Chapter 147 The Mistress Comes
Capital city.
When Li Yueyao came back from Taiji Palace, she heard Qian Lou convey to her what Feng Shenyu said in the side hall.
After listening to this, I sighed and thought that as long as he could handle the matter well, it would be fine.
I felt a little relieved and wanted to forgive him.
The next morning, a man came to the gate of Jinyang Grand Princess's mansion. It was Zhong Yanse, who had been sent out of the capital by Feng Shenyu.
After coming over, he knelt down at the door and began to cry.
"Your Highness, I, the commoner Zhong, request to see Your Highness.
I came to the capital to marry the Right Prime Minister at the behest of my parents. I had no intention of destroying the relationship between Your Highness and the Right Prime Minister.
I, a humble girl, would like to be your mistress. Please allow me, Her Royal Highness the Grand Princess."
Zhong Yanse was already good-looking, but now she was hesitant, crying, and tearful, looking even more fragile and miserable.
In an instant, curious people nearby quickly gathered around.
The gatekeeper hurried in to inform Li Yueyao.
Li Yueyao was taking a lunch break when the servant informed Nanny Qin about the matter.
Nanny Qin personally brought people out and said to Zhong Yanse at the door:
"My lady, the matter between you and the Right Prime Minister has nothing to do with our Highness.
If you have any questions, please go to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.
Our Highness and the Right Prime Minister now have only a monarch-subject relationship. You are crying in the wrong place."
"Madam, everyone in the capital knows that the Right Prime Minister and Her Royal Highness Princess Jinyang are about to have a happy wedding.
I came here because I really had no other choice.
Please have mercy on me, Your Highness. I am willing to be your concubine. Please have mercy on me, Your Highness..."
As he said this, he began to kowtow to the ground.
The curious onlookers began to point fingers and talk about the Grand Princess's Mansion.
"Well, it turns out the Right Prime Minister has a wife, and this Jinyang Grand Princess is forcibly demolishing her lover!"
"You might not know this, but the Grand Princess of Jinyang always likes this. Does her ex-fiancé Pei Xiang know about this?"
When the people around heard this, they all gathered around.
"Yeah, I know. I heard that he was killed right after he got engaged to the Grand Princess of Jinyang."
"Yes, that's him. Pei Xiang also had a childhood sweetheart cousin who was also favored by the Grand Princess of Jinyang and was forcibly abducted.
In the end, Pei Xiang died, and her cousin cried her heart out.
"Tsk tsk... The royal family is so powerful, they can rob people without taking any responsibility..."
Seeing this, Nanny Qin said, "Come here, send him back to the Right Prime Minister's residence."
When Zhong Yanse heard this, she immediately said, "Madam, I have already volunteered to be your concubine, why can't His Highness tolerate me?
If His Highness doesn't give in today, my reputation will be ruined, and how can I talk about marriage when I return home?
Why not... why not... I just crash into death on the steps in front of the princess's mansion today..."
As he said this, he was about to crash into the steps at the door.
The servant at the door was quick-witted and stepped forward to stop the man.
Nanny Qin saw that more and more people were gathering at the door and talking about it.
I know that if I don't handle the situation properly today, and this woman is really killed here, it will not only be unlucky, but it will also ruin Your Highness's reputation.
It would be bad if the censor impeached me again.
So he looked at Cuilan, and Cuilan quickly went in to report to Li Yueyao.
After hearing this, Li Yueyao was furious.
You dare to come to my house? This is not the way to seek death.
Then he sat up and said, "Go, invite the person into the flower hall."
"Yes."
Zhong Yanse was brought into the Grand Princess's Mansion in full view of everyone.
Before a cup of tea had even arrived, someone hurried out to the Imperial Hospital to call for the imperial physician.
The servant shouted at the door, "Go and get the imperial physician! His Highness has fainted from the anger of that woman."
The person outside the door said again: "The Grand Princess of Jinyang must be very angry. She even went to call the imperial physician."
"A young lady with no background dares to challenge the Grand Princess of Jinyang. She is really like an old man eating arsenic and refusing to live long enough."
"Then her husband was stolen, and she can't even go to her house to argue?"
"Alas... this young lady's life is over." The person next to him shook his head and sighed.
At this moment, Zhong Yanse was kneeling on the ground with his head down, greeting Li Yueyao.
Li Yueyao said impatiently: "What is your purpose in crying and making a scene at the door of my house? Tell me."
Zhong Yanse bowed her head to the ground and said respectfully, "I have been ordered by my family to come to the capital to marry the Right Prime Minister.
Only after arriving did I learn that the Right Prime Minister and Her Royal Highness the Grand Princess of Jinyang were in love with each other.
I know I cannot be compared with Your Highness, so I am willing to be your concubine. Please allow me to enter your palace."
After hearing this, Li Yueyao was so angry that she almost choked on her breath.
"If you want to be my concubine, you should go and tell Feng Shenyu. Why are you making trouble here?" Li Yueyao scolded.
