The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 927 This Net

Despite this, Old Mrs. Meng still looked worried.

She glanced outside. Butler Chu was guarding the door, so no one would come near. But some words still felt like a fishbone stuck in her throat, making it difficult for her to speak.

Meng Shisan could see that Grandma Meng was in a difficult position: "Grandmother, please say whatever you want to say. No matter what you say, your granddaughter will understand."

"Some, but not all," Old Madam Meng understood the true thoughts hidden in Meng Shisan's heart: "Yaoyao, next year His Highness will be choosing a Crown Princess, but it won't be just about choosing a Crown Princess. Do you understand?"

Meng Shisan understood: "Grandmother is saying that in addition to marrying his principal wife, His Highness will also have a concubine from the Crown Prince entering the household at the same time?"

Old Madam Meng said, "I know that Your Highness's original intention was definitely not like this, but if His Majesty really wants to arrange it this way, Your Highness will not be able to resist. If His Majesty uses marrying you into the Eastern Palace as a bargaining chip, then Your Highness will have no choice but to obey. If you do not obey, then Your Highness may not be able to marry you."

“Grandmother is wrong. Even if His Highness follows His Majesty’s arrangements, it is unlikely that my granddaughter will enter the Eastern Palace as the Crown Princess.” Meng Shisan understood this point even better than the old lady Meng.

Grandma Meng tenderly stroked the scar on Meng Shisan's right palm. The pinkish color indicated that the wound had just healed. To completely erase the scar, her eldest granddaughter would need to apply scar-removing ointment for a period of time. Just looking at the scar, she could hardly imagine how her eldest granddaughter had mustered unprecedented courage at that moment to reach out and grab that swiftly poisoned arrow.

“Yaoyao, there is still a chance. If you really don’t want to marry into the Eastern Palace, then Grandmother…” Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Meng Shisan’s soft call.

“Grandmother,” Meng Shisan said, “does Grandfather know that you think this way and tell me this? And if Grandfather knew, would he agree?”

Grandma Meng was speechless.

Meng Shisan said, "You see, you didn't tell your grandfather because you know that even if you discussed this with him, he would definitely not agree."

Grandma Meng remained silent.

Meng Shisan then asked, "Grandmother, if you really talk to Grandfather and he disagrees, what will you do? Will you arrange things for your granddaughter the same way you arranged for my aunt?"

The aunt she mentioned was the late Empress Meng, Li Shou's biological mother, and the biological daughter of Old Madam Meng.

Grandma Meng stared at Meng Shisan in shock: "What do you know?"

"Grandmother, what do you mean your granddaughter shouldn't know?" Meng Shisan didn't answer the old lady Meng directly, but instead asked her, "Is it that your aunt at the time, from the very beginning, was actually like your granddaughter, unwilling to marry into the Eastern Palace and unwilling to become the wife of the then-Crown Prince?"

She pulled her hand away from Grandma Meng's: "Grandmother, since you couldn't do it back then, you can't do it now either. Just listen to your granddaughter. I say I'm lucky and always manage to turn danger into safety. Just believe me, Grandmother. Why make yourself worry?"

She's just spouting empty words and making light of things. She's not the Empress Meng of yesteryear, nor is she a daughter, but a granddaughter. Naturally, she can't be her grandmother's little darling.

It's absolutely impossible for Old Madam Meng to persuade Meng Wan, just like she did back then, to wholeheartedly and willingly dedicate herself to the Meng family to the very last drop of blood.

"Grandmother didn't mean that!" Old Madam Meng was anxious and flustered. "Your situation now is different from Wan'er's back then! Your grandfather was unable to..."

Meng Shisan interrupted Old Madam Meng again: "So, does Grandfather have a solution now? Can he refuse His Highness's wish to marry his granddaughter as the Crown Princess without hesitation? Or can he defy His Majesty and deliberately prevent His Highness from marrying his granddaughter, but still issue an edict to let his granddaughter marry into the Eastern Palace, giving her only the title of Crown Prince's concubine?"

Grandma Meng was speechless. "Granddaughter doesn't know what Grandfather's plans are now, or whether there's truly no way for granddaughter to choose her own marriage, but granddaughter knows that no matter what Grandfather's plans are, Grandfather has never given up on the idea of ​​granddaughter marrying His Highness." Faced with the affection that Grandma Meng had shown in the past, Meng Shisan could still echo her words a few times. In the end, as a granddaughter's filial piety, she went along with it regardless of whether it was right or wrong.

But now, she doesn't want to go along with it anymore.

With the year-end approaching, and the new year just around the corner, followed by the Lantern Festival, Li Shou will be choosing a Crown Princess and holding a grand wedding. She really doesn't want to see Old Madam Meng's indecisive and hesitant attitude again.

Therefore, they simply tore down this web woven from layers of kinship.

She had to break free from the net and eventually say those words to Old Madam Meng, letting her know that she was not Meng Wan, and that she was no longer the sickly Meng Liangchen before she came of age.

She was still the eldest daughter of the Meng family, but she was already Meng Shisan.

In Meng Shisan's mind, it's better to rely on yourself than on others. If you want something, you have to fight for it yourself, and if you don't want something, you have to refuse it yourself.

She never wanted to be married to Li Shou from the beginning, but if it really came to the point where she had no choice, she would find a way to make herself comfortable and carefree.

This sense of comfort and freedom can only be arranged by herself.

Whether as a great earthworm demon or a mortal, Meng Liangchen has no reason to let others arrange her life.

Grandma Meng looked at Meng Shisan. It was still that bright little face, that delicate feature, and those rosy lips. But the words spoken to her by the old lady were so unfamiliar to her that it was more than just shock.

"You've always thought that way?" she asked.

“Grandmother already knows the answer, so why ask again?” Meng Shisan answered directly without beating around the bush. “Or is it that Aunt also thought the same thing as her granddaughter back then, and also talked to Grandmother about it, but Grandmother did not do anything about it, which led to Aunt’s death from postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to His Highness?”

These words are somewhat harsh.

But she insisted on saying it.

Some things can't always follow the wishes of certain people and develop to their core, while simultaneously spouting a moral philosophy.

Grandma Meng suddenly stood up, her old eyes wide open, her hand pointing at Meng Shisan trembling like an autumn leaf swaying on a branch: "Who told you all this!"

She was almost screaming as she questioned Meng Shisan.

Upon hearing the sound, Butler Chu, who was standing guard outside Qingming Hall, quickly turned around and took a few quick steps to step into Qingming Hall, but was stopped by Old Madam Meng: "You are not allowed to enter!"

Butler Chu had already stepped one foot into the threshold of Qingming Hall when he heard the reprimand and quickly retreated.

He bent down, barely daring to look directly at the two masters, one standing and one sitting in the hall: "Yes."