Exile

71

On the side of the border town, Jiang Mao had arrived successfully. It was hard for him to leave Su Qingbai and his son in the capital city.

In comparison with Jiang Mao, Su Qingbai was a bit idle. Usually, Jiang Mao practically was not in charge of household affairs. Now that Jiang Mao was away, Liu Yuqing and the others were the ones who dealt with the big things. For miscellaneous household things, if the steward could not make a decision, he would inevitably ask Su Qingbai. Again, adding on to having to take care of Jiang Fanfan, Su Qingbai was so busy.

This one morning, Su Qingbai, the good dad, changed Jiang Fanfan's diaper and fed him milk. After he walked around the house with the chubby baby, only then he went to eat.

As he was eating alone, he heard someone said, "Gongzi, Gongzi. Lady Lou is back."

Su Qingbai put down his chopsticks and sat up. Mother-in-law! (wife's mother)

For this mother-in-law, he had heard Jiang Mao mention her several times, and so he didn't have a very good impression on her.

Jiang Mao's subordinates had also mentioned her several times, in which all were not a good thing.

In Su Qingbai's mind, the mother-in-law was one who paid more attention to her own enjoyment and easily ignored the image of her children. She was a bit irresponsible for being a mother.

After thinking about it, Su Qingbai stood up and said, "Let's go and welcome her in." Then he put down the chopsticks and wanted to go out.

"That... No need." The person stopped him. "Lady Lou has come in."

Su Qingbai was in a panic. For a while, he didn't know what to do. After a while, he told the person, "First, take this table." Consort Lou had come in, Su Qingbai couldn't continue to sit down and eat as usual.

At this moment, Consort Lou was very sullen. She was forced out of the palace.

It turned out that Third Prince wanted to use her to contain Jiang Mao, by leaving her in the palace and allowed her to benefit from it. Now that the Third Prince was rendered powerless, the Fifth Prince and the Sixth Prince did not care about backing Jiang Mao like the Third Prince. Not only that, they even planned to sharpen their swords against Jiang Mao in the next step.

Holding Consort Lou? Not entirely necessary.

Previously, Consort Lou did those annoying things ― to strive for a favor, she harmed the Empress, but fortunately, the Empress was alright. The Emperor cared about the Imperial House's prestige, and on top of that, he once really doted on Consort Lou, who gave birth to Jiang Mao ―which was not open to the public― and merely rushed her to Cangzhou. She was not allowed to step into the capital city again.

Because of her, the Emperor didn't like this son, Jiang Mao. The Emperor casually gave a small territory and conferred a Wang title to him and then didn't care about him.

The Emperor had a qualm about prestige, but the Fifth Prince and Sixth Prince were not. They immediately took out the previous events as a reason to drive her out of the palace.

In this regard, the decision of Fifth Prince and Sixth Prince was unanimous. When Third Prince was in power, Consort Lou was extremely arrogant and oppressed on top of the imperial wives and concubines. The two of them could not bear it anymore.

Now, in addition to taking their revenge, they also wanted to take this opportunity to slap Jiang Mao in the face and embarrass him.

"Where is Jiang Mao?" Consort Lou was ablaze with anger. She had been bullied like this, but Jiang Mao hadn't appeared yet.