Isn't that really too frustrating
Old Madam Wei hummed, and it was unknown what she was thinking. She lowered her head and said nothing. After a while, she raised her head and looked at the wife of Marquis Ping'an not far away, and said softly: "Miss Xu is very good, I like her very much. Since she is willing, then why not settle the matter as soon as possible?"
For some reason, the topic suddenly changed from the Jiang family to the marriage of children. Mrs. Ping'an Hou didn't react for a while, but when she reacted, she nodded hurriedly.
Miss Xu is older now, and it is indeed not appropriate to delay any longer. Even if the six rituals are started now, it would take until next spring at the earliest to complete the whole process. It is almost time.
By then, the Dingbei Marquis Mansion will have to welcome Chen Mianmian into the house, so there is no need to delay any further.
She knew what was going on, so she agreed: "In that case, I will go back and prepare now. When you have invited the ice man, please let me know."
Old Madam Wei smiled a little: "I have already thought about it. Let's invite Madam Huairen. She is the most senior one now. Let her go. It will be good for both of us."
Fourth Miss Xu was not welcomed at home, so Old Madam Wei was trying to give her face. In this way, the Lady of the Marquis of Ping'an, who had been advocating to help Fourth Miss Xu get married, would not be talked about behind her back in her parents' home.
Mrs. Ping'an was grateful to Old Madam Wei for being so thoughtful. Her eyelids twitched, and she stood up and nodded: "Since Old Madam is so considerate of her, then that's the best. I just hope that after she marries here, she can live a good life and live in harmony with the Fifth Master. Then I will be satisfied."
As a relative, she can only help so much because of Miss Xu's character. The Wei family is a good family. Although Wei Yangqing already has so many children, none of them are worry-free. The remaining Wei Jie is good, and Wei An is even more so. She is the most transparent person. As long as you don't cause trouble for her, she will not provoke you.
In addition, Mrs. Wei is not a troublesome person, the Third Madam and the Second Madam seem to be very easy to get along with, and if Fourth Miss Xu is a sensible person, then her life will not be too bad.
The only thing she was worried about was the current situation of the Wei family.
But she was worried about the Wei family's situation, and people elsewhere were also worried about their own situations.
Jiang Songwen had been kneeling at Zuoshunmen for several days in a row, just to plead guilty, prove his innocence, and present his grievances to Emperor Longqing in person.
But he knelt for so many days, but Emperor Longqing showed no intention of seeing him.
He even began to doubt whether his father had really guessed Emperor Longqing's intentions.
After he finished kneeling that day, he felt dizzy all over. When he returned home listlessly, he suddenly threw another teacup.
It was obvious that he had done everything he should have done. Several low-ranking officials in the Ministry of Works had already confessed their guilt, saying that because Shen Chen had once written a petition to remove the extra subsidies for the fire room, they bore a grudge against Shen Chen and intended to murder Princess Shouning to make Shen Chen suffer.
Then they bribed a killer and wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the process of transporting gunpowder to assassinate Shen Chen and Wei An, but the plan failed. They also heard that Wei An was not dead and might wake up at any time, so they were worried and frightened, so they bribed Zou Qing, hoping to find out from Zou Qing what Chu Jingwu and others came to the Ministry of Works for.
After a while, they became familiar with Zou Qing, so they decided to go all out. They joined forces with Zou Qing, bribed the servants of Prince Zheng's mansion, and wanted to poison Wei An to kill him and put an end to this trouble once and for all.
If this sounds like it, this matter has nothing to do with Jiang Songwen from beginning to end.
But the story has been made so reasonable, and Yunniang has asked her childhood sweetheart and ex-fiance for help. Xu Anying has only a few sons, and she values each of them very much. Some of his sons dared to occupy some land before, so it goes without saying that he would interfere with the evidence of the Ministry of Justice for the sake of a woman.
Even with so many people helping, Zou Qing's testimony in the imperial prison matched that of the prisoners from the Ministry of Works outside, but for some reason, Emperor Longqing did not respond.
Jiang Songwen was anxious and afraid. He hadn't had a good night's sleep in recent days and became extremely irritable.
Dong Chengqi tried to persuade him at first, but now he has gotten used to it. Seeing that he was angry, he comforted him: "Although the emperor didn't respond, you submitted your resignation letter, but the emperor still didn't approve it, right? This shows that the old man's decision is right. You should just do what the old man says, right?"
As they were talking, someone outside said that someone had come to the old house.
Dong Chengqi glanced at Jiang Songwen, then waved his hand and asked him to come in.
It was the housekeeper who came in. Seeing it was him, Jiang Songwen stood up hurriedly: "How is it? Does the old man have anything to tell me?"
"The old master said that you should be patient." The housekeeper lowered his hands respectfully, standing straight with lowered eyebrows and eyes. "The emperor values Prince Linjiang, but does not want him to be too proud. Therefore, your incident happened at the right time. It was because of the emperor's suspicion of the prince that you were able to get away. Otherwise, no matter how good the evidence was or how convincing the witnesses were, you would not have been able to get away just because the person transporting the gunpowder was a subordinate of the Ministry of Works and the person who contacted the killer was your steward Zou Qing."
Dong Chengqi heard the hidden meaning and said quietly, "So, this is actually a good thing?"
Jiang Songwen also looked at him half-believingly: "Since the emperor is suspicious of Prince Linjiang, why is he still unwilling to see me? Why is he asking me to kneel like this?"
The housekeeper smiled, not as irritable as Jiang Songwen at all: "Your Majesty must give an explanation to Pingxi Hou and Lin San Shao, right? Forget about others, after all, San Shao is the younger brother of Concubine Shu and the uncle of the Sixth Prince. He supervised this case so carefully, it's not good to make him look bad. The old man said that such a result is already very good, so you don't have to rush to do the wrong thing, just be patient for a few more days, and when Your Majesty calms down, this matter will be over."
Jiang Songwen hummed, and his expression became much better.
He was not afraid of kneeling, but he was afraid of kneeling all the time.
When he found out everything was alright, he broke out in a cold sweat and felt angry at the same time - he was played around by the two kids and even had to give up his trusted steward. He had completely lost face.
And even though they haven't shown any signs of betrayal yet, with Shen Chen and Wei An's minds, how could they not guess that he was the one behind the scenes
This feud was definitely settled anyway, he couldn't just wait for the other party to take revenge, he had to be prepared and couldn't just wait for the other party to take action. (To be continued)