Pei Zhan nodded: "In reply to Your Majesty, my wife is the granddaughter of Ning Pochi, the former Imperial Merchant."
"Ning Pochi?"
The Emperor and Empress exchanged a glance, then the Emperor said, "So it's his descendant!"
The Empress nodded, smoothing the needlework and said, "Although the Ning Family was the Imperial Merchant of the former dynasty, they are also heroes of our dynasty. Without his generous funding back then, the efforts to resist the enemy in the northwest would not have been organized."
At this point, the Empress asked again, "Then what about her father's side?"
"My wife's father, Fu Yun, previously worked at the Ministry of Rites, but due to his lack of control at home, he frequently indulged the wrongdoings of his concubine. My mother-in-law has already divorced Fu Yun.
"And Fu Yun is the grandnephew of Fu Ziyu, the former dynasty's Grand Tutor."
"Oh?"
