Wenren Chun took a team of men according to the location his daughter gave him, setting off to find Minister Yun's younger daughter.
If he could rescue Yunjian this time, what would he still have to fear from being targeted?
Minister Yun's younger sister was Consort Yun in the palace, after all!
It was a pity that after he and his men ambushed the mountains for half a day, they never waited for the person they were supposed to meet.
Until the sky grew dark, he still had not waited for anyone. Furious, Wenren Chun returned to the manor, kicked open his daughter's bedroom door, and lashed Wenren Shuang across the head and face with his horse whip.
Having been beaten for no apparent reason, Wenren Shuang could only curl herself into a ball under her father's violent rage, trying her best to keep Wenren Chun from hitting her face.
There were no plastic surgery techniques in ancient times, so if her face got ruined, how was she supposed to have a passionate romance with the male lead?
Only afterwards did Wenren Shuang learn that Wenren Chun had followed the address she gave him and waited there in vain for an entire day.
Wenren Shuang could not believe it. She had practically read the original novel until it fell apart, so how could she have remembered the plot wrong?
Unwilling to give up, she sent her maid out to gather information and see if any news of Minister Yun's youngest daughter's disappearance had spread through the capital.
Once the maid finished gathering the news and told her what had happened that afternoon, she sat on the bed, her entire person enveloped in a gloomy, chilling aura!
That cannon-fodder female actually still wanted to defy the heavens and change her fate?
A mere cannon fodder.
A legitimate daughter born to a concubine-born son actually wanted to surpass her, the legitimate daughter born to a legitimate son?!
She absolutely would not allow it.
Why did she think her eldest uncle Wenren Qiao was a concubine-born son?
Because she felt that since Wenren Qiao's biological mother had died and his biological father had remarried, placed in a legitimate-versus-concubine novel, he was the absolute picture of a concubine-born son.
Therefore, Wenren Luoshui and Wenren Qingluo, whom Wenren Qiao fathered, were simply the legitimate eldest daughter and the legitimate son born to a concubine-born son in a legitimate-versus-concubine novel.
This logic of hers was utterly mind-boggling even when placed in ancient times.
Who told her that the distinction between legitimate and concubine status worked like this?
Probably in the entire Great Li Kingdom, she was the only one who thought this way.
The emperor had been angered half to death by his good brother Wenren Qiao yesterday.
After helping out at the shop, Wenren Qiao had run off to the palace under the banner of visiting his good brother, but actually went to show off in front of him.
He asked the emperor if he had ever ridden a tiger.
The emperor had secret guards by his side, and whatever happened in the capital was reported to him at the very first moment.
Coupled with Wenren Luoshui strolling all over the streets with a tiger and not meaning to hide it in the slightest, he wouldn't need to continue being emperor if he didn't know what had happened.
The emperor couldn't be bothered to deal with this silly, simple-minded brother and buried his head back in handling official business.
Wenren Qiao didn't care about the emperor's attitude and continued to share his joy in front of him.
Consequently, during today's morning court session, the emperor actually asked Wenren Luoshui if she could bring the tiger into the palace for him to see.
Wenren Luoshui: ...
Since the emperor himself had spoken, could she possibly refuse?
Today's morning court session was still very boring. A bunch of people who played politics would start arguing at the slightest disagreement. When scholars fought, they used no vulgarities; sometimes, if your literary cultivation wasn't deep enough, you couldn't even understand what the other party was saying.
[So sleepy, let me see what juicy gossip there is.]
Everyone in the morning court session: ! ! ! !
Some people felt:
No, if you're bored, can't you go practice the skill of standing and sleeping?
Why dig for gossip when nothing is wrong?
Another group of people was full of anticipation:
I really want to know which colleague will become that lucky person today!
[Salty Fish System: This system recommends General Zhu's gossip.]
[Him? What kind of gossip could his family possibly have?]
[Salty Fish System: The host can look for herself. I still have to go back for training today.]
[Is this training of yours something that you have to attend every single day once it's scheduled?]
[Salty Fish System: It's a long story. The host can wait until I come back to explain it to you.]
The crowd waiting for the gossip: Can you finish eating the gossip first before discussing other matters?
General Zhu: Gossip about my family?
What kind of gossip could my family have?
General Zhu Yulou was a military general. His personality was relatively straightforward, but he was also famously doting on his wife in the capital.
All these years, he had only married one wife. He had seen his wife go through what was practically a trip through the gates of hell just to give birth, so even though his wife only bore him a single daughter, he insisted that his wife not have any more children, and even went so far as to take a sterility-inducing decoction himself.
Therefore, he and his wife treated their only beloved daughter like she was held in the palms of their hands and cherished.
[Oho! This General Zhu is quite a real man; when he said he wouldn't let his wife give birth anymore, he actually went and drank a sterility-inducing decoction himself!]
[Wait, such a good man-was he actually this miserable?]
Zhu Yulou: No, how am I miserable?
Little Princess, why don't you make yourself clear?
Could it be that something happens to my wife later on?
Or is it that the family my daughter marries into in the future won't be good?
Thinking of this, killing intent continuously welled up from Zhu Yulou's body.
Whoever dared to mistreat his daughter, he dared to pick up his long spear and storm their doorstep!
Even if his daughter couldn't get married in the future, the worst that could happen was that he would raise his daughter for the rest of his life!
The surrounding colleagues hurriedly stepped forward to pull him back. The emperor clearly hadn't had enough gossip yet; if you act on impulse like this and let the little princess know that we can all hear her inner voice, what will we do if she blocks us out in the future?
Held back by the crowd, Zhu Yulou finally recovered some of his sanity, suppressed the thoughts in his heart, and continued to eavesdrop on the little princess's inner voice.
[Turns out General Zhu's wife wasn't the girl he fell in love with at first sight back then!]
General Zhu: ? ? ? ?
What was she saying?
Lady Hui had always looked like that, so how could he have misidentified her?
Besides, he had never heard of Lady Hui having any sisters in her family. The little princess must have seen wrongly!
Everyone else: So, who is General Zhu's current wife? And how did she fool General Zhu?
If they remembered correctly, General Zhu came from a poor background, and he was forcibly conscripted as a soldier in his youth.
During the span of ten years, he never sent a single word or line home. Just when his family thought he had died on the battlefield, he returned to his hometown in glory.
Upon returning, he first informed his parents of his experiences over the years, and then said he wanted to take them to live in the capital.
Immediately following that, he went to his neighbor's house and visited them, stating that he wanted to marry their daughter as his wife. Fearing that the other party would not agree, he even offered a hefty bride price.
Over the past few decades, General Zhu and his wife had lived in harmony. His degree of doting on his wife even reached the point where when people said he was henpecked, he would only respond with a silly laugh and admit it.
[Is this fake Lady Zhu's true identity this dramatic?]
Although everyone didn't understand what "dramatic" meant in the little princess's mouth.
Judging from the context, however, it probably meant something akin to unbelievable.
So what was this fake Lady Zhu's true identity?
If not for the fact that everyone couldn't directly ask out loud, Wenren Luoshui's presence right now would probably have been surrounded to the point of complete impenetrability.
While everyone was agonizing in suspense waiting for the truth, I directly dropped a pair of bombshells.
[Heh!]
[As it turns out, the real Lady Zhu was killed by the fake Lady Zhu's accomplices half a month before General Zhu returned.]
[This fake Lady Zhu actually turned out to be a spy specially trained by Wa nation?!]