Although the news that Mrs. Zhuang is returning to Beijing has caused chaos in the government and the public, she has not arrived yet, and many things still need to be done.
For example, for Qiu Yilan, the matter of Wang Qingqian being slandered must be brought to an end.
"You're not willing to talk about what happened when you went to Jingzhao to be interrogated that day, so I won't ask you anything." Qiu Yilan complained to her husband, holding the hidden bag, "But cousin Wang's reputation must be explained! Even if Miao Miao Zhaoyi and King Wei both know that she is innocent, but it wouldn’t be nice if she had to say something shameless in front of everyone in the world!”
Jiang Yashuang asked strangely: "Didn't the government already ask the government to refute the rumors for her?"
"Can I please give Fourth Aunt something to comfort me?" Qiu Yilan said coquettishly, "I don't mean to offend Fourth Aunt, but when the soon-to-be royal daughter-in-law encounters such a thing, what better way to refute rumors than a royal reward? Isn’t it the one who rectifies the name?”
"Fourth aunt has never rewarded Cousin Wang?" Jiang Yashuang felt very strange, "As usual, the palace should have issued an edict long ago!"
Qiu Yilan lay on his shoulder: "I'm going to tell you this if I'm going to issue an imperial edict?" She thought this was a very bad sign. Whether Empress Dowager Jiang had forgotten it or did it on purpose, to outsiders, this was A symbol of Wang Qingqian's loss of points in front of the Queen Mother!
For today's royal family, everyone knows what it means to have a royal daughter-in-law who does not make a good impression on the Queen Mother.
Qiu Yilan has been detained at home to raise her fetus these days and cannot enter the palace at all. Naturally, she cannot get timely news from the palace. She can only hope to improve Wang Qingqian's points through her husband.
Jiang Yashuang frowned for a moment and said, "I'll go into the palace tomorrow and ask Fourth Aunt."
Then he looked at her warily, "When I enter the palace, you are not allowed to run around! Otherwise, if something similar happens next time, I won't run errands for you, I will just watch you at home!"
"I will obey you!" Qiu Yilan said loudly without blinking.
"It's weird to believe you!" Jiang Yashuang snorted when she saw her answer was exactly the same as last time without changing a single word, "I'll take you to my grandmother first tomorrow! Let her read it for me. With you!”
Qiu Yilan felt that it was ridiculous, so she hit him and said coquettishly: "Do you really think I am a three-year-old child?"
"Three-year-olds are not as difficult to deal with as you are!" Jiang Yashuang raised her hand and flicked her forehead, "Stop fooling around, it's still cold. It's been a cold spring these days, and it's raining and snowing... If you slip and fall when you go out, It’s too late to regret it! When you get up tomorrow, I’ll take you to your grandmother’s place and wait for me to pick you up. Don’t wander around!”
He did what he said. When he got up the next day, he sent his wife directly to the back hall to say hello. He used the excuse, "Lanlan hasn't come to say hello to you for a long time. I miss you so much that I decided to come to have lunch with you today." His wife left Mrs. Tao to take care of her, and then she resigned.
How could Mrs. Tao not know what he was thinking? However, she was feeling lonely on both sides of her knees. When Qiu Yilan came over, she had An'er hugged and teased the child. She didn't find it troublesome to talk to Qiu Yilan.
Without saying a few words, the servant hurriedly came to report: "Old Madam, the Eighth Madam wants to see you!"
Mrs. Tao was a little surprised: "Why did Mr. Huang come here?" Mrs. Tao always only asked questions about her stepson and step-daughter-in-law. She did everything a stepmother should do to care about her, discipline and restrain her, so she just pretended to be confused.
Eight of them. Because Master Jiang Tianxiao is the youngest son of Qin Guogong, and his biological mother is still alive, and he still spends the night with Qin Guogong, Mrs. Tao doesn't care about him even more. Therefore, even Mrs. Huang rarely came to the old lady.
