He saluted hastily.
Wei Junhang hastened to support him: "Uncle Zhong, there is no need to be too polite. It has been a few decades since we parted in those years, and it is unprecedented that we meet an old friend again in a foreign land today!"
"Don't dare!"
When Wei Junhang was young, he was always taken to the barracks by the old man for training, but he was born to escape, and would be fined and grounded every now and then. This loyal uncle was the soldier who was in charge of watching him at that time.
Afterwards when he was dismissed and returned to the field, Wei Junhang never saw him again.
"It's rare to see you again today, why don't we go to the front town and have a drink, Uncle Zhong, come..." He said while trying to help the old man hug the jar.
"No, no, no, no, no, no need!" The old man hurriedly avoided his hand, and for a moment, said respectfully and alienated, "Don't dare to trouble the Duke, the old wife in Caomin's house is still waiting for Caomin and his unworthy grandson to return, and dare not stay for long , this is my farewell!"
After speaking, he bowed to him and left.
"Since that's the case, why don't you let me send Uncle Zhong and Ling..." Wei Junhang's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously looked at the jar in his arms.
"This is my unworthy grandson, who died on the eighth day of last month, Cao Min just now brought him back from Mr. Ling's subordinates." The old man held the jar in his arms expressionlessly.
What? ! Wei Junhang was shocked.
Thinking of his grandson who died young, the old man couldn't help but burst into tears.
"If he died on the battlefield, if he died for the righteousness of the country and the common people, it would be a worthy death. I have been proud of him all my life, but now..." The old man coughed loudly, unable to lift his breath.
Wei Junhang hurriedly supported him to calm him down, and when he saw that his face had improved, he said sincerely: "Uncle Zhong, I really didn't know Lingsun was working beside Gouzi, let alone..."
The old man wiped away his tears and pushed his hand away: "That's all, this is life!"
After finishing speaking, without looking at him again, she turned around holding the jar and left.
Wei Junhang wanted to chase after him, but he stopped in the end, turned around and told the guards beside him: "You send someone to escort him home, and then see if there is anything in his house that needs help, if so, spare no effort to help. , Immediately send someone to thoroughly investigate what the prince has done during the time I was not in the capital? Especially last month."
The guards lead the way.
The breeze from the suburbs was blowing slowly, blowing his clothes fluttering, he frowned with a pair of thick eyebrows, and his face was solemn.
What the hell did Brother Lin do...
With doubts in his heart, he was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, and his schedule also slowed down, just waiting for the news from his subordinate Tan.
It was not until a month later that he received the urgent letter from his subordinate.
When he opened the letter, his thick eyebrows subconsciously frowned even tighter. The more he looked down, the uglier his face became. In the end, he slammed the letter on the table: "Ridiculous!"
"Come here, prepare the carriages and horses, and return to Beijing immediately!" He ordered loudly.
***
In the Duke's Mansion, under Yang's repeated hints, the Eldest Princess had no choice but to start negotiating for Wei Chenglin again. After picking girls from several families one after another, Wei Chenglin sighed and shook his head, and then expressed bitterly that he did not want to drag other girls down, so anxious that the Eldest Princess dragged him and scolded him.
"What nonsense are you talking about, child! What drags you down, what the imperial doctor said can't be accurate, let alone it's not at the point of no return, listen to grandma, don't say such things again."
Wei Chenglin was silent for a while, and finally nodded slowly: "Grandson listens to grandma!"
Seeing that he finally let go, the Eldest Princess was happy, and even Shen Xinyan was also relieved.
However, for some reason, she always felt a little uneasy in her heart.
Could it be that he didn't want to drag down his favorite Zhou Guanning because he felt that it would be difficult for him to have children? So it doesn't matter who you marry? As soon as this thought came up, she tried her best to suppress it.
With the approval of her grandson, the eldest princess hurriedly handed over the words to the family she had been dating for a long time. With a tacit understanding between them, she was ready to invite the official media to formally propose marriage.
