Chapter 224 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
It was fine when the original owner was still alive. After all, the Chengguo Mansion was entirely supported by the original owner, and he was the head of the entire Ning family.
But unfortunately, the original owner was plotted against and killed by the second wife a few years later.
It was because the current Sixth Prince needed the support of the Chengguo Mansion to compete for the throne. The original owner was a staunch royalist and refused to join any prince. So the Sixth Prince secretly won over the Second House and instigated the Second House to murder the original owner, so that Ning Chi could inherit the title of Duke Chengguo and the Ning family's connections in the military.
Although after the death of the original owner, the new head of Chengguo Mansion, Ning Chi, is too young and may not be able to support the Ning family. Even if he clearly supports the Sixth Prince, the support may not be that strong.
But the Sixth Prince felt that instead of letting the stubborn original owner refuse to surrender to him, it would be better to let the original owner die and let Ning Chi take the throne. Even if Ning Chi could not completely inherit the Ning family's network resources, he could still bring considerable benefits by joining his team under the title of Duke Chengguo.
The original owner died at the hands of his unsuspecting relatives.
After the original owner died, his wife and daughter were naturally at the mercy of others.
Cheng is okay, at least she is Ning Chi's nominal mother. For the sake of his reputation, Ning Chi will not be too harsh on Cheng. Of course, the main reason was that he had his grandmother Zhang to help him treat Cheng harshly, so he didn't need to do anything to Cheng himself. Cheng's life was already hard enough.
Cheng's daughter Ningfu was also very unlucky. She was originally planning a marriage, but because her father passed away and she had to observe a three-year mourning period, she had to delay the marriage, which delayed the flowering period.
But during this three-year mourning period, the situation changed again.
Originally, the Sixth Prince was a popular candidate to succeed the throne, and the Second Branch of the Ning Family was very happy to join him. In order to show their sincerity, they even secretly made an arrangement with the Sixth Prince to let Ning Chi's biological sister Ning Rong marry the Sixth Prince as a concubine.
It was only because after the original owner died, Ning Rong, as a niece, had to observe mourning and could not discuss marriage, so the matter was not made public.
But during the mourning period, the Sixth Prince actually lost the battle for the throne to the Third Prince. The Third Prince was made the Crown Prince by the Emperor, and the Sixth Prince's power was suppressed by the Emperor. It was already declared that he had failed in his battle for the throne, and he also offended the next Emperor to death.
But what should we do now that the Ning family has boarded the sinking ship of the Sixth Prince?
Fortunately, due to mourning, the Chengguo Mansion had to stay behind closed doors and refuse all banquets and exchanges, so if the Ning family forcibly refused to admit that they had surrendered to the Sixth Prince, it was not impossible.
But it would offend the Sixth Prince to death.
The second branch of the Ning family did not dare to offend the Sixth Prince. After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how much the Sixth Prince was suppressed, it would be no problem for him to deal with the Ning family. After all, the Ning family at this time was no longer the Chengguo Mansion that was quite prominent when the original owner was alive.
Once the original owner died, the next generation didn't have much ability. They only had titles, but their personal connections were not sorted out. How could they possibly withstand the counterattack and revenge of the Sixth Prince?
But Ning Yucheng and Li were reluctant to marry their own daughter Ning Rong to the Sixth Prince as a concubine. When they arranged this marriage, they were optimistic that the Sixth Prince would succeed in becoming the Crown Prince and the next Emperor in the future. They hoped that Ning Rong would become an imperial concubine.
Now that the Sixth Prince was defeated by the Third Prince, the couple did not want to marry Ning Rong to a loser, as she might have to be imprisoned with the Sixth Prince in the future.
They also wanted Ning Rong to participate in the selection after the third prince ascended the throne after she was out of mourning, and enter the palace to become an imperial consort.
However, breaking off the engagement would offend the Sixth Prince, so they didn't dare to do so. So they thought of letting Nymph take the blame.
After all, when this marriage was arranged, it was only said that Ning Chi’s biological sister would be married to the Sixth Prince as a concubine, but it was not specified whether this sister was Ning Rong or Ning Fu.
In terms of blood relationship, this biological sister is of course Ning Rong, the eldest daughter of the second wife.
But if we look at the relationship recorded in the family tree, this biological sister is Ningfu, the eldest daughter of the first wife.
So the second house took advantage of this loophole and forced Ningfu to marry the sixth prince.
In the entire Chengguo Mansion, except for her mother Cheng who didn't want her to marry the Sixth Prince, her grandmother, her adopted brother Ning Chi, her second uncle and her second aunt all forced her to marry him.
Ningfu was unable to resist and was forced to marry the Sixth Prince as a concubine.
However, in the original plot that Si Yuan received, the heroine was Ning Rong from the second wife, but Ning Fu from the first wife also became a villain female supporting role.
Because after Ningfu married the Sixth Prince, she did not give up on herself and allow the Sixth Prince to abuse her.
The Sixth Prince had already decided on the candidate for concubine with the Second Prince. Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone knew tacitly that the candidate was Ning Rong from the Second Prince's house.
As a result, now the Second House has pushed the First House's legitimate daughter to fool him. How can the Sixth Prince not be angry? But he had no legitimate reason to do so. After all, the Ning family had married their daughter to him, and the one he married was indeed Ning Chi's biological sister. Even if he reported the case to the emperor, he would not be in the right.
