Chapter 84 Old Husband Young Wife 3
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Faced with the aggressive mysterious man, Lady Taichang actually knelt down, leaving countless officials and their families present dumbfounded.
Everyone's eyes turned to Taichang Qing, and saw that his face was changing unpredictably, and he seemed to want to say something, but like Tao, he knelt down with a plop!
A low groan spread out, and everyone saw that Taichang Qing and his wife were kneeling with their foreheads touching the ground and the soles of their feet facing the sky, they were kneeling so sincerely! Both of them blushed up to their collars, but they didn't even bother to look up or stand up.
The mysterious man in white smiled frivolously and asked, "Has Yue'er calmed down?"
Yan Yue hadn't suffered any loss in the first place, and seeing the two being punished so badly, how could she have any complaints? He nodded and said, "Let them go!"
Taichang Qing only felt that the overwhelming force on his head was reduced by half, but the force on his body did not decrease at all. Only then did he realize that the person who could make Princess Changning so scared was probably either a god or a demon!
He was so frightened that tears streamed down his cheeks. In his panic, he heard Bai Chen ask him, "Do you two have anything else to say?"
Tai Chang Qing tried hard to shake his heavy head, stammering: "No, no..."
The pressure on his body suddenly disappeared, and Tai Chang Qing felt that he could finally breathe. However, his wife Tao collapsed on him and looked at Yan Yue in shock: "Monster..."
Tai Changqing felt a warm sensation flowing out from his body uncontrollably, but he didn't care at all. He covered Tao's mouth with his hand and shouted, "What do you want? You mercenary woman, you still want to blackmail me! Come home with me quickly!"
Tao was so frightened that her bones were weak. Taichang Qing wanted to pull her away, but after two attempts he was unable to pull her up!
Housekeeper Cao hurriedly called for help. In the midst of the noise, a woman in her forties suddenly rushed out and grabbed Tao: "Yunfang, why is it you? What's wrong with you?"
Tao was called back to her senses by someone familiar. She hugged the woman and burst into tears, "Mom!"
It turned out that she was the gambling addict mother of the Tao family.
The woman patted her daughter on the back and looked around: "Who of you bullied my daughter? I tell you, this matter is not over! Without one hundred taels of silver, you can't..."
The voice suddenly stopped when it saw Taichang Qing.
"Why are you here?" "Why you?"
The woman's voice and Taichangqing's voice came out almost at the same time, and even Tao's crying stopped for a moment.
The three of them looked at each other, and finally Tao asked first: "Do you know each other?"
The woman avoided looking at Tao, who was wearing gold and silver and brocade, and suddenly her face turned uneasy: "Didn't you say that you worked for a rich family? I see that you are at least a concubine with your clothes! If I hadn't sneaked in to the banquet today, I wouldn't have found you! What? You don't want me anymore now that you have married into a rich family?"
Tao sobbed and said, "What concubine? I am the legitimate wife of the first wife! I dare not tell you, but I am afraid of you..."
"She is, your mother...? Didn't you say that all your family members were dead?"
Taichang Qing's trembling voice rang out, and everyone noticed that his face was as pale as paper.
Tao looked like she had done something wrong: "Husband, I didn't mean to hide it from you. My mother..."
"Husband???"
The woman stood up suddenly, her voice changed: "Him? The one you married is him?"
Tao noticed something was wrong between her husband and mother, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? How did you two know each other?"
The woman pulled Tao up and said, "Let's go! Let's get a divorce! Let's go now!"
Tao's expression changed drastically, and she struggled to free her mother's hand: "Mom! You are crazy!" She hugged Taichangqing's arm and said, "Mom, although he is older, he is an official after all..."
The woman couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "He is your father! My real father!"
There was an uproar in the venue!
Tao was completely stunned and looked at her husband in disbelief.
Tai Chang Qing was shaky, as if he couldn't accept the blow. He asked in a trembling voice: "Didn't you say that the child was in poor health and had died of illness? You asked me for her funeral expenses a few years ago..."
The woman had no shame at all and sneered, "So what? I was just telling a lie. Compared to you, a father who slept with his own daughter, let's see who will be punished by God!"
Taichang Qing was so excited that he couldn't breathe and fell on his back and fainted!
Tao vaguely understood the truth and thought of the foolish child she and her biological father had given birth to. She suddenly shouted, "Tao Guifen! I will kill you!"
She threw herself at her mother and beat her like crazy, cursing, "You said my father was an unfaithful man, that he tricked you into getting pregnant with me and then abandoned us! You said he had sores on his head and pus on his feet, and that he died miserably! I actually believed you! I actually believed you!"
She clasped her hands tightly around her mother's neck, her face flushed with crimson from madness, and she screamed in despair: "You've ruined my life, and you've ruined my son's life! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly stood up to stop them: "Stop!"
The man pushed Tao away very forcefully. Everyone thought he was here to stop the fight, but he suddenly changed his attitude and grabbed Tao's mother and said to Changning, "Princess Changning, I am the Junior Official of the Dali Temple. This person is a wanted criminal in the Dali Temple. Please help me find a rope so that I can bring her to justice."
Steward Cao brought people to help kidnap Tao Guifen and listened to the Dali Temple Shaoqing explaining the situation to Changning.
It turned out that Tao Guifen was an old gambler. When he had no money to gamble, he borrowed money from the owner of the dyeing factory where he worked. The gambler certainly could not pay back the money, but she was still pretty even in her old age, so the shopkeeper threatened her to sleep with him to pay off the debt.
