Chapter 49
Zhou Xian Yang’s handsome face quickly adjusted without moving, and smiled, “I forgot to change my name for a moment, don’t blame me.”
After all, he didn’t call out the phrase third sister.
Rong Xiangzhi leaned against Wen Zhongqing, listening to his soft words of comfort.
Rong Xiangshi suddenly felt that it was meaningless, and so did she herself.
At this time, the Duke and Duchess of England arrived at the door, breaking the stalemate: “Why are you all standing?”
Rong Xiangzhi walked over to her mother and said in a low voice, “When Xiangshi became the princess, she used her words to pressure me. Big brother is also helping.”
Liu rubbed her daughter’s face and laughed, “Consort Yuh is the most promising child in our family, and we are the only ones who listen to what she says, understand?”
Rong Xiangxian said, “Mother is the best at jokes, any success that my daughter has, it is all because of my mother and father’s favor, how would I dare to forget my roots?”
“Well, good boy, I know you are not that kind of crazy person.” The British Lord went over to stop this tense scene, greeted the family to sit down to eat.
Rong Xiangmei only toasted a few elders and didn’t eat a single bite of the food, listening to them mingle and mingle, with no interest in doing so.
Zhou Xian Yang was paying attention to the side, fearing that she was hungover and didn’t have an appetite, and gave her a piece of fried dried river fish: “You didn’t eat for breakfast, now at least eat a little bit, this is what you like to eat.”
“That’s right, fourth sister, these dishes are specially made for you by the kitchen.” Sister-in-law watched the dark currents in the mansion with cold eyes, and could only comfort her in this way.
Rong Xiangxian immediately toasted Gu Frost, “Thank you for your care and concern, it’s thanks to your sister-in-law’s blessing that I can still eat the authentic spoiled duck’s palm from Manhenglou in the Yuhang Mansion.”
Gu Frost raised her cup and drank it all: “Sister is polite, it’s Yuhang who has the heart to ask your brother about what you like to eat and what you avoid. With a husband like this, my sister is truly blessed.”
Rong Xiangzhi sniffed, her eyes darted around the faces of King Yu and his wife, and kicked Wen Zhongqing.
Wen Zhongqing immediately understood, “Xian Yang, I thought you were a rough man, but it turns out that there is a fine in the rough. I need to learn from you too. I trouble sister-in-law to also teach me what my lady loves to eat and what to avoid.”
“Good, I’ll also make a list for third sister-in-law.”
Rong Xiangzhi was then a little happier and toasted his sister-in-law as well.
Rong Xiangwang laughed again, “Fourth sister-in-law, we only know that you have unique insights in the military, but we didn’t realize that you’re also so mindful in the boudoir. It seems that my long tasseled spear won’t come in handy.”
“What? You’re still planning to bring your tasseled spear and fight your way up to the Yuhang Mansion?”
“That’s natural! Third brother-in-law is a man of letters, if he treats third sister badly, there is big brother to fix him. If fourth brother-in-law lets fourth sister be aggrieved, naturally I’ll be the one to take the lead!”
Rong Xiangmian was finally amused by Xiangwang’s words.
“Xiangwang!” The second aunt was afraid that he would offend King Yu and hurriedly stopped him. Zhou Xian Yang, however, laughed, “Good, if one day you fight your way up to the Yuhang residence with your long tasseled spear, I will never fight back and let you take my life.”
“Don’t talk nonsense!” Rong Xiangmian got anxious and slapped his arm, Zhou Xian Yang picked up her chopsticks and chucked another pearl ball, directly handing it to her mouth, “I won’t talk nonsense if you eat the food.”
“Huh…… “Rong Xiangwen’s small face wrinkled into a ball on the side, “You guys who got married really have a lot of tricks up your sleeves.”
Xiangwang said, “Sister you don’t understand, this is called a boudoir love affair, fourth brother-in-law will coax people.”