Shen Xinyan was very upset, but tried her best to ignore it, and began to prepare for the marriage proposal.
This time, the girl in the eyes of the eldest princess is the cousin of the crown princess. Shen Xinyan has met her once before, and she has a good impression of the girl.
Unexpectedly, when the official media who invited the marriage proposal came back, they said that the family was vague and seemed to be trying to shirk.
Shen Xinyan subconsciously looked at the eldest princess.
The eldest princess was very surprised: "What's the truth?"
Inviting a matchmaker to come to the door is just going through the motions with all the etiquette. In private, the two families have already had a tacit understanding and approved this marriage.
"There are hundreds of women in this family, maybe they just want to see the sincerity of our family's marriage proposal?" Shen Xinyan thought about it.
"Madam's words are also reasonable, and His Highness also knows that even if some people intend to raise their daughter's worth, and also to see the man's sincerity, they will first decline once or twice." The matchmaker also thought of this. .
After all, the eldest princess was a little unhappy, but she could barely understand the psychology of the woman's parents, so she said: "If that's the case, then I'll trouble you to run one more time!"
However, when she was still rejected the second time, the eldest princess's face turned completely dark: "It's unreasonable. Could it be that the Chen family thinks that with the support of the crown princess, they can humiliate me like this?!"
The uneasiness in Shen Xinyan's heart grew stronger.
She thought, maybe the Chen family really planned to go back on their word. If it is true, this marriage is extremely beneficial to the Chen family. Although the Chen family is related to the Crown Princess, the Crown Princess' surname is not Chen.
Wei Chenglin is not only the eldest grandson of the first eldest princess, but also the future prince, and the most trusted and capable person of the prince. Because of this, when he learned that the first eldest princess intends to marry a girl from their family for the eldest grandson, the old man Chen Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deserve it so quickly.
How to regret it at the most critical time? Could it be that they are not afraid that they will offend the Duke's mansion, offend the eldest princess, or even displease the crown prince
It wasn't until Mrs. Chen came to the Duke's Mansion the next day to see the eldest princess that Shen Xinyan knew the reason.
It turned out that Mrs. Chen did not know where she learned that the sons of the British princes were "difficult to have children". She only had such a granddaughter under her knees, and she loved her like a treasure since she was a child. How could she be willing to see her childless all her life? So what about the princess? If a woman has no heirs, how will she stand up in the future
Because of this, she tried her best to offend the Duke's government, and insisted on pushing the marriage.
Shen Xinyan was silent for a long time, looking at Mrs. Chen who didn't believe the princess's explanation at all, she let out a long sigh, knowing that this marriage could not be discussed.
After Mrs. Chen left, the Eldest Princess sat weakly on the couch.
The twisted melon is not sweet, and people are unwilling to marry, so is it possible to marry by force? Whose child whose parents don't feel bad! Although she was annoyed at the Chen family's backlash, she didn't have the confidence to blame him.
This situation continued again, and it was also at the critical moment of engagement that the other party backed down.
The third family that followed successfully accepted the official media that came to propose a marriage. But when the two governments were planning to formally make an appointment, a shocking scandal broke out in the other's residence.
This time, it was replaced by the Duke's Mansion and repented.
The successive failures made the eldest princess feel a little discouraged.
"Grandmother, forget it, why bother. In the situation of grandson, people who really love their daughter will not agree to marry their daughter; those who agree to marry are probably coming for the power of the Duke's Mansion. Good family." Wei Chenglin persuaded bitterly.
The eldest princess remained silent for a moment, then sneered and said, "I don't believe it anymore! It must be that those women are not so lucky, so this marriage cannot be settled!"
The next day, she brought Shen Xinyan to Lingyun Temple and asked Master Huiming to calculate the marriage for her eldest grandson.
"The son has a destined marriage, His Highness and Madam don't need to worry."
"Then where is his destined person?" The eldest princess was relieved after hearing this, and then asked again.
