The daughter of the mansion is slapped in the face every day

Chapter 115 Anping Bridge

Knowing that Jiang Yunxi was going to stand by and watch, the virtuous concubine Wei Yanyan's face suddenly lost the joy of having her plan succeeded.

"What about the matter of Concubine Jiang stealing your marriage? Do you really not care at all?" Wei Yanyan was still struggling in her death throes.

Jiang Yunxi curled her lips slightly, "Your Highness, you and I are both daughters of aristocratic families, and we both know that family interests are above all else. I remember that Your Highness also had a biological sister, but His Majesty loved you deeply, and in the end, the Wei family also gave everything to send you to the position of Consort Xian. Wasn't your biological sister also willing to be a sacrifice? Naturally, I have long been aware of this."

Jiang Yunxi bowed slightly to Concubine Xian, "It's really too late. Yunxi can't stand it any longer, so I'll take my leave now."

After saying that, she and Zhen Zhen left quickly without waiting for Concubine Xian to speak.

Concubine Xian looked at Jiang Yunxi's back as she left and couldn't help but complain, "What a cowardly and useless thing. After suffering such a great injustice, is he just going to endure it?"

Nanny Sun, who had been serving Concubine Xian, said, "Your Majesty, this princess has always been useless. I'm afraid it won't work with her. How about considering another method?"

The virtuous concubine was breathing heavily, and kept breathing in and out, trying to calm herself down.

She seemed to want to continue to argue, "Let me see if she still wants to marry the Third Prince?"

"That can't be possible... The Queen Mother said before that this marriage was no longer valid. Is it going to be valid now? Isn't this ridiculous? In addition, the Queen Mother has been close to Yushi Mu recently. It seems that she wants to promote the marriage between the two. She should no longer have that intention, right?"

The virtuous concubine sneered, "Oh! She has a good plan. Who knows if she wants to kill Jiang Wanwan and replace her with Jiang Yunxi? But Jiang Wanwan's face can't support the dignity of the main wife. Instead of finding another girl from the Jiang family to fill the position of the main wife, it's better to find Jiang Yunxi. She is just a stepmother, so she thinks there is nothing wrong with being a stepmother, and she can pick up a ready-made son. Why not?"

"We still have to...find a way to deal with the Third Prince and make sure he will never be able to turn over..." Concubine Xian rubbed her fingers.

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A muddy messenger rode a dark warhorse and rushed to the city gate.

The officers and soldiers at the city gate did not dare to stop him. They hurriedly moved away the barricades and drove away the people queuing at the city gate.

The messenger arrived at the palace gate unhindered.

The soldiers at the palace gate needed to check the messenger's identity.

As soon as the messenger got off his horse, his legs went weak and he couldn't stand and fell directly to the ground.

He took out a letter with chicken feathers stuck in it from his bosom and said in a weak voice, "Hurry... give it to His Majesty. The Anping Bridge has burst its banks..."

After saying this, he completely fainted.

The officers and soldiers guarding the palace gate did not dare to refuse. They took the chicken feather letter from his hand and ran all the way to the hall.

"Report! Your Majesty, the Anping Bridge in Juzhou has burst its dike!" The eunuch took the chicken feather letter and trotted to hand it to the eunuch Liu who was standing next to the emperor Zhao Changta.

Zhao Changta unfolded the chicken feather letter, read its contents, and put the letter down with an unfriendly look on his face.

All the ministers at the court looked at each other, glanced at the letter from Zhao Changta, and guessed what was written in it.

Zhao Changta cleared his throat. "It has been raining heavily for days, and Juzhou has suffered a disaster. The Anping Bridge connecting Juzhou and Ningzhou collapsed, killing 16 people and injuring more than 20. Ministers, what do you think of this?"

The construction of Anping Bridge was supervised by the eldest prince. When this incident happened, Concubine Xian and the eldest prince's party naturally remained silent.

The prince's party rolled up their sleeves and prepared to make a big move.

The leader, Xu Wenyi, raised his tablet, walked out of the team, and said righteously, "Anping Bridge is indeed an important transportation fortress in the north. I still remember that half of the silver in the national treasury was spent to build this bridge. Now, only five years later, the bridge has collapsed, causing countless deaths and injuries. I think the officials who were in charge of building this bridge should be severely punished, from top to bottom."

Zhou Jinghong walked out of the team, raised his tablet, and began to defend himself, "I think that we cannot treat everyone equally and punish them all severely. We should find out the reasons and then deal with them. If the construction drawings provided by the Shaofu are wrong, the Shaofu should be severely punished; if the local officials were negligent in supervising the construction process, they should be severely punished. We cannot generalize. Please let Your Majesty understand clearly."

"Why didn't Lord Zhou mention how to deal with the supervisors?" Xu Wenyi bowed to Zhao Changta. "Your Majesty, no matter what, the supervisors must be severely punished for their poor supervision. They should not be let off lightly. If the supervisors always slack off and push the responsibility to lower-level officials when something goes wrong, how can we win the trust of the people?"

The eldest prince and the crown prince's party argued endlessly in the court.

At that time, when half of the people in Daizhou died, the court was not so shocked.

It can be seen that unless it is a major matter concerning the interests of court officials, no one will care.

Zhao Changta raised his hand and held his aching forehead, his eyebrows twitching.

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Zhangji's dragon beard cake, Liji's pineapple cake, Huaji's hawthorn cake, Jingji's donkey rolls, Daoji's pine nut and lily cake, Xiangji's jujube paste cake...

Jiang Yunxi's eyes were glowing with passion as she looked at the pastries.

Jiang Yunxi glanced at Zhao Changyu and thought, "Uncle, you really have a lot of free time. You went to so many stores so early in the morning."

"Thank you, uncle." She picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of date paste cake and put it on the plate.

Zhen Zhen joked, "The princess hasn't eaten in the mornings these past few days, waiting for these few bites from His Highness."

"If you want to eat, I will send someone to your palace every day. You don't have to go out hungry."

Jiang Yunxi shook her head. "It's different. Nothing tastes good in the palace. Eating outside the palace is more interesting."

Nan Nan walked in and leaned over to whisper something in Jiang Yunxi's ear.

"It collapsed? How could it collapse?" Jiang Yunxi was quite surprised.

She did not deliberately avoid Zhao Changyu when she spoke.

Jiang Yunxi knew that Zhao Changyu would find out sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.

Nan Nan shook her head.

"It couldn't be that the Anping Bridge collapsed by itself, right?" Jiang Yunxi felt that the timing of the bridge's collapse was very coincidental.

Thinking that Anping Bridge was built under the supervision of the eldest prince Zhao Zhexuan, Jiang Yunxi naturally thought that it was the Queen who did it. "Maybe it was the Queen who blew up the bridge on purpose to have Your Majesty punish the eldest prince and Consort Xian?"

Zhao Changyu's eyes were calm. He took a sip of tea and said calmly, "Maybe this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface?"