Surprise! I emptied the emperor's private treasury before exile

Chapter 275 The Abandoned Princess

But the princess had her own logic. She looked determined and said in a firm tone, "But Chu Ci was raised by that woman. As the saying goes, the grace of raising is worse than the grace of giving birth. Even if she is the victim, the love she has shown in raising a child for so many years is there. It is impossible for her to completely ignore it."

If Chu Ci were here, I would have to curse, "The grace of giving birth is not as good as the grace of raising a child."

But the purpose of the prince consort was to let Master Chuci restrain Chuci.

So, at the instigation of her husband, the princess didn't care and ordered her men to tie the woman up and go to the farm where Chu Ci was.

Chu Ci on Zhuangzi was directing the people on Zhuangzi to build a manure pit. He was so busy that his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.

Suddenly, a servant came running in, breathlessly reporting, "My Lady, it's bad. The eldest princess has brought people to tie up your master!"

Chu Ci heard this and her expression suddenly tensed up and her brows knitted. She really didn't expect that she would meet the original owner's master again under such circumstances.

I just don't know why the eldest princess brought her original master here with her.

Is it simply to threaten me? Or is there a deeper, more ulterior motive?

Chu Ci was full of confusion and fell into deep thought.

However, Fan Jingrui misunderstood Chu Ci's frowning and worried look. "Don't worry, the princess won't go too far!"

Chu Ci did not explain, but smiled at Fan Jingrui, with a smile that was somewhat grateful, but also a little helpless. "I'm fine. It's just that this happened suddenly, and I have to think about how to deal with it."

In just a short while, the eldest princess arrived with a proud look on her face.

She stared at Chu Ci, her face full of disgust, and said in an overbearing manner: "I came here today to discuss a deal with you."

After that, without waiting for Chu Ci's response, she continued, "You just need to tell me the truth about what happened in the Prince of Shu's mansion, and I will release your master unharmed."

As soon as the princess finished speaking, a guard rudely brought up a middle-aged woman with wounds all over her body and ragged clothes. The woman had messy hair and dim eyes, and it was obvious that she had suffered a lot of torture.

When Chu Ci saw this scene, he showed an expression of pity.

Seeing this, the princess thought her plan had worked, and said triumphantly, "Chu Ci, what do you think of my proposal? You must think it through and don't miss this opportunity, otherwise your master's life will be in danger."

Chu Ci: She didn't understand why the princess was so sure that she would save the woman in front of her.

Although the relationship between the original body and the master was relatively good, the original body's master also had a "contribution" to the original body's many tragedies. Some of her actions indirectly or directly pushed the original body into the abyss of pain.

"What if I don't want to?" Chu Ci stared at the princess with a firm gaze and said without flinching.

The princess didn't expect that her husband had really guessed it. She was suddenly flustered, but she still said fiercely: "I will only give you this chance. If you miss it, there will be no next time. Think about it carefully and don't make the wrong decision, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"

Chu Ci heard this and stared at the princess for a long time without moving. Suddenly he smiled, with a hint of sarcasm and insight. "Does the princess want to know? Or does the prince consort want to know? Or does the prime minister want to know? Or do you all want to know, huh?"

Then, without waiting for the princess to react, Chu Ci said with a mean look on his face and deliberately dragged out his tone, "If I go to the palace now and tell the emperor what the princess did, I wonder if the emperor will..."

Before Chu Ci finished speaking, the princess' face flushed with anxiety and she shouted angrily, "How dare you——"

Seeing the princess's cowardly appearance, Chu Ci shrugged nonchalantly, a scornful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said with a strong disdain in his tone: "That's it? Princess, do you think that you can make me surrender by threatening me like this?"

The princess was out of breath for a moment. She took a deep breath, suppressed her anger, and tried to make her tone sound calmer: "What do you want in order for you to tell me the answer? As long as it is something I can do, I can agree to it."

Hearing the princess say this, Fan Jingrui squeezed Chu Ci's hand hard, blew his warm breath gently into Chu Ci's ear, and said in a low voice.

Chu Ci looked surprised, obviously surprised by what Fan Jingrui said.

But she quickly gathered herself and asked, "I only have one question, why are you so nice to Yuan Ling'er?"

Chu Ci and Fan Jingrui did not deliberately hide their little actions from others. When the eldest princess saw this, her eyes flickered slightly. Although she was a little confused in her heart, she was tactful and did not say much.

But his face was full of surprise, his brows were furrowed, and he said in disbelief: "You don't know? Then why didn't you look for this woman after you got away?"

At this point, the eldest princess seemed to have discovered some great secret. Her eyes suddenly widened, and an excited and proud expression appeared on her face. "You hate her?"

"It turns out that the seemingly glorious Princess Yixin, who is devoted to the people, is actually a person who despises the poor and loves the rich!"

"Humph, it's a pity that everyone still praises her so much, but she is just a hypocritical person with a sanctimonious appearance!"

Chu Ci did not deny it. Instead, he looked calm and said in a light tone, "Yes, I am hypocritical and I despise the poor and love the rich. Princess, you have seen my true colors. Do you still want to make this deal with me?"

The eldest princess almost choked to death when she heard this and was speechless for a long time.

After a long while, she recovered and said through gritted teeth: "As long as you tell me what happened in the Prince of Shu's mansion, the deal will still stand. I always keep my word and will never break it."

When Chu Ci heard this, his first reaction was that this princess was beyond saving.

She couldn't help but think to herself: No wonder the emperor discovered the abnormality in the Princess's Mansion early in the morning, but didn't reveal any information to her.

So Chu Ci said directly: "It's a deal. Princess, now that things have come to this, you should answer my question, right?"

Hearing Chu Ci's answer, the eldest princess's face instantly became extremely ugly, and she felt filled with shame and embarrassment.

But now that things have come to this, in order to achieve her goal, she still suppressed her inner discomfort and slowly told the "truth": "Ling'er is the child of me and my husband, but that hateful woman used some tricks to replace her. For so many years, I have been kept in the dark. It is really hateful!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Ci couldn't help but sigh in his heart once again. It was not unfair for the eldest princess to be abandoned by the emperor since she was so foolish.