"What nonsense are you talking about?!" She reacted, stamped her feet in shame, turned around and tried to run away.

At first, Ping Fu was also shocked by his own straightforward words. When he saw her about to leave, he subconsciously reached out to grab her and said hurriedly: "Don't worry, don't worry..."

"If you keep saying these nonsense things, I will ignore you." Wei Yingzhi was being pulled by him and couldn't leave, so she could only say with a straight face.

"I'm not talking nonsense, and these words are not nonsense." Lin Fu muttered, but she frowned and dared not say those words anymore.

The two of them just stood there like that, occasionally looking up to steal a glance at each other, and when they inadvertently met each other's gaze they hurriedly looked away, only to glance away again in a moment.

"Don't say these things again in the future, Royal Concubine... Hasn't Royal Concubine already chosen a person for you? When you get married in the future, you must be devoted to your wife. Don't be like my third uncle, who has concubines on the left and maids on the right..." Wei Yingzhi didn't know what she was saying. She just felt a panic in her heart and was eager to ease the embarrassment.

"My aunt did choose someone, but I refused." Lingfu interrupted her and answered seriously, "I will not marry a girl I don't like. It's unfair to her."

Wei Yingzhi felt her heart beating even faster, "thump, thump," as if it would jump out of her body the next moment. However, deep in her heart, she felt a sense of inexplicable joy.

Pingfu originally planned to go to Shen Xinyan and express his intention to marry Wei Yingzhi, but now that Wei Chenglin was injured and Wei Junhang was not at home, he could not bring up the matter of his children.

Because of Wei Chenglin's injury, there was chaos in the Duke's Mansion. The Grand Princess came over tremblingly on crutches. When she saw her eldest grandson in such a state, she wiped away her tears. Shen Xinyan, Wei Chenglin and others tried to comfort her and finally persuaded the Grand Princess to go back.

"Second sister-in-law, I just heard that Brother Lin saved the girl from the Zhou family in the paddock?" Yang held Shen Xinyan's hand and asked in a low voice.

"It can't be considered a rescue, I just happened to meet you..." Shen Xinyan answered vaguely.

"Second sister-in-law, let me say this, but our Lin brother is a person of that character, and so many people are eyeing him. Will the Zhou family take this opportunity to climb up to them?" Yang's face looked a little strange.

"Third brother's wife is overly suspicious." Shen Xinyan didn't know what to say, so she just pretended to be oblivious.

"It's not that I'm suspicious, but nowadays there are too many dramas of 'I can't repay a great favor, so I can only pledge my love'. Didn't Miss Zhou's maid marry the Crown Prince's guard not long ago? There are servants and masters..."

"Second sister-in-law, logically speaking, it's not my place as an aunt to have any say in Lin'er's marriage, but... Second sister-in-law, you can marry a girl from any family, but don't marry the one from the Zhou family. What happened the last two times is still disgusting when I think about it. With parents like this, who knows what kind of person they will raise their daughter to be? If she's a seductive girl, wouldn't it bring chaos to the family if she's married?" Yang was worried.

Shen Xinyan: "...You are absolutely right."

Seeing that she agreed with what she said, Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After seeing off the eldest and third wives who came to visit one after another, Shen Xinyan finally had some time to go back to the house. She saw that Wei Chenglin had already fallen into a deep sleep, with his brows still furrowed in a frown even in his sleep.

She stared at his sleeping face for a long time and let out a low sigh.

In the following days, the mansion welcomed groups of people coming to greet them. At first, Shen Xinyan would greet one or two of them personally, but later she simply left it to her daughter and Yang. Unless they were families with close relations with the Duke's Mansion, Wei Yingzhi and Yang would come forward to greet them all.

As a result, many people had a good impression of Wei Yingzhi, who was well-behaved and graceful. Someone who was interested in the matter found out that this fourth girl had actually started to manage the household with the Duke's wife a few years ago, and now she could stand on her own. They immediately became interested.

When Shen Xinyan learned that the Zhou Mansion had sent someone with a generous gift, she put down the medicine bowl in her hand, wiped the medicine stains from the corners of Wei Chenglin's mouth, and said lightly: "Go and invite the third lady, there is no need to reply to me."

Wei Chenglin moved his lips as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Okay, take the medicine and take a nap. If anything happens, let Zhao Ge'er come forward." Shen Xinyan pretended not to see it and whispered.

"Okay." Wei Chenglin nodded slightly in response, then lay down again obediently and slowly closed his eyes.

He did not open his eyes until he heard the door being opened and closed. He stared at the ceiling quietly for a long time. Finally, the servant Zhi Mo appeared in front of him.

"Who is coming?"

"It's the Zhou Mansion's chief steward and Miss Yan'er." Zhi Mo replied in a low voice, and then handed over the palm-sized brocade box hidden on his body, "This is what Miss Yan'er asked me to pass on to the prince."

Wei Chenglin approached but did not open it. He asked, "Did Pingyan see it?"

