Chapter 30 This is absolutely ridiculous!
Qin Yanshu returned home with a gloomy face. The low air pressure emanating from his body was cold and intimidating. The servants and maids passing by all saluted him, but he ignored them and went straight to his mistress's courtyard.
"Mother." Qin Yanshu walked into the main room and saw his mother sitting in the inner room talking to his sister. He said coldly, "I don't want to marry the eldest princess of Pingyao."
Mrs. Qin looked up at him: "What did you say?"
"Brother, what's wrong?" A girl in the room stood up and looked at Qin Yanshu puzzled, "What happened?"
"My son doesn't want to marry Princess Pingyao." Qin Yanshu took a deep breath and said in a gloomy tone, "She is not a good wife at all, and my son has a bad temperament with her."
Mrs. Qin stood up in shock: "Yanshu, this marriage is the Queen Mother's wish!"
"So what?" Qin Yanshu looked at her angrily, "Does mother know what ridiculous demands Princess Pingyao made to her son?"
Mrs. Qin frowned: "What request?"
Qin Yan wrote angrily: "She wants the legitimate son and concubine of the Qin family to share the same wife."
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Qin's face suddenly froze, and then she became furious: "What nonsense! Princess Pingyao, is she crazy? Are two brothers serving the same wife? Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!"
Qin Yanshu closed his eyes and sat slumped on the chair, covering his face with regret and pain in his heart: "What I like is Shen Ning. I only like her. If my mother hadn't stopped me, she should have been my wife. Instead of being forced to marry the regent——"
"Inkstone!" Mrs. Qin shouted angrily, "Don't say such words again."
Qin Yanshu fell silent, his eyes looking sad and sarcastic.
He personally pushed the woman he loved most into someone else's arms, so what right did he have to say he liked her now?
"This matter is very difficult to handle." Mrs. Qin waved her hand and signaled the maids in the room to leave, and then sat down on the chair. "The regent is extremely powerful, and the queen mother is too anxious, so she took this step. Now is not the time." The question is whether you want to marry or not, but the Queen Mother asks you to marry. Do you want to disobey the Queen Mother’s decree?”
Qin Yan wrote with bitterness: "The eldest princess of Pingyao is a ridiculous person. She openly keeps a boy in the house, drinks wine and has fun. Is it necessary to sacrifice her son's life's happiness just for the little golden armor in her hand that she is not sure whether she has?"
Mrs. Qin frowned and remained silent.
Of course she knew how wronged it was to have her son marry the eldest princess of Pingyao, but now that the emperor was about to take charge, the regent refused to let go. The combined strength of the queen mother and the emperor was less than one-tenth of the regent's.
Moreover, the regent placed too many people in the court.
The empress dowager and the emperor were in a worrying situation. If the regent and the emperor had a falling out, the emperor's chance of winning would be so small that it could be ignored.
If the emperor becomes a puppet, how can the uncle's palace, which has a nepotistic relationship with the queen mother, fare better?
Mrs. Qin was silent for a while before she spoke: "You try to get along well with Princess Pingyao and coax her. As long as she gets married, we can coax her to hand over the Jinjia Army. If she can't coax, we can use threats and inducements. As long as the emperor is secure, Princess Pingyao will not be left at our disposal in the future?"
"Brother, what mother said makes sense." Qin Zhilan, the legitimate daughter of the Qin family, came over and comforted her softly, "There are no unbroken eggs under the overturned nest. If the emperor has no real power and even the queen mother is in name only, how can the Qin family have any good fruits? ? It's just an uncle's house in name only. The sons of officials from the regent's faction can ignore us. But if we help the emperor gain power, the Qin family will not only become relatives of the emperor, but also have the merits of Conglong. It’s no big deal that I will be famous in the future, and my eldest brother can marry whoever he wants.”
Qin Yanshu never knew that his little sister was so considerate of the overall situation.
He smiled coldly, so if he wanted to help the emperor gain power and secure the throne, he had to sacrifice his marriage?
The only one he wants is Shen Ning, but Shen Ning is already married to someone else. How can he marry whoever he wants in the future?
When he thought of the scene he had just seen at the princess's residence in Pingyao, he felt that if he really got married to her, what would be the difference between him and those young men who drank and laughed with her?
"Inkstone, endure a moment of grievance, and exchange for a century of glory." Mrs. Qin was moved by emotion, and understood by reason, "As long as the emperor secures the throne and gets rid of the regent as he wishes, you want that Shen Ning..."
Qin Yanshu was startled, and a glimmer of hope slowly arose in his heart.
Yes, as long as the regent is removed, Shen Ning will still be his.
"If you still like Shen Ning by then, I am willing to arrange your marriage." Mrs. Qin made a promise, "Once she loses the protection of the regent, Shen Ning will not be at your mercy?"
Qin Yanshu's heart felt huge.
He spoke with difficulty: "Let me think about it."
"Yanshu, mother believes that you are rational and will be able to make the best decision." Mrs. Qin patted him on the shoulder, "I know you have an arrogant temperament and can't tolerate trivial matters in your eyes, but you can make Pingyao grow up The princess is treated as a weapon, there is no need to be sentimental towards her, it is just for fun. "
Qin Yanshu hummed, stood up and said, "Mom, please rest. I'll leave first."
Just like these words, he turned and left without looking back.
There is already chaos underfoot.
Qin Zhilan frowned and stared at Qin Yanshu's leaving figure: "If I had known that my eldest brother was so infatuated, my mother should not have been in a hurry to break off the engagement that day."
"A man is a great man. Contribution is king. Can infatuation be enough for food?" Mrs. Qin looked contemptuous. "Then the legitimate daughter of the Shen family is a loser! Not to mention the official wife, even if she is a concubine, I will not agree to let her in. "
Thinking of the injustice she suffered at the Zhenguo Palace, she wanted to cut Shen Ning into pieces.
Shen Ning will never step into the door of the uncle's house in her life.