Chapter 114

After receiving her father’s promise, Rong Xiangmian was relieved and led her parents to see Rong Xiangzhi.

Rong Xiangzhi didn’t have the slightest idea of what was going on in the outside world, and as soon as she saw her mother, she jumped into her arms and begged for help: ”Mother save me! Xiangmian wants to harm me! She bribed Lai Fu to frame me! Mother and father must decide for me!”

Hearing these words, Rong Xiangmian only felt ridiculous: “I framed you? Why would I frame you? The Empress Dowager and His Majesty are here, and I set fire to my own garden just to frame you, you think too highly of yourself!”

When Rong Xiangzhi was about to argue, the Duke of England loudly scolded his third daughter, “Shut up! It’s all because of my parents’ indulgence that you’ve become so ignorant of the heavens and the earth. Today you dared to set fire to your sister’s garden, tomorrow you’ll be killing people in the Duke’s residence!”

An angry rebuke to Rong Xiangzhi unspoken words are roared back.

Rong Xiangshi signaled his sister-in-law, “Bring Laifu here.” Gu brought the person in and left very consciously.

Once Lai Fu saw the British Duke and his wife, he was so scared that he was trembling, and he explained it all in his head, “The day before yesterday, the third young lady’s side of the Yiyun took some silver to the lackey, and asked the lackey to come to help in Jing Yi Yuan to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak into the kitchen, to put a fire, and disguise it as a stove fire……. Also said that I wasn’t in the kitchen as an officer, and that across the board, I would be punished. I can’t be punished.”

“This is only the one-sided words of the lackey.” Liu’s still not dead, “can’t be only confession to solve the case, right? And that peach juice, how can you say it was put there by Xiangzhi?”

Rong Xiangshi glanced at Laifu, “You are in charge of guarding the water well, did any of the maidservants beside the third girl approach the water well today? Did she talk to you there?”

Lai Fu was stunned, panicked: “Today and Lu sister did come, said looking for me something, pulled me to a remote place to talk.”

As expected, Xiang Xiang looked at Yi Yun, “You guys really have a clear division of labor, one of you is distracting people, and the other is putting peach juice into the tea. Yiyun, whether you want to live or not, it’s up to you!”

She wanted to force Yiyun to spit with her authority, but she didn’t expect Xiao Nan to throw a small bottle containing peach juice directly into the Duke of State’s arms, “The royal guards saw Miss Yiyun secretly throw it in the lake with their own eyes. The peach juice was emptied, but the cork smelled like peach juice. How dare you use such means to poison the crown princess, tired of living!”

When the Duke and Duchess of England saw this, they knew that this was true. Somewhat surprised, Xiangmian glanced at Xiao Nan, not realizing that they were actually on guard.

Yiyun was trembling, but she knew that if she confessed, madam would not let her go, she just knelt down and cried.

Lai Fu was afraid that he had become a scapegoat, grabbed the lady’s shoes, and begged bitterly: “I don’t dare to lie. I am the guardian of the well, I can’t escape the blame for what happened, how could I put poison in it? This peach juice thing, really do not know ah!

And that day Yiyun sister gave me silver when it was dark, my father waited for me at the east gate, but also made the silver to the guards of the door, ma’am, once you ask, you will know. The slave’s parents followed you for more than thirty years, the slave is you look at the birth, the name is also you take, the slave life is loyal to the lady, loyal to the State Duke House, do not dare to lie ah!”

At these words, the Duke of State grunted. The lackeys in the mansion, each with their own factions, the lady’s lackey did this kind of thing, he could not help but take his anger out on her.

Lai Fu was determined to show his loyalty, hoping that madam would step in to save him, who knows that the more loyal he is the more embarrassed madam is.

Liu’s face can’t hang on, so angry that she lowered herself to throw him a solid mouth, scolding: “Since you are loyal, Yi Yun told you this treacherous thing, you should come to report me! How can you see money in your eyes and act at her behest!”

