I swept the harem by pretending to be weak

Liu Zhilan expressed her thoughts to her parents hesitantly, leaving them stunned.

"You mean... you fell in love with an unknown handsome young man?" Liu Ming said this hesitantly, but his heart was full of shock. He could never have imagined that his youngest daughter would cause such a big trouble.

Liu Zhilan's subsequent narration almost made him drop his jaw, because Liu Zhilan not only saw the handsome young man, but even exchanged tokens with him, and they were just one step away from getting engaged.

It was obvious that his other daughters were basically excellent, although they had some flaws more or less, their merits outweighed their flaws. Why did it become like this with his youngest daughter? He had previously thought of sending Zhilan to the palace to give Liu Zhirou an arm, but this time Liu Ming quickly deleted this idea from his mind.

Liu Zhilan was able to do such a thing while still in the boudoir. If she were sent to the palace, who knows how big a trouble it would cause. It is even possible that the whole family would be implicated. He did not want to gamble the lives of his entire family with Liu Zhilan, but it was not a good idea for him to reject Liu Zhilan directly.

Liu Ming pondered for a moment and decided that the best way was to let his wife, Zhao, reprimand Liu Zhilan. After all, Liu Zhilan should be under Zhao's care now. The fact that Liu Zhilan could make such a shameless request was obviously due to Zhao's inadequate education.

So Liu Ming didn't say much, just glanced at Zhao beside him.

Zhao was obviously stunned by her little daughter's words and her face turned pale. She could never have imagined that Liu Zhilan would make such a request, which was really out of line for her daughter. If she knew this, she would never have brought Liu Zhilan to see Liu Ming.

She was anxious and angry, with an obvious blush on her fair face. She scolded loudly: "Are you crazy? Do you know that you are still a girl? Do you want to have a reputation? If you act like this, maybe even your sister will be implicated by you!"

"You don't want to live anymore. Do you want your whole family to be buried with you?"

Liu Zhilan grew up in a pampered environment. It was the first time she encountered such a strict mother. She was shocked and her eyes were red. "No, then no. Why do you have to scold me like this?"

Just when the Liu family was in chaos, an oral order from the palace came.

The person in charge of delivering the message was a young eunuch, who could barely be considered Liu Zhirou's confidant. Liu Ming was also very respectful to the young eunuch, and of course he could not care about continuing to scold his little daughter, but hurried out to greet him.

"Father, you have worked hard in the palace serving the nobles. This is a small token of my appreciation. Please have some tea." Liu Ming said with a smile on his face. He handed over a purse made by a skilled worker. The eunuch pinched it and found that it was light and probably contained silver bills, so he also forced a smile: "There is nothing serious in our family. It's just that the Empress suddenly thought of her sisters and said that they are all doing well. There is only one person who is worried about her, that is your fourth daughter. She wants to ask how the fourth daughter is doing now."

Liu Ming was very surprised. To be honest, he really didn't understand the purpose of this oral instruction from his daughter Liu Zhirou.

If she was concerned about the news about her half-sister Liu Zhilan, then it might not be surprising. After all, the two sisters grew up together and naturally had a deep relationship. Although they had just learned about Zhilan's meeting with a man outside, and it was unclear how the empress in the palace knew about it, there was still an explanation.

But Liu Zhijin - Liu Ming really couldn't figure out why Liu Zhirou suddenly cared about this illegitimate sister.

When they were at home, the relationship between Liu Zhirou and Liu Zhijin was not very good. Although Liu Zhirou's attitude seemed to have changed a little before leaving, and she took better care of her half-sister Liu Zhijin, their feelings were not that deep after all.

Moreover, everyone knew that in order to resolve the hostility of Duke Deng's mansion towards the Liu family, Liu Zhijin had been sent to Duke Deng's son as a concubine. After that, she was no longer an innocent daughter, and it was impossible for her to have a good fate in the future.

Liu Mingken reached out to rescue his daughter when Duke Deng's family was ruined, instead of watching her fend for herself. He felt that he had done her the best he could do for her, and he would clean her up, let her stay out of the spotlight for a few years, and then marry her to a shop owner, or a landlord with a few acres of land. That would be the best he could do.

Such a person will not play any role in the real high-end society. To put it bluntly, whether she is dead or alive, her relationship with the Liu family will not matter much. To Liu Zhirou who is far away in the palace, she is even more insignificant.

But Liu Zhirou sent people out of the palace to ask, but she didn't ask her mother, her half-sister, or him as her father, but only asked Liu Zhijin. It was really confusing.

But Liu Ming is excellent in one thing, that is, he is very aware of the current situation. No matter how many question marks he has in his mind, as long as Liu Zhirou opens the door, he will definitely carry out the plan well.

When they were at home, she was the father and Liu Zhirou was the daughter. He had absolute leadership and control over Liu Zhirou, but now the situation has changed. Liu Zhirou is a noble in the palace, and he is just a businessman who depends on the noble.

He was very able to position himself properly and would never boss people around by relying on the fact that he had raised them. He even still acted like a father.

After Liu Ming sent his father-in-law away, he immediately sent someone to the farm to check on Liu Zhijin's condition, but he received shocking news.

Liu Zhijin is missing.

If Liu Zhirou had not spread the news in the palace to ask Liu Zhijin, this would not be a big deal. A woman who has lost her virginity is just living a miserable life even if she is alive. There are many possibilities for her disappearance. Maybe she just couldn't stand the hopeless future, so she found a place to jump into the river and committed suicide. It would be enough to send someone to cancel her household registration.

But since she had become the person that the Empress had specifically mentioned for her concern, Liu Ming could not just get away with it like that. So the entire Liu family was alarmed again. Liu Ming did not bother to investigate Liu Zhilan's mischief. He sent many of his men to find the root of the matter. He went to the village and interrogated those people over and over again, but no one could explain clearly how Liu Zhijin disappeared.

Things have reached an impasse.