Chapter 174
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"yes."
Shen Liuguang agreed, and then sent someone to the palaces of the two empresses to deliver the message.
Jiang Zhaoying turned her head and looked around.
"Sister-in-law Tingyun didn't go to Longzhang Palace with us. I think she should be with Quan Zhaoyi."
Although Yang Pianpian was afraid that she would be foolishly filial and told her every day not to listen to Quan Zhaoyi and not to feel sorry for her, but she was her mother after all and she might still not be able to let go, so she went to Quan Zhaoyi's Yuexian Palace when she entered the palace.
"Go and have a look."
As for Quan Zhaoyi, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't even know what she looked like. All his impressions came from the memorial sent by Shen Liuguang.
This woman has been vying for favor all her life, using any means necessary to do so.
But strangely, the emperor always indulged her and was willing to occasionally look at her when she was vying for favor.
Step into Yuexian Palace.
The palace maids stepped forward and saluted, and were about to go and report, but Jiang Zhaoying stopped them.
"No need to report, come forward, I have something to ask you."
The little palace maid knelt tremblingly and crawled to Jiang Zhaoying's feet. Jiang Zhaoying leaned over and pulled her up, and tears suddenly welled up in the little palace maid's eyes.
"What? Did you get wronged in Yuexian Palace?"
"I dare not!"
The little palace maid didn't dare to answer, so Jiang Zhaoying asked her again.
"Is the princess in there?"
"Your Highness, Goddess, the princess has been here for half an hour. The queen has driven all the servants out, and I don't know what she is doing now. Goddess, please go in and take a look. I am worried that something has happened to the princess."
Seeing the worried look of the little palace maid, Jiang Zhaoying's eyebrows suddenly sharpened, and then she raised her hand, and the little palace maid immediately led the way and hurriedly ran towards the main hall.
The palace door was tightly closed. Shen Liuguang stepped forward and pushed it open. Jiang Zhaoying slipped in and ran towards the inner hall.
"From childhood to adulthood, I have never understood why my mother is so different from other mothers. Other mothers protect their children, love their children, and do everything they can to plan for their children. But what about you, mother? Have you ever felt sorry for me or helped me plan for anything?"
Jiang Zhaoying and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stopped walking abruptly, and stared coldly at the terrifying scene in the inner hall through the gauze curtain.
Quan Zhaoyi was standing on a stool. There was a rope hanging from the beam. She was holding the rope tightly and trying to put it around her neck. Princess Tingyun was terrified and sad. She knelt on the ground and looked at Quan Zhaoyi in pain.
Listening to her daughter's question after question, Quan Zhaoyi's eyes widened with anger, and there was even a hint of madness. Not only did she not feel guilty towards her daughter, but she was furious as if she was disappointed in her daughter.
"What do you know? If I can't be favored and have no high position, how can you have a good life? What's wrong with you helping me? Isn't it right? Is it worth it for you to question such a trivial matter in such a high-profile manner? Are you trying to force me to death now? Then I will die in front of you!"
Speaking of.
She stood on tiptoe and was about to put her head in.
Tingyun was tortured to exhaustion by his mother, his face was pale, and the body that had finally recovered was now covered with bruises.
"Mother, why do you have to force me like this? You and Prime Minister Liu teamed up to send me to someone else. Mother, have you ever thought that person might torture me to death? I will die."
Jiang Zhaoying frowned as she listened. She had been asking people to investigate this matter, but the truth was only delivered to her a few days ago.
"Don't keep saying you're dying. I've lived for more than ten years, and I haven't seen you die."
Quan Zhaoyi's words were like sharp knives stabbing into Princess Tingyun's heart. Her kneeling body softened and she almost fell to the ground.
I can't bear to watch it anymore.
Jiang Zhaoying lifted the curtain and walked quickly forward, and together with the little palace maid, helped Princess Tingyun up. When Tingyun saw her, she felt like she had found her backbone, and cried and fell into her arms.
The prince stepped forward, held them both in his arms, and said coldly.
"Don't be afraid, I'm alone."
Tingyun listened to the prince's words with mixed feelings in her heart and her tears flowed more and more.
Jiang Zhaoying looked at Quan Zhaoyi coldly.
"Then the Governor of Tongzhou is your sweetheart, right?"
Quan Zhaoyi's body suddenly trembled violently, disbelief filled her eyes, and then she shook her head heavily.
Jiang Zhaoying sneered.
"Back then, you promised him that if he broke off the engagement with you, you would help him get promoted and give birth to a daughter who would marry him when she grew up. Did that happen?"
"No."
Quan Zhaoyi's crazy face was a little distorted at this moment. The panic after being exposed did not last long, and soon she screamed again with confidence.
"How can you slander me? This is a matter between us mother and daughter. What does it have to do with you?"
