Xuan Tiange's words frightened Feng Jinyuan. He was already suspicious of this county lord who suddenly appeared. Now, after hearing such words, he suddenly had a bad feeling. Read the latest chapter of Perfect World, and you will be able to see it quickly.
Could it be that...
Feng Jinyuan shook his head violently. Impossible!
While he was thinking, the Emperor had already walked to the main seat. Everyone on the island knelt down facing the Emperor and shouted: "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empress!"
Tianwu glanced down, and everyone immediately felt a chill rising from their heads. Especially Feng Jinyuan, who always felt that the emperor's gaze had stayed on his head for a long time, and it was so oppressive that he couldn't breathe.
Finally, Tianwu had seen enough and waved his hand: "Stand up."
The eunuch Zhang Yuan beside him immediately shouted: "Stand up!"
Only then did people stand up, and as the emperor and empress took their seats, they returned to their seats.
As soon as he sat down, he heard Tianwu speak again, and asked Feng Jinyuan with a caring look on his face: "Lord Feng has been away from the capital for many days, how is the ancestor worship going?"
Feng Jinyuan quickly stood up again and replied respectfully: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. Everything is fine back home."
Tianwu narrowed his eyes and nodded, "Well, that's good. The court has been busy recently, and I can't ask you in the court, so I'll take this opportunity to ask you. I'll be relieved to know everything." After saying that, he looked at the field again, turned around and returned to Feng Jinyuan, and asked in confusion: "Where is my daughter-in-law?"
Feng Jinyuan was overwhelmed when he heard this, thinking, Your Majesty, you did this on purpose, don’t you know that Feng Yuheng is dead?
He stole a glance at the princes sitting closest to the emperor and immediately caught sight of the face wearing the golden mask.
Why hasn't the Ninth Prince made any movement in so many days? Princess Wuyang has been making a fuss for several times, but he seems to be fine. It's really strange.
"Your Majesty." Even if he didn't want to talk about this, he had to speak up. This was the emperor's question, and Feng Jinyuan knew that the emperor was probably going to use this palace banquet to settle accounts with him. "When I returned to my hometown to worship my ancestors, the ancestral home unfortunately caught fire. My eldest son and second daughter... died in that fire."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and wiped his face, looking very sad, but this caused Xuan Tianming to snort unceremoniously.
Tianwu shook his head and said directly: "Lord Feng, you just like to tell jokes to me. My daughter-in-law is a man of both civil and military talents. How could she not be able to escape when the house is on fire? Impossible, impossible!"
Feng Jinyuan knelt directly on the ground, his face full of grief: "Your Majesty, I also hope this is a joke, but... it is indeed true!"
Tianwu still didn't believe it: "If this is true, why didn't you even hold a funeral for your eldest son and second daughter? Lord Feng, it's better not to make such a joke!"
"Your Majesty, the funeral was held at the ancestral home, and no further ceremonies were held after returning to the capital. They are just juniors after all, so I did not mobilize a large army."
"Lord Feng." One of the princes spoke up. It was not Xuan Tianming, nor Xuan Tianhua, but the second prince, Yuan Wang Xuan Tianling. "Even if my sister-in-law is low-key and honest, you, as a father, can't make up a curse like this, right?"
When Feng Jinyuan heard this, he immediately remembered that Feng Yuheng saved the little grandson on Yuexi Day, and immediately realized that among this group of princes, it was not only the Seventh Prince and the Ninth Prince who had a friendship with Feng Yuheng.
The sweat on his forehead began to seep out, but Emperor Tianwu unexpectedly tried to smooth things over at this time: "Let's not talk about this. Lord Feng has always been a conservative person. It's hard for him to make a joke. We can't just not support him at all. Today's palace banquet is held for my newly conferred Princess Ji'an. The princess was frightened a few days ago. My dear ministers, please comfort her more."
People immediately stood up and answered: "That's natural, that's natural."
Tianwu nodded with satisfaction and said to Zhang Yuan beside him: "Go and ask the county lady to come over!"
Zhang Yuan immediately ran to pass on the message, and soon he saw another small boat floating on the lake. The boathouse of the small boat was made of soft smoke curtains, and a woman was sitting inside, dressed in gorgeous clothes, staring quietly at the people in front of her.
For a moment, some people's attention was attracted by the soft smoke screen on the boat pavilion, so much so that they ignored the woman who was supposed to be the protagonist.
But there were also more people staring at the gorgeously dressed woman in the boat, wearing a bright pink dress and a jade ornament on her forehead, looking like a county lady. In her arms was a cat, grey, with a big round face, but with a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see into people's hearts.
Feng Jinyuan's legs were a little weak, not just her, Chenyu and Fendai's legs were also trembling. Especially Fendai, it was like seeing a ghost, one hand tightly covered her mouth for fear of making any sound.
Xiangrong took a few steps forward in surprise and found himself in the middle of the crowd without realizing it. He just looked at the slowly approaching boat and felt very happy.
Her second sister. It turns out that the emperor’s newly appointed county lady is her second sister!
Xiangrong finally understood what Xuan Tianhua meant by what he said before. It turned out that the second sister was not dead!
Finally, the boat reached the shore, and two palace maids immediately came forward to greet them. The woman in gorgeous dress got off the boat steadily and walked forward step by step.
Only then did people recognize that the newly-appointed Princess Ji'an was actually the daughter-in-law the emperor had just mentioned! The second daughter of the Left Prime Minister!
Those who had just expressed their condolences to Feng Jinyuan cast questioning glances over, and some quick-witted people even asked, "Didn't Prime Minister Feng say that your second daughter was burned to death?"
