Yu Zizhen did not hide anything from Fang Huaiying and revealed all the information she knew to him. As for Xiao Shaoke, the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin could not explain the source of his information, so he only told him to study hard and not learn from others to be greedy for pleasure and not to make progress.
Xiao Shaoke was just an ordinary person, and his intelligence was not obvious. Xiao Yuanjin's words were so vague that he had no way of clarifying the inner situation.
Fortunately, he was an obedient person, and years of surviving in the cracks of palace life made him very sensitive to people's kindness and malice. He knew that although Xiao Yuanjin rarely came into contact with him and the second prince, he had never been hostile or malicious towards them.
So Xiao Yuanjin told him to study hard and not to follow others in pursuing pleasure and not making progress, and he really did as he was told.
Wu Mingyu, who was secretly proud of himself for having successfully infiltrated the small group headed by Xiao Yuanjin and Yu Zizhen so quickly, had never paid attention to Xiao Shaoke, the youngest son of the late emperor whose chance of succession was almost zero. Naturally, he did not notice the other party's change in attitude from curiosity and puzzlement to calm avoidance.
While Yu Zizhen was busy studying, practicing martial arts, learning medicine, and various skills, she was also secretly emptying the private vaults of certain corrupt officials according to her plan, so that those corrupt officials hated her but could not find any clues to arrest her. At the same time, Wu Mingyu had already made a preliminary judgment on Yu Zizhen with full confidence.
He told his worried father that Yu Zizhen was "just a rough and tumble warrior who was only good at wielding swords and guns, not good at studying," and that he was "impulsive, irritable, and not suitable for close friendship." He also said that he "learned all kinds of unconventional things, but never the serious stuff."
Yu Zizhen: ...
After listening to the live broadcast of the Ear Report God Baby Voice System, which imitated the voice so realistically, even the tone, Yu Zizhen shook his head with amusement.
It would be fine if Wu Mingyu really always treated her like this. Isn't that what she wants others to treat her like this?
The next day, she whispered to the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin during lunch break, "Wei Heng should take action soon."
Wei Heng's father sent him to the palace in order to trick him. At the same time, his father had never given up on wanting to kill his mother.
Although Wei Heng's mother had no shortage of loyal servants around her, her body had been damaged by the poisoning, so she spent most of the day lying in bed, making it easy for others to deal with her or her daughter.
In the short period of time that Wei Heng was sent to the palace by his father to accompany his studies, his mother and sister had already had eight "accidents" combined.
Wei Heng didn't believe that those "accidents" were real accidents. His father and his favorite concubine were so impatient that Wei Heng urgently needed to find external help to break the deadlock in the near future.
If he delayed any longer, he was worried that his mother and sister would have turned into one or even two stiff, cold corpses when he returned home from school one day.
Wei Heng was young after all. Even though he had been worried about his father favoring his concubine over his wife and had been trying hard to hold on, he really needed strong external support to fight against his father who was favored by his grandmother.
"Prince." Wei Heng, who had felt respect and sincerity from Yu Zizhen these days, was indeed mentally prepared to serve Yu Zizhen, as the baby-voice system reminded Yu Zizhen.
He took advantage of the brief time when everyone was still taking a nap and Yu Zizhen had already tiptoed out of the house and walked into the yard to practice light-body kung fu. With a slightly blushing face, he approached Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen turned his head with a puzzled look on his face, "Master Wei, do you want to talk to me about something?"
Wei Heng took out the "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" they were currently studying and pretended to ask Yu Zizhen for advice, but what he actually said was, "To be honest, Your Highness, I have something to ask of you."
Yu Zizhen raised his eyebrows slightly, pretending to know nothing and asked curiously, "What is it that Master Wei wants? Is there anything I can do to help?"
Wei Heng spoke concisely and in a low voice to Yu Zizhen, "My father favored his concubine over his wife, and even tried to kill my mother for her sake. My mother never imagined he would be so cruel, and she accidentally fell into my father's trap, and has been bedridden ever since due to poisoning. His favorite concubine is now in charge of the Wei family and is the de facto mistress of the Wei family, but they still have the will to harm others and have repeatedly attacked my mother and younger sister. Now I am in the palace almost every day, and my mother and younger sister have been in danger many times, and their lives are in danger."
Yu Zizhen had already known about these things in Wei Heng's family from the baby voice system. He seemed to be listening carefully, but in fact he was thinking about how he could pretend to be completely clueless and without any flaws.
Wei Heng was unaware that Yu Zizhen was distracted at the moment. He was so ashamed that he couldn't even lift his head when he talked about his family's scandals. At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the pages of the book, and it looked like he was seriously studying an arithmetic problem.
Yu Zizhen's distraction went unnoticed. She widened her eyes, parted her lips, and feigned surprise. "Your father did this, and your grandparents didn't control him?"
Her question was completely understandable. You know, any family with rules that has been passed down for more than three generations will not allow unfilial descendants in the family to do such stupid things that will ruin the family reputation and their own future.
"My grandfather passed away, and my grandmother...she only had my father as her son. She felt that her son was the most important to her, compared to her grandchildren and daughters-in-law."
Wei Heng didn't look at Yu Zizhen's expression. He was afraid that he would see suspicion and contempt on Yu Zizhen's face.
Although he actually did nothing wrong, Wei Heng still felt deeply ashamed of having such a father who seemed to be crazy and such a confused and biased grandmother.
Yu Zizhen asked again: "Then the patriarch and elders of your Wei clan..."
Wei Heng smiled bitterly, "My grandmother was born into the Lu family, and she was also the direct branch of the Lu family. The Wei family relied on her so much, how could they go against her wishes for me, my mother, and my sister?"
The Lu family began to accumulate power rapidly from the Great Lu family. Those families who had formed marriage relations with the Lu family before the Lu family became successful are now basically relying on the Lu family. In this case, they must of course flatter the Lu girls they married into their families or the Lu wives they married out to their families.
Wei Heng's grandmother was the girl from the Lu family who was regarded as the backbone of the Wei family. She relied on the power of the Lu family and always had the final say in the Wei family.
As for her maternal family, the Lu clan, because of her face, at most they would not promote or use her son, but they would not deal with her son for Wei Heng and his mother and son.
If not for this, Wei Heng would not have been left with no one to turn to and had to take great risks to find Yu Zizhen in search of a glimmer of hope.
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