Chapter 14 Lucky Star
Fan Zhen entered the hall in a heroic manner, half-knelt and bowed, saying: "Your Majesty! Yesterday, the steward of the Prince's Uncle's Mansion did bring a woman into the Prince's Uncle's Mansion!"

Instantly, the hall was in uproar.

Xie Chongkun's eyes were firm.

Sheng Zhenglin glanced at his son and saw that Sheng Daoan's mouth corners slightly raised, and then his brows suddenly furrowed.

Fan Zhen took a deep breath and continued, "However, the woman that the steward brought in was actually a girl from Jiyue Tower, not someone from Dingyang Marquis Mansion."

Sheng Daoan's face turned grim, and he couldn't help but murmured, "How is it possible?"

Lord Liang was even more stunned. After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly pointed at Xie Chongkun and said, "Impossible! They must have been sent by Dingyang Marquis' Mansion!"

Xiao Wenzhang lost his patience and said with a gloomy face: "Liang Dong, how do you know these details?"

This one sentence left Liang Dong speechless.

Xie Chongkun then said, "Sir Liang, I have no grudge against you, why do you want to slander me like this?"

"Your Majesty, the Dingyang Marquis's Mansion really received a woman and is going to send her to the Prince's Mansion to please Prince Li!" Liang Dong knelt down in panic, his voice weak.

Xie Chongkun calmed down and said, "Your Majesty, my wife has been homesick for a while and looked a little worried, so I asked my subordinates to bring a distant niece from her mother's family to the capital to accompany her and relieve her homesickness. I don't know how these words got to Lord Liang's ears and turned out to be so vulgar! Do we have to report to Lord Liang every time a woman comes into our mansion?"

After just a few words, Liang Dong looked ashamed, and the emperor's face was full of disgust.

"Your Majesty, Marquis Dingyang must be interfering!" Liang Dong still refused to give up and shouted with red eyes.

"Enough! Drag him away, give him fifty lashes of the cane, and expel him from the Censorate. Don't let me see such a vicious person again in the future!" Xiao Wenzhan really didn't want to listen to any more words he said.

When Liang Dong heard this, he was so frightened that his mind was in a mess. He followed Sheng Daoan's figure absentmindedly. Just when he was about to speak, he saw Sheng Daoan's warning eyes. The murderous intent in his eyes was even stronger than that of the emperor. Suddenly, he swallowed all his words. The emperor might just punish him with a stick, but if Sheng Daoan took action, his entire family might be buried with him. He had to swallow the pain and left with a sharp pain in his heart...

"Let's adjourn the court!" Xiao Wenzhan glanced at the ministers before leaving, and his eyes swept over Sheng Zhenglin dimly.

Just from this one look, Sheng Zhenglin felt like a thorn in his back.

The general was about to leave Xuanming Hall.

The ministers gathered around Sheng Zhenglin and congratulated him, "Sir Sheng, congratulations! Imperial Noble Consort Sheng is now the head of the six palaces."

"Yes, yes, Lord Sheng, you must prepare two glasses of good wine so that we can go and get some good fortune!"

Sheng Zhenglin always had a friendly image, and he could not help but respond to the ministers with a smile: "Lord Liu and Lord Guo, please don't laugh at me. The Imperial Concubine's matter is just a coincidence. I will definitely provide enough good wine. You are welcome to come anytime!"

After hearing this, the ministers all looked pleased.

After saying goodbye to the ministers, Sheng Zhenglin's expression suddenly changed, and he said to Sheng Daoan with a gloomy face: "Come here!"

Sheng Daoan was also very angry at this time, and he followed with his sleeves swung angrily.

Just as he reached the turning point of the palace gate, Sheng Daoan was still secretly angry when he suddenly felt a palm coming at him for no reason. Sheng Zhenglin slapped Sheng Daoan hard in the face.

The burning pain made Sheng Daoan put away his pride immediately, "Father."

"Idiot! Did you arrange Liang Dong?" Sheng Zhenglin had suppressed his anger.

Sheng Daoan took a breath and hissed in pain, "I just want to make the Xie family fall."

Sheng Zhenglin pointed at his son and said, "When will you be able to make some progress? If you use your talents to work in the court, our Sheng family will not have to worry about the future! Why do you always keep an eye on the Xie family?"

Sheng Daoan just couldn't understand why the Sheng family was so much richer than the Xie family, but he became inconspicuous when Xie Chengyi showed up.

Sheng Zhenglin let out a long sigh and said, "I'll go and greet your aunt later. From now on, be more careful!"

Sheng Daoan covered his face and said in a muffled voice, "Yes."

Even when Sheng Daoan returned home, he still couldn't figure out the matter.

Until Wu Biao returned home to report. "What happened?" Sheng Daoan couldn't suppress the anger in his eyes.

