"I'm going to break her legs!"
Ye Zhengqing looked at the unconscious Ye Zhen and gritted his teeth.
Li Chenghai also hated her to death, but now was not the time. "If her leg is broken, people will suspect that she was murdered."
Instead of initiating a private meeting with Xiao Zuo.
She cannot even have any wounds on her body, except for signs of intimacy between men and women.
But he had witnessed Ye Zhengqing's pain firsthand, so he comforted her, "Don't worry, once her infidelity is confirmed, you'll have plenty of opportunities to deal with her."
Ye Zhengqing knew this was the truth, so he had no choice but to suppress his hatred and let the steward take Ye Zhen away through the back gate of the courtyard.
Xiao Zuo had been waiting impatiently in the room. When Ye Zhen was finally brought in, he was about to dismiss Butler Ye and begin his own plan.
Butler Ye frowned. Although the Ye family was in decline, Xiao Zuo was still acting like a young master and treating him like a servant. He was very displeased.
But thinking of the silver notes Li Chenghai had given her, she still gently told him that Li Chenghai had sent someone outside the mansion to fetch a doctor.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zuo nodded and hurriedly closed the door.
It was originally agreed that Steward Ye would lead the Ye family servants to discover the situation and promptly summon the Xiao family.
This way, while going to the Xiao family to call for someone, they could casually spread the news of Ye Zhen's secret meeting with Xiao Zuo.
The Xiao family, who had always coveted Ye Zhen, would not miss this opportunity and would certainly spread the news far and wide in a very short time.
But those are all just rumors, and naturally, they are not as effective as outsiders witnessing them firsthand.
Xiao Zuo had no objection.
Butler Ye was locked outside the door. He shook his head and planned to go back to report before going to check on Yin Yue, who had been left outside the courtyard.
"You wretch! You ungrateful thing! I don't mind that you're trash, yet you dare to look down on me and cause me to end up like this. Today, I'm going to teach you a lesson."
He had it all planned out: he wanted Ye Zhen to be unable to live and unable to die.
After he finished cursing, he reached out to pull at Ye Zhen's clothes.
But before his hand could even touch Ye Zhen, his wrist was suddenly grabbed, even through a handkerchief.
Ye Zhen, who was originally unconscious, now opened her eyes and looked at him with disdain and mockery.
"The Xiao family is quite capable, managing to release you from the Dali Temple. This princess wants to see who in the Dali Temple is breaking the law and colluding with the Xiao family."
Xiao Zuo was shocked and wanted to say, "You're not unconscious."
Before he could even utter a word, a wad of cloth was stuffed into his mouth, and then Ye Zhen knocked him unconscious with a single palm strike.
A bodyguard appeared and took Xiao Zuo from him.
“Princess, my master sent me to help you.”
He is Xie Tingzhou's man.
Before Ye Zhen arrived, he had Fu Guang inform Xie Tingzhou about the matter, but he didn't expect the person to arrive so quickly.
The guard added, "Li Chenghai's guards are held up by our men and won't be back for a while. The master has already made arrangements at the Dali Temple."
Ye Zhen nodded. "Search him."
Li Chenghai and Ye Zhengqing tricked her into coming to the Ye family and brought Xiao Zuo over, all to ruin her reputation.
Given the despicable nature of these people, they wouldn't have simply drugged her.
Sure enough, the guards found a packet of medicine powder on Xiao Zuo.
Ye Zhen's eyes narrowed, and he instructed, "Give this packet of medicine to Ye Zhengqing and Li Chenghai. Keep an eye on them in secret. Before I bring the people from Dali Temple here, do not let anyone disturb them. Oh, and inform Tong Yinyue as well."
Butler Ye harbored ill intentions. He made an excuse that Ye Zhengqing looked disheveled and did not want outsiders to see him, and ordered Yinyue to guard outside Ye Zhengqing's courtyard.
Knowing that Ye Zhengqing was up to something, she followed the steward's instructions and let Yinyue stay outside the courtyard.
Xing Ze was left at the gate to watch the carriages, both to lower the Ye family's guard and to keep an eye on them to prevent unrelated people from ruining her plans.
The guards withdrew as ordered, and Ye Zhen carried Xiao Zuo, who looked like a dead pig, out the door.
As Butler Ye was walking toward Ye Zhengqing's courtyard, he suddenly felt a darkness before his eyes, and was lifted up. He was tapped several times on the back, and his mouth was open but he couldn't make a sound.
Everything happens in the blink of an eye.
When he came to his senses and turned his eyes to the side, he saw Ye Zhen carrying him in one hand and Xiao Zuo in the other, flying out of the back door of the Ye family using his light-footed skills.
The Ye family had only a handful of servants to begin with, and none of them noticed their departure.
It’s over!
This was Butler Ye's first reaction.
Ye Zhen didn't have any Chinese medicine at all; their plan failed.
The master and Lord Li were completely unaware of this.
He didn't think it was a good thing that Ye Zhen took them away.
Sure enough, he and Xiao Zuo were thrown heavily by Ye Zhen at the entrance of Dali Temple.
Ye Zhen said to the official at the gate, "This county magistrate is reporting to the authorities, accusing Ye Zhengqing of murdering his father. The steward of the Ye family is a witness."
"I also demand an explanation from the Dali Temple: why are you slandering me? Xiao Zuo, who should be in prison, is at the Ye family's house. Who released the Dali Temple prisoner?"
The release of prisoners secretly was no small matter, and the two officers dared not delay and hurriedly went in to report it.
When Xie Tingzhou concurrently served as the Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, he won over his superior, and the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review was put to use by the Crown Prince.
After he returned to the Eastern Palace, he could no longer hold the same position, so he promoted his own people. Now, the two top leaders of the Dali Temple are both from the Eastern Palace.
The Crown Prince had just issued another order, instructing them to cooperate with Ye Zhen, so the two dared not slack off.
The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review personally inquired about Ye Zhen's complaint, and after reviewing the medical records, pointed at Steward Ye and said, "Investigate."
The Ye family was not a prominent family, and Steward Ye was just an ordinary old man. He could not withstand the torture of the Dali Temple. He confessed in no time and told about hearing Ye Zhengqing admit to murdering Lord Ye.
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