Cui Yu invited Zhao Yuanqing in to talk. Only after he got in could he avoid being laughed at by those outside.

Of course, Zhao Yuanqing would not do as he wished. "No need, Cui Yumao, no need to waste time, just return my things!"

Cui Yumao suddenly became angry, but he suppressed his anger and said, "It's so tiring to stand like this. Princess, please come to the mansion and sit down. We can discuss it slowly."

Meng Jiu stepped forward and cursed, "Bah! Cui Yumao, are you worthy of being with the princess? Stop delaying and return the princess's things immediately!"

As Meng Jiu said this, the gong next to him struck again, and the people around him started to jeer, "Give it back! Give it back!"

Cui Yumao's face flushed and paled, and he ordered people to bring out four boxes of things. "Princess, please look."

"Meng Jiu, check each item on the list one by one. Don't miss any one."

"Yes."

Meng Jiu opened the box and picked up a jade bracelet. She looked at it in the sunlight and found it was incredibly clear. She felt something was wrong. "Princess, look, is this a top-grade ice bracelet?"

Zhao Yuanqing took it and rubbed it for a while. A layer of fog appeared on the bracelet, making it sticky and dirty. However, top-grade jadeite would become more oily the more you touched it, and this would never happen.

"Why... does this look like Liuli?"

Zhao Yuanqing threw the bracelet hard to the ground. With a "crack", the bracelet broke into pieces, and the ground was covered with green debris.

Meng Jiu also felt something was wrong and picked up a piece of green residue. "Why is this bracelet broken like this?"

"This isn't jade at all, it's glass!"

The people around were stunned. "What? Glass? How can a bracelet be made of glass?"

"I heard that colored glaze can be burned into many colors, including green, red, yellow, and purple. This Cui family is really shameless, actually using colored glaze instead of jade."

"But glass is also very expensive!"

"Oh, how can anything compare to jade? This Cui family is clearly trying to replace Princess Shanzhen's real bracelet with a fake one. What a despicable move!"

Everyone was talking about it, and Cui Yu was panicking. "Princess, don't listen to the slander of these villains. What I gave you is the real thing."

Zhao Yuanqing sneered, "Whether it's true or not, we'll know after testing it! Come on, find the master chefs from Jinyutang for me, and have them test them one by one!"

"Yes!"

A servant rushed towards Jinyutang. Cui Yu was anxious and stopped him, saying, "Princess, why are you doing this? If you don't want these things, I'll have them taken back and packed for you again."

"late!"

Zhao Yuanqing slapped Cui Yumao in the face and said, "Get out of my way!"

Cui Yumao staggered after being slapped, and the Cui family supported him, "Dad!"

"Leave me alone and take the box back!"

"Yes!"

The Cui family's servants rushed over and tried to take the box back, but the people Zhao Yuanqing brought with him would not let them succeed. They rushed over and beat them up, shouting, "Get out!"

The servants were pushed aside. Cui Yi and Cui's mother were anxious and stood in front of the box. "Get out of the way! I want to see who dares to touch me!"

In the dazzling sunlight, the golden hairpin on Cui Yi's head gleamed with fragmented light, and the mutton-fat jade bracelet on Cui's mother's hand reflected the soft light. Zhao Yuanqing sneered. These two women were really brave. They were still wearing the things she gave them openly!

"Meng Jiu, the jewelry they are wearing belongs to me. Take it off for me!"

"Yes!"

Meng Jiu and several maids surrounded Cui Yi and Cui's mother, and started tearing them apart. The two screamed, "What are you doing? Stop!"

A woman pinched the tender flesh on Cui Yi's arm fiercely, "Shameless thing, you took the princess's things and refused to admit it. You are worse than us slaves!"

Cui Yi screamed in pain, "Nonsense! That's mine! Let me go!"

"No! Take it here!"

The old women ripped off everything on Cui Yi and Cui Mu's heads, ears, necks, and wrists, leaving their hair in disarray and their clothes in disarray.

Cui Hao and Cui Yumao who were standing next to them were not spared either. The jade stones on their hats, the jade belts and jade pendants around their waists were all torn off.