“Third Miss is your daughter, Yiyun is Third Miss’s accompanying maid, the slave only thinks …… that this is also your intention, ma’am ……”

“Put your mother’s fart!” Not waiting for Lai Fu to finish, Liu stomped over him, this time making the Rong family’s father and daughter were taken aback. Liu’s behavior outside has always been decent, and there has never been a time when she has lost her temper like this.

“Lady spare your life, slave momentary lard blinded the heart, not seen so much silver made a mistake …… master lady Ming Ming Ming, slave just into the kitchen, was Yu Wangfu’s in-laws drove out of the house, and not long after that was tied up by the great lady’s mother. The fire on the mountain really has nothing to do with the slave. I beg the lord and lady to spare the slave’s life.”

Saying this, he grabbed the ground with his head. The details that Laifu said made sense, and Yi Yun couldn’t deny it.

Liu was so angry that she shook her two ears. Yi Yun had already cried bitterly and said, “It was all the slave girl’s idea! It’s the slave girl who can’t stand the fourth girl, she became the princess, neglected madam, difficult for our young lady, the slave girl is really bent on taking the heat for the girl, the girl and madam as well, do not know ah!

I’m sure you know that, although she was brought up in a very delicate way, she has never done anything out of place or disgraced the Duke’s family. You must not accuse the girl!”

She cried with a genuine look on her face, and Rong Xiangzhi immediately scolded her, “You fool! Isn’t this setting me up for injustice?”

Rong Xiangzhi got a headache just watching them put on a show and asked with a smile, “Sister’s slave girl doesn’t know how much the monthly payment is, but she actually came up with a hundred taels of silver to buy off Laifu all of a sudden? Moreover, the whole ingot of silver, the bottom of most engraved with the casting marks of the various official silver, different batches of marks, although the same characters, but the font is always a slight difference. As long as this silver is still in the Lai Fu their home, father sent someone to search out, and the silver in the hands of the three sisters compared to compare is not the same batch, naturally can be divided to prove white!”

Hearing her say this, the master and servant duo immediately felt weak. They have never thought about this issue, the sudden loophole, let them momentarily panicked, this look at the evidence will be missed.

Rong Xiangsheng see also not sure, just casually grabbed a mistake, at this moment swindled out of them, will no longer give them the opportunity to continue to mess around.

She said with a straight face: ”How is the truth of this matter, father and mother should have an idea. Lai Fu was discovered by my people, the kitchen was an attempted arson, but the mountain fire is still being pursued, now who dares to guarantee that it has nothing to do with third sister? If we send it to the Feilinwei, we don’t know how far it will go. I think, tomorrow when father and mother and the eldest princess house negotiated, I will send sister home again, let sister in the ancestral hall to stay in good thinking, I don’t want to see her because of jealousy and hate to do anything unfavorable to the Yu Wang House again.”

The Duke and Duchess of England both understood that Rong Xiangshi was as good as his word, and at this moment, they were both speechless and could only nod their heads in agreement.

When Rong Xiangzhi heard that her parents had already discussed how to deal with Rong Xiangshi, she was so angry that she cried out, “My parents only recognize Wangfei as their daughter, don’t they want me? Where in heaven are you such snobbish parents?”

Liu no longer tolerate, but also know that can not say Rong Sheng and Rong Xiang see father and daughter, and this matter in the end she can not get out of it, in case it is a big deal, so I had to compromise for the time being. I thought that anyway, Xiangzhi in the ancestral hall at home, Xiangmei can not always watch, she can always take care of their own children.

Seeing that the discussion is complete, Rong Xiangmian ordered someone to open the door, but saw King Yu standing outside.

Liu was shocked, afraid that he would hear what she just said. Rong’s family’s business, they want to settle the matter privately, but King Yu may not be willing to do so. Immediately, she smiled awkwardly and said, “Auntie, we are about to go back.”

Outside, Zhou Xian Yang had already listened to Xiao Bei’s rough relay of the day’s events, and listened to their family’s conversation to roughly understand what was going on.

Since Wangfei had made a decision, Zhou Xianyang didn’t say anything more, “Tough luck father and mother-in-law, I’ll come back to thank you some other time.”

