"What?" The old lady, Feng Jinyuan, and Mr. Shen exclaimed in unison, and even Mr. An, who had always been steady and unobtrusive, was stunned.
Feng Yuheng blinked, what the hell is King Yu?
Anshi looked at Feng Yuheng's puzzled look and whispered to her: "Two years ago, the ninth prince went on an expedition. In addition to personally naming him the General of Zhenyuan, the emperor also made him a hereditary royal prince."
She didn't conceal her voice too deliberately, but Shen heard what she said and replied sourly: "So what if it's hereditary? Now that we have no heirs, who can we find to attack her?"
Mrs. An frowned and had no intention of talking to Mrs. Shen, so she stopped talking at the moment.
It was then that Feng Yuheng understood, it turned out that the Yu Wang was that person! He turned to Mrs. Shen and smiled obediently: "Is mother trying to defend A-Heng? A-Heng thanks mother for caring about her."
Shen rolled her eyes and wanted to stop being so sentimental, but Feng Chenyu stopped her.
"Grandma, father and mother, you'd better hurry up and take a look at the front yard!" Chen Yu's words reminded everyone, so a room full of warblers and swallows rushed to the front yard.
On the way, Feng Yuheng pulled An and asked in a low voice: "What is the full name of the Ninth Prince?"
An thought for a while, "It seems to be called Xuan Tianming."
"Xuan Tianming." She remembered the name in her heart, "it sounds pretty good."
When everyone came to the front yard, the housekeeper He Zhong was nodding and talking to an old woman.
The old woman was dressed in brown royal palace attire. She was tall and had an extraordinary temperament. Just standing there, a Feng Mansion housekeeper couldn't afford to accompany her.
Just watching He Zhong speak with a full smile on his face, the old woman kept looking straight ahead, her chin slightly raised, and ignored a word.
When the old lady of the Feng family and Feng Jinyuan saw this posture, how could they not know the identity of this old woman? The Ninth Prince Xuan Tianming had only one nanny around him, Mrs. Zhou, who was the first-grade imperial concubine personally conferred by the current emperor.
The Zhou family has remained unmarried for half her life. Not only did she take care of the Ninth Prince, but she also served Concubine Yun since childhood. She even tried her best to snatch the Ninth Prince out of his sleeping room during a fire in Concubine Yun's dormitory when the Ninth Prince was two years old.
, preserving the royal bloodline.
Regardless of how the Ninth Prince is doing now, Mrs. Zhou is a person that the Emperor values extremely, and she must be invited to every important palace banquet.
Now that Mrs. Zhou had come in person and said that she was giving a betrothal gift, everyone couldn't help but look at Feng Yuheng a few more times and have some thoughts in their hearts.
Feng Jinyuan took two steps and came to Madam Zhou. She bowed her hands and said, "I don't know if Madam is coming to the house in person, but I am not welcome at a distance. I hope Madam won't be surprised."
The old lady of the Feng family also came forward with the support of everyone, her stiff waist straightened out, and wanted to salute, but her waist was really disappointing, and she didn't bend down after a long time, which made her feel embarrassed for a while.
Mrs. Zhou was used to seeing all kinds of scenes, and she would not argue with an old lady who seemed to have a waist problem. She just said lightly: "The old lady is inconvenienced, so there is no need to be polite."
Old ladies don't need to be polite, but other people's courtesy is indispensable.
Behind her, Mrs. Shen and all the female relatives all bowed down, and Feng Yuheng also followed suit, but no shouting was heard for a long time.
The old lady paid attention to Mrs. Zhou's actions and saw her looking around the crowd of people bowing, as if searching. Finally, her eyes stopped on a thin little man.
After a long while, everyone who bowed down finally heard "Get up, no need to be polite." However, before they could get up, a pair of hands stretched out to help them up.
"Is this Miss Feng Er, the legitimate daughter of the Feng family who is engaged to His Royal Highness?" Mrs. Zhou put away her solemn face and put on a kind look.
Feng Yuheng raised her head and met this face full of kindness.
It’s just that the direct daughter of the Feng family...
"Madam, you misunderstood." Feng Jinyuan took over the words, "This is indeed Feng's second daughter, but she is not the legitimate daughter."
Mrs. Shen also started to cheer, "Yes, the daughter-in-law of our Feng Mansion is Chen Yu." As she spoke, she pushed Chen Yu closer, "Chen Yu, please ask Mrs. Zhou how you are."
Feng Chenyu showed her bodhisattva face and bowed gracefully: "Chen Yu has met Mrs. Zhou."
Mrs. Zhou didn't even look at the people who were talking, her eyes only stayed on Feng Yuheng's face, but her words came back: "I only remember that the second young lady who made a marriage agreement with the Ninth Prince was the legitimate daughter of the Feng family.
"
Feng Jinyuan was very embarrassed, "Madam, I don't know. There were some changes in Feng Mansion many years ago. Now A-Heng is not the legitimate daughter."
As soon as he spoke, Feng Chenyu immediately added: "Although she is not a legitimate daughter in name, everything in the house for the second sister is still arranged according to the regulations of a legitimate daughter, and she has never been careless at all."
When she said this, Feng Jinyuan also reacted immediately. In the current situation, if the Pluto Palace insists on marrying the legitimate daughter of the Feng Palace, it will force him to marry Feng Chenyu. Although Jiu
The prince's body was ruined, but his power was still there, and the emperor's favor had not diminished. Although he was the left prime minister of the country, his foundation was still shallow. What's more, no matter how deep his foundation was, he couldn't compete with the prince!
But Chen Yu could never marry a useless person.