The Duke of England’s house is originally from a military general, and does not pay much attention to rules, Yul Wang’s arbitrary behavior, they do not have those Jinling families to mind.
Relying on the two living treasures, Xiangwang and Xiangwen, this meal is finally finished happily.
After the meal, the Duke of England called Xiangmian to go to the study to talk.
First, he asked her how she was getting along with Yu Wang, then instructed her some words to get by, and added: “If you are wronged, don’t just endure it yourself. Father is alive for a day, will give you support for a day, by what he is the royal family, we are not subject to idle anger.”
Rong Xiang see heaps up a smile, grateful: “Father is the best.”
Duke of England’s words turned: “Yesterday I sent people to pay respects to your mother’s grave, and I saw that there were traces of new sacrifices there. Did you go there? Didn’t I tell you not to go there in the future? How would it be if King Yuhang found out?”
Rong Xiangmian’s smile instantly froze on his face, “Father don’t worry, His Highness and his daughter went together.”
“What? Nonsense!” The Duke of England was surprised and then angry, “If this were to be known by others, our family would still not know what the offense is.”
“Other families won’t know. We went in disguise.”
“That won’t work either, no more going in the future, and you’re not allowed to go either!”
Rong Xiangmei didn’t answer.
“Do you hear me?” It was rare for the British Duke to be so loud to her.
Rong Xiangmian was also annoyed: “Even His Highness has the intention to accompany me, but father won’t allow me to go?”
“You are usually the most sensible person, why are you being stubborn today? Think about the lives of so many people in the Rong family.”
Rong Xiangmian said, “It’s fine if you don’t allow me to pay my respects, I still hope that father will ask the patriarch to make the decision to move my mother into the ancestral tomb, and the tablet into the clan temple, so that she can receive the incense from the descendants of the Rong Clan, and naturally, I won’t need to pay my respects every year.”
“What your grandfather expressly forbade, could it be that you want to disobey him after becoming a crown princess?”
Rong Xiangmian laughed, “Father is so filial! You are so filial, when grandfather didn’t like my mother, didn’t you still bring her into the house? When grandfather was alive, he couldn’t stop the living from entering the mansion, but now that he’s gone, he can stop the dead from entering the ancestral tomb, isn’t that strange?”
“Shut up!” The Duke of England was furious, slapping the tea tray and bowl on the table.
Rong Xiangmian made up his mind, “Father, you’re not going to send a servant to burn some paper for my mother every year and be done with it! Big brother and second sister’s mother, a murderer, have entered the ancestral tomb and ancestral temple!”
The matter of Aunt Liu instructing her subordinates to commit arson to murder her mother was something she only noticed after she was reborn. However, her father did not believe the words of a four-year-old child, or her elder brother, Rong Xiang Gu, overheard the words of Aunt Liu and her close friends, and personally stabbed her father.
At that time, Rong Xiang Gu was less than ten years old, simple-minded, only thinking that Aunt Chu died in vain should have a statement, and her mother should be punished for harming others, but unexpectedly, under the wrath of the Duke of England, a medicine directly results in Aunt Liu’s life.
Rong Xiang Gu collapsed. On one side, he repented bitterly and felt deeply sorry for his fourth sister. Mother would do this unjust thing, in the final analysis, because Aunt Chu was deeply favored and pregnant, in order for him to be able to inherit the title, mother would take advantage of the Duke of England is out of official business, poisoned.
On the other hand, he also hated himself, acting recklessly, as a son, but killed his mother, the crime deserves death! In the midst of a hundred pains, Rong Xiang Gu touched the side of the dry well in front of the ancestral hall alone.
This time, the moment he jumped down, he actually heard his fourth sister’s hoarse cries, “Big brother, don’t!”
On that day, Rong Xiangxian heard of Aunt Liu’s violent death and knew that this was her father disposing of the murderer. As she watched her second sister, Rong Xiangyu, embrace Aunt Liu’s corpse and cry bitterly, she suddenly realized that her eldest brother had disappeared.
