Use a substitute on your wedding night to scatter the ashes of your entire family

Since her daughter no longer had feelings for Ling Heng, she only had to deal with it superficially and said, "I've heard about this matter. It's not Your Highness' fault. Please stand up, Your Highness."

Ling Heng then secretly breathed a sigh of relief and stood up: "Don't worry, mother-in-law, even if Li Shuangmiao enters Prince Heng's mansion, I will never set foot in her room."

A pair of peach blossom eyes looked at Li Shuangwan, with deep affection in her brows: "Ah Wan is the only woman in my life."

Zhu Anhe understood these words clearly, so he just listened to them and was not to take them seriously.

After dinner, Ling Heng returned to the White Horse Temple. Li Shuangwan leaned in Zhu Anhe's arms, fiddling with the silk ribbon around his mother's waist.

In the past two days, Zhu Anhe learned a lot about the second house.

Li Shuangwan deliberately let the maid who guards the yard reveal these things to her mother. If she wanted to persuade her parents to separate from the second wife, she had to let them see the second wife's true face.

There was no other way. My father, mother, and brother were in the northwest all year round, and they always felt that it was not easy for the second branch to guard the huge General’s Mansion in Shengjing City.

At the beginning, my grandmother made the decision to have the people from the second branch move into the General Guarding the Country's Mansion, and they have been occupying the mansion until now. Now that my mother and she have returned to the mansion, they have become guests.

In the past, their parents and they, the siblings, had always been in the northwest, and would only return to Shengjing to report on their work once every three years. They had stayed in the mansion for less than a month. The second wife had always been so rude that they were deceived and gave most of the rewards from the palace to the second wife.

But what about the second wife? They enjoyed the credit earned by their father and brother at the cost of their lives on the battlefield, but they always schemed against the first wife.

In the previous life, the Second Branch and Ling Heng ascended to the high position by stepping on the corpses of 381 people in the General Guarding the Country’s Mansion.

My brother was tricked and poisoned by aphrodisiac, my mother died of depression, and the general's mansion collapsed overnight. This would have been impossible without the help of the second wife.

In this life, she would never let the second wife plot against the first wife in any way.

She wanted to persuade her parents to separate from the second wife as soon as possible.

When Li Shuangwan returned to Prince Heng's Mansion, he learned that Butler Luo had redeemed the maid named Leng Yue from the Lotus Class, along with Zhou Caiyao's indenture.

The leader of the Lotus Troupe thought that Zhou Caiyao was really the daughter of the General's Mansion who had been stranded outside, so he didn't dare to charge her more money. Although he was reluctant, he only dared to take a symbolic 100 taels for the two's indentures.

If it were in the past, it would be impossible for these two people not to have three thousand taels.

After hearing this, Li Shuangwan felt that it was unreasonable to let the troupe owner suffer a loss, so he asked housekeeper Luo to take three thousand taels from the royal treasury and give it to the troupe owner.

The class owner was naturally very grateful.

As soon as Leng Yue arrived at Zhou Caiyao's side, she would no longer let Xue'er serve her and immediately sent her to wash the toilet.

But at this moment, Butler Luo came to take the people away, saying that the servants in each courtyard had a fixed number. Since Miss Yao already had Miss Lengyue by her side, he would naturally take Xue'er away.

Zhou Caiyao was afraid that Xue'er would tell others about what she had done during this period, so she threatened her in her ear: "If you dare to tell others about me, I will send someone to kill your parents and brother!"

Xue'er was so frightened that her face turned pale: "I don't know anything. Miss Yao only wants me to serve her in her daily life, nothing else."

Zhou Caiyao then smiled coldly, took off a jade bracelet from her wrist, patted Xue'er's hand, wiped her tears in front of Butler Luo and said, "Xue'er, I can't bear to part with you, but the palace has its own rules. This is a little gift from me. Thank you for serving you wholeheartedly during this period of time."

Xue'er understood what was going on, so she thanked Butler Luo profusely and followed him.

As soon as we walked outside, Butler Luo said, "The palace has asked me for you, so just go to Le Xiaoyuan and serve."

Xue'er breathed a sigh of relief and responded in a low voice.

Arriving at Lexiao Courtyard, she knelt in front of Li Shuangwan and said, "Thank you, Princess, for saving my life."

