He was charged with a lot of crimes, but beheading was not enough, but demotion was not enough to appease the public anger, so the four regents discussed and decided to dismiss him from office and confiscate his property.
When Lord Chen was stripped of his official hat and uniform, he was completely dazed. When he was dragged out by the guards, he shouted, "I am innocent! Your Majesty, I am innocent. Please allow me to defend myself!"
"The evidence is conclusive! There is no need to argue further." Prince De said coldly.
When Lord Chen was escorted back to the mansion, someone beside him said, "The father will take his place."
He was stunned. What did this mean
He has four daughters, three of whom are already married, and the fourth is only ten years old. She will not get into trouble, and only the first three make mistakes.
His face changed drastically with horror, as he remembered that his concubine Yingniang had secretly looked for aphrodisiac incense and Lisi Pills.
It’s King Jin!
It must be that Chen Yi's use of aphrodisiac incense and Lisi Pills was exposed, and the Prince of Jin caught him to take revenge.
In Lord Chen's opinion, it is not a big deal for a man to sleep with several women. However, the Prince of Jin stays with the Princess and does not get involved with other women, so Chen Yi has to resort to trickery.
Lord Chen felt that the means used by Chen Yi were somewhat despicable, but that was also forced upon him by Prince Jin!
If Prince Jin was willing to sleep with Chen Yi, why would Chen Yi take such a risk!
Although Lord Chen believed that the fault lay with Prince Jin, not to mention that he was now a criminal, even if he was still the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, he could not do anything to the powerful Prince Jin.
Lord Chen was escorted to the doorstep of his home dejectedly, where he watched the vicious officials rush in and ransack his house.
"Master, what happened?" Mrs. Chen asked palely.
Lord Chen sighed heavily and said, "It was Miss Yi who committed sin." He did not mention his corruption at all.
"What did she do again?" Mrs. Chen looked devastated.
Master Chen sighed again, "Don't ask anymore."
The house was searched, how could she not ask the reason clearly? Mrs. Chen asked: "Did she offend the princess?"
"no."
Mrs. Chen's eyes widened in horror, "Did she offend the prince?"
"yes."
"What did she do? What did she do? Tell me, tell me." Mrs. Chen grabbed Mr. Chen's arm and shook him continuously.
"What is there to say?" Lord Chen said impatiently.
Mrs. Chen yelled angrily, "It's already like this, and you still want to protect that bitch."
"I'm not trying to protect her, but things have come to this point and there's no point in saying more." Lord Chen frowned.
This was true. Mrs. Chen's anger was cooled down like a bucket of cold water.
But at this moment, Chen Yi's aunt Yingniang came running over with a terrified look on her face, "Master, Master, who are these people? I'm so scared."
Hearing her pretentious voice, Mrs. Chen's anger suddenly flared up again. She rushed over with a few steps and slapped her in the face.
"Bitch, the little bitch you gave birth to has brought such harm to the Chen family, and you still have the nerve to say you are afraid." Mrs. Chen's face was ferocious, and she wished she could beat Ying Niang to death.
"Madam, I know you don't like Yier, but Yier is now the lady of Prince Jin's Mansion. She will only help the Chen family. How could she harm the Chen family?" Yingniang said.
"Master, tell her what that little bitch did?" Mrs. Chen said sternly.
"Okay, stop talking. Go in and pack your luggage and go back home tomorrow." Lord Chen didn't want to say more.
Mrs. Chen became even more angry, but Yingniang said, "Master, my hometown is not as good as Beijing. I will go find Yi'er."
"Shut up, she can't even protect herself, it's useless to look for her." Lord Chen said impatiently.
He is like this now, can King Jin easily forgive Chen Yi
Mr. Chen's guess was correct. The next day, the Chen family's carriage was stopped at Wulipu outside the city. "Mr. Chen, even if you are in a hurry to return home, you shouldn't abandon your daughter."
In the carriage, Mrs. Chen was horrified. Something had happened to the Chen family. Were her two daughters' in-laws going to divorce them
Mrs. Chen heaved a sigh of relief. It was good that they were not her biological daughters.
Cao Jiang took out a document from his bosom and said, "Master Chen, take it. This is a letter to my concubine."
Lord Chen's eyes widened in disbelief, "Your Majesty, have you sent Yi'er back?"
He thought that Prince Jin would take Chen Yi's life. Prince Jin did not take Chen Yi's life, but he tortured Chen Yi. Chen Yi is now covered with bruises and half-dead.
She was conscious at first, but when she moved to the carriage where Yingniang was sitting, she fainted from the pain.
Yingniang started to cry at the top of her lungs, "Yier, Yier, what's wrong with you? Don't scare your aunt! Wake up!"
The voice was full of twists and turns, like an opera. Mrs. Chen found it irritating and shouted coldly, "That's enough. If you keep making trouble, you and your precious daughter will stay in Beijing."
Yingniang's crying stopped abruptly. She huddled obediently in the carriage and dared not make any more trouble.
After Jiang Changning learned from Prince Jin that the Chen family had left Beijing, he did not pay much attention to it. Chen Yi was so seriously injured that even if he did not die, he would not be able to make a comeback.
A few days later, a joke spread from Prince Yu's Mansion. Princess Zhao Xifang thought she was pregnant, but the imperial physician diagnosed that it was a false pregnancy.
"It's not like she hasn't been pregnant before. She can't even tell whether it's a real pregnancy or a false one. She must want to adopt a concubine's son as her legitimate son." The Crown Princess of Prince De speculated.
"She may not want to adopt a bastard. I heard that she went to the temple to pray for a talisman. She must have wanted to have a baby, but she wanted to get pregnant too much and became obsessed with it. Although she is not pregnant, she has symptoms of pregnancy." Jiang Changning explained.
"Ningning is kind-hearted. You speak up for her and she says mean things about you outside." Zeng Zhaofu said.
"But I am just an orphan, and I am so lucky to be able to marry into the royal palace and become a princess?" Jiang Changning asked with a smile.
"Not only that, they also said that you are giving birth to a boy, which means your fortune is auspicious." Zeng Zhaofu said with a smile.
"That's a nice thing to say. It's not sour, not at all. It's not even as sour as the fruit that Ayan ate." Jiang Changning said with a smile.
"My fruit is not sour at all." The Princess of Changshan reached out and took another fruit and continued to eat it.
"Sour boy, spicy girl, you are pregnant with a boy, congratulations." Wen Bingqing said with a smile.
The Princess of Changshan smiled and said, "I am happy for you."
"In fact, daughters are much more obedient than sons, but for a family like ours, it is better to have a son as the first child." The Crown Princess of Prince De sighed.
"It's not up to us to decide whether it's a boy or a girl." The wife of the Prince of Changshan touched her belly, "We'll know whether it's a boy or a girl after the baby is born."
After they chatted for a while, Jiang Changning stood up first and said, "I have to go back."
She hasn't drunk the milk-reducing soup yet, and her chest is a little swollen. She doesn't want milk blockage again. Having to go through that kind of pain once is enough.
"It was the same last time. He sat and chatted for only a short while before he was in a hurry to go back." The Princess Consort of Prince De said in a reproachful tone.
"Let's get together again when we have time. We have money and free time anyway." Jiang Changning said with a smile.
So Zeng Zhaofu, who organized the party, settled the bill and sent the Crown Princess of Changshan onto the carriage first. Then the others got on their own carriages and went home.
You can ask for leave. The emperor and empress are not so unkind.
(End of this chapter)