With a snapping sound, Chen Shiba Niang turned her head, and the beads hanging down from her head swayed with a bright light in the morning light.
The maids in the corridor were startled and retreated in panic.
"Eighteen Mother! Do you dare to say it again?" Mrs. Chen shouted in a trembling voice.
The slap Mrs. Chen just received was very heavy, and a light red appeared on Chen Shiba Niang's fair face, but her expression was as calm as water. She turned her head to face Mrs. Chen's angry gaze without flinching in the slightest.
"It's me who wants to introduce Dan Niang to the Queen Mother," she said.
Mrs. Chen raised her hand again, and Chen Shao shouted to stop.
"Okay." He said, "What's the use of fighting now?"
Mrs. Chen slapped her hand down anyway, and she fell down after a slap in the face.
"Why are you doing this?" She yelled angrily and sadly, "Do you know what you are doing!"
The red mark on Chen Shiba Niang's face became deeper, but her expression remained the same.
She had been very calm since she came in. At this time, despite Chen Shao's surprise and Mrs. Chen's anger, she seemed even more calm and motionless.
"I know what I'm doing," she said.
"Then what are you doing?" Chen Shao asked, looking at Chen Shiba Niang, "Shi Ba Niang, when you took your sister's hand and entered the palace, did you feel a little sad?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Chen thought of the scene yesterday when Chen Danniang happily took Chen Shiba's hand and said goodbye to her. Who knew that at that moment, she was sending her daughter into trouble.
Self-blame, regret, and grief all surged into her heart, and Mrs. Chen couldn't help but raise her hands to cover her face and cry.
Chen Shiba Niang's eyes were red, she leaned over and touched her head to the ground in salute.
"Father, mother, and daughter act before each other without telling each other. It is unfilial and shameful for the daughter." She choked and said.
"You are not ashamed." Chen Shao shook his head, "How could you be? The reason why you went without telling us is because you knew that we would never agree if you told us?"
Chen Shiba Niang leaned over and her shoulders shook slightly.
"Who asked you to do this?" Chen Shao asked suddenly.
Although this idea is incredible, there is no more reasonable explanation.
He could never imagine that his daughter could do such a thing.
"Eighteen Mother, do you know what you mean by doing this?" Chen Shao said, with a sad expression on his face, "You are cutting off my father's retreat."
This marriage grant is a very unfavorable situation for the Chen family, because the Queen Mother decreed that after meeting Chen Danniang, outsiders would think that the Chen family had the first intention. However, this is just speculation from the outside world. Without evidence, the Chen family can still
If you act confidently and confidently to resist the decree, the noise will settle down after a while.
But at this time, Chen Shiba Niang's words made this speculation no longer a speculation but a fact. Then this matter was not just a rebellion, but a deception.
Going back on one's word and playing tricks on the royal family are all the fault of the Chen family. It is the Chen family's lack of trust and righteousness that makes the royal family a joke and the Chen family also a joke.
He who has no faith and no righteousness is not a gentleman. How can such a person take on the important task of supporting the prince to stabilize his country? How can he be the teacher of all officials?
Chen Shao was more sad than angry.
He took every precaution and calculated everything, but he didn't expect that it was his own daughter who stabbed him so hard.
Chen Shiba Niang raised her body.
"Father, doesn't father want to do this?" She asked without answering.
"Eighteen Mother, why do you think that this is what my father wants to do?" Chen Shao took a deep breath and asked slowly.
"Then you have to ask your father why he doesn't want to do this." Chen Shiba Niang said.
"Eighteen Mother!" Mrs. Chen yelled angrily, "Don't you know why you don't want to do this?"
Chen Shiba Niang looked at her mother.
"Mom, as a sister, I know why I don't want to do this." She said with tears, "I also know as a father and a mother, why I don't want to do this, but..."
She looked at Chen Shao again.
"I don't know why, as an auxiliary minister who is deeply entrusted by His Majesty and has great righteousness, he can't do this."
