Second marriage to the regent

Chapter 10
"How is the princess doing now?"

After the Queen Mother took her seat, she asked the Queen Mother.

The queen's face was full of worry: "My daughter-in-law has not yet had time to leave the palace to visit. I heard from the palace maid that she is fine."

When she thought about her daughter falling into the water, the queen became more and more irritable and uneasy, her eyes full of gloom: "It's just that the weather is cold, and my body is weak, I'm afraid it will leave the root of the disease."

After that, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeves.

Everyone present could see the Queen's mood at the moment, but no one dared to say a word.

"Mr. Bai caused the princess to fall into the water. Even if it was an unintentional act, we must not be lenient." The Queen Mother glanced at the kneeling people and said, "Let her be ordained and become a nun!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the people kneeling under the stage were as shocked as if they had been struck by lightning.

"Queen Mother, this punishment..." Tang Zhili was about to speak, but the Queen Mother retorted angrily.

"The Ai family is generous enough to keep her alive! And you two, mother and son! The dignified Marquis of Jing'an, Ye Shi, actually allowed his son to spoil his concubine and kill his wife. You, the Marquis of Jing'an, seriously don't put our laws on the line. It’s in my eyes!”

The Queen Mother's face turned red with anger, and she said angrily: "Today, for Xi'er's sake, the Ai family will punish Ye to fast and chant Buddha's name for one month, and not to leave the house even half a step! As for you, the Ai family has informed the emperor that they will fine you half a year's salary. , if it happens again, I will be exiled directly!"

As soon as the Queen Mother said this, everyone in the Tang family was so frightened that they said nothing. Only Su Junxi, who was sitting next to her, had a smile in her eyes and was watching the show leisurely.

"Then this Bai family's child..." The old lady looked at the Queen Mother in fear.

Although Bai was at fault, the child was innocent after all.

"If Xi'er is willing, she can adopt the child. If she doesn't, she can be raised by Ye." The Queen Mother also wanted to see Su Junxi's attitude towards raising the child.

After all, this is the seed of her enemy, so Su Junxi naturally doesn't want to get close to her, but thinking of taking revenge on the Bai family, she stood up and responded: "As the mistress of the Marquis of Jing'an, I have the obligation to educate Jun'er, so it is natural for me to adopt him." OK."

The Queen Mother inspected everyone: "Do you have any objections?"

After thinking about it, the old lady felt that this was the only way she could do it for now, so she bit the bullet and said, "I will obey the Queen Mother's orders in everything."

Jing'an Hou Mansion
"If you hadn't sent Feng'er away today, how could such trouble have been caused?"

On the way back in the corridor, Tang Zhili suddenly stopped Su Junxi.

A bitter feeling came over her heart, and she liked to take it out on her regardless of right or wrong. You can imagine how stupid she was in her previous life.

"What does the Marquis mean by this? I was the only one on the list for the princess's birthday banquet. It was you who insisted on taking the Bai family with you. Now that the Bai family has caused trouble, let me clean up the mess. What the Marquis did is really Make people laugh."

Su Junxi's eyes no longer had the tenderness of the past, but only disgust and hatred.

Looking at Su Junxi who spoke every word with evidence, Tang Zhili was speechless for a moment. After a moment of silence, he said, "Now that Feng'er is going to become a monk and Jun'er adopts your name, are you satisfied?"

Both the words and the words were humiliating that he had found a woman who had no manners and no knowledge of the world, so he would also use her weakness of having no children and not being loved by him to hurt her heart.

But he miscalculated.

"For a concubine's child to adopt the mistress's lap is a blessing he has cultivated over many lifetimes. If the Marquis doesn't want it, I won't force it. If the Marquis has nothing else to do, I will go back to the hospital to pack my things."

After speaking, she turned her head and left.

"Pack your things?" Tang Zhili was stunned, and then asked after recovering, "Where are you going?"

"Go back to the door."

She left behind a cold word and walked away, leaving only a familiar yet unfamiliar figure behind him.

When Tang Zhili returned to the study, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Su Junxi might cause trouble after she came back. He stood up and was about to stop her, but was stopped by the old lady.

"Do you think things in the mansion are not chaotic enough?" After the old lady took her seat, she was filled with anger: "If she wants to go back, let her go back. If she doesn't go back and explain to Duke Anguo, why don't you go?"

This sentence made Tang Zhili, who was still very angry just now, lower his head in shame. "Hurry up and prepare some gifts. Tomorrow I will go with my grandmother to Anguo Gong's Mansion to apologize."

"My grandson won't go!" Tang Zhili objected.

She insisted on going back, and he would not lower himself to beg her to come back.

"I heard that the regent has arrived in Kyoto. If there is a marriage with Duke Anguo, then Duke Anguo and the Queen Mother will only become more intimate. If you don't ease the relationship with Duke Anguo, do you have to rely on the ministers in the court?"

The old lady was just worried that if the two families got married, the throne would be in jeopardy.

After thinking about it carefully, Tang Zhili went out to prepare.

palace gate

"I knew the Marquis would definitely save me!"

Bai, who had just come out of prison, felt like she had been given a new lease of life and was dancing happily.

But her next words completely ruined her dream of flying up a branch and becoming a phoenix.

"The Empress Dowager decreed that the Bai family should be executed immediately for murdering the princess. Please intercede on your behalf with Marquis Su of Jing'an, and you will be exempted from the death penalty. Send him to the nunnery immediately, and be ordained as a nun!"

"What?!" Bai's eyes widened, thinking that she heard wrongly.

She just ran into the princess in a panic. Who would have thought that the princess fell directly into the lake.

But it was clear that the princess was protected by a fence on the bridge, and she was slightly bumped, so there was no way she could fall.

But she is soft-spoken and dare not tell the truth.

"You must have made a mistake! How could the Queen Mother ask me to become a monk? Absolutely impossible!" Didn't it mean that the Queen Mother and the Empress were at odds?

How could you side with the Queen?

Correct!
Su Junxi must be jealous that she gave birth to Jun'er to Tang Zhili and threatened her status, so she asked the Queen Mother to issue this order.

"I want to see the Queen Mother! I want to see the Queen Mother!" Bai roared like crazy.

"Hold her down!" Grandma ordered.

Mammy raised her hand and swung it hard on her face, teaching her a lesson: "How can a despicable person like you see the Queen Mother whenever she wants!"

Bai was stunned and was quiet for a moment.

Then he grabbed Bai's chin with his right hand and forced her to look at him: "If you are to blame, blame the Marquis of Jingan Ye and the Marquis of Jing'an. In order to protect the Marquis of Jingan from being implicated, they sold you! I pity you for being the Marquis. You gave birth to a son, but in the end you didn’t get any benefits. In order to consolidate your position in the court, the Marquis adopted your child into the name of the Su family."

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" She roared heartbreakingly.

Tang Zhili loved her so much and took great care of Jun'er. How could he cruelly adopt his biological son into Su Junxi's name.

These people are sowing discord.

"Believe it or not, when you enter the nunnery, you won't even be able to see your own flesh and blood, not to mention the Marquis!"

Then he motioned to the soldiers behind him with his eyes: "Take her to the Fajing Temple in the suburbs and be ordained as a nun. She is not allowed to return to the capital without being summoned!"

"Yes!"

"No! I don't want to be a nun! Please beg me for mercy! I don't want to be ordained as a nun! I don't want it!"

(End of this chapter)