The gifts from Princess Chang'an and the Peng family were delivered to the Dingbei Marquis' Mansion one after the other.
The Dingbei Marquis' Mansion has received a lot of gifts recently, but these two gifts are still somewhat special.
The gift that Princess Chang'an gave this time was extremely valuable, and a chief clerk also came with the gift. After meeting Master Wei Wu, he asked for an audience with Old Madam Wei and spoke very nicely, thanking Old Madam Wei and Wei An on behalf of Princess Chang'an and Lady Xianrong.
Princess Xianrong was young and energetic. As a little girl, she was too proud and thin-skinned to accept Wei An's favor. However, Princess Chang'an was much more far-sighted than her. To offend Wei An now would be to offend Prince Zheng and the Dingbei Marquisate, which was obviously extremely unwise.
In her opinion, apart from what Lady Xianrong said later, that Wei An and Shen Chen were too close and a little intimidating, the Wei family was clearly the best candidate to befriend.
Therefore, with her suggestion, Changshi did things very properly and beautifully.
Old Madam Wei raised her lips, took out a thin piece of paper from the box sent by Princess Chang'an, handed it to Wei An, and pouted at her: "This is why among the three princesses who came to this dynasty, she was the only one who was not outstanding in everything, but was able to stand to the end - she is really a person who knows the times very well."
Wei An raised his eyebrows, took the paper from Old Lady Wei's hand, and a smile appeared in his eyes after taking a look at it.
Old Madam Wei was right. Compared with Princess Changying and Princess Xianrong, Princess Chang'an was undoubtedly much smarter. She knew that when using power to pressure others didn't work, she should compromise, so she prepared to make friends with the Wei family.
What she sent was Yuan Hongwen's birth date and horoscope.
This actually means that they want to marry their children directly into the family.
Old Madam Wei looked at Wei An with a smile and asked her, "They want to marry into our family, what do you think, An An?"
Princess Chang'an is different from Princess Changying. The husband she married is a Jinshi. Although he is now a duliu of the husband's family, he has no real job and is idle at home. She has only one son, Yuan Hongwen, and she has always treasured him very much.
She was willing to let her son marry the daughter of the Wei family - actually Wei An, which showed her sincerity.
But Wei An certainly had no intention of marrying Yuan Hongwen.
Yuan Hongwen was not a bad man. From my impression, he seemed to have a good relationship with Shen Chen and Lin Sanshao. However, he had a mother who was too controlling. In his previous life, he divorced her three times in a row. Each time, he married the daughters of wealthy families, and each time they ended in a quarrel.
Although everyone said that it was because of Yuan Hongwen's fickleness, Wei An once heard from Shen Chen and Lin Sanshao that the fundamental reason was that Princess Chang'an interfered too much in the affairs of the young couple, even asking about and arranging the time for them to have sex.
That's why Yuan Hongwen almost became a widower in the end.
You should never marry such a person, no matter how good he is.
Moreover, if she married into the royal family with Wei An's identity, and Princess Chang'an's strong desire for knowledge about her daughter-in-law, many things would be inconvenient to do.
She closed the paper in her hand and shook her head: "Although the princess is sincere, this marriage cannot be concluded. Not only me..." Wei An looked at Old Lady Wei seriously: "None of the sisters in the mansion can do it. The daughter of Princess Chang'an is going to marry the Linjiang Palace. Now that Prince Duan has fallen, the Linjiang Palace is the first to be feared by the emperor. It is best not to be related if possible."
Mrs. Wei also had the same idea. She hummed and asked Wei An, "What do you think about your marriage?"
When she got to this point, she lowered her voice slightly and sighed, "This time when His Majesty is selecting concubines for the princes of various families, you are naturally not one of them. But the longer your marriage is delayed, the less we will be able to make our own decisions..."
Emperor Longqing is not so wary of Prince Zheng at the moment, but who can say for sure what will happen in the future
If they really want to do something with Wei An's marriage, no one can stop them. From the perspective of Old Lady Wei, it would be better to settle the marriage early, while Emperor Longqing is not paying attention, and settle the marriage. Then no one can say anything wrong.
But when she saw Wei An's stunned look, she knew it was too early for him to talk about these things now. She couldn't help but sigh, touched her head and laughed: "Grandma is wrong, how could you think about these things?"
She paused, and made up her mind - it was no use now, so she might as well wait until later, go back to Yunnan, and look for him there... There would always be some old acquaintances there, and it would always be good to be away from the busy capital.
Wei An was startled for a moment, then immediately came to his senses.
It turned out that time passed so quickly. From the time she dreamed of her daughter and was reborn in the dream, three years had passed. She was almost old enough to get married.
When she got married, she thought of the bright red wedding dress from her previous life, then of Peng Caichen's face, and finally of the purple baby in the bathtub in her dream. Her face instantly turned pale.
The Peng family did not understand her emotions and soon sent the invitation as promised.
Mrs. Peng has always been happy to see her daughter getting close to Wei An. When she heard that Wei An was invited to fly a kite, she immediately agreed and also told her son not to go out that day.
Since he had invited people under the pretext of flying kites, he naturally had to think about the idea of kites. At the urging of Mrs. Peng, Peng Caichen made good use of his connections and borrowed many different kinds of kites from the home of the prodigal son Yuan Hongwen, collecting all kinds of kites in various shapes.
I heard that Wei An likes to grow flowers. Now it is autumn, so he went to the mountain to get a few pots of chrysanthemums of various varieties to decorate the pavilion by the lake where he rests.
Mrs. Peng nodded with satisfaction, thinking that it was good that her son was willing to listen. After listening to her son and daughter's replies, she handed the Buddhist beads in her hand to the maid next to her. She glanced at her son, asked her daughter and the servants to go out, and waved gently to her son.
Peng Caichen had not been so close to his mother for a long time, and he was not used to it for a while. When Mrs. Peng called him again, he came to his senses, answered, and stood forward a little awkwardly.
Madam Peng stretched out a hand, helped him to stand up, led him around the screen into the inner room, and asked him, "How are you? Are you still unwilling?"
Peng Caichen helped his mother walk inside and shook his head honestly: "Father and mother will never harm me. Thinking about this, there is no such thing as unwillingness or willingness. Anyway, I have to do it, so I might as well do it better."
Mrs. Peng was very proud of her son's idea: "Well said, if you want to do it, you have to do it well."