Chapter 57, the final chapter
Lu Zirou and Lu Ziyuan listened to the secrets of the royal family and couldn't help but stare in a daze.
"So what should we do?" The three of them formed a circle and began to discuss.
When Jiang Hou arrived at the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion, the guests were drinking and chatting, creating a lively atmosphere.
Xia Yurou did not attend.
"Lord Jiang, you've arrived! Come sit down next to me. We're all family now, so let's get to know each other better!" The Prince of Zhenbei gestured enthusiastically to the person next to him.
However, Lord Jiang frowned. The Prince of Zhenbei sat on the left as the place of honor, while he sat on the right. Wasn't this putting him at a disadvantage?
The Prince of Zhenbei's status is indeed more noble than his.
Some people who knew the inside story started whispering among themselves when they saw the two of them.
Although they are called equals, it's obvious to anyone with eyes that the Prince of Zhenbei is the real master, while Lord Jiang is more like a concubine.
"You don't know, I heard that Marquis Jiang has been dead for a long time, otherwise how could the Prince of Zhenbei allow such a person to continue occupying the position of General Xia's husband?"
"Oh, I see!"
"What's so special about this? This couple, each married one woman and each has their own life, they're evenly matched!"
The murmurs below grew louder and louder.
The Prince of Zhenbei made no attempt to stop them; instead, he toasted each of the people around him.
Jiang Hou felt extremely uneasy.
"Ruan Ruan, come home with your father. No matter how nice the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion is, it's not your home. After dinner, come back with your father!" Lord Jiang simply got down from his seat and sat at the children's table.
I started negotiating with the two children.
"Brother, do you want to go back?" Jiang Ruanruan didn't answer directly but asked Jiang Huai'an next to her.
“No, the food and drink here are much better than in the Marquis’s mansion. Marquis Jiang, you should leave. We’ve already decided to follow the Prince of Zhenbei and live a good life!” Jiang Huai’an said resolutely.
"That's right, we're already eating five dishes and two soups in one meal. You should leave and not interfere with our good life!"
Jiang Ruanruan didn't turn her head and continued eating meat and vegetables.
"You two children, as long as you behave and come back with us, you can eat whatever you want!" Lord Jiang was so angry he was about to burst into flames, but he still had to carefully try to appease them.
"Besides, I'm your biological father. No outsider would really be good to you!"
"It's alright, as long as our mother is here, that's all that matters. If our eldest and second uncles treat us badly, Mother can always marry a third uncle..."
"Mmm-hmm!" Jiang Huai'an nodded hurriedly.
The Prince of Ning and Chen Zihao and the others burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at? A father's wealth and status will only give you a bunch of brothers and sisters. Only when the mother is good is it truly good. Do you understand? We are the most real example!"
"That's right, Ruan Ruan is smart!" Li Yunzhi praised without reservation.
[Ding dong, congratulations host, you have obtained 2000 points for Lord Hou's debt collection, with a balance of 49600 points!]
Lord Jiang was so angry that he vomited blood. The kind-hearted Prince of Zhenbei had him carried back.
The Jiang family steward sent for a doctor, saying that the doctor had been overcome by extreme anger.
That night, while everyone was still immersed in the news of General Xia's marriage and Jiang Ruan becoming the closed-door disciple of the Grand Elder of Linglong Pavilion.
A major incident occurred at the Jianghou Mansion. Lord Jiang woke up in the middle of the night and went to find Madam Zhang, only to find that he had caught the adulterer.
Late at night, the loud gongs and drums woke up several families in the neighborhood.
It is said that Lord Jiang was so angry that he vomited blood again. He summoned the Prefect of the Capital and had Zhang and Xia Ziping arrested on the spot for adultery, and gave Zhang a letter of divorce.
Both the Zhang and Xia families were humiliated, and they went to bail the person out that very night.
Zhang was sent to the estate, but neither the Lu family nor the Zhang family wanted Lu Zirou and Lu Ziyuan. In the end, they were abandoned by the Xia family.
On Prime Minister Xia's side, Xia Ziping was given thirty lashes and admitted that Lu Ziyuan and Lu Zirou were his children. Surprisingly, Zhang Shi was pregnant again, and it was Xia Ziping's child.
In a fit of anger, the Zhang family abandoned their daughter to the Xia family.
The neighbor next door to Prime Minister Xia's family was crying all night.
Xia Ziping has a wife, and they're having a huge fight right now.
Prime Minister Xia had a headache, so he summoned his eldest brother and told him about the division of the family property.
Zhang is a troublemaker; if the family hadn't separated, who knows what kind of mess it would have become.
In the end, Zhang became Xia Ziping's concubine.
However, Xia Ziping's wife only had one daughter, and Zhang Shi, relying on the fact that she already had a son and a daughter, as well as the one in her belly, did not take that man seriously at all.
They're always arguing and fighting next door, making a ruckus every day.
Jiang Ruanruan frequently received debt collection points, which made her curious about what exactly was happening over there.
She went to the Prime Minister's residence a few times. As her debt collection points accumulated, reaching over 80,000, Jiang Ruanruan felt a little reluctant to leave. During this time, she had experienced the warmth of human life and felt at home.
