The moment Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, saw Wen Huaian, a look of deep surprise flashed across her eyes.
"Huaian, you are here too, Xue Ning, come and meet your cousin."
When Xie Xue Ning saw the handsome Wen Huaian, her heart started pounding and her eyes sparkled with affection. She had not expected that her cousin, who had recovered from his illness, would be so handsome and charming. She walked forward gracefully and bowed.
"Xue Ning has met my cousin."
The voice is soft and pleasant.
Wen Huaian nodded politely to Xie Xuening, and said in a cold and distant tone: "Cousin!" Then he turned to Min, his handsome face slightly solemn: "Mother, why are you here?"
Xie Xuening: “…”
She had anticipated her cousin's reaction. Although she felt sad and unwilling, she would not give up.
She is determined to obtain the position of the Crown Prince's wife.
As for the arrogant, brainless and suicidal concubine's daughter in the Nanyang Marquis's Mansion, she really didn't take her seriously.
Just a clown.
Her opponents were the legitimate daughters of noble families who admired her cousin.
Lady Zhenguo Gong was displeased when she saw her son's attitude towards Xue Ning was as cold as ever. Then she couldn't believe it when she heard him ask her why she was here. She obviously didn't expect that the first thing her son said when he saw her was to ask her why she was here.
"Huaian, how can you speak to your mother like this? I am the mistress of the Zhenguo Mansion, your mother. Where else can I be if not here?"
Min frowned and scolded.
"Aunt, calm down. Cousin didn't mean it." Xie Xue Ning quickly took the arm of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo to comfort her, and looked up at Wen Huaian with a gentle smile: "Cousin, don't you think so?"
Wen Huaian didn't even look at Xie Xue Ning. He looked at his mother expressionlessly and said calmly, "Mother, without father's consent, you can't enter the gate of the Zhenguogong Mansion."
The playboys who followed to watch the fun did not expect to hear such explosive news. They were excited and thrilled.
I thought I would see Miss Fourth Tang and the Duke's wife fighting each other, but I didn't expect there would be an unexpected surprise.
The Duke's wife couldn't even enter the main door of the Duke's Mansion.
No wonder she wants to live back home.
Thinking of those unreliable speculations in the rumors in the capital, the playboys curled their lips.
Min never expected that her son would publicly expose the fact that she was sent back to her parents' home, without leaving her any face at all. Her face instantly became extremely ugly, and she secretly hated her son in her heart.
She had never been so embarrassed.
The first time I was so embarrassed was because of this son!
Xie Xue Ning, who was holding the arm of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, had a slightly changed expression. Her first thought was that her aunt had been sent back to her parents' home by her uncle, and whether she could still live in the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to implement her plan.
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
At this moment, Tang Cheng's clear voice suddenly rang out.
"Wen Huaian, didn't you say you would take me to see a big surprise? Why are you still hesitating?"
Tang Cheng got off the carriage at some point and walked to Wen Huaian with four maids.
The four maids at the back were all frowning.
"Tang Si, why are you here?" Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, had a look of surprise and anger on her face. It was obvious that she had just noticed Tang Cheng's existence.
Xie Xue Ning was suddenly shocked. It turned out that this beautiful woman with delicate appearance was actually Miss Tang Si, who became her cousin's fiancée because of the child in her belly.
Xie Xue Ning's eyes darkened, and the look she gave Tang Cheng was filled with hostility and hidden jealousy.
However, just a few months after leaving the capital, she almost missed the position of the Crown Prince's wife.
Xie Xue Ning felt a sense of urgency in her heart.
"Wen Huaian invited me to the Zhenguo Mansion, so isn't it normal for me to be here? But Madam, weren't you sent back to your parents' home by the Duke? It's surprising that you're here."
"Did the Duke ask you to come back so soon?"
Tang Cheng felt quite happy as he looked at the pale and angry face of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.
Wen Huaian felt a headache: “…” This girl Tang Cheng was talking about something that was not relevant.
The four maids' mouths twitched.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was so angry that she was shaking all over. She never expected that she would fall to such a level that even the brainless Tang Si could laugh at her.
She took a deep breath to calm herself down, avoided the embarrassing topic, and smiled coldly.
"Tang Si, it's too late for you to regret rejecting the marriage proposal now. As long as I'm here, you'll never be able to enter the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion in your life!"
Obviously, Tang Cheng's appearance here made her mistakenly believe that Tang Cheng regretted refusing the marriage proposal and wanted to climb back into the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Xie Xue Ning was delighted and looked at Tang Cheng with a hint of pity in her eyes.
