12dz Chapter 482: Immortal Appearance and Gentleness
Chapter 482: Immortal Appearance and Gentleness
Chapter 482: Immortal Appearance and Gentleness
Ji Rong went to do her errand happily. This scene was seen by Quan Qingyun. Although he couldn't hear what Ye Wenyan said to Ji Rong as he was sitting opposite her, he knew just by looking at Ji Rong's smile that Ye Wenyan was definitely up to no good.
Then he looked at his sister who was sitting high up in the first seat. She had changed her clothes and had bandage marks on her arms. It was said that she was beaten by Ye Wenyan. He shook his head helplessly, and then smiled softly.
For many years, this imperial sister has hated Northern Qi ever since she married Qiuhu. Giving them good things for Qiuhu was not out of love for her brother, but an attempt to win them over so that they could provide her with information about Northern Qi.
Most of the reason why King Qiuhu attacked Northern Qi was because of this imperial sister. She wanted to use Qiuhu to avenge her personal grudge. Unfortunately, how could the little Qiuhu be a match for Northern Qi? Northern Qi did not even send out Ye Zhenwei. Ye Jinggui defeated them at the doorstep and beheaded the king directly.
I think the king truly loved his wife. Even in that situation, he still asked Ye Jinggui not to kill his wife before he died.
Since the imperial sister returned to the country, she did not dare to openly hate Northern Qi and her father, so she transferred the hatred to Ye Jinggui.
The Ye family obviously knew the twists and turns here, and they also knew that the emperor felt sorry for his daughter. So they silently took the blame for many years. During this period, they did not respond or pay attention to all the provocations and curses from the princess. But they did not expect that many years later, when Ye Wenyan grew up, they would not continue to bear the blame.
Jiang Wanting and Chi Feifei sat at Ye Wenyan's table, and the ladies of the two families also sat over there, squeezing Ye Wushuang out.
Ye Wushuang had no choice but to find a seat at the table next to her. Facing a table full of unfamiliar ladies and young ladies, she was extremely embarrassed. Especially when someone asked her whose daughter she was, and she said she was the daughter of the second master of the Ye family, everyone showed an expression of "it turns out to be you", and some even said impolitely: "Is it the second master of the Ye family who was dismissed from his official position?"
"Well, it doesn't matter whether his position is changed or not. He is just a general who has never fought in a war and has few soldiers under his command."
Another person pulled Ye Wushuang aside, "I heard that you were born to the concubine that Second Master Ye kept outside. You are the same age as the Third Miss Ye, right? Back then, the Xiao family was very powerful and suppressed the Second Branch of the Ye family. Under such circumstances, you were born. Your father was really generous. Is your mother very beautiful? Otherwise, how could Second Master Ye dare to take such a big risk to keep her."
"Of course she is beautiful. Look at this young lady. Isn't she pretty? What a pity. No matter how pretty she is, she is still inferior to Fourth Miss Ye. I'm afraid that no one in the past hundred years can be prettier than Fourth Miss Ye."
Ye Wushuang was so angry that she was confused and her eyes went dark. But she still tried her best to maintain her elegance and dignity, and said to those people with a smile: "We should not talk about the elders' affairs."
"Tsk." Someone rolled his eyes. "What's there to say badly? It's been spread these past two days. Everyone in Lin'an knows about it! I also heard that you two have bad fates. As soon as you returned home, you brought disaster to the Ye family and asked the Sixth Prince to bring people to confiscate all your second house, right? Is that true?"
The person next to him said, "Do we still need to ask her? This must have happened. I saw people from the Su Palace setting up stalls on the street. Oh, by the way, this new Miss Ye, did you know the eldest princess before? Otherwise, why did you return to your roots yesterday and come here to attend the eldest princess' birthday banquet today? When did the eldest princess send you the invitation? Yesterday?"
Ye Wushuang wanted to avoid the topic, but those girls were all very stubborn and kept asking her questions. She had no choice but to open her mouth and said with difficulty: "I came here with my fourth sister."
"Are you coming with Fourth Sister?" People understood. "So you don't have an invitation! Are you just here for free?" With the word "free", everyone at the table looked at Ye Wushuang with contempt.
But Ye Wushuang no longer cares about these things. After years of hiding her identity, she has long been accustomed to cold words and disrespect. Although she still feels that she is different now, when she encounters such things and before she gets angry, she reminds herself again and again in her heart: It’s nothing, just treat it as before.
So she smiled and nodded slightly to the ladies, "Yes. I have been away for many years and have never seen the world, let alone met important people or attended a proper banquet. So this time I shamelessly came here with my fourth sister just to broaden my horizons. Ladies, please don't tease me."
After she said this, those people couldn't say anything more. After all, she was the daughter of the Ye family, who knew whether she had a good relationship with Ye Wenyan or not. If they had a good relationship, they would make things difficult for her again, which would make Ye Wenyan unhappy again.
