Chapter 223 Apology? What is there to apologize for?
Chapter 223 Apologize? What is there to apologize for?
Chen Xun and Princess Rong get along well with each other. She is a woman who is knowledgeable and has a high emotional intelligence. When the other party expresses goodwill, it is really comfortable to get along with someone who has no hatred towards her.
Chen Yun felt that Wang Xiuwan was really a wonderful person, but thinking about her ability to do well in an environment like Prince Rong's Mansion also showed that she was not stupid.
Wang Xiuwan also liked Princess Ning very much. They had no conflicts of interest and got along more harmoniously.
The most important thing was that Wang Xiuwan had just witnessed the scene where Yan Xia was targeting Chen Xun. Of course she could hear the yin and yang in Chen Xun's words.
Although she knew that Chen Yun's words did not mean that Prince Ning was on their side, she was actually quite happy to hear those words.
Today, Prince Rong's Mansion opened the entire garden for a banquet. Although there were a bit too many guests, the garden could accommodate them, and there was still plenty of space for everyone to move around.
While Chen Xun was chatting with Wang Xiuwan and admiring flowers, she suddenly heard some gossip.
"Is Zhou Ziqing really married?"
"Of course, she seems to have married to Qinghe."
"After her engagement was broken off, she still had the nerve to marry to Qinghe? You must know that that is the headquarters of the Zhou family."
"I heard from people who are close to Zhou Ziqing that they should marry Zhou Ziqing back to Qinghe and let the clan take care of her."
"Oh, Zhou Ziqing is really embarrassed. She is obviously the fiancée of the prince's son, but she got the engagement broken off by herself."
"How shameful is a woman whose engagement has been annulled? She has nothing to do with her, yet she still walks around Chang'an with such arrogance, and even marries to Qinghe in a high-profile manner."
"That's right, Zhou Ziqing is really embarrassed."
"Why is there such a shameful person? If her fiancé breaks off the engagement, she should understand her better, so as not to damage the family's reputation."
The words spoken by those voices were extremely excessive, and as they spoke, some people said that they wished Zhou Ziqing would die soon.
They sincerely believed that a woman like Zhou Ziqing whose engagement was annulled was a disgrace, and they sincerely felt that she should not live, and that she should die to apologize so as not to implicate the family.
Chen Xun and Wang Xiuwan were standing next to the flowers not far away. The flowers here were bushes, which just blocked their figures.
"Where do these people come from? They speak so cold-bloodedly?" Chen Yu asked Wang Xiuwan in a low voice, curiously.
She really didn't know the people mentioned there, they were probably people she had never met before.
There are so many powerful people in Chang'an, so it's not surprising that she doesn't know them all.
Wang Xiuwan looked at the people over there who were arranging Zhou Ziqing, thought about it and said, "The leader should be from the family of the Minister of Rites, two of them are from the family of the head of the Ministry of Rites, and..."
Wang Xiuwan has a very good memory, and since she is the host of Prince Rong's Mansion, she will certainly be able to recognize everyone attending the banquet, especially the female relatives.
She told the identities of those people one by one. The highest status among them was the daughter of the Minister of Rites, a noblewoman of the same age as Zhou Ziqing.
As the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Rites, she is not very favored, but she is a legitimate daughter after all, and there are still many people around her who support her.
Zhou Ziqing had a conflict with the girl from the family of the Minister of Rites, so he kept saying these words as if he wished Zhou Ziqing was dead.
Chen Yun nodded, "Minister of Rites? It turns out that her daughter is so well-educated. She thinks that if a woman's engagement is annulled, she should die to apologize..."
"I wonder if we in Dayong have such a law." Chen Yun said curiously, "She actually let the poor woman whose engagement was annulled commit suicide so easily. I think it is because it is written in the law.
Is it there?”
Wang Xiuwan smiled and said, "Princess Ning is joking, how could Dayong's law be so rotten?"
"The women whose engagements were annulled are already pitiful enough, how can we let them lose their lives?"
Wang Xiuwan also disliked what the daughter of the Minister of Rites said, "A woman whose engagement has been broken off should end herself with a piece of white silk"?
She has lived enough by herself, so why not bring harm to other women?
"It seems that this girl is more majestic than our Dayong law. Just a casual word can cause an innocent person to lose his life." Chen Yu said with a smile.
The girls over there who just made small talk about Zhou Ziqing were frightened. They didn't expect that the people who heard them were Princess Ning and Princess Rong.
Even these girls, who claim to be of noble birth, have to bow their heads when facing Princess Ning and Princess Rong.
They are ordinary noblewomen with no rank. So what if their families have rich heritage and their fathers have official positions?
They themselves do not have any grades, but one of these two has a first-grade imperial decree, and the other has a second-grade imperial decree.
If they were disrespectful to these two people, they would all be in trouble if they were seriously investigated.
"My daughter has met Princess Ning and Princess Rong."
The group of girls hurriedly saluted Chen Xun and Wang Xiuwan. When they thought about what they had just said and heard Princess Ning's comments, they suddenly turned pale.
Chen Yun walked out, looked at the girl from the family of the Minister of Rites who was being supported in the middle, and said with a smile, "This girl is from the family of the Minister of Rites."
"Minister of Etiquette...I think your father attaches great importance to etiquette and upbringing. Otherwise, he would not have taught a daughter like you to abide by the rules."
"It turns out that the Minister of Etiquette believes that a girl should commit suicide if her fiancé breaks off the engagement. In your father's eyes, is human life so worthless?"
When the leading girl heard this, she was so frightened that she knelt down and said, "Princess Ning, you have misunderstood. This is not what I mean. My father is not such a person either. My father has no intention of despising human life."
Although the nobles never take the lives of common people and untouchables seriously, they don't even take the lives of people with lower status than them, and they will kill them if they want.
But you can't say such things out loud. If you say it carelessly, isn't it in vain that you will give others the leverage to criticize you?
Therefore, it was impossible for her to admit that her father was such a person, nor did her father mean what she said, nor did she mean to take human life lightly.
"Oh? What do you mean?" Chen Xun said with a smile.
"Listen to what you are saying, that girl from the Zhou family broke off her engagement with Prince Sui'an and her reputation has been harmed. She should commit suicide to apologize."
"What crime does she have to apologize for?" Chen Yu looked at them curiously and asked, "Shouldn't she break off the engagement with her fiancé who doesn't like her?"
"She shouldn't have been silent when the elders in her family broke off the engagement with the other elder. She should have stood up and insisted on not breaking off the engagement?"
"Even if the elders of both parties are at odds with each other, even if the elders of both parties become mortal enemies, even if both parties hate each other, she still has to insist on marrying to the Sui'an Palace?"
"Girl, is this what you mean?" Chen Xun looked at her and asked.
The kneeling girl shook her head, "No, that's not what I mean..."
"I am actually very curious. The way you think about this girl should be the upbringing of your family. So, is it possible that your family has forced other girls to commit suicide after their engagement was annulled?"
The girl from the Minister of Rites' family looked pale and wanted to defend herself, but she didn't, and neither did her family. She didn't mean to do so.