After the replacement marriage, I was forced to fight at home

Here, Zhou Yu and Meng Wan returned to Qinghe Garden, where Dongmei and Shanling had already prepared the meal. Meng Wan looked at the steaming wontons and said happily, "I just want to eat this. Who is so smart?"

Mother Kong poured the brewed health tea and said, "Although I have never been to the palace, I think that in such an occasion, with so many people, even if the food is exquisite, I am afraid that they will not dare to eat too much, so I simply asked Dongmei to prepare it first. I have sent someone to watch it. As soon as the Second Master and Second Madam left Junyueju, I put the pot on the stove here."

Zhou Yu walked out of the ear room, rolled up his sleeves and said, "You guys are very thoughtful. Let Chuan'er and Lvliu have a bowl to warm themselves up. Also, send a bowl to the outer courtyard. I'm afraid Wu Hen hasn't eaten it yet."

"Cai'er has just sent it there." Mother Kong said with a smile.

"This girl has really quick legs." Meng Wan sat down, squinting her eyes and taking a sip of soup comfortably. After the couple finished the whole pot of wontons, Zhou Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's finally warm."

Meng Wan stood up and pulled Zhou Yu into the inner room, listening to Chuan'er and the others quietly clearing the table outside until the door was closed.

"Isn't Chengtian Palace warm?"

"It's not that it's not warm, but in an occasion like today, with the door wide open like that, no one can stand it." Zhou Yu lazily leaned on the kang by the window.

Meng Wan went to pull him up, "Get up. Be careful of food accumulation after just eating. It will be good to stand for a while."

"It's just this one day. I'm too tired. I've been acting with Gao Yang and Li He for a whole day. If I didn't want to arouse other people's suspicion, I wouldn't have bothered to go into so many empty houses."

Meng Wan sat down next to him, "What happened? Did you arrange this in advance?"

Zhou Yu smiled and nodded, "This is all thanks to Meng Qi. If she hadn't led Hong Zhe to trust her and wanted to use her to manipulate the palace banquet, King Jing would have put all his energy into the arrangements over there, and we wouldn't have been so successful here."

Meng Wan understood. On the third day of the junior high school entrance examination, Meng Qi came back home and had a long talk with Hong Zhe. Hong Zhe felt that Meng Qi still had feelings for him and was still thinking about him, so he thought he could use her again.

Now that Prince Rui and the Crown Prince have been interacting more frequently, the Crown Prince's attention to Prince Rui has become more and more obvious. The reason why no one questioned it was because it was the Emperor's order. It was said that the Crown Prince was not in good health and could not handle several things, so the Emperor simply asked Prince Rui to stay with the Crown Prince to handle some chores.

You know, the emperor's several adult sons all have official positions, but Prince Rui has no real job, not even a nominal position. Everyone guessed that maybe Concubine Lian whispered something in the emperor's ear when she was massaging him. After all, he is her own son, so there is no reason for her to ignore him.

At first, no one took it too seriously, especially Prince Jing. Ever since he had designed for Prince Rui to marry Meng Qi and had Prince Rui watch the scene of Meng Qi jumping out of the window to stop Hong Zhe at the Hong family, he knew that he had punished Prince Rui enough for the time he helped the crown prince.

Only a few minor incidents recently attracted the attention of King Jing. Since the last time the Emperor smashed his inkstone, the Crown Prince was neglected for a while. But before the New Year, for some unknown reason, the Emperor began to frequently summon the Crown Prince to Chengtian Palace. From the information he had gathered, it seemed that Concubine Lian said something for the Crown Prince, which made the Emperor calm down, and King Rui always gave the credit to the Crown Prince whenever he did something well.

When King Jing was thinking about how to give King Rui a hard time, Hong Zhe said that he had seen Meng Qi on the third day of the Chinese New Year and felt that he should not cut off the connection. So King Jing discussed with his staff and set up a plan to use Meng Qi to deal with King Rui.

Unexpectedly, they fell into Meng Qi's trap by doing this. The letter Meng Juan found was written by Hong Zhe to Meng Qi, coaxing her to meet him in the palace. Meng Juan didn't know the previous situation. She just thought that Hong Zhe still had feelings for Meng Qi. She wanted to find Mrs. Hong with the letter in her shaking hands, but then she changed her mind and realized that Mrs. Hong had always been unfriendly to her because of the childbirth. It was impossible to go back to Huainan Marquis's Mansion. She made up her mind and took a car to Rui Wang Mansion.

What a coincidence, I met King Rui who had just returned from outside.

