Chapter 58 The Third Princess Was Trampled to Death by a Mad Horse

The third sister was implicated and died by the third brother-in-law? Upon hearing this, the seven or eight princesses were all stunned, put down the small objects in their hands, and listened quietly.

Ji Jinyou was puzzled: [How did you get involved? ]

System: [The Third Prince Consort, also known as Marquis Chengyang, is neither good at literature nor martial arts, and is a lazy marquis with no real power.]

[He had no business sense, but he insisted on doing business. He lost all his capital, and felt ashamed. He did not dare to tell the third princess. He tried all kinds of ways to make the money back in private. As a result, he was deliberately set up and fell into gambling. He lost again and again. The more he lost, the more he wanted to turn the tables. When he realized that there was a problem, he not only lost all the money and property in his hands, but also borrowed a lot of foreign debts. ]

The seven and eight princesses gnashed their teeth in hatred, wishing they could capture the third prince consort and give him a good beating.

Ji Jinyou was shocked: [Doesn't the third sister know? ]

System: [Although this Third Prince Consort doesn't have much ability, he really likes the Third Princess and has always been very kind to her. The Third Princess is also sincere to him. The two of them can be said to be a loving couple.]

[At first, the Third Prince Consort said that it was not good for him, a grown man, to always live off his wife, and he wanted to start a business. Since her husband wanted to make progress, the Third Princess readily agreed and gave him a lot of support, gradually giving him most of the cash she had.]

[It was not until the creditors who had borrowed money from him came to collect the debt that the third princess realized that his business had long been in the red and that he was still gambling outside and had a large amount of foreign debt. Seeing that the matter could no longer be concealed, the third prince consort finally confessed the matter.]

[The third princess was very disappointed, but the two were husband and wife, they loved each other in the past, and they had a son, so she couldn't just ignore him. Besides, as a princess of Dasheng, she couldn't afford to not pay back the money she owed, so she paid off the debt for the third prince consort. As she didn't have enough cash, she sold a few shops and finally paid off the debt.]

Ji Jinyou didn't understand: [All the debts were paid off, so why did the third sister end up dying from the consequences? ]

Youyou's words expressed the thoughts of the seven or eight princesses, who were also confused and puzzled.

System: [Because gambling is addictive, the Third Prince Consort went back to gambling and owed a huge debt. The Third Princess paid off his debts once again, but she stopped caring about him afterwards. The main reason was that she was powerless to do anything about it. She gambled away all her family fortune. She sold everything that could be sold in the huge Princess Mansion, leaving only an empty shell. She was bankrupt.]

[Unexpectedly, the Third Prince Consort was instigated by his friends in the casino to collect taxes from the people in his fiefdom. It was not yet the time to pay taxes, so this aroused public anger.]

[The third princess heard the news and went to calm the situation, but some bad people took the opportunity to incite the angry people, who overturned the carriage. The third princess was trampled to death by the mad horse on the spot. This incident caused a big uproar, and Emperor Wen Zhao later executed many people.]

The Seventh Princess almost shed tears when she heard this and turned her head away quickly, not wanting Little Nine to see her. The Eighth Princess patted her shoulder and sat forward to block her.

Ji Jinyou asked again: [What about the prince consort? ]

System: [Emperor Wen Zhao originally wanted to execute him, but when he thought of the old marquis who had saved his life several times, he finally couldn't bear it and sent him to exile in the army.]

The mother died, the father was exiled, the child was pitiful enough. Ji Jinyou sighed in his heart: [When did the third sister die? ]

System: [Let me see. Ah, it was in the second half of this year. It is said that Emperor Wen Zhao ordered the execution of people. The rice was golden yellow. That should be autumn.]

The Seventh Princess could no longer sit still and wanted to get up to find the Queen, but the Eighth Princess held her back and motioned for her to listen a little longer. There was no point in wasting a moment, so the Eighth Princess had to sit back down.

Ji Jinyou thought for a moment and said, "It's just the beginning of summer, so there's still a long way to go before autumn. I'll think about how to remind my third sister later."

System: [Come on, Youzi, you can do it. ]

Ji Jinyou asked again: [Why did His Majesty and the Queen choose to find such a person for my third sister? ]

The system said: [The title of the Third Prince Consort was passed down from his father. His father, Marquis Chengyang, and Your Majesty learned from the same martial arts master. He was Your Majesty's sparring partner, and they could also be considered brothers.]

[Your Majesty is a bastard prince. Not only is his mother not favored, but she was also banished to the cold palace. He witnessed his mother suffering in the cold palace and secretly vowed to take her out.]

