Chapter 434: Choice

Mrs. Qiu and the Duchess of Jiannan County are at odds with the Zhang family, and the juniors of the two families know this matter in their hearts. The two old ladies have never covered up in front of their families, and have even counted each other down in front of their families many times, especially Mrs. Qiu, who has nothing to find fault with the Zhang family a few times, and she has to step on the Zhang family and everything related to her to the soles of her feet. But Meishanbo and his wife only thought that this was the old mother's trickery, but they never expected that she was so obsessed that she would disregard the marriage of her granddaughter.

Mrs. Meishan couldn't help it first, and said to her mother-in-law, "What's wrong with your old man?" Even if you look down on Mrs. Zhao Jun's family again, don't laugh at Sister Yuan's marriage. Sister Yuan'er is like a flower, what can she be a princess? The princes of the world, all of them are old, even if there is a dead princess, they are married to fill the house, and they still have a bunch of children left in front of them, where can they compare with the original husband and wife to be decent? ”

Old Madam Qiu sneered: "You are a daughter-in-law, how can you talk to your mother-in-law?" I am marrying your daughter to someone to fill the house, do you dare to disobey me? ”

Mrs. Meishanbo's face became even more ugly, and she bit her lip and knelt down: "The daughter-in-law doesn't dare." Qiu Yuan knelt down with a white face.

Meishan Bo couldn't be silent anymore, and stepped forward with a dry smile to comfort his mother: "Don't be angry, your daughter-in-law is dizzy for a while, and it's also for the sake of the child's anxiety, don't be like her." ”

"I'm too lazy to meet her!" Old Madam Qiu said arrogantly, "I only ask you, what do you think of my words?" That's all I have to say, my granddaughter. You must not be subservient to Zhang's granddaughter! Either you will think of a plan to give the prince of Guangping to Sister Yuan, or you will marry Sister Yuan to someone with a more noble status. What happened to the house-filling? The filling of the prince and the king. has the same title of princess, and is generally noble with the original match. As long as you have the ability, the child born may not be able to be the son of the world. You don't like the age of other people's princes, why don't you want to think about it, it's not that there are no young princes in Beijing! ”

Mrs. Qiu thought that she was not ruthless to the point of marrying her granddaughter to the old man to fill the house. King Guangping was only in his thirties, and although he was blind, he was very handsome. Literary talent is also outstanding. Qiu Yuan filled the house for him, and she was the mother-in-law of the princess of Guangping, and she pressed Zhao Xiu everywhere. Even Mrs. Qiu is also a generation higher than the Zhang family, what's wrong?

In addition, there is the fifth prince of the first emperor, King Jinyang, although he was once succeeded out, but now he has returned to the sect. is still the brother of the current emperor. I'm in my early twenties right now. Don't look at this golden branch and jade leaf concubine, there are many concubines, and there are many children, but in fact, he has never married a wife. His biological mother died early, and he was not favored by the first emperor, and the age when he should marry the princess was at the height of the succession, so he was delayed. In addition, he has an eccentric temper, and his relationship with Jinshang is also mediocre, and the palace is not in the mood to help him worry about these now. As long as Qiu Yuan marries. It is the original main room, the princess and princess. Where is the loss? Princess Jinyang is the aunt of the prince of Guangping and an elder. Being the grandmother of Princess Jinyang can also lower the Zhang family by a generation.

As for the county kings in the side branch clans, they are really old men, the youngest are in their forties, the princess is dead, the prince is also older, the power of the palace is firmly in the hands, and the newly married filling house really can't do anything unless the means are outstanding. Moreover, most of these palaces have no real power, and their relationship with the royal family is not very close, and some of them are far away in Jiading, Mrs. Qiu really can't look down on them, and she doesn't expect Qiu Yuan to fight for them.

She chose three paths for her son and daughter-in-law: defeat Zhao Xiu to fight for the position of princess of Guangping Wang, change to the step-concubine of Guangping or Jinyang, and enter the palace as a concubine. She felt that she had thought about her granddaughter a lot.

