bookcurios Chapter 153 One person is fighting
Chapter 153 One person is fighting
Chapter 153 A Man Fights
His Royal Highness Prince Chen Quan Qinghua watched the old lady of the Ye family perform as if she was alone, and the frost in his eyes grew thicker and thicker.
Feng Zhaolian saw this scene from the opposite side and immediately pulled Ye Wenyan's sleeve, "Ah Yan, you have to be mentally prepared, I'm afraid something is going to happen."
Ye Wenyan was puzzled, "What happened?"
She pointed at where Quan Qinghua was sitting and said, "Look at his eyes. Do you think they are colder than before? This is his angry expression. If your old lady continues to act like this, I'm afraid Quan Qinghua will chop off half of her head with one sword."
"So violent?" Ye Wenyan looked towards Quan Qinghua and saw that person's eyes were frosty and his emotions were clearly at the breaking point of endurance. "The Fourth Prince doesn't look like a violent person."
"That's because you don't know." Feng Zhaolian told her, "I know this man too well. When he's calm, he's like a famous painting. But once he gets angry, he's like the King of Hell. He won't stop until blood is seen and the person is dead."
As they were talking, Madam Mu stood up and looked at the old lady with an angry face, "Mother, you are having a seizure again. Yan'er has been staying in the mansion these days and has not gone anywhere. Why do you always say that she lives in Prince Chen's mansion? I know that you are angry with Yan'er because of the matter between the third lady and the sixth prince, but in the final analysis, it was you who sent the third lady to the wedding sedan without telling our whole family. You can't blame only Yan'er. It is shameful enough that our family has a third lady who got pregnant before marriage. Please don't drag Yan'er into it. Our Yan'er would not do such a shameless thing."
"Mu Qianqiu, shut up!" The old lady hated Mu very much. "I am not suffering from hypochondria, and I am not sick at all. You know whether your daughter is missing or not, and everyone in the general's mansion knows it. And on the night of the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month, how many people saw you go out to the street to look for someone? You can't deny this! The Fourth Prince admitted it in front of the whole court, why are you quibbling?"
During the prince's banquet, Quan Qinghua put down the cup in his hand and said, "Why, I am a member of the royal family, so I can't invite Miss Four to have a cup of tea? Madam Ye means that as long as a woman drinks tea with me, I have to marry her home? Then I have too many people to marry." After saying that, she looked at Feng Zhaolian, "Princess Zhaolian often drank tea with me when she returned to the moon, and she even drank wine just now. Could it be that the old lady wants to force me to marry her? But she is here to marry a peacemaker. If the old lady makes such an arrangement, where will the emperor be placed?"
Quan Qingcheng was also very angry, "Old Madam Ye has ruined her granddaughter's reputation so much. Is it really as Madam Ye said, that she has a hypochondriac syndrome? If it is really a hypochondriac syndrome, we must find a royal physician to take a good look at her. We must not let the old general worry about it. But if it is not a hypochondriac syndrome, then I have to ask, how did Fourth Miss Ye offend you, old madam, that you do not care about her reputation in front of so many people? In addition, my fourth brother is a member of the royal family. When will it be the turn of a minister to arrange his marriage? The two Empress Dowagers have not said anything. Isn't Old Madam Ye too dismissive of herself as an outsider?" The old lady was so angry that she trembled, "I am not ruining her reputation, I am fulfilling her reputation. She ruined her reputation herself, and I am trying to remedy it for her!" The old lady stamped her feet as she spoke, her eyes widened.
Empress Dowager Yu was a little unhappy. "Is Old Madam Ye challenging the Emperor? The old general has made great military achievements. He is a man that generations of Northern Qi people will admire and remember. Does the old madam think that she can control the country just because of her great achievements? She doesn't even take the Emperor seriously?"
These words were a bit harsh. When the words "Meritorious Town Master" came out, Old Madam Ye knelt on the ground without thinking, and cold sweat instantly seeped out of her forehead.
"I dare not. I am really anxious about my granddaughter's matter. I have no intention of challenging the emperor, and I dare not be disrespectful to the emperor and the two empress dowagers. Please forgive me, Your Majesty, and please forgive me, Empress Dowager."
The voice of the Fourth Prince came again: "It's not that he looks down on the Emperor, nor is it that he interferes in matters that should be managed by the Queen Mother. He is targeting this prince. The Ye family is really capable. It seems that there have been many changes in Lin'an City in the ten years since this prince left the capital." Mrs. Chi Tang Miaowen, who was sitting at the table, couldn't help but said, "Old Madam Ye always said that the Fourth Miss was missing on the night of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and that someone went to the streets to look for her. My family is the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture, why haven't I heard of anyone going to the streets to look for Miss Shang? Instead, I heard from my master that the Third Miss of the Ye family was missing, and many people wanted to look for her. Oh, yes, and the Prince Su's Mansion also caught fire, and Lin'an Prefecture also sent people to help put out the fire. That's all, and it has nothing to do with the Fourth Miss."
Lin'an Prefecture denied it and also blamed Ye Hongzhuang for the incident, which made Old Madam Xiao extremely angry.
