"You...Okay, I know about your aunt. If I tell you the truth, can you let Wan'er go?"
"Then it depends on whether you are telling the truth."
The Shangshu's wife was silent for a long time before she told Rong Xi what she had buried in her heart for many years, and asked her to promise not to tell her father that it was she who said it.
Rong Xi agreed.
It turns out that Rong Xi's aunt was a dancer in a dance hall. During a drinking party, Jiang Heng saw Su Li dancing gracefully and was deeply attracted by her dancing posture and appearance. From then on, he couldn't stop falling for her.
But he was a minister in the court, and if he always hung out in the dance hall, he would be impeached. So he used some means to take Su Li away, and she became his concubine from then on.
Su Li originally had a childhood sweetheart, Rong Xi was already three years old when she found out that everything was designed by Jiang Heng.
Her childhood sweetheart found her and said she wanted to take her away, but she couldn't bear to leave Rong Xi and hesitated for a long time.
But during this period of time, their affair was discovered by Jiang Heng, who imprisoned her on the night she decided to leave with her childhood sweetheart. The reason she was caught was because she was worried about Rong Xi and backed out of leaving.
However, Jiang Heng told others that she had left with a strange man.
The reason why the Shangshu's wife knew about this was that Jiang Heng would always disappear for a while after returning to the mansion, and he had a huge appetite. After she discovered the abnormality, one day she happened to run into him entering an underground secret room, and she followed him out of curiosity.
But he saw Su Li, who should have escaped long ago, sitting on the bed in a state of half-human and half-ghost state with messy hair. Her eyes were dull as if she had lost hope in life.
If Jiang Heng hadn't put Rong Xi's life in danger, she would have killed herself long ago. Why would she have to endure his humiliation every day here?
What is even more noticeable is her bulging belly, which looks like she is almost four or five months pregnant.
She was shocked by this scene. She had just given birth to her youngest son not long ago. She was afraid that the child born by this woman would compete with her own children for the family property, so she ignored her.
But she was still very angry. No woman could tolerate her husband having another woman in his heart, even imprisoning her by his side and hiding it from his wife.
The child was never born because Jiang Heng felt that it was a bastard, the bastard between her and that man, so Su Li drank a bowl of abortion medicine called pregnancy-preserving medicine.
The child was already too old, and the result was two deaths.
The Shangshu's wife didn't know what happened to the body in the end, but Jiang Heng had a very bad temper during that time and no one dared to provoke him.
The more Rong Xi listened, the worse her expression became. She had thought her aunt had really left, but she had not expected this to be the outcome.
"Rong Xi, I've told you everything I know. What about Wan'er..."
"I will not break my promise to you."
After the Shangshu's wife left, Rong Xi sat there quietly. The original owner hated her aunt, thinking that she had abandoned her. After all, everything she had to endure was because of the original owner who was still young at the time.
At this point, the original owner's consciousness and obsession are gone.
Rong Xi had a good sleep, and the next morning she walked out of the front door and went to the house she rented.
I originally thought that this matter would take a long time to resolve, and I even rented this house specifically to avoid those unlucky people in the Shangshu Mansion, but now I don’t need that anymore.
Although she didn't need it, she had already paid the rent for this month and didn't know when she could enter the palace, so now she could only come here to hide away.
Everything had been bought here when the emperor came before, so there was no need to buy anything else.
"System, can you find the tomb of the original owner's aunt?"
System [In the past, the system could not accurately lock onto the location of people or objects it had never seen before.]
Rong Xi thought that he had to start with the original owner's father.
She was still thinking about how to get Jiang Heng to tell her the location of the original owner's concubine when she heard someone opening the door outside.
"System, who's outside?"
After checking, the system replied to Rong Xi, "The target of the mission has arrived."
The emperor actually went to the Shangshu Mansion at first, but he didn't see her there, so he knew she must have come here.
As expected, she was seen sitting by the charcoal basin, lazily reading the book in her hand.
His main purpose of coming here this time was to take her back to the palace. After last night, he had already thought of all the ways to deal with Rong Xi not entering the palace.
If she still doesn't want to in the end, he doesn't mind using his status as emperor to pressure her.
The two sat by the charcoal brazier in silence for a long time, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
After a long while, the emperor finally spoke tentatively, "Rong Xi, are you willing to come into the palace with me?"
Rong Xi had been waiting for a long time, waiting for him to say this, but did not agree immediately.
"Your Majesty, I don't want to enter the palace?"
The emperor knew she would say this. "The Shangshu Mansion is already in this state. If you continue to stay there, your future will probably be very difficult."
"But I still think it's better outside."
"But how can you survive in the Shangshu Mansion like this? Why not attack? I will guarantee your safety, and you will also receive silver every month, as well as maids to serve you and countless delicacies, and..."
"What did you just say?"
“Too many delicious dishes.”
"Previous sentence."
"The maid who serves you."
"One more sentence."
"There is money to be taken every month."
"How many?"
…
The emperor almost forgot that this was a little money-grubber, he said softly with a faint smile.
"Noble ladies get two hundred taels, concubines get three hundred taels, imperial concubines get six hundred taels, noble concubines get nine hundred taels, imperial noble concubines get one thousand two hundred taels, and the empress gets two thousand taels. This does not include rewards, pregnancy, or offspring..."
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