965 Please
An old lady in her 60s or 70s, wearing a Golden Phoenix hairpin and exquisite makeup, was lying on the chaise lounge.
She was wearing a black and blue satin Palace robe. The top and skirt were embroidered with phoenixes, and the skirt was embroidered with dazzling sapphires. A black shirt with a hooked collar and a magnificent sleeve embroidered with golden silk thread. The top was embroidered with peonies with silver thread, and there was a string of big pearls around the neck. It looked gorgeous and domineering.
On her right hand knelt a Haggard woman who looked to be in her early thirties.
“Empress Dowager, please help this minister’s wife.” The woman sobbed.
An old maidservant standing beside the Empress Dowager asked with a dissatisfied expression, “Zhengguo Duke’s wife, the Empress Dowager is not in good health. If you have something to say, just say it. Crying will affect the Empress Dowager’s mood.”
The current Emperor was almost sixty years old. As expected, as the emperor’s mother, the Empress Dowager, she must be seventy or eighty years old.
In this era, seventy to eighty years old was already considered a long life.
That being said, they still wanted to live a little longer, especially these noble people who lived comfortable life.
Therefore, seeing a woman crying in front of her early in the morning would seriously affect her mood. When she was in a bad mood, her physical and mental health would naturally be affected.
This crying woman was the Zhengguo Duke’s wife, Wen Yujing.
Wen Yujing was smart enough to know that this would upset the Empress Dowager, but for her son’s sake, she had no choice but to come. Otherwise, her Ye ‘er’s life would be ruined by Zeng Yanli.
Wen Yujing sobbed as she spoke, ” Empress Dowager, I beg you to help me. The Zeng Manor is really too much!”
When Empress Dowager heard this, she frowned slightly and asked with a stern expression, ” speak, what exactly happened? The Zeng Manor you’re talking about should be the Zeng Manor of the Minister of revenue, right? If I did not remember wrongly, the Emperor has decreed that you two will become in-laws, right?”
Hearing this, Wen Yujing’s expression stiffened for a moment, but she quickly recovered.
She cried and complained, “the Empress Dowager is right. The Emperor had betrothed the eldest daughter of the Zeng family to Ye ‘er. But, Empress Dowager, the Zeng residence is really going too far. She knew that the marriage between the Zeng family’s eldest miss and our Ye ‘er was bestowed by the Emperor, but the Zeng family’s eldest miss, she … She …”
She seemed to be unable to continue.
However, her expression was one of anger and grievance.
The Empress Dowager asked sharply, ” then what’s wrong with the eldest miss of the Zeng family?”
She had heard rumors about the eldest daughter of the Minister of revenue, Zeng Yanli.
She had heard that she was a woman who brought bad luck to her husband. She had also seen her a few times. She was fat and unrefined.
Therefore, Empress Dowager was not very happy with the marriage between the eldest miss of the Zeng family, Zeng Yanli, and the second head of Duke zhengguo’s household.
As a hundred-year-old Marquis family, although Duke zhengguo’s mansion had fallen in Jiang Yunfeng’s generation, their prestige was still there. Moreover, Duke zhengguo’s mansion had only a few descendants. To marry a woman who brought bad luck to her husband, wasn’t this the same as Jiang Zhenye ending his bloodline? It didn’t sound good.
This was very likely to make the world view the Emperor as a cruel man, saying that the Emperor deliberately wanted to cut off the duke’s bloodline.
However, after hearing the emperor’s explanation, she knew that the Emperor had his own considerations. Usually, after the Emperor made a decision, she would not go against the Emperor.
Therefore, she did not care about the marriage between the Zeng Manor and Duke zhengguo’s mansion.
But she had never thought that the matriarch of Duke zhengguo’s mansion would come to cry and complain to her.
With tears and snot in her eyes, Wen Yujing explained, ” Empress Dowager, isn’t the marriage between the two families soon? I just wanted to go to the Zeng residence to see if there was anything lacking or to add. For example, the betrothal gifts.
“However, just as Mrs. Zeng and I finished discussing the matter, we suddenly heard a servant girl’s shriek from the backyard of the Zeng Manor. We thought that something had happened and immediately ran to the backyard to take a look. Who knew … Who knew …”
Speaking of this, Wen Yujing seemed to be unable to continue.
The Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with Wen Yujing’s halfway speech. She said sternly, “If you want to say something, then say it properly. You’re hemming and hawing, are you trying to make me send you away? “
