Chapter 75 Supply Cut-off Pressure
"What do you mean?"
Meng Anfeng clenched his fists and patiently spoke.
"You said my Mingchu seduced you, and that matter hasn't been resolved yet. You've ruined my girl's reputation and beaten her to the point of near death. There has to be an explanation for this, right?"
Meng Yanzhi stared coldly at Meng Anfeng, genuinely curious whether this person had truly forgotten the mistakes he had made.
Meng Anfeng had considered many possibilities, but he never expected that it would be for a maidservant, and he would be so relentless.
He looked at Meng Yanzhi in disbelief: "I am your own brother, how can you make things so difficult for me for the sake of a lowly servant?"
"Are you my biological brother? Aren't you Meng Anxian's brother?"
Meng Yanzhi looked at Meng Anfeng with a half-smile.
"Is it that when you need me, you're my brother, but when you don't, you're just Meng Anxian's brother?"
"To you, Mingchu is just a lowly servant, but to me, she is my own sister!"
"You hurt her, you insulted her, and I will never forgive that!"
Meng Yanzhi became increasingly assertive as she spoke, showing no fear despite Meng Anfeng's gloomy expression.
Seeing this, Meng Anfeng was speechless.
The story of Meng Yanzhi seducing someone in the early Ming Dynasty was completely fabricated. However, Meng Anfeng was always very arrogant, so he didn't take such a lowly servant seriously at all. Now, Meng Yanzhi's persistent nagging about this matter had completely exhausted Meng Anfeng's patience.
"Meng Yanzhi, stop making a fuss over nothing. I think you're just shamelessly degrading yourself. You're staying here just to stay in the Crown Prince's residence and seduce him, aren't you?"
"You know perfectly well that Xian'er likes the Crown Prince, so why do you insist on competing with her for him?"
Meng Anfeng stepped forward, forcefully grabbed Meng Yanzhi's wrist, and glared at her through gritted teeth.
Meng Yanzhi flung his hand away and slapped him hard across the face, staring at him coldly: "How dare you! How dare you speak so arrogantly in the Crown Prince's residence! My reputation doesn't matter, so what? Is His Highness the Crown Prince's reputation nothing to you?"
Upon hearing this, Meng Anfeng immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, and his expression changed instantly: "I...I didn't mean that."
"So what do you mean?"
Xiao Ce came out of the inner room at the opportune moment, looking at Meng Anfeng with displeasure.
Meng Anfeng quickly knelt on the ground and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince."
Xiao Ce didn't let him get up, but instead walked to the main seat and sat down.
"You said you were here to take your sister home, that's why I let you in. Why are you arguing again?"
"Could it be that your Meng family is so intolerant of my savior?"
Xiao Ce tapped the table lightly, looking coldly at Meng Anfeng.
Meng Anfeng subconsciously looked at Meng Yanzhi, and then said, "Your Highness misunderstands. I really came to take my sister back, but Yanzhi has some misunderstandings about us, so she is unwilling to go back with us."
Is this still Meng Yanzhi's fault?
Xiao Ce looked at Meng Yanzhi with some curiosity: "Why don't you want to go back?"
“They framed my maid and beat her beyond recognition. This matter is not settled, and I will not go back.”
"Your Highness, rest assured, my Meng family has an estate in the outskirts of the capital, which is perfect for recuperation. I will take Mingchu there!"
Without even glancing at Meng Anfeng, Meng Yanzhi turned and left. With someone backing her up, she really didn't want to waste any more time on this person.
Meng Anfeng had not expected that Meng Yanzhi could come and go from the Crown Prince's residence so freely.
His eyebrows were pressed together as he knelt on the ground, experiencing this feeling of helplessness for the first time.
After Meng Yanzhi turned back, she began to instruct Lu Ping to prepare to go to the manor in the suburbs of the capital to recuperate properly.
The carriage left the Crown Prince's residence almost simultaneously with Meng Anfeng. Meng Anfeng hurriedly blocked the carriage and coldly said, "Meng Yanzhi, when are you going to stop causing trouble!"
"Walk."
Meng Yanzhi ignored Meng Anfeng's nonsense and simply told Lu Ping to leave quickly.
Lu Ping lashed the horse's back with her whip, but luckily she missed Meng Anfeng's face.
Meng Anfeng had no choice but to step back and watch helplessly as the carriage drove away.
The Meng family, Lingxi Academy.
Meng Anfeng returned alone, his face showing a mixture of helplessness and impatience. He looked at his mother with some resignation: "She refuses to come back and has gone to the estate in the outskirts of the capital. Mother, what should we do now? If outsiders see this, I'm afraid they will start gossiping about our Meng family."
The Meng family's reputation in the capital is now very poor.
When Mencius' mother went out to socialize, the people looked at her very strangely, and when they were behind her back, they would say some sarcastic things. Originally, Mencius' mother was very comfortable among the noble ladies in the capital, but now she found it difficult to move around.
Only Mencius' mother knew how important the inner quarters of an official's family were.
During this time, Mencius' mother refused to go out.
"Mother, is my sister still blaming me? Why don't I go and apologize to her?" Meng Anxian looked at her mother pitifully and said softly, "Mother, if my sister keeps making a fuss like this, we won't be able to go out in the future."
Meng Anfeng immediately said, "No, Xian'er, you've suffered such a great injustice, how can you still go and apologize to her?"
Mother Meng nodded in agreement: "Then cut off her allowance. I want to see how long she can last without the Meng family's support!"
"Bring everyone back from our estate!" Mother Meng naturally knew how to make things difficult for Meng Yanzhi, since she had been doing this ever since Meng Yanzhi returned.
When Meng Yanzhi arrived at the manor, it was completely empty. There were no servants, and even the rice bins were empty.
Upon seeing this, Meng Yanzhi immediately understood that this must be the Meng family's counterattack. They were deliberately making things difficult for her in order to force her to compromise.
Fortunately, Meng Yanzhi had already made preparations. She quickly took off the gold bracelet on her wrist and handed it to Lu Ping, saying with a smile, "This should be enough for us to last for a while. Don't worry, Sister Lu, I can cook and chop wood. We won't starve to death!"
For many years, Meng Yanzhi had lived this kind of life, so she wasn't worried at all now.
A pampered young lady raised in the capital city would certainly not understand the plight of women in rural villages. They come from humble backgrounds, yet they are full of skills and can live well on their own without anyone else.
Meng Yanzhi could go up the mountain to chop firewood and gather herbs, and she could also go down to the river to catch fish and wash clothes, so she was not afraid of such punishment at all, but rather she was like a fish in water.
Seeing that Meng Yanzhi's eyes had become bright and sparkling, Lu Ping smiled and said, "Alright, I'll go now."
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