As soon as Tang Cheng returned to Wutong Courtyard, she couldn't wait to open the three large boxes. The three boxes of golden gold sparkled in the dim candlelight, almost blinding her eyes. Tang Cheng was extremely satisfied.
"The emperor is so generous. If only there were more good things like this, we wouldn't have to worry about our children in the future. Wen Huaian, don't you think so?"
Ever since he learned that in this dynasty, a large amount of money was needed to support both his son's marriage and his daughter's marriage, Tang Cheng became very concerned about making money.
The more prominent a family is, the more attention they pay to the dignity of their marriage. Thinking about the grand scene of her own wedding, Tang Cheng became worried.
She was determined to give birth to a bunch of children for Wen Huaian.
We must plan ahead.
Wen Huaian laughed in silence and rubbed her head with his hand: "The Duke's Mansion is a wealthy family, so it doesn't need this little money."
Tang Cheng glared at him and said angrily, "That's different. The Duke's Mansion's assets were accumulated by your Wen family's ancestors, and these are what I worked hard to earn. They belong to me alone."
"Besides, we can't just sit back and enjoy our savings. Wen Huaian, think about it. Every year, many children are born in the families of princes, nobles, and high-ranking officials. I don't know how many gifts the Duke's Mansion has given out. If we only spend money and don't earn anything, we will lose a lot."
Tang Cheng felt heartbroken when he thought that the biggest expense in the Duke's Mansion's account books was almost all about giving various gifts to other people.
These are all silver coins.
Wen Huaian held his forehead: "..."
The Duke's Mansion is rich, so she really doesn't need to worry about it.
"Tang Cheng, you... well, I mean you are right, the Duke's Mansion has indeed suffered a huge loss, so let's have more children and receive more gifts to make up for it."
Under Tang Cheng's stare, Wen Huaian quickly changed his words according to Tang Cheng's thoughts.
Tang Cheng then gave him a satisfied look, then bent down in front of Wen Huaian and easily picked up a box of gold and put it into his private vault.
Wen Huaian was horrified when he saw this and immediately took the remaining two large boxes.
"I'll carry these two boxes."
Tang Cheng saw that Wen Huaian was frightened by her violent behavior, so she thought, forget it, let him do it for her.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you."
She couldn't help but touch her bulging belly. It was a nice Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, but she didn't get to eat anything and came back with an empty stomach.
This is the imperial court meal.
Tang Cheng was quite resentful.
It’s all the fault of the culprit who threw a hornet’s nest at her. Couldn’t he have waited until after the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet was over
She doesn't mind.
After Wen Huaian put Tang Cheng's two boxes of gold into her private vault, she saw Tang Cheng sitting in a chair, looking unhappy with what she was thinking.
"What's wrong?"
Wen Huaian asked with concern.
Tang Cheng said angrily, "I was thinking that the imperial meal that the imperial kitchen had worked so hard to prepare would be wasted. It's all because of that unscrupulous culprit. Even the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet was ruined."
This was her first time attending a palace banquet in this dynasty and it ended so abruptly.
Really upset.
Wen Huaian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and consoled him: "There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
"It's getting late, let's go to the main courtyard to have dinner."
Tang Cheng touched his empty stomach and said, "Okay."
We should have celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with great enthusiasm in the palace, but now we can only celebrate it in the mansion.
Tang Cheng felt a little disappointed.
Wen Huaian smiled and took Tang Cheng's hand as he walked out of Wutong Courtyard. Tang Cheng's small hands were soft and warm. Wen Huaian felt inexplicably at ease and was extremely grateful that Tang Cheng had prepared the odor medicine in advance.
otherwise…
Thinking of the person who murdered Tang Cheng, Wen Huaian's brows darkened and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and its moonlight covers the earth.
The two walked towards the main courtyard under the moonlight.
The servants of the Duke's Mansion already knew what had happened in the palace, and they felt quite sympathetic towards the Young Madam's experience. However, when they saw the Crown Prince and the Young Madam talking and laughing as they walked towards the main courtyard, this sympathy disappeared.
