Chapter 53: Confusing
A junior of the clan came and reported: "Chief, a pariah has come, and he says he is looking for his wife." ”
"Looking for his wife?" the patriarch frowned, "There is no girl in our old Liu family who has married a pariah. Send him away!"
The junior clansman lowered his head: "But the patriarch, that person said that his wife is here, and he was originally a slave in the Liu Mansion." ”
Prime Minister Liu Cheng hurriedly asked, "Did that person say who he was?"
"He said his name was Nijiro. ”
When Prime Minister Liu heard it, he said: "Oh, I did do something in Liu's Mansion." Bring him up!"
"Yes!" the junior took the order. Next to it, Xiangxue was like falling into ice water.
Sure enough, it was him! Xiangxue's fingers twisted the handkerchief hard, and she trembled: I didn't expect that the nightmare of these days was waiting for her here!
Soon, Nijiro was brought up. This person was born with thick eyebrows, a wide nose and thick lips, and an honest appearance. Liu Cheng's impression of him has always been quite good, but later he didn't know what he did wrong and was sent out.
Ni Erlang lowered his eyebrows and saluted Prime Minister Liu Cheng: "How is the master?"
He did not dare to raise his head for fear of blaspheming the nobles.
Prime Minister Liu Cheng motioned for him to get up and speak: "Ni Erlang, you said that you came to find your wife, but you fell in love with that girl in my clan?"
Ni Erlang shook his head: "Master, the villain's wife is not a girl from the Liu family. But...... It's ......"
Xiangxue broke out in a cold sweat, and she stared at the top of Nijiro's brain.
Prime Minister Liu Cheng was a little impatient: "Don't babble, you say it, I'll make the decision for you." ”
Ni Erlang shed two lines of tears, and he knelt down again: "Master, the villain's wife is none other than the new lady of Liu Mansion, Xiangxue!"
Kayuki looked at Nijiro timidly. And Liu Cheng was quite furious: "Nonsense!"
Ni Erlang kowtowed like pounding garlic: "The villain doesn't dare to talk nonsense, it's true! The villain and Xiangxue have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and the two families have made an appointment, and when the male is married and the female is married, he will let Xiangxue marry the villain as his wife." It's just that later, Xiangxue's family was poor and had to be sold to Zhang's Mansion as a slave, and the villain followed her all the way to Liu's Mansion in order to follow her!"
Prime Minister Liu frowned, while the patriarch asked, "But now, Xiangxue has married Prime Minister Liu, is it too much for you to ask for a wife again?"
Nijiro finally raised his simple face: "My lord, if this is the case, the villain will not dare to offend the nobles." It's just that last year, the villain and Xiangxue exchanged tokens and privately set a life. Originally, I wanted to ask the old lady to be the master, but I don't know what happened, Xiangxue was raised by the old man as an aunt, and the villain was also sent out by mistake. ”
Xiangxue took a deep breath, she fixed her mind, and rebuked sharply: "Ni Erlang, don't say something that is nothing! It's true that I was born as a pariah, but when will I make a private agreement with you for life? Don't make up these stories to fool everyone because of my own wishful thinking!"
She immediately turned her head to Prime Minister Liu Cheng and said, "Master, when this person was a slave in Liu's Mansion, he plotted against the concubine, but the concubine never agreed to him. Unexpectedly, it's time for him to die! Quickly beat him out, so as not to confuse the people with this gossip. ”
Liu Cheng had always trusted Xiangxue, and he said angrily: "Quick! Beat him out!"
Nijiro was shocked: "Ah, master, the villain is wronged, and the villain still has something to say!"
The two clansmen stood up, just about to make a move. At this moment, a coquettish cry came.
"Slow!"
Xiao Qingzhu also stood up: "Things haven't been clarified yet, why can't people finish speaking?"
The patriarch rebuked angrily: "Presumptuous! There is no part of your adopted daughter to intervene here!"