She said: "Our family has been preparing for so long for Sister Yuan to be the princess of Guangping Wang, and we do not hesitate to wronged Sister Yu to make a second room, and marry a useless daughter-in-law for Brother You'er." At this time, if you don't say that things can't be done, you can swallow this breath if you marry Sister Yuan'er to an ordinary official child? I can't swallow it anyway! Things haven't reached a dead end yet, how can you admit defeat? Even if Sister Yuan can't marry the prince of Guangping, her marriage can't be worse than the previous one! ”

Maybe it's because the two candidates proposed by Mrs. Qiu are better than expected, and the faces of Meishanbo and Mrs. Meishanbo are better, but they still don't approve of it. No matter how good King Guangping is, he is also a blind man, and the position of the prince of Guangping is a sure thing, and it is useless for Qiu Yuan to marry him. Moreover, the Queen Mother is very concerned about the selection of the step-concubine of the king of Guangping, and Qiu Yuan will not be able to pass the test just because she is younger than the prince. As for the King of Jinyang, it is true that he married the original partner, but his temper is too unpredictable, and there are too many concubines and concubines, and marrying him is the fate of sin.

In this way, they can only fight for their daughter for the position of the princess of Guangping Wang, otherwise, there is only the option of sending the daughter to the palace. But the emperor's conditions are similar to his two brothers, the queen gave birth to two princes, and she can't tolerate the storage of concubines, and the emperor has not yet agreed to accept concubines. How sure is Qiu Yuan that she can enter the palace?

Faced with the doubts of her son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Qiu was very disapproving: "The emperor's acceptance of concubines is already a matter of nine out of ten, at most it will be delayed for another two years." Although the queen has two princes, she has long been abandoned by the queen mother and the emperor, and now the palace is just looking at the prince's face and leaving her a decent face. If she is useful, Sister Yuan will not be able to get no benefits from her for so long. You don't have to take her too seriously, but you can let Sister Yuan'er coax her again. The horizontal and vertical palaces are all about to enter people, if the queen thinks that Sister Yuan, who is good friends with her, enters the palace and is stronger than the fox spirit next to her, she naturally knows what to do. But how she is doing after successfully entering the palace depends on Sister Yuan's ability. ”

After saying so long, Mrs. Qiu was also a little tired, and with a wave of her hand, she drove her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter away, and told them to think about it. Qiu Yuan followed her parents back to the upper room of the main courtyard at a loss, and looked at them blankly: "Father, mother, what should my daughter do next?" "What did my grandmother give? Why do you feel that everything is unreliable?

Meishan Bo was also a little dazed, he was thinking about how to persuade the emperor to change his mind and point out his daughter to the prince of Guangping? After a while, he thought of a solution: "As long as the daughter of the Zhao family has a little errand." You can't be the princess, right? ”

Qiu Yuan's eyes lit up, but Mrs. Meishan Bo categorically vetoed: "No." "Qiu Yuan has more black spots on her body than others, just because of her innocence and reputation. It's enough to be picky. Even if Zhao Xiu is pulled off the horse, he may not be able to replace Qiu Yuan, and the most likely result is that both sides will lose, and in the end they will be cheaper for others. Mrs. Meishan knew the trick, and glared at her daughter secretly warningly.

Qiu Yuan bit her lip unwillingly, lowered her head and did not speak. Mrs. Meishan said to her husband who looked surprised: "Without the daughter of the Zhao family, there will be another daughter." The most important thing. It's not to let the daughter of the Zhao family be the princess of the world, but to let the daughter of our family be the princess of the last world. As long as the emperor has set our sister Yuan, whoever is the daughter. I can't squeeze Sister Yuan down! ”

This is also true, but when Meishan Bo heard it, he frowned: "What can I do to persuade the emperor?" Even Hui Quan has been on an errand in front of the emperor for many years, but he is just a guard and encounters major events. He couldn't say anything. Either...... Or ask a few high-ranking clan ladies to come forward. Please help our sister Yuan say good things? ”

Mrs. Meishan said: "The Duchess of Jiannan County can directly meet the Queen Mother and pull her granddaughter to the Queen Mother." Even if we invite a few clan ladies to move, we will be separated by one layer after all. In my opinion, this matter still has to fall on the queen's mother. "The ladies of the clan are not so easy to invite, and now there are more people outside who know Qiu Yuan's gossip, which is far less easy to coax than the queen who closes her eyes and listens in the palace.