The one they should sympathize with is the Duke's wife who was stung on the face by a wasp. It was an unprovoked disaster. As for the victim, the young lady, she is fine.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion dinner, the Duke's wife woke up not long after returning home.
She stared at her swollen face in the bronze mirror, unable to accept her current appearance. Thinking of losing face in public, the Duke's wife fainted without being able to catch her breath.
When the Duke of Zhenguo heard the report from his servant, he frowned, waved his hand expressionlessly to let the servant leave, and asked Tang Ping to inform the four concubines in the backyard that they did not need to eat in the main courtyard. Aunt Chen and others who received the news were very disappointed, but when they thought of the Duke's wife's face being swollen from being stung by a wasp, they immediately became happy.
Aunt Chen was happy but also full of regret.
How come Tang Si is so lucky that nothing happened to him
This is a wasp!
If it were any other pregnant woman, she would have miscarried long ago.
As the ministers' families returned home one after another, when the news of what happened in the palace spread, many people had the same idea as Aunt Chen. Of course, more people were sighing at Tang Cheng's good luck.
The hornet didn't sting Tang Cheng. Could it be that, as Tang Cheng said, the ancestors of the Wen family were blessing him
Tang Cheng didn't know that she had once again become the topic of conversation after dinner. She was having dinner with Wen Huaian and the Duke of Zhenguo.
The dinner was very sumptuous. Tang Cheng had a great appetite and ate until he was full.
After eating and drinking, we watched the moon and chatted in the yard.
Tang Cheng proudly showed off his clever move to the Duke of Zhenguo and Wen Huaian.
"Are you saying you did it on purpose?" Wen Huaian's eyes flashed with a dark light, and he strongly disapproved of Tang Cheng's risky behavior.
The same is true for the Duke of Zhenguo.
Tang Cheng nodded confidently: "Yes, I could have used stink potion to stink out the two hornets when they were thrown at me, but I just didn't want to swallow my anger. I like to get my revenge on the spot."
However, after seeing Wen Huaian's handsome face darken instantly and his father-in-law's disapproving eyes, Tang Cheng was speechless for a long while before explaining.
"Don't worry, I'm only doing this because I'm sure the wasp can't sting me."
The Duke of Zhenguo looked at Tang Si's determined and confident look and narrowed his eyes. Tang Si has a secret!
However, this secret was harmless, and the Duke of Zhenguo never thought of getting to the bottom of it.
Wen Huaian was so concerned that he almost laughed out of anger at Tang Cheng's self-righteousness.
"How do you know a wasp can't sting you?"
Tang Cheng hesitated, not knowing how to explain. Finally, he stared at Wen Huaian and snorted, "Anyway, I just know it."
Seeing that his son wanted to ask more questions, the Duke of Zhenguo immediately interrupted him and said, "It's enough for Tang Si to know the answer. There's no need to get to the bottom of it. I believe Tang Si would not joke with children."
Tang Cheng nodded quickly, yes, yes, my father-in-law is still sensible.
Wen Huaian: “…”
"The Empress Dowager and the Queen have suffered such a great loss and lost face this time. They will not deal with Tang Si openly and have to reward him. It's hard to say what they will do secretly. You should be more careful." The Duke of Zhenguo reminded with a serious face. He didn't want to lose his long-awaited grandson.
Any woman who can fight her way out of the harem, defeat the previous emperor's empress and sit on the position of empress dowager is not a good person.
Wen Huaian nodded carefully: "Don't worry, father, I will pay attention."
Tang Cheng: “…”
In fact, there is no need to treat it as a powerful enemy. As long as she doesn't accept the challenge, what can the empress do to her
But she wisely kept silent at this time.
At this time, none of the three mentioned the real culprit behind the scenes.
Who else could be the mastermind behind the blatant murder of Tang Cheng in the palace except the two most noble women in the palace
As for whether the case will be traced back to other people later, isn’t it obvious
It was because Tang Cheng thought of this that he immediately decided to take revenge first.
After that, it all depends on whether the emperor is supportive or not.
