Chapter 87 I told you five years ago
These are the guards of Prince Long's mansion, and they are not allowed to leave the mansion unless it is an emergency.
Suddenly, everyone became nervous.
"Princess Changning, I am hosting a banquet at the Yong'an Marquis's mansion today. It's not appropriate for you to bring troops here like this." The Yong'an Marquis walked out of the family ancestral hall and questioned Changning dissatisfiedly.
Chang Ning didn't answer him at all. She just swept her blazing eyes over everyone present and cursed, "Where's that slutty and lowly Zhou Yao? Hand her over! Otherwise, I'll have my people search the house!"
Looking for Zhou Yao?
Everyone was stunned.
Didn't Chang Ning always cause trouble for Su Rui? Many people witnessed what happened at the polo field during the autumn hunt a few days ago.
Why did you turn the gun on Zhou Yao today?
Everyone was confused, but Liang Shi, feeling uneasy, immediately gave Madam Qian a look and stood up, saying, "I don't know how my daughter has offended the princess. I will apologize to her on her behalf. I will send people to look for her. Princess, please withdraw your troops first. It's not good to surround us with soldiers like this. Your Highness, don't you agree?"
Liang said as she looked towards the eldest prince.
It was nothing when Changning led his troops to surround the Yong'an Marquis's Mansion, but it was different when the eldest prince was there.
Wearing armor to meet the king can be considered treason, it all depends on how it is judged.
No matter how gentle the eldest prince is, he would not like to be held at knifepoint.
Unexpectedly, the eldest prince was not annoyed, but just looked at Su Rui slowly.
Su Rui yawned as if nothing had happened.
"Princess Changning is looking for Miss Zhou. This is ultimately a matter for a girl, so I can't make a definitive statement."
The eldest prince declined politely, but no one could fail to see that this was entirely dependent on Su Rui's actions.
Su Rui didn't want to care, so the eldest prince didn't care.
"Second Miss, why are you hiding here?"
Before everyone could wonder what kind of love potion Su Rui had fed the eldest prince, they heard a sound coming from behind the rockery.
Hearing the noise, the nanny beside Changning immediately led people to rush over and pulled out Zhou Yao, who was hiding behind the rockery and had no time to escape.
Bring him into the crowd and throw him to the ground.
Her knees hit the stone slab, and before Zhou Yao could even call for a stop, she was slapped hard on the cheek.
It was Changning who hit her with all his strength, causing Zhou Yao to fall sideways to the ground with blood at the corner of her mouth.
"Strip her clothes and beat her! Beat her skin to pieces!"
At a command, the nanny immediately brought a few maids and came forward to tear off Zhou Yao's clothes.
Chen He, who followed, wanted to go up and stop them, but Princess Ping reached out to stop him, and signaled with her eyes that it was not his turn to rescue yet.
Liang saw this and secretly cursed the Princess of Ping for being treacherous. She immediately tried to protect herself as soon as something went wrong.
But at this moment, there was no time to think too much. She hurriedly asked someone to stop them and shouted, "Princess, what are you doing? My daughter is an innocent girl. How can you bully her in public like this?"
Marquis Yong'an was also very angry. This was not just a simple bullying of Zhou Yao, it was clearly an attack on the Marquis Yong'an Mansion and a slap in the face of him, the Marquis Yong'an.
Even though his power was only one-fifth of Prince Long's, he would not allow such a junior to humiliate him at will.
"Stop it! Changning! Don't go too far. I am an official appointed by the imperial court, and Zhou Yao is my daughter. How can I allow you to bully such innocent people like this? Shengjing City is not a place where your Tang family can dominate everything!"
As soon as this was said, many people echoed it. After all, many people had suffered greatly from Changning's tyranny over the years, but they dared not speak out.
"How much of a bully?" Chang Ning laughed in anger, sweeping his gaze across the Yong'an Marquis, the Liang family, Su Rui, and finally Zhou Yao. His resentment, having been teased for years, erupted completely. "It's you, the Yong'an Marquisate, who's been too much of a bully! You allowed your lowly stepdaughter to have an affair, deceived her superiors and subordinates, and even deceived this princess. And you even dared to raise a bastard to disgust this princess!"
When she heard the word "bastard", Liang's face changed drastically.
Marquis Yong'an was completely confused. He didn't understand what Changning meant by "bastard" or "affair".
But soon, he understood.
A child of four or five years old was brought from behind the palace guards in front of the crowd. At one glance, everyone's eyes widened.
Even without anyone explaining it, you can tell who this child is related to.
One look at Zhou Yao, the second look at Chen Youmin, the more you look, the more alike they look.
Even Zhou Yao, who was desperately trying to protect the few remaining clothes on her body, was stunned and let go.
Is this... the bastard she gave birth to?
Didn't he die a long time ago?
How did you get here?
Zhou Yao looked at Liang in panic and questioned her, but at this moment Liang also fell into the ice cellar and was frozen all over.
Lin Chuan actually said that this didn't look like Zhou Yao. How was she not similar? They were simply carved from the same mold.
No, to be exact, it's half a mold, the other half is Chen Youmin.
If it looked exactly like Zhou Yao, it would be fine. She could say she was from the Zhou family. But there was no evidence to prove she was Chen Youmin's, so she had nothing to do with what happened five years ago.
But now, this child was in front of everyone like irrefutable evidence, and there was no way to argue.
How could this happen? How could this child fall into Changning's hands?
"Five years! You've kept this bastard under my nose for five years! Marquis Yong'an, you're so bold as to deceive the emperor!"
Deceiving the emperor!
These four big words woke up the still shocked Marquis Yong'an.
He couldn't bear the accusation, let alone bear it, so he immediately retorted, "I don't know anything about this. This child...where did this child come from?"
The one who questioned was Liang.
Everyone's eyes fell on Liang, waiting for her explanation.
For a moment, Liang was confused and didn't know how to explain to make clear the difference between herself and Zhou Yao.
"Of course it came out of Zhou Yao's belly. It can't appear out of thin air." Su Rui, who had been silent all this time, said softly.
Facing the shocked eyes of the Marquis of Yong'an, Su Rui sneered, "Five years ago, I told you, Lord Marquis, that I had never had an affair with Chen Youmin, and I had never lost my bellyband on the bed in the guest room. It was you who persuaded me to plead guilty for the Marquis's mansion."
The events of the past few years were like a huge hammer, hitting the chest of Yong'an Hou, causing him to stagger.
Su Rui said this while crying five years ago, but he never listened to what she said at that time. He just wanted to send her away as soon as possible to cut off the impact of this matter on himself and the Yong'an Marquis Mansion. He even never investigated the matter in detail.
Now, this matter has become an even sharper sword.
If he had not tricked Su Rui into confessing her guilt, investigated the matter in detail, and cleared her name, then this bastard would not have been born, and Chang Ning would not have thrown him in front of her in such an occasion, trampling on his face and the face of the Yong'an Marquisate in public.
"You're saying that five years ago, it wasn't you who had an affair with Chen Youmin, but... her?" Su Ye pointed a trembling finger at Zhou Yao, who was completely stripped and curled up in his arms, and shook his head in disbelief. "That's impossible. Five years ago, she was only thirteen years old, only..."
"What? Thirteen years old can't do those things? Where did this kid come from?"
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