Chapter 508: Victory over the Sun (2)
[Fulfill the original owner's wish, cancel the engagement with Zhao Yan, the eldest son of the Minister of Revenue, gain the trust of Chen Zhuo, the heir apparent of the Duke of Wu, and prevent the fall of the Duke of Wu's mansion.]
[To determine whether the host has the ability to complete the task, the specific operation is decided by the host. The temporary system only exists as a boot system and provides monitoring services for the host. The system mall is currently closed.]
[This world is a novice world, difficulty C+. Success, continue the mission. Failure, clear the memory, send the host back to the Kyushu interface, and reincarnate.] The system is very strict.
Shengxia silently sorted out the information in his mind.
The original owner's father was an orphan. He passed the imperial examination and was assigned to be a county magistrate. He died of illness when the original owner was seven years old.
Zhao Zhe, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Sheng He, the original owner's father, were classmates and had a close relationship. Sheng He also saved Zhao Zhe. Coincidentally, Zhao Zhe had a son and Sheng He had a daughter at the time, so they were arranged to be married. Zhao Yan and the original owner could be considered childhood sweethearts.
Zhao Zhe worked his way up from a minor official to the Minister of Revenue. He had lost his original intention of being an official as he was in the deep waters of officialdom. Sheng He died without a family behind him. The original owner was an orphan and a widow. The Zhao family wanted to cancel the engagement and choose a new one for their eldest son Zhao Yan that would be beneficial to the Zhao family's career.
But later, Duke Wu went to the south of the Yangtze River and met the original owner's mother Li Wan. Li Wan married Duke Wu Shen Ling for the second time. The Zhao family met Li Wan and her daughter again in the capital and re-proposed the marriage.
The Zhao family is a scoundrel. They ignored Sheng He after his death in the past, but now they see that there is profit to be made and they are becoming active again. However, since the marriage certificate was signed that year, the engagement has to continue.
Later, the old emperor was seriously ill and the princes tried to seize power. Zhao Yan sided with the second prince and the original owner, who had coaxed and chased him and relied on him, hid false evidence in the mansion of Duke Wu. Duke Wu fell on the eve of the seizure of power, and the emperor lost his support. The second prince killed his brother and father to take the throne.
The original owner's wish was to cancel the engagement and sever ties with Zhao Yan, so that the Wuguo Mansion would not be framed and her mother and brother would not die.
The carriage arrived in Beijing the next day. Chen Ling had important matters to attend to and was not in Beijing, so he ordered his housekeeper to go to Jiangnan to pick up Li Wan and her daughter, and asked the prince Chen Zhuo to greet them at the gate of the mansion.
Li Wan touched her daughter's face, who had been quiet since childhood. She looked frail because she had just had a high fever. She softly warned her, "Xiaoxia, be obedient when you get to the Duke's Mansion. A wealthy family has many rules, unlike our small family."
Li Wan didn't know whether it was right to go to Beijing, but if she didn't go to Beijing and marry the Duke, Xiaoxia would be beautiful and there would be more and more covetous eyes around her. The Zhao family was now promoted and intended to break off the engagement. The orphan and widow had no one to rely on, and Li Wan couldn't protect her.
It is already the best thing that the Duke is willing to marry her as his second wife.
"I know, Mom." Shengxia played the role of a timid daughter.
To be honest, the original owner was quite similar to her. The original owner chased Zhao Yan, and she chased Wanqi Muzhao, and neither of them had a good ending.
In consideration of the original owner's help in getting things done for him, Zhao Yan took her as his concubine, but soon after, the original owner was abandoned by him and died in the struggle in Zhao Yan's harem.
The carriage stopped outside the gate of Duke Wu's mansion, and a maid helped Li Wan down. Li Wan saw the young man who looked a little cold standing at the main gate, and walked forward holding Shengxia's hand.
"Thank you, Prince, for coming out to greet us." Li Wan lowered her body with Shengxia.
