Marrying into a poor family

Chapter 454

The Du family never thought that a concubine of the younger generation would surrender to the Hu family because of trivial matters in the rear house.

This kind of thing was originally a trivial matter, but there happened to be a nosy Ninth Prince who went to the Emperor with a complaint.

The top priority now is to appease the Liu family, no matter if it means using money to deceive them, using power to oppress them, or simply killing them to put an end to it all. As long as there is no victim, there will naturally be no complaints.

But the Du family discovered that the Liu family's house had long been deserted and no one could be found.

All the relatives of the Liu family were asked, but they didn't even know that the Liu family's newly married daughter had died, and they knew nothing about filing a complaint with the emperor.

Old Master Du waved his hand and said, "It must be that old prince who took the person away and hid him. He is going to attack our Du family!"

Afterwards, he instructed Du Ziren's mother to go to the palace to see the Empress Dowager the next day.

The next day, Du Ziren's mother did not see the Empress Dowager at all. She was panicked and hurried home to report to the old man of the Du family and Du Ziren's father.

The Du family was more panicked than ever before, but it was not too chaotic. After all, the Du family still had some assets.

Afterwards, the disciples and relatives of the Du family began to take action, impeaching the Ninth Prince for allowing Princess Yaoxiang to be unfaithful to her husband and other crimes.

However, Princess Yaoxiang had already married and moved away from the capital, so the memorial was rejected by the emperor, who reprimanded the emperor in front of all the officials and then demoted him.

Du Ziren's mother was also very regretful and distressed. If she had been stricter with her daughter-in-law at the beginning, perhaps things would not have turned out like this.

Although his aunt died, Huaye appeared to be nonchalant on the surface. After all, it was she who wanted to commit suicide because she was depressed. However, Huaye still felt a little uncomfortable.

Especially the nightmares at night became more severe. Before, she always dreamed of a headless female ghost taking her life, but now the headless female ghost had a face, which was the pale and swollen Aunt Liu.

Ever since the discovery of Aunt Liu's body, Huaye has never seen Du Ziren again. Even when he went to pay his respects to his mother-in-law, he was blocked outside the door. His mother-in-law's maid smiled, but her tone was a little cold: "There's no time to rest at home now, grandma, you should go back and have a good rest!"

After Huaye returned to the house, he asked Duoer to inquire about it. Soon, Duoer came back and said that the Liu family had gone to file a complaint with the emperor. Both the old master and the master were reprimanded by the emperor for not managing their household properly. Now they have to stay in the mansion to reflect on their mistakes and take care of their household chores before going to the yamen and attending court.

"What? How could it be? She's just the daughter of a poor family. She can die if she wants. Why did you bring this to the Emperor?" Huaye really felt that this matter was not worth making such a big fuss about, so he asked, "What about the master? He won't be punished too, will he?"

Duo'er shook her head, seemingly confused. Du Ziren's aunt died, but why it was the old man and the master who were punished, while Du Ziren was not affected at all.

Huaye keenly realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly told Duoer to dress her up. She also sent someone to the stable to arrange a carriage, as she was going out.

In the past, Huaye never reported to anyone when he went out, he would just tell the stable to harness the carriage.

But this time, he was rejected. They said that his wife had ordered that no one in the family was allowed to go out without permission recently. Anyone who wanted to go out had to take a travel token from his wife.

Hua Ye was holding a phoenix hairpin covered with gemstones in his hand. Hearing this, he flew into a rage: "Humph, who dares to stop me?"

After putting on the phoenix hairpin, she stood up and walked out.

In the past, the gatekeepers were afraid of the arrogant Princess Huaye, but today they received orders not to let anyone out, especially Princess Huaye.

Therefore, Huaye was at a loss for a moment. After she smashed all the furnishings in the room, Duoer suggested that she find a way to get out, and then find Jianyong Hou to come to the house to vent Princess Huaye's anger.

Duoer thought of a way and slipped out through the back door that night.

Then he ran to the mansion of Marquis Jianyong. Marquis Jianyong and Madam Jiang had just fallen asleep, and he got up to see Duoer.

After hearing Duo'er's words, Marquis Jianyong became furious and immediately changed his clothes and went to Du's house to take his daughter home.

But Mrs. Jiang stopped him and asked Duo'er to go and rest, saying that it would not be too late to go to the Du family later.

That night, no one knew what the couple said to each other, but the servant on duty outside heard them arguing for a long time, and finally they stopped arguing.

The next day, Mrs. Jiang went to the Du family to visit Huaye in person. She was a little surprised to see Huaye's face was dark blue.

When Huaye saw that the person coming was Mrs. Jiang, he frowned and asked, "Is my father here?"

Mrs. Jiang sat down by herself, then looked at the furnishings in the room, with a flash of sneer on her face: "Your father has official business to attend to, so these household chores are naturally left to me, the mistress!"

"Duo'er didn't tell father that I was locked up by them?" Hua Ye asked angrily.

"Of course I did. Your father even wanted to come to the Du family last night to rescue his trouble-making daughter, but..." Mrs. Jiang said coldly, "But I stopped him."

"What right do you have to stop my father from saving me? It turns out that your kindness to me before was just a pretense. Now that you see my plight, your true colors are revealed."

"No matter what, I am your mother, but when I came to see you, you didn't even greet me, let alone call me mother. You didn't even bother to offer me a cup of tea. I want to ask, where do you get the nerve to ask me to be kind to you sincerely?"

Hua Ye opened her mouth. For her, etiquette was just a matter of mood. Besides, she had never respected her stepmother. She didn't expect that at this critical moment, she would start to make trouble.

"Serve tea to the Madam. You are so tactless. If I don't tell you to, do you not even know how to serve tea?"

The servants hurried out to serve tea. Mrs. Jiang looked at this stupid woman and sighed in her heart.

"Let them all go out. I have something to tell you." Mrs. Jiang had no choice but to retract her anger towards Hua Ye.

The servants went out one after another, leaving only Madam Jiang and Princess Huaye in the room.

Today, Hua Ye was arrogant towards Mrs. Jiang, but in fact he was hiding his panic.

The fact that her father, who treated her like a treasure, didn't come to see her was a blow as severe as the collapse of the heavens.

But she still didn't know how to judge the situation. She couldn't even lower herself a little to say something nice. Just lowering her head and keeping silent was already her biggest concession.

"Your father said that you made the mistake first. If we insist on taking you back to your parents' home, we will inevitably have to break up with the Du family. Do you want to see such a result?"

Mrs. Jiang regained her usual kind expression and carefully observed Huaye's emotional changes when she asked her questions.

In fact, Hua Ye is easier to understand than Jiang Yue. After all, Jiang Yue is more thoughtful, while Hua Ye is straightforward. Someone is protecting her growth, so she doesn't need to hide any emotions or put herself in a difficult position.