"Don't worry, Prince. Ping Yan has never found out."

"Got it, you can go down now!"

After Zhimo left, he stared blankly at the exquisite brocade box in his hand. After a while, his eyelids drooped slightly, and finally he slowly opened it, revealing an exquisite jade pendant.

Shen Xinyan had never asked Wei Chenglin about the injury that day, but the Grand Princess called her over and asked her in detail. Naturally, she would not hide the secret from her and told the Grand Princess in detail the inside story she got from Ping Yan.

The eldest princess frowned when she heard this: "Is this girl from the Zhou family the one who fell into the water and was rescued by Lin Ge'er last time?"

"That's exactly her."

"I heard that she is extremely beautiful, and is no less beautiful than the Imperial Concubine in her youth?"

"This Miss Zhou is indeed a rare beauty." Shen Xinyan answered truthfully.

The eldest princess frowned even more tightly: "If I remember correctly, the wife that the eldest son of the Zhou family married was also a concubine's daughter?"

"Mrs. Zhou is indeed a concubine's daughter."

The Grand Princess remained silent, and no one knew what she was thinking.

After all, Wei Chenglin was young and strong, so he only rested for a month before going back to work.

Shen Xinyan was busy with her daughter's marriage and had no time to take care of him for a while.

Recently, official media have come to propose marriage one after another, and they all have Wei Yingzhi's idea in mind. This also made Shen Xinyan finally realize the superiority of having a daughter who is sought after by hundreds of families.

Because Wei Junhang was not at home, she could not find anyone to discuss things with, so she simply went to the Grand Princess for help. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law spent the whole day studying which young man had the best character, which family had the most upright family tradition, etc. Among these proposed marriages, their relationship was more harmonious than ever before.

"Mother, what great news! Someone from the Zhao Mansion just reported that Min is pregnant!" Fang walked in with great joy.

The eldest princess was stunned, then smiled and said, "This is really a great joy. God bless you, I just hope that Min girl will have a boy."

"Congratulations, sister-in-law! This is such a great joy!" Shen Xinyan was also a little surprised.

Soon after Wei Minzhi married into the Zhao family, she gave birth to a daughter, but she had no more children since then. Unexpectedly, she is pregnant again now. No wonder the Grand Princess and Fang are so happy.

The woman did not have a son, so she felt a little insecure.

"Thank you for your words, mother!" Fang's face was beaming, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were visible.

The maids inside and outside the house came forward to congratulate her, which made Fang smile even more.

"Madam, another official media is here." Chunliu came in and reported.

"Go and take a look quickly. No matter which family they are from, treat them well and don't be negligent." The Grand Princess instructed.

Shen Xinyan agreed and left with Chunliu.

About two quarters of an hour later, the Grand Princess saw her walk in with a strange look on her face.

"What? Whose family is it?" she asked hurriedly.

"It's from the Marquis of Loyalty's Mansion." Shen Xinyan said helplessly.

"The Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty? Lingfu?" The eldest princess was stunned for once. Fang, who was massaging her shoulders, paused and looked at Shen Xinyan in disbelief.

Shen Xinyan's tone became even more helpless: "It was indeed sent by Ping Fu."

"This..." The eldest princess opened her mouth slightly in surprise, "Linfu and Ying'er?"

She still found it a little unbelievable. The two had been together since childhood, getting along like siblings. Later, Lingfu traced his ancestry and returned to the surname Zhao, but in the eyes of the eldest princess, there was not much difference between him and her grandson, not to mention that Concubine Rui had already been looking for him earlier.

"Is it his own idea, or is it the idea of ​​the Imperial Concubine?" Without waiting for Shen Xinyan to answer, she continued, "With such a handwriting, I don't think it would be the Imperial Concubine's idea."

If Concubine Rui had this intention, she would have told them in advance, so as not to catch them off guard like now.

At this time, Wei Yingzhi also learned that Lin Fu had actually asked an official matchmaker to come to her house to propose marriage. Facing Shen Huiran's understanding look, her face suddenly turned red.

Shen Huiran smiled and pinched her face: "I was overthinking earlier. I didn't expect Lingfu to act so quickly."

"Cousin..." Wei Yingzhi was too shy to look at her. She just pulled her sleeve and shook it coquettishly.

Shen Huiran smiled and hugged her, letting her lean against him, and then asked softly: "Since Lingfu invited the official media to come to your house, it can be seen that he really loves you. So Ying'er, what do you think of him? Do you have feelings for him too?"

Wei Yingzhi buried her face in the crook of her shoulder, and after a long while she said in a hushed voice: "I don't know..."

"How could you not know?"

"I've treated him as my younger brother since I was little..." Wei Yingzhi's voice sounded a little depressed.

No matter what Lin Fu's current status is, in her eyes, he is always the skinny and weak kid who is easily bullied. If she is not protecting him, even the servants in the mansion would dare to bully him.

Shen Huiran laughed.

So that's how it is. It's really hard for me to accept the change from 'brother' to 'husband'.