Chapter 242 My biased mother wants me to adopt my younger brother’s son!
The Princess of England mentioned that she had an unmarried eldest son, so Si Yuan naturally said in a timely manner that his eldest daughter was also unmarried.
Isn't this a perfect match?
As the heads of the Duke of Yingguo's and the Duke of Chengguo's mansions, they decided on their marriage, and the marriage was completely settled.
The Duke of England immediately said that he would start preparing generous gifts when he returned and would go to the house in person to propose marriage.
After Si Yuan got the Duke of England's approval, he returned to Duke Cheng's Mansion and told Cheng and Ning Fu the same approval.
Cheng was very happy that her daughter's marriage was settled, and the one she had chosen was with such a good family.
As a girl who is about to get engaged, Nymph feels shy and expectant when talking about her marriage.
Si Yuan looked at the original owner's daughter Ning Fu. In the original plot, the original owner was always trapped by family affection and was controlled by his mother Zhang all his life. His wife Cheng also suffered for most of her life because of his foolish filial piety.
In the end, because the original owner adopted Ning Chi, she was killed, and Cheng and Ning Fu, mother and daughter, did not have a good ending either.
However, even though Ning Chi inherited the title of Duke of Chengguo in the original plot and the second branch of the family was in charge, Ning Fu still found a way to find a way out in such a difficult situation.
Unfortunately, as a girl, she had no right to inherit the title in this ancient feudal era. Even after her father's death, her marriage was still in the hands of her adopted younger brother.
The only way for her to struggle out was to take advantage of the situation and leverage other people's strengths, but she herself was never able to escape.
Just like in the original plot, she secretly contacted the Third Prince, expressed her willingness to be his insider, and helped him investigate the Sixth Prince's secret forces. After that, the Third Prince ascended the throne and became the emperor, but he never thought of letting her divorce from the Sixth Prince and getting her out of the trap that the Sixth Prince had fallen into.
Nymph herself never used this merit to ask the Third Prince for her freedom. After all, she knew that if she really wanted to leave the Sixth Prince, it would be impossible for her to leave as a Nymph.
In the original plot, Ning Fu was a concubine of the prince who was listed in the royal jade book. No matter what the royal family did, there would be no concubine of the prince who divorced and returned home. Even if the third prince hated and feared the sixth prince, he had to consider the royal family's face.
Therefore, if Nymph really asked to regain her freedom, the third prince could at most help her fake her death and find a new identity.
But Ningfu never thought about changing her identity, because after she was no longer Ningfu, she would no longer be able to protect her mother Cheng.
Unfortunately, Cheng was also killed later. After Cheng's death, Ning Fu truly lost all her weaknesses and began to launch a crazy revenge on the Ning family.
In the past, she only took revenge on the second wife, but she also had to be careful not to implicate Cheng while taking revenge on the second wife. After all, Cheng was also a woman of the Ning family, and she was afraid that killing the mouse would damage the jade bottle.
When Cheng died, there was no one in the entire Ning family whom she cared about anymore, so she took ruthless action against the entire Ning family, causing the Duke Cheng's mansion to be confiscated and the family to be imprisoned.
If it weren’t for Ning Rong’s heroine halo, Ning Fu’s revenge might have been successful.
Si Yuan looked at Ning Fu and said with a sigh: "If my daughter can inherit the title, why would I bother to think about adopting her? It would be great if I could just let Fu'er be the heir."
It's not that Si Yuan can't carry out reforms and allow women to enter the political arena, but his reforms will affect many people's interests, and the current emperor is not a firm person and will not firmly support Si Yuan's reforms.
Therefore, if Si Yuan wanted to reform, he had to overthrow the emperor and take the throne himself. However, the energy required and the turmoil caused by rebellion in this peaceful and prosperous era would be enormous, and the number of casualties would be enormous.
It's not that Si Yuan can't take it step by step, but this is a long process. By the time his subtle reforms succeed, Ning Fu will probably be a grandmother, and his adopted grandson will probably have grown up, married and had children.
Si Yuan's words stunned Ning Fu, and she burst into tears of joy without realizing it: "Father... are you really so optimistic about your daughter?"
Nymph didn't really have the ambition to inherit the throne of Duke Chengguo, she was just excited and happy about her father's recognition of her.
Before her mother Cheng gave birth to Yuan Ge'er, her father had a concubine in the backyard who gave birth to a bastard son. She clearly remembered that every time a bastard brother was born, her mother Cheng would hug her and sigh slightly, regretting why she was not a boy.
After her mother gave birth to Yuan Ge'er, she focused most of her energy and attention on her younger brother.
The father made no secret of how much he valued his son.
Nymph has been loved by her parents over the years, but this love is only for a daughter, not for a son or an heir.
She was clear about one thing. She had always thought that she was very good, but she was not treated as well as her brother. But looking at the wealthy families in the capital, how many daughters were as favored as she was?
Ning Fu always thought that she was open-minded. Even after her younger brother Yuan Ge'er was born, his father and mother valued him, and she herself also valued him very much. It seemed that she had never been jealous of Yuan Ge'er.
