Chapter 60 Moving to the Princess's Mansion
Anyone who is disrespectful and unfilial to their elders will be beaten with a stick in public thirty times and exiled a thousand miles if they are a man; a woman will be beaten with a stick in public twenty times and sent back to her parents' home for re-education. Whether she will be taken back after one year is entirely up to her husband's family.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that women who had experienced it, such as being beaten with twenty sticks in public, would either shave their heads and become nuns or commit suicide out of shame.
Even if there are some people who are mentally strong and can get through this, it depends on whether their parents are willing to take them home despite the rumors.
Madam Lin's move was undoubtedly intended to destroy Song Yanxi.
Even though she was the legitimate daughter of a marquis, once this reputation got out, not only would she be ridiculed in the capital, but the marriages of her brothers and sisters would also be affected.
No matter how much the wife of Marquis Yongchuan loved her daughter, she had to consider her son's future and had to give her up.
As for the Yan family, there is no need to say more. Compared with the future of their own children and grandchildren, a granddaughter is nothing.
By then, Song Yanxi's reputation will be ruined and everyone will want to punish her. Without her family's support, won't she have to depend on the mother and son to make her life?
Whether it was the fiefdom or the estate that belonged to her, the princess, it naturally all belonged to his family.
Madam Lin thought about this and immediately made up her mind. Tears welled up in her eyes as she said, "How could I, a half-buried person, wrongly accuse my own daughter-in-law and cause them to become estranged? What good would that do me?"
She spoke sincerely, and even seemed to want Mrs. Laqiu to judge the matter.
Song Yanxi looked at it and suddenly laughed.
Madam Lin frowned, "What are you laughing at?"
"I laughed at my mother-in-law for being so into her acting that she even fooled herself."
"Song, stop slandering me here!"
Madam Lin covered her chest and said aggrievedly, "You all saw it, this old woman is not very good at speaking, and she can't compare to my daughter-in-law who is very sharp-tongued. She has ten words waiting for others to say.
Today, with everyone here, she's still so carefree and arrogant. Imagine her usual days..."
"Since mother-in-law feels so wronged, why don't you let the general give me a letter of divorce?" Song Yanxi continued her words and asked.
The old lady choked and couldn't help but curse Song Yanxi in her heart.
She deliberately left her words unsaid because she wanted to let those ladies know that she had a lot of grievances to share, so that they could see the true face of the Song family and know the dire situation their family was in. She didn't want her to find a way to refute her.
This Song family...
After everyone left, she insisted on having someone hold her down and smash her mouth!
Old Madam Lin's eyes rolled around and she immediately had an idea in her mind.
She glanced at Lin Tingfeng, whose face was flushed red, wiped her tears and said, "It's because my son is kind-hearted. He thought it was not easy for you to stay alone in the empty room for more than two years, so even if there were some minor problems, he just let me, your mother-in-law, tolerate it. I didn't expect..."
Song Yanxi continued, "I never thought that I was so ungrateful, jealous, and petty that I refused to share a husband with Princess Shihan and was unwilling to voluntarily hand over my dowry to supplement the family income. I even asked for back all the money I had used to subsidize the General's Mansion over the past two years.
Such an unvirtuous and unfilial person is not even as good as a single toe of Princess Shihan."
Even Mrs. Lin was dumbfounded by these self-deprecating words, and couldn't help thinking in her heart that she hadn't said anything less terrible.
She thought this in her heart, but said harshly, "Since you know your own shortcomings, you should follow your sister-in-law... Follow me and learn the ways of a wife. Don't just show off your eloquence every day and lose the dignity that a mistress of the general's mansion should have."
The old lady became more and more proud as she spoke, and she didn't notice at all how strange the looks from the people around her were looking at her.
Her own son was unfaithful and ungrateful first, but she was not ashamed of it but was extremely proud of it. She even forced Song Yanxi, who had suffered losses repeatedly, to hand over her dowry.
They did something that brought shame to their ancestors, but they seemed to want to publicize it so that everyone in the world would know about it.
Isn't it glorious?
Song Yanxi glanced at the dark-faced Eunuch Qi and said coldly, "It's better not to have this respect."
Upon hearing this, Madam Lin's face fell, "Song, I advise you not to be ungrateful. You are a woman, and if you are really divorced by my son and sent away, the spit outside will drown you.
By then, you will be an abandoned woman with nowhere to go, and it will not be so easy to enter my general's mansion!"
"Puchi!" Several laughs rang out one after another.
There was no other reason. It was just that Madam Lin's arrogant and alms-giving look was too funny.