Tao Guifen felt that she had slept with the man for so long that she had paid off her gambling debts, but the owner of the dyeing workshop did not think so and continued to touch her. Tao Guifen also had a hot-tempered temper. She used a bone-chopping knife to chopped the shopkeeper into pieces and threw the pieces into the cesspool.
The wife and daughter of the dyeing factory owner couldn't find her so they reported to the authorities. During this period, Tao Guifen was still working and everything was normal. No one thought anything bad about her.
It was not until the dyeing factory was cleaning the manure pit that the dung collector discovered unchopped bones, human hair and fingers. He was so scared that he reported it to the authorities. Someone in the dyeing workshop mentioned that one night Tao Guifen was busy very late, and when she came back to get something, Tao Guifen was chopping something in the backyard.
The Dali Temple's Shaoqing said, "I didn't find Tao Guifen in the dyeing workshop during the day, so I thought she had run away. If I hadn't heard this name, I really wouldn't have thought that she would dare to sneak into the funeral of Prince Jing's mansion to eat and drink for free!"
Tao Guifen had an indifferent look on her face, as if she was not at all moved by the murder, being caught, and the punishment she was about to face. Perhaps it was the excitement of winning or losing in long-term gambling that eroded her normal emotions, or perhaps it was because of her lies that caused her own daughter to have a child with her biological father, which was a grave sin.
The continuous stimulation made Tao completely unconscious. He collapsed on the ground, crying and laughing, and he didn't know if he could get better.
This farce completely destroyed the solemn atmosphere of the funeral. Everyone had excitement on their faces and recounted the plot with exaggeration to those who had missed the show.
Together with the recently deceased Princess Hua Rongqin of Prince Jing, because she and Tao were both second wives, and also because she was guilty of "forcing the original wife to death", she was dragged out by the onlookers and her corpse was whipped over and over again.
Yan Yue watched Taichang Qing being carried away, and couldn't help but sigh: "As the saying goes, evildoers will be punished by evildoers. I have seen it today."
"The Minister of Rites was a playboy, but he abandoned Tao Guifen after she became pregnant, and ended up marrying her daughter."
"Tao betrayed her first wife's careful teachings, and after her death, she took the position of the principal wife as she wished, and regarded all women as her enemies. She never expected that the husband she fought for was actually her own father, and she even gave birth to a mentally retarded child."
"Tao Guifen used his daughter, Tao, to constantly ask the Minister of Rites for gambling money, and then killed someone in anger because of the gambling money."
"He wanted to take advantage of the dyeing shop owner, so he made a perverse deal with Tao Guifen, and ended up losing his life."
"I just feel sorry for the original wife of the Minister of Rites. Seeing her husband's evil thoughts about the maid she bought back, will she regret buying her home?"
Qi Zhaoyang said, "Not necessarily."
He explained, "When a high-ranking official buys a maid, the housekeeper usually goes to a human trafficker to select one, and the maid is trained by the various managers in the mansion. However, Tao was bought by the original wife herself, and she was brought by her side to teach her how to read and write and to manage the household. I don't believe in such a coincidence."
Yan Yue thought for a moment: "You mean, the original wife knew that Tao was the daughter of the Minister of Rites, and did this on purpose?"
Qi Zhaoyang said, "I'm just guessing. The maids in high-ranking officials' houses are very particular, especially those who follow the madam. They must be smart and discerning, but they can't be too pretty to steal the madam's limelight. Don't you think that Mrs. Tao is too beautiful?"
Yan Yue suddenly realized that the original wife brought the beautiful Tao by her side just to seduce Taichang Qing to pick her up!
Bai Chen said with disgust: "Humans are always so treacherous and cunning. It's better for the demons to be straightforward and not to engage in such intrigues!"
Qi Zhaoyang couldn't help but sneer: "I don't know what kind of internal strife the demon tribe has been in recently. Rumor has it that the demon king has died, and the little demons in various places have begun to harm the people!"
"Ah?" Yan Yue leaned over and asked Bai Chen, "You were overthrown?"
Bai Chen's eyes twitched, he covered his mouth and coughed twice, pretending to be relaxed and lazy, "It was just a few minions causing trouble, it has been resolved. I was not here a few days ago, so the Hui people took care of the matter."
Yan Yue heaved a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good. I haven't gotten any benefit from it yet! Even if you don't want to be the demon king anymore, just hold on for a few more years and let me have some fun!"
Bai Chen held his forehead helplessly, but he refused to give in: "You want to take advantage of me, but you don't even see how much virtue your ancestors have accumulated for three generations. I'm afraid you can't even handle this blessing!"
Yan Yue said honestly: "Have you forgotten? I am an orphan, I have no ancestors. How about you find which grave is emitting smoke, and help me identify my ancestors?"
Watching the two of them walking away side by side, Qi Zhaoyang felt bad, but also somewhat relieved. Bai Chen is extremely tolerant of Yan Yue and probably won't hurt her.
At least, not yet.
After the funeral of Princess Jing, Yan Yue prepared to buy some gifts to bring back to Chu Zhi and Nan Qing.
Of course, I have to visit Yanliang before leaving. When Yan Liang saw that the princess treated her with great courtesy and that she had earned such a generous reward, she felt truly relieved.
Yan Yue carefully wrapped the fragile jade ruyi and white jade peace locket ornaments in cloth and put them into the box. When he turned around, he saw Bai Chen staring at the golden statue of Hades again.
She snatched the golden statue into her arms and said, "Don't pay any attention to it!"
Bai Chen collected his thoughts, hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to discuss something with you."
Yan Yue decisively refused: "I won't give it to you no matter what you say!"
"I don't want it." Bai Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He paused and said, "Can you melt it?"
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