Chapter 181 They are really going too far
Hu Si Niang's eyes were already blurred with tears while she spoke. She even took out a handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe her tears, and then buried her face in her hands. "I was so angry at the time that I didn't care too much. I didn't expect that I was so strong and hurt him like this. If I had known this would happen, I would..."
"What nonsense!"
Jun Tianyi interrupted her angrily, "How can you speak nonsense in front of His Majesty? Du Zhong has followed me for many years and has never been a lustful person. I was there yesterday and it was clearly you who started the fight first! Now you are confusing right and wrong and putting all the blame on Du Zhong. Do you know that this is a crime of deceiving the emperor?"
"I can vouch for Si Niang. She is not talking nonsense."
Jiang Rumin said, "Your Highness, think about it carefully. You argued with me yesterday and I injured your eyes. When Du Zhong and Si Niang fought, you couldn't see at all. How can you prove that Du Zhong didn't flirt with Si Niang? I can understand your feelings now, but you can't deny the facts just to protect your subordinates."
Jun Tianyi looked at Jiang Rumin, his brows knitted together, "Minmin, you..."
"Your Majesty, please be mindful of your wording."
Song Yunchu interrupted Jun Tianyi and said, "Miss Jiang is a woman waiting to be married, and the prince and her are not relatives or friends. It is a bit abrupt to call her so intimately. Please follow the etiquette and call her Miss Jiang like a subordinate. Don't damage her reputation in front of others, otherwise outsiders will think that the prince and Miss Jiang have a close relationship."
"Lord Song is right." Jiang Rumin echoed, "Please be careful with your words in front of His Majesty."
Jun Tianyi's face was tense.
She had actually embarrassed him so much in front of His Majesty... She had even found fault with him for calling him that!
Is it really worth her listening to what Song the thief said?
Although he was extremely angry, he knew that he could not lose his composure in front of the emperor, so he took a deep breath and said indifferently, "I spoke out of turn. Miss Jiang just said that I didn't see Du Zhong flirting with Lord Song's concubine? But I could hear it. Du Zhong was worried about my eyes at the time and asked you for the antidote. Under that situation, how could he have the leisure to flirt with a woman?"
"The prince's way of sophistry really surprised me."
Hu Si Niang looked at Jun Tianyi with a frown on her face. "When he touched my shoulder yesterday, I yelled. Didn't you hear it? Yingchun and Shaoyao also saw it, as did the neighbors around Ruihe Hall. They can all testify to it."
"Yes, we saw it." Yingchun quickly took over the conversation, "I was at the door of the backyard at that time. I heard the woman screaming and hurried to see. Du Zhong was indeed holding the fourth lady's shoulders."
“I, I didn’t…”
Du Zhong was lying on a stretcher, listening to the women talking to each other. He widened his eyes and denied, "You...you guys team up..."
"You dare to say you didn't touch me yesterday?" Hu Si Niang sneered at him, "I, Hu Si Niang, swear to heaven, if you didn't touch my shoulder yesterday, I would be struck by lightning and die a miserable death. Do you dare to swear, too, that if you touch me, you will have no offspring!"
Yesterday, she put itching powder on Du Zhong and attacked her in order to force her to hand over the antidote. She deliberately did not hide in order to find an excuse to beat Du Zhong up.
Du Zhong really did touch her shoulder, so she wasn't lying.
"It was you who plotted against me first..."
Du Zhong didn't expect Hu Si Niang to swear at the first sign of trouble, and he was so angry that he trembled all over.
They were clearly bullying him because he was too badly injured and couldn't speak clearly.
Thinking back to the scene at that time, it was indeed only him, the prince, and a few of them who were present. The neighbors came later and were all fooled by Miss Jiang.
No one could testify for him and the prince, and they even used the beating of the thugs as an excuse, leaving him with no way to seek justice for his injuries.
They are really going too far!
"I did plot against you, but weren't you the one who provoked me first?"
Hu Si Niang sneered, "When the prince was pestering Miss Jiang, I noticed that your eyes were darting around on me. Then the prince annoyed Miss Jiang and Miss Jiang sprinkled a handful of medicine powder on him. You, a damned slave, ran to Miss Jiang and yelled, threatening her to hand over the antidote. If I hadn't plotted against you, who knows if you would have used force on Miss Jiang?"
"Du Zhong is my subordinate. Without my order, how dare he be disrespectful to Miss Jiang?"
Jun Tianyi retorted coldly, "You are clearly just looking for an excuse for your intentional injury."
"Your Highness, you are wrong. You and Du Zhong are both powerful men. As the saying goes, you should be on guard against others. Miss Jiang and Si Niang are two weak women who are very wary of you. Why not take precautions before it happens?"
Song Yunchu took a step and slowly walked to Jun Tianyi. "Your Highness put all the blame on Si Niang, why don't you reflect on yourself? Miss Jiang did not invite you to Ruihe Hall as a guest, and you went there without being invited. At the very least, it is impoliteness, and at the most, it is trespassing. Your Highness thinks that he is an acquaintance of Miss Jiang, but has he asked her if she is willing to entertain you?"
"If Miss Jiang didn't want to entertain you, but you refused to leave, what's wrong with her driving you away? Si Niang was worried about her, so she attacked in a hurry, even if she hurt someone, it's understandable. They have no chance of winning against you head-on, so they used a little trick to make you lose the ability to use force. In my opinion, they have done nothing wrong."
Jun Tianyi was criticized by Song Yunchu in public, and he hated Song Yunchu even more in his heart.
He was about to argue, and just as he said the word "you", he was interrupted again -
"Regardless of whether there is any misunderstanding between Si Niang and Du Zhong, the fact that you came uninvited and harassed decent women is enough to make them regard you as uninvited guests. Could it be that because the prince is of noble status, Miss Jiang should go against her will and accept your offense?"
"Ruihetang is a signboard granted by His Majesty himself. Even if Your Majesty doesn't care about Miss Jiang's face, he should at least care about His Majesty's face, right? You are really not afraid of being laughed at for causing such a commotion under a signboard granted by His Majesty."
Jun Tianyi: “…”
This damn Song Gou Zi is really the best at sophistry.
This person had repeatedly interfered in the relationship between him and Jiang Rumin, and now he was taking advantage of his initiative to seek peace, exaggerating it in front of the emperor and degrading him into a villain who bullied weak women.
"From what I hear, it is indeed your fault, uncle."
Jun Liluo's voice came from the front, "Jiang Rumin has made great contributions to our dynasty. I gave her a plaque so that she would be respected. Uncle, you are causing trouble in her territory. Do you take me seriously?"
Jun Tianyi's face changed slightly, and he bowed to Jun Liluo and said, "I have absolutely no disrespect for Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you know that I once had a relationship with Miss Jiang. I went to Ruihe Hall not to cause trouble, but just to reconcile with her."
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