Consort Zhuang doesn't want palace intrigue; she just wants to raise her child and live a caref

"Your Highness, please let me explain!" The merchant's daughter knelt on the ground in terror, her body trembling uncontrollably, her voice filled with pleading.

Cang Lan Jingcheng stared at her expressionlessly, a flicker of disgust in his eyes. He raised his foot, preparing to kick the merchant's woman hard, to teach her a lesson.

However, just as his foot was about to land, a clear voice suddenly rang out: "Your Highness, wait!"

Cang Lan Jingcheng turned around abruptly and saw Jinse walking in quickly. Her appearance instantly darkened Cang Lan Jingcheng's expression.

"Aunt Jinse, what brings you here?" Canglan Jingcheng's tone was somewhat stiff, clearly displeased with Jinse's sudden arrival.

Jinse didn't care about Canglan Jingcheng's attitude. She smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, the Empress sent me to tell you that there are some people you don't need to deal with personally. Someone else will take care of them."

Cang Lan Jingcheng snorted coldly and said dismissively, "This king doesn't have that much patience to wait for others to deal with him."

Jinse quickly said, "Your Highness, please don't be hasty. This young lady is already pregnant. If you kick her like that, it could cause a serious incident and lead to unnecessary trouble."

Upon hearing this, Cang Lan Jingcheng's heart stirred. He glanced at the merchant woman kneeling on the ground, hesitated for a moment, and finally put his feet down.

Seeing this, Jinse breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Your Highness, you should go back first. Don't keep the Empress waiting. I will handle things here."

Cang Lan Jingcheng glanced at Jinse, then at the two people on the ground. Before Jinse could react, he kicked his cousin.

Then, everyone saw that the cousin fly out.

Upon seeing this, the female shopkeeper quickly crawled over on her knees to anxiously check on her cousin who had been kicked away.

"Cousin, how are you?" the shopkeeper asked, her voice filled with worry.

My cousin lay on the ground, groaning in pain, clearly badly hurt by Cang Lan Jingcheng's kick.

"Hmph!" Cang Lan Jingcheng flicked his sleeves and prepared to leave.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, don't go! Things really aren't what you see. Please let me explain." Seeing Cang Lan Jingcheng turn to leave, the merchant's wife became extremely anxious. She quickly let go of her cousin's hand and scrambled towards him in a panic.

She gripped Cang Lan Jingcheng's robe tightly, pleading, "Your Highness, you must believe me, it's all a misunderstanding!"

However, Cang Lan Jingcheng remained unmoved. His face was ashen, and he said coldly, "Let go! Otherwise, don't blame me for being impolite!"

The shopkeeper's wife trembled with fear at his imposing manner, but she still refused to let go, instead gripping him even tighter, as if he were her last lifeline.

Seeing her so ungrateful, Cang Lan Jingcheng's anger burned even more fiercely. He suddenly exerted force, and with a "ripping" sound, the hem of his clothes was forcibly pulled out of the merchant's hands.

The female merchant stumbled and fell to the ground. She stared blankly at the small piece of fabric she had left in her hand, a look of despair on her face.

Cang Lan Jingcheng didn't even glance at her. He quickly took off his outer robe and tossed it to the guard beside him as if it were a rag, while ordering, "This robe is dirty. Take it to the kitchen and burn it."

The guard dared not be negligent in the slightest and quickly bowed, replying, "Yes, Your Highness." After saying that, he took the outer robe from Cang Lan Jingcheng and turned to walk quickly towards the kitchen.

At the same time, the guards also instructed the other attendants to hurry back to the mansion to fetch a new outer garment for the prince, so that the prince would not catch a cold.

Jinse looked expressionlessly at the merchant woman slumped on the ground and said to the guards who had followed her, "Brother Zhang, please send two people to take them back and tell the Shi family that her daughter and her cousin are secretly pregnant and plotting against Prince Yong."

"Yes," Guard Zhang replied, then waved his arm as if issuing some kind of command.

Two guards beside him quickly stepped forward, each grabbing one of their arms and effortlessly dragging them out the door like dead dogs.

This happened so fast that no one else present had time to react.

The shopkeeper witnessed all of this. Knowing the seriousness of the matter, he dared not delay and immediately dispatched his men to report it to the Third Master.

When Su Yuan heard that his nephew had been bullied in his Qixiang Tower, he was furious.

He immediately ordered his men to conduct a full investigation and crackdown on the Shi family, the merchant family.

When the head of the Shi family saw the two people being thrown back like trash, he was shocked and confused.

But what shocked them even more was that the visitor also revealed that his daughter had secretly conceived a child with her cousin and was plotting against the prince.

This was like a bolt from the blue; the person involved in the Shi family collapsed to the ground, as if all the strength had been drained from their body.

It took him a while to come to his senses, but the anger in his heart erupted like a volcano.

So, without hesitation, he gave his wife a severe beating to vent his anger.

After beating them, he ruthlessly locked the mother and daughter in the woodshed and ordered that they be provided with only water, while all food supplies were cut off.

After resolving the issue with the mother and daughter, the business owner did not stop there.

He was extremely anxious and rushed out of the mansion without stopping, heading towards a residence.

Meanwhile, in that courtyard, a young lady was leisurely sitting by the window, reading a book.

Suddenly, a maid rushed over and whispered in her ear in a panic, "Miss, something has happened in the manor."

"What could possibly happen in our household?" the young lady asked with a puzzled look, seemingly clueless about what might be going on in the mansion.

The maid quickly corrected, "It's not our residence, it's the Shi residence that's in trouble."

The young lady frowned slightly and said in a cold tone, "Cuizhu, I have nothing to do with the Shi family anymore. My mother has divorced him, and even her grave has been moved out of the Shi family's ancestral cemetery. I have also been removed from the Shi family's genealogy. So, even if the Shi family does something that would cost them their heads or their entire clan, it has nothing to do with me."

Cuizhu looked worried and said softly, "I'm afraid he'll come looking for you."

The young lady gave a cold smile and answered without fear: "Tell the doorman that if anyone comes, he should say I'm not home and I've gone to my maternal grandparents' house. If he's so capable, let him go to my maternal grandparents' house to find me."

Cuizhu smiled and said, "Miss, you know he wouldn't dare to go."

The young lady's sneer deepened. "Then I can't control that. However, I should still send someone to find out what exactly happened at the Shi residence." Clearly, although this young lady appeared indifferent to the Shi family, she was still a bit gossipy at heart.

Meanwhile, in Qixiang Tower, Su Nuannuan looked at her son, whose face was ashen, and sighed helplessly, saying, "Is it really necessary to get so angry! We're not even married yet."

"Mother~" Canglan Jingcheng called out with a wronged expression.

"Stop, stop, stop!" Su Nuannuan interrupted him mercilessly. "How old are you? Stop giving me this nonsense!"