I fought back after reselling my engagement

At this moment, a column of light cavalry rushed out of the palace. A palace eunuch holding a whisk in his hand was heading towards Zhen's mansion, accompanied by a team of guards and two eunuchs.

The imperial edict was announced in the palace. Zhen Yuan straightened his official robes. He was a sixth-rank official and had no qualifications to participate in the court. Only officials of the fifth rank and above could enter the grand court. At this moment, he heard the voice of "announcement of the imperial edict" in the front yard, and he was very nervous. He took his only son Zhen Bao to the front yard's Liyi Hall and bowed: "Your subordinate Zhen Yuan accepts the imperial edict!"

The old eunuch glanced at the middle-aged official in front of him. He looked good. "The emperor ordered: Zhen Su, the daughter of the Zhen family, does good deeds without seeking fame or money. She has saved people from danger and helped countless people. She is kind-hearted and is a rare woman in the world. Zhen Su is ordered to come to the palace to report."

Zhen Bao was stunned for a moment. What was this? Doing good deeds without seeking fame or gain, and then "saving people from danger and helping countless people", is this still a human being? Not a Buddhist? And then there was "a wonderful woman in the world", was this the emperor praising Zhen Su?

Zhen Yuan immediately said, "Quick, call the second young lady!"

The housekeeper's wife took the order and immediately led the maid to Tingyu Pavilion.

It was already daybreak, but the gate of Tingyu Pavilion was still closed. She was suspicious, "Second Miss, the palace has issued an order, asking you to come to the palace to report."

No one answered!

The housekeeper's woman repeated it again.

Still no one answered.

The maid behind him had a bad feeling, so she walked forward and pushed the door, but it wouldn't open after the first push. She pushed again and again, but it still wouldn't open.

"Second girl!"

No one answered.

"Aunt Meng!"

"Chunyan!"

"Xiaoying!"

"Xiao Fen!"

From the wet nurse in charge to the eldest maid, and finally even the two maids' names were called, but still no one responded.

The housekeeper's wife became more and more unhappy. She raised her hand. The two maids pushed the door but failed. Another nimble maid stepped on the fat maid's shoulders and climbed up the wall, climbed over the wall, opened the gate, and three people came in.

There was no one in the housekeeper's room, and no one in the maid's room either. The housekeeper's woman ran to the attic, but there was no one there. There was only a letter on the desk in the attic, with "From my father himself" written on it.

When the housekeeper's wife came down, the two maids said, "It's bad. Aunt Meng and Chunyan are not here. There are only two little girls. The two little girls seem to have been poisoned by Chinese medicine and are still unconscious."

The housekeeper stamped her feet and said, "Just keep an eye on it. I'll go to the front yard to report."

The eunuch was waiting when he saw the chief steward of the Zhen residence coming over in a panic.

Zhen Yuan asked, "What happened?"

The chief steward was afraid of the eunuchs.

Zhen Yuan shouted: "Speak——"

"Master, the second young lady is missing. We only found a letter she left in the attic. Aunt Meng and Chunyan are not here, and the two little girls in her yard are unconscious."

The eunuch’s first reaction: The soft-hearted Zhen Er ran away from home?

Zhen Yuan's face turned pale as he took the letter from the butler and opened the envelope. Zhen Bao stood cautiously beside Zhen Yuan:

Father:

I am glad to see you! Please forgive Su Niang for being unfilial. Just assume that Su Niang died with her mother when she was five years old. Last night, my father learned about the conspiracy of my stepmother and elder sister, but he indulged them again and again without punishing them. Su Niang really dared not stay in Zhen's house any longer, fearing that her life would be in danger one day. Flowers with too many leaves should be cut off, and people with too much should leave. Please forgive Su Niang for leaving without saying goodbye.

Father, I have released Aunt Meng and Chunyan's indentures. They are already citizens. Please do not embarrass them. I drugged the two little girls in my courtyard and they were unconscious. They did not know that I left home. I hope they will be forgiven.

——The unfilial daughter Zhen Su left a message.

Was she in the ancestral hall last night? Did she hear all the conversations between him and Zhen Zhen, or was it Zhen Su who beat him up by mistake in the study? No, Zhen Su definitely didn't beat him up, because that person was obviously tall and definitely not Zhen Su. But Zhen Su must have known what happened in the ancestral hall last night, and she also knew that her mother Su was angered to death by them because he indulged Yu Shi.

