Sheng Jingyu refused, saying, "Let's forget it. If the Empress Dowager can't eat when she sees you, you won't feel any better when you see her either."
Su Wenyuan remained silent, but Sheng Jingyu, though blind, understood the relationship between the two perfectly.
But how come he didn't know that the Empress was using him and even plotting against him?
"What did you say to Granny Gao when you went to the prison today?" Sheng Jingyu asked.
Su Wenyuan helped him to sit down in the courtyard and said casually, "She wanted money, but she wouldn't give it to him, and then she suddenly died. It was scary."
Sheng Jingyu knew it was a lie, but she didn't expose it.
"Be careful when you go to Consort Wan's place tomorrow. She is the Crown Prince's birth mother and will definitely cause you trouble," Sheng Jingyu warned.
Su Wenyuan thought for a moment and said, "If I were in danger, would you save me?"
"No." Sheng Jingyu replied without hesitation.
Su Wenyuan got up and left, fuming as she went back to her room.
It's a shame she's still pitying Sheng Jingyu, pitying him for being deceived.
Instead of pitying others, pity yourself!
Sheng Jingyu wanted to have a sip of tea, and had already stretched out his hand when he remembered that he was going to pretend to be blind, so he started grabbing at the table randomly.
Seeing this from inside, Su Wenyuan couldn't help but sigh and went outside.
When Sheng Jingyu accepted the tea, he saw pity and regret in her eyes.
Was she pitying herself? Sheng Jingyu was taken aback.
Su Wenyuan didn't say anything more. She had probably figured it out: all the paths that lay before Sheng Jingyu were dead ends.
If the Crown Prince ascends the throne, Sheng Jingyu will die; if the Seventh Prince or the Eighth Prince ascends the throne, judging from the Empress's character, he will still die.
Unless Sheng Jingyu can discover the Empress's true colors, but that sounds like a pipe dream.
There's still a long way to go before the ending, let's see how things go as we go," Su Wenyuan thought to herself, and then she started to sigh.
"Your Highness, someone from the Prime Minister's residence has come to speak with you," a servant announced.
Su Wenyuan said impatiently, "Let them in."
The woman who came was an old woman from Wang's side. Seeing that Sheng Jingyu was also there, she insisted on talking to Su Wenyuan alone.
Su Wenyuan led her out of the courtyard and told her to speak quickly.
"His Majesty praised the eldest daughter yesterday. I don't need to say more about what that means. The Madam sent me here to ask the Princess Consort if it is possible to give your set of jewelry to the eldest daughter."
The old woman was smug and seemed to be showing off rather than asking for something.
Su Wenyuan said irritably, "Don't bother seeing me out, get lost!"
We were already annoyed enough, and they just had to come and make things worse.
The old woman glared at her and said, "Your Highness, this eldest daughter is destined to be the Crown Princess. You want your jewelry so that the Prime Minister's mansion can bring honor to itself tomorrow. You can't be so selfish."
Su Wenyuan stared at her coldly without saying a word, wondering whether to kick her out or beat her up before kicking her out.
Seeing that look in her eyes, the old woman became a little scared and said with a forced smile, "That's not what I meant. I was just afraid that you might offend the future Crown Princess in a moment of impulse!"
Yeah! Beat them up and then kick them out.
Su Wenyuan shouted, "Someone, beat him up and throw him out!"
The servants swarmed forward, kicking and hitting the old woman, who struggled and cried out in pain, desperately running towards the door.
By the time she ran out, she was already bruised and battered, and finally limped back to the Prime Minister's residence.
Wang paced back and forth in Su Lin'er's room, wondering if she could get the jewelry.
Su Lin'er waited expectantly as well. She had tried on all the jewelry in the box, but none of them looked as good as the set Su Wenyuan wore for her homecoming.
If the gap hadn't been so huge, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths to ask Su Wenyuan for it.
She didn't mind that Su Wenyuan had worn it before; she could have it.
Soon the old woman returned crying and accusing Su Wenyuan of not only refusing to give her the money but also hitting her.
"She's gone too far! Now that she's a princess, she doesn't know her place anymore!" Wang cursed loudly.
Su Lin'er threw down the hairpin in her hand and said through gritted teeth, "I've begged her so humbly, and she still doesn't know what's good for her. Can't I become the Crown Princess without her?"
Wang's eyes flashed, and she continued, "In that case, she will definitely dress up in her finest tomorrow. You wear less, so that others can see how she bullies her own sister. She took all the good things, and her sister has nothing!"
Su Lin'er looked at her jewelry box with disdain. These things made no difference whether she wore them or not.
"good."
She was so focused on Su Wenyuan that she forgot the girls in the capital always dressed up in their finest attire before going there...
Su Wenyuan was woken up early in the morning by Yuexiu, who arranged for her to be dressed up nicely.
Su Wenyuan exclaimed, "Even my wedding day wasn't this grand."
She spent a long time getting ready, and Sheng Jingyu ate breakfast all by herself.
Ye Shan has also found out that Granny Cheng went to the prison.
“Granny Cheng bribed the guards, using threats and inducements to prevent them from speaking. The guards, fearing that she was the Empress’s person, did not dare to say anything. But the simultaneous deaths of these old women clearly indicate that someone poisoned them. No problems were found in the porridge that day.”
Sheng Jingyu laughed and said, "That was because she was poisoned before, and the poison took effect when the princess happened to see her. The empress was trying to silence her. Granny Gao found out about what happened back then and wanted the princess to save her."
A few scattered messages were enough for Sheng Jingyu to deduce the truth.
Ye Shan said in surprise, "If that's the case, we should have kept Granny Gao with us back then, so she could be a witness."
Sheng Jingyu said, "It's no use. She's just guessing. It's not like Cheng Mama ordered her to do it. We have no evidence. If we make things difficult for the Empress with something we don't have evidence for, we'll be tearing off all pretenses."
"It's not time to tear off the mask yet. There has to be someone in the palace to keep Consort Wan and the Crown Prince in check. The Crown Prince is much more difficult to deal with than her two sons."
When the Empress was using Sheng Jingyu, wasn't Sheng Jingyu also using her?
Ye Shan sighed, "Although there is no evidence, I still feel it's a pity that they died, after all, they were the ones who personally fed the prince the medicine back then."
Sheng Jingyu laughed and said, "It's not a pity. At least they let the princess know the truth, and things became interesting afterward."
For the first time, Ye Shan realized that she couldn't understand what Sheng Jingyu was thinking.
Is this something interesting?
In the North Pavilion of the Imperial Garden, there is a place called Wanchun Pavilion, where a variety of flowers and plants are planted. In this season, all kinds of flowers bloom and compete for beauty, which is very beautiful.
The fact that Consort Wan is hosting a banquet here today has been known to everyone for almost a month.
The pavilion is filled with tables and chairs on both sides, with empty space in the middle.
Several tables were also set up outside the pavilion, making it convenient for people to enjoy the flowers and chat.
Before the banquet even started, quite a few girls had already arrived. They were all admiring the flowers outside the pavilion, occasionally venturing into the path and exclaiming in amazement.
Consort Wan hid behind the screen, sizing up the girls with obvious disdain.
"Why isn't one of them composed? If Yuanhe marries a woman like this, won't he be laughed at?" Consort Wan said with various expressions of disdain.
The old woman next to her explained, "These girls are young, so it's only natural that they're lively."
"But you can't be too lively! Like Princess Consort Chen, who almost drove the Empress to her death." Consort Wan couldn't help but laugh out loud; this was the biggest joke she had heard recently.
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