C17 Decline

He had to admit that Zheng Ji was bold enough to take out the crown prince to suppress the Prince Li.

This way, Xiao Chengyi really couldn't say anything more.

He changed the topic and stroked the thumb ring on his finger as if he was talking about a normal thing, and said indifferently: "I heard that ten years ago, Third Miss from Minister Mansion went missing, and recently came back. It seems that Master Zheng does not want to recognize this daughter of his, what is going on?"

After knowing Zheng Ji for more than ten years, Xiao Chengyi was the one who knew his weakness the most.

As such, when Mu Qianyu barged in that day, he was unwilling to recognize her because she did not want others to know that she had such a battered daughter.

Xiao Chengyi rarely used women to threaten others.

In his opinion, using a woman as a chess piece was not a gentleman at all.

However, this time was an exception, as he had no other choice. Even though he knew that Mu Qianyu was listening outside, he still said it out loud without any hesitation.

Zheng Ji's expression turned cold, and the hand placed on the table trembled slightly.

"This humble subject does not know where Your Highness found out about this matter, but this is my family matter. This humble subject thinks that Your Highness should not have the authority to inquire about it."

Even his tone had turned slightly colder.

"Does that mean Master Zheng doesn't want to agree with this king's request?"

Xiao Chengyi's expression was cold as he turned his head to glance at Zheng Ji, and asked: "Then what must I do before I am willing to part with you?"

"This humble subject has already said, that Seven-colored Lotus has long been used up by this slut, so it's not that this humble subject does not want to help Your Highness, it's just that this humble subject is truly powerless."

Zheng Ji rejected his bluntly.

Xiao Chengyi frowned, his right hand clenched into a fist, his expression cold.

Luo Jin silently stood at the side and could already feel the cold energy radiating from his own prince.

He thought to himself, this Zheng Ji is really not a good person, relying on his own support from the crown prince, he does not put Master in his eyes.

"Luo Jin."

Xiao Chengyi did not speak anymore, as he got up and prepared to leave.

At this point, Zheng Ji's attitude was very clear, the Seven-colored Lotus would definitely not be taken out easily.

Therefore, he still had to make this old thing suffer a bit.

"Little beggar, how did you get in!"

Zheng Huaiyuan's angry voice suddenly came from outside.

Hearing that, Zheng Ji's face instantly changed.

She anxiously turned her body, wanting to stop Xiao Chengyi.

Unfortunately, Xiao Chengyi had already seen through his intentions, coldly glared at him, and walked out of the courtyard.

"Big brother, you want to hit me again?"

The courtyard had long since been thrown into chaos.

Zheng Huaiyuan brought seven or eight servants with him as he went everywhere to capture Mu Qianyu.

That girl's body was nimble, and there were many flowers and plants in the yard.

So when she dodged left and right, she didn't do anything. Instead, it made the servants breathless from exhaustion.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that she was pretending to be pitiful, Zheng Huaiyuan was so angry that he almost died. With a pale face and scarlet eyes, he leaped up and was about to grab Mu Qianyu.

However, just as he landed, Mu Qianyu suddenly took out a handful of dates, walnuts, cinnamon and other items from her pocket and scattered them all on the ground.

Zheng Huaiyuan was caught off guard. With his feet on the walnut, he leaned forward unsteadily.

With a bang, he fell to the ground.

However, the ground was still littered with dates. It was so painful to the touch.

"Big brother, why are you like this? These things were brought here to fill up my stomach at someone else's wedding. How did you crush them?"

Mu Qianyu crouched down and picked up the crushed jujube sorrowfully.

Zheng Huaiyuan was so angry that he almost spat out blood.

He got up from the ground in a sorry state and raised his hand to hit his opponent.

It just so happened that Xiao Chengyi came out. Mu Qianyu rolled her eyes, quickly ran to Xiao Chengyi's back, tightly grabbed onto his clothes, and shouted loudly: "Prince Li save me, big brother wants to beat me to death."

It was as if everything that had happened earlier had long since been forgotten by her.

On the other hand, the expression of Xiao Chengyi, who was grabbed by her clothes, faltered slightly.

Looking at the spots on his snow-white robe, he couldn't help but frown.

This girl was actually purposely dirtying his clothes.

"Prince Li, I'm telling you, Zheng Ji is really my father. Ten years ago, he killed my mother, killed my mother's maid, and chased me out of the palace. Now that I have fallen so low, he did not even give me a single bite of food.

"Prince Li, I know you are the most impartial and selfless one, so you must uphold justice for me in this matter."

Since this Prince Li wanted to use his own matters to make a deal with that old thing Zheng Ji.

Then he would give him this chance to see just how that old thing behaved.

"Nonsense."

Zheng Ji almost fainted from her words, he could not help but point at her and say angrily: "Your mother is indeed a member of my Zheng Mansion, but you also know how she died back then. Her actions were disrespectful, and she deserved to die, but you might not be my daughter, yet you dare to speak nonsense in front of Your Highness, do you want me to send you to the dungeon?"

"You finally admit that I'm your daughter?"

Mu Qianyu smiled, extended her hand and pulled off the bamboo hairpin on her head, revealing her long hair that was like a waterfall, and openly revealed herself as a woman.

She released Xiao Chengyi's hand and raised her head to look at him, then said: "Prince, I am indeed a girl, a Third Miss of Zheng Family, a daughter who was almost killed by Zheng Ji."