Huo Jiwen could guess what his mother wanted to see him about. He didn't want to go, but he had no choice but to go.
So I reluctantly went to the backyard.
When Qingyou saw Char Siu Bao come in, she threw several pieces of paper directly at him.
She said angrily, "Take a good look at yourself. You two have completely disgraced our Duke's Mansion."
This is a message she deliberately had someone go outside to record.
Huo Jiwen's face was grim, but he still picked it up and looked at it once.
After reading it, his face turned extremely sour.
He never expected that the outside world would spread rumors about Lingqiao as a heartless and promiscuous woman.
He spoke up to argue, "Mother, these are all rumors."
Qingyou looked at him and asked, "Today, she was kissed and touched in public by the bandit leader, but so many people saw it. The Lady of Pingyang even came to the Duke's mansion to talk to me about it."
Huo Jiwen choked, "That wasn't Lingqiao's intention; she was implicated by her cousin."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qingyou picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it directly at his forehead.
"You unfilial son! She was the one who tried to harm your cousin, and in the end, she was the one who suffered the consequences. How could you so heartlessly make your cousin take the blame? You bastard!"
Huo Jiwen tried to dodge, but he was too late.
The teacup hit his forehead, scalding water splashing all over his face, and he couldn't help but scream, "Ah!"
He hurriedly pulled out a handkerchief to wipe the water off his face; he knew without even looking in a mirror that it was definitely red.
"Mother, you actually hit me with a cup of boiling water! Are you trying to disfigure me?"
Qingyou did it on purpose. "It's better to be disfigured, so I won't go out and attract bad romantic attention."
Huo Jiwen: "..." Is this her biological mother? She seems more and more like a stepmother.
Before Huo Jiwen could speak, Qingyou changed the subject and asked, "Although she already had a bad reputation, now she's even lost her innocence. Are you still going to marry her?"
Huo Jiwen felt a burning pain on his face and was extremely irritable.
He said with some impatience, "Mother, we've already set a wedding date, how can we go back on our word?"
Qingyou said with a stern face, "You and Yue'er were also engaged back then, it was arranged when your grandmother was still alive, and you still went back on your word."
"If a woman like her, who doesn't even have a clean reputation, marries into the family, not only will you become a laughing stock, but our Duke's mansion will also become a laughing stock."
"Besides, don't you feel uncomfortable seeing her being kissed and touched in public by a man?"
She provoked Char Siu Bao while simultaneously trying to sow discord between him and Xiao Baihua.
This is what Xiaobaihua used to do all the time.
Char siu bao is very concerned about saving face. Although he won't change his decision, he'll still have a thorn in his side.
Sure enough, Huo Jiwen became even more irritable. What was originally just a slight annoyance now turned into a rare feeling of dissatisfaction with Shi Lingqiao.
Even if you're in a hurry to buy ginseng, you should bring more people with you, or have your older brother go instead.
Now that his reputation is ruined, even he is affected.
However, he had already given so much, and marrying Shi Lingqiao had become an obsession.
Therefore, he still insisted, "Mother, it is precisely at times like these that I cannot abandon her. Otherwise, she will have to endure even more gossip and rumors, and she might even be unable to resist taking her own life."
Qingyou asked, "So you still want to marry her?"
Huo Jiwen pursed his lips and said, "Yes!"
Qingyou was so angry that she could hardly breathe. "Get out! You unfilial son, get out of here! I'll never take care of you again!"
Huo Jiwen's face was burning with pain from the burn. "Yes, then I won't make Mother angry here."
After saying this, he left quickly and asked his servant to call the royal physician to examine his face.
Qingyou stood up, then pretended to faint.
Granny Qi and the others were shocked to see this, "Madam!"
The imperial physician had just arrived at Huo Jiwen's residence to examine his face.
Before he could even prescribe the medicine, he was pulled away by Qingyou's maid, who said that the madam had fainted from anger and that he should go see her quickly.
The physician was startled and, without hesitation, picked up his medicine chest and left with the maid.
In the Duke's mansion, of course, the lady's health is more important.
Otherwise, if anything were to happen to her, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor would definitely not let them off the hook.
Huo Jiwen watched helplessly as the physician was taken away, which made him even more agitated. The pain in his face made him feel like he was going to lose it.
At the same time, he was a little panicked because his mother had fainted from anger again.
Normally, he would definitely go to the backyard to visit his parents and show filial piety, but now his face was in too much pain, so he had to send someone outside to fetch a doctor to examine his face.
As a result, news spread in the capital the next day that the eldest princess hoped Huo Jiwen would give up on marrying Shi Lingqiao, who had lost her chastity.
However, Huo Jiwen firmly opposed it and insisted on marrying Shi Lingqiao, which made the princess faint again.
After the princess fainted, Huo Jiwen didn't even visit her, which was extremely unfilial.
As a result, Huo Jiwen and Shi Lingqiao's reputations were further tarnished.
Huo Jiwen's face was treated with medicine, but because the treatment was delayed, a small burn scar remained on his forehead.
This turned his initial guilt about making his mother faint into resentment.
The emperor and empress dowager in the palace knew about this. While feeling sorry for their sister/daughter, they felt even more disgusted with their nephew/grandson.
The Empress Dowager spoke with the Emperor for a while, and then the Emperor wrote an imperial edict and had it sent to the Duke's mansion.
Also sent were various tonics and medicinal herbs bestowed upon Qingyou by the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, as well as some rare and precious tributes.
When Qingyou received these things, Huo Jiwen received an imperial edict reprimanding him.
They also made him stay home and reflect on his actions for a month, the implication being that he shouldn't go out and embarrass himself again.
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