The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

"Absolutely not!" Zeng Fu, sweating profusely, tried to stop Huang Ming, who was already feeling dizzy.

However, Huang Ming comforted him nonchalantly, "Don't worry, I'm very good at this. A few years ago, I had a conflict with a country bumpkin from another place, and I used this trick to chop off his hand. Everyone thought that he chopped off his hand to frame me, and I was cursed and despised by everyone!"

Zeng Fu also knew about this.

But the reason why this matter did not become a big deal was entirely because the prefect of Jingzhao at that time was a useless person. Old man Huang exchanged something with the other party to save Huang Ming. However, Huang Ming, a good-for-nothing who only knew how to suck the blood of his family to do evil things, did not take this matter to heart at all.

The previous prefect of Jingzhao was also dismissed due to corruption, but although he was extremely greedy, he was still smart. Before the incident, he destroyed all the account books of his dealings with high-ranking officials in the court and the case documents that he had settled.

After the current Jingzhao prefect took office, he posted a reward list for redressing injustices outside the prefecture gate for more than half a year. He also sent out yamen runners who had also been purged to visit various places and arrested several typical examples. Those who deserved to be beheaded were beheaded, and those who deserved to be exiled were exiled. Only then were those who committed crimes in the dark in the capital city completely suppressed.

However, no matter how dedicated the Jingzhao prefect was, he was still unable to redress all the unjust cases when all the files were lost, and Huang Ming was one of the unjust cases that slipped through the net.

The man whose hand he had maliciously framed and chopped off was a merchant from another place. He won two games from Huang Ming in the gambling house, so he began to hate him. Later, the merchant lost his arm and disappeared not long after.

Under the joint suppression of the Huang family and the former prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, this matter was only spread in a small circle for a while and then there was no further news.

It was just that Huang Ming would occasionally mention it when he was having a party with the playboys to show off his ability. As for the so-called everyone who sneered at and insulted the merchant for not knowing what was good for him and taking the initiative to cut off his arm for his livelihood just to frame Huang Ming, in fact, the "everyone" here only included the few lackeys that Huang Ming was used to using.

Looking at his ignorance, fearlessness and extremely complacent appearance, Zeng Fu, while feeling deeply regretful, couldn't help but think that he might as well just go to Jingzhao Prefecture and report this guy himself, so as to avoid the matter from getting out of hand and becoming irreversible.

However, because everyone at the scene was holding Huang Ming, no one thought it was inappropriate. To prevent them from doing something to him, Zeng Fu could only smile bitterly and said, "Brother Huang, you misunderstood. Although I wasted my time in the early years, I have learned a lot from studying hard recently. I am very confident that I can pass this subject."

Huang Ming looked at Zeng Fu suspiciously.

Zeng Fu added fuel to the fire: "I regard Brother Huang as a true brother, how come you don't even have this little confidence in your brother?"

He pretended to be angry and was about to walk away. Huang Ming got anxious as soon as he saw him. "I was wrong. I underestimated you. You are scholars after all. Scholars have their own problems. You know better. I won't get involved."

The two of them smiled at each other.

Zeng Fu finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and made an excuse that it would be better to write a manifesto against Lin Qiao first, and at the same time let the adults see everyone's literary talent so that they could see it with their own eyes. He successfully postponed the time for the few people to cause trouble for a few days.

But this was actually what Zeng Fu had originally intended to do - let Huang Ming be the leader of the trouble. After he was "shocked" at how such a ridiculous and bizarre thing could happen in the world, he would then be "filled with righteous indignation" and write a brilliant article to express his indignation for the scholars who were squeezed out of the list because of Lin Qiao's existence. He could then easily enhance his reputation. At the same time, if Huang Ming was found out and brought to justice, he would still have room to protect himself.

Although the Xie Hou Party was powerful, they did not have the final say in the court. As long as he completed this vote, Zeng Fu could go to the camp of those adults who were opposed to the Xie Hou Party with a good reputation and the banner of justice...

Unfortunately.

This stupid guy Huang Ming eventually ruined all of Zeng Fu's plans.

Zeng Fu finally got out of the restaurant and returned home, feeling extremely anxious. He didn't even change his clothes and went straight to the main room in the inner courtyard. Fortunately, Mrs. Zeng was there. When she saw Zeng Fu rushing in aggressively, she put down the medicine bowl in her hand and asked, "My son, what happened?"

"Mother, where is the maid from before?" Zeng Fu asked anxiously. The maid had not been sent back to the government office as he told Huang Ming, but was held as a card in Zeng Fu's hand. In order to prevent the matter from being exposed in advance, he asked Madam Zeng to find a proper place to accommodate the maid first.

Madam Zeng: "I sent her to a manor outside the city. Your father gave me that manor a few years ago. The head of the manor is from my mother's family and is the most reliable."

"Mother, please ask someone to bring her back quickly. She...Ah!" Zeng Fu sighed heavily. He originally thought that it was a good card, but now it has become a hot potato.

How can I extricate myself from this matter?

Surrender to the Yongjia Marquisate?

But she already has her own "good sister" on the other side. She doesn't know how much privacy that stupid woman who traveled through time has revealed to the Yongjia Marquisate. When she exchanged bodies with Zeng Suqiu, she never restrained the bad habits she developed in modern times, such as being careless and not afraid of status.

Whenever I think of Fu Qingsu.

Zeng Fu had a headache, and not only that, he also had a dull pain in the place where he had been beaten by the other party.

Just as Zeng Fu was racking his brains to think about how to protect himself from the coming storm, another person couldn't help but start jumping up and down.

This man was none other than He Sangrou's husband, General Yao, who had lost face and his real job in the southwest.

General Yao was the third child in his family, so people called him Yao San.

Yao's house.

Yao San stared with bloodshot eyes and repeatedly asked He Sangrou: "Is what Madam said true?"

"Then Queen Xie's cousin is really a girl, but she wore men's clothes to take the imperial examination?!"

"How could I lie to my husband?" He Sangrou said in her most gentle and decent tone, "I also hope that my husband can make further progress. Madam Dong Er has been my good friend for many years. This time I can't save her, so I thought of saving her old friend who has two faces around her, which can be regarded as the friendship between us. But I never thought that it would involve such a serious matter. So, I quickly asked someone to invite my husband over."

"I am a woman in the inner house, and I don't know much about the things between you men. Everything has to be decided by my husband." He Sangrou said, using a handkerchief to press the mist from the corners of her eyes, "But you are so mean as soon as you come in..."

After the couple returned to the capital in disgrace, they went to the He family for help several times but failed. When they returned home, they were fed up with each other - or it could be said that Yao San was unilaterally fed up with his wife, while He Sangrou only thought that her husband was fooled by his two new concubines. She also secretly resented her family for not helping, which caused her husband to be angry with her and deliberately get close to other women.

Not only did he lose his real job, but he was also impeached by Zhu Queyin these days for instructing his old subordinates to deliberately delay the rescue troops and kill the female mountain generals led by Yan Yunyi to avenge personal vengeance. How could Yao San, who was under investigation by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War, let go of this life-saving straw?

"It's my fault. I was blinded by greed and neglected you. Madam, please tell me what happened."