Everyone watched the gorgeous carriage gallop away quickly and disappear around the corner of the street.
There was silence for a long while.
"Miss, the Duke's wife vomited blood. Will Prince Wen..."
Pearl's words were vague, but everyone present understood what she hadn't said.
"I don't know. I didn't mean to do that. How would I know that the Duke's wife would be so angry?"
Tang Cheng felt a little guilty; she hadn't expected it to end like this.
The four maids looked worried.
After all, the Duke's wife is the mother of Prince Wen. What if she has a rift with the young lady because of this matter...
"Forget it, let's go back to the yard."
Tang Cheng is very optimistic. Although she currently only has a good impression of Wen Huaian and lists him as the number one candidate for her husband, if Wen Huaian becomes distant from her because she made the Duke's wife so angry that she vomited blood, Tang Cheng will not force it.
But in her heart, she had crossed Wen Huaian off the list of potential husband candidates.
When Tang Cheng returned to the Peony Garden with his maids and servants, the dandy young men and servants who were waiting outside the Nanyang Marquis's Mansion spread the news that the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo had vomited blood and fainted because of a few words from the Fourth Miss Tang.
After Miss Xie, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo became popular again.
By the way, Tang Cheng was brought along.
Everyone had long been accustomed to what Fourth Miss Tang did, and every time she caused trouble, they just treated it as a topic of conversation after dinner. However, it was different for the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo. Everyone was more interested in her affairs and talked more about sex.
Those noble ladies who admired Wen Huaian were secretly happy about the fact that Tang Cheng had provoked the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo to vomit blood. Tang Si was so desperate that it was probably just a pipe dream for her to marry the Prince Wen.
Rumors spread very quickly. The emperor in the palace twitched his mouth when he heard about it. This Tang Si always refreshed his cognition.
The emperor suddenly wanted to know whether the Duke of Zhenguo still wanted Tang Si as his daughter-in-law.
The Duke of Zhenguo, who was being watched by the Emperor, frowned slightly upon learning about this. He ordered Tang Ping to ask the imperial physician from the palace to go to the Min Mansion to check on Min's condition. Then he summoned the secret guard who was monitoring Xie Xue Ning to inquire about her. After learning the cause of the incident, his eyes narrowed.
There really is something wrong with Min's niece...
Several days have passed, and the information about the mother and daughter should be sent to the capital soon.
The Duke of Zhenguo had a serious look in his eyes and tapped the tabletop with his fingers from time to time.
As for Wen Huaian, he soon learned that his mother went to Tang Cheng to cause trouble, and was provoked by Tang Cheng's words and vomited blood and fell into a coma. After being shocked, he felt a little worried. He did not blame Tang Cheng for not knowing the limits. What she said at the time was not excessive, but his mother...
Wen Huaian hurried to the Min Mansion as soon as he got off work, and met the imperial physician invited by Tang Ping on the way.
When the people in the Min Mansion saw Prince Wen coming with the imperial physician, they immediately took him to Min's courtyard.
At this time, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo had woken up. She was pale and looked a little weak. Xie Xue Ning was comforting her softly, her face full of regret and self-blame.
"Aunt, it's all my fault. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have gone to look for the Fourth Miss Tang, nor would you..."
As she spoke, Xie Xue Ning couldn't help but shed tears.
The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo felt distressed when she saw her niece blaming herself and feeling regretful. She took Xie Xue Ning's hand and patted the back of her hand.
"How can I blame you? If Tang Si hadn't provoked me again and again, I wouldn't have been so angry."
"You can also use this as an excuse to stay in the capital."
A hint of coldness flashed across the eyes of the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, and she pushed all the faults onto Tang Cheng.
The trusted nanny watched silently at the side, feeling numb inside.
It is indeed so.
Whenever this cousin cries and blames herself, the lady feels distressed.
Xie Xue Ning lowered her head and cried, but she was delighted. Her uncle and cousin were going to send someone to forcibly send her back to Jinling. Even if her aunt tried her best to keep her, it would not change. The Min family would not let her stay.
It's a good opportunity for me to stay here by taking advantage of my aunt's vomiting blood.
In this case, she must speed up her planning.
