Chapter 397 The Dust Settles
Royal unity of opinion, and have Gu Shao secretly push waves, the smallpox thing can finally be settled – Yi Wang little princess Lu Ning night although it is instigated, but its behavior in the end heartless, and indirectly led to the death of the second prince.
So she’s definitely not going to live!
The House of Yi was also implicated, and Hopu was relegated to the status of a commoner.
The Empress Dowager remembered King Yi Jing’s birth mother, in the end, she ordered people to let them keep some industry, otherwise this family is used to being captive by the royal family, and just sent down to the mountains, what will be the end of it can be imagined!
Yi Wang Fu is still so, and as the mastermind of the Lu family needless to say: Lu Yicheng has been self . Lu Yicheng has already killed himself, was still deprived of all the honor and titles in his life, only to be buried as a commoner.
His family in addition to Lu Xu’s children, sixteen years of age on all sentenced to beheading, sixteen under the official no, the family property copied and searched into the treasury.
After this result came out, although said with the Lu family familiar with the family still have some doubts in their hearts, because of daily contact with Lu listen to the spring, think that this young man although straight, but does not seem to have too much heart of the people, may not come up with such a poisonous plan.
As for Lu Yicheng, he’s on the right side and has a bright future ahead of him, so why would he jeopardize the lives of his children and grandchildren for the sake of his old wife? The death of his wife Huang, in particular, is not Song Yixiao’s fault: Song Yixiao didn’t do anything about the Song family, let alone Huang herself, okay?
Huang had to go to the trouble of Song Yixiao, and as a result, she lifted a stone and smashed the feet of the people on her side instead, causing the royal family to bestow death on her in a fit of rage, which can be blamed on Mrs. Yan?
Even if Lu Yicheng is not helping his family, is it necessary to use smallpox? This time, it is fortunate that Emperor Duanhua is fine, otherwise the emperor is done away with, even if the Lu family is not exposed, he is not this from the Dragon Minister for nothing to fight for his life?
But not only the royal family, but even Gu Shao and other important ministers spoke like this, and these private doubts dissipated.
After all, the Lu family committed down things so big, and the evidence is conclusive, even if there is friendship, but also afraid of being dragged into the water, can only think of the Lu family two houses due to the Lu Xu’s out of the first was saved down two children, and then take care of some of them, is also considered the whole of the late man’s feelings.
After the whole thing was over, Empress Wei was reminded by her left and right before she remembered that she still had a Song Lu under house arrest in her side hall!
Although it is said that the Lu family this time to provoke the wrath of the royal family, but after all, Lu has been the Song family woman, her mother’s family how the tragedy of the law have nothing to do with her.
So after Empress Wei summoned her to her heels again, she didn’t say anything heavy, but only told her what had happened, saying, “Now that things have been cleared up, you and go back, the three children at home are not very old, and I think that after you’ve been away for these few days, they’re going to miss you too.”
Lu held back her tears and retreated – only out of the palace door on the tears rolled, to lead her out of the Palace of the chamberlain saw the pity, did not blame her, but instead led her to a secluded place to cry for a while, to see that she cleaned up her emotions, and then sighed and persuaded, “Grandma Lu think about the Empress Mother’s words just now: you still have three children at home who are waiting day and night for you to go back to it! Your family has three children who are looking forward to your return day and night!”
“Thank you for mentioning!” Lu wiped her face carelessly and took off the silver bracelet on her wrist to give it to him, but the chamberlain didn’t take it and shook his head, “Grandmother doesn’t have to do this!”
Lu didn’t insist, and when he reached the palace gate, he turned around and bowed deeply towards him, indicating that he remembered this favor of his before leaving.
She had only just left the palace, but of course she couldn’t immediately leave to return to the imperial capital-especially after hearing that kind of thunderbolt-so she first went back to the Song family’s compound on Cuihua Mountain to recuperate.
When she was summoned earlier, she had already brought her subordinates over to clean up, so it would be convenient for her to enter.
Just this side of the steward came over to ask for good health, mentioned a suggestion but let her suddenly lost color, “I heard that Yan Guo Gong and Jane big miss side is almost well, grandmother is not to prepare some things to send over to congratulate them a congratulations?”
The steward said this of course is not intentionally give her more obstacles, but thinking of Lu’s previous has been very good to Song Yixiao, not to mention the New Year’s festivals has been generous gifts, usually have any good food and good clothing also do not forget to give a copy of this stepdaughter – not to mention is the Duke of Yan father and daughter out of smallpox and such a big event?
Furthermore, what happened to Jian Xu Bai’s father and daughter as well as the Second Prince is currently believed to be the work of the Lu family. The steward was also reminding Lu to show goodwill to the Duke of Yan’s side as soon as possible, so as not to be implicated by his mother’s family!
But Lu is in the heart of a million arrows, heard the words since the anger is unable to restrain, raised his hand on the case of a whole set of secret color porcelain tea set pushed to the ground, cutting teeth, “Do not mention that bitch to me again. People!!!”
