Chapter 281: The Lady of the State Comes to the Nine Kings Mansion
Nan Xing and Nanny Xu who were accompanying her supported the Duke's wife on one side and the other on the left.
Xiao Mingxuan walked down the steps and gave a big salute to the Duke's wife.
The Duke’s wife was stunned and said hurriedly:
"Your Majesty, you are so embarrassed."
Xiao Mingxuan said calmly:
"This is a gift that the king is willing to accept, and it is what the duchess and his wife deserve."
"Li'er was injured in my palace because of my lack of care. I should come to apologize in person."
The Duke's wife shook her head and sighed.
"The prince said this, but it makes my wife feel ashamed."
"What kind of temperament does my daughter have? I understand in my heart that if a cow doesn't drink water, no one will force its head down."
"Besides, the butler has already told me what happened, so the prince doesn't have to worry."
"It's just that with her making a fuss, the immediate matter has been resolved, but I'm afraid the Queen Mother -"
"Madam, you don't have to worry, I will take care of everything."
The Duke's wife nodded.
"Then I'll go in and see her first."
"please."
Xiao Mingxuan turned sideways, and the Duke's wife led people up the steps and filed into the house.
In the yard, the housekeeper watched his prince staring at the window without blinking.
"Your Majesty, why don't you come into the house?"
Xiao Mingxuan waved his hand.
"If the mother and daughter have something to say, I will not go in."
As he spoke, he pulled on his flat cuffs and rubbed his back molars.
"I, the king, have one more important thing to do."
"Your Majesty means--"
The housekeeper glanced to the northwest.
Xiao Mingxuan didn't say anything, turned around and walked towards the school grounds in the northwest direction.
In the room, as soon as the Duke's wife saw her daughter lying on the bed with a pale face, her previously forbearing strength was completely broken at this moment, and she burst into tears.
"Smelly girl, you stinky girl, there is not a day that goes by that your mother doesn't worry."
"Mother, I'm sorry, I made my mother worried. It's my daughter's fault."
Luo Jiuliza struggled to get up.
"What did you get up for?"
The Duke's wife quickly pressed her shoulders.
"Lie down and recuperate. Mother is just too worried, so she has to come to see you."
"Fortunately, it's not as serious as I thought, which is a bit of a relief."
Luo Jiuli held his mother's hand.
"Don't worry, mother, I cherish my life very much, how could I let her hurt me."
"What's more, this is part of my plan. I have carefully calculated every step. That Qiulian will only enter my plan step by step and will not affect the overall situation."
"well!"
The Duke's wife sighed and blamed herself.
"It was your mother who failed to protect you, so you had to face these dirty things."
"What is mother talking about?"
Luo Jiuli's eyes felt a little hot.
"It's because I was so well protected before that I almost died in Prince Zhao's Mansion because I didn't know the sinister nature of people's hearts."
"After that incident, I swore that as long as I was not controlled by others, I would take back the humiliations I had suffered one by one."
"Besides, now that the prince is backing me, my father and eldest brother are returning to Beijing."
She no longer fights alone.
The Duke's wife clapped her hand.
"Just think clearly. No matter what you do, mother will support you."
"Just don't use your own body as bait in the future to do such scary things."
"Well, my daughter remembers it. This is the first and last time."
"That's good, that's good."
With her daughter's promise, the Duke's wife was finally relieved.
"There is one more thing that mother wants to tell you."
This was one of the reasons why she came to the Nine Princes' Mansion.
"What's up?"
Luo Jiuli saw that his mother's face suddenly became serious, thinking it was something important.
"Is it about your marriage to the prince? And what happened that night the year before last. Your father...has already sent back the letter."
The Duke's wife grabbed her daughter's hand, her eyes filled with love, confusion, regret, and suspicion. All kinds of emotions were intertwined together, making her eyes gradually turn red again.
"Is what happened that night true?"
The night before her daughter got married to Prince Zhao, someone actually plotted to have what happened with the Nine Princes.
But as a mother, she had no idea.
To this day, I don't have any doubt.
Even though he was suspicious at first, there were so many powerful ladies in the capital, and the Ninth Prince couldn't choose any of them, but he chose her daughter.
Now that I think about it, everything happened for a reason, but she was blinded and ignored many things.
She thought she was a good mother, but she didn't know until now that she was not a good mother, and what she did was not enough.
Luo Jiuli was stunned. In fact, she had been prepared for her mother to learn the truth, but she didn't expect that it would be under such circumstances.
She nodded silently.
The Duke's wife closed her eyes in distress, tears fell down, and she stepped forward and hugged her daughter gently.
"It's all my mother's fault, it's all my mother's fault. If my mother had cared more about you, she wouldn't have -"
"I don't blame my mother for this. It was Yan Tinglian who cast a spell on me and erased my memory of that night. Even I don't remember it."
Luo Jiuli patted the Duke's wife gently on the back and tried his best to comfort her.
Every elderly woman in this world, whether she is a lady from a powerful family or a daughter of an ordinary person, does not live for her parents before getting married, lives for her husband after getting married, and lives for her children after having children.
It took many years for a daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law, and her children are everything to her.
I learned such heartbreaking news unexpectedly one day, and there are few who can bear it.
"That Yan Tinglian deserves death. He really deserves death for his crime."
The Duke's wife is such a dignified and generous woman. In the past, she would have never been willing to say such curses and curses as the Duke's wife.
But now, anger has burned his reason, and no matter how noble he is, he cannot bear to be persecuted like this.
"Mother, the past is in the past, and Yan Tinglian has long since turned into a pile of withered bones. To be honest, Yan Tinglian is not the only person who should be hated."
Luo Jiuli's tone was chilling.
"Xiao Zhumo, he thinks that with his status as the emperor's son and Prince Zhao, he can be safe? Humph!"
What does he care about most? Then what will she let him lose?
Sooner or later, she would take revenge.
Beside, when Nanny Xu heard this, she was so distressed that she burst into tears.
She had watched Luo Jiuli grow up, and she had never imagined that the child she had held in her arms and cared for since childhood would be so ill-fated.
"Madam, madam, now that you have finally come to the end of your hardships, madam, please stop mentioning those past events."
As Nanny Xu spoke, she wiped her wife's tears with a handkerchief.
"The young lady doesn't know that since she received the letter from the Duke, my wife has cried over and over again and couldn't sleep all night long. She either sighed or sighed long and short."