After the replacement marriage, I was forced to fight at home

It took a month to wait until King Cheng's family was completely cleaned out. This summer was exceptionally hot, like a big stuffy ball, and no one dared to burst it.

Everyone was very cautious, especially the imperial palace. The incident involving Prince Cheng had made the emperor seriously ill, and Emperor Jing'an had not attended the morning court for more than half a month.

This was not what worried everyone the most. What made everyone anxious was that the emperor's health was deteriorating rapidly, but his temper was not as bad as before. He slept more often than he was awake every day, and most of the time when he was awake he stayed in the palace of the late Empress Dowager.

Prince Jing has been very irritable recently. It turns out that the Emperor has been paying more and more attention to the Crown Prince, and has also become partial to Prince Rui, even asking Concubine Lian and Concubine Xian to help manage the affairs of the harem.

The Meng Hai incident was a great blow to King Jing. He always thought that he had Meng Hai in his hands, but he didn't expect that Meng Hai was loyal to that stupid King Cheng.

He really didn't understand why Meng Hai would follow King Cheng. Was it because the promise King Cheng made to him was higher? But could it be higher than the promise made to the King of a different surname?

The King of Zhenbei returned to Beijing specifically because of Meng Hai's matter. Although that was Meng Hai's personal behavior, as his immediate superior, he could not escape the charge of lax supervision.

The emperor looked at his brother kneeling on the ground, who had made great contributions in his battle for the throne, and sighed. He told him that he should stay in Beijing to chat and play chess with him from now on.

In this way, the eldest son of Prince Zhenbei inherited the title of Prince Zhenbei, and Prince Zhenbei was named Prince Anle by the emperor and lived directly in the palace to accompany the emperor.

After Meng Hai's death, the day after Liu left the capital with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren, the Hong family announced to the public that Grandma Hong San had taken the initiative to go to the "Faqing Temple" to atone her sins.

It was also heard that Prince Jing was very angry with Princess Jing and Master Hong San, and even handed over some important matters that were originally in the hands of the Hong family to the family of his concubine. Princess Jing was so angry that she sent people to "Faqing Temple" to comfort Meng Juan.

Zhou Yu and Meng Wan were not concerned about any disturbances in the capital or the palace. After some time of preparation, the couple were ready to confront the Hu family.

The reason why we have waited until now to take action is because of Zhou Yingrong.

Zhou Yingrong gave birth to her eldest daughter last month. If it weren't for the recent busy schedule, the Xu family would have really wanted to hold a big banquet. No matter how busy Xu Cheng was during that time, he would go home to see his baby daughter at night to feel at ease. Zhou Yingrong told Zhou Yu that he must wait until she was out of confinement before confronting the Hu family.

After discussing, the brother and sister decided to talk to Zhou Yiheng alone first. There were several things they told Zhou Yiheng. One was that Hu drugged Wang, and the witness was Bier; the second was that Hu killed Aunt Yu and the child in her belly, and the witness was Li; the third was that Hu harmed Zhou Yinghan, and the witness was Zhou Yinghan; and the fourth was that Hu threatened the old princess, and the witness was Mrs. Qiu.

As for the matter of Zhou Yiheng and Bai Yueguang, Zhou Yu wanted to wait until he dealt with Hu before talking about it. Because it involved the prince, if Zhou Yiheng really worked for his Bai Yueguang and the prince, it would not be a matter of one or two days, one or two years. There might be more ties hidden between them over the years, so Zhou Yu did not dare to bring this issue to the table easily.

Thinking more deeply, if the prince really values ​​Zhou Yiheng very much, and the prince hates Wang to the core, then even if he exposes Hu, even if it is confirmed that Zhou Zheng is the son of illegitimate children, then after the prince takes that position, Zhou Zheng still has hope. And as long as the prince agrees, Zhou Yiheng will never say a word against it.

Therefore, Zhou Yu had to plan carefully. Although Meng Wan had received a promise from Meng Qi that there would be no problem for at least ten years, what about ten years later? The Crown Prince had not even taken the position yet, but he had already shown his dissatisfaction with the Rui Wang who had worked hard for him. It was said that the Crown Prince and the Rui Wang were very angry about Wang Boyuan's matter, Meng Changfeng's matter, and the Cheng Wang's matter.

Who knows how many years the prince can pretend to be the emperor when he becomes the emperor? Zhou Yu's card of Zhou Yiheng supporting the prince can be said to be his last trump card. He will use it at the critical moment, that is, when he finds out the final intention of the king. Of course, since knowing about Zhou Yiheng, Zhou Yu has asked Uncle Qi to keep an eye on Zhou Yiheng, including Xie Qingzhong.

After hearing Zhou Yu talk about his plan to confront Zhou Yiheng first, Meng Wan remained silent for a long time.

