Chapter 106 The Maid Who Avenges the Young Lady
Chapter 106 The Maid Who Avenges the Young Lady
The little maid's name was Zhu Ruixue, and her mistress was the daughter of the Minister of Justice.
Zhu Ruixue had escaped from her home. Her mother was very fertile and gave birth to eight children in a row: seven sons and one daughter. Zhu Ruixue was the fourth child and had no name, so she was called Si Ya.
There were so many sons in the family, but only one daughter. Even if they didn't spoil her, they couldn't abuse her all the time, right? With so many people eating at home, it was always the parents and Si Ya who did the work. The sons were well fed, and the parents could only eat half full, but Si Ya could only drink a little rice soup.
In this way, I barely grew up to the age of 7.
There was a severe locust plague that year, and the crops were completely destroyed.
The men could only drink porridge, but Si Ya had no rice soup to drink. She was so hungry that she had to eat dirt every day.
When it rains, it pours. Si Ya's father went to borrow grain from a relative, and on his way back he fell into a flooded river and drowned.
At this time, Si Ya was curled up on the bed because of hunger. As long as she didn't move, she wouldn't feel hungry.
Suddenly she felt a stick hitting her body, and she grimaced in pain.
"You damned girl! You're such an unlucky star! It's all your fault! Otherwise, your father wouldn't have died, and I wouldn't have become a widow."
She beat Si Ya until she was almost dead. Fortunately, she was lucky. The eldest brother secretly found a doctor for her and stuffed her with some medicine. "Si Ya, run quickly, run to the city, maybe there is still a way to survive, otherwise mother will beat you to death!"
Si Ya knew that this was the best that her eldest brother could do, after all, he was only eleven years old. (The second and third children were twins)
But before she could recover from her injuries, her mother remarried, marrying a butcher with a face full of fat. Si Ya was very afraid of him and tried to avoid him.
After a year, Si Ya may have eaten a little better and gained some weight, and gradually it became clear that she was a little beauty.
When I was sleeping at night, I suddenly felt someone around. When I opened my eyes, I saw a sneaky figure. It was my stepfather!
She screamed in fear and ran to her mother. Her mother took out a rolling pin and started beating her, "You bitch! Can't you live without a man? How dare you seduce your stepfather? Do you have any shame?"
Si Ya was almost beaten to death.
The eldest brother came over quietly and said, "Si Ya, here are a few copper coins. Run away, the farther the better."
In this way, Si Ya began her life of wandering and begging. A year later, she arrived in the capital, but because she was so dirty and smelly, she couldn't even enter the city gate.
After wandering at the city gate for another two months, she was about to starve to death when she saw a luxurious carriage slowly approaching. Si Ya desperately knelt in front of the carriage and was almost trampled to death by the horse.
The person who got off the car was none other than Zhu Yaqin, the daughter of the Shangshu Mansion.
Seeing her pitiful and skinny appearance, he said, "Then come back with me."
From then on, the young lady taught her how to read and write, and taught her how to behave and be a good person. She named her Ruixue, which means beautiful hope.
The young lady and the prince of Changning were childhood sweethearts. However, on their wedding day, the prince did not come, but brought news that he had died in the line of duty.
Immediately afterwards, the prince asked the emperor for permission to have the young lady marry him as his concubine.
That night, the young lady sent Zhu Ruixue out, and when she came back, she only saw the young lady's cold body.
After Zhu Ruixue learned that the culprit was the prince, she knelt down before the minister and asked him to let her into the palace to avenge the young lady.
Zhu Ruixue is very clever, but she is trapped in the fierce struggles of the palace. Although she avenged the young lady, she also lost everyone she cared about: the young lady, the prince, and... Fengnian.
"I don't care about entering any palace. I just want my lady to live a good and happy life! And have a good harvest and a peaceful life."
"As you wish," said the ginger and disappeared.
……
This day was the day before Zhu Yaqin and the prince got married.
Early in the morning, the Shangshu family was happily decorating the courtyard.
Sheng Jiang took a look and saw that everyone was busy. He said something to Zhu Yaqin and came out.
He snapped his fingers, causing the entire world to freeze. Then he vanished in a flash.
When he appeared again, he was in a bandit's lair.
It turns out that in his previous life, the prince stumbled upon Zhu Yaqin and was immediately struck by her beauty. He approached her to chat, but was rejected by her. Holding a grudge, he plotted to suppress a group of bandits outside the city, claiming they were small, perhaps only a few hundred strong, and asked the emperor to send troops to suppress them.
So the emperor sent the prince of Jingjiwei, who was guarding the capital.
Who knew, that wasn't just a few hundred people? It was almost four or five thousand.
The prince only brought less than 1000 people with him. What’s the difference between that and sending himself to death?
Ginger teleported to the mountain, and a group of people had already started fighting.
But now they are all still images.
Each one of them looks like a wooden man, which is quite fun.
Sheng Jiang found the prince and first released him from his static state.
