Ye Wantang panicked for only a moment before regaining her composure.
Shen Bishui has relied on her all these years to be able to contend with the mistress and dare not betray her.
The maid who led Deputy General Luo to the guest room had already been dismissed.
Although the failure of the plan was frustrating, the good thing was that she was able to escape unscathed and will have another chance in the future.
But what did Ye Zhen mean by looking at her? Did he guess that all of this was part of her scheme?
Does Ye Zhen have such a brain?
Was she hiding her true abilities before?
Ye Wantang narrowed her eyes dangerously, only to see Ye Zhen look past her and behind her, "Vice President Luo is here."
Deputy General Luo was binding a woman.
Ye Wantang's pupils dilated in shock. How could her maidservant have been captured and brought back...?
Could it be that Deputy General Luo didn't have the medicine? No, Wu's maid saw him unconscious with her own eyes, and Shen Bishui lay down beside him before reporting back.
What exactly happened here?
"My lord."
Deputy General Luo stepped forward and saluted.
"Husband, are you alright?"
Mrs. Luo quickly examined him from head to toe.
Deputy General Luo waved his hand, "It's alright, but there was a close call just now."
Marquis Zhongyong asked, "What exactly happened? And who were these people who were kidnapped?"
Seeing this, he understood some things.
Vice General Luo was indeed tricked. Shen Bishui had confirmed that the person in bed was Vice General Luo before climbing into the bed, and only after the incident did she dare to disregard her innocence and insist on his identity.
As for Granny Cui, who was helping to organize the banquet, she knew best that the east side guest courtyard was for male guests, so it was impossible for her to go to the wrong place.
They certainly wouldn't be fast asleep during such a noisy time.
She deliberately replaced Deputy General Luo, letting Shen Bishui and the others finish their act.
But he was still unclear about the real actor, and who had seen through the enemy's plot and resolved it in time. So he asked his deputy.
But someone spoke up before Deputy General Luo could.
"Why did General Luo arrest the maid from my general's residence?"
Ye Wantang looked puzzled. She then turned to her maid, "Didn't I tell you to go back to the manor to see Shegu ahead of time? What happened?"
The capture of the maid caught her completely off guard, and she could only try to clear herself of any wrongdoing.
Wu Bi's eyes trembled.
She understood that Ye Wantang was going to abandon her and protect himself.
Deputy General Luo looked furious. "This woman lied to me, saying that my Lan Qiao was looking for me urgently, but she burned a sleeping potion in the room. Luckily, I noticed it in time. I didn't expect her to be skilled in martial arts. I chased her all the way to the door before catching her."
In reality, he was drugged, but when he woke up, he was in another room. It was Ye Zhen's maid, Wanxing, who woke him up.
But before he could find out the specifics, Wanxing reminded him to go and arrest the person.
This maid was trapped in the Marquis's mansion by Xing Ze, which allowed him to catch her in time.
He questioned Ye Wantang, "Since you are from the General's Mansion, I, Luo, would like to ask Miss Ye, I have no grudge against you, so why would your people harm me?"
"As you said, the General's Mansion has no reason to do this. Is there some misunderstanding?"
Ye Wantang's hand, hidden beneath her sleeve, was tightly gripping a handkerchief, her face blank with confusion.
Deputy General Luo snorted, "Being schemed against by a woman is not something to be proud of for me, and I have no reason to fabricate such a story."
"I understand now. It was Ye Zhen who instructed you, wasn't it?"
Before Ye Wantang could speak, Luo Lanqiao found an excuse for her.
She leaned closer to the maid and shifted the blame to Ye Zhen, saying, "Ye Zhen wanted to ruin my parents' marriage, so he had you drug my father so that Chen Bishui could take advantage of the situation."
My father was alert and prevented you from succeeding. Coincidentally, the old nanny was tired and rested in this room. Shen Bishui mistook the old nanny for my father…”
She considered herself very clever and managed to sort things out.
Madam Luo also noticed something was wrong with her daughter at this time; she seemed to be particularly targeting Ye Zhen.
But now that things have come to this point, she realizes that things are not as she had previously thought.
Therefore, he stopped his daughter from continuing.
Wang Shi did not want the world to suspect Ye Wantang, but followed Luo Lanqiao's words and accused Ye Zhen, "How could you use the people of the General's Mansion to do such a despicable thing? You are ruining your aunt's reputation. You should apologize to General Luo at the moment."
She then looked at the maids and said, "And you, it's a waste that Shegu treats you maids like the apple of her eye. Even if Wan Tang wanted to order you around, you might not be able to do it."
Now that she's just collapsed, you're listening to Ye Zhen? Just how much did she give you in return?
These words clearly tell everyone that Wu Bi is She Gu's person. Although she is from the General's Mansion, she does not necessarily represent Ye Wantang, but has been bought off by Ye Zhen.
Wang's actions were exactly what Ye Zhen had expected, and they gave him the perfect opportunity to reveal the truth.
"My daughter has been married into the Marquis's mansion for three years and has never returned to the General's mansion. When she returned home for her wedding, her mother sent someone to tell her that since she and her father were staying at the General's mansion, it was not good to trouble Wan Tang too much, so she did not need to return home."
After her husband died, the daughter wanted to go back to see her parents and get some comfort from them, but her mother refused, saying that her daughter was a widow and should not go out.
"We haven't been in contact for three years. How could my daughter have had the opportunity to bribe anyone in the General's Mansion?"
Wang's face was burning.
Back then, Xie Yunzhou refused to accompany Ye Zhen on his homecoming. The Lady of the Marquis did not want the Marquis's reputation to be tarnished, so she asked Xie Yunzhou to refuse Ye Zhen on her behalf.
To outsiders, they claimed that Ye Zhen resented her parents for raising her outside the home and refused to return to her parents' home.
Many of the people who attended the banquet today had heard her story before, but they never expected Ye Zhen to expose it in public.
She was furious. "Didn't you go back to the General's Mansion a few days ago?"
"Upon learning of her mother's health problems, the daughter rushed over in a panic, but she couldn't even get through the gates of the General's Mansion. How could she possibly have the power to command the people in the General's Mansion?"
Ye Zhen said with a self-deprecating smile, "My mother thinks too highly of me now."
Chen Qing accompanied me the entire time that day; he knows best whether I bribed him or not.
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