Lu Yun was slapped, and looked at the struggling woman in front of him in disbelief, and covered Shen Nian’s red lips with his hand to stop her from yelling.

"Shut up! This prince was trying to save you with good intentions, but you dared to hit me. Do you want to die?"

"I have been a child, except for being slapped by my sister and Qi Yuning, no one has ever dared to touch me! How dare you hit me? I will definitely not tolerate this slap!"

When Shen Nian saw the monk's appearance clearly, he remembered that he seemed to have seen him once today. He came with Qi Yuning.

Gradually, I stopped struggling.

Lu Yun let go of his hand when he saw Shen Nian calm down.

Shen Nian whispered, "I'm sorry, why am I in the water? You just did that rude thing to me again, so I hit you..."

Lu Yun said, "You were knocked unconscious and thrown into the water. This prince is not being rude to you. I am giving you air to save you. Do you think this prince is happy to kiss you? This prince is so handsome, you are lucky!"

"Right here, my husband. Just now, Shen Nian jumped into the lake and committed suicide out of fear of her crime!"

The light of candles continued to come from the shore.

Lu Yun was so scared that he let go of Chen Nian, but Chen Nian couldn't swim. As soon as Lu Yun let go of her, she could only flounder in the water. Lu Yun then stepped forward and held Chen Nian's waist.

Shen Nian's hand also unconsciously climbed onto Lu Yun's shoulder.

When Huang Tao came, he saw a little bald man in a cassock holding Shen Nian, and the two of them hugged each other tightly.

Huang Tao was so angry that his hands were shaking, "Bitch! Come, beat this adulterous couple to death with sticks!"

Lu Yun asked Shen Nian who was standing beside him, “Is the adulterer he’s talking about me?”

Lu Yun also touched his bald head with one hand.

Shen Nian said repeatedly: “Take me ashore first…”

…

Qi Yuning and Lu Ze had already fallen asleep. When they heard the noise outside, they were woken up and stood up one after another.

Ning Wen knocked on the door and said, "Master Lu, Master Lu, something terrible has happened."

Lu Ze stood up, put on his cassock, opened the door and said, "Madam Shen San, what happened?"

Ning Wenlian said, "I don't know how Prince Lu and Nian'er fell into the water, and were caught by Governor Huang. He was sure that they were having an affair, and wanted to beat them to death!"

Qi Yuning came out and asked Lu Ze, "Do you want to send a signal to my brother to prepare to attack the city immediately?"

They were certainly not defenseless.

Lu Ze frowned and said, "Lu Yun is always a troublemaker. Don't send a signal yet. Let's go and take a look first."

When Qi Yuning and Lu Ze hurried over, they saw Lu Yun jumping up and down and shouting, "I have all the beauties I want, why would I have an affair with a married woman?"

Huang Tao's wife Qin Wan whispered in Huang Tao's ear: "My husband, you heard it with your own ears. The monk invited by the Shen family is not a proper monk."

Lu Yun pouted, "I am much more serious than you. You are the one who is not serious. Don't think that no one knows about the good things you did in the past. You shameless person even hooked up with my father ten years ago! You said that your daughter-in-law committed adultery, but it was you who actually committed adultery with someone else!"

Qi Yuning and Lu Ze looked at each other and asked in a low voice, "Is what Lu Yun said true? Did Huang Tao's wife really have an affair with your father?"

Lu Ze replied in a low voice: "I don't know about this."

However, Qin Wan is also their cousin, so Lu Yun might really know something.

Qin Wan said angrily: "How dare you talk nonsense!"

Lu Yun said, "I saw it with my own eyes, how can it be called nonsense? When you went to Shengjing City to celebrate Uncle Qin's birthday ten years ago, didn't you flirt with my father? Do you want me to help you recall what you said that day?"

As Lu Yun spoke, he raised his orchid finger and said in a choked voice, "Brother-in-law, my gentle sister is not a caring person. Look at your clothes, they are all messed up..."

"My Lord, I have been in love with you before I got married. If it weren't for Sister Pingrou getting there first..."

Lu Yun pointed at Qin Wan and said, "Do you want me to blurt out those shameless words of yours?"

Qin Wan narrowed his eyes, "Are you Pingrou's son?"

Lu Yun covered his mouth repeatedly and slapped himself. Really, how could he let the cat out of the bag in such a fit of rage!

Huang Tao narrowed his eyes and looked at Lu Yun in front of him and asked, "Are you really the son of Princess Pingrou?"

Lu Ze stepped forward and clasped his hands together, saying, "Amitabha, my junior fellow apprentice is indeed the son of Princess Pingrou. At this time last year, he was engaged to the Princess of the Qi family. He did not want to marry Princess Qi as the Princess of the County, so he became a monk. The whole Shengjing City knows about this."

Chen Qian also stepped forward and said, "This matter has spread all over the Shuofang Road. It is true."

