The living room was full of people, but it was surprisingly quiet. No one dared to make a sound except Zhuang Li, who was holding his forehead and smiling softly.
After Zhuang Ai knelt on the ground, Hu also knelt down limply, followed by Zhuang Yuqing, and finally Zhuang Yunzhu, who refused to kneel but was pulled hard by Zhuang Yuqing.
However, Zhuang Li didn't even look at them, but just stared at Zhuang Xiaohui.
"She is reborn," he said in his heart.
7480 flipped through the script. "I bet so. Otherwise, she wouldn't have rushed to the brothel to rescue you. It seems like she knew what was going to happen next."
"And she just revealed a flaw. If she knew these foods were incompatible, then why didn't she try to help the original owner avoid danger over the past few years? It shows that she didn't know this before today."
7480 nodded. "Yes, if she knew, she would definitely save you. Disguised as a man and running to a brothel in the middle of the night is extremely dangerous. She must have suffered too much in her past life to understand these shady tactics. Master, this flaw is actually your flaw as well."
Zhuang Li closed his eyes, his smile cold. "This isn't a weakness, it's just a helpless choice. If I don't eat, Hu will use even more unpredictable means to harm me."
7480 thought so too. The master is so smart. Once everyone finds out that he is different from before, they will definitely find a good excuse for him.
"I'm very curious about what happened in the original plot." Zhuang Li said in a low voice.
7480 whispered, "Master, you should wait for the doctor to check your health. I'm afraid you have a heart condition and will be pissed off by the original plot."
"Then I'm looking forward to it even more." The smile in Zhuang Li's eyes had completely frozen into ice.
At this moment, an old man with white hair and a youthful face was carried on the shoulders of Long Jinwei and taken into the hall.
A flustered Hu crawled to her husband's side, tugging at his sleeve. In the past, no matter how egregious her actions had been, her husband had always helped her clean up the mess. Would it be the same this time? He had even covered up the poisoning of her mistress, so what about the murder of her stepson?
Zhuang Li is not dead, so is it necessary to make such a big fuss?
Her thoughts were all written on her face, and Zhuang Ai knew it at a glance. For a moment, he was almost so angry at this stupid woman that he vomited blood on the spot.
The emperor wasn't dead, so why did he lead his troops back to the capital and personally cut off Liu's head? You harmed her, and you don't allow her to resist? Who do you think you are?
Zhuang Ai pushed Hu away, his face filled with disgust and regret. If it weren't for his connivance, Hu wouldn't have been so bold.
Qin Zhong simply bowed to the emperor, glanced around, and pointed at Zhuang Li and said, "Is this my patient? He looks seriously ill!"
Feng Ming stood up and gave the main seat to Qin Zhong, saying respectfully, "Please help me take his pulse."
Qin Zhong was not polite either. He sat down next to Zhuang Li and held his thin wrist.
Everyone waited with bated breath.
"You've consumed too many conflicting foods, damaging your bones. You've been alternating between intensely cold and intensely nourishing foods, causing your body to alternate between hot and cold. Your yin and yang are extremely unbalanced, so how could you not collapse? If you keep eating like this, you won't live past thirty."
Tan Zhong said bluntly.
Feng Ming's already numb heart suddenly felt a sharp pang. He immediately bowed and said, "Please give him a prescription."
"I'll write the prescription later. His illness is not as simple as eating indiscriminately. Where is his living room? I have to go and take a look." Qin Zhong waved his hand and said.
"I'll take you there!" Zhuang Xiaohui said immediately, her face filled with obvious anger. She wanted to see what other tricks Hu had used on her brother!
The group went to the backyard in a mighty procession. Hu wanted to follow them, but she couldn't get up no matter what she did. Her bones felt weak.
Zhuang Ai helped her up and asked with gritted teeth, "What else did you do?"
Hu shook her head repeatedly: "No, I didn't do anything."
Zhuang Ai slapped her hard. "You're still trying to make excuses at this point? You didn't do anything to make Zhuang Li so thin? Do you think the Emperor and Imperial Physician Qin are fools?"
Zhuang Yunzhu quickly hugged her mother and screamed, "Daddy, Mom must have been wrongly accused! That old man is a quack! You must find another doctor to confront him! He's talking complete nonsense!"
Calling the Emperor's most respected savior a quack and even planning to find another doctor to undermine Imperial Physician Qin—Zhuang Yunzhu's foolishness truly opened Zhuang Ai's eyes. How could he not have realized that his daughter was a troublemaker? What had blinded him?
Zhuang Ai caught up with Zhuang Yunzhu and slapped her hard a few times. Just as he was making a fuss, he saw Zhuang Yuqing staggering in from outside, his handsome face distorted by deep fear.
"Mom, your incense burner, incense bag, and incense pillow have all been found." He slowly knelt on the ground and smiled miserably.
Mrs. Hu, who was still trying to defend herself, suddenly felt as if her tongue had been cut off and could no longer speak.
Zhuang Ai also knelt back down following his son, feeling panic-stricken.
Only Zhuang Yunzhu remained calm. She hugged her mother and vowed, "Don't be afraid, Mom. I will defend you clearly and no one will wrong you!"
Mrs. Hu took off her embroidered shoes and stuffed them into her daughter's mouth, scolding her harshly, "Shut up! You're saving me by not saying anything!"
