A farmer's daughter who traveled through time: Marrying a sickly man

When Princess Ruihua calmed down, she realized that there must be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.

Otherwise, it was just a statement made in anger, and it didn't specifically point out that poor students were looked down upon. Why did it spread so quickly?

They also spread such vicious rumors about her and Yun'er.

Thinking of this, his face turned cold. "Someone, go investigate who spread this news."

"Yes, Princess." The subordinate replied.

Princess Yunying didn't know that her behavior yesterday had been spread. She was happily waiting in the house for Princess Ruihua to bring her good news.

When the maid came in to report that the eldest princess had returned, she wanted to come over immediately to ask whether the emperor had agreed to grant the marriage.

But just as she left the yard, she ran into Yu Ru, Princess Ruihua's personal maid, who said that the prince consort was with the princess, and the princess asked her to wait a while before going over.

Princess Yunying thought that her father might have something to ask her mother, so she went back first.

She didn't know that her father had already found out about her affairs and was about to teach her a lesson.

During the lunch break, Shen Nian listened to Mu Chen's report on the rumors on the street, nodded, and asked him to continue. It would be best if the report could reach the ears of the censors or imperial censors.

He believed that as long as these censors or imperial censors heard about this, they would definitely impeach Princess Ruihua during the court session.

When the emperor finds out, he will definitely send someone to verify it, and then he will naturally know what happened at that time. If he goes to the emperor for a decision, he will have a better chance of winning.

The emperor loves his people like his own children, and what he hates most are those who oppress the people at will and do not take them into consideration, especially the royal family, princes, and ministers.

Sure enough, before even two days had passed, the emperor received more than one memorial impeaching Princess Ruihua during the morning court session.

The memorial said that Princess Ruihua did not take the students from poor families seriously in front of all the students, and Princess Yunying did not regard human life as a life and actually beat and killed people from bad backgrounds in public.

When the emperor saw this memorial, he became angry and ordered the secret guards to investigate.

The emperor saw the memorial in the morning and knew the whole story before noon.

He kept a sullen face and said nothing for a long time.

It seems that his imperial aunt is a little bit arrogant now. She even allowed her daughter to drown Shen Nian's wife in public, and dared to come to him to ask him to grant a marriage between Yun Ying and Shen Nian.

You really don't take the gossip of the world seriously!

She probably doesn't know how powerful the criticism of writers is.

After Princess Ruihua left that day, the emperor wanted to summon Shen Nian to question her, but he was delayed by official business and forgot about it.

There was no time to find Shen Nian.

Now that he knew, he immediately sent someone to summon Shen Nian to the imperial study to see the emperor.

When Shen Nian heard the emperor's summons, she tidied her clothes and followed the eunuch who summoned her to see the emperor without asking any questions.

"Your humble servant pays homage to the Emperor." Shen Nian saluted.

"No need for formalities." The emperor was sitting behind the desk. He watched Shen Nian finish his formalities before walking over from behind the desk.

"Chu Xuan, is your wife okay?" The emperor asked with concern. The secret guards investigated and said that Madam Shen Nian fell into the lake that day. It took a long time for Shen Nian to pull her out, and then she fainted. No one knew what happened to her.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. My wife just caught a cold and is not seriously ill." Shen Nian replied respectfully. He was not curious about how the emperor knew this, nor did he pretend to be surprised.

"Chu Xuan, my aunt, Princess Ruihua, came to see me and asked me to grant you a marriage with Princess Yunying." The emperor looked at Shen Nian with a sharp gaze.

See if he has any friendship towards Princess Yunying.

When Shen Nian heard this, he immediately knelt on one knee and refused in a firm tone, "Your Majesty, I am deeply concerned about my wife and will not marry any other woman. Please grant my wish."

The emperor looked at Shen Nian, who was as if facing a great enemy, and helped him up with a smile, "I didn't say I wanted to separate you and your wife, why are you so nervous?"

"I am not planning to take a concubine." Shen Nian blocked all other escape routes.

The emperor paused, then laughed again, "Don't worry, I'm just telling you, I won't randomly match you up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Shen Nian's heart was relieved. He had just thought that the emperor was really going to grant him and Yun Ying a marriage.

But speaking of arranged marriages, Shen Nian actually wanted the emperor to grant him and Xia Tian a marriage. With the emperor's arranged marriage, no one would use her background as an excuse in the future.

However, it is not the right time yet. When the time is right, we can ask the emperor to grant the marriage.

"Chu Xuan, have you heard about the recent rumors on the streets about Princess Ruihua and County Lady Yunying?" the emperor asked tentatively.

His secret guard went to investigate, and although he found out the whole story, he couldn't find out how the news was leaked.

"I have heard about it too." Shen Nian replied calmly.

The emperor looked at Shen Nian's expression, which had not changed at all, and thought that he might have guessed wrong.

That must be the students who participated in the poetry meeting who were dissatisfied with Princess Ruihua's actions and spread the news.

"Chu Xuan, Princess Ruihua and County Lady Yunying did something wrong. How do you want to deal with it?" Since he already knows about this, he must give an explanation.

Although Shen Nian also threw Princess Yunying into the water at that time, it was considered a draw.

But Princess Yunying was at fault in this matter, so she still had to give Shen Nian an explanation and not let him down.

Besides, if it is not dealt with, those censors and imperial censors will not give up easily. They are all stubborn guys.

"Your Majesty, I leave it to you to decide." Shen Nian did not directly say what punishment he wanted Princess Yunying to receive. After all, the emperor was here. If he took a tough stance, and the emperor did not want to punish her too severely, he would be embarrassed.

I still have to maintain a good relationship with the emperor and not let him become estranged from me.

At worst, if the emperor doesn’t punish me, I can just do it myself.

"Okay, believe me, I will give you an explanation." The emperor was very satisfied with Shen Nian's attitude.

After saying that, he let Shen Nian take his leave first.

Afterwards, the emperor asked Eunuch Xu, who was by his side, to go to the Princess's Mansion to convey his order.

Princess Ruihua, her husband and everyone else knelt down to receive the decree.

When Eunuch Xu announced that Princess Ruihua and her husband would be fined one year's salary for failing to discipline their children properly, and that Princess Yunying would be demoted to Princess Yunying County for being arrogant and domineering and not caring about the lives of the people, everyone, including Princess Ruihua, was stunned.

They didn't expect things to turn out like this.

When Princess Ruihua realized what was happening and wanted to get some information from Eunuch Xu, Eunuch Xu politely refused and returned to the palace without saying anything.

He knew the emperor very well. If he dared to speculate on a single word, he would probably lose his head.

Princess Ruihua saw that she couldn't get anything out of him, so she waited until Eunuch Xu left before she staggered back to the house, holding the hand of her maid.

Princess Ruihua couldn't understand how this matter had reached the emperor's ears?

Could it be that Shen Nian went to the emperor to complain about her?

Thinking of this, he immediately sent someone to find out what was going on.

After hearing the imperial edict, Princess Yunying remained in a daze.

It was not until her personal maid Bishui came to help her that she realized what had just happened.

He instantly went crazy, shook off Bishui's hand, and rushed into Princess Ruihua's yard.