Chapter 138 The Prince’s Wedding (Part 1)

"Young lady, please try on the clothes you will wear to the palace banquet tomorrow."

"So many?!" Shen Yuan walked over and took a look. He was shocked and pointed at one at random, "Just pick one. It's not like I'm getting married."

"Girl, there are so many people at the palace banquet, you have to dress up well. It's not too much to be formal for such an occasion. After choosing the clothes, you still have to think about how to comb your hair and what jewelry to wear." Qingdai sighed in her heart. Why didn't her girl care about dressing up?

"Okay, okay, come on, which set do you want to try first?" Several of the sets here were newly made after the New Year, and Shen Yuan hasn't tried them since he brought them back.

"Miss, your dress seems a little too small. I will make you a few more."

"Really?" Shen Yuan looked down and felt it carefully, "Ah, it seems so. It seems that Fuling's prescription is really effective."

As Shen Yuan was trying on clothes, he had already started thinking about which shop he owned would be suitable for opening a clinic. With Fuling's skill, he could dominate the capital city immediately with just one of her skills!

"Yes, and the girl has grown taller. This dress was made last year or so. You see, it's a little short. This one won't do. Let's wear a new one."

"It's been a year, she must have grown taller." Shen Yuan let Qingdai play with her. After trying on seven or eight sets of clothes, the whole morning had passed.

The wedding of the three princes is tomorrow, and the families of the three future princesses combined cannot even bring a single smiling face.

Not to mention the Ye and Liu families who were randomly chosen by the emperor, even the Fu family was reluctant to let their daughter marry into the royal family.

Even if the Second Prince is not favored, he is still a prince after all. If his daughter marries into an ordinary family and suffers injustice, his family can still go to the door to seek justice for the daughter. But if she marries into a royal family, then if she suffers injustice, there is really no place to complain. Would they have to go to the emperor's door?

"At worst, I will report him. The emperor has reported him before. If the Second Prince treats our daughter badly, I will report him. Tomorrow is a good day for our daughter. Look at what you are doing."

"You make it sound simple." Madam Fu wiped her tears. "You are reporting the Second Prince, but the Emperor will protect his own son. What's the point of your reporting? Let's not talk about anything else, just the matter of taking a concubine. When the time comes, the Prince will have concubines on the left and concubines on the right. Why don't you report one to me? You know our Jia'er's temper. How can she tolerate this?"

As she spoke, Mrs. Fu's tears began to flow again. Her husband had a hot temper, and it was even worse when he became an official and served as an advisor to the Imperial Court. All day long he was either reporting this or admonishing that, and he had raised his daughter to be like him, someone who could not tolerate any grain of sand in her eyes.

"Then what do you say we should do?" Lord Fu was also very confused and angry. The emperor had granted the marriage without consulting anyone.

"Then let's just disobey the order and wait for the whole family to clean their necks."

"Fu Yansheng! Are you arguing with me?"

"Oh, how dare I! Think about the Ye family and the Liu family. Those two families are really ruthless. The Second Prince is an honest child after all. Let's just live peacefully. I heard that both Xia Guiren and the Second Prince are gentle."

In life, sometimes you have to compare yourself with others, to see who is worse off than you, and you will feel better. Mrs. Fu felt better when she thought of the Liu and Ye families, because at least she was not marrying into a family of mortal enemies.

But just as Lord Fu said, both the Ye and Liu families looked gloomy and sad. If it weren't for the red ribbons hanging everywhere in the house, it would be hard to tell that they were planning a wedding.

Logically speaking, if she wanted to marry a prince and behave like this, if someone with ulterior motives saw it, they would definitely sue both families for disrespect. However, seeing what had happened to the Ye and Liu families, even their former political enemies couldn't bear to add insult to injury. Even if they were political enemies, that was a matter of officialdom. They were using this as an excuse to make trouble for the fact that their daughter had suffered this marriage. Aren't they cruel?

The officials from the Ministry of Rites who came to discuss the wedding ceremony were sympathetic in their hearts and spoke carefully, fearing that if they said something wrong, the two families would completely fall apart.

"Mother, look how beautiful this wedding dress is, sister-in-law and sister-in-law, don't you think so?"

Today is the last time to try on the wedding dress before the wedding. If something doesn't fit, it can be altered. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has already sent four embroiderers to each family.

The wedding dress is indeed beautiful, but you have to look at it carefully. The two daughters-in-law of the Liu family looked at their mother-in-law's expression and dared not say a word.

"Mother, I'm getting married tomorrow and won't be at home anymore. Do you want me to see you so sad while I get married?"

"Yes, mother, after all, tomorrow is my sister's big day, you should be happy."

"How can I be so happy!" Madam Liu rubbed her forehead and waved her hand to let the two daughters-in-law go out. "You go out and check if there is anything wrong with other things. I want to talk to Peng Peng."

When she and her daughter were the only ones left in the room, Mrs. Liu said, "If I had known this would happen, I should have arranged a marriage for you earlier."

At first, I always thought that my daughter was still young, so I had to be cautious about her marriage. I looked around and ended up with the most worrying marriage.

Liu Pengpeng herself was open-minded and comforted her mother, "Mom, you have to live your life on your own. Getting engaged earlier may not necessarily mean a good marriage. Marrying the third prince may not necessarily be a bad thing. I heard that the third prince is quite handsome, so it's good enough."

"What's the point of being handsome? He's the Queen's son!"

"So what? I'm not marrying the Queen. Besides, he can't kill me as the Queen's son."

"You kid!" Madam Liu was furious and said in a low voice, "Don't you think about it? What if your family still wants to help the eldest prince fight for that position? How will you cope with it when the fight breaks out? How will the third prince treat you?"

That is the throne. Madam Liu doesn't think that her family will not fight for it for Peng Peng. When that day really comes, she, as a mother, will be the only one who will feel sorry for the child she gave birth to.

"Mother, didn't my aunt send a letter back? Her relationship with the empress is much better now, and they are not like before. Besides, the emperor is not even fifty years old yet, in his prime, and there are always pregnant concubines in the harem. It's too early to tell who will inherit the throne."

Worrying too much will lead to confusion. Whether it is Liu Pengpeng's mother or Ye Can's mother, they are simply afraid that the future struggle for the throne will be exposed, and the family will not care about the life and death of the girl. To put it bluntly, compared with the throne, a girl is nothing.

But now, all they can say is "make the best of it". Under the imperial power, they can only obey.