bayedsolid Chapter 118 Night Slave
Chapter 118 Night Slave
Chapter 118 Night Slave
The old lady's face suddenly turned ugly. Madam Mu sneered and said, "Your Highness Prince Chen has misunderstood. The Third Miss Ye who stole my sister's engagement and committed an inappropriate act before the wedding is not my late husband's child. She is the daughter of the Second Master, who I have said was very good at raising children. The Fourth Miss Ye whose engagement was snatched away is our daughter."
"Hmm?" Quan Qinghua put down the teacup in his hand, and his whole body finally showed some emotion.
He asked Madam Ye, "Such a girl is well disciplined in Madam Ye's words? Although I am not in the capital for many years, I have heard that my father arranged a marriage for my sixth brother with the fourth daughter of a first-rank general's mansion. But if the third daughter of the Ye family is married, it would be the Ye family's disobedience!"
The word "disobeying the imperial order" frightened Old Madam Ye so much that she quickly explained, "It's not disobeying the imperial order. This marriage was personally arranged by the former queen, the current Queen Mother of the West Palace, and she also issued an imperial decree."
"So what the old lady means is that the imperial edict of my father is not as good as the imperial decree of the empress? In the mansion of a first-rank general, you only recognize the empress and not the emperor? Then are you the subjects of my Quan family or the subjects of the Li family?"
The old lady didn't dare to speak anymore. She kept thinking about the Fourth Prince who had been sent to Guiyue Country since he was a teenager. The more she thought about it, the more disappointed she felt.
He was the eldest brother's student, so naturally he was on the eldest brother's side. But she had always thought that the so-called teacher had passed away for so many years, and being far away from his homeland, the life of the Fourth Prince should not have much to do with Northern Qi.
But now she understood that not only had she not forgotten her teacher, but she missed her late teacher even more. She had only said something casually to please the occasion, but the Fourth Prince had taken it to such a high level, which was beyond her expectation.
The old lady's face darkened. She said to Quan Qinghua, "It's not what the Fourth Prince thinks. The First-Rank General's Mansion is a minister of Northern Qi, so they naturally know who they should be loyal to."
Quan Qinghua nodded, "Well, what the old lady meant is that the First-Rank General's Mansion is not loyal to the Li family, nor to our Quan family. You are loyal to Northern Qi. In that case, there is only one person in the world who can make you willingly submit. I didn't expect the Ye family to be so arrogant. I just don't know if that god is willing to accept another clan of Ye slaves."
When he said this, his eyes turned to Nanny Ji who was standing behind Madam Mu.
Madam Ji nodded at him and said, "The Ji family of Quanzhou has recognized the Emperor as their master since more than four hundred years ago. The Emperor is not the kind of person who is easy to get along with. It takes hundreds of years to gain his trust and slowly cultivate him. So if you want to be a night slave, the First-Rank General's Mansion must work harder. Maybe after a dozen generations, you will have descendants with great fortune! Of course, by then, you, old lady, will have turned into a handful of yellow earth."
The old lady was about to speak, but Quan Qinghua spoke first: "Old Lady Ye, please don't say that you don't want to be loyal to the Emperor. The fact that you only recognize the Queen Mother of the West Palace and not my Quan family, I can hide it or not mention it to the court for the sake of Master's wife. But if you have any complaints about the Emperor... Well, that person is very capable, maybe he is watching and listening right now. Once you say something, I'm afraid this general's mansion will be in danger."
Madam Ji laughed a few times, "I heard that the wall of His Highness Prince Ren's mansion collapsed the night before yesterday, and I also heard that His Highness Prince Ren's bedroom collapsed last night. So old lady, you have to think twice. Eunuch Lian has moved everything that needs to be moved out of your room. If your room collapses again, you will have to live in the martial arts hall."
The old lady's hands trembled, her heart trembled, and she even felt a chill on the back of her neck.
The martial arts hall was where the old general used to live when he was alive. In the past ten years, the relationship between her and her husband was not very good. So even when the old general was at home, he mostly lived at the martial arts hall. Especially when he was seriously ill later, he stayed in the martial arts hall all day and never went out until he died. She also waited in the martial arts hall all day, or guarded it, but after the old man passed away, she directly ordered people to seal the place up and never stepped into it again.
How could she live in the martial arts hall? If something happened in the middle of the night, she would be scared to death.
Seeing that the old lady didn't say anything and seemed to be thinking about something, Nanny Ji laughed softly and stopped talking.
Quan Qinghua turned sideways and asked Madam Mu, "Master's wife, can you tell me in detail why the teacher suddenly fell ill and why the old general died before his death? I have been thinking about this matter since I received the news, and no matter how I think about it, it seems wrong."
Before Madam Mu could say anything, the old lady spoke again: "There is nothing to say. He is old and injured. How could he live to the end of his life? As for Jing Gui, he died because his father's death was a great blow to him."
