Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Princess Ning said with a sullen face: "If you really have the ability, you can solve the case no matter you are in the Ministry of Justice or the Dali Temple! If you don't have the ability, even if your father gets you the position of Minister of Justice, you still can't solve it!"

"You want to compete with Gu Qianhan in everything, why don't you compete with him in filial piety? Madam Gu didn't allow him to bring those questionable women home, so he refused. Madam Gu wanted him to marry the daughter of Liu Ge's old family, so he was ready to marry her. Why don't you learn from her?"

"Has he ever been like you, disobeying his elders and becoming a monk for a woman who was pregnant with a bastard?"

"Did he have the brainlessness to bring home the daughter of a corrupt official who had embezzled a million taels of silver? Did he pay money to bribe the son of the Minister of Justice to get that corrupt official out of the prison?"

"As far as I know, the first person Ye Lingyun knelt down to beg was Gu Qianhan, but Gu Qianhan told her to get lost. Why don't you learn to tell those people with bad intentions to get lost?"

Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "Why did mother bring up this matter again? Isn't Ye Lingyun's matter over?"

He turned to look at Shen Wantang: "Shen Wantang, did you say something in front of my mother again? Why would my mother suddenly bring up my past?"

Shen Wantang: “…”

If she died again in this life, it would be because she was wrongly killed by Xiao Qingyuan.

However, she didn't need to open her mouth to refute it, Princess Ning scolded Xiao Qingyuan for her: "Asshole! What does this have to do with Tang'er? Before you came in, she was still speaking well of you!"

"You are such an ungrateful person. Tang'er treats you so well, but you always doubt her!"

"When you were little, you were so cute and everyone praised you. Why are you becoming less and less cute as you grow up? Why do people hate you? It must be that some shabby person with ulterior motives around you has led you astray!"

"What are you standing there for? Why don't you apologize to Tang'er?"

Xiao Qingyuan's face was icy: "I did nothing wrong, why should I apologize? Mother praised Gu Qianhan one moment and Shen Wantang the next, but never me! Since you like them so much, why not just kick me, your own son, out of the house and let them be your sons and daughters!"

Princess Ning was furious: "Shut up! Go back to your yard!"

"It's okay if my mother scolds me for other things. I admit that I was infatuated with Yan Luo before! But I don't admit what happened to Ye Lingyun! I only have merits in this matter, no faults!"

Princess Ning was dumbfounded: "What did you say?!"

"If I hadn't brought Ye Lingyun back to the palace and helped her rescue County Magistrate Ye from prison, gaining her trust, would the money County Magistrate Ye embezzled have been found so quickly? Would the case have been solved so quickly?"

Princess Ning was incredulous: "Do you really think you have done a great deed? I think you are blinded by greed!"

"You secretly took a serious criminal like County Magistrate Ye out of the prison. This should have cost you your life. The emperor didn't punish you because your last name is Xiao!"

"The entire palace was almost implicated by you. If it weren't for your father who never fought for anything and had no ambition at all, do you think you could have survived until now?!"

The current emperor is an extremely suspicious person. He does not allow anyone to covet his imperial power, nor does he allow anyone to challenge his majesty. Anyone who shows such signs will be killed!

The stronger their abilities, the less they will obey discipline and suppression, the greater the threat they pose, and naturally the shorter their life will be.

Prince Ning has always behaved very mediocrely and obediently. Even his hobby is just looking at the stars and the moon, which is not threatening at all. That's why Prince Ning's Mansion has been able to live peacefully in the capital for so many years.

In addition, Xiao Qingyuan was not doing his job properly. He was chasing a woman all day long and even wanted to become a monk. He posed less of a threat than Prince Ning, so even if he did something out of line, the emperor would just laugh it off.

If it was Gu Qianhan who took Ye Lingyun home and secretly took County Magistrate Ye out of the Ministry of Justice's prison and released him, the emperor would probably think that the Gu family was deliberately going against him and deliberately slapping him in the face. He might even think that the Gu family was plotting a rebellion and would regard Gu Qianhan as a serious threat and find a reason to chop off his head!

"Mother, this is alarmist!"

Xiao Qingyuan never thought that anything serious would happen in Prince Ning's Mansion. Even if he had caused trouble in the past, at most he would have been punished by the emperor to kneel and be scolded. He was the emperor's nephew and the empress dowager's grandson. How could he lose his head?

"I have clearly helped the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple a lot, otherwise they would never have found any evidence against County Magistrate Ye! When I go out now, people praise me, saying that I am resourceful and have uncovered corrupt officials for the court and recovered the embezzled silver!"

Princess Ning was furious: "People outside don't know the truth. They just praised you a few words, but you took it seriously? Have you forgotten the stupid things you did? Then do you know why people praised you? Why did your reputation improve all of a sudden?"

"Why else could it be? Of course it's because I found out the corruption for the people!"

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Princess Ning slammed the table and said, "The real reason is that Tang'er helped you spread the news! She was the one who quietly helped you change your reputation behind the scenes, exaggerating your achievements and weakening your guilt of letting the corrupt official go!"

"What?! This is impossible!"

"Why is this impossible? People outside were originally scolding you. As a mother, I felt so ashamed that I didn't even want to go out. I told Tang'er about my concerns about your reputation, and she said she had a way to change your reputation. Later, as she said, your reputation really improved."

"I don't believe it! Mother has always been on Shen Wantang's side. You must have made up this excuse to lie to me!"

Xiao Qingyuan said, staring at Shen Wantang: "Why do you do this to me?!"

Shen Wantang sighed: "The prince has misunderstood, I..."

Xiao Qingyuan interrupted her coldly: "I have already given you the dignity of a prince's consort and made you his legal wife. Isn't that enough? Why do you want to take away even my little credit and say that everything is your credit? Do you like to steal other people's things so much?"

Shen Wantang didn't expect that after all the quarrel between mother and son, the blame would fall on her.

Because of her experience in her previous life, she seemed to have made a habitual mistake - she always believed that husband and wife were one, and her husband's face was her face, so she used her own power to help Xiao Qingyuan reverse his reputation.

But she forgot that her husbands in her two lives had very different personalities. Xiao Qingyuan was not Liao Youhe, and his needs were completely different from Liao Youhe's.

She helped Liao Youhe win a good reputation, and Liao Youhe was grateful and respected her even more.

She helped Xiao Qingyuan win a good reputation, but Xiao Qingyuan felt that she was stealing the credit.

He really is... a man who repays kindness with enmity!