Chapter 256: Really Causing Trouble

With Chen Huazheng's preliminary plan for the wedding banquet package, they discussed it again and quickly finalized all the matters related to hosting the wedding banquet.

Now that we have a specific plan, the next thing will be easy. We just need to proceed step by step.

As soon as the news that Yipinlou was hosting a wedding banquet got out, people immediately lined up to book the banquet.

Within a few days, the wedding banquet has been booked until next year.

Just when Yipinlou began to get busy with the banquet reservations, one shocking piece of news after another hit the news, leaving everyone in the capital dizzy.

First, it was reported that Jiang Yirou and Ningyang Marquis's son Chen Lin had an affair at a banquet at the Mingguo Mansion and were caught by everyone.

It is said that the situation at that time made everyone present stunned and their eyeballs almost bulged out, which shows how shocked they were.

You know, Chen Lin is engaged to the second daughter of the Duke of Ming's Mansion.

Wasn't it a blatant slap in the face of the Duke Ming's Mansion that he and Jiang Yirou behaved like this at the banquet held at the Mansion?

Ningyang Marquis's Mansion intended to suppress the matter, but the situation was too chaotic that day. As soon as the banquet at Mingguo Mansion ended, the matter between Jiang Yirou and Chen Lin became known to everyone through the mouths of the spectators.

Everyone was surprised and couldn't help sighing.

It is said that the Ningyang Marquis's son and the Mingguogong's second daughter have a childhood sweetheart relationship and a deep affection between them.

But it seems that the friendship between these childhood sweethearts is not that deep.

The prospective son-in-law had such a thing happen with someone in his own house, and the Duke of Ming was slapped in the face in public. I'm afraid this marriage will not be completed, and it may even become an enemy.

Sure enough, not long after, the engagement between the Ningyang Marquis' Mansion and the Mingguo Duke's Mansion was really cancelled.

Just when everyone thought that Chen Lin had married Jiang Yirou back home, news came out that Chen Lin had fainted in the mansion due to hunger strike.

The reason turned out to be that Chen Lin was unwilling to marry Jiang Yirou, and even refused to take her back home.

This made the onlookers who had been paying attention to this matter feel extremely strange. Chen Lin had already had physical contact with Jiang Yirou, but he was still unwilling to marry her.

Some people keenly discovered that this matter is not as simple as it seems, and there may be a reversal next.

Sure enough, on the second day, an imperial censor impeached Jiang Can in the court for taking his sister to commit murder and plotting to murder the heir to the Ningyang Marquisate.

Even Jiang Jinrong was impeached, saying that he was not upright and did not manage his household properly.

It turned out that Jiang Yirou did not have an invitation from the Duke Ming's Mansion that day, and it was Jiang Can who took her to attend the banquet at the Duke Ming's Mansion.

Chen Lin did not do that with her voluntarily, but was drugged.

Many people who were present that day saw with their own eyes that Chen Lin was taken back unconscious afterwards.

There was also a testimony from the imperial physician that the medicine was too strong and caused irreversible damage to Chen Lin's body.

Emperor Jingning was furious and ordered the Minister of Personnel Wei Yu to work with the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to quickly investigate the matter.

Not long after the morning court session ended, Jiang Can was taken away.

The matter was twisted and turned again and again, making the onlookers very excited.

However, there are still some inside stories that outsiders don’t know.

Princess Lejia looked at Chen Huazheng and Zhou Ying, and said meaningfully: "It is true that Chen Lin and his fiancée have a deep relationship, and it is also true that he was drugged. When she learned that Chen Lin had fainted from hunger strike, Concubine Chen cried in front of the emperor and begged His Majesty to investigate the matter thoroughly. Later, she fainted from crying."

It turns out that Chen Lin and his fiancée's wedding date is set for early spring next year.

But after Jiang Yirou's interference, the Duke of Ming's Mansion was determined to cancel the engagement.

Chen Lin cried and begged in vain, feeling hopeless.

Things have come to this point, and if the matter gets out of hand it won't be good for either family.

Jiang Jinrong also put aside his face and went to negotiate with Ningyang Hou in person, hoping that Ningyang Hou's mansion would accept Jiang Yirou.

The Ningyang Marquis' Mansion had already decided to hold its nose and let Chen Lin take Jiang Yirou as his concubine.

It was impossible to marry her, but the matter had become so serious that she could only be given the position of a concubine.

It can be said that before Chen Lin went on a hunger strike, everything was going according to Jiang Yirou's plan.

Jiang Yirou had her plan just as she wished, but she overlooked the fact that Chen Lin was a lovesick and stubborn person.

Chen Lin originally only had his fiancée in his heart. After the incident, he hated Jiang Yirou to the core, so how could he be willing to marry her?

In anger, he started a hunger strike and would rather die than marry Jiang Yirou.

It would be fine if Chen Lin was someone else, but he was the only son of Ningyang Marquis and the nephew of Concubine Chen.

Except for Chen Lin, who was born to the Marquis's wife, all the other children in Ningyang Marquis's Mansion are daughters.

As the only heir, Chen Lin is the treasure of Ningyang Marquis Mansion.

That was the future of Ningyang Marquis Mansion, and because of Jiang Yirou's calculations, it was about to be destroyed.

How could Ningyang Hou and Concubine Chen tolerate this?

When Emperor Jingning was still the crown prince, Concubine Chen was always by his side, and they had a special friendship between them.

Seeing her fainting from crying in front of the emperor, even the queen couldn't bear it.

As a result, Emperor Jingning ordered the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the matter, and a series of events occurred, including Jiang Can being taken away.

After hearing what Princess Lejia said, Shen Huazheng and Zhou Ying immediately understood what was going on.

With your majesty's intervention, the nature of the whole matter has changed, and it is naturally impossible to be easily covered up.

Zhou Ying picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Jiang Yirou and Xiao Han are indeed mother and daughter, each one is more capable of causing trouble than the other."

Fortunately, the eldest princess had foresight and adopted Aning to Marquis Wenxin early on.

Otherwise, you might really be implicated by the troubles in their family.