Queen Mother Han was persuaded.
However, she still summoned Princess Nanping into the palace and carefully inquired about her wishes.
Han Jiaojiao staggered with every step, coughing as she spoke, and her small face, which was the size of a palm, was almost pale.
"Matters of marriage are entirely decided by the saint and my grandmother."
"I, ahem, I believe in my uncle and grandma."
Han Jiaojiao forced out a shy smile, her timid eyes filled with awe for the emperor and admiration for the empress dowager.
Queen Mother Han: ...What a good child.
"Okay! Don't worry! I will definitely find you a good husband!"
The Zhao family is indeed a bit shallow and not worthy of the daughter of the Han family.
Han Jiaojiao was shocked when she felt the change in Empress Dowager Han's mood.
She quickly coughed several times, covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and said quietly, "Actually, I'd rather stay at home."
"...Ahem! With my current health, if I get married, I won't be able to take care of the household, and I won't be able to have children. If I get married, I'll just be a nuisance to others."
At this point, tears welled up in Han Jiaojiao's eyes. "Grandma and Uncle are also in trouble because of me."
Queen Mother Han: ...Although these words may hurt your heart, they are the truth.
Alas, Jiaojiao is good in every way except that she is too weak and her character is too delicate.
Even if you marry into your in-laws' family, you will inevitably suffer grievances.
For example, at the Han family or at Jiaojiao's own home.
She herself had a noble status and was favored by the palace, but she was actually squeezed out by a stepmother and bullied by a concubine.
Queen Mother Han could indeed rely on her status to directly issue an imperial decree to grant the marriage.
It can also help Nanping to suppress her husband's family.
However, marriage is to bring two families together, not to create enmity.
If the mother-in-law has resentment, it will be like the wife of Duke Cheng'en and Princess Yongjia back then.
Princess Yongjia was a bright and strong-willed person. Didn't she die early because she was wronged by her mother-in-law and angered by a concubine who was born a lowly maid?
Whenever she thought of that lowly maidservant, Queen Mother Han was filled with resentment.
The wife of Duke Cheng'en is her brother's sister-in-law, and Han Chong is her nephew, so Empress Dowager Han cannot blame them directly.
She simply blamed the death of Princess Yongjia on that slave girl.
Back then, Empress Dowager Han wanted to have Nanny Zhou and others strangle the slave girl to death, but unexpectedly, the slave girl became pregnant.
For the sake of the Han family's bloodline, Queen Mother Han had no choice but to "endure" it again.
She was so frustrated that she almost got internal injuries!
She could choose not to kill the slave girl, but she really couldn't feel any good towards her or her children.
Among her niece's daughters, Queen Mother Han only recognized Han Jiaojiao.
But Jiaojiao, ah, it’s really hard to help her up.
I don't mean to compare her with others, but in terms of appearance, talent, interpersonal skills, etc., Jiaojiao is indeed not as good as her half-sister.
In the capital, the concubine's daughter's reputation and popularity are greater than Jiaojiao's.
From her adopted daughter, her granddaughter and her niece's daughter, Queen Mother Han understood a truth:
Some things cannot be forced by power!
"Perhaps the emperor is right. In Jiaojiao's situation, it would be better for her to marry a scholar from a poor family!"
Queen Mother Han looked at Han Jiaojiao's sickly and weak appearance and sighed secretly in her heart.
At worst, we can wait for the candidate to pass the imperial examination and let the emperor investigate further to confirm that he has excellent character and a clean family background before marrying Nanping off.
When she got married, she was given several maids and guards to serve her well and to supervise and intimidate her in-laws.
With sufficient arrangements made, life in Nanping shouldn't be too bad.
As for the future, alas, with Nanping's dilapidated body, what future can she have?
…
After Empress Dowager Han made her decision, some rumors leaked out unknowingly.
Slowly, a piece of news came out from the palace——
"The Queen Mother and the Saint wish to select a husband for Princess Nanping from among the newly minted scholars!"
As soon as the news came out, all the unmarried sons of powerful families in the capital who were of the same age as Princess Nanping, as well as their families, breathed a sigh of relief.
That’s great, I finally don’t have to worry about being “scammed” by Princess Nanping.
Many families were worried about what would happen if the Empress Dowager used her power to force her sons (grandsons) to marry Nanping for her own sake.
Nanping is a notorious sickly place in Beijing.
I spend half a year recuperating from illness.
As soon as he arrived in Beijing, he caused his stepmother to lose her housekeeping power.
After entering the palace once, the stepmother was simply sent to a nunnery on the outskirts of the city.
This is my stepmother, a legitimate elder.
He didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but was punished repeatedly because of Nanping's poor health.
He had lost all his dignity and had long become a laughing stock in the capital.
Many noble ladies, while making fun of the Han family's stepmother, could not help but bring in their own identities -
If my son marries a daughter-in-law with a special status but who is also sickly, what kind of situation will I face?
Want to act like your mother-in-law?
Haha, with Nanping's shaky body, if she gets up a little slowly when serving tea, she might faint on the spot.
Maybe he'll even spit out some blood.
Although everyone knew that Nanping was in poor health, if she was a mother-in-law, she would have "forced" her daughter-in-law to vomit blood.
This is easy to say but it's not pleasant.
And husbands who are the sons of wealthy families always have one or two favorite maids.
But Nanping's mother, Princess Yongjia, was angered to death because of her "jealousy".
Pushing the daughter forward with the help of the mother, even if Nanping is not as strong-willed as Yongjia, but has inherited a little bit of it, she can still make her husband bear the stigma of "favoring the concubine and neglecting the wife" for no reason!
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