It was not only Pan'er who felt doubts, but also Zong Cong.
He didn't reply to Concubine Xu Xian immediately, but called Wanxian over the next day.
Wanxian has lost a lot of weight recently, and her clothes are all empty.
Could this be a voluntary marriage? Zong Cong was very displeased, thinking that Concubine Xian was deliberately playing tricks, and his dissatisfaction with her had reached the extreme.
Even surpassed what was once done to Empress Chen. Without him, no matter how many moths Empress Chen is, she loves her own children very much.
Could it be that Zong Cong didn't know that Empress Chen deliberately manipulated Concubine Xu Xian a while ago
It's just that Wanshu was wronged, and Empress Chen also vented her anger for her daughter. No matter what, Concubine Xu Xian shouldn't pay attention to the child, she should be taught a lesson, so he ignored it.
Motivating the child has already exceeded the bottom line in Zong Cong's heart, so he really feels a sense of disgust towards Concubine Xu Xian at this time. This kind of disgust is not mixed with other emotions, it is disgust.
"Father never intended for you to get married, so I don't need you to solve problems."
The father emperor in the front is expressed as a father, and the latter is the emperor. Whether it is public or private, Zong Cong has no idea of sacrificing his daughter to do anything.
Wanxian naturally understood.
She suddenly understood that it was really ridiculous for her to secretly wonder if her father didn't love her. Sometimes the parents' love for their children is not expressed in the phrase "beautiful daughter" or closeness. Some people usually love themselves very much, but they can easily abandon themselves without hesitation when their interests are related.
It was precisely her father who thought she only loved Wanrong, but in fact he loved her a lot.
If she said that before she came, Wanxian still held a lot of depression in her heart. She made such a decision because she was deceived and deceived by her closest people like a fool. It was the result of anger, but now she suddenly felt relieved.
She wiped away her tears, smiled decently at Zong Cong, and straightened her back, "As a princess of the Great Zhou, my daughter enjoys the support of the common people and has been pampered and pampered for so many years. Now the Great Zhou needs a princess to establish a relationship with her." Annan Kingdom's diplomatic relations, to ease or even promote a harmonious relationship between each other, the daughter was born as the princess of the Great Zhou, she must stand up, and the daughter is also the most suitable candidate."
Zong Cong's eyes were shocked, he didn't expect Wanxian to say such a thing.
To put it bluntly, this is the mentality that men have at the moment.
Daughter is for pain, it doesn’t matter how much she studies, as long as she can read and write, when she gets married, prepare a large dowry to ensure that she will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life, and will not be bullied by her in-laws. This is loving her daughter.
Unlike the son, the son will start a family and start a business in the future, pass on the family line, and even inherit the family business.
Just like Zong Cong, he usually asks Zong Yue and others to think more about their knowledge, and even encourages them to think about the great cause of the family, the country, and the people's livelihood. He didn't expect Wanxian to have such an overall view, or even know what What is a country, what is a family, and what are the responsibilities of the royal family.
These problems may not be thought of by many adult men, even if they want to but can't do it, but Wanxian, a weak woman, understands.
"Father is very pleased that you can think so."
"But Annan is thousands of miles away from the capital, and the environment and climate there are different from the capital. No matter what, as a father, I don't want my daughter to suffer in that place."
Wanxian smiled even brighter. Although there were tears in her eyes, this smile was extremely beautiful.
"My daughter understands my father's love for daughters, but I also ask my father to understand my daughter's thoughts. Nowadays, there are no daughters of the right age in the residences of several imperial uncles, and the two residences of King Chu and King Qi are at odds with the emperor. The daughter is the most important thing at the moment. The right candidate, and with you and Da Zhou standing behind my daughter, who would dare to bully her?"
"Can… "
"Father please help my daughter!" Wanxian lifted her skirt and knelt down.
Wanxian's decision surprised everyone.
Including Pan'er, when she heard what Zong Cong told her, she was also surprised that the weak woman she thought was actually not weak at all, and her heart was also very strong.
Now that she has such a strong heart, Pan'er suddenly feels that Wanxian's going to get married is not necessarily a bad thing, after all, life is made by people.
But obviously there are very few people who think like her, including Zong Cong, who are a little worried.
But the matter has been settled. Now that it is settled, it is natural to communicate with An Nanguo.
Prince Zhao Ying suddenly made a request, saying that he wanted to meet Princess Wanxian in person and ask her if she really wanted to marry him, without any reluctance.
This requirement sounds weird at first, but it is not too strict.
Perhaps Prince Zhao Ying was also concerned about whether Wanxian was unwilling or unwilling, which also reflected that Prince Zhao Ying attached great importance to this marriage, so Zong Cong agreed after thinking about it.
The princess saw that the rules of the outsider were cumbersome.
The place where the two met was in a gazebo in the imperial garden, surrounded by no shelter, and there were many maids and eunuchs standing outside the pavilion, so that what happened in the pavilion could be discovered in time.
"I'm very surprised that you are the one who married me. I thought His Majesty would randomly choose a daughter from your Da Zhou clan to perfuse me, but I didn't expect it to be your eldest daughter."
"The diplomatic relations between the two countries should treat each other with sincerity. My father is a gentleman, there is no doubt about it." Wan Xian said with her eyes half downcast.
Zhao Ying took a deep look at her fair face, and said, "I am not born of the queen. In your words, I am not the son of the king. But please believe me, as long as you really want to marry me, I will marry you." I will definitely give you the same honor, I am you, you are me, what status I have in Annan, you must be the same."
Because Annan has always been a vassal state of Dazhou, the locals can speak the official dialect of Dazhou more or less, but it is a foreign country after all, so the accent is a bit strange. It's even more strange to be so verbal, so Wanxian raised her head and glanced at him.
