In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 492 A Dream of Red Mansions - Wang Xifeng 19

Not long after, the Rongguo Mansion finally remembered that Jia Lian was of marriageable age and began to look for a wife for him. Mrs. Wang then thought of Wang Xifeng again, so she wrote another letter to her brother Wang Ziteng.

Wang Ziteng was tempted. After all, there was still no news about sending Wang Xifeng into the palace, while Mrs. Wang's daughter Jia Yuanchun had indeed become a female official in the Queen's palace. Although her status was not good, she did have the opportunity to get close to the new emperor.

Coincidentally, Prince Beijing also found Wang Ziteng at this time and proposed to marry Wang Xifeng as a concubine.

"Just a concubine?"

Wang Ziteng was not very satisfied. The term "concubine" sounded good but she was just a concubine after all. Prince Beijing was not Prince Zhongshun. Prince Zhongshun was the son of the retired emperor and had the title of prince. If she became a concubine to Prince Zhongshun, if he succeeded, she would at least have the status of a noble concubine. Even if he failed, she would still be a prince's concubine, with the imperial edict of the second rank.

Prince Beijing was just a prince of a different surname, and his concubine could only have a third-rank imperial decree at most. The key point was that Prince Beijing could only give him this much, which was no match for the biological son of the retired emperor.

It would be better if she was the queen.

Wang Ziteng felt disappointed and didn't really want to agree to Prince Beijing, but compared to Jia Lian in Rongguo Mansion, Prince Beijing was still better, so he didn't refuse directly.

He planned to talk to Jia She first. If Jia She could hand over his connections in the military to him, he would be more inclined to marry Wang Xifeng to Jia Lian.

Even if Jia Lian inherited the title in the end, he could only be a third-class general, and Wang Xifeng could only be the wife of a third-class general, on the same level as Jia Zhen's wife Youshi, and not even as good as the first wife Xingshi. Wang Ziteng didn't care at all.

After all, what he wanted more were the benefits that the marriage with Wang Xifeng would bring, rather than any benefits that Wang Xifeng herself would get.

Prince Beijing only mentioned the position of concubine and did not offer any benefits to win over Wang Ziteng. How could it be inferior to the military connections that could be obtained from Rongguo Mansion?

The plot has come to this point again after many twists and turns. Wang Xifeng has no idea that the task she thought was almost completed could actually take a sudden turn and hit her in the face.

During this period, in order to cultivate the merit meridians as quickly as possible, Wang Xifeng had to hypnotize the maidservants around her every day to absorb the power of merit every minute.

The activation of the soul-summoning bird's inherent talents requires the consumption of spiritual consciousness. When Wang Xifeng was not clear about it before, she used it a lot. Now that she knows that the system may be secretly absorbing her spiritual consciousness behind her back, Wang Xifeng naturally will not use it easily.

There was no other way now, and she could only use it at the risk. Fortunately, Wang Xifeng was now more skilled in using her talent, and she could control the consumption of her spiritual consciousness more accurately, without causing her spiritual consciousness to overflow even a little. However, after doing so, she would still consume some spiritual consciousness and energy, which slowed down Wang Xifeng's cultivation efficiency.

Just when Wang Ziteng was hesitating, Jia She personally decided on a candidate for Jia Lian, a girl named Zhang from Jia Lian's biological mother's family.

Both Grandmother Jia and Mrs. Wang disagreed with the candidate chosen by Jia She. As Grandmother Jia was Jia She's biological mother and Jia Lian's grandmother, she could naturally oppose it in person. As Mrs. Wang was the aunt from the next room, no matter how many complaints she had in her heart, she could only keep her mouth shut and endure it.

Jia Lian himself did not object, he was just surprised that he still had relatives.

From childhood to adulthood, no one in the entire Rongguo Mansion had ever mentioned Jia Lian's biological mother. Jia Lian knew nothing about this. This was the first time he heard Jia She talk about the Zhang family.

