As soon as Shu Zhenmeng could speak, she immediately yelled at Mrs. Ke.
"Mother, save me! These people want to send me to the palace to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to replace Shu Jiaying's identity. In fact, General Zhuang's daughter is Shu Jiaying... Ugh!"
Zhuang Tianming ran out of the house in time and stuffed Shu Zhenmeng's mouth with a cloth again.
But Mrs. Ke had heard everything, and having seen Zhuang Tianming treat his daughter like that with her own eyes, she immediately used her body to block Shu Zhenmeng.
Ke asked, "General Zhuang, how could you do this to my daughter? You're not really going to send her to the palace and then kill her, as she said?"
Zhuang Tianming quickly denied it.
"How could it be? I sent my daughter to the palace to marry the Emperor. It was already decided long ago. Who would have thought that when the wedding date arrived, Zhen Meng would want to regret it.
Sister-in-law...Zhen Meng is going to marry the Emperor. If she really gets angry and doesn't want to get married, and the Emperor finds out, not only will everyone in our family be killed, but I think my brother and sister-in-law will be implicated as well!"
Hearing Zhuang Tianming's serious words, Mrs. Ke began to feel confused again. She asked doubtfully, "Are you serious? If you have nothing to hide, then why did my old man and I knock at your door for a long time, but no one came to open it for us?"
Zhuang Tianming explained immediately.
"Sister-in-law, I really didn't mean to turn you away. God knows, these past two days, we were worried about any complications, so our whole family was very careful to go through the back door. There was no guard watching the front door, so naturally, I didn't know anyone had come to our house."
These words sounded reasonable, but also seemed unreasonable. Mrs. Ke couldn't tell the truth from the false and immediately lost her composure. She looked at Old Man Shu.
"Old man, tell me!"
"say what?"
"What should we do now?"
Old Man Shu was even more confused than Mrs. Ke, and he threw the question to Shu Jiaying again.
"You say it!"
"I?"
Shu Jiaying naturally knew that Shu Zhenmeng would be sent to the palace to offer sacrifices to the river god, and this was a death order from the emperor that no one could change. She didn't know what to say.
Turning to face Old Man Shu and Madam Ke, Shu Jiaying for the first time spoke against her conscience, "Dad... Madam Ke, General Zhuang is right. In fact, he sent Zhenmeng to the palace because he... really wanted Zhenmeng to... marry the emperor..."
At the end of the story, Shu Jiaying lowered her head guiltily, but Old Man Shu and Mrs. Ke were overjoyed. This time they didn't blame Zhuang Tianming.
Mrs. Ke said, "General Zhuang, although Zhen Meng's temper is a bit willful, once she arrives at the palace and knows you're doing this for her own good, she'll be grateful to you. It doesn't matter. This girl refused to cooperate with you, and you were right to tie her up. Woo woo woo... Zhen Meng, you're about to become a concubine. You can't act like you did at home, understand?"
"Mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm..."
(You have been deceived. Everything Zhuang Tianming told you was a lie. He wanted me to die.)
Zhuang Zhenmeng really wanted to tell the truth, but she could only make mumbling sounds. Seeing that her parents had been persuaded by Zhuang Tianming, she closed her eyes and shed tears of despair.
Witnessed by Old Man Shu and Mrs. Ke, Zhuang Zhenmeng was sent on a carriage to the palace.
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