I almost got scammed by him.
"If Lord Cao hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have known that my daughter had already married off without my consent. Lord Cao, may I ask who my daughter has married?" Li Tianyou thought to himself that he had actually been considering having Li Zhiwei marry someone else.
However, with the engagement already in place, he wouldn't do something to ruin his future.
I don't know where this Imperial Censor Cao heard the rumors from. He's so easily swayed by gossip, I wonder how he even became an Imperial Censor.
Or perhaps he has nothing left to impeach, so he brings up this trivial matter of his own in court?
"Hmph, Lord Li, stop spouting nonsense. Your daughter's unauthorized marriage in Li'an County is a crime of deceiving the emperor. Someone even saw with their own eyes that your daughter was behaving intimately with a man in Li'an County, with a child of about five years old by her side. That child was calling your daughter 'Mother'!" Imperial Censor Cao said with a smug look on his face.
Xu Heming, who was behaving intimately with Li Zhiwei in Li'an County, was completely baffled.
When did he get married?
The five-year-old child who still calls Li Zhiwei "mother" is none other than his brat.
"Minister Li, what do you have to say about this?" Zhu Jingchen looked at Li Tianyou, then at Xu Heming, whose face was somewhat dark.
A bold thought crossed my mind: had Xu Heming been cuckolded?
"Lord Cao, it's nothing, just need to refresh your mind!" Xu Heming couldn't help but scold in a low voice.
“Your Highness, this Vice Minister Li is really slapping you in the face. If his daughter doesn’t want to marry you, she should just say so. Instead, she secretly ran back to Li’an County to get married to someone else.” Imperial Censor Cao looked at Xu Heming and said with a look of indignation on Xu Heming’s behalf.
"Lord Cao, do you have any evidence to support your claim?" Xu Heming asked in a cold voice.
The Imperial Censor Cao was puzzled. Why did he feel that Prince An seemed rather unhappy?
You have to understand, I'm helping him.
Otherwise, what if Prince An marries Li Zhiwei only to find out that she has already married and had children? That would be such a loss.
Shouldn't Prince An thank him?
Or did Prince An feel that his public pronouncement made him lose face?
Thinking of this, Imperial Censor Cao could only look at Xu Heming apologetically. He hadn't considered this matter before.
However, even if he knew, he would still expose it, after all, it was his duty.
Thinking of this, Imperial Censor Cao straightened his back, waiting for the Emperor to praise him for handling the matter beautifully.
Zhu Jingchen simply looked at them without saying a word.
If this were true, he felt that Xu Heming wouldn't be so calm without Censor Cao impeaching him.
"I have witnesses," said Imperial Censor Cao with a smug look on his face.
"Your Majesty, I request to see the witness," Li Tianyou pleaded with Zhu Jingchen.
"Minister Cao, where are your witnesses?" Zhu Jingchen also wanted to know who the person spreading the rumors was.
"Your Majesty, I have already instructed him to wait outside the palace," said Imperial Censor Cao with a smug look on his face.
He had long been prepared to ruin Li Tianyou's reputation today.
The news that Li Zhiwei had returned to Lijia County to get married reached the ears of the old princess, who was already very weak due to poisoning.
Upon hearing this news, I was extremely angry.
"Summon the Prince to see me!" the old princess said angrily.
Their royal family kindly saved Li Zhiwei, but unexpectedly, she repaid kindness with enmity.
She actually returned to Lijia County to marry someone else?
What's wrong with her son? Is he not good enough for her?
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