Phew.
There was a loud roar of laughter from the crowd.
"It's so funny that the noble prince of the Marquis Mansion is renting a house with his wife, but he can't even pay the rent."
Xie Heng's face turned green and red as if a dye vat had been knocked over.
He glared at the crowd angrily, "I don't have an outside wife."
After he finished yelling, he saw the crowd looking at him with different expressions, and he felt resentful again.
What to explain to a group of ignorant people?
He turned to look at Gu Nan and motioned for Gu Nan to come out with another thousand taels of silver notes.
Gu Nan looked embarrassed, "I was in such a hurry today that I didn't bring any banknotes with me. Hey, my mother-in-law is here."
Gu Nan sharply saw Princess Huaiyang and Meng Yunshang behind the crowd, and raised her voice:
"Mother-in-law should have a banknote on her, right?"
Everyone looked at Princess Huaiyang and Meng Yunshang.
Meng Yunshang's face turned pale and she subconsciously took two steps back.
Zhang Qiang rushed over with excitement on his face and grabbed Meng Yunshang's sleeve.
"Madam, it turns out that she is here. The prince and his wife have lived in my house for four years, but they only paid rent for two years..."
Meng Yunshang was startled by the face that suddenly approached her. She subconsciously shook Zhang Qiang away and said sharply: "Let me go. If you want the rent, go find Chang Ming..."
"Yun Shang!" Xie Heng shouted quickly.
But it was too late, Meng Yunshang's words had already been spoken.
Not only the people in the hall heard it, but also the people watching.
"It turns out that the person I rented lives in the house that I married today."
"Just now at the gate of the Hou Mansion, didn't Mrs. Wenchang Hou come to the door because she said that Ping's wife was the daughter of a long-lost friend?"
"Hey, let's just listen to this. This is obviously the crown prince's eldest son. He just found an excuse to take her into the Hou Mansion."
"I'm just pitiful about the prince's wife. I heard that Rexiaozhong came in and tried his best to take care of the prince's mansion, but her husband was living outside the house and living happily."
The crowd's discussion reached Meng Yunshang's ears. She was shocked to realize that she had said the wrong thing and looked at Xie Heng with a pale face.
"Hisuro."
Xie Heng secretly hated Meng Yunshang for saying the wrong thing without thinking.
The comments from the people around him were like loud slaps, one after another, causing his face to hurt.
"Your Majesty, is all this true?"
Gu Nan walked up to Xie Heng, his eyes were red, and his hand pointing at Meng Yunshang kept shaking.
"It turns out that you two were together four years ago, so she is not the daughter of my mother-in-law's friend at all, nor did she just find the Hou Mansion a few days ago.
She is your concubine, but you just found an excuse to trick me into bringing her into the house to be your equal wife, right? "
She was pale and heartbroken.
"After marrying into the Hou family, I asked myself that there was nothing wrong. Prince, why did you lie to me like this?
We were not even married four years ago. We had an extramarital affair before we were married, had an affair without a matchmaker, and gave birth to a bastard. You...you..."
"I didn't." Xie Heng denied.
He must not admit that he had an unmarried wife and had an affair without a matchmaker, otherwise, the reputation of the entire Wenchang Hou Mansion would be ruined.
"There is a rental contract as evidence and Zhang Qiang as witness. Both of them can prove that you were together four years ago.
If she is not your wife, then tell me, what is going on?
Your Majesty, this is the Yamen of Jingzhao Mansion. With Mr. Fu Yin here, Your Majesty will definitely not deceive me, right? "
Xie Heng clenched his fists and felt as if a stone was stuck in his throat. He was so stuck that he couldn't say a word for a long time.
He couldn't admit the crime of having an extramarital affair without a matchmaker, but how could he explain his four-year relationship with Meng Yunshang?
He gritted his teeth and felt cold sweat dripping down his back.
"Madam, this is a family matter in the Marquis's house. Let's go home and talk about it. Don't let others see the joke outside."
