"Filial piety? There is a saying that a father is kind and a son is filial. The father must be kind first before the son can be filial. As an elder, have you ever been kind to me? If you are not kind, how do you have the nerve to ask me to be filial?" Yu Yuanzheng asked back.
"Madam, don't bother with her. The old lady is already senile and confused." Shangguan Ziqi added with narrowed eyes.
The third old lady looked at Yu Yuanzheng with a subtle look.
She had known for a long time that Yu Yuanzheng and Jiang Qingqing were not on good terms, but she had never expected that Yu Yuanzheng would speak to her elders in this way. Such a woman was rare in a large family.
She also became wary of Yu Yuanzheng. This woman always gave her a bad feeling.
But I can't tell what's wrong with her.
The two of them had not had much interaction for so long. But this woman gave her a feeling that she was not simple. She would have to ask the third brother to investigate her carefully.
At this moment, hurried footsteps were heard outside the door.
"Greetings, Prince." The voice of the maid outside came into the hall.
Upon hearing that it was the prince, Nanhua quickly stood up and walked to the door.
"The prince is back!" Nanhua was very excited.
I haven't seen you in a long time.
"Um."
Shangguan Zishu came in, covered in dust, with a hint of fatigue on his face.
"Greetings to mother, two old ladies, concubine mother, and two aunts..." Shangguan Zishu greeted everyone.
"My son, why have you become so thin? Your face is so dark from the wind." Concubine Luo felt so distressed that she walked forward and wanted to touch her son's face.
"Don't worry, Concubine. I'm just a little tired."
"Now that your father is back, I was wondering if you should come back too." When Concubine Luo knew that the prince was coming back yesterday, she wanted to ask him when he would come back.
I didn't expect that he would be back in just one day.
"Where is father?" Shangguan Zishu went to the study in the outer courtyard to look for someone as soon as he came back, but no one was there.
"He has entered the palace." The princess replied.
The prince went to the palace to attend court early in the morning.
Now the whole capital is filled with a tense atmosphere.
Everyone knew that Canglan had sent troops.
There will be a big battle soon.
A war would mean the sacrifice of soldiers and the loss of manpower and money.
"Greetings, Your Majesty." At this time, the maid's voice came from outside the door again.
Then everyone saw Prince He striding in with a stern face.
"Greetings, father." Shangguan Zishu bowed to the prince before he even had time to sit down.
"Yes." The prince walked towards the seat with big strides. When he passed by the mats where several children were crawling, he held the little girl in his arms before sitting down.
"Zishu just came back?"
"Yes, father."
"Please take a seat. This morning I went to the palace to discuss with the emperor. Canglan Country has already sent out its troops, and although our Great Wei has long been prepared, our Rong Palace has always been the commander-in-chief on the battlefield, so Zishu will take a few days' rest and then go to the palace to receive the commander's seal and go to war, and bring Zifeng with him."
"Your Highness!" Upon hearing that Zifeng would be brought along, Madam Ye was so shocked that she stood up from her chair immediately.
"What?" The prince gave a cold look.
"Your Majesty, I only have one son. He cannot go to the battlefield. Zifeng has not left any offspring yet. If something happens to him, how will I survive?"
"Yes, Prince, our first wife has only one legitimate son, Zifeng cannot go to the battlefield." The old lady also said anxiously.
"Zifeng, what's his last name?" the prince asked coldly.
"But, but, but..." Madam wanted to say something else, but the words were stuck in her throat and she couldn't say them.
"All the young men in my Rong Palace take it as their responsibility to defend the Great Wei. No one can be a coward." The prince said in a sonorous and powerful voice.
"But Your Majesty, Zifeng is not the Crown Prince." Madam Yu finally managed to utter something.
"Is it only the prince who goes to the battlefield? Shangguan Zifeng lives in the Rong Palace, so he is a member of the Rong Palace. He is aware of making sacrifices to protect the people of Wei."
And at this moment, the master also hurried in.
"Brother is really back? As soon as I heard about it, I rushed back from the barracks. Has the iron box been found?" The master asked about the iron box as soon as he came in.
"I haven't found one yet." Shangguan Ziqi answered for his father.
"Oh, Ziqi is back too? Is your leg healed? Why are you still sitting in a wheelchair?" The old man deliberately looked at Shangguan Ziqi who was sitting next to him with a look of surprise.
He was not blind, he could see at a glance that he was still in a wheelchair.
"Uncle, do you want me to cure you or not?" Shangguan Ziqi knew from his expression that he didn't want him to stand up at all.
He had long been aware that everyone hoped he would be confined to a wheelchair forever.
"Master, please persuade the prince quickly. The prince wants Zifeng to go to the battlefield with the prince." When Madam Zi saw her husband coming back, she immediately told him what the prince had just said with red eyes.
"What? How can this be possible? Big brother, Zifeng has that little ability, how can he dare to go to the battlefield? If he fails, he will be cannon fodder. I have only this one legitimate son, you can't send him to cause trouble for me." The master jumped up.
"If the prince can go to the battlefield, why can't he?"
"How can they be the same? The Crown Prince is the Crown Prince, he has to take on the responsibility of the entire Rong Palace, while Zifeng is just our first wife's child. He doesn't have to take on the responsibility of the palace."
"Only the side branches have no obligations. In this case, then let's go home, and you, the first wife, get out of Prince Rong's Mansion." The prince's face turned cold and he used his trump card.
When it came to asking them to go home, the master dared not say a word.
The master looked back and saw Shangguan Ziqi sitting steadily in the wheelchair.
At this moment, he hoped that Shangguan Ziqi's leg would be healed so that he could go to the battlefield and his son would not have to rely on him.
Shangguan Ziqi just smiled at him slightly.
The meaning of that smile is self-evident.
"Okay, let's go. We have guests coming to the mansion tomorrow. Everyone should prepare your own books. Zishu and Ziqi will follow me to the outer room."
After the prince finished speaking, he pushed his daughter into the princess's arms and strode out of the main hall of the courtyard.
Everyone left unhappily.
But Yu Chaoyang stayed.
"Sister, I knew you were back yesterday. I thought you might be very tired from the journey, so I didn't come to disturb you. We can have a good talk today."
Her desire to get close to Yu Yuanzheng was obvious.
Yu Yuanzheng rolled her eyes inwardly, and only realized it now, but it was too late.
"During the six months since you left, Chaoyang often came to the hospital to help mother take care of the children." The princess told Yu Yuanzheng about Yu Chaoyang's recent behavior.
As for how her daughter-in-law gets along with her sister, she doesn't care.
After all, some damage has been done, and it is indeed not easy to heal completely, but we can't kill someone with one blow.
If Yu Chaoyang put aside all his worries and got along well with his eldest daughter-in-law, she, as a mother, would not be too harsh.
"Thank you so much, big sister." Yu Yuanzheng replied indifferently.
Neither too close nor too distant, just maintaining a superficial harmony.
Yu Yuanzheng didn't think that the two of them could live in peace just because her husband apologized.
There is a life between them.
Although it was not her own doing, it was caused by her.
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