Chapter 6 Observe before taking action
"So that His Highness can know that I am a descendant of the old lady's family."
"You are from the Nangong family, yes, yes, you do look a bit alike, no wonder, no wonder."
It's just like that.
Jiang Jue looked at Jing Beian again: "Then Feifei is in the Marquis' Mansion..."
"Your Highness, the Queen Mother is looking for you."
Jiang Jue only had time to throw out a sentence "You must take good care of Feifei" before reluctantly following the palace maid who came to deliver the message.
"Madam, aren't you afraid that the Fourth Prince will punish you?" Jing Beian whispered.
It's funny, "If you're not afraid, why should I be afraid?"
Besides, if you really look into it, Qiu Xuan didn't lie. Her great-aunt also had the surname Nangong, and if you look closely, her mother-in-law would have called her great-aunt "clan aunt."
"You are a family member of a criminal. What will you do if someone recognizes you?"
"My Lord, just take care of yourself." Qiu Xuan forced herself not to roll her eyes. "Many people who came here today are familiar with the Yunyang Marquisate."
"You're right." Jing Beian smiled, "We should at least greet the elders before the banquet starts."
After saying that, Jing Beian left Qiuxuan there and left.
Qiu Xuan asked a palace maid to lead her to her seat.
She knew what Jing Beian had said to the Fourth Prince, and she also saw Jing Beian interacting with people familiar with the Marquis's Mansion. This was enough for her to report to the old lady.
Next, Qiu Xuan lowered her eyes and sat down. What happened next was her own business.
Behind a curtain of golden beads, a gorgeously dressed woman stared at Qiu Xuan for a long moment, then closed her fan and nodded in her direction: "That girl looks very familiar."
The young man in black beside her looked in the direction she pointed, thought for a moment, and said, "She is Ningjia's study partner."
"Qiu Yun's granddaughter? I remember her name was..."
"Qiu Xuan."
The woman's fan fell from her left hand to her right: "I thought the girls of the Qiu family were all in the north. Who did she come with?"
"Marquis Yunyang," the young man said, "After the Qiu family encountered trouble, they entrusted one of their daughters to Madam Nangong of the Marquis Yunyang's mansion."
The woman frowned and called a maid over: "Go and ask clearly." Just as the maid was about to leave, the woman stopped her and said: "Go and see where the Fourth Prince is. Tell him I'm looking for him."
"Yes, Your Highness the Princess."
After a while, the maid returned: "The Fourth Prince has been summoned by the Queen Mother. The lady at the table is the wife of Marquis Yunyang."
"Have you found out everything?" the princess confirmed again and again.
"It is said that Madam Nangong brought her into the mansion under the pretext of bringing good luck."
The eldest princess frowned and said nothing.
The young man gestured for the maid to leave before saying, "Back then, everyone thought that Marquis Yunyang and his son had both died in battle. Madam Nangong's actions are understandable."
"The fourth child is so reckless! He didn't even ask for details before getting married," the eldest princess sighed. "Ah, I still remember this child, following Ning Jia quietly. What if she and Feifei have a misunderstanding? Feifei is so impatient. Oh, our girl must not do anything to bully others."
The young man did not respond to the princess' words, but silently looked at Qiu Xuan through the beaded curtain.
Gradually more and more people came to the table, and more and more people began to secretly look at Qiuxuan.
Many people recognized Qiu Xuan, and their eyes, either wary or suspicious, formed an intricate spider web.
Qiu Xuan, who was trapped in the spider web, seemed to be unaware of it and was leisurely sipping tea.
"Aunt, I have something to ask of you." Jiang Jue rushed in from outside. "Second brother is here too."
"Fourth brother." The man in black nodded slightly, turned around and bowed to the eldest princess and took his leave.
Before the Second Prince could even leave, the Princess stormed out to Jiang Jue, "What's wrong with Jing Beian? He already has one at home, and he wants to marry another. How can he be entrusted with important matters with his character?"
The Second Prince took a few quick steps and still heard the Fourth Prince's feeble and pale rebuttal: "Alas, Aunt, you misunderstood him. He didn't even know there was another one at home."
He paused for a moment, then turned and walked in another direction.
"You don't know?" The princess snorted coldly. "You rescued him from the desert, and instead of writing home to let him know he was safe, he was only thinking about trying to get you to take credit for it. Not only that, he's actually trying to climb up the social ladder!"
"They're all aunts!" Jiang Jue stamped his feet anxiously. "If you hadn't forbidden me to marry Feifei, Father wouldn't have misunderstood me as a matchmaker for them!"
Jiang Jue started to cry as he spoke, "Now, Jing Beian already has a wife. What should Feifei do?"
"Divorce." The princess said, "It's not that difficult. I'll go talk to my brother."
"No, no, Feifei is pregnant!"
"What did you say?" The princess almost threw the fan in her hand away, "Cheers to that beast Bei'an!"
"Yes..." Jiang Jue explained vaguely.
"What?"
The eldest princess' fingers, which were clutching the fan, were pale, but Jiang Jue's face was even paler.
"The child is mine..."
Boom.
The eldest princess took a step back and knocked over the screen on the table.
The sound was neither loud nor soft. The people outside the bead curtain looked inside and quickly exchanged excited glances.
It's said that if there's a banquet in the palace, something bad will happen. Isn't the fun about to begin?
Qiuxuan accepted the pastries handed to her by the palace maid. The imperial kitchen still used the same recipe she and Ningjia had devised. However, the people who had shared the pastries with Qiuxuan were no longer in Dadu, so the fruity and floral aromas in the pastries seemed a little thin.
When the eldest princess fell down, Qiu Xuan was a little surprised. Could it be that Jiang Jue just told her everything directly?
"When did this happen?" The eldest princess snatched the refreshing tea brought in by the palace maid and drank it all in one gulp. "Did Jing Beian tell you?"
"Aunt, please don't ask. It's definitely mine. I've calculated the days. Besides, even if you don't believe me, just believe Feifei..."
The eldest princess wanted to throw the tea on Jiang Jue's face.
"Fei Fei cannot enter the palace now, and this child cannot be kept."
"aunt!"
"What did I tell you?" the princess lowered her voice. "If you want to make further progress, you must find a princess from a wealthy family. I alone can't push you."
"Isn't there still the Yunyang Marquisate..." Jiang Jue said aggrievedly.
"Jing Beian is not Nangong Shao's biological son. It is still unknown what will happen to the Yunyang Marquis' Mansion in the future." The eldest princess couldn't help but gently hit the back of Jiang Jue's hand with her fan.
"Besides, since you're counting on the Yunyang Marquisate, you should be fully aware of its inner workings. But you didn't even know Jing Beian had a widowed wife, yet you went to speak nonsense before the Emperor."
"At worst, we can just let her divorce Jing Beian." Jiang Jue retorted impatiently, touching the red mark on the back of his hand, "She's just a distant relative of the Nangong family."
"Did she tell you that?" The eldest princess said solemnly, "She is Qiu Yun's granddaughter."
"Qiu Yun? Who is Qiu Yun?"
"Aunt, aunt, please stop hitting me!" A wailing sound made those waiting for the banquet to start unconcealedly turn their attention to the pearl curtain.
The eldest princess is teaching the fourth prince a lesson again. I don’t know what trouble the fourth prince has gotten into this time.
The eldest princess hit Jiang Jue's arm several times with her fan before pulling him to her side and whispering.
"Back then, Qiu Yun bravely pleaded for the Queen, sacrificing over thirty lives in the Qiu family so that your mother's body wouldn't be scattered. You actually forgot, you actually forgot?"
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