Cui Hao and Cui Yu shouted angrily, "You are bandits! I want to report you to the police!"

However, their belts were pulled, and their pants fell down. They had to hold up their pants with one hand and point at Zhao Yuanqing and curse with the other, which greatly reduced their momentum.

Zhao Yuanqing said coldly, "Report it! Go to the Dali Temple and file a complaint. Let's see who's right, you or me!"

At this time, the master chef of Jinyutang had arrived. Zhao Yuanqing said, "Could you please check to see if the contents of this box are genuine?"

"Yes."

These master chefs have decades of experience. They took out the items in the box one by one and looked at them one by one, and quickly came to a conclusion.

"This bracelet is not made of jade, but of glass."

"These gold hairpins and bracelets are all made of copper overlaid with gold, not solid gold."

"These celebrity calligraphy and paintings are not authentic, but forgeries."

"These cat's eyes are fake."

"These rubies and sapphires are not real, they are all glass."

Every time they said the same thing, the Cui family members' faces turned paler and the people around them started laughing.

In the final analysis, everything in the box was fake. They were either made of glass, gold-covered copper, or silver-covered copper. The calligraphy and paintings were also fake. None of them were real.

It turned out that this was the plan the Cui family had come up with. First, they would replace all the valuables with counterfeits, and then return the fakes to Zhao Yuanqing, with the real ones still in their home. Second, they would take the opportunity to extort money from Zhao Baozhu, thus gaining a profit on both sides.

Zhao Yuanqing didn't expect that the Cui family would be so shameless. They were too greedy for money. They were really unworthy of being a noble family!

"Cui Yumao, what do you say?"

The crowd grew larger and larger. Cui Yumao wanted to calm the situation down quickly, so he said, "Princess, I was also deceived by the people below. They were so audacious that they actually brought these counterfeits here. Princess, please calm down. I will order someone to bring the things out to you right away."

"Cui Yumao, you deceived the princess and just took out the things and that's it?"

"So...what does the princess want?"

"Meng Jiu, teach him a lesson."

"Yes!"

Meng Jiu stepped forward, and Cui Yumao said in fear, "You, you, you, what are you going to do?"

"I'll let you go to heaven!"

"Go...go to heaven? What do you mean by heaven?"

Meng Jiu grabbed Cui Yumao and untied his arm with two clicks, causing him to scream in pain. He then grabbed Cui Yumao's clothes and swung him hard, "Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Cui Yumao was thrown dizzy and dazed, "Help! Put me down!"

Meng Jiu swung it more than ten times, getting higher and higher, and finally let go, "Go!"

Whoosh-!

Cui Yumao flew dozens of meters away and landed on a wall with a thud. He was so scared that he screamed and fainted.

Cui Hao, Cui Yi, and Cui's mother were all terrified, "Master!"

Meng Jiu asked them, "Do you also want to go to heaven?"

Several people shook their heads desperately, no, no, no, they didn’t want to go to heaven.

"Hurry up and take out all the princess's things, or I'll send you all to hell!"

Now they were completely obedient. They brought out a dozen boxes and took out all the two thousand gold coins Zhao Baozhu had given them. "Princess, please check."

Zhao Yuanqing ordered his men to check everything one by one. If there were any, they would take them back, and if there were none, they would use gold to replace them. This took more than an hour, and he finally left with satisfaction.

The Cui family took a ladder and lifted Cui Yumao down from the wall. Cui Yumao covered his head and was carried into the house by the servants. He did not dare to come out for many days.

The people around thought it was a big joke and spread the story widely. Some storytellers even made it into a joke and spread it widely in the capital.

The Cui family's reputation was exposed. People said that the Cui family coveted Princess Shanzhen's things and used fakes to deny their identity. Cui Yumao was thrown against the wall, looking very ugly, which really brought shame to the family.

This incident had a side effect. The Cui family was a century-old family. When their reputation was exposed, the other families also lost face and their status declined.

Many aristocratic families secretly criticized the Cui family for their misconduct, but more people hated Zhao Yuanqing, saying that she relied on her status as a princess to deliberately go against the aristocratic families, and her intentions were despicable.

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