The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

Ever since Shi Yunqi started the duel against Pei Yu, Shi Anxia has been preparing for this day.

She knew only too well the short-sightedness of her father and grandfather.

They have no abilities of their own, yet they yearn for wealth and glory, and for being glamorous in front of others.

Naturally, when a more prominent and powerful person extends an olive branch to them, they will rush over to curry favor with him in a fit of rage, not caring at all about sacrificing their children and grandchildren.

Earlier, the old lady had given the old marquis the "Luyang" poison, and the poison could not be completely cured in a short time.

Doctor Shen prescribed him a kind of medicinal incense as a detoxification method, which was burned in the house all year round.

What they didn't know was that the poison of Luyang could not collide with the medicinal fragrance of Congyin.

Shi Anxia only needs to have someone replace the medicinal incense that the old marquis usually uses with Congyin medicinal incense. When the old marquis is furious, he will naturally feel chest tightness and vomit blood.

As long as the old marquis doesn't do anything naughty, Shi Anxia won't take such a treasonous step.

Unfortunately, there is obviously no old marquis who doesn't make trouble.

As soon as Shi Anxia learned that the old marquis had sent someone to cancel the engagement, she asked someone to replace it with Congyin Medicinal Fragrance.

It was only a few hours, and the old marquis collapsed due to anger. If you want to climb the high branch of imperial power, you have to see if you have the life to enjoy it.

And the letter from the old lady was definitely not a forgery.

At that time, the old lady lived a life of luxury in the Marquis's mansion and had never suffered any hardship in her life. After she went to Changsong Buddhist Temple, her life became miserable.

Fortunately, he had the silver that An Xia gave him, so he was a little better. But Changsong Buddhist Temple was about a day and a night's carriage ride away from the capital, and the temple was built deep in the mountains and forests, so even if he had silver, he would have nowhere to spend it.

She was there recalling the stupid things she had done in her life, and the thing she regretted most was replacing Tang Chujun's son.

If she could treat Qi'er well, even if she had planned to make Tang Chujun her daughter-in-law, she might not have ended up like this.

In short, there, Old Madam Shi became more and more depressed and thin day by day, her eyes were blurred, and her tears dried up.

She and her servant, Nanny Li, ate vegetarian meals, wore plain clothes, and spent their days in ignorance of the weather.

Just at this moment, a letter came from the capital.

At that time, the old lady finally received the letter from home.

But she never expected that the first person to write her a letter was Shi Chengyi.

She had spoiled her son Shi Chengxuan for most of her life, and he never thought of her as his mother at all.

Shi Chengyi mentioned in the letter that he had been promoted from a seventh-rank official to a fourth-rank official and transferred to the post of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. Now the mansion is managed by his wife Yu Sujun, and everything is in order. He hopes that his stepmother will not worry and concentrate on chanting Buddha.

It was really heartbreaking! My already calm and numb heart was disturbed by this letter. How could I concentrate on chanting Buddha's name?

Ah, may the Buddha have mercy on me! Amitabha! Namo Amitabha! Namo... woo woo woo...

In that letter, Shi Chengyi also mentioned that his niece Shi Anxia had run Yunqi Academy very successfully and had also invited two great scholars, Huang Wanqian and Fang Yuchu, to be instructors.

From now on, everyone who graduated from Yunqi Academy would be a disciple of the two great scholars, and their starting points would naturally be different.

Moreover, Anxia wrote beautiful Japanese calligraphy, which was an improvement on the original copy left by the ancestors of the Huang family. She was now regarded as a "teacher" by Master Huang and was to give public lectures in the capital.

Madam Shi looked at the words and imagined how glorious and enviable the Marquis's Mansion was in the capital. It was no longer the stagnant pool where even a big stone could not make a splash.

But she couldn't see it! She couldn't enjoy the glory of the Marquis's Mansion! This was a feeling that could not be calmed down no matter how many times she chanted "Buddha has mercy on me".

The letter was very long, and people who didn’t know would think it was written by her own son to express his longing for her.

The letter even mentioned how Shi Yunqi was famous in the capital, valued by the emperor, and appreciated by teachers from major academies, and that his future was limitless.