So the Sixth Prince took out his anger on Ningfu. Ningfu, the concubine, lived in the Sixth Prince's mansion with less dignity than a concubine.
But Ningfu did not give up. She endured the humiliation the Sixth Prince gave her and told him that she also hated the Second House for treating her badly. Even the dowry they prepared for her was superficial but actually nothing good. She expressed her willingness to help the Sixth Prince deal with the Second House.
The Sixth Prince was mainly angry at Ning Fu. He hated the second branch of the Ning family the most. After listening to Ning Fu's words, he was persuaded, so he deliberately supported Ning Fu and asked Ning Fu to go to the Ning family as a concubine to show off her power and slap the face of the second branch of the Ning family.
Ning Fu also took the opportunity to make her mother's life better. After all, the second branch of the Ning family was still very afraid of the Sixth Prince.
However, this period of glory did not last long. Soon the Sixth Prince was confined in the mansion under the suppression of the Third Prince, and she, as a concubine, could no longer take advantage of the Sixth Prince's influence.
But Ningfu did not give up. She turned around and used the humiliation the Sixth Prince had inflicted on her when she first got married, and how he had forced her to go home to bully her second uncle's family, and how she hated the Sixth Prince to the core, as an excuse. She secretly contacted the Third Prince's people and expressed her willingness to be the Third Prince's insider and explore the Sixth Prince's hidden power, only asking the Third Prince to protect her mother.
The Third Prince was undoubtedly wary of the Sixth Prince, his rival who had once fought him to the death. Even though he was the winner now, he was still wary of the Sixth Prince's hidden forces that had not been completely eradicated. Of course, he was happy that a nymph came to him on her own initiative.
In addition, what Ning Fu said about how she was humiliated by the Sixth Prince when she first married into his mansion was true. Of course, the Third Prince believed what Ning Fu said about how she deeply hated the Sixth Prince and agreed to her request.
Nymph pretended to be gentle and eloquent beside the Sixth Prince and accompanied him who was imprisoned and frustrated.
In order to win the throne, the Sixth Prince married women for the family power behind them, and those women naturally married into his family for his future. Now that he has lost power, those women are all worried about their future and have no time to compete for his favor or care about him. Only Nyingfu treats him gently, considerately and understandingly.
The Sixth Prince gradually developed some true feelings for Nymph. Nymph also successfully discovered the Sixth Prince's hidden power, which she passed on to the Third Prince, making him very satisfied.
Later, the third prince ascended the throne, and in order to reward Nyingfu, he found a reason to grant her mother Cheng a super-grade imperial decree.
Li was so jealous that she was going crazy. Her son had to call Cheng mother in name only. Even the super-rank imperial edict that only her mother-in-law Zhang had, Cheng now had it. As the lady of the second house, even if she was the biological mother of the current Duke Chengguo Ning Chi, she could not get this imperial edict.
Because according to etiquette, Ning Chi's mother was Cheng, not Li, so Ning Chi could only ask for a title for Cheng, not for Li.
Of course, the law is nothing more than human feelings. If Ning Chi has made contributions and is willing to use his merits to ask the emperor for an imperial decree for his biological mother Li, it is still feasible, although it is unreasonable from the perspective of etiquette. After all, after being adopted, Li is only Ning Chi's aunt, not his mother. But blood ties cannot be severed, and still thinking about the biological mother after being adopted is also an act of filial piety.
But unfortunately, Ning Chi didn't have the ability to do the meritorious service to gain an imperial decree for his biological mother.
Li was extremely jealous of Cheng. In addition, after Ning Fu became a concubine, she came home to show off her power. With new and old grudges coming out of her, Li secretly murdered Cheng.
After all, the real head of the Ning family is Ning Chi, Li's biological son. Li's control over the harem is not comparable to Cheng's.
After Ning Fu learned of Cheng's death, she almost went crazy. The only mother she cared about was dead, and she was going crazy too. She directly exposed the evidence of collusion between the Sixth Prince and the Ning family, and wanted the entire Ning family to be buried with her mother.
The Ning family was imprisoned by the emperor, but Ning Rong was the real heroine, so no matter how crazy Ning Fu's revenge was, she would fail in the end under the halo of the heroine.
Ning Rong had a secret affair with the emperor's most trusted brother, the Ninth Prince. With the help of the Ninth Prince, the emperor finally let this little matter of the Ning family go lightly. After all, not long after the Ning family defected to the Sixth Prince, the Sixth Prince fell. The Ning family was still in mourning at the time and had no chance or time to do anything for the Sixth Prince.
On the contrary, it was Nymph, who exposed herself because she was eager to avenge her mother. After the Sixth Prince found out that she was the one who betrayed him, he hated her as much as he had doted on her before, and killed her accidentally in a rage.
The emperor took advantage of Ning Fu's death to demote the Sixth Prince to a commoner. Since Ning Fu's death was used to deal with the Sixth Prince, the Ning family, as the victim's family, naturally also received compensation from the emperor.
Ning Rong was able to marry the ninth prince as his principal wife, and Ning Chi was also highly valued by the emperor.
After Si Yuan saw the death of the female villain Ning Fu in the original plot, the emperor felt guilty that Ning Fu was beaten to death by the Sixth Prince because she was doing things for him, so he showed favor to the Ning family. If Ning Fu knew about this, she would probably be so angry that she would come back to life.
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