Zheng Jiaren looked at the man in front of her and was dazed for a moment. Under the sunlight, the face in front of her seemed to be glowing. She couldn't help but stare at him in a daze, unable to speak, and just thanked him blankly.
The cloak Zhang You had thrown down earlier was enough for them. Li Guanghan took Yao Yushu in his arms, carefully tying the cloak and rope for her. He watched her being pulled aboard before following her onto the boat. Zheng Jiaren, with the help of the fair-skinned man, boarded the boat with him.
Qiao Si choked on a lot of water. The lake water was icy cold. She was shivering at this time, and water was dripping from the ends of her hair and cheeks. Qiao Si couldn't help but sneeze. Jingzhu took a clean cloak and put it on Qiao Si, and Zhang You took a handkerchief to wipe the water off Qiao Si's hair.
After Zheng Jiaren was rescued, Madam Zheng asked her with concern if she was injured. She looked at Liu Wen who had been rescued and was about to rush over to hit her, "Liu Wen! Are you crazy? The lake is so deep, and you actually dragged us all into the water! You are murdering us!"
"I... I'm not... I didn't..." She was just angry at the time and just wanted to take revenge on Yao Yushu, without thinking too much. When she was dragged into this, she panicked. Now that Zheng Jiaren and so many people were watching and accusing her, she could only feebly try to distance herself from the matter.
Madam Zheng looked at her with scrutiny. They were both unmarried women, and getting wet in the water would be detrimental to their reputations. Clearing her throat, she ordered, "We'll discuss this later. First, take the young men and young ladies downstairs to change clothes. Come, take the young master back to your cabin." She beckoned over a few servants, instructing them to take Li Guanghan and the others downstairs to change clothes. She turned and led Qiao Si and the others to change clothes.
Zhang You and the others supported Qiao Si as they walked slowly. Yao Yusu's maid supported Yao Yusu as they walked behind Qiao Si. Together with Zheng Jiaren, Liu Wen walked at the back.
When I reached the end of the bed, I suddenly heard the moaning of a man and a woman coming from the closed door of the room.
“Ah~ah~”
Mrs. Zheng's expression changed.
This room was originally prepared for her daughter to deal with emergencies. She had planned to use that lousy method when she was left with no other options. How could someone come here?
Among those who were traveling with him, some curious people had already rushed to push open the door.
Qiao Si was standing by the door and just happened to see the woman's face flash by on the bed. Her expression changed.
How could it be Xu Rong?
She clearly just told Dongmei to inform Qiao San not to come here and give Xu Rong some laxatives. Why would she appear here?
Almost instantly, her keen intuition told her that she had been tricked. That person was the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
It seems that she has become someone else's knife.
Qiao Si's eyes turned cold, and he began to wonder who was behind this drama.
The maids who barged in began to point at the two people on the bed and cursed, "Who are you? How dare you do such a shameful thing at a banquet at Minister Zheng's mansion!"
The man and woman on the bed were startled by the sudden opening of the door. The woman screamed and kicked the man lying on her away. The man was already feeling guilty, so he hurriedly wrapped up his clothes and knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at them.
When they first entered, Zhang You saw the two people lying on the bed through the gap between their backs. They were naked, their skin touching. Zhang You quickly looked away as if she had seen something dirty, and her voice was filled with avoidance: "Princess, should we go change clothes first? It's not good to catch a cold."
Qiao Si nodded. Yao Yusu was not interested in this kind of thing and never looked over. However, Zheng Jiaren seemed to have seen something strange and wanted to come over, but was pulled away by Yao Yusu.
Fortunately, they always prepared two extra sets of clothes for every banquet they attended. They carefully helped Qiao Si change her clothes and wiped her hair with a dry towel.
During this time, Mrs. Zheng sent someone to bring them hot ginger tea to help them ward off the cold.
An hour passed after everything was packed up.
As the hostess of a ship, Madam Zheng had to uphold justice. She summoned the parties involved to a room for questioning.
When Qiao Si and the others arrived, Xu Rong was sitting in the lower seat sobbing. Since she sat there, she has been crying non-stop, insisting that she was framed. She cried so much that Mrs. Zheng had a headache.
As soon as Xu Rong saw Qiao Si and Yao Yusu, she pointed at them and cursed, "It must be you! You are the ones who harmed me!" She stood up suddenly, her eyes fierce, and she wished she could kill Qiao Si and Yao Yusu.
Qiao Si looked at her with cold eyes, "What do you mean?"
"You are jealous of me! That's why you deliberately hurt me!" Xu Rong's voice was sharp and piercing, and his expression was crazy.
Mrs. Zheng couldn't bear to watch this, so she quickly asked her maid to stop her and hold her firmly on the seat.
"Let me go! Let me go! You are all a bunch of snakes and rats! I will tell my father! I will make you all pay the price! Let me go! I am the daughter of the Prime Minister! Why do you touch me! I will let my father kill you all! Ah!" Xu Rong's emotions became more and more intense, as if he could not accept the stimulation and was a little crazy.
"Miss Xu! Calm down! I just told you, it couldn't have been the princess and the others. They fell into the water, there's no way they deliberately led you to the stern as you said!" Madam Zheng was already tired of her nagging. She had explained the matter to her an hour ago. She didn't know if this person was stupid, but she was so stubborn that she thought the princess and the Yao family girl were plotting to harm her.
Mrs. Zheng had asked her why she was sure it was them, but she would just say they were jealous of her and wanted to take revenge on her. But this explanation was completely untenable.
Xu Rong seemed to be stuck in a loop, shouting and yelling, believing that Qiao Si and the others were the ones who harmed her.
Mrs. Zheng originally planned to send her off the boat to rest, but she refused to give in and insisted on waiting for Qiao Si and the others to come and confront her together.
At this moment, Qiao Si and the others arrived, and Mrs. Zheng no longer cared about Xu Rong, and began to question Liu Wen about what had happened.
Liu Wen quickly knelt on the ground and stammered to admit her mistake.
When Mrs. Zheng heard her say that her daughter was also involved and could even be considered the main troublemaker, the veins on her forehead twitched.
She glanced over and Zheng Jiaren lowered her head timidly, not daring to look her in the eye.
When Xu Rong heard Liu Wen talking about pushing Yao Yushuo into the water, his eyes were full of disbelief.
How could it not be Qiao Si? How could it not be related to Yao Yushu? Then why was she led there? And why did she happen to be hit by the aphrodisiac incense?
She couldn't think of anyone else who would harm her, so she only held hatred towards Qiao Si. Her eyes were filled with resentment, and she kept chattering, "Impossible! You must be lying! Liu Wen! Why are you helping them!"
Liu Wen looked at Xu Rong's crazy posture and shrank back in fear: "I didn't lie. There were a lot of people there at the time. They all saw it."
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