Maybe it's because I'm used to holding my head high, and suddenly I find that the person who has never had a temper actually starts to hold his head high and his chest out, and I feel at a loss for a moment.
Princess Changning sat next to the old princess, with her head down for a long time without saying a word.
It wasn't that she was afraid of the old princess's punishment. She was thinking that she could no longer control the Prince of Zhennan and the Princess of Zhennan, which was really a terrible thing.
Now that the old princess is still alive, they dare to be so arrogant. What if one day the old princess is gone... But she is not living a happy life in her husband's family...
She was lost in thought, but most of the people in the room had followed Nanny Li and left. The old princess could no longer hold back and coughed twice, then immediately stopped. She threw the handkerchief she had used to wipe her mouth aside, and then she seemed to casually call out the name of Princess Changning.
The old princess seldom called her daughter by her name. She always called Changning by her nickname.
So when she called out like that, Princess Changning immediately raised her head, looked at her and said “hmm”.
The old princess's chest rose and fell violently for a while, and then she asked her, "Have you ever thought about the reason?" Seeing that Princess Changning seemed to be dazed, she asked again with a stronger tone, "Your husband has turned away from you, your mother-in-law doesn't like you, your sisters-in-law are estranged from you, and now even your brother has lost his temper with you despite the kindness we once had, and your children are no longer as close to you as before. Have you ever thought about the reason?"
Princess Changning was a little confused, but after a while she found it funny. She had a sneer on her lips and didn't say anything.
The old princess sighed heavily: "I always thought that you were just a little spoiled and had a bad temper, but it's not a big problem. You can change..."
The old princess raised her hand to stop Princess Changning's movements, and coldly stroked a box placed on a high table beside her: "But I didn't expect that your father's pampering of you would harm you. Not only are you willful, you are also cold-hearted..."
There was no way to convince her mother. Princess Changning couldn't help but stand up and looked at her mother angrily: "What do you know?!"
She felt wronged, and her voice gradually turned tearful: "What do you know?! It's all because of her!"
"I don't know?" The old princess asked back. She opened the box with great disappointment, took out the letter and threw it in front of Princess Changning: "I know, is it because of An An's background?"
She asked in a cold voice, "Is it because she is Ming Yuyou's child that you are unwilling to accept this and you are taking your anger out on her?"
Princess Changning was a little bit incredulous and didn't understand why Old Lady Wei knew about it. She picked up the letter and then tore it into pieces in front of Old Lady Wei.
That was the confession of the eldest maid who was punished by Wei Yangqing. No one knew how the old princess found it.
"So you know everything?" At this point, Princess Changning calmed down. She threw the letter into the stove, watching the letter turn into powder bit by bit, and then said: "Then you should know that my daughter is dead. Wei Yangqing told me that it was because of my daughter's death that he came up with this idea..."
There was real pain and hatred in her eyes: "But I always feel that he is lying to me! I know him, he always feels that he owes the Ming family. At that time, he would have agreed even if Ming Yuyou asked for his life, not to mention my child... I always feel that he might be lying to me, my daughter might still be alive, or she might have been replaced by him... or she might still be alive somewhere, or maybe Wei Yangqing is simply lying to me, Wei An is my child, but Wei Yangqing lied to me in order to cover up for Ming Yuyou, so that he can push Wei An out to die in his place at the right time to preserve Ming Yuyou's bastard."
"I have been searching for a long time..." She was extremely excited: "But Wei An is really not my child. The nuns also said that there was indeed a dead baby that day, and they saved his soul..."
Princess Changning finally burst into tears: "It was Ming Yuyou! She killed my child!"
The old princess couldn't tell whether she was more disappointed or heartbroken. She slowly put away the box and sighed slowly and long: "That's why I always quarreled with your father because of you. If I had taught you, you wouldn't have become like this. Why don't you think about it, even if Ming Yuyou really begged, even if your guesses are true, who should you hate the most? Isn't the culprit Wei Yangqing? Shouldn't you fight Wei Yangqing to the death?"
"You can't even figure out who you should hate, and yet you still think you're so right?"
Seeing that Princess Changning was unmoved, the old princess suddenly felt tired.
Changning's temper had already been set, and he was never close to her, so no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't change anything.
She paused, gave up the idea of continuing the conversation with Chang Ning, and coughed heavily before saying, "I know what happened this time. You wanted to plot against An An, but who knew that your daughter would take the initiative to fall into your trap..."
Princess Changning finally raised her head with concern.
"If you don't want this engagement to be final, then I'll make the announcement and the engagement will be cancelled." Seeing Princess Changning's frown finally relax, the old princess asked her, "But have you thought about how you will get along with your brother and his wife in the future?"
Princess Changning seemed to have heard a huge joke and couldn't help but laugh.
How do you get along with them
"People are gone and I won't live much longer. If I die, will you still be so arrogant?" The old princess said with a tired look on her face: "Why? Because you have used me as a tool time and time again? Or because of the humiliation you have suffered from me since you were a child?"
"I am going to die too. Your father asked me to take care of you, but I cannot do the same without principles as him." The old princess pursed her lips and looked at her: "Wei An is the daughter of King Zheng, it is not your place to take care of her. You owed Ming Yuyou what happened back then, so just consider it a good deed and keep quiet."
People's patience is limited. No one knows better than her how much Mrs. Wei loves the Ming family. Wei An is Ming Yuyou's child, and he is simply Mrs. Wei's life.
This time Princess Changning openly plotted against Wei An, but it hasn't succeeded yet. It would be strange if Old Madam Wei was willing to let it go.
Although she didn't like Changning and felt that Changning was cold-hearted, and was even more angry that Changning had framed Wei An, showing that she had no tolerance and no empathy, Changning was her only child after all.
She didn't want Changning to continue doing evil, nor did she want Changning to suffer retribution, so she had to think of a way: "I am also old, and our family's ancestral property in Jiangnan will be handed over to your brother sooner or later, but you also have a share, why don't you wait until the Lantern Festival is over and go to Jiangnan with me?"
She said earnestly, "When we come back, A-Long's affairs will be almost forgotten, and A-Jie can still travel with us to Jiangnan, where there are many outstanding people and great scholars... It will be good for A-Jie, A-Long, and you as well."