Quick Wear: The Enchanting Concubine, Rules of Survival and Plunder

Jiang Huishu went to the palace the next day, and then left the Gu family half a month later, moving into a house that her niece, as the empress, had bestowed upon her.

The emperor also bestowed upon her the title of First-Rank Imperial Lady, which meant that even though Jiang Huishu was divorced, no one dared to underestimate her.

After all, with the Emperor and Empress backing Jiang Huishu up, who would dare to look down on her?

Of course, the Jiang family was an exception. They felt that Jiang Huishu's divorce was a disgrace to the Jiang family, and they complained that the Empress did not care and instead indulged Jiang Huishu's recklessness.

Therefore, Madam Jiang submitted a petition to the palace.

Because they were the Empress's maternal family, the Jiang family received the title of Duke Cheng'en, and the family moved to the capital. It can be said that when one person attains power, even their chickens and dogs rise to heaven!

Of course, Jiang Chunxi wouldn't let the Jiang family take full advantage of her. Giving them a title would be good enough; don't even think that she could help them secure an official position in the imperial court.

However, she wouldn't deliberately suppress the Jiang family. If any capable descendants of the Jiang family were to enter the court and become officials through their own abilities, Jiang Chunxi wouldn't suppress them just because she disliked them.

Here's the question: what about Gu Yanjin?

After Gu Yanjin and Yan Jialuo got married, he applied for a posting to a remote and harsh place to serve as an official.

Gu Bingkun supported his son's decision, saying that his son was still young and it would be good for him to go out and gain experience for a few years.

Madam Gu was reluctant to let her grandson go to a remote and harsh place, but when she thought of her grandson's feelings for Jiang Chunxi, she could only let him go, no matter how reluctant she was.

Yan Jialuo didn't want to go to such a harsh and cold place with Gu Yanjin, but the problem was, her unwillingness was useless! She had already married Gu Yanjin, and whether she went or not was not up to her.

As for her family...

Her father was living in constant fear of being executed by the emperor, and he had almost become a coward. He would never stand up for his daughter and become the center of attention so that the emperor would focus on him.

When Madam Jiang and her mother entered the palace, Jiang Chunxi naturally gave them a severe scolding. She also made it clear to them that she only cared about her aunt, Jiang Huishu, in the entire Jiang family. If the Jiang family dared to cause any trouble for her aunt behind her back, then they shouldn't blame her, the Empress, for being impolite to the Jiang family.

In short, if anyone in the Jiang family dares to offend her aunt, she will take action against the entire Jiang family, even wiping out their entire clan.

Madam Jiang and her mother left the palace with trembling legs. From then on, no one in the Jiang family dared to say anything about Jiang Huishu's divorce. They even had to fawn over Jiang Huishu, for fear that if Jiang Huishu was unhappy, the Empress would take her anger out on the Jiang family.

Jiang Chunxi received the news of Yan Jialuo's death during childbirth when she was pregnant with her second child.

This really surprised Jiang Chunxi. She didn't expect that Yan Jialuo would die before she even had a chance to do anything to her.

In fact, after Gu Yanjin and Yan Jialuo got married, Gu Yanjin was unwilling to consummate their marriage. Yan Jialuo also had no intention of consummating their marriage with Gu Yanjin. After all, she and Gu Yanjin disliked each other. She was actually happy that Gu Yanjin was unwilling to consummate their marriage.

However, the place where Gu Yanjin was sent was too harsh. When Yan Jialuo arrived there, it was unbearable for someone like her who had grown up in luxury. Every day there was torture for her.

So she came up with a plan: to consummate her marriage with Gu Yanjin and get pregnant, then use the child in her womb as leverage to force Gu Yanjin to agree to let her return to the capital.

However, Gu Yanjin refused to consummate their marriage, so Yan Jialuo had no choice but to drug Gu Yanjin and get pregnant.

What Yan Jialuo didn't expect was that no matter how much trouble she caused with the child in her womb after becoming pregnant, Gu Yanjin was heartless and refused to let her return to the capital. Moreover, when Yan Jialuo had a difficult childbirth, the midwife asked him whether to save the mother or the child. Gu Yanjin abandoned Yan Jialuo without hesitation and chose to save the child.

So, Yan Jialuo died with her eyes wide open in disbelief. She probably couldn't have imagined, even on her deathbed, that she would end up like this!

As for the child Yan Jialuo gave birth to, it was ultimately lost because the father, Gu Yanjin, did not take it seriously, which led to the wet nurse and servants not taking good care of the child. The child died of a cold before it was even a month old.

A year later, Gu Yanjin also died in the line of duty when a landslide occurred while he was evacuating people in the area under his jurisdiction due to a once-in-a-century heavy rain.

When news of his death reached the capital, Old Madam Gu was unable to bear the blow and passed away after being bedridden for half a month.

He must have felt immense regret on his deathbed, wondering why he had given his son the idea of ​​giving Jiang Huishu contraceptives, which resulted in the Gu family having only Gu Yanjin as their sole heir.

Gu Bingkun lost his son first, then his mother. He was devastated by the successive blows and fell ill. He was even unable to handle his mother's funeral. In the end, Gu Yanting, who was already married, returned to her parents' home to take on the responsibility.

“Father,” Gu Yanting blew on the medicine in the spoon and fed it to Gu Bingkun, “tell me, isn’t losing your son in your old age a form of retribution?”

Gu Bingkun frowned and looked at his daughter with a scrutinizing gaze: "You hate your father."

"Heh!" Gu Yanting chuckled lightly, withdrew her hand and put the spoon into the medicine bowl. "Shouldn't a daughter hate me? Because of my mother's death, you hate me, your daughter. If it weren't for my grandmother's protection, my life in this Gu family would probably have been even more difficult than Jiang's. It's hard to say whether I would have been able to grow up."

"There's just one thing I can't understand. You're blaming me for my mother's death, but weren't you the one who caused her to die in childbirth? After all, if it weren't for you getting my mother pregnant with me, how could she have died in childbirth?"

"So why don't you hate yourself? Instead, you blame me for my mother's death," Gu Yanting said with a mocking smile. "What's even more ridiculous is that you married that substitute, Jiang Shi, after my mother died. Aren't you afraid that if my mother knew this in the afterlife, she would be disgusted by your so-called deep affection?"

“So, it makes sense that your loss of your son in your old age is retribution,” Gu Yanting put down the medicine bowl in her hand and looked at Gu Bingkun with sarcasm. “I guess what Father is thinking now is, if retribution is to befall you, why is it not your daughter who died, but your precious son?”

"I never thought that way," Gu Bingkun said, a look of guilt in his eyes. "I admit I've wronged you, my daughter, but I won't..."

"Alright," Gu Yanting stood up, "Father, there's no need for you to say anything sentimental to your daughter, because I'm afraid it will offend my ears. I need to keep watch at the grandmother's funeral hall, so I'll take my leave now. I won't feed you the medicine; you can drink it yourself!"

After saying that, Gu Yanting got up and left. She only said those words to vent her anger, and she didn't want to be disgusted by Gu Bingkun's words of regret and guilt.