Chapter 222: dilemma

Chapter 222: dilemma

Chapter 222 Dilemma

Cui'er came in, bowed her knees to Wang Peiyun and said, "Miss, madam, please go to the old lady's yard and tell me something."

Seeing Cui'er's stern expression, Wang Peiyun had a bad intuition in her heart, so she asked, "Sister Cui'er, what happened? Why did mother call me?"

Cui'er is not a talkative person, so she only said: "I don't know, please hurry over. Madam, she is waiting for you."

Wang Peiyun looked at Aunt Guan suspiciously.

Grandma Guan said: "It's not good to keep Madam waiting for a long time. Miss, please come over quickly."

Wang Peiyun nodded and followed Cui'er to the Anfu Hall of his grandmother, Mrs. Shangguan.

Entering Anfu Hall, Wang Peiyun felt that the atmosphere was stagnant. The servants were standing aside with their hands down, and the entire Anfu Hall was eerily quiet.

Grandmother, Mrs. Shangguan, sat at the top, and mother, Mrs. Cui, sat on the edge. They both had sullen expressions and said nothing.

Wang Peiyun timidly went to the old lady Shangguan to pay her respects.

Mrs. Shangguan nodded slightly, pointed to the chair next to her and said, "Sit down, Girl Yun."

Wang Peiyun turned around and blessed her mother, Cui, before sitting down on the brocade stool beside her.

Mrs. Shangguan waited for Wang Peiyun to sit down, and then glanced at the stewardess beside her. The stewardess nodded and took the maid out of the room.

After the servants left, Mrs. Shangguan turned her attention to Mrs. Cui and said, "Tell Yun Yatou about it."

Wang Peiyun's heart was even higher. He looked at his grandmother and then his mother in fear.

Mrs. Cui bowed to Mrs. Shangguan and said respectfully, "Yes."

Wang Peiyun couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, what's the matter?"

Ms. Cui looked at Wang Peiyun and said forbearingly: "Yun'er, we can't end the marriage to the British prince."

Cui's words hit Wang Peiyun like a bolt from the blue, leaving her unable to recover for a long time.

Ms. Cui looked at her stunned daughter, heart-wrenching pain spreading throughout her body.

Her daughter, who is as smart as a flower and as jade as ice and snow, has been treated like a treasure by her since she was a child and has been doted on in every possible way. However, she is despised like a waste. As a mother, how can she not hate her?

Ms. Cui was afraid that her emotions would affect her daughter, so she tried hard to suppress the resentment in her heart.

He advised softly: "Yun'er, there are many good men in the world.

We have withdrawn from the engagement with the British Crown Prince, and my mother-in-law and my grandmother are planning to marry Yun'er again. We must find a good man for Yun'er who is dignified and personable. "

Wang Peiyun came back to his senses, slid from the chair to kneel on the ground, and asked in a babbling tone: "It's so good, why did my mother-in-law cancel the engagement for my daughter? Didn't I already make up my mind?"

 There is no better way to know a daughter than a mother. How could Ms. Cui not know what her daughter was thinking?

Ms. Cui was struggling, how should she explain to her daughter? Tell the truth truthfully? Telling the truth, she was worried that her proud daughter would not be able to bear it.

 She did not tell the truth, and she was worried that her daughter would not accept the reality.

Ms. Cui, who was usually eloquent, felt that she had become clumsy and did not know how to speak.

Ms. Cui hated Mrs. Ye and Lu Ziqin in her heart.

“Auntie, tell me, why do you want to break off the engagement?

Daughter, please don’t break off the engagement. My daughter loves Lu Liu, so why don’t we break off the engagement? My daughter begs you!

Grandma, won’t you cancel the engagement? My granddaughter doesn't want to break off the engagement. Grandma, please, granddaughter, you love your granddaughter the most. Can you please help her? Let’s not break off the engagement, okay? "

Wang Peiyun saw that Ms. Cui didn't reply, so she asked more questions.

Thinking that the real master in this family was the grandmother sitting at the top, so she began to plead with Mrs. Shangguan for mercy.

Mrs. Shangguan looked at her granddaughter who was pleading with her, and her heart was as painful as Mrs. Cui's.

Mrs. Shangguan, who has been raped all her life, has lived happily for decades. When has she ever experienced something as bad as today?

· Mrs. Shangguan saw her granddaughter crying and felt as if she had been stabbed in the heart with a knife. She raised her hand to wave to her granddaughter and choked with sobs: "Girl Yun, come to grandma."

Wang Peiyun knelt and moved her legs to walk to Mrs. Shangguan. She held Mrs. Shangguan's legs with both hands. She looked at Mrs. Shangguan with tears in her eyes and continued to plead: "Grandma, can you help my granddaughter?"

Mrs. Shangguan sighed and said, "Silly girl, it's not that grandma doesn't want to help you, it's that Lu Liu doesn't want to marry you. How can you ask grandma to help you?"

Wang Peiyun looked at Mrs. Shangguan in shock. After a while, he asked: "Why? He doesn't want to marry me, why did he come to propose marriage? Why do he have to make a decision?"