"She is now my sister-in-law and a member of my family. Her affairs are naturally my responsibility. Quan Zhaoyi, do you want me to bring the governor Quan Qi here to confront you face to face?"
Quan Zhaoyi turned pale with fright. Jiang Zhaoying even knew the name Quan Qiqi. Did they find out something?
When her eyes fell on the prince, Quan Zhaoyi hurriedly put her head into the rope loop, almost putting two-thirds of her head in.
"Prime Minister Liu promised you a promotion, so you brought the governor to his side and fulfilled your promise to show your sincerity to Quan Qishi?"
"It's not what you said, no."
"good."
The prince nodded, and Shen Liuguang spread out a document and held it in front of Quan Zhaoyi. Quan Zhaoyi recognized the handwriting and had already signed and sealed it. Quan Zhaoyi had already admitted everything and confessed every detail of the matter.
This Lord Quan is also a weirdo. He has not married for all these years. He is just waiting for Concubine Quan's daughter to grow up and marry him.
They themselves knew that the emperor would not marry the princess to him, so they planned to make it a fait accompli first.
Unexpectedly, the truth was revealed.
In a panic, Quan left Prime Minister Liu's residence as soon as possible.
She always thought that Quan Zai had already returned, but she never imagined that he had already been imprisoned by the prince.
Tingyun thought of many possibilities, but he never thought that this was the reason.
They just love each other, why do they have to use her as a scapegoat?
What does it mean to give birth to a daughter for him and marry her to him? Isn't this crazy?
"It's fine if you use me as a bargaining chip to win favor, but you also use me as a bargaining chip between you and your lover. Are you still human?"
If she hadn't met the Jiang family in this life, if she hadn't been protected by the Crown Prince, she would have been alive. She would have been alive.
All kinds of grievances and anger.
Tingyun felt the blood boiling in her throat, but she endured it. She stumbled to her knees and kowtowed three times to Quan Zhaoyi's mother.
"My daughter thanks my mother for giving me life. From now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other."
After saying that.
Tingyun suddenly said sternly.
"Someone come."
Jiang Zhaoying's eyebrows jumped and she hurried forward to stop her.
"Sister-in-law, I'm coming."
She couldn't let the princess bear the reputation of killing her own mother. Regardless of right or wrong, killing one's own mother was an original sin.
Ting Yun knew that she was considerate of him, so he held Jiang Zhaoying's hand and cried inconsolably.
She had thought about it many times.
Maybe after I get married, my mother will miss my kindness and miss me since I haven't seen her for a long time. But after I got married, she realized how much she regretted it.
Quan Zhaoyi had planned everything long ago, just waiting for her to return to the palace and take the bait.
As soon as I saw her.
Quan Zhaoyi hung the rope upwards and then put her head inside.
Two unfamiliar eunuchs walked in. Jiang Zhaoying gently pressed Princess Tingyun's face against her shoulder, and then... whispered.
"Empress Zhaoyi was involved with the governor, Lord Quan, and she felt guilty about it, so she hanged herself."
Quan Zhaoyi's eyes widened suddenly. She heard that Jiang Zhaoying wanted to kill her. She wanted to hang herself in her own palace in front of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Between terror.
Quan Zhaoyi suddenly loosened the rope in her hand and was about to jump down.
But the young eunuchs were used to doing this kind of thing. They rushed forward with a stool and lifted her up. One of them stuffed a handkerchief into her mouth, and in a few seconds they hung Quan Zhaoyi on the rope.
Mmmmm.
Quan Zhaoyi was really scared now.
She had been doing all sorts of things all her life, and she thought she could get away with it every time and that she would be satisfied every time.
But this time,
When the rope was tightened around her neck and continued to tighten, she was really scared.
However.
She no longer had the chance to jump up and down for herself. The stool under her feet was kicked away, and her body was suddenly hung in the air. The moment her neck was tightened, she could not breathe.
Quan Zhaoyi opened her eyes wide with fear, grabbed the rope tightly, struggled, and shook to save herself.
She looked at Princess Tingyun with tears in her eyes, and looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with pleading eyes.
But.
No one paid any attention to her.
Everyone just watched quietly until she died with veins bursting all over her body and her mouth wide open in a hideous manner.
"Let's go."
Jiang Zhaoying looked at the young eunuch beside her, and the young eunuch whispered.
"My Lord, I am sorry for the offense."
The young eunuch stepped forward and picked up Princess Tingyun, and then the group left the palace.
Along the way, the attitude of the palace servants became more and more respectful. The palace gates opened one by one. When I stepped out of the palace gate, a ray of warm sunlight slowly reflected down.
The people guarding the palace gate all knelt down and saluted.
"Long live your Highness, and may the Goddess live forever."
Seeing them come out safely, the people were filled with joy. The prince raised his hand to signal everyone to get up, and then got on the carriage.
