After the heroine was robbed, save the paranoid villain

After packing up these things, Yan Yu ate something to fill his stomach.

She hasn't had much of an appetite lately, but with so many things going on inside and outside the mansion, she has to cheer up.

Someone here reported that Princess Xianyi had arrived.

After the incident at Wanhua Temple that day, Princess Xianyi was very angry and went to the palace to file a complaint twice.

She is a princess, the biological daughter of the late emperor, yet she is being bullied by the wife of a minister!

The death of Princess Xianyi's husband made her hate the Zheng family to the core.

Now that Guan has come to provoke her again, Princess Xianyi really can't swallow this.

The emperor had complained, and Princess Xianyi was worried about Yan Yu's situation, so she hurried over to take a look.

Yan Yu's waist has gotten much better, and it is no different from usual. Princess Xianyi brought some herbal ointments and some supplements. After carefully examining them, she cursed the Zheng family and the Guan family: "These bastards actually turned black into white, saying that we took advantage of our power to bully people and prevented the people from going to Wanhua Temple, and used this matter to make a fuss."

Yan Yu frowned: "What are people saying outside?"

Princess Xianyi said, "They have lost more than they gained. The Zheng family is used to bullying others. They are not ashamed to say that we are bullying others. On the day we went, Wanhua Temple informed pilgrims three days in advance that the gates would not be open that day. Everyone knew it."

"But they...someone has uncovered the fact that Guan's father and brother demolished hundreds of houses in Maozhou. It's unclear how Guan is doing now, but his father and brother are really doomed."

The Duke of England's Zheng Mansion.

Guan cried and wiped her tears: "Master, you must save my father and my brother!"

"The evidence has been presented to the emperor. How can I save them?"

Zheng Shu was irritated. "You have nothing to do all day, and you beat and scold the maids and concubines at home, but you dare to provoke the princess and the princess when you see them. Do you really think that the Zheng family can handle everything?"

The Guan family lived in Maozhou and was a prominent family in the Wei Dynasty. Such a family had great power in the local area. If one wanted to find out all the evil things their family had done, one could just give a greeting to the officials over there.

The key point is that all the officials in Maozhou are members of the Zheng Party. They depend on the Zheng family for their livelihood and their promotions all depend on the Zheng family.

Zheng Shu had not expected that Xiao Chengji, who seemed to be idle and had an extremely bad reputation in recent years, had actually bribed so many local officials in secret and cultivated so many forces!

It's ridiculous that Xiao Chengji's spies appeared in the territories of the Zheng and Guan families.

These spies exposed everything the Guan family had done in the past two years.

The farce at Wanhua Temple was originally a fight between women.

However, Xiao Chengji brought the fire to the court.

Zheng Shu thought of Xiao Chengji's threat that day.

Zheng Shu thought that Xiao Chengji wanted the emperor to take action. Otherwise, how could he, a prince, shake the Zheng family?

I didn't expect Xiao Chengji to hide his abilities so deeply.

Guan cried even harder: "Master, you must help my father and my brother. If anything happens to them, I will die! I will hit my head and die here!"

Zheng Shu looked at her with disgust: "You have done this yourself, how can I help you? I can't interfere in the affairs of the Guan family."

Two years ago, the Guan family wanted to build a larger garden in Maozhou, and hundreds of families living nearby had to move away.

The Guan family forced these people to leave by offering low prices, and sent servants to beat and harass anyone who was unwilling to move.

The houses of these people were all in the prosperous area beside the Maozhou River. Each house was worth about two hundred taels of silver, but the Guan family only used forty taels of silver to get rid of them. They also used many tricks and forced seven or eight people to death.

The government officials in Maozhou were basically all members of Zheng's party. When they heard that these people were going to sue the Guan family, they all drove them away.

Yesterday, this case was suddenly reported to the imperial court bypassing the local officials, and happened to reach the Ministry of Justice. The King of Qin wanted to try the case personally.

This was a major case involving seven or eight lives and tens of thousands of taels of silver. In addition, there was a spy planted by the King of Qin inside the Maozhou government office. Zheng Shu really didn't dare to make any big moves.

It was a done deal, how much power did he have to save Guan's father and brother?

Moreover, it can be seen from Guan's style that the Guan family has always been domineering and has done more than one evil thing over the years.

What if Zheng Shu has just settled this case and a new case arises?

Guan's brother was a ruthless man who had committed more than one murder. He had once beaten to death a son of an official because of jealousy in a brothel, and it was Zheng Shu who settled the case.

Zheng Shu alone knew about three or four murders.

He doesn't know how much he doesn't know.

He really didn't want to get involved in Guan's family affairs.

Guan wiped her tears, her eyes red from crying: "You really don't care about us? You want to watch us get our house confiscated? Master, are you so cruel?"

Zheng Shu hated her even more in his heart: "How many messes have I cleaned up for your family over the years? Your brother is arrogant and domineering, and I can clean up the mess for him even if he kills ten or a hundred people from Maozhou. This time you provoked someone you shouldn't mess with, and you were so arrogant to the royal family, how can I clean up the mess? Remember, even if your father and brother are dead, it was you who killed them, you can't blame anyone else."

Guan burst into tears.

Zheng Shu didn't want to hear her howling here, so he ordered the maid to keep an eye on his wife and not let her go out at will. After that, he left.

After Guan finished crying, she thought of the queen again.

That day she went to the Queen to complain, and Queen Zheng had promised that she would never let the King of Qin do anything to her. She was the daughter-in-law of the Zheng family, and Queen Zheng would not let her be killed by the King of Qin.

While Zheng Shu was away, Guan went to the palace to find the queen.

But this time, she failed to meet him. Queen Zheng was confined by the emperor and was not allowed to see anyone from the Zheng family.

It was a very cold day, and Guan was waiting outside the palace gate with her maid, waiting for the King of Qin to come out.

She was lucky since childhood and had been arrogant for many years. She was the one who married the best among her sisters. Usually, she was the only one who laughed at others, and no one laughed at her.

If she offended someone and the Guan family was confiscated, she would not only become a sinner of the Guan family, but would also be laughed at by the women in the capital and her former sisters.

No matter what, nothing can happen to the Guan family.

The winter wind keeps blowing. In fact, it is already the beginning of spring, but the capital city in the north is still extremely cold.

Guan seemed not to feel the cold and stood there for half an hour.

In the end, he did not wait for Xiao Chengji, but instead waited for the fifth prince Xiao Jiashan and the seventh prince Xiao Qiru.

Xiao Jiashan saw Guan and her maid outside the palace gate, so he hurried forward and asked, "Aunt, why are you here? What's wrong?"

When Guan saw the Fifth Prince, her eyes lit up instantly: "Fifth Prince! The King of Qin wants to confiscate the Guan family and punish them! Can you please ask the King of Qin for me? You two are brothers, you can help me, right?"