Chapter 44: Everyone Moves Away
Wen Ling followed the eldest princess and rarely spoke, but every word she spoke would enlighten the eldest princess at the critical moment.
In other words, the eldest princess doesn’t know about PUA, otherwise she would know that Wen Ling is helping her fight against PUA.
The eldest princess now sees through her husband completely.
She is not an indecisive person, otherwise she would not have been able to help her brother step by step to the pinnacle of power.
She was just confused by her emotions before.
Now that she sees the truth about people, she has regained her decisiveness.
The princess waved her hand, and guards immediately came forward to stand by.
"Go and ask the people from the Dali Temple to come over and tell them that the princess was poisoned and murdered and that they know where the evidence is hidden. Ask them to arrest the criminal and bring justice to the people."
"Yes!" The guard responded, turned around and ran away to ask for help.
The Yong Dynasty was different from other dynasties, as its officialdom had its own system.
The Dali Temple is a department that specializes in handling matters related to royal family members and ministers, and only when there are extremely serious incidents among the people will the Dali Temple, also known as the serious crime squad, be called in.
The Zongrenfu dealt more with interpersonal relationships between officials and the royal family, that is, family matters, and mainly focused on mediation, like a neighborhood committee.
The eldest princess sent people directly to the Dali Temple, without leaving any room for maneuver.
Then she gave instructions to Nanny Tang, the most loyal nanny who had always been by her side.
"Since the Prince Consort and his mistress have said that it is okay for a man to have three wives and four concubines and keep mistresses outside, then fine, let the Prince Consort use his own money to keep them.
The monthly salary of the consort is fifty-five taels, half of which for sixteen years is only enough to buy this villa. The rest of the things in this villa were bought with my own money.
Please ask Madam Tang to bring the accountant in the mansion to collect all the things in this villa. Don't move them back to the mansion. I find these things used by low-class people dirty, so I will just sell them.
Ask the accountant to calculate how much silver the prince consort has withdrawn in the past sixteen years. If the money is not enough from the sales of the things in the villa, remember to ask the prince consort to make up the difference. ”
Aunt Tang responded promptly and kindly reminded, "Princess, there is also a manor in the suburbs of Beijing..."
The princess patted her forehead lightly and said, "Now that you mention it, I remember that the husband's parents are still living in my palace's hot spring manor in the suburbs of Beijing. That manor is worth ten thousand taels of gold and was granted by the emperor.
Since the Prince Consort feels aggrieved by my side for so many years, he must be a very strong-willed person. I must be humiliating him by letting his parents live in my manor.
Yes, it is not my duty to respect and support my parents-in-law, but the duty of my husband.
Please, Madam Tang, send someone to the hot spring village to pick up my good parents-in-law.
Remember, the son-in-law is such a principled man, he certainly doesn't want our charity. We must let the parents-in-law go cleanly, and let them take away whatever they brought with them to live in. ”
"I obey your command!"
Nanny Tang performed a very standard palace etiquette, and then took people to search the house at great speed. Oh no, she took people to settle accounts.
Wen Ling, who was watching, felt very relieved and secretly gave the princess a thumbs up.
Nanny Tang was very efficient. She immediately brought seven guards into the yard, and soon a steady stream of things and furniture were moved out.
You wouldn't know until you move it. Once you move it, you will be shocked. There are things in such a small courtyard, but even a random teacup is made of white jade inlaid with gold, and its value is easily hundreds of taels.
There were also imperial gifts. Whenever the emperor had something good, he would think of her, his younger sister, and send it to her.
Some of the gifts the princess gave to her husband if she saw that he liked them, but some of them she thought were too luxurious. If she used them, it would easily lead to the censors to complain that the royal family was extravagant and wasteful. So she put them in the storehouse, intending to save them for her daughter's marriage as a dowry.
She never expected that all these good things that she gave to her prince consort and was reluctant to use were actually in Lanxiang's villa.
She, a concubine, actually lived a more luxurious and wealthy life than her, the eldest princess!
The eldest princess became even angrier, and the smile on her face became colder and colder.
If she doesn't make this adulterous couple pay the price, she will be the princess in vain!
When all the things in the house were moved out one by one, Lanxiang finally could no longer pretend to be weak.
She rushed forward to stop Aunt Tang and said, "These are all my family's things. Why do you take them away? Even if you are the eldest princess, you can't bully others by taking advantage of your power and break into their houses to rob them of their belongings!"
Nanny Tang is not like the eldest princess who has to put on airs and cannot afford to lose her composure.
She slapped Lanxiang directly with such force that Lanxiang turned around twice on the spot.
"Where did you come from, you lowly creature, to delay our princess from recovering her property? You said these things belong to your family, but do you have proof that you bought them? How did you, a woman who can do nothing, get the money to buy these things?
There are many things here that were bestowed upon our princess by the Emperor. There are records of them in the palace. Taking possession of the things bestowed by the Emperor is a capital crime.
Now that we have both witnesses and evidence, and you still refuse to plead guilty and still dare to stop us, you can just wait for the Dali Temple to arrest you and behead you!
When you get beheaded at the market tomorrow, I will definitely go to watch you, a bastard, being decapitated! ”
Lanxiang covered her face with her hands, her head was buzzing from being fanned by Aunt Tang.
Aunt Tang's words frightened her so much that her legs and feet went weak. She subconsciously shirked responsibility: "I didn't take the imperial gift for myself. Shao Qing gave it to me. Why do you want to chop off my head?!"
The prince consort, who was originally standing there trying to maintain his last bit of integrity, almost couldn't hold back when he heard that Lanxiang had sold him out so easily.
Lanxiang saw the incredulous look in the eyes of her husband's wife, and she lowered her head and sobbed, "Shaoqing, Yaozu is still young, and now that you are in trouble, one of us should stay to raise him..."
The prince consort's chest heaved up and down with anger. He pointed at Lanxiang, his fingers trembling: "I have done so much over the years, all for you. Now that something has happened, you treat me like this?"
Lanxiang lowered her head and stopped talking, just kept crying.
In fact, she was thinking in her mind how she could get away with it.
The eldest princess suddenly saw a dog-bite-dog scene, and the depression in her heart suddenly dissipated a little.
She mocked her husband, "Oh, so this is the mistress that your husband keeps outside. When disaster strikes, they flee on their own. Such love is really touching!"
Things change, and it has come to my husband's hand so soon? How does it feel to be betrayed by the person you trust? ”
The prince consort clenched his teeth. It would be a lie if he didn't say he had no regrets at all, but there was no turning back now.
But there is an even bigger surprise waiting for him.
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