To Be A Virtuous Wife

86

"What did you say, Duan Wang succeeded the throne?!" Liang shistood in front of a black bricked farmhouse, face pale as she looked at her nephew. To her, the news was the worst possible. She muttered disbelievingly, "Why is it Duan Wang, what about Rui Wang? Rui Wang?"

Liang Hong looked at gumu's state and sighed: "Rui Wang, due to making a fuss in xiandi's mourning hall, caused everyone's dissatisfaction. Thankfully, the Emperor was merciful and didn't punish him heavily, just sentenced him to kneel in the morning hall to reflect.

"Wasn't Rui Wang the most favored by xiandi, why is it like this?" Liang shistaggered, and a beat later, she started to cry, "Then what about Su'er, what should she do?" Now that Rui Wang couldn't become the Emperor, Su'er was still a qie, what good life would she have in the future?

Liang Hong saw how violently gumuwas crying and didn't know how to comfort her. In the beginning, he hadn't been in favor of biao meibecoming a qieshi. Now that Rui Wang Fu had lost power, biao mei as a qieshi, would she even have a comfortable life in the future?

He looked at the brick farmhouse behind gumu and couldn't help but think of the three biao mei of Chang De Gong Fu. The eldest biao meimarried Duan Wang. Now that Duan Wang succeeded the throne, eldestbiao mei was certainly going to become the Empress. She had to wait for the immediate mourning period to pass before she could be formally titled. Er biao mei might have been a shu daughter, but after the Qu Family fell, there was a prosperous xui cai that married her. In the end, it was san biao mei who had been birthed and raised by gumu who became a shameful qie.

Was this all because gu fudisregarded everything in order to marry gu mu? Liang Hong took out a small pouch of silver: "Gumu, our entire family is planning on moving back to the old home in Xi Jun. Take this silver." He saw Liang shi standing woodenly and pushed the silver into her hands, "Now that the new Emperor is ascending to the throne, he would pardon some people. I already got someone to find out, gufuwill soon be released from the prison. When the time comes, you should try to live a good life. I will bid farewell to you here."

He had lived in the fu of the Qu Family for a significant amount of time. Now that the entire family was leaving, the only thing he could leave behind was just this small pouch of silver.

"Biao ge is leaving?" Qu Wang Zhi walked out of the room. He was wearing a dusty sackcloth robe, his hair dishevelled. His overall appearance was very sorry.

Liang Hong looked at the state of his biao di and with some pity, he raised his hands to bid: "Good bye, take care."

Qu Wang Zhi looked at the figure of biao ge as he left, the terror in his heart growing. By this time, even biao ge's family was moving away, and the da jie who had been abused by his mother was going to become the Empress. Would his family even be able to make a living? He suddenly felt resentment towards his mother. If mother had treated da jie better, they wouldn't have fallen this low.

Liang shi looked with discontent in the direction of the Imperial Palace. When she turned and saw the sorry figure of her son, she couldn't breathe and fainted. Before entering the darkness, she saw her son's panicked and helpless eyes.

By now, the hougong was a mess. The consorts of xiandi all had to move out of the places they had been living in. It was fine for those who had been favored and had children. They only had to move towards the place in the hougong for the taifei.[i] Those that didn't have children and weren't fei could only move to a makeshift palace in the Jing suburbs to live out the rest of their lives.