Cui Yu hurried forward to help Li Yueyao calm down.
Qian Lou stepped forward and said, "Miss, you said that you and the Right Prime Minister are about to get married, arranged by your parents and matchmaker. Do you have a marriage certificate?"
"It's a verbal agreement, there's no marriage certificate." Zhong Yanse answered shyly with her head down.
Qian Lou asked again, “There is no imperial decree or oral order between Your Highness and the Right Prime Minister, let alone a marriage certificate.
So the two of them are completely unrelated. What you heard is just hearsay, something that has no basis in reality."
Zhong Yanse raised his head after hearing this, glanced at Li Yueyao timidly and said:
"Really, Your Highness?"
Only then did Li Yueyao see her appearance clearly. She had fair skin, an oval face, and big eyes. She looked delicate and lovely.
She is of the same type as Imperial Concubine Shangguan, with a very tea-like temperament.
It seems that men of all times like this style, which easily makes people want to protect it.
So he took a deep breath and nodded, “Well, the Right Prime Minister is free.
You can marry him and become his wife in a proper manner.
Live a good life and don’t come to my house again.
His Majesty has ordered the imperial guards to come to your residence tomorrow. If you fall into their hands next time, you will definitely die.
You're on your own."
After saying this, Li Yueyao put down the teacup in her hand heavily and said angrily:
"Send Miss Zhong out."
"Yes."
After Zhong Yanse came out, he saw that the people at the door had not yet dispersed, so he lowered his head and hurried away.
Everyone was disappointed to see Zhong Yanse come out safe and sound.
"His Highness was so angry that he called in the imperial physician, yet he still came out intact. This is really rare."
"What do you think will become of this little girl?"
"What can happen? Isn't this fine?"
"You don't understand, this is the brilliance of His Highness.
If this woman is hurt in any way today, Your Highness won’t be able to explain it even if he has a mouth full of words.
Now that she has come out safely, those who want to curry favor with His Highness will definitely not let her go.
Just look at this girl, she's in such a miserable state!"
Inside the mansion, Li Yueyao became more and more angry. She didn't know if it was because the weather was too hot or because of her anger. On the way back to her room from the flower hall, Li Yueyao fainted again.
The imperial physician we had just invited arrived just in time.
"Your Highness is pregnant for the first time. Please remember to keep your emotions stable. If you continue like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep the baby."
Everyone nodded after hearing this.
"I will prescribe two doses of pregnancy-maintaining medicine for Your Highness. Take them first. Remember to rest more, don't worry too much, and don't get angry."
It was only an hour after the imperial physician left.
What happened at the gate of Princess Jinyang's mansion has been spread to everyone.
The emperor also received the news and was so angry that he threw the fine secret color porcelain cup in his hand.
"This is outrageous, didn't Fengshenyu say that they had already sent the person away?
Today's incident made my aunt so angry that she fainted, and the child was almost lost.
This is really too much."
After hearing this, Concubine Xian felt a headache and said, "Where are the Qianyu Guards? Where did the Qianyu Guards go?
Didn't you say yesterday that you would send a team to help Auntie?"
"We were originally planning to go there tomorrow, but who knew this would happen today."
The emperor said angrily.
"Why don't you arrange someone to go now?" Concubine Xian said unhappily.
The emperor said to Sun Fu, "Go and ask Feng Qing to send a team of Thousand Feather Guards to guard the residence of the Grand Princess of Jinyang.
Anyone who dares to approach will be apprehended immediately."
"Yes."
Sun Fu went out quietly.
The Emperor looked at Consort Xian and asked anxiously, "Why is it so difficult for Aunt to get married?"
After the emperor finished speaking, he sat down and sighed.
The virtuous concubine took a deep breath and said with all her strength:
"As the saying goes, good things take time, and this might not be a bad thing. It's much better than getting married and then having this happen."
After hearing this, the emperor glared at Concubine Xian.
"Is there anyone as comforting as you?"
After a while, the emperor suddenly thought of something and said:
"Come here, Chen Yue and Qian Lou failed to take good care of my aunt and allowed someone to come and harass her. I will punish them with thirty strokes of the cane each as a warning to others."
Upon hearing this, Concubine Xian disagreed and said, "If everyone is beaten up, who will take care of my aunt?"
"Then give me ten strokes first, and remember the remaining twenty strokes."
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Prince Jin's Mansion.
After hearing the report from his servant, King Jin smiled faintly.
This Zhong Yanse is quite good. It was worth it for my men to chase him fifty miles out of the capital to bring him back.
It feels really good to play with people's hearts.
Shangguan, Zhaoqing, and Gao Hongchen all fell into the trap of human nature.
They think that love is salvation, but in fact love is a trap and an abyss.
Feng Shenyu, I thought you were different from others, but now it seems that you are just so-so.
Now let's see if you two can reconcile as before.
When King Jin thought of this, he grinned.
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