After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 635: Move Aside
"Then why doesn’t he break off the engagement?" Nie Yao asked.
"He lost the engagement jade pendant and hasn’t found it yet, so he can’t break off the engagement," Young Master Su said.
"He’s lying! The jade pendant has clearly been found!" Nie Yao said.
Young Master Su looked at her, "How do you know?"
Nie Yao, "..."
Princess Fu Yun and the maid also looked at Nie Yao.
Nie Yao had no choice but to recount the incident of stealing and returning the jade pendant.
Young Master Su was stunned.
He and the Ninth Prince exchanged glances.
Inwardly, they had great disdain for Prince NanAn.
He had promised to break off the engagement, and they had all believed him.
Unexpectedly, he was that kind of person!
They initially thought this news could be worth a thousand taels, but now it wasn’t worth a copper coin.
Since the person had thin skin, he decided not to expose him to avoid embarrassing him.
"He must be just like my elder brother, saying one thing and meaning another," Young Master Su said.
"What do you mean by saying one thing and meaning another?" Nie Yao didn’t understand.
"Clearly, he can break off the engagement but doesn’t. He must want to marry you," Young Master Su said straightforwardly.
Nie Yao blushed.
That’s impossible!
Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
After leaving Agarwood Pavilion, because Prince NanAn was in a bad mood, Chu Shun and the others invited him to a feast.
Several of them entered Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
It was noon, and there were many people eating.
Everyone was talking about the incident involving the old Madam of Prince Zhenbei Mansion being swapped with someone else.
Almost everyone said the old Madam was cruel and ruthless, with a heart of a snake and scorpion.
In their discussions, they inevitably mentioned the Empress Dowager and the Old Madam of Duke Chong.
Aware of the power of Duke Chong’s Mansion, most people spoke cautiously to avoid trouble, but after all, this is a tavern. There will always be people who, under the influence of alcohol, speak loudly and boldly.
In their conversation, they suspected the Empress Dowager and the Old Madam of Duke Chong were accomplices or even the masterminds.
The Heir of Duke Chong upstairs heard this and was undoubtedly filled with rage.
He intended to go downstairs to make them accountable, just as Prince NanAn and his group came up the stairs.
The stairs weren’t very wide, and so they met face to face.
They were indeed narrow enemies on a narrow path; the anger on the Heir of Duke Chong’s face was a clear sign he wanted to fight.
Although Prince NanAn thought that man was being overly emotional, what he said echoed everyone’s feelings.
Given how the false old Madam of Prince Zhenbei Mansion walked so closely with the Empress Dowager and the Old Madam of Duke Chong, who would believe they had no connection?
When the Duchess of Duke Zhen’s carriage accident occurred, she was carried into the Old Madam of Duke Chong’s palanquin, and then they swapped her out.
From start to finish, it was just a brief moment under everyone’s noses. If it wasn’t then, when could they have done it?
And Elder Yong Cheng, who didn’t have the title of Earl in his youth, the Duke Chong’s Mansion married their illegitimate daughter to him, was it truly insight into future success or a method to align with the false old Madam?
But the false old Madam is mute and blind, unable to testify. Can the real masterminds just go scot-free?
Prince Zhenbei openly declared war with the Empress Dowager, showing his determination to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Nowadays, not many dare to speak the truth at the risk of their lives.
For this bravery alone, he had to support him.
The Heir of Duke Chong wanted to go downstairs, and Prince NanAn was on his way up.
You won’t let me pass, and I won’t let you pass.
"Move aside!" the Heir of Duke Chong said coldly.
"What? Just because you have the title of Heir of Duke Chong, I have to make way for you?" Prince NanAn said with disdain.
The two glared at each other.
Sparks flew in their eyes like fireworks.
At this moment—
Prince NanAn’s nose tickled, and he sneezed.
Droplets sprayed onto the Heir of Duke Chong.
The Heir of Duke Chong’s anger surged, and with a lift of his foot, he kicked towards Prince NanAn.
Prince NanAn, quick-eyed and quick-handed, dodged.
The two began to fight on the stairs.
However, the fight didn’t get too intense, as the steward of Drunken Immortal Pavilion came to pull them apart.
In the blink of an eye, the good steps lost their side railings. If they kept fighting like this, it would be a small matter if today’s business was disrupted. They feared Drunken Immortal Pavilion might even be torn down.
Each identity was so distinguished that no one dared to come to demand debts from them.
The Heir of Duke Chong had suffered a loss at Prince NanAn’s hands before; he had just forgotten in his fit of anger.
If it truly became a fight, he would be the one embarrassed.
He grasped his folded fan and endured.
He looked downstairs, and those who had spoken earlier had already fled.
The Heir of Duke Chong’s cold gaze swept across, and the diners were all silent like cicadas in winter.
"I see who dares to have the audacity to slander the Empress Dowager!" the Heir of Duke Chong said with an icy tone.
Chu Shun curved his lips, "Why is the Heir of Duke Chong so angry? They’re just chatting about court matters over meals. If it’s about the Empress Dowager, if they truly couldn’t discuss it, the Emperor would have issued a gag order, and it wouldn’t spread."
The Heir of Duke Chong’s face was as cold as frost.
The Heir of Marquis Beining said, "If the Heir of Duke Chong thinks the false old Madam’s confession from the Prince Zhenbei Mansion was intentionally slandering the Empress Dowager and the Old Madam of Duke Chong, why not help find the real culprit behind it? Once the truth is revealed, rumors naturally won’t hold."
"If the Empress Dowager is truly slandered, Prince Zhenbei will apologize to her and allow her to punish as she sees fit, it’s not like Prince Zhenbei is hiding anything. So what’s the Heir of Duke Chong getting worked up about?" the Eldest Young Master of Duke Dingguo Mansion said.
"The Heir of Marquis Jingguo is right!"
"The innocent are innocent, and the guilty are guilty!" said the onlookers downstairs.
"Black can’t turn white, and white can’t turn black either."
The Heir of Duke Chong clenched his fists.
Although he wasn’t in charge, it didn’t mean he knew nothing.
Prince Zhenbei openly mentioned this matter, hoping it would spread so that more people could provide leads to help clarify the case, right?
Though the incident happened thirty years ago, and the hope of uncovering the truth was slim, you can’t entirely rule it out. What if?
What if someone did know something and wanted to curry favor with Prince Zhenbei by providing leads...
The consequences would be unimaginable.
But if Chu Shun and the others were speaking like this and he still didn’t allow discussion, it would mean Duke Chong’s Mansion had a guilty conscience.
Everyone already suspected the Empress Dowager and his grandmother, the more they concealed, the more suspicious everyone became.
If Prince Zhenbei hadn’t openly brought it up, but it leaked stealthily from the Prince Zhenbei Mansion, people would surely say behind their backs that the Old Prince was confused and being deceived.
Now that Prince Zhenbei himself admitted his confusion, people didn’t say anything more.
If they admitted their mistakes, what else was there to say?
Biting tightly, the Heir of Duke Chong endured.
Prince NanAn ascended the stairs, shaking his jade fan.
He felt much better after exchanging a few moves with the Heir of Duke Chong.
This is the advantage of high martial arts skills.
If it were in the past, he might not have been able to beat the Heir of Duke Chong.
But now?
He could kick wherever he wanted.
Once inside, the Heir of Marquis Beining patted Prince NanAn’s shoulder, laughing, "That sneeze just now was executed with such skill; you couldn’t even tell it was meant to provoke."
Prince NanAn, "..."
"Who deliberately provoked?"
"I was truly sneezing!" Prince NanAn said.
"..."
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