As long as her cousin came to the Min Mansion frequently and her aunt cooperated, she didn't believe that she couldn't have a good time with her cousin.
Xie Xue Ning was having a sweet dream.
Wen Huaian came. As soon as he came in, he saw his pale mother comforting his tearful cousin. He just happened to hear his mother say that she wanted to use this matter to let his cousin stay in the capital. Wen Huaian's handsome face sank slightly.
"Mother!"
When Xie Xue Ning heard her cousin's familiar deep male voice, she quickly looked up, her beautiful eyes full of surprise.
"Cousin, you're here!"
Wen Huaian ignored Xie Xue Ning's surprised look and brought the imperial physician directly to his mother.
"Mother, father has sent someone to invite Doctor Chen from the palace to come and see you."
"Doctor Chen, I'm in trouble."
When the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo heard that the Duke had invited an imperial physician for her, she felt happy but also sad. She was happy that the Duke still cared about her, but she felt sad that the Duke still refused to let her return to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Doctor Chen did not say much about the household affairs of the Zhenguo Mansion. He just took the pulse of the wife of the Zhenguo Duke and prescribed medicine. He told her to rest for a while and then left.
After Doctor Chen left, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo looked at her son with a serious gaze and spoke sternly word by word.
"Huaian, you must break up with Tang Si. I don't allow you to look for Tang Si again!"
"Otherwise you'd be unfilial!"
Xie Xue Ning's lips curled up slightly.
The confidant nanny who had been acting invisible could not help but sigh secretly.
here we go again.
When Wen Huaian heard his mother using filial piety to pressure him again, he couldn't help but frown.
"Mother, please take care of yourself first, and we can talk about other things later!"
When Lady Zhenguo of the Duke saw that her son did not follow her wishes and break up with Tang Si, she became furious.
"Wen Huaian, don't play dumb. I don't allow you to have any contact with Tang Si anymore. Do you hear me?"
Xie Xue Ning suppressed the jealousy in her heart, looked at her cousin's handsome face with her beautiful eyes, bit her lip and questioned.
"Cousin, the imperial physician said that my aunt shouldn't get angry anymore. Just agree to my aunt's request. Is the Fourth Miss Tang more important than my aunt?"
Wen Huaian glanced at Xie Xue Ning coldly, and looked at his mother calmly: "Mother, I can only promise you not to see Tang Cheng for the time being. You should take good care of your health first. Your son has something else to do, so I'll take my leave first!"
After saying that, Wen Huaian turned and left. In order to take his mother's feelings into consideration, he would no longer go to Nanyang Marquis Mansion from tomorrow on.
Although the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was still not satisfied, she was no longer angry because at least her son agreed not to look for Tang Si for the time being.
Xie Xuening's eyes were dark and unclear.
Zhenguogong Mansion, Study
The Duke of Zhenguo and his son Wen Huaian looked through the information handed over by the secret guards, and their two similar handsome faces were suddenly covered with a layer of frost.
"Tang Ping, bring Sun Zhu and that old lady Miao in!" The Duke of Zhenguo's face was as gloomy as water, and his voice was cold.
"yes!"
Tang Ping came out of the study and brought two people in soon.
Sun Zhu is the son of the deceased confidant of the former Madam Xie, while Granny Miao is from the Miao village in southern Xinjiang and is an expert in witchcraft.
As soon as Sun Zhu came in, he kowtowed and knelt down tremblingly.
"Little...Little greets the Duke!"
Sun Zhu was trembling all over and breaking out in cold sweat. He didn't expect that this day would finally come after ten years.
After all, the truth will come out.
What Mrs. Xie did back then was finally exposed.
His mother was a confidant of the former Madam Xie. She knew that Madam Xie would not spare her life after her death. Before she died, she secretly told him that the Duke's wife and Miss Xie had been planted with the same heart poison.
Miss Xie planted the female Gu, and the Duke's wife planted the male Gu. Because Miss Xie was too young at the time, the Tongxin Gu did not have much effect, so Madam Xie also found a Taoist who could hypnotize to add a memory to the Duke's wife that she was sorry and guilty towards Madam Xie.
