northernbook Chapter 356: Mother and daughter turn against each other, exchanging the truth about the banquet at
Chapter 356: Mother and daughter turn against each other, exchanging the truth about the banquet at
Shu Yue suddenly emerged from behind Guan Huizhi, her face full of anticipation, "Can you help me marry into the Nanyu Prince's Mansion?"
Shu He was stunned for a moment, then she felt speechless. It seemed like she was having an aversion to stupidity.
"Shu Yue, you are so naive... No, you are so stupid that it makes people feel pathetic!"
"you!!"
Guan Huizhi grabbed the impulsive Shu Yue, trying to grasp this last straw.
"Why should I trust you?"
Shu He glanced at her and asked, "Do you have a choice?"
Guan Huizhi hesitated for a moment, "What are your conditions? I don't believe that someone would help us for no reason!?"
Shu He looked at her, with an impulse surging in her heart, but she tried her best to suppress it.
She sat back in the armchair and said calmly, "Of course there are conditions!"
"I want to know everything your Shu family knew at the Left Prime Minister's flower banquet five years ago!"
Shu Yue was about to speak when Guan Huizhi stopped her. Her expression was slightly cold. "Didn't you already know about the Xiangfu Flower Banquet?"
"There's someone in our Shu family who doesn't want to..." She swallowed the word "face" back, feeling that saying this would scold Shu Yue as well.
"Our Shu family's eldest daughter, in order to pursue Prince Dongli, secretly drugged him, which led to that scandal. The whole of Kyoto knows about this, so what's there to ask?"
Shu He snorted lightly, his face showing no sign of emotion. He simply said, "Madam Shu, there's no need for such twists and turns between smart people, right?"
"Your Shu family is already at the end of its rope. What's the point of you still clinging to that matter?"
Even so, Guan Huizhi still looked determined and showed no signs of giving in.
This is their most important trump card, which may even save their lives, so they naturally dare not tell anyone about it.
Seeing this, Shu He opened and closed her eyes, as if she was thinking. Then she said, "Although I can't tell you my origins, I can reveal something else to you."
"There was another major event that happened on the same day as the Xiangfu Flower Banquet. I came here for another matter."
"The parties involved in these two incidents were both Baili Moqing, the then King of Dongli. I don't believe there is no connection between these two incidents."
"So, I need to know the specific truth about the Xiangfu Flower Banquet!"
Guan Huizhi's still charming face first racked her brains, then she thought of something and showed a bit of relaxation.
He asked hesitantly, "Are you the second...?" The prince's man.
Shu He interrupted her, "Some things, the less you know, the safer you are! Are you sure you want to tell me?"
Guan Huizhi looked solemn, and her words further confirmed her thoughts.
"But I haven't seen any benefits, and you want me to believe that you have the ability to protect my whole family?"
"I knew you would say that!" Shu He chuckled, "Why don't you go out and take a look?"
"What are you looking at?"
"Look who's back."
Guan Huizhi's face was full of confusion, "Come back?"
Who?
Could it be...
She looked slightly startled and quickly ran towards the door.
Shu Yue was confused and had no idea what they were saying.
For the first time, Shu Kelin felt like air, and no one could see him at all.
This woman only spoke to Guan Huizhi and Shu Yue and didn't take him seriously at all!
He is the head of the Shu family!
He sat aside, looking at her coldly, and only asked, "Who are you?"
Shu He squinted at him. His seemingly robust body had already lost its vitality. "I've been talking to Madam Shu for so long, but General Shu didn't understand?"
Anger showed on his face, but he had nothing to say.
Seeing this, she chuckled, a hint of sadness appearing on her face, "General Shu, it turns out that the person in charge of the Shu family is not you?"
A dignified fourth-rank military general could have his bright family ruined to this extent by a woman!
Shu Kelin! You finally paid the price for your infidelity!
"Since the general doesn't understand anything, why not just sit aside and listen quietly?"
"Yuanbao?!"
At this moment, Guan Huizhi's overjoyed voice sounded from afar, and Shu Kelin and Shu Yue understood.
She actually rescued Shu Yuanbao!
Didn't they say Shu Yuanbao killed someone in Baihua Tower? Why was he released?
Shu Yue looked at her in disbelief, "You actually have such great power?!"
Shu He shrugged lightly, as if to say, "This is not a difficult thing."
"Ms. Shu, can you tell me now? The truth about the banquet at the Prime Minister's Mansion!"
