Chapter 1792 Who Instigates Who
When Wei Zhi walked out of the palace, his face was expressionless as usual, but his heart was still restless.
The emperor then expressed his desire to become his in-law.
Wei Zhi... was moved.
Wei Zhi rubbed his forehead with his hand, got on his own carriage and left.
The fact that the emperor had taken a fancy to Wei Zhi's youngest son, Wei Yu, and wanted to marry Chang Yu to him was a secret among others, but not among Mingda and Chang Yu.
Because when the family was having dinner in the evening, the emperor mentioned that Wei Zhi's youngest son, Wei Yu, had returned to Beijing from his hometown in Quyang. It was said that he was a good student and would take the examination for the Imperial College next year.
The emperor was looking at Changyu and smiling as he said this.
Changyu: ...
She was a little unhappy, so the next day she dragged Mingda to the Imperial Hospital to talk to Manbao.
Three little girls sat on the railing of a pavilion next to the Imperial Hospital, their legs dangling in the air, and the palace servants who were serving them stood far away.
Chang Yu complained to the two of them, "Father doesn't keep his word. He clearly said he would let me get married in a year or two, but now he's arranging a marriage for me."
Manbao said, "Your Majesty said this in the summer, and now it's almost the New Year. Isn't it the next year after the New Year?"
Manbao roughly guessed why the emperor suddenly wanted to arrange a marriage for Changyu. It was the same reason why Imperial Physician Liu arranged a marriage for the Empress Dowager after he examined her.
She said, "It's even more complicated for you royal family to get engaged. If we talk about getting married now, it will take at least the next year to get it done. And if we prepare for the wedding, it will take another year or two for you to get married."
"How can it be that slow?" Chang Yu pouted, "I feel like I'll be married off next year."
Mingda thought for a moment and asked Manbao, "But the Empress Dowager is not well?"
Chang Yu was startled and turned to look at her, "What?"
Manbao nodded, shaking his legs and said, "It should be next year."
Mingda and Changyu were both shocked and speechless for a long time.
Compared with the empress dowager's illness, Changyu suddenly didn't have such a big objection to his marriage.
She turned to look at Mingda and asked, "Is Mingda also going to get engaged next year?"
Mingda will be fourteen next year.
During a national mourning period, the emperor does not observe it for long, but their grandchildren may have to fulfill their filial duties on their father's behalf and may have to observe it for the full 27 months.
The royal family has always been flexible in mourning. The emperor and the empress dowager had a good relationship, so when she was heartbroken, some of them would mourn for a year and a half. The emperor, who was busy with all kinds of affairs and shouldered the burden of the entire country, mourned for a year and a half. Wouldn't these filial sons and grandsons have to mourn for the full 27 months?
If the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was not good, they would simply use the days instead of the months, and no one would say anything about it if they observed the mourning period for twenty-seven days. By then, their grandchildren would naturally have a longer mourning period.
But they all knew in their hearts that no matter how unhappy their father and grandmother had been in the past, their father would still be very sad if the grandmother really passed away.
So there is a high probability that they will have to observe the full mourning period.
Chang Yu was sad for a moment, then rolled her eyes. Then she became alert again and said in a low voice, "Doesn't that mean I can wait two or three years before getting married?"
Mingda and Manbao turned their heads to look at her.
Chang Yu cleared his throat and said, "That's just what I thought. I don't have any other intentions."
She said to Mingda, "I just don't believe it. Aren't you curious about what kind of marriage Father and Mother are going to arrange for you?"
It's impossible not to be curious, but...
Mingda said, "I feel that I am still young, and my father and mother may not be in a hurry to arrange a marriage for me."
Chang Yu said, "I don't believe it. I feel like my father is always worried that we won't be able to get married. He was already thinking of arranging a marriage for me when I was only twelve."
If she had not been unwilling and the Queen had not spoken up for her, she would have been married off this year.
Although Mingda also had this feeling, because she had been ill, her feeling was not very strong.
Chang Yu and Zhou Man said, "I haven't met Wei Yu yet. They say a son resembles his father, and I'm particularly worried that he might look like Lord Wei."
Manbao's mind flashed with Lord Wei's face, and he said, "Then you're done."
Mingda jokingly pushed Manbao. Changyu saw that the two of them not only did not comfort her but also made fun of her, so she said angrily, "You are too disloyal."
Manbao spread his hands and said, "I can't help you with this."
The emperor wanted to arrange a marriage for his daughter. How could she, a lowly official of the fifth rank, have the right to speak?
Chang Yu said, "Who said you can't help? You can be of great help."
She bowed slightly and whispered to the two of them, "Please help me see Wei Yu."
Man Bao agreed, patting his chest and saying, "That's easy. I'll help you check it when I'm on my day off."
Chang Yu: "...No, I'm not asking you to help me see it, I'm asking you to help me go out and see it with my own eyes!"
She emphasized the word "with her own eyes".
Manbao: "...You're putting me in a difficult position. I can't just stuff you in a carriage and take you out of the palace, right?"
Mingda's eyes lit up slightly, and he sat up a little straighter, saying reservedly, "Actually, there is still a way."
So, Manbao waited for Eunuch Wu in the Imperial Hospital, wrote him a prescription, and used her connections to get the medicine from the pharmacy. Then the three of them followed Eunuch Wu back to the Eastern Palace.
The prince had just returned from a business trip and the emperor had given him two days off. He was currently at home playing with his child.
Manbao saw that he had shaved his beard. According to the Crown Princess, the little prince did not recognize the Crown Prince with a beard and started crying as soon as he fell into his arms. The Crown Prince had no choice but to shave his beard.
Seeing Zhou Man and his two sisters coming together, the prince stuffed the child into the hands of the princess, then sat down on the chair with a dignified look on his face and asked, "What's the matter?"
Changyu was always a little afraid of the prince, so he kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
Mingda, however, was closer to the Crown Prince. She ran forward to greet the Crown Princess first, then pestered the Crown Prince, saying, "Brother Crown Prince, we want to leave the palace and watch the people celebrate the Little New Year."
The prince asked, "What's so interesting about the folk Little New Year?"
"Zhou Man said that their family made a lot of delicious food during the Xiaonian Festival. They will also make a new kind of food that is especially delicious. Brother Crown Prince, please let us leave the palace."
The prince said, "Go and ask the emperor for help."
They came to see the prince because they knew that their father would most likely not agree.
Mingda said, "I also want to buy a rattle and a bamboo dragonfly for the eagle slave... Prince, please let us leave the palace. We haven't left the palace much this year."
The prince frowned.
Mingda continued, sighing, "Father is going to arrange a marriage for my sister, but we know nothing about the outside world and don't know if she can adapt after getting married."
The prince snorted coldly, "If you can't make it, come back to the palace. You are princesses, and others should adapt to you. Why should you adapt to others?"
Manbao: ...
The prince looked up at Zhou Man and asked, "Were you the one who instigated them to leave the palace?"
Manbao: "...it was clearly them who instigated me. How desperate must I be to instigate them to leave the palace?"
Prince: ...
Mingda, Changyu, and the Crown Princess: ...
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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