The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 469: too close
Chapter 469: Too Close
He closed his eyes, feeling ashamed of the other party’s kneeling posture just now.
Soon, the six assassins from the Prince’s Mansion sneaked out of the Prince’s Mansion quietly and divided into two groups, one group went to Dong’s Mansion, and the other group went to Liu Ruofu’s grandfather’s house.
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When Prince Liang came to visit, no matter how unhappy Dong Qingping was, he still had Prince Liang invited into the house.
After King Liang entered the room, he asked Dong Qingping to send his attendants away and actually knelt down in front of Dong Qingping. Dong Qingping was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed as well, not daring to raise his head.
“Lord Dong, I truly love Tingzhen!” King Liang choked up as he opened his mouth and almost cried out loud. He repeated to Dong Qingping what he had said to Dong Tingzhen before, making it sound extremely pitiful, as if he could not live without Dong Tingzhen.
Dong Qingping roughly guessed that… the emperor might not allow Prince Liang to marry Dong Tingzhen because of his second brother Dong Qingyue, so Prince Liang came to beg.
Dong Qingping pretended to be confused even though he knew the truth. “Your Highness Prince Liang, today His Majesty summoned me to the palace. I have already told Your Majesty that Your Highness Prince Liang should ask a matchmaker to come to your house to propose marriage. Just don’t mention my daughter’s personal accessories! I don’t know… why did Your Highness Prince Liang come to your house and say this?”
Prince Liang pursed his lips, the emperor disagreed with this… Prince Liang couldn’t say it to Dong Qingping.
If the emperor disagrees, and a minister forcibly marries his daughter to the King of Liang, wouldn’t that be against the emperor? Which minister would dare to do this?
“Your Highness, please get up first!” Dong Qingping knelt forward and said after getting up the Prince of Liang’s mansion, “Your Highness, it’s getting late. You should go back to your mansion and rest first. Your Highness’s admiration for me is a blessing that I have cultivated for several lifetimes. How could I not agree to such a fate? Your Highness, please send a matchmaker to your house. I will have my wife come to apologize to Master Chen tomorrow and decline the marriage proposal. Your Highness, don’t worry!”
“Sir Dong, to be honest with you, my father… my father didn’t agree, that’s why I can’t come to you!” King Liang’s eyes turned red as he spoke.
Dong Qingping’s smile froze slightly, and he asked again: “Why is this? Your Majesty came to the palace today to talk to you about this matter, didn’t he? But what misunderstanding is there? How did Your Majesty tell His Royal Highness Prince Liang?”
“My father wants to ask for the granddaughter of Master Chen to be my principal wife, but… I only want Ting Zhen! My principal wife can only be Ting Zhen, Lord Dong! I am willing to swear to Lord Dong that I will only marry Ting Zhen in this life and never take a concubine!” Prince Liang said solemnly.
“Your Highness, I am just a small official in the Ministry of Rites. How could I have the courage to disobey Your Majesty?” Dong Qingping said with an embarrassed look on his face.
Before the Prince of Liang could say anything else, Dong Qingping hurriedly said, “Your Highness, please know… I am absolutely willing to marry my daughter to Your Highness, the Prince of Liang, but the most important thing is that your Majesty agrees. After all, the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words are the right thing to do! Your Highness, why don’t you go and ask His Majesty for help!”
King Liang hesitated to speak and looked at Dong Qingping with red eyes.
Dong Qingping was in a more difficult situation, so he could only speak carefully: “Your Highness will not let me go to beg Your Majesty in person, right? If Master Chen knew about this, how could I face Master Chen in the future!”
Prince Liang frowned. He came today mainly to win over Dong Qingping and let Dong Tingzhen and Dong Qingping know how determined he was to marry Dong Tingzhen. As long as Dong Qingping did not marry Dong Tingzhen to someone else, he still had a chance.
