The daughter of the mansion is slapped in the face every day

The virtuous concubine sat next to Zhao Changta, listening to what Liu Neiguan said, raising the teacup to her lips to cover her slightly raised mouth corners.

"The governor of Daizhou sent the painting about half a month ago, and the third prince's painting was just received. Therefore, the Zongzhengfu did not know in advance that the two paintings were the same."

Eunuch Liu very tactfully ordered someone to unfold the two paintings for Zhao Changta to see.

Jiang Yunxi noticed that the atmosphere on Zhao Changta's side was a little unusual, but she ignored it and just ate the cheese in the bowl with a gleam in her eyes.

When Jiang Yunxi finished his third bowl, Zhen Zhen took the bowl away.

Jiang Yunxi's eyes flashed with disbelief, as if asking Zhen Zhen, "Why did you take it???"

"Princess, eating too much ice yogurt is harmful to your health. You should stop using it." Zhen Zhen has always been very strict in managing Jiang Yunxi's diet and daily life, leaving no room for negotiation.

Jiang Yunxi pouted and casually fiddled with the food on the plate with her chopsticks. She couldn't swallow the food in front of her and instantly lost interest like a wilted rabbit.

She put down her chopsticks.

His eyes weren't as bright as before.

Zhen Zhen thought to herself, "Okay, okay, okay! Is this a deliberate act for me?"

Zhen Zhen really couldn't do anything with Jiang Yunxi, so she went to the imperial kitchen to "steal" a plate of water chestnut cake.

Seeing the water chestnut cake, Jiang Yunxi persuaded him to pick up the chopsticks again.

Zhen Zhen held her forehead slightly, thinking, her own princess really needs to be raised very pampered, and she really doesn't want anyone to let her suffer even a little bit.

Zhao Changta ordered someone to put the painting in front of Zhao Zheyong.

Zhao Zheyong looked at the two paintings in front of him and was a little shocked. "Aren't these the paintings I gave you? Why are there two of them?"

"Old Third, take a look, which painting is real and which one is fake?"

Zhao Zheyong did not have such insight. Although he had received education like other princes since he was a child, he did not have the same prominent family background as the eldest prince and the crown prince, and could not see many valuable things.

Therefore, there is no such vision that can tell the true from the false at a glance.

But he had naturally seen the painting he had given to Zhao Changta, and knew that this matter must have been used by someone to plot against him.

He couldn't tell that the painting was real, he couldn't even tell that it was a gift from him.

Zhao Zheyong's thumb nail dug into his palm, showing how nervous he was.

"Please forgive my stupidity, father. I am a rough man and cannot tell the difference." Zhao Zheyong admitted his mistake decisively and knelt down to salute Zhao Changta.

"Where did you get this painting?" Zhao Changta left Zhao Zheyong room to defend himself and did not kill him with one blow.

Zhao Zheyong looked up at Zhao Changta, his eyes flickering and his brows slightly furrowed.

Of course, he couldn't say that the painting was taken from Jiang Wanwan's dowry. If he did that, everyone in the capital would laugh at him for being spineless and using a woman's dowry.

But he didn't dare to say that he had prepared it himself, for fear that there really was something wrong with the painting and he would get into trouble.

"Although I am not good at writing, I have spent a lot of money to ask my followers to find precious calligraphy and paintings as gifts for my father."

What Zhao Zheyong said was very clever. He expressed his sincerity in spending a lot of money on gifts, while also pushing the responsibility onto others.

"Hmph!" After hearing this, Zhao Changta's anger subsided a little. He just snorted coldly and turned away.

Zhao Zheyong wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve and was secretly a little happy, thinking that he had escaped a disaster.

He turned around and glared at Jiang Wanwan.

Jiang Wanwan's eyes were very innocent, and she paused while biting the spoon.

She was so dumbfounded that she didn't even realize she was kneeling with Zhao Zheyong, and she didn't seem to notice that Zhao Changta was angry. She just sat there eating as if she was watching a play.

Of course, no one reminded her to kneel.

Everyone was just watching from the sidelines, waiting to see the show.

She didn't know what she had done to offend Zhao Zheyong, and she immediately became panicked.

Jiang Wanwan naturally didn't know that most of the items in her dowry had been replaced with Western goods.

The housekeeper of the Jiang family made a lot of money from the dowry that Bai Shifu left for Jiang Wanwan, and replaced the stolen items with fake ones to get away with it.

After Lan'er found out that most of the things in the box were fakes, she decided to go all out. She kept some for herself and sold them for cash, and replaced the things in the box with cheap fakes.

Lan'er thought that if anything happened, she could put the blame on the housekeeper and say that the fake goods were replaced by the housekeeper.

As long as one pearl hairpin was found from the housekeeper, people would believe this story and think that the others were sold by the housekeeper.

Only Jiang Wanwan didn't know that most of her dozens of boxes of dowry were not worth any money.

This landscape painting was something Jiang Siqi had snatched when he was in Daizhou. Jiang Siqi had not wanted to use it to add to Jiang Wanwan's dowry, but seeing that Jiang Wanwan's dowry was too thin, he had no choice but to put this pretty good painting in it.

After the painting was sold by the housekeeper, a fake one was forged and put back into Jiang Wanwan's dowry.

When Zhao Zheyong ordered Jiang Siqi to find a gift for the emperor's birthday, Jiang Siqi immediately thought of the painting in Jiang Wanwan's dowry and immediately recommended Zhao Zheyong to give the painting to the emperor. Zhao Zheyong also thought it was a good idea.

The landscape painting that was sold returned to Daizhou. After being seen by the Daizhou County Governor, he immediately collected it and sent it to the emperor on the occasion of the emperor's birthday.

This is how both paintings came to be sent to the emperor.

Concubine Wei Yanyan smiled and said, "His Royal Highness the Third Prince was sincere, but he was deceived by his retainers. It was not his fault that he gave the fake painting, but he was indeed a little foolish in judging and employing people."

Although Concubine Xian was helping Zhao Zheyong on the surface, she was actually secretly undermining him.

Emperor Zhao Changta glanced at her.

The virtuous concubine just responded with a smile and said nothing more.

Zhao Zheyong broke out in a cold sweat, secretly cursing Concubine Xian for being a good-for-nothing who was still adding fuel to the fire.

Seeing that Zhao Zheyong seemed to be in the mood to just pass over the matter, he immediately winked at him.

The official from the Zongzheng Temple immediately stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do with this fake painting?"

Zhao Changta was unhappy and looked very unhappy because he was always talking about "fake paintings" and "fake paintings".

He waved his sleeves and said angrily, "Old Third, you are too dependent on those dubious retainers and you have lost your own ideas. I would like to ask you, why do you keep so many retainers? Do you have so much money?"

"Your son... Your son just loves and cherishes talents..." Zhao Zheyong said stumblingly, "These people are talented, but have never been given important positions. Your son feels it's a pity, so I let them live closer so that I can discuss philosophy with them from time to time."