When the skinny old man became more and more impatient and was about to fight to the death with them, Yu Zizhen ordered her secret agents scattered all over the place to spread the bait at the same time.
As soon as the bait was out, those wealthy forces, both large and small, immediately came to them and spent a lot of money to buy the important secrets about Yu Zizhen.
Yu Zizhen instructed them to sell three important secrets about herself.
The first is her identity as a woman, the second is that she is indeed the former prince of Zhenbei, Yu Zizhen, who was announced dead by the Zhenbei Palace, and the third is that she is willing to unite the knowledgeable people in the world to attack the Lu family.
The people in the Zhenbei Palace used Yu Zizhen's identity as a handle and were eager to take control of her. Little did they know that when Yu Zizhen got ruthless, he would even sell her out.
Naturally, they would not know that Yu Zizhen not only succeeded in the sale, but also made a huge profit from selling his own intelligence.
The skinny old man who was waiting anxiously at Lu Mingyuan's place could no longer contain his excitement and angrily gave Lu Mingyuan an ultimatum. At the same time, the envoys from the Jingguo Mansion who had just arrived at the outskirts of Jiangning had already received the latest news sent urgently by the Jingguo Mansion over 800 miles away.
The message was very simple, only three short lines, but Duke Jingguo's fourth son and eldest grandson stared at the note for a long time.
They had guessed it long ago that this Yu Zizhen was the former prince of Zhenbei, Yu Zizhen, who was announced dead by the Zhenbei Palace.
They were not surprised that Yu Zizhen wanted to unite knowledgeable people from all over the world to attack the Lu family.
What really surprised them was actually only the first line of the three lines.
woman......
A young woman not even twenty years old...
A young woman who was not even twenty years old, had no family to rely on, had been a hostage in the capital for over a decade, and lived almost daily under surveillance, either overt or covert...
Such thoughts echoed uncontrollably in the minds of the two for a long time.
It’s not that they don’t want to come to their senses sooner, it’s just that the news is too shocking.
Da Qi was a completely patriarchal society. From the royal family to the common people, almost everyone favored boys over girls.
In such a social environment, it is definitely at least ten times more difficult for a woman to succeed than for a man.
Especially since Yu Zizhen wanted that position, that position had never been occupied by a woman since ancient times.
"No wonder there are serious and irreconcilable conflicts between her and her parents." After a long silence, Chen Hushan said this in a hoarse voice.
She was originally a girl, but her parents treated her as a son and sent her to the tiger's den and wolf's den in the capital. She could not enjoy the benefits because of her identity, and she was forced to take all the dangers on for her brother. Anyone would feel unfair if this happened to them, right?
Especially her mother, Princess Zhenbei, who didn't have even a little bit of motherly love for her. She sent her young daughter to the capital as a substitute. Not only did she not feel guilty, but she also racked her brains to think of how to keep her as an obedient puppet and firmly control her.
And the Prince of Zhenbei, how could he not know that his wife had replaced his son with their daughter? The memorial requesting that Yu Zizhen be named the Prince of Zhenbei was written by the Prince of Zhenbei himself and sent to the capital.
In addition, he couldn't wait to announce the death of Yu Zizhen and hurriedly appointed Yu Zicheng as the prince. No matter how he tried to whitewash the situation, Yu Zizhen would definitely not believe that he had any so-called father-daughter relationship with her.
Chen Hushan put himself in their shoes and felt that if he had such biased and cold-blooded parents, he would never have any affection for them.
The fourth son of Duke Jingguo, who was also feeling complicated, glanced at him and asked, "When you were studying together, did you never doubt her true gender?"
Chen Hushan smiled bitterly, "Would you doubt that a classmate who could pin you down and beat you, who drinks more than you, who organizes free clinics every month, personally diagnoses and treats injuries for the poor, who farms and raises livestock without a care in the world, and who even invented a new method of composting, was a girl?"
"Uncle, it's not that I, your nephew, am careless. It's just that she really doesn't have the characteristics that a girl should have."
"Look at the other daughters of noble families like her, born into luxury and wealth, and then look at your nephew. No, to be more precise, you should immediately recall what your precious son looks like."
"If someone has the same style as your son and doesn't look feminine at all, would you have the time to doubt their true gender?"
The fourth son of Duke Jingguo couldn't help but frown. Compared with Chen Hushan, who had a baby face, smiled brightly every day, and showed two cute little canine teeth when he smiled, and looked like he hadn't grown up yet, his son was indeed more rough. But this brat said it so openly, and the fourth son of Duke Jingguo's protective mentality immediately flared up.
He glared at Chen Hushan, who was obviously trying to irritate him. "Just say what you want to say. Why are you dragging your cousin into this for no reason?"
Chen Hushan shrugged, "I'm doing this so that you, Fourth Uncle, can better understand Yu Zizhen."
To prevent his fourth uncle from bringing up the subject and continuing to criticize him, he quickly added, "Let me tell you this, even an ordinary farm girl who has to work hard with her family every day to make a living would never be as open and honest as she is."
At least in Chen Hushan's impression, the annual composting project of farmers is basically managed by the men in the family.
As for the matter of diagnosing and treating injuries of poor people, which ordinary female doctor would approach those male patients without any scruples?
They either work in the Imperial Medical Bureau, serving the emperor, concubines, and wives of officials, or they only serve female patients in their own area. They are not like Yu Zizhen, who has treated more than one man with a broken leg.
What kind of mental circuit does he have to doubt the real gender of a woman who completely thinks of herself as a man?
What Chen Hushan, who had rendered the fourth son of Duke Jingguo speechless, didn't know was that he was not the only one whose worldview had been shattered.
Including the Lu family, all the people in the capital who had seen Yu Zizhen, as well as Fang Huaiying, Xiao Yuanjin, the emperor, the second prince, Xiao Shaoke and others who had already left the capital, were first in disbelief and then puzzled.
They didn't understand how Yu Zizhen managed to disguise himself so as not to arouse suspicion.
She might be able to do it by imitating others and using psychological suggestion in terms of behavior, but how does she manage to keep her figure from being discovered by others?
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