Submit your memorial, and you will naturally be able to bring down the Third Prince.
A memorial to the emperor?
"Master, what memorial is he referring to?"
After reading this ambiguous statement, Madam Liu looked at Liu Ru'an with a questioning gaze. The other party shook his head, his inscrutable expression only fueling her curiosity.
He didn't have time to answer his wife's questions.
My mind was completely focused on how this person knew what I was investigating.
Is he saying this because this matter is related to Consort Shu from back then?
A series of doubts swirled in his mind. But more than anything, he hesitated. If that memorial in the study were presented, it wouldn't just be Jiang Yuanlang who would be brought down. The Crown Prince would also be...
Liu Qingmei didn't care about any of that; all she knew was that her father had a way to free her from this misery.
"Father! I'm begging you, I'll do anything, even if it's a desperate situation, let's submit that memorial! Save my life!"
"Yes, sir. If that memorial is really useful, we should submit it as soon as possible so that our Qingmei can get a divorce from the Third Prince!"
Liu Ru'an: "What a woman's view! Do you really think that if I hand over the things, the emperor will let Qingmei off because of me? Who knows, she might get implicated in the end too!"
He turned and strode out of the main hall.
This matter was so strange that it was unsettling; he didn't even know who had planted spies in his residence.
What's more, he managed to lie low for so many years. He kept his ambition and cunning hidden from everyone, investigating and keeping all the secret documents in his possession?
At that moment, Xu Nian listened as the maid recounted, word by word, Xu Shen's outrageous demands over the past period.
For example, if he wanted a maid to keep watch in his room at night, he would specifically ask for the prettiest maid in his room.
Furthermore, she insisted on wearing brocade robes and, fearlessly, wearing a jade crown on her head, even attempting to parade around in the city. Had Liu Yun not discovered and stopped her, and others hadn't seen her, the ministers would have undoubtedly used her as a pretext for their criticism.
Even more so, if you run into Da Bao and Er Bao, both of them.
She even coaxed her, saying that as the older sister, she had forgotten about her two younger brothers because she had a title. She always thought about enjoying a life of luxury, but never bothered to get them a title like duke or marquis.
Da Bao, having read books and understood many principles, was looked at by Er Bao as if he were an idiot.
He pushed the person away, turned around, and went out to play with other children, completely ignoring what they said.
Xu Nian's lips twitched. "Cousin, do you really think this title is as easy as cabbage? Just because I want it, does the Emperor have to give it to me?" These people, they leech off her all day long, and in the end they blame her for not giving them all her blood.
"I...I was just joking with them. Cousin, cousin, please give me some more money, I really need it urgently." In front of the person in question, even if Xu Shen wanted to tear this servant's mouth apart a thousand times in her heart, she had to quietly endure it on the surface.
Standing there with a sullen face, his body, hidden in the wide robe, swayed in the wind like a piece of paper whenever he moved.
He tried his best to portray himself as living a miserable and pitiful life, tearfully saying that he was getting old and wanted a wife but hadn't said it yet.
Liu Yun quickly came to the hall and whispered a few words to Xu Nian.
Then they saw the person who had been bored suddenly perk up, "Really?"
Liu Yun nodded, then pulled Gu Zhan, who was just standing in the background, to his feet and whispered something in his ear. From Xu Shen's perspective, General Gu, who had been indifferent, now had a strange look in his eyes.
She even seemed to glance at him several times, almost imperceptibly.
Xu Shen was startled, remembering the people he had sent to steal things. Could they have been discovered...?
"Take him with you. Cousin, I'll take you to see a good show right now."
Xu Nian smiled with her eyes crinkling, but Xu Shen felt that this person was like a demon from hell who came to lock away souls, with ill intentions, wanting to peel off every inch of his skin.
However, he had no way out!
She was carried by the servants from the front hall to the backyard, to Xu Nian and Gu Zhan's courtyard.
From afar, one could hear someone crying and shouting inside, "You lowly wretch, let me go! Do you know who I am?! I am the aunt of your general's wife, the old lady! You vile wretches, what right do you have to arrest me?!"
Pushing open the door, Wang Jinfeng was found tied to a pillar in an extremely undignified manner, surrounded by two families. Also present were a group of maids whom she had ordered to be hidden away.
Upon seeing the two approach, the one in the lead bowed and said, "Madam, General. We were guarding this place. About fifteen minutes after you two left, this person sneaked in."
"She ransacked their room, even searching under the bed and in every nook and cranny. These are what we found on her."
Only then did everyone notice that there was a box on the stone table next to them.
The gilded and carved patterns exude an air of wealth and nobility. It also features dozens of hairpins and ornaments, all made of pure gold.
Even her nine-petaled lotus crown, a gift from the emperor, was included.
Could ancient people's clothing hold so much stuff?
Wow, that's amazing! How did she do that? Doesn't that lotus crown feel uncomfortable on her body?
[Hey streamer, look at that small porcelain bottle, isn't that the one you used to store spirits?]
"That's right, thank you to this family member."
Following the comments, Xu Nian looked closely and indeed found the small white porcelain bottle amidst a dazzling array of gold and silver rooms.
He hung her arm around his neck and slowly walked towards Wang Jinfeng. "I say, Aunt, why didn't you even look before you stole it? Do you know what's in there?"
"Who stole it?! Who stole it?! I'm your aunt, what's wrong with taking a little bit of your jewelry?! Let me tell you, you'd better let me go right now, or I won't let you get away with this!"
Xu Shen was furious with his mother. "Mom, what nonsense are you talking about?!" They agreed to steal a secret manual, but what kind of things did they steal?!
"Did I say anything wrong?! You brat, now that she has money, you're not on your mother's side anymore?! It's just that she took a few things from her, look how she tied me up?!"
Liu Yun was almost amused by her self-righteous attitude. "When the Jingzhou Prefecture pronounced its verdict, you and my wife had no further connection. My wife was kind-hearted and took you in as an orphan and widow because she thought you were old and frail. I never expected you to repay kindness with enmity. What do you mean 'yours'?! Everything here belongs to the General and his wife. What does it have to do with you, you old hag?!"
"Exactly! You traitor, trying to bleed the lady dry while also colluding with others to harm her, ugh!"
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