Seeing the steward’s consternation, Lu realized that she had lost her temper – she gasped a few times, and was not in the mood to appease or explain, she only waved her hand for him to go down, and told her left and right to leave, so that she was the only one left in the room, and Fang clutched her head, and curled up in her chair, bawling her eyes out!
She doesn’t have a mother’s house anymore!
Father, brother and sister-in-law, nephews, nieces … a familiar face in front of the eyes continue to emerge, Lu’s heartache indescribable: two sons and one daughter of the Lu family, she is the only daughter, the youngest, so since childhood is very favored, whether it is parents or brother and sister-in-laws, including nieces and nephews, including nieces and nephews, she is very good to her.
It was not until after Huang’s passing that people such as Lu Hearingquan cooled off on her.
But even though all of the Lu family knew that Huang’s death had something to do with her inadvertently leaking information to Song Yixiao, after she had plotted the assassination of Wei Mengying and shifted the blame to Old Lady Pang – Lu Yicheng still stood up in the first place and spoke up for her on the basis of being a slave to the dragon!
She this father is not indifferent to fame and fortune, from the East Palace subordinate officer to do, conscientious how many years, accompanied the present from the Prince to the Duanhua Emperor, it is not easy to bitter sweet, finally can be a good harvest, but is willing to for her this ungrateful daughter to propose to retire!
When Huang was first given to death, Lu Yicheng was not against the front to plead for his wife.
He did so when it was his daughter’s turn, showing how much he loved Lu.
And now, the father who loved and protected her, along with the familiar brother and sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, were all gone!
Although it is said that the nieces and nephews under the age of sixteen will not be directly executed, but the public sons and daughters who have always been well-bred, sold into slavery by the government – what will happen to them? Can they survive in those places? Lu didn’t even dare to think about it!
Even though official slaves could be ransomed, Lu knew that even with the Song family’s immense wealth, there was no way she could buy out her nieces and nephews.
Because one of the most important of the Lu family’s charges was plotting to kill the Second Prince!
How can a criminal family member who has killed his son with the new ruler let his own aunt buy back the Song family to feed him well?
The only ones in the entire Lu family who can survive are approximately Lu Xu’s sons and daughters.
Lu does not hate Lu Xu’s, as a mother she can sympathize with the feelings of this second sister-in-law – not to mention that if Lu Xu’s did not do so, the Lu family can not even stay so two children!
“Father, how good would it have been if I had listened to you in the first place?!” Guilt, grief, self-blame, sadness … all kinds of emotions rolled over in Lu’s heart, she thought painfully, “If I had never tried to reconcile with Song Yixiao, if I had never tried to curry favor with her, if I had listened to my mother and always defended myself against her, maybe my mother wouldn’t have died, and that way Listening Spring wouldn’t have hated her, and the Lu family wouldn’t have been in have been in trouble!”
Lu did not know how the smallpox matter behind the dark currents, and even Chancellor Gu Shao personally dominated the current results.
She thought it was really done by Lu Huanquan to avenge Huang’s death.
Although it was true that she was more familiar with her own nephew than those who had befriended the Lu family, Lu herself was an example of a drastic change in temperament-so for Lu Listen Quan to change his former impulsive and straightforward nature for the sake of his grandmother Huang, who had raised him, and to come up with such a touted idea to get back at Song Yixiao was something that Lu found to be understandable and sympathetic.
So she hated herself more and more.
After all, Huang wanted to eliminate Song Yixiao, mainly because she thought Song Yixiao was deep and deeply indebted to the Song family, and was worried that she would be unfavorable to the Song family after she gained power.
–In the end, Huang is saving for her daughter’s family for a rainy day!
“Why should Song Yixiao live well?” Lu was filled with indignation as she thought, “If she had died long ago, if she had really been crippled by her husband in the first place – then she wouldn’t have married Duke Yan! If she hadn’t been able to marry the Duke of Yan, none of this would have happened!!!”
At one time, she thought that as long as she allowed Song Yuan to reconcile with Song Yixiao’s father and daughter, she would have no regrets in her life.
Now she realized, however, that since Song Yixiao had appeared in her life, her life was full of regrets.
and is irretrievably regrettable.
“Song, Yi, smile!” Lu’s deepest inner clarity actually knew that she was wrong to blame her stepdaughter for all her mistakes.
But she now had to find someone to hate – as she had done after witnessing Song Yuan’s death with her own eyes, she had survived by hating Wei Mengying and taking her anger out on Old Lady Pang.
Even though Empress Wei and the unknown chamberlain both mentioned her child.
But sometimes just being a “mom” isn’t enough.
Song Yixiao in … the other courtyard does not know that hating herself has become the motivation for her stepmother to support her at this moment.
She was now in shock at the sudden news, “Passing over?!”