Mrs. Cui sighed and took over the conversation, "This morning, Mrs. Ye invited me to drink tea at the Qing guest house. She told me that the decision to discuss the marriage was the British prince's wish, not Lu Liu's wish."

Wang Peiyun turned to look at Cui and asked: "Isn't the British Duke the head of the British Duke's family? He can't make the decision on Lu Liu's marriage? A head of the family can't make the decision on the marriage of his descendants, and it's not a joke. !”

Mrs. Shangguan pulled down the corners of her lips and said, "Are there too many jokes about the British government?"

Wang Peiyun had no intention of talking about anything else. He only wanted to marry Lu Ziqin and asked, "What will happen to them if I insist on not breaking off the engagement?"

Mrs. Cui replied: "I have also asked Mr. Ye about this.

Ye said that she was only responsible for conveying Lu Liu’s wishes to me, and she didn’t know anything else.

Ye Shi also said that Lu Liu was stubborn and no one could force him to do something he didn't want to do, not even the British Duke. "

Wang Peiyun leaned on Mrs. Shangguan's legs and didn't reply for a long time.

Mrs. Shangguan looked down at her silent granddaughter and said cautiously: "Girl Yun, not only did Mrs. Ye go out looking for your mother-in-law today, but Lu Liu also went to the Yamen to look for your grandfather."

Wang Peiyun looked up at Mrs. Shangguan and asked, "To break off the engagement?"

Mrs. Shangguan nodded, "Yes, your grandfather is very angry."

Wang Peiyun originally wanted to wait until his grandfather left the government office, then go and beg his grandfather to help him.

After listening to her grandmother's words, Wang Peiyun's last illusion was shattered. She felt aggrieved and desperate. She lay on Mrs. Shangguan's lap and cried painfully, "Why? Why do you treat me like this? For a mountain girl, he actually Such humiliation to me.”

Mrs. Shangguan was stunned, looked at Ms. Cui with sharp eyes, and asked, "What's going on? What kind of mountain village girl?"

Ms. Cui sighed and told Mrs. Shangguan what she had heard before.

After hearing this, Mrs. Shangguan was so angry that she slammed the table and said, "What nonsense! Lu Liu is young and ignorant. Ye Shan and Qin Yu are also fooling around. They think I am easy to bully!"

Seeing that Mrs. Shangguan was angry, Mrs. Cui sighed: "Alas! That girl is not an ordinary village girl, she is the princess of the imperial family."

"The person Lu Liu is interested in is the beautiful girl from the Hua family who suddenly appeared?" Mrs. Shangguan asked with a straight face.

Ms. Cui nodded and said, "I heard from my siblings that she is that girl."

Mrs. Shangguan frowned slightly and said, "I understand. You go back first. I will discuss it with your grandfather before making a decision."

Wang Peiyun looked at Mrs. Shangguan in confusion, "Grandma, do you really want to break off the engagement?"

 Mrs. Shangguan squeezed Wang Peiyun's hand and advised her with sincerity: "Girl Yun, your sincerity must be paid to those who cherish you, and you will be rewarded."

 “But…” Wang Peiyun said.

Before Wang Peiyun could finish speaking, Mrs. Shangguan interrupted her words, "You are still young and you don't understand some things. Grandma doesn't blame you.

 But you need to remember that you are the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, and your words and deeds are related to the face of the Prime Minister.

You go back first and wait peacefully. Grandma and your grandfather will definitely stand up for you and let the British Duke explain this matter. "

Wang Peiyun wanted to say that she didn’t need to explain, she just wanted to marry Lu Ziqin.

Ms. Cui came over to help Wang Peiyun, took the opportunity to squeeze her arm, and reminded:

"Yun'er was stunned by what happened today? Hurry up and thank your grandmother!"

Wang Peiyun looked at Mrs. Cui and saw her mother winking at her, bowing and thanking her, "Granddaughter, thank you grandma."

Mrs. Shangguan's eyes softened a lot, and she said warmly: "Go back. Remember grandma's words, be good, grandma will make the decision for you."

Wang Peiyun said goodbye and exited Anfu Hall with her mother.

 Coming out of Anfutang, Ms. Cui took her daughter to Yayuan.

 Back to Yayuan, Mrs. Cui sent her servants back.

After the servants left, Wang Peiyun leaned against Cui and cried, "Auntie, my daughter just wants to marry Lu Liu."

Mrs. Cui hugged her daughter and said softly: "Lu Liu doesn't want to marry you, how can you marry him? Yun'er, there are many good men in the world, Lu Liu is not the only one, do you understand?"

 “I just want to marry him…”

Mrs. Cui helped Wang Peiyun upright and said with a serious face: "You girl, why don't you listen to my advice?

I know you want to marry him, but now it’s not me who doesn’t want you to marry, nor your grandfather or grandmother who doesn’t want you to marry. It’s Lu Liu who doesn’t want to marry. Do you understand? Is it okay to forcefully massage the head of a cow without drinking water? "

Wang Peiyun said sadly: "It was the British Duke who came to discuss the marriage, and it was the British Duke who was unreasonable. Even if the matter was brought to the emperor, it would be the British Duke's fault."

