Chapter 352 Extra Chapter: With You (Part 5)
Princess Yongxin rolled her eyes at him. It seemed this guy still didn't know enough about the situation in the capital!
"Of course I know! Although Lan Qian kept so many male concubines, she only used them for amusement. All of them were dismissed by Lan Qian."
"Oh, Lan Qian didn't mistreat them either; she gave each of them some silver. As long as they don't spend their days indulging in pleasure and debauchery, it should be enough," Princess Yongxin said to Wei Yanli.
Wei Yanli gave an "oh" but still asked, unwilling to give up.
"What I mean is, whose child is Princess Shou Kang carrying? Why don't I know about it in the southwest?"
Princess Yongxin chuckled.
Why should you know? You're not the child's father!
Besides, Lan Qian is pregnant. Does it matter who the father is? It doesn't matter at all!
All everyone needs to know is that the child's mother is Lan Qian.
"What, are you worried that someone will look down on the child when it is born?" Princess Yongxin asked rhetorically.
Wei Yanli...
I really don't know!
If such a thing happened to an ordinary family, it would indeed be a devastating event, but even for a noble family, it would be the same: if a woman is pregnant out of wedlock, she would be condemned and scolded.
It will also bring shame upon the entire family...
But now this has happened in the royal family...
It's not surprising that it's still the same royal family that everyone can't understand.
After all, when the Empress was pregnant, everyone guessed for a long time who the father of the child was!
Even in the southwest, people have been discussing this for a long time, speculating which young man in the capital is so promising that he could actually climb into the Empress's bed...
Oh, and Qianjinfang in the southwest even opened a betting pool because of this, letting everyone place bets to guess who the father of the child in the Empress's belly is.
However, the prefect later reprimanded him with his men...
Princess Shou Kang is pregnant before her marriage; it can only be said that she is following suit!
"That's true. No matter who the father of the child is, once the child is born, everyone will just need to know that the mother of the child is Princess Shou Kang."
"This child... can be considered to have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth!" Wei Yanli exclaimed.
Princess Yongxin hummed in agreement and continued pouring almond tea for Wei Yanli.
Wei Yanli leaned back comfortably on the couch, listening to Qin Niangzi's zither music and faintly hearing voices coming from the street outside.
Hmm, the capital is much more comfortable than the southwest. I really wish I could stay in the capital for a couple more days!
It's a pity, I wonder if Xiao Huaijin sent me back to the southwest immediately after his wedding...
"Hey, Mu Xiao..." Wei Yanli was about to speak when he heard the noise outside the window seem a bit louder.
It seems that a vendor's stall was blocking the road, blocking a family's horse-drawn carriage, and the driver was scolding the vendor.
Wei Yanli always loved watching excitement, and as soon as he heard there was some commotion outside, he quickly opened the closed window.
Upon seeing this, Wei Yanli immediately burst into laughter.
"Mu Xiao, come and see, you'll definitely love it!" Wei Yanli turned and called out to Princess Yongxin, who had a calm expression.
Princess Yongxin snorted. "So what if they're arguing in the street? These kinds of things happen all the time in the capital."
Soon after, officials from the government arrived to handle the matter.
"I won't look! Close the window now!" Princess Yongxin said, frowning.
After two days of hard work, and seeing that my skin was starting to regain its whiteness, all that sun exposure... has ruined all my previous efforts.
"Come and see, you'll definitely love it! I swear!" Wei Yanli continued to urge Princess Yongxin to come and watch the excitement.
Princess Yongxin had no choice but to get up and move closer to the window.
Following the direction Wei Yanli pointed, Princess Yongxin's eyes widened in surprise.
The two sides arguing...
The old lady who usually sells wontons at the bottom of the stall had her stools placed a little further out today because there were quite a few customers.
But it does not affect other people's normal passage.
Just then, a horse-drawn carriage came by, and the driver, annoyed that the old lady selling wontons was blocking the way, immediately started scolding her.
The old lady was a kind person who didn't like to argue with others, so she quickly helped the customers eating wontons move their stools back.
But the driver continued to yell at the old woman relentlessly.
People around couldn't stand it anymore and stood up to accuse the driver of abusing his power.
Princess Yongxin understood what Wei Yanli meant by letting her watch this spectacle.
If she wasn't mistaken, the carriage belonged to her father, but the person sitting inside was definitely not her father.
Mu Xiao grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table and, like Wei Yanli, leaned against the window.
She enjoyed watching ordinary people point fingers and curse at her father's men.
The person sitting in that carriage must be my half-sister!
"Your sister has returned to the capital?" Wei Yanli asked.
Princess Yongxin shrugged.
"I don't know, maybe they just got back! Anyway, I don't know about this side!"
"Didn't your sister marry into Tianjin? I heard she's having a hard time at her husband's house! She's being bullied by her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law. It seems her husband has already taken three concubines!"
Oh, so there was a concubine in the house before the marriage!
"How could your sister have agreed to marry him in the first place!" Wei Yanli found it increasingly unbelievable.
Princess Yongxin chuckled twice and continued eating melon seeds and watching the show.
"What does it have to do with me! I've always lived in the Korean government's residence, I know nothing about their affairs."
Wei Yanli gave an "oh" and stopped talking. He took a small handful of melon seeds from Princess Yongxin's hand and started eating them.
The noise below grew louder and louder.
Seeing that everyone around him was criticizing him, the coachman of the Mu family felt embarrassed. He jumped off the carriage, walked a few steps to the wonton stall, and kicked over a stool.
"You dog, are you blind? How dare you block the path of the Mu family? Do you have a death wish? Do you know... ah!" The coachman suddenly squatted down.
Everyone around was startled and quickly looked up.
Upstairs at Chunbuwan, a window was open, and Princess Yongxin, whom everyone knew, and a young man who looked a bit dark-skinned but was quite handsome, stood in front of the window.
Princess Yongxin was still holding a teacup lid in her hand...
Just as the coachman got out of the carriage and kicked over the wonton stall, Princess Yongxin grabbed the teacup next to her and smashed it down.
The aim was perfect; it hit the driver right on the head...
"You dog, don't you even open your dog eyes and look around? Is this a place for you to run wild? How dare you bully the weak under the emperor's nose? Is this how your master taught you?" Princess Yongxin scolded.
The previously arrogant driver, disregarding the blood streaming down his head, quickly kowtowed and admitted his mistake.
"Get out!" Princess Yongxin threw the lid of her teacup at the coachman again.
The coachman had no choice but to scramble onto the carriage.
As the carriage was leaving, Princess Yongxin saw that the carriage window was slightly open, and inside was her younger sister whom she hadn't seen in a long time.
Her eyes were filled with resentment as she looked at Princess Yongxin...
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