As for the granddaughter of Imperial Master Tan, Imperial Master Tan has many disciples. If he really has to marry the granddaughter of Imperial Master Tan as his wife, Prince Liang also has a way to make Dong Tingzhen voluntarily enter the Prince Liang’s Mansion as a concubine.
Prince Liang was stunned for a moment with a look of dismay, then bowed to Dong Qingping and said, “Don’t worry, Master Dong. For Ting Zhen, I will never give up! Tomorrow morning I will go to the palace to beg you, father! And I will not tell anyone about the personal safety lock that Ting Zhen gave me! I think my father will ask Eunuch Gao to return the Ting Zhen safety lock to Master Dong later!”
Dong Qingping breathed a sigh of relief, thanked King Liang and sent him to the door.
Watching Prince Liang get on the carriage, Dong Qingping turned around and went back home with a fallen face. He had to settle Dong Tingzhen’s marriage as soon as possible.
Song knew that Prince Liang was coming to the mansion, so she arrived early and hid behind the main hall. As soon as Prince Liang left, Song came out from behind the screen in the main hall and said, “My husband, since the emperor does not agree to this marriage, we must settle Tingzhen’s marriage as soon as possible. Chen Zhaolu from Master Chen’s family is really good!”
“The reason why the Chen family wants to marry Ting Zhen is because they think that our Dong family has good upbringing. In addition, when the Bai family was in trouble this time, Wanjun stayed with the Bai family and managed the Bai family in an orderly manner. She was not crushed by the sudden disaster! Otherwise… would a good son like Zhaolu from the Chen family say anything bad about our Ting Zhen?” Dong Qingping was very clear-headed. “If Prince Liang is unwilling and spreads the fact that he has Ting Zhen’s personal accessories, not only will the Chen family not want Ting Zhen, they will also question the upbringing and character of our Dong family! Moreover… look at Ting Zhen’s appearance. Even if this matter is not spread, she is determined to follow Prince Liang, and the marriage with the Chen family will probably not be successful!”
Song felt depressed and about to cry. She weakly held onto the armrest of the chair and sat down: “How could I…how could I give birth to such an evil creature!”
“Tomorrow, you will go to see Madam Tan in person and tell her that… Tingzhen’s personal ornaments were stolen by her personal maid Haitang, and then somehow ended up in the hands of Prince Liang. After Tingzhen learned about this, she was so angry and afraid that she fell ill. I’m afraid she can’t discuss marriage with the Chen family for the time being!”
Song clutched the handkerchief tightly and nodded: “Don’t worry, husband!”
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The fact that Bai Qingyan dared to let Bai Jinzhi pass on a message to the Prince’s Mansion showed that he was a troublemaker.
She will be returning to Shuoyang with Bai Jinzhi tomorrow. She was just preparing to think of a way to completely eliminate the possibility of Prince Liang marrying Dong Tingzhen, but she didn’t expect to receive news from the Prince’s Mansion and Prince Liang’s Mansion one after another.
Bai Qingyan stood under the bright moonlight in Qinghui Courtyard, lowering his eyes in thought.
It is not difficult to guess the purpose of Prince Liang’s visit to Dong’s Mansion. The Emperor did not grant the marriage as Prince Liang wished, so Prince Liang must have gone to his uncle to cry and beg for his true love, and also to do it for that silly girl Ting Zhen to see.
The people who were sent from the Prince’s Mansion to spread the news that Prince Liang had Dong Tingzhen’s personal accessories had all been dealt with by the people brought by Lupin.
As for the six people that the Crown Prince’s Mansion later sent, three of them went to the maternal grandparents’ home of Nandu County Princess Liu Ruofu, and three went to the direction of Dong’s Mansion to wait…
The wind blew, and the towering trees against the west wall of Qinghui Courtyard rustled. She clenched her palms and raised her eyes, and her mind suddenly became clear.
The emperor was a suspicious person. He could tolerate any evil things his son did. The only thing… he could not tolerate was that his son was too close to an important official who held military power.
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