Chapter 760 The Stupid and Clumsy Consort Chang
Now that things have come to this, Consort Chang did not hide anything. "I did hate you back then. I avoided the late Emperor to avoid having any relationship with him. Over time, he forgot about me and found a new love. Empress Dowager Cheng was very angry that I had not won over the late Emperor's heart. In order to punish me, she even prevented the wet nurse from feeding you properly. You cried out every day because you were hungry. This was the sound that Empress Dowager Cheng was most happy to hear. She was the most vicious one."
Later, when you grew up, she kept sending wet nurses to the West Palace and claimed that the Fourth Prince was in poor health and had never had enough breast milk since he was a child, in order to establish herself as a virtuous empress.
So even though you're quite old, rumors are still circulating in the palace that the Fourth Prince hasn't been weaned. This reached the ears of the late Emperor, who caught it red-handed. He was furious and berated you, saying, "I raised you into a useless child who hasn't been weaned." In the end, the late Emperor gave up on you.
Since then, I've come up with a plan: if Empress Dowager Cheng makes you drink milk, I'll make you drink it, whether you want to or not. This way, I can both torment you and satisfy Empress Dowager Cheng, and I can have less interference and give birth to the child I want.
You shouldn't have come into this world. They forced me to get pregnant with you, give birth to you, and watch over you every day. The blood of the Xie family flows in your body, and I feel disgusted.
My ultimate goal is to utterly ruin the Xie family. Do you really think you can be emperor? This is all just a scheme I devised to take revenge on Cheng Langjin and the Xie family. What ability do you have to be emperor? You incompetent piece of trash.”
Xie Yang felt as if his heart was being torn apart when he heard these words. It turned out that his mother had always hated him and had been using him to take revenge. They didn't want to push him to the throne as emperor at all, but deliberately wanted to torture him.
He clenched his fists. Despite how his mother treated him, he couldn't bring himself to hate her. She was also a victim. The truly guilty one was Empress Dowager Cheng.
He could do nothing, so he turned and left the side hall.
Consort Chang stared at his retreating figure, her eyes filled with pain.
Yang'er, although your mother hates you, she also loves you. All that I've done is to ensure you grow up healthy and safe. Hate me if you want; she wants him to hate her so that at least the emperor will pity him and spare his life out of brotherly affection.
Consort Chang was in tears. She once thought she didn't care about her son and could be cold-hearted, but when her son accompanied her every day and called her "Mother Consort," her heart would unconsciously open to him, and she even felt happy.
She didn't want to enter the palace, and she didn't like the late emperor, but the child was her own flesh and blood, which she had carried for ten months!
How could she not feel sorry for him? She forced him to drink milk in order to keep Empress Dowager Cheng in the belief that her plan had succeeded, but she never expected that it would harm him.
Consort Chang cried and then laughed. She looked at Madam Shu and said, "Yang Mei, I'm sorry, but people's feelings can't be controlled. I fell in love with Lang Ge first. It's not his fault. I seduced him. It's all my fault." She took all the blame upon herself.
Madam Shu glared at her coldly: "Does your inability to control your emotions give you the right to hurt me? If it weren't for me back then, would you still be alive? I saved your life, yet you betrayed me and stole my husband."
Madam Shu was so angry that her chest heaved. She had saved a heartless ingrate.
She yelled at Shu Lang again, "Shu Lang, and you too! Have you forgotten that it was my Yang family who supported you all the way up to the position of Vice Minister of Revenue? You are nothing."
Yang Mei was so angry that she could hardly speak. She didn't want to scold her husband or ruin their marriage. Ironically, the marriage she thought she had was completely unrequited; Shu Lang didn't care about her at all. She had just been deceiving herself.
The Yang family was raided, so she no longer had a family to rely on and no confidence. Even when the Yang family was still around, she could endure in order to protect her marriage and swallow all her grievances.
Shu Lang knelt on the ground, looking weak and powerless, not daring to utter a single word. His lips moved, but he couldn't say a word, letting the two women fight over him.
At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind: the Shu family was finished.
Jiang Fenghua stood aside and watched coldly. She frowned slightly. It turned out that the most incompetent and cowardly person was Shu Lang. Two women were making a scene for him and were filled with hatred for him, but he couldn't say a word.
He rose through the ranks thanks to the Yang family, but he was ungrateful and did things that betrayed his first wife.
Jiang Fenghua pulled Xie Shang aside: "Is Madam Shu's family also high-ranking officials in the court?"
Xie Shang really didn't know about Madam Shu's maternal clan. "Their surname is Yang? Could it be the former Minister of Justice, Yang Jing?"
"Yang Jingzheng is my father, and I am a concubine's daughter of the Yang family." Madam Shu had never dared to show her face too much, after all, she had been implicated in the Yang family's incident and had been subjected to a lot of criticism.
Jiang Fenghua already knew about Yang Jing's past from Lianye and Hongxiu. She and Lin Yu were the "murderers" who killed Yang Jing. In fact, Yang Jing was a lecherous scoundrel who deserved to die.
Looking at Madam Shu, she understood. If something happened to the Yang family, the younger generation would definitely live a life of hiding. Therefore, the elders should act uprightly and stand straight, otherwise they would not only harm themselves, but also their families.
Given Madam Shu's powerful family background, and the fact that Consort Chang and Shu Lang had an ambiguous relationship and even had a child together, the fact that she didn't retaliate must be because of Shu Lang!
If Shulang dies, she and her child will have nothing left to look forward to.
Jiang Fenghua sighed: Being a woman is really tough!
Xie Shang continued, "After Yang Jing died, his crimes were only made public. Father did not punish the rest of the Yang family. He only confiscated the Yang family's ancestral home and married his daughter to Shu Lang."
I remember that when Shu Lang was young, he ranked among the top three in the imperial examination, so he can be considered a learned man. He married a daughter of the Yang family, and the entire Shu clan rose in status as a result. Most of the Shu family members now hold official positions. Shu Lang, you have certainly brought much benefit to the family over the years!
Shu Lang knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. It was Consort Chang who forced me to do this. Because I accidentally did something wrong with Consort Chang back then, she used this to threaten me. I was forced by Consort Chang and the Fourth Prince. I was also afraid."
Everyone was stunned by these words, except for Consort Chang, who was still acting foolishly, taking all the blame upon herself: "It's my fault, it has nothing to do with Minister Shu."
Just then, Xie Yang turned back, rushed to Shu Lang, and held a dagger to his neck, saying, "I'm going to kill you."
Xie Shang said coldly, "Fourth Brother, he can't die yet."
Just when Shu Lang thought he was about to die by the knife, Consort Chang suddenly pulled out a hairpin and held it to her own neck, saying, "Let him go, or your mother will die in front of you."
At the critical moment, Xie Yang stopped, his eyes red-rimmed, "Mother."
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