The wife travels through time and space to honor her husband: The heirless prince raises a child

Chapter 174 What are you?

Lin Yao said to the wife of General Zhenyuan, "Madam Zhang, please wait a moment."

The meaning was to avoid it. General Zhenyuan's wife was in a dilemma. In a moment of impulsiveness, she sought advice from the Crown Prince's wife. She did not expect that the Crown Prince's wife would actually intervene and even ask for a reward.

It seems unreliable no matter how you look at it.

Princess Rong herself had no say in her marriage; marriage meant divorce. Why would she think of confiding in Princess Rong? A person who has lost all hope doesn't care about anything anymore. She nodded, and the wife of General Zhenyuan went to wait outside the restaurant.

"Princess Consort," Lin Yao tried to persuade Qin Bi, quickly telling her about the Zhenyuan General's family affairs: "Our Prince is a powerful minister, and his actions are somewhat flamboyant, but he also has to consider the feelings of his colleagues. The Zhenyuan General is a second-rank military officer, and he is married to the daughter of the Su family. This wife's power to manage the household in the General's mansion was taken away from the second wife when she entered the family. The eldest son born to the second wife is also raised by the second wife, Liang Yan. Everyone in the capital knows that Liang Yan is the Zhenyuan General's darling. The Zhenyuan General cherishes her like a precious jewel and treats her as his wife. The eldest son of the General's mansion also regards Liang Yan as his mother. Our Rongwang Mansion and the Zhenyuan General's Mansion have a good relationship. Princess Consort really doesn't need to meddle in the family affairs of the General's Mansion."

Lin Yao was a strategist with a silver tongue, and he recounted in one breath how General Zhenyuan preferred his concubine.

Liang Yan was actually the true mistress of the Zhenyuan General's Mansion. When she went out to banquets and socialized with the ladies of other mansions, it was Liang Yan, the concubine, who participated as the principal wife, and the Zhenyuan General tacitly approved of it.

The principal wife is merely a figurehead; there's really no need for her to meddle in the affairs of the General's Mansion.

If anyone should be involved, it's the Emperor. Even the Emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty turns a blind eye. The Duke of Su's family can't help either, since Su Shoujun has already married into the General's family. As long as Zhang Bing doesn't favor his concubine over his wife, the Duke of Su's family won't turn against the General's family.

"Do all the general's wife's legitimate sons treat their concubines as their mothers?" Qin Bi asked after hearing this. She didn't need Lin Yao's answer and continued, "In that case, I need to take care of it even more."

"My goodness!" Lin Yao covered his forehead. "Princess Consort, the General's wife's affairs have nothing to do with us."

Qin Bi chuckled: "I obtained three demon beast crystals."

Lin Yao quickly replied, "The young master does not lack three demon beast crystals from his wife."

Qin Bi had no interest in listening to Lin Yao anymore. She picked up Rong Yang and left, saying, "That's different. I need to accumulate life points for cultivation, regardless of whether I have life points or not."

Lin Yao, along with his guards, maids, and servants, followed. Upon hearing this, Lin Yao was taken aback: "What destiny number?"

Lin Yao was a strategist, so he must know about cultivating immortality, but he didn't understand what "accumulating life points" meant. He had only heard of accumulating fortune points and luck points. Good heavens, what's wrong with the Crown Princess?

Qin Bi carried Rong Yang to the outside of the restaurant. The wife of General Zhenyuan and the wife of Duke Su were talking, as was the wife of the Minister of Revenue. Everyone knew each other and exchanged a few pleasantries before admiring the flowers together.

All around were flowers of all kinds vying for beauty, and we admired them as we walked.

As luck would have it, General Zhenyuan was enjoying the flowers with his wife and children, a picture of family harmony. When General Zhenyuan's wife looked over, a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes, and the Duchess of Su and the others also looked over.

"Princess Consort," Lin Yao said, trying to change the subject, "there are exotic flowers and rare herbs by the mountain. Let's go to the mountainside to admire them."

Qin Bi ignored Lin Yao and squinted to look in the direction the ladies were looking.