She had no parents in her previous life, so even if she went back, where could she go? During this time, she kept thinking about whether or not to leave after completing her mission.
After Zhang's matter was dealt with, Lord Jiang came to see Xia Yurou and said that he had broken off all ties with Zhang as Xia Yurou had requested.
He suggested that Xia Yurou go back with him, and that he would forgive her past mistakes and allow her to sever all ties with the Prince of Zhenbei.
Unexpectedly, Xia Tang Yurou slapped the person away.
"Fine, very well, Jiang Yuanzheng, you've been deceiving me for so many years, and only now do I realize that Ruan Ruan isn't your child at all, but the Prince of Zhenbei's. It was clearly the Prince of Zhenbei who saved me back then, but you took the credit for it, making me believe that the person I spent the night with was you. You're so despicable!"
"Later, you wanted to have sex with me, but I didn't want to. So you drugged me. Who knew that Liu Yue was in my room that day? You ruined her chastity. You didn't dare to make a fuss, and you didn't dare to acknowledge the child!"
"No wonder you weren't happy when you found out I was pregnant, and even gave me abortion pills. Luckily, my body held up, but Ruan Ruan was born with a weak constitution, and you've harmed me multiple times, even causing Aunt Liu to have a premature birth. This is what you're like..."
"Why did you do this..." Xia Yurou learned everything from Zhang Shi.
Now that Zhang has arrived at the Xia residence, she is determined to make life difficult for Marquis Jiang, just as he has made her life difficult.
So she told Xia Yurou the truth: she and Jiang Hou had been engaged for a long time, but he broke off the engagement.
Lord Jiang ruined her life.
When Xia Yurou learned the truth, she was very happy. She was happy that she no longer had the memories of the past few years, and she was happy that she had finally seen through this person's true colors.
"Why? Of course, it's for the power of my Jiang family, to find someone to rely on. When my father was gone, I was only 14. Everyone said I was too weak to support the Jiang family, but you are the jewel of the Prime Minister's mansion. You can compose poems and write couplets, and you can fight on horseback. If someone like you enters my Jiang mansion, what will I have to worry about in this life!"
"I originally wanted to live a good life with you, and I truly loved you back then. But I shouldn't have let that lover of yours break my leg and made me unable to be a man anymore. Xia Yurou, do you think he's a good person? He's even more ruthless than me."
"Divorce me! I must divorce you! Jiang Yuanzheng, get out of here..."
Xia Yurou's brothers all joined in, punching and kicking Jiang Yuanzheng, then dragging him out like a dead dog.
The Xia family told the Emperor everything. Because there were witnesses, things became simple, and the Emperor issued an edict approving the divorce.
The imperial edict was read aloud right at the entrance of the Jiang residence.
Only then did everyone realize that General Xia and the Prince of Zhenbei were originally a couple, and it was because of this person's scheme that they missed each other for so many years.
There was another imperial edict that stripped Jiang Yuanzheng of his title of Marquis and placed his son, Jiang Huai'an, in his place. Since Jiang Huai'an was still young, he was entrusted to Xia Yurou to raise.
Jiang Yuanzheng lost everything in an instant and stood there dumbfounded.
What he found even more unacceptable was that the very next day, their love and hate stories were adapted into a storybook and sung in various teahouses and taverns.
He gets pelted with vegetable leaves whenever he goes out.
As a result, he didn't dare to go out at all, and the servants of the Jiang family didn't dare to say that they were from the Jiang family, for fear of being scorned.
Of course, there were also some who were more open-minded and joined in the cursing of the host.
Anyway, this person is now a commoner, and everything in the Marquis's mansion is now decided by Old Madam Jiang.
They're just waiting for Jiang Huai'an to grow up and return to inherit the Marquis's mansion.
However, Madam Jiang did not completely ignore the two children. Instead, she sent people to teach them martial arts and military strategy.
The Jiang family is just waiting for another military general to emerge from among them.
During this time, Jiang Ruanruan's points had reached 100,000, and the day Xia Yurou got married was fast approaching, so she was reluctant to leave.
The Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion was directly renamed General Xia's Mansion.
It's unclear what the Prince of Zhenbei was thinking, choosing the Prince of Ning's residence instead of the imperial palace for his marriage.
He walked right past Jiang Hou.
General Xia, dressed in a red robe and riding a tall warhorse, went to greet her groom.
At this moment, the laughter of the onlookers was seen by Jiang Hou as mockery of him.
He coughed up a mouthful of blood and immediately fainted.
On the night of Xia Yurou and the Prince of Zhenbei's wedding, Jiang Ruanruan finally opened the system.
"System, I want to meet the big boss behind the scenes!" If that person isn't in a hurry, she'll stay here a few more days.
A good host
Li Yunzhi appeared in front of Jiang Ruanruan just like that.
He turned out to be the big spender. Only then did Jiang Ruanruan realize that she was the original owner of the body. When the original owner died in her previous life, she told Li Yunzhi that her previous life was too bitter. She wanted to live a happier life and also wanted to avenge herself. She shouldn't have lived such a weak life.
Therefore, Li Yunzhi used the merits of more than ten lifetimes just to exchange for the chance to see her again.
Jiang Ruanruan decided to stay.
The End of Book...
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