"What?" Nanyang Hou's expression changed and he subconsciously looked outside.
Screams were heard in front of the main hall door, and several servants who tried to stop him fell to the ground.
Xiao Lingyue dragged the unconscious bandit in her hands, walked past the screaming servants, and walked into the main hall.
She raised her hand and threw it, "Bang!"
The bandit brother fell hard in the middle of the hall and rolled twice.
The guests in the hall were startled, and some timid ladies almost screamed: "Ah..."
The faces of Marquis Nanyang and Aunt Hua became ugly.
"Who are you? How dare you break into the Marquis's residence without permission!" Marquis Nanyang scolded with a stern face.
The corners of Xiao Lingyue's lips curled up sarcastically, "Father, don't you know me? I am Shen Wan."
"What?" Marquis Nanyang didn't respond to her words, but Aunt Hua screamed!
She felt guilty and panicked and asked: "Who are you?"
"Auntie, I am Shen Wan." Xiao Lingyue took off her veil, revealing the beautiful left half of her face.
There was a hideous black birthmark on the lower right side of his face, which looked very ugly.
"Is she the third lady Shen Wan who was raised in the countryside since she was a child?"
The guests were surprised and whispered to each other from time to time.
"Is it the one with bad horoscopes, the one who can defeat his father and his mother?"
"Yeah, why is she back?"
"Miss Shen San is too ugly. I heard that she is still engaged to the young marquis of the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. I feel sorry for the young marquis..."
"Who says it isn't?"
When Aunt Hua saw "Shen Wan's" iconic birthmarked face, her heart skipped a beat and she asked with a guilty conscience: "How did you come back?"
"Didn't my aunt send someone to pick me up?" Xiao Lingyue said quietly.
Aunt Hua's eyes dodge in panic: "..."
"You came back as soon as you came back, why did you drag someone to death! Today is the old man's birthday, are you deliberately trying to offend someone!" Nanyang Hou scolded sternly.
The old Marquis had a majestic expression and looked at Xiao Lingyue coldly.
"Father misunderstood, he is not a dead person!"
Xiao Lingyue stepped forward, kicked the bandit, and asked coldly: "Are you still pretending to be dead?"
The bandit brother screamed in pain and couldn't hold on any longer: "Girl, spare your life! I, I don't dare anymore..."
"Don't beg me, look up and see if there is anyone familiar to you here." Xiao Lingyue said pointedly.
The bandit brother's hands and feet were tightly tied with hemp ropes, and he was stunned when he heard this.
Aunt Hua suddenly felt bad and subconsciously hid behind Marquis Nanyang.
But it's still a step too late.
The bandit brother raised his head and saw the elegant Aunt Hua at a glance: "It's you!"
Aunt Hua's face was full of panic and she denied it: "It's not me!"
Everyone: "..."
"I remember you. You said you were the Marquis's wife! Madam, please help me quickly. I'm here to help you!" The bandit brother was frightened by Xiao Lingyue. When he saw Aunt Hua as his employer, he thought nothing of it. He shouted for help without thinking.
Everyone in the hall looked at Aunt Hua.
Full of inquiry, curiosity and gossip.
"Nonsense, I have never seen you! Whose instructions did you follow to slander me?" Aunt Hua said angrily.
The bandit brother's eyes widened: "You..."
Marquis Nanyang felt something was wrong and immediately shouted angrily: "Shen Wan, what are you doing?"
Xiao Lingyue looked at him innocently: "Father, you should ask Aunt Hua about this. As soon as I arrived in the capital today, I encountered a group of robbers blocking the road. They kept saying that they were ordered by Aunt Hua to take my head. ! I really didn’t understand what was going on, so I had to capture them alive and bring them back to confront my aunt.”
Marquis Nanyang's heart trembled, and he shouted even more angrily: "Do you believe what the robbers say? I think you have become stupid in the countryside!"
"It's because I don't believe it that I brought him back to confront my aunt!"
Xiao Lingyue said quietly, and then looked around: "You are all ministers of the court, smart and capable. I believe you can tell who is lying at a glance, right?"
"Everything I said is true, I swear! I definitely didn't lie!"
The bandit brother hurriedly shouted and pointed at Aunt Hua with his tightly tied hands: "That's her! Four days ago, it was she who took the maid and grandma to meet me in the ruined temple outside the city and spent a thousand taels of silver to have sex with me. The deal is for me to kill a person for her, and then bring the head to her to collect the reward!"
Aunt Hua grabbed Nanyang Hou's arm with a guilty conscience: "Master, I didn't! I was wronged..."
"I remember it very clearly, it's obviously you!" The bandit brother said anxiously.
If she didn't admit it, wouldn't he be in trouble? There wouldn't even be a culprit to take the blame.
The cruel Miss Shen San will definitely not let him go!
The guests in the hall are not fools either.
Most of them are old foxes in the court with sharp eyes, including some officials from the Ministry of Justice.
Who is lying, Aunt Hua or the bandit boss? A discerning person can tell right away!
After all, this is a family matter of the Nanyang Marquis Mansion.
The aunt in the backyard bribed the bandits to assassinate the legitimate daughter of the palace, but she still failed. At the birthday banquet of the old marquis, Miss Shen San, who came back from the countryside, suddenly revealed the truth!
This is simply a public scandal! The Nanyang Marquis Mansion’s face was thrown to the ground and trampled on!
The many guests all laughed in their hearts and watched the fun with great interest.
"Master, I am really wronged!" Aunt Hua's eyes turned red, she covered her face with her handkerchief and sobbed, "I have no enmity with Miss Third, and she was raised in the countryside since she was a child. Why should I insist on this?" What about killing her?"
Xiao Lingyue looked at her sarcastically.
She doesn’t need to explain this reason.
The bandit brother, who was eager to shirk the blame, blurted out: "For the third lady's marriage!"
Aunt Hua: "..."
"I remember you said personally that you had a grudge against the third lady's biological mother, so you didn't want her to marry into a high family, lest she find out the truth and come back to take revenge on you! You also said that anyway, she was raised in the country since she was a child, and the Marquis doesn't care. This daughter, just treat her as if she died in the countryside, no one will care!"
The bandit brother gave a full explanation: "I only believed what you said, so I accepted this business to kill people for you, and now you don't even admit it!"
Marquis Nanyang looked at Aunt Hua in disbelief.
"I didn't! I really didn't..." Aunt Hua cried and shook her head, her delicate body crumbling.
Aunt Hua's biological daughter, Second Miss Shen Yuting, stood up.
She said righteously: "Dad, I believe that my aunt has not done such a thing. She has been married to you for so many years, managed the backyard for you, and treated many sisters as her own. How could she hate the third sister alone? I can prove it. , Four days ago, my aunt has been with me, and she has absolutely no chance to meet outsiders. It is clearly this bandit who was instigated by others to slander my aunt!"
The bandit brother stared and yelled: "You are talking nonsense!" Popular 『』