The real daughter's life was stolen, and she was reborn and became the best in the capital

"What happened?"

After sending all the servants away, Zhou Zhaoru couldn't wait to ask about Mingyuandu.

But Mingyuan Ferry came in a hurry.

After he really sat down on the chair, he didn't speak immediately.

He just sat there with a grim look on his face, his fingers constantly stroking the surface of the teacup, his expression changing from gloomy to bright.

But his appearance made Zhou Zhaoru even more anxious.

"What's going on? Tell me!"

The noisy voice rang in his ears, buzzing and ringing non-stop. Ming Yuandu was so annoyed that his head was splitting. Finally, he suddenly gave up and said with a gloomy face, suppressing his emotions, "I didn't get selected."

"what?"

Zhou Zhaoru was stunned, as if she didn't understand. She didn't react for a moment: "What do you mean by selected?"

She asked hesitantly.

But soon, she reacted.

Her eyes widened, and her anxious face immediately turned pale. She looked at Ming Yuandu and shouted with a voice that almost broke, "How could you not be selected? Didn't you say it was a sure win?"

Mingyuan Ferry is annoying to begin with.

Now seeing Zhou Zhaoru shouting and questioning hysterically, he felt even more annoyed.

A snap——

He suddenly put down the teacup in his hand.

The tea splashed everywhere, making the originally good table a mess, and the tea also flowed down the table legs.

But now neither the couple can care about this scene.

Looking at Zhou Zhaoru's face full of disbelief and shock, Ming Yuandu felt even more embarrassed.

He himself also found this matter very ugly.

Originally thought to be a sure thing, his good colleagues in various departments were privately planning to hold a banquet for him to celebrate, and the location in Quanjulou had already been reserved.

Although he said "No, no, no, I don't know yet", he had already thought in his heart that he could enter the cabinet.

On weekdays, when looking at the elders and junior elders in the cabinet, they are all polite, as if they are about to become colleagues and take good care of each other.

But he would have thought that when the carriage was halfway on the journey today, Lord Li suddenly sent someone to stop him.

He was overjoyed at the time, thinking that Lord Li was going to talk to him about joining the cabinet, but he never expected that -

"Hongkang, we have known each other for so many years, and Wenli is my student. I think I have treated you and Wenli well."

"But look at what good things you have done!"

"For the sake of an adopted daughter, you even ignored your own daughter. Someone reported this to His Majesty, and I was scolded by His Majesty. You still want to join the cabinet? Are you afraid that the censors' pens are not powerful enough?"

"I have been an official for decades, and I have been in the cabinet since the late emperor was still alive. Over the years, I have been very cautious, fearing that if I did something wrong, I would be brought down by the Zheng Party. It was not easy for me to sit in this position now."

"Now it's all right. Because of you, I was reprimanded by His Majesty for the first time. The Zheng Party's people are still laughing at me. You, you, what on earth do you want me to say about you?"

The words of Lord Li seemed to still be ringing in my ears.

Ming Yuandu can still remember how he looked at that time, with his hands tied behind his back, his face flushed with embarrassment.

But as his wife, Zhou Zhaoru should have failed to offer any comfort and guidance at a time like this, but she actually looked so terrified.

Ming Yuandu only felt that the embarrassment at that time became even more intense.

Beyond that, there is anger.

He slammed the table and yelled at Zhou Zhaoru: "Why are you yelling at me?"

"If you hadn't been crazy and mistook that child for Yaoyao, would I have been unable to enter the cabinet? You still have the nerve to yell at me now, Zhou Zhaoru, I can't enter the cabinet because of you!"

Zhou Zhaoru was furious when he saw Ming Yuandu slamming the table.

She and Ming Yuandu had been married for more than 20 years, but Ming Yuandu had never been so harsh to her.

She was not a tolerant person and she was about to argue and lose her temper with Ming Yuandu.

But before he could finish his words, he heard Ming Yuandu's next sentence.

Zhou Zhaoru was stunned: "What does this have to do with Yaoyao?"

"What does it matter?" Ming Yuandu suddenly had a vent for his anger. Seeing that Zhou Zhaoru's arrogance had faded and he looked doubtful, he sneered at Zhou Zhaoru and said, "Your Majesty, do you think I treat my adopted daughter better than my own daughter?"

"What do you think it matters?"

"If it weren't for you and your good son who insisted on protecting her status, I wouldn't be in this situation now!"

"I shouldn't have listened to you and admitted the matter that day, otherwise I would have joined the cabinet by now!"

Zhou Zhaoru heard it clearly and understood it.

Ming Yuandu scolded her so much that her face turned red and white, and she looked like a color palette.

Zhou Zhaoru gritted her teeth and endured the scolding for a while with a pale face. She wanted to endure it at first, but seeing Ming Yuandu's angry look, she became unwilling.

"Now you're blaming me for everything!"

"I didn't hold a knife to your neck at that time, forcing you to come with me. Others may not know what you are thinking, but how could I not know it?"

