Gu Qian: "Attending a banquet and entering the palace are two different things."
Don't forget.
He Lin left after saying one sentence.
This made Gu Qian quite annoyed.
He turned around and saw Qiu Yan walking towards him, and quickly suppressed his anger.
"Yan Yan, tomorrow night, come to the palace with your husband. I want everyone in Shangjin City to know about our relationship."
He was referring to the matchmaker who came to propose marriage that day.
“Okay.” Qiu Yan nodded. “Perfect timing. I also want to try what the banquet in the palace tastes like.”
Why wouldn't you go to a free banquet?
Qiu Yan really wanted to try it and see if the food in the palace was as good as what she could make herself.
Meanwhile, the Duan family mansion
Duan Xiang paced back and forth in the room, his mind constantly pondering the same question.
How can he persuade his eldest son to acknowledge his ancestry?
He had this idea several years ago.
Later, when Gu Qian became a general, he became even more determined to have Gu Qian acknowledge his ancestry.
After all, his son is successful, and as a father, he feels proud, doesn't he?
"Master, you've confused me so much," his second wife, Madam Qin, muttered grumbling from the side.
Duan Xiang ignored Qin Shi's nagging and continued talking to himself.
"What exactly should we do to bring Qian'er back?"
His attentiveness to Gu Qian made Qin feel uneasy.
"You still care about him so much? What an ingrate! What's there to worry about?"
"Madam, he is my son, and I must bring him back to the family line!" Prime Minister Duan's tone was somewhat unfriendly.
But she was met with a cold sneer from the Qin family.
"Hmph, it seems like only he is your biological son, and Xiu'er isn't your biological son?" Qin Shi said sourly.
But in the end, she also wanted to please Gu Qian.
After all, Gu Qian was a favorite of His Majesty.
"Aren't you General Gu's biological father? After all, you two are related by blood. How could he possibly disown you for the rest of his life?"
"What General Gu? His surname is clearly Duan!" Prime Minister Duan felt that Gu Qian's honor should not be attributed to the Gu family.
After thinking for a moment, Qin said, "Why don't I go and meet him? I'm sure Gu Qian will be more polite to me, his stepmother."
"Stepmother? She doesn't even acknowledge her own father, why would she acknowledge you?" Duan Xiang felt that if his wife went there, she would only be met with a cold shoulder.
Qin Shi: "Hmph, just because you can't do it doesn't mean I can't. With your eldest son's influence in the court, how can we succeed without currying favor with him? Isn't Zhang'er's position as Empress just a matter of a word from him?"
“Zhang’er doesn’t want to enter the palace, you know that.” Prime Minister Duan didn’t want to force his daughter, but he couldn’t make the decisions for his family.
"She doesn't want to, but she has no choice!" Madam Qin raised her eyebrows, her eyes full of calculation.
Duan Xiang thought to himself, "What's so good about entering the palace?"
Suddenly, he thought of something.
"I casually mentioned to you the other day that I saw Qian'er's daughter at the General's Mansion who looked somewhat similar to the late Empress. You didn't gossip about it outside, did you?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? This matter has already been spread far and wide, and everyone knows about it." Madam Qin glanced at her small eyes, her expression barely perceptible.
She wondered if the late Empress and Gu Qian had a secret affair.
"Everyone knows?" Duan Xiang shook his head.
"Since everyone knows this, how come I don't know it?"
"You are the Prime Minister, and you are also the father of Gu Qian. Who would dare to speak of his affairs in front of you?" Madam Qin smiled, her eyes still gleaming with calculation.
"Father and son?" Duan Xiang suddenly felt a surge of anger rising within him.
His eldest son didn't recognize him at all and regarded him as his enemy.
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