[Your Majesty has no background, no help, and it is extremely difficult to get a deposed concubine out of the cold palace. ]

[Fortunately, Your Majesty has been very smart since childhood and is a man of strategy. In those years, the borders of Dasheng were in turmoil, so Your Majesty, who was only twelve years old, asked to join the army.]

[In the following years, he followed the army on expeditions to the east and west, daring to kill and charge, and repeatedly made military achievements with his real ability, and gradually gained more and more supporters in the barracks.]

[Only then did he gradually gain a position in the late emperor's heart and a say in the court. Later, he secretly exerted his power and had the court officials report to the emperor, and only then did His Majesty take his mother, now the empress dowager, out of the cold palace. Of course, this is all beside the point.]

[What I want to say is that during the years when Your Majesty was in the army, the old Marquis Chengyang always followed Your Majesty by his side. The two of them shared life and death and hardships together. They could be called sworn brothers.]

[In the end, His Majesty was betrayed by his only trusted brother, and the old marquis was shot with several arrows in his body in order to rescue His Majesty, and died.]

[Before the old marquis died, he entrusted his only son, the third prince consort, to Your Majesty. Your Majesty, grateful for the old marquis's help, gave the third princess to the third prince consort.]

Ji Jinyou: [Didn't Your Majesty see that there was something wrong with the Third Prince Consort? ]

System: [She probably didn't see it, otherwise even if His Majesty wanted to arrange a marriage, the Queen probably wouldn't agree.]

Tong Tong didn't know what happened back then, but the seventh and eighth princesses knew it. Although the third prince consort didn't have any great abilities at the time, he was handsome and had a decent character.

The third princess had her own fiefdom and fiefdom, so as her consort, he didn't need to be very capable. It would have been fine as long as he lived an honest life with the princess. But who could have expected that he would insist on starting a business? It really makes me angry.

Just now Xiaojiu said that when the rice turns yellow it is autumn. But Xiaojiu is young and knows little, and she has never been out. She doesn't know that the third princess' fiefdom is in the south of the Yangtze River, where they grow rice twice a year and the rice turns yellow twice.

Tong Tong might not know this either, or it might not be clearly written in the outline, so he didn't specify when the rice turned yellow. If it was the first time, it would be summer, and it would be here soon.

When they thought about the proud third sister writing to them to borrow money, they guessed that the situation must have reached a point where it was out of control, otherwise the third sister, who always cared a lot about her reputation, would never ask for this.

Ji Jinyou didn't know what was going on in Princess Qiba's heart. She sighed in her heart: [Alas, this is really true that you can only know a person's face but not his heart. ]

The system also sighed: [Mainly, you humans are too complicated. ]

Ji Jinyou asked a few more details and found that she couldn't answer any more, so she thought alone about how to remind her third sister.

The Seventh and Eighth Princesses saw Xiaojiu sitting on the couch silently fiddling with those toys and no longer talking to Tongtong. The two looked at each other and the Seventh Princess stood up: "Xiaojiu, you and your Eighth Sister play first, Seventh Sister is going to do something."

Her eyes were red and she didn't dare to look at the little girl. After she finished speaking, she turned around and left.

When Ji Jinyou raised her head to look at her, the Seventh Princess had already walked to the door. She tilted her head to look at the Eighth Princess: "Eighth Sister, why did the Seventh Sister's voice suddenly become silent?"

The Eighth Princess secretly thought that Little Nine was really sharp, and she quickly forced a smile, hugged the little girl to her bosom and rubbed her, and said nonsense: "Seventh Sister and I went out of the palace yesterday, and ate some snacks at the market, and I got a sore throat."

Ji Jinyou imagined the various delicacies on the street in her previous life, spicy hot pot, fried skewers, and various small meatballs, and couldn't help swallowing her saliva: "Eighth sister, what are there in the market?"

When talking about this, the Eighth Princess became excited. Although they didn’t eat yesterday, they always went out to eat on the street when they left the palace. So she picked up some and said, “Osmanthus sesame candy, cherry pancakes, river fish dumplings…”

The Eighth Princess said the names while describing the deliciousness of the snacks vividly. Ji Jinyou was drooling when she heard them. She hugged the Eighth Princess's arm and said coquettishly, "Eighth sister, bring some for Youyou next time."

Seeing the little girl sucking her food, the Eighth Princess couldn't help but laugh out loud. She hugged the little girl and kissed her twice: "Xiaojiu, you are too young. The things outside the palace are not clean. When you are older, I will take you out of the palace to eat."

