Chapter 321: Elbow Turned Outward
Xiao Zhou walked forward and wanted to hold Fu Zheng's hand, but Fu Zheng took a step back and avoided her.
Xiao Zhou's smile froze on her face instantly. She stood there in a daze, looking back at Fu Xun helplessly, as if expressing her silent grievances.
Fu Xun frowned in dissatisfaction, "Zheng'er, your mother is talking to you, what do you mean?"
Fu Zheng lowered his eyebrows and said, "Zheng'er is afraid of dirtying her hands. She always thinks I'm dirty."
Fu Xun frowned and glanced at Xiao Zhou.
Little Zhou was stunned at first, then burst into tears, "Zheng'er, mother doesn't know what you've been through in Prince Qi's mansion. Why are you so estranged from mother after returning? Mother loves you so much, how could she dislike you..."
"Mother really likes me, why don't you go to the palace to pick me up?"
This question made Xiao Zhou choke, but she quickly came to her senses and said, "Mother is also worried that the princess likes you, so she wants to keep you for a few more days."
"Why, I can't drink the tea from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion?"
Fu Xun then came to his senses and invited Su Ying in.
After the maid brought the tea, she heard the maid's voice announcing that the old lady from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion had arrived.
The old lady of the Duke of Zhenguo, dressed in dignified and gorgeous clothes, walked in with the help of her maid.
She was a first-rank lady, so she didn't have to perform formalities when meeting Su Ying.
The old lady of the Duke of Zhenguo walked into the room, and her cloudy eyes fell on Su Ying.
Su Ying originally planned to stand up, but when she met her gaze, she sat more steadily.
"Princess Qi has finally decided to return my grandson to me."
The old lady disliked Su Ying very much, especially when she thought of the scene of her fighting with those warriors in the banquet hall, she felt that she had lost the face of a noble lady.
It would be fine for a woman not to stay at home and take care of her husband and children, but to go out and show off her status, but to actually fight is simply a disgrace to women!
Su Ying put the teacup on the table. "If you weren't the grandson of the Duke of Zhenguo, I would have thought he was a beggar just by looking at his physique. Your Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion doesn't look like you're short of food and drink, so how come you can't even feed a child? Look at that maid, her arms are thicker than her legs. Don't you feel ashamed? I feel sorry for the child and let her go to the palace to have a full meal. Is there anything wrong with that?"
The old lady was choked by the retort, "You, you are talking nonsense! Zheng'er is so thin because he has been weak since childhood and cannot be nourished."
"How come that person could finish three bowls of rice in one meal when he was at my place? Why? Is the food in my Prince Qi's mansion better?"
The old lady glared at Fu Zheng and found that he did seem to have gained some weight, and his whole temperament seemed different. She paid little attention to this grandson. He was timid and didn't even dare to speak. He had no future. Could the Zhenguo Mansion still rely on such a person to support the future of the Mansion?
"This is my family affair, it's not the turn of others to make comments! Princess, you are meddling too much! As a woman, you should be taking care of your husband and children in the backyard, but you actually come out to embarrass yourself. The King of Qi is unlucky to have you as his princess."
The old lady came here eagerly today just to scold Su Ying. She prided herself on her noble status and high position, so she could lecture a younger princess.
Fu Zheng's face changed when he heard the old lady say that. "Grandma, the princess is not like what grandma said. Please don't say that about the princess."
Seeing Fu Zheng speak up for Su Ying, the old lady sneered, "Why, after a few days of eating at Prince Qi's Mansion, you're turning your back on others? Don't forget that without the Zhenguo Mansion, you'd be nothing! You're incompetent, useless, and stupid, and now you've been instigated to deal with your own grandmother. You're really a good grandson!"
Fu Xun scolded, "Shut up, kneel down and admit your mistake to your grandmother!"
"Zheng'er, please don't be angry with the old lady. The old lady has been unable to sleep or eat these days because of you. You think she wronged the princess, but doesn't the princess wrongly accuse our government?"
Fu Zheng clenched his fists and looked back at them with a firm expression, "No, even a woman can win glory for the country. The princess defeated the warriors of Nanlin Kingdom in the palace, and she won honor for the Qin Dynasty. How can it be said that she is not observing etiquette? Is winning glory for the country also not observing etiquette?"
Su Ying looked at Fu Zheng, who straightened his back, with a hint of satisfaction in her eyes.
"You, you shut up!" Fu Xun stood up and slapped Fu Zheng in the face.
Fu Zheng's face swelled up instantly.
Su Ying narrowed her eyes and slowly stood up, "Do you think that I am not a faithful wife?"
Fu Xun looked at Su Ying's cold eyes and subconsciously tensed up his whole body.
"He's wrong for talking back to his elders!"
"It turns out that in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, even speaking a fair word will get you beaten."
Su Ying slowly turned her neck, with the corners of her lips slightly raised.
The old lady thought Su Ying was going to hit Fu Zheng, so she suddenly raised the cane in her hand and hit Su Ying on the back.
"Princess, be careful!"
Fu Zheng screamed in fright.
However, the imagined hitting sound did not occur. Su Ying held the cane expressionlessly and applied a little force. The cane and the old lady fell to the ground.
"Mother!"
Fu Xun exclaimed, his face filled with anger, "Princess Qi is simply going too far."
Su Ying gently turned the cane in her hand, "I thought she was close to death and didn't want to argue with her, but she just wanted to come here to die!"
Before she finished her words, she knocked the cane in her hand on the coffee table beside her. With a "bang", the pear nanmu cane instantly shattered into pieces.
Wood chips flew onto her face, piercing the old lady's skin and causing her to scream in pain.
"Someone come, he's going to kill someone, this evildoer is going to kill someone! He's lawless, lawless!"
The guards from the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion rushed in all at once.
When Su Ying came, Fu Xun was afraid of any accidents, so he summoned these guards. Unexpectedly, Su Ying really came to cause trouble!
Fu Zheng tensed his body and stood bravely in front of Su Ying. Even though he knew that Su Ying was too strong to need his protection, Su Ying came today just for him and he couldn't let her get hurt!
"You, don't hurt the princess!"
Fu Xun's eyes widened with anger, "You bastard, if this bastard dares to stop me, beat him up together, beat him up!"
"Catch them, catch them!"
The old lady was so irritated by the stinging pain on her face that she completely lost her mind.
Seeing this, the guards stared at Su Ying and the others with murderous eyes, grabbed the long sticks in their hands and pounced towards Fu Zheng and Su Ying!
Fu Zheng quickly calmed his breath and went over everything Su Ying had taught him in his mind. When the guards pounced on him, he fought back without panic.
(Zenzi has something to say. The chapters updated the day before yesterday were 4 chapters, but because chapter 318 was questioned for having "minced meat" when it was uploaded, it was blocked and released later. Those who haven't seen it can go back and read it! Two chapters will be updated tonight, and we will continue tomorrow night!)
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