Chapter 221 Zhou's request for a daughter
Zhao Anping could hide in the yard and get beaten at the same time, but he didn't dare to hide completely. After all, his mother would be very angry if she couldn't beat him.
"Mother, this is really unfair!"
"Mother, I really did take care of it, otherwise I wouldn't have rushed to find you and Father."
"Mother, my son is wrong!"
"Mother"
Old Madam Wei refused to listen to this guy's excuses and chased Zhao Anping around the yard with a feather duster. When all the feathers on the feather duster fell off, Wei stopped panting.
"You are an unfilial son. You don't care about your own daughter-in-law and just wait for me to become a wicked mother-in-law." Wei really didn't want to get involved in her son's room affairs, but Jin was also not very good.
Zhao Anping was really afraid of angering his mother, so he hurriedly tried to appease her and stiffly changed the subject, "I don't know where my father has gone. I'll send someone out to look for him, or I'll go out myself to look for him."
"Don't worry about your father, he must be in the palace now." Wei guessed that the old marquis must have gone to the palace in person to ask the emperor to give his eldest son a woman.
Thinking about these bad things, she felt upset, but she would not let her son go back. Jin would naturally come to her for help later.
"Ah! Why did father go to the palace?" Zhao Anping thought that his father had gone to the palace to file a complaint. He felt that such a small matter could be easily resolved by his younger sister given her current status, and there was no need to trouble the emperor.
Madam Wei glared at her eldest son, who had no self-awareness, and said unhappily, "Mind your own business!"
Seeing his mother about to get angry again, Zhao Anping could only touch his nose dejectedly and pretend to drink a cup of tea. He couldn't afford to offend his mother at this moment. He pulled the corner of his mouth and gasped in pain.
On the other hand, when Jin heard that her husband Zhao Anping was being beaten by his mother-in-law, she did not rush to rescue him, but slowly returned to their yard, as if she would not go out today.
"Madam, aren't you going to take a look?" Jin's maidservant looked at the Marquis of Wu'an's wife in confusion. Logically, the wife should have gone to ask for mercy on the Marquis' behalf.
Jin thought to herself, I'm not going to suffer! With her mother-in-law's personality, whoever provokes her will suffer. "I'm not going. They're mother and son, what's the big deal if I go? Stop talking and bring me two more plates of snacks."
Jin's maidservant nodded thoughtfully, then went downstairs to order someone to serve snacks.
However, Jin hadn't eaten many pieces of snacks when she heard someone from the bottom come in, "Madam, the old lady is here?"
Originally, Mrs. Jin Zhou wanted to see the old lady of the Marquisate, Mrs. Wei, but Mrs. Wei was angry and refused to see her. She asked the servant to lead her directly to Mrs. Jin's courtyard and let her go directly to her daughter.
"Who?" Jin was incredulous upon hearing the news. It wasn't a festival, and she had nothing to do here. Besides, hadn't she just been back home two days ago? Why was her mother suddenly coming to the Marquis' Mansion?
Before the maidservant beside Jin could answer, Zhou rushed in.
"Son! You must save your brother!"
As soon as Zhou came in, she wanted to kneel down in front of Jin. Jin and the maid beside her immediately supported Zhou.
With just a look from Jin, the people serving around her immediately retreated.
Jin could only support her mother: "Mother, please get up and talk to me first. You are embarrassing your daughter! Get up first."
"Son! You have to save your brother. If you don't agree, I won't get up." Zhou said as she was about to kneel down again.
Jin was really anxious now. "I promise, I promise. Please stand up and tell me which brother has done what wrong."
Jin was still thinking at this moment that if the matter was too big and the Marquis did not help, she would let her eldest son go and beg her aunt, Princess Funing.
Anyway, my sister-in-law has always been better to my eldest son. Maybe it’s because he was raised in her house for a few years. My sister-in-law always thinks of him when there is something good.
When Mrs. Jin Zhou saw that her daughter agreed, she immediately went along with it.
Zhou was reminded of her son's miserable state. She pulled Jin's sleeve and couldn't help crying, "Please save your brother Jin Mingcheng! He's in the Jingzhao Prefecture's prison. Your father and I just went to see him and he's only half dead. Please save him. Mother and your brother will remember your kindness in the future."
Although Zhou was very resentful of her daughter now, if she hadn't come back and exaggerated, she and Mingcheng wouldn't have had any thoughts that they shouldn't have. What should they do now? But she was asking her daughter for something, so she wouldn't break up with her.
"Mother, tell me first, who did Jin Mingcheng offend? Who dares to touch my brother so easily? Don't worry, my father-in-law, the old marquis, is not a pushover. At worst, I will go and beg him."
Up to this moment, Jin had not yet realized that a big pit was coming.
Seeing her daughter like this, Zhou was a little embarrassed to say it, but the situation did not allow it! She was afraid that if she hesitated, Mingcheng would really not be able to come back: "I will offend Princess Funing."
"Who?" Jin stood up immediately after hearing the words. She knew how much her father-in-law and mother-in-law doted on their sister-in-law.
"It's your sister-in-law!" Zhou broke her daughter's fantasy.
Jin was particularly anxious at this moment. Her sister-in-law had a bad temper. What she said when she went back home was just to make her parents look at her with a higher regard and think that she was living well in her husband's family.
"How could Mingcheng offend my sister-in-law? Didn't she just come back from the farm yesterday?"
Zhou explained, tears streaming down her face, "When you came back a few days ago and were chatting, you mentioned that Princess Funing had returned yesterday, and that villain overheard you. He went to ambush Princess Funing and was arrested as an assassin."
"You must have said a lot of inappropriate things, right?" Jin knew her brother too well, and she also understood what her mother and brother were thinking. "You've gotten yourself into big trouble, and you might even implicate me."
"It's because you often come back and talk about it, otherwise how could your brother be moved. You can't just ignore your brother now!" Zhou held her daughter's clothes tightly, fearing that her daughter would say she didn't care.
Jin raised her hand and slapped herself hard. She was deeply regretful for saying such nonsense for the sake of so-called face. What should she do now?
Seeing her daughter was also very upset and at a loss, Zhou could only pull her daughter's sleeve and said, "My daughter! Please save your brother! If Cheng'er is charged with the crime of assassinating the princess, he will die."
The Emperor also said that as long as Princess Funing doesn't pursue the matter, everything will be fine. Everything depends on Princess Funing's wishes. Can you go and ask Ping'er and the old marquis for help?"
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