"Why are you here? Where is your young lady? Aren't you Ruixue?"
"Yes. Ruixue asked me to come and help you." After saying that, Sheng Jiang gave him and Fengnian his memories of his previous life.
"Damn it! The prince is such a shameless villain!" Fengnian cursed angrily. "Prince, let's go back quickly. We're getting married to Miss Zhu tomorrow morning, and we can't afford to delay."
"it is good."
Sheng Jiang lifted the restrictions on the people brought by the prince, quickly eliminated the group of bandits, and then returned home.
When the prince heard the news, he was so angry that he started cursing.
The next day, Zhu Yaqin and the prince got married as they wished.
The Shangshu Mansion and the Marquis of Changning impeached the prince in the court for forming a clique for personal gain, colluding with bandits, abducting women, and intending to rebel.
The emperor was furious, but only for a moment. After all, he only had two sons.
The Crown Prince is the son of his Queen Bai Yueguang. The Second Prince has been sickly and timid since childhood, like a transparent person.
The emperor was reluctant to punish the prince, so Sheng Jiang thought, let's add fuel to the fire.
One day, the emperor was strolling in the imperial garden and saw a woman admiring chrysanthemums. She looked as elegant as a chrysanthemum and even composed an impromptu poem.
"A flower blooms not among a hundred flowers, but alone by a sparse hedge, its interest is endless.
I would rather die with fragrance on the branch than be blown away by the north wind."
The emperor, sensing the poem's aloofness, coughed. The woman admiring the chrysanthemums seemed startled and quickly turned her head away.
This turning of the head did not matter, but it made the emperor stare at her for a long time: she looked so much like the queen.
The Empress also loved chrysanthemums so much, and she never fought for them. This is why she has always been favored over them.
It’s a pity that the queen is already old, while the one in front of him is still young.
As soon as Qingqing saw the man in bright yellow clothes, she quickly knelt down and shouted, "Long live the emperor!"
"Get up, which palace are you from?"
"I am the concubine Wu Qingqing, a talented lady from Yongyi Palace."
"Which lord?"
"If you are as bright as the moon, I will not hesitate to go through the ice and snow to keep you warm. My dear."
The emperor laughed and said, "I love you dearly, so I call you my lord. If I don't love you dearly, who will?"
"But why haven't I seen you before?"
"The Emperor has so many beauties in his harem, perhaps he has forgotten?"
"Isn't that right? Even though I haven't favored so many people, I have seen the portraits of everyone who enters the palace. How could I possibly forget someone as beautiful as you?"
Once the emperor became suspicious, he immediately sent people to investigate.
At this moment, the emperor only saw that there was no one in front of him and just wanted to have a romantic moment with her.
The next morning, the emperor announced to the six palaces that Qingqing would be made a concubine.
When the Empress was checking in with the concubines in the harem, she saw Qingqing and hated her so much that her nails dug into her flesh. But she had to put on an expression as calm as a chrysanthemum.
"The Emperor favors you, but you must also consider the Emperor's health and advise him at all times."
Qingqing rolled her eyes. "Oh. Then isn't it a wife's responsibility to advise her husband? So, Queen, you must fulfill your duties conscientiously."
"I remember that Concubine Qing was originally a palace maid. Where did you work?"
"Oh, it's just cleaning the toilet."
The Queen immediately revealed a mocking expression, "Will it have a lot of flavor?"
"That's right, you don't know, the toilet in Fengzao Palace is the stinkiest, it's simply unbearable, just like some people."
Qingqing's words made all the concubines want to laugh but dare not, and their faces turned red.
The Empress' face turned pale with anger. The Emperor came out of the court and glanced at the Empress.
"My dear, I got a new gadget. Come here." He took Qingqing and left without paying any attention to the queen.
It seems that the emperor found out that the empress bribed the palace painter to paint those who disliked her extremely ugly, leaving only those who posed no threat to her.
The emperor was so angry. He had missed so many beauties over the years!
The emperor now treated Qingqing as his wife and granted her the privilege of bathing in the Huaqing Pool and the favor of the Pepper Chamber.
Qingqing: You're sick! Do all emperors like to play doubles? But let me enjoy it for a while first.
One day, the prince came to the palace and met Qingqing. At that moment, Qingqing was admiring plum blossoms. "I wish to win the heart of one person and stay with him till we grow old together."
The prince was a lecherous person, and when he saw Qingqing's beauty, which was even more stunning than Zhu Yaqin's, he immediately became overjoyed and went forward to pull her apart.
Qingqing was furious, "Prince, please respect yourself! I am the concubine of the palace and your stepmother. How can you be so rude to me?"
"What do you mean by concubine mother? Father is old now. Won't the world still be mine in the future?"
Qingqing was so scared that she ran away quickly.
The prince was unwilling to give up, so he found out who Qingqing was and ran to her palace in the middle of the night.
