"You...you..."
The Third Madam looked at all this in disbelief: "It's all you..."
Taking advantage of her unpreparedness, he actually instigated her daughter to do such a thing. The Third Madam never thought that she had taken all kinds of precautions, but she lost to her own daughter!
The Third Madam couldn't bear it anymore and vomited a large mouthful of blood, but no one in this family would pity her anymore. The Duke wrote a divorce letter for his son with a big stroke of his pen, and asked the Third Madam to pack up and get out of the Jiang family.
On the Queen Mother's birthday, everyone was happy to celebrate for the Queen Mother, but Jiang Ruoting was deliberately waiting for the Emperor to get drunk and go to the side hall to rest, and shamelessly climbed onto the dragon bed to recommend herself as the pillow. Historically, concubines were selected or directly canonized into the palace. Even if they were canonized palace maids, they had to be named by the emperor to have such a special honor.
She was silent. When she woke up, she found that someone had slept with the emperor, and she was the daughter of a guilty minister. How could the emperor not be angry?
The emperor was very suspicious of the young lady from a noble family. After understanding Jiang Ruoting's identity, he immediately reduced the charges against Mr. Jiang Sanye. When he saw Jiang Ruoting thanking him with tears of gratitude, the emperor saw through everything. Only Jiang Ruoting was still complacent about herself. She even began to comfort herself that she was young and beautiful, and she might be favored and even become a favored concubine.
Jiang Ruohua asked for leave from the palace academy, determined to clean up the mess in the Duke's Mansion first. After Princess Shangyang knew about this, she specially asked the eunuch to send a message.
"Don't worry, Miss. His Highness said that you can just take care of your own affairs and don't have to worry about those little things in the palace."
Jiang Ruohua smiled and nodded: "I'm sorry to trouble Your Highness. Please go back and thank him for me."
"You're too polite, Miss. I'll go home first."
Jiang Ruoting had become a thorn in the emperor's heart by entering the palace in this way. It was not easy for him to remove the thorn himself, but there were many people in the palace who could share his worries.
Cai Nu was the lowest rank of imperial concubines in the palace, but she was only slightly higher than a maid. When she entered the palace, she was only served by two maids and a eunuch. Even the concubines who were selected to enter the palace, with a better family background or a more dignified appearance, could be given the title of Talented Person. With Jiang Ruoting's family background, she could even be directly given the title of concubine or imperial concubine. The emperor only gave her the position of Cai Nu, and the meaning was obvious.
Sure enough, since then, Princess Shangyang sent her news every now and then, telling her which concubine had made things difficult for Jiang Ruoting today, and who would punish her to kneel tomorrow. However, the emperor had never thought of her since the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, and even if she went to the emperor to kneel and make trouble, the emperor ignored her.
On the day when Mr. Jiang Sanye was exiled, Jiang Ruohua brought a bag of silver to see him and gave him the bag of silver, saying, "Uncle San, we are uncle and nephew, and this is all your niece can do for you. Take care."
This heavy bag of silver was stuffed into Mr. Jiang Sanye's hands in front of the officers and soldiers escorting the prisoners. It seemed to be Jiang Ruohua's kindness, but in fact it was a death warrant she gave to Mr. Jiang Sanye.
Most of the officers and soldiers who escorted the exiles had offended someone before, so they had to do this kind of hard work. There was no oil, the monthly salary was low, and it was even more difficult. Moreover, the people they escorted were all criminals. Whether these people died or lived on the road, the officers and soldiers didn't care at all. Anyway, they either arrived alive or were buried on the spot. The superiors didn't care what happened, as long as they didn't release the people.
These officers and soldiers were always very violent and fierce, and they would loot all the valuables from the criminals. It was also common for them to rape their female relatives as prostitutes. What's worse, they would even attack thin men and boys. Mr. Jiang San had no female relatives with him, but the bag of silver was so heavy that it was not a small amount. When it was handed to Mr. Jiang San, the officers and soldiers were stunned!
Before December, we got the news that Jiang Sanye's bag of silver was robbed, but the officers and soldiers still thought he had hidden some. It was said that some officers and soldiers suspected that Jiang Sanye hid the silver in his body, so they used some means to force him to take the money. Gradually, he became a new object of entertainment. Jiang Sanye, who had always been arrogant, was treated like a prostitute. The great pain in his heart must have made him live a life worse than death!
He went crazy. The officers and soldiers who didn't take enough silver directly dissected him and turned his body over to look for it, but they couldn't find the silver they wanted in some parts. They buried him in boredom and continued their boring escort life.
Jiang Ruohua hoped that this was true. After all, if he died more lightly than this, how could she relieve the hatred in her heart?
Her father had such a tragic end in the dream. No matter what, she remembered the ugly face of Jiang Sanye after he became a Duke!
Wasn't he arrogant? Then she must ruthlessly crush his ridiculous arrogance. Only by dying in this most shameful way at the end of her life would Jiang Ruohua feel that the pain of losing her father and grandfather would be mostly alleviated.
It was a pity that she couldn't see it with her own eyes, otherwise she would definitely taunt Jiang Sanye fiercely in his ear, using the words that Jiang Sanye least wanted to hear, ruthlessly tearing apart his hypocrisy and trampling him hard underfoot!
A sword made of iron can hurt, but a sword made of words can kill the heart. Death of Mr. Jiang may not relieve his hatred, but dying in humiliation will bring great joy!
But no matter what, this made Jiang Ruohua very happy, so happy that he even managed to clean up the Duke's mansion smoothly. He cleared out the connections accumulated by the third lady over the years and replaced the old people who had been wiped out before. The royal merchant Wen family also sent several capable servants to help. Within a month, the entire Duke's mansion had a completely new look.
During this period, the Li family invited a matchmaker to visit and exchanged birth dates. The marriage between the second son of the Li family and Jiang Ruoqi was finally decided.
The third house suddenly lost two masters, and the beauties in the house didn't know where to go. Jiang Ruohua counted the number of people and found that there were quite a few women in the Third Master Jiang's house, but there was no man to serve them in the Duke's Mansion now, so there was no reason to support them for free.
Jiang Ruohua gave two choices to women who had not given birth: one was to take the severance pay and their own indentures and leave, and have nothing to do with the Duke's Mansion from then on; the other was to stay as a servant, working in the mansion, or working in the farms and shops outside. Those
who had places to go chose the former, and those who had no choice chose the latter. All of them were arranged by Jiang Ruohua.
As for the biological mothers of several young ladies in the mansion, they were still raised as concubines, and they also needed to teach their daughters.
The third wife's son was personally taken to the Duke's side to be educated, in order to urge him to correct the bad habits inherited from his parents as soon as possible.