718: Love is born of pity, respect is born of love
King Huai invited Cheng Qing to go to Meifu with him, because he wanted to invite Cheng Qing as a companion to Meifu to propose marriage.
Cheng Qing has now confirmed that on the day of Cheng Min's wedding, King Huai was looking at Mei Pujia instead of He Wan.
A lifetime at a glance?
King Huai was not so rash.
After a glimpse at the Cheng family's wedding banquet, King Huai was indeed attracted by Mei Pujia's poetic and scholarly temperament, but after learning of Mei Pujia's identity, King Huai did not take any further action.
It's not that he dislikes Mei Pujia and his identity, he is a widower himself, how can he be qualified to dislike Mei Pujia.
It's just that King Huai is used to being a rich idler, and he doesn't want to fight for power and profit, thinking that Lord Mei has entered the cabinet and is still the youngest adult in the cabinet, King Huai has concerns about marrying Meifu.
Everyone has their own preferences, King Huai is not short of silver flowers, has a title, is not attached to power, has dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and picks his wife not to draw the woman's family background, I only hope that the husband and wife can play the piano and Ming.
Most of these women come from scholarly families and noble families.
So when the Queen Mother was a matchmaker, when she heard that it was Cheng Qing's sister, King Huai immediately agreed to most of them.
At that time, although Cheng Qing was already the champion of six yuan and the first, but to mix in the officialdom to be a very good minister, how could it take twenty or thirty years, King Huai is really not the future of Cheng Qing, it is Cheng Qing's "six yuan and first" name that makes King Huai's heart move.
As a result, the future brother-in-law of six yuan and the first was stunned and didn't take a fancy to him.
Cheng Qing's two sisters married one after another, and King Huai could only maintain his demeanor and generous blessings.
Master Mei and Cheng Qing are different.
Cheng Qing has not yet come out, Master Mei has already come out, and King Huai is worried that he will lean on and have a father-in-law who is becoming more and more powerful, and he will be farther and farther away from the days of rich and noble idlers.
Knowing Mei Pujia's situation, King Huai's little thoughts were suppressed.
But God seems to be playing tricks on King Huai, King Huai has no follow-up, after the Cheng family's wedding banquet, he let him frequently meet Mei Pujia.
Mrs. Mei will take Mei Pujia to attend some social occasions, male and female guests sit separately, King Huai can meet with Mei Pujia by chance, and after seeing three or five times, King Huai can't help but suspect that this may be some kind of hint from God to him - men, regardless of age, regardless of identity, are more or less a little self-inflicted, and King Huai is no exception.
In fact, where is God's hint, it is clear that he has a mind about Mei Pujia, and every time he encounters a banquet, he always subconsciously searches for Mei Pujia's figure.
The capital is so big, after Lord Mei was promoted, the Mei family has the qualifications to enter the social circle of the powerful, King Huai is a rich idler, is a young widower, whoever has a banquet loves to give King Huai a post, the circle of the capital is not small, and it is like that, a girl who has left home, a young widower, it is normal to appear on the same occasion!
After seeing each other a few more times, King Huai became more and more attentive to Mei Pujia.
Although Mei Pujia has a father who has entered the cabinet, the identity of the divorce makes Mei Pujia's remarriage not very smooth.
There are many people who intend to marry Meifu, and the down-and-out scholar counted on marrying Mei Pujia and was carried by Mei Daren; A wealthy businessman with a copper-smelling surname wants to marry Mei Pujia in order to change the lintel; There are also "young talents" who have died of their wives and have children and beautiful concubines at home, and want to marry Mei Pujia and go home to be a virtuous wife, raise their children, and manage the back house...... The more King Huai knows, the more he holds his breath, and those who ask for relatives simply don't know what to say!
After Mei Pujia's ex-husband Yang Daiying had remarried and had children, there was a faint rumor that Mei Pujia and Yang Daiying were reconciled because they couldn't have children, and they didn't let Yang Daiying take a concubine.
Anyway, when Mei Pujia was the granddaughter-in-law of the Marquis of Changxing, she did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, and Yang Daiying's wife remarried quickly passed on the incense for the Yang family.
