Chapter 758 Who is Shu Yan's daughter?
The commotion in the side hall startled the palace maids again. The maids stared blankly at the two men, then glanced at the broken bowls on the ground, too frightened to move.
Consort Chang said to the palace maids, "You don't need to serve me here, you may all leave!"
The palace maid tactfully walked away.
Consort Chang picked up a handkerchief to wipe Shu Yan's face, but Madam Shu pushed her away and said deliberately, "I am her mother. Her Majesty the Empress has also said that I should enter the palace to serve Consort Shu for a while. I must fulfill my responsibilities as a mother."
This time, Consort Chang was not angry. She lowered her voice and said, "Yang Mei, I can explain what happened back then."
Madam Shu stared at Consort Chang and said coldly, "Chang Mingxiu, you've already entered the palace as a concubine, yet you still want to get involved with him. What are you going to explain? Explain how disgusting and shameless you two are, explain how you stole someone else's husband?"
Consort Chang said coldly, "I was also forced to enter the palace back then. It was Empress Dowager Cheng who took a liking to me and wanted me to win over the late emperor. I didn't want to enter the palace. They forced me to enter the palace. I could have been with the person I liked. I also suffered a lot and was in pain in the palace."
"Hmph! You're suffering and in pain, but what about me? Who is the person you love? Shu Lang?" Madam Shu was furious. "I am his fiancée. We are engaged. Who are you? Even if you don't enter the palace, what right do you have to say that he is the person you love?"
“The person Shulang loves is me, not you. Even if you are engaged to him, it was arranged by your parents, not by him.” Consort Chang said shamelessly, “Human emotions cannot be controlled.”
Madam Shu felt that she was shameless and raised her hand to slap her, but was stopped by Consort Chang. "My status is now that of a Consort. Do you still want to hit me?"
“If I expose your scandalous affair with Shu Lang, you won’t be the Dowager Consort anymore. Do you think I’m afraid of you?” Madam Shu said.
“You wouldn’t say things carelessly. If you were going to say something, you would have said it already. Why wait until now? Destroying Shulang will not do you any good, nor will it do any good for your Yang family.” Consort Chang said in a deep voice, “Yang Mei, all your love and hate is not important. You need to learn to weigh the pros and cons. What is most important now?”
Madam Shu was also discouraged. If she could have made a scene back then, she would have. Her family knew that Shu Yan was not her biological daughter, but they still reluctantly acknowledged that she was the granddaughter of the Yang family.
Back then, she found it unbelievable and couldn't believe it was true; they were so audacious.
Her crying and fussing were useless; she could only hide away and secretly lick her wounds. Later, she learned to take the initiative to bring concubines into Shu Lang's home. If one wasn't enough, she would bring in two, and if two weren't enough, she would bring in four. She thought that she could make Shu Lang forget Chang Mingxiu.
"You didn't want to go to the palace, so you stole someone else's husband and seduced someone else's fiancé. Shu Lang and I were already engaged. Later, you knew that I was already married to him and you went to the palace. Why did you still have a child with her? If you couldn't stand being alone, why didn't you find another man? Why did you have to come and ruin my happiness? I can't ask you or Shu Lang, but your daughter is by my side. I will take all the grievances I suffered from you on Shu Yan..." Madam Shu had practiced these words countless times. These words were on her mind every day.
Only now did Consort Chang realize that her daughter had been bullied by Madam Shu. She gritted her teeth in hatred, her eyes flashing with cold light, wide as copper bells, as if she wanted to devour someone: "You've been abusing Yan'er?"
Madam Shu wanted to mistreat her, but Shu Lang protected Shu Yan like the apple of his eye, so she didn't dare to do anything to Shu Yan: "If you make me suffer, I'll make your daughter suffer too."
Consort Chang slapped Madam Shu across the face in anger, "What have you done to her?"
Even after being beaten, Madam Shu was still defiant. Like a shrew, she lunged at Consort Chang, instantly messing up Consort Chang's hair and tearing her clothes. "Your daughter has been fed musk by me since she was a child, very small amounts, many times..."
Consort Chang immediately understood, "You mean Yan'er has no chance of getting pregnant."
"I thought she couldn't possibly be pregnant, but I never expected her to be carrying the imperial heir." Madam Shu had harbored resentment for twenty years. Her husband had another woman in his heart and even hid her portrait in his study. She had endured it all her life. Did she have to endure it now?
With the Empress backing her up, she wasn't afraid of a forgotten concubine in the cold palace. So what if her son was a prince? She had an affair with another man and had a daughter. A woman like that should be drowned in a pig cage.
Just then, Xie Yang suddenly appeared in front of the two. He saw Madam Shu and Consort Chang fighting, and he watched Consort Chang coldly without any intention of helping.
Seeing this, Consort Chang cried out, "Yang'er, quickly pull her away! Yan'er may not be pregnant, but the Empress and the imperial physicians both say she is, and she's even unconscious..."
When Xie Shang and Jiang Fenghua appeared before them, Consort Chang was stunned: "You..."
She had just looked outside and knew there was no one there; in fact, Xie Shang had taken Xie Yang and they were hiding next door.
Xie Shang had Shu Lang brought before them, but the guards had already restrained him. At that moment, he knew that the Empress and the Emperor had deliberately invited them to the banquet.
He originally wanted to stop Yang Mei from entering the palace, but the moment the imperial guards restrained him, he had a bad feeling.
Xie Shang asked coldly, "Whose daughter is Shu Yan?"
At this moment, Madam Shu had already loosened Consort Chang's hair and knelt on the ground, saying, "Yan'er is of course my daughter."
She's not stupid. If she admits that Shu Yan is the bastard child of Consort Chang and Shu Lang, the entire Shu family will probably be wiped out.
Jiang Fenghua said directly, "Aoxue woke Shuyan up."
Ao Xue didn't know what to do, but Shu Yan soon woke up. When she saw that her parents were there, as well as Consort Chang, she asked, "Father, Mother, what are you doing here? What happened?"
Consort Chang stared at her daughter, but when she heard her call another woman "Mother," a sharp pain shot through her heart. Her lips trembled, and she couldn't bring herself to say "Yan'er." How could she explain this?
Xie Shang stared at Consort Chang, "I have dismissed all irrelevant people. I am listening to what Consort Chang and Minister Shu are really going on. No matter how Consort Chang explains, I hope that she is not lying. Why did Minister Shu help Zhang Yurou frame me? How did Shu Xue die? And what is the story behind the corpse and skeleton in the dry well in the West Palace?"
Xie Yang stared at his mother, then at Shu Lang. He was terrified that his mother would admit that he was not his father's child, but rather Shu Lang's bastard.
He had been controlled by the Emperor. He had clearly guessed that Shu Lang and his mother knew each other long ago. He wanted to stop his mother and Madam Shu from arguing, but in the end, he gave up. He knew that if he were not a prince, he would not even have a chance to compete for the throne. Even if Xie Shang was suspected of his background by the world, he would still be a loser and an incompetent person.
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