Quan Qinghua stood up, but did not mention the cause of death of the two generals. He just said to the old lady, "It's getting late, so I won't stay any longer. As for the matter of the Ye family's disobedience, I have thought about it carefully and think that I should remind the emperor to pay attention to it. If the Quan family really can't suppress the first-rank general's mansion, it's better to make preparations as soon as possible. Old lady, take a rest, and I'll take my leave."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and bowed to Mrs. Mu, then nodded to Nanny Ji. After accepting the return gifts from Mrs. Mu and Nanny Ji, he did not stay any longer and strode out of Xu Ming Hall.
As he reached the door, he ran into Ye Chulian who was about to enter the house, and Liu following behind her.
The two of them bumped into each other.
Ye Chulian had her head down, which was her usual attitude in front of people. Now she almost bumped into someone, so she raised her head hastily. When she looked up, she happened to meet Quan Qinghua's expressionless face and those cold eyes that looked like the bottomless abyss.
Ye Chulian was stunned for a moment, staring at the man in front of her, forgetting to avoid him or greet him. She only wondered why such a gentle and elegant gentleman could have such deep coldness in his eyes? But no matter how cold he was, he couldn't hide his good looks. He was almost the most handsome man she had ever seen, and she couldn't take her eyes off him.
The maidservant beside her gently tugged at the corner of her clothes, and Ye Chulian just reacted and quickly bowed. But after bowing, she found that she didn't know how to address this person, she didn't know who this person was at all.
In fact, according to her previous personality, she should have just bowed, then stepped aside and said nothing more.
But now she didn't want to be like before, she felt that she should say something, so as to leave a slight impression on this person. As for why she should leave an impression on this person, she didn't know.
So Ye Chulian spoke, and said in a low voice: "Ye Chulian greets this young man." She introduced her name as soon as she opened her mouth, which was a very bold act for a girl in seclusion.
Quan Qinghua glanced at her, said nothing, and just took a step to the side and was about to leave. But Ye Chulian said again: "Since you are a guest in our house, I wonder who you are?" In the room, Ye Lianmian, who had been accompanying the old lady and had never spoken, could not help but shouted: "As a concubine's daughter, what qualifications do you have to talk to the Fourth Prince? Go back quickly and stop embarrassing yourself here."
Ye Chulian was very grateful to her. Although this second sister was scolding her, she also answered her doubts in the scolding. So she said again: "Chulian greets the Fourth Prince, and wishes the Fourth Prince good health."
Quan Qinghua nodded and said calmly: "Miss Ye, there is no need to be so polite." Then he strode away without hesitation.
Ye Chulian felt her cheeks getting hot and she was at a loss for a moment. She just stared at Quan Qinghua's departing back, unwilling to take her eyes off him for a long time.
Ye Lianmian was really furious, because the old lady had recently paid more attention to Ye Chulian, which made her feel that she was the only one who was not valued in this family, and even her grandmother who had raised her from childhood no longer loved her. Now Ye Chulian was actually hooking up with the Fourth Prince, how could she tolerate it?
So Ye Lianmian raised her voice, her words were sharp and mean: "Humph! What a thing? Don't think that you can turn things around and become a legitimate daughter just by learning music, chess, calligraphy and painting for a few days. Ye Chulian, a legitimate daughter is a legitimate daughter, and a concubine is a concubine. No matter how much you learn, you are just a concubine of the Ye family. Concubines are not qualified to covet the royal prince. Even if you hook up with him, you will only be a concubine in the future."
The old lady glanced at Ye Lianmian, but did not speak for Ye Chulian. Instead, she snorted and said, "Your second sister is right. Chulian, you are a woman, you should know how to respect yourself. How can people think of the girl from our general's mansion if you talk to a strange man like this?"
Ye Chulian realized that she had lost her composure, and quickly went into the house and knelt down before the old lady. Liu also knelt down behind her, and took the initiative to beg, "Miss Fifth was confused for a moment, and she just saw a stranger and didn't handle it well. Please calm down, old lady, and it won't happen again in the future."
Ye Chulian also said: "Granddaughter knows she is wrong, grandma, please calm down."
The old lady snorted again, and she had no mood to talk to Ye Chulian, because the arrival of the Fourth Prince made her feel very unhappy. She was the wife of a first-rank general, and although the old man was gone, his influence was still there.
The Fourth Prince was just a hostage abandoned by the previous emperor. He returned to the capital when he was already in his twenties. He was the one with the least foundation among all the princes left by the previous emperor. No one in the royal family might be willing to pay attention to him. Why did he come to the General's Mansion to show off his power?
Then she looked at Mu who was sitting down there, thinking about something, and she felt that she really couldn't stay in Xu Ming Tang any longer. She couldn't stay anywhere Mu was. So she stood up and walked away with the help of Jun Tao and Ye Lian Mian.
When Ye Lianmian passed by Ye Chulian, he deliberately stepped on her foot, causing Ye Chulian to frown tightly due to the pain.
But she didn't have the heart to care about anything else, and she forgot why she came to Xu Ming Tang in the first place. She was only thinking about the man she had just seen, his elegant appearance, and his pair of frost-covered eyes...