Yang Daiying has no problem, that is, there is a problem with Mei Pujia.
King Huai was very angry when he heard these words, suspecting that it was a rumor deliberately released by the Marquis of Changxing, just to disgust Mei Pujia and sabotage her remarriage!
"Miss Mei didn't do anything wrong, why was she so abused?"
King Huai was still very indignant when he talked about this in front of Cheng Qing.
Cheng Qing was curious, "So the prince has a sympathetic attack and wants to ask to marry Miss Mei?" ”
Cheng Qing knows that there is some love that sprouts from compassion, and love is born from pity, which may not be sincere.
It's just that Miss Mei may not want such "pity".
Miss Mei may want a feeling of mutual respect more than sympathy, otherwise why would she reconcile with Yang Daiying and leave the Yang family in the first place!
The essence of being bullied by her former mother-in-law, Mrs. Hou Shizi of Changxing, is that the Yang family looks down on Miss Mei and disrespects her.
It's not all the way, and it's naturally painful to live together.
Cheng Qing's deep affection for his fiancée He Wan is spread in Beijing, King Huai regards Cheng Qing as a fellow practitioner who can understand his feelings, and in front of Cheng Qing, King Huai has nothing to hide.
"Naturally, it's not compassion, there are so many women in the world who are suffering and suffering, can't Xiao Wang marry all of them!"
Love is born from pity.
Because of love begets respect.
King Huai pitied Mei Pujia and respected Mei Pujia.
Not every girl who is divorced has Mei Pujia's calmness.
Compared with self-pity, such a character that is not afraid of rumors is even more appreciated by King Huai.
It really made King Huai make up his mind, or last winter, King Huai met Mei Pujia outside the city, Mei Pujia was stopped by Mrs. Hou Shizi of Changxing, Mrs. Hou Shizi of Changxing pointed to Sang and scolded Huai and said a lot of sour words, and was scolded back by Mei Pujia.
Huai Wang's biological mother was born in Yufeng Qianzhuang, is a young lady of the merchant family, married to the old Qin Wang as a side concubine, the old Qin Wang is almost 20 years older than the side concubine, changed the general little lady, will cry and cry about this marriage, Huai Wang's biological mother knows the powerful relationship, since she chose to marry for the sake of the family's business, then she can't feel sorry for herself, that is not a marriage, it is a revenge for her mother's family.
The side concubine can't have a woman's love for a man for the old King Qin, but she respects the old King Qin from the bottom of her heart.
Lao Qin Wang is not a stupid person, a woman really respects him, he wants to let this woman have security for the rest of her life, so the side concubine was able to give birth to King Huai.
At that moment, King Huai saw the shadow of his biological mother in Mei Pujia.
He doesn't love his mother, but he does respect from the bottom of his heart for women who work hard to make life promising under unfavorable conditions.
After Mei Pujia took away Mrs. Hou Shizi of Changxing, King Huai followed the carriage of Meifu far away and escorted Mei Pujia home.
In order to brush up on his good impression in front of Mei Pujia, King Huai took the initiative to make friends with Tan Jingya, Tan Jingya loved to go to Meifu, and King Huai went cheekily.
Tan Jingya went to see Lord Mei, and King Huai also went to see Lord Mei, in the name of asking for teaching, he actually wanted to be Lord Mei's son-in-law.
"Didn't the teacher beat you with a big stick?"
"Why didn't you fight, Xiao Wang came to the door for the third time, and was recognized by Lord Mei, Xiao Wang showed his intention in front of Lord Mei and was kicked out by Lord Mei. Don't hide it from Lord Cheng, Brother Tan has unilaterally announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Xiao Wang, this is the seventh time that Xiao Wang has come to Mei's house, and the fourth time he has proposed to Lord Mei. ”
Cheng Qing stepped into the Mei Mansion with one foot, and King Huai said his heartfelt words.
Cheng Qing almost flashed his waist.
Is it too late to turn around and leave?
- King Huai can't enter the gate of Meifu by himself, so he tricked himself into swiping his face card!!