usatvline Chapter 270 Marrying a Dead Woman as a Concubine
Chapter 270 Marrying a Dead Woman as a Concubine
"You, you, you are so unreasonable." He ran over and kicked twice.
The Marquis's wife pulled hard and finally pulled the man back.
"Ouch." The second master screamed again.
"Don't act so noble. Isn't it just that Zishu is no longer the crown prince? Doesn't that mean you, the Marquis of Pingyang, won't be able to benefit from his influence in the future?
You're standing up for a half-sister. If someone doesn't know you, they'd think you two have such a deep bond as siblings. Stop pretending in front of me." The Second Master revealed Marquis Pingyang's thoughts.
Pingyang Hou was so angry that he wanted to kick him again.
"How could the old prince give birth to someone like you? You are such a disgrace to the Rong Palace."
"My Lord, please stop kicking him. Even if you kick him to death, it won't bring back Concubine Luo's life." The Second Lady stood in front of the Second Master with a sad face.
She had married him and was bound to him for the rest of her life.
"Hmph, Shangguan Hongchen, tell me, how are you going to give my sister an explanation? Don't give me those useless words. She can't even die without a place to go."
A divorced woman doesn't even know where to bury her.
Without incense, you can only be a lonely ghost, without even the chance to be reborn in the next life.
"What do you want?" The second master looked like a dead pig.
"My sister has only had you as her man from the beginning to the end. You marry her and let her enter your vagina." Pingyang Hou thought about it and came up with this idea.
His Pingyang Marquis Mansion could not afford to lose face. He could not let his sister die like this and be buried in some remote mountain corner. She had been in the palace for so many years and had even given birth to a child for the Shangguan family. She could not die without anyone offering incense to her.
"You, you want me to marry a dead person?" The second master widened his eyes in shock.
How is this possible?
Only a ghost marriage would marry a dead person.
If this matter were to get out, everyone in the capital would laugh their heads off.
He couldn't afford to lose this man.
"You don't want to marry, right? Then I will tell everyone in the capital how you cheated on the prince, and see how you will survive in the capital in the future. Unless you die in front of me now, I will not make things difficult for you." Pingyang Hou threatened viciously.
It is true that evil will be punished by evil.
The Marquis of Pingyang and the Second Master are no less capable.
"I will marry her, I will marry her. Is it not okay for me to marry her?" If this scandal really got out, he would have no face to live.
No matter how bad a man's life is in private, everyone wants to save face on the surface.
"Hmph, and it must be a wife." Pingyang Hou made another request.
"I already have a wife, how can I marry her? Luo Yichen, don't go too far. My wife is the woman who gave birth to two children for me. Although I am not very satisfied with her, I have never thought of divorcing her." The second master knew that his wife could not be divorced.
Not so confused that there is no hope.
"You, you, you... I don't care how you try, but you must give my sister a legitimate status. No woman in my Luo family has ever been divorced."
If there is a divorced girl in a family, the character of all the girls in the family will be questioned.
How could Marquis Pingyang allow the prince to divorce his sister and send her home?
Based on what her sister had done, even if she died, the prince would strip her of her status.
He was very clear about this.
So he had to hold on to the second master tightly.
The second master knew that if he didn't give Luo Xinyi an explanation today, Marquis Pingyang would definitely not let him go.
The pain from the kicks just now, which had just barely eased him, was now even worse.
He bared his teeth and thought about it.
"Alright, give her a title and register her as my co-wife. This is the most I can do. My wife hasn't committed any serious offense, so I won't give her the throne.
His legitimate son is still at the border. If he knew that he had committed such a big mistake, how could he hold his head high?
I don’t know how to explain this to my son in the future.
Luo Xinyi was recorded as his concubine, and his legitimate son had to offer sacrifices to her.
Just thinking about him makes me feel guilty.
Marquis Pingyang knew that this was the limit of Shangguan Hongchen's ability, so he had no choice but to accept it.
"Hmph, I will keep a close eye on you. If I bury you in the ancestral tomb of your Shangguan family, I will see if I will let you go." Marquis Pingyang left with these harsh words and walked away.
The Second Lady never imagined that she was already forty years old and had a younger sister, who was also a co-wife. A co-wife was also a wife, and she would be buried next to her husband.
Thinking of this, she felt more sad than anyone else.
But she had been suppressed by the second master for more than 20 years. She dared not say a word and could only wipe away her tears silently.
The prince has made the judgment, and it must be carried out.
Concubine Luo had Shangguan Zishu and Shangguan Ru, two people who had feelings for her, to take care of things for her.
So a mourning hall was set up in the palace, and the two knelt in the mourning hall for three days.
The prince and princess didn't say much about this.
When people die, the dead are the greatest.
Her only faults were plotting against the prince and exchanging the child. She had never taken the initiative to harm the princess, nor had she harmed the descendants of the Shangguan family.
Those things were done by people from the second and third rooms.
The prince wrote the document to release his concubine and burned it directly for her.
There was no way the prince would allow her name to be mentioned under his own.
Concubines must be included in the family tree.
Several elders of the clan also came to the palace.
The prince explained the matter to them privately.
When the elders heard this, they were in disbelief.
The three sons of the royal family actually did something so unacceptable to the world for the throne.
Patriarch Hong was so angry that he cursed Shangguan Hongchen and Shangguan Hongzhe.
How important is the stability of the palace to the Shangguan family.
These unfilial sons are so bold.
Prince, that is something that should be cultivated starting from the age of five.
Shangguan Zishu was already eighteen years old when he took over the throne of the crown prince. How could he be qualified for the job?
Patriarch Hong scolded the third old lady even more.
A mere concubine dared to harm the legitimate grandson of the royal family.
"Your Highness, you are still too merciful. Even if Wang Cuilan is dead, she should be cut into pieces." Chief Hong shouted angrily.
"What the clan leader said is true. However, considering that she gave birth to a child for the Shangguan family, I will leave her body intact."
"Oh, never mind, she's just a woman, just bury her casually. But you expelled both brothers from the palace. It's okay for the third brother, but the second brother will probably have a hard time." Chief Hong also knew that the second master was hopeless.
There were not many descendants in the Prince Rong’s Mansion, and now they were all expelled from the mansion, leaving only the eldest son’s wife in the mansion.
Fortunately, the eldest son married a fertile wife, and she gave birth to three children at once.
"I have supported his family for over twenty years and have done my utmost.
He actually dared to dream that the throne would fall to the second wife. I have been very kind to him by not killing him.
How he will live in the future depends on his own abilities.
At least I have left him a way out. I have not thought of taking back the five shops he owns. It depends on whether he can wake up after this incident.
This prince is doing this to honor his father and the ancestors of the Shangguan family."
The prince did not think that his punishment of the two brothers was excessive.
Three days later, Shangguan Zishu went to the funeral procession, and Shangguan Ru followed behind. They sent Concubine Luo out of the city and into the Shangguan family cemetery, where they buried her solemnly in the ancestral grave.
Next to it is the area allocated to the second wife's family.
When the second master dies, he will be buried next to him.
"Mother, from today on, I will no longer call you Consort Mother. You are the mother who raised me. Rest in peace. Perhaps I will be here to accompany you soon."
Shangguan Zishu knelt in front of the brand new grave, muttering something unclear.
Cao Nanhua and Yu Chaoyang were kneeling behind them and didn't hear clearly what he said.
Shangguan Ru heard a few words, but didn't understand what he meant.