frightfiction Chapter 112 Fight back
Chapter 112 Fight back
"The 'prince' is in Beijing, and the palace has only one daughter, Yuyang. The emperor probably won't take Yuyang into the palace," said Concubine Dowager Jiang.
"But it won't stop him from issuing an edict to grant the marriage." The frail Prince Linjiang half leaned back on his seat and answered another possibility of Emperor Dali controlling the Prince Linjiang's Palace.
When the Li Dynasty was established, all the founding heroes were granted titles for their merits.
The Meng family was named King of Linjiang and granted land in the place of exile of the previous dynasty, which was beautifully named the City of the Former Overlord of Jiangdong. Only when the Meng family was guarding it could the Song family feel at ease.
Peace of mind?
Humph, Meng Shuci understands very well.
He was so worried that he deliberately used the title of King of Linjiang to humiliate him. He was so worried that his brave father and strong elder brother inexplicably contracted acute illnesses and died on the way to take office. Although he, who was born weak, inherited the throne, he also contracted an unknown disease and would never have an heir in his lifetime...
The Song family is so cruel!
Their peace of mind is exchanged for the flesh and blood of the Meng family.
But, why?
It was clearly his father who knocked on the door of the capital. He respected Song Kangrong as his elder brother and gave up the throne to him. Did this result in the family being ruined and without descendants?
"I will write a letter to the Emperor, asking for his permission to allow Yuyang to seek a husband and stay in Jiangling. I suspect the Emperor will agree to the marriage and probably confer the title of Princess on Yuyang. However, he will choose the husband, and then the Ministry of Rites will handle the matter."
Over the years, Meng Shuci's life has been lingering but not extinguished. From Taizong to the present, countless people have been sent to inquire about him. Recently, they even sent their confidant Lu Zichong to Jiangling.
The emperor would not miss such an opportunity to fill in people.
He is old and sick, and has been barely breathing for many years. Emperor Song Changyu wants him to die so much!
But he refused to die. Not only did he not die, he wanted to stir up a storm. Anyway, he had nothing better to live for, and he couldn't bear to see the Song family live too comfortably.
"Then we're just going to watch people come in?" Concubine Jiang asked angrily.
"What's the problem? How did Yi'er die? Doesn't sister-in-law want to return the favor?"
Jiang was once a virtuous woman, but no matter how virtuous a woman is, she will develop the heart of a Shura after her husband dies and her only son dies in a foreign land, and his name and position are stolen by someone else, leaving her with no place to live.
"Okay, I'll do it. Outsiders think I don't like Yuyang anyway, and I naturally dislike her husband, so it's only right for me to punish him."
The Princess of Yuyang is not of the Meng family's bloodline.
She came from a family that also became cannon fodder in the struggle for imperial power. She was taken on the run by a loyal servant and was adopted by Prince Linjiang after several years of wandering.
At that time, Meng Yi had just been taken to the capital to serve as the prince's tutor.
Prince Linjiang adopted a number of adopted sons and daughters in Jiangling, and even requested permission from the capital to officially register these children.
Outsiders said that this was because King Linjiang was dissatisfied with his nephew inheriting the title, and since he could not have another child, he wanted to pass the throne to the child who nominally belonged to him.
Concubine Jiang and Prince Linjiang had a huge dispute over the issue of adopted son. In the end, Emperor Taizong stepped in to stabilize Meng Yi's status as the crown prince. In order to appease Prince Linjiang, he allowed Prince Linjiang to choose a girl from his adopted children, grant her the title of county princess, and register her in his name.
Yuyang was selected.
This play was originally performed by the uncle and sister-in-law of Prince Linjiang to save Meng Yi's life. Unfortunately, no matter how they acted, the suspicious Emperor Taizong still replaced Meng Yi, who was held hostage in Beijing, with the child he had prepared long ago.
It was said that because of the fight for the inheritance, Princess Yuyang did not please Concubine Dowager Wang.