He coaxed Gu Nan in a low voice and looked at Gu Nan with a hint of pleading in his eyes.
Gu Nan felt a faint sense of joy in his heart.
Xie Heng actually begged her.
In her previous life, whether she spent money to clear Xie Heng's official career, or she paid a lot of money to hire famous teachers for Xie Rui.
The most Xie Heng could do was to talk to her as gently as charity, as if everything was what she should do.
But now that she had just begun to expose his relationship with Meng Yunshang, was Xie Heng afraid?
She motioned to Xie Heng to listen to the discussion outside.
"It is said that Crown Prince Xie is a quick learner and a promising person at a young age. I didn't expect that he turned out to be such a person."
"Having a wife without marriage, and then marrying a wife from another wife as a common wife, would a noble family do such a ridiculous thing?"
There was also an indignant voice that was particularly loud.
"The whole family united to deceive the crown prince's wife and treat her as an equal wife. It is simply equivalent to doting on a concubine and destroying her wife. Today, the censors have something to write about."
Xie Heng's expression suddenly changed. He could not let his reputation be ruined.
Gu Nan bit her lip and sighed softly.
"Your Majesty, don't you understand? When the matter goes to court and involves arrears of rent, it is no longer a family matter.
What's more, today there is such a big show of marrying an equal wife in the Hou Mansion, so many people have seen it, and if the wife is an equal wife, once this matter comes to His Majesty's ears..."
Xie Heng broke into a cold sweat and blurted out without thinking.
"Not a common wife, but a concubine."
"Hisuro."
Meng Yunshang looked at Xie Heng in disbelief, her eyes filled with sad tears.
She worked hard to give birth to a son for Xie Heng, and almost lost her life.
In the end, I only got the identity of a concubine?
Xie Heng avoided looking into Meng Yunshang's eyes.
But words spoken are like water thrown out and cannot be taken back.
Xie Heng gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Yes, my prince is taking a concubine today, not marrying an equal wife."
Gu Nan looked confused, "Concubine? But my mother-in-law clearly meant an equal wife."
Princess Huaiyang stepped forward and took Gu Nan's hand, looking apologetic.
"Good boy, I did something wrong. Yunshang is indeed my friend's daughter, and it was my idea to rent a house outside.
It was inconvenient for me to go out, so I asked Heng'er to take care of her more. Unexpectedly, Yun Shang fell in love with Heng'er as soon as we came and went.
I was overthinking it and wanted to love Yun Shang a little more, so I came up with the idea of having an equal wife, but Heng'er didn't agree at all.
So today is about taking a concubine, not marrying an equal wife. "
Seeing that her mother-in-law also confirmed what she said, Meng Yunshang's eyes darkened and she almost fainted.
Earlier at the gate of the Hou Mansion, Xie Heng and her mother-in-law were on her side. As proud as Meng Yunshang was at that time, she was so sad now.
Gu Nan found it funny, "Since she is a concubine, why is she wearing a red wedding dress?"
There were jeers outside the door.
"Yeah, whose concubine would wear bright red?"
"Think we are blind."
Princess Huaiyang stiffened her face and gave Meng Yunshang a loud slap in the face.
"You said you were a concubine, but today you are wearing bright red. What are you worried about?"
Meng Yunshang fell to the ground in embarrassment, with five bloody finger prints on his face.
She covered her face and cried until she was in tears, but she didn't dare to refute a word.
"It is my fault."
Princess Huaiyang pulled Gu Nan, "I'm just a concubine. Don't let her stain your heart. If anything happens, let's go home and talk about it."
Today's incident was too big, and the entire Hou Mansion was embarrassed.
If Gu Nan continues to cause trouble without hesitation, his son's future will really be over.
Gu Nan lowered his eyes to cover up the coldness in his eyes.
What she wanted was not Meng Yunshang as a concubine.
He pulled back his hand and was about to speak when a burst of laughter suddenly came from outside the door.
She turned around and looked into a pair of narrow red and phoenix eyes.
