Princess Changning pulled the corners of her mouth with difficulty, wanting to ask him what he meant, but she couldn't ask a single word.
Wei Yangqing himself was not shy about it. He sat beside the desk and told her in a soft but firm voice: "My cousin only asked me one thing before she died, which was to let me name Wei An An, to let me adopt her on her behalf, or to send her to a foster family in the countryside... I promised her, I swore in front of her corpse that if An An died, I would have no face to live. Changning..." He rarely called out the title of Princess Changning: "Let's end this farce here. You might as well send more of the servants who know about this to the black coal mines..."
Princess Changning's face was as pale as paper, and even her lips began to feel numb.
Wei Yangqing stood up and looked at her: "From now on, if anyone in this family mentions An An's background again, A Jie and A Long will be without a father... You know I can do it..."
Princess Changning certainly knew that he could do it. When the news of the extermination of the Ming family came back, Wei Yangqing knelt at the door of Old Lady Wei's courtyard for three whole days and almost died of heatstroke...
Now Wei Yangqing was threatening her life again, but she had no choice but to accept it. She staggered a few steps and leaned against the door, then quickly opened the door and left.
The old princess in the capital was far from severing her ties with Wei An as easily as her daughter had expected. Wei An was the one she had brought up, and after so many years of getting along, her feelings for him had already grown deep into her bones. It was too difficult to sever her ties with him all of a sudden like a stranger.
She sat alone in the room for the entire afternoon. Only when night fell and the stars twinkled did she ask someone to call in Nanny Ge.
She had many questions she wanted to ask, but the last thing she said was, "You went back to the capital a while ago? Were you also the one who instigated Li Shenglan and Zhuang Feng to do something shameful?"
Nanny Ge didn't expect the old princess to ask this without saying a word. Her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground with a plop, and she answered tremblingly.
She didn't have the face to show in front of the old princess as she did in front of Princess Changning, and begged for mercy in horror.
The old princess laughed.
"Now I believe that An An was not born from her belly." The old princess rubbed her forehead: "It seems like her temperament..."
After saying this, seeing that Madam Ge was silent, she asked her again, "I rushed to Jianzhou a few days after An An was born. If you want to exchange the baby, it must have been done before I went there, right?"
Nanny Ge didn't know what she wanted to ask, and she felt even more unsure, so she answered vaguely.
The old princess lowered her head and played with the Buddhist beads on her wrist: "But I remember clearly that there didn't seem to be any pregnant singing girl in the mansion... This child, didn't he come at a coincidence?"
Nanny Ge didn't dare to tell them about Wei An's background - Princess Changning had warned her many times before she came. When she heard the old princess asking this, she hurriedly repeated what Princess Changning had carefully told her.
"She's a concubine?" The old princess seemed to be thinking, "Where is she from? Where was she placed by your brother-in-law? Where did she go later?"
Since they were going to put on a show, they had to do it in full. Wei Yang had already prepared a story to fool Old Madam Wei. Madam Ge was relieved and quickly answered all the questions the old princess had asked. She also told the old princess, "The princess is so angry. For so many years, she has offended you because of this... but she didn't get any favor from her son-in-law..."
The old princess said in a confused voice, "So you use such a sinister method? To ruin someone's reputation?"
Aunt Ge was frightened by her tone and shrank to the ground without daring to answer.
"After so many years, she still hasn't changed her early years of spoiled and willful nature." The old princess found it ironic and funny. "Because I was strict with her, she was never close to me, but only to her father... So she thought my life or death was unimportant, and she did these little tricks in front of me, not afraid of pissing me off at all..."
These words were heartbreaking. Madam Ge quickly shook her head: "How could this be?" She straightened up: "The princess misses you every day, and it is precisely because of this that she can't stand this concubine's daughter taking over your home and winning your heart..."
The old princess waved her hand to interrupt her: "So she watched me pamper An An for so many years before she told me the truth. She thinks that feelings can be taken back and released at any time? Doesn't she know that this is like stabbing my heart with a knife?!"
Madam Ge became more and more anxious. The old princess had such a strange temper! Wei An was not Princess Changning's biological daughter, so she had nothing to do with her. Why did she still keep saying that she was on Wei An's side
The old princess gave her a cold look and said, "Send a letter to her for me."
Let her go out again.
Nanny Chen had already noticed something was wrong. Seeing that it was time for dinner, she did not dare to mention the meal. She used Wei An as an excuse: "Miss Cousin is still waiting in the side hall..."
But the elixir that had worked every time before now seemed less effective. The old princess remained dazed for a long while before letting Wei An in.
Wei An didn't dare to speak.
She also knew that at this moment, anything she said would seem too fake and redundant.
Until the old princess asked her: "An An, have you noticed something was wrong a long time ago?"
Wei An looked directly at the old princess, not daring to dodge: "I heard Nanny Li talking to Qiu Yun in private, but I'm not sure... so I wanted to see Qing He..."
The old princess hummed and pulled the corner of her mouth: "Now you have nothing to do with me."
Wei An didn't say anything. His throat was tight and his eyes were sore. It took him a while before he responded respectfully.
The old princess continued, "Tell me the truth, why did you tell me this? Since your father has already said that this matter will never be spread, why did you want to confess to me?"
Wei An considered it for a while, and did not say that he knew Princess Changning's temperament, knowing that she would definitely come to tell him. He pursed his lips and looked at the old princess: "I dare not enjoy your kindness to me with peace of mind anymore... So I want to be honest with you..."
She tried very hard not to cry: "I'm afraid that if you knew that I knew it but didn't tell you, you would really ignore me..."
Princess Changning was not as frank as a child. The old princess raised her lips and smiled: "Okay..." She looked at Wei An, waved her to her side, and stroked her face lovingly as always: "It's good that you say so... Then we will just pretend that this matter never happened..."
Life is so difficult. Her biological daughter is thousands of miles away and has no way to support her. To put it bluntly, Changning has not been close to her since childhood, but Wei An was raised by her completely. If we really talk about the distance of their relationship, it cannot be said to be completely close, but Wei An's importance is really not much lighter than Changning's.
Besides, she is already old, how many years can she live
When you are alive, you always have something to think about...