After the replacement marriage, I was forced to fight at home

"No, King Jing should be in his thirties this year, and the man looks to be only about twenty-five or twenty-six."

"That must be a member of the royal family. It seems like they did it on purpose."

"What do you mean?"

Su Qing looked at Meng Qi, "I intentionally let that person see you chasing after Hong Zhe, so that he will know that you are obsessed with Hong Zhe and will not have a good impression of you."

"Ah? Why is that?"

"I don't know either, but it's not a good thing."

"Second sister, this Hongzhe is so abominable. Why does he scheme against me again and again?"

"Sister Qi, do you know why he plotted against you?" Meng Qi shook her head.

"First, because you are valuable, second, because you are too easy to deceive, and third, because you can eat a hundred beans without feeling disgusted."

"What do you mean by eating a hundred beans without feeling disgusted?"

"To put it another way, it's like you fell down in one place, and the next time you walked you still didn't look at the road, and ended up falling down again. A few days later you walked to that place and fell down again. Do you understand?"

Meng Qi blinked her big eyes and clapped her hands after a long while, "It means I don't learn from my mistakes."

Su Qing rolled his eyes. "He plotted against you, so you must have been worthy of being plotted against. We just don't know what his purpose is. But one thing is certain, he led you to see him today, and he must have wanted that person to pay attention to you."

"Pay attention to me? Second sister, I'm really confused, what is going on?"

"I don't know. I don't know either. Just remember to stay away from that Hong."

"He schemed against me like this, and today he said something like that to continue deceiving me. I will not let him go."

Su Qing looked at Meng Qi's angry expression. On one hand, she was happy that she understood her analysis and turned back in time. On the other hand, she felt a headache when she saw that she was going to investigate further.

"How are you going to stop him? Block him again, let others talk about it again? Do you really not want to get married again? You only have one second sister who can help you this time."

When Meng Qi heard Su Qing talking about this, she remembered that if it weren't for Su Qing, she wouldn't know what would have happened to her last trouble. She said embarrassedly, "So let's just leave it at that?"

"Whether it counts or not is not for now, but you have to hold your ground. Don't show others that you know Hong Zhe's true face. Don't let people think that you still have feelings for him."

"What do you mean?"

"Pack."

"Pack?"

"Yes, play dumb and wait and see how things develop. Wait for Meng Juan to get married successfully and your mother to find a husband for you. Then this matter will end here. You should forget everything about the Hong family, including Meng Juan. You don't need to have any more contact with her in the future. Don't mess around in any occasion and do something like today again. Do you understand?"

Meng Qi thought about it and nodded, "You want me to pretend that what happened today never happened, that I never met Hong Zhe, and that I never heard those false words he said to me?"

"Yes, that's it."

"I see. If Second Sister hadn't told me, I would have thought of provoking Meng Juan when I went to pay my respects to Grandmother tomorrow."

"How exciting?"

"Tell her secretly that Hongzhe said he likes me." Meng Qi said embarrassedly.

Oh my god, luckily I came tonight. Su Qing just wanted to leave and stay away from this idiot.

That’s right, idiot. If Zhou Yu calls Meng Qi an idiot again in the future, she will definitely not refute it.

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After that conversation, Meng Qi became obedient. He attended classes on time every day and rarely complained to Wang about the nanny's various requests. Although he still didn't do very well, he had made great progress compared to before.

What made Wang even happier was that Meng Qi became closer and closer to Su Qing. After class, she would go to Su Qing's room to help her divide the threads to embroider her wedding dress.

That's right, Su Qing started preparing for her wedding. Everything else was easy, she just had to spend money to buy them, but she had to embroider the wedding dress herself.

In fact, she didn't do it all by herself. With Su Qing's needlework skills, it would be good if she didn't sew the two sleeves together, so she just symbolically sewed two stitches at each finishing point.

But Su Qing wanted to make something for Zhou Yu, but she was afraid that she couldn't make big things, so she just learned to make small things. In the past few days, Dongmei taught her how to make lace.

Just as the third New Year after Su Qing's time travel was about to begin, a major event occurred in the Huainan Marquis' Mansion. The Emperor ordered that Meng Qi, the youngest daughter of the Huainan Marquis's son, be betrothed to the current Sixth Prince, Prince Rui, as his principal wife, and required the marriage to take place within two months.

The wedding would take place within two months, that is, after the first month of the lunar year. Meng Qi wanted to marry before her three older sisters. This news was not only widely known in the Huainan Marquis's residence, but also in the entire capital.

The current Prince Rui is the least noticeable of the Emperor's adult princes. His biological mother is Concubine Lian, who was originally a female official serving the Imperial Noble Consort. She was about to be released when she was about to be favored by the drunk Emperor, who was still a prince at the time, and she became pregnant after just one visit.

