"Your Highness?" Wei Hanzhang was stunned, with just the right amount of surprise on his face. He thought about it carefully before saying, "After my granddaughter returned to the capital, she went out of the house a few times, either with my mother to attend banquets at other houses, or with my sixth sister to play with other noble ladies. She never met Your Highness, and there are clues to this."

"Oh?" Wei Ping suddenly raised his eyes and looked straight over, saying, "You mean, today was the first time you met His Highness, and he personally helped you up?"

Wei Hanzhang said without hesitation, "My granddaughter doesn't know why Your Highness helped me, but today is indeed the first time I meet His Highness the Crown Prince."

Wei Ping closed his eyes slightly, as if he was lost in thought and stopped talking. Liu at the side took over the conversation.

She looked at her granddaughter carefully from top to bottom with a scrutinizing gaze, and then said slowly, "Then Yi Ranran, you can see for yourself whether His Highness had any other intentions in helping you today?"

"Mom!" Before Wei Hanzhang could speak, Wei Heng, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but say, "Ran Ran is still a girl who hasn't reached the age of marriage yet, how can you ask such a question?"

"Why not ask?" Liu said, "If Your Highness has no other intentions, then we have to start discussing Ranran's marriage with the Qian family. Otherwise..."

She paused slightly and sighed, "Otherwise, our Wei family might have a real phoenix."

After these words were spoken, there was silence in the room for a few moments, and everyone felt disappointed.

But I didn't find this result too difficult to accept.

After all, the prince has always been very indifferent to women, so there is no way he would have such thoughts about a girl who is not even an adult yet and whom he has only met once.

I'm afraid he really treated her as a child and helped her out...

The silence in the room was broken by Wei Hanzhang.

She pursed her lips and said bluntly: "I don't want to discuss marriage with Qian Jia Silang."

Wei Ping still kept his eyes closed and ignored her words. After making sure that the prince had no other thoughts about his granddaughter, he would not care about anything else.

Liu no longer acted kindly. She quietly sipped her tea without saying a word.

Neither the parents spoke a word, and the Crown Prince Wei Huan also remained silent.

Wei Hanzhang was left hanging by their cold attitude. Just when he was feeling extremely embarrassed, a gentle voice came from the side.

"What's wrong?" After all, Wei Heng, his biological father, was present, so he asked, "How did Mr. Qian annoy our Ran Ran?"

Wei Hanzhang, who was ignored, felt a sudden pain in her nose when she heard the words, but she quickly held it back. She opened her mouth and methodically recounted word by word how Qian Chengyun had brought his concubine to visit her.

Finally, she said firmly: "I don't want to marry a man like him who is ready to favor his concubine and destroy his wife before getting married."

"I am a concubine. How can I be more favored than my wife?" Liu, who had not spoken before, said bluntly without waiting for Wei Heng to speak: "She is just a concubine. He is favoring her now. Who knows how many years she can favor him? Don't be so short-sighted and compare yourself with a lowly person."

"Whose man doesn't have a few concubines and maids in his backyard? Is it that your uncle Jiang's room doesn't have any, or is your father's backyard clean? Is it worth your concern?"

Liu took out all the anger she had just received from her son on this granddaughter who had never been raised by her, and scolded her coldly: "You don't want to marry this one or that one. Do you think you can be a picky girl who has been rejected by an engagement?"

"Marriage is a big matter that the elders decide. Go ask which girl is like you, always talking about her marriage. I don't know how the Jiang family taught you, but now that you're back home, you should learn the rules well and don't be so rash and impulsive."

The room was brightly lit with candles, and Liu's voice was loudly scolding. Wei Hanzhang lowered his eyes and listened, his expression gradually becoming dull.

The two windows of the study were still open, but on that sultry summer night, not a breath of cool air came in. Logically, she should have felt hot, but at this moment, as she stood in front of the hall, her back, which had been a little hot, felt inexplicably cold.

It's cool even without wind.

She did not directly admit that she had a private acquaintance with Xiao Boqian just now. The reason why she felt that she had no sense of belonging in the Wei family was that the imperial edict to appoint her as the Crown Princess would be read out after she came of age.

After returning to Beijing, she encountered many things one after another. In the huge Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, apart from Jiang and Wei Heng, only Wei Hanshuang made her feel the care and love of her family.

As for grandmother Liu, who always looked kind but was cold and indifferent in her actions, and grandfather Wei Ping, who showed no kindness at all during the few times he asked questions, they were worse than strangers to Wei Hanzhang.

On the way to the study, she had made up her mind and wanted to try to see how her 'real elders' would treat her if she was still the Ninth Lady of the Wei family who had broken off the engagement and had no relationship with the Crown Prince.

Although she had experienced the indifference of the Marquis' Mansion towards family affection after the incident with Wei Hanyu, she had some understanding of it and had made some preparations, but it was still different when she experienced it herself.

This is her blood relative, and after he found out that she had no relationship with the prince, his attitude changed so dramatically that it was really chilling.

At this moment, she was scolded harshly by Liu. Except for Wei Heng who spoke out anxiously to help her out, her grandfather Wei Ping never opened his eyes from beginning to end, and her uncle Wei Huan was completely indifferent.

Because in their eyes, she had no value, her future was set, she was an insignificant girl, she was not worth anything, so naturally there was no need to listen to her ideas.

Wei Hanzhang smiled coldly in his heart. If that’s the case…

She didn't say anything else, but Wei Heng argued with his mother for his daughter.

Finally, it was Wei Ping, who had kept his eyes closed and remained silent, who spoke up, ending the inquiry that was triggered by the Crown Prince personally visiting the Marquis's residence and supporting Wei Hanzhang.

After leaving the study, Wei Heng walked a few steps with his daughter and comforted her, "Ranran, don't worry. With your father here, I will never let you marry someone you don't want to marry."

Thinking about his parents' attitude tonight, he sighed in his heart.

"Don't blame your grandmother. When it comes to the marriage of her children and grandchildren, she cares most about family background." She reached out and patted the little girl's shoulder slowly. "Your grandmother is doing this for your own good. She only wants you to marry into a family of equal status, so that others won't look down on you."

Wei Hanzhang said nothing.

It was clear in her mind that Liu didn't want others to look down on her. Maybe she did, but she was more concerned about the reputation of the Wei Mansion.

Only if she married into the Qian family, which is also a marquisate, there wouldn't be so many discussions about her granddaughter's marriage being broken off.

If it is a small family, it is hard to say.

If the above conditions are met, it doesn't matter how unsuitable the person my granddaughter marries is. He just brought a concubine to meet me, which is naturally offensive.

(End of this chapter)