"No!" Shu Yue's eyes flashed with cruelty, and she suddenly regretted it. "If you want to know the truth of that year, the only way is to let me become the Princess of Nanyu!"
After saying that, she probably felt guilty and changed her words to, "Concubine!"
Zhang Zhirou laughed in anger, "You haven't given up on this idea yet? It's just wishful thinking!"
"I don't care. I won't say a word until I marry into the palace!"
Hearing Guan Huizhi's approaching footsteps, Shu He laughed instead of getting angry, "Really?"
"If I can get Shu Yuanbao out, I can naturally get him back in. Why don't you ask your mother: which is more important, your brother's life or your position as a concubine?"
Guan Huizhi stepped into the main hall and her expression immediately became fierce.
"It's you? Yuanbao got into trouble, was it you who did it?!"
Shu He didn't deny it, which meant he agreed.
Seeing this, Guan Huizhi became even more angry, "You are plotting against our Shu family?!"
"Hahaha!" Seeing her like this, Shu He suddenly burst into laughter.
This guy really doesn't feel pain until the stick hits him!
"Why, you are allowed to scheme against others, but others are not allowed to scheme against you?"
"Guan Huizhi, my patience is running out! If you keep dragging your feet, I promise that Prince Nanyu will send assassins to completely wipe out your Shu family tomorrow!"
Guan Huizhi hesitated, but the woman's calm and steady demeanor forced her to believe her words.
The government said that Yuanbao killed someone in public, and the person he killed was a woman kept by a wealthy businessman in Kyoto!
The rich businessman said that he didn't want compensation or apology, but wanted the murderer to pay with his life!
The person who no one could save suddenly came back!
This is enough to show how capable the woman in front of him is!
"I said!"
For the lives of the Shu family, she could only say!
"Mom! You can't tell me! If we tell me, all our cards will be gone!" Shu Yue tried to stop her in a hurry. She still wanted to fight and become the concubine of Prince Nanyu!
Only after she became a concubine, no one dared to talk about her affairs!
"Yue'er, Yuanbao has come out. Whether you are a concubine or not, you can't be one. It's better to save your life and escape from Kyoto. With our family background, we can make a living anywhere!"
Guan Huizhi has already thought about the future path.
Anyway, I can’t stay in Kyoto any longer, so I might as well get out as soon as possible!
If she were to go to another city, no one would recognize Shu Yue, and her scandals would naturally be the same as if they had never happened.
This may not be a bad thing for her!
"Mom!" Shu Yue looked at her in disbelief. "Didn't you say that I would stand in that high position? Wasn't it destined that I would be the one who was superior?"
Guan Huizhi's face was grim. Now her reputation...
"It's impossible now! Yue'er, don't even think about it!"
Shu Yue couldn't accept it and screamed like crazy, "But that's not what you just said! You said that I still have a chance if I take the secret and go find Prince Li!!"
"That's because Yuanbao is still in jail! Even if it's impossible, we have to create possibilities! But now it's different! Yuanbao is out, and all we have to do is save our lives!"
Guan Huizhi's angry shout shocked Shu Yue.
Ingots?
"Mom, could it be that all the things you asked me to do were for Yuanbao?"
I don't want her to be the best! I don't think she has that fate!
Everything was done so she could seduce Prince Nanyu and save Shu Yuanbao!
Guan Huizhi's face turned red, she felt embarrassed, ashamed, and a little apologetic.
"Yue'er, Yuanbao is your biological brother, born from the same mother! If you don't save him, who will?!"
Shu Yue felt like the sky was falling!
It turned out that she was being used in all this!
"Mom, I'm your daughter too! Are you going to sacrifice me for Yuanbao?"
Guan Huizhi avoided looking at Shu Yue's questioning eyes, but she was forced to look into theirs.
She was a little angry and shouted, "You want to climb up the ladder yourself, don't you? Otherwise, if I just say one word, will you agree immediately?"
"Aren't I helping you too?!"
Shu Yue was desperate and screamed at her, "You are not... at all!"
"enough!!"
Shu He's face showed obvious displeasure. She didn't come to watch the mother-daughter feud, she just wanted to know the truth of that year!
"Let's talk about your business later. Now, I want to know the truth of five years ago!"
They both fell silent.
Xingdaofang, Prince Li's Palace.
Xi Zhu came in quickly, his face solemn, "Your Highness, Shu Yuanbao has been released."
The wolf-hair brush stopped instantly under the candlelight. He looked up, and in his pair of dark eyes, hot flames were jumping, just like his surging emotions at the moment.