Feng Ming supported Zhuang Li and slowly walked into the hall. Qin Zhong was holding an incense burner in his arms, and several Dragon Guards were also holding a lot of things.
Zhuang Ai knew that this was evidence of his wife's guilt. He opened his mouth, ready to beg for mercy, but heard the emperor say emotionlessly, "Call the Dali Temple Minister."
Zhuang Ai's head suddenly buzzed.
The emperor's attitude was clearly different from what he had expected. He thought that if he took the initiative to divorce Hu, the emperor would give him the face and let it go. But he had obviously underestimated the emperor's tolerance.
After so many years, the emperor still cannot forget the humiliation he once suffered.
If the Dali Temple Minister really came, then this matter would no longer be a family affair of the Zhuang family, but a public case. A public case must be heard in public, the verdict is announced in public, and the execution is public. This means that by the next morning, everyone in the capital will know about his wife's misdeeds.
With irrefutable evidence, she will definitely not escape the severe punishment of the law!
Zhuang Li survived, so she wouldn't be beheaded. However, she would face imprisonment, caning, tattooing, or cutting off her nose—any of these punishments would be enough for her! Furthermore, Yu Qing and Yun Zhu's reputations would be ruined. She couldn't escape the guilt of her own negligence, either. At best, she would be demoted, at worst, dismissed from office.
In an instant, Zhuang Ai thought a lot and gradually realized that the banker had really lost from now on!
When the nest is overturned, all the eggs are broken. If the banker loses, what good will Zhuang Li, a loser, gain? He's even more stupid than Hu! Couldn't he just come to me quietly and complain? Why did he have to go to this extent?
The more Zhuang Ai thought about it, the angrier he became, so he glared at Zhuang Li with red eyes, venting all his hatred on his son.
Feng Ming stared at him and suddenly spoke, "The look in your eyes is very similar to my father's. When he learned that I had exposed Liu's evil scheme and refused to submit to death, he also looked like he wanted to kill me. So in the eyes of you, my ex-wife's children should also die with her to make room for the next one, right?"
This accountability is too serious, it has reached the point of killing people and destroying their hearts.
Zhuang Ai's behavior reminded the emperor of the late emperor. After all, the late emperor was starved to death by the emperor. He couldn't even tolerate his own father, so how could he tolerate a minister?
Zhuang Ai quickly retracted his resentful gaze and kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy. "Your Majesty, please understand. I absolutely do not have such a cruel heart! I treat all four of my children the same!"
However, his sophistry seems so pale in the face of facts.
Feng Ming pondered, "You treat all four children the same. I didn't know you were so good at lying. Your eldest son is Feng Yu's study partner, right? I heard your youngest daughter will marry Feng Yu as a concubine soon. Zhuang Li and Zhuang Xiaohui, what have you arranged for them?"
Zhuang Ai was speechless.
Feng Ming continued speaking, his tone particularly cold and stern: "My son assists Feng Yu, and my daughter marries Feng Yu. Why are you so eager to take sides? Are you just hoping that I'll die sooner?"
This sentence is far more serious and terrifying than the previous one.
If anyone were to leak this information to the outside world, Feng Yu would have the heart to kill Zhuang Ai and Zhuang Yuqing. He had been working so carefully and cautiously for so many years, finally gaining the emperor's trust, but it was all destroyed in this incident!
If the Emperor rescinded his decision to appoint him Crown Prince, how could he possibly swallow this anger? And how could his followers be so easily dealt with?
The more Zhuang Ai thought about it, the more frightened he became. He banged his head harder and harder, and in just a short while, his face was covered in blood.
Zhuang Yuqing also kowtowed repeatedly to apologize, and his face no longer had the calmness of the past.
It wasn't until then that Zhuang Yunzhu began to realize that something serious was about to happen at home! The Emperor even doubted her father's loyalty, so how could her marriage be possible? She was destined to be the Crown Princess!
Zhuang Yunzhu was so frightened that tears came out, and she kowtowed more actively than anyone else.
Mrs. Hu had completely collapsed on the ground, holding her heart and breathing hard, looking like she was about to faint.
But no one present looked at her straight in the eye. All the servants of the manor knelt down and shouted "Your Majesty, please spare my life" one after another.
Zhuang Xiaohui looked at the terrified faces of these people and listened to their wailing and desperate pleas. The anger in her heart finally dissipated a little. What did the banker's failure have to do with her? After all, the dowry left by her mother had long been squandered by these people. She didn't expect to get anything from the banker.
Even if I become a commoner in the future, it will be better than staying in this ghost place full of evil spirits.
But how should they divide the family property? After what happened, even if their father went to hell, he would take them with him, right?
Zhuang Xiaohui was racking her brains trying to figure out how to leave this home forever when she heard the emperor slowly say, "Your stepmother is cruel, your biological father is unkind. There's no place for you in this family anymore. Shall I find another house for you to stay in?"
He looked at Zhuang Li with deep eyes.
"Okay." Zhuang Li's eyes were red, and he spoke with sadness: "I also understood the look in my father's eyes just now. He hated me for not just accepting death. If I continue to live in this house, I'm afraid that sooner or later I will die in an unclear way."
He stabbed Zhuang Ai's already frightened heart again.
Feng Ming looked at Zhuang Ai, murderous intent slowly spreading in the depths of his pupils.
Zhuang Ai: “…”
Zhuang Xiaohui: “…” My wish came true just like that?
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