Chapter 162 Consort Su is getting arrogant
"She is, she is the Empress, our mother!" the little prince roared angrily. "Only the Empress loves us the most. She feeds us and gives us new clothes, but you can only mend these tattered clothes for us and don't even feed us properly. We hate you."
Jiang Fenghua felt as if her heart was being torn apart; tears streamed down her face, and she was too heartbroken to speak.
Su Tingwan narrowed her eyes coldly, ordered people to bring food and clothes to the two ignorant children, and then had them taken back to Kunning Palace to be well taken care of.
Whenever she was unhappy, she would send them back to suffer. This happened again and again, and they hated their biological mother to the core.
She laughed and said, "Jiang Fenghua, so what if you are the Emperor's legal wife? So what if you took away my position as Crown Princess? Now I am the Empress, the mother of the nation. Look! Your two biological children don't want to acknowledge you, they despise you."
Jiang Fenghua knelt before her like a pitiful worm, listening to her lecture and scolding, "I have not offended you, much less harmed you, why are you treating me like this?"
"If you had never consummated your marriage with the Emperor back then, I could have let you off the hook. But you seduced him into sleeping with you and secretly got pregnant, giving birth to these two bastards. I'm going to torture you and make you wish you were dead."
"That's not how it is. I didn't seduce him. He barged in on his own. Besides, he's my husband. Why can't I consummate our marriage? Su Tingwan, you're so cruel. You'll get your retribution." Jiang Fenghua refused to admit defeat. She was originally the Crown Princess, but Xie Shang ascended the throne and made Su Tingwan the Empress.
He didn't like her, and she accepted that, but why did he harm her children and even teach them to bully their own mother?
She stepped forward to slap Su Tingwan back, but before she could even touch her, she was slapped again.
"Jiang Fenghua, what do you have to fight me with? Just your Jiang family?" Su Tingwan said sternly, "If you don't behave yourself, I won't be so nice to your son and daughter as I am today. Next time, I can't guarantee whether they will lose an arm or an eye first, or even lose their lives."
Hearing this, Jiang Fenghua was terrified and immediately knelt on the ground, pleading, "Please, don't hurt them. They are innocent. They did nothing wrong."
"Giving birth to them was your biggest mistake, and trying to get them to seduce the Emperor was your biggest mistake as well," Su Tingwan said angrily. "If you satisfy me, I will consider letting them grow up; otherwise..."
Jiang Fenghua immediately kowtowed, "Your Majesty, I will do whatever you wish to satisfy you. Please have mercy and do not harm them." Her children had become her lifelong Achilles' heel.
Su Tingwan was awakened by laughter, but when she woke up, she was lying on a cold bed. This was the room in her dream, the place where Jiang Fenghua was to spend the rest of her life.
She squeezed her hands, feeling that the dream she had just had was incredibly real. Xie Shang became the emperor, and her aunt was not banished to the cold palace at all, but instead became the empress dowager. Not only was she not neglected by Xie Shang, but she also became the empress. She gave birth to a daughter who was the eldest princess. Jiang Fenghua, on the other hand, only became a virtuous concubine in the end, and was neglected by the emperor, left in this dilapidated courtyard, where she lived a lonely life and even died.
She just enjoyed seeing Jiang Fenghua in such a miserable state, so she would come and humiliate her from time to time, bringing her food and clothes. Her generosity and charity towards Jiang Fenghua were all for show.
She raised her two children to be completely unruly, and the person they hated most was their mother—it's a wonderful thing to think about.
However, when she woke up, things were not like that. Jiang Fenghua was living a life of luxury and enjoyment, while she was living the life she had dreamed of.
On what grounds?
If only the dream were real, she would be the supreme Empress, and Jiang Fenghua's two children would have to call her Mother. Raising them to the point of ruin would be the thing that makes her happiest.
Just then, Granny Xi burst in with a large pile of clothes. Seeing that she was still asleep in bed, Granny Xi immediately started to make trouble, "Her Majesty the Empress's pile of clothes hasn't been washed yet, and Consort Su is still hiding in her room being lazy."
Su Tingwan got out of bed and said coldly, "I have to wash the Empress's clothes too. What's the point of keeping you dogs and servants?"
She recalled the scene of Empress Cheng dying alone in her dream, and she almost laughed out loud. She didn't know why Xie Shang didn't like his mother. Although he made her Empress Dowager, she was just an Empress Dowager, and the real power was in the hands of her aunt.
Seeing this, Granny Xi said, "When the prince left, he told Consort Su to stay in the palace and take good care of the Empress. Consort Su should personally take care of the Empress's food, clothing, and housing in order to show your filial piety."
The thought of becoming Empress made Su Tingwan realize that she would no longer be subservient to Granny Xi. She stood up from the bed, kicked the maid in the leg, and said coldly, "Are these clothes the Empress's? Granny Xi, how dare you use a maid's clothes to impersonate the Empress's clothes? Are you humiliating me, a concubine, or the Empress?"
Granny Xi said, "Oh dear, Consort Su, are you trying to rebel? Since you don't want to wash clothes, then this servant will go and inform Her Highness."
Granny Xi didn't expect Consort Su to resist. She really wouldn't let Su Tingwan wash the Empress's clothes, in case Su Tingwan did something wrong or ruined them. So, she ordered the palace maids to collect a large pile of clothes for Su Tingwan to wash.
Su Tingwan thought that if that dream was real, then she would be the future empress, and these lowly servants who dared to humiliate her would all suffer a terrible death.
The Su family will help Xie Shang win this battle, after which he will be made Crown Prince by the Emperor, Jiang Fenghua will be the Crown Princess, and she will be a concubine. In the end, when Xie Shang becomes Emperor, she will be Empress. All she needs to do is wait for her elder brother to return victorious.
It must be because my elder brother has made great contributions. My aunt once said that sometimes the emperor has to act according to the ministers' wishes. Over the years, hasn't the emperor favored my aunt for so many years because of the Su family?
She wouldn't wash the palace maids' clothes.
Since Su Tingwan knew martial arts, Granny Xi didn't want to suffer a loss in the short term, so she ordered someone to take the clothes back.
Su Tingwan arrived at Kunning Palace only after lunch had been served.
Jiang Fenghua stayed here all morning to accompany Empress Cheng in playing the zither and chatting. When Empress Cheng was young, she was not only a good dancer, but also a skilled zither player.
After spending time together, the two women, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, found common ground and enjoyed a harmonious relationship.
Su Tingwan wanted to laugh again when she thought of their final moments in her dream. She knelt respectfully on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to Your Majesty the Empress."
Empress Cheng's illness was almost cured. According to Granny Xi, she didn't want to do the laundry today. Su Tingwan had a smile on her face. The Empress said, "The Consort is in a very good mood today!"
"I had a dream that Your Highness won a battle and I was happy for you. Your Majesty must also be happy that Your Highness won a battle!" Just wait, wait for the day you beg me.
The Empress had been pretending to be sick for half a month after meeting her, and she had long since given up on it. Fortunately, she did not leave the capital with Shang'er, thus preserving her son's reputation.
Although her son brought the Cheng family with him this time, he did not inform the Emperor. Everything was for the sake of the Su family. In times of crisis, the Su family could also help her son. She said, "Get up." She was naturally happy that Shang'er could win the battle.
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