RPAGF Chapter 442 Princess Yongle's Panic
Chapter 442 Princess Yongle's Panic
"Your Majesty, I thank you. Long live the emperor!" Shen Qionghua kowtowed loudly, raising her hands above her head.
Li Shunquan folded the imperial edict and handed it to Shen Qionghua. The wrinkles on his face gathered together and he said with a smile: "Please stand up quickly, Princess Jialin."
Shen Qionghua stood up with a smile on her face and said to Li Shunquan, "Thank you for your hard work, Manager Li."
As he said this, he gave Shaoyao a wink. Shaoyao immediately understood and stepped forward to hand over a bulging purse.
Li Shunquan naturally accepted such a joyous event with a smile, and did not forget to say, "Thank you, County Princess. The Emperor has specifically instructed that the specific date of the wedding be discussed with His Royal Highness Prince Rui."
This was also Xie Nanyuan's own request.
Shen Qionghua already knew this, and could only smile and nod.
Li Shunquan looked at Shen Qionghua's attitude of being neither humble nor overbearing, and he couldn't help feeling emotional.
This person's fate is really unpredictable.
Who would have thought that this small Shen family, a merchant family, could produce a princess.
If it were anyone else, even if the Emperor doted on His Royal Highness Prince Rui, he would not agree to let a merchant's daughter be His Royal Highness Prince Rui's legal wife. But who made this person the daughter of the Shen family, Shen Qionghua?
First there was the merit of providing disaster relief money, and then there was the deeds of providing timely assistance and donating food and fodder. Even if the emperor was not happy in his heart, he could not ignore the thoughts of the world.
Originally, the emperor thought that since His Royal Highness Prince Rui had taken a fancy to the daughter of the Shen family, he would give Shen Qionghua to His Royal Highness Prince Rui as a concubine.
After all, given the Shen family's status, it would be considered too high to marry into the family of His Royal Highness Prince Rui. This was a concession made by the Emperor in consideration of her past merits.
But who would have thought that Prince Rui would advise the emperor to use military merits and rewards to offset the loss so that the daughter of the Shen family could be made the principal wife, and he also asked the emperor to grant him the right to divorce her husband.
This made the emperor very angry, but it also opened the eyes of this "ignorant" man.
Dai Viet has always been a country where men are superior to women. Even if a family has a son-in-law who lives with the wife, it is quite difficult to divorce the husband.
But Prince Rui was a prince, and was quite favored. Not only did he want to marry a merchant's daughter as his wife, but he also asked for a promise to divorce her husband. This was really eye-opening for him and something he had never heard of before.
Ask for a promise so that others can divorce in the future...yourself?
Even though he had been in this deep palace for decades, he had never heard of such a bizarre request.
For a moment, he didn't know whether to say that His Royal Highness Prince Rui was deeply in love with the girl from the Shen family or that he was confused.
If he really loved this girl from the Shen family, shouldn't he have tried every possible way to keep her by his side?
Why do they demand the right to divorce their husband?
At that time, Li Shunquan looked at the emperor's sullen face, his eyes full of regret, and his hands shaking with anger. He had only one thought in his mind:
Fortunately, he was a rootless person, otherwise, giving birth to such a son would make him so angry that he would die. He would rather have no descendants.
The emperor naturally did not agree to Prince Rui's unreasonable request and rejected it immediately.
However, Prince Rui did not give up. He went to the palace every day for half a month to pester the emperor. In the end, no one knew what method he used to make the emperor finally compromise.
The emperor agreed to issue an edict to grant the marriage, but he had only one request, which was to consider the reputation of the royal family. The so-called right to divorce the husband must not appear in the official edict.
This is the emperor’s final bottom line.
King Rui got the benefit secretly and no longer forced it.
Li Shunquan felt that if a woman could marry someone as wealthy as Shen Qionghua, she would be truly capable.
Li Shunquan was feeling emotional in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.
