Tao Yuwei suddenly sat up from the bed.
"Mother, please don't let her kneel in front of the door and ruin the reputation of the General's Mansion. If she continues to make a fuss, it will affect my eldest brother's marriage proposal."
Reputation is very important in any era.
She thought that the old lady Fang had accepted her fate.
It was Fang's own son and grandson who were so vicious that they were all thrown into prison.
He came here crying at this moment. Could it be that his second uncle Tao Jingyu and eldest cousin Tao Baichuan were convicted?
It is possible that Fang must have received the news and felt that Daxia was about to fall. Without her son and grandson, it would be difficult for them, the women, to survive, so they tried to find a way to move back to the general's mansion.
Why let them in? Are they secretly causing trouble and trying to steal the family property?
It’s nice to think about it, but if you want to come back after leaving the house, there’s no way.
[The old woman came here to cause trouble at this time. Could it be that she is planning to return to the mansion? ]
[It is very likely that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have joined forces with outsiders and started to plot against my mother.]
Thinking of this, Tao Yuwei's face was filled with anger.
Of course, Wu quickly figured out what her mother-in-law Fang was up to.
After hearing her daughter's thoughts, she felt strange. Fang and her sister-in-law Sun didn't know any noble families in the capital. Who could they collude with to plot against her?
"I'll go check at the gate. You should rest here and don't run around anymore."
Mrs. Wu didn't bother to ask her daughter for clarification, and hurried to the gate of the mansion with her men.
When her eldest son comes back, she hopes to find a pleasing daughter-in-law for him, and she absolutely cannot let her stepmother-in-law make a scene at the door of the house.
At the gate of the General's Mansion.
Fang, supported by her daughter-in-law, Sun, stood trembling at the gate of her mansion, crying loudly to the passers-by on Yingcai Street in the west city, "As the old lady of the General's Mansion, I have worked hard for many years. Who could have imagined that after living away from home for a while, when I returned, I couldn't even enter the mansion. How could this be possible?"
Hearing Fang's accusation, a group of people quickly gathered to watch.
They stood at the gate of the mansion, pointing and talking, "I didn't expect that the general who guards the country is such an unfilial son. He even won't let me into the mansion."
"The old man looks very unwell. He must have suffered a lot outside. Alas, pity the love of parents. They raise their children their whole lives, but end up raising an ungrateful person."
"It seems that this old lady must have been driven out of the mansion. The general who defends the country is a great hero of the Great Zhou, but he did something unfilial. This is really discrediting him!"
Hearing the discussions at the door, the guards at the door clenched their weapons in anger, wishing they could rush out and beat up these people who spread rumors.
If you don't know the whole story, don't talk nonsense. Their general is not an ungrateful person.
It was this evil mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were causing trouble and deliberately slandering their general.
Looking at the crowd who spoke up for her, Fang felt very proud.
Doing as that nobleman said, the effect was indeed good. When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to the General's Mansion, they would be able to find a way to help their son and her eldest grandson.
She learned from the nobles that her son and eldest grandson had been banished to the cold Mobei by His Majesty, and that the culprit was her ungrateful stepson.
Once she enters the mansion, she will make sure that the first wife's family suffers a miserable death.
Her stepson Tao Zhihong ruined the future of her biological son and eldest grandson and ruined their lives.
She regretted that she did not kill the weak Tao Zhihong when she was young.
If she doesn't have a good life, no one will have a good life.
Fang was filled with hatred towards the entire General's Mansion.
Tao Yuwei was not wrong about the Fang mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's thoughts.
After the father and son were strictly interrogated, Emperor Jianchang did not take their lives for the sake of Tao Zhihong.
Instead, they spared their lives and were exiled to extremely cold places to do hard labor, with no possibility of returning to Beijing.
The court has announced the punishment for Tao Jingyu and Tao Baichuan, and Fang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law received the news.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had lost their source of money and had no pillar of support in the family, so of course they were unwilling to live a hard life.
So, I planned to go back home.
In addition, someone with ulterior motives approached them, and the two sides hit it off, which led to this scene of making trouble at their doorstep.
"Thank you all for your kind words. I would like to express my gratitude to you all." Then, Fang sighed with a face full of sorrow, "I live away from home and didn't want to trouble my eldest son to worry about me. But recently, my health has become increasingly weak. I miss them so much that I am afraid that I will close my eyes in the blink of an eye and become a lonely ghost in the end..."
Before she could finish her words, she burst into tears!
The onlookers felt very sympathetic towards her when they saw this.
"The current emperor is a filial son. Our Great Zhou is a country that values filial piety. I believe that the general who protects the country will also be a filial son."
"As the saying goes, fallen leaves return to their roots. No one wants to die outside. This old lady is too pitiful."
"When the great general comes out later, we'll help the old lady say some good things so she can go home and enjoy the happiness of family life!"
After hearing what these people said, Fang regained confidence that she and her mother-in-law could move back into the General's Mansion.
After a while, no matter who came out of the mansion, for the sake of the mansion's reputation, they would politely invite her to return home to live.
Fang had already thought of more than a dozen ways to deal with her eldest daughter-in-law, Wu.
Seeing that no one had come out of the mansion, the onlookers shouted, "Someone come out and ask your old lady to come back home."
Everyone stood at the gate of the mansion indignantly to support Fang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Some impulsive people even tried to break into the residence of the General who Guards the Country.
He was stopped by the guards at the gate with weapons in hand.
For a moment, there was chaos and noise at the gate of the mansion.
It was under such circumstances that Wu rushed to the gate of the mansion.
Seeing that the dispute had broken out again and things were about to get out of hand, Wu spoke up to stop the crowd from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
"Everyone, please be quiet. Do not trespass into the house without permission. Otherwise, you will be punished with 100 strokes of the cane and two years of imprisonment."
This is what the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty stipulated. After Wu's reminder, the rioting crowd instantly quieted down.
Only then did they calm down.
They had originally come to watch the excitement, but just now, seeing that everyone was feeling sorry for the old man who was asking to enter the mansion, they got carried away and joined in the commotion, which almost got them into trouble.
No matter what, it is their own business, and they shouldn't rush to the front and ask for trouble.
No matter what, we are still family.
It is possible that they helped the old man, but they were arrested and punished by the government.
After thinking this through, the crowd stopped speaking up for Fang.
Seeing this, Fang was extremely angry and her face looked very ugly.
After calming the crowd, Wu's gaze fell on Fang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
When Wu saw how Fang and the others were dressed, a dark light flashed in her clear eyes.
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