Who Cares

41

Chapter 41 Extravagant

While sealing the gate of the mansion, Master Ye sent people to the capital city Yamen, the Joint Defense Department, and even the left, center, and right armies of the Imperial Guard to report the case, asking them to send people to quickly investigate. Although the Ye family came from a humble background and had a small official position, Ye Jieyu was the only woman favored by the emperor, and she was the woman with the highest status in the three palaces and six courtyards. Thinking that the next emperor would probably come from her, the people did not dare to neglect, and immediately sent elites to investigate, and immediately put on official uniforms and entered the palace to report.

In order to show off the national treasure, the Ye family posted invitations to all the top clans in Yanjing. The noble families disdained dealings with the merchants, most of them refused, and several were increasingly declining, so they condescendingly agreed only because of Ye Jieyu‘s face. Others just wanted to watch the fun or find fault, otherwise they didn’t even want to step on the Ye family’s land, lest they dirtied the soles of their shoes. And the most typical representative was undoubtedly the eldest princess.

Now that she was locked in Ye Mansion and not allowed to leave, furthermore there were officers and soldiers who come and go to investigate, frequently inquiring, and treat her like a prisoner, how could the eldest princess not angry? She slapped the soldiers who were blocking the way, and shouted coldly, “This Palace will come if she wants to, and leave if she wants to, see who dares to stop me! This Palace can even come and go freely in the imperial palace, but actually detained for no reason in your Ye Mansion. Is your Ye Mansion’s style even bigger than the imperial palace? Ye Jieyu is just a Jieyu, she has never been promoted as the empress, don’t take yourself as a serious imperial-in-law. It’s not the turn of some horse dealer from the border to be my Great Wei’s imperial-in-law, so I don’t have to lose face!”

The soldiers hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty, and finally retreated to both sides to send her away. Seeing that the eldest princess was gone, several prominent clan wives also wanted to go home, but they were stopped, and they couldn’t help but attack with anger, bluntly saying they wanted to report it to the emperor, to punish the Ye family’s great disrespect.

“My master and General of the Household have already entered the palace to report this matter, and the emperor’s decree will come down in less than half an hour. Please wait patiently, sirs, madams, and misses, please don’t panic. Fan’er and I will go to Ganquan Palace and ask niangniang to help come up with an idea, after all, what was destroyed was a gift from the emperor, and it’s extremely valuable, so my Ye Mansion would not dare to be too arbitrary.” While Liu shi‘s asked the maids and grannies to serve the refreshments, she led Ye Fan, who was dressed in splendid clothes, to prepare to enter the palace and meet Jieyu niangniang.

When the female guests heard her mention the emperor and Ye Jieyu, they had to shut up and sit down to drink tea, but the resentment and anger in their hearts were not less, but actually getting deeper and deeper. If there was no support from the emperor, what kind of thing was the Ye family, the body that was full of horse feces and horse urine smell, sprinkled with incense powder and wore a crown, could it pretend to be a person? How ridiculous!

Zhao Chunxi was surrounded and comforted by several little sisters whose identity were not as good as her, and felt impatient. Hearing that Liu shi was going to enter the palace, she quickly ran to beg, “Grandma, I haven’t seen my eldest aunt for a long time, I miss her so much, please bring me too. I’m very good, I will never talk nonsense, and I will not run around at will.”

Liu shi really loved her two grandchildren, seeing her eyes full of admiration, she agreed after a little thought. A group of people drove quickly to the palace gate in a carriage and handed over for a sign card to request a meeting.