But in reality, for thousands of days and nights, the mother and daughter comforted each other and made up for the pain of losing their loved ones.
"Yuyang has been in the southwest for a month. Why hasn't he come back yet?" Concubine Jiang did not approve of Yuyang going to the southwest in person to ask for seeds.
"Sister-in-law, Yuyang is attending a poetry gathering at Banshan Tower." Linjiang Palace is not incapable of employing substitutes. "I'll be back when the time comes."
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After Sima Yang agreed to secretly help Xu Siyu, Xu Siyu changed her previous attitude of staying in Cuihua Garden to observe mourning and frequently went out to attend winter banquets.
It was just a little show, and a bunch of snakes, insects and ants followed Xu Siyu's carriage.
Xu Siyu did not hold a private trial. Instead, she stripped all the "nails" of their clothes, tied them to the back of a carriage, and had them accompany her to various homes to "play."
Finally, just for the sake of convenience, please ask the yamen runners who protected Madam Fu to take her back to the government office for investigation.
[Who was monitoring her family's carriage? With so many witnesses, how come the government officials couldn't find out?]
Xu Siyu was openly confronting Fu Hexiang and demanded an explanation from him.
She thought Fu Hexiang would not let the whole city watch his incompetence and remain indifferent.
But Fu Hexiang was just perfunctory. He put the people in jail but dragged his feet without giving any answers.
Since that was the case, Xu Siyu added fuel to the fire.
At the end of the year, when the supervisor came to inspect, Xu Siyu asked people to spread rumors near where the supervisor was staying, saying that these people were scouts of the bandits and had come down the mountain in advance to explore the way.
Changjia Prefecture was in turmoil because of mountain bandits, so some people believed that the bandits would come again.
Most inspectors have the status of censors, and they love to find faults with officials. They naturally cherish this achievement that comes to them.
He supervised and asked Prefect Fu to produce the interrogation records to confirm the identity and reason for imprisonment of each prisoner to ensure that there were no omissions or shielding.
The case records of the Xu family reporting being followed were neatly placed in the bookcase of the Censor-in-Chief, along with a stack of case records that were reported by the Changjia County Office to the prefect but received no response.
"Master Fu, the situation in this palace is so unstable. Even if you pay the highest taxes, your customs are still ranked as average or below average at best."
The Supervisory Censor said earnestly, "Master Fu, you must not forget the importance of long-term stability and peace!"
The Censor left, and Fu Hexiang's work for the year was in vain.
Fu Hexiang really wanted to kill Xu Siyu this time, but he didn't dare to force his way to Cuihua Garden.
Before the censor had gone far, he saw Lin Yiqing coming to visit him with his own eyes.
He shouldn't forget that Xu Siyu married into the Lin family, and behind them was the Zhou family.
If he really regarded her as an incompetent woman, he might collapse before he even got promoted.
Also, he hasn't received a letter from Mr. Lu for two months, which is not safe.
Fu Hexiang had a feeling that there were other experts around Xu Siyu who were interfering.
……
Sima Yang took Lu Zichong's letter in exchange for grain seeds.
Not surprisingly, it was Lu Zichong who asked Fu Hexiang to keep an eye on her.
Yes, to keep an eye on her, but to make sure she was "in their hands", not to kill her, because "someone from the capital would come to pick her up soon".
Maybe Fu Hexiang wanted to "jail" her once and for all, so he staged a carjacking.
"Did you suppress the letter that Lu Zichong sent to Jingzhong?" Xu Siyu asked.
She and Sima Yang are currently collaborating on a project, and it is not clear whether they can be upgraded to strategic partners.
Sima Yang: "Most of the letters will be released. Some will be rewritten and then released."
Xu Siyu understood Sima Yang's reason for action. "Did you alter Lu Zichong's letter because you wanted the grain? So, my message didn't reach the capital?"