Now that she heard that she was coming, Mrs. Tao was surprised and then her thoughts changed. She understood something and said to Qiu Yilan, "I'm afraid your eighth aunt came here because she heard that you were here!"
Qiu Yilan was confused: "How could it be?" She didn't remember any relationship between herself and this eighth aunt
"Huang Si, the current governor of Shazhou, is your eighth aunt's uncle." Mrs. Tao's words suddenly made her realize: Jiang Qizheng and his party had an incident in Shazhou. Whether the governor of Shazhou was involved or not, knew it or not, he was involved in the incident. Of course he must take responsibility for what happens under his jurisdiction!
After figuring out the reason, she also knew why Huang didn't come until now. After all, although Huang is only a few years older than her, she is still a generation apart. As an aunt and a concubine's wife, there is really no reason to go to the yard of her nephew's daughter-in-law. I had no contact before, so I couldn’t find the right person—of course, it might also be because I was afraid of Jiang Yashuang.
She finally left the courtyard and arrived in front of the old lady. How could Mrs. Huang let this opportunity pass
However, Qiu Yilan was not going to agree to her: "I said a few words for Qiu Feng before, and it was under the guise of considering Princess Chunfu, but I was scorned by Nineteen! If I agree to plead for that Huang Governor, go back Can he not be angry? I would be angry too!"
So he said to Mrs. Tao: "My granddaughter-in-law, a woman, doesn't dare to say anything about this court matter!"
Mrs. Tao also knew that she would not agree. Qiu Yilan lacked nothing, was not greedy, and was not afraid of offending others. Why would she risk quarrels with her husband to give Huang face
Not to mention that Mrs. Zhuang is already on her way back to Beijing. How stupid a daughter-in-law can be to intercede at this juncture with the officials who are responsible for the death of her sister-in-law
"Go tell Mrs. Huang that I'm busy here. If she doesn't have anything urgent to do, let her come back later!" Mrs. Tao had already bet on the fourth room, but now she saw that Qiu Yilan made it clear that she didn't want to go to this mess. Shui, just be a good person and do it to the end and stop the person for her.
The old lady refused to see her, and Mr. Huang didn't have the guts to break in, so he left sadly.
However, Qiu Yilan thought that the matter was over. However, after she and An'er were taken back by Jiang Yashuang in the afternoon, before she could ask her husband about the process of entering the palace, Zhou's mother walked in with a strange expression: "The Eighth Madam just now Someone sent a food box over, saying that she made some unique food in the small kitchen, thinking that the young lady has a good appetite now that she is pregnant, so she sent some! "
Qiu Yilan's appetite was indeed very good during pregnancy, so each roommate with whom she was close would bring a bowl if they made some unusual meals. Jiang Yashuang heard this and said: "Let's heat it up in the kitchen, or do you need something to eat immediately?"
"But it can't be hot!" Mother Zhou took out a large roll of banknotes from her sleeve and said helplessly, "In the food box... these are the ones."
Jiang Yashuang was startled, but he was an official in the court, and he was the kind who was specially cultivated. Without Qiu Yilan's reminder, he thought of Huang Governor, and his face darkened: "Is this sent for Huang Si?"
"I don't know." Zhou's mother really doesn't know what is wrong or not. "I just think there is something weird about this food box, so I came to report it!"
"Mom is interested!" Jiang Yashuang has always been very polite to his wife's dowry, especially Zhou's mother and grandson, the servants who accompany her through hardships. At this moment, she nodded slightly and said, "Mom, please pack the things as they are. Okay, send it back to Aunt Eight. Just say that this food is not suitable for Lan Lan, and the small kitchen is cooking all day long, and Lan Lan doesn’t want to eat food from other places.”
Zhou's mother followed the order and left. Jiang Yashuang didn't bother to talk about her experience in the palace and asked her wife: "Is this the first time or how many times has it been?"
"Today when I was in front of my grandmother, my eighth aunt asked to see me, but my grandmother revealed her purpose. I said I didn't want to pay attention, so my grandmother stopped her." Qiu Yilan spread her hands, "I didn't expect that she came after the food box!"
