Red Mansion Rebirth: Ghost Phoenix

Wang Xifeng pulled Shi Jincheng to sit beside her and asked her with a smile, "I heard that your stepmother is a noble lady who came from the capital. Why didn't your nominal maternal family come to see you?"

Shi Jincheng thought for a moment and said, "You mean Liu?

"Her father was originally a recorder. Later, her son-in-law was promoted to the governor of Sichuan. Her father followed him out of Beijing and went to the Governor's Office of Shaanxi and Gansu to serve as the governor, in charge of tea and horses.

“Although there are still a few relatives of hers in the capital, they are not close relatives, and I guess they don’t have the nerve to pretend to be relatives in front of me.

"I come from a poor family and have a rude and straightforward temperament. If I don't give them face in front of the nobles in the palace, I won't be the one who suffers."

These words really did not show any mercy to the Liu family.

Wang Xifeng laughed, and after thinking carefully, she couldn't help wondering, "How come, at this flower party, only our families didn't enter the palace?"

"Yes, Imperial Concubine!" Shi Jincheng smiled, "We are the only two that no one bothers!

"I just heard someone say that even the old lady of the Mei family has asked for permission to enter the palace to visit Concubine Rong!"

Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows: "Oh?!"

Why didn't she know?

Shi Jincheng pointed at the Queen in confusion and said, "Just now, someone came to ask Her Majesty the Queen, and Her Majesty hesitated for a while. It was only after the old lady next to her persuaded her that Her Majesty agreed."

Wang Xifeng narrowed her eyes when she heard this: "Which old lady?"

"That! That, the one with the princess!" Shi Jincheng really wanted to point her finger to show her, but Wang Xifeng grabbed her arm and only allowed her to describe it with her mouth.

Wang Xifeng's expression became uglier: "Princess Jing?"

"No, no, that's not it. Princess Jing came first. I saw her at the beginning. That princess came later, something or other..."

Shi Jincheng tried hard to recall.

Wang Xifeng could no longer bear it and patted her hands: "If you want to go boating, go ahead, but you can't go to the island because it's not cleaned up.

“If you go up there, and other girls want to go up there too, it’ll be chaos.

"I'll take a look."

He said and left.

Shi Jincheng, however, turned his wrist and firmly grasped her, tilting his head curiously: "Isn't that the Queen and Concubine Rong's own business?

“You didn’t know it originally.

"Do you really have to take care of her?"

Wang Xifeng looked at her innocent eyes and listened to her worldly words. She felt extremely uncomfortable, but her steps stopped as if they had taken root.

The two of them just stared at each other.

It was not until someone nearby noticed something was wrong and looked over that Wang Xifeng smiled slightly and said softly:

"Concubine Rong is my good friend."

"But she was the one who made the news that you and His Majesty had not consummated your marriage, and everyone in the palace knew about it. Now the whole capital has heard about it."

"Shi Ronghua, you are so presumptuous."

"My Lady, I am only speaking the truth."

Wang Xifeng shook off Shi Jincheng's hand.

Shi Jincheng also knelt down on one knee quietly.

Wang Xifeng ignored her and strode straight towards Queen Mo.

"I knew you were worried." Queen Mo sighed before she could, and whispered, "Go take a look. I'm worried too.

"It's just that the Princess of Dongping, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, and the Princess of Kang were all nearby. They heard it and advised me to let him go, but I had no choice..."

Wang Xifeng nodded and repeated, "Princess of Dongping, wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, and Consort of the Crown Prince of Kang. I remember it."

Queen Mo was stunned.

Wang Xifeng stepped back and knelt to take her leave: "I will go see Concubine Rong first. I will come back after her grandmother leaves."

Queen Mo could only nod vaguely.

Lifting her skirt, Wang Xifeng quickly left Wangxian Terrace and boarded the sedan chair. She ordered in a deep voice, "Qinghui Pavilion, hurry!"

The eunuchs carrying the sedan chair knew something was wrong as soon as they heard it. The four of them changed their expressions and moved quickly and lightly, almost running!

Because there were many people today, He Ke, Lin Daiyu and Zhai Zhao also came to Wangxiantai. Wang Xifeng was afraid that they would be bumped into by others, so she assigned several of her trusted maids to them and only kept An'er by her side.

Who would have thought that after the eldest and second wives of the Mei family were too embarrassed to enter the palace, the old lady of the Mei family took advantage of the opportunity and handed in a sign asking for an audience!

——I hope Nanny Duan can protect Mei Ruoqin!

In just a quarter of an hour, the four sedan bearers and An'er, who were all sweating, stopped in front of Qinghui Pavilion.

Wang Xifeng lifted the curtain, got out of the sedan chair, and ran straight into the hall.

Inside the main hall, a stern-looking old lady in her sixties was pointing at Mei Ruoqin's nose and chattering:

"...You are the eldest daughter of the Mei family. You must set a good example for your second uncle's brothers and sisters, and your third aunt's baby!

"Now, your mother and your second aunt have just come to the palace, and your sister hasn't even lived here for three days, and such a scandal has already happened.

"How do you become the eldest sister?

"It's no exaggeration to say that you are unfilial and unfraternal!

“And your father’s foreign appointment, what’s going on?

"I heard that it was you, a young girl who didn't know much about the world, who instigated him to leave the capital?

"You are pregnant with the heir to the throne. Once the prince is born tomorrow, you can at least be made a royal concubine. Your father is the only official in our family. With the tide rising, you may be able to become a minister in one of the six ministries!

"Now, you've sent your dear father thousands of miles away, and you don't want your light to have any impact on your family!

"I just want to ask Concubine Rong, when you were a girl in my family, who treated you badly or offended you?

"——Isn't it all for your reputation and future? Your gambling mother did such a bastard thing, but didn't our family divorce her?!

"Why, now you won't help the family, but when it comes to cheating your father, you do it as smoothly as your gambling mother!

"I'm telling you, my old bones are still strong. If you don't bring your father back from out of town, I will write a letter of divorce for him and expose all the things that happened to her, such as embezzling the money in the mansion, lending it at high interest, and selling her dowry to raise money for gambling!

"No one can live well!"

Wang Xifeng slowed down her pace.

Mei Ruoqin's voice choked with sobs: "Grandma, isn't it because Mother always finds opportunities to gamble in the capital, and always finds people to gamble with her, that I drove her out of the capital?

"I am already the target of public criticism because I am pregnant. If I give birth to a prince, I will become a thorn in the Queen's side.

"I am in the palace, with the Imperial Concubine looking after me and Nanny Duan protecting me, so no one can touch me.

“But Daddy is different!

“He seems noble, but he was arrogant and conceited in his early years, and offended many people.

"What if someone tries to bring me down by framing him? Then my father, you, my second uncle, my third uncle, my brothers and sisters will not get any benefit from me, and will be implicated by me.

"Grandmother, don't talk about me. Aren't the Empress Dowager's family also returning to their ancestral home one after another?!"