bookbashuk Chapter 96 What an idiot!
Chapter 96 What an idiot!
Logically speaking, Madam Zhou should blame the Shen family, since it was the Shen family who complained to the Emperor.
But she didn't. In her grief and anger, she led her men to puncture the roof of the Song family's house, because it was Madam Song who instigated Zhou Yongyu to plot against the Shen family's daughter.
Madam Song, in order to avenge her daughter and son, had her nephew take action, which resulted in the Zhou family being ruined like this.
When Lord Song returned and saw the state of the room, he was furious. To make matters worse, Madam Song complained to him about how unreasonable her sister-in-law was.
Upon learning that it was his wife who had instigated her nephew to commit this foolish act, Lord Song nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. Unable to hold back, he slapped Madam Song again.
"You even turn against your own family! Did you think it was easy for your brother to get to where he is today? He only has this one son, and instead of teaching him something good, you let him do such a heinous thing!"
The daughter was pregnant with a dragon fetus, but she insisted on sending in some kind of fertility medicine prescription, and the dragon fetus was ruined.
The daughter couldn't win against Lady Shen in the palace, so she complained to her son. She encouraged him to find a censor to impeach her son, and as a result, he was impeached and sent thousands of miles away.
It would have been better if the youngest daughter had approached the Emperor herself to ask for permission to enter the palace, so that the Emperor would know her determination. However, she entered the palace through the Empress's means. Will the Emperor become suspicious of her?
The youngest daughter entered the palace and was initially granted the title of Lady-in-Waiting.
"Guards, escort the lady to the ancestral temple. From this day forward, the lady will pray for the Great Zhou Dynasty at the ancestral temple. Without my order, no one is permitted to visit her, nor is she allowed to step outside the ancestral temple!"
"Master, what do you mean? Are you going to imprison me?" Madam Song was terrified.
Lord Song said, "Madam, for your safety, for the children, and for the sake of the Song family, please spend the rest of your life in the family temple!"
Inside a side hall of Wangxian Palace, Consort Song learned that her mother had been sent to the family temple, and immediately vomited blood.
Seeing this, Madam Song secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her face showed great anxiety. "Sister, how are you? Don't worry, the imperial physician said that your body is weak after the miscarriage and has been damaged. It will be difficult for you to recover, and even if you do, it will be difficult for you to have children in the future. Why are you so anxious and upset?"
Song Jieyu was unable to get up on the spot, blood trickling from the corner of her lips. "You don't need to say these things. I know you want me to die!"
"Sister, how can you say that to me? In this deep palace, we sisters can only survive by supporting each other."
"You don't need to lie to me. I can't stand this kind of hypocrisy," Song Jieyu said. "Your aunt is favored by Father, and I know Father doesn't like Mother. But in this world, Mother is the best to me, and Father only loves you."
Now that my brother has been exiled and my mother is imprisoned by my father, what's the point of my life?
"But do you think that if I die, the Emperor will favor you? Do you think that if I die, you will be promoted to a higher position?" Consort Song smiled sarcastically. "You've seen Lady Shen too. Do you think you can defeat her?"
Song Zhihuan raised her chin. "Sister, if you don't die, the Emperor will never favor me! Sister also knows that the Shen family is very difficult to deal with! Since you've already been rejected by the Emperor and are ruined anyway, why don't you help me get rid of the Shen family before you die?"
Song Zhiyi laughed, "Do you think that just because I've dealt with the Shen family and I'm dead, you'll succeed? Do you believe me? If the Shen family dies, the entire Song family will be wiped out. Besides, do you think you and I can take the Shen family's life?"
Song Zhihuan couldn't bear to hear this. "How will you know if you don't try? Don't you hate her? If it weren't for her, would you have ended up in this state? Back then, you were one of the Nine Concubines!"
"What is Shen Shi? She's just a concubine. Are you really afraid of her, sister? She's favored by the emperor, while you're disliked by him. Are you willing to accept that?"
In Song Zhihuan's words, the fourth-rank Jieyu was like an insignificant lump of mud.
She herself was only a ninth-rank concubine.
Song Zhiyi gave a mocking smile and didn't bother to pay her any attention.
No matter what she said, Song Zhihuan wouldn't listen.
In Song Zhihuan's eyes, she was just a loser.
But she was about to die, and if she didn't take revenge, she would die with her eyes wide open. She would not rest until she bit off a piece of Shen Shixi's flesh.
If it weren't for Shen Shixi, her mother, her brother, and herself wouldn't have ended up in this situation.
In Zhaoyang Palace, Shen Shixi wrote "Journey to the West" for a while, describing how Sun Wukong led a group of monkeys into the Water Curtain Cave and was then crowned king.
She wrote: The stone monkey ascended the throne and told all the monkeys to call him the Handsome Monkey King from then on. He also said, "My children, since you have made me your king, you will have official positions. Today I will bestow titles upon my ministers!"
She couldn't think of a way to appoint the monkey as a minister or advisor, and too lazy to think about it, she simply put down her pen.
When Chaoyu returned from gathering information, he told her what had happened outside the palace. He was not surprised to learn that Zhou Yongyu had died and that Madam Song had been sent to the family temple.
Song Piyang was not a fool.
My wife is so muddle-headed, she's really dragging us down.
From the moment the incident occurred, Shen Shixi knew that Madam Song must have been stirring up trouble behind the scenes, otherwise Zhou Yongyu would have been lustful and made a move against her third sister.
He wouldn't have the guts if it were just lust.
There must be someone instigating this behind the scenes.
"This matter may be considered settled outside, but in the palace, it has only just begun. The Song sisters will definitely not let it go and will certainly make a move against me. You must be careful in everything you do from now on."
Bai Ping was terrified. "Master, are we just going to wait like this? What if they succeed? Won't we all die?"
"No rush! What are you afraid of! When have I, your master, ever been so powerless as to be bullied?" Shen Shixi said. "Last time, I didn't hold it against her because she lost her child. This time, if she dares to lay a hand on me, I'll chop it off!"
As they were talking about this, Consort Qiong arrived, concerned about the braised dishes they had discussed last time, something she had been keeping in mind.
The court is now bustling with activity, with progress made on the Donghu and Xiqiang rebellions, the Jiangnan East Road rebellion, and the Xue Juhui trial. It's all very noisy.
Li Yuanke preferred to make decisions unilaterally, but there were some things he was willing to see argued in the court, so that he could also examine his ministers during the argument.
Li Yuanke has been visiting the inner palace less often lately, which has given Shen Shixi more time.
Shen Shixi happened to be craving something too, and since she had nothing else to do, she went to Consort Qiong's palace.
After the person in charge cooked a large pot, they put the pig's head, offal, and other ingredients into it to cook. Taotie initially smelled the aroma, but then saw that it was all cooked like this, and he didn't know what to say.
These are things that even poor people outside wouldn't eat, yet the ladies of the palace eat them!
But the offal is cleaned very thoroughly. It's used for braised dishes, and without eating it, there's no point.
Once cooked, I took them out and put in two cleaned chickens and ducks. When they were almost done, I added some dried tofu sheets, dried bean curd, lotus root, and other things to cook.
This pot of food smells amazing, the aroma can be smelled for miles around.
Although there was no wind today, the fragrance was so strong that it could be smelled throughout Gyeongbokgung Palace.