HLnovel Chapter 186 Aunt Wants to Be Happy
Chapter 186 Aunt Wants to Be Happy
"Her Majesty the Empress said that these are congratulatory gifts to celebrate the completion of Cousin's exams. Cousin recently went on a trip and then studied hard at home for more than half a month. She must have worked very hard. Therefore, Her Majesty the Empress instructed Cousin to rest and recuperate during this period."
As she spoke, she opened a box and said with a smile, "This box is full of top-quality and extremely precious bird's nest, which Her Majesty the Empress specially presented to you, Duchess of the State. And this box is full of rubbings of books from the Imperial Palace collection, which she specially asked me to bring to give to the third young master of the Mu family! Oh, by the way, Her Majesty the Empress also asked me to pass on a message to you."
The eunuch coughed lightly twice, then imitated Mu Yunshang's manner and tone of voice, and slowly said, "Yunchen's academic performance this time is not very good. I hope Mother will take extra care to urge him to finish reading these books within a month."
After the eunuch finished learning, he quickly smiled and bowed to the Duchess, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, Duchess."
The Duchess smiled and nodded slightly in response. Her gaze fell on the neatly arranged box of bird's nest, and she said softly, "Your Majesty the Empress has gone to such lengths; I feel a little embarrassed."
"Her Majesty the Empress said that as long as it makes you, the Duchess, happy and satisfied, that is more important than anything else," the eunuch replied respectfully.
"How is Her Majesty the Empress's health lately? Is she alright?" The Duchess looked at him with some concern.
Yunshang has always been gentle and easily manipulated. She was always worried that Yunshang might be bullied by the Yan family's child in the palace.
And now, out of nowhere, there's a little prince.
If the child is still raised under her name, she will probably have to treat her family as a responsibility, just like in her previous life, and also treat this inexplicable crown prince as her responsibility.
Moreover, Yunshang always reported good news to her family but never bad news, so she could only learn about her situation from other people.
The eunuch chuckled and said, "Madam, rest assured, the Empress is having a very good time in the palace these days. In particular, the young Crown Prince often goes to the Empress's palace to keep her company and relieve her boredom."
The Duchess's smile froze on her face.
To keep the Empress entertained?
She ended up seeing the very thing she least wanted to see.
The Duchess nodded and gestured for the nanny to deliver a purse to the eunuch before sending him away.
The best thing she should have done was defy the imperial decree and prevent Yunshang from entering the palace.
She was never suited for the palace.
Seeing her aunt suddenly looking downcast, Xiao Yuxi hugged her aunt's leg and said, "Auntie, you have to be happy."
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Recently, a very controversial incident has occurred.
The eldest daughter of the Yun family, who had been rumored to have passed away, suddenly appeared at the banquet.
The accusers accused the second wife of murdering the first wife and keeping her locked up in a remote mountain village for so many years.
The strangest thing is that Xie Yaochuan, who usually doesn't care about cases, directly took over the case and wanted to overturn the case of the eldest branch of the Yun family.
The deaths of the Yun family members were already extremely strange, with one after another passing away within a year, each death more bizarre than the last.
However, the girl from the Yun family also has an infant in swaddling clothes.
People in the capital are all talking about whose child she has.
The Xie family and the Yun family were closely related a long time ago, but their ties were severed after the death of the eldest branch of the family.
Now it's been renewed again.
However, this girl from the Yun family is of a different generation than Xie Yaochuan. Even if Xie Yaochuan is reckless, he wouldn't stray to this extent. She shouldn't be a child of the Xie family.
However, some people saw the second young master of the Mu family walking with her on the street on several occasions, and then they connected the two young masters of the Mu family with Xie Yaochuan.
I always felt there was something ambiguous about it.
Mu Yunchao pushed the box in his hand to her, "The Mu family's secret guards are all people with clean backgrounds. I specifically investigated Thirteen's background. When Mu Yi met him before, he had suffered a severe head injury and had to be pulled out of the water. After being rescued, he had no memory of it."
Yun Niangzi gently lifted the lid of the box, her gaze falling on the clothes inside and the small, exquisite purse.
That purse was the little duck she made when she was a child, the first one she learned to embroider. Back then, to please her, her brother would wear it every day.
Yun Niangzi's trembling fingers gently caressed the dried bloodstains on her purse, a trace of indescribable sadness flashing deep in her eyes.
Mu Yunchao truly admired this woman.
In just two short months, after returning from the capital, she first established a fine goods store in the first month, and befriended several prominent ladies from noble families, successfully expanding her business to more than a dozen shops.
Then, the following month, he cleverly infiltrated a banquet, turning the banquet hosted by the second branch of the Yun family upside down and causing an uproar in the capital.
What's even more astonishing is that she dared to defy public opinion and resolutely filed a complaint with the emperor when the Empress Dowager's palanquin passed by on her way to the National Temple, enduring the inhumane punishment of fifty lashes.
Although Xie Yaochuan gave her a heads-up, she still had to endure what she was supposed to suffer, it was just a matter of degree.
After fifty lashes, not a single patch of her body was unscathed; she was covered in blood and looked utterly horrific! Yet, this frail woman endured it all without uttering a single cry of pain.
He bowed with each step, walking with difficulty but determination towards the Empress Dowager. With each step, a trail of bright red blood was left on the ground. His entire body was stained red with blood, like a flower blooming in a pool of blood.
The Empress Dowager has been spending her days in the Buddhist hall eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist prayers. Seeing her like this, I couldn't help but feel a pang of pity.
Unable to bear seeing her suffer any longer, he spared her the punishment that would follow if she filed a complaint with the emperor, and directly ordered the Court of Judicial Review to investigate the case.
Now, all the members of the second wife's family are in prison, awaiting execution in the autumn.
Her methods were indeed extremely ruthless, and she acted with extreme decisiveness.
If she were a man, she would probably have achieved great things by now, and would never be trapped in this remote mountain village for so many years because she couldn't fight back against those people.
She reminded him of Yu Xi from his past life; both were decisive and efficient, always handling every detail perfectly, and ruthless to themselves than to anyone else.
Lady Yun took a deep breath to calm herself before looking at him. "Did he completely lose his memory back then?"
Mu Yunchao nodded. "Indeed."
“Logically speaking, your Mu family’s secret guards are only trained from children, right? Why would you suddenly want someone this old? He shouldn’t meet your Mu family’s requirements for secret guards.” Madam Yun pointed out the crux of the problem incisively, her clear and sharp eyes fixed on him, as if trying to see through his face to uncover some hidden truth.
"He certainly doesn't meet the requirements for the Mu family's secret guards, but his martial arts skills are extremely high, and he has lost his memory. He will do whatever you ask him to do. Why wouldn't we keep such a person?"