The Crown Prince Wei Huan, who was standing by, stared at his brother's face for a long time, wondering, "Your face doesn't have any marks on it, so why did you ask His Highness to look at it again and again?"
Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery Weiping also looked at his second son, his eyes slightly doubtful and puzzled.
"..." Wei Heng wiped the sweat off his face with his sleeve. His father and brother stared at him. He said helplessly, "I am a fifth-rank official. I can only attend the court meeting once every half a month, and I stand at the end. I have met His Highness only a few times. How can I know..."
He himself was still wondering, why did His Highness look at him differently? …………
The other side.
After Xiao Junzhan's carriage drove away, Jiang Zhixue and Wei Hanzhang stood up and were helped into the carriage by the servants.
One of the sisters was extremely excited because she had met the most distinguished man in the capital, while the other was feeling extremely anxious and suspected that she was dreaming.
Jiang Zhixue twisted the handkerchief in her hand unconsciously, and said to her cousin with an expression of excitement that could not be concealed, "I regretted not being able to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince last night, but I never thought that I would get what I wanted today. It's really..."
She was too embarrassed to say the word "fate".
Thinking of the cold man standing in the middle of the crowd, like a moon surrounded by stars, Jiang Zhixue's heart was pounding. It took her a while to calm down. Finally, she found that the car was extremely quiet, and then she noticed that her cousin's demeanor was not right.
"Ran Ran, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Zhixue looked at her cousin who had an unpleasant expression for some reason, and asked in a low voice with concern: "Are you feeling unwell?"
Wei Hanzhang had always been friendly and polite to his sisters, but now his heart was in a mess and he really didn't want to talk to her in detail. He smiled perfunctorily and said, "Nothing, I'm a little tired and want to be quiet."
After saying this, he didn't care about Jiang Zhixue's reaction, closed his eyes, and thought silently.
I began to recall everything that happened during my acquaintance with Xiao Boqian.
The first time we met was at the Cao Family Villa in Xuzhou. I guess he was there to investigate a case, right?
Gu Yunran said that the Jiang family case was investigated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself, and Xiao Boqian was in Xuzhou at the time. However, no one expected that he, a dignified crown prince, actually lived in a villa in a remote suburb.
The second time they met was at the gate of the Music Bureau. She wanted to find a doctor to save Rouniang, and among his entourage there was an old doctor who was ordered to come and rescue her.
Even if he was the crown prince, he wouldn't bring a royal physician with him whenever he went out, unless he was going on a long journey. So... maybe he just happened to be returning to the capital from Xuzhou that day?
Yes, Wei Heng had mentioned it before. Since the prince was not in the capital, the court meetings would be cancelled.
As for the third time...
Wei Hanzhang covered his eyes and sneered in his heart.
How could she be blamed for misunderstanding him as the Prince of Yan?
She was about the same age, and appeared near the villa of Prince Yan's mansion, claiming to be surnamed Xiao. Most importantly, she called him 'Prince Xiao' and he didn't deny it!
He even deliberately misled her and went to another courtyard in Prince Yan's Mansion to meet her.
wrong!
He wasn't here to meet someone... He was clearly here to deceive a young girl who was inexperienced in the world!
The prince who was said to be as noble as snow, with good conduct, gentle and generous to his subjects, and the best prince in the world, deliberately deceived her! He deceived her for so long, making her firmly believe that he was the prince of Yan! Wei Hanzhang felt cold in her heart. He was obviously the current prince, but he insisted on approaching her as the prince of Yan, and kept saying that he would "help" save the Jiang family.
Whether the Jiang family releases him or not, isn't it just a matter of a word from him? Why does he need help? She has been so grateful these days and feels guilty for not repaying him with her body.
fraud!
She was deceived into feeling grateful, and thus her heart was slowly moved by him. If he had not found a good disguise and had found a divorced man, she might have agreed to marry him.
He is a gentleman, but he deceived a little girl like me who has not even reached the age of marriage yet...
Wei Hanzhang was extremely angry. He had never been teased like this before!
This tricked her into going round and round! When the carriage stopped, she couldn't help but call her mother. Grandmother saw the clues, and even though Wei Hanzhang was so angry that he gritted his teeth, he had to hold it in.
After trying to calm down for a long time, I finally swallowed my anger and put all the miscellaneous things behind me. When I got off the car, my expression had returned to normal and I smiled at my cousin beside me.
Jiang Zhixue saw this and said angrily, "Finally you look good. What happened to you just now?"
She thought back and it seemed that Ranran's expression changed after seeing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Wei Hanzhang really didn't want to say more, so he sighed, "It's really nothing, sister, please don't ask more."
Jiang Zhixue's expression froze, she looked aggrieved, and stopped talking.
Wei Hanzhang knew that her sister was sensitive and stingy by nature, but she really didn't have the heart to take good care of her at the moment.
Tonight is the Jiang family’s last night in Beijing.
After dinner, Wei Hanzhang insisted on sleeping with his grandmother.
Jiang frowned and disagreed, "Grandma needs to rest well, don't bother her here, you naughty monkey."
Wei Hanzhang pouted and was about to speak when Mrs. Zhao, who was sitting on the couch, waved at her granddaughter with a smile and said to her eldest daughter, "You are not allowed to let Ranran go. I will be back tomorrow. Let us, the grandparents, kiss each other for the last time."
"...Mother!" Hearing the implication of her mother's words, Jiang's nose felt sore and she held back her tears. She told her daughter not to disturb her grandmother's rest at night, then closed the door and walked out.
Wei Hanzhang slept next to Zhao as she wished. She hugged her grandmother's arm and said affectionately, "Go to sleep. I'll keep watch over you."
Her grandparents were actually in very good health. It had been four years since Mr. Jiang's sixtieth birthday celebration, which he had celebrated with great fanfare. The old man was sixty-five this year, and Mrs. Zhao was one year younger than her husband and was sixty-four this year.
This was a peaceful and prosperous era. The children of aristocratic families had excellent physical fitness since childhood. There were many old ladies and gentlemen who lived to the age of eighty. Even when they were old and frail, most of them had clear articulation and sharp hearing and eyesight.
To be honest, her grandparents were less than seventy years old. Although they were old, in Wei Hanzhang's eyes, they were not so old that she would never see them again after this separation.
They will live a long life!
Wei Hanzhang rubbed his grandmother's arm with a look of dependence on his face and fell asleep peacefully.
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Early the next morning, after breakfast, Wei Hanzhang and his family of four sent the Jiang family to the city gate.
The taste of separation is always unpleasant. Looking at the carriage gradually moving away, Wei Hanzhang felt a little sad, but she managed to hold it back.
Wei Yunpei was going to study at the Imperial College, and Wei Heng, as he held an official position, also needed to go on duty. After the family parted at the city gate, the remaining Wei Hanzhang and her daughter returned to the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.
(End of this chapter)