Chapter 20 Let’s discuss this matter in front of His Majesty
Ji Qingwu’s skirt was so shaken that it flew up, and when she heard the voice, she felt pain in Zizhu’s knees.
"Fifth Miss, please save this slave. I don't want to be sold. Please have mercy on me, please."
Lu Juan tightened his chin and looked at Ji Qingrong, and she Looking at his fifth sister.
This matter seems to be left to Ji Qingwu to decide.
Zizhu pulled the hem of her skirt with his hands, like pulling on a life-saving straw.
Cui had a string of Buddhist beads on her wrist. She twirled them and sighed, "You can tell from one look that the fifth girl is kind-hearted. This girl's life depends on your thoughts."< br>
Listen to the pitiful cries and pleading words of the dowager.
Ji Qingwu's eyes became colder, and she pulled back her clothes.
"If you are pitiful, then isn't my eldest sister pitiful!"
If she hadn't discovered this soup at lunch time, what kind of suffering would Ji Qingrong have suffered in the rest of her life?
This black-hearted lady and slave are not worthy of her sympathy at all.
Smart people can hear the hidden meaning at once.
Lu Juan had already stood up, but then sat back down, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "What wrongs did Qingrong suffer, and he has to go through Fifth Sister's words before he can say it?"
< br>Good question! This is such a huge grievance!
Ji Qingwu bent down, approached Zizhu, and asked: "Let me ask you, did you know that the bowl of soup you brought at noon contained the medicine of tiger and wolf?"
Zizhu turned pale and shook his head violently, "I, I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know."
How could Ji Qingwu believe her? He added: "In the past three years, the thousands of bowls of soup you sent have been added with burnet. Since you don't know about it, then the lady must know about it!"
Cui’s many years of deliberate calculations were suddenly revealed by Ji Wu.
Her hand holding the beads could no longer hold it. The beads fell to the ground, the string broke, and the green sandalwood beads scattered on the ground.
Seeing the two people reacting like this, Lu Juan's heart sank, and he said with a deep look: "Fifth sister, please elaborate."
Ji Qingwu clearly explained the root cause of why her eldest sister has not been pregnant for so many years. Make it clear.
But I omitted the Aiziwan and only talked about the problem in the soup.
Even if Lu Juan acted calmly, he would never have expected that his mother would do such a thing and use such a vicious method.
He sent his cronies over, and his tone did not waver.
"Go and search."
Half a stick of incense passed.
The cronies came in, holding several medicine bags in both hands, and escorted a cook in.
Lu Juan once worked in Dali Temple, and the people under him were all powerful interrogators.
He looked over: "The witnesses and material evidence are all here. Mother, do you have anything to say."
Cui was silent.
At this time, nothing could be said to help. She knew what her son was capable of. Even the dead man could tell the truth from his mouth, and she did not want the servants around her to suffer again.
This is recognition.
"You guys go down first." Lu Juan said calmly.
Ji Qingwu quietly walked to the chair at the end and sat down.
The next steps are all the housework of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion, and the eldest brother-in-law is also able to handle it clearly, so it is inconvenient for her to interfere.
Ji Qingrong's mood was full of twists and turns. She was surprised that her husband had no intention of favoring her mother-in-law and just stood by her. She was also surprised that he had found all the evidence for her mother-in-law so quickly and was so forceful that she would not allow her to argue.
If she had known it would be so easy, she wouldn't have endured it.
Ji Qingrong looked at Lu Juan with a little more affection, and her heart felt sweeter. But Ms. Cui was humiliated in public and lost her dignity. She seemed to have aged all of a sudden.
She said dejectedly: "Ziyou, don't you know my good intentions?"
Lu Juan looked back at her and said sarcastically: "My good intentions made Qing Rong childless and me childless. ”
“I am your mother, how can I let you really not have any Heir." Mrs. Cui said excitedly: "The concubine I chose for you is a poor girl from a noble family. Except for her family, she is no worse than Ji Qingrong in all aspects. If she can't give birth to her, there will naturally be other women who can give birth to her. "< br>
When Ji Qingwu heard this, he frowned and curled his lips.
