As the guards shouted, the servants followed suit, not knowing why. "How dare you imprison our young lady? We'll smash your Zhou family to pieces. Do you really think our Yonglin Marquisate is easy to bully?"

The passersby finally understood what was going on. Everyone looked excited and started talking about it with the people around them.

"Did I hear correctly? They said that the young master of the Zhou family kidnapped the young lady of the Yonglin Marquis' Mansion?"

"That's right, but they are not relatives, why do this?"

"Don't tell me, I seemed to see the young master of the Zhou family last night. He really was carrying a woman back. It turned out that woman was the daughter of Hou Yonglin's mansion."

"I also heard that they have been having an affair for a long time. It seems that the Zhou family went to the Marquis' Mansion to propose marriage yesterday."

"Since you've proposed marriage, why do you want to take her home?"

"Could it be that they were trying to elope and were approached by the people from the Yonglin Marquis' Mansion?"

......

Zheng listened to the increasingly outrageous discussions of the passersby, her head buzzing. She shouted coldly at the guards and servants, "Shut up, all of you! Break the door open!"

Hearing this, the guards and servants no longer dared to shout.

Just when they were exhausted, the door of Zhou's house suddenly opened.

With a loud "bang", many of the servants and guards who were banging on the door fell into the Zhou family's house due to inertia.

"Someone's out."

When passersby saw someone coming out of the Du Mansion, they immediately became excited.

Zhou Qin, Zhou Shi, and Zhou Lai brought Xu Rong out together.

"Rong'er."

As soon as she saw Xu Rong, Zheng immediately stepped forward excitedly, but as soon as she moved, her feet hurt so much that she could only look at Xu Rong with tears in her eyes.

When Xu Rong saw Zheng coming with so many people, she immediately felt confident and rushed towards Zheng.

Zheng was almost thrown to the ground, but she still hugged Xu Rong tightly, looking her up and down with concern, touching her face and saying distressedly, "Rong'er, they didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"

Xu Rong's body stiffened, her face full of shame and resentment, but she still shook her head.

Seeing this, Zheng heaved a sigh of relief, then turned to the Zhou family and angrily said, "You Zhou family are so bold that you actually imprisoned our daughter. I will report to the authorities now and ask them to give us justice."

Zhou Qin looked at Zheng with a gloomy gaze and said nothing.

Zhou said with a sneer on her face, "It just so happens that I also have something I want to ask the Dali Temple Master to make a decision on. Let's go to the provincial master's successor back and forth."

Zheng's face turned ugly. She didn't expect that they were not afraid at all. She just scared them just now. The purpose of coming here today was achieved. She didn't really want to make trouble in the Dali Temple.

"Zheng Lin, after doing something like this, shouldn't you give us an explanation first?"

"What explanation do you want? Are you kidding me? If you want to give an explanation, shouldn't you give it to our Zhou family?"

As she spoke, Zhou came in front of Zheng and Xu Rong. Xu Rong was like a mouse seeing a cat, and hid behind Zheng in fear.

Zheng held her hand distressedly and glared at Zhou, "Zheng Lin, what do you want to do?"

Zhou sneered, "I should be the one asking you this. Yesterday, our Zhou family offered you the betrothal gift, and you also agreed to the marriage between my Lai'er and Xu Rong. So, she secretly ran away last night. What exactly did that mean?"

Zheng felt guilty after hearing what she said, and pretended to be calm, "Who said she ran away? Rong'er has been feeling a bit bored lately and wants to go to the manor to get some fresh air. Coincidentally, the manor is her dowry, so she wants to go and check it out before she gets married. Is there anything wrong?"

"That's quite a coincidence. We were planning to go out for a walk yesterday, and we happened to run into his fiancée. We were worried about her safety walking at night, so we brought her back to the Zhou family."

Zheng's face turned pale at Zhou's words. "He brought Rong'er back, why didn't he bring her back to our Yonglin Marquis Mansion?"

Mrs. Zhou deliberately said loudly, "They have already been married for a long time and will be married in two days. It doesn't matter where we take them back."

As soon as Zhou finished speaking, the people watching the excitement around her instantly became excited.

"I didn't expect them to be so open-minded. They're already husband and wife before they even get married."

"How shameless! They did something like this before they even got married."

"It's fine that the young master of the Zhou family is a playboy, but how could the young lady of the Yonglin Marquisate be so shameless as to do such a thing?"

"I heard that they held a flower viewing banquet at the Princess's residence a few days ago, and they were caught doing that kind of thing by the guests. Many nobles were there at the time."

"The upbringing of the Yonglin Marquis is too poor. Even a girl from an ordinary peasant family would never do such a shameless thing."

......

Xu Rong hadn't expected these people to suddenly turn their accusations against her and speak so harshly of her. She immediately said anxiously, "You're slandering me. I didn't do that with Zhou Lai, and I won't marry him."

Now that the relationship had been torn apart, Zhou no longer had any scruples and sneered, "Are we framing you? Just reveal your uterine seal and it will be clear."

Hearing this, everyone was very excited and looked at Xu Rong with burning eyes.

Xu Rong's face felt hot when she was stared at, and she wished there was a crack in the ground so she could crawl into it.

His face was also very flustered.

Seeing Zhou humiliating Xu Rong in front of so many people, Zheng angrily cursed Zhou, "You are indeed a lowly concubine's bastard. Who gave you the guts to slander my Rong'er's innocence like this? I used to be so kind to you, but your conscience has been eaten by a dog."

Zhou was the mother or concubine, while Zheng was the legitimate daughter. After Zheng married into the Yonglin Marquis's Mansion, Zhou, who had not yet married, often came to see Zheng because they had a good relationship since childhood.

When she reached the age of marriage, she hinted to Zheng's mother to help her find a good family. At that time, Zheng's mother asked her to marry Zhou Qin, who had just passed the imperial examination.

After that, Zhou would come to please Zheng whenever she had the chance, and Zheng also used the power of the Yonglin Marquisate to help Zhou, allowing Zhou Qin to step up to the position of Minister of Rites step by step.

But now Zhou had actually turned against her, making her disregard her dignity and directly point out the pain of Zhou's illegitimate child.

Zhou's face was filled with embarrassment, her hands clenched tightly, but she forced herself to remain calm and said, "This is all a long time ago. The most important thing now is that the children are already married, and everything has gone through the formalities. Sister, you should return as soon as possible and prepare more dowry for Rong'er."

After saying this, seeing Zheng's face was very ugly, Zhou's anger dissipated a lot, and she turned to the people on the roadside and said, "The day after tomorrow is the wedding day of the young couple. I hope everyone can come to the Zhou family to drink their wedding wine."

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