Salted Fish Lady Loves to Eat Melons

Chapter 176: Wen Mingzhu pretended to be fainted and suffered
The fifth prince suddenly realized something and said, "No wonder Xiao Wangshi didn't want to be the head of the family. It turns out that it is a thankless job."

“Not only is it a thankless job, after I ascended the throne, I also wanted to support Marquis Cheng’en, ​​after all, he is my father’s brother-in-law.

As long as Marquis Cheng'en is established, your mother and you brothers and sisters will have an additional backer.

But he angered your aunt to death for the money of other women. If I use him, your mother will definitely blame your father.

In order to please your mother... your father had no choice but to suppress him unkindly. It's because he is so useless!

That's why I always make things difficult for him on purpose, never take him seriously, and never grant imperial decrees to the old lady and his second wife.

Because they had no imperial edict, the women of the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion were not eligible to attend palace banquets and the like.

No matter how many women Cheng En Hou marries, none of them can stand before your mother."

"Thank you, father, for always thinking of mother. The Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion is so poor, and... has your uncle never thought of dismissing the servants?"

"Yier, do you know that in the past thousands of years in Shangjing, no noble family has ever dismissed their servants.

Every noble family has its own secret history to some extent, so how could the servants in the mansion not know it?
By sending the servants away, aren't they exposing the secrets of their mansion to the public? !

Madam Xiao must know such a simple truth. After all, she was also a talented woman in her youth. "

"I only know that the children of aristocratic families wear fine clothes and ride fine horses, but I don't know how difficult it is for a poor family to live!"

"Yier, being a human is difficult. You have to work hard to be reborn as a human. Ordinary people have their own difficulties, and noble families have their own glory. It would be even more tragic if the royal family fell into decline."

Listening to the emperor talking to the fifth prince about the Weiwu Marquis' Mansion in detail, Wen Qingwan couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Is there anything in the capital that can be hidden from the emperor's eyes?

The Royal Secret Guards are so awesome!
After Wen Qingwan returned home from the East Palace, she had been thinking about how Wen Mingzhu killed the seventeenth lady of the Fan family.

The most the Fan family can do is kill Wen Yanting and then target Minister Wen. They can't do anything to the Crown Prince's concubine.

So she offered a melon-eating talisman for the first time, wanting to know what the emperor's mentality would be when he knew about it and how he would deal with Wen Mingzhu.

However, the emperor talked to the fifth prince for a long time and did not mention Wen Mingzhu, which shows how much the emperor dislikes her.

The emperor did talk about the punishment for the crown prince, and the crown prince being confined to his home would indeed cause the ministers to speculate a lot.

Wen Qingwan didn't expect that she would end up eating melons on her own head. She heard the emperor say with great regret: "Ever since your brother, the Crown Prince, specifically asked to marry Minister Wen's second daughter as a concubine, the Wen family has focused on training their eldest daughter."

"Why?" The fifth prince waited for his father's answer with sparkling eyes.

The emperor did not keep the secret, "Minister Wen's second daughter has been spoiled and domineering since she was a child, and her family has never taught her how to behave in society.

She had ulterior motives and was outspoken, daring to say anything. She loudly said in the Wen Mansion that she would not be the prince's concubine.

Minister Wen dotes on her, so he can only train his eldest daughter in secret, and when she reaches the age of marriage, she will marry into the East Palace. I would be happy to see that happen, but what a pity!"

The emperor's voice was still echoing in Wen Qingwan's ears, and every word was like a sharp blade piercing her heart.

No wonder the emperor and the empress kept silent about her marrying into the Eastern Palace as a concubine in her previous life.

She thought the emperor and empress didn't know, so she had to stay in the East Palace with her tail between her legs.

Wen Qingwan once again admired the power of the royal secret guards. No wonder after Zhao Jue became emperor, he dared to push all the memorials to her for handling.

It's not that he believed her, but that there were secret guards watching her while she worked!
Fortunately, I didn't have any other thoughts at that time, otherwise I would have died early. Wen Qingwan felt a chill on her back, sweat kept dripping from her forehead, and the conversation between the emperor and his son in the imperial study continued.

After talking for a long time, the emperor finally suggested that the fifth prince marry Xie Wanhua as his principal wife, and Fan Yuxuan and Su Xiaomin as concubines.

Wen Qingwan had to admire the emperor's foresight. In this way, the fifth prince not only had a strong backer.

It can also allow the future emperor's relatives to check and balance each other, including both civil officials and military generals.

Naturally, he had no objection to the fifth prince wanting to be the emperor. In life, there are gains and losses, and as a prince, he was destined not to be alone for the rest of his life.

In his previous life, the fifth prince also married several women. He married Fan Yuxuan as his principal wife, and married the daughters of third-rank and fifth-rank ministers as concubines.

He also took Xiao Yi and the daughters of several other Beijing officials as concubines. At that time, Wen Qingwan and the Fifth Prince had different positions.

So she didn't pay too much attention to him, she only knew that he died on the way to his fiefdom.

In his previous life, Crown Prince Zhao Jue did not marry Wen Mingzhu, but he listened to the emperor and the queen obediently and did not cause so many troubles.

He was the crown prince, and after the emperor passed away, the prince naturally became the emperor.

It was not like this life, where he repeatedly disobeyed the Emperor and Empress, causing them to want to depose him.

The emperor told the fifth prince to get ready and that he would grant him marriage after he accompanied him to worship the ancestors on Mid-Autumn Festival.

The emperor's decision made Wen Qingwan's blood boil.

Who doesn’t know that emperors of all dynasties would only bring the crown prince to worship their ancestors during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Wen Mingzhu’s dream of becoming queen is about to fall through. What will Minister Wen, his mother, and the Wen brothers have to brag about in this life?
What surprised Wen Qingwan even more was that she learned a very important piece of news from the emperor. The emperor always attached great importance to Xiao Jin.

Moreover, the Fifth Prince also admired Xiao Jin very much and always regarded him as an inspirational idol.

This made Wen Qingwan feel very happy. Xiao Jin was a man who loved her deeply. She had a strong backer and could stand up straighter in the future.

No matter what difficulties and challenges lie ahead in this life, she is not afraid, because her husband is capable of handling everything.

She just needs to work hard to earn money and help Xiao Jin get through this difficult time. Wen Qingwan originally thought that the emperor didn't know that the third prince had withheld military pay.

Since the emperor knew about it, the royal family would not be afraid of her if she stockpiled more food, after all, she was doing it for her husband.

Wen Qingwan thought that Xiao Jin had already received her ten thousand taels of silver note. After all, Hai Dongqing's strength was there, and traveling a thousand miles a day was not a problem.

Since Xiao Jin received the silver note, the army would not starve for the time being, so Wen Qingwan no longer thought about visiting him from a distance.

After washing up, I went to bed and had a good sleep.

Compared to Wen Qingwan's good sleep, Wen Mingzhu was suffering. Wen's father, mother and brothers were obviously worried about her.

In fact, he was waiting for her to wake up and make up her mind to save Brother Wen. If it weren't for his status, Minister Wen would probably rush to her bed and wake her up.

Even though Father Wen couldn't enter her bedroom, Mother Wen kept looking at her and muttering to herself.

Wen Mingzhu felt that she could not hold on any longer, but there was nothing she could do but grit her teeth and hold on.

When she woke up, she didn't know what to do, so she could only wait for the prince to wake up first before she dared to wake up.

She was pretending to be dizzy, she wasn't really dizzy. How painful it must be to lie there motionless!