33Chapter 33: Standpoint

After two days, many dukes and marquises who visited Beiwei Marquis's mansion congratulated him implicitly, and Beiwei Marquis realized that everyone in the capital knew about it! He was angry but had no choice but to call Sanfu to him and scold him severely.

"Sister-in-law, this is not bad!" Sanfu cried and said in a slightly sharp voice, "Isn't this just for the quality? I just talked to a few maids around me, and there was more than one person on the scene that day, so why is it strange?"

"How dare you say it! I told you many times that day not to make it public in advance. Even if it is a sure thing, there is still a chance! But you told it as soon as you go out, as if you are afraid that others don't know it!" Beiwei Marquis was so angry that she trembled. Whether this matter succeeded or not, she would definitely lose it. If the queen heard it, she would think that Beiwei Marquis's mansion was superficial and disliked the quality, and this matter might really fail.

Upon hearing this, the third husband stopped crying and immediately turned cold: "Sister-in-law, even if this is wrong, you can't scold a concubine like this!" There is no distinction between sisters-in-law, and she just can't stand Du's smug face. Her husband is also the legitimate son of the old marquis. Why can Mu Zhili marry the prince and the grandson of the emperor, but her daughter can't?

Let alone the chaos in Beiwei Marquis's mansion in recent days, a few days later, when Miss Maoguo entered the palace again, Beiwei Marquis's mansion was completely blown up. It turned out that the purse given by the queen contained the jade token for entering the palace.

"Beiwei Marquis's bastard has already married Cheng Wang, and he still wants to marry his daughter to the fourth prince. Where in the world is there such a good thing?" Maoguogongfu said to Yongchang Bofu.

"She was afraid that the concubine's son would be too smart and threaten the prince, so she was in a hurry to marry him off. Now, she has shot herself in the foot!" Yongchang Bofu laughed, "The relationship between our two families will be closer in the future."

"That's right, there will be more reasons to go home and draw cards in the future!" Maoguo Gongfu also laughed. Yongchang Bo is the Queen's brother. The daughter of Maoguo Gong married the fourth prince, and the two families are tied together.

Today, because the peony flowers planted by Dingnan Houfu are blooming, he invited the husbands of various mansions to come and appreciate the flowers.

"Why don't you see Sister Du?" Dingnan Houfu is a second wife and is younger than most husbands.

"She, I'm afraid she won't go out in the next few days," Yongchang Bofu covered his mouth with a handkerchief and laughed, "Has the second prince's wife returned to her parents' home recently?"

Dingnan Houfu smiled and said, "She has a lot of things to do in the mansion, so I didn't call her today." Knowing that they wanted to inquire about the news of the second prince, Dingnan Houfu didn't intend to say much about his own affairs, and changed the subject in a few words.

Since he found that Duofu could handle the affairs of the inner house by himself, Mu Hanzhang began to let go gradually. Jing Shao, who had tasted the sweetness, went even further. He pestered his own princess every night for sex until Mu Hanzhang couldn't stand it anymore and stopped for a few days. Duofu could only face a bunch of wolf-like and tiger-like stewards with wrinkled faces every day.

"Brother will definitely not walk at night. Maybe he will arrive in the capital at night," Mu Hanzhang helped Jing Shao buckle the wristband. Seeing Jing Shao's anxious look, he sighed and said, "At least have breakfast before going."

Brother returned today, just in time for Mu Xiu to not go to court. After returning from the southwest, he must go to the south of the city. Jing Shao wanted to take a look at the wasteland in the east of the city, but since he was in the neighboring province yesterday, he would not return early today. Reaching out to help his princess straighten the tassels on her crown, Jing Shao smiled and said, "Okay, let's go after dinner."

"Then I'll go back to Beiwei Marquis's Mansion today. My father told me to go back when I have time in the next two days." Yesterday, Jing Shao did something wrong during his nap, so he slept for the whole afternoon and didn't go back. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glare at Jing Shao again.

Jing Shao was stared at by his princess, and he didn't understand why, so he lowered his head and bit one ear.

"Hmm..." Mu Hanzhang pushed him away, looked around, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Jing Shao drove all the maids out in order to enjoy the fun of dressing his princess.

