Duke Jing's younger sister

Chapter 201 The Jade Flowers Faded

Seeing that she was unwilling to get up, Xiao Wencong had no other choice but to say,

"I know you don't want to marry the prince. If I have the ability, I will definitely not stand idly by, but the method you mentioned is really..."

It doesn't work!

"Third Highness..."

Jiang Li slowly raised her head, looked at Xiao Wencong, and mustered up her courage to say,

"My daughter is no longer a virgin. I know that I am not clean, and I do not want to damage the reputation of His Highness the Third Prince."

"But now... I have been forced into a poor alley, and I have no other options. I only ask that you give me a separate courtyard in your mansion so that I can spend the rest of my life in peace. I only ask that you can save me and not let me marry the prince!"

She leaned forward and kowtowed, hitting her forehead heavily on the ground.

"Please, Your Highness, save my daughter's life!"

Xiao Wencong was so shocked as if struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

She said she...is no longer perfect?

An unmarried girl would not joke about such things.

Besides, given her current difficult situation, there was no need to make such a joke.

He gradually came back to his senses, and with a hint of disbelief in his voice, he asked, "Are you serious, Miss Jiang?"

Jiang Li nodded slightly.

"Do you know that once this matter gets out, your reputation will be ruined?"

Xiao Wencong said, "From now on, those wealthy families will regard you as an unfaithful and unclean woman, and you will no longer have a place to stand in Jiangdu City!"

He knew very well that he was a man and the notorious third prince in Jiangdu City.

He had an affair with an unmarried girl, but even if the news got out, it would not cause much discussion.

However, Jiang Li is different.

If a girl has physical contact with someone before she gets married, the whole family will probably be brought into disgrace.

If there are sisters in the family, they will also be implicated and find it difficult to find a good home.

And the scene she was about to face was even more unimaginable.

"I know, please help me, Your Highness the Third Prince..." Jiang Li's voice was a little choked.

Xiao Wencong stared at her for a moment and slowly spoke,

"Then do you know that once you marry into the royal family, there will be no possibility for you and Hengzhi?"

A woman of the royal family, even if abandoned, is not allowed to marry another man.

Her eyelashes trembled violently and tears suddenly fell.

If she doesn't marry the third prince, she will be the crown prince.

If she were to marry a prince, she would rather be the third prince.

"……Know."

"Have you thought it through?" Xiao Wencong asked finally.

Jiang Li nodded, looking ashen, and said, "...I've thought it through."

He looked at her for a moment and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Whether for Jiang Cheng or Shen Beiqi's sake, he should help her.

He also knew what kind of person the prince was.

Since he could save her from danger, he naturally wouldn't refuse.

As for Shen Hengzhi...

Thinking of Shen Hengzhi, Xiao Wencong felt a little headache.

Forget it, let me help her get through the current difficulties first. As for the rest, I can only take it one step at a time.

"Go back to Jiang Mansion and wait. I will go to the palace now."

"Thank you, Third Prince."

Xiao Wencong did not delay and immediately left the palace and went into the palace to ask for an audience with Emperor Hongyang outside the imperial study.

Liu Chang went into the hall to report, and then returned after a moment, "Third Prince, His Majesty asked you to come in."

As soon as Xiao Wencong entered the imperial study, he knelt on the ground with a plop and said loudly, "Please spare my life, father!"

He lowered his body and placed his hands on the clean and bright bluestone tiles.

Emperor Hongyang sat behind a bright yellow desk, wearing a dragon robe, looking majestic without even being angry.

He put down the memorial in his hand and looked at Xiao Wencong who was kneeling at the bottom of the stairs, his eyes full of doubt.

"What crime have you committed that you are begging for mercy?"

Xiao Wencong knelt down and kowtowed, then stood up and replied, "Father... your son... your son has made a serious mistake..."

"What kind of trouble could you possibly get into? Did you mess with some girl again?"

Emperor Hongyang asked in a calm tone.

His third son has always been like this, spending all his time pursuing women and girls.

No matter whether she is a lady from a noble family or a prostitute, as long as he likes her, he will get her.

"Father, you are wise!" Xiao Wencong bowed and said, "Yes...it's Miss Jiang."

Girl from the Jiang family?

Emperor Hongyang was shocked, and his eagle-like sharp eyes were cast straight at Xiao Wencong.

"Did you provoke Miss Jiang, or did you provoke Miss Jiang on behalf of someone else?"

Xiao Wencong pretended to be bewildered, "Of course it is your son, father... In fact, your son and Jiang Li have long been in love with each other, and the love is deep, and... and..."

Emperor Hongyang's face darkened, "Keep talking!"

"And... we have already been married, father!"

Xiao Wencong kowtowed heavily.

"I didn't know that the emperor wanted to marry her to my brother, but... now that the matter has been settled, I really can't give my woman to my brother as the crown princess... I've come to apologize to the emperor! I hope the emperor will punish me!"

"You mean, you and her have already had sex?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not lie." Xiao Wencong said.

Emperor Hongyang leaned lazily on the golden dragon throne, narrowed his eyes slightly, and a hint of deep meaning flashed in his eyes.

After looking Xiao Wencong up and down for a moment, he called softly: "Liu Chang——"

Liu Chang, dressed in a deep blue eunuch uniform, came in. He stood beside Emperor Hongyang and asked obediently, "Your Majesty, what is your will?"

Emperor Hongyang whispered,

"Go find a few elderly maids and have them go to the Jiang residence to check... whether the Jiang family's daughter is a virgin."

At the end, he deliberately added: "Take it with you yourself."

When Liu Chang heard this, his eyes spun rapidly like a top.

Then he responded, "Yes, I obey your command."

.......

It is almost September and the weather is getting cooler.

The leaves of the magnolia tree in the yard have begun to turn slightly yellow.

She stood under the tree, her thoughts having already drifted to the magnolia forest by the Jiangyang Lake.

When he left, the magnolias were in full bloom.

Now, I'm afraid it has already withered and turned into mud.

People often lament that flowers may bloom again, but people can never be young again.

This statement is absolutely true.

The magnolia may fade this year, but it will bloom again next year.

But the truly happy time in her life was shorter than the blooming period of the magnolia, fleeting like a fleeting moment.

The sky became increasingly gloomy, as if a storm was about to come.

The wind shook the branches, and several dead leaves fell to the ground, spinning like kites with broken strings.

The air is filled with the bleak atmosphere of late autumn.

"girl--"

Xingping put a cloak on her and said with concern,

"It's cold in the yard, and you didn't get enough rest last night. Why don't you let me make the bedding for you and go and rest for a while?"

Jiang Li lowered her eyes, turned around silently, and slowly sat down in front of the stone table, "No one has arrived yet."