When the little girl heard Lu Ping mention Princess Ji'an, she couldn't help but think of the figure she saw when she joined the wedding procession to send Lu Yao off to marry, and what she heard later about what happened at the wedding banquet at Yao's mansion that day. She couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Miss, dealing with Princess Ji'an doesn't seem so easy." This was her first impression after she saw Feng Yuheng from a distance, cold and repulsive.
Lv Ping was upset and asked, "This is not okay, and that is not okay. So what else can I expect?" Lv Ping rarely gets angry. Years of being a concubine, coupled with this hidden disease, have taught her to be patient in everything. She even learned not to care about the ridicule from Ge and her two sisters, Lv Yao and Lv Yan. Even if she had her own plans, she was too lazy to use them on these so-called family members. No matter whether she was good or bad, her parents' family would not be her last resort. Instead of fighting for this world, she might as well save her energy and plan for her future.
"Jian'er, tell me, why did father insist on letting me attend the Yuexi Palace Banquet this time? Even though my illness has not been cured yet, why is he willing to do this?"
Since she asked this, Jian'er had to answer, but she was just a maid, so she didn't have the ability to analyze. After thinking for a long time, she finally said, "The eldest lady is seventeen this year. Maybe the master is also worried?"
Lu Ping sneered, "Anxious? Maybe. His second daughter caused such a trouble. Although it has been resolved, it is a result that makes all the Lu family members who know about it tremble with fear. God knows whether the maid in the palace is dazzled or bribed, but in any case, this matter has been held by others. Who knows how much trouble it will cause in the future. Isn't the Lu family anxious now? They are anxious to push me out and want to find another guarantee besides Lu Yao and Lu Yan, but I don't know who they will arrange for me."
Jian'er grew up in the Lu family, so she naturally understood what her young lady meant. She thought for a moment and said, "Now that I think about it, only the Sixth Prince has not yet betrothed a girl. Could it be that the Master wants to..."
"Impossible." Lu Ping shook her head. "Not to mention that the Sixth Prince is not in the capital right now, and there is no way he can come back to attend the Moonlit Palace Banquet. Even if he comes back, do you think that with my status as a concubine of the Left Prime Minister's Mansion, I can marry into the royal family and become the principal wife?"
Jian'er was puzzled, "Why not? Didn't the fourth young lady of the Feng family become the principal wife of the fifth prince? She is also a concubine's daughter! What's more, young lady, you are so beautiful, I'm afraid there will be no one as beautiful as you in the world, so why can't you marry?"
Lu Ping smiled bitterly, "The girl from the Feng family got a great bargain. You've heard how hard it was for her to get the position of the principal wife. She also had to deal with a strange man like the Fifth Prince. If it were any other prince, it would be impossible." She waved her hands as she spoke, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. It's only a few days away from Yuexi. Father will tell me what plans he has sooner or later. What we have to worry about now is my illness. What kind of revenge do you think I should give if I go find Princess Ji'an?"
I heard that she was still planning to go find Feng Yuheng. Jian'er knew that no matter how much she tried to persuade her, it would be useless. This disease had troubled the young lady for more than ten years. If Princess Ji'an could really cure her, it would be worth any price. She thought about it and said, "I'm afraid she doesn't lack money."
Lu Ping sighed, "Even if I need it, I can't give much. Don't you know how much I've saved over the years? But besides money, what else can I give her? What will she want?" The more Lu Ping thought about it, the more she felt that this matter was not as easy to handle as she first thought of it, and she couldn't help but frown...
In the Lu Mansion, conspiracies were brewing. Lu Song and his wife Ge were calculating their daughters one by one, and they were eyeing the princes and nobles one by one. Prime Minister Lu was determined to break the curse that the left prime minister of the Dashun Dynasty never died a good death, and he took multiple insurances to keep the Lu family rich. If Feng Yuheng saw it, he would definitely find how similar the current Lu Mansion was to the original Feng Mansion. Both had a stunning daughter, but he didn't know what the Lu family planned to do with this stunning beauty.
Feng Jinyuan sat in the study at Feng Mansion, looking gloomy. The doctor from Baicaotang came to see him and charged him ten taels of silver for the consultation fee. That was not all. The key point was that they told him that the injury had been delayed for too long and there was no way to cure it, even if the ghost doctor Song Kang took action. This extinguished the hope that had surged in his heart. He had been sitting alone in the study for two hours, but his mind was still muddled and he didn't know what he was thinking.
But he was alone in this room, silent, but not everyone gave him the chance to keep silent. After dinner, Feng Fendai finally came to the door with a big noise. Without asking anyone to tell her, she pushed the door of the study open with force and asked, "I heard that father asked a doctor to come to the house for a consultation today?"
