Long Live the Empress

Chapter 333: Emotional and Magnificent

Early the next morning

An inconspicuous green-roofed carriage had just stopped at the gate of Yue Mansion. A woman in a lavender dress with a veil covering her face got out of the carriage without waiting for the maid to help her.

The maid knocked on the door gently, but for some reason no one opened it after knocking for a long time.

Early in the morning is the time when vendors open their shops, and the knocking sounds on the doors attract many onlookers.

"Agate, is it possible that my father is angry with me?"

If the person coming is not Yue Jinghao, then who else could it be?

Yue Jinghao had a sad look on her face, her eyes turned red while she spoke, and her voice was choked, sounding very pitiful.

"How could that be? The eldest lady is also...ah...I hope the master can understand the eldest lady!" Agate supported Yue Jinghao who was about to faint and advised.

As soon as Manjushri finished speaking, the crowd burst into exclamations.

"What? She is the eldest daughter of the Yue family who eloped with the groom?"

"Doesn't he look like a shameless person?"

"Can you tell? Haven't you heard that the more gentle a person appears to be, the more relaxed they are about that!"

"Hey, you're just saying, why don't you want to be a good official lady and do such a lowly thing?"

"You can only know a person's face but not his heart..."

Yue Jinghao ignored the comments of people around her and did not explain. She just wiped her tears silently.

But Manju was smart. She burst into tears and said, "Miss, there is nothing you can do! The eldest princess is not feeling well, and you have to take care of her and copy scriptures to pray for her. If I hadn't overheard it, how could Miss know that the old lady was dying! Woo woo..."

As soon as the words fell, everyone looked at each other?

What? Didn't the eldest daughter of the Yue family elope with the groom? Instead, she went to serve the eldest princess?

Moreover, the old lady was almost dying, and no one from the Yue Mansion went to the Princess's Mansion to inform the eldest young lady, and just let the rumors fly everywhere...

"Is the princess's disease serious?" someone in the crowd asked boldly.

"Alas, the eldest princess is overthinking and has a headache every day and can't fall asleep. My eldest daughter has to massage her all day and all night long so that she can fall asleep for a while! When the eldest princess falls asleep, my eldest daughter kneels in the Buddhist temple and copies scriptures to pray for the eldest princess! Uncle and aunt, look at how tired my eldest daughter's hands are!"

Who doesn't know the deeds of the eldest princess? It can be said that without the eldest princess, there would be no emperor today, and without the emperor today, there would be no Weiguo living and working in peace and contentment today!

How can we not admire him who can't even sleep because of worrying about his country?

Looking at the pink and purple color revealed on the back of Yue Jinghao's hand, everyone believed this explanation!

"Hey, this Miss Yue is really filial! Look at her hands!"

"That's right. Every young lady in a government-run family has slender and white fingers. Look at the eldest young lady's fingers!"

"I was wondering why the young lady's legs and feet didn't look very good when she got off the carriage. It turns out she was kneeling down to copy the scriptures!"

"..."

"Although I am not worthy of serving the princess, I still go to various pastry shops to select cakes for her every day, just in case the princess has a headache and her food doesn't taste good..."

"Yes, yes, yes. I was wondering why this little maid looked so familiar. It turns out she came to my store to buy snacks before!"

"I've seen it too. I queued for an hour to buy snacks at Jubinlou the other day, and it seemed like this little maid was standing in front of me!"

How could Yue Jinghao elope with someone else when her personal maid was in the capital?

The elopement rumors were dispelled!

"Uncle and aunt, my young lady said that what she did was insignificant compared to the big things that the eldest princess was thinking about, but being able to serve the eldest princess made my young lady feel at ease!" Manju said with great emotion, and she was about to cry, which made people around her feel distressed...

"This young lady is serving the eldest princess, which is also a relief for the country!"

"That's right. If the eldest lady hadn't been serving the princess every day, how could the princess think about state affairs when she had a headache?"

"..."

"Last night, my eldest daughter heard that the old lady was going back home after falling ill. But the eldest princess was worried about the danger on the road, so she sent someone to tell her that the eldest daughter would be back today! But...but...I don't know if my master was angry with the eldest daughter, or listened to the instigation of others. Today, the eldest daughter didn't even have breakfast and hurried back! I didn't expect...I didn't expect...The eldest daughter must have been because I wasn't strong enough, and the doorman didn't hear the knock on the door. It was definitely not someone who deliberately didn't let you in! I'll knock again!"

Manju was about to knock on the door again, but a tall and strong porter stepped forward and said, "Girl, you are not strong enough, come down again!"

The porter was very strong and the knocking on the door was so loud that it hurt everyone's ears, but the door of Yue Mansion just didn't open!

Yue Jinghao shook her body, with a look of disbelief on her face: "Could it be... that my father is really angry with me..."

People around are not happy about this. In their opinion, Miss Yue is helping the eldest princess to share her worries, which means helping the country of Wei. So why is she not welcomed by Yue Hanwen?

"Is this still my real father? His daughter did such a filial thing, but not only did he not praise her, he even refused to let her in?"

"It is said that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. Miss Yue's biological mother died early, and her aunt is in charge of the family. How can Miss Yue not suffer setbacks?"

"Now that you mention it, I remember that everyone still remembers how Miss Yue Er appropriated her stepmother's dowry when she got married? She did it so blatantly, who knows how rampant she is in the mansion!"

"That's right! I've seen it too. Ninety percent of it is my stepmother's dowry! If it weren't for the Ninth Prince, those things would have been taken to the Crown Prince's Palace with her long ago!"

The gossips were getting louder and louder, from Aunt Fan's usurpation of the dowry, to Yue Jinghong and Yue Yuyan's affair, to all kinds of rumors about Yue Jinghao...

The porter knocked on the door again, and this time it finally opened. "Who is it? So early in the morning!"

The door opened a crack, and when the doorman saw so many people gathered outside, he slammed the door, bolted it, and ran to report to Yue Hanwen!

Yue Hanwen was sleeping soundly with Ni'er in his arms when he was woken up by a servant, "Master, Master, something bad has happened! Someone is causing trouble!"

Yue Hanwen sat up from the couch, still in a bad mood, and shouted angrily: "Just beat him out! Useless thing!"

"No, sir, there are too many of them! I'm afraid I can't defeat them..."

Ni'er quickly got up and helped Yue Hanwen get dressed. "Master, you should go out and take a look yourself! Let those thieves know how powerful our Yue Mansion is! Don't let them think we are easy to bully!"

Yue Hanwen thought that what he said made sense. He was already feeling unhappy about being demoted, and now this man coming to his door was just a slap in his face, wasn't it?

He would never allow it, so he urged Ni'er to dress him quickly.

While Yue Hanwen was not paying attention, Ni'er put a note into Yue Hanwen's sleeve.

The door opened again, and a shout was heard: "How dare you!"

The crowd looked inside the door and saw a dozen servants holding sticks behind Yue Hanwen, staring at Yue Jinghao angrily...