kvmb Chapter 282 Prince Qing has no choice but to help his son
Chapter 282 Prince Qing has no choice but to help his son
There were only seven days left until the Mid-Autumn Festival. Looking at the couple in front of him, Yan Qiao wanted to persuade them to go back and celebrate the reunion festival first before discussing divorce. However, both of them were adamant about getting divorced immediately and were unwilling to delay any longer. Seeing that they were so determined, Yan Qiao had no choice but to give up.
The news of the divorce of Prince Zong and Princess Zong spread throughout the entire Shangjing City in a short time. However, in the eyes of others, the Prince Zong and his wife had never been in harmony since their marriage. Whenever Prince Zong came back to Beijing, he would live in a temple outside the city instead of returning to the palace. Their divorce was expected and did not cause much sensation.
After the divorce, although Emperor Yanzong did not urge her, Nan Rongliangling could not wait to move out of the Zongwang Mansion and live in the envoy's residence, waiting for her motherland to send someone. Leaving the cold Zongwang Mansion and taking off the empty title of Zongwang Consort, Nan Rongliangling became the princess of Guyun Kingdom again, and she naturally felt relieved.
But now that she is in the limelight, all eyes in Shangjing City are on her, the foreign princess who just divorced the prince, so she cannot meet her own Chen Lang for a while to avoid suspicion. However, the pain of missing him all day long really makes Nanrong Liangling suffer, so she still sends Bunachang to secretly deliver a message to the Qing Palace on her behalf.
Although the Prince Zong's Mansion was idle, Yan Zong was not in a hurry to move back in. Even on the Mid-Autumn Festival, he still traveled between Yiying Temple outside the city and the Imperial Palace.
On the night of the festival, the lights in Yiying Temple were bright but it was very quiet. Under the osmanthus tree in the backyard, Yu Cheng held a mooncake and looked at the secret guards in front of him, all of whom had expressionless faces. He suddenly lost the mood to appreciate the moon.
“Ahem, today is a festive day, His Highness won’t give any instructions. What if you all have sullen faces and scare the fairy Chang’e in the Moon Palace?” Yu Cheng joked after distributing the mooncakes on the table one by one.
"..."
However, the only response he got was silence.
Yu Cheng sighed helplessly, silently took a bite of the mooncake, and looked up at the jade plate hanging in the sky.
The secret guards behind Yu Cheng still imitated him in eating mooncakes with expressionless faces, admiring the moonlight in silence.
"Your Highness, why don't you go out and enjoy the moon with them?" Eli walked into the candlelit room carrying a plate of mooncakes. Seeing Prince Zong painting at the table, she walked up to him with a smile.
"I'll go out after I'm done with my work." Yan Zong replied, but he did not put down the pen in his hand.
"What is this?" Eli moved closer and saw that what Yan Zong had painted was actually the courtyard in Prince Zong's mansion, but most of it had been changed. The maple trees had disappeared, and instead there was a green plum forest with emerald green flowers in bloom.
"I want to renovate the palace." Yan Zong stopped writing and said gently to the wet nurse.
"But I remember that Your Highness used to like to look at the red maple leaves in autumn the most. Why did you change them to green plum leaves?" Eli continued to ask with a puzzled look on her face.
"Well, now I like this green plum." Yan Zong did not explain much, but just stared at the cool and elegant green plum forest in the painting, with a gentle smile inadvertently revealing his eyebrows.
Eli noticed the change on His Highness's face, but she didn't ask any more questions since His Highness said nothing. His mood had improved greatly since his divorce from Princess Zong. Seeing His Highness happy, Eli was naturally relieved.
"Snapped"
Late at night, a crisp slap was heard in the study of Prince Qing's mansion.
It turned out that Prince Yan Chen saw that his father was still in high spirits after appreciating the moon, so he boldly confessed his affair with Nan Rong Liang Ling. Now that his cousin Zong had divorced the princess, he thought he could marry his beloved person immediately as he wished, but he did not expect to arouse his father's wrath.
"You bastard, how dare you do such a shameful and immoral act that brings shame upon the royal family, you..." Prince Qing was furious. He cursed and raised his hand to slap the boy again, but when he saw the red palm print on the boy's fair face, he softened his heart and put his hand down, sitting aside and beating his chest and stamping his feet.
Prince Qing has two sons. The eldest son, Prince Yuan, is also a general stationed in the western border of Xiyue Kingdom. In his early years, he won a prince's mansion by virtue of his merits fought for on the battlefield. It was only three months ago that he moved out of the prince's palace and lived in the prince's mansion because Prince Yuan's wife became pregnant.
And his youngest son, Prince Chen, had just reached the age of twenty and had always been loved by Prince Qing. Prince Qing had long planned to give him the Prince Qing Mansion in the future. Who would have thought that he would be so disappointing, idle away his time and hang out in the theater all day. Prince Qing could turn a blind eye to it, but he did not expect that he would hook up with his cousin's wife. This was so immoral that Prince Qing wanted to die.
