Yu Sangning's fear of Shen Xihe reached its peak when Shen Xihe hung her on the cliff in the palace.
In the past, I only thought that Shen Xihe was sharp and intelligent, and she did things her own way. However, she was of noble status and acted carefully. She even dared to hang His Majesty's concubine on a tree in the suburbs of Beijing. Afterwards, both His Majesty and the concubine had to cover up the matter.
What is she
In order to avoid a head-on confrontation with Shen Xihe, she has tried her best to avoid marrying into the royal family. Unfortunately, things did not go as she wished. She failed to win over Prince Xun, and the marriage between Yu Sangzi and Prince Zhao has been put on the agenda. Now she has no choice but to take this path.
Fortunately, she had never thought of letting Yu Sangzi marry King Zhao, and Yu Sangzi did not want to be a stepmother. Now she had someone she liked. Under her calculations, the two of them had already had physical contact. Yu Sangzi had been in a trance these days, and the palace would propose marriage today...
There are some things that she simply cannot accomplish alone and requires the help of the entire Yu family.
After all, Yu Sangzi was the legitimate daughter of the Marquis's family, and she married the prince as his second wife. Moreover, the prince already had a legitimate son. Emperor Youning, considering the relationship between him and the Marquis of Pingyao, gave Yu Sangzi a betrothal gift based on the standards of the previous Princess Zhao, without any reduction.
Everyone in the Yu family was happy, except Yu Sangzi, who looked extremely pale.
Mrs. Yu noticed her daughter's clues and after repeated questioning, she finally found out that her daughter was no longer a virgin. She fainted immediately from anger. The shrewd old lady also smelled something strange and she directly questioned Yu Sangning. The two of them almost went in and out together, so it made no sense that Yu Sangning didn't know what happened to Yu Sangzi.
Yu Sangning was stubborn and refused to say anything. Even when the old lady punished him to kneel in the yard, he was unwilling to utter a word.
She was unwilling to say that Old Madam Yu naturally had her own abilities. She found out that Yu Sangzi had close contacts with a down-and-out scholar, and thought that Yu Sangzi was just an ordinary person with a crush on someone. She was so angry that she summoned Yu Sangzi to her side to explain to her the reasons and emotions, and told her that she was not engaged to an ordinary person, and that it was not as simple as just bowing down and making a small apology to cancel the engagement.
"Grandma!" Yu Sangzi knelt down with a plop, and said in a trembling voice, "I... I am no longer a virgin..."
This dynasty was very open to widows remarrying. If the husband's family refused to let a widow remarry, she would even be beaten with a stick. But that was a legitimate widow, not a girl who had an affair without a matchmaker and was unloving and unchaste.
When Old Madam Yu heard this, her head was buzzing and her brain went blank for a moment. She did not faint like Madam Yu, but her finger pointed at Yu Sangzi was trembling. She could not say a word. After calming down for a long time, she squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "Go, call the Marquis and Dalang!"
When Pingyao Hou arrived with his eldest son, Madam Yu's courtyard was terribly quiet. Yu Sangzi knelt there with her head bowed and remained silent. Even Madam Yu knelt beside him. Pingyao Hou was distressed when he saw this scene. He hurried forward and said, "Mother, if Ayun makes a mistake, just tell me and I will teach her well. She is the Marquis' wife after all. If others know that she is kneeling here, they may think that I don't know how to teach my wife."
"Not only do you not know how to teach your wife, you also don't know how to teach your daughter. Your daughters are shameless and have committed adultery without a matchmaker. Our mansion is about to face a disaster, and you are still protecting them!" The hall had been cleared out long ago, and Old Madam Yu sneered.