Ye Jingxian grew anxious: "Grand Uncle, this matter is not what you see it to be. Ye Junfei is plotting against me!"
Zong Zheng said coldly, "Ye Junfei? He's your older brother, isn't he?"
The reason he was able to arrive so quickly was that he had been discussing matters with his clansmen outside the Prince's residence earlier that day.
Ye Jingxian's expression changed again. He opened his mouth, but didn't know where to begin.
The head of the imperial clan said sternly, "There is an order of seniority and distinction between the noble and the lowly."
“In terms of age, he is your elder brother; in terms of status, he is the heir of the royal family, the eldest son born of the legitimate wife.”
“You openly insulted him and physically assaulted him. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I simply wouldn’t have believed it!”
"When the prince returns, I want to ask him, is this the son he has raised with such care?"
Ye Jingxian's face was extremely ugly: "Grand Uncle, this matter is not as you see it. It is Ye... my brother who is plotting against me!"
Ye Junfei coughed lightly, clutching his chest, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, and said, "Grand Uncle, there's no need to punish my second brother. I'm fine!"
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and weakly collapsed into Lin Xiuyan's arms.
Lin Xiuyan: "!!!!!"
She's finding Ye Junfei's style a bit too much to handle!
But since he's gone this far in his acting, she has no choice but to accept it!
Then she cried out anxiously, "Your Highness, don't scare me! Are you alright?"
Ye Junfei nestled in her arms, and from an angle where no one could see, he opened one eye and winked at her.
Lin Xiuyan: "..."
Although... but... this feeling is still too strange!
Ye Junfei usually prefers to physically punish people, so Lin Xiuyan strongly suspects that his way of handling things this time is just a ploy to get her to hug him!
That man is such a jerk!
When Zongzheng saw this scene, he was furious and pointed at Ye Jing, cursing, "Even with the Crown Prince in this state, he hasn't said a word of blame."
"You insulted him, hit him, and even accused him of plotting against you. Have you ever seen someone plot against another so badly that they fainted?"
Although Ye Jingxian was grooming him to be the future Prince of Pingnan, he had never seen such methods before.
Actually, that's not entirely true. The concubines of the Prince of Pingnan had used similar methods before, but none of them were as lethal as the one Ye Junfei used this time.
His face was extremely ugly as he glared fiercely at Ye Junfei and Lin Xiuyan.
Lin Xiuyan had dared to slap him before, and now that they were in a position of absolute advantage, she naturally wouldn't take Ye Jingxian seriously.
She didn't know much about what was going on in the Prince's mansion, and she didn't quite understand why Ye Jingxian was so afraid of the Imperial Clan Head.
However, Ye Junfei must have had a deeper meaning in making this arrangement.
At times like these, she can still push the play to another climax.
So she cried and said, "Second brother, I can tolerate your insults!"
"But the Crown Prince is your own brother! How could you treat him like this!"
When Zongzheng heard that Ye Jingxian had even scolded Lin Xiuyan, he was so angry that he immediately sent someone to invite the Prince of Pingnan.
When the Prince of Pingnan arrived, the Imperial Clan Minister said directly, "Your Highness, look at the fine son you've raised!"
"He publicly beat his elder brother and insulted his elder sister-in-law. Does he even respect seniority or hierarchy?"
The Prince of Pingnan had already heard about what had happened here on his way here.
He glanced at Ye Junfei, who was lying on the bed with a pale face, and then at Ye Jingxian, whose face was turning purple with anger. His feelings were extremely complicated.
He asked Zongzheng, "Could there be some misunderstanding about this?"
Zongzheng looked at him and said, "What does Your Highness mean by this? Do you think I'm old and blind, and that I can't even see this correctly?"
The Prince of Pingnan hurriedly said, "Uncle, you misunderstand. That's not what I meant."
Although he was the king of Liefeng Prefecture, Zongzheng was his uncle and elder.
In the entire Liefeng Prefecture, only Zongzheng could teach the Prince of Pingnan a lesson.
The Prince of Pingnan was somewhat annoyed, but since Zongzheng was in charge, he couldn't reprimand Ye Junfei and had to listen to Zongzheng scold Ye Jingxian.
The doctor over there had already taken Ye Junfei's pulse: "The young master's pulse is quite disordered, indicating that his heart is troubled."
"It requires careful recuperation, otherwise it may affect one's lifespan."
Prince Pingnan: "..."
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They all thought Ye Junfei was faking it, and that the doctor could expose his true colors just by taking his pulse.
What the hell is going on here?
Lin Xiuyan knew that Ye Junfei had already gone astray in his cultivation, and his pulse was disordered.
This pulse pattern can be interpreted in various ways: whether it's diagnosed as an injury, an anger, or both.
She immediately burst into tears: "Your Highness, don't scare me!"
"If anything happens to you, how am I supposed to live?"
Zongzheng leaned on his cane and said, "Your Highness, look at the fine son you've raised!"
"He not only severely injured his own brother, but also falsely accused his brother of harming him! Have you ever seen anyone harm someone like this?"
The muscles on Prince Pingnan's face twitched, and he could only say sternly, "Ye Jingxian, how have I been teaching you all this time?"
"Kneel down and apologize to your brother!"
Ye Jingxian's face flushed red. He wanted to say something more, but at this moment, anything he said would be superfluous.
He had no choice but to kneel before Ye Junfei's bedside, feeling unwilling, and say, "Brother, I was wrong!"
Ye Junfei said weakly, "It's okay if you hit me, but you can't insult your sister-in-law."
Ye Jingxian looked at Lin Xiuyan, trembling with anger.
It seems like nothing good ever comes of it whenever he sees Lin Xiuyan!
Lin Xiuyan wanted to laugh at his expression, but she could only hold it in.
She sobbed, "Your Highness, I am of humble birth and unworthy of you! My second brother called me a slut, and I could only endure it!"
Ye Junfei coughed several times and said, "You're talking nonsense! You are the wife that my father personally went to the Lin family to propose marriage for me!"
"If you are so lowly, then what is your father?"
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Zongzheng sneered: "Your Highness, the princess you personally betrothed to the heir is actually being called lowly."
"I've never seen anything like it before; it's astonishing that a prince could say such things."
Prince Pingnan kicked Ye Jingxian to the ground and angrily shouted, "You little beast, you have disappointed me greatly today!"
"Guards, take the second young master away and give him ten more strokes of the cane, then send him to the ancestral hall to face the wall for three days!"
Ye Junfei said softly, "Father has always doted on my second brother. I'm afraid he must be feeling very bad about punishing him like this."
"I don't ask for much, I only ask that my second brother apologize to Xiuyan, and then ask Father to issue an order in the palace to stop people from insulting Xiuyan."
Lin Xiuyan wanted to give him a thumbs up when she heard this.
I don't know how this guy managed to get by in Beijing before, but he's become so adept at these tricks.
I admire you!
She immediately chimed in, "It doesn't really matter if I get scolded a few times."
"But Father is the King of Liefeng Prefecture. If a woman whom Father personally proposes to marry is insulted, where will Father put his face?"
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