Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 356

This Beast Blood Gu was such a useful thing, but I don't know how that good-for-nothing Consort Xue managed to do it. The Ninth Prince and Consort Jing were both safe and sound, but she herself was infected with the Beast Blood Gu and even bit the Emperor!

Although Marquis Changguo never intended to keep Consort Xue alive, he didn't want to get rid of her in this way either!

Consort Xue was sent to the palace by the Chu family, so the emperor's suspicion of the Chu family will definitely intensify!

Fortunately, Marquis Changguo no longer expects to regain the emperor's trust; the Chu family is now embarking on a different path to seize power.

Marquis Changguo has already reached an agreement with the envoys of Western Qi on cooperation, which is no longer just a simple monetary transaction.

The Chu family gave almost all the military and political information they knew about Bei Yi to Xi Qi, and provided Xi Qi with many conveniences in Bei Yi, such as using the family's influence to help Xi Qi people infiltrate Bei Yi and establish strongholds in places like the capital.

In addition to providing the Chu family with a large amount of money to recruit soldiers and horses, the Western Qi also provided the Chu family with weapons, military supplies, food and horses, helping the Chu family, which lacked military power, to build their own private army in order to launch an uprising in the future.

Currently, what troubles Marquis Changguo the most is that Western Qi wants more and higher-level military secrets from Beiyi, especially those of the Shen family army, but Marquis Changguo cannot provide them.

It was already quite an achievement for the Chu family to be able to place a few low-ranking spies in the Ministry of War; they simply couldn't get involved with the Shen family's army.

The envoys from Western Qi have come several times, urging them quite urgently. If they can provide the weapons, Western Qi will supply the Chu family's private army with five thousand firearms, which will significantly boost the army's strength.

Marquis Changguo is racking his brains over this matter.

He walked back and forth in the garden with his hands behind his back. When he looked up, he saw Wei Yunluo standing under the veranda in the distance, lost in thought.

Marquis Changguo had almost forgotten about his daughter-in-law.

Everyone in the Changguo Marquis's mansion was dissatisfied with Wei Yunluo, the wife of the heir. After marrying into the family, she had not given birth to any children and had only been Chu Tianming's punching bag.

Now that Chu Tianming has been exiled for life, she is essentially living a life of widowhood in the Marquis of Changguo's mansion, with no sense of presence whatsoever, spending most of her time in her own courtyard.

Marquis Changguo frowned. Wei Yunluo, who was in the distance, saw Marquis Changguo and hurriedly came over to bow respectfully.

"My lord..."

Marquis Changguo disliked her as his daughter-in-law, and she didn't even dare to call him "father-in-law."

Since Chu Tianming was exiled, Wei Yunluo was finally free from his violent beatings and tortures, but she also became a half-widow, and a widow whom no one looked down on or liked.

Now, her status as the wife of the heir apparent is completely nominal. In the Changguo Marquis's mansion, she lives like a transparent person, staying at home to avoid being looked down upon. She receives a meager monthly allowance that is deducted from her pay, and lives a life of careful survival in her own courtyard with two maids.

She was consumed by regret and reminiscence every day, wondering what a wonderful life she would be living now if she had married Shen Jingyang...

She felt that at such a young age, she had already lost all vitality and hope, withering away day by day in this remote little courtyard...

Marquis Changguo felt annoyed when he saw Wei Yunluo. He waved his hand as if shooing away a fly, dismissing Wei Yunluo from the room.

But then a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he remembered something he had never considered before, so he called out to Wei Yunluo.

"and many more."