Ji Jinyou asked eagerly, "How old will Youyou be before she can leave the palace?"

The Eighth Princess thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, but the first time I left the palace was when I was five years old."

Ji Jinyou: "Then Youyou will also have to leave the palace when she is five years old."

The Eighth Princess laughed, "That depends on whether your mother allows it, and whether the Queen Mother allows it. I was secretly taken away by my Sixth Brother, and my mother scolded me a lot. Later, my mother scolded my Sixth Brother a lot."

Ji Jinyou became interested and took the initiative to climb onto the Eighth Princess's lap and begged with a smile, "Eighth Sister, how did the Queen beat me? Please tell me again."

The eighth princess stretched out her hand and rubbed the little girl's face, and deliberately said with a straight face: "Xiaojiu, you little bad guy, you are so happy when you hear brother six being beaten, don't you act like a little sister?"

Ji Jinyou laughed happily and stretched out her two chubby hands to rub the Eighth Princess's face, "Eighth Sister, you are very happy too."

The eighth princess chuckled, and the two of them, the big and the small, started to quarrel.

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As soon as Concubine Ru walked out of the Fengyi Palace, she saw Concubine Zhen and Concubine Ning standing in front of her, looking at her with smiles. Thinking of Concubine Zhen's chatterbox nature that she couldn't stop every time she started talking, her scalp felt tingling and she subconsciously wanted to turn back.

But her mind told her that it was useless to avoid it, and there would be another time if she avoided it this time, so she took a deep breath and walked forward.

Concubine Zhen and Concubine Ning greeted them with a smile. Concubine Ru had been a concubine for three years and had not yet adapted to the changes brought about by her new identity, so she returned the greeting out of habit.

Seeing this, Haitang quickly stepped forward to support her, pretending to be surprised and saying, "Your Highness has sprained your ankle."

Concubine Ru responded, smiled slightly and nodded, and gently raised her hands towards Concubine Zhen and Concubine Ning: "Stand up."

The two of them thanked and stood up. Concubine Ning was dragged here by Concubine Zhen, and she felt a little uncomfortable, but Concubine Zhen congratulated her in a familiar tone.

Concubine Ru walked forward while listening, maintaining a polite smile on her face, but she didn't say anything. She thought that when they reached the next intersection, the two would say goodbye and leave, but Concubine Zhen followed her closely, chattering non-stop and never stopping.

Seeing that Concubine Zhen was going to go back to the palace with her, Concubine Ru wanted to refuse, but she was afraid that the two would misunderstand that she looked down on them just because she was promoted to a concubine, so she hesitated and didn't say anything.

Haitang saw that her master was in trouble, so she said, "My lady, didn't you say you were dizzy earlier? You can take a rest when we get back. I will take the young master out to play."

Ru Fei raised her hand and held her temple: "Yes, I don't know why, I feel a little dizzy when I woke up this morning."

Ningpin heard the true meaning of these words and said with embarrassment: "Madam Rufei is not feeling well, then we will not bother you anymore, you should go back and rest."

Concubine Zhen was a little slow to react, and asked with concern, "Your Majesty is not feeling well, do you want to find an imperial physician to take a look?"

Ru Fei waved her hands and continued, "It's okay, maybe I didn't sleep well last night, I just need to get some sleep when I get home.

Indigo

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The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it to heart. Last night in Chongde Hall, Emperor Wen Zhao did not do anything to Concubine Ru. The family of three just slept together warmly for the night.

But what Ru Fei said casually made Zhenpin think of many things. Her smile froze, and she bowed and left: "Since your majesty is tired, I will take my leave first."

Ru Fei breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Let's talk about it another day."

Zhenpin turned around, the smile on her face disappeared, her expression was colorful and particularly wonderful. When she walked a little further away, she muttered in a displeased tone: "What is there to show off when a villain succeeds?"

Concubine Ning glanced at her and whispered, "Sister, I don't think Concubine Ru has any intention of showing off."

Of course, Zhenpin knew Concubine Ru's personality, but she was jealous and envious, so she had to say a word or two. After hearing this, she stopped talking, but she felt sour and uncomfortable in her heart.

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The seventh princess ran to Fengyi Palace and rushed in directly without asking anyone to report.

The Imperial Concubine and the Empress were both there. When they saw the anxious look on the man's face, they knew something big was going to happen. They looked at each other and sighed in their hearts. Day after day, there was no peace.

The Queen dismissed everyone and looked at the Seventh Princess and asked, "Tell me, what did you hear?"