A car accident, our family of three crossed

Marquis Cheng'en was already worried about this matter at the moment, and his wife ran to him crying, which made him instantly annoyed.

She swung her wide sleeves and shook off the Marquis's hand, scolding in a deep voice: "As the mistress of the Marquis's Mansion, how can you cry like this? Don't you think it's not chaotic enough now? It's unlucky."

The disdain and impatience in his tone were not concealed at all. When the Marquis's wife heard it, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife.

After Marquis Cheng'en finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the mansion without caring about his wife's expression.

The Marquis' wife was left alone, crying and complaining to the people around her: "I am also worried about my son's safety. What does he mean by this? Does he despise me? My son has just met with misfortune, and he has begun to despise me."

In the Marquis's wife's view, she only has two sons, while the Marquis has more than these two sons, so he cannot understand her future situation.

If these two sons were useless, he could still train his other sons, but what about her? If her two sons were useless, she would probably have no hope for the rest of her life.

If a bastard were to ascend to the throne and gain power in the future, given her past oppression of bastard children, it would be good enough if they didn't retaliate against her, let alone expect others to respect her as the mistress.

In this matter, no one except the Marquis's wife herself could empathize with her, and even the old lady would not care.

No one knows what the Marquis's wife may be thinking at this moment. Even if they know, no one will care, just as she thinks.

It has to be said that people who can sleep in the same bed will understand each other pretty well. On his way to the Dali Temple, Marquis Cheng'en was already thinking about his escape route.

He was thinking that if the eldest son could not be saved, what choice should the Marquis' Mansion make to minimize the losses.

He thought hard all the way until he arrived outside the Dali Temple, and only then did he collect his thoughts.

However, when he got off the carriage and entered the Dali Temple to ask to see Dali Temple Minister Chu Zheng, he was told that anyone related to Zhou Huaiyan would not be seen.

Therefore, he didn't even see the shadow of Chu Zheng before he was stopped by others. No matter how hard he talked, he couldn't get what he wanted and finally had to leave in disgrace.

The Marquis's wife learned from the old lady that the Marquis left the house in a hurry in order to make arrangements for his eldest son. She finally felt a little comforted, because he still cared about his eldest son after all.

So the marquis' wife waited with the old lady, her eyes fixed on the second gate, waiting anxiously, and finally the marquis came back.

Before anyone could enter the hall, the Marquis's wife had already rushed out to greet him, "My Lord, how is it going? Have you arranged everything?"

Marquis Cheng'en felt very upset and upset the whole morning.

First, he was reprimanded by the emperor in front of all the civil and military officials at a court meeting, and then he was stripped of his official position and power, and fined one year's salary.

When he thought about all the disasters that were caused by Zhou Huaiyan, he didn't have a good face when he saw the Marquis's wife.

"Hmph! Look at your good son. He's doing all these bad things outside and he's still trying to take care of it. You'd better pray and see if you can save his head!"

When the Marquis’ wife heard this, her already pale face suddenly lost all color. She staggered and almost fainted again. Fortunately, the people next to her helped her up in time.

"how so……"

The old lady's face also darkened, and she asked in a deep voice the specific reason.

"This morning, the palace was in chaos. We don't even know why Brother Yan was captured. Can you tell me what happened in the court today? Why did it get to this point?"

Marquis Cheng'en took a sip of tea to relieve the blocked air in his chest, and then told the whole story of what had happened during the morning court session.

After hearing this, the old lady said indignantly, "In this noble family in the capital, which young master doesn't commit some minor offenses? What our Yan'er did was not a big deal. Why is His Majesty so serious and insists on accusing our mansion?"

When Marquis Cheng'en thought about it carefully, he began to wonder. Recently, there had been incidents one after another in the Marquis's Mansion, as if someone was plotting against them behind the scenes.

"Have you offended anyone outside recently?"

When asked this question, both the old lady and the marquis' wife were stunned and looked at each other.

"What do you mean? Could it be that someone is deliberately targeting our mansion?"

"Not impossible."

"But we haven't offended any important people!"

The old lady and the marquis' wife pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of what happened in Xiangguo Temple a while ago.

"If there is anything special that has happened recently, it is the incident at Xiangguo Temple."

As soon as I mentioned this, the old lady quickly shook her head and denied it: "But we spent two thousand taels of silver on this matter at the time, and it was already handled. Even if the emperor wanted to punish our people for committing a crime in Xiangguo Temple, it would not have been delayed until today."

"But, apart from this, what else could it be for?"

Mrs. Hou was looking worried. She thought of the mother and son who had a conflict with Zhou Yan at that time. But then she realized that they were just an ordinary woman and child. It was impossible.

On second thought, the old lady of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion was very fond of the mother and son at that time. Could it be that the old lady of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion was targeting the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion behind their backs just to vent their anger?

This is also unlikely. The old lady of the Zhenguo Mansion and the mother and son were just casual acquaintances. How capable could that mother and son be to make the Zhenguo Mansion vent their anger?

Besides, it was just a minor conflict, and it was not worth it for the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion to bother with the Cheng'en Marquis' Mansion.

It has to be said that the Marquis's guess in her heart, which she repeatedly denied, was actually very close to the truth.

The recent series of events that have occurred in the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion were indeed the work of the Zhenguo Duke Mansion.

Zhou Huaili fell off his horse because of Chu Fang's trick, but it was an accident that the horse stepped on his vital parts.

The crime Zhou Huaiyan committed was not originally under the jurisdiction of the Dali Temple. Chu Zheng secretly hired someone to persuade the victims to unite and report Zhou Huaiyan's crimes to the Dali Temple.

All of these things were done with Xiao Yun's tacit approval. Therefore, in the court, Xiao Yun readily removed Zhou Huaiyan from his position as the crown prince and took back the power of Marquis Cheng'en.

From now on, Marquis Cheng'en will truly become an idle marquis, with only a title but no real power at all.

Because of this incident, Marquis Cheng'en became increasingly dissatisfied with his eldest son Zhou Huaiyan, and cared less about his life or death.

After thinking about it, they couldn't think of who they had offended, and they couldn't imagine who would target the Cheng'en Marquis Mansion like this.