Chapter 214 Three Days

"Brother Tianci, do you really not want to marry Wang Dahai's sister?" Gu Yu said incoherently with an apple in his mouth, "Everyone in the Wang family is good-looking, so Wang Dahai's sister should not be much worse. Don't make things worse, or you will really marry Jingyi! Jingyi is beautiful, but her temper makes it seem as if everyone in the world has to revolve around her. Although Jingfu is better, he is very ordinary in both appearance and temperament." As he said, he rushed to Song Mo's desk and blinked at him ambiguously, "Do you want me to help you think of a solution? Let you marry Jingtai of Concubine Shu or Fuyuan of Concubine Chen? Jingtai is so beautiful. Compared with Jingyi, she is gold, silver and jade, but Jingfu is just wood and gems! Although Fuyuan is not as beautiful as Jingtai and Jingyi, she has a good temper! Concubine Chen personally told her to read "Nu Ji" when she was very young. If you marry her, you may also have the blessing of Yongcheng Bo Feng Jian in the future. Why did you take a fancy to Jingfu? No wonder Concubine Ning would rather offend my aunt and let Jingfu marry you this time..."

Yongchengbo Feng Jian married Emperor Taizong's elder sister, Princess Yongping. Princess Yongping was virtuous and generous. After marrying Feng Jian, she was not only filial to her parents-in-law and harmonious with her sisters-in-law, but also took good care of Feng Jian's concubines. Feng Jian had more than twenty children born out of wedlock. For this, Princess Yongping was praised by Emperor Taizong and became a role model for the royal family, and was passed down as a legend.

Song Mo sounded a little dazed.

Yes, why did I fall for Princess Jingfu?

Dou Zhao also said that he should marry Princess Fuyuan or Princess Jingtai.

But when he found out that Princess Gyeongbok was two years younger than him, he suddenly decided to marry Princess Gyeongbok.

Or maybe in his heart, Princess Jingfu is younger than him, so they won't get married so soon. At least, he won't marry before Dou Zhao gets married...

Dou Zhao, I wonder what you are doing?

Today is the day when Dou Mingsan returns home.

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Dou Zhaozheng, his aunt, and his cousin Zhangru listened to Sulan talking about what happened in the Jining Marquis's mansion.

"...The eldest master is really amazing. When he saw that Marquis Jining had acknowledged the fifth lady, he immediately asked the Wei family for a marriage certificate." Su Lan took a sip of tea and continued, "The wife of the prince of Jingguo did not agree, but was stopped by the prince of Jingguo. The eldest master, the prince of Jingguo, Lord Ji, Marquis Yan'an, and the second master of the Jingguo Mansion went to Marquis Jining's study together to discuss the matter of re-issuing the marriage certificate, leaving the wife of the prince of Jingguo in the hall. The wife of the prince of Jingguo had a fit at that time and found someone to The chicken feather whisk started beating the Marquis of Jining all over his face, and Miss Wu was stunned. Marquis of Jining did not dare to utter a word, and held his head and let the wife of the Prince of Jingguo beat him. Miss Wu wanted to step forward to persuade him, but was also beaten several times. When they recognized their relatives later, the red mark on the back of Miss Wu's hand had not disappeared yet! "Speaking of this, she smiled and said, "I saw that the wife of the Prince of Jingguo did not look like she hit Miss Wu by accident, but it seemed that she did it on purpose."

No matter how you listen to that tone, it sounds like he's taking pleasure in something that happened to him.

Zhao Zhangru burst into laughter.

Su Xin, who was serving tea to Dou Zhaoxu, glared at Su Lan.

Sulan hurriedly sat up straight.

Dou Zhao and his aunt couldn't help laughing when they saw this. His aunt said softly, "It's rare that Su Lan has such a pure heart. Don't be too demanding."

Su Xin had no choice but to respond respectfully.

Sulan gave her sister a smug look, and then said solemnly: "I was originally going to come back last night to tell you the news, but the servants in the Wei Mansion followed the order of the wife of the Prince of Jingguo to keep us under guard. I was afraid that the people in the Wei family would get suspicious and implicate the young lady, so I stayed at the Wei family with the maids who came with the dowry, and returned with the fifth young lady early this morning. Ganlu was afraid that if we all came back, the young lady's dowry would be in trouble, so she stayed in the Jining Marquis Mansion with Liuyun and the others, and then she would come back with the young lady's dowry."

Dou Zhao nodded slightly.

Although the sisters changed their marriages, the proper etiquette between the Wei and Dou families was still observed.

As soon as daybreak came, Dou Wenchang was sent to pick up Dou Ming and bring him back home.

Fearing that her aunt would be embarrassed, the Fifth Madam invited her to stay at Huaishu Hutong for a while, but her aunt refused: "Our Shougu has done nothing wrong, why should she give way to Mingjie? She doesn't feel ashamed, so why should I be ashamed!"

With just one sentence, Mrs. Wu was pushed back.

Mrs. Wu couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

The Sixth Madam did not want to embarrass Dou Zhao, so she stepped out to smooth things over: "In that case, why don't you ask Auntie to accompany Shougu? She will feel better if she has someone to talk to."

Mrs. Zhao brought her daughter to Dou Zhao's room.

The fifth and sixth wives and other female members of the Dou family in Kyoto dressed up in their best clothes to entertain Dou Ming, the new aunt.

Dou Ming's elder uncle Wang Zhibing did not come, but the women of the Wang family came with Dou Ming's younger uncle Wang Zhishao.

The aunt praised Sulan, saying, "It is rare that you are so eloquent, clear and logical at such a young age." She asked the nanny to reward Sulan with two taels of silver.

