You break off my engagement and I dig your ancestral graves

Shangying couldn't help but complain about his master's failure to stop him, "After all, he is Shangshu Liang's only son. It would be fine if you didn't stop him, but you secretly helped him. Aren't you afraid that Shangshu Liang will cry, make a fuss, or even hang himself?"

Everyone knows Minister Liang's temper. He is fearless on normal days, but when it comes to matters involving his son, he will cry in front of Your Majesty.

Xiao Dai laughed out loud, shook his head and said, "Then you don't know Minister Liang at all."

Shangying frowned, not understanding why.

On the other side in the Shangshu Mansion, it was exactly as Xiao Dai expected. Shangshu Liang, who was thought to be the one who would do his best to stop it, was surprisingly calm.

He stood under the eaves wearing a cloak, feeling heavy-hearted as he watched his son kneeling in the snow. The housekeeper beside him remained silent and could only retreat quietly.

"Have you thought it through?" Minister Liang turned his back and asked him, trying hard to suppress the discomfort in his heart.

Liang Heng straightened his back and stared at his father's back. He had not taken good care of him for a long time. Since his mother passed away, the relationship between them became much more distant.

He watched his father take concubines one after another, and watched those concubines give birth to daughters one after another.

He also had younger brothers, but they died young.

Despite this, no one could shake his position. He was still the eldest son of the Shangshu Mansion and had the best food, clothing and other necessities.

"My son, I have thought it through. There are many wars on the border and the defense is weak. If there is no good general to show his power, it may lead to war. What's more... Your Highness needs his right-hand man." Liang Heng expressed his views word by word.

Minister Liang reached out and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. In order to prevent him from noticing, he snorted coldly, "It sounds so high-sounding, but isn't it also related to Princess Chaoxi?"

"Is she so important? Is she more important than being your father? Do you really despise the future I have arranged for you?"

The series of questions were met with the boy's indifferent voice, "I understand my father's hard work, but I don't want to sacrifice the marriages of so many sisters for my own future. They are also my father's children, not tools for marriage, nor stepping stones for me."

He knew everything, so he always made trouble when each sister was arranged to meet different young men after she came of age, which made the concubines in the backyard dissatisfied with him.

But he didn't care about that.

"Did their father let them read poetry and books just to send them to serve other men?"

"I don't need my father to pave the way for me like this." Liang Heng advised him earnestly.

I don’t know when I can come back, maybe I will never come back...

Liang Shangshu reached out his hand to wipe away his tears, biting his lip to hold back his tears, and angrily said, "If you want to leave, then leave. I don't want to keep you. At worst... at worst, I can take in a few more concubines and have a few more children."

"Dad, take care!" Liang Heng looked at his weathered back and kowtowed several times. Then he did not stay and turned around and left resolutely.

As soon as he left, Minister Liang could no longer hold back, and hurriedly turned around and chased after him, crying, "Son!"

"My son!"

When the housekeeper heard the noise, he rushed over in a hurry. What he saw was his master sitting in the snow wailing like a child, crying and beating his chest.

"I only have this one son. He is the only child of A-Lian and I! Wow..."

"Sir, sir, please don't cry." The butler tried to comfort him at a loss, but all he got in return was even louder crying.

Liang Heng left in a hurry, but he did not forget to say goodbye to everyone he should say goodbye to.

Only Cui Yingying was kept in the dark. The next morning, she was dressed neatly by Zhuyu and Lianli. One of her hands was hung. As she sat at the table to eat, she looked around and asked in confusion, "Where is my second brother?"

"Last night, Minister Liang sent someone to say that he wanted Young Master Liang to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives. I'm afraid he won't be back for several months." Lian Li lied without blushing.

Cui Yingying looked disappointed and even lost her appetite. "Is that so..."

"Then I am the only one left in the palace..."

"Isn't this princess a human?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty voice sounded outside the door in time. The person who came was still wearing a dazzling red dress with a bright smile on his face.

But if you look closely, you will see tears in her eyes.