"Can Your Highness inform the poor monk of your son's birth date?"
The eldest princess hurriedly handed him the red paper with Wei Chenglin's birthday written on it.
"Eh? This birthday horoscope is very suitable for the female benefactor that the poor monk saw a few days ago." Unexpectedly, after taking it, Master Huiming pinched his fingers and counted, his face was full of surprise.
"Really? Is it true that you have traveled all over the iron shoes and found nowhere?" The eldest princess was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked which girl the other party was from.
A beautiful face immediately appeared in Shen Xinyan's mind, and she unconsciously tightened her handkerchief.
Could it be her
"The poor monk only remembers that Mrs. Zhou asked the poor monk to calculate it..."
Shen Xinyan took a breath, and when Master Huiming mentioned the woman's birth date, she was sure that it was Zhou Guanning.
Sure enough, are those two people a destined marriage
She sighed.
"Surname Zhou, fifteen years old, born on the eighth day of November..." On the way back to the house, the Eldest Princess murmured.
Shen Xinyan knew that what she was reading was Zhou Wanning's birth date. She closed her eyes, carefully recalling the series of events that happened since the return of her eldest son, and then to Master Huiming's words today, suddenly her mind moved.
Could all this be too much of a coincidence? Or should it be said that Brother Lin and Zhou Guanning were destined to marry each other, and they could never be broken up, so no matter who Lin Geer was engaged to, there would be obstacles of one kind or another, making the marriage impossible.
But what if everything is not "arranged by fate"? That can only be calculated by someone with a heart, leading the situation step by step to the present.
And this person... If it is this person, I believe that it won't be long before the eldest princess will find out that the daughter of Zhou Mao, whom she rejected so forcefully earlier, is exactly the person she is looking for.
She bit her lips lightly, trying to convince herself that all this was really arranged by God. After all, even if she died once, she could start over from the beginning, which shows that the way of heaven is beyond words.
What if it wasn't "arranged by God"? Is she trying to stop it? However, if everything was really arranged by Brother Lin, just to get his family to agree to his marriage with the Zhou family, it can be seen that his affection for Zhou Wanning has reached a very deep level, is there any need for her to stop it
She just felt confused and undecided, and in the end, she decided to wait and see what happened.
However, everything was as she had guessed, and the eldest princess finally found out that the woman Master Huiming was talking about was the daughter of Honglu Temple Qing Zhou Mao.
After learning this answer, her face was really not pretty. If it wasn't for the highly respected Master Huiming who said those words, she would have wondered if the eldest grandson had arranged them.
"Mrs. Chen, tell me, is it true that Zhou's daughter is really Brother Lin's destiny?"
Shen Xinyan lowered her eyes.
probably? In her previous life, there were so many strange people who supported her and her eldest son, so these two were indeed a natural match.
"It should be... right!" She replied softly.
When she said this, she felt relieved, as if she had suddenly let go of a heavy burden that she had carried for a long time.
Seeing her saying the same thing, the last trace of uncertainty in the eldest princess's heart was finally dispelled.
When Wei Chenglin arrived, he saw his grandmother and mother who were also solemn.
When the Eldest Princess slowly told him that she planned to marry the daughter of Lord Zhou of Honglu Temple for him, his heart immediately relaxed, but his face was full of bitterness, he shook his head and said: "Grandson is not willing! "
"I have made up my mind, whether you agree or not, I accept this marriage!" The eldest princess did not allow him to object at all.
"Grandma, I don't agree..."
"Didn't you please her earlier? Why are you refusing now that grandma agreed? Don't tell me you don't want to marry forever?" The eldest princess glared at him angrily.
"I… "
"Then let him never marry for life!!" The door was suddenly pushed open, and then a man's steady voice rang out. Shen Xinyan looked back in surprise, and saw Wei Junhang walking in with big strides.
"You, you're back?" She greeted her excitedly.
"Yes, ma'am, I'm back!" Wei Junhang's calm face softened when he saw her.