After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife always wanted to leave her father behind and keep her

It is still five or six years before the current emperor passes away. Cheng Songan can't quite remember the exact day when Prince Shou fell out of favor, but it was definitely not this year, because when the incident happened that year, her mother died of illness, and Cui Yuanqing was unable to accompany her back to the Cheng family to mourn.

Prince Shou was deposed for rebellion and demoted from prince to commoner. He was imprisoned in the Dazongzhengyuan. Later, Prince Xiang succeeded to the throne and exempted him from lifelong imprisonment, but he did not restore him to the throne. He moved him to a small courtyard in the temporary palace and lived out his life.

Before this, Prince Shou had always been favored by the current emperor and had the same status as the crown prince. How come he got into trouble now?

After Cheng Songan was shocked, he asked hurriedly: "Where did you get the news?"

Li Wenbin pursed his lips and said, "My Lord, just as he left his room this morning, he was called back to the palace to get a message from Sibian."

"Why? Have you ever told me?" Cheng Songan asked

Li Wenbin replied, "I heard that he drank too much last night. He entered the palace to see the emperor half an hour later than other princes this morning, and then he behaved in a hurry and lost his manners in front of the palace."

Cheng Songan frowned and thought for a while. This was not right. On New Year's Eve, all the royal relatives were feasting in the palace. If they were drunk, the emperor would definitely know. It was true that Prince Shou was favored, but he was not a spoiled and lawless person. Knowing that he had to enter the palace early the next morning, why would he go back and get drunk and lose his manners in front of the palace?

Furthermore, the emperor favored Prince Shou the most, so this matter was not a small matter, but it was not a big matter either. It was not a big matter to strip the prince of his crown and clothes. The next step would probably be to strip him of his title, and he had to be reprimanded in the New Year, which showed that the emperor was furious. This was definitely not a small mistake!

If Prince Shou was demoted to a prince at this moment, Prince Jin would be the only one left, but Prince Xiang's power was far from enough to compete with him, and Cui Yuanqing would be exposed sooner or later. If a person cannot be used for one's own purposes, one must get rid of him so as not to make him one's enemy. Prince Jin had been trying to win over Cui Yuanqing from the beginning but failed, as can be seen from the first time Cheng Songan went to Yuqiao Mountain Villa to recuperate and Prince Jin also sent guards to guard it.

If Prince Jin extended his hand to Jiangnan at this time, he would certainly win over the powerful and close the corruption hole that Cui Yuanqing had just opened, and then join forces with those powerful to retaliate and fight for power. It is unknown what Cui Yuanqing's fate will be, and Prince Xiang will no longer have the possibility to compete with him!

Even though Cheng Zhongping was a loyal official, his eldest daughter was married to Cui Yuanqing, and it would be public sooner or later that his second daughter was the woman of the King of Xiang. Cheng Yanping also eased his relationship with Cui Yuanqing. To outsiders, the Cheng family was a descendant of the King of Jin. So now that the King of Shou was in trouble and the King of Xiang was injured, the Cheng and Cui families would be implicated in the future.

Cui Yuanqing would not send her such a nonsensical message for no reason. Something else must be happening. Or maybe, Prince Shou was not reprimanded for what happened this morning, but something else happened before that, so Cui Yuanqing was hurriedly summoned to the palace last night.

She thought for a moment and immediately said to Li Wenbin, "Go tell my father that I'm sick these few days and I refuse any visits or greetings."

Li Wenbin only hesitated: "Master, you respect etiquette the most. It's easy to ask others not to come to our house to pay New Year's greetings during the New Year, but if I ask him not to go to Zhao Ge Lao, I'm afraid it won't work."

Cheng Songan's eyebrows furrowed even more. Zhao Huaisong, the old fox, had long lost his original intention, otherwise he would not have allowed his youngest son to be lawless and rampant in the capital. He had long been recruited by Prince Jin and sided with him, otherwise he would not have fought so fiercely with Cui Yuanqing after he entered the cabinet.

His father and he were both Jinshi of the same class, and both were disciples of the emperor, so they would visit each other during the New Year holidays, taking turns to visit the palace for a while. If this year they suddenly stopped, Zhao Huaisong would probably be alert.

Just as I was thinking about it, Qiangwei came in happily and said, "Miss Xin brought Sister Qi to wish you a happy new year!"

Cheng Songan suddenly had an idea and asked Taxue to take out the bamboo jade pendant from the drawer. He whispered to Li Wenbin, "Let father stay home on the pretext of being sick as usual, and have Yanping go to the Zhao residence in his place. Give this to Yanping to hang on his body and wave it around in front of Zhao Lin."

Li Wenbin recognized the jade pendant. It was the one he got when Cheng Songan asked him to find out who cut Zhao Lin's tongue. He was a little puzzled: "If Zhao Lin sees it now, won't he think that the Third Young Master did it?"

Cheng Songan shook his head: "Tell Yanping that this jade pendant was given by someone. Zhao Lin will definitely ask who it was. Then let Si Tui step out."

Then he told Taxue to go to Gengdu Garden to find Situi, and asked him to put on the clothes he wore on the day he cut off Zhao Lin's tongue, so that the disaster would be directed to Prince Jin's Mansion no matter what.

The voices of Cui Wenxin and Qi Jie'er outside had already been heard. As soon as they entered the room, Cui Wenxin pulled Qi Jie'er to kneel down and kowtow.

Cheng Songan had asked Qiangwei to prepare gold ingots and a few silver bars as New Year's gifts for the two of them, and also prepared gifts for the future baby.

Cui Wenxin thanked her and asked Sister Qi to come over and play with her. She sighed, "I heard that my aunt had a miscarriage and was very sad. But the old lady ordered that you are not allowed to come to the villa to disturb you, so I delayed it until now."

Cheng Songan had already moved on from this matter, but seeing Qi Jie'er becoming more and more adorable, her heart ached again. She could have had a child of her own. But now was not the time to indulge in sadness. Cheng Songan smiled and said, "How is your sister-in-law's recovery?"

Cui Wenxin lowered her head, full of thoughts, and her face lost its luster.

Cheng Songan asked and found out that because Zhang was under house arrest, Cui Ziqi had no time to take care of the unimportant things such as opening the ancestral temple and entering the family tree. Cui Wenkang took this opportunity and named the child Qian to recognize his ancestor's surname!

Cui Wenxin gnashed her teeth and said, "Mother and sister-in-law both disagree, but with such a big incident happening in the mansion, how dare they bother the old lady? My brother saw this and acted without restraint, and has already found some elders of the Qian family. Bah, the Qian family was so poor back then that they almost sold my father as a servant. How could there be any elders who would put on airs!"

Cheng Songan asked, "What does your mother mean?"

Cui Wenxin couldn't help but cover her face and burst into tears: "My mother refused to agree until her death and went on a hunger strike to force me to do so. But my brother..."

Seeing her aunt crying with her shoulders heaving, Qi Jie'er quickly put down the food in her hands and started crying too: "Grandma, my dad beat my mom again..."

"Asshole!" Cheng Songan slammed his fist on the table, scaring Qi Jie'er so much that she hugged her neck and dared not move. She had no choice but to pat her back to coax her for a while, and then asked Qiangwei to take her to the inner room to find some toys to play with.

Cui Wenkang has put the ladder up high enough, it's time to take it down.

Cheng Songan looked at the garden full of snow and sighed, thinking that this year was destined to be a restless one.