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"Grandpa, the Eighteenth Mother is here, I'll go take a look."
Chen Danniang heard what the old servant whispered and quickly and carefully grabbed the long bow in her hand and stood up.
"Let her also see the gift Sister Cheng gave me in return."
Old Mrs. Chen smiled and stretched out his hand to stop her.
"Wait a moment, your sister is talking to your father and mother," he said.
Chen Danniang said oh.
"Danniang, I asked them to set up a grass target for you in the backyard. I will find someone to teach you archery in the next few days. How about you try it first?" Old Mrs. Chen thought of something else and said.
Chen Danniang immediately nodded happily.
"Okay, okay," she said repeatedly.
Old Mrs. Chen smiled and asked the servants to take her there.
"Be careful, don't hurt your hand." He warned.
"Grandpa, remember to take your medicine," Chen Danniang also warned.
Old Mrs. Chen smiled and nodded. Watching the maids using Chen Danniang to leave, and standing in the corridor where they could no longer be seen, the smile on Old Mrs. Chen's face dissipated.
"I really didn't expect it." He said slowly, with a sad and angry look on his face, "I really didn't expect that my eighteenth mother would become like this, how could she do such a thing."
"Old Master, the Eighteenth Lady may have been deceived by others." The old servant said in a low voice.
Old Mrs. Chen smiled, with sarcasm in his smile.
"Being bewitched by others?" he said, "There has never been such a thing in this world as being bewitched by others. The only one who can bewitch yourself is yourself. If you don't mean it, how can you do it?"
The old servant lowered his eyes and sighed.
"Even so, she is just her, not the master." He said.
Old Mrs. Chen smiled again, but did not speak. He was silent for a moment.
"I regret a little." He said slowly, watching the summer heat fade away and the autumn sky gradually appear, "if I had not come to Beijing with Dan Niang..."
regret?
Only when the outcome of something is decided, people will regret it and look back on the beginning.
The old servant looked up in shock.
"Old Master! This can't be done..." he said urgently.
Old Mrs. Chen turned around and interrupted him.
"Go pack your things," he said.
The old servant was startled and looked a little sad.
"Old Master!" he shouted again.
Old Mrs. Chen stepped up and walked into the hall.
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Mrs. Chen's face turned pale and she looked at Chen Shiba Niang in front of her. She was in a trance at this moment.
Who is this woman in front of me?
Why doesn't she seem to recognize him at all?
"...Is it because my father is unwilling to do this because the prince is a fool?"
Before Chen Shao could answer, Chen Shiba Niang had already shook her head.
"No, I believe it's not because of this."
She looked solemn and calm.
"Because he is the prince. If my father had despised the prince as a fool, there would be no prince today. It was my father who agreed to establish King Qing as the prince. It was my father who agreed that if the prince had a prince, he could ascend the throne and become the emperor. In the eyes of his father, the prince
He is not a fool, but a king, a king who must be loyal and respectful."
Chen Shao's face turned slightly pale.
These words are so familiar, Mrs. Chen thought, as if she had heard them yesterday.
"What do you mean by sudden disaster? Is it a disaster to propose marriage to the prince?"
Chen Shao's voice rang in Mrs. Chen's ears, followed by Chen Shiba Niang's voice.
"...If the father disdains marrying the prince because he is a fool, wouldn't that be duplicitous? If the father disdains it, what does it matter if others are willing to marry the prince? Then who would dare to marry the prince? This makes the prince a joke.
My father would never do anything like this."
"Other people know why they are willing to get married." Mrs. Chen's heart was burning with fire. She raised her eyebrows and interrupted Chen Shiba Niang, shouting, "That is not what your father wants, and your father will not ridicule it."
What others want.”
"Then what father wants is a clear name?" Chen Shiba Niang said, her voice rising a little higher, "Is it because she doesn't want to be a relative, so she refuses to let Dan Niang be the crown prince?"
