"Is it really like that?" Xu Tianze held half a steamed bun in his hand, his bright eyes fixed on Ma Zheng.
"Yes, now the people are saying that the prince of the Zhenguo Mansion is weak and frail, so the prince's wife fought with four strong men at night." Ma Zheng stood in the shadow under a tree and answered in a serious tone.
"There is a rumor out there that the concubine the prince brought back is actually a virgin. The prince is helpless facing his concubine every day." Ma Zheng thought for a moment and added.
When Xu Tianze heard this, he burst into laughter. He knew very well whether there was something going on between Xu Tianze and the concubine who wanted to get promoted.
After all, he was the one who gave the medicine, so even if Song Yu was not able to do it, he could still show his prowess. What's more, he knew that Song Yu did not have any signs of yang deficiency.
But this matter itself cannot be proven, so we can only let rumors spread. If we want to stop the rumors, we must have evidence, right?
Is it possible to let Song Yu demonstrate it in public?
When Xu Tianze thought of Song Yu's speechless look, his appetite surprisingly improved a lot.
"Why don't you ask, Aze, how Song Yu dealt with Jiang Xue?" After Ma Zheng finished speaking, Long Musi stepped into the yard and sat down in front of Xu Tianze.
"Even if you don't ask, I know it. There's no need to pour cold water on me now." Xu Tianze snorted coldly and took a big bite of the steamed bun.
What else can be done? The interests of the Zhenguo Mansion and the Jiang family are related, and it has never been a simple marriage between the two.
Naturally, it would not be a divorce, nor would it be a divorce. It could be said that since Jiang Xue married into the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, the only place where she would live or die was the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
However, based on Xu Tianze's understanding of Song Yu, Song Yu would definitely not forgive Jiang Xue for what she did, and a rift would inevitably arise between the two.
If Jiang Xue was smart, she would have directly confessed the whole story and asked him to help share some of the hatred.
But would Jiang Xue agree? Of course not, otherwise her delicate and gentle personality would be broken.
"Jiang Xue and Song Yu, it's hard to make them live a miserable life, but it's not hard either." Xu Tianze saw Long Musi's bowl and chopsticks coming up, so he directly picked up a piece of pickled cucumber and put it into his bowl.
Long Musi's personal bodyguard, Long Yi, paused as he was serving the dishes, then put down his chopsticks with a calm expression and stood quietly aside.
Long Musi ate the pickled cucumber slowly with half a bowl of white porridge: "After three years of not seeing you, the constraints of the aristocratic family have been reduced a lot."
Xu Tianze rolled his eyes. He didn't want to join in the conversation. When he first arrived at the Valley of Divine Doctors, he was often ridiculed by Old Man Qi because of the etiquette and rules that were engraved in his bones.
Over time, he let go of his airs. Moreover, he was now the descendant of a criminal, so why should he be so arrogant?
"Since you know their weaknesses, why don't you speed up?" Long Musi didn't care when he saw that Xu Tianze didn't respond, and continued with what he had just said.
"Wouldn't that be a bargain for them? Living is the best torture." Xu Tianze saw Long Musi finish his pickled cucumber and broke off half a steamed bun for him. "So far, the only clues we have are that Jiang Xue and the Zhenguogong Mansion are involved. There are still some clues that we haven't found out yet."
Without any clues, how could he speed up and let the people behind the scenes know where he is now?
It would be better to tell others that he hated Song Yu and Jiang Xue and targeted them everywhere because he believed that they were the masterminds behind the Xu family's demise. This is all he could find out.
"It's good that you know what's going on." After Long Musi finished the last mouthful of porridge, he asked someone to take away the bowls and chopsticks.
"Did something happen at the palace banquet yesterday?" Xu Tianze picked up another sweet potato and gave half to Long Musi.
"It's not a big deal." Long Musi looked at the half sweet potato in his hand and sighed silently.
He turned around to look at Long Yi and Ma Zheng beside him. One of them looked up at the leaves, while the other lowered his head and picked at his fingers, refusing to look at Long Musi.
Seeing that Xu Tianze seemed to be waiting for him to continue, he had no choice but to peel the sweet potato slowly. He was not going to finish eating half of the sweet potato until the conversation was over.
He came here to have breakfast together, not to be fed. If we continue to feed him like this, he will have to hold his waist when he goes out every day.
"At yesterday's palace banquet, the Censorate ridiculed the Duke of Zhenguo for being a tiger father and a dog son, who failed to manage his family properly but pretended to be a king serving the people." As he spoke, Long Musi raised his eyelids and glanced at Xu Tianze.
"It was originally a quarrel between the two sides, and the emperor was just watching from the sidelines. Someone mentioned that they couldn't match the upbringing of the Xu family's descendants. Then they expressed a few words of regret, which made the emperor frown."
The emperor was furious, and the banquet ended in disharmony, so he naturally returned early. Otherwise, it would take a while for the Zhenguo Mansion to receive the news of Jiang Xue's accident.
After Long Musi finished speaking, there was no more words at the table. Xu Tianze chewed the half sweet potato in his hand slowly, clapped his hands and stood up.
"The Xu family is just blocking someone else's way. How could that person not know that? They are just useless chess pieces and not worth wasting energy on." Xu Tianze passed by Long Musi and walked out of the courtyard step by step. "I returned to Beijing three days ago, and someone was already showing off yesterday. It seems they can't wait any longer."
Since Xu Tianze decided to come back, he had no intention of finding Xu An safely. It depended on who would lose patience first, him or this group of foxes.
"Aze." Long Musi called Xu Tianze and paused hesitantly. "The palace has ordered you to come to the emperor for an audience the day after tomorrow."
"I understand." Xu Tianze waved his hand and walked out of the yard.
As soon as Long Musi said this, he felt a little regretful. Before the palace banquet started yesterday, he was left alone by his father to write a letter.
What my father said was not exactly the same as what he said that night three years ago, but it was very similar.
"Having contact with the son of the Xu family is the biggest stain on you over the years. If my son doesn't recognize his own identity, he is not worthy of being my heir!" The emperor was wearing a memorial at the time and didn't even look at him, but his words were merciless.
He asked his father, "The world is booming, and Prime Minister Xu has always been a royalist. Doesn't his father really know that the Xu family has been wronged?"
The emperor just looked at him deeply, said that there is no selfishness in the royal family, and then let him kneel in the study.
He accepted that there were no blood relatives in the royal family. Wasn't it enough to have no blood relatives? Did he also have to be free from selfish emotions? He couldn't be as cold-hearted as his father, so it was no wonder that he was not his biological son.
In the past three years, he had tried to find out whether his father had taken any action, but even though his intelligence network was extremely large, he had not found any information about the Dragon Scale Guard's actions.
On the surface, his father had never shown any concern for Xu Tianze, but now that he was suddenly asked to bring Xu Tianze into the palace, he had to be on guard.
If the emperor really wanted to take action against Xu Tianze, then the backup plan he left in the palace would have to be exposed in advance.
At worst, he and Aze will just have to flee to the ends of the earth. The world is so big, there will always be a place for him and Aze to stay.
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