The Princess nodded. That's right.
"So, he embraced me in the water and married me. Am I not innocent?"
Looking at her daughter's ignorant eyes, the Princess nodded bitterly, "That's the truth."
The princess also understood. Although she missed Xie Yunzheng, "it is still a good compromise."
Shen Shurong pouted, “But everyone says that Brother Yun Zhao is not as good as Brother Zheng!”
"Your life is grandma's life. Can you really bear to let grandma cry to death?" The little ancestor is still picky. Does he really not want his life anymore?
"That's right. If Yun Zhao has any flaws, you should ask him to change them. Slowly, he will be fine. After all, they are born of the same parents, so they can't be that different."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law coaxed him patiently, but why did the little ancestor shake his head again?
"Mother, if my daughter marries him, my brother will marry another woman as the Crown Prince's wife. She will be the mistress of a mansion, and my daughter will be controlled by others in every way. It is better to die than to live like this!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other and wondered how could they have forgotten about this?
If the princess gets married, wouldn't it be appropriate for her not to be the head of the household?
"Grandmother asked your uncle to build a mansion for you, the Princess's Mansion, in the empty courtyard to the west. You will still be the biggest one in the mansion, okay?"
"But,"
The eldest princess held her forehead and said, "Is that possible?"
"But Xie Yunzhao often goes out to ride horses and walk the dog, and is rarely at home. My granddaughter is all alone in the mansion. Woo woo, I don't want it..."
"I'll give you the empty space in the middle, next to your house, and build a horse ranch for him so he can walk his dog in his own home, okay?"
Shen Shurong looked up, sniffing and thinking.
The Princess was stunned by her mother-in-law's generosity, and her daughter was still not satisfied?
Chen Shurong curled his lips and felt wronged again: "Will he marry me? What if he has someone he likes and I block his way to marry someone else? Isn't that repaying kindness with hatred?"
"How dare he! Grandmother, go ask." The eldest princess got out of bed and went out to question Xie Yunzhao...
Xie Yunzhao has no other sweetheart but Shen Shurong. He would do anything to marry her.
He knelt on the ground and shouted at the top of his voice: "Your Highness, Princess, I, Xie Yunzhao, swear to you that there will be no one else. I will treat you wholeheartedly and will never take a concubine!"
When Shen Shurong heard his loud voice, the corners of his lips curled slightly. It turned out that he liked her so much at this time.
The Princess stared at her daughter and said, "Look, he has no one else, and he promised that he won't have anyone else in the future."
The eldest princess came in eagerly, "My dear granddaughter, are you relieved now?"
Shen Shurong lay on the bed and cried: "What if the emperor uncle doesn't agree?"
The eldest princess sighed and glared at her lovingly, "Grandma will go to the palace soon," I owe her,
"Thank you, mother," the Princess looked at her mother-in-law apologetically. Her delicate daughter had caused her mother-in-law many problems.
The eldest princess wanted to change her clothes and go into the palace, so she sent the Xie family back first.
Both families breathed a sigh of relief, knowing there was a way.
Xie Yunzhao felt extremely upset. Although she agreed to marry him, she must have hated him in her heart for ruining her marriage.
Xie Yunzheng clenched his fists, unable to suppress the anger in his heart. His girl... didn't belong to him anymore!
The Princess was also very upset that such a good son-in-law was gone. She could only pat her daughter and coax her helplessly.
The emperor had heard about Yongjia's drowning a long time ago. When he saw the princess coming, he hurriedly stepped out of the dragon throne to greet her, "Aunt, how is Yongjia now?"
The princess hadn't even knelt down when she burst into tears. "Your Majesty, my aunt is so sweet. She tried to commit suicide at home, but it cost me my life."
The emperor dropped the pen in his hand in fright, was he trying to commit suicide?
The eldest princess and the late emperor were both born to the empress. When the late emperor seized the throne, the eldest princess, who had been in charge of the treasury, played an indispensable role. Even the current emperor came to power with the support of the empress.
Therefore, the eldest princess was second only to the emperor in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Chen Shurong was the apple of her eye. As a result, all the princesses in the palace would come to coax Yongjia and try to make him feel important whenever they saw him.
The emperor usually cared more about Yongjia than his own daughter. When he heard that she wanted to commit suicide, he was also very anxious, "This silly child, I will make all the decisions for her, what is she afraid of? Can the person be saved?"
The princess kept wiping away tears. "I think I have just calmed him down. Otherwise, he would have hanged himself one moment and cut his wrists the next. How could I bear it?"
"Aunt, please tell me. I can give her whatever she wants."
"She lost her reputation to the second son of the Xie family. If she marries the prince again, she will feel uncomfortable. If she marries the second son of Xie, she will have to be inferior to the eldest son in the future. She is a princess. She has been raised by me all these years and she is so delicate and precious. How can she bear this?"
The more the princess spoke, the sadder she felt, and she couldn't wipe away her tears.
This was the first time the emperor had seen his aunt act like this since he was a child. He felt very sad and helped the princess sit down. "Aunt, don't cry. No one can bully my precious niece. Let's open a separate residence for Yongjia..."
The eldest princess came out of the palace and the matter was basically settled. His Majesty also issued an imperial decree to grant the marriage to silence the gossips.
The imperial edict soon reached the Xie family, and the whole family came out to receive the edict and kowtowed to thank the emperor for his grace.
Duke Lu sent away the eunuch who was delivering the imperial eunuch's orders and dismissed the servants. A hint of joy appeared in his eyes. "You two brothers should work together. Although marriage is important, it is not more important than the prosperity of the family."
"Yun Zhao should marry the princess and live a good life. Yun Zheng can also choose someone with a similar family background. This will only benefit the Duke's Mansion."
Xie Yunzhao didn't care about what was good for the Duke's Mansion, he just kept his head down and said nothing, he just wanted Shen Shurong to be fine.
Duke Lu was in a hurry to leave, and he could no longer conceal his pride in his heart. "Madam, you have worked hard to find a wife for Yun Zheng."
"As you should," the Duke's wife held her two sons' hands and put them together, "You two brothers should not have any grudges over this. We didn't want the princess to fall into the water."
Xie Yunzheng turned his head away, his nose feeling sour. She was so beautiful, although she was a little spoiled by the eldest princess, but he had already regarded Shen Shurong as the person he wanted to spend his life with.
But now it has become... the relationship between brother's wife and uncle!
How could he accept this?
Xie Yunzhao was so embarrassed. Was Xie Yunzhao doing this on purpose? He had liked Princess Yongjia since he was a child.
When he was a child, he said that Princess Yongjia liked to watch bird nests being robbed and cricket fighting, so Xie Yunzhao gave up studying and jumped around all day long, playing with new and interesting toys.
Xie Yunzhao, the eldest son, was so extravagant that the title of Prince of the Duke of Lu was delayed. It was not until he was sixteen years old that his father made up his mind to swap his and Xie Yunzhao's birthdays, making him the elder brother and Xie Yunzhao the younger brother.
At that time, Xie Yunzhao didn't care at all, saying that it didn't matter who became the crown prince, and his father had no burden to decide.
As the younger brother, he became his father's eldest son, Xie Yunzhao's elder brother, and was also granted the title of Crown Prince by the emperor.
But later, someone told Xie Yunzhao that the only one who could be engaged to Princess Yongjia could be the Crown Prince. He kicked open the door of his study like a madman, wanting to take back the position of Crown Prince.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
