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"But who knows how the Li family got involved with the Marquis of Jining, and with the Marquis's backing, they've become even more lawless!"
"Now, I don't know which grass grew in the right place on our ancestral grave, but all five of my daughters have entered the Marquis's mansion and become his concubines!"
The more the matriarch of the Yang family spoke, the angrier she became. Just by looking at her expression, it seemed as if she wanted to make Li Wu Niang and Le Shan live as widows.
“Mother is right!” Because Yang Jieyu had returned to visit her family, the married daughters of the Yang family also came back with her.
Upon hearing her mother's words, she naturally chimed in to agree!
"The women of the Li family conspired with Marquis Wei Tingyu of Jining to make their younger brother lose face!"
"In my opinion, we should file a lawsuit with the authorities! Take her to court! To set a good example for society!"
"But we were hesitant to act for fear of inadvertently harming the innocent! We held back for the sake of Lady Jieyu and the reputation of our Yang family!"
"Now your brother is... never mind, never mind, let's not talk about it!"
"But I just don't understand! Why did Lady Jieyu, who finally managed to come home to visit her family, have to invite the Marquis of Jining and Lady Li Wu to her home as guests?"
"So you're even disregarding the grudges of your own family?"
Yang Jieyu sat on the phoenix chair at the head of the table, sipping her tea calmly. She glanced at the chattering and complaining crowd below, but didn't say a word.
After all, she, as the older sister, knew her younger brother's personality better than anyone! Right now, her family was blaming Li Wu Niang and Wei Ting Yu for everything, without mentioning that Yang Xian had tried to harass Li Wu Niang first!
Yang Jieyu, a person with sound values, was born into a family full of shameless people, and she really had a very difficult life!
"Alright!" At this moment, the head of the Yang family, who was also the father of Yang Jieyu and Yang Xian, noticed the impatient look on his daughter's face.
He knew, of course, that his daughter was upright and could not stand such gossip and slander behind people's backs, so he immediately waved his hand to interrupt the other women's complaints.
"Lady Jieyu has finally come home to visit her family! And yet you're all bothering her with these complaints? It's just some trivial matter in the inner quarters! Aren't you afraid of upsetting Lady Jieyu?"
Old Man Yang adopted the airs of the head of the family and immediately shut up the chattering women!
After seeing that his words had an effect, the old man turned to look at Yang Jieyu sitting above him, his body slightly turned as if he wanted to say something to her!
However, his eyes then glanced at the two female officials standing behind Consort Yang, and he awkwardly shut his mouth, as if there were some things he couldn't say in front of outsiders!
“These are all my trusted confidants!” However, Yang Jieyu naturally saw her father’s concerns and smiled, saying, “Father, please speak freely, it’s alright!”
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Chapter 152 Yang Jieyu Takes Le Shan as Her Adopted Sister?!
At this moment, the two personal female officials following behind Consort Yang appeared to be working in the palace, but in reality, they were two female Golden Shadow Guards that Wei Tingyu had sent in earlier!
Of course, under the manipulation of Consort Yang, the emperor's favorite concubine, it was extremely easy to assign the two Golden Shadow Guards the duties of female officials and then transfer them to her side!
"Oh!" Old Yang nodded immediately upon hearing this, then sighed and said, "Ah! My daughter!"
“You have been resourceful since childhood, and after entering the palace, you have gained the Emperor’s favor. As your father, I should not say more!”
"But the situation in the palace changes in an instant, and I can't help but worry about you, my daughter!"
"The Empress has no children and is not favored by the Emperor! And it is rumored that Lady Shang is extremely favored by the Emperor! She has even brought titles to her father and brothers!"
"Just a cloth merchant! In just a few short years, his whole family has risen to prominence!"
"As your father, I want to help you, but unfortunately, my official position carries little weight! There's no hope for promotion; I simply can't get involved!"
"You'd better make plans early! Don't let others get the credit!"
As soon as the old man finished speaking, Yang Jieyu immediately understood.
Her father wanted her to ask the emperor for a promotion and a title!
The so-called favored Consort Yang was naturally aware that the old emperor's inability to have sex was merely another cover-up.
However, Lady Shang was skilled at bewitching people's hearts. Even if she had no feelings for the old emperor, she would still flatter him for the sake of her family's future.
But Yang Jieyu simply couldn't do such a thing! Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to be outranked by Consort Shang in the palace!
She was like this before, let alone now that she has a husband like Wei Tingyu, Consort Yang can no longer muster the slightest smile for the old emperor!
Thinking of this, she turned around and picked up the teacup from the table next to her.
Upon seeing this, Mr. Yang immediately realized that his words had not moved his daughter, so he quickly gave his wife a meaningful look.
The matriarch of the Yang family was taken aback, then said somewhat awkwardly, "That woman surnamed Li was originally just a lowly tea seller!"
"Because of the marriage alliance with the Marquis of Jining, he's extremely presumptuous in front of me!"
"It's good that my daughter is back! They should be taught a good lesson!"
"So that they won't take advantage of us and try to ride roughshod over the Yang family in the future!"
"Who knows when it might cause trouble again! It could ruin the entire Yang family!"
Yang Jieyu was taken aback when she heard her mother's words, but then she understood.
Just now, my father wanted to ask me to put in a good word for him with the old emperor so that he could be promoted to an official position. But when he saw that I didn't respond, my mother actually turned the conversation to the Li family and the Marquis of Jining.
