He was told in front of his wife that he loved another man, so he planned to kill the other man's wife just to rekindle his relationship with her.
Everyone looked at Mu Chenke with sympathy in their eyes. Jiang Wanmeng was planning to plant a green grassland on his head!
If Zhao Yiming didn't look down on Jiang Wanmeng, the grass on his head could probably be used to feed cows.
She also wanted Zhao Yiming to ask the emperor to grant her marriage again. Jiang Wanmeng didn't even consider her own worth and whether Zhao Yiming was interested in her.
Facing Jiang Wanmeng's morbid and crazy confession, Zhao Yiming glared at her from beginning to end, and his expression became more and more disgusted and impatient.
He turned his eyes away and reported to His Majesty, "Your Majesty is wise. I have told Madam Mu more than once that I dislike her. The Queen Mother's suggestion of marriage is nonsense. Her remarks now are full of deception, misleading, and trying to sow discord between me and Madam.
Now, she has plotted to murder my wife and unborn child. Although she failed, she has caused indelible harm to my wife. The evidence is irrefutable. I ask Your Majesty to deal with her according to the law."
The emperor nodded and looked at Mu Chenke, "What do you think, Lord Mu?"
Mu Chenke didn't even glance at Jiang Wanmeng, and knelt down in front of the emperor, "Since Miss Jiang's mind is not on me, my temple is too small to support a big Buddha like Miss Jiang.
In this case, please allow me to divorce your wife. From now on, all matters concerning Miss Jiang will have nothing to do with me."
Hearing this, the emperor put his hands behind his back and thought deeply.
Jiang Wanmeng's marriage to Mu Chenke was an accident. Now Jiang Wanmeng can't stay any longer. She should let Mu Chenke divorce her so as not to drag him down.
When the emperor spoke again, he said, "The daughter of the Jiang family is immoral and indeed unworthy of Lord Mu. In that case, then let it be as you wish!"
With just one simple sentence from the emperor, Jiang Wanmeng immediately went from being the commander's wife to an abandoned woman.
She didn't care about this. Mu Chenke was not a good person. If she could get rid of him, she would be happy to see it happen.
Being divorced was no big deal to her, but the emperor's next words really made her feel like she was falling into an ice cave.
"Jiang's daughter, Wanmeng, plotted to murder the family of an imperial official and the princess of the imperial family. Although no irreversible harm was caused, her actions were egregious.
I punish you by making you practice in Huiwu Temple for three years and pray for the Princess of Anping County.
If the county lady and her children are safe and sound within these three years, you can come back after three years.
If the county lady encounters hardship during these three years, it means you are not sincere enough. You should continue to practice cultivation. When the county lady and her family are in good health, you can return."
Jiang Wanmeng was stunned for a moment, then looked up in fear and begged. "Your Majesty, please don't let me go to the Temple of Regret. I know I was wrong, and I am willing to be punished. Please don't let me go to the Temple of Regret!"
Repentance, as the name suggests, is a nunnery dedicated to allowing people to repent and become human beings again.
It was a place where the royal family or some officials and nobles punished and reformed women who had made mistakes.
Once inside, in addition to eating, dressing, living, traveling, and chanting sutras with the nuns, one also had to do all kinds of rough work that one had never done before, such as washing clothes, fetching water, cooking, collecting firewood, and chopping wood.
In addition, because those who went in were people who had committed crimes, it was common for them to be bullied by the people inside. In order to prevent the criminals from escaping, the royal family specially sent a team of troops to guard them, and relatives and friends were not allowed to visit them.
It can be said that once you go in there, basically no one will be able to help you. There was once a woman who came out of there and was tortured to death. She has not recovered yet.
It can be said that repentance is a woman's nightmare. The emperor threw Jiang Wanmeng into the Repentance Temple, which was a very severe punishment.
Facing Jiang Wanmeng's plea, the emperor remained unmoved. "You still dare to beg for mercy? You should be thankful that An An and the child in her belly are fine. Otherwise, I wouldn't just let you go to Huiwu Temple."
At this moment, Jiang Wanmeng's mind was filled with the fear of being dominated by Huiwu Temple. She could not listen to the emperor's words at all. Seeing that begging the emperor was useless, she even clamored to see the empress dowager and wanted her to protect her.
Unfortunately, the Queen Mother was still under house arrest by the Emperor! How could she just ask him to see her?
Moreover, it would have been fine if she didn't mention the empress dowager. As soon as she mentioned the empress dowager, the emperor was reminded of the fact that the empress dowager had people kidnap Tian An and Yaoyao, and he became even more furious.
They are indeed a family with blood ties, all of them are equally vicious and cold-blooded.
Since ancient times, whenever the emperor gets angry, someone will suffer.
So, originally Jiang Wanmeng could have gone back to pack up and then set off for the Temple of Repentance, but now, the emperor directly ordered people to send her to the Temple of Repentance immediately to receive baptism and start a new life.
Although Jiang Wanmeng solved the problem, the mess she left behind is still there.
Although Mu Chenke can be considered a victim in this matter, what needs to be said still needs to be said.
Besides, it was all Jiang Wanmeng's wishful thinking, and Zhao Yiming had done nothing wrong to Mu Chenke, so he had nothing to feel guilty about.
Without blushing or beating his heart, he turned to look at Mu Chenke and said, "Commander Mu, although you have divorced Jiang, she was still your wife when this happened, so please cooperate with the subsequent facts."
Mu Chenke bowed his head and saluted, "It should be, but it depends on what Duke Zhao tells you."
So, Mu Chenke specially asked the emperor for a day off. After returning, he picked out a part of the dowry brought by Jiang Wanmeng and asked the housekeeper to sell it.
Then, he first repaid the money the Duke's Mansion had previously compensated the vendors. He also paid for the repairs to Tian An's carriage, as well as the medication, nutrition, and mental damages Tian An needed to maintain her pregnancy after it was disturbed.
In short, after all the miscellaneous things were taken away, most of Jiang Wanmeng's dowry was gone.
He directly put the remaining money into the warehouse in the mansion.
In Tianling, the dowry of a divorced woman belongs to her husband's family. He felt at ease taking it. This can barely be regarded as compensation for his reputation loss paid by that woman Jiang Wanmeng!
When Jiang Wanmeng's parents learned that Jiang Wanmeng had committed a serious crime and was divorced, she had already been sent to the Temple of Repentance.
After Jiang's mother fainted from crying and woke up, she immediately came to find Mu Chenke and wanted to get Jiang Wanmeng's dowry back.
But she was in the wrong to begin with, and Mu Chenke was not someone to be trifled with. After getting scolded for no reason, she could only escape in disgrace.
At this point, the Jiang family had lost both the wife and the army in this arranged marriage between the Jiang and Mu families.
Not only that, after the truth about Tian An's fright spread, some people went to the Jiang family's gate and threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs.
It was their fault for not knowing how to educate their daughter, and they actually raised such a vicious woman who almost harmed the Princess of Anping County who often provided free medical treatment to the people.
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