Chapter 22 You dare, my grandfather is Taifu Shen Huai!
"I thought who it was, it turns out to be the eldest daughter of the Ran family who climbed into the bed of King Chen three months ago and was granted marriage by the emperor!
That’s easy, since even King Chen is no longer able to help, you might as well just follow him…”
Okay! So you don’t know him at all?
That’s much easier!
Ran Qingxuan raised his hand and this time slapped Deng Zhuo with all his strength. Deng Zhuo was caught off guard and was hit so hard that he saw stars.
Unable to bear it any longer, he drew his sword and slashed at Ran Qingxuan.
All the women in the Gu family exclaimed, and even Gu Yanchen couldn't help but open his eyes.
But Ran Qingxuan shouted loudly at this moment.
"How dare you? My grandfather is Taifu Chen Huai!"
Deng Zhuo's hand was unsteady as he drew the sword. After a "ding-clang" sound, he realized what he heard.
There was a hint of coldness in Ran Qingxuan's eyes, and he didn't give him any time to react.
"Deng Zhuo, it doesn't matter what my current identity is. I can be a person who clings to the powerful in your mouth, or I can be a guilty person who is about to be exiled, but what can never be changed is that my grandfather is the first-rank imperial tutor of the current dynasty!"
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Deng Zhuo didn't know all this, because when Ran Qingxuan's scumbag father got married, he was just a small lieutenant in the military camp. Not to mention knowing the Grand Tutor, he was not even allowed to attend court.
When he learned that Ran Qingxuan's grandfather was actually the Grand Tutor, he immediately regretted it.
He is the one who taught the emperor and is currently teaching the prince!
He remembered the first time he followed Gu Yanchen into the palace, he happened to see the Crown Prince being reprimanded by the Grand Tutor Shen Huai. The ruler was hitting him with a loud clacking sound, and the Emperor couldn't even get a word in.
How dare he openly and forcibly snatch someone else's granddaughter!
Some people present knew Ran Qingxuan's identity, but they thought that what Ran Qingxuan had done had brought shame to the family. The Taifu always attached great importance to family traditions and would never stand up for her, so they never thought of reminding Deng Zhuo.
But the problem is that they cannot remind him now, otherwise it would be just looking for trouble. So everyone pretended not to know and let Deng Zhuo solve it himself.
Ran Qingxuan brought up her grandfather, the Grand Tutor, and indeed shocked the people in front of her.
Deng Zhuo walked forward with a smirk. That extremely flattering smile was a thousand times more disgusting than any obscene smile Ran Qingxuan had seen before.
I don’t want to get entangled with this kind of person anymore, Ran Qingxuan said coldly.
"General Deng, please make yourself at your leisure. We are just waiting!"
Deng Zhuo was now much more obedient, and his officers and soldiers were doing what they were supposed to do. The situation was no longer as tense as before, which made the women in the Gu family feel much more at ease.
But before long, Deng Zhuo, who had left, brought back five fierce-looking old women.
Several of them were holding a dirty cloth bag in their hands, with cold brows and unfriendly eyes looking at the women of the Gu family.
Although Deng Zhuo was afraid of Ran Qingxuan's grandfather, he still had to go smoothly and gave the order immediately.
"Please search them carefully. If you let them take even a penny out of this house, you will not be able to escape justice!"
"General Deng, please rest assured. We old ladies have never failed before!"
After the leading old woman finished speaking, she viciously took Ran Qingxuan and the others to a room far away from the officers and soldiers and searched them.
As soon as she came in, one of the maids reached out to take off the clothes of the third sister-in-law Chen Wan'er. Ran Qingxuan stepped forward to stop her, and several maids immediately glared at her.
"At this point, you'd better recognize your own identities. I'm telling you this: just hand over the hidden money yourself, and then we can talk. If we find it..."
Madam Gu had a sullen face and resigned herself to unbuckling the belt around her waist.
As the gorgeous clothes were taken off one by one, the silver bills hidden on the body fell out. The responsible woman picked them up and began to carefully examine the clothes on the ground.
During this period, the eldest sister-in-law Zhou Furong was particularly nervous. The maid in charge of the search saw this and carefully checked the clothes she had taken off. Seeing nothing unusual, she actually started to feel around on her clothes.
"Well, you're quite active in thinking!"
With a "swish" sound, the old woman tore open the sleeve of sister-in-law Zhou Furong's inner garment, and the small pocket that was secretly sewn up was exposed to everyone.
Seeing that the hidden one hundred taels of silver notes were discovered, sister-in-law Zhou Furong protected her bare arms and burst into tears out of self-blame.
When the old woman saw that someone dared to go against her, she was so angry that she wanted to continue stripping her sister-in-law Zhou Furong's clothes. Ran Qingxuan couldn't bear to see her continue to be humiliated, so he stood up to block her.
"You can search me if you want, and take away the money you find. There's no need to humiliate me. We're all women, so why make things difficult for me?"
The old women who were blocked were unwilling to accept this, but what Ran Qingxuan said was the truth. No matter whether they were men or women, they could not deliberately make things difficult for the prisoners.
With a cold snort, the old woman searched their bodies roughly. After making sure that there was no valuables left, she shook off the bags on the ground.
A few pieces of gray coarse linen fell out, and instantly a musty smell mixed with an inexplicable sour taste entered my nose.
One of the maids gathered up the silk and satin clothes they had taken off and said kindly.
"You are lucky. These clothes are considered clean. Why don't you change them quickly?"
The second sister-in-law, Chang Yue'e, looked at the patched and rough clothes and immediately went forward to argue angrily.
"Are you doing this on purpose? It's already autumn in Kyoto, and the place of exile is in the northwest. It will probably be the end of the year when our family, including women and children, arrives. How can we survive the coldest time of the year with just these few rags?"
The old woman snorted coldly and rolled her eyes, saying, "Whether you can hold on is your problem, I gave it according to the law.
Not convinced? Go and seek justice from the Emperor! ”
The second sister-in-law became furious instantly and stepped forward to tear the old woman's mouth, but was stopped by Madam Egu beside her.
"Chang, there's no need to waste your breath."
After saying that, he took the lead in picking up a piece of clothing from the ground and put it on his inner garment. Seeing this, the others had no choice but to follow suit.
Ran Qingxuan felt that she could wear anything. After all, she had ready-made thick cloth and quilts in her space. If she left smoothly, she might be able to find a chance to make a few pieces of clothing to keep warm on the way.
Only after everyone had put on coarse linen clothes did the maids take off the red hairpins from the heads of the women in the Gu family one by one.
When they arrived at the front hall, a maid handed the 800 taels of silver notes they had looted to Deng Zhuo, and the clothes they were wearing were thrown into a box.
Deng Zhuo looked at the banknote in his hand with disdain. He probably didn't expect that there were only this much.
The people who had thought they could hide as much as possible suddenly lost their luster in their eyes when they saw this scene.
The road of exile is already bitter and cold, and having some money in hand will prevent them from starving to death. Now they don’t even have a tael of silver, so how can they bribe the officials who are escorting them along the way?
You have to know that all the food for everyone on the road comes from the officials. If you don’t bribe them, you might starve to death.
Just when the women of the Gu family were looking worried, the people who were responsible for searching the valuables in other courtyards of Prince Chen's Mansion came back one after another, but the news they brought back made Deng Zhuo dumbfounded.
"What did you say? The Gu family's warehouse is empty?"
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