After appreciating the moon, Tang Cheng and Wen Huaian went to see the Duke's wife who had woken up again, but they were refused by the Duke's wife who was too ashamed to face people. So the two had to return to Wutong Courtyard and rest early.
…
At the end of the evening of the 10th hour, the Empress Dowager and the Queen, who were most seriously stung by the wasp, finally woke up. The Ci'an Palace was made stink by Tang Cheng, so the Empress Dowager had to temporarily stay in the Queen's Kunning Palace.
When the empress dowager woke up, she learned that the Ci'an Palace was filled with stench and that Tang Si had been rewarded by the emperor for his great contribution in protecting her and the queen. She slammed the phoenix chair in a rage.
"Ridiculous, really ridiculous. Tang Si actually dared to say that he sacrificed his life to protect me and the Queen. If it weren't for Tang Si, this troublemaker, how could I and the Queen have suffered this?"
With a red and swollen face, the empress dowager was so angry that she wanted to skin Tang Si alive to vent her anger.
The maids and nannies in the palace quietly touched their slightly swollen faces and dared not breathe, for fear that the Queen Mother would vent her anger on them.
Compared to them, the Queen Mother's face was simply horrible.
The Queen Mother smashed the porcelain all over the floor to vent her anger, then calmed down. There was a cold light in her eyes and she spoke through gritted teeth.
"Tang Si has done a great job in protecting me. It would be unreasonable for me not to reward him generously. Nanny, go to my No. 1 warehouse tomorrow and pick out some expensive silks and precious medicinal herbs to send to the Zhenguogong Mansion."
When the trusted nanny heard that the Queen Mother was going to use the things in Warehouse No. 1 to reward Fourth Miss Tang, she felt a chill down her spine and shivered uncontrollably.
"I obey your command."
The Queen Mother smiled coldly and accidentally touched the corner of her mouth that was stung by the wasp. She screamed in pain. Thinking that Tang Si was not only not stung by the wasp but was still alive and kicking, the Queen Mother's hatred for Tang Si reached its peak.
Since simple and crude means didn't work, she had to use covert tactics. She didn't believe that Tang Si could be so lucky as to escape this disaster.
After the Queen Mother came up with a plan to deal with Tang Si, she began to vent her anger on the servants in the palace.
"The servants of Ci'an Palace failed to protect the emperor. All of them will be punished with ten strokes of the cane and fined for half a year!"
All the servants in the palace were saved and knelt down to express their gratitude as if they had been pardoned.
The Queen had the same idea as the Queen Mother. This time, not only did she fail to calculate Tang Si's plan, but he also screwed her over badly. The Queen was so angry that she was shaking all over.
Want a reward
It depends on whether you have the luck to use it!
At this time, the queen didn't know that her good days were over.
The emperor ordered his secret guards to thoroughly investigate the hornet incident. The nanny who threw the hornet's nest had committed suicide by taking poison on the spot, but the emperor's secret guards still found out that the queen was the mastermind behind it, and the queen mother helped to clean up the mess and also put the blame on the fourth prince and his mother.
The emperor's face was frosty and his eyes were icy.
The evidence is conclusive and the dethronement of the queen is inevitable, and no one can stop it.
As for the Queen Mother...
The emperor frowned. The empress dowager was his mother in name only, so he could only let it go.
The next day, the news that Fourth Miss Tang was thrown into a hornet's nest in the palace yesterday but bravely protected the Empress Dowager and the Queen spread quickly throughout the capital, and all kinds of messy speculations and rumors were flying around.
What is even more shocking is that the Empress Dowager and the Queen, who were badly cheated by Miss Tang Si, unexpectedly rewarded Miss Tang Si generously.
The rewards from the Empress Dowager and the Queen were quickly delivered to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Tang Cheng looked at the boxes that were opened one by one. They were either filled with silk or precious medicinal materials...
The only thing missing was her favorite silver!
Tang Cheng was very dissatisfied.
Her eyes rolled and she suddenly had a good idea. She could auction the rewards from the Queen Mother and the Queen!
As for whether it would anger the Queen Mother...
Tang Cheng said he was fearless!
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