Husband, please lend me your virtues

Chapter 185: Beating up the family who used favors to ask for marriage (11)

Among them, Zhang Jiji was locked up in a cell alone and interrogated by the Ministry of Justice, mainly to find out the remaining spies from Beidi.

When Qian Xiuyuan was imprisoned, he thought that his conspiracy with Zhang Jiji had failed, which led to Princess Changning slandering him in front of the emperor and throwing his entire family into prison.

Therefore, when facing the fear and endless cursing of the remaining Qian family members, Qian Xiuyuan rarely said a word and just let them curse the culprit.

Thinking that due to his mother's life-saving grace to the Queen, even if the Qian family had to suffer a lot, their lives would not be in danger, and they might even be able to keep their position as imperial merchant.

But as time passed, some shocking screams would always be heard from his mother's cell, and Qian Xiuyuan was no longer so sure.

He always felt uneasy, as if the Qian family's glory was coming to an end.

When Qian Xiuyuan had been in prison for half a month, the sounds of firecrackers and gongs and drums outside kept reaching his ears. In a trance, he heard the jailers guarding them discussing the grand wedding of Princess Changning today.

Princess Changning’s wedding?

With Wen Shao who came back from the dead?

Qian Xiuyuan regretted that he was blinded by greed and believed his mother's words, and now his whole family is in jail.

Even Jiangnan’s grandmother and her group were not left behind.

On the other side of the street, separated from the prison by a wall, Wen Shao rode his horse in front of the bridal sedan and ordered the men clearing the way to distribute wedding candies and silver to the people watching nearby.

Zhuang Zijin sat in the bridal sedan, listening to the noisy sounds outside, and was soon brought into the princess's mansion by Wen Shao.

In the princess's mansion, Zhuang Zijin's elder sister Princess Le'an and her younger sisters were waiting for Zhuang Zijin's arrival, followed by their respective princes-in-law.

The princes-in-law stood behind the princesses with smiles on their faces. They looked gentle and there was no sign of dissatisfaction with the princesses' wives as shown in the play.

Zhuang Zijin glanced through the veil at the princess's mansion that had been prepared for her a few years ago. As soon as she was led into the princess's mansion by Wen Shao, the emperor and empress arrived at the princess's mansion, sat at the top, and stared at the two of them with a smile as the ceremony began.

Zhuang Zijin was led by Wen Shao with a red silk scarf back to the bed in the main courtyard, and his veil was lifted with a scale bar with a wedding character on it. After drinking the wedding wine, Wen Shao was dragged to the front courtyard by his bold subordinates to drink, and it seemed that he would not return until he was drunk.

Zhuang Zijin sat on the bed, with two personal maids waiting beside her. It was her own territory, so she felt very comfortable. However, the women of the Wen family and the royal family beside her were very reserved. They only dared to sit beside her and chat about topics that interested her.

The emperor and empress sat for a while in the princess's residence and then returned to the palace. At the banquet, the princes-in-law and Wen Shao's subordinates who had some say toasted Wen Shao with one cup after another.

The consort of Zhuang Zijin's fifth sister Princess Jingle took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, raised his eyebrows at Wen Shao, and pulled the drunk Wen Shao aside.

"General Wen, I really don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse for you to marry the princess."

Princess Jingle's husband Fei Jingsuo was quite dissatisfied with his princess wife's second sister. An unmarried old princess actually went to her own sister to make trouble.

As a result, Princess Jingle blocked him and his sweetheart together yesterday and took his sweetheart away.

In just a cup of tea, his charming and docile little sweetheart came to him with an apology and told him that she would never contact him again and hoped that he would have a smooth life from now on.

Fei Jingshuo grabbed his sweetheart's hand with red eyes and asked, "Did the princess use your family or yourself to force you to leave me?"

"She can't use this method to force me to come back to her. Even without you, I would rather shave my head and become a monk than pretend to please her!"

"Jingle, this vicious woman!"

"No, Master Fei, you misunderstood. Princess Jingle is such a kind-hearted person. It is your great honor to marry her. How can you slander her?"

"Princess Jingle found a good way out for me. Go to Mobei and start a small business. The people there are tough and sturdy. As long as a woman can stand on her own, her status in Mobei is no worse than that of a man."

Fei Jingshuo was furious. "You actually gave up being my man for a business that has no shadow? Isn't the money I can give you more than what you can get from doing some small business?"

"Maybe I have the money to start a small business to support myself, which is better than being a mistress of a noble family's son."

"you you!"

When Princess Jingle saw Fei Jingshuo was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick, some of the resentment in her heart disappeared.

What the second sister said was indeed correct. This good son-in-law of hers was really a waste of his time. He actually oppressed a decent woman and made her his mistress.

"Fei Jingshuo, please don't make a fuss here. Tomorrow is my second sister's big day. I will let you go for now. Later, I will report you to my father."

Her second sister provided her with this information and gave her advice. She did not need to beat or scold the prince consort, but should go directly to the emperor and seek justice for herself.

By then, Fei Jingshuo, who originally came from a poor family, would have lost his status as a royal consort, and the Fei family would not even be able to afford to rent a house in the capital, so they had to leave the capital in disgrace.

As Fei Jingshuo dared to betray her, she would certainly not let him go easily. It would be best if she could exile him, but she also knew that it was not easy to exile the prince consort. At the very least, he would have to be beaten with a few sticks.

Fei Jingshuo recalled the dangerous situation of yesterday and Princess Jingle's repeated claims of wanting to divorce him.

If it weren't for the fact that today was Princess Changning's wedding day, the shrew Princess Jingle would have beaten him until his head was bleeding.

They had even started to guard against him and sent a guard to watch him. If he hadn't been alert, how could he have found an opportunity to capture Wen Shao alone?

"Princess Jingle is spying on me because of some trivial matters and wants to divorce me. General Wen, you have worked so hard to marry Princess Changning, who is even more powerful than Princess Jingle."

As soon as Fei Jingshuo finished speaking, Wen Shao threw him to the ground. "Fifth Prince Consort, watch your words. Princess Changning is not someone you can insult. You can't blame Princess Jingle for your behavior."

Fei Jingshuo was caught off guard and fell to the ground. He covered his bruised knee and limped away from Wen Shao.

He expected Wen Shao to become like him in the future, a weak husband with no say in anything, and even the divorce had to be decided by the princess.

If it weren't for the Fei family behind him, would he have followed Princess Jingle to attend Princess Changning's wedding banquet and tried to please her even though Princess Jingle had hurt his reputation?

Wen Shao did not take this little episode to heart. Not long after, he left the banquet and returned to the main courtyard on the grounds that he was drunk. When everyone smelled the strong smell of alcohol on Wen Shao, they dared not stop him.

Wen Shao returned to the main courtyard, reported to Zhuang Zijin outside the curtain, and went next door to wash off the smell of alcohol to avoid disturbing Zhuang Zijin.