webnovelfull Chapter 554: The Original Wife Arrives
Chapter 554: The Original Wife Arrives
"All you need to do is drop a drop of blood into the water and have a blood test with the prince of the Yuan Dynasty, and the rumors will be dispelled."
As soon as these words were spoken, the Imperial Master and Queen Mother Yuan's faces instantly turned dark.
Blood test?
Even if they were given a hundred courages, they would not dare.
Because once the paternity test is done, all the lies they just made up will come back to haunt them.
Empress Dowager Yuan is the mistress of the harem and also has to govern the country. If she is full of lies, which minister will dare to believe what she says in the future?
Both the Imperial Master and Empress Dowager Yuan understood this principle.
Queen Mother Yuan looked at Yuan Jiuan and said gloomily: "Prince Chengxuan, do you know what you are talking about?"
"Today is the ceremony for the crown prince to be crowned. If I really have a marriage certificate with the Yuan Dynasty, then wouldn't anyone be able to step on my head in the future?"
"I have cooperated with you enough today. I will never agree to your condition of blood test."
She said this in anger and shame, and Yuan Jiuan laughed.
"If the Queen Mother doesn't want to do a blood test with Master Yuan, then wouldn't it be fine if the Imperial Master did a blood test with Master Yuan?"
"If the results of the blood test show that there is no blood relationship between the Imperial Master and the Prince of Yuan Dynasty, then I will apologize to the Imperial Master and the Queen Mother in public."
Yuan Jiuan knew very well that Empress Dowager Yuan and the Imperial Master would never agree to this request.
Naturally, there will never be a day when he will apologize.
The state teacher looked unhappy. He clenched his fists and said, unable to bear it any longer: "Prince Chengxuan, please don't go too far. This state teacher thinks that you are not here to participate in the crown prince ceremony, but to deliberately cause trouble."
Yuan Jiuan's lips curled up, "Is the Imperial Master angry and embarrassed?"
"Or are you simply not brave enough to test your relationship with the prince of the Yuan Dynasty by dropping blood in public?"
"Of course he doesn't dare." Suddenly, an angry female voice came from outside the palace.
Everyone turned around and saw Shen Xiangming walking in with a middle-aged woman with a flowing bun.
After the two entered the hall, Shen Xiangming immediately knelt on the ground and said respectfully: "Your subordinate pays respect to the Empress Dowager. Just now when I was outside, I met this Madam Cao."
"She said that the Imperial Master looked very much like her husband who had jumped off a cliff and disappeared for seventeen years. She had been looking for her husband for many years but couldn't find him. I felt sorry for her, so I took the initiative to bring her into the palace. I hope the Queen Mother will forgive me."
Shen Xiangming said he was sorry, but he had no idea that he had done anything wrong.
From the moment he heard the recording at the scene, he knew that the national master was Jiang Yanfan who had jumped off a cliff and disappeared.
Unfortunately, both he and Queen Dowager Yuan were unwilling to admit it even though Ji Yuntang had already thrown the evidence in their faces.
Now he brought Mrs. Cao in just because he wanted to see Mrs. Cao slap them in the face in public.
The Empress Dowager Yuan recognized Madam Cao the moment she saw her enter the palace.
The woman had a fine bone structure and a dignified figure, but her once beautiful face had aged a lot after years of wear and tear.
Back then, Empress Dowager Yuan was very jealous of Madam Cao, not only because she was prettier and younger than her, but also because she was Jiang Yanfan's legal wife.
As for her, she could only be with him secretly like a rat in a gutter.
Even though they already have a son, their relationship will never be made public.
Empress Dowager Yuan had thought about killing Madam Cao, but Jiang Yanfan said that Madam Cao was kind-hearted, filial and sensible, and it would be more useful to keep her than to kill her.
After all, he has elderly parents and two children to take care of at home, and he is not at ease asking others to do so. It would be best for him to let Mrs. Cao stay at the Jiang family to take care of them.
In this way, he could be with Queen Dowager Yuan without any worries.
Empress Dowager Yuan thought about it and felt that what he said made sense.
Jiang Yanfan is the only son in the family. He has been an extremely filial person since childhood. He has never suffered any hardship and has never disobeyed his parents.
If she really killed Mrs. Cao, then there would be no one to take care of Jiang Yanfan's parents and two children, and Jiang Yanfan would definitely be distracted by them.
In this way, he cannot be with her wholeheartedly and will always be thinking about his family.
Another point is that she was afraid that if she killed Mrs. Cao, Jiang Yanfan would hate her because of it, and then the loss would really outweigh the gain.
But even so, she still sent people to monitor Jiang Yanfan's every move.
It's not that Empress Dowager Yuan didn't know this. On the contrary, she knew very well in her heart that Jiang Yanfan had indeed not returned home in the past seventeen years, but he had arranged for people to keep an eye on the Jiang family's movements at all times.
Once any situation occurs, he will receive news from the spies first.
Back then, when his father died, he locked himself in his room for a long time.
Only after the body was buried did he go to the cemetery in person and burn some paper money for his father. He did the same every year thereafter.
Empress Dowager Yuan knew all these things, but she never asked Jiang Yanfan.
As long as he had her in his heart and as long as he didn't return to Madam Cao, Queen Dowager Yuan felt that she could endure all this.
After all, isn't Jiang Yanfan, who is filial and affectionate, more attractive and manly in her eyes?
She accepted him because she valued his sentimental nature and thought he would be a good father.
But she never expected that Madam Cao would know about this matter and come to the palace.
Now seeing the other person standing in front of her, the jealousy hidden in her heart began to grow wildly again.
She was afraid that Jiang Yanfan would meet Mrs. Cao, and she was even more afraid that the other party would have some regrets.
After all, in Empress Dowager Yuan's opinion, Jiang Yanfan's body and mind had already belonged to her!
She suppressed the hatred in her heart, looked down at Mrs. Cao who was kneeling in front of her, and said something with a forced smile.
"I didn't recognize you. It's Madam Cao. It's been a long time since we last met."
According to seniority, she should call Mrs. Cao her cousin.
But the relationship between her and Mrs. Cao has never been friendly.
It was Jiang Yanfan whom she met first, but Jiang Yanfan ended up marrying Mrs. Cao.
She had always disliked this woman in her heart.
Madam Cao looked up at Empress Dowager Yuan. Her eyes, which were as gentle as water, had already turned red.
She never imagined that one day she would really be able to enter the palace and meet Empress Dowager Yuan.
What she didn't expect was that Queen Dowager Yuan would actually snatch her husband away, instigate her husband to abandon his wife and children, and fake his death to leave her.