Chapter 388: Why don’t you die?
"But since I think you're quite upright, I'll tell you something. Your wife is pregnant right now. If you're too busy with your official duties and you lose the baby, you'll never have eggs again."
"It's not that I don't have one with your wife, it's that I don't have one with anyone. Your family line will be extinct~"
The man looked at his wife beside him in disbelief, his heart aching. "Ning'er, is what the young princess of the Great Zhou said true?"
Seeing his beloved wife covering her belly with her hands and crying silently, what else could he not understand?
"Mother, why?"
The woman looked sarcastic and said, "Yes, I did it. The wife you married was not the one I wanted to marry. I asked you to marry your cousin to make it a closer relationship, but you said you would not agree and insisted on marrying her!"
"Your cousin has been in love with you since she was a child. Since you got married, she has been crying all day at home. It makes me so sad to see her. It's all because of that bitch next to you."
"Not only is our family small, but we can't do anything right. I'm just asking her to serve me as her mother-in-law. What's wrong with that?"
The man was so angry at his mother's words that he laughed. "Her family is a small family? Mother, are my maternal grandparents some kind of wealthy family? My father is a third-rank official, and my maternal grandparents were just county magistrates in a remote town. If it weren't for my father's help over the years, how could my maternal grandparents have been transferred back to the imperial city in just a few years?"
"If that's what you said, then why didn't you ask to be divorced? Why did you insist on marrying my father as promised?"
"Also, although Ning'er's father was a fifth-rank official, last month at the hunting grounds, Ning'er's brother lost his life while saving the Emperor. The Emperor has already issued an edict to posthumously confer the rank of second-rank official upon Ning'er's deceased elder brother. Ning'er's father has been promoted to the third rank and is only waiting to return to the Imperial City to take up his post after the handover."
"That is to say, Ning'er's father is now of the same rank as Dad, and Ning'er's mother also has an imperial decree. If I remember correctly, my mother still doesn't have an imperial decree."
The woman blushed at what her son said, and she covered her chest and scolded him for being unfilial, saying that she had raised him in vain for more than twenty years.
Unexpectedly, the man hardened his heart this time. He stood up and knelt beside the official. "Father, I am an unfilial son. I want to take Ning'er out of the house and live alone. But don't worry, I will take care of you in your old age and see you to the end. I don't want anything in the family. Just give it to my second brother."
"As for mother, you have been pretending to have a heartache for so many years, so please stop pretending. Your son will no longer feel sorry for you."
The woman's vision darkened upon hearing this. She pinched her hand hard and gritted her teeth as she said, "Are you really going to split up and leave the mansion to live alone just for that bitch? Do you know that if everything in this mansion was given to your second brother, how would there be a place for you and me, mother and son, to stand in the future?!"
The man snorted softly, "I've heard what mother has done over the years. I've been out on patrol for the emperor all year round and really don't have time to care. I just thought you were just missing out on food and clothing, not Ning'er and my second brother's aunt."
"Every time I come back, I give Ning'er some money, and I also secretly help my second brother and aunt, hoping to accumulate more virtue for you so that our family will be harmonious and prosperous. But I never thought that you would..."
"Father, please allow me to live on my own, even if you want to remove my name from the family tree. Ning'er is my beloved, the one I went through so much trouble to marry. From now on, I will never let Ning'er suffer any injustice again."
"As for my cousin...if mother really likes her, she can take her as a concubine to father. That way, my cousin can be with mother every day."
Finally... when the official sighed and nodded, the mean mother-in-law fainted.
The little girl nodded in satisfaction at the result. Apart from the mean mother-in-law, everyone else in the family was pretty good. Even the second son born out of wedlock would be a promising person in the future.
When Beining is taken over by the Great Zhou in the future, everyone in this family will be loyal to the Great Zhou and will be honest for generations.
After this incident, the eyes of the people in the hall looking at the little girl slowly began to change, and the old emperor sat there without saying a word to stop them. One reason was curiosity, and the other was that he really wanted to see the abilities of the regent's family.
The little girl blinked her eyes, which looked very similar to Bu Ruo's, and stretched out her chubby little hand: "This family has been dealt with, then this princess will continue."
"Hey? Why are you all looking down? Why aren't you looking at me? I never tell lies. Lying will bring punishment from heaven."
"Next is... yes, you. You are from the Gu family, right? Hey, don't be nervous, you two. Your precious daughter Gu Lingxiu is indeed your biological daughter."
The couple breathed a sigh of relief, but the girl's next words froze them in place.
"Although your daughter's appearance isn't even close to my mother's, she's still pretty good. It's just a pity... when she held her coming-of-age ceremony three years ago, the young master of the Zhang family accompanied his mother to the ceremony. He got carried away and directly defiled her innocence."
"Keep your mouths shut. This princess is not lying. Besides Gu Lingxiu, her personal maid also knows about this matter. If you don't believe me, just ask. You can also ask the palace maid to verify it."
Gu Lingxiu stared at the little girl with tears in her eyes: "Little Princess, you have only been in Beining for a few days, but you are talking about things that happened three years ago. What else can this be but a false accusation?"
The little girl took one look at her guilty expression and said, "Didn't the princess say that if it's a false accusation, we can ask the palace maids to examine it and find out. It's just a trivial matter. The princess has also had her body examined in my Great Zhou. Why, if the princess can have it examined, you, the daughter of a minor official, can't? Are you more noble than the princess?"
Although she is a fake princess.
Gu Lingxiu fell to the ground, crying bitterly: "I won't take the test. If I do, how can I live in this world with dignity?"
"You're too embarrassed to live after a medical checkup?" The little girl turned to look at Guo Shuangwen dimly. "What nonsense! Gu Lingxiu said you shouldn't be alive. How about... you just die?"
Guo Shuangwen choked and looked at his mother with grievance.
How could Concubine Rou let it go when she saw the daughter she and her lover had been wronged, especially when the other party was from Concubine Zhang's side?
"Someone, take Miss Gu down for a physical examination."
Concubine Zhang coughed lightly twice and was about to speak when she heard Concubine Rou continue, "Don't be offended, Sister Concubine. You've lived in the palace for a long time and haven't been out much, so you won't know. This is all for the good of the adults present."
"If it is proven that the daughter of the Gu family is truly innocent, she will not marry into another family and become a nuisance in the future."
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