Concubine Peng De has become increasingly favored by Emperor Longqing recently.
Almost all vows of love will reveal their fragile side at a certain time. After more than ten years of Queen Fang's exclusive favor, it was finally broken.
Relying on her life-saving grace to Emperor Longqing and her lively son, Concubine Peng De attracted a large part of Emperor Longqing's attention and importance.
The fourth prince born to Queen Fang is in poor health, suffering from constant disasters. A few days ago, he had a high fever due to coughing, which almost cost several imperial doctors their lives.
The Fourth Prince was in poor health, so the Emperor Longqing naturally paid attention to him. He also accompanied Empress Fang to watch over his son day and night. Children of the royal family were precious, and the Emperor Longqing only had two sons. He wanted to worship both of them. The Fourth Prince was also the legitimate son, so how could he not care about him
But after all, people’s hearts are biased.
Queen Fang's child was as weak as a kitten, skinny and small. He started taking medicine as soon as he started crying. Now he is over one year old, but he is not as fleshy as Concubine De's child.
In comparison, the fifth prince born to Concubine De was obviously much more likable - he was chubby, with flesh on his chin, and his neck was almost invisible under his clothes. When he smiled, his eyes curved and were so bright that they seemed to be filled with stars in the sky.
In this comparison, every father would probably prefer to see the one who is less troublesome.
In contrast to this situation, Defei's status became increasingly higher.
Concubine Peng De asked Wei An to enter the palace, and Wei An had to go.
But going there was really hard to cope with.
Prince Zheng was very unhappy with Concubine Peng De's obvious desire to help the Peng family find a daughter-in-law, so he especially told Wei An: "You have to go this time. She said that you and the little prince get along well. Last time, she asked you to make clothes for the little prince..."
Old Mrs. Wei's disgust for the Peng family reached an even higher level.
Is this a combination of soft and hard tactics to force the Wei family to agree
I wanted to refuse, but they showed nothing on their faces, and they never openly mentioned the idea of becoming in-laws. This was really annoying. A family of Dingbei Marquis's status couldn't just go ahead and say to others, "Our girl doesn't like your family, and you'd better not have any other ideas," when they hadn't made their intentions clear.
When the time comes, people will turn the tables and say that your family has really misunderstood and that we didn't mean that. Then where will the Dingbei Marquisate save face? How will Wei An live his life in the future
This move by the Peng family was really insidious. They could attack or defend. It was clear that they had taken all the advantages, but they were calm and composed and held all the initiative.
It's disgusting.
Wei An was not surprised that Concubine De would do this. The Peng family was determined to get her, so it was inevitable that they would ask Concubine De for help.
But the Peng family is too arrogant. How can they be so sure that she will be manipulated into agreeing
In the end, the Peng family was too confident. Relying on the fact that there was a Defei in the family who gave birth to a little prince, they felt that they could control people at will.
Prince Zheng was furious, but Wei An was not. Seeing his father's concern, he advised him instead: "I know that since Concubine De did not directly ask His Majesty for a marriage, she has some sense of propriety and knows that asking for too much and too quickly can easily lead to trouble. As long as she knows this, it will be easy to deal with."
A smart person who is cautious is always much easier to deal with than a stupid person who knows nothing.
King Zheng felt a little sad that his daughter was so sensible and calm, but at the same time he couldn't help but feel lucky for her calmness and wit. Growing up in such an environment, she didn't have many trustworthy people around her since she was a child. If she hadn't been so smart, he might never have recognized her again.
He stared at the shadow on the ground for a long time with complicated eyes, and exhaled disappointedly: "Yeah, I forgot, you know it all."
When Mrs. Wei saw that Prince Zheng had finished speaking, she asked him, "Did you come here just to talk about Concubine De?"
She was reminding King Zheng that Qinghe's matter still had no result, which was undoubtedly annoying. After all, Qinghe's existence was still a big trouble.
It would always make one feel uneasy if one didn't know where she was going.
Speaking of this matter, King Zheng's face became even uglier. He came back for this matter. His people investigated for a long time, but they could not find anything. All the clues pointed to the capital, but when they arrived in Tongzhou, all the clues were wiped out. Even if he wanted to find someone, he didn't know where to call him.
The world is so big, how easy is it to find someone in such a vast sea of people
He shook his head and said, "There is one more thing. The people sent to find Qing He's whereabouts reported back that they found her in Tongzhou, but the news was cut off. It is true that a woman in her thirties who did not have a pass was arrested, but that woman was not Qing He.
What this means is that Qinghe actually changed her identity
But who has the ability to help her do this
Old Madam Wei frowned and reminded Prince Zheng: "Your Highness, why don't you think about it again? Has Qing He ever interacted with anyone? In other words, does Qing He have any relatives or friends who haven't?"
The target is too big. If we don’t start with Qinghe himself, even if it’s the emperor, it would be too difficult to find that person by digging deep into the ground.
King Zheng thought about it carefully for a long time, and finally his eyes lit up: "Qinghe once mentioned that she had no relatives, but she had a brother... ... and once asked me to write a letter to ask..."
Qinghe is a daughter of the Zhennan Palace, so her brother...
Old Madam Wei immediately said, "Go check! Since she only has this one relative, I don't believe she can fly away with wings!"
With so many people eyeing the Wei family, she wanted to know who was so powerful that he knew Qinghe's origins and Wei An's life experience, yet still wanted to trick Qinghe away from King Zheng.
To say that the people behind this have no thoughts about the Wei family... ..
No one would believe that.
They have to give an explanation.
Prince Zheng had already stood up and said, "I have checked before. Her brother was also a concubine, but he was with a concubine. He is now far away in Anqing. There was nothing wrong with him before, but now it seems that we really need to keep a closer eye on him. You are right. She is already like this. She only has this one relative left. No matter what their relationship was in the past, at this point, the only person she can rely on is her brother. It is not possible that there is no news at all."
Old Madam Wei hummed, "I will send someone to the Zhennan Palace to ask the old princess. When the time comes, I will also send someone over there. No matter what, it will always be safer."