As expected, he is just as arrogant, willful and brainless as the rumors said.
He even dared to offend his aunt to death.
Tang Cheng raised his chin slightly, not caring at all about the attitude of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.
"Really? I will step into the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion in front of you later."
"Can you stop me?"
"Oh, I almost forgot, you are the one who can't enter the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion now!"
Tang Cheng was extremely arrogant, and both his eyes and tone were full of provocation.
The words he said were so cruel that they could make people angry to death.
The corners of Wen Huaian's mouth twitched. When Tang Cheng was mad at people, she could really make them angry to death.
I hope my mother won’t get sick from being mad at Tang Cheng. After all, she is still his mother.
"Tang Cheng, restrain yourself!"
Tang Cheng shrugged: "I'll try my best!"
Wen Huaian: “…”
The four maids: "..."
They secretly sympathized with the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo. Why could she be so stupid as to make things difficult for the young lady
The guard guarding the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion: "..."
When Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, saw that Tang Si not only distorted the meaning of her words, but also provoked her, and even her son did not speak up for her, her eyes almost spit fire. She turned to Wen Huaian and spoke without thinking in anger.
"Wen Huaian, if you dare to let Tang Si step into the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion today, I will sever the mother-son relationship with you!"
Xie Xue Ning was startled and wanted to persuade her, but when she thought that her aunt would not really do that, she just stood aside and watched.
She was also extremely reluctant to let her cousin's ex-fiancée, Miss Tang Si, enter the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Severing the mother-child relationship
Wen Huaian's heart was stabbed hard, and he looked at his mother in disbelief, his hands clenched tightly, and veins were faintly visible.
The dandies who were watching were stunned by the bizarre developments, but they were also very nervous and excited.
Miss Tang Si is so amazing.
This actually forced the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo to use a powerful move to force Prince Wen.
The playboys all began to admire Tang Cheng.
Tang Cheng frowned, not being able to stand the behavior of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo. Since he couldn't argue with her, he forced his son to do so.
"Madam, you are threatening Wen Huaian with severing the mother-son relationship over such a small matter. I'm afraid you are not Wen Huaian's biological mother, but his stepmother!"
“How shameful!”
"But it's useless for you to threaten Wen Huaian. I don't need Wen Huaian's consent to enter the gate of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion. It doesn't matter if the real owner of the Duke's Mansion, the Duke, agrees. Duke, don't you agree?"
Tang Cheng said this and suddenly looked somewhere and asked loudly.
The Duke of Zhenguo is back
Everyone was shocked and looked in the direction Tang Cheng was looking, but there was nothing.
Got fooled.
Everyone was in a state of dismay.
Wen Huaian: “…”
After Tang Cheng's joke, Wen Huaian suddenly felt less upset.
Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, thought that the Duke of Zhenguo had returned home and became panicked, but Tang Cheng actually made a feint. Lady Min was so angry that her face turned purple, and her hand was shaking as she pointed at Tang Cheng, and she was speechless for a long time.
Tang Cheng didn't feel the slightest bit embarrassed for fooling anyone and continued to add fuel to the fire.
"Madam, if the Duke lets me step into the gate of the Duke's Mansion, will you threaten the Duke to divorce me?"
"But I think you shouldn't dare to say it out loud. If the Duke agrees, you won't even have anywhere to cry. You can only use your status as a mother to force your son. It's really embarrassing."
"As your son, Wen Huaian is so pitiful."
After Tang Cheng asked and answered his own questions, he looked very sad.
Poor Wen Huaian: "..."
The four maids: "..."
The dandies watching: "..."
"That's enough, Fourth Miss Tang. Your aunt is a royal consort and a super-ranking duke's wife. You treat a royal consort conferred by the court so disrespectfully. Do you take the emperor and the laws of the Great Zhou seriously?"
Xie Xue Ning knew that it was time for her to step forward, otherwise her aunt would really lose face and it would not be of any benefit to her.
Therefore, whenever she took action, she had to stand on the commanding heights of the laws of the Great Zhou.
The four maids looked very unhappy and couldn't help but look at the young lady worriedly.
This Miss Xie is really extraordinary when she does something.
The first thing he wanted to do was to accuse the young lady of disrespecting the emperor and the laws of the Great Zhou.
Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, did not expect Xue Ning to be so supportive. There was a hint of pride in her eyes as she looked at Xie Xue Ning.
When Wen Huaian saw this scene, his eyes darkened and his heart was in turmoil.
Could it be that his mother had been poisoned by Xie Xue Ning's poison? It seemed that he had to talk to his father about it and find a monk who was well versed in pharmacology to take a look at his mother.
