After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

After Zheng Xian sent the people away, he walked into the inner room and sat in the main seat. He looked at me and Yi Ping and asked calmly, "Why do you want to recognize your relatives?"

Yiping hid behind me and dared not speak.

I thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, didn't you guess it? The Du family is the descendant of loyal martyrs, and the whole family is clean. Lord Du is upright, and Mrs. Du is intelligent and virtuous. The family tradition is noble and clear. If Yi Ping recognizes them as his parents, his second half of life will be guaranteed."

After a long while, Zheng Xian finally said, "Your father is indeed a bit of a bastard, but he is not so bad as to run off and recognize someone else as his father while he is still alive and well. When your father comes back, I am afraid he will have a quarrel with me."

I looked straight at Zheng Xian and asked, "Are you afraid that he will make a scene?"

Zheng Xian was speechless after hearing my question.

I answered directly, "I'm not afraid. Since he can abandon the two children to the countryside and leave them there without any care, it means he doesn't plan to have these two children. In this case, why should I be afraid of him making a fuss? What's wrong with an orphan finding a relative? I'm actually afraid of someone who has nothing to do with me making a fuss. Isn't this a joke?"

Everyone in the hall, except me, looked different.

Zheng Xian's expression was particularly ugly. He really didn't expect that I would embarrass him in public.

Du Changfeng, who had been following closely behind, found that it was a wrong decision not to go with his parents.

Wei Yi kept wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, but he didn't know how to ease the depressing atmosphere.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened, and Gongsun Wen walked out. He walked straight to Zheng Xian and said, "I think what Ah Man said makes sense. Since you have chosen to abandon your children, you should not ask about their affairs anymore."

Zheng Xian finally found an outlet to vent his anger. He pointed at Gongsun Wen and cursed, "Gongsun Ziyan, have you thrown all the principles of monarch and subject to the dogs? Who allowed you to be so presumptuous in front of me? Kneel down before me!"

Gongsun Wen took a deep breath and slowly knelt down.

As soon as Zheng Xian stretched out his hand, Wei Yi immediately understood and put a horsewhip in Zheng Xian's hand.

Zheng Xian's face didn't look good, but he seemed to be in good spirits and his eyes were still sharp. Everyone was frightened by his dragon power and knelt down with their heads almost buried in the ground.

I still stood straight, looking at Zheng Xian who looked like a man-eating man, without flinching at all.

Zheng Xian took the horsewhip and whipped Gongsun Wen hard on the back. There was a "snap" sound. Gongsun Wen shivered involuntarily in pain, but he still straightened his back, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

Zheng Xian said, "I am here to teach you what filial piety is. Sheep kneel to their mothers to show their gratitude for feeding them, and crows repay their parents by feeding them. Filial piety is the law of heaven and the righteousness of earth. Even if your parents do something wrong, how can you say anything about them?"

Zheng Xian's horsewhip hit Gongsun Wen's back again and again. Soon, blood oozed out of Gongsun Wen's back, which was terrifying to see.

I always feel that every word and sentence Zheng Xian says has hidden meaning, just like a father who is very disappointed with his son and is teaching him with great pain.

Father teaching his son?

As soon as this thought came to my mind, I was stunned.

I looked at them both carefully, and it's true that they look quite similar.

I seemed to know something great and all the previous puzzles were answered from this moment.

I have never understood why Zheng Xian was so indulgent towards Gongsun Wen. Even when he escaped from the capital and was caught, not only was he not punished, but he was also provided with good food and drink. Apart from being his son, who else could receive such treatment?

I guess Zheng Xian beat Gongsun Wen on purpose this time to show me. He may have been dissatisfied with me in his heart for a long time, but he didn't dare to go too far with me because he wanted to borrow my luck, so he had to hold back his anger. Today, he finally found an outlet to vent his anger and "beat" Gongsun Wen to show me some color.

The sound of the whip hitting his flesh again and again made people tremble, but Gongsun Wen still knelt stubbornly with his chest straight, his lips bitten and blood dripping.

I really couldn't bear to watch it, so I strode over and found myself kneeling in front of Zheng Xian facing Gongsun Wen with a "snap". The horsewhip hit me hard on the back, and I cried out in pain, and my body bent like a shrimp.

Gongsun Wen was so frightened that he quickly reached out to support me and shouted, "What are you doing?"

No one dared to stop the beating of Gongsun Wen just now, but when I was hit, a bunch of people immediately gathered around me.

The first one to rush towards me was Wei Yi. He walked up to me tremblingly, knelt on the ground with a "bang", and cried, "Your Majesty, if you want to hit me, hit me. I have thick skin and flesh, so I am not afraid of being hit, but my body cannot bear a few more whips."

Yi Ping also rushed towards me crying and shouted to Zheng Xian: "Your Majesty, if you want to hit me, hit me. I am strong and not afraid of being hit."

Du Changfeng was also frightened by the beating, and he crawled to Zheng Xian, stammering, "Your Majesty, today's incident was caused by my parents. If you want to hit me, hit me. I am willing to take it for my parents."

At this time, Ankang also came in, knelt behind me, and shouted with Yingchun and the other little girls: "Your Majesty, I deserve to die. Please beat me if you want."

Zheng Xian's hand holding the whip was shaking so much that he couldn't hit them any further. He was so angry that he threw the whip out and shouted, "Get out! Get out of here!"

No one dared to disobey Zheng Xian, so everyone ran out in panic amid Zheng Xian's roar.

Gongsun Wen was seriously injured, and Ankang helped him walk out slowly. I was only whipped once, and the injury was not serious, but it hurt when I stood up. With Yiping's support, I walked out of the main room with my back bent.

A group of us all stood outside the main house, not daring to move.

Only Zheng Xian and Wei Yi were left in the main room. All the guards and eunuchs who served Zheng Xian were driven outside to wait, and no one was allowed to enter.

After standing for a while, everyone was shivering with cold.

I think it's not a good idea for us to stand outside the door. No one knows when Zheng Xian's anger will subside. It's freezing cold out here. If we stand outside for a whole day, won't we freeze to death?

So I asked everyone to disperse, and asked Ankang to help Gongsun Wen go to the side room to get medicine, while Yiping and I went to the kitchen.

The aroma of food wafted through the kitchen, and there was chicken soup stewing in a clay pot on the stove. The fragrance was refreshing and the soup base was golden. I couldn't help swallowing a few times when I saw it.

Yiping fiddled with the food for a while and prepared a few dishes. Then I carried the chicken soup into the main room myself.

Zheng Xian sat in the main seat and dozed off with his eyes closed, while Wei Yi stood beside him and rubbed his shoulders.

I put the chicken soup on the side table next to Zheng Xian and said, "This freshly cooked chicken soup is so delicious. Drinking a bowl of it on such a cold day will definitely make you less irritable."

Zheng Xian didn't even open his eyes and said slowly: "Who let you in? Get out."

I shook my head and said, "I won't leave. If I leave, no one will talk to you."

Zheng Xian suddenly opened his eyes and looked at me, and then closed his eyes again after a long while.

Seeing that Zheng Xian didn't chase me away again, I quickly said, "Yiping just cooked a few dishes. I asked someone to bring them over. Please help yourself. When you are full, you won't have any temper."