Lu Yun heard this and said, "Yes, this prince doesn't even like Qi Yuning, so how can he like this woman? It was that old hag Qin Wan who was talking nonsense. Just now when I was playing with stones by the lake, I heard her and her son's voices. They said they were going to throw this woman into the lake, so I jumped in to save her."

Chen Nian knelt on the ground and said, "Father-in-law, I didn't know how I fell into the water just now. When I woke up, I was in the lake. I really didn't do anything to let Huang Rui down. I really didn't."

Qin Wan frowned and said, "It's obvious that you two committed adultery and didn't want to admit it! So now you come to slander us."

Lu Yun said, "You know who is slandering and who is committing adultery. Do you dare to swear? If I commit adultery, my whole family will be killed, nine generations of my clan will be killed. Do you dare to swear that you have never seduced my father, and did not let anyone throw this woman into the river? If you have the guts to swear, if you break your oath, your whole Qin family will be killed, nine generations of my clan will be killed!"

Qi Yuning glanced at Lu Ze. She must not let Lu Yun swear like this in the future. If he swore like this, she would not dare to become Lu Yun's nine clansmen.

Huang Tao glared at Qin Wan and asked, "Is what Prince Lu said true? Do you dare to swear an oath?"

Qin Wan raised her hands repeatedly and said, “I can also swear an oath that I have never seduced Duke Lu, and I have never thrown Shen Nian into the river…”

Lu Yun said, "No, there are so many Duke Lu. My brother will also be Duke Lu in the future. You have to say that you have never seduced Princess Pingrou's consort and that you have never ordered people to throw Shen Nian into the lake. Not a single word can be wrong! Don't try to deceive God!"

Qin Wan stretched out three fingers and said word by word: "I, Qin Wan, swear to heaven that I have never seduced Princess Pingrou's consort, and I have never ordered anyone to throw Shen Nian into the lake. If I break this oath, my entire family will die, nine generations of my clan will die!"

After Qin Wan finished speaking through gritted teeth, she looked at Lu Yun and said, "Lord Lu, I will forgive you once because you are my cousin's son, but this Shen Nian has committed adultery twice, so you must not let her stay."

Huang Tao narrowed his eyes and looked at Shen Nian who was kneeling on the ground and said, "Come here, bring Shen Nian..."

"Wait a minute."

Lu Ze stepped forward and said, "Since my fellow apprentice and Donor Qin have both sworn a solemn oath, one of them must be lying. May I ask why Donor Huang came here?"

Huang Tao said: "My wife said that a servant saw Shen Nian jump into the lake and commit suicide."

Lu Ze walked up to Qin Wan and asked, "Which servant saw it?"

Qin Wan motioned for the nanny beside her to come out. The nanny walked up to Huang Tao, knelt down and said, "I saw it with my own eyes. I didn't expect that the young lady didn't jump into the lake to commit suicide, but committed adultery."

Lu Ze asked, “From where did you see Master Shen jump into the lake?”

"There!"

The nanny pointed to a location.

Lu Ze walked forward with a lantern, and when everyone got closer, he said, "Everyone, stop. This place is close to the lake, and the soil is moist, so you can leave footprints. Look, there are more than just one pair of footprints here."

Lu Ze saw a piece of clothing hanging from the flowers by the lake. "This piece of white brocade clothing looks familiar."

Qi Yuning looked at the pieces of white clothes and pointed at Huang Fei and asked, "Why is there a hole in Second Young Master Huang's clothes?"

Lu Ze walked to Huang Fei's clothes with the fragments and said, "It's just right to close it. Why don't you ask the second young master Huang to try the footprints?"

Huang Fei repeatedly said, "I have been to the lake, so what? I was there during the day. How could I throw my sister-in-law into the lake? Stop slandering me!"

Qi Yuning laughed sarcastically and said, "Master Shuiqing just wanted to see if you had been to the shore, but you confessed so quickly?"

Huang Feilian said to Huang Tao: "Dad, I came here in the afternoon. These footprints don't mean anything at all."

Qi Yuning walked forward with a lantern and found a piece of paper in the bushes. On it was a suicide note in which Shen Nian confessed his guilt. She brought the paper to Huang Tao and said, "Master Huang, please take a look at this suicide note..."

After Huang Tao finished reading, Qi Yuning gave the suicide note to Chen Qian and Ning Wen to look at.

Ning Wen said angrily: "This handwriting does look like my daughter's, but if you look closely, it's not my daughter's at all.

My Nian'er never did anything to let down the Huang family. But you, the Huang family, actually forged a suicide note to pretend that my son committed suicide out of fear of punishment!

Huang Tao, our Shen and Ning families are not pushovers. We will not let you slander our daughter and kill her for nothing!"

Chen Qian looked at Huang Tao and said, "Brother Huang, your Huang family needs to give us an explanation for this forged suicide note!"

(End of this chapter)