“You don’t know, ma’am, but this time the smallpox incident was said to be the work of the Lu family, but in fact, although the Lu family had a hand in it, the masterminds were the old Duke of the Kingdom and the emperor’s son-in-law!” The person who came to report the news was sent by the Grand Princess of Jin – since it’s been almost a month since Jian Xubai’s father and daughter went out with the smallpox, and Song Yixiao is still safe and sound, we all know that there’s no problem with the courtyard she’s staying in.
So this will be surrounded in the courtyard around the forbidden army although did not go, but also allows some close to the people sent by the subordinates in and out.
Pour than before can only shout through the door is much more convenient, after all, shouting through the door nearby people can hear, a lot of bad outgoing words that can only not speak.
At this moment, this servant close to Song Yixiao in front of, Fang told in a low voice, “just His Majesty is afraid of losing face of our highness, but also for the future of the three dukes and masters to consider, thinking of the Jane family to spread this kind of father to harm the son, the ancestor of the grandson, it is not good to listen to! That’s why she decided to quietly dispose of the two – in the middle of it, the Empress Dowager heard about it, and suggested that you and His Excellency had been married for three years, and that you were always in mourning, which would prevent you from having an heir. The Empress Dowager said, “Since His Excellency doesn’t have any children, and has always been good to His Excellency, it would be better if His Excellency would be passed on to His Excellency, so that he wouldn’t have to stay in mourning for three years, and that it would be better for him to have the love of his uncle and son. This will not only eliminate the need for three years of guardianship, but also fulfill the uncle-nephew relationship between the Third Master and the Duke!”
Song Yixiao before speculation smallpox thing of the real culprits, have suspected Jane Ping Yu and Jane Li Kuang, at this moment listened to the words of this servant, thinking of the mother-in-law has always favored the children, their own family this time ate such a big loss, the palace is no longer a son of the emperor, this find out the truth is certainly not a problem!
Hearing since no doubt, a time to die of anger, but these two people since they have been uncovered, doomed to a miserable end, she did not have to say any more harsh words, only crying, “Husband but what has caused grandfather and father do not like the place, hit or scolding or, ultimately, is the flesh and blood, why such a poisonous hand? If not for His Majesty’s mercy, this kind of thing spreads out, this Jane family up and down in the future how to do people?”
The servant is the Grand Princess of Jin’s people, of course, the position is toward the Grand Princess of Jin, at this moment interface said, “Who said it is not? Her Highness has been saying for the past two days that His Highness has been wronged – His Highness specifically asked the slave girl to tell you that His Highness has passed on to the third master’s knee, and in the future, you two can only call His Highness ‘Second Auntie’, but His Highness is still treating you as his own flesh and blood! ”
Song Yixiao is looking at the Grand Princess of Jin Pei Yourui this bloodless daughter of the righteous as the heart of the treasure love, so of course believe this, but this thing is really sudden, the Empress Dowager, they are again for Jian Xubai anxious heir, as far as to pass him out?
Although the Grand Princess of Jin is the most uneasy about Nie Maizuo in all the children, the importance and indulgence of Jane Xubai is just a little bit worse than that of Nie Maizuo, so how can she let this son out of the inheritance?
Song Yixiao couldn’t help but suspect that this was a knock on herself, and now tried, “Mother has always treated me like her own daughter, and even more considerate than my mother’s mother – not to say that my mother’s mother is bad, it’s just that I was a parasite in the Hengshan Royal House, and my mother couldn’t say anything – the most love and care I’ve received from my elders in my life has been from my mother! What–I have received the most love and care from the elders in my life is from my mother! How can I ask my mother to be jealous of my husband just because I have not been able to give him an heir? In fact, I have identified a few good maids …”
“Your Ladyship must not say that!” As soon as that servant heard this, she knew that she was suspecting that the so-called succession remark was actually a euphemism for urging her to take a concubine for her husband, and busied herself by saying, “His Highness the Grand Princess did not have such an intention, and your words will make His Highness sad when he hears them!”
She also whispered, “In fact, because extra horse harnessed by the side of a team has always treated the master badly, Her Highness the eldest eldest princess has long thought of passing the master to the third master, so as to avoid the extra horse harnessed by the side of a team in the future to hold the master under the jurisdiction of filial piety. But she didn’t intend to bring it up so early – in the end, it’s also because the Third Master has always loved the Prince, and has no children, so Her Royal Highness thought that sooner or later the Third Master would have to pass on the heir, and instead of passing on to the nephews and grandnephews who are unfamiliar with the big house, she’d rather pass on to the Prince who the Third Master had watched over him.”
“I see!” Song Yixiao secretly said, “So Granny is also thinking about her husband! It’s just that granny used to think this way, but now that Jian Ping Yu and Jian Li Kuang won’t live long, how can they use their elders to make things difficult for their husbands in the future? This reason in the end is a bit far-fetched.”
Combined with her mother-in-law’s preferences, Song Yixiao’s heart skipped a beat, and a vague and irreverent thought rose up – hurriedly snuffing it out, she stabilized her mind and inquired with the servant about the recent situation of the Grand Princess of Jin.
Some things are better left confused.