Shen Qionghua sent Li Shunquan away and looked at the imperial edict in her hand. Only then did she feel the reality.
She and Xie Nanyuan...are really engaged.
Shen Yi, who had been in a trance, also came back to his senses at this time. He grabbed Shen Qionghua's sleeve with a look of astonishment, and there was a bit of disbelief in his eyes.
"Sister! Are you really going to marry His Royal Highness Prince Rui?"
Shen Qionghua raised her eyebrows and hummed lightly.
Shen Yi looked at Lin Wanru again, and seeing that her face showed nothing but joy and reluctance, but no half-dead surprise, he couldn't help but ask, "Mom, did you know this a long time ago?"
Lin Wanru glanced at him out of the corner of her eye without saying anything.
Shen Yi looked at Shen Qionghua and then at Lin Wanru. Seeing that they still didn't understand, he immediately jumped up and shouted at the two of them, "You! You knew about the arranged marriage a long time ago and didn't tell me!"
Shen Qionghua sneered, "What? I told you, do you want to stop it?"
Don't think she doesn't know that this brat has been bribed by Xie Nanyuan a long time ago and has always been a traitor.
Especially after A'niang agreed to let him learn martial arts half a month ago, she wanted to find a master for this brat, but this brat said that he didn't want any other martial arts master and just wanted to learn from An Yi and the others.
If it weren't for Xie Nanyuan's instructions, how could An Yi and the others teach this brat martial arts!
As expected, as soon as Shen Qionghua finished speaking, Shen Yi froze, his eyes rolling around, and he said, "Why should I stop it? This is a good marriage for you, sister. I can't wait to be happy for you."
"It's time for me to practice. Sister, Mother, you guys can chat slowly. I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, he slipped away.
-
Fengyi Palace.
Princess Yongle, dressed in a red palace dress, rushed in from outside, "Mother! Mother!"
The Queen, sitting on the phoenix chair, looked up at the words. The moment she saw Princess Yongle, her calm eyes rippled a little. "Slow down, what's the rush?"
While saying this, he gently used a handkerchief to wipe away the sweat beads on Princess Yongle's forehead due to running too fast.
Princess Yongle didn't care about that. She grabbed the Queen's hand and said, "Mother, have you heard? Father has arranged a marriage for Xie Nanyuan, and the one he has arranged is Shen Qionghua, who comes from a merchant family."
After saying this, Princess Yongle met the Queen's calm eyes and knew that the Queen already knew.
The Queen broke free from Princess Yongle's hand and continued to wipe her sweat, saying, "Yongle, when will you be able to be more steady? She's just a merchant's daughter, is she really worth your attention?"
Princess Yongle said anxiously, "But they are not ordinary merchants. The Shen family was able to easily come up with three million taels of silver for disaster relief and send food and fodder to the front lines. This shows how wealthy their family is."
"Even though marrying the daughter of the Shen family cost him the wife of a powerful family, it also gave him a huge amount of financial support."
"Xie Nanyuan and the Duke of Zhenguo already have military power. If they get the financial support of the Shen family, I'm afraid they will be out of control."
"With my father's ability, he wouldn't have failed to think of this. Then why did he still grant Xie Nanyuan and the Shen family's daughter a marriage?"
Princess Yongle's eyes widened as she spoke. "Is Father going to make Xie Nanyuan the crown prince now? Does Father want to pass the throne to Xie Nanyuan?"
"Then what's the point of what we did before? Mother, is Father going to..."
The rest of the words were swallowed by the queen's increasingly fierce gaze.
The queen glanced at the head nanny beside her, and the head nanny immediately led the palace maids and eunuchs out of the hall.
After everyone had left, only the queen and her daughter were left in the room.
The Queen said with some dismay, "After all these years, you're still so impatient!"
"It was fine before, but once Prince An and Concubine Zhou fell, you were back to the days before liberation. Don't forget, we're not at the stage of resting our heads in peace yet!"