Chapter 252: She didn’t stop the one who was rushing to die
What a good plan, he wanted to use everyone's words to make her let them and their daughter leave the house.
Since Zheng wanted to go and die, how could she stop her?
Chen Zhao walked towards the crowd and first greeted Ji Yuan and the others.
"Thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come and see me. I'm deeply grateful. I'm sorry to have let you all join in the fun."
Ji Yuan replied, "General Chu, you are too polite. You and I are colleagues, and it is only natural for me to come and visit you. Everyone has their own trivial matters."
Zheng Shi followed up by saying, "Master Ji is right. General Chu is not well yet and still has to deal with trivial matters at the mansion. You've worked hard. Please take care of yourself."
Hu Zheng looked at Ji Yuan and Zheng Shi's attitude towards Chu Mu, and snorted in his heart, but did not show it on his face.
But he said in a sarcastic tone: "I came here at the wrong time and saw some things I shouldn't have seen.
But General Chu, rest assured, I am very tight-lipped and nothing I should or shouldn't say will be spread out of my mouth."
He was not sure whether Mr. Chu had any leverage over him, but he did have leverage over Mr. Chu now.
Shen Zhao didn't like Hu Zheng in the first place. It was obvious at first glance that this guy was not a good person.
Now he wants to threaten her. Who gives him the guts?
"Lord Hu is truly self-aware. He knows that I do not welcome you and that I will feel inexplicably disgusted when I see you."
Hu Zheng's expression suddenly changed. He was the doctor of Lushi, and he had already shown goodwill to the man surnamed Chu. How could he dare to confront him like this and embarrass him in front of everyone?
Chen Zhao has the evidence against Hu Zheng in his hand, and if he looks into it carefully, it could implicate nine members of the Hu family. If the old emperor gets ruthless, he might even implicate ten members of his family.
The mere charge of harboring a traitor was enough to get Hu Zheng into trouble, not to mention that he replaced the damned person with an innocent one.
Hu Zheng groaned. He still had Chu to ask for help, but now he just thought Chu was talking nonsense.
Only then did Shen Zhao look at the Zheng mother and daughter who were putting on a show.
"Sister-in-law, why haven't you made a move yet? Are you afraid the knife will hurt too much? Otherwise, I'll have someone find you some deadly poison that will kill you instantly without even a chance of recovery."
Zheng's hand holding the dagger trembled. She didn't want to die.
She was trying to threaten Chu Mu to send her and Miaomiao to the Du family.
That beast Chu Renqing told her that he was not from the Chu family before he left.
But they are the direct descendants of the Du family who were left behind.
Now he has been found by the Du family and returned to inherit their lineage's business.
She was extremely happy.
The Du family!
The Du family, a century-old family with members spread across the government and the country.
She never dreamed that Chu Renqing would be a member of the Du family.
But before she could be happy, the beast Chu Renqing abandoned her and her mother and went back with Lord Du, the Minister of Revenue, to trace his roots.
The mother and daughter were left in the general's mansion.
How can this be?
She and Miaomiao also wanted to go back to recognize their ancestors and be recognized by the Du family as members of the Du family.
However, the General's Mansion issued a death order, not allowing the mother and daughter to step out of the General's Mansion until Chu Renqing returned.
This is blatant imprisonment.
She was unwilling to give up. She had waited so long for this opportunity, and she would leave the General's Mansion no matter what.
"General Chu...are you going to force us, mother and daughter, to death?
Although Renqing is no longer your biological elder brother, have you forgotten all the kindness Renqing has shown you over the years?"
"We are his wife and daughter. We hope that General Chu will show mercy and let us leave the house so that our family can be reunited.
We, mother and daughter, are deeply grateful for the general's great kindness and will repay you in the future."
Chu Miao also cried, "Uncle San, please let me and my mother go.
When my mother and I return to our roots, we will never forget the kindness of our Third Uncle."
"Do you really want to leave?" Shen Zhao looked at Zheng and Chu Miao.
Zheng quickly responded, "General Chu, we just want our family to be together."
"Okay!" Chen Zhao ordered, "No one is allowed to stop Zheng's mother and daughter from leaving the General's Mansion."
"This is their own choice, not that I will kick them out of the house."
Then Shen Zhao looked at Ji Yuan and the others and said, "Please, the three of you, bear witness for me. It was not me who drove Zheng's mother and daughter away. It was they who misunderstood my intentions and asked to leave on their own accord."
"I have never considered using them as hostages to threaten the Du family."
They, mother and daughter, are not worthy.
Chu Renqing will not betray Chu Mu.
The Du family is in chaos again now, and they will only die if they go there.
Zheng and Chu Miao were stunned for a moment.
Chu Mu was so easy to talk to that he let the mother and daughter go so easily?
Is there any fraud involved?
Shen Zhao looked at the mother and daughter who were lost in thought.
Not too stupid, still able to think.
But she didn't know what he was thinking.
Zheng gritted her teeth and said, "Please ask General Chu to send someone to escort Miaomiao and me back to the Du family's ancestral land."
Chen Zhao sneered, "I am not a man who goes back on his word. I said I would let you and your daughter go, so I will let you go. Sister-in-law, please don't judge others by your own standards."
"Well, since the general has said so, and you gentlemen are here to bear witness, I'm sure the general won't do anything dirty in private."
Since Mr. Chu has agreed to her, and there are so many people watching here.
If anything happens to the mother and daughter, Chu will be held responsible.
"But the general wants us to take away the things my mother and I brought with us when we first came to Kyoto."
There was no way they could leave the General's Mansion empty-handed.
"Okay, I agree. Butler, please help Zheng's mother and daughter pack their things, and then help them hire a carriage to go to the Du family's ancestral land.
This also fulfills the long-standing friendship between me and Big Brother."
Nothing would happen to Zheng's mother and daughter on the way, but that might not be the case once they reach the Du family's ancestral land. However, that was no longer her responsibility.
After sending off the Zheng mother and daughter who wanted to die, Shen Zhao went directly to the reception room.
Ji Yuan and Zheng Shi were very tactful. Seeing that Shen Zhao was not seriously injured, they left first.
They are all smart people, how could they not know the purpose of Hu Zheng's coming.
Wait until only Shen Zhao, Chu Mu and Hu Zheng are left in the living room.
Hu Zheng still didn't speak, but looked at Chu Mu.
He said in a neutral tone, "Madam Chu, do you still want to listen to men discussing matters? I have never seen such rules in anyone's house."
Shen Zhao glanced at Hu Zheng unhappily. Is this guy a jerk?
He came to ask for help, but he didn't have the attitude of asking for help, and he even acted arrogantly in her house.
"Mrs. Hu and Old Madam Hu are quite pathetic. They don't even have the right to see outsiders. May I ask Sir Hu, is it Mrs. Hu or Old Madam Hu who is unpresentable and needs to be hidden from the public?"
"You..." Hu Zheng never expected that the man surnamed Chu would become so hostile.
"What do you mean by 'I'? I'm fine. If you need anything from me, show your sincerity instead of being so rude in front of me."
"My wife is sitting right here. She is the one I married through formal marriage. She comes from an official family and was personally conferred the title of First Rank Consort by the Emperor.
I don’t think my wife is incompetent, and I certainly don’t think she is not presentable.”
Seeing Hu Zheng's face getting darker and darker, Chen Zhao was so angry that he said:
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