But compared to the old lady of the Ye family, Old Madam Xiao was much smarter. Although she felt sorry for Ye Hongzhuang, she also knew that it was the Ye family that was making trouble and she should never get involved, otherwise she would be looking for trouble and cause trouble for the Ningguo Marquis' Mansion.
Old Madam Xiao said nothing, Ye Hongzhuang said nothing, and even the Sixth Prince whose palace was burned down said nothing.
Old Madam Ye was the only one fighting on the field, and she felt a little lonely.
Ye Wenyan finally spoke. Although the old lady had been talking about her lifelong event and throwing dirty water on her reputation, it seemed as if this matter had nothing to do with her. She was even picking up food with chopsticks while speaking. She said this while eating: "I came out of the temple on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month and met His Royal Highness Prince Chen. His Royal Highness Prince Chen also invited me to have tea with him. But I was just a companion. His original intention was to invite my brother to have tea, and he took me along as well. Later, we had tea late, so I stayed in the temple for one night, and returned to Beijing with my brother the next day. According to what my grandmother said, my brother has to marry into Prince Chen's mansion."
Seeing that she ate a bit dry, Feng Zhaolian asked the little palace maid who came back with Nanny Ji to pour her some wine.
Ye Feiyu stood up and testified in person: "The oil lamp was not completely lit that day, so I stayed in the temple for one more night. Yan'er was there too, and we returned to Beijing together the next day."
Ye Chulian also stood up and said timidly: "I, your servant, can also testify that Fourth Sister returned to the capital with Big Brother, and has been at home ever since then, and has never gone out."
Madam Ye took a few deep breaths to avoid being angry to death. She glared at Ye Chulian fiercely, and had already thought of more than a hundred ways to deal with this concubine. But that would have to wait until she returned home. Right now, she was alone against so many people, and she was really at a disadvantage.
As soon as she opened her mouth, no one helped her. Even Old Madam Xiao and Queen Mother Li, who used to be on the same front with her, didn't want to get involved. If she insisted on marrying Ye Wenyan to King Chen, today would not end well.
So she learned to be smart. If one plan failed, she would try another. If she couldn't marry Ye Wenyan, she would have to find a way to get her son who was imprisoned in Qihua Pavilion. Anyway, she couldn't come to this palace banquet in vain, she had to accomplish something.
Madam Ye changed her tune and stopped asking for an imperial decree to grant the marriage. Instead, she asked Madam Mu, "Since your daughter was not lost at all, why did you lock up my son? You locked my second son up in Qihua Pavilion for a full half month, and beat him up every day. You did such a vicious thing under the pretext that they lost your daughter. Mu Qianqiu, what on earth are you thinking?"
Ye Wenyan was finally willing to put down his chopsticks. With a "pa" sound, the chopsticks were placed heavily on the table. He leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms in front of him, and stared straight at Old Madam Ye with a pair of scary-looking eyes.
Her face was still pale, and combined with her current expression, she didn't look like a living being in this world.
"My brother-in-law and sister-in-law had a fight. How could grandma have the nerve to tell others about such an embarrassing thing? There are three people in the family. I won't talk about my second aunt. I will only talk about my second uncle and brother Feizhou. One is a general, and the other is a martial arts expert since childhood. How could they be locked up by my mother, a woman? Grandma, don't you think it's a bit embarrassing to talk about this? Don't mention it now, so as not to make people laugh at you."
The old lady was still kneeling, while others were standing or sitting, and she was the only one kneeling. She felt that she was inferior to others in terms of momentum. But now the emperor and the queen mother didn't call her to stand up, so she couldn't stand up by herself, which made her a little angry.
But even though he was angry, his thoughts were still clear, and he knew to continue with Ye Wenyan's words: "It can't be said that it's just a family matter. Your second uncle is an official appointed by the court. He privately imprisoned an official appointed by the court and didn't allow him to attend court. This is a national affair!"
Quan Qingcheng took over the conversation again: "I remember that General Ye Er has been asking for leave. It seems that he was injured."
Someone immediately responded, "It's a hand injury. It was said to be caused by fire."
Madam Ye shouted at this: "It was Ye Wenyan who burned it! Please, Your Majesty, I want to make a decision. How dare a niece burn her second uncle's hand? Such a woman is really vicious!"
Jiang Feng couldn't stand it any longer: "Humph! A dignified general had his hand burned by a 15-year-old kid. How can such a general fight in the battlefield to kill the enemy and defend his country?"
Madam Jiang also said, "Then please ask Madam Ye to tell us why the fourth young lady burned her second uncle's hand."
Old Madam Ye was unwilling to say anything, but she had a granddaughter who was ready to help. So Ye Chulian said, "My father slapped my aunt that night, so my fourth sister got angry. It was my father who started it first!" The old lady was so angry that she almost passed out. She yelled at Ye Chulian, "You are a traitor! Can you tell the difference? That's your father! Your biological father! How can you harm your own father like this?"
Ye Chulian had an especially strong sense of justice today, and she told the old lady, "When grandpa was alive, he said more than once that people must be honest. I have always kept this in my heart and never dare to forget it. So I am just telling the truth now. If what my father did is indeed reasonable, I believe that my aunt and my fourth sister will definitely let him go. But if what he did is wrong, then grandma can't just blame my aunt."