Chapter 141, The Marriage of the Seven Princes
Mrs. Qin's mother has an elder brother and a younger brother, the elder brother is now the son of the Marquis of Zhenguo, and the younger brother is the third young master of the Marquis of Zhenguo.
Among the siblings, her elder brother Zhenguo Hou Shizi is slightly older than her, and has three heirs under her knees, fifteen-year-old sister-in-law Meng Qi, followed by thirteen-year-old and ten-year-old daughters Meng Antong and Meng Anqing.
In addition, it is her brother-in-law, the third young master of the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion, who is now twenty-nine years old, and has a son and a daughter under his knees.
Today, the three young ladies of the Meng family, the three brothers and sisters of her maiden family are unwell, so only the mother Mrs. Zhenguohou and the sister-in-law Mrs. Zhenguohou Shizi enter the palace, and in addition to the three girls from the Meng family's big house and three rooms.
The eldest granddaughter Meng Antong and the seventh prince born to Mrs. Qin were in the same year, according to the rules of the Great Shun Dynasty, men and women must not be in the same year, and the difference between them must be at least three years old, so the two are destined to have no fate.
However, Meng Anqing, who is ten years old in the Meng family's big house, and Meng Anchen, who is nine years old in the third room, are exactly the same age.
From the Zhenguo Marquis's Mansion to the Zhenguo Marquis, down to the big house and the third room, they all wanted to kiss each other, and promised one of the two people, Meng Anqing and Meng Anchen, to the Seventh Prince.
At this time, when I heard Mrs. Qin mention the marriage of the eighth princess of Xitong, Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhenguo and her second daughter, as well as the eldest daughter of the third room, had their own ideas in their hearts.
And Mrs. Zhenguohou, this old man doesn't have any ideas, after all, she is old, and her children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and she doesn't want to get involved.
Even if she wants to intervene, she can't resist her husband and son after all, so it is better to pretend to be deaf and dumb, pretend not to know, and let her husband and sons calculate!
In fact, her heart has always been disapproving of her granddaughter marrying her grandson in the future, her daughter entering the palace as a concubine is enough, there is no reason to let her granddaughter marry her grandson, so close to each other, although outsiders think it is very good, but it is easy to breed a lot of contradictions.
If the relationship between the granddaughter and the grandson is good in the future, then it is easy to say, but if the relationship is not good, then it will not even affect the relationship between the brothers and sisters of the previous generation!
When she is older, she doesn't want to face the scene of her son and daughter breaking up in her lifetime·······
She thinks about her daughter as a mother, and similarly, Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhenguo is also a mother, so she naturally has to think about her daughter.
The whole world is not the imperial land, and the shore of the land is not the royal minister, the royal family is naturally the preferred object of marriage, and kissing is the most convenient rhetoric!
Mrs. Qin vaguely mentioned the marriage of the eighth princess of Xitong, and did not explain the meaning of His Majesty the Emperor, but it made her sister-in-law and three nieces fall into deep thought.
Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhenguo thought about how she should speak, how to take the initiative to mention that she was willing to give her second daughter Meng Anqing to the Seventh Prince.
The eldest granddaughter Meng Antong has no unusual expression, she is the same year as the cousin of the Seventh Prince, naturally there is no hope, and the other princes are estimated to have little chance, there is no hope, there is no disappointment!
Meng Antong was indifferent, but when her sister, ten-year-old Meng Anqing, heard this, her eyes immediately lit up at this time, shining brightly, and she was full of ambition·······
As for Meng Anchen in the third room of the Meng family, after a flash of surprise, he quickly lowered his head and fell into contemplation, and Meng Anqing in the big room had two completely different attitudes.
"The eighth princess doesn't need to be close to Nanyue, this is the best, I heard that Nanyue is the land of the South Barbarians, and there is a custom of the father and son marrying their mother-in-law·········" Mrs. Zhenguohou spoke with relief at this time.
In any case, she didn't want her granddaughter to marry thousands of miles away.
What's more, she once heard her husband mention that in the land of the Southern Barbarians, there is a custom of "wife and stepmother·······
(Note: Stepmother refers to the custom of a son marrying the wife of a deceased father among ethnic minorities.)
Just like Wang Zhaojun, who is known as the wild goose among the four beauties in China, and his husband Hun Huhan Yeshan Yu died and married his ex-husband's son Fu Zhu Ti Shan Yu after his death.
The Nanyue Kingdom here is similar to the customs of ethnic minorities during the Han Dynasty. )
"Mother said cautiously, now that the South Vietnamese State has sent envoys to my Dashun, we can't talk about it as women······" When Mrs. Qin heard this, she hurriedly opened her mouth to stop her mother from continuing.
No matter what the customs of South Vietnam are, now is a critical period for the two countries to be friendly, and they cannot afford to talk about South Vietnam rashly.
This matter can be said to be big or big, and small or small, if Your Majesty investigates it, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape its responsibility.
What's more, the customs of the South Vietnamese country have been formed by their country for a long time, and there are pros and cons in them·······
Mrs. Zhenguohou was reminded by her daughter, and she shut up in a sneer, and she was also annoyed in her heart, this is in the palace, and she needs to be careful everywhere, why can't she control her mouth?
"The eighth princess doesn't need to be married, of course it's the best, I don't know the marriage of the seventh prince next, what does Mrs. Qin think······" Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhenguo congratulated Mrs. Qin with a smile, about the fact that the eighth princess of Xitong does not need to be married.
On the other hand, he didn't forget to ask about the future marriage of his seventh prince, staring at Mrs. Qin with his eyes, unwilling to miss any subtle expression.
(Note: Being in the royal family, it is very different from ordinary noble families, although the princes can decide the future princess when they are sixteen years old, and they will marry at the age of eighteen.)
In addition, generally at the age of fifteen or sixteen, you can marry a side concubine, and many princes' mothers will start looking for candidates when the prince is thirteen or fourteen years old, and then operate one or two from it, and when she is sixteen years old, let the emperor give marriage, or directly accept as a side concubine, a beautiful person, etc. )
When Mrs. Qin heard her sister-in-law's words, her face was stunned, and then she also thought of why her sister-in-law would speak like this, just to let her son marry her niece.
On the one hand, she doesn't want her son to marry her niece because of the relationship between her mother's family, on the other hand, because of the education she received since childhood, and she feels that her son marrying his niece can stabilize the status of his mother's family and even go to a higher level in the future!
With an embarrassed face, I don't know how to answer my mother-in-law, if I refuse directly, I'm afraid it will make my sister-in-law think that she is taking Qiao, but if she is perfunctory, won't she delay her niece.
Moreover, she is just a concubine, and who her son will marry as a concubine in the future is ultimately decided by the emperor, and she can at most promise the position of the side concubine.
But for the position of side concubine, my brother and sister-in-law may not be willing, so she is caught in the middle and is in a dilemma·······
How is this good, my mother's sister-in-law asked like this, if she answered badly, it would inevitably make my brother and sister-in-law think more, but if it was promised, how should the emperor explain it?