Chapter 23: Misfortune
After Ge Fangniang's murder case was solved, Jiang's mother learned the true cause of her death, and the knot in her heart suddenly opened, and her body quickly got better without heart disease. But she was still very guilty in her heart, if she hadn't gone to the Ge family to propose marriage, Ge Fangniang would not have died at a young age, so she proposed to bury Ge Fangniang next to the ancestral grave of the Jiang family, but Ge Xiucai refused.
He made another request, if his sons failed in the future, Jiang Yucheng would take care of them more. Jiang Yucheng sighed that Ge Xiucai is really a smart person, if he agrees to bury Ge Fangniang in the ancestral grave of the Jiang family, the Jiang and Ge families will be cleared, and now he puts forward such a condition, as long as Jiang Yucheng is a person who makes promises, the Ge family can get benefits for a long time.
Jiang Yucheng agreed to his request, after all, the boss of Ge Xiucai's family is a good seedling.
The Ge family clan still wanted to marry a daughter of the Ge family, but Ge Xiucai resolutely opposed it when he learned about it, and Jiang Yucheng naturally didn't want to. Third Master Ge came to Jiang's house several times, but Jiang Yucheng invited him out, and finally threatened Jiang Yucheng angrily, saying that he wanted to inform King Ping of the matter, but Jiang Yucheng was still unmoved.
After the third grandfather returned home, he sent a letter to his granddaughter Ge Yuer. In the letter, he angrily reprimanded Jiang Yucheng for how arrogant and domineering, and how he looked down on the Ge family, and asked Ge Yuer to ask King Jiangdong to come forward and teach Jiang Yucheng a lesson.
After Ge Yuer received the letter from home, she was so angry that she crumpled the letter paper into a ball, "What a Jiang Yucheng, is this deceiving me that there is no one in the Ge family?" ”
After speaking, he instructed the eldest girl Hongyin: "Groom for me, I'm going to find the prince." ”
"Madam, Tuan'er just came to report that the prince went to the princess, and I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate for you to go to the princess at this time." Red Tone persuaded.
Hearing this, Ge Yuer scolded angrily: "The prince is too, and the old vegetable gang can also talk about it, and he really doesn't refuse to come." ”
Hongyin was the maid brought by Ge Yuer from the Ge family, and she was loyal to her, and hurriedly said when she heard this: "Madam, the wall has ears, if these words are heard, it will be repaid." ”
Ge Yu'er glanced at her: "I can't live this day, I can't complain in my own yard." ”
Hongyin was relieved to see that the master was not making trouble to see the prince, and she said: "Madam, the princess has been unfavored for many years, every time the princess goes to the main courtyard, he is just discussing some things. ”
Ge Yuer also thinks so, she has been sending people to keep an eye on the main courtyard, and whenever there is news, she can always know before others, but today somehow, the prince went to the main courtyard and never came out, and her people did not send her a letter. She summoned Tuan'er and asked her to go to the main courtyard to have a look, and as soon as there was news, she would report it to her immediately.
Tuan'er went for a long time and didn't come back, Ge Yu'er suddenly felt uneasy in her heart, she grabbed the handkerchief and kept looking out of the door. About half an hour later, the half-beaten regiment was carried back.
Seeing this, Ge Yu'er's face was as white as paper, and at this time, Mama Wu, who was next to the princess of the main courtyard, said expressionlessly: "The prince has a life, Mrs. Ge will be grounded in Yuxiang Courtyard from now on, and she will not be discharged from the hospital without an order." ”
Where is Ge Yu'er willing to believe what this old lady said, since she entered King Ping's mansion, King Ping doted on her, and said that after a while, he would change her place to ask for the holy decree of the concubine.
She looked at Mama Wu with angry eyebrows, and scolded: "You old Diao slave is talking nonsense, the prince will not ban my feet, it must be the princess who is jealous of my favor and deliberately falsely spread the prince's order, you wait for me, I will go to the prince to make the decision." ”
Mama Wu didn't have a good impression of this pampered and domineering Mrs. Ge, and even extremely disgusted with her sowing discord in front of the prince, which made her princess sad, and said mercilessly: "Are they all dead?" Don't hurry up and carry out the prince's order. ”
She was followed by two mothers-in-law with round waists and thick arms, and when she heard this, she hurriedly pushed Ge Yuer and Hongyin into the house, and locked the door under Ge Yuer's curses. The maids and ladies in the Yuxiang courtyard were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out, and they shrugged their heads like quails.
Only one bold mother-in-law asked: "Mama Wu, the prince only ordered our lady to be grounded, but he didn't say that he wanted to lock her in the house. ”
Mama Wu looked at her coldly, she also knew this mother-in-law, she was one of Ge Yuer's henchmen, she usually relied on Ge Yuer's momentum, and often ran rampant and domineering in the palace, and once even bullied the little master's head.
Mama Wu was willing to let her go, pointed to the mother-in-law and said, "Come on, lock her up too." ”
The woman was struggling and cursing, and Mama Wu asked her to gag her mouth. Then he beat and intimidated the minions of Yuxiangyuan, if anyone dared to let Ge Yu'er out, not only would she die, but even the family would not be good.
In this way, no one dares to say anything more.
The father and son of the third grandfather of Ge didn't know that Ge Yuer was locked up without even seeing King Ping's face, and he was still waiting for his granddaughter's reply at home, and secretly thinking about Jiang Yucheng's miserable fate after offending Queen Ping.
Jiang Yucheng didn't take the Ge family in his eyes at all, he remembered that the teacher said that King Ping was just a grasshopper who couldn't get up, and the emperor had long seen him unpleasantly, so he was waiting for an opportunity to rectify him.
No one expected this opportunity to come by such a coincidence.
