After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

I hate the Gui family so much, just as Gui Lanting hates me. I want to beat me to death. If I had the ability, I would also want to beat her to death. Unfortunately, I don’t, so I can only say bad things about them behind their backs.

Yi Ping, however, understood everything and said, "Oh," "No wonder."

Jin Ping was afraid that we would talk nonsense and cause trouble, so he pushed us to leave quickly, saying as we walked: "You two should just be quiet, talk less and do more, so as not to give people a chance to talk and cause trouble again."

We thought we were just whispering, but before we had walked far, Du Changfeng came out from behind a big tree.

He looked at our receding backs, his face changing from gloomy to bright. He gritted his teeth, suddenly waved his sleeves, and turned away.

Zheng Xian was reviewing memorials in the Jinluan Palace, while Wei Yi was busy serving tea, water, and incense. At this moment, a eunuch came from outside the door and said, "General Du is here!"

Zheng Xian raised his head and glanced outside the door, then lowered his head again and said, "Pass it on."

As soon as Zheng Xian finished speaking, Du Changfeng hurriedly walked to Zheng Xian's desk and knelt down, shouting, "Your Majesty..."

Before Du Changfeng finished shouting, Zheng Xian asked, "Have the rebels been caught?"

Du Changfeng choked and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty..."

Zheng Xian didn't wait for him to finish and immediately asked, "The rebels haven't been caught yet, what are you doing here?"

Du Changfeng said with some grief and anger: "Your Majesty, today I went to the Taifu Mansion to search and arrest, and I met the three brothers and sisters of the Zhao family. I never thought..."

Zheng Xian didn't wait for Du Changfeng to finish, and suddenly smiled and said, "Oh, you saw Ah Man? Is she okay?"

Du Changfeng was a little anxious and shouted, "Your Majesty, can you please let me finish what I have to say?"

Zheng Xian put down his pen, looked at Du Changfeng, and said slowly: "Yuanzheng, I haven't seen you so impatient in many years. Tell me, what's the matter?"

Du Changfeng said angrily, "The second young lady of the Zhao family actually slandered Master Gui's family behind their backs, saying that no one in the Gui family is good, and she also said, and said..."

"What else?" Zheng Xian gently moved the big ring on his thumb.

Du Changfeng's eyes widened, and he looked extremely angry. He gritted his teeth and said, "If I marry Miss Gui, I will definitely do the same as General Zhao, favoring his wife and ignoring his son."

Zheng Xian stopped talking for a long while before he asked, "What else did you say?"

Du Changfeng told everything he heard in the Taifu Mansion.

The more he spoke, the angrier he became. He felt that he had been greatly wronged. He prostrated himself on the ground and said loudly, "Your Majesty, I have known Lan Nuo for a long time and we love each other. We are planning to get married next year. I know Lan Nuo very well and I will never allow anyone to slander her like this. Please, Your Majesty, make the decision for me!"

Zheng Xian looked at Du Changfeng as if he were a fool and sneered, "Ah Man also slandered my beloved concubine. Who should I look for to make the decision?"

Du Changfeng was stunned. That’s right, Zhao Man was not only talking about his fiancée, but also the three sisters of the Gui family.

He secretly glanced at Zheng Xian and found that his expression did not change at all. He just looked at him with some mockery, as if he was looking at a fool.

Du Changfeng asked in confusion: "Your Majesty, aren't you angry after hearing this?"

Zheng Xian stood up, shook his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, walked to Du Changfeng, and said, "Yuanzheng, although you are a military general, you are at least a top military scholar. I personally set the questions for the imperial examination. I was attracted by your literary talent back then. Now it seems that I chose the wrong person."

Du Changfeng was shocked when he heard this, and he quickly looked up and said, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?"

Zheng Xian patted Du Changfeng on the shoulder and said slowly: "Since I met Ah Man, everyone she has seen, whether good or bad, will be exposed."

Du Changfeng's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "Your Majesty, do you mean that if I take Lan Nuo to see Zhao Man, we can find out the answer?"

Zheng Xian laughed and said, "Yuan Zheng, you are still the Yuan Zheng in my heart, not so stupid."

Du Changfeng paused, slowly clenched his fists, and said: "What if, what if..."

Zheng Xian walked to the window, looked at a flock of wild geese flying by, and said slowly: "If it is true as she said, there is really no good person in the Gui family, how should we choose, Yuanzheng, I can't help you."

The emperor has said so much, what else does Du Changfeng not understand?

I'm afraid that Your Majesty has had ideas about the Gui family for a long time and has been waiting for an opportunity, and I am that opportunity.

In His Majesty's eyes, everyone is a chess piece, just divided into useful and useless chess pieces. The useless ones will be discarded without hesitation.

Du Changfeng felt that he was really stupid. He ran to the emperor to complain, hoping that he could make a decision for him. He was afraid that if he continued to be stubborn, he would immediately become the discarded chess piece.

Du Changfeng was so frightened that he fell to the ground and was unable to speak for a long time.

Zheng Xian picked a leaf from the window, put it under his nose and smelled it. This tree looked exactly the same as the one in Gongsun Wen’s mansion!

Zheng Xian threw the leaves out of the window and said, "This ambergris tree is getting in the way. Let's have it cut down and plant something else."

Wei Yi quickly bent down and responded, "Yes, Your Majesty, I will ask someone to plant another tree right away."

Wei Yi was about to leave when Zheng Xian suddenly remembered something and waved his hand. Wei Yi hurriedly walked to Zheng Xian to wait for his orders.

Zheng Xian said, "It seems that there are two trees in Ziyan's house as well. Let's go and replace them as well."

Wei Yi bowed and said, "Your Majesty!"

Wei Yi said this and walked out.

Zheng Xian looked at Du Changfeng, who was sitting on the ground with a depressed look on his face, and said, "What else does Yuanzheng want?"

Du Changfeng struggled to get up and kneel down, replying: "Your Majesty, I have nothing to report."

"Then you can leave." Zheng Xian said as he walked back to the desk, shook his robe, sat down, picked up a memorial and started reading.

Du Changfeng knocked his head heavily on the polished marble floor and shouted, "I'm leaving now!"

Zheng Xian didn't even raise his head. He said "hmm", Du Changfeng stood up, turned around, and strode away.

After Du Changfeng left, Zheng Xian put down the memorial and said softly: "Zhengyuan, you have followed me for many years. Even if you have no merit, you have worked hard. I hope you can understand my painstaking efforts today. Cutting the Gordian knot is the best way to deal with it."

I didn't expect that our conversation would completely change Du Changfeng's life.

The three of us returned to Juyuan and saw that the items that Yiping had sent from his hometown had been placed in my side room.

Looking at these wooden boxes, I joked, "I didn't expect you could pack up so many belongings."

Yi Ping didn't say anything and opened one of the boxes at random. Inside were gourds, plates, and clay dishes, and even a black clay jar!