Born a phoenix? The husband I picked up is the young emperor

Chapter 451

Ever since Shi Yunqi started the duel against Pei Yu, Shi Anxia has been preparing for this day.

She knew only too well the short-sightedness of her father and grandfather.

They have no abilities of their own, yet they yearn for wealth and glory, and for being glamorous in front of others.

Naturally, when a more prominent and powerful person extends an olive branch to them, they will rush over to curry favor with him in a fit of rage, not caring at all about sacrificing their children and grandchildren.

Earlier, the old lady had given the old marquis the "Luyang" poison, and the poison could not be completely cured in a short time.

Doctor Shen prescribed him a kind of medicinal incense as a detoxification method, which was burned in the house all year round.

What they didn't know was that the poison of Luyang could not collide with the medicinal fragrance of Congyin.

Shi Anxia only needs to have someone replace the medicinal incense that the old marquis usually uses with Congyin medicinal incense. When the old marquis is furious, he will naturally feel chest tightness and vomit blood.

As long as the old marquis doesn't do anything naughty, Shi Anxia won't take such a treasonous step.

Unfortunately, there is obviously no old marquis who doesn't make trouble.

As soon as Shi Anxia learned that the old marquis had sent someone to cancel the engagement, she asked someone to replace it with Congyin Medicinal Fragrance.

It was only a few hours, and the old marquis collapsed due to anger. If you want to climb the high branch of imperial power, you have to see if you have the life to enjoy it.

And the letter from the old lady was definitely not a forgery.

At that time, the old lady lived a life of luxury in the Marquis's mansion and had never suffered any hardship in her life. After she went to Changsong Buddhist Temple, her life became miserable.

Fortunately, he had the silver that An Xia gave him, so he was a little better. But Changsong Buddhist Temple was about a day and a night's carriage ride away from the capital, and the temple was built deep in the mountains and forests, so even if he had silver, he would have nowhere to spend it.

She was there recalling the stupid things she had done in her life, and the thing she regretted most was replacing Tang Chujun's son.

If she could treat Qi'er well, even if she had planned to make Tang Chujun her daughter-in-law, she might not have ended up like this.

In short, there, Old Madam Shi became more and more depressed and thin day by day, her eyes were blurred, and her tears dried up.

She and her servant, Nanny Li, ate vegetarian meals, wore plain clothes, and spent their days in ignorance of the weather.

Just at this moment, a letter came from the capital.

At that time, the old lady finally received the letter from home.

But she never expected that the first person to write her a letter was Shi Chengyi.

She had spoiled her son Shi Chengxuan for most of her life, and he never thought of her as his mother at all.

Shi Chengyi mentioned in the letter that he had been promoted from a seventh-rank official to a fourth-rank official and transferred to the post of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. Now the mansion is managed by his wife Yu Sujun, and everything is in order. He hopes that his stepmother will not worry and concentrate on chanting Buddha.

It was really heartbreaking! My already calm and numb heart was disturbed by this letter. How could I concentrate on chanting Buddha's name?

Ah, may the Buddha have mercy on me! Amitabha! Namo Amitabha! Namo... woo woo woo...

In that letter, Shi Chengyi also mentioned that his niece Shi Anxia had run Yunqi Academy very successfully and had also invited two great scholars, Huang Wanqian and Fang Yuchu, to be instructors.

From now on, everyone who graduated from Yunqi Academy would be a disciple of the two great scholars, and their starting points would naturally be different.

Moreover, Anxia wrote beautiful Japanese calligraphy, which was an improvement on the original copy left by the ancestors of the Huang family. She was now regarded as a "teacher" by Master Huang and was to give public lectures in the capital.

Madam Shi looked at the words and imagined how glorious and enviable the Marquis's Mansion was in the capital. It was no longer the stagnant pool where even a big stone could not make a splash.

But she couldn't see it! She couldn't enjoy the glory of the Marquis's Mansion! This was a feeling that could not be calmed down no matter how many times she chanted "Buddha has mercy on me".

The letter was very long, and people who didn’t know would think it was written by her own son to express his longing for her.

The letter even mentioned how Shi Yunqi was famous in the capital, valued by the emperor, and appreciated by teachers from major academies, and that his future was limitless.

The old lady read the letter over and over again with love and hate. Every word and sentence was like thousands of needles piercing her heart, causing her so much pain that she could not sleep at night and suffered from insomnia until dawn.

The candlelight in the Buddhist temple was too dim, and she often stood under the lamp to read letters, which almost blinded her eyes.