Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

The memorials were scattered all over the floor. Fang Yao crawled on his knees to pick them up, lowered his head and handed them to Eunuch Chang. He occasionally stole a glance at the emperor, then quickly looked away.

Yuan Mengxing was beaten so badly that his nose and face were swollen. The blood from his nose flowed onto his court clothes, and after drying, it gradually changed color. He looked extremely dirty and miserable.

He cried twice when he first came in, but when he saw the emperor's face was ashen, he suppressed his tears.

"Fang Yao, you are so brave." The emperor was so angry that he was gasping for breath. He had a cough and couldn't get angry, and it came back again today.

Especially when he saw the miserable appearance of Duke Wei and then looked at Fang Yao's calm and unfazed look, he became even more furious.

"Tell me, why did you hit someone today? If you don't explain why, I won't forgive you."

Yuan Mengxing looked up at the emperor, feeling indignant.

What kind of reason is there for beating someone? Just don't ask any questions and give Fang a good beating first.

The emperor clearly still sides with the Fang family.

Fang Yao kowtowed loudly enough to make Eunuch Chang grit his teeth and feel pain on his forehead.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Fang Yao glanced around, knelt down and moved to the side of Eunuch Chang, took something from his hand, and raised both hands in front of the imperial desk, "Your Majesty, look, Yuan Mengxing, that old bastard..."

boom.

A memorial was thrown down and hit him.

"Speak nicely to me. If you dare to speak rudely again, I will drag you out and give you thirty lashes."

"Yes, I dare not. I will speak properly."

Eunuch Chang took the deed from him, turned around and put it on the imperial desk, and opened it for the emperor to see.

"Your Majesty, I once saved the Yuan family's brat and even lost a leg for it. Everyone knows this. Such a noble cause, you say that old bastard Yuan... No, not a bastard, it's Yuan Mengxing. Do you know how he treated me?"

He swallowed and his eyes suddenly turned red.

"He actually took advantage of my sister's body being still warm to force my niece to break off the engagement. He could have just broken off the engagement, but he even insulted me by offering me two shabby shops, saying they were my sister's reward for saving her life and my niece's compensation for breaking off the engagement."

"Your Majesty, I ask you to judge this matter. Is what he did humane? Is my sister so lowly? Will she allow him to humiliate her like this? How could my niece be so innocent that she was bullied by the Yuan family?"

"This means my niece has recognized me. If they hadn't, if my niece was just a poor person, unloved by her father and stepmother, with no one to rely on, wouldn't she be bullied to death and no one would care?"

"Your Majesty, the Yuan family treated their savior and the child they left behind like this. They are so heartless and ungrateful. They talk about morality and justice but do nothing about it. This kind of person stands in the court and talks about morality. Bah! The more I see this, the angrier I get. If this wasn't in the court, I would have wanted to beat this old man to death..."

Snapped.

Another memorial came crashing down, hitting him in the face.

Fang Yao quickly covered his mouth and lowered his head obediently. "I know I was wrong, and I won't scold him. But Your Majesty, I really can't let go of this anger. If he doesn't give me an explanation today, I will never let go of the Yuan family."

He spoke hurriedly, and Yuan Mengxing tried to interrupt him several times but was unable to do so. Now that he finally had a chance, Yuan Mengxing raised his head, his lips trembling with anxiety.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please help me. If my colleagues hadn't intervened today, I would have been beaten to death. Your Majesty, I want to report Fang Yao. Fang Yao has defied the royal authority, committed violence in the palace, and acted arrogantly. I implore Your Majesty to severely punish Fang Yao and uphold the law."

But it made him so angry.

The Yuan family is a century-old family. When has they ever suffered such humiliation?

A dignified Duke was beaten up in public. He might as well never see anyone again and just hang himself at the palace gate.

He became more and more angry as he spoke. Veins on his face bulged, one of his eyes was swollen and couldn't be opened, the area around his eye was blue and black, the blood on his nose had not been wiped clean, and two of his teeth were loose.

The emperor looked at his face that looked like a palette of colors and was about to smile, but was stopped by a sudden cough.

Eunuch Chang hurried forward, holding a small blue and white bowl, and advised: "Your Majesty, please don't be angry. You haven't taken your medicine yet. It's just been brewed and it's not too hot or too cold. Your Majesty, please drink it first."

Fang Yao raised his head, a hint of worry flashing in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, please take care of your health."