The old lady read the letter over and over again with love and hate. Every word and sentence was like thousands of needles piercing her heart, causing her so much pain that she could not sleep at night and suffered from insomnia until dawn.

The candlelight in the Buddhist temple was too dim, and she often stood under the lamp to read letters, which almost blinded her eyes.

By the time she finished reading it, she could almost recite the letter backwards. She could recite the contents of the letter while chanting "Namo Amitabha".

After all, she could not break free of the shackles of wealth and glory, and compared her current life with the simple meals and green lamps and ancient Buddhas, she felt extremely desperate.

The spring snow melted away, it was already spring, but the old lady fell ill.

The disease came on violently. After several days of high fever, the old lady was in a trance, as if she heard the Buddhist voice calling her.

Despite her sick body, she used all her strength to write two letters.

One letter was to her granddaughter Shi Anxia. In the letter, she confessed her actions in the past and said that she was far away from the capital and the person she missed the most was her granddaughter.

Another letter was written to the old marquis, saying that she was no longer alive and hoped that the old marquis would take care of his health.

This letter arrived at the Marquis' Mansion two days ago. Because the Mansion was still awaiting the Emperor's decision at that time, Shi Anxia thought about it and decided to suppress it for the time being.

She thought that it would be better not to provoke her grandfather at this time.

In the end, her grandfather was not worthy of being worried about, as he was very active. So this letter was sent in today, just in time to make up for what Mr. Yang Xuan said, "At least four elderly people were affected by this wave of evil spirits, some were seriously ill, and some died."

As for why the two old men in the Duke of Protectorate’s Mansion were also affected?

Because Shi Anxia just learned from her aunt that her grandfather was also involved in this matter.

My aunt sent a letter saying that the Duke was very abnormal today when he heard that the Wei family had come to the Marquis's mansion.

She tried to test him a few times. The Duke did not hide the truth from her and said directly that the Wei family was not worthy of his grandson and that breaking off the engagement was the only way forward.

These two old guys just kindred spirits.

Tang Songlin had long been dissatisfied with the marriage between Shi Yunqi and the Wei family.

If Shi Yunqi had no future and could marry whoever he wanted, he would not bother to ask. But now it was different, Shi Yunqi had a bright future, and he was anxious.

The old marquis wanted to cancel the marriage and wanted Shi Yunqi to marry Princess Fengyang, which was exactly what he wanted.

Tang Songlin was informed of this matter by the old marquis a few days ago and also participated in the discussion, thinking that for a family like the Wei family, it would be enough to send a servant to inform them.

As for the process of canceling the engagement, he, as the father, will go to Tang Chujun to arrange it in a few days.

His daughter Tang Chujun would certainly not dare to resist, and would then obediently hand over the signed marriage certificate. The matchmaker would then tear it up in front of both parties, and then rewrite a letter of withdrawal of engagement, and the deal would be done.

Tang Songlin felt that he still had some face. This was called blood pressure.

In other words, the old marquis had discussed this big thing with his father-in-law and dragged someone else into it.

Shi Anxia went to Doctor Shen to get a packet of medicine, and urgently sent it to her aunt, asking her to find a way to put it in her grandfather's tea.

The medicine will not harm your body. At most, it will just cause a serious illness, which proves what Mr. Yang Xuan said.

But Zhu was different.

Recently, Zhu heard ghosts calling her day and night. She also felt inexplicable pain in her bones, and her bones would make crackling sounds in the middle of the night, as if they were broken.

In addition, the maids who served her said that the doctor had instructed her to eat light food, which meant simple meals every day without a drop of oil.

Frightened, hungry, sleepy, tired and unable to sleep, within a few days, Zhu became so thin that she was unrecognizable.

There was actually another person who was both angry and sleepy and couldn't sleep, and that was the Empress Dowager who lived in the palace.

She had a headache, always feeling that she was being tricked by Emperor Mingde, but she had no evidence. After the abolition of the system of collective punishment, the first to benefit was the Marquis of Jian'an Mansion.

It’s the Marquis of Jian’an Mansion again!

The luck of Tianjiao Fengnu should not be underestimated.

Her trusted maidservant Nanny Wan hurried into the palace to report, "Empress Dowager, we found out!"