After entering the study, Prime Minister Xia asked Xia Quan to guard the door and close it.
He took off his outer garment, sat down slowly and asked, "Did your grandmother tell you about this?"
"Yes, grandma said that I want to know why my father has this idea." Xia Wan'er looked at Prime Minister Xia eagerly, trying to test his heart.
She was very scared. Even after sitting there for an entire afternoon, she was still very worried that what her mother said was true.
She thought that even if she was really Chen Er's daughter, everything would be easy as long as her father didn't know.
Prime Minister Xia rubbed his brow with his hand and said with a tired face: "This is also a last resort. Your mother's reputation has been ruined. How can she be the mother of the Crown Princess? Other people's saliva can drown you. Ximen Xiaoyue is not a simple woman, but she has a good family background and a good reputation. She can consolidate your position for you, and can also use the power of the Duke of Jin to help you ascend to the throne."
Xia Wan'er nodded, looked at him again and asked, "Father, outsiders say that I am not your daughter. Do you believe it?"
Prime Minister Xia was startled, then angry, "Don't say such things again. What others say is their business. We have no right to interfere with their mouths. I am very sure that you are my precious daughter."
Xia Wan'er burst into tears, "Does father really think so?"
Prime Minister Xia looked at her, sighed softly, and looked at her with love, "My silly girl, I would rather believe that Xia Zian is not my daughter than believe that you are not my daughter. When you were little, everyone said that you looked like me, but later you grew up and your appearance was different. Remember, you are the apple of your father's eye. Over the years, you have been my father's favorite person, even more than Lin'er. If anyone says in front of me that you are not my daughter, I will kill him even if it costs my life."
This is a very exaggerated statement, but any true words would not be so exaggerated and lose their true feelings.
However, Xia Wan'er believed it completely.
Because she was also guilty and uneasy, and she really needed to use such words with strong doting connotations to prove her position in her father's heart.
She suddenly thought of her brother and asked, "By the way, why don't you bring Lin'er back from the palace?"
Prime Minister Xia said in a hateful voice: "Concubine Mei wanted to seek refuge with her for your father, so she held your brother hostage in the palace. I'm afraid your brother won't be able to come back for the time being."
Xia Wan'er was stunned for a moment, "But, my daughter went to the palace a while ago to ask Concubine Mei for beauty cream, and my brother was not in the palace."
"Why would she let you see him? He must be hiding. You don't have to worry about Lin'er. Mei Fei wants to use me, but she will definitely not make things difficult for him."
Xia Wan'er was not worried. She had no feelings for this younger brother anyway. It would be embarrassing to take a idiot out. Besides, the idiot always helped Xia Zian in the past, which was annoying.
It was only when she suddenly heard her father mention it that she remembered that she hadn't seen that idiot for a long time.
"Oh, right," Prime Minister Xia suddenly remembered the matter of Xiazhi Garden, "You should continue to provide supplies to Xiazhi Garden as before. Don't cut off the supply."
Xia Wan'er was stunned. "Father, why are you still so nice to them? This incident was clearly caused by that bitch Xia Zian. She made you lose face, and you still want to be so nice to her?"
Prime Minister Xia waved his hand and said, "It's not that I'm good to her, but if the news of Chen Liuliu and Nanny Yang in the mansion gets out, it will be bad for your reputation. Father doesn't care about their life or death, but only cares about whether people will gossip about you. I don't want Nanny Yang to say anything bad to the Queen."
Xia Wan'er thought about it and agreed. Nanny Yang was someone close to the Queen. "Fortunately, father reminded me, otherwise I would have made another mistake."
"Well, it's right to think things through. You go first. Your father still has some things to do." Seeing that he had coaxed her, Prime Minister Xia didn't want to see her again and sent her away.
"Okay then, I'll take my leave, daughter!" Xia Wan'er bowed and left.
Prime Minister Xia sat on the chair, looking at Xia Wan'er's back, the disgust and hatred in his eyes suddenly overshadowed the previous doting.
The marriage of Prime Minister Xia and Ximen Xiaoyue, the granddaughter of the Duke of Jin, was arranged in a hurry and was scheduled for the third day of August.
The view of this matter in Beijing is still a joke.
Any news coming out of the Prime Minister's Mansion now would be a joke.
Xia Zhiyuan did not react to this matter. Life has become much better since the supply was restored.
I had asked Zhuangzhuang to help me find patients before, but lately I had been running between the Prince Liang's Palace and the Prince Regent's Palace, and I had no extra time to see patients. I didn't make any money, and my finances were already a bit tight. Fortunately, the palace provided me with expenses again.
However, Zi'an has been prepared for danger in times of peace. Now that the Regent's injuries have healed and only Prince Liang is left, she should be able to spare some time to see him.
Preparations for the wedding are in full swing in the palace, but Zi'an is worried about how to tell the King Regent that he will not be going to the palace anymore.
After spending so many days together, she could describe Murong Jie as weird.
He had a very bad temper, only in front of her. When he was with Su Qing and Xiao Tuo, he was taciturn and rarely expressed any opinions. He just listened, and even if he heard something that didn't suit his taste, he wouldn't lose his temper. However, if she didn't agree with him in the slightest, he would rush over and point at her and nag her for an hour, and he was very bad tempered.
So, she couldn't open her mouth.
Just the day before Prime Minister Xia's wedding, she was in the palace, intending to tell this matter today no matter what.
At the same time, Prime Minister Xia, who is going to be the groom tomorrow, enters Xiazhi Garden for the first time after so many things have happened.
He went to find Yuan.
He did not step into Xiazhi Garden. He did not want to see Xia Zian. In fact, he did not want to see Yuan either.
However, after waking up today, he wanted to talk to Yuan. He came to Xiazhi Garden only after seeing Zi'an being picked up by the carriage of the palace.
Yuan's eyes haven't healed yet. Zi'an said it would take at least three months for the blood clots to dissipate.
During this period, Yuan drank blood-dispersing medicine every day, which made her face very pale.
It is a paleness that is almost transparent.
She was wearing a plain dress and half lying on the couch in the yard. Zi'an had someone move her out specially because he was afraid that Yuan would feel depressed in the house, so he let her come out to smell the fragrance of flowers and herbs and bask in the sun in the morning.
Prime Minister Xia stood at the gate of the yard, looking at her, and suddenly felt a little hesitant, because he suddenly couldn't think of what he could say to her, and there was nothing to say now.
He only thought of four words: The marriage is over!
It was Nanny Yang who noticed him first and raised her eyebrows. "The Prime Minister is here?"
Prime Minister Xia walked in slowly and stared at Yuan. When Nanny Yang said he was here, there was no reaction on her face, as if she didn't hear what Nanny Yang said.
He suddenly became angry. This was it. It had been like this for so many years. She was like a dead person, without any breath of life.
(End of this chapter)