Princess Yongtai had only one daughter, Princess Anle. In addition, her husband had been lukewarm towards her since their marriage, so she devoted all her thoughts to this daughter. Since she was born, she had loved her like her own flesh and blood. She had never seen her cry so hard.
She was so heartbroken that she stroked her daughter's head and asked softly, "My daughter, who bullied you? Tell me, and I will definitely help you!"
Zhao Wuyou cried even more aggrievedly, saying: "It was those people who spread the rumors. They all bullied my daughter! Mother, you should go to the palace and find the emperor uncle to arrest them all! Then pull out all their tongues!"
Princess Yongtai was about to ask her daughter the reason when she heard her husband Zhao Qi scold her: "Nonsense! Even if your mother is a royal princess, His Majesty will not let you abuse the royal power!"
Princess Yongtai immediately glared at her husband and said, "My daughter is so sad, but you only care about scolding her instead of supporting her. Is there any father like you?"
Then she continued to coax her daughter: "Good girl, tell me what rumors they spread. If they maliciously slander the royal family, I will naturally have reason to go to the palace to find your uncle, the emperor, to vent your anger on you."
Zhao Wuyou thought about the rumors but couldn't speak no matter what. She actually believed the part about her mother and father. Otherwise, her father wouldn't have been so unenthusiastic towards her mother over the years and would have spent more time in the Zhenxi General's Mansion than in the Princess's Mansion.
Although her father did not take a concubine and treated her mother with respect and dignity, she could feel that her father did not have the feelings for her mother that a man has for a woman.
Princess Yongtai saw her daughter's aggrieved look, and immediately pointed at her personal maid and said, "Tell me what happened. If you can't explain it clearly, I will take you out and beat you to death."
The girl was the one who went to inquire about the rumors. She was so frightened that she fell to her knees and told the whole story of how the princess met Miss He Er and was ridiculed by Miss He Er. She then told the girl all the rumors about the princess of the previous dynasty, including the content of the rumors she had heard.
After she finished telling the story tremblingly, the girl bowed her head to the ground, not daring to look up.
The hall was filled with silence for a moment. Even the husband Zhao Qi's face became darker and darker. He stared at Princess Yongtai and said, "You told me that Yunniang put the medicine in the wine of King Yan in order to seduce him, and you drank it by mistake. I only found out today that it was you who did it."
Although Princess Yongtai felt guilty, she said coldly, "After so many years, these rumors can spread however they want. The point now is that someone is using rumors to slander the Princess's Mansion and your daughter!"
Zhao Qi sneered and said, "Rumors? Slander? Is it true that you stole Yunniang's fiancé? Or is it true that Anle stole Miss Xie's fiancé? How did you tell me? You said that it was Miss Xie's own misconduct that caused Mr. Lu to break off the engagement! It turns out you were lying to me! You lied to me today, but you can't guarantee that you didn't lie to me before! I have wrongly blamed Yunniang for so many years, thinking that she was really ambitious and fickle! You have ruined Yunniang and me, you have ruined our lives!"
Princess Yongtai was stimulated by these words and felt that she had been wronged for so many years. She got the prince consort but not his heart. She sneered and said, "That bitch Ji Wanyun has been dead for a long time! She is not worthy of you. She is clearly engaged to you, and she seduced Pei Yuan to be distracted by her. I snatched you away and just made her and Pei Yuan happy. She should thank me! Yunniang! Yunniang! I know that you have been married to me for so many years, but you still miss her in your heart! But what about her? She has forgotten you a long time ago, and she is in love with Pei Yuan and gave birth to children for him one after another! If they don't love each other, they will be like you. Since Anle was born, you have never touched me again!"
After that, he stared at the girl who had replied as if he wanted to eat her, grabbed the teacup on the table and smashed it on her head, cursing: "You long-tongued bitch! You have learned the rules of the princess's mansion in vain, and you are still spreading nonsense in the mansion about all kinds of rumors! Come, drag her away, cut off her tongue, and then beat her to death with sticks!"
The girl's head was broken and bleeding, but she kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. She was so frightened that her voice was trembling. She felt that the Black and White Impermanence were standing beside her, trying to take her soul.
Zhao Qi said angrily, "You are so angry that you want to kill people! You are a princess of the royal family. You want to take the life of a maid?! Yunniang and I are played by fate. It is your trick that makes me and her have no fate. I thought you were also a victim. The emperor had to grant the marriage for the sake of the royal family's face. Although he didn't want to play the role of a loving couple with you, he didn't want you to be lonely for the rest of your life, so he gave you Anle. But what about you? Your trick at the beginning forced my mother to tear up the marriage contract she had made with Yunniang's mother, and made the Zhenxi General's Mansion a joke of betrayal! My mother regarded Yunniang's short life as her own sin, and she kept guarding the Buddhist temple all year round and said that she would apologize to Yunniang's mother! Now, you have taught Anle the skill of robbing a bride, and for the second time made the Zhenxi General's Mansion a joke in the capital!"
Zhao Wuyou originally came back to ask his mother for help to vent his anger because he had lost face, but he didn't expect that his parents would quarrel with him, and he even heard more rumors about his past, even saying that he was given to his mother by his father...
There is nothing more sad than knowing that you were not born into this world with the expectation of love from your parents.
She then cried more, but became quieter.
At this time, a servant from the Zhenxi General's Mansion came to report that the servant accidentally let the old lady hear the rumors about the princess of the previous dynasty, and the old lady fainted in anger. Now the general and the eldest son are both guarding in southern Yunnan and not in the mansion, so they had to come to the Princess's Mansion to ask the second master to go back and take a look.
Zhao Qi just didn't want to see Princess Yongtai again and wanted to find a quiet place, so he followed the servant back to the General Zhenxi's Mansion.
Princess Yongtai was left behind and smashed all the cups, vases and other porcelain in the living room. She kicked the maid who had answered her question so hard that she vomited blood. Then, remembering Zhao Qi's words, she did not have her beaten to death. Instead, she ordered someone to cut off her tongue and sell her.
Turning back to see her daughter still crying, she continued to comfort her softly, "Mom will find out who is behind this and help you vent your anger. My dear daughter, please stop crying! And don't listen to your father's nonsense. You are my Yongtai's daughter. You have the royal blood of the Li family flowing in your body. You are extremely noble. Even if you have set your eyes on someone else's fiancé, you can just snatch him away!"
Zhao Wuyou still cried non-stop. What made her miserable now was not that she had robbed someone else's fiancée, but her birth.
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