Was this to give Qingluo face? Zheng Mingrui's heart jumped, Seventh Prince's meaning was that his family did not give enough importance to Blue Luan, and had underestimated her?
No matter how he thought about it, his father felt that he had misunderstood. This Seventh Prince and his third daughter shouldn't have interacted at all, how could she be valued so highly by him?
"This official is terrified, a little girl who hasn't left the pavilion, how could she be worthy of the prince personally coming out? This is too kind of you to praise her. You can just call someone to come and discuss with this official, this official has nothing against you."
Master Zheng stood up and bowed politely. When he raised his head again, he saw that Seventh Prince Luo Qingqi's face was already dark, which scared him so much that he immediately kneeled down and said, "Seventh Prince, please redeem yourself. This official should not speak carelessly."
Seventh Prince Luo Qingqi snorted, he pointed to Zheng Mingrui who was kneeling on the ground, "Do you still know that you shouldn't speak nonsense, I'm curious, is Third Miss Zheng the biological daughter of an adult?"
Master Zheng did not know how to reply to that question. Who could say that their own daughter was not their own daughter?
Master Zheng felt that Seventh Prince had come today to slap his face. Otherwise, why would he ask such a question? It seemed that Seventh Prince wasn't satisfied with his third daughter.
"Seventh Prince, please calm your anger. This is all because this official is insensible and has angered Seventh Prince. Qingluo is indeed the direct daughter of this official, and was sent by my former wife."
"Although she is also a direct descendant, but this official's current wife has two girls, and their ages are about the same. If Seventh Prince doesn't like this official's daughter, this official can choose a daughter that she likes, what do you think?"
The Master Zheng did not want to curry favor with the Seventh Prince, he was not that kind of person. He only wanted to avoid offending the Duke, and causing trouble for his family.
"Oh, so the daughter of the Master Zheng is someone you can pick as you please." Seventh Prince's laughter was so cold that it gave him goosebumps.
"I heard that your second daughter has already betrothed the Weir Prefecture Lin Family, do you want this noble one to become the wife of someone? "You're quite bold, are you trying to mess with my rules and rules?"
Luo Qingqi slapped the tea table beside him, causing the teapot and teacups on the table to shake, and they all jumped up.
"No, no, no, Seventh Prince is very clear, that is not what I meant, I was just a little anxious, and forgot about it, I definitely did not mean to frame Seventh Prince."
If he were to be convicted like this by Seventh Prince, he would never be able to turn over his entire body. Although Master Zheng was not a vile character that was willing to climb up high branches, he did not want to lose his official position like this.
After all, he had relied on his own skill and knowledge to reach his current position. He truly wanted to do something for the common people.
"You didn't do it on purpose? "Since you didn't do it on purpose, you should have known that His Majesty had already ordered the Third Miss of the Zheng Mansion to be the wangfei of this prince. Why did you let this prince choose one of your two remaining daughters?"
"How shameless of you to let this prince marry the daughter of such a woman."
Although Luo Yi had reported the results of his investigation, he still couldn't believe it. Who would become a father, ignoring his own daughter for nine years, and in the following six years, he hadn't even seen her once.
"You, a court magistrate, used a woman who had a whole house of her own to trample over the daughter of her former principal, and even said in front of this prince, 'Although you are also a direct daughter, your present wife also has two daughters,' you still dare to say that."
This time, Master Zheng was completely terrified, was he really wrong? It was because she loved a girl with a lowly status. However, status wasn't something that she could choose.
The astonishment and bewilderment in Master Zheng's eyes made him hate his so much that his teeth hurt. He was really confused about this, and couldn't see clearly nor could he see himself.
"Master Zheng, you're not convinced, are you?" "I think I'm wrong. This is true love, just that you've fallen in love with a girl. Master Zheng, you can't even see the basic responsibilities of a man clearly. I don't think it's meaningful for you to act as an official."
