When the wife of Marquis Ping'an treated Old Madam Wei, her intimacy was mixed with an imperceptible respect. Just as her husband, Marquis Ping'an said, Old Madam Wei was truly a person who had experienced many ups and downs. No matter how big the difficulties were, for her, she would just endure them and get through them.
After this incident, she almost thought that the Dingbei Marquis Mansion was finished, and she even considered how to sever ties with it. Later, when she learned that the Dingbei Marquis Mansion was fine, she was so shocked and scared that she broke out in a cold sweat.
If she really did something to take advantage of someone's misfortune, how could she get along with the Wei family now
How could the new emperor tolerate them in the Marquis Ping'an Mansion
Even if it was Shen Chen, he would probably want to slap them flat.
She shook her head sincerely at the old lady and said, "I love this niece very much. Marrying her into your family is really good for her and for us. I will naturally try to make everything right. Since she doesn't have her mother to take care of her now and my family is in such a situation, I thought about it and decided to be the matchmaker myself..."
Mrs. Wei was very emotional. After thinking for a while, she asked her, "No one is coming over there?"
The wife of the Marquis of Ping'an sneered: "Here he is, why isn't he here? When they heard that we had decided to move to the Marquis of Dingbei's mansion, they sent letters one after another to ask about us. Then they stopped for a while and then became quiet. Now they probably heard the news, and they are running faster than the other, saying they want to come to the wedding. They also sent letters asking us to send Ah Si back, saying that she will get married in her hometown."
This is true. When girls from noble families get married, they usually have to kneel down and bid farewell to their elders and pay their respects in the ancestral hall before they are considered to be married.
However, given the situation in Lady Ping'an's family, Lady Ping'an did not take these rules too seriously, and those clansmen could not do anything to her.
She made the decision to waive all these complicated rules and let her get married in the capital.
Fourth Miss Xu has been treated coldly for so many years. She has done enough and her relationship with her clansmen has been completely wiped out. Those people know very well what they have done to Fourth Miss Xu. Besides, Fourth Miss Xu is now married to a prominent figure in the capital, and they are busy trying to curry favor with her, so how dare they strongly oppose her
Seeing that they could not return to the old house, they all rushed to the capital to marry Fourth Miss Xu.
When Mrs. Wei heard this, she said, "That's good. We know that she didn't live a happy life before... Of course, her future life may not be completely as she wishes, but we are always willing to do anything for her to make her feel happier. She suffered so much, and those people did go too far. Now that she can be admired and envied by those people, I believe she will feel better."
Mrs. Ping'an Hou was somewhat moved. Although she always said that the past was over, she was still angry about what happened to Fourth Miss Xu. The people of the Wei family were indeed sincere. They held the wedding in such a grand manner and turned a deaf ear to the instigative words of those clansmen. They also gave such a grand betrothal gift just to save face for Fourth Miss Xu.
With such a good in-law family, when Chen Mianmian marries in, and has Miss Xu Si as her stepmother, her life will only be better.
She paused, nodded, and told Mrs. Wei about recent events: "By the way, I heard that recently... ..." She hesitated for a moment before saying: "It seems that the Xu family is very warm to the Prince of Linjiang?"
Old Madam Wei knew what she was going to ask, so she smiled and said, "This is not something we can worry about. The prince has good eyes and will be able to tell whether she is the right person or not."
The wife of the Marquis of Ping'an knew that Chu Jingwu himself was unwilling, and shook her head and couldn't help saying: "I don't know what the princess is thinking, isn't it better to be quiet? The prince and the marquis have such a good relationship, how could he listen to the princess?"
Old Madam Wei had a sarcastic smile on her face. She was already extremely fed up with the short-sightedness of Princess Linjiang. Moreover, the fact that Princess Linjiang kept causing trouble and using Wei An as an excuse made her even more intolerable.
To be honest, she was not afraid of Princess Linjiang's trouble.
Anyway, after Prince Linjiang becomes emperor, it is not impossible for him to change the queen.
With Emperor Longqing, who changed two empresses, nothing the later ones did was excessive.
If Princess Linjiang feels that her life is too easy, she can make trouble. When Prince Linjiang really reaches that step, all worries will be gone, and she will be the one to clean up the mess.
She snorted and didn't say anything. Seeing the second and third ladies coming, she smiled and asked them to invite the wife of Marquis Ping'an to sit down.
This small engagement ceremony was very lively, and the Ping'an Marquis' Mansion was filled with guests. Because they were in a hurry to get the ceremony completed, the formal wedding was held one month after the small engagement, which happened to be on January 27th.
When Linjiang arrived in Beijing and paid an audience with Emperor Longqing, they talked about their brotherhood and recalled the deep love they had in the past. They hugged each other and cried for a while with Prince Zheng, about whom they had no news for the time being. After that, under the introduction of Emperor Longqing, they each recognized the temporary team of the cabinet. Then it was already New Year's Eve.
On New Year's Eve, it snowed heavily again. Emperor Longqing specially set up a palace banquet and invited Prince Linjiang and officials above the third rank to attend the banquet.
The female relatives who had imperial decrees were seated in the Lanyue Palace under the arrangement of Concubine Lin Shufei, the actual mistress of the harem.
Concubine Lin Shu sat at the head of the table and specially invited Princess Linjiang to sit with her.
Princess Linjiang did not dare to compete with Concubine Lin Shu, so she declined carefully and said with a smile: "It is said that the girls in the capital are more beautiful than each other. Today I really saw it."
As she spoke, she smiled at Wei An from afar and said to Concubine Lin Shu: "Miss Wei Qi has become even more charming than when I returned to my fiefdom."
Concubine Lin Shu's eyebrows jumped. She didn't know what she meant, so she didn't respond to her words and said lightly, "Princess Shouning is smart and sensible. I like her very much."
Princess Linjiang had a smile on her lips. Seeing Wei An looking up as if he had sensed something, she turned her head away, hummed, and turned to talk to Xu Anying's wife.
Xu Anying's wife was extremely respectful to the princess in front of her. She brought her granddaughter with her and kept smiling, which made Princess Linjiang very happy.
Princess Linjiang seemed to like the little girl from the Xu family very much. She asked a lot of questions before she said to Old Madam Xu: "I haven't been to the capital for too long and I feel unfamiliar with it. I like these little girls who are as beautiful as flowers. When you have time, Old Madam Xu can bring her to see me often."
The deep meaning behind these words was very obvious. Old Madam Xu couldn't stop smiling and kept nodding at Princess Linjiang: "It's her good fortune that the princess likes it. I will definitely come to bother her from time to time. As long as the princess doesn't think I'm rude, that's fine." (To be continued)