"What? Is there anything wrong?" Zhou Yu asked softly, "Sister also told me to ask for your opinion. If you think it's not good, we can discuss it again."

Meng Wan paced back and forth in the room. The glass windows were wide open. It was so hot outside that there was not a breath of wind. The ice basin in the corner was emitting a slight cool breeze from the ice that had just been refilled.

"There's nothing wrong with this, but it's a little less sharp."

"What do you mean?"

"Ayu, this is what I think. When people are unaware of something, their words are often more convincing, and those who want to listen will hear more things they originally didn't want to know."

Seeing Zhou Yu's still confused expression, Meng Wan walked up to him and whispered softly. Zhou Yu's face gradually showed a hint of lust, and then he held Meng Wan's face and kissed her fiercely, "My dear wife, you are really smart. That's right, let her say it herself. Even if my father wants to argue for her, there is nothing he can do."

Meng Wan nodded, "Yes, just as you said, after so many years, the prince is not unaware of what Mrs. Hu did, how she treated you, and the real cause of mother's death. It's just that he covered his eyes, and he also wants to cover ours, so if we explain these things to him directly, it's not impossible for him to suppress them. Even if he knows the cause of Aunt Yu's death, after so many years, he no longer has any feelings for her. He will never let his wife, who gave birth to two children, pay for the life of a concubine who died."

Zhou Yu hummed, "I see. I'll go find my elder sister now and rearrange this matter. If what you said is true, it won't just be a matter between us siblings."

"Yes, go ahead, don't be afraid of spending money."

Zhou Yu was stunned, looked at Meng Wan's determined eyes, nodded knowingly, and then walked out.

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Mrs. Hu said angrily, "Why? I have never heard of a girl marrying off and having to choose her own betrothal gift. Don't you know her status? Is this not enough? She wants twice as much? Does she have the brains to give twice as much?"

Yunxiang picked up the broken pieces on the ground and sighed inwardly. This was the fourth teacup that Hu had broken this month. These cups were all in sets. If one was broken, the others would be unusable. These sets were all top-quality sweet white porcelain teacups. I think that the Curry no longer had this quality. If another one was broken, I would have to find a way to buy another one.

Mother Lu came forward to wipe the water stains off Hu's hands and said softly, "She was originally in the Queen's Palace, thinking that she could learn some good things. But she didn't expect what happened to Prince Cheng. Now her family has fallen into the hands of her uncle and aunt, and they will naturally not lead her to a good place."

"Hmph, don't speak for her. I heard that she was a troublemaker in the Queen's Palace a while ago. She would always ask if Princess Fanghua had anything she wanted. I've heard of people asking for things, but I've never seen someone so shameless and straightforward. No, I have to find the prince and see if I can think of a way to get the emperor to cancel this marriage."

When Mrs. Hu said this, she stretched out her hand and rubbed her forehead. "Is this Bi'er dead? Was she seduced away by a strange man? It's been such a long time, and there's not even a message. I have a terrible headache, and she's nowhere to be found."

Mother Lu quickly walked behind Mrs. Hu and gently rubbed her temples. "I have asked people to search everywhere, but they couldn't find even a shadow of her. The officer even went to her master's place several times for this, but he didn't see her. I wondered if the princess guessed right."

Mrs. Hu was stunned. Could there really be an accident? She didn't rule out this possibility. Bi'er often went to see her master. At first, she arranged for someone to protect her. Later, Bi'er went there and came back by herself. There was no problem at all.

Then Hu sighed. This must be the case. Maybe something went wrong on the way when she went to find her master last time. What should I do with this headache? It seems that I have to let Brother Zheng find a solution.

Mother Lu watched Yunxiang walk out, lowered her head and said softly, "Princess, if you are really dissatisfied with Princess Zhenru, this old servant has a solution."

Mrs. Hu waved her hand, motioning for Mrs. Lu to come over to her and answer, "Oh? Do you have any good ideas?"

"I'm thinking that Princess Yuan Zhenru was ordered by the Emperor to study etiquette in the Queen's Palace until she got married. Even if we have some ideas, we can't interfere, right? Now that she's gone to her uncle's house, to put it bluntly, even an official can get in, let alone people from the Meritorious Society."

Mrs. Hu stood up and walked back and forth in the room twice, her eyes became sharp, "That's right, why didn't I think of it? Since we can't expect the emperor to withdraw his will to grant the marriage, then if the person is dead, what can I ask my son to marry?"

"Princess, I mean to make something else happen. If she is really gone, won't our Third Young Master be known as a wife-killer?"

Mrs. Hu clapped her hands. "Yes, yes, yes, why didn't I think of that? You are right. So, send someone to see if you can get Brother Zheng to come back."

Mother Lu responded respectfully, and when she walked out of the gate of Junyueju, she looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to her. After thinking for a while, she went to the laundry room.

After a while, Song Zhu's family entered Qinghe Garden.