Jing Shao rode Xiao Hei to the eastern suburbs first, easily bypassed layers of rocks and miscellaneous trees, and entered the depths of the wild forest. There was a group of soldiers here with hoes and hammers to level the land. There were not many, only twenty or thirty, so the speed was very slow.

"Your Highness," Ren Feng saw Jing Shao coming, put down the big iron hammer in his hand and came to greet him, "There are too few hands. If we want to level the land that can be marked, I am afraid that we will not be able to finish it by the end of the year."

"Don't worry," Jing Shao got off the horse, climbed up a high stone, looked around, and saw the wild forest everywhere, "Don't move these trees." After saying that, he jumped off the stone and climbed back on the horse.

"Yes." Ren Feng reached out to help, but was avoided by Jing Shao.

Looking around at the soldiers who were working with their heads down, Jing Shao said in a deep voice: "If anyone leaks a word about this matter, he will be killed without mercy!"

Mu Hanzhang sent Jing Shao away and went to Beiweihou Mansion. When he entered the mansion, he found that the atmosphere in the mansion was not right. All the subordinates bowed their heads and closed their eyes, and it was unusually quiet. The housekeeper took him directly to Beiweihou's study. His father Mu Jin was writing big characters with a strong and powerful brushstroke that seemed to penetrate the back of the paper. Mu Hanzhang looked down and saw a big "Jian" character.

"Did father encounter any difficulties?" Mu Hanzhang looked carefully at the direction of the words, and could see the struggle and confusion in the heart of the writer.

"What did you see?" Mu Jin saw him looking at his own words and looked up at him.

Mu Hanzhang lowered his eyes: "Father has always been decisive. This time he hesitated, but it was a matter of great importance."

Mu Jin put the pen in the pen wash and sighed: "I have been smart since I was a child and I can see through everything. This time, I was greedy for my father."

"I thought that when my father decided to marry me to King Cheng, he had already made up his mind," Mu Hanzhang raised his hand to roll up the calligraphy and spread a new piece of white paper. "The battle for the crown prince is a game of life and death. How can we have the best of both worlds?" He took a pen from the pen holder, dipped it in ink, and presented it to his father with both hands.

Mu Jin looked at it for a long time, took the pen handed to him, and laughed for a long time: "How can we have the best of both worlds? Well said!" He raised the pen and wrote it. This time there was no hesitation, and the word "Jian" was written fluently and in one go.

This time, the Beiwei Marquis's Mansion and the Maoguogong's Mansion were completely at odds with each other in the matter of selecting the prince's consort. The queen took advantage of this matter to severely slap the Beiwei Marquis's Mansion in the face, and used it to hit the Maoguogong who insisted on the doctrine of the mean. Mu Jin realized that when the queen chose Princess Cheng and specifically asked for his second son, she had already planned to abandon the Beiwei Marquis's Mansion, but he couldn't see through it.

"Next month, I plan to officially promote Aunt Qiu to a concubine," Mu Jin put down his pen and looked up at his second son. "The concubine of Prince Cheng is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of War, and she is the principal wife. She should have a higher status."

Mu Hanzhang was stunned. He didn't expect Mu Jin to consider this. Although he knew that this was a means for Beiwei Hou to express his position, he couldn't help but be slightly moved and bowed: "Thank you, father, for your sympathy. Your son would like to thank you on behalf of Aunt."

Xiao Hei ran too fast and soon arrived at the long pavilion thirty miles south of the city. Jing Shao sat in the pavilion, pulling grass to feed Xiao Hei out of boredom. It was not until dusk that he saw a green carriage slowly approaching from a distance.

Jing Shao immediately rode Xiao Hei and rushed to the front of the carriage, scaring the driver. The guard in front of the carriage drew out the sword at his waist with a swish: "Who is coming... Prince!"

Jing Shao waved his hand: "Why are you here just now?"

"The prince is injured, so he dare not walk too fast." The guard explained.

Jing Shao frowned, jumped on the carriage, and quickly got in. When he saw the situation inside, he was immediately furious: "Brother!"

Jing Chen leaned against the wall of the carriage, with a circle of white cloth wrapped around his upper body from his shoulders to his waist. When he saw Jing Shao, he couldn't help but frowned: "I told you not to come to pick me up, why didn't you listen!"