jdhmnovel Chapter 142 Hidden Background
Chapter 142 Hidden Background
Lady Pei was about to give chase when she heard a furious shout from the Marquis of Guangde.
"Let him go, why stop him?"
Madam Pei stopped in her tracks.
Marquis Guangde walked to his wife's side. "My lord, how could you speak to Shang Dao like that?"
"How could we possibly defeat him?"
Marquis Guangde, his face contorted with anger, turned and walked into the room, letting out a sigh.
"His current willfulness is all because you spoiled him since he was a child."
Madam Pei entered and closed the door tightly.
Marquis Guangde remained expressionless, his brows furrowed.
“Poor Pei Qiu, he offended the King of Liang, causing our Pei family to be without an heir.” Madam Pei poured a cup of tea for Marquis Guangde. “We have always regarded Shang Dao as a member of the Pei family. Now that the child is grown up, he is just doing things out of spite.”
“Master knows his identity, how could he possibly slap him like this today?”
The Marquis of Guangde paused in his teacup. “It was wrong of me to hit him today. I didn’t want him to go astray.”
"If he were more like the Prince of Liang, he wouldn't still not be highly regarded by His Majesty."
Marquis Guangde blew on his tea and said, "The Prince of Liang's temperament is just too much like his mother's."
“Master,” Madam Pei said softly, “why not let Shang Dao marry Miss Lu?”
Marquis Guangde's gaze was deep. "I don't see how deeply he loves her. Why does he insist on marrying her?"
If she was truly so infatuated with Lu Nianqiu, why would she get involved with a homosexual?
He was just pretending to hit him; he didn't mean it.
Even so, he regretted it after he finished playing.
He sighed and said, "Their engagement was called off before, and they were engaged to Miss Jiang. Now they are going to get engaged to Lu Nianqiu again."
"Master," Madam Pei's tone became noticeably more serious, "It would be better to propose marriage to the Jiang family than for him to be with that homosexual now. The more he spends time with that homosexual, the more damaging it is to his reputation. I'm afraid our Pei family will become a laughingstock in the entire capital."
"How about I go to the Zhenyuan Marquis's residence and have Miss Lu intervene to get Shang Dao home?" Madam Pei suggested.
"Have you considered whether Lu Nianqiu is willing to become the Marquis of Zhenyuan?" he asked.
Madam Pei sighed and stood up from her chair.
"Are we left with no other option but to let prayer continue unchecked?"
“I have always treated him as my own son, but if he ever wants to leave the Pei family, I will definitely not want him to.”
"Then this is the only way." Marquis Guangde stood up and looked at his wife.
"Tonight, I'll go to the study to take care of some important matters first. You go to sleep first."
Madam Pei nodded, watched the Marquis of Guangde's departing figure, and then closed the door.
She sat down toward her dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror.
I don't know if what I'm doing now is good or bad for Pei Shangdao.
After all, he was the only child left in the Pei family.
Dusk gradually blurred the view.
After taking a bath, Jiang Zhi washed away her fatigue and stepped out of the bathroom feeling refreshed.
Shuyao wrapped her wet hair in a cotton handkerchief and wrung it out little by little.
"Why is it you today?" Jiang Zhi asked, looking up. "Where are Wu Shi and Chen Xi?"
“Your Highness,” Shuyao chuckled, “at noon and in the morning I heard that you and His Highness are leaving the capital in three days, and they said they would start preparing a grand banquet for you and His Highness tonight.”
A smile spread across Jiang Zhi's face; they were the ones who knew how to tinker with these things.
She walked briskly toward the small kitchen.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard them having a lively discussion.
"My princess is of course the best, the most sensible person in the world, right?" Wu Shi said, kneading the dough, refuting Xing Luo's point of view. Just now, Xing Luo said that their princess was a bit naive.
At noon, he looked at Qinghuai again and said, "Commander Qing, don't you think so?"
Qinghuai, who was standing aside watching them work, nodded solemnly.
While Jiang Zhi was in the Liang Prince's mansion, her safety was always under Qing Huai's care, so he knew everything about Jiang Zhi's movements.
He was unaware of the agreement between Gu Liang and Jiang Zhi, so his initial care could hardly be considered protection; it was more like surveillance.
Before Jiang Zhi married into the Liang Prince's mansion, they had only heard of her domineering deeds. However, after she married into the Liang Prince's mansion, she did not change the original rules of the mansion much, and even rectified them.
At noon, he hurriedly said, "But our princess had a very hard life before. She was thrown to Liangzhou alone, with no one to rely on."
“Our prince has also suffered. He was sent to the Northern Barbarians as a hostage for six years and single-handedly seized military power.”
The two were locked in a stalemate, and even ended up competing to see who could endure the hardship the most.
The two smiled at each other as dawn broke and the moon shone.
Qinghuai finally spoke, "At noon, you may have misunderstood His Highness."
Their prince is an excellent man, but when he announced his intention to get married, everyone in the Liang Prince's mansion was taken aback.
After all, their prince had never dined alone with a woman outside, nor had he ever strolled the streets with anyone. Now that he could be in harmony with the princess, they were happy.
“Our prince speaks frankly, but he is devoted to the princess.” Qinghuai added, “If this is the duty of a husband, then there are few husbands in the entire Yanjing who can do so.”
"The night the princess disappeared, His Highness led us to search the Imperial Ancestral Temple. There was a note at the entrance of that cave that said only His Highness was allowed to enter." Qinghuai glanced at the group of people. "His Highness told us to step back without thinking and went in alone."
It was a blatant trap, which Gu Liangyuan could have ignored, but he didn't; he even yelled at Qinghuai.
Hearing this from afar, Jiang Zhi's eyes were filled with turbulent emotions.
"I can testify that when the cave collapsed, Commander Qing was almost driven mad." Suddenly, Bai Wuyou's voice came from ahead.
Qinghuai narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw Bai Wuyou walk in.
"Dr. Xiaobai?" they all said in unison.
"I will supervise your meals. Gu Liang's diet needs to be strictly controlled," Doctor Xiaobai instructed.
She stared at him for a few moments, then thought for a moment, and asked, "Commander Qing, will you blame the Princess?"
Jiang Zhi also wanted to know the answer to the question asked at noon.
If she were there, Qinghuai would probably hate her to death.
After all, her life was certainly not as important as Gu Liang's.
Qinghuai shook his head. "We are all people who have followed His Highness through thick and thin. His Highness said that everyone's life is important, except for those who deserve to die."
“But life is the least valuable thing on the battlefield,” Xingluo said sadly. “Yet life is so precious.”
Seeing the admiring look in Wu Shi's eyes, Xing Luo smiled shyly and said, "This is what His Highness taught us."
At first, they didn't understand anything, but gradually they came to understand.
Jiang Zhi looked at them; the lights were bright, and they were all enjoying themselves.
Gu Liang is a good person, but she lied to him from the beginning; she made the decision using his identity.
I didn't even want to tell him the result.
She never imagined that someone would treat her this way, nor had anyone ever told her that being treated sincerely could be so sweet.