Chapter 251: The Rong sisters are worlds apart

It is said that the second young lady Rong left the palace in tears that evening.

And old lady Rong went back with a sullen face.

...

That night, Kunning Palace.

After returning from Yu Garden, Xia Zhengqi stayed in Kunning Palace.

Originally, Xia Zhengqi was in a very good mood after finally ending several days of overtime reading, but the small incident caused by the second young lady Rong in Yu Garden made him a little unhappy.

The dinner was also bland.

"Your Majesty, I want to discuss an important matter with you."

After dinner, the queen pulled Xia Zhengqi into the inner room and said.

Xia Zhengqi's eyes were deep: "You say it."

The queen was silent for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, if I tell you, you are not allowed to react too strongly."

Xia Zhengqi was a little confused, but still nodded.

What the queen wanted to talk about was the marriage of the prince and Rong Chuyue.

Originally, she planned to discuss it with him after the imperial examination was completely over and Xia Zhengqi was in a relaxed mood.

However, the incident with the second Miss Rong happened today.

The queen was very worried that this incident would seriously lower the impression of the Rong family in Xia Zhengqi's mind, so that he would not agree to the marriage of the prince and Rong Chuyue.

It would be better to tell him tonight.

"What I want to talk about is the prince's marriage."

When Xia Zhengqi heard that it was the prince's marriage, he stopped scraping the tea foam with the cup lid.

"Cheng Wan has someone he loves now. The girl's family background is not bad. Cheng Wan intends to marry her as the Crown Princess." The Queen said gently.

"Which family is she from?" Xia Zhengqi asked.

"She is... the eldest niece of Concubine Rong, the eldest daughter of Lord Rong, the Minister of Rites." The Queen said slowly, her eyes fixed on Xia Zhengqi's eyes.

The moment the words fell, Xia Zhengqi was shocked and angry: "What!"

However, as soon as he shouted these two words, he remembered that the Queen had agreed with him in advance not to let him get excited, so he suppressed his anger and lowered his tone.

"You mean, the girl Cheng Wan likes is the biological sister of the second Miss Rong today?" Xia Zhengqi confirmed with the Queen.

"Yes, they are sisters with the same father but different mothers. Miss Rong is the legitimate daughter, and Miss Rong is the illegitimate daughter." The Queen softened her voice.

Xia Zhengqi sighed, "Although they are not born of the same mother, the younger sister is so scheming and dissolute, how can the older sister be any better."

The queen glanced outside the door and saw that her daughter was not there, so she sat down next to Xia Zhengqi and whispered, "The reason why I care so much about Cheng Wan's marriage is because our Miao'er said that Miss Rong is Cheng Wan's true love."

The queen told Xia Zhengqi the story that Xia Miaoyuan told about Rong Chuyue and the prince in the book.

After listening to it, Xia Zhengqi's frown relaxed.

He pondered for a moment, but when he recalled the scene in Yu Garden today, he still hesitated.

"Miao'er! Come to father and mother!" The queen simply called Xia Miaoyuan over.

"Miao'er, mother wants to ask you, you have met the eldest girl of the Rong family, Rong Chuyue, what is your impression of her?" The Queen asked while holding Xia Miaoyuan in her arms.

[Huh? In front of my father, you asked me how Rong Chuyue is, are you discussing the marriage of my prince brother? ]

Thinking of this, Xia Miaoyuan said softly: "Sister Rong is a very good person, beautiful and kind, Miao'er likes her very much."

[This princess must flatter Sister Rong, otherwise my father will definitely look down on my sister Rong because of Rong Er. ]

[It would be bad if I opposed my brother and Sister Rong's marriage because of this. ]

[No matter what, I must promote this marriage between my prince brother and me to save the regret in the book. ]

Xia Zhengqi was quite moved when he heard his daughter's psychological activities.

Since his daughter tried so hard to promote the marriage, the girl must be good, right?

The Queen asked again, "How about she compares with her sister? So what?"

Xia Miaoyuan said seriously, "That Miss Rong Er is not good, Miaoer doesn't like her!"

"That day when we went to the temple fair, Miss Rong Er asked Sister Rong to buy some snacks, and then told the prince brother that she liked him and wanted to marry him."

Hearing this, the emperor and the queen were both shocked and said in unison, "There is such a thing?!"

The prince told the queen about the temple fair he and his sister went to, but he didn't mention the part about Rong Er stealing his sister's corner.

"Yes!" Xia Miaoyuan blinked her big eyes.

[Rong Xinyue, you are a scheming woman, you are really wicked. In order to marry a higher-class man, you steal your sister's corner and stab your aunt in the back. You are really unscrupulous. ]

[Today I will completely expose you. 】

"The prince told her that he liked Sister Rong and asked her to behave herself!"

The emperor and the empress looked at each other in surprise, revealing an expression of sudden enlightenment.

Now they understood that the second daughter of the Rong family originally wanted to be the crown princess, but was rejected by the crown prince, so she turned to Emperor Mingxi.

The eldest daughter of the Rong family was really unlucky to meet such a scheming sister.

Xia Miaoyuan observed the expressions of the emperor and empress, and continued: "Sister Rong is completely different. Sister Rong has a pure heart."

"Sister Rong didn't know the identity of the prince at first, but at that time, the two of them already liked each other."

"At that time, I asked her to be Miao'er's sister-in-law, and she was willing."

"She is ten thousand times better than her sister. One is the cloud in the sky, and the other is the mud under the feet."

"Hahaha!" Hearing Xia Miaoyuan's analogy, the emperor and empress couldn't help laughing.

"Our Miao'er also knows the difference between clouds and mud! It seems that this knowledge is good!" Xia Zhengqi laughed.

"However, don't separate them. Put them together and call them the difference between clouds and mud."

After Xia Zhengqi finished speaking, he looked at the queen and said: "It seems that we have to hurry up to find a teacher for Miao'er and enlighten her."

The queen responded to Xia Zhengqi with her eyes and nodded with a smile.

Xia Miaoyuan looked confused, [What? Aren't you talking about the Rong sisters? Aren't you talking about the prince's marriage? Why are you talking about my schooling? ]

[I'm not even two years old, not even old enough to go to kindergarten, you're really going too far! ]

"Miaoer wants Sister Rong to be your sister-in-law, when are you going to arrange a marriage for the prince?" Xia Miaoyuan quickly changed the subject.

"Sister Rong is beautiful and kind, and she is the most suitable to be the crown princess."

Although Xia Zhengqi knew that his daughter was deliberately changing the subject, he had to reply.

"Well... let's do this, father and your mother go to the Rong family first and see Rong Chuyue with their own eyes." Xia Zhengqi said.

The Queen agreed, "Your Majesty, this is a good idea."

[Well, well, you go to the Rong family and learn more about the family tradition and Rong Chuyue's character, then you will naturally want to marry her as the Crown Princess.]

Xia Miaoyuan thought to herself and said, "When you go, Miao'er should go with you."

...

Three days later, Xia Zhengqi, the Queen, the Crown Prince, and Xia Miaoyuan changed into ordinary people's clothes, got on the carriage, and went to the Rong family.