"Sister, why didn't you tell me and the General you were coming to admire the flowers?" Liang Yan, dressed in an elegant summer dress, was a petite woman with a delicate and frail appearance and bright, clear eyes. She said, "You should have told us you wanted to come with us. You insisted we leave you, and now you're following us. Why make it all so bleak, as if everyone has abandoned you?" No one had mistreated Su Shouyun; her family had kindly invited her, but she had insisted on staying at the restaurant to watch the sword dance.

One of the boys said, "Mother, you're always like this."

General Zhang Bing, the commander of Zhenyuan, frowned and didn't want to look at Su Shouyun even once: "You imitate Liang Yan in everything. She is brave and resourceful and can kill enemies on the border. She likes to watch sword dances, and you watch sword dances too. Do you, a woman confined to the inner quarters, know what sword dance is? You are just imitating others."

The ladies looked at each other in bewilderment, and the Duchess of Su shook her head in disappointment at the wife of General Zhenyuan.

The general's mansion was very harmonious. The second wife, Liang Yan, was brave, resourceful, and a beautiful woman. However, Su Shoujun liked to cause trouble, making the household uneasy. Even the legitimate son had lost his heart to her. If she kept acting up, she would lose her position as the principal wife sooner or later.

Qin Bi watched coldly from the sidelines, while Liang Yan, understanding the situation, walked up to the Duchess of Su and sighed, "Sister-in-law, please persuade my sister. If she continues to treat me so unfairly, I will no longer be polite to her."

Lady Su, the Duchess of Su, was clearly the sister-in-law of the wife of General Zhenyuan, yet at this moment, she was behaving like an aunt and sister-in-law with Liang Yan.

The wife of General Zhenyuan was heartbroken. It was like this again, like this again.

"Shouyan, did you hear that? Don't do that again." The Duchess of Su slapped Liang Yan's hand and continued to the wife of General Zhenyuan, "You've done a good job as a concubine. Why are you so troublesome? If you really have to wait until you get a divorce, even your family won't be able to help you."

The wife of General Zhenyuan closed her eyes, holding back her tears. The wife of the Minister of Revenue and several other wives also advised her to be magnanimous, saying that being jealous was not good, and that it was already good enough for a concubine to be as magnanimous as Liang Yan.

"It was you who wanted to bring me out," General Zhenyuan's wife retorted. "I didn't feel well and didn't want to go out. You said I was deliberately being coy, but I came along, and then you accused me of imitating Liang Yan watching the sword dance. It's clear that you found me an eyesore and deliberately left me in the restaurant. Besides, today was supposed to be for flower viewing. I left the restaurant to enjoy the flowers with Princess Rong. It was purely coincidental that I ran into you. How did that make me follow you?"

"A coincidence?" Another handsome young man scoffed. "Do you think we'd believe that?"

The young man was Liang Yan's son, and the other was the eldest son of the General's Mansion. They both protected Liang Yan, and it seemed that the wife of the General of Zhenyuan was going to harm Liang Yan. Liang Yan felt wronged.

People around were looking in their direction.

General Zhang Bing, the General of Zhenyuan, did not believe it was a coincidence. He was convinced that the General's wife had deliberately followed their family. The Duchess of Su and the others sighed, clearly believing the General's family more.

The General Zhenyuan's wife looked at Qin Bi, and Lin Yao hissed; he couldn't stop the Crown Princess.

Qin Bi was surprised. She hadn't even made a move yet. With a sneer, Qin Bi said, "General Zhenyuan's wife and I were just strolling around and admiring the flowers. How did you come to think that we deliberately ran into each other?"

"Who are you?" Liang Yan questioned, "Why are you helping my sister lie?"

Qin Bi's face darkened: "Who are you calling a liar?"

Liang Yan pulled General Zhang Bing, pointing at Qin Bi and General Zhang Bing's wife, and said, "They had already discussed it."

"Who do you think you are, daring to point at me?" Qin Bi retorted angrily, "Are you tired of living?"