With this glance, he was taken aback by the solemnity in his eyes.
In fact, seriously speaking, Zhao Ying is not ugly, but his skin color is darker than ordinary people in Dazhou, especially when he is new to Dazhou, and he doesn't know how to wear it, so it naturally looks very weird.
He was probably planning to leave Da Zhou, and today he was wearing a strong black suit with Annan's characteristics. The base is black, the placket and cuffs are matched with brilliant colors, a cap is worn on the head, and a golden circle-shaped earring is worn on the left ear.
His face was dark, but with sharp edges and corners. Although he could not be called handsome, it definitely had nothing to do with ugliness. On the contrary, he had a kind of alien charm.
"Princess Wanxian, I'll be waiting for you in Annan."
After finishing speaking, Zhao Ying turned around and strode away. Wanxian was stunned for a while, then shook her head with a laugh, and left too.
An Nanguo's envoy left, and it seemed that there was no change in the Forbidden City.
But Wanxian changed a lot. She stopped being bored in the yard and started to go back to the women's school. She even found Wanxuan and asked her to teach her riding and martial arts.
"Sister, don't you know how to ride a horse?"
Wanxian's face was a little red, but she smiled frankly, "What I learned in Nanyuan was just a show. After I came back, my legs were worn out. I want to learn more from you. I heard people say that there are many mountains and jungles in Annan. You can't ride in a carriage or a sedan chair, so I think it's better to learn how to ride.
"As for martial arts, I feel that my body is too weak now. Since it is said that the place is suffering, I must train myself stronger so that I can stay there well."
"But practicing martial arts is very hard." Wanrong hesitated.
Back then, no one cared about her wanting to practice martial arts, and since she was a princess, even the master hired by her father would not dare to be cruel to her. Even so, she also suffered a lot when she first started learning.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of hardship."
So in the following days, Wanxian and Wanxuan began to go to the training ground every day.
Going to the women's school in the morning, and the training ground or martial arts arena in the afternoon, in less than half a month, Wanxian's originally fair skin was tanned a lot.
But it seems much healthier, and people have become much more energetic.
After knowing all this, Zong Cong finally felt relieved.
Maybe Yuanyuan is right, it is not a bad thing for Wanxian to get married, a person with a strong heart, there is nothing that cannot be defeated.
But Concubine Xu Xian didn't think so. She just felt that Wanxian was not so obedient now, and she felt like she was out of control.
She felt that her daughter was still losing her temper with her, which made her very angry.
Since Wanxian hadn't been to Yanxi Palace for a while, Concubine Xu Xian went to the Princess Courtyard in person, and saw Wanxian who had just returned from the training ground in the courtyard.
Wanxian was wearing riding clothes, holding a whip in her hand, her face was flushed red from the sun, and she was sweating profusely.
When I entered the door, I asked the maid to prepare water for me to bathe, but I didn't expect to look up and see the concubine mother standing in the room.
"Mother and concubine."
"Do you still know how to call me concubine mother? Look at what you have become now, do you have the manners of a royal princess? Who is it wrong for you to go to, but you just get mixed up with Wanrong, she won't be able to marry in the future , don't you think you can't get married?"
Wanxian withdrew the dazed look on her face, her expression was a little cold, "I'm afraid my concubine has forgotten that I will marry Annan next year, so why can't I get married?"
Concubine Xu Xian also made a slip of the tongue for a while, and was contradicted by her daughter, and seeing her expression again, there is something she didn't understand.
"Speaking of it, you still blame your mother and concubine, but the Xu family and I didn't think of a way. At that time, Princess Yue really made trouble in the palace. Could it be that your father is really going to summon her at such a time? People from Prince Chu’s Mansion and Prince Qi’s Mansion, who are far away in the fiefdom, come to Beijing? You are the eldest daughter of your father, you should know righteousness at such a time... "
"So my daughter invited me to make a kiss. My daughter understands everything you said about righteousness, concubine mother, and she did as you said. Isn't this okay?"
"But..." Concubine Xu Xian was at a loss for words, she turned around and sat down in the chair, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and said in a low voice, "But with your appearance, you are not complaining about your mother and concubine."
Wanxian pursed her lips, lowered her eyes and said, "My daughter didn't complain about my mother and concubine. My daughter just thinks that the climate and environment in Annan is different from that of Dazhou. My daughter is too weak. I want to train stronger so as not to die on the way. If you look through the history books, there have been such princesses in all dynasties."
"Look, look, you said that, you are not trying to steal the heart of Concubine Mother." Concubine Xian cried even harder.
Wanxian only thought it was ridiculous, never before. She also felt very tired, tired from the bottom of her heart.
"My daughter is just telling the truth. Since the concubine mother intends to let her daughter marry, don't you have this kind of understanding, and just think that it's okay to marry her?"
Not to mention, Concubine Xian really thinks so. It's not that she didn't hesitate in what Hou said at the beginning, but Wanxian always wants to get married, who is not married? What kind of person to marry. Instead of this, it would be more beneficial to marry.
"So mother concubine, what is wrong with what my daughter is doing now? I just try to make myself better in the future. You are my mother concubine, and this is a fact that no one can change. You mean that my daughter respects it, but In the future, the mother and concubine should stop taking care of the daughter, after all, the daughter is grown up and will be married soon, if you have this kind of thought, you might as well spend more time on your younger brother."
"Speaking of it, you are blaming me for favoring your younger brother. Didn't my concubine tell you before that your brother was not born to my concubine? There is a slight difference. Concubine mother just doesn't do her duty, and he is younger than you , from now on, you and the concubine mother will point at your younger brother..."
In fact, the last sentence is the truth, just to eliminate one of me. Wanxian thought silently, and suddenly said, "So the concubine mother sent her daughter to be married?"
Concubine Xu Xian was stunned.