After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 744 Plastic Classmates
"What does Mama Ma mean by this?"

When Jin Jiashu slightly edited his conversation with Ma Shangyi, concealed some secret information about the emperor and Concubine Xu, and told Haitang the whole story, she couldn't help but ask this question.

Jin Jiashu did not hide her intentions: "I guess you are warning me not to interfere too much in Wu Ke's marriage?"

Ma Shangyi tried so hard to mess up the marriage between Wu Ke and the daughter of Prefect Xin because she knew that the emperor disliked the Wu family very much and that he posthumously conferred the title of Duke Wen'an on Wu just to cause trouble for the Sun family. In fact, he didn't want the descendants of the Wu family to live a good life. Therefore, when Empress Dowager Zhou arranged for someone to send the survivors of the Wu family to Chang'an, he completely ignored it. Since he couldn't execute them due to public opinion, it would be better to send them away and never let them appear under his nose again.

The Zhou family is a relative of the Wu family, and Queen Mother Zhou has protected the three survivors of the Wu family for many years. Even if the original intention was to use them to cover up for the Seventh Prince, she really wanted to save their lives. In this case, the emperor has made up his mind to reconcile with Queen Mother Zhou and the Zhou family, and naturally will not conflict with them on the issue of the Wu family. The lives of the Wu family are not that important, so it is naturally important to find a protector for the crown prince he favors. But the Wu family can live a low-key life in Chang'an, but it does not mean that they can return to the capital, the power center, and restore their former glory.

The emperor would never tolerate the Wu family returning to Beijing or the Wu family's descendants marrying into a rich and powerful family. And if the candidate for the marriage was a close confidant that he favored, he would be even more intolerant!

Jin Jiashu had seen through the nature of the sycophantic Xin Zhifu under his upright image, and that's why he encouraged him to propose to marry his daughter to Jin Jiashu. Xin Zhifu may have his own little thoughts, but the emperor may not tolerate his little thoughts. Xin Zhifu could find a way to fool the emperor and pass this test, but Ma Shangyi was afraid that if he failed, Jin Jiashu would be implicated, so she would rather try her best to ruin the matter, and she also had her considerations.

Jin Jiashu tried his best to explain the inside story to Haitang using the information he could reveal. Haitang could tell that he was holding back, so she didn't bother to get to the bottom of it. She just pretended to accept his words and said, "In that case, there is no benefit to the Xin family's marriage, and Wu Ke may not benefit from the marriage. If it really can't work out, then it's better not to force it." She glanced at Jin Jiashu and said, "Brother Jin really shouldn't have gotten involved in the first place."

Jin Jiashu smiled and thought, if he hadn't said a few words to Prefect Xin, who knows which girl Wu Ke would end up marrying? For the sake of his own lifelong event, he couldn't help but get involved. Besides, this matter didn't do any harm to Wu Ke. It would make him more aware of his real situation and no longer have high expectations for his future marriage. It wouldn't matter if he got married a year or two later. On the contrary, the daughter of the Xin family had been unsuccessful in her marriage proposals. If she missed the opportunity to marry into the Wu family again, her reputation might be affected in the future.

However, the news that the family that had previously proposed marriage to the daughter of the Xin family heard that she wanted to see someone else and jumped out to seek justice was not true. It was that Ma Ma deliberately hinted to the current wife of the Xin prefect in order to destroy the marriage between the two families, making her worry that the emperor might be angry about their self-assertion. After discussing with the Xin prefect, they decided to drag the Wu family before the emperor clearly agreed to the marriage, using the excuse that the family that had previously proposed marriage to his eldest daughter wanted to do something bad. That family was still in the capital, more than 2,000 miles away, and had no idea what was happening in Chang'an City. It would not hurt to use them to take the blame first.