"Get up. Although you are a third-class maid in my courtyard, I know your family is in financial difficulty. I will privately make up your monthly salary by promoting you to a first-class maid. I hope you will serve me wholeheartedly in the future."

"Yes, in this life or the next, even if I work like a cow or a horse, I still cannot repay your kindness. Thank you so much, Princess."

The next morning, Li Shuangwan took out the medicine that Luo Luo gave her and dripped it on the beauty mole between her eyebrows.

First, a cool feeling came from the forehead, and then a pain of flesh being cut came from the beauty mark.

Luo Luo told her that this medicine could dig out her beauty mole bit by bit, and it would be completely removed after ten days. But there was one thing: it would hurt when the medicine was first applied.

She seemed to say something like if you use a laser pen it won't hurt so much, but she didn't understand.

Li Shuangwan stood quietly in front of the dressing table, letting the pain sweep over her like waves.

This little pain was nothing compared to her previous life when she witnessed the entire General's Mansion being executed and watched the flames licking her flesh.

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And in a dilapidated house deep in Liangshan Mountain hundreds of miles away, as Li Shuangwan expected, Hu Zhenfang was glaring at Cui Jingyu.

"Even if I die, I will never follow Young Marquis Cui. This is not what a gentleman does!"

Cui Jingyu held the sword in both hands and leaned lazily against the door frame: "Master Hu, is it worth it? Is it worth it? You submitted a memorial to the emperor, and he was furious. All the male members of the Hu family were exiled, and the female members were not allowed to bring out even their menstrual belts except for the clothes they were wearing!"

"The warriors will die in battle, the scholars will die in remonstrance! Even if my entire Hu family were to die, we would just become ghosts of Northern Jin. There is no reason for us to hide and live like this!"

Cui Jingyu looked at the other men of the Hu family in the yard, among whom was a baby in his arms.

However, in just over twenty days, the men of the Hu family, who were once high-ranking officials and prime ministers of the cabinet, have become what they are now.

The sick are sick, the weak are weak, the old are old, and the young are young.

The skin on his hands and feet was rubbed raw from wearing the chains for so long that in some places the skin was even turned inside out. He got frostbite in the ice and snow, and even his face, ears and hands were covered with frostbite.

Those pairs of hands holding pens were too ugly to look at.

The three-year-old baby in Li Shuangwan's arms hadn't had a full meal in the past few days and had been crying all day long. All the silver that Li Shuangwan had people send went into the pockets of those dog officials.

The Northern Jin Dynasty was rotten from the root, but there was such a pedantic old man who, even at this point, still wanted to exchange the lives of his entire family for the conscience of the old emperor.

Is there anyone in the Ling family who still has a conscience?

However, the men of the Hu family looked at him with desire and helpless resignation in their eyes, but there was no begging.

Cui Jingyu did not look at Hu Zhenfang, but instead looked at his eldest grandson Hu Ting'an. If it were not for this matter, this young man who had just passed the age of 20 would have taken part in the Spring Examination in two years.

Although they could have entered officialdom with the help of their ancestors, the Hu family took the imperial examinations from the day their ancestor decided to give up military careers and pursue literature. None of the men in the Hu family are ugly.

There are two Hanlin in the same family, and Hu Zhenfang, the chief minister of the cabinet, is the head of the civil officials. The old emperor is just taking advantage of the situation to convict the entire Hu family, whom he is wary of.

What’s funny is that when the Hu family was exiled, no one from Shili Songjunting came to see them off.

The eldest daughter of the Hu family wanted to come and see them off, but the door of the dilapidated temple where they were temporarily staying was blocked by people who wanted to take advantage of their misfortune.

"Mr. Hu, your grandfather prides himself on his loyalty and wishes to die, but your father and uncles still want to live. In my opinion, it would be better for you to obey Prime Minister Hu and fulfill his reputation for loyalty and bravery. I will ensure that the rest of the Hu family live a safe life."

Hu Ting'an glanced at Hu Zhenfang secretly and lowered his head.

"You, the Hu family, have dozens of people. You can't sacrifice everyone's life just because of the loyalty of Prime Minister Hu, right? Mr. Hu, you are also a person who reads the books of sages. Don't you understand this principle?"