In the evening, Xia Zheng finally returned from the palace and shouted to Lin Yuan as soon as he entered the door, "You’re going to have a new sister-in-law!"
New sister-in-law?
Lin Yuan’s first thought was that Xia Zhen was going to divorce and remarry, but then she rembered how he and Tian Hui were as close as glue and knew she was overthinking.
If it wasn’t Xia Zhen, then it must be...
"Is my eldest brother getting married?"
No wonder Zhao Hongde sent soone to summon Xia Zheng to the palace early this morning; they were discussing a lifelong matter!
Xia Zheng sat next to Lin Yuan with a happy smile. Although it had only been a day, he already missed her dearly.
After touching Lin Yuan’s belly, Xia Zheng slowly said, "Isn’t it him? Haha, the Little White Rabbit must have seen how happily we little couple are living and can’t wait to get married too!"
Lin Yuan laughed and scolded him, Zhao Hongde wasn’t that kind of person!
With a cheeky grin, Xia Zheng wrapped his arm around Lin Yuan’s waist, mischievously rubbing her belly as he said, "Indeed it’s not him who’s in a hurry, but being the Crown Prince, he has no choice! Among the two grown-up princes, the second prince already has several won in his house, but he doesn’t have a single one. Humph, those who don’t know might think he covets my beauty and wants to remain pure for forever!"
Slap!
Lin Yuan unceremoniously slapped a certain arrogant guy’s face.
He’s so shaless!
"Since he’s getting married, did they say which family’s young lady it is?"
Zhao Hongde is such a gentleman; I wonder which family’s daughter would catch his interest. If the girl isn’t suitable, I won’t agree.
"You probably haven’t seen her; she’s the daughter of Sir Shen, who recently took office in the capital."
Sir Shen is the current Pri Minister succeeding Su Zhe. He was once the Governor of Jiangnan and is known for his good reputation.
His daughter shouldn’t be too bad.
However, if given a chance, she’d still want to personally see what kind of person this Miss Shen is.
Seeing Lin Yuan in deep thought, Xia Zheng playfully tapped her on the nose, "You probably haven’t t this Miss Shen, but you’ve seen her younger sister."
Who?
Lin Yuan couldn’t rember knowing any young lady nad Shen!
"Do you rember that little girl you took notice of when ’The Butterfly Lovers’ premiered? That’s Miss Shen’s younger sister."
Ah, so it’s her!
Lin Yuan recalled it; she was the one who wistfully said she also wanted a husband who cherished his wife like Xia Zheng, and kept glancing back eagerly at the crowd after being reminded by her companion?
Lin Yuan had a pretty good impression of that little girl, innocent and straightforward.
With such a younger sister, Miss Shen is likely not bad either.
Lin Yuan didn’t notice that in just a few words, her impression of this yet-to-be-seen future sister-in-law had risen from "not too bad" to "quite good".
Actually, these worries are unnecessary. Now that Zhao Hongde is the Crown Prince, his wife would be the Crown Princess Consort, the future mother of the nation.
For such an important role, she’d be chosen ticulously, and the Old Emperor and Consort Shu are surely more cautious than her.
However, as an adopted sister, Lin Yuan had long considered Zhao Hongde’s lifelong matters as her own, hence her keen interest.
"Your brother by marriage sure is fortunate! Not only is he marrying the Crown Princess Consort, but the old man hasn’t forgotten to arrange several concubines for him too!"
Though speaking about fortune, Xia Zheng’s expression didn’t show envy, more like he was expecting a show.
After all, although Zhao Hongde is a prince, he’s nothing like Zhao Hongsheng, who’s fond of won. Influenced by the Xia family, he’s a man of good moral standing.
Forget concubines, he doesn’t even have serving maids. The ones attending to him every day are the young servant by his side or eunuchs in the palace. No wonder people suspect there might be so unspeakable secrets between him and Xia Zheng.
However, since they are concubines, their status won’t be too noble.
But, as they are selected for the Crown Prince, when Zhao Hongde succeeds the Great Unity, these won will enter the harem, so their status can’t be too lowly either.
In this light, the suitable candidates are daughters of Fifth Rank officials’ families in the capital or concubine’s daughters of prominent ministers’ families.
Of course, if there’s an exceptionally qualified daughter from an imperial rchant’s family, she would also have a chance to be chosen.
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