So people maintained a mentality of neither squeezing nor making friends, and silently observed Ye Wenyan's attitude towards Ye Wushuang.
But in fact, Ye Wenyan had no attitude towards Ye Wushuang. She didn't even have time to pay attention to Ye Wushuang. Jiang Wanting and Chi Feifei each held one of her arms and pulled her back and forth.
Jiang Wanting said, "Wen Yan, we are willing to offend the princess this time, but we still want to speak for you. You must protect us. We are not afraid of anything else, but we are afraid that if the emperor and his sister are on the same page, then everything will be over."
Chi Feifei also said: "The emperor is the youngest child of the late emperor. Although he did not live to see the eldest princess get married, the eldest princess has been very kind to this younger brother since she came back. Whenever the younger brother was bullied by the Sixth Prince, it was the eldest princess who helped him out. The eldest princess was so powerful that even Empress Li was afraid of her. She snatched the current emperor from the Sixth Prince several times."
When talking about the past, Jiang Wanting was also depressed. "Wen Yan, you know those things. Think about it carefully. Is it true that the eldest princess has a good relationship with the current emperor? So I am worried. What if the emperor sides with the eldest princess? What should we do? Although our three families, plus the third prince, are responsible together, the law does not punish everyone, and the emperor cannot go too far. But this can't stop us from making trouble every now and then in the future! We still have to make some preparations."
As they were talking, they heard the servants of the Princess's Mansion shouting, "The Fourth Prince has arrived! The Sixth Prince has arrived!"
Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw two people coming in from outside the door, one in white and one in blue, one with the appearance of an immortal, and the other gentle and elegant.
Jiang Wanting muttered quietly: "Why are there only two princes here? Where are the others?"
Ye Wenyan was also confused. It was true that he rarely saw the eldest prince, the second prince, and the fifth prince. He only saw them from afar at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve. There was no intersection in the following months. Those people really lived a low-key life. There were almost no legends about them in Lin'an City. I don't know if they are really low-key or deliberately blocking the comments about themselves.
As for the others, she thought about it and realized that it wasn't that they were not low-key, but that they all had some relationship with her in some way, so contact was inevitable and they naturally became familiar with each other.
"Wen Yan." Chi Feifei said, "We all know that the Fourth and Third Princes are not close to the Princess. I always feel that they are here because of you. As for the Sixth Prince... well, I don't know why he came here. Maybe he came to mess things up. After all, the two have never gotten along in these years."
Ye Wenyan didn't say anything. She was sure that the Third Prince came for her, and the Sixth Prince should have come too, but she wasn't sure why the Fourth Prince came. The relationship between the two was not very good. Although he promised to help her develop the jewelry business, the relationship that had once reached a freezing point would not be eased so quickly.
While I was thinking, the two princes had already paid their respects to the eldest princess and congratulated her on her birthday, but there was no gift-giving.
Ye Wenyan thought, maybe they had delivered the gifts outside! After all, she saw such a process, that is, everyone handed the gifts they brought to the servants in charge of the princess's mansion, and then the servants registered who sent them and what they were, and then let people in.
Anyway, she didn't give any gifts, and neither did the Jiangchi family, but others did.
So the two princes should have finished sending the food outside, so in that case, they should sit down to watch the singing and dancing and eat delicious food. She looked at the dishes that had already been placed on the table, which looked good. She was a little hungry.
As a result, just as she was about to pull her arms out of Jiang Wanting and Chi Feifei's arms and pick up the chopsticks to start eating, she heard the Fourth Prince say, "I originally prepared a generous gift for my sister to celebrate her birthday. But when I heard about how my sister humiliated General Ye in front of the palace gate, I felt that this gift should not be given again, so I put it in the palace carriage and asked the servants to take it back."
The Sixth Prince also said: "My congratulatory gift was also brought back by my servants and returned to the storehouse of Prince Su's Mansion. Please forgive me, sister. The royal family is a small matter, the state is a big matter, and the military is supreme. In this matter, I cannot stand with my sister."
After he finished talking about his own affairs, he talked about another matter: "There is also the emperor's gift. Oh, the emperor has no gift! I saw the eunuch chief steward Wu Fei at the gate of the mansion just now. He asked me to bring a message to my sister, saying that the emperor heard about my sister's humiliation of General Ye and was very angry. He will not send gifts this year, nor will he send gifts in the future. But these gifts cannot be saved, so they are all sent to the Ye family and to Madam Ye, as an apology for my sister and compensation to the Ye family.
The Emperor also said that the matter of Miss Ye Si beating my sister with a spirit flag will not be investigated, because my sister deserved to be beaten. Miss Ye Si also will not be investigated for tearing the face of the wife of the Ministry of Industry, because she deserved to be torn. But my sister, you cannot let the crime of insulting General Ye go just like that!"