A banquet is being held in the palace today, the fifteenth of the month, and all married women are to enter the palace.
Therefore, the three eldest princesses, as well as the eldest and second princesses who were getting married, all came. There were also several princesses from the imperial clan.
Compared to the glory of the eldest princesses, His Majesty's princesses seem less outstanding.
However, after this incident, even if Princess Rongning's Ruyi Pavilion still exists, it is not as beautiful as it used to be.
In Beijing, there are more than just one century-old shop.
Now that Ruyi Pavilion has run into trouble, it presents an opportunity for other shops.
In recent days, with everyone working together, Ruyi Pavilion has been reduced to a wrecked state.
Don't think that just because she has a high status, any of these shops that have been able to establish themselves in the capital for over a century must have their own connections.
The loss of income from Ruyi Pavilion, while not fundamentally damaging, is still a significant financial blow.
Unfortunately, it was the Seventh Prince who did this, so she had no choice but to endure it.
After all, she had previously revealed to the Seventh Prince's mother, Consort Zhou Jing, her intention to arrange a marriage between herself and the Seventh Prince.
Consort Zhou also agreed, since it was naturally a good thing that His Majesty's own sister wanted to marry her.
But suddenly Rong Ning gave her daughter to the Meng family.
Don't expect Consort Zhou to understand this. There's nothing you can say openly about it, and behind her back...
Anyway, you can't expect a woman in the palace to be magnanimous.
Princess Rongning naturally understood this principle, so she couldn't do anything to the Seventh Prince.
She even suspected that the Seventh Prince did it on purpose. He had vented his anger for his actor by dealing with Madam Zou and her daughter, and then he had taken revenge on her as well.
After all, it's impossible for the Seventh Prince to come over and tell her, "Hey, Aunt, the trouble at your shop has nothing to do with me."
Therefore, this misunderstanding will continue indefinitely.
After the banquet, we went to the Imperial Garden to admire the lanterns.
His Majesty personally escorted Consort Fang to hang a lamp.
Fang Jieyu smiled sweetly; her belly wasn't showing yet, but she had gained some weight, clearly indicating that she was living a good life.
At this moment, she nestled beside His Majesty, clearly a new favorite.
His Majesty spoke to her with a smile.
Consort Zhen watched with a smile, appearing magnanimous.
The Empress didn't even glance in that direction. She was only talking to the few unmarried princesses.
Of course, this does not include the Eighth Princess, who is the daughter of Consort Zhen.
Yan Nangui followed behind the Crown Princess and Shu Chengfeng. Since her status was low now, no one bothered her.
Rong Ning wouldn't do that either, since even the Eldest Princess could only secretly trick Yan Nangui.
If she were to make it too obvious at this point, she might inevitably be labeled as mistreating her stepdaughter. Although it wouldn't be a big deal, she wouldn't want it anyway.
Yan Jinfei followed her into the palace, and now she walked properly behind the eldest princess.
Even though she is very composed, she is still young.
This girl, who was only eleven years old after the New Year, couldn't help but look over.
Yan Nangui was talking to another woman.
She must also be from the Crown Prince's residence. She doesn't look familiar, but she must be Consort Luo.
Yan Jinfei sneered inwardly, thinking, "What nobility? She's just a concubine."
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but just as Yan Nangui turned around, he saw Yan Jinfei's eyes.
So he gave her a smile that was full of disdain and contempt.
This younger sister was indeed the one she disliked the most.
However, she wouldn't let her off the hook.
Yan Jinfei felt as if something had pricked her all over her body. It wasn't pain, but an indescribable feeling; it just didn't feel good.
So he bit his lip, turned his head away, and refused to look at her again.
Nothing much happened today, and it was quite late when everyone returned home.
Shu Chengfeng naturally went to the main courtyard.
Everyone went back to rest.
I got up early the next day, since I was exempted from paying my respects the day before, so I was able to rest for a day.
Yan Nangui didn't get up early. Just as he got up, Chanyi came to report: "Early this morning, someone from the manor came to deliver something and said that Master Meng from the Meng family has returned."
"Oh? Isn't it time for a performance review yet?" Yan Nangui said.
"They said it was permitted by His Majesty, and the Meng family told the outside world that the old lady was ill," Chanyi said.
"Really? When did you arrive?" Yan Nangui asked.
"They said they would be back in the middle of the night, and just as dawn broke, someone rushed over with a message."
The Meng family still has two messengers, but they themselves don't know where to send the letter. It's already gone by the time it's passed through their hands.
We couldn't actually go to the village every time, so when we said "to the village," we were really just passing by a restaurant in the city.
“This Meng Jianghe is quite capable. Didn’t he send silver to the Second Prince before? Now that respectable young men have come to the capital, I don’t believe he didn’t come for this reason,” Yan Nangui said.
"So you mean he really thinks highly of the Second Prince?" Chanyi asked.
"That's hard to say. His family might want their daughter to be a prince's principal wife, but that's a bit lacking. Being a lady would be more like it." Yan Nangui smiled and said, "Just keep an eye on it."
At the Meng family home, the family members greeted Meng Jianghe early in the morning.
Meng Jianghe sat with Old Madam Li in the main courtyard, accepting the situation with a forced expression.
After the greetings were finished, Meng Junxian stayed behind.
Kneel down!
Knowing he couldn't escape this, Meng Junxian didn't dare say anything and knelt down.
"Look at the mess you've made! Do you know how much money I've had to spend because you couldn't control that woman? It's almost emptied my savings."
"Father, please calm down... It was your fault." Meng Junxian lowered his head.
"Of course it's your fault! How could things have turned out like this? What kind of person did you marry? Ever since she entered the house, there hasn't been a single day of peace in the home!" Meng Jianghe was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at her.
Li wanted to persuade her, but dared not, so she remained silent.
"Yes." Meng Junxian felt more distressed than anyone else.
He knew that Yan Jinsi looked down on him, but what could he do?
Now he thinks about the benefits of geese returning south, but what's the use of saying that?
"Indecisive! If you're going to do it, you should do it decisively! Yan Nangui should have been under your control, how could you let her escape? Now it's the other way around, and you're the one who will take the fall. This will cause endless trouble."
“Master, please don’t scold him. At that time… we don’t know what happened to that woman, she suddenly… it was also our oversight, we just thought she had admitted it for the past few days. Who would have thought that she and her aunt would actually… alas, I don’t know where they got the letter from.” Madam Li sighed.
Speaking of letters, Meng Jianghe felt a bit awkward, naturally because there was a problem with the people around him.
But in the end, she still resented Meng Junxian for being so useless.
"There's no point in saying more now. Let's focus on winning Yan Jinsi over," Meng Jianghe said.
Meng Junxian smiled wryly: "Yes."
He really couldn't do anything about this wife.
What can he do if people look down on him?
After all, this wife was extremely picky and originally wanted to marry a prince. Now that she's given to him, and he's a divorcee at that, how could he not look down on her?
Thinking of this, I can only sigh in my heart.
We have to appease them; nothing can happen to the Meng family.
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