Feng Jinyuan was startled, and when he came to his senses, he found that Fendai was standing across from his desk with an angry look on her face. He couldn't help but angrily asked, "Who allowed you to break in? Do you have any rules?"
Fendai sneered, "Rules? You want to talk to me about rules? If you want to talk about rules, then act like a head of a family. Don't rely on a daughter who hasn't even married yet to support you with food, clothing, shelter and transportation! Wait until you can be yourself again, then talk to me about rules. I just want to ask you, where did you get the money for the doctor's visit today? I heard that the two doctors asked for a full ten taels of silver, and the fifth prince didn't send any silver this month, so where did you get the money from?"
"How dare you!" Feng Jinyuan was furious and slammed the table: "Where did I get the money from? Do you need to care about it?"
"I don't care!" Fendai's eyes were blazing with anger, "But I just want to ask Father, there is a jade pillow missing from my room, has Father seen where it went?"
"I..." Feng Jinyuan was a little stuttered, and panicked in his heart, but he still bit his tongue and said, "How should I know! You should ask your servants about the things in your room. Why ask me? I won't go to your room!"
"You're not going?" Fendai snorted. "I heard that father gave Zirui 150 taels of silver as tuition. Where did you get this money? Don't deny it. Since I dare to come to your house to ask you today, I have already investigated this matter. Father, we are both children. How can you be so shameless to steal your daughter's things in order to raise tuition for your son?"
Feng Jinyuan was scolded by her so much that he wanted to dig a hole in the ground to hide in. He knew that this matter would be exposed, but he really didn't know how to deal with it. Facing such abuse, there seemed to be no other way except to listen.
Now that he thought about it, the ridicule Feng Yuheng had given him was nothing compared to Feng Fendai. After all, she was a princess with a high rank and status, and had made great achievements. Her status was much higher than Fendai's, and she had much more money than Fendai. If he was scolded and ridiculed in front of everyone, he would rather be ridiculed by Feng Yuheng than to see Fendai's face again.
Thinking like this, he seemed to have confidence, and immediately said, "So what if I took it? Zirui is a boy, the only male in the Feng family, and what about you? After all, you are a married daughter. If you still know that your surname is Feng, you should plan more for your family. Forget it, I know you don't have that intention. Now that the Fifth Prince has done all this for the Feng family, the Feng family is not ungrateful. But this favor is still much less than the shame your biological mother brought to the Feng family, so just think of it as repayment for her. You can ignore the Feng family, you can ignore me as a father, you can insult and abuse me at will, but you must also know that you don't have the status of your second sister, and you don't have the confidence of her. In the future, when you get married, you won't have a county lady's mansion like hers, nor will you have the servants and guards of that mansion, and you won't have as many close friends as she has. You still have to get on the wedding sedan chair from the Feng Mansion, and you still have to marry as a daughter of the Feng family. Don't forget that you are still a concubine. The rise and fall of the Feng family is closely related to you."
Feng Jinyuan spoke a long string of words, and he seemed to have regained his confidence, as if time had returned to the past, back to the time when they were still in the old Feng Mansion. He let his children discipline him, and no one dared to say a word in front of him.
But Fendai was also frightened by his aura. She stared at him blankly, not knowing what to say.
Feng Jinyuan snorted coldly and waved his hand: "You go back, your father needs to sit for a while." After that, without waiting for Fendai to respond, he immediately called the servant in to drive the man away.
Fendai was driven out in a daze, and then walked towards her own yard in a daze. It was not until she reached the gate that she realized what was happening. She couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Dongying, is he possessed by evil spirits? What did he just say?"
Dong Ying, the maidservant who was accompanying her, naturally heard what Feng Jinyuan said. At this moment, she had to comfort her young lady, "Young lady, don't get angry anymore. The master was once a prime minister. Although he was not successful for a while, he still had the momentum in his bones. He was right. It is not good to offend the Feng family too much before the young lady gets married. If the Feng family is too embarrassed, the scene of the young lady's marriage in the future will not be good. What's more..."
"What more?"
"Besides, I always feel that the master has such a tough attitude after visiting the Princess's Mansion. I wonder if the Second Miss has given him some benefits? He feels that he has a strong backer, so he came home and turned against you, Miss?"
Fen Dai shuddered, "That's right! If it were in the past, that old man Feng Jinyuan would never dare to talk to me like this. Now that his second daughter is back, he feels like he has a backer!" She was so angry that her teeth itched, "Feng Yuheng, why did you come back? Why didn't you die on the battlefield of Qianzhou? As long as you are here, my life has never been easy. I finally managed to hold on to the Feng family, but you want to interfere again. Damn it, sooner or later, I will let you know the consequences of fighting with me, Feng Fen Dai!"
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