Cui said angrily, "So what? The problem is that Lu Liu doesn't have you in his heart."

After Cui finished speaking, she was worried that her too straightforward words would hurt her daughter, so she calmed down and said softly: "It is true that they are unreasonable.

Aniang was also very angry. Today she pointed at Ye Shan’s nose and cursed her until she was speechless.

She said that this was a marriage decided by the British government and privately for Lu Liu, and that Lu Liu did not know about it.

On the fourth day of May, there was a long queue of betrothal gifts from the British government. Everyone in the capital knew about it, but Lu Liu was the only one who didn’t know?

Even if Lu Liu didn’t know, what about Ye Shan? She doesn't know either? She is Lu Liu's aunt, why didn't she stand up and stop it? What a bully. "

Wang Peiyun thought for a moment and said, "Auntie, my daughter just can't swallow this breath. They are too bullying."

Ms. Cui patted her daughter on the shoulder and said, "My mother knows it. Don't worry, this matter concerns the face of the prime minister's government. Your grandfather, your father, they will not just sit idly by and ignore it. The British government must have an explanation." , a statement that satisfies everyone in the prime minister’s office.”

Wang Peiyun nestled in Cui's arms and said, "Auntie, you have to make the decision for Yun'er."

Ms. Cui smoothed Wang Peiyun's hair and said, "You are my daughter. Naturally, I won't watch you being bullied. Don't worry, Yun'er, I will take back the humiliation you suffered today."

Wang Peiyun nodded, "Thank you, Mom! My daughter is going back first."

Cui helped Wang Peiyun straighten his clothes and warned, "Yun'er, don't be impulsive when things happen.

 You need to remember that your family will not let you be bullied for nothing.

The days are long and there are many ways to take revenge. We can pay you back a hundred times a thousand times for the humiliation you suffered today. The premise is that you have to protect yourself. Understand? "

Wang Peiyun bowed and said, "My daughter will remember her mother's teachings."

Seeing that her daughter's mood had calmed down, Ms. Cui felt relieved and said, "Go, go back and have a good rest and wait for news."

Wang Peiyun said goodbye.

Watching her daughter leave, Ms. Cui said to Manager Liu beside her: "Let people keep an eye on Xiao Xiangyuan. If Yun'er does anything, report it immediately."

Mama Liu bent her knees and turned around to do the instructions.

The British Duke came out of the Jingbo Tea House, got into the car and said, "Go to Prince Xian's Mansion."

After Du Bin handed over to the coachman, he leaned over and asked, "My lord, if you have anything to give me, please go and report to the prince first."

The British Duke thought for a moment and said, "Nothing else. I will discuss this with the prince first."

Du Bin bowed and said, "Yes, I'll go and give you the instructions."

Du Bin lifted the curtain and explained something to the boy following the car. The boy bowed and hurried towards Prince Xian's Mansion.

The British Duke’s car arrived at Prince Xian’s Mansion. The side door of the Prince’s Mansion had been opened. The British Prince’s car went straight into Prince Xian’s Mansion and stopped at the screen wall. Chengyun was waiting here.

Du Bin helped the British Duke get out of the car. Chengyun bowed and said, "Your Majesty is waiting for the Duke in the study. Please come with me."

 After saying that, Chengyun led the way, and the British Duke followed Chengyun to the study.

The wise king stood on the corridor at the door of the study. When he saw the British Duke coming, he went to greet him and said, "Grandpa, please come to the house. What happened? I asked you to come here in a hurry."

 The British Duke sighed, raised his hands and bowed to the wise king.

 “There’s no rush, let’s go to the house first and have a rest.” The wise king saw the British Duke sighing, and while expressing relief, he politely invited the British Duke to enter the study.

 The two of them entered the room and sat down in a respectful manner.

　　　I promised to serve tea and then left.

The wise king signaled: "Grandpa, drink tea slowly."

Grandfather picked up the tea cup on the table, lowered his head to take a sip of tea, looked up at the wise king and said, "Zi Qin went to find the king's prime minister in the morning."

The wise king's expression froze, he clenched the armrests with both hands, straightened up and asked: "Zi Qin went to find the king's chancellor? What did he do to find the king's chancellor? To cancel the engagement?"

The British Duke sighed heavily and nodded: "I never thought that he would go to the king to cancel the engagement regardless of it."

After receiving the British Duke's reply, the wise king softened and leaned back. After a long silence, he said quietly: "This is what he can do. In the first place, this marriage should not have been made regardless of his wishes. "

The British Duke sighed, "I didn't expect him to be so decisive. His surname is Lu. You are his cousin and you usually treat him well. How could he be like this?"

The British Duke felt like a dream, no, he never dreamed that Lu Ziqin would put him in a dilemma.

The wise king leaned his head on the back of the chair and said quietly: "I have reminded you a long time ago that Ziqin looks as gentle as jade and is gentle and honest. He seems to be easy to talk to, but in fact he is very principled.

In those years, he accompanied me as an attendant and read the homework assigned by Grand Scholar Yang. I wanted to do it perfunctorily, or let others answer on my behalf. The second brother and the third brother have all done this. "

 (End of this chapter)