Prefect Xin would submit a secret memorial to the emperor, explaining that he saw that the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion was looking for daughters of famous scholars or officials, and was worried that this marriage would bring help to Wu Ke, so he pretended to be interested in Wu Ke, a young talent, and intended to marry his daughter to him, thus hindering his marriage and preventing him from having the opportunity to marry a daughter of a wealthy family. As for whether the marriage would really take place in the future, it would depend on the emperor's opinion.

Doing so can conceal the selfishness of Xin Zhifu, and make him appear to be loyal to the emperor. In order to hinder Wu Ke's future, he is willing to use his eldest daughter's marriage as a bargaining chip. As for whether the emperor will believe him, it depends on his luck.

Prefect Xin has his own plans, and the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion sincerely hopes that Wu Ke can marry a virtuous wife. However, in this process, Jin Jiashu and Ma Shangyi interfered and secretly made some moves, which delayed Wu Ke's marriage. It is currently in a deadlock, and no one knows how to solve it. After listening to Jin Jiashu's explanation, Haitang couldn't help but sigh for her friend Wu Qiong: "She is still waiting for her cousin to marry a sister-in-law as soon as possible and set up her own family, so that she can live in her own home for a few more days before getting married. But now Wu Ke's marriage is not going well, I am afraid her wish will not be fulfilled."

Jin Jiashu didn't care about Wu Qiong's thoughts. He just comforted Haitang and said, "The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo is worried about Wu Ke's marriage. I'm afraid she won't be able to find time to help Miss Wu find a partner. If she delays for a long time, her wish may not be fulfilled."

Haitang glanced at him and said, "Brother Jin is now good at making sarcastic remarks. If you hadn't gotten involved, this matter wouldn't have turned into what it is today. Don't you want to say something?"

"What can I say?" Jin Jiashu blinked innocently. "When I got involved, I was also thinking about Wu Ke. He also wants to have a good marriage, right? As for what Ma Ma did, I was also unexpected! I know she meant well and hoped that the emperor would not find out about me and vent his anger on me, but I really didn't feel that I had much responsibility for this."

If Xin Zhifu himself had no intention of speculating, even if he encouraged him in every way, he would not be interested in Wu Ke. How could Xin Zhifu blame others for the trouble he had caused?

Haitang didn't want to say anything. Although Wu Ke and Jin Jiashu were not close, they were still classmates who studied under Xie Wenzai. In the past few years, they read and wrote together almost every day. Even if they were not as close as they were with Haijiao, Haitang didn't expect them to be so plastic. Wu Ke should be okay with Jin Jiashu, right?
Jin Jiashu could only say, "He is a son of an aristocratic family and was brought up in the palace, so he would not be negligent in etiquette, let alone in front of a teacher. But he is the nephew of the Empress of the Central Palace, so it is impossible for him to make a sincere friend of me, the nephew of the Concubine Xian. But he is a simple person, and as long as what I say makes sense, he will listen to it, and he doesn't put on airs on weekdays, so we get along well."

Concubine Xu was born a palace maid. Even though she was only a concubine to Empress Wu, in the eyes of the Wu family, their status was very different. Not to mention that Concubine Xu had served the Wu family survivors during the years they lived in the Cining Palace. It was normal for the Wu family to look down on Concubine Xu's family and not regard Jin Jiashu as a relative of equal status. However, the seventh prince, the grandson of the Wu family, was still alive, but because of his health, he gave up the idea of ​​​​seizing the throne. Instead, the eighth prince, born to Concubine Xu, took advantage and became the hot candidate for the crown prince. As an orphan of the Wu family, Wu Ke could not have no idea at all.

He had known about the existence of the Seventh Prince for a long time, and he might have thought that once the Seventh Prince was crowned as the heir, the Wu family would be able to return to its peak, but now all this has become a bubble. He still has to rely on the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion to survive, and even the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion has accepted the Eighth Prince as the heir, so what else can he say? When getting along with Jin Jiashu, he can be warm, but not very sincere, which is normal.

Jin Jiashu understood Wu Ke's thoughts very well. Anyway, he didn't really have any true feelings towards Wu Ke.

(End of this chapter)