"Ming Yuandu, don't be so hypocritical. Why did you admit this? Is it because of Xiao Rang and me, or because of the Fourth Prince? Do you think I don't know?"

"you--"

Ming Yuandu's expression suddenly changed.

He looked at Zhou Zhaoru, his face full of shock and anger. He pointed at Zhou Zhaoru, gritting his teeth, and finally he suddenly stood up and walked out.

Zhou Zhaoru watched him leave, his heart tightened, and he subconsciously asked, "Where are you going?"

But Ming Yuandu had already left without looking back.

Looking at Ming Yuandu's resolute figure leaving, Zhou Zhaoru was so angry that he dropped the teacup on the table.

Mother Cui and Jingyue hurried in.

Seeing the ruins on the ground, their faces changed. The two looked at each other. Jingyue stepped forward to clean up the mess, while Mother Cui helped Zhou Zhaoru, who looked very ugly at the moment, to sit down on the soft couch beside them.

"Why did you quarrel with the Marquis?"

As they were far away, they did not hear why the two were arguing. They just heard their voices getting louder and louder, and then the Marquis came out with a gloomy face.

"Do you think I want to quarrel with him? If he hadn't blamed everything on me, why would I quarrel with him?" Zhou Zhaoru said this with sadness and anger.

She and Ming Yuandu had been married for more than twenty years, but they had rarely had such quarrels.

The last time they quarreled like this was after Yanyan and Xiaorang became pregnant.

She and Ming Yuandu were engaged since birth.

But Ming Yuandu was sent to the border since he was a child to train under his grandfather's command. She had rarely seen Ming Yuandu before she came of age.

But Zhou Zhaoru always knew that she had a fiancé.

Her fiancé is the eldest son of Princess Fuhua, who is currently fighting at the border. The young general is majestic and imposing, and he is also the eldest son of the princess, not to mention that he is very handsome.

How could Zhou Zhaoru not like it?

When she first married Ming Yuandu, Zhou Zhaoru was full of anticipation and joy.

Until she found out that Ming Yuandu had a favorite woman at the border...

It was obvious that she and he were engaged since birth, but he grew up with another girl as his childhood sweetheart and he always kept her in his heart.

Although nothing happened between him and that woman.

But it was precisely because nothing happened that Zhou Zhaoru became even more afraid and wary.

A man will only cherish the woman he values ​​so much.

If Ming Yuandu really had something going on with that woman, Zhou Zhaoru would not be afraid.

She knew of the existence of that woman when she saw Ming Yuandu carefully stroking a hairpin one day.

When she saw it from behind the door, she thought it was a birthday gift from Ming Yuandu.

She waited happily for several days, but never saw any sign of the hairpin. A woman's sixth sense made her keenly aware of something, so when Ming Yuandu was out one day, Zhou Zhaoru went to his study to look for it by rummaging through the drawers.

Finally, she found it in a box full of important keepsakes.

The hairpin looked very old, and there was a word "Yue" inlaid on it, which was not her maiden name.

She went to question Ming Yuandu.

Ming Yuandu didn't want to say it at first, but after she pressed him for a long time, he finally told her.

It was also at that time that she learned that the woman named Yue Niang was the daughter of a deputy general in the Northern Army Camp and grew up with Ming Yuandu.

Daughters at the border have always been free.

The deputy general had only this precious daughter, so naturally he spoiled her. He even allowed her to ride horses, practice archery and martial arts with a group of men. She did not behave like a girl at all.

She rode horses and shot arrows with Ming Yuandu, played polo with him, and they would also sit under the stars and drink together.

And what about Mingyuan Ferry?

Such a serious man would tenderly and carefully prepare birthday gifts for her every year. This hairpin was prepared by him for that woman as a coming-of-age gift at the age of sixteen.

He made it himself.

But he didn't send it out in the end.

"Zhou Zhaoru, I know what I want to do, just like this hairpin that cannot be given away. I know who I want to marry, and I also know my responsibilities and obligations."

"You don't have to be angry with someone from the past."

He spoke in a high-sounding and righteous manner, but Zhou Zhaoru, who had already been mad with anger, was not going to listen to him.

She just looked at Ming Yuandu and sneered: "Okay, I can let it go, as long as you destroy this hairpin in front of me!"

That was the first time she saw Ming Yuandu change his face.

"You're crazy!"

These were the words Ming Yuandu left for her that night, and then he left her angrily with the hairpin in his hand.

She was so angry that she had a miscarriage.

Being pregnant with twins is not easy at all, and when she had the attack, she was directly at the gates of hell.

In the end, Ming Yuandu came back and was dragged to her by her mother-in-law. Ming Yuandu finally broke the hairpin in front of her.

But Zhou Zhaoru knew that she and Ming Yuandu could not go back.

This former woman and the broken hairpin are ultimately a thorn in their hearts.

Even if Ming Yuan treated her well after crossing the river, there was no going back between him and her.