Chapter 117 She Looks Like Someone

Seeing that the Prime Minister's wife had been looking at her, Chunzhi couldn't help but ask, "Madam Ji?"

Madam Ji finally came to her senses. She twirled her Buddhist beads in one hand and tried her best to suppress the shock on her face. "I'm sorry for disturbing Miss Song by coming here."

Chunzhi smiled and said, "I'm sorry to bother you, but since you've come, please come in and have some tea."

After entering the flower hall, Song Wan'er and Chunzhi sat on one side, and Ji Ruzhen and Madam Ji sat on the other.

The maids brought up fragrant tea and snacks and gently placed them on the table.

Madam Ji kept turning the Buddhist beads in her hand and said to Chunzhi, "A few days ago, Miss Song was also at the Anyang Princess's residence. Miss Song knows the most about the matter between Wang Liuniang and my son-in-law Lu Jingyun, so I brought Ruzhen with me to ask Miss Song for clarification."

Chunzhi asked, "Mrs. Ji didn't ask Lu Jingyun about what he did, but asked me instead. Why is that?"

Ji Ruzhen asked, "When you entered the room that day, you asked Wang Liuniang how she felt about the consequences of her own actions. Wasn't it you who plotted against her?"

"Stop your nonsense!" Song Wan'er frowned and said, "Wang Liuniang did that to Lu Zhuangyuan, and instead of settling the score with them, you slander my sister. How foolish!"

Ji Ruzhen said, "It was Princess Anyang who interrupted you that day, so you didn't tell the whole truth. I came here today to ask you the truth. How did my husband, Lu Jingyun, and Wang Liuniang end up lying in the same bed?"

When Ji Ruzhen said this, she stared at Chunzhi, trying to see something unusual on Chunzhi's face.

But Chunzhi remained very calm, without any expression on her face.

The fact that Wang Liuniang and Wang Yiyue wanted to marry Huo Zheng and become the Princess of Chang'an had been around for a while. Many people among the nobles in the capital knew about it, and the mother and daughter of the Ji family were naturally aware of it as well.

It is impossible that Wang Yiyue would fall in love with Lu Jingyun just because she couldn't become the Princess of Chang'an.

Moreover, Lu Jingyun already had a wife, yet she had an affair with him in a place like the Princess Anyang's Mansion.

No matter what, Ji Ruzhen would not believe it.

Moreover, Lu Jingyun has been distracted by Chunzhi these days. At the flower-viewing banquet, he drank too much and went to find Chunzhi. Ji Ruzhen believed it, but she refused to believe that Lu Jingyun got drunk and had sex with Wang Yiyue.

However, when they were at the Princess's Mansion, Ji Ruzhen led people to look for Lu Jingyun everywhere, but saw him and Wang Yiyue lying on the same bed in the side room. She was so angry that she started fighting with Wang Yiyue.

Looking back on it later, I felt something was wrong.

Moreover, when Chunzhi was about to say something that day, Princess Anyang interrupted her and asked everyone present to disperse.

Now Grand Tutor Wang wants to marry Wang Yiyue to Lu Jingyun as his concubine, but Ji Ruzhen refuses to agree no matter what.

But Grand Tutor Wang was not one of those petty officials who fawned over her father. Once Grand Tutor Wang made this decision, there was no turning back.

Ji Ruzhen had been unable to eat or sleep these days because she was worried about sharing her husband with Wang Yiyue. She looked much more haggard and seemed to have aged ten years.

She thought about it and felt that the only way to prove the innocence of Lu Jingyun and Wang Yiyue was to ask Chunzhi about the matter. If Master Wang knew about it, he might let Wang Yiyue marry someone else and not compete with her for her husband.

Chunzhi could probably guess what Ji Ruzhen was thinking. She said calmly, "You shouldn't ask me this. You should ask Lu Jingyun and Wang Yiyue."

