Seeing Gu Chongyan shakily mount the horse, Zhu Jiayu suddenly pulled out the gold hairpin from her temple and stabbed it diagonally into the horse's neck. Warm blood spurted out, and the horse, provoked, seemed to go mad and galloped wildly down the street.
After galloping only a few miles, the horse suddenly threw Gu Chongyan off its back. The horse then collapsed, kneeling on the ground and neighing for a long time before finally succumbing to exhaustion and fainting.
From the beginning until now, Gu Chongyan was completely stunned and hadn't reacted at all. When he was thrown like that, he felt as if his bile was about to spill out and his internal organs were displaced. Seeing this, the servant hurriedly tried to chase after him, but the next moment he heard the whistling of the wind in his ears. Looking closely, he saw that Madam Wei had ridden away on horseback.
After a while, Gu Chongyan finally felt his head was not so dizzy anymore. He was ready to settle accounts with Madam Wei, this insidious and ruthless woman. However, before he could even clear his mind a little, he saw Madam Wei, dressed in a pine-green long dress, riding towards him on horseback. The dust kicked up by the horse's hooves almost went into his mouth! But Madam Wei showed no intention of stopping!
In his moment of crisis, he finally realized that Madam Wei had probably made up her mind long ago. All her considerations and bets were probably just a prelude to her riding her horse and trampling him to death at this moment.
His life is over!
A wave of despair washed over him, crushing him completely. He could no longer control himself; he threw all notions of status and dignity to the wind. His hands rubbed against the ground, his legs kicked and he shrank back, his whole being wriggling like a maggot on the ground.
Normally, he would never do this, but now, all he wanted was to survive...
Closer, closer and closer...
He could almost see the fine rust on the horseshoes, and the black horse's breath brushed against his face. He looked up and saw the docile eyes of the horse above him, and the indifferent young lady sitting on it...
He had never been so clear-headed. He realized that the woman was not some goddess or celestial being, but a vengeful demon! A bloodthirsty Rakshasa!
He truly understood the saying, "Lust is a knife above one's head."
But it was too late...
He closed his eyes, his body tensed, but a wetness seeped from his groin...
The horse's hooves stopped at some point, the dust that had been kicked up disappeared, and the rusty horseshoes lay on the ground.
Gu Chongyan doesn't need to die.
But at this moment, a feeling of utter helplessness washed over him. Staring at the puddle on the ground, he truly wished he could just die...
His honor and dignity are all gone!
Zhu Jiayu gripped the reins, leaned down to look at him, and smiled: "Your Highness has won, but why are you in such a sorry state? Are you afraid of dying under my horse's hooves? Yujing City is under the Emperor's feet. The Emperor is diligent in governing and loves his people. The people of Yujing City are simple and honest. As the wife of the Grand Secretary, how dare I disregard the law and kill someone in the street? You are overthinking it."
The onlookers burst into laughter.
No one blamed Zhu Jiayu for her earlier act of stabbing the horse with the hairpin. This Prince Pingnan had only been in Yujing for a few days, yet he constantly abused his status, acting arrogantly and domineeringly, causing them immense suffering. Zhu Jiayu had given him a sound thrashing today, and in the eyes of the people, the Prime Minister's wife was avenging them!
Faced with these uncouth and lowly people, Gu Chongyan knew he couldn't get justice today, but he was unwilling to be ridiculed by them, so he simply rolled his eyes and pretended to be dead.
Zhu Jiayu was too lazy to argue with him any further and rode her horse back to the Duke's mansion.
Not long after she returned home, her mother-in-law, Wang, instructed someone to bring her a bowl of ginseng soup to help her recover.
Zhu Jiayu knew that her mother-in-law knew about what had happened on Yong'an Street, and it was only then that she realized she was already a married woman. She had really acted recklessly today. After drinking the ginseng soup, she tidied herself up and went to the front yard to apologize.
Madam Wang was playing with a thrush on the veranda when she heard from her maid that her daughter-in-law had arrived. She then had her brought in and asked with a smile, "Have you had your ginseng soup?"
Zhu Jiayu blushed and curtsied: "Daughter-in-law acted rashly today, it was very inappropriate..."
Madam Wang smiled and helped her up: "I had the servants bring you ginseng soup because I knew you had worked hard, not to punish you. In my opinion, you did a very good job. You punished Gu Chongyan without giving anyone grounds for criticism, which really brought honor to the Wei family!"
"I told you before, our Wei family isn't a family with strict rules. You married into the family and called me 'Mother,' so naturally I'll treat you like a daughter. In a family as prestigious and wealthy as the Wei family, if a daughter has to be bound by rules to do anything, wouldn't that be too useless?"
She patted her daughter-in-law's hand and said gently, "Just do whatever you want. The Wei family can handle it. If something like this happens again, don't be nervous and apologize to me. When I was young, I did even more outrageous and outrageous things."
...
Before long, news of what happened on Yong'an Street reached the palace.
After hearing the eunuch's report, the emperor's expression turned serious. He looked at his brother-in-law, who was holding a black piece and pondering its placement, and said angrily, "This Prince of Pingnan is far too arrogant!"
After placing his piece, Wei Qinglou slightly raised his eyes and asked, "I wonder what Your Majesty means by this?"
The emperor then relayed what the eunuch had said to him.
Upon hearing this, Wei Qinglou immediately stood up, lifted his crimson official robe, and knelt down: "My wife has been disrespectful. I beg Your Majesty to be magnanimous and not hold it against her..."
Before he could finish speaking, the Emperor helped him up: "What are you doing... In the end, it was that brat Chongyan who started the trouble..."
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