Eunuch Qi's face turned ashen as he said, "What Madam Lin said today really shocked the head of the family. A princess like you actually has to live at the mercy of others.
How come the princess who was canonized by the emperor's golden words is so worthless in the eyes of you people in the general's mansion?
Not only do I have to be tortured by a vicious mother-in-law like you, and my husband dislikes me, but I also have to worry about when I will be kicked out of the house?"
"Of course not..." Mrs. Lin's face changed suddenly when she heard this, and she explained anxiously.
Eunuch Qi interrupted her directly and said, "Everyone in the General's Mansion, please accept the order."
"Receive the order?"
Not only was Mrs. Lin stunned, but everyone present except Song Yanxi also had a look of surprise on their faces.
There have been precedents of issuing two decrees in one day.
But on this day, three announcements were made...
Song Yanxi was the first to kneel down with four bamboos.
Mrs. Lin was still in a daze when she suddenly felt a pain in her knee and fell forward uncontrollably.
"Mother!" Lin Tingfeng finally broke through the aisle and struggled to help up the old lady who had fallen to the ground.
He hurriedly explained, "Eunuch Qi, I was just struck in the acupuncture points and cannot move. Mother must have been drugged to make her unconscious, which is why she is talking nonsense."
"Drugging?" Eunuch Qi raised an eyebrow, "The general and the old lady are indeed mother and son, even their words are exactly the same.
"Why don't you tell me how, in front of so many people, the powerless princess drugged you and touched your acupoints from a distance."
Lin Tingfeng choked and couldn't answer.
But he was very sure that someone had just used a hidden weapon to press his acupoint, and a martial artist would not make a mistake even on this point.
Lin Tingfeng looked at the place where he had just knelt. Apart from the bloodstains on the broken wound, there was nothing suspicious.
He said confidently, "The person who did it must still be in the courtyard. Eunuch Qi will find out if he orders a search."
Song Yanxi frowned and asked coldly, "General, do you want to have your ladies searched?"
"How dare you!" Mrs. Qiu's face immediately darkened.
They were the wives of officials in the court. Even if they were in court and the evidence was overwhelming, the officials in charge did not dare to mention the word "body search" easily.
Who the hell does he think he is, to dare to search them?
Lin Tingfeng glared at Song Yanxi and hurriedly explained, "Ladies, please calm down. What I just said was not directed at you."
Eunuch Qi understood, "Then it is aimed at the Za family."
Without waiting for Lin Tingfeng to speak, he said impatiently: "General, please kneel down and accept the order."
The previous decree was already a reprimand. Could it be that this decree was to demote him?
Lin Tingfeng felt uneasy, but he could only grit his teeth and kneel back in pain. The wound on his back was excruciatingly painful.
Mrs. Lin reached out and touched her hand, which was covered in blood.
She felt her eyes go dark, and then she heard the shrill voice of Eunuch Qi in her ears.
"The Song family has a daughter named Yan Xi, who is virtuous, quiet, upright, and well-mannered. She is well-versed in etiquette and has much of the demeanor of her grandfather Song Zhang. She is a role model for women all over the world. We propose to confer the title of Yong'an on her, grant her the title of Princess, and designate Yuzhou as her fiefdom.
In addition, I will grant you a princess's mansion, ten thousand taels of gold, and one hundred pieces of brocade..."
"Your Majesty, I thank you for your grace." Song Yanxi bowed respectfully, with an attitude neither humble nor arrogant.
As early as when Eunuch Qi took the second imperial edict, she noticed that there was a bright yellow corner in the box, and the texture was the same as the imperial edict in his hand.
If it weren't for her mother-in-law's good cooperation, it is hard to say whether this decree would be issued.
Eunuch Qi smiled and helped Song Yanxi up, saying, "The Princess's Mansion has long been renovated, and the Princess can move in on a certain day. If you need anything, just let me know."
"Move... where to move?" Old Madam Lin's eyes widened.
She must have heard it wrong, otherwise, why would the emperor let a married woman move out?
"Of course it's the Princess's Mansion!" Eunuch Qi looked at her and congratulated her, "In the future, if the Princess lives in a separate mansion, no one will disobey Old Madam anymore. This is a good thing. I'd like to congratulate Old Madam first."
Madam Lin pinched herself hard to make sure she wasn't dreaming, and blurted out, "No, she can't move away!"
Without waiting for Eunuch Qi to speak, she added, "Song is the mistress of the General's Mansion. If she moves out, it will be disgraceful if the news gets out."
"Indeed." Song Yanxi frowned slightly, with an embarrassed look on her face.
Under Madam Lin's expectant gaze, she suddenly understood and said firmly, "If that's the case, I won't be the mistress."
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