I'm not willing to be a cannon fodder for the female supporting role anymore

Chapter 73: The Proud Daughter of Heaven vs. the Reborn Prince 04

After a while, the princess said she was going to change her clothes and asked everyone to go to the back garden to appreciate the flowers first.

The female relatives and several young men stood up one after another and walked towards the back garden while chatting. Hua Yueli had no presence throughout the whole banquet, but at this moment she suddenly said that she wanted to talk with her sisters for a while.

Hua Mu never placed any restrictions on her making friends, so she just asked them to be careful, and then took her two daughters to enjoy the flowers and chat with the prime minister's wife and her daughter, and the censor's wife and her daughter.

After a while, a maid suddenly came to the garden and said that Princess Chu wanted to have a chat with Miss Hua.

It sounds a bit strange, but who would dare to have any evil thoughts in the Prince of Chu's Palace, so others didn't care.

Yueying grabbed her sister's arm and whispered to her to go talk to the noble ladies later. This was not a summons from the princess, and she already had a way to crack it.

Hua Yueqing thought about what happened today and nodded. After Yueying left with the maid, she followed her sister's wishes and went back to chat with her good friends.

Yueying was led to a small room by a maid, who prepared some wine and snacks for her and told her to wait.

In line with the principle of being extremely careful, she didn't touch anything. After half an incense stick of time, she suddenly heard a thump from behind the screen on the right. Yueying ran over and saw the coat scattered on the ground and a prince who was only wearing his underwear.

"How stupid! This is still possible."

Yueying was not so kind as to help him back to bed or give him a heart-clearing pill.

If you help him, he may take advantage of you. If you give him the Heart-Clearing Pill, you may be framed. Just bear the consequences of your stupidity. You deserve it if you are plotted against at the same time even after your rebirth.

She turned around and tried to open the door, but it was locked.

Just as she was wondering whether to break into the house or wait for someone to catch her in adultery, she felt a little hot. Without trying to find the source, she thought of the incense.

I was actually careless.

But she had Qingxin Pills, otherwise who knew what would happen to her in a while. After swallowing the pills, she slammed against the door twice, but her body was not strong enough.

He looked at the chair in the room, picked it up without hesitation, and smashed it against the window again and again. After a few hits, the chair stopped in the middle and Yueying jumped out of the window on the chair.

Who would have thought that as soon as I landed, I saw one, two, three, four... five people standing in the yard.

Because she had just smashed the window with a chair and was injured, and she also climbed through the window, her current appearance - her clothes and hair were a little messy, and her face was a little red, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that she was conscious.

"Princess, I don't know which servant played such a joke on me and locked me in the room. I had to break the window to get out."

Yueying smiled generously and adjusted her hair and clothes.

"Is your sister the only one in the room?"

Hua Yueli's voice was neither loud nor soft. Yueying snorted coldly and glared at her with a sharp look.

"Of course. If there were someone else, the combined strength of two people should be able to directly break down the door. Why would I have to crawl out of the window and make such a mess?"

"That's great. Li'er was worried that if there were other people around, it would ruin her reputation."

Hua Yueli smiled innocently, but it couldn't hide the naked anxiety in her eyes.

"Little sister, don't say anything nonsense. Sisters always share the same fate."

Yueying smiled at her. This was a warning. Regarding the prince's Chinese medicine, is there anyone on the other side of the screen? I don't know.

"Sister, since no one is here, why don't you open the door? After all, you made a mess in the room, and I can help you clean it up."

Hua Yueli's unwillingness to leave was too ugly. Yueying looked at her and thought, no wonder the supporting actress wanted to run away, how could such a heroine actually defeat her.

Except for Hua Yueqing, the other three present had all lived for thirty or forty years. Not to mention that they didn't know what had happened in the house, but just by looking at the aggressive look of the Third Miss as she tried to enter the room, they knew that something was going to happen.

"Miss Third, cleaning is the servants' job. The women are all in the backyard admiring the flowers."

Before Hua's mother could open her mouth to scold her, the princess spoke. This left Hua Yueli with no way to continue pestering and she had to follow Hua's mother out.

Ouyang Yanqing didn't say a word from beginning to end. He just looked at Hua Yueying quietly. He couldn't tell what he felt.

Originally, after his rebirth, he felt that it was another chance given to him by God, and he confidently wanted to protect Hua Yueli from the very beginning and prevent other men from getting entangled with her again.

