"No, Father-in-law, I was tricked and ended up buying that fake wine by mistake." Xu Heming also felt that he had no way to explain himself.
I feel like nothing I say has any credibility.
“I say, Prince An, you always look so imposing and powerful, you don’t seem like someone without a brain. You would be fooled?” Li Tianyou didn’t believe Xu Heming’s lame reason.
Xu Heming turned his face away in shame; even a horse can stumble sometimes.
He just accidentally got tricked, but the blame fell on his future father-in-law.
Thinking of this, Xu Heming wondered what he could do to appease his father-in-law's anger.
"Are you short of money?" Li Tianyou asked, staring directly at Xu Heming.
However, even after asking this question, Li Tianyou himself couldn't believe that the dignified Prince An would be short of money.
This is truly the most ridiculous joke in the world.
“If you really need money, you can tell me! There’s no need to take my life!” Thinking of this, Li Tianyou looked at Xu Heming with a constipated expression and said.
He wasn't unwilling to give his future son-in-law some money.
“Father-in-law, I really don’t lack money. I bought that wine for three thousand taels of silver. I didn’t know there was something wrong with it. If I had known, I definitely wouldn’t have given it to you!” Xu Heming explained helplessly.
He didn't really want to talk about something so embarrassing, but if he didn't, he was afraid his father-in-law would think he was too poor and wouldn't want to marry his daughter to him.
"Father-in-law, this is my fault. You may punish me as you see fit!" Xu Heming felt that it was better for Li Tianyou to vent his anger. After all, if Li Zhiwei found out about this, she might be too angry to marry him.
"What happened?"
When the old princess heard from her servants that Master Li had arrived, she was very anxious, wondering what had happened that made the prince kneel down to receive punishment.
Upon seeing Xu Heming kneeling before Li Tianyou from afar, Li Tianyou was immediately displeased.
Her son is the Prince of An, how could a mere third-rank official like her accept his son kneeling before her?
But he had an angry look on his face!
No one would be happy about that!
Besides, his daughter hasn't even married her son yet, so why should her son kneel before him?
Thinking of this, the old princess looked at Li Tianyou with an unfriendly tone and asked, "Lord Li, what mistake has my son made that you have humiliated him like this?"
Li Tianyou, who was already unhappy, didn't respond well to the old princess's unfriendly words. He replied sarcastically, "Old princess, your good son went out of his way to buy me a bottle of fake wine at a high price, which almost cost me my life. Now that the truth has come out, can't I even ask for justice?"
"What?" Even the old princess, who was originally dissatisfied with Li Tianyou's actions, now looked at her son with some anger after hearing the reason, and asked, "Is what your future father-in-law said true?"
"Yes!" Xu Heming replied somewhat ashamed.
"You worthless wretch!" Upon hearing this, the old princess's previous arrogance vanished completely!
He picked up his cane and started hitting Xu Heming!
"Is this how your father and I raised you? You actually want to kill your future father-in-law!" The old princess angrily lashed out at Xu Heming!
Xu Heming didn't dare to dodge. He was in the wrong, and besides, the one beating him was his own mother.
Although Li Tianyou was enjoying the spectacle, he still pretended to advise the old princess, "Old princess, forget it. It was just my craving. If I don't drink that wine, then nothing will happen!"
Upon hearing this, the old princess felt even worse. She picked up her cane and was about to strike Xu Heming again.
Zheng Qiaoshu quickly grabbed the old princess's hand and obediently advised, "Aunt, let it go. My cousin certainly didn't do it on purpose. Besides, Lord Li is fine, so why should we keep dwelling on this?"
As Zheng Qiaoshu spoke, she glanced at Li Tianyou, as if she felt that he shouldn't have kept bringing it up.
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