Chapter 226 You have three thousand beauties in your harem, while I'm old and faded, so I've lost my love?
Madam Lan glanced at the storeroom but didn't pay it any mind.
"What, you two young couple, are you arguing again?" Old Madam Lan raised her triangular eyes, looking at her son with a hint of displeasure.
Lord Lan's eyes widened in surprise at his mother's calm demeanor.
“Mother, look… look, this is the Lan family’s storeroom… Back then, everyone knew that when Xi’er married me, it was a grand wedding procession with a hundred miles of red bridal attire and a fortune of ten thousand taels of silver… It was unparalleled in the entire Great Shang Kingdom…”
"So what!" Old Madam Lan glanced at Lord Lan indifferently, then walked up to Madam Zhou and looked at her son.
“Mother…” Lord Lan stared wide-eyed at Old Madam Lan.
Old Madam Lan took Little Zhou's hand, interrupting Lord Lan, "Since she married you back then, her dowry became the Lan family's property..."
"Besides, that sickly daughter she gave birth to must have cost the family a fortune. Ginseng, lingzhi, bird's nest—which of those things isn't valuable?"
Old Madam Lan scoffed, "What, are you going to ruin the Lan family for the sake of two dead people?"
Lord Lan clenched his fists, his eyes filled with endless coldness.
Xi'er has such a good personality, but because she wanted her mother to accept her, such a proud woman was forced to stay at home and gave all her private property to her mother to manage!
Lord Lan took a deep breath, looking at his mother and wife before him, his chest aching in waves.
His hand rested on the red box. Although decades had passed, the sandalwood box, lacquered with fine paint, remained completely unchanged.
"I...want to divorce my wife!" Lord Lan took a deep breath and said to Madam Lan.
"You dare! As long as I live, you cannot divorce your wife!" Old Madam Lan snorted coldly, her gaze towards her own son showing no affection whatsoever.
Lord Lan staggered. He had been confused his whole life, and now all he wanted was to arrange a proper wedding for his daughter.
Besides, that money originally belonged to the daughter and son.
If we don't want the sons, then they'll all be daughters!
"Since you don't want me to divorce my wife, then replenish everything that's missing from the storeroom. If you can't..." Lord Lan took a deep breath.
The next moment, he looked at Old Madam Lan with disappointment and said, "Someone from the Ministry of Rites will come tomorrow to inventory Xi'er's dowry. Those gift lists were filed with the yamen back then..."
"You're being ridiculous..." Old Madam Lan's expression changed, and she slammed her cane hard on the ground.
He saw this and gave a mocking smile, which also seemed to be self-deprecating: "Brother Feng is not the kind of person who talks big..."
After Lord Lan finished speaking, he felt as if all his strength had been drained away.
The news reached Tang Bugui's ears within a few hours.
He stood in the courtyard, dressed in black, as red silk began to be laid out, piece by piece…
It's just like the promise we made back then...
He had promised that girl he would marry her...
"Go, spread the word about this throughout the capital..." Tang Bugui narrowed his eyes and said calmly to the person beside him.
"Yes!" Shadow said and immediately left.
Tang Bugui squinted, turned around, and went to the Lan family with a sullen face...
In the palace...
"Wife, that boy is up to his old tricks again, all because you spoil him!" The emperor looked at the empress, his face stern and speechless.
The Lan family has a special status; even the Imperial Advisor said that they would produce a distinguished person!
And Lan Xin'er is still his own daughter-in-law...
The empress was watering the flowers when she heard the emperor's words. Her fair hand casually tossed the small water ladle into the water vat.
"Bang……"
The emperor immediately shuddered and hurriedly looked at his wife.
"I spoil him, so what? He's such a good child, why can't I spoil him? And how dare you say that to me? Last year, who was it that missed him and secretly went to see him?" The Empress wasn't afraid of the Emperor and directly confronted him.
Upon closer inspection, they appeared to be no different from ordinary couples.
When the emperor saw that his wife was really angry, he was about to explain, but he heard her say, "If it weren't for you, would this child have gone out to fight at such a young age?"
"If it weren't for you, would he have stayed away for five years, his wife and children were harmed, and he'd be left all alone and pitiful?"
"You are His Majesty, you are amazing... You have three thousand beauties in your harem, and I am old and faded, so I have no love anymore..." After the Empress finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave.
The emperor was so angry he was puffing out his beard and glaring...
That shrew is truly lawless...
but……
"I'm the emperor now, can't I have some dignity?"
The emperor saw the ceramic water ladle that the empress had just placed in the basin, picked it up, and smashed it on the ground.
With a "smack," the Empress was startled and turned around instantly.
"You've gotten quite something, even learned to smash things!" The Empress raised her eyes and glared at the Emperor...
The emperor glared, his neck stiff, and said, "I fell, so what? What are you going to do about it?"
"Eighth Prince, you've really gotten bold. Come on, keep smashing..." The Empress glanced around the garden and saw a potted plant that had been brought as tribute from the Western Regions. She'd heard it was worth several thousand taels of silver...
The Empress rolled up her sleeves and walked over in a few steps.
Instantly, all the surrounding maids ran away; not a single one remained…
"Smash this!" The Empress picked up the potted plant and shoved it into the Emperor's arms...
emperor……
"You shrew!" The emperor was so angry his nose almost twisted; this woman wouldn't give him a single way out...
"So what if I'm a shrew? You won't smash it, huh? I will!" As she spoke, the Empress snatched the flower from the Emperor's arms and raised her hand to smash it.
"Sister, sister, I was wrong, I was wrong..." The emperor rushed over, hugged his wife and spoke, his face was all pale.
"How could Your Majesty be wrong? It was I who was wrong. I will go to the Buddhist hall to pray for Your Majesty's well-being... and I will not leave the temple again..." The Empress was stubborn and said with a cold face.
"Wife, wife, don't I have any pride? Let me tell you, if I give you a way out, you'd better take it. If you don't... I'll give you two more..." the emperor said solemnly.
The Empress was amused by the Emperor's words and casually tossed the flowerpot she was holding onto the shelf.
The emperor breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her smile. Back when they had just gotten married, the emperor had also been chased and beaten by his wife!
"Ahem, wife, isn't this about that kid surnamed Tang? Let's not be angry with him..." The emperor pulled his wife's hand and sat her down to the side.
With no one else around, the emperor said, "That boy insists on marrying a dead man. He doesn't want any of the daughters of high-ranking officials we've found for him. Isn't that infuriating..."
The Empress paused, also recalling that Lan Shuyu was an exceptionally good girl back then…
pity……
"This child's temperament is just like yours, a stubborn one..." The Empress glanced at the Emperor with annoyance, then couldn't help but sigh.
"Your Majesty, General Tang has entered the palace. It seems he has been beaten..." A servant rushed in from outside.
"What?! How could someone as strong as him get beaten up? Who did it? I'll beat him to a pulp!"
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