Even for some reasons, the marriage of the second emperor's son was slightly suppressed. At least the second son of the emperor was not promoted to a prince because of his upcoming marriage. He was still just a county prince. Since Huang Qiong re-established the rules for prince canonization, princes are no longer old enough and can no longer be directly promoted to princes regardless of their character. It is up to the emperor to decide whether a prince is promoted to a noble title or not. The prince's title was also directly changed to start from the duke. Just like the fourth son of the emperor who had just left the palace, he was only canonized as Duke Gong when he left the palace.
Originally, Situ Huanshuang, Duan Jin, and He Yao all persuaded Huang Qiong because of this matter. The fourth prince had always been taciturn and extremely withdrawn because of his mother's death. Of the first three princes, one was granted the title of prince directly after leaving the palace, and the two were granted the title of county prince. When they came to him, they were demoted to the title of county prince. What should the child think? What's worse, the child may have something brewing in his mind. Even if his mother did something wrong back then, the child is still innocent. They are all princes, even if they are partial, at least they must be fair on the surface.
Even if you kill chickens and scare monkeys, use this matter to shock some concubines in the palace who are not too peaceful at the moment, but they don't want to do it so obviously. Especially this child, now in such a fragile situation. But Huang Qiong never gave any explanation for this matter. No matter how many people tried to persuade him, Huang Qiong never changed his mind. Unlike other scholars, when leaving the palace, they would take a certain amount of time to talk to their children alone. Although it was customary to divide the family, not a penny was given.
But such a clear-cut treatment still made the child look calm on the surface, although he didn't show it. But his already fragile heart was obviously hurt. After leaving the palace, the fourth prince became even more taciturn and almost never left the palace. Even though the mansions of several brothers are nearby, they have never been there. Even the eldest brother and the second brother, who were really sorry that their father had done this, personally invited him to play at his house, but he remained silent and never went.
Except Yuan Hongwei came to Beijing and could talk to him. Among the brothers and sisters, only Daya, the eldest sister, can interact with each other. After Da Ya secretly left Jingzhao, the child became even more taciturn. Even when he went to the palace to study every day, he often said nothing. Huang Qiong knew this very well, but did not make any changes. The helpless Situ Huanshuang could only strictly restrain the eunuchs and maids in the palace from showing any slight to the fourth prince. He also sent his biological mother's personal eunuch to take care of him.
What Huang Qiong did next made Situ Huanshuang and He Yao even more confused. When preparing for the marriage of his second son, Huang Qiong asked Situ Huanshuang and He Yao to choose a princess for the son of the Cai family, who was also of marriage age. But regarding the marriage of the fourth prince and the third prince, whose actual age difference is only more than a month, and who should be of marriageable age, they have never been mentioned. After the child comes out of the womb, except for the fixed provinces on the first and fifteenth day of each month, he has basically never been called out on his own initiative. ,
Even sometimes, when a banquet was given in the palace, the emperor's four sons would not be called into the palace to give a banquet with the brothers. Huang Ruifeng and his brother mentioned it several times, saying that it was inappropriate to do this and begging for mercy for their younger brother. However, Huang Qiong, the father, has always been silent in response to his second son's disguised protest and has not made any changes. There were even times when he was really impatient and scolded his eldest son and second son, asking them to do their own thing. As for their brother's affairs, they will come over to take care of it later when it is their turn. ,
This double-entendre scolding immediately shut up the two brothers, and they did not dare to think of any more pleas. But the two brothers, including the concubines in the harem, were all puzzled. Although Huang Qiong was always strict with the disciples, he actually still loved them. Among the disciples who loved him at the beginning, he naturally included Duke Gong. After giving up his biological mother's death, he took great pains to find a suitable candidate to raise the child. But why now that the child has grown up, he behaves like this.
Although the disgust was not clearly written on his face. But everything he does gives people this idea. It seems that this child has not done anything wrong in these years, apart from being taciturn and not being able to say nice things to please others. Everyone wondered why Huang Qiong did this to his fourth son. I have never even thought about getting married. But Huang Qiong didn't think of marrying his fourth son. But he was thinking of Yuan Hongwei and Fan Peng. These two sons had also reached the age of engagement.
Huang Qiong also ordered Gao Huaiyuan to secretly go to the houses of Confucian scholars in the two capitals to select candidates with suitable family background and personality, and prepare to marry their two children. However, he did not expect that when Nangong Mei and Yuan Baoer each came to attend the wedding with a pair of children, he, as a father, would know that their two sons had already been engaged. Yuan Hongwei has chosen the daughter of a Confucian scholar in Xijing, which is quite normal. The betrothal of male members of the Yuan family in the past generations was usually either the daughter of an ordinary civil servant or a Confucian scholar. This was also the practice of the Yuan family.
But what Huang Qiong didn't expect was that Fan Peng was actually the youngest daughter of Yuan Baoer's eldest brother, which confused Huang Qiong. Through Nangong Mei's words, Huang Qiong learned that Yuan Hongwei and Fan Peng got along extremely harmoniously after knowing that they were half-brothers. Move around each other regularly. Last year, Fan Peng went on a tour and stayed in Zhongnan Mountain for half a month. He fell in love at first sight with Yuan Baoer's brother's second daughter. After returning to Xiangyang, he never forgot to ask his grandfather to propose marriage to his mother.
