Harem Daily Life

Chapter 468: Exposing the Conspiracy

After listening to this, Mingyue nodded and asked the Tao family's housekeeper to arrange everything.

Just as the guests were looking up at the gossip with great interest, a performance suddenly started on the stage in the courtyard.

"That day, he returned triumphantly on a tall horse. At first sight, I fell in love with him. But I tried every means to test him but he was not interested. So I had no choice but to take a risk and set up a mystery. First, I made his mother scare the horse, and then I used a self-torture trick. I pretended to be stupid and foolish, so he had no choice but to marry me..."

The three members of the Cai family were stunned, and Miss Cai's face turned pale.

Madam Gu looked at Miss Cai in disbelief. If this script went as planned, wouldn't she be someone else's pawn?

The play was being performed on the stage and the audience was watching. All the guests were smart and could understand the cause and effect almost as soon as the lyrics were sung and understand the whole story clearly.

Gu Yi looked at the Cai family members who were like clowns in front of him and narrowed his eyes: "You Cai family really used a good trick and almost tricked my Ningyuan Marquis Mansion into it!" After saying that, he glared at his stepmother as if she was an idiot.

He just saw Concubine Tao's maid and the housekeeper arranging everything. He knew without thinking that this matter must have been secretly investigated by Concubine Tao.

He smiled at Tao Yanyan, and their eyes met, smiling without saying anything.

Lord Cai's face turned red and white alternately, he had no idea what was going on. This time he was in a difficult position and had seriously offended the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion!

"My Lord, please calm down. I...I really didn't know anything!" He slapped his daughter in the face. "You rebellious girl, you actually designed to scare the Marquis's horse. Didn't you think about what might happen if something went wrong and hurt the Marquis's wife? Hurry up and apologize to the Madam, and apologize to the Ningyuan Marquis's Mansion!"

Miss Cai was knocked unconscious by her own father. It took her a long time to come back to her senses: "Impossible, impossible, why would these things be revealed? Why? Who leaked it? Who?"

Qi Yizheng raised his eyebrows and said nothing, thinking to himself, how cool it feels, it's so quick to get slapped in the face.

"Hmph, if you don't want others to know, then you better not do it. Lord Cai, during this period of time, my Ningyuan Marquis Mansion has come to your door many times, asking for doctors and apologizing, but you are unmoved. You tried your best to discredit my Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, forcing us to come to your door to propose marriage, and using public opinion pressure to force us to submit. You really do everything you can. Today you even disrupted the marriage between the Tao family and the Gu family. It's really too much! I will definitely write a letter to accuse you. You have a poor family education and framed me. I will never let it go."

Ning Yuanhou let out a sigh of relief, scolded Lord Cai, and felt better all over.

"Mother, mother, please help me. I really like General Gu, but I have no other choice but to do this!" Miss Cai stopped playing dumb. Her shrewdness was exposed. There was no one to turn to at this time, and she could only ask her biological mother who always doted on her.

Mrs. Cai was so humiliated that she had no face to speak. She wanted to find a hole to crawl into, and she regretted raising such a terrible daughter.

Seeing that her mother didn't say anything and just avoided the question, Miss Cai turned her gaze to Gu Yi again: "General Gu, I really like you! Can you...can you help me?"

Miss Cai cried so hard that tears would make any man feel soft-hearted, but Gu Yi was not moved at all.

"I'm not interested in you, and it's even more impossible for me to like a woman who is deliberately plotting against me. Just give up on this idea." Gu Yi's face was cold.

Tao Yanyan looked around and said, "You are a girl in the boudoir. Can you really come up with such a trick? You have to scare Madam Gu's horse at the right time, coordinate perfectly and just get hurt by Madam Gu's carriage, and then get away unscathed and pretend to be stupid. Do you really have the mind and tricks to do this? Or is there someone behind the scenes helping you to operate everything? Don't worry, as long as you tell me who he is, you will be an accomplice at most. Ningyuan Marquis Mansion will not blame you and will just pretend that this incident never happened."