But the first time he made a move, he saw things from a different perspective than in his previous life. He told himself that it was just an accident, and Li'er was too scared, so she didn't admit that she fell into the water because she wanted to pick lotus.

Later, just like in the previous life, Li'er appeared on time in the restaurants, soup kitchens, and outings in the suburbs where they had met before. She talked about the same topics as in the previous life, about how she was living under the roof of others in the general's mansion, how she read and wrote by picking up books and stationery that her sisters didn't want, and how her food, clothing and other expenses were cut.

The more they came into contact, the colder he felt, because what Hua Yueli didn't know was that Ouyang Yanqing wanted to protect her, so he sent a team of secret guards to protect her.

The secret guards reported that today, Madam Hua ordered five new sets of clothes for each of the three young ladies, today, Madam Hua made a jade hairpin for each of the three young ladies, today, Madam Hua bought new writing brushes, inkstones, paper and inkstones for the three young ladies, and today, each of the three young ladies received five taels of monthly salary...

When he asked the secret guards whether there were any young ladies or maids bullying Hua Yueli, the secret guards gave the same answer: except for eating, the three young ladies were doing their own things in their own courtyards every day. Every other day, the eldest young lady would play chess with the second young lady. As for the third young lady, no one bullied her. On the contrary, she had the worst temper among the three young ladies and liked to beat and punish the servants.

Later, from the secret guard's reply, he learned that Hua Yueqing liked playing the piano the most, and then painting in the yard and doing embroidery with Hua's mother.

Hua Yueli likes to read storybooks, and she now has a female teacher to teach her the arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When she is not studying, she likes to go out and play with her maidservants dressed as men. Occasionally, she is caught by her mother and is punished to practice calligraphy behind closed doors.

As for Hua Yueying, she was a person who surprised him. Although she got up the latest in the morning, every hour of her day was strictly arranged.

It was very similar to the lessons of the princes, one hour of calligraphy practice, rest for a while, another hour of piano practice, rest, another hour of dancing practice, dinner, then reading and going to bed. The next day, it was chess, painting, dancing practice, reading, and this cycle repeated every two days.

As for the mistress of the Hua Mansion, she was very good at ruling her servants and never treated them harshly. If the servants broke a vase or something, they would just be starved for a meal as a punishment, and not even a cent of their monthly salary would be deducted.

Ouyang Yanqing withdrew his thoughts. Although Hua Yueying was fine today and they all pretended that nothing had happened, he suddenly had a strong desire to find out the truth.

Hearing the noise in the house, he remembered that his elder brother should still be in the house, so he broke into the room and soon found his elder brother behind the screen.

Princess Chu personally took Yueying back to her bedroom to dress up.

"Do you remember the maid who led the second young lady there?"

"She was a little thin and dark, about as tall as my eyes, with a slightly large nose and a slightly protruding mouth. She lowered her head, so I couldn't tell how big her eyes were."

"Oh, there's a mole behind my right ear, about this location."

Yueying tried hard to recall.

"Is there anyone else in the house?"

"I was the only one in the house, so I was very scared, so I broke the window of the palace."

To be honest, at the beginning the Third Prince was looking for the Crown Prince who was resting, and the adopted daughter of the Hua family suddenly came and said that she couldn't find her elder sister. She was a little furious when she heard it.

The Crown Prince and the King of Chu are uncle and nephew, and he often came to the King of Chu's mansion when he was a child. Therefore, the Queen of Chu knew the Crown Prince's character very well, and it was impossible for him to do something dirty in her house. The only possibility was Miss Hua. Seeing that her and her sisters did not eat or drink at the banquet, she was not very satisfied with them.

However, these feelings of disgust disappeared the moment Princess Chu saw Yueying jump out of the window.

The Princess of Chu was a descendant of a military family and would not tolerate any injustice, so she immediately sent people to capture the servant.

Soon, the princess, Yueying, Madam Hua, Ouyang Honghe who had taken the antidote, and Ouyang Yanqing found a quiet room to interrogate the captured servants.

The servant who brought wine to the prince was called Li Yi, the maid who led Yueying to the room was called Xiaomei, and the one who helped the prince to rest was Ouyang Yanqing's guard.

Li Yi and Xiaomei insisted that it was Yueying herself who asked them to drug and ask Yueying to go to the room, which means that she directed and acted out everything herself.

