She had long since given up any hope in him. No, she hated him. Ever since her son was almost killed by Liu Furong, and he not only had no sense of guilt, but was also afraid that the woman would be punished in the slightest, and even went to great lengths to plead for her, she hated him to the core.

"Speak!"

Ji Jingxu was furious. He grabbed Xu Rouning's neck and said angrily, "You have been occupying the position of the Crown Prince's wife for more than ten years. What else do you want? Rong'er has nothing. How can you treat her?"

"How should I treat her?" Xu Rouning's face instantly turned pale as her neck was tightly gripped. Her lips trembled slightly as she spoke, "If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself. The attempt to kill my son was originally... originally done by Liu Furong. So what if I spread it? What's wrong with the so-called... rumor? Liu Furong is a vicious... woman."

"You! Who are you? You are not worthy of mentioning her! You are not worthy!" Ji Jingxu's face was ferocious and he clenched his hands tightly.

He hated this woman and her son, he wanted her dead!

"Ji Jingxu! What are you doing!"

Ji Tingyou rushed over and saw this scene. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking and his eyes were red. He clenched his fist and hit Ji Jingxu's face hard: "Beast! Let my mother go!"

Ji Jingxu let go of Xu Rouning in pain and staggered back a few steps.

Ji Tingyou stepped forward and punched down again.

“Cough cough cough…”

The liberated Xu Rouning fell to the ground, coughing violently and gasping for breath. Even so, she still felt refreshed in her heart. She had endured it for more than ten years and didn't want to endure it anymore.

The so-called rumors were nothing more than the fuse that broke the false appearance of peace. This time, they finally broke up for real. From now on, she would no longer have to maintain this false peace with him.

"Madam! Madam..." Madam Kong was so distressed that she burst into tears. She knelt on the ground and patted her back. This was the young lady she had watched grow up since she was a child. "Why do you have such a miserable life? Wuwuwu..."

On the other side, Ji Jingxu, who had been punched several times, was even more furious and cursed: "You, you are rebelling. I am your father. You dare to hit me. I will destroy you and kick you out of the Duke's Mansion!"

Ji Tingyou clenched his fists tightly and angrily asked, "Are you my father? Ah? Are you my father? From childhood to adulthood, have you ever considered me your son? Have you ever taken my mother seriously? Now, you actually want to kill my mother for that woman?"

He finally made up his mind and said resolutely: "Ji Jingxu, today it's not you who kicked me out of the Duke's Mansion, it's me who refuses to recognize you as my father. From now on, you are no longer my father. I, Ji Tingyou, only have my mother!"

He didn't like him and didn't treat him as his son, but it didn't matter to him. It had been like this since he was a child and he was used to it. He didn't care that he had tried every means to beg for mercy for the woman who almost killed him, but he absolutely could not tolerate his mother being treated like this!

Ji Jingsheng laughed in anger: "Okay, okay! Okay, then you and your son, get out of the house right now!"

Ji Tingyou sneered: "Is this Duke's Mansion yours? You are not even the Duke yet, what qualifications do you have to chase me and my mother away?"

Ji Tingyou and his mother once thought about not wanting anything and not fighting for anything. He even said he would give up the position of future crown prince.

But his grandfather said that if he didn't even want the position of the future crown prince, he and his mother would have no place to live after his grandfather passed away without his protection.

It turned out that what his grandfather said was absolutely right. From now on, he would never have such thoughts again, and he would never regard this man as his father again!

For his mother, for himself, and to relieve his grandfather from worrying, he would take the crown prince's position from Ji Jingxu now!

"This servant greets the Duke."

At this moment, the voice of a maid suddenly rang out from outside the house, and then Duke Ji walked into the house and shouted, "Ji Jingxu, what did you do?"

Ji Tingyou immediately knelt before Duke Ji, tears welling up in his eyes. From childhood to adulthood, besides his mother, his grandfather loved him the most. He choked up and said firmly, "Grandfather, you once regretted that my uncle died young without leaving any children, and you also asked Tingyou if he would be willing to be adopted by my uncle. Today, Tingyou voluntarily sever the father-son relationship with Ji Jingxu. If you don't mind, Tingyou will be my uncle's son from now on and offer incense to him. I beg you to grant my wish!"

He actually knew that his grandfather did this because, firstly, he really regretted that his uncle did not leave behind any children. Secondly, since the incident last year, his grandfather had proposed to adopt him under his uncle's name in order to protect him. In this way, he could directly become the crown prince and would not have to go through Ji Jingxu to inherit the title in the future.

But at that time he still had a little bit of father-son affection in his mind. Facts proved that he was naive. It had been like this for more than ten years. That man had never regarded him and his mother as such. How could he expect him to have any affection for him and his mother?

Ji Jingxu suddenly looked up at Duke Ji, sneering in his heart. He actually said such a thing. He actually had this idea a long time ago. As expected...

Duke Ji looked at Ji Tingyou and sighed deeply. He then looked up at Ji Jingxu, who was lying on the ground in a mess with a gloomy expression. He shook his head, his eyes filled with disappointment...

It was already late spring and early summer, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Everyone in the Zhuangyuan Mansion wore cool summer clothes.

Early in the morning, Su Li handed the red envelope prepared yesterday to Madam Liu and Madam Zhou.

The two teaching maids have been in the mansion for some time. They have finished teaching the etiquette and rules, and now it is time to go back.

The two maids quickly refused, "Madam Pei, this old servant was sent by the Third Young Lady. How can we accept your money?"

Su Li smiled and said, "The two maids have worked so hard to teach me etiquette and manners. I just want to express my gratitude. I hope you won't refuse and accept this little gift from me. Otherwise, how can I feel at ease..."

Seeing this, the two maids didn't know what to say and accepted the red envelope with a smile.

Afterwards, Su Li asked Xiao Sanzi to drive the carriage and take the two of them back to Ningyuan Marquis Mansion.

As soon as the two maids left, Xiaowu came in with an invitation.

"Madam, this is an invitation from Princess Rongfu's residence."

Su Li was surprised and took the invitation and opened it.

The invitation stated that she was invited to attend a flower viewing party three days later.

Su Li seemed to be lost in thought.

Princess Rongfu would hold a flower-viewing banquet every year at this time, inviting unmarried female officials of the third rank and above to attend the banquet.

In the original novel, Pei Mingyue was hated by the princess for praising Pei Ji at this flower-viewing banquet, and was later killed for unknown reasons.

At that time, the original owner did not go to Beijing with Pei Ji. She brought Pei Zhao and Pei Chuer to Beijing after Pei Ji became the top scorer in the imperial examination. Therefore, she did not attend this banquet.

Besides, even if she had arrived in Beijing at that time, she would not have been able to attend the flower-viewing banquet hosted by Princess Rongfu.

Not to mention that Pei Ji was not a third-rank official, she was not an unmarried woman either.

Therefore, based on her understanding of Princess Rongfu after reading the original novel, the fact that Princess Rongfu gave her an invitation to the flower viewing banquet could only mean that she had bad intentions.

She has already started to deal with her.