"The Zhang family's daughter is good, but the Zhang family is now just a commoner. Lian'er is the heir of the Rongguo Mansion and will inherit the title in the future. How can she marry a daughter of a commoner family?"

Grandmother Jia knew that the Zhang family was well-educated. Although she did not like Jia Lian's biological mother, she would not deliberately belittle her. Apart from the identity issue, Grandmother Jia still cared about what happened in the Zhang family in the past and was afraid that it would implicate the Rongguo Mansion.

"You know what happened back then. It's not that we are heartless, it's that we have no other choice."

"Now that the emperor is still alive, the Zhang family..."

Jia Lian's biological mother is the youngest daughter of the late Prince's tutor, Zhang, and Jia She is the study partner of the late Prince Yi Zhong. The late Prince himself was the matchmaker for this marriage, otherwise Zhang, a man of integrity, would not have agreed to marry his youngest daughter to a noble family.

However, the former crown prince failed later, and Tutor Zhang was implicated and died. The two sons of the Zhang family were demoted and had to leave the capital and return to their hometown with their families. Zhang happened to be pregnant with Jia Lian at that time. She was already in poor health due to excessive grief over the accidental death of Jia Lian's brother Jia Hu, and she was so excited about hearing the news of her father's death and the situation of her family that she had a difficult delivery. In the end, she died after giving birth to Jia Lian.

"The Zhang family is fine now."

"A few years ago, Zhang's eldest son passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi. Now, Zhang's second son has also passed the imperial examination. Even Zhang's third son from the second branch of the family has become a scholar at a young age."

"Since the Zhang family was able to pass the imperial examination and gain fame, it means that the matter has been resolved by the emperor."

Jia She had not originally thought of reconnecting with the Zhang family. In his previous life, because Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian were engaged too early, Jia She had never thought about it at all. In this life, because of Jia Lian's marriage, Jia She accidentally learned about the Zhang family. After learning about the situation of the Zhang family, Jia She realized that the Zhang family was fine.

Since the Zhang family is fine, there is naturally no need to cut off Jia Lian's connection with the Zhang family. Jia She has become absurd since Zhang's death. He is just another kind of drunken life. Now, for the sake of Jia Lian, his legitimate son, he has to use his almost rusty brain.

The Zhang family was originally unwilling to see Jia She, but Jia She insisted. In addition, Jia She and Zhang had a really good relationship at the beginning and Jia She's ruthlessness was beyond his control, so they finally met Jia She.

When the Zhang family learned that Jia She's intention was to ask Jia Lian to marry Zhang's daughter, everyone in the Zhang family was silent. Zhang was the only daughter of the previous generation of the Zhang family, and the youngest, and was the most favored of the family.

For the sake of the last bit of blood left by Zhang, the Zhang family finally agreed to Jia She's request.

Although Jia Lian is too romantic, he is not stupid. After listening to Jia She's talk about the Zhang family, he realized that Zhang was a good choice. Seeing that Jia She explained it so clearly and looking at Jia Lian's eager eyes, Jia Mu naturally would not insist on opposing it. Only Mrs. Wang was left anxiously.

If Jia Lian marries the daughter of Zhang family, what about Feng Ge'er?

When Mrs. Wang wrote to Wang Ziteng, she did not say at all that this was entirely her own decision and that Jia She had never agreed to it.

We must settle on Feng Ge'er before Jia Lian settles on the Zhang family.

Mrs. Wang decided to use some means to arrange the marriage between Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian in advance. She turned around and began to write a letter to Wang Ziteng, inviting Wang Xifeng to stay at his house for a few days. Then she would find a way to ask Jia Lian to destroy Wang Xifeng's "innocence". This marriage would have to be done even if it couldn't be done.

It's just that Mrs. Wang had a good idea, but Wang Xifeng didn't accept it. Wang Xifeng wanted to use one day as two days. She didn't have enough time to practice, so how could she have time to go to Rongguo Mansion to act with Mrs. Wang, and she had to guard against her tricks.