Chapter 224: A Slap in the Face

Of course, things didn't end so easily.

The emperor punished all the people in the Dali Temple who were in charge of the empty seal imperial edicts. They were either demoted or fined. He also collected all the empty seal imperial edicts outside.

This time, the Wang family discovered it in time and reported it to the palace immediately, so no hidden danger arose. Otherwise, several people would have been removed from their posts, or even killed.

Luo Lin saved his life this time and was only demoted three levels. He was extremely lucky and received great favor from the emperor.

But at the same time, his official career was completely over, and he would never be able to move up any further in his life. In fact, because of him, the entire Dali Temple was implicated, and he offended almost everyone. His future life in the Dali Temple would be extremely difficult.

In addition, another seemingly insignificant matter was that all of Jiang Qianzhu's betrothal gifts were seized in the palace and confiscated.

Sixty-eight full, full, sincere betrothal gifts, all gone.

Luo Lin had no time to think about the betrothal gifts at this moment. Even if he had any, he was too embarrassed to ask the emperor for them.

No one here cares about the betrothal gifts, but Jiang Qianzhu does!

That's her betrothal gift!

Now, it's all gone!

What’s worse is that after this incident, everyone pointed the finger at her.

Her mother first grabbed her hair and took her to another courtyard. After beating her, she found out what she had done with Yang.

It turned out that Yang was willing to marry her as her daughter-in-law, but with one condition, which was that she should secretly hide the empty imperial edict in the Wang family.

"Auntie Yang said that an empty imperial edict is of little use. If they are investigated, the emperor will not exterminate all nine clans. He will only dismiss my aunt and uncle's family and punish them by law, so that they will never be able to turn over a new leaf."

"She would calculate the time and wait for me to hide the things. The next day she would come and say that the things were lost and bring people to search my aunt's house. She would never implicate us!"

When Mrs. Liu heard her daughter's explanation, she was so angry that she raised her hands and slapped her.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid to the extreme!"

"Why did I give birth to such an idiot like you!"

Her brother looked at his sister with great disgust, as if she were a brainless thing. "Mom, we don't have such a stupid person in our family. Kick her out of the Jiang family and don't care whether she lives or dies!"

"Brother!" Jiang Qianzhu heard this and shouted anxiously, "I am also doing this for the Jiang family. Don't you want to see my aunt and her family suffer? Don't you want to see them become prisoners and beg for mercy from our family?"

"No one is as stupid as you!" Liu was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped Jiang Qianzhu several times.

She couldn't stand seeing her sister-in-law and her family living a good life in the capital, and would also think about their family getting into trouble and then laugh at home.

But how could she dare to do such a thing!

If you are not careful, the whole family will be implicated!

What's more, today they almost set the fire on their own heads.

It was fortunate that Jiang found it in the dowry in advance, otherwise the Jiang family might have been tricked to death by the Luo family!

The more Liu thought about it, the angrier she became.

The Luo family clearly cheated not only the Wang family, but also their family! They didn't even plan to marry their daughter from the beginning. They took advantage of their family and cheated both of them!

"Mom, please stop hitting me. I'm going to get married. I'm going to marry into the Luo family in three days."

"How dare you mention the Luo family!" Liu gritted her teeth in anger and beat Jiang Qianzhu violently.

The Luo family was where her own daughter was going to marry. How could she be so stupid!

"We don't have a fool like you in our Jiang family! If you want to marry, go ahead and marry. From now on, your life or death has nothing to do with our Jiang family! You are expelled from our Jiang family tree!"

After saying that, Liu took the others and Jiang Qianzhu's brother and left the capital overnight.

Jiang Qianzhu was left alone in the villa to fend for herself.

"mother!"

"elder brother--"

"You can't abandon me. I am your daughter and sister. We are a family."

Jiang Qianzhu, who was beaten badly, was howling alone in the room, sounding so aggrieved.

She couldn't understand, they were a family, how could they treat her like this!

Isn’t she their biological daughter and sister?

How could they not care about family affection and treat her so cruelly!

The next day, when Lu Lingyun came to Wang's house, she saw Jiang Qianzhu, with a bruised face and nose, kneeling at the door of the Wang family and begging them to take her in.

The Wang family's door was tightly closed and no one opened it.

When she saw Lu Lingyun, she didn't even care about her previous dislike for her, and knelt down in grievance, "Sister Lu, please be kind and help me. My mother and brother all went back yesterday, and they don't want me anymore."

"I know I was wrong. If you can put in a good word for me and ask my aunt to take me in, I will be grateful to you."

Lu Lingyun: "......"

gratitude......

She didn't dare to ask for her gratitude.

At this time, the door of Wang's house opened, and Jiang led people out.

As soon as Jiang Qianzhu saw her, she rushed towards her, "Aunt! I really know I was wrong. Now I know that you are the only one in the world who is really good to me. I was stupid before, stupid, I was blind and mistook fish eyes for pearls. Now I really know I was wrong."

As she spoke, she beat herself and cried for mercy.

Jiang looked at Jiang Qianzhu, who was crying and regretting, with a cold face.

Oh!

"Didn't you say that I was being nice to you just to tease you?"

"No, no, no! Auntie, you are really good to me! You are not playing tricks on me!"

"Didn't you say that I was hypocritical and selfish and never tried my best for you?"

"No, no, no, auntie, you are so sincere to me!"

"Don't you still say that I'm an ungrateful person who repays kindness with enmity?"

"No, no, no! I am the ungrateful one. I, I... repay kindness with enmity."

Jiang Qianzhu's voice became softer as she spoke, and her whole face, which had been hit, felt burning with pain.

I don’t know if it was because she felt the pain from being beaten by her mother yesterday, or because she felt the pain from her own words.

Jiang had been so kind to her, but she colluded with outsiders and turned a blind eye to their kindness...

How shameless!

Jiang looked down at Jiang Qianzhu, who looked shy, ashamed, rude and pitiful, and snorted coldly.

"Lingyun, let's go in."

She didn't even want to glance at Jiang Qianzhu, but warmly took Lu Lingyun's hand and led her in.

Jiang Qianzhu rushed forward and hugged Jiang's legs. "Aunt, you really can't just ignore me! My mother and brother are gone, they don't care about me. If you don't care about me, how can I live? After all, I am your niece who grew up in your care!"

Jiang Shi became impatient. She looked down at her and sighed softly, "I'll prepare a carriage for you and take you back to the Jiang family."

As soon as she finished speaking, Jiang Qianzhu immediately shook her head, "I won't go back to the Jiang family!"