Xiao Qingzhu sneered: "The adopted daughter can't interject, what about the future crown princess?"
The patriarch was stunned for a moment: The future crown princess? This girl is the future crown princess? He looked at Prime Minister Liu Cheng, only to see Prime Minister Liu Cheng nodding with a tiger face, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence.
The patriarch died down suddenly. The title of crown princess is too big for him to bear.
Xiangxue pointed at Xiao Qingzhu viciously, her face was as red as blood: "You!" She turned her head again and begged bitterly: "Master......."
Prime Minister Liu glanced at her: "Don't worry, just listen to him." ”
Aunt Xue had to sit back in her chair.
Xiao Qingzhu motioned for the people on both sides to let go of Nijiro and let him continue.
Ni Erlang kowtowed: "After the villain was sent out of Liu's mansion, he had to go all the way south to find a livelihood. But when I walked to the Troubled Ridge, I was stopped by a group of killers, who kept saying that they wanted the villain's life, and the villain never imagined that his beloved wife, who was caring for him, would send a killer to kill me!"
He paused and continued: "It's also my Ni Erlang's fate, he was slashed twice by the killer and didn't die, and he met two kind-hearted knights who repelled the killer and picked up a life. After that, the villain went incognito like a rat crossing the street, just to find Xiangxue one day and ask her face to face, why did you do this to me?"
Prime Minister Liu glanced at Xiangxue suspiciously, Xiangxue didn't dare to look at Prime Minister Liu's eyes, but she glared at Ni Erlang and asked, "The clever tongue is like a spring, and it is the same as the real thing! Do you have evidence?"
Nijiro tore open his shirt and showed the two scars on his chest: "I don't have any evidence, but it's all true! My Nijiro is clumsy, the only thing he can't do is to lie!"
Everyone saw that he was skinny, but the scar was impressive, and they all sympathized. Xiangxue saw that Prime Minister Liu hesitated, so she knelt down, and she cried pitifully: "Master, please believe me, the concubine really didn't do this!"
Prime Minister Liu Cheng looked at Xiang Xuehua's rainy face, and he sighed and said, "Ni Erlang, even if what you say is true." Now that Xiangxue is a lady, it is impossible to marry you again. What compensation you want, say it. ”
Ni Erlang kowtowed: "Since Xiangxue is living well with the master, the villain doesn't want to do anything, he just wants his son and daughter back and live a good life in the future." I hope the master will be perfected!"
Sons, daughters?
Prime Minister Liu Cheng's eyes widened: "What did you say?"
Ni Erlang kowtowed repeatedly: "When the villain left Liu's Mansion, Xiangxue was already two months pregnant, and the villain wanted the son in her womb!"
"You're talking nonsense! It's impossible!" Xiangxue was furious, her lips trembled, and she screamed inwardly.
Ni Erlang said loudly: "Xiangxue, it is normal for you to covet the glory and wealth of the Liu Mansion, I don't blame you." But those children are mine, even if I, Nierlang, am a pariah, I can't watch my children call someone else's father!"
At this moment, even the patriarch couldn't sit still: "Boldly Diao Min! I actually make a big deal of nonsense here! These two children are my Liu family's sisters-in-law, how can they be your children!"
Liu Chengxiang thought about it carefully, Xiangxue's fetus was indeed born a month prematurely. But according to the calculation of time, it is impossible to be the son of Ni Erlang! Prime Minister Liu Cheng now completely believes that Xiang Xue is wronged, and he is furious: "Ni Erlang! You dare to slander my concubine of Liu Fu?!"
Nijiro was stupid: "I'm ...... I ......"
"Beat him to death!"
The two thugs dragged Nijiro and pulled him out. Xiangxue looked at all this condescendingly: it was true that Nijiro was her former husband, but she would never tolerate anyone standing in her way to success!
A look of pride gradually appeared on Xiangxue's face: Nijiro, you just die, I will raise your child well!