Chen Zhuo looked at them calmly, lowered his eyes to avoid her greeting, and said calmly: "I am also under my father's order. You are too polite. Aunt Wan is the elder, and it is inappropriate for you to bow to the younger generation."
Seeing that he was cold but had no intention of resisting, Li Wan breathed a sigh of relief and patted Shengxia's hand, "This is your brother, the prince, and this is my daughter, Shengxia."
"Brother Prince." Shengxia plays the role of an introverted girl.
"Well, come with me, grandma is waiting for you." Chen Zhuo leaned to the side, raised his hand slightly, and made a gesture of invitation.
Li Wan held Shengxia's hand tightly and led her to the mansion, "Thank you for your help, my lord."
Shen Zhuo walked half a step behind them and said, "Father will arrive in Beijing the day after tomorrow. Aunt Wan will have to wait a little longer. He asked me to tell you that he asks you to understand."
"Okay, business is important. The Master has made all the arrangements very carefully, so I will follow your instructions."
After entering the old lady's courtyard, the old lady only asked a few questions coldly. Li Wan answered her with lowered eyebrows and a pleasing look. Soon the old lady asked the maid beside her to take them mother and daughter to the arranged courtyard.
After the mother and daughter left, the old lady asked, "Brother Zhuo, your father told you to go and welcome them, and he came to look for me several times. He seems to value these two very much. What do you think?"
Chen Zhuo replied, "Sister Shengxia looks very well-behaved."
Li Wan will be his stepmother in the future, so he can't talk about his elders, but he can still comment on Shengxia.
"To put it nicely, she's well-behaved; to put it bluntly, she's dull and timid. Coming from a humble family, it's inevitable that she's a bit petty." The old lady took a sip of tea, referring to both Sheng Xia and Li Wan. "Well, now that she's entered the Duke's Mansion, I'll teach her well in the future, so she doesn't bring her out and bring shame to the Duke's Mansion."
"You're the only grandchild in this family, so it's bound to be lonely. Teaching her will help me to relieve my boredom."
Shen Zhuo just listened without commenting.
"Your father wants to remarry. What are your thoughts on this?"
Chen Zhuo shook his head. "It's been seventeen years since my mother passed away. I'm eighteen now. It's okay. It's good that there's someone to take care of my father."
The old lady nodded. Although the Li family was of low status, and her father was just a teacher, and had been married before with a daughter, Ling'er had been without anyone to take care of her for so many years, and she was finally willing to remarry, so as long as the man was not a bad person, she would have no objection. She could not say that she liked the Li family, but she did not dislike them either.
"Speaking of age, you should be old enough to get married. Would you mind if Grandma could find you a wife?"
Chen Zhuo still shook his head, "Grandma, there's no rush. Your grandson isn't even a young adult yet."
"Don't worry, don't worry. My old sisters have several great-grandchildren, but neither you or your son can be worry-free." The old lady sighed.
The Duke's Mansion prepared a separate yard for the original owner, separate from Li Wan's. Shengxia entered the yard and sat in it watching the servants clean up.
This world lacks spiritual energy, making cultivation impossible. Women's status is also low, and strength is not the only thing that matters. The engagement was made long ago, and the Zhao family refused to back out, so she could only rely on the power of the Duke's Mansion.
Then, in addition to gaining Chen Zhuo's trust as part of the mission, it was also necessary to establish a good relationship with the Duke's Mansion. And in order to cancel the engagement, they had to find Zhao Yan's mistakes to avoid being criticized, which required confidants and manpower.
In the original owner's memory, she seldom had contact with Duke Wu and his son. They would just ask a question or two and give them some gifts during family dinners during festivals. The relationship between father and daughter and brother and sister was very weak.
There is another way to distance yourself from Zhao Yan, which is to delay.
If the marriage is delayed until Zhao Yan gets married, the engagement will be invalid because the Zhao family broke the contract first.
But the Zhao family found out who Duke Wu had married after a little inquiry. After knowing that, they would not break the contract, and the plan was scrapped.
He still had to withdraw voluntarily, or force the Zhao family to withdraw.
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