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone waited with bated breath.

Ning Yuanhou and Gu Yi both frowned, unable to figure out who was behind everything, whether it was targeting their Gu family or had some other purpose.

Miss Cai struggled internally. Although she wanted to clear herself from the crime, she did not dare to rashly expose the man surnamed Yin. That man was ruthless and had almost scared her to death when he helped her. If she stabbed him in the back now, she might die suddenly tonight.

"No, there is no one behind the scenes, it's just... I was possessed by the devil." Miss Cai lowered her eyes, taking all the blame.

Tao Yanyan raised her eyebrows. Even if no one said it, she knew who was behind it. It was just a pity that she couldn't recognize it.

She didn't say anything else, just glanced at Tao Qian, who understood and stepped forward and said, "The Tao family is having a wedding today, and Lord Cai was not invited. Lord Cai should go back."

Lord Cai had no choice. It was really inappropriate to stand there after being exposed in front of others, so he had to leave in disgrace with his wife and good-for-nothing daughter.

They were so arrogant when they came, and so embarrassed when they left. The Cai family lost all their face today, and they did it in front of so many colleagues.

His daughter would probably have to shave her head and become a nun in a nunnery, as no one would be willing to marry her.

Miss Cai kept looking back and looking at Gu Yi eagerly. Gu Yi turned away, walked up to Tao Yanyan, clasped her fists and said, "Thank you, Imperial Concubine."

I don't know when she figured out everything and sent people to investigate secretly. She was worried about me even when she was pregnant. Gu Yi was really grateful to her from the bottom of her heart.

Tao Yanyan just smiled and did not take credit for it: "General Gu, you don't have to be polite. There are many guests today, so you should go and entertain them." When there was no one around, she called him cousin, and when there were people around, she called him General Gu.

After watching a play, everyone was looking for seats and sitting down to prepare for the feast. The Tao family had only one son, Tao Dalang, and he was too busy to attend to the feast. The three sons of the Gu family had to take over and help entertain relatives and friends. It was a busy time.

Gu Yi nodded: "Then take care of yourself and eat more of the food later." After Wenrou finished giving his instructions, Gu Yi turned and left.

Tao Yanyan was invited to sit at the head seat, and the three children also sat at the main table. The dishes were served one by one, and it was extremely sumptuous.

Tao Yanyan and Qi Yizheng looked at each other, and Qi Yizheng nodded, indicating that there was nothing unusual.

Tao Yanyan was still a little nervous. It was rare for little Jin'an to leave the palace today. If the descendants of the Yin family wanted to see the child, they might only have this chance today.

She looked at the dishes on the table and had no appetite. She only ate two bites of the vegetarian dishes and then stopped eating.

"Your Majesty, do you have no appetite? Are you not used to the smell of all this delicious food? Do you want to go to the backyard to rest first?" Mrs. Tao went to entertain several female guests. Mrs. Gu sat beside Tao Yanyan and asked with concern.

Tao Yanyan smiled and said, "I really don't have much of an appetite. I can't eat meat since I got pregnant. Otherwise, I'd better go and have a rest. I'll send the children over after they finish eating."

Mrs. Gu hurriedly stood up to see them off, but Tao Yanyan stopped her and only told the children to eat well, then took Qingfeng and Mingyue to the backyard.

"Let's go check on Ning'er. She's probably hungry waiting in the room alone." Mingyue carried a food box, and several people came to the newlyweds' yard.

"Your Majesty, this is a little strange." A female shadow guard stepped forward and whispered in Tao Yanyan's ear.

The yard was very quiet, eerily quiet.

"Let's go in and take a look!" Tao Yanyan led his people into the room, and saw that except for Gu Ning, all the other maids had fallen to the ground. Next to Gu Ning stood a masked young man, with a dagger in his hand against Gu Ning's neck.

"I didn't expect that the first person to come was Concubine Tao. But anyone can come, and it would be even better if you come."

Tao Yanyan looked at the masked boy for a few seconds and asked, "Are you from the Yin family?"