"I should take care of your health, but I shouldn't take care of anything." The emperor cursed in anger and wanted to pull Fang Yao to his side and beat him up.

Couldn't this troublemaker find a deserted place to beat up the Duke of Wei?

He had to beat someone in public, and beat him so harshly...

Looking at Yuan Mengxing's face, the emperor's mouth twitched.

He was beaten so harshly. Fang Yao, this bastard, always caused trouble. It was impossible to protect him even if we wanted to.

The emperor took the bowl and drank the medicine in one gulp, then wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief. Eunuch Chang handed the tray to the young eunuch and casually pushed it on the imperial desk, and the house deed was pushed in front of the emperor.

Having served the emperor for so many years, he knows what the emperor is thinking without him saying anything.

Aren't you just thinking about how to exonerate General Fang?

That’s easy. The emperor only needs to look at those two shops to find the reason.

Sure enough, the emperor looked down and then again, and his brows immediately furrowed.

"Yuan Mengxing, are these two shops really given to Miss Shen by your Yuan family?" The emperor rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was seeing things.

He was very familiar with the location marked on the deed. It was the poorest part of the capital, where the lower classes settled. Surrounded by peddlers and hawkers, a mixed crowd of all kinds, even those with shops there would be no one to take over, let alone make money from it.

The Yuan family clearly bullied Miss Shen because she knew nothing. This was how they treated the daughter of their savior. No wonder Fang Yao was so angry. If this happened to him, he would also be angry.

Yuan Mengxing remained silent. The punches on his face made his head hurt, and he was so anxious that he couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation.

When the emperor saw that he didn't say anything, he raised his eyebrows, and Eunuch Chang knew that the emperor was about to get angry.

The next moment, the emperor grabbed the title deed and threw it at Duke Wei.

As luck would have it, it hit the swollen eye, causing him to hiss in pain, but he quickly held it back.

"Look for yourself, open your eyes and take a good look. Even the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion wouldn't even bother to take a shop like this, yet you actually took it as compensation! Is this how you treat your savior? Was Fang Yao wrong when he said the Yuan family was ungrateful? Ah, I ask you, was I wrong? Was I?"

The prime minister, who was waiting to be summoned outside the imperial study, folded his hands and looked down at his feet.

How could Yuan Mengxing do such a shameless thing? Does the Duke's Mansion need that little money? Such a great opportunity to make a name for himself, but he wasted it.

He made enemies with the General of Cavalry because of such a small matter. He was short-sighted and lost the big picture for the small one!

"Your Majesty, Fang Yao hit me in the eye, and I can't even open it," Yuan Mengxing's voice came from the imperial study, sounding quite aggrieved. "I only learned about this last night. I originally asked Madam to choose a shop for Miss Shen, specifically in the most prosperous area of ​​the capital. In addition, I also prepared five thousand taels of silver notes for Miss Shen as a token of my sincerity."

"I didn't expect that bitch would take the initiative to move the shop and steal the banknotes..." He himself felt ashamed of what he had done and couldn't say it out loud.

But since the emperor asked, I had to tell him.

The reason why he pushed the blame onto his wife was because he was afraid of affecting his son's reputation.

The road ahead is so long, and my son still has to take the imperial examinations and become an official, so he cannot have any stains that would be criticized by others.

This useless bastard, he was the one who caused all the beatings today. He'll be back home soon, and I won't care if he's incontinent or not, or if his body hurts...

Oh, forget it, let’s wait until he gets better before beating him.

Yuan Mengxing lowered his head, feeling angry and helpless. The pain on his face became more and more obvious, and his eyes were swollen into slits, but he didn't dare to cry out in pain.

"I only learned the truth after receiving Miss Shen's letter. I was planning to discuss how to make amends with General Fang today, but I didn't expect him to hit me without even saying a word."

"Your Majesty, I am the Duke of Wei, bestowed upon me by the late Emperor. My colleagues all witnessed my beating by Fang. I will never be able to face anyone again."

He raised his hand to touch his cheek which was beginning to feel hot. Fang Yao, that bastard, was so cruel. He felt like the skin on his face was going to burst, and it hurt even to speak.

But he knew that Fang Yao was the emperor's most trusted person, so even if he hated Fang Yao so much that he wanted to kill him, he couldn't show it.

He might as well follow Fang Yao's example, not caring about his face in front of the emperor, and learn to "cry".