The carriage moved forward slowly. Jiang Zhaoying lifted the curtain and waved to everyone with a smile.
"Goddess, Goddess, please save my child, Goddess."
A young but disheveled, thin-faced woman, holding a baby in her arms, rushed towards her carriage desperately.
Jiang Zhaoying hurriedly ordered people to stop the carriage, and the noisy sounds around instantly quieted down, and everyone looked at the scene in front of them.
"What is it?"
The curtain was lifted, Jiang Zhaoying got off the carriage, and the little woman pointed at the baby in the cradle.
"Goddess, please save my daughter. She hasn't eaten or drunk for two days and two nights, and she hasn't made any noise. The doctor said the child is hopeless, but I think she's not dead yet and she can still live. Please, Goddess, save my daughter. I'm willing to work like a cow or a horse to repay you."
Jiang Zhaoying squatted down, opened the swaddling clothes, and when her eyes were filled with golden light, she saw that there was something wrong with the child's inner soul.
"It can be saved, don't worry!"
As soon as the words fell.
The little woman's dead eyes suddenly lit up and she spoke anxiously with a sob.
"Really? Goddess, can it really be saved?"
Jiang Zhaoying nodded, raised her hand and gently touched the center of the child's eyebrows to stabilize his only soul, and then said.
"It's not convenient here. I still need the help of my brothers. Let's go back to the Imperial Observatory first."
"Thank you, Goddess. Thank you, Goddess."
The little woman was trembling all over, but she still held the child tightly and carefully. Jiang Zhaoying pointed to the carriage.
"You get on the carriage first. She should be ready to breastfeed soon. Don't worry, I can save her. Besides, she will be a blessing to you in the future."
Those who are destined to be with her will never be bad in the future.
and.
She said this in order to save the child so that her grandmother would not abandon her again in the future.
"Just get on my carriage and I'll just ride the horse."
The prince asked someone to help Jiang Zhaoying get on the carriage, then he mounted the horse and led everyone along the way.
This incident attracted everyone's attention, so the group of people surrounded their team and went directly back to the Imperial Observatory. Xu Zhiyan, A Yu and his fellow disciples already knew that they were coming back.
They all stood in a row at the gate early in the morning, and when they saw the carriage coming, four teams of young and high-spirited men saluted respectfully.
"Meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, meet the Goddess."
The prince, sitting on a fine horse, looked wise and majestic, and nodded.
"Get up."
Then.
Xu Zhiyan stepped forward and helped Jiang Zhaoying get off the carriage. Naturally, someone also took care of the young woman and her daughter as they got off the carriage together.
It was the first time the young woman entered a government office. She was so nervous that her teeth were chattering, but in order to save her daughter, she still strode in.
When everyone was ready, Xu Zhiyan took a look and then told the young woman.
"She was surrounded by deceased relatives."
The young woman was startled when she heard this, then burst into tears and said in a trembling voice.
"It was her father. When I was five months pregnant, my husband fell from a height and died. My parents-in-law thought that the arrival of this child had disturbed my husband and that it was the child who killed him."
Jiang Zhaoying looked at the old woman. The old woman looked at her coldly and fearlessly. When she heard what she said, she started to curse.
"I'm not wrong. If that bastard hadn't come, my son wouldn't have died."
The little woman hugged the child tightly and begged with tears.
"Mother-in-law, there was a problem with the wood on the roof a long time ago. Your daughter-in-law reminded me at least ten times, but you insisted that the wood was only twenty years old and there was no way it could possibly be a problem. Your husband believed you and laid straw there. Not only did your father-in-law even give him two ounces of wine, saying that the roof was too cold and that drinking the wine would warm his body and prevent him from getting sick."
If they had listened to her, hired someone to help, replaced the wood, and then repaired it, this would never have happened.
Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard what the little woman said.
When the old man next to the old woman heard his daughter-in-law's accusation, he jumped up in anger and was about to hit her.
"It was very cold that day, and he might get sick easily. My son was not feeling well, so he drank some wine to warm himself up. How could I have killed him? I am his father, how could I have killed my own son? You shameless man, maybe this man was born from a man you stole from somewhere, and he is not my son at all."
Looking at the behavior of the old couple and then looking at the skinny, helpless appearance of the young woman and child, everyone couldn't help but become angry.
Someone pointed at the old couple and shouted.
"Are you two seriously ill? You knew there was something wrong with the roof, but you didn't ask anyone to help fix it. You knew they had to climb up high, but you still gave them two ounces of wine. Aren't you sending them to death? Your daughter-in-law is kind-hearted. She was willing to give birth to a child even if her husband died, leaving you with an heir. Not only did you not like the child, you wanted to kill it. Now the child's father is reluctant to let her go and wants to protect her, but you are still trying to kill her."
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