Chapter 235: Mother and Son Confronted
The more Yu Lingye listened, the colder his heart became.
He looked at the Toffee quietly, as if trying to detect a trace of a joke on the Toffee's face.
But he was disappointed.
There was no sign of joking on Toffee's face.
She really thought so.
Yu Lingye found it ironic.
It was also the first time that he felt that his mother, who gave birth to him and raised him, was so unreasonable.
The concubine spoke out her true feelings in one breath in anger.
She knew she couldn't be the master of her son.
She also knew that her son would definitely not agree if she rashly proposed to divorce Xie Yingmian.
She would bring up the matter while she was angry, and if her son objected, she would blame it on his anger and his slip of the tongue.
If my son has no objection, then I will take this opportunity to show him the couple.
The toffee had a good plan.
However, facing Shangyu Lingye's cold and sarcastic gaze, his neck felt as if someone was strangling him.
"Ye'er..."
The concubine's throat tightened: "Mother said this without any other meaning..."
"Why does mother think we owe the Fang family three hundred thousand taels of silver?" Yu Lingye looked at the concubine. "Three hundred thousand taels of silver was a fine imposed by the emperor. It's the Fang family's atonement money. What does it have to do with me, or with Prince Ling's Mansion?"
Toffee: "That's not what I meant..."
"Then how did mother come to know that we owed money to the Fang family?" Yu Lingye looked into the concubine's eyes.
The toffee choked.
"Of course, we owe the Fang family. Don't forget why the Fang family was convicted. If it weren't for Xie Yingmian's interference..."
"Mother!" Yu Lingye's eyes were filled with disappointment. "It wasn't Yingmian who did something wrong."
"It was Fang Yilin who did the wrong thing. It was Fang Yilin who committed the crime. It was Fang Yilin who murdered the Grand Princess. It was Fang Yilin who brought this upon himself. Yingmian has nothing to do with it."
The concubine was unhappy: "How come it has nothing to do with Xie Yingmian?"
"I'm not senile, so I know Xie Yingmian wasn't the one who did something wrong. But, this incident was ultimately caused by her. If it weren't for her, how could Yilin have been so confused as to do such a treasonous thing?"
"Yilin did do something wrong, and Xie Yingmian isn't innocent either. If Xie Yingmian hadn't been such a stubborn person and refused to give in, why would Yilin have been targeting her? To put it bluntly, she's the culprit."
The concubine became more and more dissatisfied with Xie Yingmian as she spoke.
"I really shouldn't have let her come to the wedding. She's such a troublemaker."
"She really shouldn't have come to celebrate the wedding." Yu Lingye sneered, "If she hadn't come, I would have turned into a pile of earth, and naturally none of this would have happened."
The concubine was unhappy and snorted, "Ye'er, how can you say that?"
"You are blessed with good fortune and luck. Good people are blessed by heaven. Even if Xie Yingmian wasn't here..."
Yu Lingye's voice was filled with endless disappointment: "If Xie Yingmian hadn't been here, I would have died on my wedding night."
"Mother, do you think that I got well on my wedding night just to get rid of the bad luck?"
"You think that even though all the famous doctors in the world are helpless, a wedding ceremony can cure me?"
"Oh, if it worked, there would be no dead people in the world."
The concubine felt guilty.
She was determined to bring good luck to Yu Lingye because she had heard the prophecy of the abbot of Huangyun Temple.
The great monk predicted that Yu Lingye's only chance of survival was to get married.
This is also the reason why she did not mind that Xie Yingmian was a village girl and insisted on marrying her to bring good luck.
When Yu Lingye just woke up, she also expressed her gratitude to Xie Yingmian.
But as time went on, Yu Lingye's health got better and better, and she looked down on Xie Yingmian more and more.
She also thought that Xie Yingmian was just lucky and was chosen by her to be the bride. If she had chosen someone else that day, Ye'er would also get better.
Therefore, it is the right choice for Ye'er to divorce Xie Yingmian and marry another noble lady of equal status.
Yu Lingye had never been so disappointed with the concubine.
He has always turned a blind eye to the concubine's unlimited subsidies to the Fang family.
If you really can't stand it, take the money into your own hands.
It was not until today that he realized that his mother was so similar to the Fang family in her selfishness.
"On our wedding night, the imperial doctors were helpless and determined that I wouldn't survive until dawn." Yu Lingye's voice was deep and solemn. "Their diagnosis was correct."
"At that time, my soul had left my body and I was dead."
"I saw with my own eyes that Xie Yingmian risked her life to give me ninety-nine and eighty-one injections."
"She used 81 needles to pull me back from hell, and that's how the miracle of getting married happened."
Yu Lingye looked into the Dowager's eyes and spoke each word with emphasis: "Mother thought that just anyone could save me, but I know clearly that it was Xie Yingmian who saved me."
"Without her, I would have died."
"My health is getting better and better because Xie Yingmian is taking care of me."
Toffee's eyes widened.
She always thought that Ye'er was able to wake up because Xie Yingmian discovered the poison.
"But, when we were at the lakeside cottage, you said it was the wedding that woke you up..."
Yu Lingye asked back: "Isn't it?"
"Yingmian came to bring me good luck. She used her acupuncture technique to bring me back from the dead. Isn't this the purpose of bringing good luck?"
The toffee moved her lips.
She couldn't deny it, but she didn't want to admit it.
"Xie Yingmian is just a village girl. Even though she's the eldest daughter of the Xie family, it can't hide the fact that she grew up on a farm. Look at her, she's rustic, has a bad temper, is wild and rude, and she even turned Prince Ling's Mansion and the Fang family upside down."
"Okay, let's not talk about her character, let's just talk about her medical skills."
"How could she possibly save you with just eighty-one needles when even the imperial physician and the divine healer were helpless?"
"Ye'er, you must have been deceived by her."
"She must be trying to trick you this way in order to get the position of Princess Ling. Don't fall for her trick."
Yu Lingye's lips curled up into a mocking smile: "Mother, do you think that the position of Princess Ling is very precious?"
“Perhaps it is precious to you.”
"To her, it's nothing."
"Because she is the descendant of the Gu Saint."
Toffee's eyes widened.
The descendant of the Gu Saint.
Gu Saint!
That elusive Gu Master that the Dayu Dynasty had spent countless manpower and financial resources to find?
The Gu Master who disappeared in the turmoil ten years ago was Xie Yingmian's master?
"You must have made a mistake, right?" The concubine said disdainfully, "She's just a village girl..."
"Mother!" Yu Lingye frowned, "Have you forgotten your origins?"
"If you forget, son doesn't mind reminding you."
"Ms. Fang Zhang was born in a small mountain village in Huiyang County. Because her family was poor and could not afford food, she was sold to a wealthy family in the county as a maid. Later, because she saved the old man of the Zhang family, he redeemed her and adopted her as his goddaughter. She then married into the Fang family and became the mistress of the Fang family."
"My son doesn't understand why you keep attacking Yingmian's background."
"But before you attack someone else's background, mother, you might as well think about Fang Zhang's background. Xie Yingmian is the eldest daughter of the Marquis's family, while Fang Zhang is a proper village maid."
The concubine was stunned.
She looked at Yu Lingye in disbelief, unable to believe that her noble and unparalleled son could have such a mean side.
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