Seeing that he did not ask more questions and intended to help conceal it, the British Duke and his wife were relieved and prepared to leave, but Rong Xiangzhi questioned loudly from inside the room, “Your Highness, are you just going to let Rong Xiangshi lynch me?”

Zhou Xian Yang said expressionlessly, “You don’t want to lynch me? Then how about we meet the officials?”

“No, no, no! We can’t meet with the officials.” The Duke of England’s wife rushed in and covered Xiangqi’s mouth, gently leaned into her ear and said, “Be quiet, come home, I can take care of you.”

“Who wants you to take care of it!” Rong Xiangzhi pushed her mother away and said angrily, “When His Majesty pointed me out to the Fourth Highness, it was mother who said that Yangzhou was remote, and that she couldn’t bear to part with her flesh and bones, so she asked father to help me reject the marriage! If it wasn’t for you being nosy, do I need to look at the face of Xiangmai in everything nowadays?”

Steeply accused by her daughter, Liu was at a loss: “Xiangshi, didn’t mother do it all for your own good? How could I have known what would happen later? Besides, the marriage in the Eldest Princess’ Mansion was something you were satisfied with from the start.”

Ignoring her, Rong Xiangzhi quickly walked to Zhou Xianyang and burst into tears, “If it wasn’t at the City God Temple, where His Highness courted me and gave me the Deng Yun brocade given by the Empress, how could I have misunderstood His Highness’ intentions? Who knew that Your Highness would turn around and sell out to His Majesty and the Eldest Princess, preferring to have this horse-taming schoolgirl’s lowly seed as your full consort, rather than disregarding my parents’ offer. If it wasn’t for your inconsistency, how could my parents have gone to the palace to change their marriage, and how could the Eldest Princess have changed her attitude towards me and made things difficult for me at every turn! My days, all ruined by you ……”

Rong Xiangzhi cried sadly, resentment: “You now also want to help the evil, want to put me under house arrest …… I tell you, I just hate, I so hate you! If I had known this, I shouldn’t have recognized you in the first place ……”

This is the first time that this past event has been told. Zhou Xian Yang really regretted, at first should not words and behavior inappropriate, should not be so reckless to find her, promised that promise, so that caused the situation in front of the eyes.

“I acted improperly in this matter, you hate me, why don’t you come and deal with me? The crown princess doesn’t owe you anything, you repeatedly hurt her, not only to make her lose face, but also to jeopardize her life, could it be that you think you can do whatever you want just because of those few words?”

“She is accustomed to pretending to be pitiful and playing the role of a weakling, relying on her mother’s beauty to coax men into a frenzy just like her mother! You are the same, just now she caused me to fall into the water, do you not care?”

Xiao Nan snickered behind her, “The one who caused you to fall into the water was me!”

Everyone looked at Xiao Nan in surprise as she fiddled with her whip with a bright face, “You’ve used so many tricks to come to the Jing Yi Garden, and our master has long instructed all of us to be on the lookout for you. From the moment you set foot in Jing Yi Yuan today, you, your maids, and your servants have all been watched with a good eye.

When you failed to add peach juice to the fruit drink and ordered the arson, you tried to push the princess into the water while everyone was watching the opera and not paying attention. In desperation, I could only pop you in the popliteal fossa with a stone on the shore and let you fall. If it wasn’t for the fact that you were kind to our master, your corpse would have sunk to the bottom of the lake by now!”

Xiangmian looked blankly at Xiao Nan and then at Zhou Xian Yang, before realizing why Zhen Ru had suddenly interrupted her when she had received the fruit tea today, how Li Qing’s family had so coincidentally grabbed Lai Fu, and how the guards had picked up the glass bottle containing the peach juice.

As it turns out, Zhou Xian Yang had already given orders in the Yulong Mansion the other day for everyone to be wary of Rong Xiang Zhi.

Rong Xiangzhi only felt cold all over and looked at Zhou Xianyang in dismay, “You’re counting on me?!”