As soon as he arrived at the palace, he was caught in a huge net and couldn't get out.
"Let me go! I'm the crown prince!"
"presumptuous!"
When the prince heard the majestic voice, his face turned pale with fright.
"Prince, someone told me that you coveted my mother, but I didn't believe it! I never thought you would dare to break into my harem in the middle of the night?!"
"Father, I am innocent. She seduced me! And she is not my mother!"
"I say yes, that's right! The Queen is jealous. She has pretended to be as indifferent as a chrysanthemum for so many years, killing the royal heirs and bribing the ministers in the court. I have issued an edict to abolish her position as the Empress, demote her to a commoner, and confine her to the cold palace to fend for herself!"
"Prince, you have colluded with bandits, formed a clique for personal gain, and are plotting rebellion. You are demoted to a commoner! Expel you from the capital."
The prince's face turned pale instantly.
The prince, who was once high and mighty, suddenly fell into the dust. He had offended so many people before, so it is easy to imagine what kind of life he will face.
Qingqing cast a forgetfulness spell on the emperor, and soon the emperor forgot about the prince.
As soon as the prince was driven out of the capital, his legs and hands were broken and he was forced to beg on the streets. At night, he was taken to the Nanfeng Pavilion to entertain customers, so that he could experience the feeling of being forced.
The prince screamed in fear, half mad and half awake, "Let me go! I am the crown prince of the dynasty, how dare you treat me like this! Father will not forgive you!"
No one paid any attention to him. Ginger thought he was too noisy and turned him into a mute.
Okay, much quieter. The prince's revenge has been achieved.
Oh, by the way, there is also Zhu Ruixue’s family.
Zhu Ruixue was 8 years old when she left. Now, 6 years have passed, and that family is living a wonderful life.
Zhu Ruixue ran away secretly. When the butcher found out that his little white rabbit had escaped, he was so angry that he beat Zhu's mother half to death. She was unable to get out of bed for more than a month. When her injuries healed, she was left with a lifelong disability.
The butcher hated her even more and would rather give his meat to the widows in the village than go home and feed them.
The work at home still depends on the eldest son to study and do odd jobs to support the family.
Fortunately, the eldest son was very hardworking and passed the imperial examination. This made the butcher very happy. Thinking of getting some benefits from him in the future, his attitude towards the family became much better.
The eldest brother didn't want to pay attention to him, but unfortunately, the butcher was his father in name only, and there were 6 children in the family who were all raised by him and his mother, so he could only swallow his anger.
Logically speaking, the second and third children are already 10 years old, so they should be able to do something, right?
The fifth child is 6 years old. The seventh and eighth children are no longer infants, so they can at least share some of the housework within their ability, right?
But there was no one in the family to help Zhu's mother with the housework, so the eldest son was the only one who was burdened.
Zhu's mother also said, "What can I do? I am the eldest child, so you should bear more responsibility."
Five years later, the eldest son no longer had the same high spirits as when he first passed the imperial examination. He had long been dragged down by the family and still hadn't married.
It turns out that people who cannot escape from their original families will not only fail to succeed, but will also be dragged into the mud by their original families.
Sheng Jiang wanted to deal with Zhu's family, so after thinking about it, he decided not to meet Brother Zhu.
It just so happened that Brother Zhu borrowed a book from somewhere else to copy and hasn’t returned yet.
The whole family sat together.
"Mom, I'm hungry. Let's eat. Who knows when big brother will be back?"
"That's right, Mom, I'm starving."
After hearing this, Zhu's mother said, "Okay, then I won't wait any longer."
In fact, the food they ate was not that good. It was just mushrooms picked from the mountains and stewed into soup when they got back.
A few nests were made.
After eating it, the family began to have hallucinations, jumping, dancing, acting crazy and laughing.
"Mom, I see that my eldest brother has become a high-ranking official, and our family now lives in a three-story house."
"Mom, I see so much meat!"
"I saw it too. There were so many gold, silver and jewels."
The whole family went crazy and then fell to the ground, unconscious.
When the eldest brother returned home, he saw people lying on the ground, their bodies cold as ice. He burst into tears and quickly reported it to the police.
The government officials came and concluded that he had accidentally eaten poisonous mushrooms.
As for the butcher, Sheng Jiang changed his appearance and figure, cut off his tongue, and made him look like the prince. He then sent him to Nanfeng Pavilion to let him taste the feeling of being oppressed.
Well, everything that happened in the Zhu family has nothing to do with Brother Zhu. He can study hard for the exam.
Ginger returned the body to Zhu Ruixue.
In this life, the young lady and the prince live in harmony, and Zhu Ruixue and Fengnian are happily married.
As for the old emperor in the palace, Qingqing saw that he was useless, so she killed him and supported the second prince to become the emperor.
The second prince was frail and sickly, and died within a few years. Qingqing then became emperor herself.
Hehe, this is the only way to ensure that Zhu Yaqin and the others will have no worries in their lives.
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