She personally took Ding Yang and the female doctors to visit Huang Mengling. After returning to the palace, she told Xuanyuan Hao that Huang Mengling's leg was fine and would recover well. Furthermore, there was another piece of good news: Huang Mengling was over two months pregnant, and she had left two female doctors to look after her. She didn't tell him that the baby had miscarried.
She also said that Ye Zhou was stubborn and had a bad temper, but he was not a bad person. The two of them quarreled, but the carriage could not go far. Ye Zhou asked his long-time attendant Tie Ren to ride back home and revoke the punishment, not forcing Huang Mengling to kneel, but Meng Ling was also stubborn and insisted on kneeling.
This is true.
In the dream, she didn't talk to Ye Zhou at all. They shared the same hatred and enemy, so she picked up Huang Mengling and left.
But in reality, because of that dream, she went to the Duke's Mansion and met Ye Zhou alone. How could he be so confused as to do such a shameful thing to his wife outside the mansion in front of everyone.
Ye Zhou said he didn't.
On the way, he asked Tie Ren to go back and tell her what he meant. All the servants and the housekeeper in the mansion could testify that she was the one who just couldn't get up from her knees. The palace doctor and the housekeeper were almost going crazy. They offered her a cloak and a cushion, but she refused to use them. She just kept kneeling and refused to get up.
Ye Zhou said, "Sister-in-law, Huang Mengling and I may not be able to go back to the way we were before, but I have never treated a servant so harshly.
She was sitting in the carriage and said that she wanted to go to the Winter Banquet and could go with Tang. I had agreed. When I got in the carriage, she whispered in my ear that she usually didn't care when I took Tang out. The reason why she was so humble today was because she wanted to go to the Winter Banquet in the palace and there was someone she wanted to see.
I got so angry that I pulled her out of the car and helped Tang get in.
Tang was frightened but still flattered her. She didn't care. She already disdained anything Tang didn't dare to dream of. She told me she still thought her first-rank imperial palace dress was shameful and unlucky, and she wanted to wear... I was so angry that I stripped her imperial palace dress.
Ye Zhou felt that Zhang Ru must have seen it that day, so he decided to leave it at that, since they both knew what was going on.
Ye Zhou hadn't finished speaking, but Zhang Ru knew that Huang Mengling was going to wear a phoenix robe. So that's how it was, it was actually like that. How blinded I was in my dream. Fortunately, it was just a dream.
No wonder Ye Zhou in the dream stubbornly insisted on divorcing his wife despite the scolding of Emperor Mingzheng and the impeachments coming in droves. Not only was his wife having an affair, she also schemed against him and even deliberately took away his child.
Not only was Ye Zhou disappointed in his wife, but he also wanted to see what his elder brother Xuanyuan Hao would do. Now that he was the king and he was the minister, would the king take his minister's wife? Or would he beat him up to vent his anger on such a woman? Was he still the elder brother he loyally followed?
In Zhang Ru's dream, Xuanyuan Hao did just that, but he probably wouldn't do that now.
Xuanyuan Hao listened to Zhang Ru's story, and it sounded like the Ye Zhou couple was flirting. "You punish me, even if you say you won't punish me anymore, I won't get up. I'll accept the punishment. I want to see if you regret it and feel bad after you bring that concubine back. Is that what you mean?"
And Huang Mengling was already over two months pregnant. Xuanyuan Hao wondered if he had misunderstood her. Was he so excited and obsessed with her for half a year?
Her eyes were as bright as water, and she shyly gave him a waist belt and knee pads. Wasn't that what she meant?
He recalled her fleeting gaze every time the four of them met, her words full of meaning, her furtive eye contact with him, and her cautious and subtle tug at his sleeve.
This little sweetness that cannot be told to outsiders is just my own illusion?
When he first saw her playing the keys, he liked her charming and lively appearance. However, at that time, his heart was with Zhang Ru. He had to marry Zhang Ru, because Zhang Ru was the most suitable. When he finally got her, and they were happily married, he put aside his slight attraction to other women.
Later, he learned that Ye Zhou got married, and suddenly married a woman from a low-class family. After he recognized that it was that girl, he didn't feel much. He had thought about taking a concubine, but had never really looked for one. Now that she was married to Ye Zhou, it was a good place for her.
If he really cared about her, it was only recently, and he felt a little regretful, but if she didn't care, he wouldn't have to.
What they felt was sweet, to the other two, was disgusting. Being deceived and betrayed by the people they loved and trusted the most was an unspeakable pain. Every moment they could recall of turning around, every moment they smiled at each other, now seemed like the knife of lingchi.
Zhang Ru hadn't expected the truth behind the kneeling punishment at the Winter Banquet to be this. After a moment of silence, she said to Ye Zhou, "Don't try to divorce your wife anymore. It's bad for your reputation. If you can't help it, outsiders will think it's not your brother and she who are wronging you, but that your brother saved her from danger, and you are the one who is being too bullying."
"Let her live peacefully in your backyard first. Don't treat her harshly, and don't let anyone accuse you of abusing your wife. But she's no longer interested in the Duke of Xiangguo's mansion, and can't manage the household anymore. Have someone look after her. I'll have her leg healed, and I won't let you be accused of anything."
Ye Zhou pondered for a moment and said, "Okay." After removing the leaf of emotion, he immediately understood the current situation. But, "Brother," he said again, "Over in the palace..."
"Just be normal." Zhang Ru said, "If you don't consider him your elder brother anymore, then consider me your elder sister."
In the dream, after Ye Zhou received sixty blows and had his leg broken, he seemed to understand that his elder brother was no longer the same elder brother. Moreover, in the eyes of everyone, Ye Zhou was a bastard who favored his concubine over his wife and deserved it.
Ye Zhou looked at Zhang Ru, and Zhang Ru also looked at Ye Zhou with a heavy gaze: "Ye Zhou, he is now the emperor."
Ye Zhou was stunned when he heard this, then suddenly smiled sadly: "Sister-in-law, did you come here today because Big Brother has something to tell you?"
In the dream, Xuanyuan Hao was probably satisfied with Zhang Ru's decision to bring people back to the palace in a threatening manner, so he didn't say anything extra.
But in reality, Zhang Ru was now accompanied by an orthopedic expert, a female doctor, and a large group of palace servants. Xuanyuan Hao seemed dissatisfied and said to Wang Daxi, "You should also go with the Queen and tell me..."
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