What does this mean? Mother is using the fact that after the Li family climbed up to the Marquis of Jining, their entire family rose to prominence and even dared to challenge the Yang family to remind herself!
The implication was clear: "Our Yang family has already climbed the social ladder to the imperial family, so why can't your daughter live up to expectations? Look at how the daughters of the Li family have done!"
As for the claims that the Li family would take advantage of the Yang family and even bring trouble upon them, Yang Jieyu scoffed at them!
She knew Wei Tingyu very well; the fact that he could marry five daughters of the Li family was enough to prove that she wasn't a bad woman!
As long as your parents don't provoke others, everything will be fine, right?
"Master! Lady Jieyu!" At this moment, the steward rushed in and bowed to everyone in the hall, reporting, "The Marquis of Jining and his lady have arrived!"
"Please come quickly!" Before the old man of the Yang family could react, Yang Jieyu suddenly sat up straight and said anxiously.
She even unconsciously smoothed her hair with her hand, as if afraid that something was inappropriate.
This scene left the Yang family members completely bewildered.
What's going on? A noble lady like Lady Jieyu is only receiving a minor marquis and his concubine, why does she seem so nervous?
At this moment, Yang Jieyu completely ignored the questioning looks from her family members. Instead, she took a deep breath, sat up straight, and waited for her lover, whom she had met many times in her dreams, to appear in her field of vision!
Soon, Wei Tingyu led Wu Niang Leshan into the main hall of the Yang family, and the Yang family members were even more dumbfounded!
Good heavens! These two are holding hands so intimately at someone else's house for a dinner party? This display of affection is almost sickeningly sweet!
In particular, the women of the Yang family rolled their eyes in disdain at the sight! However, Wei Tingyu could tell from their subtle expressions that these women were actually extremely jealous!
Of course, Wei Tingyu was too lazy to care about the thoughts of these Yang family women. He took Le Shan's hand and walked straight in, ignoring the others, and went directly to the middle of the hall.
At this moment, he also saw Yang Jieyu, and their eyes met with warmth in each other's gazes!
Yang Jieyu was extremely excited; if she hadn't been able to control herself, she might have burst into tears right now.
In fact, after her one-night stand with Wei Tingyu, Yang Jieyu's heart had already been set on him! It's just that at the time she didn't know how deeply she had fallen for him!
For the next ten days or so, Wei Tingyu did not appear! Every day, he would stare blankly at the beam above his head while taking a bath, hoping that the figure from before would reappear!
However, the repeated disappointments in reality have caused Wei Tingyu's image to dominate every moment of her dreams these days.
Only then did Yang Jieyu realize that she wasn't emotionally cold; it was simply because she had never met a true love who could enter her heart before!
Fortunately, Wei Tingyu's two Golden Shadow Guards were delivered to the palace as promised, and from then on, Consort Yang knew that this man had not forgotten her!
Now that she had the opportunity to visit her family, she couldn't wait to order the Yang family to send the invitation to the Marquis of Jining's residence.
Of course, to avoid attracting attention, she also invited Li Jia Wu Niang Le Shan.
After all, the most unpleasant thing had happened between Li Wuniang and Yang Xian before. Yang Jieyu could use this incident as a shield and pretend to clear up the misunderstanding between the Yang family and the Marquis's family.
Wei Tingyu understood, of course. After all, for Yang Jieyu, there was her beloved man on one side and her in-laws' parents and sisters on the other. It would indeed be too difficult for her to make a choice.
However, when Wu Niang Le Shan, who was following Wei Tingyu, saw Yang Jieyu's expression from afar, her delicate eyebrows immediately furrowed.
Good heavens! Why is Consort Yang suddenly so agitated?! Even the expression on her face and the way she looks at the Marquis... these are impossible to fake!
Could it be that she has some kind of relationship with the Marquis?
Lok-sun's sixth sense was incredibly accurate; she grasped the crux of the problem without even needing to think for a second.
This is also thanks to the fact that this girl has never been very rational and has a wild imagination! If it were a woman like Shouhua, He Weifang, or even Dou Zhao, although they are very smart, they would never dare to think in that direction!
Of course, Le Shan was only shocked at this moment! Because she didn't expect the Marquis to be so bold as to dare to steal even a concubine from the palace?!
As for feeling jealous, she didn't feel that way at all. After all, she had already gotten used to living in the Marquis's mansion for so long!
I'm just amazed by the Marquis's abilities and audacity; it's simply too incredible!
"May Lady Yang be blessed!" Thinking of this, Le Shan gave Lady Yang a slight bow and then spoke.
After being trained by Dou Zhao and others from the Marquis's Mansion, Le Shan's etiquette had become quite standard.
Consort Yang nodded immediately, then quickly said to Wei Tingyu, "Lord Marquis of Jining, there's no need for such formalities! Please take a seat!"
Wei Tingyu certainly didn't intend to bow to Yang Jieyu, but because of the presence of the Yang family, he only wanted to clasp his hands in a perfunctory gesture, after all, she was also the girl in his bed!
Unexpectedly, Yang Jieyu was even more nervous than she was!
It makes sense. Given Yang Jieyu's values, if her husband were to bow to her, she would probably feel so guilty that she wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
The Yang family members were also surprised to hear this. They did not expect that Wei Tingyu would not only not have to pay his respects, but would also be given a seat directly.
Judging from this, Yang Jieyu specifically sought out Wei Tingyu upon her return today, clearly not intending to support the Yang family! What could be the reason?