Chapter 127 The Wife of Wu'an Marquis's Swift and Resolute Action
"Zhao Lingyun, what do you say?" The wife of Marquis Wu'an didn't even look at Aunt Fang. She just held the tea and drank while looking at Zhao Lingyun.
Zhao Lingyun knew she had deeply offended her stepmother's lineage. She regretted her actions in the palace, but regret is the most inadequate thing in the world. She immediately kowtowed and admitted her fault, "Mother, I was wrong. I shouldn't have brought up my eldest sister. Please forgive me this time! I won't do it again."
She cried so sincerely! It's a pity that the wife of Marquis Wu'an is not her third prince. "People always have to pay the price for doing wrong things. Are you ready?"
"Ah? Mother, please forgive me this time. I will repay my elder sister in the future. I will admit my mistake to her when I have the chance. I will never dare to do it again."
Zhao Lingyun looked at her calm stepmother, and she had a feeling that she was really angry this time. She had never seen her stepmother like this in all her years, and she was terrified.
Seeing Zhao Lingyun like this, the smile on the corner of Wu'an Marquis's face widened, but the words she said made Zhao Lingyun and Aunt Fang feel as if they were falling into an icy cave:
"Perhaps I've been too kind to you over the years, so you dare to plot against me. Someone, hold down the Second Young Miss, and beat Madam Fang to death right here."
Meanwhile, the Marquis of Wu'an was thinking, should he suggest to his mother that Zhao Lingyun be eliminated as well? He always felt that keeping him would be a nuisance in the future.
When Zhao Lingyun heard her stepmother say this, she was stunned for a moment. When she was trying to morally blackmail her stepmother in the hall, she had thought there would be a price to pay, but she had not thought that the price would be the death of Concubine Fang.
"Madam, please spare my life!" Aunt Fang also kowtowed frantically and begged for mercy. She looked at her daughter who was stunned beside her and immediately grabbed her. "What on earth did you do outside? What did you do? Why don't you apologize to Madam?"
Zhao Lingyun finally came back to her senses and cried much more sincerely this time. Since she was a child, her aunt had loved her the most. Although she still wanted to have a son, she had received no less protection and love.
She didn't understand. She just wanted to take advantage of her elder sister's contribution. She said she would repay her in the future, so why did she want her aunt to die?
Seeing that she had been pinned down and Aunt Fang had been pinned down on a stool, Zhao Lingyun could only turn to Marquis Wu'an for help. "Father, please help me, just this once. When I become the Third Prince's concubine, I will repay the Marquis's mansion well. Please ask Mother to let Aunt Fang go."
"Madam's words are no longer effective? Are you going to let me do it myself?" This was the response of Marquis Wu'an.
When the servants saw that Marquis Wu'an had spoken personally, they knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter, so they beat him mercilessly with sticks.
For a moment, the entire room was filled with Aunt Fang's cries, shouts, pleas for mercy, and finally, curses. No one in the room could save her, but Aunt Fang was still unwilling to give up. Before she died, she looked at Zhao Lingyun and said, "See, of all people, I'm the most unlucky."
Concubine Fang was really unwilling to accept this. Back then, the four concubines all became pregnant, but she was the only one who gave birth to a daughter. She thought that was it, but in the end, all the daughters were recorded as legitimate daughters, and she had to take the blame for the mistakes she made. Who would be willing to die when they could live a good life?
But this wasn't the end of it. Widow Wu'an Hou, under Zhao Lingyun's hateful gaze, ordered all her personal servants to be beaten to death, and the rest to be sold. If you dare to provoke her, you must endure her wrath.
Zhao Lingyun knew that even if she begged for mercy, she could not save the people around her. She just looked at the two people above with a pair of hateful eyes, as if she wanted to remember them both in her heart.
Marquis Wu'an and his wife didn't take it seriously, but his wife wasn't willing to indulge her. "Looking at your expression, I guess you don't want to call me mother. I'm also worried that you're always plotting against your elder brother and the others.
Anping, send someone to inform the clan elders tonight and have her family tree changed to Concubine Fang's name tomorrow. I just don't know if Concubine Fang is still willing to recognize you."
When the Prince of Wu'an heard his mother's instructions, he immediately went down to make arrangements. He didn't want to have such a sister in their legitimate lineage, and he didn't want to clean up the mess for her in the future.
The other three concubines and the illegitimate son in the room didn't dare to breathe. Especially the concubines, when Madam said to beat Fang to death, she beat Fang to death right in front of them. It was horrifying.
It must be said that this move by the wife of Marquis Wu'an was quite intimidating. From then on, whenever the three bastards wanted to take a shortcut, they would think of today's scene. After all, they were still filial and could not bear to see their concubine's good life end in a few days because of them. They could only work hard on their own.
When Zhao Lingyun heard her stepmother's words this time, she did not have any strong reaction. She had thought about losing this identity when she did that thing, but now losing anything was not as important as the death of her aunt.
"Father, Auntie has served you for so many years, and you just watched her get beaten to death. Aren't you afraid that she will come looking for you when she comes back?"
Zhao Lingyun didn't really hate Wu'an Hou's wife that much. If she were Wu'an Hou's wife, she would definitely do something more ruthless than her. But she hated Wu'an Hou especially. Her aunt had been with her for so many years and she loved him so much. Yet, he could watch her die without saying a word for her.
"I guess she'll come after you, this unfilial daughter, first! She's the most unlucky of all the concubines. Her daughter is registered under someone else's name, and it could even lead to her death. When has her daughter only considered herself and not her? She only wants to cling to power."
Marquis Wu'an thought to himself that he had killed so many people that if she wanted to come find him, she probably wouldn't even be qualified to wait in line.
After Zhao Lingmeng said goodbye happily to Princess Fushou, she met the Third Prince, who was in a bad mood after he ran into a setback with Marquis Wu'an and his wife.
Zhao Lingmeng originally didn't want to pay any attention to this idiot, thinking that he was too different from what was described in the book. Moreover, through this incident, she felt that the personalities of the hero and heroine were also far different from what was described in the book. It is true that if you believe everything in the book, it is better to have no book at all.
But Zhao Lingmeng thought it might be her presence that sparked Zhao Lingyun's ambition. In the book, the original owner disagreed with her being recorded as a legitimate daughter. Her life wasn't easy, and there wasn't anything the heroine could have cared about, so she certainly hadn't revealed so much. The Third Prince's victory in the end wasn't without the Marquis of Wu'an's contribution.
Although Zhao Lingmeng thought so, she still felt sorry for the ten thousand taels of silver she had given away. She didn't know if she would have the chance to give it back in the future.
Zhao Ling dreamed about all this mess and led a group of people past the Third Prince. The Third Prince's anger instantly reached its maximum, and he felt that he was being ignored.
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