The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1235 Asking
"Ah? Nursery rhyme?!" Sheng Xiangxun looked at the little girl in confusion, with a question mark slowly appearing above his head, "What nursery rhyme? Have you ever heard of it?"

Sheng Yuan stared at her father's eyes for a long while, and after confirming that he was not teasing her, she nodded: "It doesn't matter if you haven't heard it before, I will learn it for you now."

After that, she repeated those words in a vivid and expressive voice.

When Sheng Xiangxun heard the last part, his face turned pale.

"This is a sword pointed at our family!" He raised his hand tremblingly, and suddenly slapped it down, his lips trembling with anger, and he was extremely angry. "Yan to Chen, Chen to Chu? Why don't they just say after Chu! And 'Who will be the one who will take over the country? History has long been a source of the emperor's uncle'. It would be better to just say the name of Yongxing Marquisate!"

"Sheng Xiangxun! You old fool! Are you going crazy?" Zheng was shocked and angry when she heard his nonsense. She slapped him on the shoulder and said, "How can you talk nonsense like that?"

Since he knew he was being watched, how could he speak freely? Was he afraid that others wouldn't be able to get more information from him? !
Sheng Xiangxun felt pain in his shoulder, but he still spoke in a muffled voice: "Do I need to talk nonsense? It's obvious that they are ready to put the blame on me!"

But his tone dropped drastically.

Zheng was too lazy to argue with him. She looked at her little daughter beside her, thought about it, and asked her, "Yuan Jie'er, tell the truth to Dad and Mom. Do you suspect that this nursery rhyme was instigated by our family?"

Without waiting for Sheng Yuan to reply, Sheng Xiangxun exploded first: "How could it be possible that my family fanned the flames! The Queen in the palace is my own daughter, and the missing princess is my own granddaughter! This! Me! You... can't guess like that! This, this, this... the situation is so chaotic, how, how come there is no family affection!"

"Shut up!" Zheng was already upset, and now she couldn't bear to hear Sheng Xiangxun's clanging voice.

“……” Sheng Xiangxun was so angry that his face turned red. He put his hands in his pockets and turned his face to the window.

Zheng glared at the childish old man in annoyance, then looked at her younger daughter who didn't say anything.

Although she didn't say anything, her attitude in asking questions was extremely firm.

Sheng Yuan pursed her lips and whispered, "Of course, my parents wouldn't do such a stupid thing, but there are more people who can make decisions in Yongxing Marquis's Mansion than just the three of us."

Zheng's eyelids twitched when she heard this: This... the younger daughter was talking about a family of three, but she actually included her brother in the category of people who need to be vigilant.

"I can guarantee that Yu Ge'er is not the driving force behind this, but can Daddy and Mommy guarantee that the people from Zhengyuan Hall and Wen Ya Pavilion won't interfere?"

"Do you think...your brother also has delusions?" Zheng asked hesitantly.

After hearing this, Sheng Yuan asked under his mother's nervous gaze, "In front of us, there is a supreme temptation with a precedent; on the left and right, there is a constant stream of pillow talk; in the back, there is also a conscience account... It's surrounded on all sides, who wouldn't feel dizzy?"

"Account of conscience? What do you mean?" Zheng was about to speak when Sheng Xiangxun, who had been listening to the conversation between the mother and daughter, suddenly spoke.

Sheng Yuan sighed: "If...something really happens to the Crown Prince, in the eyes of others, the best choice for the Queen is the Yongxing Marquisate. If someone persuades big brother with this, I don't think big brother will be unswerving." "How dare he!" Sheng Xiangxun's voice was quite high, but it sounded as if he was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

"Hmph!" How could a shrewd person like Sheng Yuan not understand what her father meant?

Suddenly, she sneered.

Sheng Xiangxun made his little girl laugh so hard that she shrank her neck. He said in a low voice with a guilty conscience, "I naturally hope that the Queen and the Crown Princess will be well, but if... what about the Queen?!"

"What to do with the Queen is something that naturally needs to be considered by the Queen and the Emperor! Who is the Yongxing Marquisate? How can you have such random thoughts!" Zheng reacted very quickly and slapped her husband on the head again, wishing she could wake this guy up immediately.

"I, I didn't say anything... Isn't this just a matter of conversation? I'm not thinking about anything I shouldn't be thinking about! What I'm saying is, if we really can't find the Crown Princess, then we have to find a way to adopt a child for the Queen, right?
As the saying goes, when weighing two benefits, choose the greater one; when weighing two harms, choose the lesser one. If the queen is to be adopted, the best way is to choose a blood relative to herself, so as to avoid the adopted son causing controversy!

I am not being greedy! Think about it, if you choose a child from the Sheng family, firstly, he is related by blood, so he is naturally closer to the queen than others; secondly, even if the child misses his biological parents, his status is tied to the title of the queen's adopted son.

From the perspective of law and etiquette, he cannot earn the title of Grand Emperor or Empress Dowager for his parents. In this way, the Empress will always be the most honorable, and there is no need to worry about the adopted son being unfilial! "

The more Sheng Xiangxun spoke, the more he believed he was right. At the end, he patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, no matter how many people try to make your brother waver, I can put down his delusions! I will make sure he understands that the queen can only be protected by the crown prince!"

"Okay, stop talking!" After hearing the last part, Zheng's face relaxed a lot. She scolded her husband as usual, and then said to her little daughter, "Although we shouldn't discuss this, this is the situation now. Naturally, our family puts the interests of the emperor and the queen first, but we can't just think about nothing and make preparations. If the crown princess really can't be found for a long time, how to protect the queen's interests, we have to have an idea!"

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"Even if we don't want to, every one of the powerful relatives and court officials in Kyoto will have to think about it, plan and calculate! If we don't think clearly about our important matters, your uncle will help us think clearly!"

Sheng Yuan's expression had eased a little, but when he heard the name of Duke Sheng, his face suddenly tensed again: "Dad, has Uncle come to our house these days?"

Sheng Xiangxun felt uncomfortable being stared at by his little girl, and whispered, "He did come, but as soon as he opened his mouth, I retorted him. He left in a huff without even mentioning the main business!"

"Duke Sheng's Mansion is trying to leap higher!" Sheng Yuan felt that the biggest destabilizing factor in Yongxing Marquis' Mansion was Duke Sheng's desire to advance.

"He can't jump! As long as our Yongxing Marquis Mansion doesn't cooperate, he won't find an opportunity and will calm down." Sheng Xiangxun said with great certainty.

Sheng Yuan was unwilling to take it lightly: "Duke Sheng was willing to go against his grandfather's wishes in order to gain merit, so how could he give up the opportunity to advance into the royal family? You should pay more attention and don't let them drag Yongxing Marquis Mansion into it."

At this point, Sheng Yuan was afraid that her father would take it lightly, so she lowered her voice and said in a half-threatening and half-admonishing tone:
"You know the Queen's character better than I do. She will never tolerate relying on the conscience of others to live, and she will never tolerate her future being in the hands of others.

If Duke Sheng gets too excited and thinks about things he shouldn't think about, I'm afraid my sister will be ruthless! By then, no matter who persuades me, it will be useless!
By then, the Shengguo Mansion will become a warning example to the world!"