Ying Xixi was not curious about what the servant said to Ying Sili that made him change his mind.
Just thinking about it, it seems that the public opinion in the capital has begun to change.
"Ying Xixi, did you do something?"
Ying Sili questioned with a cold face.
Ying Xixi blinked in confusion, "What does father mean?"
"Yesterday, people in the capital were still discussing your secret, but today, everyone is talking about how shameless Ying Zhu'er is. She secretly had an affair with my eldest sister's fiancé and even made my eldest sister's secret public, making her a laughing stock!
Some even said that the reason why Ying Zhuer dared to go against her elder sister was because she was favored at home!
These things are all beneficial to you, how dare you say you didn't do anything?!"
After hearing this, Ying Xixi understood.
It turns out that the wind direction in the capital has become like this. She, the poor daughter of the legitimate wife who cannot bear children, has hidden herself away, and now the targets of everyone's ridicule have become Ying Zhuer and Ying Sili.
People didn't dare to mock the Fifth Prince, but they did mock Ying Sili and Ying Zhuer.
A concubine's daughter dares to go against her elder sister because she is favored in the family.
Then why is he favored?
Following this speculation, can't we guess that Ying Sili doesn't distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children, and favors his concubine over his wife?
No wonder the old fox Ying Sili changed his face immediately after hearing the report from the servant and asked Ying Zhuer to go into the ancestral hall and kneel.
"Father, you can't say I did it just because it benefits me, right?
If you say so, I can also say that the reason why people in the capital know my secret is because you and Ying Zhuer spread it.
After all, this is in your favor, isn't it?"
Ying Xixi always had a half-smile on her face, which made Ying Sili feel that she was being weird, and the anger in his heart surged.
"Ying Xixi! I am your father! If you offend the Emperor and the Fifth Prince because of this, you will never get away with it!"
Ying Sili said this angrily, then left angrily with a flick of his sleeves.
Ying Xixi curled the corner of her mouth, glanced at the locked ancestral hall, and left.
Seeing this, the man in black quickly got up from the ground and followed Ying Xixi away happily.
Ying Xixi went to see her mother, and Zhao's complexion looked much better than yesterday.
Zhao was leaning on the bed in a daze. When she heard footsteps, she looked up and saw that it was Ying Xixi. She was very surprised.
"Xixi, why did you run out again?"
"Mom, it was my father who asked me to come out. It seems that what happened outside happened too suddenly. Lin didn't have time to send someone to tell you something nonsense and upset you."
Ying Xixi sat down beside the bed and roughly recounted what had just happened.
Hearing this, Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good too. It seems the 1,000 taels of silver note worked. As long as people in the capital stop talking about you, it'll be fine.
However, the wind has turned, and the person being talked about has become Ying Zhuer. Mother is worried that the Fifth Prince will come to trouble you after he finds out."
Ying Xixi shrugged nonchalantly, "Look for it if you want. Before, the Fifth Prince could use my secrets to threaten me, but now my secrets have been spread by Ying Zhuer.
I no longer have any secrets that can be threatened by the Fifth Prince, and if the Fifth Prince knew that Ying Zhuer spread my secrets in his name.
Who knows what the Fifth Prince will think of Zhu'er? If this can create a rift between them, that would be even better."
Zhao nodded slightly, "That's true. It's a pity that your engagement with the Fifth Prince is delayed..."
"Mother, I want to take the initiative to ask the Emperor to cancel the engagement. Since the Fifth Prince wants me to make room for Ying Zhu'er, I will oblige him!
And now people in the capital already know what happened back then. If I take the initiative to cancel the engagement and make Ying Zhuer and the fifth prince happy.
Maybe they will become the ones despised by everyone in the capital."
Ying Xixi told Zhao about her plan.
She believed that Zhao would agree with her plan, and even if she didn't agree, she would still do it.
Just as Ying Xixi expected, Zhao agreed.
"Okay, then cancel it. It's fine if we don't want to have this engagement, but I'm afraid the Emperor... won't agree so easily.
If he agreed, wouldn't that be a slap in the emperor's own face?
And Xixi, you'd better think about it carefully. Once you cancel your engagement with the Fifth Prince, it will be difficult for you to get married in the future.
This world has always been harsh on women, especially those who are unable to bear children."
Zhao looked at her daughter worriedly. She knew she should persuade her daughter not to cancel the engagement.
Even if the fifth prince is not a good man, even if the daughter is unable to bear children, as long as she is married, she will be no different from an ordinary woman, and will not be talked about or ridiculed by outsiders. At least she will have a place to go.
But this was the first time her daughter said so firmly that she wanted to cancel the engagement with the Fifth Prince. As a mother, she didn't want to spoil her daughter's fun.
"Mother, don't worry too much about getting married. I already have someone chosen. It all depends on whether the emperor is willing to grant the marriage."
Ying Xixi's words left Zhao confused. Zhao wanted to continue asking what this meant, but Ying Xixi changed the subject.
"Mom, have you ever thought about divorcing Ying Sili?"
Zhao was even more confused, not knowing why her daughter's topic turned to her.
"Xixi, why do you ask that? Mother has been married to your father for so many years, how can we just get a divorce?"
"But he favors his concubine over his wife. He treats Lin's concubine much better than you, his legal wife. He treats Zhu'er, his concubine, much better than me, his legal daughter.
Fufeng State has laws that anyone who favors a concubine over his wife will be punished. Mother, do you want Ying Sili to get the punishment he deserves?
In other words, do you want to leave this cage of the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Ying Xixi looked at Zhao and asked the question seriously.
Zhao stammered, "But mother's body..."
"Mom, feel yourself again now. Is your body much better than yesterday?"
Ying Xixi's words made Zhao stunned. She felt it carefully and found the difference.
"Xixi, after talking to you for a while, I feel like I haven't coughed anymore, and I don't feel chest tightness or shortness of breath anymore. My hands seem to have become stronger too."
Ying Xixi laughed, "Isn't it? Mom, your body will slowly get better. You can also think carefully about what I just said. There is no need to wrong yourself in life.
By the way, mother, what happened in the ancestral hall just now has confirmed one thing for me: Ying Zhuer knew my secret because Lin told her, and Lin knew it because Ying Sili told her.
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