It is said that he was angry to death, but he also developed a knot in his heart and died in depression.

Zhen Su was disappointed in him and felt that Yu wanted to kill her. She admitted that she was a superfluous person in the family. "Flowers with extra leaves should be cut, and people with extra leaves should be left behind." Therefore, she decisively ran away from home without leaving any room for others.

The eunuch looked at the pale faces of Zhen Yuan and his son, and his heart sank. "Master Zhen, what's the matter?"

Zhen Bao snatched the letter and dared not let the eunuchs know the contents of the letter.

The eunuch had no intention of reading other people's letters, but this was a letter from a wonderful woman who was valued by the emperor and the empress. This time he really had to take a look. "Hmph!" he exclaimed in annoyance and stretched out his hand, "Give it to me!"

Why did Zhen Bao want to seize the letter? Could it be that his superiors had said something important?

Zhen Bao refused to give it to him, and a young eunuch came over, took the letter from him, and presented it to the eunuch with both hands. The eunuch looked at the beautiful running script that was so beautiful that many men could not match it. This good official script was really rare, and it did have some of the style of old master Su Jingzhai. The handwriting was beautiful, but the content on it showed how desperate and helpless Zhen Su was.

Her stepmother wanted to kill her, but she thought she was superfluous in the Zhen family, so she asked to leave, only to seek harmony with her family. There were traces of tears on the letter, which showed how sad and desperate this "softie" was before she ran away from home.

He was ordered to enter the palace to pick up someone who had run away from home. The eunuch looked unhappy and asked, "Master Zhen, do you know where Miss Zhen Er has gone?"

Zhen Yuan shook his head blankly.

Zhen Bao clasped his fists and bowed, "Second sister must not have gone far. I will order my servants to search for her in the capital."

The eunuch shook his head sadly, "I took the letter away. The emperor and empress in the palace are still waiting for a reply. What a pity..."

Yesterday, Rong Yin from Le Dahou Mansion took a small notebook and told the emperor and the empress about the good deeds done by the second daughter of the Zhen family in the past few years. She was kind-hearted but courageous. She could steal people from a den of thieves, secretly help the Dali Temple solve a major case of beggars, and help the Ministry of Justice solve a murder case that had been silent for 16 years. The emperor and the second prince were very curious about her.

Rong Yin didn't do anything big. He just asked his two older maids who were good at martial arts to help clean up the mess behind the scenes to prevent the second Miss Zhen from revealing her true identity. Even here, she was praised by the Emperor and the Empress, who said that the two girls were extraordinary women.

With the vision of the Grand Eunuch over the years, the Emperor has made up his mind to reward Zhen Su and Rong Yin generously. After all, there are not many people in the world who can be like Zhen Su, who does good deeds without leaving a name and does not seek profit. Such people are too rare. If everyone in the world is like this, how wonderful the world would be.

The chief eunuch was very disappointed.

Zhen Yuan thought about what Zhen Su told him yesterday. She said that she had helped many people in the past few years, and now it seems that the emperor in the palace also knows about it. "Excuse me, eunuch, how did the emperor know about my daughter?"

"Yesterday, Miss Rong from Le Dahou Mansion, no, the emperor has issued an edict to confer the title of Princess of Chiayi County, commending her for her benevolent and righteous behavior, and rewarding the Dafeng County in the northwest as the Princess of Chiayi County's Mu Yi. Today, the emperor announced that the second Miss Zhen would enter the palace, and it was originally intended to reward her generously!"

The chief eunuch never thought that the second Miss Zhen would leave home decisively after her father knew that her stepmother wanted to kill her, and perhaps she also knew that if her affair was exposed, the royal family would reward her handsomely.

Zhen Yuan's expression changed again and again. He raised his hand, and the butler presented a plate of silver ingots worth 100 taels. He bowed and said, "Please give me some advice, eunuch."

The eunuch sighed, "Master Zhen, it is a taboo to have unrest in the harem. Miss Zhen is the only legitimate child left by your first wife!"

He took the hundred taels of silver ingots and shouted, "Return to the palace and report!"