"Eighteen Mother, are you really confused or are you pretending to be confused?" Mrs. Chen also shouted in a loud voice, "Your father used a foreign relative to drive Gao Lingbo away, but you asked your father to be a foreign relative. Are you trying to contradict yourself?"
Chen Shiba Niang's voice calmed down at this time, and she did not look at her mother, but at Chen Shao.
"Oh." She said, "Then it turns out that this is why my father doesn't want to be a relative."
Mrs. Chen was startled, why?
Chen Shao, on the other hand, looked at Chen Shiba Niang, his expression changing rapidly.
"Gao Lingbo wants to be a maternal relative because he wants to gain power." Chen Shiba Niang's eyes were solemn, she looked directly at her father and said word by word, "Then my father wants to gain power, so he doesn't want to be a maternal relative."
Take power!
As soon as these words came out, Chen Shao's expression changed drastically, and Mrs. Chen raised her hand and slapped Chen Shiba Niang.
"You traitor!" she shouted in disbelief, "You actually said that about your father!"
This slap was much heavier than the previous one, and it was caught off guard. Chen Shiba Niang was beaten and fell to the ground, with blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.
Chen Shiba Niang smiled.
"Mother," she said, without wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth, and holding her hands on the ground, "People are criticized by others because of what they have done."
When I said this, I laughed again and tears fell down.
"Relatives, of course I know what kind of situation you will face when you become a relative."
"Shilin is most afraid of eunuchs and relatives. If a relative gains power, he will be accused of causing chaos in the government. The imperial censors will pay close attention to the relative. They cannot be promoted and cannot be entrusted with important tasks. If they are not careful, they will come in droves.
of impeachment.”
"But despite this, I also know that there are many people who want to be relatives, just to gain power like Gao Lingbo and to be rich. For them, relatives are a means for them to make money. What about the state affairs?
, don’t care at all.”
"Yes, His Highness the Crown Prince will not lack a Crown Princess. It is not that Dan Niang is the only one."
"But since anyone can do it, why can't Dan Niang do it?"
"Those who want to be relatives have something to ask for, but my father has nothing to ask for just because he doesn't want to be a relative. For the prince and the court, it is a great blessing to have nothing to ask for at this moment."
"My father often said that he would not sacrifice his life for the sake of his country, but now for the sake of his so-called reputation, to be able to stay in the court, and not to be implicated by his status as a relative, he refuses to resolve the prince's predicament."
"It turns out that my father, who would sacrifice his life for the country, was just talking. It was his daughter who was confused. She shouldn't take it seriously. It was her daughter who was wrong."
Chen Shiba Niang sat upright, leaned over to Chen Shao again and knelt down with her head on the ground.
"The daughter should go to the Queen Mother to apologize. This matter was all caused by the daughter. The daughter will definitely make her father innocent."
After saying that, he kowtowed three times and stood up.
"Ba Niang, you only think about the road, have you forgotten humanity?" Mrs. Chen said, looking at Chen Ba Niang, she felt disheartened, "You want your sister to marry a fool?
That’s a lifetime.”
Chen Shiba Niang knelt down again.
"Mom, you are a fool, but you are still a prince." She said, "If you marry a prince, you are a princess, a royal lady, and the future mother of a country. How can mother be treated like an ordinary couple?"
"The Crown Princess is marrying not just the prince, but the future emperor and the country. The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess are husband and wife, but they are different from ordinary couples. The Crown Prince protects not the family, but the country. The husband of the Crown Princess and the Prime Minister
He is the prince, the son of the emperor, the prince, and the future king."
Having said this, Chen Shiba Niang looked at her father and mother in front of her, took a deep breath, her expression was solemn, and her voice was sonorous and powerful every word.
"How dare you cherish your life for the country? How can you talk about small love and happiness?"
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Have a nice weekend (*^__^*) Hee hee...(To be continued)
