After traveling through time, I thrived in ancient times

Chapter 17 Returning

The next day.

A group of people from Prince Chen's palace went out of the main gate of the palace. In the middle of the group was a rosewood carriage inlaid with gold, pulled by five horses. The doors and windows of the carriage were covered with layers of colorful brocade, making it impossible to peek into the people inside the carriage.

There were a total of ten guards guarding the frame. The eye-catching logo of Prince Chen's Mansion made people dare not be presumptuous and they could only murmur in their hearts.

Didn't they say that the Prince and his wife were seriously ill? Then who was in the carriage? The guards were carrying a few small boxes.

However, when the people in the capital saw where the carriage was heading, they all suddenly realized that today was the day when Princess Chen was returning home.

However, thinking about the rumors in the capital in recent days and the imperial edict suddenly issued by the emperor yesterday, one by one they could not help but follow behind the carriage team.

The legitimate daughter was treated harshly, and the legitimate daughter married off in place of the concubine's daughter. The dowry was only a few small boxes, and the original wife's dowry was embezzled...

It would be a shame to miss such a lively scene. After discovering that the palace guards had no intention of driving people away, more people followed.

Look at these boxes. Could they contain the dowry for the Princess of Chen? How come they are even stingier than ordinary merchants when marrying off their daughters?

"Miss, there are a lot of people following you outside."

Lan Yue secretly lifted a gap in the curtain and looked out. After seeing a group of people behind her, she was so scared that she quickly closed the curtain.

He was very excited in his heart and turned to Yu Tingwan who was lying in the carriage to tell her what he had seen.

Yu Tingwan lay on his side in the carriage, covered with a thin blanket.

She was busy last night until almost dawn and only slept for a while. Now she felt a little listless.

But fortunately, she is going to play a frail and sickly person this time, which is just right.

"It would be better if we have someone to follow us. The more people we have, the easier it will be for us to handle things later."

Lan Yue didn't understand what this meant, but she knew that as long as the young lady said it, it must be right.

Qingzhu, who was standing by, handed the tea to Yu Tingwan, "Princess, this is the new good tea that the prince has acquired. I asked this servant to bring it to you for you to taste."

Yu Tingwan reached out to take it, took a sip and found it delicious. Qingzhu's tea art was quite good.

"Yes, it tastes good."

Its main function is to quench thirst, and it doesn't have any bitterness. For Yu Tingwan, that's enough, and she can't taste anything else.

Hearing this, Qingzhu paused in taking the teacup, then concealed it without leaving a trace.

The place where the royal family lived was not far from where the court officials lived, but because more and more people followed behind, the carriage of Prince Chen's palace was moving slower and slower in order to take care of the people behind.

By the time we arrived at the gate of the Shangshu Mansion, the sun was already high in the sky.

The carriage stopped, and the palace guards walking on the side frowned slightly as they looked at the closed door of the Shangshu Mansion.

He walked to the carriage and spoke cautiously:

"Princess, we have arrived at the residence of the Minister of Revenue, but... the door is closed."

There was no sound coming from the car for a while, but the people who had been following behind began to whisper when they saw this.

"What's going on? Isn't Princess Chen coming back home? Why is the door of the Shangshu Mansion closed?"

"Well, I think it's this Shangshu who is resentful of the princess!"

This did surprise some people who were not well-informed. Why was it that when the daughter returned to her parents' home, her father was not welcome enough, but he also felt resentful towards her?

"I'm telling you, this is what happened... Do you understand?"

Everyone suddenly realized that this was it!

"So the Minister thinks that it was Princess Chen who complained to the Grand Tutor's Mansion, which is why he is resentful?"

Some people were dissatisfied with this statement.

"Hmph, in my opinion, even if it was Princess Chen who filed the complaint, it was right. It was originally the dowry of the mansion's mother, but it was used by the current lady and the daughter in the mansion. No one would be willing to do that!"

"You are so ignorant. There is no such thing as a current wife. There has always been only one wife of the Shangshu in the mansion, and that is Miss Jiang. The current one is still a concubine!"

"Ah, so what was the life like for Princess Chen in the mansion before she got married?"

Everyone present had been in the capital for many years and had heard a lot of gossip circulating in the capital. Although it had never been spread out of the Shangshu Mansion, judging from what had happened in the past few days, the backyard was probably not very harmonious either.

Yu Tingwan listened to the discussion behind him until it was almost over, then slowly spoke:

"Ahem... Ahem, go knock on the door, ahem... Father may have been delayed by something and forgot that today is the day for me, his daughter, to come home, ahem..."

A soft and pleasant voice came from the carriage. It was pleasant to hear, but the cough and weakness in it could not be faked.

"Alas, the Princess Chen fainted from anger before, and the imperial physician said she needed to rest for a long time, but she came back today."

"Of course not. The princess is thinking about her parents' home, but now it seems that the Shangshu Mansion may not welcome the princess!"

The guard went to knock on the door, and after knocking more than ten times, still no one opened the door.

Seeing this, the crowd's discussions became louder.

Seeing this, Yu Tingwan sighed softly and raised his voice slightly.

"Forget it. Father doesn't want to see me. I don't know how I have displeased him, but I am willing to obey his wishes. Let's go!"

Lan Yue's dissatisfied voice was heard from inside the carriage.

"Little Princess, what does the master mean? You haven't done anything wrong."

Qingzhu: "Lanyue, you don't know. There are rumors that the master was confined and asked the Shangshu Mansion to return the dowry of the late wife to the princess because the princess went to the Taishi Mansion to complain, saying that the princess resented her father."

"what!"

There was a sharp explosion inside the carriage, and then Lan Yue suddenly opened the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.

Before everyone could see what was going on inside the carriage, the curtains were quickly closed.

Lan Yue walked to the gate of the Shangshu Mansion and slammed the door with her hand.

"Open the door, open the door quickly!"

"Master, how could you do this? The young lady has always respected you. When you were in the mansion, you didn't like her and didn't want to see her. The young lady was sad, but she still insisted on paying her respects outside your door every day. Don't you remember?"

"When your wife just passed away, you handed over the household affairs to your concubine. Do you know how your young lady survived in your house?"

"Do you know that Miss was driven from Wanning Courtyard to Luoling Courtyard, the most desolate place in the mansion, by the concubine, on the pretext that Miss wanted to pray for Madam?"

"Now, the second young lady of the mansion, Yu Tinglin, lives in Miss Wanning Courtyard! She once whispered in your ear that she liked Wanning Courtyard, and you just let her move in!"

"And now, Wanning Courtyard has also been renamed Shangnv Pavilion. I was angry at first and thought the name was really ugly. But after learning a few characters, I realized that Shangnv, Shangnv, is the same as Di when reversed!"

Ah!

There was a sudden burst of discussion among the onlookers, as they had never expected this.

It turned out that the concubine in the Shangshu Mansion and the second young lady who was famous throughout the capital and as pure as a white lotus actually had such thoughts!