Although Nan Rong Liang Ling has now divorced her nephew, and Prince Qing has learned from his evil son that the marriage between Prince Zong and his wife has only been in name only, so what? She had just left Prince Zong's mansion and was about to enter Prince Qing's mansion to become the Crown Prince's consort. Isn't this equivalent to announcing their affair to the world?
"Father, Princess Liang Ling and I are truly in love. Now, my cousin Zong is willing to help us. He won't tell anyone about this..." Yan Chen's tearful eyes made his handsome face even more charming. He knelt down in front of his father and begged in a pitiful voice. However, he was interrupted by Prince Qing's scolding before he could finish his words:
"Do you have a brain? Nan Rong Liang Ling just divorced the prince, and you want to marry her. Isn't this clearly making others suspect that the two of you have been hooking up for a long time?"
After his father's reminder, Yan Chen, who was blinded by love, finally regained some rationality. He nodded belatedly, but didn't know what to say for a long time.
"If you want to marry her, you'd better be patient for a year." Seeing his beloved son looking so pitiful, Prince Qing couldn't bear it after all, so he sighed and warned with a stern face.
"One year?"
When Yan Chen heard this, his handsome face turned even paler. He had previously promised Princess Liang Ling that he would marry her as the Crown Prince's Consort immediately after she and Prince Zong divorced. Now, not only did he break his promise, but he also asked her to wait another year. After spending a month with Nan Rong Liang Ling, Yan Chen knew her willful and capricious temper. She would never agree to wait for a year.
"Can't you be more promising? Can't you even wait a year?" Seeing the dilemma on his son's face, Prince Qing gritted his teeth in anger and slapped him on the head.
"Father, it's not my child who can't wait, it's...Princess Liang Ling who can't wait..."
"She's pregnant with your child?"
Before Yan Chen could finish speaking, Prince Qing was so frightened that he squatted in front of his son and asked nervously in a low voice.
Nanrong Liangling was naturally not pregnant, but seeing his father so worried and nervous, Yan Chen thought about just going with the flow. Perhaps forcing his father could come up with a better solution.
"You evil creature!" Seeing his son nodding in agreement, Prince Qing felt even more disheartened. He pushed Yan Chen to the ground and cursed him weakly.
"Father...what...what should I do?" Yan Chen sobbed and knelt down again, holding Prince Qing's right foot and begging.
"How could I, Yan Qing, give birth to such a bastard like you!" After all, he is his beloved son. No matter how angry Prince Qing is, he can't bear to ignore him. What's more, Nan Rong Liangling is a princess of a foreign country, a daughter of a royal family. If this matter is really made a big deal, His Majesty will be furious.
"Three days later, the envoys from Guyun will come to Beijing to take Princess Liangling back. Your father will secure for you the job of escorting the princess out of the border. You should comfort her well on the way and tell her not to say anything when she returns. This way, when she becomes pregnant, you will have a reason to explain to yourself that you fell in love with her on the way back."
Prince Qing thought about it and could only think of this solution temporarily. He first changed the time when his son hooked up with Nan Rongliangling. As long as the two of them got together after the divorce, His Majesty would have nothing to say. As for the country of Guyun, their princess was not self-disciplined and secretly got pregnant with a child, so they could only hurriedly marry Nan Rongliangling to save their reputation.
Three days later, the envoy of Gu Yun Kingdom came to Shangjing City. After paying homage to the Emperor Yan Qiao of Xiyue Kingdom, they took Princess Liang Ling out of the envoy's residence and set off back to Gu Yun Kingdom.
Nan Rong Liang Ling had received the news from Yan Chen in advance and got on the carriage without crying or making a fuss. When she saw Yan Chen, who was escorting the envoy outside the city, she couldn't help but smile.
As Princess Liangling of Guyun Kingdom left Shangjing City, Prince Qing also breathed a sigh of relief, and the next things became a piece of cake.
When the carriage passed by Prince Zong's mansion, Prince Qing caught a glimpse of many craftsmen coming in and out of the mansion, so he asked someone to find out out of curiosity. Only then did he learn that it was Prince Zong's instruction before leaving Beijing that the mansion should be renovated.
Nan Rong Liangling had just left the Prince's Mansion, and her nephew wanted to renovate the palace. How disgusting must he be?
Prince Qing thought so and couldn't help but worry. He watched Yan Zong grow up. Although this child was usually taciturn and cold, he was kind-hearted like his mother. Since Nan Rongliangling married Prince Zong, Prince Qing didn't know her well. He only heard rumors from the streets occasionally. In addition, Prince Zong lived outside the city every time he returned to Beijing, so he didn't have a good impression of this unruly and willful niece-in-law. But he didn't expect that she would be favored by his own son. What a trick of fate!