Chapter 692 - Chapter 692: You Made the Right Choice
Chapter 692: You Made the Right Choice
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
On the way back, because Shi Qingluo was pregnant and the Fifth Prince’s wife was not in good health, the group did not rush.
Every time they went a place, they would stop a day to rest and stroll around.
The Fifth Princess Consort had a gentle and beautiful appearance. Because of her poor health, she gave people a feeling that she was too weak to stand up to the wind.
She was very gentle and spoke in a gentle voice, like a woman made of water.
Although her personality was different from Shi Qingluo, Xi Rong, and Xiao Baili, the few of them unexpectedly got along very well.
Xiao Hanzheng had helped the Fifth Princess Consort recover and she was feeling much better now.
Before this, there were always people beside her who said that her health was not good and she did not have children after marriage, so she was a burden to the Fifth Prince.
Because of this, she was a little depressed. If she was in a bad mood, her health would be even worse.
But because of the Fifth Prince’s persistence, the fact that he had asked Xiao Hanzheng to treat her and brought her to the northern border, the knot in her heart was lifted.
When she was in a good mood, she became more cheerful and her body recovered faster.
Xi Rui and the Fifth Prince had a good relationship.
After having lunch in a county town, Shi Qingluo brought a few women out shopping.
Seeing his little Baili holding the Fifth Prince’s wife and talking and laughing, Xi Rui asked the Fifth Prince, “Why did you follow us back to the northern border at such a critical time?”
Liang Hengyu knew what Xi Rui meant.
In the capital, Sixth Brother had been thrown to the southwest. Perhaps because his First Brother and Second Brother had plotted against Sixth Brother together, the two of them, who had always been competing openly and secretly, had actually joined forces.
What were they going to do together? Naturally, they wanted to pull the Crown Prince down.
Now was also the crucial period for the First and Second Brother to join forces to face the Crown Prince.
Liang Hengyu’s gaze also landed on his wife, who had walked away. “It’s precisely because it’s the key that I don’t want to get involved in that muddy water.”
Other than the fact that he didn’t think his Second Brother would be able to compete for that position, it was also because his Second Brother had stepped on his bottom line.
He really didn’t expect that his brother would arrange for someone to be by his princess’ side. After he left the capital alone in the northern border, he often instilled some negative things into her.
He wanted his princess consort to die of depression and then let him marry another princess consort who would be of help to his great cause.
His current wife was chosen by his father and belonged to the Qingliu faction. There were two censors in the family and they were loyal royalists. They would not take sides just because their daughter was married.
In his opinion, his wife’s family was very smart. It was no wonder that he was put in an important position by his father.
Because his Second Brother could not win over his wife’s family, he felt that he did not know how to appreciate kindness, so he wanted to abandon her. However, he had never asked for his opinion before taking action. This was too much.
According to Xiao Hanzheng’s diagnosis, when he went to the northern border, his princess consort was fed with food that could counteract each other, so she was so sick that she could barely get out of bed. This was the work of his Second Brother and his mother.
After learning about this, he only felt a chill in his heart.
In the past, even if he did not want to get involved in the fight for the throne, he still helped with all his heart because he was his brother from the same mother.
But who knew that his brother would take it for granted and not respect him at all?
He kept emphasizing that he could be like King Yi.
He had never held much hope. Firstly, he wasn’t as powerful as King Yi. Secondly, his Second Brother was far inferior to his father.
“I’m not going to get involved in their trivial matters anymore,” he shrugged and said.
Originally, he did not want to fight for the throne with his Second Brother. In addition, his Second Brother had done such a disappointing thing, so he completely decided to get off the ship.
Therefore, his father’s tacit approval of bringing the princess consort back to North City meant that he approved of it.
Xiao Hanzheng knew what the Second Prince had done behind his back, so he could guess what the Fifth Prince was thinking.
“It’s good to avoid it,” he said. “Otherwise, not only will you be implicated in the future, but you’ll also implicate the people around you.”
He had a good impression of the Fifth Prince.
Although he was of the same mother as the Second Prince, he had his own bottom line.
According to what his wife said, the Fifth Prince’s worldview was not crooked.
Just from the fact that the Fifth Prince did not abandon the sickly princess consort to ask him to treat her and take her away from the capital, one could tell that the Fifth Prince’s character was not bad.
There was no need to follow the Second Prince all the way to the dark side and get implicated in the future.
If a person like the Second Prince were to become the emperor, he would definitely not be like the current Emperor, who would completely give up power and trust his own younger brother.
With that kind of personality, he would not be a good ruler.
In any case, he was definitely not optimistic about the Second Prince.
Although Xi Rui was a silkpants, he still knew a little about the affairs of the imperial court.
He reached out and patted the Fifth Prince’s shoulder. “You made the right choice. It’ll be much quieter if you come out.”
Otherwise, the Second Prince would definitely not let go of the Fifth Prince. The Fifth Prince understood what Xiao Hanzheng and Xi Rui meant and he was touched.
Xiao Hanzheng and Xi Rui treated him as a friend, otherwise they would not have told him the truth.
He nodded. “Yes, I’ll follow you guys from now on.”
He would not return to the capital for a short period of time. If Second Brother and Consort Mother were angry, he would pretend not to know.
In fact, if he had not known Xiao Hanzheng and the others and spent more time with them, he would not have been so eager to get out of his Second Brother’s trap.
Now, he was really glad that his Second Brother had sent him to the northern border and made him think things through in an instant.
“I’ll follow you to the Craftsman College after you go to North City,” he said to Xi Rui.
“Sure, welcome!” Xi Rui smiled.
The Fifth Prince wasn’t joking. When they returned to the North City, he really did follow Xi Rui to the Craftsman College.
He wasn’t interested in machinery. Instead, he liked architecture. Other than helping Xi Rui organize some information about the college, he would attend architecture classes everv day.
Shi Qingluo would also go the Craftsman College give lectures. Although she focused on agriculture, she would go to other majors to give lectures and open up new ideas for everyone.
For example, when she went to the construction class, she would mention that construction was not only about building houses, but also about building roads and bridges.
For example, a reinforced concrete bridge could be built between two mountains to greatly shorten the journey.
Another example would be to build such a bridge on a river, connecting the two sides of the river for convenience.
There were also pedestrian bridges in the city.
The Fifth Prince’s horizons and thoughts were opened up like this. He studied and built the first pedestrian bridge in North City with his masters.
The Fifth Prince’s wife liked to knit, and the Fifth Prince did not hold her back. He let her attend a knitting class specially set up for women.
She was very talented and could weave many things with wool, such as slippers, hats, cushions, and small accessories.
Under Shi Qingluo’s suggestion, she even opened a specialized wool knitting shop in North City to provide part-time jobs for the women in the Craftsman College’s weaving class.
At first, it was just out of interest, but she did not expect business to be so good.
There were many people who bought all kinds of wool shawls, gloves, hats, and bags.
Because of this, she even opened several branches in the northern border and asked the people around her to open a shop in the capital.
Not only did she have more and more money in her hands, but she also helped many female students in the college earn extra money, allowing those women to gain more recognition and support from their families.
This gave the Fifth Princess Consort a sense of accomplishment. She put in more effort and her body got better..