On the ground in the front yard, Zhu Yu was kneeling upright with his cheeks swollen and his clothes torn on his shoulders, revealing many crisscrossing bloodstains. When he saw Zhu Ying repeatedly ordering Ah Liu to send Zhang Shou back to the room immediately, he finally couldn't help but shout out.
"Miss, he is just a country liar with a good appearance. He is not worth your efforts! The phoenix will not roost unless it is a phoenix tree. How can such a swindler be worthy of you! If he has any manly spirit, he will not enter your own house and pretend to be asleep and do nothing! The master will never arrange such a marriage for you. The lady must be lying..."
Before he could even utter the word "you", Zhu Hong was kicked hard in the chest. It turned out that Zhu Ying came back angrily and kicked him down.
She raised the whip and wanted to hit him hard, but finally stopped herself and took a few steps back with a cold face.
"If you really look down on Shou and think he is not worthy of me, and think that my method of building momentum for him is too childish and ridiculous, then you should give me a direct warning if you have the guts! You obey orders obediently in front of me, but play tricks in secret. Isn't this lip service? You still dare to use the tone of doing it for my own good to exonerate yourself. Do you think I, Zhu Ying, am blind?"
"Even if you spread the news, Tang Ming and Xie Wanquan are people who think highly of themselves. They don't even know Ah Shou. Why would they come all the way here to pretend to be fair-minded? Do you think I don't know that they were sent by someone to come to my Zhaoguo Mansion, and Ah Shou was just an innocent victim of my presumptuous arrangement?"
"You are an orphan picked up by my father. My father raised you from childhood to adulthood, provided you with food and clothing, and assisted you in learning literature and martial arts. Is this how you repay my father? If you don't want others to know, then you better not do it. I have already found out that you actually spread rumors to others in private, saying that my grandmother intended to take Ah Shou as a son-in-law!"
"You are deliberately destroying the reputation of my Zhaoguo Mansion. I only regret that I didn't deal with you earlier!"
Zhang Shou was being carried into the hall by Ah Liu at this time. Hearing this, he remembered the conversation he heard in the backyard of Carpenter Xu's house and the loud slap afterwards. From then on, when he was in Cuiyun Room, the only person he saw was Zhu Hong. He couldn't help but sneer inwardly.
So he didn't take the word "son-in-law" seriously at that time. It turned out that someone was playing tricks!
But the eldest lady is really sharp-eyed and sharp-minded. If you try to fool her with sweet words, you are really misjudging her...
After Ah Liu sent him to the east wing, he slid to the ground and stood up. Although he yawned because of sleepiness, he still perked up and whispered a few words to Ah Liu.
"Go ahead and quietly tell Yingying not to get angry anymore, and not to continue lynching, lest someone takes advantage of her later. Tie up that guy Zhu Yu, and tomorrow morning send Zhu Hong with a few reliable men to escort him directly to Shuntian Prefecture Yamen. Say that a servant betrayed his master and colluded with an outsider, ruining his master's reputation, and ask Shuntian Prefecture Yin Wang to do justice for the Duke of Zhao's mansion."
If it were someone else, they would definitely ask in surprise, but Ah Liu has always been the best example of following instructions. He nodded silently and immediately turned around and went out. When he arrived at the front yard, he saw Zhu Yu collapsed on the ground and unable to speak, while Zhu Ying, under the persuasion of the two maids, threw down the whip angrily. He quickly stepped forward and repeated Zhang Shou's words verbatim.