Sun Zhu also knew that the hard-earned Tongxin Gu was originally for Madam Xie to use herself, but she fell into the trap of the woman in the backyard and survived but died soon.
The plan failed, and in order not to waste the Tongxin Gu, he used them to pave the way for Miss Xie's future and schemed against the Duke's wife.
Granny Miao was well aware of the famous Duke of Zhenguo in Da Zhou, but she never thought that one day she would be escorted to the Duke's Mansion.
Just because of the pair of heart-to-heart Gu she gave away ten years ago.
The Duke of Zhenguo and Wen Huaian began to interrogate Sun Zhu. Although they were mentally prepared, the truth they dug out from Sun Zhu still made the Duke of Zhenguo and Wen Huaian, father and son, very angry.
The only consolation is that there is a solution to the Tongxin Gu.
Granny Miao can lure the Gu out.
After Tang Ping took the two away, the study became quiet.
The reason for the mother's change was found, but the estrangement and damage had already been done. Coupled with the subtle influence of ten years, even if the poison was removed, the mother was no longer the same person she used to be, and the mother and son could never go back to the past.
Wen Huaian felt relaxed but also mixed emotions.
The Duke of Zhenguo looked solemn. After asking his son what he thought, he had a plan in mind for Min.
As for Xie Xue Ning, after the poisonous insect was lured out, people were sent to forcibly send her back to Jinling. She lost the support of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, and her in-laws, the Min family, were not close to her. Her future can be imagined.
The night is as cool as water and everything is silent.
An agile black shadow climbed over the wall and entered the Nanyang Marquis Mansion and came to the Peony Garden in a familiar way.
Tang Cheng, who was about to fall asleep, suddenly heard a slight sound coming from the window.
"who?"
"Tang Cheng, it's me!"
Hearing a familiar male voice, Tang Cheng opened the window and saw Wen Huaian standing in front of the window in a black suit. She was very upset that Wen Huaian had sneaked into her boudoir so late at night.
What surprised Tang Cheng was that no one noticed such a big man appearing here.
The security of the peony garden needs to be strengthened.
And the little parrot under the eaves didn't even sing.
"Wen Huaian, why are you here?"
Wen Huaian jumped in from the window. Under the dim candlelight, he saw Tang Cheng, whose hair was loose and only her underwear was visible, with her slender figure vaguely visible. His ears felt slightly hot.
"I'm here to see you!"
Tang Cheng raised his chin slightly: "Are you sure you are not here to call me to task?"
Wen Huaian shook his head.
"no."
Tang Cheng raised his eyebrows: "Are you here to steal the fragrance and jade?"
Stealing the fragrance and jade...
It makes him sound like a flower thief.
The corners of Wen Huaian's mouth twitched, and the ghost messenger replied: "If I say yes, will you agree?"
Tang Cheng turned his head: "Dream on!"
Wen Huaian: “…”
He knew this would happen, so he had to focus on his business.
Wen Huaian quickly explained the purpose of his visit tonight.
"Tang Cheng, I came here tonight just to tell you that I won't be coming over the next few days."
"Don't get me wrong, I haven't given up on you. I just promised my mother not to see you for the time being."
Tang Cheng was surprised: "You don't blame me?"
After spending these days together, Wen Huaian knows Tang Cheng very well.
"You didn't mean to do that. No one expected that my mother would suddenly vomit blood. Why blame you?"
It is undeniable that Wen Huaian's behavior and attitude made Tang Cheng very happy, and he once again added him to the list of top candidates for husband.
"I'm going back." After saying that, Wen Huaian couldn't help but hug Tang Cheng. His big hand seemed to accidentally brush across her abdomen, and then he jumped out of the window and left.
Tang Cheng: “…”
As soon as Wen Huaian came out of the Peony Garden, he saw a tall figure standing in front of him. When he looked closely, he found it was the expressionless Marquis of Nanyang.
Wen Huaian: “…”
The author has something to say: Thank you all for the flowers. The Duke’s wife and Xie Xue Ning will be dealt with in the next chapter.
Thanks to the little angels who cast [mines]: Jiaoxi 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:
Your Majesty's Servant, La La La ~ 10 bottles; July 5 bottles; Little Pig Who Loves Red Tea 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!