The concubine escaped and cried when she met the prince again

He had been collecting evidence and preparing to deal with Prime Minister Lan, but he didn't expect that the little woman would be so simple and rough and wanted to break off the engagement with him right away, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Jiang Dichen looked at Shen Ruolan with satisfaction. Well, very good. She knows how to protect herself in the best possible way.

When the emperor heard that his grandson was gone, he suddenly felt bad. He looked at Prime Minister Lan with a cold face and asked, "Prime Minister Lan, is this true?"

Prime Minister Lan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, there must be..."

When Prime Minister Lan was about to defend himself, Yan Mo suddenly came in from outside and said, "Your Majesty, there are indeed a dozen children, big and small, pounding rice in the dark in Prime Minister Lan's mansion."

When the emperor heard that Prime Minister Lan was really abusing his own flesh and blood, he slammed the table and ordered Yan Mo, "Bring all the children in."

"Yes, Your Majesty." After Yan Mo finished speaking, he hurried back to the gate of the palace and led a group of children into the palace.

Soon, Prime Minister Lan and Madam Lan looked at the girls of all sizes coming in, and their legs became weak with fear.

Yan Mo said to the girls who were brought in, "Hurry up and pay your respects to the Emperor."

After hearing Yan Mo's words, the girls all came to the emperor tremblingly, knelt down and saluted him, saying: "Your servants pay their respects to the emperor, the queen, long live the emperor."

The emperor looked at the group of children of different sizes, whose clothes were washed white, and said in a rare soft voice, "No need to be polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After the girls finished speaking, they all stood up. A sharp-eyed girl saw Shen Ruolan and shouted to her happily, "Fifth sister."

Shen Ruolan smiled at the girl who called her and said, "Yan'er, tell the emperor the truth about your experiences in the Prime Minister's Mansion. The emperor is kind-hearted and loves his people like his own children. He will help you make the decision."

After hearing what Shen Ruolan said, the little girls all asked with sparkling eyes: "Fifth sister, will the emperor really help us?"

"Yes." Shen Ruolan looked at everyone and encouraged.

Encouraged by Shen Ruolan, the girls bravely told about their experiences in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After listening to the children's words, the emperor confirmed the children's identities again and again and determined that they were all Prime Minister Lan's children. The emperor then demoted Prime Minister Lan's official position on the spot from the first rank to a small censor with a name but no power, on the grounds that Prime Minister Lan was unworthy of the position.

At the same time, he stamped the imperial seal on Shen Ruolan's letter of severance of engagement, and asked Prime Minister Lan and his wife to put their fingerprints on it. Then he got up and left, citing fatigue.

As for the group of girls, the emperor ordered Prime Minister Lan to treat them well. When it was discovered that Prime Minister Lan had abused children, his official position was confiscated, and from then on, no one in his family would be allowed to take the imperial examinations and become an official within three generations.

On the way back, Shen Ruolan was in a very good mood. She didn't expect that attending a palace banquet would allow her to gain so much. It was really great.

Shen Ruolan was happily planning her trip to Fuze Temple in her mind. Once there, she would definitely find a way to leave. This was a rare opportunity for her. If she missed this one, it would be difficult for her to leave Beijing in the future.

After all, she was just a concubine of lowly status, and people would not always be tolerant of her. She had to take advantage of the little mercy that Jiang Dichen showed her and quickly escape from here.

Jiang Dichen looked at the woman with a smile on her face and asked her, "You seem to be in a good mood?"

After Shen Ruolan heard Jiang Dichen's question, she raised her eyebrows and smiled at him, saying, "Thank you for your help tonight, Your Majesty. I was able to successfully get rid of that family."

Jiang Dichen looked at her and said, "If you want to do anything in the future, you can tell me in advance."

"Yes," Shen Ruolan lowered her head and responded obediently.

Jiang Dichen looked at the obedient and thrifty woman, feeling somewhat helpless. He thought he had said very little, but he didn't expect that this woman was even less talkative than him. Thinking of the song she had just sung, he asked her with interest, "The song tonight is very nice. Did you write it yourself?"

Shen Ruolan shook her head at Jiang Dichen and lied without blushing or beating her heart: "No, this is what my mother taught me to sing when I was a child."

Anyway, if there was anything wrong with her, he would just blame it on the original mother. She was already dead, and he couldn't just dig up her grave to ask.

Jiang Dichen heard that it was her mother who taught her. He thought about the news he had received and said to her, "Isn't your mother a maid? She can also compose music and play the piano?"

"It's true that my mother was a maid, but she was captured by bad people and forced to be a maid. Her family was quite well off before that." Shen Ruolan said half-truthfully.

I didn't know much about my mother's background. I only knew that my mother could read and do some things that the maids couldn't.

After listening to Shen Ruolan's words, Jiang Dichen nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Shen Ruolan looked at Jiang Dichen and hesitated for a long time. She mustered up the courage to ask him, "My Lord, when can I go to Fuze Temple?"

Jiang Dichen was silent for a moment and then said, "Wait a little longer. I will take you there when I am free after the New Year."

Shen Ruolan heard that they could only go after the New Year, and although she felt that it was a bit slow, she still smiled and replied to Jiang Dichen, "Yes, I will wait for you, Your Majesty."

When Lan Mao returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, he ordered his servants, "Come here, bring out the family rules."

Mrs. Lan heard that the family law was being enforced. She looked at her unconscious daughter and pleaded with him, "Sir, why don't you wait until my daughter wakes up? Otherwise, it would be bad if she gets hurt."

Lan Shurong actually woke up in the palace, but when she heard that her father was demoted, she didn't dare to "wake up" for fear that her father would beat her on the spot, so she pretended to be unconscious until now. Now when she heard that her father was going to use family rules against her, she could no longer pretend.

She quickly stood up and begged for mercy from her father, "Dad, I was wrong. It's all my fault that you were demoted. I'm sorry."

When Lan Mao saw his daughter wake up, he raised his hand and slapped her, and angrily scolded her: "You jinx, it's all because of you that I've ruined my reputation. I'm going to beat you to death today."

Lan Shurong covered her beaten face and looked at her father with a face full of grievance and said, "Dad, it was Lan Wanxi who made you lose your job, why did you beat and scold me?"

Seeing that Lan Shurong was still stubborn and unrepentant, Lan Mao raised his hand and slapped her in the face again. He looked at her coldly and said, "Lan Wanxi has been very quiet tonight. If you hadn't gone to her again and again, would this have happened?"

After he finished speaking, he snorted at her and continued, "I have been demoted from my position, so don't expect to marry into a good family."

When Lan Mao said this, he warned Madam Lan with a gloomy look in his eyes, "You have one month to marry this unlucky girl off, or I will divorce you too."