Qiu Yuan's eyes turned red when she heard this: "Mother said it lightly!" If I dare to open this mouth directly in front of the queen's mother, I will lose all my face in the past! Moreover, now the queen has long fallen out of favor. Not to mention meddling in the marriage of the prince of Guangping in front of the queen mother and the emperor, I am afraid that she will now call the daughters of several ministers' families into the palace to talk. The emperor will also be unhappy. She felt nothing but sadness in her heart. The marriage was supposed to be the order of her parents, but her parents could hardly help, and her grandmother would only make requests, but she would not give any effort, so that her daughter, who had not been out of the cabinet, would fight for her future alone. But no matter how smart and capable she is, she is just a weak woman, and there are always things in the world that she can't do. Why can't parents and elders think more about her?

Mrs. Meishan Bo also sighed: "Indeed, Sister Yuan is a girl after all, how can this kind of thing be said?" It would be nice if the old lady could speak in front of the Queen Mother, just like the Duchess of Jiannan County......"

Mei Shanbo was worried again: "Mother doesn't like to flatter in front of nobles the most. Besides, for the sake of the juniors, it was not the filial son who made her old man keep her voice down. "Old Madam Qiu only likes to be an old feudal lord who flatters everyone at home, and if she wants to go to a higher status family as a guest, she must first see if there are female relatives of the same generation in the family. For those female relatives of the same generation who are equal to her status or higher than her, even if she can't see anyone, she has to say a few sour words behind her back. Let her enter the palace to slap the Queen Mother? Forget it.

The husband and wife glanced at each other and twisted their heads again.

Qiu Yuan saw that her parents were silent and refused to persuade her grandmother to contribute to her marriage, so she couldn't help but cry again: "Father, mother, daughter has always listened to your words and identified the prince of Guangping, and now if you ask your daughter to remarry his father, her daughter will never respond!" My daughter is also a person who knows shame, how can she do such a thing? ”

Mrs. Meishanbo glared at her daughter, secretly complaining that her daughter was not worrying, if it wasn't for her own unclean work and ruined her reputation, why did her parents worry about her? They just need to report her name to the Queen Mother. The daughter's comprehensive su zhì is still very high, no worse than other ladies, but now that she has black spots, this thing is not done.

The matter could not be discussed, Meishan Bo helplessly went to the study to worry about himself, Mrs. Meishan Bo drove her daughter back to the room, sat in the room by herself, and thought about it for a long time.

Half a day later, she finally figured it out, with the power of rumors, if she couldn't start from the queen and let Qiu Yuan successfully be pointed out to Gao Zhen, the prince of Guangping, then no matter which prince or prince it was, it was not something that Qiu Yuan could climb. Especially the King of Jinyang, if he knew that Qiu Yuan intended to seek the position of his princess, he didn't know what ugly words would come out of his mouth. In this way, there is only one last way left - to enter the palace as a concubine, and to follow the path of the queen.

Mrs. Meishan ordered someone to call her daughter over, and the mother and daughter entered the back room, and ordered their henchmen to guard outside the door, not allowing anyone to approach, and then explained the matter to her daughter closely. Qiu Yuan was so frightened that her face turned white: "It's not possible!" Mother, you don't know who the queen is, if she knows that I intend to enter the palace, she will strangle me first without waiting for the emperor to nod. She's a person who can't rub sand in her eyes! ”

Mrs. Meishan Bo glared: "It is precisely because of this that I asked you to coax her and let her be happy to introduce you to the palace!" Sooner or later, the palace will have to enter people, and others can enter, why can't you? You are still friendly with the queen, much better than those who are bent on pulling her off the phoenix seat. You don't have to say this too clearly, just lead her to think for herself. If you can't even do this kind of thing, don't want to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, listen to my arrangement as soon as possible, and find the right son-in-law to marry. Don't think how wronged you are, thanks to the demon moth you made before, it is already a great blessing that you can talk about the marriage of the right family! Go back to your room and think about it! ”

drove away her pale daughter, and Mrs. Meishanbo remembered her second daughter-in-law, Fang Huizhu. If her daughter really wants to enter the palace, she will have to ask Fang Huizhu to train her daughter for a while longer, and then find one or two good grandmothers from the palace. For the sake of her daughter, she could only turn back and win over Fang Huizhu. If necessary, she can help her daughter-in-law step on Mrs. Qiu's unloving niece and granddaughter.

Anyway, it's just a concubine. (To be continued......)