Jiang Changning returned to Rujing Courtyard in a sedan chair. Before he reached the gate, he saw two people walking around the gate. Upon closer inspection, he saw that they were Chen Yi and her personal maid.
"It's so late at night, why isn't Madam Chen resting in the yard? What are you doing here?" Jiang Changning asked.
"My concubine greets the princess and pays her respects." Chen Yi knelt down and saluted.
"No need to be polite. Just tell me, what are you doing here?" Jiang Changning repeated the question.
"In reply to your Majesty, I heard a loud noise outside the mansion and was worried that something might have happened, so I came here to see if you have any instructions," said Chen Yi.
"Mrs. Chen is thoughtful. I don't have any instructions. You just stay in the yard. Even if there is chaos outside, there must be chaos in the house." Jiang Changning said calmly.
"Yes, I'll go back right away." Chen Yi bowed and left with the maid.
Fu Cui spat at the receding figure, "The weasel is paying New Year's greetings to the chicken."
After returning to Rujingyuan, Jiang Changning couldn't sleep. That night, no one in the capital city could sleep. The sound of cannons was deafening.
After waiting for a long time until dawn, the doors of Prince Jin's Mansion were still closed.
Chunlai and Xiaochun came to report: "Princess, three people tried to sneak out of the mansion last night and were caught."
"Lock them up and interrogate them carefully. There was so much chaos outside last night, why did they sneak out of the mansion?" Jiang Changning thought that someone in the mansion might be unable to control himself, so he was on guard.
She also arranged for reliable people to go out and find out what was happening outside.
An hour later, the person who was trying to get the news reported back: "Princess, the west side of the city is in ruins. There are dead bodies everywhere, corpses everywhere, and blood flowing like a river."
"Were those who set off the fireworks yesterday soldiers or disaster victims?" Jiang Changning asked.
"It was General Xiong who ordered the cannons to be fired. The cannons were always pointed outside the city, but this time they fired into the city without evacuating the civilians first, resulting in heavy casualties."
Jiang Changning clenched his fists. This Xiong guy deserved to be cut into pieces. He suppressed his anger and continued to ask, "There should be an explanation for firing at innocent people, right?"
"It is said that there is a bandit leader hiding in there."
"Bandit leader?" Xiulan was extremely angry. "Those are all poor disaster victims."
"General Xiong is leading soldiers to arrest people all over the street. If we didn't have the sign of Prince Jin's Mansion, we would have been arrested too."
Xiulan frowned, "Will the court allow him to arrest people indiscriminately like this?"
"He announced to the public that the people he arrested were the gangsters who were dispersed last night."
"Is Xizhimen occupied by disaster victims or by government soldiers now?" Jiang Changning asked.
"Although the victims are still occupying the city, the soldiers are guarding the walls and not letting them down. Now the victims are trapped and will surrender soon."
"Since the victims have become trapped soldiers, why do we still need to fire?" Fu Cui asked.
"Pa" Shu Fei patted her, "Don't ask stupid questions."
"Why are the questions I asked stupid questions?" Fu Cui pouted unhappily.
The person trying to get the news said, "Miss Fucui, the victims have occupied the area near Xizhimen and are advancing step by step into the city. They are showing signs of getting bigger. General Xiong is firing the cannon to force them into the city tower."
The situation in the west of the city was already known, and Jiang Changning said, "Thank you for your hard work, Xiulan."
Xiulan gave the prepared rewards to the three people.
"Thank you, Princess, for the reward." The three of them saluted and left.
After a while, Chang Youzhong came back and said, "Princess, the prince is in the palace now and cannot come back for the time being. It's nothing, please don't worry."
Knowing that Prince Jin was safe, the Concubine Dowager was relieved, "When did Yu'er say he would be back?"
"The prince will be back after he finishes his work." Jiang Changning replied.
The concubine was quite dissatisfied with this answer, "How can you be a wife? You don't care about your husband or show consideration for him at all!"
Jiang Changning asked coldly, "Does the Concubine want me to go to the palace now and drag the prince back to the mansion?"
The concubine slapped the table and said, "When did I ask you to go to the palace to pick someone up? Don't be unreasonable."
"It turns out that the concubine also knows the word 'chafing'." Jiang Changning sneered.
"Jiang, I'm your mother-in-law, how do you talk to me?"
"Have you forgotten what I once said, Toffee? If I respect you, you are my mother-in-law. If I don't respect you, you are nothing."
Under the concubine's angry glare, Jiang Changning said fearlessly: "Who is gossiping in the concubine's ear? The concubine has been finding fault with me these days.
As he spoke, Jiang Changning glanced at the screen. It seemed that it would not be enough to just beat the maidservant beside the concubine, and she had to be replaced.
"Who, who is finding fault with you? I, as your mother-in-law, am just teaching you." There was a hint of guilt in the concubine's eyes.
"Queen, although we have been mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for a short time, I believe I have always respected you. If you really despise me as your daughter-in-law, please tell your son to divorce me and marry another daughter-in-law who pleases you. The title of King of Jin will eventually be inherited by the legitimate son."
"You also know that the title must be inherited by the legitimate son, but it has been more than a year since you married into the mansion, and there is no movement in your belly." The concubine said angrily.
It turned out that it was because of this that Jiang Changning didn't want to discuss the matter of having children with the Concubine Dowager, so she pulled Prince Jin out to block the matter, "Concubine Dowager, you should ask the Prince about having children."
"You don't have to tell me, I'll ask him." The concubine said unhappily.
"If the Concubine is okay, I will go back first." Jiang Changning bowed and turned away without waiting for the Concubine's consent.
"I haven't let you go yet," the Toffee snapped.
Jiang Changning turned a deaf ear to him, walked around the screen and took a special look. Sure enough, he saw a faint watermark on the edge of the screen. He sneered and said that the concubine was getting old, and the rules of this courtyard were becoming more and more relaxed.
After coming out of Liuxuan Courtyard, Jiang Changning went to see Princess Kang Ren, "Were you frightened last night?"
"I'm not scared, I just didn't sleep for half the night and I'm very sleepy now." Princess Kang Ren resisted the urge to yawn.
"Go to sleep if you are sleepy. There is no rush to learn anything now." Jiang Changning called the maid in and helped Princess Kang Ren to go to bed before returning to Rujingyuan.
After returning to Rujing Courtyard, Jiang Changning said to Xiulan, "Have someone check who has been gossiping in front of the Concubine Dowager in the past half month."
"Yes, Princess." When Xiulan heard this, she knew that the Concubine Dowager was making things difficult for Jiang Changning again. She was angry and went to do it immediately.
In the afternoon, Jiang Changning woke up from a nap, and Xiulan came in to report: "Princess, it's Mrs. Wei. Mrs. Wei's daughter-in-law is pregnant again."
Jiang Changning knew that this old lady Wei was Qiao's person, but Qiao was dead and she became a rootless duckweed.
Logically speaking, she should do her job honestly, not attract Jiang Changning's attention, and make Jiang Changning forget to bring up the past. But why is she jumping even more happily
"Don't rush to touch her. You and Xiaochun should find out who is behind her," said Jiang Changning.
There are really a lot of monsters and demons in this mansion. After sorting them out once, a bunch of them pop up again. They are really endless.