Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

"Oh!" Wang Xifeng laughed grimly, "So, the Queen is not coming for He Ke at all, but for me?

"An eight-year-old child doesn't know anything, so naturally he lets me, his foster mother, do whatever I want!

"Is it me who taught her those words and asked her to say them in front of His Majesty, so that His Majesty would point to me and remember me, and then I could seek the position of Liang Di?

"If Her Majesty the Queen thinks this way, then it's easy!

"Tomorrow I will go to Daming Palace to kowtow to her and His Majesty, and ask them to dismiss me as a concubine, demote me to a commoner, and banish me to the cold palace!

"I won't say a word more. I will take He Ke with me and seal him off to the palace for another ten years!"

Wang Xifeng became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and she slapped the table!

"Mother!" He Ke's figure suddenly appeared at the door, with a pursed mouth and tears in his eyes. He was standing outside wearing only pajamas and a coat.

Wang Xifeng's eyes turned red with distress and she stretched out her arms: "Come here quickly! Don't catch a cold! If you get sick now, you will have to eat less delicious food!"

Like a young swallow flying into the forest, He Ke threw himself directly into her arms and began to sob.

Wang Xifeng signaled to Nanny Ji and the others to leave, and she hid in the bed curtains with He Ke in her arms to talk in private.

"I guess the Queen got upset somewhere.

"During the New Year holidays, she couldn't punish the servants, and she couldn't afford to offend the emperor. Your father was busy, the Crown Princess was recovering from her injuries, and Princess Yongning and Prince Zhongsu were both spending the New Year outside the palace.

"She didn't have anyone to vent her anger on. You just happened to bump into her, so she took her anger out on you."

He Ke didn't believe it: "Who can make the Queen angry?"

"There are so many!" Wang Xifeng sighed, "For example, I have two aunts here this morning, as you saw.

"You leave, and the maids and eunuchs should also leave. Without anyone else, I have to listen to them advising me and scolding me. Unless they want to instigate me to do something, I can resist and not do it, but I will inevitably be ridiculed and mocked."

After a pause, he asked He Ke softly, "It's not easy for the Mo family to send people back from Tai County. Did you really not hear what the Queen talked about with that Sheng Ge'er?"

He Ke thought for a moment and said, "I probably heard them chatting and asking this and that. Well, it seemed like he was reminding him to go to Princess Yongning's mansion to pay New Year's greetings, so he raised his voice a little."

Princess Yongning’s Mansion?

The Mohist family is Princess Yongning's maternal uncle's family. It is an inevitable etiquette for the younger generations who return to Beijing to pay New Year's greetings to go to the princess's mansion. What is there to emphasize?

Suddenly, Wang Xifeng's heart moved, and she asked He Ke again: "Since the boy is only thirteen, his family must be worried about him returning to Beijing alone. But which uncle did he come back with?"

He Ke blinked and said, "It seems to be the third master of the Mo family, a nephew of the Queen Mother. It is said that he was also a Jinshi before. I don't know why he is not in Beijing. This time he came to escort his nephew."

It doesn't sound like anything unusual.

Wang Xifeng suppressed the doubts in her heart, coaxed He Ke a few more words, then hugged her, watching the little girl finally put her worries aside and fell asleep beside her.

She tucked the quilt in for her again, put away the tent, put on her homely skirt and jacket, put on a cloak and walked out. She called Nanny Ji again and questioned her carefully about the past of the third room's master and the young man.

Nanny Ji recalled carefully for a long while, then suddenly her face changed and her body shook.

Wang Xifeng's heart tightened, she reached out to hold her, and asked softly, "Mammy, tell me everything you know. Don't worry about He Ke's matter, no matter what it is, I will take care of it."

Nanny Ji looked at her with a complicated expression. After a long while, she asked in a low voice, "Even if it's the Queen's good intention?"

"As long as He Ke is unwilling, no matter how good the intention is, it is still coercion." Wang Xifeng smiled, "I am best at dealing with people who coerce others.

"Whoever she is."

For some reason, Nanny Ji suddenly had a flash of thought in her mind: There were rumors in the palace that the old lady of the Wang family and Wang Ziteng had originally not intended to let Wang Xifeng enter the Eastern Palace and were planning to ask for her to be exempted from the selection, but she insisted on entering the palace, so the old lady Wang was so angry that she died...

She took a deep breath and told Wang Liangdi, who was as steady as a rock, everything she knew.

"When Princess Yongning was sixteen, His Majesty began to choose a husband for her. At that time, the Empress was already a Consort Fu.

“The Queen wanted the princess to marry back to the Mo family, but His Majesty disagreed, and neither did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was then the King of Cheng.

"Later, the Mo family held a flower show and invited Princess Yongning to appreciate the flowers. They also invited many young masters and young ladies. Among them were the current prince consort and the third master who escorted Mo Xingsheng back this time.

"In terms of writing, the third son of the Mo family was actually good enough to be the top scholar back then. This was acknowledged by His Majesty himself.

"But he is the nephew of the Empress. Because of this relationship, Your Majesty is reluctant to appoint him as the leader, fearing that the world will be in an uproar. The good sutra has been ruined by the crooked-mouthed monk.

“So in the end, this old man only took the thirteenth place in the second class.

"It was His Majesty who let the princess choose who to marry. The princess chose her current husband because she admired his talent.

"I guess the Mohists have never been convinced about this matter.

"The third master said that he wanted to honor his elders on behalf of his uncle and father, so he returned to the ancestral home in Tai County..."

Wang Xifeng's face darkened: "That's why we have to dress He Ke in Princess Yongning's clothes, so that the young master of the Mo family can see her and let him criticize her!

“That’s why the Queen was so angry when she found out that the princess ate a whole plate of cakes in one breath.

"She felt that He Ke's behavior was not like that of a lady from a noble family, and her nephews would look down on He Ke and make her embarrassed in front of her nephews from her mother's family...

"hehe!"

Wang Xifeng sneered, "Thank you, Ma'am, for telling me."

Nanny Ji sighed and said thankfully, "Actually, even though I got scolded today, it's also a good thing. I think the Queen will not have any plans for He Ke again in the future."

Wang Xifeng did not comment and asked Nanny Ji to go back and rest.

Nanny Ji left as she was told. When she was almost at the door, she suddenly remembered something and turned back to ask Wang Xifeng, “The Queen may not be thinking this way. This is just my wild guess.

"Please don't tell the prince and princess about this, Concubine Liang."

Wang Xifeng curled her lips and said, "Don't worry, Ma'am."

Only then did Nanny Ji leave.

"Not tell the prince? Then how can I avenge He Ke?" Wang Xifeng snorted coldly and muttered to herself.

Ru'er came out from behind the door and helplessly helped Wang Xifeng up: "You have to stay up until three o'clock every night. You have worked hard to take care of your body for three years, you can't just let it be ruined now."

Wang Xifeng returned to her room obediently.

Ruer then whispered, "Don't worry, the prince may know about this. It's just that it was late when we came back today, and the brothers and sisters were all together, so it was hard to say anything."

This makes sense.

Wang Xifeng nodded immediately and smiled and pinched Ruer's face: "You are becoming more and more intelligent."

"It's not that I'm smart, it's that Concubine Liang is too concerned and confused. I didn't expect it." Seeing that she relaxed, Ru'er also laughed.

Wang Xifeng fell down and fell asleep.

She wants to see what the prince will say tomorrow!