In her last life, she hurriedly cried and cried for her eldest brother because he had fallen into a well and injured his head.
Her demented big brother was uncertain about everything, but when there was something tasty and fun to eat, he was always the first to give it to her. It turned out that even if he was stupid, he was still atoning to her.
When the eldest son disappeared, the people in the house panicked and searched everywhere, while Rong Xiang Gu let Wei Mama hold her and led the people in their courtyard straight to the ancestral hall.
The moment Rong Xiang Gu jumped down, the household servants desperately rushed to that dry well, and in the midst of the fourth young miss’s cries, they only saw the Grand Duke struggling to pick at the stones on the inner wall of the dry well with his ten fingers, hanging under the mouth of the well, his face full of tears.
The servants were scared out of their wits and hurriedly pulled the man up.
The Duke of England, who had heard of the incident, dismissed all the subordinates and watched from afar as the two siblings hugged and cried by the well.
The rest of the people just thought that they were two motherless children, and they felt sorry for each other.
In order for her mother not to be involved in a scandal in the backyard and be gloated over, for the sake of the reputation of the Duke of State’s House and the Marquis of Yongding’s House, and for the sake of her eldest brother’s future, Rong Xiangmian did not publicize this matter.
But although Aunt Liu was secretly executed by her father, she still entered the clan temple because she was from a large family and gave birth to the eldest son of the Duke of England. And mother as a victim, not treated by grandfather, instead of hanging out alone, she is really upset!
Once upon a time, she could just worship her mother every year. Nowadays, she had to try.
When Liu heard the news and entered the study, she was just in time to catch the father-daughter duo in a sword fight.
“Fourth girl is so powerful!”
Rong Xiangmian didn’t want to argue with her and only said, “Mother, my daughter only wishes to burn something for my mother every year, after all, she gave birth to me and died trying to save me, if I only try to have a good life for myself, wouldn’t it be a waste of a human being?”
“Good ancient and modern first great filial daughter.” Liu sneered, “For the sake of your filial piety you want to force your father to be unfilial, is that right?”
“Daughter doesn’t dare,” Rong Xiangmian bowed her head, “Father can’t go against grandfather’s words, then daughter has to do what she should do.”
Liu laughs, “It’s just that you’re so disregarding of the family’s future, of your father’s and your brother’s and brother’s future. Do you even disregard King Yu’s future? If His Majesty learns that you have privately worshipped that horse taming woman, you’ll see if he has any good fruit to eat!”
With these words, Rong Xiangmian hesitated. She originally wanted to use this opportunity to persuade her father.
This hesitation was to reveal the cracks.
The British Lord knew that she was also afraid, so he was relieved, softened his voice and persuaded, “Yul Wang accompanied you to pay homage to your mother, it can be seen that you are very good, it was not easy for him to return to the capital to earn such a situation, can you bear to ruin his future?”
Rong Xiangmian fell silent, she couldn’t, she couldn’t.
She held back her tears and sighed, only to feel her heart ache like oil frying.
“Father-in-law and mother-in-law are overly concerned.”
Zhou Xian Yang had already barged into the study as he spoke, and stood next to Rong Xiangmian, “This king’s birth mother was abolished, dooming this king to have no future to speak of. Now that it was a momentary fluke, being a county king will be the end of the line, why would you scare my princess with this?”
Rong Xiangmian looked at him in dismay, not knowing what to say, Xian Yang wiped the tears that would overflow from her eyes and said softly, “Don’t be afraid.”
“On the first day of returning to the peace, Your Highness is going to be in charge of my Rong family’s business?” The Duke of England’s face was full of displeasure.
Zhou Xian Yang laughed like nothing, “I don’t dare, this is not to discuss with father-in-law? Father-in-law does not agree even if. Just ……”
He looked at Rong Xiangyang and solemnly said, “With me for a day, I will accompany you to Xishan year after year.”