Wu Biao replied solemnly, "Sir, we found the person who handled this matter. He said that Huo Aying was accidentally lost on the road. Manager Li later said that he found her and brought her directly back to the Prince's Mansion. Who would have thought that he found a girl from Jiyue Tower casually? I guess he was afraid that you would deal with her."

Sheng Daoan was so angry that he threw the cup against the door frame, and the porcelain shards shattered. "Find someone! Find someone to execute the entire family of Manager Li. How dare you lie to me!!!"

Wu Biao looked at his expression and asked tentatively, "But, Manager Li is in jail."

Sheng Daoan said impatiently: "Why don't you find someone in prison to do it? He dares to play tricks on me. I will vent my anger wherever I go!"

Wu Biao had no choice but to reply, "Yes."

***
Dingyang Marquis Mansion.

As soon as Xie Chongkun came back, he closed the door of Songhuayuan.

Guan Yulan, Xie Chengyi, Wang Changyue, and Mother Wang all stood quietly.

When Mrs. Xie heard that her son had returned, she also rushed over.

Xie Chongkun looked at Guan Yulan, complaining and disgusted, "If Zhan Li hadn't caught up in time today, I would have been in jail with Uncle Li! Where's Huo Aying?"

Guan Yulan looked at the Marquis in confusion, then looked at the old lady.

Madam Xie said sternly, "It was me who said that. Send her out of the house!"

Xie Chongkun was shocked and asked, "Leaving the house?"

"My son felt that it was inconvenient for Huo Aying to stay in the house, so he agreed to her request to leave the house." Xie Chengyi is already much taller than Xie Chongkun, and the aura he exudes is more stable than Xie Chongkun.

Xie Chongkun was so angry that he fell on his chair and muttered, "You evil son! Are you going to piss me off to death?"

Guan Yulan said cautiously: "Isn't it good for her to leave? Just think of it as returning to the past."

Speaking of his wife, Xie Chongkun was speechless. "Today, facing Liang Dong's relentless pressure in the court, how could I hide everything so clearly and in such detail? I could only say that Huo Aying is a distant niece from your mother's family, and she came to the capital to accompany you, so I kept it a secret."

"Isn't it normal to just go back after accompanying him?" Guan Yulan muttered.

Xie Chongkun was so angry at Guan Yulan's naivety that his heart ached. He couldn't help but cover his chest and said slowly: "The key is that when His Majesty left the palace, he deliberately sent Gao Pan to say that when Cheng Yi entered the palace recently, he should bring Huo A Ying with him, so that everyone would stop talking about this rumor!"

"Enter the palace?" Guan Yulan was confused.

Xie Chengyi turned around in shock and looked at his father who was holding his forehead. Only then did he understand why his father was so anxious.

Mrs. Xie, who was so calm, couldn't help but get anxious. "According to what you said, Ah Ying can't leave yet?"

Mother Wang echoed faintly, "But now they have been walking for several hours, and it is impossible to catch up..."

It was the first time that Guan Yulan saw the Marquis so anxious, and she couldn't help but offer a suggestion: "Or find someone from Qingzhou, so that we can feel at ease when we really enter the palace."

Before Xie Chongkun could speak, Xie Chengyi spoke up, "Since Liang Dong knows so much about A Ying, then there must be someone inside who has seen A Ying. If someone is found to replace her, there will be another hidden danger to guard against."

Xie Chongkun couldn't help but blame Guan Yulan, saying, "Can you use your brain? Do you want me to be questioned again in the court? Besides, do you have such a beautiful niece?"

Such heartbreaking words are actually true. If she really had such a beautiful niece, why would she go through all this trouble?

Madam Xie thought about it and decided to find Huo Aying, so she said, "Chongkun, send someone to find Aying immediately, no matter how much it costs. I think Aying is not a trouble, but a lucky star for our Xie family! His Majesty has left Chengyi alone for so long, and this time he even let her enter the palace in Chengyi's name. No matter what the purpose is, it's a good thing that Chengyi can finally see the emperor and make things clear. Go find her!"

Xie Chengyi lowered his head, his mind filled with Ah Ying's charming expression last night and her resolute departure this morning. In fact, he knew everything when Ah Ying tried to stab him with the silver hairpin in the morning. On the one hand, he wanted to know if this woman was really forced, and on the other hand, he wanted to bet whether this woman would kill him.

For him, the reason why he let Aying leave was because he was hurt by the fact that the woman he touched for the first time wanted to escape after she sobered up. So many women wanted to climb into his bed, but Aying alone didn't care about the name of the Xie family, didn't care whether he was a famous general of Northern Jin, she just didn't like him.

So, when his grandmother proposed it, he did not object. He even did not want to object a little...

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