"That won't do! Absolutely not!" Yue Xian said unyieldingly, "You must give us an explanation! I am Hongcai's only son, and you beat him up like this. Even if you are a royal relative, you cannot go unpunished!"
Yue Hongcai glanced at Su Bei and muttered something in a low voice.
Chu Younan said in a deep voice: "Then let's go to Jingnan Palace together!"
"Let's go!" Yue Xian said confidently. In this Tongcheng area, no one can suppress him, a local tyrant! Several people walked towards the Jingnan Palace in a mighty manner.
Prince Jingnan was furious. Cheng Shi knew that the Queen Mother Mei had moved into the palace, but he didn't tell him. This might be a serious crime of deceiving the emperor. What's more hateful is that this kid doesn't want to marry any daughter of a wealthy family. He either complains about himself or spends all day with Su'er. It really makes him mad!
Suddenly, there was a lot of noise, and a group of people, led by Chu Younan, rushed into Prince Jingnan's courtyard with great momentum.
As soon as he entered the room, Yue Xian started to yell, "Prince Jingnan, I shouldn't have disturbed you so late at night, but this is too much. How dare a maid from your family come to my house and beat my son? Look at what he has done!"
Prince Jingnan looked around the crowd and looked at the pig-headed man with a puzzled look on his face. "Is this... Young Master Yue?"
Not really.
During this period of time, Prince Jingnan also met Yue Hongcai. Before, he was also a young man in white clothes, but now...
Is this Zhu Bajie coming to the world? ! Yue Hongcai howled, "It's her! She beat me!" He pointed at Su Bei.
King Jingnan looked at him suspiciously, "You said it was her? When?"
"Just now, half an hour ago!" Yue Hongcai said confidently, "You must compensate me!"
King Jingnan raised his lips sarcastically, "What shall I compensate you for?"
"Give her back to me!" Yue Hongcai pointed at Su Bei and howled, "You beat me up like this, I have to take her back and teach her a lesson!"
King Jingnan frowned, "Are you sure it's her?!"
"Of course I'm sure, I've been keeping an eye on her for several months..." Yue Hongcai realized something was wrong and suddenly shut up.
Prince Jingnan said coldly: "Yue Hongcai, do you know who this is?!"
"Isn't she just your Cheng Shi's maid?" Yue Hongcai muttered.
"she is……"
King Jingnan was halfway through his words when Su Bei said, "It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that you look at who he is first."
As she spoke, she winked at Chu Younan, signaling him to bring up the guy who was adding fuel to the fire.
But Chu Younan couldn't read her thoughts. When he saw her looking at him, he cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "You said that your Yue family is extremely powerful in Tongcheng? Then I want to see, in this world, is there anyone who dares to claim to be extremely powerful in front of me?!"
Normally, a normal person would know that this person was not ordinary after hearing this, but Yue Hongcai was probably stunned. He actually looked at Chu Younan for a while, then grinned and laughed, "The city guard is my second uncle, the county magistrate is my third uncle, and my uncle is even more powerful, he is the King of Li..."
Chu Younan's brain started to work at high speed. He had heard of King Li, but he was his grandfather, who had passed away long ago. And his surname must be Chu, how could it be Yue...
Yue Hongcai took a deep breath, "He's Aunt Li Wang's grandson! Do you know? How close is the relationship? You know Li Wang, right? He is much more powerful than you other kings. He is a real royal relative!"
Su Bei was somewhat surprised at Chu Younan's ability to understand, but now was not the time to pursue the issue. "Come on, I don't know if your family is powerful or not, but breaking into someone else's house and setting fire to it is not acceptable, let alone a relative of Prince Li, even if you are a relative of the Emperor! Prince Jingnan, please bring that little thief up here!"
The pig head seemed to be at a standstill for a moment. Yue Xian had no idea what his son had done. He shouted, "If you have anyone, just bring them up!"
After a while, the one who "added fuel to the fire" was brought up, shouting, "Where is Master Yue? Quickly ask Master Yue to save me! If you don't save me, I'm going to be beaten to death!"
As soon as Yue Hongcai saw it, he quickly covered his face. In fact, if he hadn’t covered his face, no one would have recognized him.
However, Yue Xian was unaware of this and frowned, "Who are you?!"
"Mr. Yue!" The man came over and grabbed Yue Xian's trouser leg, "I'm Guo Lai! Please call Hongcai to save me, I really can't hold on any longer!"
Everyone's eyes fell on Yue Hongcai, who was beaten into a pig's head.
Guo looked for a long time before he recognized Yue Hongcai's clothes. He couldn't believe it and said, "Brother Yue, what's wrong with you? You shouldn't be enjoying yourself at home right now..."
"Shut up!" Yue Hongcai yelled. He had been pretending to be innocent for a long time, but he didn't expect Guo Lai to be caught...
Guo Lai had a pair of black eyes from being beaten. "No way! I was afraid that the fire would spread too quickly and they would find you too quickly, so I wanted to add fuel to the fire. Who knew..."
"Shut up!" Yue Hongcai yelled again. He was still thinking of asking King Jingnan to compensate him with Su'er, but who would have thought that this idiot would sell him out...
Guo Lai was still unwilling to accept it, "Who beat you? Look at me..."
"I told you to shut up!" Yue Hongcai became furious and rushed forward to kick Guo Lai twice.
Guo Lai was unwilling to give up and grabbed Yue Hongcai's leg, "If it weren't for you, would I be beaten like this?"
"You can't even handle such a small matter, and you're causing trouble for me!"
The two men wrestled with each other.
Yue Xian was so embarrassed that he lost all face.
King Jingnan glanced at the two people fighting on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Yue, do you have anything else to say?"
Yue Xian wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into, "This child is naughty, this child is naughty, please forgive me, Prince Jingnan..."
“It’s not impossible to forgive him, but my Tianxiangyuan was burned beyond recognition…” Prince Jingnan paused.
Yue Xian smiled awkwardly, "Your Highness knows that my family runs an academy to benefit students and educate people, so we live a poor life. I will try my best to raise money for you when I go back. Even if I sell everything I have, I will raise a hundred or eighty taels for you..."
"One hundred and eighty taels?!" Su Bei was stunned. "Such a large yard, can it be repaired with one hundred and eighty taels? Isn't your family extremely powerful? Don't you have the second uncle who is the city guard, the third uncle who is the county magistrate, and the uncle who is a royal relative? You have to pay one hundred and eighty taels for burning down someone's yard?!"
A fierce light flashed in Yue Xian's eyes, which was fleeting. "As everyone knows, the academy I opened charges the lowest tuition..."
"Then let's settle this account!" Chu Younan suddenly spoke up, "Since you think the academy is not profitable, you can hand it over to the Prince of Zhennan to manage for a year as compensation. At that time, all the profits and losses will be counted as the Prince of Zhennan's, and it has nothing to do with you!"