The dust has settled here in Shazhou, and everyone has even settled their personal affairs, but the capital is in chaos!
First, Jiang Tianao and Jiang Tianqi suspected that the fourth house had colluded with Qiu Jinglan to kill their son. Due to the pressure from Qin Guogong, they did not dare to directly target the fourth house and the Ruan Mansion, so they decided to take advantage of the swing and the other house, which were held by the fourth house in another courtyard. On Mei Xue. The two women were forcibly taken away, hoping to uncover clues through torture and interrogation.
As a result, they captured someone on the front foot, and the four rooms on the back foot launched a fierce counterattack—
"Father, it must have been the fourth room that did it!" Mrs. Lu, the second young lady, hugged her son Jiang Jingzhao and knelt in front of Jiang Tian'ao and cried her heart out, "The Qiu family obviously found someone from her mother's family and beat the second son in the other courtyard. My aunt’s family was kidnapped! Now that my daughter-in-law’s brothers have suddenly disappeared, they must have something to do with it!”
"Zhao'er is still so young and already has no father! If he doesn't even have an uncle, how will he live in the future... Wuwuwuwuwu... "
Thinking that the husband is the legitimate son of the father-in-law, how important is his identity? He died in Shazhou inexplicably, and there is still no explanation! At this time, the whereabouts of the only two brothers in the mother's family are unknown. Who knows what kind of vicious tricks the cruel fourth room will do to them
Mrs. Lu, who had never said a few words to her father-in-law, finally took it upon herself to fight. She grabbed Jiang Tianyao's robe and refused to get up, "Please, for the sake of your husband, please let those two women go! They will follow the Gu family." Fu Zhuqi was detained in another courtyard, so what do you know? The more you hold them, the more reason the fourth room has to do something cruel..."
The livid-faced Jiang Tianao deliberately walked away, but his wife-in-law was holding on tightly to the corner of her clothes and couldn't break free. After all, she was a wife, and she was still holding her young grandson in her arms. She couldn't just kick him like a servant, right
In fact, he was doing well, because there was only one Lu family in front of him begging. At this moment, in the third room, Jiang Tianqi was entangled with the three daughters-in-law of Shi, Zhang, and He: "Please, father, have mercy! Father, have mercy." ah!"
... After Zhuoqian and Mei Xue were kidnapped, Jiang Yashuang and his wife immediately tried their best to save them. However, Jiang Yashuang's visit was rejected by his two uncles and Qin Guogong. Qiu Yilan sent someone to kidnap the second aunt, Jiang Tianou and his family. The little Dou family cried a lot, but Jiang Tianyao simply sent the daughter-in-law to Kui County forcibly - the reason was that Jiang Yayun and Jiang Jingxu seemed to have to stay in Kui County for a long time and could not bear to have their family separated for a long time!
In this way, the fourth room also understood that the two rooms were determined to find out the clues that led to the fourth room's murder of Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing!
Jiang Yashuang was too lazy to be wordy, so he directly treated the other person in his own way, and sent out men to kill all the important disciples of the Lu, Shi, Zhang, and He families and kidnap them all!
The four families are in a hurry now. You are fighting among yourself. Don’t drag us into the water!
Especially as Mrs. Lu was worried, both Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing died in the Jiang family's internal fighting, let alone in-laws like them? ! With the current power of the Jiang family, if the Duke of Qin does not fall, even if the Fourth Fang really kills their children, they will not be able to do anything to the Fourth Fang - they will soon have two large border troops, and the Empress Dowager Jiang in the palace will try to distract them. Are the four civil servants like them able to deal with them
Not only did people from the fourth house come to the door in an endless stream, begging and persuading Jiang Tianao and Jiang Tianqi to respect their status and stop arguing with the two women, but the daughter-in-law even dragged their children with them and pestered their father-in-law to let them go!
"It's been three days, and the two uncles still refuse to agree?" Unlike the noisy big and third rooms, the fourth room was peaceful at the moment. Qiu Yilan picked up a cherry from the fruit plate and gave it to her husband and asked, "They are really hard-hearted! If they don't miss their wife, why don't they just look at the crying grandchildren brought to them by their mother?"
"It doesn't matter!" Jiang Yashuang said calmly, "It's not like they see people in person. Even if they are, how can they not close their eyes day and night? The Fourteenth Sister-in-law has just sent someone to come quietly, saying that they are coercing the two uncles. The confidants tell us where Mei Xue and Zhu Qian are being held. Once we find the place, either we will send someone or they will try to release them. In the end, as long as their biological brothers behave well, they will promise to give us an explanation!"
Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief: "Sister-in-law Fourteenth is simply a sensible person!"
He frowned again, "But this time we offended all these families in one fell swoop. Do we need some comfort afterwards?"
"Why bother?" Jiang Yashuang said disapprovingly, "Have you forgotten the identity of Swing? She is your cousin by blood! It was the eldest and third bedrooms who attacked your mother's family first. We are just retaliating. Just report it! Even if Lu, Shi, Zhang, and the other four families are not angry, they can't just remember the bad things in our room. Even if they don't think that this matter is caused by the first and third rooms, they should think about them. Our daughter and grandson have been crying and begging in front of our two uncles for a long time, but the two uncles have ignored them! This shows that although these children of in-laws were not kidnapped by the two uncles, they are still in the eyes of the two uncles. It’s not very important, is it?”
When Jiang Yashuang decided to start with the in-laws of the first and third rooms, she had the idea of killing two birds with one stone: not only to force the first room to make friends with the third room, but also to draw a deep line between the first room, the third room and their in-laws. A knife!