The big banquet has had the tradition of the royal family Qiu Mi since the founding of the country, and this year is no exception, Emperor Xianqing ordered the crown prince to supervise the country on September 17, and he took the harem concubines, the sons and daughters of the clan and the princes and ministers to the royal hunting garden Qiu Mi in the eastern suburbs.
King Ping also took his wife and children to go, but on September 19, there was news of the premature birth of the concubine in the palace, and Emperor Xianqing couldn't care about Qiumi, and hurried back to the palace. As soon as Emperor Xianqing left, King Ping was unwilling to stay longer, so he took the princess back to King Ping's mansion.
King Ping refused to go back, and King Ping didn't care. Princess Ping persuaded her several times, but Prince Ping just didn't listen, and Princess Ping, as a stepmother, couldn't say anything, so the thirteen-year-old Prince Ping stayed in the hunting garden alone.
Emperor Xianqing hurriedly returned to the palace, and Concubine Xiang had already given birth to the second prince, but the second prince was poisoned in his mother's womb and broke his legs when he was born.
Emperor Xianqing was painful and angry, he was already a thin heir, except for the crown prince born by the first queen, there was only the second prince born to Xiang Concubine, the second prince was killed like this, Emperor Xianqing ordered that the person who killed the second prince must be found. But when Concubine Xiang was pregnant, she was taken to Huayang Palace to take care of her personally, and Aunt Lan was responsible for eating and clothing, and even the concubine didn't understand how that person harmed Concubine Xiang.
The second prince was born with a bad leg, and then he knew that he was derelict in his duties, and knelt down with the Qianqing Palace to ask for guilt, Emperor Xianqing knew that it was not her fault but still angered her, and ordered her to find out the truth within seven days, and if it exceeded seven days, it would be abolished.
Then he was terrified all day long, hanged in Huayang Palace three days later, so many changes happened in the palace in just a few days, Emperor Xianqing fell ill in a fit of shock, and at this time there was news that Wei Chu, the son of King Ping, pushed Wei Tong, the only grandson of King Gong, off the horse, and Wei Zhi broke his leg.
King Gong is the imperial uncle of Emperor Xianqing, his wife and children died early, and only a single seedling of Wei Tong is left in Prince Gong's mansion. After his grandson was injured, the elderly King Gong hurried to the Eastern Suburbs Hunting Garden, and the imperial doctor diagnosed Wei Zhi's legs too seriously and could not stand up again.
King Gong was stimulated and fainted, and after waking up, he was carried into the palace, Emperor Xianqing was still sick, and saw that the emperor's uncle was in tears to seek justice for his grandson, and he thought of his young son who was born with a disease, and he couldn't help but feel some empathy.
He demoted King Ping to the king of Jiangdong County for the crime of lax discipline, seized the position of the son of King Ping's son, Wei Chu, and renamed Wei Shan, the son born to King Ping's step-concubine, as the son. King Ping was originally an idle clan with no real power, and he was disgusted by Emperor Xianqing when he got too close to King Tonger before, and he had no status among the brothers, and now he has been demoted to the king of the county, which is tantamount to a bolt from the sky, and I really wish I hadn't given birth to the son of Wei Chu.
Wei Chu caused trouble, not to mention the punishment of whipping without the position of the prince, the prisoner was Wei Tong's own grandfather Gong Wang, after the torture was completed, Wei Chu was only left with a broken body.
After Wei Chu was sent back to the Jiangdong Palace, the King of Jiangdong did not come to see him, only the Princess of Jiangdong was kind-hearted and sent someone to take care of him every day, and Wei Shan, the son of the King of Jiangdong, occasionally came to visit, but Wei Chu did not appreciate it, but instead scolded the Princess of Jiangdong and the mother and son of the prince for harboring evil intentions, deliberately causing him to lose the position of the prince and so on.
After all, Wei Shan was only ten years old, and after hearing these words, he was so angry that he complained to his mother: "The eldest brother is too much, obviously he caused trouble himself, but he blames me and my mother, and I will never go to see him again." ”
Princess Jiangdong coaxed him a few words, so that he didn't have to take Wei Chu's words to heart, Wei Chu's death as a son and the punishment of whipping were all the emperor's will, what did it have to do with her?
If she had a choice, she would rather not marry the king of Jiangdong than the position of princess.
It is also said that she has a hard life, and she could have married her cousin after the marriage, but she didn't expect to be married back by the king of Jiangdong at a glance. Marrying a chicken and marrying a dog with a dog, since the princess of Jiangdong married into the palace, she put away her affection for her cousin and treated the king of Jiangdong wholeheartedly.
Who knew that the king of Jiangdong was lewd and lustful, and he only loved the princess who was forcibly married for a while, and then he lingered in the flowers day and night, no matter what fragrant and smelly things were brought into the house, and sometimes he ignored the princess's face and supported the favored concubine, forcing the princess of Jiangdong to ignore family affairs and retire to the main courtyard to survive.
Especially after Ge Yuer entered the door, King Jiangdong was very fond of her, and once surpassed Mrs. Yu of Wuli Courtyard, before Ge Yuer entered the door, Mrs. Yu was the most favored and the person who disrespected Princess Jiangdong the most.
Ge Yuer came later, and after defeating Mrs. Yu, she actually had the idea of replacing Princess Jiangdong, and Princess Jiangdong also found out, but fortunately, Wei Chu had this incident, and Ge Yuer kicked King Jiangdong's sore foot and was disgusted by King Jiangdong.
She thought of the letter that Mama Wu brought out from Ge Yu'er, and couldn't help but sneer, a concubine who couldn't get on the stage, and she also wanted to dominate the career of the imperial court, and she was really not afraid of the wind flashing her tongue.