The attitudes of several superiors were also different. The princess and Madam Hua did not believe it, Ouyang Yanqing was half-believing and half-doubting, while Ouyang Honghe believed it completely.

"Someone, come and beat him until he tells the truth."

The Princess of Chu called the servants and beat the man named Li Yi severely before asking.

"Who ordered you to do this? Think carefully and tell me."

"Princess, it really is the eldest daughter of the Hua family. She gave money to the maid just because she wanted to climb into the prince's bed. I remember now that the money given by the eldest daughter of the Hua family is still in the bag beside my bed."

"You are asking for your own death, hit me again."

The Princess of Chu had lived for so many years, and had seen all kinds of secrets. She pointed at Yueying and kept saying that it was Miss Hua, and the third girl of the Hua family led her to catch the adulterer, and the reason was that the eldest sister was missing.

"That's enough, auntie. They have all confessed. Why don't you believe it?"

Ouyang Honghe stared at Yueying standing next to Princess Chu with disgust, and said to her, "I don't know what kind of curse this woman cast on my aunt, why do the servants still believe this woman even though they have evidence?"

Yueying bowed respectfully.

"My Lady Princess, can you allow me to conduct the trial?"

"it is good."

Yueying only took one step forward, still far enough away from them to avoid being accused of threatening them.

"You two keep saying that it was Miss Hua who asked you to do something?"

"Correct."

"Then why did you lead me there?"

"You...you're not Miss Hua?"

When Xiaomei heard this, she thought of something and looked at Yueying in horror.

"If I had planned it myself, why would I tell you the wrong name? If by chance my eldest sister went there, not only would it ruin my eldest sister, but I myself would not be able to climb into the prince's bed, right?"

Yueying did not give a direct answer, because there was no need. She just wanted the superior to understand what she meant.

"I'm not afraid of being laughed at in this situation. I'm just overthinking it. I think my sister is already engaged to the Third Prince, so... it's probably a coincidence."

Yueying explained why she was the one in the room.

"Li Yi, Xiao Mei, do you have any relatives at home?"

"Yes... yes."

"Don't worry, I'm not a cruel person. If you two are worried about the Hua family, you can ask the Princess, the Third Prince, or even the Crown Prince to help take care of them."

Yueying spoke in a gentle tone throughout, and did not show any anger when she looked at the two servants who were slandering her.

The people around even felt as if Yueying was not there.

"I can stay with you two in the palace until I find all your family members. When you have thought it through, you can tell me the truth of today."

Li Yi and Xiaomei looked at each other. Yueying had a bad guess and quickly added a sentence.

"Of course, if you two insist on dying now to prove your loyalty, I won't stop you. Once I find all your family members, I will make them all die with my reputation. After all, you were the ones who ruined me first, so you can't blame me."

Yueying smiled faintly, but Li Yi felt that this lady was very scary.

Seeing that the two seemed to be in hesitation, Yueying thought about adding fuel to the fire.

"Think about it carefully, the two of you. Is your mastermind more powerful, or are these people in the hall more powerful?"

"I confess. I have a brother and sister who were captured by... Miss Hua San. Miss Hua San said that we only need to lead the eldest lady to that room. The other servants don't know."

"shut up!"

The prince was extremely angry and shouted, but he didn't expect that he would suddenly bite his sweetheart.

Xiaomei felt that what she had done was not serious, so after some thought, she confessed.

"Please, princess, please save my brother and sister."

Yueying looked at the furious prince coldly. How could such a man sit on the throne?

"Princess, Crown Prince, Third Prince, my Hua Mansion is avoiding suspicion and cannot participate in the rescue. Please..."

"What about you? What do you say?"

Ouyang Yanqing suddenly spoke to Li Yi. Xiaomei had changed her mind, so Li Yi could only ask the adults for help to save his wife and children.

The prince rushed to Li Yi in a panic and kicked him down.

"Don't frame Li'er, you damned slave!"

"Hold the prince."

Princess Chu looked at Ouyang Honghe who had lost his mind, and asked the butler and servants to pull him back to his seat and hold him down.

Yueying walked to the Crown Prince and the Third Prince's guards and looked at the guard who helped the Crown Prince to rest.

"Guard Li, may I ask why you left the prince to rest alone in the room?"

"When I left, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was just a little tipsy and said he wanted to sleep for a while, so I left."

Yueying turned around and took two steps towards the prince's personal guard.

"May I ask Guard Qin why you didn't follow the Crown Prince at that time?"