Sulan happily took the silver, thanked again and again, and retreated with her sister, allowing Dou Zhao to talk privately with his aunt and cousin.

Although my aunt felt that the marriage with the Wei family did not need to be saved at this point, she still felt uncomfortable when she heard that Wei Tingyu recognized Dou Ming so quickly.

She sighed deeply and said, "Shou Gu, what are your plans for the future?"

Dou Zhao felt that if she said something like "I will never marry again" at this time, her aunt would definitely think that she was upset and had given up, and she would definitely feel uncomfortable and blame herself.

"Let's go back to Zhending first!" she said with a smile, "Then open your eyes and find a good family!"

Seeing that she was quite optimistic, her aunt felt relieved.

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Seeing that Song Mo was a little absent-minded, Gu Yu couldn't help but wave his hand in front of his eyes.

"Brother Tianci, come back to your senses, come back to your senses!" He laughed, "Are you thinking about your bride?"

Song Mo flicked Gu Yu's face and said with a smile, "What nonsense are you talking about?" His ears suddenly felt hot. He covered it up by picking up an apple and stuffing it into Gu Yu's hand, "Eat your apple and stop talking nonsense!"

Gu Yu felt that he seemed to have guessed Song Mo's mood.

He smiled like a little fox, took the apple and fell back on the big kang by the window, saying: "Brother Tianci, when you get married, let me go to pick you up! I will definitely protect you and won't let them force you to drink..."

Song Mo was thinking about Dou Zhao.

Yesterday, the Dou and Wei families rewrote the marriage certificate, and the Wei family immediately asked their two witnesses, Yan'an Hou and Zhang Jiming, to be guarantors on the marriage certificate. Today, the newlyweds have recognized their relatives and drank the return wine. The Dou family should ask Yang Sen and Cai Bi to be guarantors on the marriage certificate, and then take it to Shuntian Prefecture for filing.

In this way, the news of the Dou sisters' easy marriage would soon spread.

August 15th is approaching, and the emperor will definitely not spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in the summer palace. Once the emperor returns to the palace, his marriage with Jingfu will be brought to the surface, and then I will really make things worse!

No matter what, he has to get things done before the Mid-Autumn Festival!

Song Mo ignored Gu Yu's nagging and called out to Chen He: "Go back to the mansion and see if Mr. Yan has anything to say to me."

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Ji Yong personally went to invite Yang Sen to his home.

Yang Sen couldn't help but sigh: "Poor Fourth Miss Dou, she was about to get married, but she got such a strange disease."

Ji Yong smiled and said, "It's just a pimple on the face. It's not that it can't be cured, it's just a little troublesome. The Jining Marquis's Mansion is too cautious. It just so happens that the Fifth Miss hasn't even proposed marriage yet, but the Dou family has agreed to this marriage."

The implication is that the Wei family disliked Dou Zhao and forced the Dou family to marry Dou Ming to the Jining Marquis's mansion.

Yang Sen didn't say anything, but Cai Bi, who knew the situation well and wanted to please Dou Shishu, naturally would not miss this opportunity and said with a smile: "If you want to blame someone, blame the fact that the fourth daughter of the Dou family had too much dowry."

It implies that the Wei family had their eyes on the dowry from the Dou family, and were unwilling to cancel the engagement with the Dou family even though they knew that Dou Zhao was ill.

Ji Yong's eyelids twitched involuntarily, and he looked up at Cai Bi.

Yang Sen shook his head in disapproval and sighed several times, "The world is going downhill", and then Ji Yong helped him get on the sedan chair.

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The news of the pottery's resurgence came earlier than Song Yichun had imagined.

After dinner, Tao Qizhong asked to see Song Yichun with a serious expression.

"The Crown Prince is probably going to marry a princess!" he said in a deep voice. "The news came from the Marquis of Yan'an's Mansion. By now, I'm afraid all the prominent noble families in Kyoto have already known about it."

Song Yichun almost knocked over the teacup at hand.

"What did you say?" His face changed drastically. "Is the news reliable?" As he spoke, he thought of his son's mysterious appearances. Without waiting for Tao Qizhong's answer, he actually believed it a little bit.

"The news is reliable." Tao Qizhong said, "It was the Prince of Yan'an who told me personally - presumably to give an explanation to our family. He also said that the Empress and Concubine Ning both have their eyes on the Prince, and Concubine Ning has already asked the Emperor about it, and the Emperor also has this intention, but because the Empress wants the Prince to marry Princess Jingyi, the matter has been delayed. But the matter of the Prince marrying the Princess is set in stone."

Song Yichun sat down on the armchair calmly.

"How could this happen?" He murmured, "In recent years, the bridesmaids have all been those from poor noble families, but Song Mo is the prince of the Duke of Ying's Mansion... How could Concubine Ning take a fancy to him..."

"It should be the Crown Prince's idea!" Tao Qizhong said bitterly, "If the Crown Prince marries someone, no one will be able to shake his position as the Crown Prince... You should let Second Master and the Crown Prince spend more time together... If the Crown Prince is determined to make a desperate move..."

The killing power is amazing!

"No, no!" Song Yichun was so anxious that he turned around and around, "We can't let him marry the princess..." He ordered Tao Qizhong, "Didn't the Duke of Dongping say last time that he has a daughter who is the same age as Song Mo? She's the best! Go to the Duke of Dongping's house tomorrow morning to propose marriage..."

"My Lord," Tao Qizhong had to remind Song Yichun again in a low voice, "The noble families in Kyoto should all know that the Crown Prince wants to marry the Princess."

Who dares to get engaged to the Song family at this time!

Song Yichun was stunned: "Is there no other way? Can we just watch Master Song Mo helplessly?"

Tao Qizhong said nothing.