Luo Yaqing's face was flushed, and she looked at her father's expression and it was obvious that he was still wanting to speak. However, the girl's reserve still made her hesitate to answer: "Daughter, daughter listens to father."
Luo Changqing's heart went cold. He still didn't understand what the little girl meant? If the daughter was not interested in Zhou Wencun, she would definitely say, "My daughter is still young and wants to spend more time with her father. She doesn't want to think about marriage for the time being." But if she was interested in someone, she would shyly say, "I listen to my father in everything." "Yes.
Therefore, when Luo Changqing heard her words, he immediately understood that his daughter really liked Zhou Wencun. He persuaded with a headache:
"The Prince of Shunyi has many people, many concubines and concubines, and the two legitimate sons are not from the same mother. You will definitely suffer a lot if you marry...Daughter, you listen to your father, let's find a Qingliu with a simpler family situation. If a family like that respects rules, your life will be easier..."
"But father..." Luo Yaqing said with some annoyance, "That's the reason why Prince Shunyi has so many concubines and concubines. What does it have to do with Mr. Tuesday? He himself suffered from the pain of disputes between wives and concubines in the back house. He has long since determined not to be romantic and affectionate like his father, but to love him exclusively... How can we look at him with the same eyes as his father?"
Luo Changqing listened to his daughter's defense for Zhou Wencun and knew that she was deeply in love with Zhou Wencun and could not look at the affairs of the Prince of Shunyi rationally.
But as the father of his daughter, he couldn't just watch his daughter fall into the mud and struggle in the palace, so he still tried his best to persuade:
"Many things men say before marriage are untrustworthy. I am also a man, and I understand their bad qualities better. They may be true when they say they must be devoted and loyal to their wives, but when they are actually married, It’s hard to say, even if they don’t take the initiative to look for flowers, they can’t stop other women from trying their best to get close to them. They can resist the temptation once, but can they resist it two, three, or even ten or a hundred times?”
"Why can't you? Dad, didn't you just resist?" Luo Yaqing blurted out, "After you got married to your mother, you were alone with your mother. Even after your mother passed away, you continued to keep your integrity. Now you married your stepmother in name only. You have never betrayed her. Mother, why don’t you believe that Mr. Tuesday can do it for me?”
Luo Changqing's head hurt when he looked at his daughter's indignant expression. He used to think that his daughter was smart and sensible at a young age and never made him worry. She was a good daughter who could not worry more.
But he never expected that she would become stubborn and rebellious in this marriage matter, and Luo Changqing felt the difficulty of a disobedient child.
He sighed and said a little feebly: "Qing'er, the reason why I can keep myself clean as a father is because I have a good relationship with your mother, but the more reason is that my energy and time are spent on court affairs and official affairs. It’s already exhausted me, how can I still have the energy to spend on private matters in the back house?”
"Father, you are lying! No matter how busy you are, how can you outstrip His Majesty? His Majesty has time to pamper his concubines, but you don't? It's not because you don't want to!" Luo Yaqing suddenly whispered such an outrageous statement.
"Silence! Are you allowed to talk about His Majesty's personal affairs?" Luo Changqing quickly interrupted Luo Yaqing's complaint. He said with a sullen face, "Father doesn't insist on breaking up you and Zhou Wencun, but Zhou Wencun is really not like him. You are as good as you think, you are too naive and simple, you don’t know how good men are at pretending.”
Luo Yaqing's eyes suddenly turned red when she heard that her father was still so suspicious of her favorite person. She held back her tears and said sadly: "Why is my father so prejudiced against Mr. Tuesday? My daughter just wants to find someone who likes her, just like her father and Mr. Zhou." Just like mother, we only have each other, the piano and the music. Doesn’t the father want to fulfill his daughter’s needs?”
Luo Changqing felt even worse when he saw his daughter questioning him like this, but in the end, his love for his daughter outweighed his negative view of the Shunyi Palace, so he compromised:
"Forget it, since you like that kid so much, then I'll check him out again. If he doesn't have any big problems with his character, I'll help you. But let's make it clear first, if I find out that he has big problems, then I will definitely I won’t agree to your marriage!”
After hearing what he said, Luo Yaqing burst into tears and laughed: "No! No! The second young master has great virtues and conducts himself in a well-behaved manner. How can there be a problem? Thank you father for making it possible..."
She was already sure that Zhou Wencun was fine.
Luo Changqing lamented that his children were all debts, and sent someone to investigate Zhou Wencun.
I don’t know if Zhou Wencun is very lucky, or because this is the critical moment for discussing marriage with Luo Yaqing, he deliberately restrained his words and deeds and did not go to the alley to find his classmate’s widow, so he actually let him Escaped Luo Changqing's investigation.
So the investigation results obtained by Luo Changqing showed that although Zhou Wencun had some minor flaws, such as being impulsive and having a bad temper, he had no major problems with his character and morals. His talent was pretty good, and his appearance was even more extraordinary. If we leave him alone In the midst of all the chaos and fights at home, he could barely be considered a "young talent."
Unfortunately, it was his father's terrible back house that held him back and made Luo Changqing hesitate again and again.
After all, if Luo Yaqing marries the Prince of Shunyi, she will spend most of her life in the backyard. If there are endless fights in the backyard and there is no peace, then she will not be able to stay out of it and will be involved involuntarily.
Don't say that it was a fight in King Shunyi's back house, it had nothing to do with Zhou Wencun's wife. The conspiracies and calculations of the women in the back house were all about using everything available. No matter whether Luo Yaqing was Zhou Wencun's wife or the daughter of Prime Minister Luo This identity has a lot to take advantage of. Can those women let her go? It's impossible even if you think about it.
Luo Yaqing was different from those girls who grew up in the fight between wives and concubines in the back house. She had never experienced the chaos. Her father's backyard couldn't be more pristine. When she was a child, there was only one woman, her mother, and later there was no woman at all. Later, she married her stepmother, who always avoided her and would not interact with her unless necessary.
How can such a simple woman guard against complex women who are raised like poison in house fights? It would be strange if she didn’t suffer!
Although Luo Changqing's backyard is clean, he knows how cruel the fights in the back house are. Life and death are commonplace.
What's more, it's not just a fight for the eldest son, there may also be a fight for the status of the prince. Zhou Wencun has an eldest brother from his own mother who has been named the prince, but he is really willing to give up the title of prince to his eldest brother and become a prince in the future. A commoner from the side branch? This is not necessarily true, he is an ambitious person.