"Do you know why in every mansion, no matter how much of a concubine you have pampered, the Madam Head of the mansion still firmly sits in that position? Because of respect and because of responsibility. "
"Since you've married this woman, you have to be responsible for her. Since concubines are called concubines, it's because her status isn't very high. Otherwise, shouldn't you have just married her? Where would concubines come from?"
Furthermore, your family member was once not even a concubine and was only a concubine. Even if other people don't know her identity, she should at least know her identity.
"But there's a fool like you who let her climb up from the bottom. Have you ever thought that if a girl can climb up to the position of official wife, she won't use any means? If she knows you well, then she will reject you when you want to give her the position?"
Seventh Prince looked at the man in front of his. No, if such feelings were called love, it would be a waste of the word.
A man who couldn't even protect his own wife, what right did he have to call himself a man? A man who didn't have any responsibilities, what right did he have to say that he was truly in love?
"Speaking of which, since you've already married your wife, it means that she's on par with you. Both families are satisfied with her. I want to ask you, what did she do wrong? I'll let you treat her like that."
"For the past four years, I've ignored her, causing me to end up depressed after I gave birth to a direct wife. Have you ever given her the treatment that a proper wife should have, or given her the respect that a proper wife should have?"
"You've never done anything for her. What right do you have to say that you only love the one beside you? "As far as I know, your former wife has a good reputation in the pavilion."
"There's no one who isn't proficient in calligraphy and painting, and is skilled in etiquette. There aren't many young ladies in the entire capital who can match up to her. However, she was so unlucky to be married to you, a heartless and unscrupulous person."
When Zheng Mingrui heard Seventh Prince's accusation, his mind was in a mess. What kind of person was his wife, the woman called Jiang Wan Ning?
He tried his best to recall that he could not remember the appearance of a woman who had been his wife for four years. He could not even remember her character.
When she left, she was not even twenty years old. Such a good age, such a flowery life, had withered right in front of his eyes, yet he had turned a blind eye to it.
"That's not all. Even if you treat her badly and you treat her like this, Miss Zheng is still your flesh and blood. Your own flesh and blood. How did you treat her?"
"Nine years without a care. Six years without a care. A person with a heart of ice and blood in the world, you can be considered to be in the upper echelon. I, Wu Xia, am a country that values etiquette the most. You know shame, but have you ever regretted it when you couldn't sleep at midnight?"
"I believe that you absolutely will not regret what you have done to yourself. Where exactly is your humanity? Tiger poison is not yet edible. As your father, you truly do have the heart to do so."
"If she wasn't tenacious enough to live on like Little Grass, even if it was just a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of nutrition, and she didn't give up, and just worked so hard to live on, perhaps she would have died long ago."
"Master Zheng, with your character, how are you going to be the father and mother of the people? How are you going to judge right from wrong? You're a person who doesn't know right from wrong."
After talking so much, Seventh Prince was suddenly exhausted. Such a person, no matter how much he talked about it, was merely playing the lute to a cow. He was a man who had been heartless to his own daughter for six years without meeting her once.
Seventh Prince stood up from his seat and cupped his hands towards the paralyzed Master Zheng. "Master Zheng, no matter what, you are still my future Mt. Tai. This can't be changed."
"I really came today to propose marriage, but Lord Zheng has broadened my horizons. So it turns out that father can be so dirty, so shameless."
Seventh Prince didn't have the mood to continue speaking with him. The person in front of him was a piece of trash, a man who couldn't even differentiate between right and wrong because of his personal relationship.
"Send someone to the backyard to inform him that I'm going to meet the madame. Perhaps, it would be more appropriate for me to discuss this marriage with the madame. Otherwise, who knows when you would have advised me to change hands."
Through Luo Yi's report, Seventh Prince already had an understanding of the situation. Back then, Old Madam Zheng was not happy that Zheng Mingrui had to fix the concubine, which was why he did not follow his son to Weir Prefecture.
From the looks of it, that Madam Zheng should be sensible and shouldn't have the ability to control her son. Although she didn't protect Zheng Qingluo's mother, she could still be considered to have done her best to protect Zheng Qingluo.