Chapter 262: Hit my face
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Concubine Yi, who was walking in front of me, muttering, "The Queen has accepted my kindness. If I ask her to marry Chen Rujin to Qingyun, will the Queen agree?"
Nanny Wei: “…”
Master, why are you still thinking about this?
In the palace, Concubine Yi was happy.
But in the princess's mansion, Chu Huining was so angry that he threw the imperial edict away.
The emperor's edict cannot be thrown away. Song Nanyue is just a queen consort, and a childless one at that. She is not afraid.
Nanny Duan watched fearfully from the side, wanting to stop it but saying nothing. The princess had to vent her anger that day, so she drove everyone out of the room and even out of the yard, and stayed alone to keep the girl company.
In this way, even if the princess cursed the queen, no one would hear it.
The night sky is high, and a shiny black color stretches across the sky like a ribbon.
Chu Huining's mood was as dark as the night. Her pretty face was now cold and bloodthirsty. After scolding Queen Song, he saw a pair of scissors in the basket beside him. He picked them up and picked up the imperial edict on the ground and was about to cut them.
Nanny Duan was suddenly startled and rushed over to snatch the scissors from her hand.
"Princess, think twice. You must not cut it."
"Song Nanyue has slapped me in the face like this, and you still want me to endure it?" Chu Huining said with hatred in his eyes.
That bitch Song Nanyue actually dared to scold her for not parenting well.
This is really too much.
Madam Duan hid the imperial edict behind her back and said, "Princess, the Empress is clearly trying to embarrass you. If you destroy this imperial edict, I don't know if the Empress will be so angry that she will become ill, but the Empress will definitely use this as an excuse to punish you for the crime of disrespect, and then you will be at the mercy of anyone."
Even if the current queen is the second wife, she is still the mother of the country.
If the Queen wanted to punish the princess, she could suppress it with just one charge of disrespect.
Chu Huining's face was ferocious and he gritted his teeth. After a while, he overturned the table in anger, but he had no intention of cutting the imperial edict.
"You are all against me. I will not let it go like this."
…
The Queen's decree arrived at the Princess's residence in the evening and spread throughout the capital early the next morning.
After the imperial decree abolished Zheng Wenwu's title of Prince, the Queen immediately reprimanded Princess Huining. For a time, the mother and daughter became the subject of conversation among the public.
"Why didn't the prince consort respond when his wife and son both had accidents?" someone asked in confusion.
As soon as these words came out, someone immediately smiled mockingly and said meaningfully: "Our prince consort is already hiding, how can he take the initiative to come forward to take care of this matter?"
"Of course not. Besides, he was punished by the Emperor and the Empress one after another, so it's impossible for him to get ahead."
"Ah? They are husband and wife after all, and you don't even show any sign of love?" the person who spoke first asked in confusion.
"Brother, you just arrived in Beijing."
"Haha, my dear brother, your opinion is very good. I have only been in the capital for three months."
"No wonder. Our eldest princess is rather arrogant and cannot stand some of her husband's behaviors, so they moved to separate residences many years ago. Because the old uncle worked hard and made great contributions, her husband was also shielded by his father."
This statement is rather obscure.
In fact, Zheng Kuan couldn't stand Princess Huining's arrogance and domineering behavior, so he had quarrels with the princess every now and then since he married her. However, Chu Huining was a princess, and Zheng Kuan couldn't afford to offend her, let alone divorce her, so he could only endure it day by day.
In the past, the old grandfather was keeping them under control, and although the couple was physically together but spiritually apart, they still managed to get through it.
But after his old uncle passed away and the pressure on him was no longer there, Zheng Kuan was too lazy to pretend. He didn't dare to offend the princess, but that didn't mean he was willing to sleep with her.
So concubines were taken in one after another.
Chu Huining refused, and took one in and killed another. This matter was once brought to the imperial court, but even an honest official could hardly judge family affairs. Although the emperor protected Chu Huining, he could not allow her to take human life so lightly. In a rage, he decided to let Chu Huining and Zheng Kuan divorce.
This was exactly what Zheng Kuan wanted. Even though it would bring him a bad reputation, he was still looking forward to the divorce.
But Chu Huining didn't want to.
She had spent her best years of youth on Zheng Kuan. Now that they were divorced, although he was no longer a royal consort, he still held the title of Earl of Dingyuan. There were many young and beautiful women willing to be his second wife, but she, a princess, ended up being a divorced woman.
Even though a divorce would look better than divorcing his wife, Chu Huining thought, if you don't let me live a good life, I will never let you live a good life, so the divorce failed.
Emperor Chengde didn't care about it anymore and only warned Princess Huining that no matter how much trouble she made, she was not allowed to make any inappropriate remarks or do anything that would be caught by the censor and impeached.
Chu Huining responded nonchalantly.
If it doesn't work openly, then kill him secretly.
Zheng Kuan failed to get a divorce and was unwilling to live with Chu Huining, so he moved out of the princess's mansion and moved back to the Dingyuan Earl's mansion, which had countless concubines and beautiful maids. Chu Huining came to make trouble every few days, and Zheng Kuan just let her do it. He just sent his biological mother back to his ancestral home to live, as he was afraid that his mother would be angered to death by the princess.
A year ago, the old wife of the Duke Ding passed away, and Zheng Kuan took the ashes of the two elders back to the old house for burial. Chu Huining was a princess, so there was no need for her to go back to Ningzhou with him. But she could not allow Zheng Kuan to leave the capital and live freely, so she followed him.
A carriage with red wheels and a canopy stopped on a busy street. The curtains were opened, revealing a gorgeous face. There was a faint smile on the corners of her lips, and her beautiful eyes were like the ripples on the lake in April.
Next to her sat Ah Man, with his head half sticking out of the carriage and then quickly retracting.
"Miss, look."
Lu Xiang glanced sideways, looking in the direction of Ah Man's finger, and saw Doctor Xu, wearing a green bamboo straight suit and holding a fan, walking elegantly into the alley.
Then he stopped at the door of the second house, looked around, and then knocked on the door.
A sturdy jujube tree in the yard extends over the wall with lush branches and leaves.
After a moment, the door opened and Doctor Xu walked in.
Lu Xiang sneered, "Going there in broad daylight, how daring!"
Ah Man said, "I have been watching him for so long, and I found that every time I tie a white ribbon to the jujube tree, he will come in less than two hours."
"Mistress?" Lu Xiang asked.
Ah Man shook her head and said, "No, I have asked around. The person living in this house is a married woman. They have been married for three years, but her husband is away from home all year round and can only come back a few times a year..."
Ah Man didn't say anything else.
But just enough to make people understand instantly.
Doctor Xu is not keeping a mistress, he is having an affair with a married woman.
Lu Xiang stared with his eyes wide open as if he had seen a ghost. After a long while, he seemed to have found his voice again: "Did the neighbors around here notice anything unusual about these two people?"
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