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Chapter 818 Wants to make trouble
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and found that the sound had become much quieter. In Shengjing City, the stories about the Zhang family could be compiled into a book. Zhang Yumo was just lucky enough to marry into the Jiang family and that changed her fate. Why was she so proud? Everyone only dared to mutter these words in their hearts and did not dare to say them out loud.
After all, her husband is the Marquis of Wu'an and the Minister of Revenue.
Zhang Yumo didn't want these people to put all the blame on her cousin. It was clearly the Fourth Prince's doing, but now everyone in Shengjing was talking about her cousin being unfaithful to her husband.
She continued, "The Fourth Prince's Concubine is just a woman in the harem. Besides, the Emperor has already investigated the matter, and the Fourth Prince has also clarified it publicly. Everything was staged by the Fourth Prince himself, who made the Princess take the blame and even deliberately made her say that she had an affair with the Emperor to confuse the public. Why don't you dare to accuse the Fourth Prince of killing someone and dumping the body, and deliberately frame him, but are here to discuss a woman who is powerless. We are all women, so we should be more virtuous."
Suddenly someone stood up and said, "When she did such a shameless thing, why didn't she know how to accumulate virtue for herself? It was clearly the behavior of a prostitute, but she relied on her status to escape punishment. If it were ordinary people, Zhang Yurou would have been drowned in a pig cage long ago. How could the wife of Marquis Wu'an be allowed to speak up here to plead for her injustice?"
Everyone looked at the woman again, and saw a woman in a brown dress staring coldly in Zhang Yumo's direction with fierce eyes.
Someone recognized her. She was Mrs. Shu, but this Mrs. Shu was not the other Mrs. Shu Yangmei.
After Shu Lang became an official in the court, he also supported his family members to become officials. Now Shu Lang has been imprisoned and is scheduled to be executed in the autumn. As for other members of the Shu family, they are still trembling in fear in their official positions for the time being.
The person who spoke was Mrs. Li Shuxue's mother, Wang. Although her husband held a low official position, this ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven and praying for blessings was a major national event, and the emperor ordered all citizens to participate, so even the smallest official had to be present.
When Wang's daughter died, she only dared to cry at home. Her husband was much less courageous than Shu Lang. They did not want to offend anyone after their daughter's death and just let Shu Lang plead for justice for their daughter. In the end, she did not expect that her daughter's death would be so bizarre. Shu Lang was afraid that the Fourth Prince would help them transport the body out of the city to frame the Jiang family.
Although Wang knew the truth about her daughter's death, she did not dare to ask for justice for her daughter.
My daughter usually likes to curry favor with the Fourth Princess, but in the end it was the Fourth Princess and her husband who harmed her.
Wang still doesn’t know the truth about how her daughter died and why she died so tragically, because the government has closed the case and her daughter’s death was unclear and confusing.
She didn't dare to offend the prince, so she has endured it until now.
At this time, so many people were talking about the Fourth Princess, so she dared to stand up and speak. She thought the Fourth Princess deserved to die, but someone stood up and spoke for the Fourth Princess. How could she continue to swallow her anger?
Zhang Yumo didn’t think so much about it. She just simply felt that it was not Zhang Yurou who killed the man. Everything was done by the Fourth Prince. Why would everyone only blame the woman and not the man?
She said, "Maybe this lady has some misunderstanding about the Fourth Princess. She is not that kind of person, and you don't have to speak ill of her!"
"She dared to do it and didn't allow people to talk about it. How can this be justified in the world? I just want to say that she is a slut who doesn't keep her husband's chastity. She has no shame." Wang said angrily like a shrew: "She said the ugly things she did herself. No one forced her. She is not that kind of person even after she gave birth to a child. What kind of person does the wife of Marquis Wu'an think your cousin is? Humph, I have heard a long time ago that she is not a talented woman in Shengjing City at all."
"She doesn't know how to do anything. The poems she wrote were probably written by Madam Wu'an who helped her!"
Zhang Yumo had never met Shu Xue's mother, so he didn't know why the lady in front of him was so excited.
She bit her lip and looked at the people around her who were whispering. For a moment, she was speechless because she did help her cousin write some poems.
Wang said again: "You have nothing to say, right? I was right, wasn't I? The Fourth Princess is just a fake and scheming woman. Her original words in the Golden Palace were very clear, and the Fourth Prince also admitted that her daughter is the Emperor's child."
Mrs. Zhang felt even more ashamed and couldn't raise her head. She pulled Zhang Yumo and said, "Moer, let's go. Don't say anything."
Zhang Yumo said, "Cousin's child cannot be the emperor's. She married the Fourth Prince innocently. If cousin's innocence is not cleared, she will be criticized for her whole life. How will Princess Yi live when she grows up, Third Aunt?"
Madam Zhang whispered, "It can't be washed clean, so let it be!"
She has accepted her fate. The Fourth Prince's Mansion has become a cage. Ever since the Fourth Prince wanted to rebel and become the emperor, the Fourth Prince's Mansion would end up like this sooner or later. Although the Emperor did not punish the Zhang family openly, she knew that no one from the Zhang family would be reused anymore.
Ever since the death of the Duke, the Zhang family has been in decline, and the second branch of the Zhang family is even worse off than the third branch.
The only one in the Zhang family who was doing well was Zhang Yumo. She married into the Jiang family at the right time.
Jiang Fenghua hid outside the door and listened to the noise inside. He understood that the emotionally agitated lady was probably Shu Xue's biological mother.
In her memory, from the time Shu Xue got into trouble to the time the case was investigated, it was Shu Lang who had been handling the matter. It was obvious that Shu Lang did not want Shu Xue's biological parents to come out and disrupt his plans.
Now that the Fourth Prince and Shu Lang have fallen, there is no one to control Shu Xue's parents, so they exploded in such an occasion.
She looked at Zhang Yumo and thought to herself: The Zhang family should really keep a low profile and not discuss anything. They should be lucky enough to keep their lives, not care about reputation. Since Zhang Yurou said in public that she had an affair with the emperor, she has lost her reputation. The more she explains, the more it covers up. How could Zhang Yumo not understand this and stand up to be bombarded?
Shu Xue's daughter would definitely be dissatisfied with her mother's death, but the emperor's handling of this case was not so satisfactory.
He took good care of all the members of the royal family, except for Shu Xue, who he thought should just die!
Jiang Fenghua sneered. This was the power of imperial authority. Ordinary people were just ants even if they died, but the prince and princess were only placed under house arrest because of their status.
Maybe after a few years, the emperor will release them because of their blood relationship.
Jiang Fenghua was also thinking that in her previous life, she was imprisoned in Chenxi Palace, but she also heard the news that the Fourth Prince was rebelling. In the end, of course, the rebellion failed. Prince Kang had never shown up in the previous life and had not rebelled. In this life, he and the Empress Dowager had returned to the palace.
It turned out that it was not that King Kang did not rebel, but that he was manipulating everything behind the scenes, manipulating Xie Yang to rebel.
Now that Prince Kang is also under house arrest in Shengjing City, does that mean he was defeated and the emperor was victorious?
Xie Shang did make a lot of efforts to save the Great Zhou, but in the end the Great Zhou was still defeated.
Jiang Fenghua suddenly appeared in front of everyone and asked in a deep voice, "What are you arguing about?"