He was not worried about Tang Cheng. This girl Tang Cheng was not as stupid as the rumors said.
Tang Cheng looked strangely at Xie Xue Ning who wanted to plot and frame her. Xie Xue Ning was very hostile to her. Tsk tsk, she must be the father's lover.
"Miss Xie, I am only speaking the truth. Do you think that just because she is the wife of a duke, a super-ranking official conferred by the court, I should not fight back or talk back? What kind of logic is this? Moreover, according to what you said, the censor is a minister and the emperor is the ruler. If the censor cannot advise the emperor or impeach an official of a higher rank than him, then what is the purpose of the censor? Miss Xie is really amazing. She even escalated a small dispute to the laws of the Great Zhou!"
Wen Huaian's lips curled up slightly.
This girl Tang Cheng is really good at talking nonsense. She even brought up the censor as an example.
The four maids secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Xie Xue Ning was shocked. She obviously didn't expect Fourth Miss Tang to react like this. Her pretty face flushed instantly.
"You... you are making up stories!"
Tang Cheng raised his chin slightly and glanced at Xie Xue Ning.
"Am I wrong?"
Xie Xue Ning glared at him, wanting to retort but not knowing how.
Tang Cheng didn't care. Even if Miss Xie hated her, it was all her own fault.
"So, Miss Xie, please don't bring up the Emperor and the laws of the Great Zhou over trivial matters in the future."
"The emperor is very busy and has no time to deal with these trivial matters."
Wen Huaian's mouth twitched.
The four maids almost laughed out loud.
Xie Xue Ning's eyes turned red with anger, especially when she saw her cousin staring at Fourth Miss Tang, she felt so aggrieved that she wanted to cry. Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, was heartbroken when she saw this, and her flaming eyes wished she could burn Tang Cheng to ashes.
The idlers who were watching were full of admiration for Tang Cheng.
After Tang Cheng scolded the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, he scolded Miss Xie and suddenly felt refreshed. He ignored the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo and turned to Wen Huaian.
"Wen Huaian, it's getting late. I'm still waiting for your big surprise!"
Wen Huaian took a deep look at his extremely angry mother, and clenched and unclenched his hands again.
"Let's go!"
After saying that, Wen Huaian took Tang Cheng up the stairs. The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo did not stop them anymore, nor did she threaten Wen Huaian to sever the mother-son relationship.
Wen Huaian had to admit that he felt a little relieved at this moment.
Tang Cheng didn't think much about it.
Her mind is now full of the big surprise that Wen Huaian mentioned.
Unexpectedly, Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, actually followed with Xie Xue Ning, and the guards at the gate immediately tried to stop them.
"The Duke has ordered that Madam is not allowed to return to the Duke's Mansion without permission!"
"Please forgive me, ma'am!"
Also blocked outside was Xie Xue Ning, whose pretty face flushed again, out of embarrassment.
Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, had a flash of embarrassment and a sense of being offended by the servants in her eyes. She took a deep breath and said, "I'm not going to go in, but Xue Ning is Huai'an's cousin. The Duke of Zhenguo shouldn't have said that Xue Ning can't stay in the Duke's Mansion temporarily."
The guards still stood there like wooden blocks and refused to move aside.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was both angry and furious.
She was just sent back to her parents' home. She was still the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo and the mistress of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Didn't she even have the right to arrange for her niece to live in the Duke's Mansion
Min's face darkened.
“Get out of the way!”
The guards at the gate did not move.
"Please forgive me, ma'am!"
Wen Huaian turned around and looked at his mother, who was wholeheartedly focused on Xie Xue Ning. His eyes darkened. He knew exactly what his mother was thinking and what Xie Xue Ning was thinking. Of course, he would not let Xie Xue Ning live in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
"Mother, if you care about my cousin, you shouldn't let her live in the Duke's Mansion. Cousin, mother is not at home. If you don't want your reputation to be damaged, you should avoid suspicion!"
"Besides, this is the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion, and my father is the real owner of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion!"
Wen Huaian said in a calm tone.
Xie Xue Ning’s pretty face turned pale.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo looked extremely unhappy.
"The Duke is back!"
Tang Cheng suddenly spoke.
Lady Min, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, had been fooled by Tang Cheng once, so of course she would not believe what she said.
Ta-da-da…
A burst of hurried horse hoof sounds came from far away, and everyone looked and saw that it was really the Duke of Zhenguo who returned.
Min was shocked.
"Mother, father is back. Why don't you ask him what he thinks first?"
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