Ms. Cui is a married woman, so she should know the difficulties faced by women in the back house, but women want to make things difficult for women.
Ji Qingrong looked at her mother-in-law coldly. If her plan succeeds, in a few years she will still be childless, and the wife of the wife who cannot give birth to an heir will be forced to accept concubines to have children, and then be at the mercy of Cui.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Mother-in-law is really good at planning."
Ms. Cui and her son could still talk calmly, but as soon as Ji Qingrong said something, she seemed like she couldn't bear it.
He said bitterly: "The women of the Ji family are not worthy of giving birth to the legitimate son of the Hou family!"
There were two women of the Ji family present.
They looked at each other, their big eyes filled with the same confusion. When had the Ji family ever offended the Cui family?
Ji Qingwu heard from the wife's mouth that the Ji family girl was a disaster for the country.
But if the Cui family had objected to this marriage, they could have refused to let Ji Qingrong in. With Lu Juan’s status and majestic appearance, most of the ladies from Lin’an City’s aristocratic families would definitely be willing to marry him. .
Lu Juan’s face darkened and he said in a cold voice: “Mother, Qingrong is the one who came to Ji’s family in person. I wrote three books and six etiquettes, and hired four kinds of hardware to beg his wife. She is already Lu’s wife. Housewife! "
After hearing what he said, Cui held her heart and gasped, obviously very angry.
She spat: "How is she worthy!"
When Cui's eldest sister married into the former Yong'an Marquis Mansion, she died of illness early, but Yong'an Marquis Zhao Shichang was busy marrying her eldest sister before her body was cold. The bride Ji.
Now, Ji Fangmin sits on the throne of the Queen Mother under one person, taking away the glory that should have belonged to her Cui family.
Ms. Cui hated the Ji family in her heart, and her eyes were full of resentment that could no longer be concealed.
“Ziyou, do you still remember what you told me?”
Lu Juan looked stern and wanted to stop Cui from continuing.
But the emotions Cui had hidden for many years were like a beast breaking out of its cage.
"On that day three years ago, when you came home late, covered with wind and snow, you came to me and said that you wanted to marry the eldest daughter of the Ji family. I didn't agree, but you later said that if she were Ji Qingrong, If you marry a child of another aristocratic family, I'm afraid that the Ji family will become more and more powerful and have authority over the imperial power. Threatening, you wanted to marry her in order to stop the Ji family's power from expanding."
Ms. Cui said loudly: "You said it, you married her not for love, but for the big plan! ”
Lu Juan’s back stiffened and he immediately turned his head to look at Ji Qingrong’s expression.
Ji Qingrong felt like he had been struck by a bolt from the blue.
This was even more difficult for her to accept than her mother-in-law giving her the drug of tiger and wolf.
Just now, she was very touched by her husband's protective behavior, but now that her mother-in-law said this, who can she believe?
Ji Qingrong's mind was in a mess, she had no backbone, and she turned around to look for her fifth sister as if she had lost her soul.
Ji Qingwu took the eldest sister in his arms, looked at the two of them and said, "Since the Tai Madam feels that Ji's woman is not worthy of being the Crown Prince's wife, then I will take the eldest sister home today."
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Lu Juan's face was dark and he said: "Fifth sister, this is a family matter of the Hou Mansion, Qingrong is my wife."
"Shizi Lu, this matter is not only a family matter of the Hou Mansion, but also a state matter. "
Ji Qingwu changed his title and no longer called him brother-in-law.
She said forcefully: "Don't forget, the Ji family are also relatives of the emperor. We can ask the emperor to discuss this matter in front of His Majesty, what is right and what is wrong!"
< br> Everyone PKs the identity of the royal family
Qingrong: I am the niece of the Queen Mother
Cui: I am the emperor’s aunt
Lu Juan: I am the emperor’s cousin
Qingwu: I am also a relative of the emperor , you can kiss the emperor at will
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