Chapter 757 Two Women Make a Show
Jiang Fenghua and the other woman found it amusing. They had heard that Vice Minister Shu had taken many concubines and had many children born out of wedlock. If he truly loved Madam Shu or Consort Chang deeply, he wouldn't have any other thoughts about other women. Men always want both, but women are so foolish.
She suddenly glared coldly at Xie Shang. He kept saying how much he loved her, but he had a harem of women and a bunch of children.
Xie Shang was baffled when he saw her glaring at him. A chill suddenly ran down his spine. What was wrong with Ruan Ruan?
Jiang Fenghua led Madam Shu directly to the side hall, and Consort Chang followed. Xie Shang pulled Xie Yang back to the banquet to drink. He couldn't find any excuse to leave, so he gave Consort Chang a deep look and left with Xie Shang.
When Madam Shu saw Shu Yan lying lifeless on the bed, she felt no pity whatsoever. Her face resembled that of Consort Chang, and she was the most beautiful of all the daughters in the Shu family. From childhood to adulthood, she had been pampered and spoiled by Shu Lang.
She had the opportunity to enter the palace and marry the emperor as a concubine because of her beauty. In fact, Shu Lang wanted her to enter the palace, probably so that she and her birth mother could see her often.
Madam Shu pretended to be concerned and tidied the blankets for Shu Yan. "Yan'er, wake up! Mother has come to see you."
Jiang Fenghua said with concern, "Madam Shu, please don't worry. The imperial physician said that Shu Ronghua is in good health and will probably wake up soon. I know that Madam Shu must miss her daughter very much, so I asked you to come to the palace to stay with her for a few more days."
Lady Shu frowned slightly. "I need to stay in the palace for a few more days. I have matters to attend to at home and cannot leave."
Jiang Fenghua said, "But Shu Ronghua must really want to see her mother!"
Madam Shu glanced at Consort Chang without showing any emotion. Now she realized how much Consort Chang missed her daughter. A concubine in the harem had an affair with a man and had a child out of wedlock. Originally, she should have been sentenced to death.
Lady Shu deliberately said, "Since that's the case, I'll stay here in the palace. Yan'er has been attached to me since she was little and is very filial to me. Now that Yan'er is going to be a mother, I'm happy for her."
She was being completely sarcastic. In fact, she really disliked Shu Yan. Shu Yan had no motherly love since childhood, only fatherly love. She deliberately wanted to make Consort Chang jealous so that Shu Yan would live out her life alone in the palace.
Jiang Fenghua said, "There is no mother in the world who does not love her child. The child is flesh of the mother's body and is the mother's precious treasure."
Madam Shu said, "Your Majesty the Empress is also a mother, and she understands my heart. That's exactly what I mean."
Madam Shu's touch on Shu Yan's hand was not gentle, which was seen by Consort Chang and pained her deeply. She had given birth to Shu Yan but had never raised her, and Shu Yan was calling someone else "mother".
She saw someone bullying her daughter, but she couldn't speak up or do anything.
"I need to go to the banquet hall to greet the other guests. Madam Shu, please stay here and watch over Shu Ronghua. Why don't you come with me to the banquet first and then come back?"
Madam Shu wanted to say that she should go eat first, since she had rushed into the palace and still had time to eat.
"I'll stay here with Yan'er!" Madam Shu pretended to squeeze out a tear.
Consort Chang couldn't bear to watch any longer. "Madam Shu, please go and have your meal first. I will stay here and watch over Yan... Consort Shu." She needed to confirm one more thing first.
"There's no need to trouble Consort Chang. I can take care of her myself. Yan'er can't live without me." Madam Shu would never let Consort Chang feel at ease. The more than twenty years of grievances that Shu Lang made her suffer were all caused by her.
Jiang Fenghua didn't insist and left first.
She thought: Inviting Madam Shu to the palace was definitely the right decision. She wondered if Madam Shu knew if Vice Minister Shu and Consort Chang were really having an affair.
There shouldn't be any woman in this world who could tolerate her husband having an affair with another woman, and even having a child with her.
Two women make a drama, and that's what makes the drama interesting. Judging from Xie Yang's behavior just now, he should have already figured out what's going on!
Now that everyone has entered the palace, we should get them to work together to clear Xie Shang's name. As for Empress Dowager Cheng, she should know perfectly well whether she is innocent or not. However, if we don't clear Empress Dowager Cheng's name, Xie Shang might become the bastard child born to Empress Dowager Cheng and her cousin.
Jiang Fenghua felt utterly overwhelmed. Ever since she entered the palace and became the Empress, she hadn't had a moment's peace. She really didn't know if she owed Xie Shang something in her past life.
Once Jiang Fenghua left, Consort Chang dropped all pretense. She went straight to Shu Yan's bedside, yanked Madam Shu away, and her eyes were filled with coldness. "Is Madam Shu a mother?"
Madam Shu was furious. "What does Your Highness mean by that? My husband and I have several children, and they are all well-raised. In particular, Yan'er inherited my looks and is so beautiful. Yan'er is our most beloved child."
Consort Chang could tell that she was lying. It might be true that she and Shu Lang had several children, but it was false that she loved Yan'er.
Consort Chang had no way to express her grievances, so she could only say, "I didn't mean anything by it. Consort Shu is still so young, and this is her first pregnancy. She is currently unconscious. I just feel sorry for her."
Madam Shu said, "Your Highness is worrying unnecessarily. Our Yan'er is loved by the whole family. She is very filial and massages the shoulders and backs of our whole family. Especially her grandparents, who were called to massage their legs when she was little. Her uncles and aunts also love her and often give her snacks, and she helps massage their legs."
Even if a maid is massaging someone's legs, she has to squat on the ground to do it properly; they treated her daughter like a servant.
What kind of life did Yan'er lead when she was little? How did Shu Lang take care of his daughter?
Consort Chang's face was very ugly, as if she wanted to devour someone, but she had no legitimate reason to care about Shu Yan, and she had to listen to how Madam Shu was torturing her daughter.
Such care and love from Shufu is something no mother would be willing to let her daughter work like a slave for someone else.
Madam Shu was unhappy and picked up a bowl of medicine from the side. "This is Yan'er's medicine, isn't it?"
Before the palace maid could answer, she fed Shu Yan a spoonful of medicine directly into her mouth. Shu Yan would never open her mouth without help, so the medicine spilled all over her mouth, running down her neck, dark and sticky.
Madam Shu wiped her face symbolically a couple of times, without drying the medicine, and then fed her a second spoonful, saying, "Yan'er needs to drink more medicine to wake up."
Seeing this, Consort Chang became furious and snatched the spoon and medicine bowl from her hands, saying, "Is this how you feed medicine?"
"Isn't this how Your Highness feeds her? This is how I've always fed Yan'er her medicine. When she was little, she often caught colds and had a persistent cough. She hated taking medicine, so I had no choice but to pry open her mouth and force it down her throat so she could get better."
Consort Chang felt increasingly distressed as she listened. How had Yan'er grown up all these years? She looked seven or eight parts like her when she was young. She even remembered that when she gave birth to Yan'er, there was a red mole shaped like a peach blossom on her back.
Madam Shu was certainly unaware of the collusion between Shu Lang, Consort Chang, and Xie Yang, so her actions were entirely motivated by revenge for Shu Lang's affair with someone else behind her back...
Just as Madam Shu was about to force Shu Yan down a full bowl of medicine by pinching her jaw, Consort Chang gave her a cold look, shoved her away, and the bowl of medicine in her hand fell to the ground and shattered: "If you don't like her, then don't go near her."
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