Ji Ruzhen said, "Do you think I haven't asked Wang Yiyue? Wang Yiyue said you were the one who harmed her!"

Chunzhi said, "If you believed her, you wouldn't have come to me."

Ji Ruzhen wanted to say something else.

Chunzhi continued, "You just want to hear me say that Wang Yiyue and Lu Jingyun didn't do anything, and that I was the one who put them on the bed for everyone to see."

Without waiting for Ji Ruzhen to speak, she immediately changed the subject, "But it's true that they were seen lying together by everyone. It's also true that Wang Yiyue's face was scratched by you and her reputation was ruined. It's also true that Grand Tutor Wang wanted to marry Wang Yiyue to Lu Jingyun. The key is not whether they did anything, but that everyone knew they were lying together and you caught them in an affair."

"Shut up! Don't say anymore, you..." Ji Ruzhen couldn't help but go crazy just by hearing these words.

"Zhen'er!" Mrs. Ji interrupted Ji Ruzhen's next words.

Chunzhi took a sip of tea slowly and said, "If you have time, come and see me. Why don't you think about who encouraged you to catch the adulterer that day?"

Ji Ruzhen held her swollen and aching head and thought, it was Mrs. Wang.

Before Mrs. Wang could even see who was on the bed, she said that Lu Jingyun and Chunzhi still had feelings for each other.

The mother and daughter of the Wang family wanted to plot against Chunzhi and Lu Jingyun, but Chunzhi outmaneuvered them instead.

Wang Yiyue wanted to compete with Chunzhi for the position of Princess Chang'an, so why was she the one who had to swallow her anger in the end?

Ji Ruzhen couldn't help crying.

"Zhen'er, don't lose face in public." Mrs. Ji hurriedly handed Ji Ruzhen a handkerchief.

Ji Ruzhen wiped her tears with a handkerchief, trying hard not to cry, but her eyes were red.

Chunzhi pretended not to see it and invited Mrs. Ji to have tea.

Mrs. Ji took a sip of tea and knew that Master Wang's decision to marry Wang Yiyue to Lu Jingyun was irreversible. Today, she accompanied Ji Ruzhen to the Song residence to see Chunzhi, simply to see what kind of person had forced her daughter into such a situation.

Now people have seen it and the questions have been clarified.

There is nothing more to say.

Madam Ji took Ji Ruzhen and stood up to say goodbye, "I'm sorry to bother Miss Song today. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Chunzhi took Song Wan'er and others to send the Ji family mother and daughter to the door of the hall, and asked Qingye and others to see them off.

As soon as Ji Ruzhen got on the carriage, she couldn't help but burst into tears and complained to her mother, "Wang Yiyue plotted against Chunzhi and ended up losing herself. She brought this upon herself. Why is she trying to steal my husband?"

"What's the point of crying?" Madam Ji said, "Even if Wang Yiyue marries into your family, she'll be a concubine. You're the legal wife. As long as you don't do anything stupid, you'll always be able to dominate Wang Yiyue."

In the past, Wang Yiyue relied on her aunt, the queen, to look down on the noble ladies and even looked down on Ji Ruzhen, the daughter of the prime minister.

Now she has fallen to the point of becoming Lu Jingyun's concubine.

Madam Ji said to Ji Ruzhen, "What you need to do now is to win Jingyun's heart. Don't make trouble with Jingyun again after you go back, otherwise you will suffer when Wang Yiyue recovers."

"Mother..." Ji Ruzhen still couldn't swallow this breath.

Mrs. Ji no longer said anything to her. Thinking about Chunzhi's face, she suddenly remembered someone she hadn't seen for many years.

Ji Ruzhen took a long time to calm down. Thinking of her mother's shock at the first sight of Chunzhi, she couldn't help but ask Madam Ji, "Mother, why were you so surprised when you saw Chunzhi?"

Mrs. Ji said, "She looks very much like someone."

Ji Ruzhen pressed on, "Who does she look like?"