Not only the old head of the Fan family, but also Nangong Mei was shocked to hear that the person his son liked. Although the Fan family is the largest family in the world, it is also the richest family in the world. But in front of the Yuan family, it was actually not enough. The Yuan family may not be willing to propose marriage to the Fan family. After all, the Fan family is a businessman, and the Yuan family is no longer an official. But his position in Daqi is still unshakable. However, considering that marrying the Yuan family would be a great help to her son's stable status in the future, Nangong Mei finally agreed.
I personally prepared a lot of gifts and went to Zhongnan Mountain to propose marriage. No matter how high the Fan family's status is, it is still far behind compared to the Yuan family. Although the Fan family is now the largest wealthy family in Daqi. But in the eyes of the Yuan family, he is just a rich man. The Yuan family didn't want to agree at all, and Nangong Mei almost didn't even enter the mountain gate. Fortunately, Yuan Baoer and Nangong Mei had a good relationship, and they interceded to let Nangong Mei in. But when it comes to marriage matters, the Yuan family is unwilling to talk about it. The marriage partners of the Yuan family have always been mainly Confucian.
Businessmen, even the richest people in the world, have never been considered by the Yuan family. In the end, it was Yuan Hongwei who interceded, and Yuan Baoer accidentally revealed Fan Peng's true identity. Only then did the Yuan family know that the boy who was asking for marriage was actually from the same life experience as Yuan Hongwei. The way he looked at Nangong Mei changed even more. Who would have thought that the famous eldest daughter-in-law of the Fan family, a famous couple in the world at that time, would actually have such a relationship with the emperor. Who would have thought that the young head of the Fan family would wear such a big hat?
Actually, he recognized it just like that. Finally, I considered that if the master really intervened, things might be in trouble. After all, the arms can't twist the thighs, and the child wants to. As well as Fan Peng's upbringing and upbringing, as well as what the Yuan family has heard about, the behavior of the young master of the Fan family after taking over the family affairs. Although she was still a little reluctant, she finally agreed to the marriage. After two years, they were ready to get married. Both sons are engaged, yet they have nothing to do with him.
Before the real eldest son Li Xiu gave birth to could be married to him, Yu Mingyuan decided to marry him to a Hanlin daughter. Huang Qiong was already very sad and unwilling. Now, in the marriage of his two sons, he could only become a bystander in the end, which made Huang Qiong feel extremely bad. It's just that the matter has reached this point, and Huang Qiong has nothing to do. You can't break up the two marriages and remarry them yourself. If that were to happen, the already weak relationship between father and son would probably collapse immediately.
Helpless, he could only turn his dissatisfaction into anger and directed it at Nangong Mei and Yuan Baoer. As a result, the two daughters who originally came to attend the wedding were so exhausted that they could not even attend the wedding. Fortunately, the young master of the Yuan family and the young master of the Fan family participated, and finally saved some face for the two families. As for why their respective mothers did not participate, the two people who had experienced Xijing naturally knew it well. But his mother was willing, and Yuan Hongwei and Fan Peng were helpless. As a son, what can I say?
Now Yuan Hongwei has been officially designated as the next head coach of the Yuan family. Fan Peng also began to truly take over most things in the Fan family. Although the two of them had a friendship with Huang Ruifeng in Xijing, they accompanied their mother and sister to Jingzhao to attend the wedding. However, due to their status limitations, each of them has a lot of things to deal with and cannot stay in the capital for a long time. On the third day after the wedding, they each returned to Xiangyang and Zhongnan Mountain alone. As for their respective mothers and respective sisters, they didn't ask any questions when they left.
Especially when they saw themselves as a real father doting on their girl, both of them were quite relieved. Although both of them had seen each other in Xijing, although their own father had extremely strict requirements for his son, he really liked to pamper his daughter. Just look at the little princesses in the palace. Every one of them is so pampered that it would be an exaggeration to say they are lawless. Although the two girls did not grow up in the palace, I, the emperor, treat her like an eyeball and play with her whenever I have time.
As for why the two children were in a hurry to leave, it was besides a lot of things going on at home. There is another very important reason. Those little princesses who have been in the palace for too long are extremely curious about these two brothers who grew up outside the palace. Especially Yingyang, who pesters his two brothers every day, whether they go to Zhongnan Mountain or Xiangyang. As long as you can take her out to play. And as time went by, the eldest sister of the two also participated. He was afraid that if he stayed there, more and more people would pester him to leave the palace.
The two children were on fire and fled in a hurry after the wedding. It's just that neither of them thought of it. Even though they were on the verge of taking precautions, they still failed to guard against it. When Yuan Hongwei returned to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, he saw Mr. Qian also walking up the mountain slowly. He was still wary of strangers entering the Yuan Clan in the forbidden area of Zhongnan Mountain until he saw clearly the appearance of this favored young master. I almost rolled down the mountain without being frightened. This good young master is none other than Da Ya, who was originally supposed to be in the palace at this moment.
And looking at his eldest sister's posture, he immediately knew who the person who had been following him these days was, and who he had always wanted to find out, but had never been able to find out. However, compared to his surprise, Fan Peng, who returned to Xiangyang, had just left Jingzhao Mansion and before he arrived in Nanyang, there were two more pendants, one large and one small.
