With the commotion like this, the topic can no longer be discussed. Guo Kang had no choice but to try his best to separate the two first, and then persuade them to go home first. At least Princess Ma is watching at home, so the brother and sister won't fight in public.
After a lot of effort, he persuaded these two people to leave.
Guo Kang himself also understood that this topic could only stop here. If Jeanna continues to question, Zhu Wenkui will not be able to answer. This is not a problem with the Purple Horde, but because if we take it seriously, Zhu Yunwen's marriage in France is difficult to explain. And this is closely related to Jeanne herself.
Zhu Yunwen already had a wife, and then he officially got married for the second time in France. According to Chinese customs, there is only one head wife, and the others are concubines; but according to local French customs, the wife married at a wedding hosted by this church is the head wife, and the others are mistresses, not even concubines.
Therefore, it is impossible to say who counts among these two. I guess we can only follow tradition, just like "Basileus" and "Emperor" are regarded as different titles, "wife" and "Ipzi" are regarded as two different identities.
At the beginning, the royal family and he were only marrying for political reasons, so everyone turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. Later, something went wrong with the vassal reduction, and the Armagnacs who controlled the court expelled him, and the marriage ended in vain.
But the problem is, the fruit of the marriage, Jeanne herself, is still here.
Zhu Yunwen must not disown Princess Ma, otherwise Zhu Wenkui, who defends him every day and helps him clean up everything, will have to fall out with him. Qi Tai and others may not be able to stand it anymore, causing this small group that has become a grassroots team to disband immediately.
But in this case, Jeanne's situation becomes awkward.
Zhu Wenkui himself had complained to Guo Kang before, saying that Jeanne's mother's status as a "French head wife" could have been handled. If Zhu Yunwen was very successful in his business in France, no one would be able to say anything and just let the church make up any excuses. In Europe, powerful victors were also easily tolerated - Charlemagne had several concubines.
But he messed up, and the result was worse than a divorce. Since the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize divorce, the royal family directly found a reason to declare the marriage invalid. Jeanne was not even a princess and the daughter of her ex-husband, and suddenly became the product of a fraudulent marriage.
And Zhu Wenkui, the only one who was always trying to help, was completely at a loss - in the Central Plains Dynasty, it was really a rare thing for a vassal king to get divorced. He looked for excuses and didn’t even know how to make them up.
Jeanne, who was already embarrassed by her status, was now in a situation where her parents had no status.
Currently, in Dadu, Zhu Wenkui claims to the outside world that she is the daughter of King Wu's French concubine and was adopted by her mother, so they live together, avoiding other details. Anyway, the French royal family does not recognize this marriage now, so there is no reason to care about the main wife's side wife; the princess will not bother about it, so she just fools around with it.
Guo Kang suspected that the idea of "multiple palaces" he just proposed might also be an excuse for Jeanne.
If we use this term to declare that Princess Ma and Zhu Wenkui are one "good person", and the French princess and Jeanne are another "good person", it does make sense. For Zhu Wenkui himself, this also has additional benefits, and it is obviously just to help Jeanne reconcile her identity. It's just Jeanne herself who doesn't appreciate it for some reason.
Of course, this idea can only be discussed privately.
Because the question that Jeanne asked casually at that time did exist. Although Zhu Yunwen was down and out, he looked very poor no matter how he looked at it, but he still played under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and this way of dealing with it was too "yuan".
Here in the Purple Horde Khanate, everyone really knows these differences. The small gang of King Wu only has a banner that is still valuable, so it cannot but emphasize legitimacy. Although Jeanne herself is actually part of the "Huhua", it is still difficult to say whether Zhu Yunwen and others can make this determination.
Moreover, Zhu Yunwen had to worry about what would happen if the Ming Dynasty found out about this news.
Zhu Yunwen has always been afraid of his fourth uncle. Last time, someone suggested that he ask Sun Shiwan for sponsorship, but he refused. Zhu Yunwen thought that his fourth uncle was on the grassland, looking for Yuan Chao to fight. Don't use this as a reason to beat him again - he was afraid of this.
So, for now, as long as we can still be fooled like this, we can only continue to be fooled. The only good news is that because someone is protecting her, no one has come to trouble Jeanne yet.
Some Greek ladies, with their natural tendency to gossip, were very interested in these stories. But Jeanne herself actually wanted nothing.
Princess Ma, who took her in, had no power even though she had a great name and theoretically high diplomatic standards. Even the reception fee allocated to her family will be spent soon because Zhu Yunwen keeps bringing in some customers to support him, leaving the whole family struggling to make ends meet all day long.
The most valuable property of the family at present is Zhu Wenkui's unfinished blacksmith shop. Unless all the Greek ladies have awakened to the hobby of blacksmithing, fighting her will probably only result in a pile of debts and Nikita the Bear...
More importantly, she and the Greek ladies were in completely different circles.
Princess Ma is a Buddhist with a gentle temperament and aloof from the world. She usually only has contact with the Queen. At other times, he interacted with the family members of Han officials. Guo Kang's adoptive mother, Mrs. Huang, visited her many times.
She used to go to the Niangniang Temple from time to time, but she only offered incense and prayed for her husband and son, and never participated in worship activities. Even though she was ill and bedridden now, she still ordered Zhu Wenkui to give Wang Lama money for incense candles regularly and ask him to offer incense to Yishu Bodhisattva, the most popular heavenly brother in the Qin Kingdom.
——According to my sister Guo Ponu, the unwritten rule among Greek noblewomen is that they only fight within their own circle. If anyone goes out of the circle and provokes the family members of Han officials, they will be punished by the empress. Sanctions from everyone. This is why Guo Kang said to Zhu Wenkui that now is considered very good compared to before.
Guo Kang suspected that this tacit understanding was not something that these Greeks could produce on their own. There are indeed rumors that this was the step taken by the adoptive mother, Mrs. Huang, to "correct" the bad habits of those Greeks. Today's queen may be one of her allies at that time.
Theodora's maid even said that the group of ladies and ladies headed by Mrs. Huang were clearly different from the Greeks, not because the Greeks had no chance to intervene on their side, but because they took the initiative to make a concession: in order to maintain Unity, as long as the Greeks are not looking for trouble, we will not teach them a lesson.
Of course, this statement is too exaggerated. Guo Kang asked his adoptive father, but it turned out that Guo Daxia himself didn't even know that such a thing had happened.
After analysis, the father and son thought that this statement sounded like the script recommended by Li Xuanying, and it obviously had a lot of romance elements in it. Mrs. Huang is not a "lady lady". She haunts Dadu late every night and beats up Greek ladies who try to cause trouble. It is unrealistic to think that they can all be so obedient all at once.
After that, Guo Kang and his adoptive father did not continue to ask - if the adoptive mother wanted to say something, she would take the initiative to say it; if she did not want to say it, they could not ask the question no matter how many tests and tricks they tried. Regarding the sanctioning of the Greek noblewoman, her adoptive father asked her, but she made it clear that she was not interested, so the news must have been spread through false rumors.
In fact, if the adoptive mother really has this ability, she can help Jeanne think of a solution. After all, she is also the sister of her adopted son's best friend...well, although it's a bit off, they still have a relatively close relationship.
Guo Kang sighed and decided to think of a solution in the future. He was exhausted today, and although Theodora was missing, according to her habits, since she had threatened to talk to Guo Kang, she would definitely stop him somewhere.
When he thought of this, he became even more upset. He could only pack his things first, leave all the chores to the aggrieved Li Xuanying, and then go home to rest.
(End of chapter)
