Chapter 28: Couple's Night Talk (Part 1)

If he remembered correctly, it was at the palace banquet last year.

Fang Chuanzhou attended the event with his wife and eldest daughter Fang Mingzhu, and Emperor Shunwu fell in love with the girls at first sight.

Under the influence of alcohol, Emperor Shunwu disregarded the rules and wanted to take Fang Mingzhu into the harem.

Unexpectedly, Fang Mingzhu was unwilling to do so and publicly rejected Emperor Shunwu's "good intentions" on the grounds that she was already engaged.

Fang Chuanzhou also didn't want his daughter to enter the palace and compete for favor with so many women, so he knelt down and spoke for Fang Mingzhu.

With so many ministers present, Emperor Shunwu could not force the person to stay in the harem, so he could only let her go reluctantly.

The day after leaving the palace banquet, Fang Mingzhu hurriedly got married.

Based on Mo Jiuye's understanding of the emperor, he must be holding a grudge against him and taking this opportunity to confiscate the entire Fang family's property and exile them, and at the same time make things difficult for himself.

As for the Li family and the He family, they had never been on good terms with Mo Jiuye, and the emperor sent them here to be exiled with him. One can guess the reason even with a quick guess.

Seeing that He Zhiran was still sitting there thinking hard, he gently hooked her finger.

When He Zhiran turned around, he said softly, "I'll tell you about the affairs of these families when I have the chance."

Seeing Mo Jiuye say this, it means that he has sorted out the situation.

Since someone knew the truth, the Mo family no longer had to turn a blind eye, and He Zhiran simply didn't want to get involved.

"Okay." She just responded casually. It didn't matter whether Mo Jiuye told her or not.

Anyway, she has already made her purpose clear, and the first thing she has to do is to change Mo Jiuye's fate of dying on the road of exile.

Seeing that she had explained her situation clearly, the second sister-in-law didn't want to disturb the young couple's rest any further.

"Ninth sister-in-law, second sister-in-law will go back to rest."

He Zhiran got on the wooden cart to help Mo Jiuye leave. Now that their goal has been achieved, it would be best for everyone to return to their respective positions to avoid embarrassment for each other.

However, if she left after lying down for a while, Zhou Laoba might become suspicious.

Helpless, she had to bite the bullet and continue lying back in her original position.

In order to make her sleep more comfortably, Mo Jiuye moved to the side.

Although tired from the journey, He Zhiran was not sleepy at all.

Mo Jiuye seemed to be able to sense that she was not asleep, and asked softly:

"Can't sleep?"

"Yeah." He Zhiran responded casually.

"Is it because of what my second sister-in-law said?" Mo Jiuye asked.

"I guess so!" He Zhiran didn't know why he couldn't sleep. Maybe it was because he suddenly arrived in an unfamiliar environment and was not quite used to it.

However, she didn't want to mention this to Mo Jiuye.

Mo Jiuye didn't observe his words and expressions, but just listened to the voice, and didn't realize that He Zhiran was being vague.

"The He family and the Li family have some grievances with me."

Seeing that Mo Jiuye wanted to speak, He Zhiran decided to listen carefully since he couldn't sleep.

"What's the holiday?" she asked.

"He Zhiyuan was originally the Minister of War. When I led the troops to battle, he deliberately withheld food and fodder for his own benefit. I once wrote a letter to the Emperor about this.

The Emperor sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly. For some unknown reason, despite such a serious matter, the Emperor only demoted He Zhiyuan from Minister of War to Vice Minister of War.

After listening to Mo Jiuye's story, He Zhiran had another guess in his mind.

"According to what you said, the Emperor has long been planning to attack the Mohist sect. He didn't deal with He Zhiyuan immediately, but kept him around to cause you trouble?"

Mo Jiuye didn't expect that this woman could analyze things so thoroughly.

You know, he was able to figure this out, but it took him almost a day to carefully think it over.

He felt more and more that He Zhiran was not a simple person.

Now that things have come to this, He Zhiran also became interested.

"What about the Li family?"

When talking about the grudge with the Li family, Mo Jiuye didn't know how to start.

After some consideration, he decided to tell the truth.

"My feud with the Li family can be said to have originated from Li Rouer."

Judging from what Mo Jiuye said, he seemed to be somewhat involved with Li Rouer.

Thinking of this, she became even more interested.

"What is your relationship?"

At the same time, He Zhiran was also searching the original owner's memory to find out whether Li Rouer had mentioned Mo Jiuye to her.

She searched for a long time, until her head started to hurt, but still found nothing.

This shows that Li Rouer never mentioned Mo Jiuye in front of the original owner.

"We have nothing to do with each other." Mo Jiuye answered without hesitation.

"Then why do you say that the feud with the Li family started because of her?"

Hearing He Zhiran's question, Mo Jiuye subconsciously thought that this woman might be jealous.

So he hurried to explain.

"The carriage she was riding in lost control and was running amok on the street. I happened to encounter her and I just controlled the horse out of kindness.

At that time, I didn't care much about this matter and thought it was over. Unexpectedly, the next day Li Liang came to my house with gifts, saying that he was thanking me for saving his daughter's life.

He also mentioned that he wanted to send Li Rouer to the Duke's Mansion as a concubine. I refused on the spot, saying that I was already engaged to you, and that the Mohist ancestral precepts stated that Mohist men do not take concubines.

Li Liang didn't react strangely when I rejected him, until three days later when I met Li Rouer again when I went out.

It can be said that she was waiting in front of the Duke's Mansion on purpose.

I was about to ignore him and leave, but her two maids stopped me.

Li Rouer claimed that we had physical intimacy and that I must be responsible for her.

When I was helping her control the horse, I didn't have any contact with her, which was obviously cheating.

So I didn't give her any good look, didn't explain, and just rode away.

From then on, I found that Li Liang was against me in everything. Whatever I said, he would rack his brains to refute it.

Apart from the Li Rouer incident, I can’t think of any other way I’ve offended Li Liang…”

After hearing what Mo Jiuye said, He Zhiran also figured out a fact: Li Rouer deliberately approached her and said bad things about the Mo family all day long, just to make her break off the engagement and then marry Mo Jiuye herself.

"Are these things you're talking about happening at the beginning of the year?"

"You know?" Mo Jiuye asked back.

Now that things have come to this, He Zhiran has no intention of hiding it.

She told her in detail how Li Rouer had persuaded her not to marry into the Mo family, and this happened just after Li Rouer was rejected by Mo Jiuye.

When Mo Jiuye heard this, his dark eyes darkened.

"I didn't expect a girl to have such heavy thoughts. It's really despicable."

"You are indeed despicable. You used to pretend to care about me, but now that you are exiled, your true colors are revealed."

Speaking of Li Rouer, He Zhiran was very disdainful.

This is the face of a typical villain, and He Zhiran despises such people the most.

Mo Jiuye saw that He Zhiran was unhappy and thought it was because of the fabricated matter between him and Li Rouer.

To ease the atmosphere, he added, "I've read my father-in-law's letter."