"The Empress Dowager?" Jin Miaomiao rolled her eyes, "Nothing will happen if you get involved with her!"
"You're right, as long as it has anything to do with her, nothing good will happen." Hongye nodded, "According to the confession of the Empress Dowager's confidant, Mr. Liu attacked His Highness Prince Ning at the court meeting and threw dirty water on His Highness Prince Ning, saying that he All the time, he said he behaved inappropriately, all at the instigation of the Empress Dowager. Moreover, in order to ensure the authenticity of this dirty water, the Empress Dowager even prepared a witness for him. "
"Witness?" The head of the Luan family didn't quite understand what Hong Ye meant. "How can you prepare such a witness? Besides, everyone in Xijing City knows that His Highness Prince Ning is in poor health and cannot go out often, let alone linger in a brothel. Chu Guan, even if he goes to a restaurant to have a meal, he needs a private room."
"What a coincidence, this involves your Luan family."
"My family?" The head of the Luan family looked a little panicked, "What does it have to do with my family?"
"The perjury was prepared by your family." Hongye bared her teeth at the head of the Luan family, "The head of the Luan family should know very well what the Luan family relied on to start their business, right?"
The head of the Luan family was silent for a moment, looked at the people in front of him, then looked at his wife, and nodded lightly.
"Yes, I know, it is indeed not a clean business, but it was closed down a long time ago. When I took over, there was no such business in my family, so if it is in this area, it really has nothing to do with my family. .”
"As for the business, I will definitely stop doing it, but that doesn't mean it has nothing to do with this industry. Your Majesty, I mean the father of the head of the Luan family, who is also the confidant of the Empress Dowager. He helps the Empress Dowager take care of some shady business. However, after the Luan family left Xijing City, this part of the business was handed over to others, so it is reasonable for the Luan family’s head not to know.”
"The business in the hands of the Empress Dowager?" The head of the Luan family thought for a moment and shook his head gently, "I have never been involved in this. I only heard my father say it a few times. I thought he was old and confused. So, I just said some stupid things, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”
"Of course it's true. The businesses in the hands of the Empress Dowager must be handed over to the people she trusts the most, and Mr. Luan is the person she absolutely trusts and will never betray her." Hongye smiled, "Moreover, Mr. Luan is still an expert in this aspect. He doesn't need any running-in at all and can manage things in an orderly manner for her."
"So, in order to throw dirty water on His Highness Prince Ning and create the image of His Highness Prince Ning as a playboy, they specially prepared..." Ms. Liu took a deep breath and tried to make her voice less shaky. "I have prepared a witness, and this witness is from the brothel, right?"
"That's right!" Hongye snapped his fingers, "Where is the viciousness of this move? The witnesses and testimonies they prepared cannot withstand scrutiny or verification."
"What this means is..." Jin Miaomiao looked at Hongye, then at Liu's daughter, and suddenly realized, "You don't mean that His Highness Prince Ning spent a lot of time and met Mrs. Luan in those testimonies. Do the times match?”
"That's what I mean!" Hong Ye sighed with admiration on his face, "Master Liu will never be able to come up with such an exquisite and cruel move in his mind. If His Highness Prince Ning wants to prove his innocence, he must say that At that time of the day, where was he and what was he doing? Is there any witness? Once he tells the story, he can clearly tell all officials that he is meeting Mrs. Luan, alone, with all the servants and maids around him. No. As for what you did when you met, no one cares about what His Highness Prince Ning said. People can imagine and arrange it at will. When such rumors become more and more violent, if you say it has nothing to do with it, no one will listen. .”
"This is really cruel, destroying the reputation of two people." The head of the Luan family shook his head in disapproval, "Although I do things unscrupulously, I really don't agree with such methods."
"That shows that the head of the Luan family still has a certain conscience, unlike some people who don't care about anything in order to achieve their own goals."
"No wonder!" Ms. Liu no longer knew whether she should cry or laugh, or how to express her current mood. "Once we met, many people gathered around and pointed. I was still talking about why. There were so many people paying attention to us, and His Highness asked me a question that he knew what to do. I was really confused by what he said at the time. I had no idea what it meant. I thought I had offended him somewhere and he was angry again." She said. He sighed softly, "Although our relationship seems to have been repaired a lot, I still feel guilty towards him, so no matter what attitude he treats me, it doesn't matter to me." After that, She sighed heavily, "Sometimes I feel very humble. I have to lose my self-esteem for such a person. It's so worthless. I have also thought about whether I should give up such an engagement, but I I can’t disobey my father, mother and the Queen Mother, so I can only..."
"But you have never thought about what your father did behind the scenes to cause the relationship that had already eased to become stalemate again."
"No." Ms. Liu shook her head, "After that meeting, we haven't seen each other for a long time. The last time we met was after we broke off the engagement. His Highness Prince Ning took the initiative to ask me out and gave me the things I gave him. He returned everything to me and said that since I didn't want to spend my life with him, he wished me happiness and hoped that I could meet a good man."
"Did you have the urge to tell him that none of this was your intention?"
"Yes." Ms. Liu nodded, "But for my father and our family, there is no way to do this. My father was dismissed from office because of this matter. Although he knew that this was the arrangement of the Empress Dowager, he still couldn't bear it. I will complain to His Highness Prince Ning. I have also thought about whether the situation will change if he refuses to break off the engagement and if he tries to keep me." She chuckled, with a self-deprecating smile on her face, "But he I didn’t hold back, so I left resolutely." She looked at Hongye, "After hearing what you said today, I realized that everything I did was done step by step according to the plan of the Empress Dowager. , perhaps from the very beginning, she had no intention of letting me become Princess Ning, nor did she intend for me to really marry His Highness Prince Ning, she was just using me to hold off His Highness Prince Ning to achieve her goal."
"But she didn't accomplish anything in the end. She only left behind a bunch of lies." The head of the Luan family looked at his wife, "We got together because of her lies and became husband and wife. And many years later, because of She has learned about the true nature of each other through her lies, so we should thank her properly, right?"