But until today, until just now, when she heard her father's sigh, she couldn't help but cry for joy, and truly recognized her own heart.
It turns out that she doesn't not care, doesn't mind, and doesn't really let it go.
Why should she be inherently inferior to her brothers just because of her gender?
She was smart, beautiful, filial and sensible, which was why she was loved by her father and mother. As for her younger brothers, whether they were legitimate brothers or illegitimate brothers, they were valued and loved by their father from the moment they were born just because they were boys, without the need for other factors.
This made Ningfu very unwilling, but everyone in this world told her that this was normal and she should not be unwilling, so she hid the unwillingness in her heart very deeply, so deeply that she thought she did not have this unwillingness.
It was not until she got her father's approval that she realized that she was also unwilling.
Si Yuan's words of recognition only made Ning Fu feel better, and she also let go of some of her past resentment.
But what no one noticed was that a seed was quietly planted in Nymph's heart. Even Nymph herself didn't know that there was a seed in her heart waiting to break through the soil and sprout.
After the marriage between Ning Fu and the prince of England, Lin Chengqi, was decided, it didn't take long for the Duke of England to bring his son and choose an auspicious day to propose marriage.
After receiving the news, Si Yuan waited at home in advance and personally received the British prince and his son who came to propose marriage.
After all, the wife of the Duke of England was bedridden and could not come to propose marriage. It would not be convenient for the Duke of England to ask the female relatives to receive him if he came in person to propose marriage. Of course, only Si Yuan, the Duke of Chengguo, was qualified to receive him.
The news that the Duke of England came to propose marriage spread quickly. After all, this was Ning Fu's happy event, so Si Yuan and Cheng would certainly not block the news.
After Zhang and the people from the second house heard the news, they were stunned and felt a little uncomfortable.
The reason is simple. Zhang prefers Ning Rong more, but Ning Fu married better, so she couldn't help but feel that Ning Rong was wronged.
The idea of the second wife's couple was even simpler. They tried their best to let Ning Rong marry into a rich family. Finally, the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion came to propose marriage. They were so happy that they showed off everywhere, but it turned out that she was so much worse than Ning Fu from the first wife.
The more Ning Yucheng and Li thought about it, the more unwilling they felt. Ning Yucheng thought, isn't it because Ning Fu has a father who is a duke that she was able to marry so well? If he had inherited the title of Duke of Chengguo, his daughter Ning Rong would have been able to marry into the Duke of Yingguo's mansion.
Li thought, didn’t the eldest wife say that she wanted to adopt Nyfu’s child as the heir? Why is it that the Duke of England is willing to adopt his own grandson to his maternal family? Shouldn't such a wealthy family care a lot about the ownership of their children? How could he be willing to let Ningfu's son be adopted into the Duke Cheng's Mansion in the future?
Li originally thought that Ningfu would have to marry a lower class because she would have to adopt a son to her parents' home in the future. After all, how different is this from marrying a son-in-law? Which good son from a wealthy family would be willing to marry a ningfu, so that his son would have to take his wife's surname Ning, as if he were marrying into the family.
At this time, Li had forgotten how many cruel things she had done for the title of Duke Chengguo.
In order to let her son inherit the title, she was willing to adopt her own son to the first wife.
Then why does she think that other wealthy families would give up the title of Duke Chengguo, a super-class duke, for the right to give their son a surname?
After all, Si Yuan’s request was only to adopt Ning Fu’s second child, not to ask them to adopt out their eldest grandson. Who would be unwilling to do that?
After all, there is only one title in the family, and the heir can only be the eldest grandson. Then the second grandson might live like Ning Yucheng in the future.
If someone told Ning Yucheng that as long as he was willing to change his surname to Zhang, he could inherit the title of Duke from his maternal grandfather's family, would he be willing to change his name to Zhang Yucheng?
Ning Yucheng would jump up and down and say, "I am the filial son and grandson of the Zhang family!"
Unfortunately, the Zhang family has no title to inherit, and the Zhang family also has descendants to carry on the family business. There is no need for Ning Yucheng, the grandson, to change his surname to Zhang to inherit the Zhang family business.
Although Ning Yucheng and Li only vented their resentment and jealousy behind closed doors in the second house, they did not avoid Ning Chi and Ning Rong, the two legitimate sons and daughters.
Ning Chi was also jealous, as he was about to become the only male heir of the Chengguo Mansion, but he missed out on the position of the Chengguo Duke's Crown Prince because of Ning Fu's second son, who was still unknown whether he would be born.
He didn't consider at all that he lost the opportunity after his attempt to murder his brother was exposed, and just pushed the responsibility onto others, thinking that without others, he could take over.
Ning Rong was originally concentrating on getting married, and had no jealousy towards Ning Fu marrying into the Duke of Yingguo's mansion. However, she could not stand her parents and brother constantly whispering in her ears, "The mansion you marry into is not as good as the mansion Ning Fu married into." After being brainwashed so much, she naturally felt unhappy.
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