Today is the day when Chen Feng, the son of Marquis Jinyang, marries his second wife.
The marquis's mansion was decorated with lights and a banquet was held for guests. In this lively atmosphere, only the Zhufeng Courtyard where the Crown Prince's wife Wei lived seemed out of place and was deserted.
Several old women who had just received their wedding silver passed by the gate of Zhufeng Courtyard.
"If you ask me, our prince's wife has a miserable life."
"My father has been sent to prison, my husband has remarried, and we don't even have a child. What's going to happen to me in the future? Tsk tsk!"
"Say less, the Crown Prince's wife treats us well..."
"What are you afraid of? Anyway, the Crown Prince's wife will not be the one in charge of this mansion in the future." Although he said this, his voice finally became softer.
Inside the tightly closed courtyard gate not far away, several maids had grim faces. After hearing the footsteps gradually fade away, they all looked towards the main room worriedly.
Seven days ago, her husband was imprisoned by the emperor. After the Crown Prince's wife came back from asking the Marquis and his wife for help, she locked herself in her room.
Not only did the prince never come to visit once during this period, he also married a concubine at this critical juncture.
The Crown Prince's wife must have cried so much behind closed doors that her tears ran dry. She didn't know how bitter she felt in her heart.
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Outside the courtyard, red silk was hung high and gongs and drums were beating loudly.
In the quiet main room of Zhufeng Courtyard, Wei Yunlan did not cry or feel sad as the maids had worried, but her eyes were full of relief and excitement.
She's back!
She went back to eleven years ago, the day when Chen Feng married Xue Linglong as his co-wife!
Although Daddy was involved in an old case five years ago and was thrown into prison by the Emperor, the decree to confiscate his property and exile him will not be issued until today. At this time, the family has not yet left the capital and embarked on the road of exile to Beiguan.
My younger brother had not been separated by the refugees, my father had not been hit on the head by the rolling rocks, and my mother had not been broken down by this series of misfortunes and become bedridden.
In her previous life, she agreed to let Chen Feng marry Xue Linglong as his co-wife in exchange for the Marquis's Mansion to help with the arrangements and rescue her father from prison.
The Marquis accepted her 10,000 taels of silver, but pretended to obey her. The Marquis's wife took advantage of her situation and sent her people from the outer courtyard back to her parents' home to help, thus blocking the way for Zhufeng Courtyard to get the news from the outside world.
The prince, Chen Feng, even held a wedding banquet with great fanfare, waiting to marry the person who had always been the apple of his eye into his house.
By the time she realized something was wrong, the news of the confiscation of property and exile had spread, and her family had been escorted out of the capital and on the road to exile in Beiguan.
She ran to question him, but was placed under house arrest in Zhufeng Courtyard.
In the following year, news of her family members passing away came back one after another, and her illness became more and more serious.
On the last day before she died, everyone in the Marquis' Mansion who had not been seen for a long time came to her bedside one after another.
The Marquis said, "Go with peace of mind. You will not be alone as you have so many relatives from your mother's family with you on your way to the underworld."
The Marquis's wife said, "It is true that the Marquis's Mansion relied on the Wei Family to keep its title, but now that the Wei Family is in trouble, the Marquis' Mansion has not divorced you, which is considered a repayment of this favor."
Chen Feng said: "Although we are not destined to be together, I don't mind leaving you in a quiet place to take care of you until you grow old. You can only blame yourself for not being able to keep up with your health, not me."
Finally, Xue Linglong, who was pregnant, said to her, "The Wei family blocked the Second Prince's path, so the family was destroyed, and you blocked my path. You occupied the position of the Crown Prince's wife. If you don't die, my child will not be born and will not be a legitimate legitimate son. So, I'm sorry!"
She breathed her last in front of Xue Linglong, but did not return to reincarnation. Instead, she turned into a ghost and floated in the Jinyang Marquis Mansion.
For a full ten years, she witnessed Xue Linglong giving birth to two sons and a daughter for Chen Feng, firmly sitting on the position of wife of the Marquis of Jinyang.
We witnessed Xue Linglong tinkering with new products such as hot pot and milk tea that were popular in Beijing, as well as soaps and perfumes that were loved by ladies and young ladies.
He witnessed the increasing prosperity of the Marquis of Jinyang's Mansion, which became the most powerful in the capital.
He also witnessed them seizing the dowry she left in the Marquis' Mansion and obtaining an ancient jade containing secrets of the universe from the dowry.
Xue Linglong called that thing space. Later, Xue Linglong and Chen Feng used this space to meet the second prince, who had the greatest hope of inheriting the throne, and secretly transported military equipment from various places for the second prince...
But in the end, they did not wait for the second prince to ascend the throne and gain the credit for following the dragon, but instead waited for the invasion of barbarians from outside the pass.
At that time, the crown prince had passed away, the emperor was seriously ill, and the second prince temporarily took over the emperor's government. After the barbarian army broke into the capital, the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion, as a staunch supporter of the second prince's faction, was the first to bear the brunt and was brutally massacred.
When Xue Linglong and Chen Feng died at the hands of the barbarians, the ancient jade that had disappeared for many years fell from Xue Linglong's body.
A golden light flashed, and the blood color in the eyes disappeared.
Her soul went back to eleven years ago, the day when Chen Feng married Xue Linglong.
She later learned from Shen Feng's complaints that the news of the Wei family's confiscation of property and exile came when he and Xue Linglong got married.
Wei Yunlan pricked up her ears and heard that the suona outside was still playing the music for welcoming the bridal sedan, and the step of the wedding ceremony had not yet begun.
The wedding process for noble families is complicated, so she still has at least an incense stick of time.
There’s still time!
Having made up his mind, Wei Yunlan walked straight to the small room behind the couch and took out a jade box inlaid with a picture of pine and crane in spring from the dressing table.
The box contained a pair of jade bracelets with excellent water content, but what was truly important was not them but an ancient jade carved with the image of Guanyin on a lotus platform, hidden in the bottom layer.
In her previous life, Xue Linglong accidentally dropped a box and discovered an ancient jade.
Wei Yunlan wanted to imitate this move, but the moment he got the box in his hand, he felt something in his heart, as if he knew what to do, and he scratched the bottom of the box lightly with his fingernails, using some skill.
With a "click" sound, the interlayer opened and the ancient jade fell into his hands.
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