Thinking of this, Feng Jinyuan also quickly added: "Chen Yu is absolutely right, Aheng... Madam also knows what happened to the Yao family back then, so... don't embarrass Jin Yuan." He said his name,
It can be regarded as a close match with Mrs. Zhou.
Mrs. Zhou ignored the father and daughter who started to explain one after another. She just took Feng Yuheng's hand and asked her: "Are what your father and sister said true?"
Feng Yuheng's eyes never left Mrs. Zhou's eyes. She spent all her energy to explore in secret and got the answer that the other party was sincere.
She was moved in her heart and returned: "Legendary concubine is just a false name. Ah Heng has already taken these things very lightly in the mountains these years." In one sentence, she pointed out that she had not lived in Feng Mansion at all in these years.
Mrs. Zhou naturally knew about this matter a long time ago, and she obviously disliked the fact that the Feng family hurriedly distanced themselves from themselves when something happened, and even doted on concubines and destroyed their wives. She saw her give Feng Jinyuan a blank look, and she also
The old lady and Mrs. Shen also looked at it again, then shook their heads frequently, and then turned to comfort Feng Yuheng: "Is it twelfth this year? Bear with it for another three years."
Feng Yuheng couldn't hold it back and burst into laughter, "Madam, you are serious."
Shen's face fell instantly, but she didn't dare to have an attack, it was really uncomfortable to hold it in.
Feng Jinyuan didn't look good either. He wanted to speak several times, but had to give up due to Mrs. Zhou's status.
Mrs. Zhou has no intention of arguing with the Feng family on this matter. After all, she has business to do at the Feng Mansion today.
He saw her patting the back of Feng Yuheng's hand and saying to her kindly: "My child, wait until grandma has finished the business first, and then we can talk properly." Then she let go of Feng Yuheng's hand and turned to look at Feng Yuheng.
Jin Yuan: "Master Feng, the marriage between Prince Yu and the second lady of the Feng family has been decided since he was a child. He already passed Nacai, Wenming and Naji back then. Today, I have been entrusted by His Highness Prince Yu to marry him.
The gift has arrived."
Mrs. Zhou said, taking the gift list from the hand of the maid who was following her, and handed it to Feng Jinyuan herself, "Master Feng has taken a look at it to see if it complies with the rules of my Dashun Dynasty for marrying men."
Feng Jinyuan took it respectfully and unfolded it to look at it carefully. Shen also came forward, and even the old lady couldn't help being curious and came over together.
But the three people just looked at it for a while, and then their faces all fell.
What is this gift list? A betrothal gift given by His Majesty the Ninth Prince, His Royal Highness?
Feng Chenyu saw that the expressions of the three of them were wrong, so he quietly took two steps forward, glanced over, and saw that it read——
Three thousand taels of silver to thank the Feng family for their kindness in raising me.
One load of cakes, eight types of seafood, two pairs of male and female chickens, five catties of pork, two dace fish, four jars of aged wine, four pieces of Beijing fruits, two cans of tea, twelve catties of glutinous rice, three catties and two ounces of sugar.
Finally, there is a pair of gold bracelets.
Even Feng Chenyu was dumbfounded by such a gift. They looked at each other, not knowing how to answer this.
Mrs. Zhou glanced at them, raised the corners of her lips without any trace, and asked: "Why, do you have any objections to Master Feng?"
Feng Jinyuan bit the bullet and asked: "May I ask, madam, is this a gift order ordered by His Royal Highness?"
Mrs. Zhou nodded, "Exactly. Mr. Feng is not satisfied?"
Feng Jinyuan felt that if she didn't say anything, then it would not be a matter of Feng Yuheng's face, but the face of the entire Feng family. So he said again: "I'm afraid this gift list is really inappropriate, right?"
Mrs. Zhou asked with a smile: "Does it violate my Dashun Dynasty's system of accepting marriages?"
Feng Jinyuan shook his head, "Of course not, it's just that if ordinary people accept and marry according to this ceremony, this house of princes, generals and ministers... Isn't it really inappropriate?"
Mrs. Zhou smiled again, "It's good that Master Feng knows that this is the rule for common people. Long live the Lord said that although the prince has a noble status, he is a citizen of Dashun, and there is no difference between him and common people."
In one sentence, all the emperors of Dashun were carried out. What else could Feng Jinyuan say? He had to hand the gift list to the housekeeper to accept, and gave a salute to Mrs. Zhou: "In that case, Feng will follow this gift list.
Received."
Seeing Feng Jinyuan accept the betrothal gift, Mrs. Zhou nodded, "Master Feng understands the righteousness well and is worthy of being the prime minister of the Dashun Dynasty." After saying this, he clapped his hands together, and people outside the door immediately started to go to the mansion according to the gift list.
Lift something.
The most terrible thing was that even though he was just moving his things in, there was an eunuch from Prince Yu's Palace standing at the door singing the ceremony. After that sound, Feng Jinyuan always had the urge to ask people to tear him apart.
Mouth, but I really don't dare. Eunuchs can be beaten and punished by the master in the palace, but people outside the palace have absolutely no right to touch them.
Speaking of these betrothal gifts, not to mention everyone in the Feng Mansion collapsed when they heard it, Feng Yuheng also felt her eyelids twitching when she heard it. She began to wonder if her previous investigation of Mrs. Zhou was a mistake.
And the stiff-backed old lady Feng, whose originally warmed-up attitude towards Feng Yuheng suddenly fell to the freezing point.
The other people in the Feng Mansion were not much different. When they saw Mrs. Zhou personally coming to propose marriage on behalf of the Royal Palace, they all thought that the Royal Palace attached great importance to this engagement. They were afraid that because of this relationship, the Feng Family would not dare to do so in the future.