After waiting for Hongzhe to bring Meng Juan back, he was so angry that he wanted to slap this woman and warned her not to come to his study again. One day later, that is, the day before the palace banquet, after learning that the Rui Wangfei was under house arrest by the Rui Wang and was not allowed to leave the palace, Hongzhe could no longer bear it and slapped Meng Juan several times.

"This time, Fourth Sister isn't being stupid, is she?" Meng Wan said with a smile.

Zhou Yu moved closer to the kang and motioned Meng Wan to take off her shoes and get on it.

The two of them crawled into the quilt and hugged each other gently, "Well, King Jing's early arrangements have become a joke."

"What's going on with Prince Duan? What happened to him?" Meng Wan asked softly.

"I don't know the specific situation. I told you before that whatever Lord Song arranges us to do, we only need to complete our own part. My task today is to take Gao Yang and Li He to those empty palaces, and then find some old things to attract other people's attention. As for what happened to Prince Duan, and what arrangements were made by the Crown Prince or Prince Rui, I don't know."

"What old things did you find?" Meng Wan asked curiously.

"In a courtyard to the right rear of Chengtian Hall, a box was found. The strange thing is that the courtyard looked like it hadn't been cleaned for a long time, but the box was very clean. It must have been newly put in, or it was often touched."

"How did you get there?"

"Wu Hen caught a leopard cat from the mountains a few days ago and only fed it pheasant meat every day. Yesterday, he starved it all day, so today, it will go wherever there is the smell of pheasant meat."

Meng Wan nodded. It seemed that the pheasant meat was arranged by the people of Prince Rui or the Crown Prince. As for where to find the pheasant meat, that was up to them.

"Gao Yang and Li He always like to compete with each other. I just want to see who can catch the leopard cat, and whoever can catch the colorful butterfly will get it. Humph..." Zhou Yu snorted coldly.

"Hmph..." Meng Wan looked at him with sidelong eyes and made a humming sound.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I'm unsure." Zhou Yu wanted to come closer and kiss her, but Meng Wan turned her head away. "Miss Caidie from Yunxiang Yazhu really listens to you."

"That's because I kept her, so of course she..." Zhou Yu quickly sat up straight when he said this, "I didn't keep her, Lord Song asked me to keep her. I kept her, but I didn't do anything. Because she was openly kept by me, she doesn't see outsiders easily, which makes people who want to see her more attracted to her." Zhou Yu's explanation made Meng Wan laugh.

"You, when will this end?" Meng Wan reached out and tapped Zhou Yu's forehead.

Zhou Yu took Meng Wan's hand and kissed it gently, "It should be soon. We all analyzed that the matter of Third Brother Yue should be a signal. In addition, the emperor asked Prince Rui to follow the prince to do chores, and both Prince Cheng and Prince Duan must have touched Prince Jing's interests. Therefore, Prince Jing couldn't sit still, so he first chose the weakest one, Prince Rui, to attack."

Meng Wanyi was in Zhou Yu's arms, "If King Jing succeeds in his plan against King Rui today, what will be the result?"

Zhou Yu shook his head. "I don't know the specific result, but Meng Qi will definitely lose her reputation. Although the royal family has not said to divorce the princess, it is possible that she will spend the rest of her life in a temple or die suddenly for no apparent reason. As for Prince Rui, think about it. All the things about Meng Qi and Hong Zhe in the past were spread by outsiders, and there is no real evidence. If someone sees what Meng Qi is going to do to Hong Zhe today, how can Prince Rui still have the possibility..."

Meng Wan nodded. That's right. Hearing and seeing are two different things. If Hong Zhe really succeeded in his plan today, Meng Qi would be dead, and Prince Rui would not even have the face to walk in the palace. What awaits Prince Rui is either to stay in the mansion and be his own prince, or to ask for permission to go to his fiefdom as soon as possible.

"It seems that Meng Juan really helped us a lot."

"Yes, but I think that King Rui would not have only this option. Even if Meng Juan did not question it, Meng Qi would have made a big mistake and put King Rui under house arrest." Zhou Yu said with a smile.

"Anyway, as long as the result is what we want, it's fine. I'm just curious about what's in the box and what it has to do with Prince Duan."

"That's not something we should worry about. Tell me about you, what's going on with Zhou Yingning?" Zhou Yu asked.

Meng Wan straightened up and said, "I apologize to you."

"Why?" Zhou Yu was puzzled.

"We agreed not to hide anything from each other, but I didn't tell you about this in advance."

"What thing? Are you saying that you did this to Zhou Yingning?" Zhou Yu also straightened up in surprise.

Meng Wan nodded, then shook her head. "To be exact, it was Fourth Sister who did it, but it was my idea."

Seeing Zhou Yu's puzzled expression, Meng Wan explained in detail.