"The former governor of Shazhou was really capable, otherwise he would not have been able to guard Western Xinjiang for so many years with Kuang Shihan and Kuang Shihan!" Jiang Yashuang's face was ugly, "After Kuang Shihan was executed, I will not They agreed to replace him immediately. Because he had been in Shazhou for so many years and had managed Shazhou in an orderly manner. He was familiar with the situation in Shazhou, so he should be recruited first. The Huang family just asked Uncle Eight to come forward and replace him with Huang Si. As a governor... If Huang Si does his job well, there is nothing to say. If he doesn't do it well, why should he not be punished? How can he avoid being punished? "
No wonder there was anger in Jiang Yashuang's tone. If Huang Si had not replaced the former governor of Shazhou, with that governor's deep roots in Shazhou, maybe he could have prevented the tragedy of Jiang Qizheng and his party
Qiu Yilan thought: "You said that the Huang family took the initiative to seek the position of governor of Shazhou from Huang Si? For this reason, the original governor was driven away? In the battle for the Zhenxi Army, the Huang family should not be so confused. Can’t you see this clearly? Whose side is Uncle Eight on?”
Jiang Yashuang snorted: "The idea is to fight for favors from both sides and then get the rare goods! Now you think about begging for mercy? For the sake of my elders, I won't say anything. Anyway, my mother will be back in a while, so let them Go tell your mother!"
Mentioning her mother, whom she had no memory of, Jiang Yashuang also had some longing in her eyes, "They all say that my mother is great, but I don't know how she will seek justice for Sister Eighteen after she returns to Beijing."
Qiu Yilan was about to answer, but Jiang Yashuang's expression darkened again, "It's a pity that my mother has not been in Beijing before! Otherwise, Sister Eighteen would not have left her nephew to travel far away just because of Ah Xing's instigation. … The child still hasn’t been named, and he doesn’t even have a mother!”
"Actually, although some time has passed, maybe Sister Shiba and the others are okay? Haven't you never confirmed it?" Qiu Yilan said something that she didn't even believe, but she didn't know that it was a prophecy!
The couple was silent for a while, and then Qiu Yilan tentatively asked about her husband's entry into the palace.
Jiang Yashuang said calmly: "There have been a lot of things in the palace recently, so I forgot about it because Fourth Aunt was not busy. There should be a decree from Yi to go to the Lian family at this moment."
He added, "I met His Majesty when I left the palace. His Majesty also asked about Cousin Wang, so that the Lian family did not have to worry. The royal family is well aware of this matter and will never wrong Cousin Wang."
Qiu Yilan was not familiar with the emperor and had no interest in him, so she didn't ask about it and just said: "That's good."
Just as he was talking, a servant suddenly came in and reported: "The Sixth Young Madam and the Fourteenth Young Madam are here, saying that they have something important to tell the Young Master and Young Madam!"
When the couple heard this, they were startled for a moment, then they came to their senses and looked at each other: "Is it about Cousin Wang?"
"I think I'm here to explain!" Jiang Yashuang said with half interest, "I'm a little tired after going to the palace, so I can't bear to see the two sisters-in-law! Can you please receive them alone?"
What does it matter? Qiu Yilan was even more worried about his health. She stretched out her hand to touch his forehead and said worriedly: "You're not exhausted, are you?"
"No." Jiang Yashuang glanced meaningfully in the direction of the flower hall, "I just don't want to see them now."
After a pause, he added, "If they are explaining about Cousin Wang, just respond. Anyway, if I don't go out, I won't admit it!"
Qiu Yilan noticed that he seemed to be using Wang Qingqian's matter to do something, so she didn't want to meet Shi and Shuijin, but this was not the time to ask in detail, so she nodded and went out.
In the room, Jiang Yashuang pondered for a moment, stood up, walked to the study, pulled out a special piece of letterhead from the secret compartment, and began to write seriously...