Because after returning Lu, Shi, Zhang, and the children of these families, they will know that although these people were kidnapped, they have not suffered much in the past few days - these people will be treated well. The drink is kept in a remote courtyard outside the city, and there are a large number of beautiful and gentle maids to serve and accompany him!
"When Lu, Shi, Zhang, and the four families know this, it will be just a false alarm for them. The hatred against our fourth house may not be as profound as the resentment against the first and third houses!" Qiu Yilan thought. Yes, I couldn't help but laugh, "After all, we only kept their children under house arrest for a few days, but the first and third bedrooms have no regard for the life or death of their children!"
Jiang Yashuang nodded: "That's right!" Since there was hope that Zhuangqian and Mei Xue could be rescued, he didn't bother to talk about this topic anymore, and asked about Mrs. Zhuang's situation with concern, "Is mother in good spirits today?"
"Much better!" Qiu Yilan said with a smile, "I personally took An'er and my nephew for a walk in the garden just before noon today, and I folded a bouquet of flowers for An'er to play with!"
After looking at the few confidants waiting outside, he lowered his voice and said, "Now I just hope that Brother Bage and Sister Eighteen will come back as soon as possible - mother is in a hurry to give Sister Eighteen the name of our nephew!"
Jiang Qizheng wanted to leave the name to Qiu Feng because she gave birth to a son. Mrs. Zhuang thought at first that her daughter was gone, and wanted to give her grandson a name. But when she heard that her daughter was still alive two days ago, she said it would be better to let the couple come back... In short, the child is only a few days younger than An'er. No name yet.
Jiang Yashuang couldn't help but smile: "Can't mother just take it directly? I expect that Sister Eighteen will also ask mother to take it for her."
The two of them talked about trivial matters at home, and then the conversation turned to the next bustle—of course not the bustle when the Marquis of Jibei returned, but the emperor's upcoming wedding.
According to the emperor's ranking, there are three brothers and sisters before him, the sixth prince, King Wei, Princess Lexin and Princess Yongfu who have not yet married. Therefore, according to Empress Dowager Jiang's previous plan, King Wei, Princess Lexin and Princess Yongfu will get married in the first half of this year. The emperor's wedding was over. However, after this plan was proposed at the beginning of the year, it was fiercely opposed by the ministers headed by Xue Chang!
The reason is that ordinary people have to observe filial piety for three years after the death of their father. What's more, after the death of the late emperor, how can the kings and princesses just observe it for one year? Of course, the emperor is not among them. The emperor can use the day or the month to represent the year!
This debate ended with Xue Chang saying privately: "Not mentioning King Wei and Princess Lexin, just saying that Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu is the Queen Mother's legitimate daughter, can the Queen Mother bear to have the world talk about the princess's unfilial piety a hundred years later? When the late Emperor was lying on the bed after being poisoned, Her Royal Highness Princess Yongfu is very diligent in serving the soup, which shows her filial piety! If you want to let the princess live in injustice for only two years, please consider it again!"
Empress Dowager Jiang loved her daughter so much, so naturally she couldn't bear to let Princess Yongfu be suspected of being unfilial in the future, so she decided to give in on the spot and let King Wei, Lexin, Yongfu and others observe their father's filial piety for three years - the grandmother's filial piety is not as important as the father's filial piety. Let's forget it together - and the emperor, who has a different status from his brothers and sisters because he inherited a great treasure, will get married this year, leaving aside his elder brothers and sisters!
After Qin Tianjian's divination, the wedding date was chosen in June, which is only two or three months away.
"Cousin Xin must have been very busy these days. The fifth aunt brought her here to visit her mother two days ago. She was called back by the Xin family members without saying a few words. However, the fifth aunt stayed and had dinner before leaving. "Qiu Yilan sighed a little, "She has lost a lot of weight. Fortunately, she is in a good mood!"
Thinking about it, this cousin Xin has a really hard life. Her marriage has never been smooth. First, she had a crush on Oubicheng for many years but to no avail. Then she was forced by her elders to get engaged to the emperor when she was still the seventh prince. She finally accepted this arrangement. The emperor then married her. Jiang Huizhi, who should be called her cousin's aunt, caused a disturbance - even the wedding date was decided after many twists and turns because of the dispute between Xue Chang and the Empress Dowager Jiang!
"I hope everything will go well after her wedding!" Qiu Yilan said this feebly - after the wedding, Jiang Huizhi, not to mention the other three palaces and six courtyards, had already reserved the status of a concubine. The death of uncle Jiang Yayue can even be said to have reserved the title of imperial concubine! This sense of presence makes it difficult to ignore her!
"Don't forget that our eldest aunt is newly deceased." Jiang Yashuang noticed that she was in a low mood, frowned slightly, and said warmly, "According to the rules, her granddaughter must observe mourning for one year before she can enter the palace. Your Majesty and Cousin Xin is in good health. Maybe the prince will be born in a year? "
As long as the eldest son of the main palace can grow up safely and does not commit suicide, then he will be a proper Dong Palace! Even though Jiang Huizhi will make some achievements in the future, if she does not take advantage of her elders or direct descendants, even with the support of the Jiang family's eldest daughter, she will probably die as a concubine at most in the future!
Qiu Yilan breathed out: "It would be great if this were the case!"
If the eldest prince is at your knees, even if Jiang Huizhi enters the palace and becomes a concubine and wants to covet Xin Fubing's position, she should reconsider it!