Chapter 45: A pretty girl who longs to get married doesn’t want to marry because of her father, a general!
Song Yanxi handed her the letter and asked, "Is there any happy event happening in Mr. Qiu's family this month?"
"It seems that the Qiu family's eldest branch has a new baby. Someone from Fushoutang mentioned it a couple of days ago, saying that the old lady is not feeling well and they want you to go over for a drink."
It would be more accurate to say that she was asked to pay for the gifts out of her own pocket in the name of the general's mansion rather than to have a drink.
Old Madam Lin had done this kind of thing many times in the past, and every time Song Yanxi would handle things properly, without requiring her to contribute anything. Sometimes she would even invite her and Lin Tingxuan to attend together to give her enough face.
Mo Jinchuan wrote in the letter that the emperor was furious at the censor's impeachment during the morning court session and had originally only fined Lin Tingfeng half a year's salary. He asked him to be careful with his words and actions in the future and not to embarrass the officials of Da'an.
As a result, just as Lin Tingfeng admitted his mistake and said he would never do it again, Qiu Yuanzheng stood up and impeached the general's mansion for misappropriating his daughter-in-law's dowry and sued it to Shuntian Prefecture.
Moreover, when he brought people there, Madam Lin was not only extremely uncooperative, she even blatantly asked them to make concessions.
Where is Shuntian Prefecture?
Without the emperor's approval, even if royal relatives committed a crime, they would not dare to ask the investigating officials for leniency in person.
Madam Lin's action is tantamount to "making trouble on the tiger's head" and "troublemaking on Tai Sui's head". To put it more seriously, it is a disregard for the law and contempt for the imperial power!
If Lin Tingfeng had not reacted quickly and described his mother as an illiterate and vulgar woman from the countryside in front of the emperor and all the civil and military officials in the court, he would have been punished with more than just forty lashes today.
At the end of the letter, Mo Jinchuan said: "This person is very shameless, please be careful."
Zhuzhi couldn't help laughing when she saw the last sentence. "I never thought that someone as illustrious as Prince Jin would actually talk behind people's backs."
Song Yanxi wanted to say that he was also a human being, but she felt that this was strange, so she changed the subject and said, "I'll go back to find my mother when I go shopping tomorrow and ask her to write a letter to my grandfather, saying that Lord Qiu has been kind to me and that I'd like to ask my grandfather to help me send a bottle of the pills I left with him a few years ago under the pretext of a banquet."
Zhuzhi quickly wrote it down and asked, "Miss, are you still going to burn this letter today?"
His Royal Highness Prince Jin's calligraphy is priceless. If it were to be taken outside...
"Burn it." Song Yanxi said without hesitation.
Old Madam Lin had always suspected that there was something going on between her and His Royal Highness Prince Jin, but she had no evidence and had not dared to act. If this letter really fell into the hands of the mother and son, it would be her death warrant.
She has not yet found out who is behind the general's mansion. The enemy is in the dark while she is in the light, so she cannot be careless in the slightest.
If she makes a mistake, she and the Yan family will be doomed.
*
"General is good, General is wonderful, my lovely concubine follows the army and we take pictures together! I am a girl who is eager to get married, and I am beautiful, but I don't want to marry her for the sake of my father, the general!"
Outside the Jingguo Mansion, children, each holding a string of candied haws, jumped and danced around the stone lions at the gate, and their crisp children's voices came in through the closed wooden door.
The entire Duke's Mansion was silent as a mouse, and they wanted to walk without making any sound, for fear of angering the master and losing their jobs.
Zhuang Shihan was very annoyed and frowned when she heard the noise. "What are you arguing about? Didn't I tell you not to let anyone disturb me during this period of time?"
"In reply to the princess, it's a group of naughty kids making a fuss outside. I'll chase them away right away."
"Child?" Zhuang Shihan frowned, got up and went out.
A team of well-trained guards in the yard turned around.
Zhuang Shihan said coldly, "What are you looking at? If you keep looking at me, I will dig out your eyes!"
The guards were all armed, and the leader said coldly, "Princess, please return to your room."
The first thing Duke Jingguo said after waking up yesterday was to seal off the courtyard where Zhuang Shihan lived, and his confidants guarded it inside and out.
Not to mention people coming in and out, even a fly passing by would be cut down by the guards' swords.
Zhuang Shihan became even more angry upon hearing this, and said with a sullen face, "I think Dad is really getting senile. Brother Feng and I were married by the Emperor's order. Could it be that he is going to disobey?"
The only response she received was the unclear sound of children's songs from outside.
Having gotten nothing in return, Zhuang Shihan returned to the house with a gloomy face. Just as she was thinking about whether to get some medicine to secretly take away the medicine from the guards, she heard three light knocks outside the window.
"Brother Feng!" Thinking that it was Lin Tingfeng who had taken the risk to come, she trotted over to open the window.
When the window was opened, there was only a carrier pigeon outside.
Zhuang Shihan felt bitter in her heart. She took out the letter from the bamboo tube and looked at it. Her disappointment was instantly replaced by anger.
This Song Yanxi, it was a pity that she had felt sorry for her before, but she never thought that she could not judge a person by his appearance, and she was so vicious.
It was obviously her fault that the General's Mansion was in a state of financial difficulty. It would have been fine if she hadn't taken the initiative to take out her dowry and admit her mistake, but she even dared to report it to the police, causing her brother Feng to not only be reprimanded by the Emperor, but also beaten!
They are just some material possessions. It's so short-sighted to be so stingy. No wonder Brother Feng has no interest in her.
After all, she is just a girl in the boudoir, her vision is too narrow and she can't be of great use.
Zhuang Shihan smiled sarcastically, found a pen and paper, quickly wrote a letter, and asked her personal maid to hide it in her inner clothes and take it out.
*
For three whole days, doctors came to the general's mansion one after another, but each of them came with full confidence and left with dejected eyes.
They couldn't understand why the wound was so difficult to heal, as if it had happened to someone. It was just a superficial wound caused by a stick, and the weather wasn't that hot.
When the last doctor left, he shook his head at Old Madam Lin and said, "If the general's injury shows no signs of recovery by tomorrow, then let the family prepare for his funeral."
"How dare you, a quack doctor, curse my son! Someone, drag him out and beat him up!"
The old lady was so angry that she was shaking and smashed half of the porcelain in the room. Then she seemed to have remembered something and sent someone to invite Song Yanxi.
Several waves of people came, but none of them could even get into the courtyard.
The maid who had been ordered here had no choice but to shout across the courtyard wall, "Madam, please write a letter and send it back to the Yan family, asking Old Master Yan to come forward and invite the miracle doctor to come out and treat the general."
She thought she was being polite enough compared to before, but when she turned around she saw two bamboos holding big brooms.
Zhuzhi's face darkened, "Hit!"
Two big brooms came towards them and hit the old woman who was talking, causing her to run away with her head in her hands, leaving behind a sentence "Just wait for me".
Zhuzhi pinched her waist, turned her head and spat, "Those who don't know think you're so shameless, even asking the old man to come out, why don't you take a piss and look at yourself!"
It was rare that Zhu Yu, who was carrying the dirty basin out, didn't think her words were harsh. She just frowned and reminded the other two bamboos, "Next time, be slower. It's a pity to dirty a basin in vain."
Smelling the foul stench in the air, the three bamboos retreated together.
Song Yanxi just went out and stopped silently. She looked at her and said, "Go back and wash your hands. I'll take you out to see a show."
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