"Of course! I shed so many tears, but he was really joking with us!"
Feng Jinyuan had a hard time defending himself. He had been looking for Feng Yuheng in Fengtong County for so long but couldn't find her. Who could have thought that this girl would return to Beijing, enter the palace, and even get a position as a county lord?
Seeing that Feng Yuheng was about to pass by him, Feng Jinyuan lowered his head guiltily and twisted his body a little further inside.
He really didn't know how to face his daughter. Although he did look for her after the fire, others didn't know whether he tried his best to find her, but Feng Jinyuan knew it very well. What's more, the person was missing, but he insisted that she was dead. The emperor was still here. If he insisted on holding him accountable for deceiving the emperor, what should he do?
Feng Jinyuan's mind was suddenly filled with too many things, and every single thing was because of Feng Yuheng's "resurrection". He gritted his teeth and sighed secretly. As the old saying goes, the more you hope someone dies, the more likely they are to live. The more you hope someone lives well, the more likely they are to die in an accident.
He hoped from the bottom of his heart that his daughter was dead, but unfortunately, everything that happened to Feng Yuheng, one by one, could never be explained by common sense.
"I, your daughter-in-law, kowtow to my father and the queen. Long live my father and long live the queen." With just one sentence, Feng Yuheng knelt in the middle of the field and kowtowed three times to Tianwu who was sitting on the throne. The cat was held in her arms, motionless.
Tianwu looked at Feng Jinyuan with a smile: "You said my daughter-in-law was dead, how come Feng Aiqing doesn't even know whether his own daughter is dead or alive?"
Feng Jinyuan quickly knelt down as well, "I dare not!"
"Don't dare?" Tianwu was furious. "Feng Jinyuan! I don't blame you for the fire in the ancestral house, but your daughter was burned to death, and you didn't even check and reported the death. What on earth do you want to do? Do you still remember that this daughter is my daughter-in-law!"
Tianwu became more and more excited as he spoke. At the end, he grabbed the glass cup on the table in front of him and smashed it towards where Feng Jinyuan was kneeling.
The glass cup hit Feng Jinyuan's forehead squarely, and blood oozed out instantly.
Everyone present was afraid to say a word, not even to breathe. Chenyu Fendai and Rong could no longer stand by and watch, so they all stood up and knelt down.
Feng Jinyuan's vision was blurred by the blood, but he didn't dare to say a word. He just knelt and trembled, thinking about the tragic death of Minister Bu at the last palace banquet, and cold sweat seeped out of his hair.
Fortunately, Tianwu did not continue to argue with him. Instead, he turned around and looked at Feng Yuheng, saying something that directly changed the Feng family's situation - "Today, Feng Yuheng, the legitimate daughter of the Feng family, is named the Princess of Ji'an County, and is granted the entire county of Ji'an County in Pingzhou. The existing house Tongshengxuan is converted into a Princess' Mansion, and the main gate is opened. The Princess of Ji'an County has the right to enter and exit freely!"
Feng Jinyuan's mind was buzzing for a while, and he was a little confused about the emperor's intentions.
Feng Chenyu suddenly raised her head after Tianwu said this and blurted out, "Your Majesty, you are wrong! Feng Yuheng is not a legitimate daughter!"
Tianwu looked at Chenyu with annoyance and said nothing. After all, he was disdainful of talking to a woman who had nothing to do with him. However, the queen sitting next to him knew when to take over the conversation. She looked at Feng Chenyu and said, "How can you speak nonsense in front of the emperor?"
Tianwu then asked Chenyu with great interest: "Why? Do you have doubts about what I said?"
Chenyu also reacted at this time, realizing that she was too quick to speak and actually called the emperor to task. She immediately knocked her head to the ground and said, "I dare not!"
"Hmph!" Tianwu snorted coldly, "Back then, the Feng family married the only daughter of the Yao family, and even the Queen Mother personally gave her a reward. How come Feng Yuheng is not a legitimate daughter? Feng Jinyuan, I want to ask you, do you want to be recognized as my legal wife and legitimate daughter, or do you want to take the risk of violating the will of the emperor and insist on recognizing a concubine as your wife and recognizing the daughter born by the concubine as your legitimate daughter?"
Feng Jinyuan knew that he had no choice at all. He and the old lady had already considered the matter of Yao. He was afraid that he had guessed the emperor's intention wrongly, or that the emperor had changed his mind after all these years. In short, he was the one who was in trouble.
"Of course...it is consistent with the emperor's idea." He answered helplessly.
Chenyu felt as if her head exploded, her body swayed a few times and she fell to her knees on the ground. Her body, which had already caught a cold from falling into the water, began to tremble immediately, but she did not arouse any sympathy from people.
As for what happened to the Yao family, everyone who has lived in Beijing knows it well. Although people don't say it, they despise Feng Jinyuan in their hearts. Their daughter married you, and your Feng family has gained a firm foothold in Beijing with the help of the Yao family. Why? You can only share the good times, but not the bad times?
Feng Yuheng looked at Feng Jinyuan and Chen Yu kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Wait, your retribution is not just this.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your decision! Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness on behalf of my mother, Yao!" Feng Yuheng bowed his head to the ground, expressing his sincere gratitude.
Restoring the position of mistress of Yao was beyond her plan. It was all Tianwu's own idea. But she knew that the divorce letter was in her sleeve. Tianwu did this to give Yao and her the most face. Even if they divorced, she would leave the position of mistress just like when she first married into the Feng family. In this way, the Yao family would live up to their pride of "men do not take concubines, and women do not become concubines".
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