When the emperor got the throne and conferred titles on his concubines, he promoted Concubine Lian, who had given birth to the sixth prince, to the position of concubine. At first, the emperor visited her several times because he remembered that she had given birth to a son, but Concubine Lian was indifferent every time. After a long time, the emperor stopped visiting her.

Lianpin was selected to enter the palace, and her father was just a county magistrate in Jiangnan. Although she was very beautiful, she was not selected into the harem of the previous emperor because she had no background.

Finally, she was assigned to the palaces of various princes along with the others who were not selected to join the harem. She started in the clothing department of Prince Jing'an's palace and eventually became a female official of high rank in the courtyard of Concubine Xiang, who was still a concubine at the time.

Unexpectedly, the emperor's drunkenness ended her dream of reuniting with her family. According to the rules of the Great Xia Dynasty, concubines and above in the harem were eligible to bring their own children with them to raise, but Concubine Lian excused herself from being in poor health and directly threw the Sixth Prince in the wet nurse's house to be taken care of by the maids. As a result, the Sixth Prince had never been close to his biological mother.

When he got married at the age of 18, he was named the Prince of Rui by the Emperor and was given a house in the east of the city that was neither too big nor too small. Compared with the other princes, it was like sending beggars away. But the Sixth Prince never complained, or even if he did, no one would listen.

Moreover, both of the prince's wives died during childbirth, and both left behind sons. So with all these reasons added together, the marriage of the prince of Rui became a difficult problem.

Now, at the age of 25, although he is a prince, there is no wealthy family in the entire capital city who is willing to marry their daughter to such a woman who has no favor from the emperor, no mother's love, is unlucky in marriage, and has to be the stepmother of two legitimate sons, even though Prince Rui's appearance ranks among the best in the capital.

And as the emperor's own son, it is impossible for him to marry one of lower status or a concubine's daughter, so he has been hanging there like this ever since.

But what no one expected was that the emperor personally arranged such a marriage.

Not to mention that the two were nearly ten years apart in age, just the scandal that Meng Qi had a while ago was something that even the rickshaw drivers in Beijing could say a few words about. This clearly embarrassed Prince Rui, but the reason behind it was something that ordinary people could not guess.

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Chunguo Duke's Mansion

"Whose idea was it? Prince Rui has always been a loner and has never been involved in any disputes. Why are they dragging him into this?" Duke Zhongguo said while slamming his hands on the table.

"My son can't guess it either. Just like the last time we found out that Gao Yang went to the northwest purely because he fell in love with the daughter of the Tongzhi, and he snatched her away halfway and tortured her to death. From the results of inquiries from all sides, it seems that it was not arranged in advance by Meng Hai, it was just a coincidence." said the son of Duke Zhongguo.

Gao Yang is the nephew of the current queen.

"I know about this matter. It was because of this matter that Meng Hai caught the eye of Prince Cheng. After he returned to the capital, the Huainan Marquis's Mansion sent a young girl from the family to Prince Cheng's Mansion."

"Yes, although Prince Cheng likes that, he won't accept anything anyone gives him. The fact that he accepts it proves that he values ​​it."

Duke Zhongguo nodded, "In your opinion, who did this?"

"I really can't figure it out, no matter who did it, giving a Miss Meng Si, who has such a reputation, to Prince Rui, isn't this a slap in the face of Prince Rui? Sometimes I really doubt whether Prince Rui is the emperor's biological son. How could he allow his subordinates to humiliate him like this?"

"I think there are two reasons for this situation. One is that someone is trying to pressure Prince Rui. Although Prince Rui is an unpopular prince, he is still the emperor's son. No matter who reaches that position, he can't leave all his brothers..." Duke Zhongguo made a cutting gesture with his hand.

"So, they need someone to stand up and recognize him at the critical moment, and the best person is undoubtedly Prince Rui. Another reason is that Prince Rui must have done something that touched the interests of other princes, and they want to retaliate, so they chose the fourth lady of Huainan Marquis Mansion for Prince Rui."

"Father, in my opinion, it was done by King Jing and King Cheng."

"Behind Prince Jing is Consort Xian, and his uncle's family is related to Prince Li. Behind Prince Cheng is the Queen, and the Gao family has recruited many retainers over the years. Of course, there is also Prince Duan. Concubine Xiang will never watch the throne fall into the hands of another prince. So, it's hard to say who came up with this idea to the emperor."

"What about the prince?"

"Impossible, there is no need for the prince to do this. Forget it, this matter has little to do with us. I still say that, let them deal with the affairs of Huainan Marquis Mansion. We should stay as far away as possible and not let them splash water on us. Meng Changfeng is so stupid, he didn't investigate Meng Hai's situation and let him lead Huainan Marquis Mansion step by step into the ditch."