Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator

Chapter 210: News Reaches the Capital

Realisation dawned upon Old Duchess Zheng. She sized up Pan Nianzhen seriously for a moment. The way the young lady shyly kept her eyes down was much more to her liking than how her mother acted.

As Matriarch He's old friend, she couldn't help but be curious.

"How old is she? Is she engaged yet?"

"She just had her coming-of-age ceremony this year. She'll be sixteen in the new year."

"Why, she's a full-grown lady already!"

"Isn't that exactly why I'm worrying about it now?"

Old Duchess Zheng chuckled and shot her old friend a look. "Alright, I understand. I'll keep an eye out for you. If there are any suitable families, I'll bring it up with them."

The matriarch was glad that her friend could help her, of course.

Meanwhile, the young miss in question sitting behind Matriarch He ducked her head. Her cheeks flushed upon the sudden mention of her future engagement.

He Ying's expression turned.

Her mother was trying to marry her daughter off to someone else?

Right now, she and her daughter were penniless and helpless. They didn't have any noble titles or ranks, and she was a widow. Even with House Jing'an backing them, her daughter wouldn't be able to attract a good family. It would most likely be a poor minor official or some noble's son with something wrong in his household.

Compared to that, wouldn't it be better to let her daughter stay in House Jing'an?

They would be able to stay in her maiden home forever then.

He Ying hadn't been slacking these past few days in her maiden home. She had gone around listening to all the news she could get about the estate.

Her elder brother had three sons. The eldest and the youngest were married, but the second one, Erlang, was still single. Furthermore, he was working for Prince Jin in Zhangzhou. His future was extremely bright!

He Ying had had her own plans for her daughter's marriage. The conversation between Matriarch He and Old Duchess Zheng had agitated her, and she now felt that she should push her plans into motion a little earlier.

As she was thinking of how she could do that, Old Duchess Zheng directed her attention to Pan Nianzhen and said, "Royal Princess Duanjia is here. She's going to take all of you young ladies off to play! Why don't you follow along?"

Everyone turned towards Princess Wei. The pretty young lady dressed in bright red with a white fox fur cloak was obviously Royal Princess Duanjia.

Royal Princess Duanjia gave her birthday wishes to her mother before she was ordered to take care of all the young noble misses who had come today.

Matriarch He turned to look at Pan Nianzhen. "Go on. It's rare for the royal princess to be in the mood to socialise. There'll be more to talk about with young ladies your age."

However, after she thought on it a little more, she couldn't rest easy sending Miss Pan away alone, so she ordered Senior Servant Liu to follow.

Pan Nianzhen was still hesitant. Most of the beautiful young ladies in the group following after the princess had very high statuses, so it was rather intimidating. However, just as she raised her head, she caught a threatening glare from her mother.

Pan Nianzhen didn't dare to disobey her mother. She stood up and bid her goodbyes to the older women before rushing off to follow Royal Princess Duanjia.