No matter what the emperor said, Pei Jinting neither admitted his mistake nor relented and sent back the stolen bride.
The emperor saw him above and sneered repeatedly,
"Okay. Tomorrow the imperial envoy will go to court, and you don't know whether to live or die..."
Pei Jinting prostrated himself low, as if he would be beaten or scolded but would not let go, "But it is up to Your Majesty to make the decision."
There was a click under the emperor's hand, and the solid lacquered wood handrail was cracked by him.
Pei Jinting doesn't like the emperor at all.
"Your Majesty, I have already married the eldest daughter of the Gu family, and she is my wife. Lord Lu's accusation is too outrageous."
Not only that, but he also shamelessly took out the marriage certificate issued by the Yamen.
"There are so many ladies in the capital, why don't you give one more to Lord Lu?"
Lu Wenze clenched his fists, and the veins on his forearms tensed up. Before he could speak, Pei Jinting said with a perfect smile,
"Master Lu, if you really don't want other ladies and insist on wanting the eldest daughter of the Gu family, it's not impossible."
He smiled, turned half sideways, and looked at the person beside him.
The dazzling light of Chongming Palace shone in his eyes.
It became more and more apparent that those amber eyes were as gleaming as water, and the waves were floating, making it difficult to see the true expression.
"Master Lu can come to the Pei family as a servant and serve my wife..."
Pei Jinting looked at Lu Wenze calmly, with just the right amount of innocence in his tone,
"How's it going? Lord Lu, what do you think of this method?"
Lu Wenze pursed his thin lips tightly, and the veins on his neck throbbed, and he knew it very well.
At this moment, I don’t want Pei Jinting to give Gu Qingyuan back.
This bitch is simply unscrupulous, and I don’t know what will happen if a girl named Ayuan falls into the hands of a libertine like Pei Jinting.
Lu Wenze took a deep breath. It was already spring, but the dry and cold air was still like a knife, stabbing into his lungs and causing him pain.
"Your Majesty, I was ignorant in the past, and I had some minor conflicts with Mr. Pei. It's all my fault."
"Master Pei can make any apology to me, but he cannot take his wife by force just to vent his anger. This is simply unacceptable."
"When my mother heard about this, she didn't eat for a day. She couldn't believe that there was such a crazy thing in the world."
"If Mr. Pei can rely on His Majesty's love and protection today to take away my wife, who knows if he will rely on His Majesty's favor to commit murder in the future?"
What he said was reasonable and reasonable, and there was a sound of approval from all around.
Especially when it came to the murder in the palace, it planted the seeds of doubt in the emperor's heart.
The emperor remained silent. The other ten ministers responded one after another, either saying that Pei Jinting was inferior to a beast, or crying about how he was bullied by Pei Jinting in the past...
For a time, Pei Jinting became a thorn in everyone's side, a thorn in their flesh, and they wanted to get rid of him quickly.
Seeing everyone scolding Pei Jinting for all his past absurdities, the emperor remained silent and took a sip from the tea cup.
There was a tense silence in the hall, and everyone's attention turned to Pei Jinting.
Pei Jinting didn't take it seriously at all. He looked at Lu Wenze with a smile.
"Master Marquis, please don't get angry. I wonder how the old lady is doing? I heard that the old lady is always in good health. She can easily kill a maid with a cane."
"It's just that if you don't eat for a day, you won't die. Lord Marquis, it's better not to curse your relatives or deceive the king into asking for rewards."
The two people's eyes met, and both felt unlucky, but soon Pei Jinting put on his usual thin smile and said,
"Whether it's a bride-robbing or not, outsiders don't care. Mr. Gu is the current head of the Gu family, and he is also the one who presided over the marriage."
"Why don't you let Mr. Gu talk about it?"
From the moment Pei Jinting entered the main hall, Gu Zhiyuan wanted to shrink into the ground.
When more than a dozen ministers complained about Pei Jinting's crimes, he did not open his mouth. He just hoped that everyone would not see him.
Unexpectedly, Pei Jinting pointed this out.
He gritted his teeth and went out in force.
"The eldest girl is the eldest daughter's legitimate daughter. My brother Chen was bloody on the border, so I entrusted the family affairs to me. I took it upon myself to arrange the marriage of the Lu family for my eldest niece."
"I never thought that my brother had proposed a marriage for his eldest niece. It was with the third son of Duke Cheng'en..."
"Master Pei also came to pick up the bride as promised, so it's not considered a bride-robbing..."
A spring thunder exploded out of thin air outside the palace, and all the ministers and the emperor were stunned beyond words.
They have lived all their lives and have never heard of such a ridiculous thing.
Could this be a playbook produced by some opera troupe?
The facial expressions of everyone changed wonderfully.
Lu Wenze gasped and clenched his hands tightly. He never expected that the good opportunity to drag Pei Jinting to hell would be ruined by Gu Zhiyuan.
After a moment of astonishment, the atmosphere in the hall exploded as if a fuse had been lit.
"Then why did Lord Lu come to propose marriage, but you accepted it...and kept discussing the marriage and setting an auspicious date..."
"This is nonsense, this kind of thing is unheard of!"
"Master Gu, if you were coerced by someone and said it in front of His Majesty, how could His Majesty be so wise and not give you justice?"
Officials from Lu Wenze's group raised objections and tried to get everything back on track.
Gu Zhiyuan glanced at Pei Jinting, who had a smile on his lips, and felt a chill in his heart for no reason, thinking of what he said when he snatched the bride.
As soon as I close my eyes, I open my mouth and start talking nonsense.
"It was always my little girl Yunniang who was told to Mr. Lu. If you don't believe me, just ask Mr. Lu. My little girl is at Zhuangzi in Tongzhou."
"Last night Lord Lu went to Tongzhou to welcome his bride..."
His words can be said to be inconsistent and nonsense.
But Gu Zhiyuan no longer cares so much.
If he can't handle the errand assigned to him by Pei Jinting, he will die before he can wait for the revenge of the eldest prince and his family.
As for Lu Wenze, doesn't he like Yun Niang? Otherwise, why would he rush to Tongzhou on the eve of his wedding?
He also fulfilled them.
At this moment, Lu Wenze was so filled with hatred that he could eat Pei Jinting alive that he could hardly control the expression on his face.
He understood Pei Jinting's intention. He used Yun Niang to send a letter to him, and used the matter of officials being dismissed to lure him to Tongzhou.
Even if he didn't really go to Tongzhou to meet his bride, as long as he went to Tongzhou and met Yun Niang, there would be no way to reconcile the matter.
Lu Wenze sneered, Pei Jinting was really calculating.
He even suspected that the recent troubles in the eldest prince's family were all the fault of Pei Jinting.
Lu Wenze looked at Pei Jinting coldly, feeling secretly resentful.
For the sake of the prince, Pei Jinting really risked his life. He did not hesitate to ruin his own reputation and wanted to take Ayuan away to take revenge on him.
At this moment, he had no choice but to admit that he was going to Tongzhou to welcome his bride.
Of course, he could also insist on saying that the person he proposed to marry was A-Yuan, but how could he explain that he went out of town to meet his new wife's sister on the eve of the wedding?
Once the truth is revealed, he will have a reputation as ruthless and dissolute as this piece of shit Pei Jinting.
Being brought here step by step, Lu Wenze could only bite the bullet and say, "Yes. It is indeed what Lord Lu said."
There was a smile in Pei Jinting's eyes, and he showed his first sincere smile since entering the palace.
"Your Majesty, that's what happened. Can I leave the palace? The bride is waiting for me to go back to the bridal chamber."