"Your Highness, someone from the Ningyuan General's Mansion has come to invite the Princess Consort to pick up the second young lady of the general's mansion."
Bai Ke stood outside, bowing with his hands clasped as he reported.
At this moment, Mu Yanming had just gone to bed. He was about to decline when unexpectedly, Mo Qinghuan woke up.
"What's going on?" Mo Qinghuan propped herself up and sat up, rubbing her sleepy eyes.
Mu Yanming frowned with a straight face. His voice showed no sign of emotion as he said to the person outside the door, "Go and prepare the carriage."
Receiving the order, Bai Ke retreated.
Mu Yanming got out of bed first. Mo Qinghuan stretched and said, "It's so late. Are you going out?"
"You're the one going out," he said as he grabbed a robe from the screen and handed it to Mo Qinghuan.
Mo Qinghuan took the robe with a skeptical look on her face but didn't start putting it on.
"It's Mo Yao. She's currently in the Ningyuan General's Mansion. I think it's necessary for us to go there. We should avoid any bad rumors that might harm the reputation of the general's mansion."
Mo Qinghuan pursed her lips. This Mo Yao always caused her trouble!
Humph! If it weren't for the reputation of the general's mansion, she wouldn't go to pick her up!
She angrily put on the robe. She still had a gloomy face when she sat in the carriage.
"Let's guess why Mo Yao showed up at the Ningyuan General's Mansion in the middle of the night," Mu Yanming said, interrupting her train of thought.
Coincidentally, this was exactly what she was thinking about.
"What else could it be when a woman shows up at a man's mansion?" Mo Qinghuan said crossly.
Mu Yanming just looked at her. "So what are you going to do when we get there?"
"Both of them should be responsible for this kind of thing... Let's wait until we get there."
Mo Qinghuan always adhered to the principle of "you don't provoke me, and I won't provoke you." However, if the other party went too far, don't expect her to be tolerant.
When they arrived at the Ningyuan General's Mansion, the doorman politely welcomed them in.
The Ningyuan General invited Mu Yanming to sit in the main seat. Mo Qinghuan sat on his right.
Mo Qinghuan coldly looked at Mo Yao, who was sitting on one side in disheveled clothes, and Zhao Yiyi, who was sitting on the other side with a gloomy face.
"What's going on?"
Ning Shouzhang glanced at Mo Qinghuan. When he met her gaze, he quickly looked away. He had witnessed this woman's toughness. That day, he had been caught off guard and was knocked out by her.
"Maybe we should ask the second young lady Mo to explain it herself," Ning Shouzhang said angrily, waving his sleeve and turning his face away, not looking at anyone.
Hearing this, Mo Yao trembled like a sieve. Just as she was thinking about what to say, Mrs. Lan was led in.
As soon as Mo Yao saw Mrs. Lan come in, she immediately threw herself into her mother's arms, crying pitifully. "Mother."
Mrs. Lan hugged her daughter. "What's going on? Has someone bullied you?!"
"What do you mean by that, General's wife?"
Mrs. Lan looked at Ning Shouzhang with a furious face. "What do I mean? Humph! My daughter was bullied like this in the Ningyuan General's Mansion in the middle of the night. What do you think I mean?"
Zhao Yiyi couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up and pointed at Mo Yao. "Madam, why don't you ask your precious daughter why she came to the Ningyuan General's Mansion in the middle of the night?"
Mu Yanming and Mo Qinghuan coldly watched them bickering.
"Take your dirty hand away!" Mrs. Lan slapped Zhao Yiyi's hand away. Seeing this, Ning Shouzhang quickly protected Zhao Yiyi behind him.
Mo Yao was extremely jealous when she saw this scene. Why didn't he even look at her when she came to him voluntarily? Not only did he insult her verbally, but he even hit her!
"The General's wife should discipline your precious daughter well, or she'll try to get intimate with every man she sees!" Zhao Yiyi stood behind Ning Shouzhang, her face flushed with anger.
Mo Qinghuan noticed that Mo Yao had been crying all the time and hadn't said a word. She probably felt guilty. But she and Mu Yanming were still here. Ning Shouzhang's behavior was simply an insult to the general's mansion!
She angrily slapped the table. "That's enough! Stop arguing!"
Everyone looked at her in unison.
"Didn't the Ningyuan General invite us here to clarify things? Can the Ningyuan General explain now?"
She sat coldly in the main seat, looking calm, neither overbearing nor humble.
Ning Shouzhang angrily waved his sleeve. "As the Princess Consort can see, your younger sister came here late at night and told me straightforwardly that she wanted to... " He closed his eyes angrily, seemingly unable to say the words. "She said I could do whatever I wanted to her!"
Hearing this, Mo Yao cried even louder. "The general's fiancée is here now, so of course he would say so! But he didn't say so before!"
Ning Shouzhang was about to say something else when Mo Qinghuan raised her hand to stop him. "Okay, now it's your turn to speak," she said, looking at Mo Yao.
Mo Yao took a step forward and walked in front of Ning Shouzhang. Before she could say anything, Ning Shouzhang took two steps back in disgust. "General, when you made a promise to me, you didn't act like this. You said you would ask the Emperor to annul the engagement with the Duke's Mansion and then marry me!"
Mo Yao looked at Ning Shouzhang's purple and blue face and felt a sense of satisfaction. Of course, these words were made up by her. But she wanted to see how he would explain how she got into the general's mansion.
"Sheer nonsense! General Mo has always been upright. I didn't expect him to have such a shameless daughter! It seems that the family education of the general's mansion is nothing special!"
Mo Qinghuan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. It must be the remaining consciousness of the original owner reacting to the insult to her father.
"General Ningyuan, may I ask you a question?" she suddenly raised her eyebrows, with an undeniable tone in her voice.
Ning Shouzhang clasped his fists. "Please ask, Princess Consort."
"How did she get in? Why is her clothes torn? Why does she have injuries on her body?"
She asked three questions in a row, making everyone present look at Ning Shouzhang.
Zhao Yiyi also frowned and looked at Ning Shouzhang. She had been so angry just now that she had forgotten to ask why Mo Yao could get into the general's mansion...
Why did it seem that there were signs of intimacy on her body? Thinking of this, she looked at Ning Shouzhang disappointedly.
Mo Qinghuan originally thought that Ning Shouzhang would be flustered. Unexpectedly, he just looked angry and contemptuous, without any sign of panic.
"Replying to the Princess Consort, I ordered the doorman to let her in because she said she had something urgent to see me. Considering that she and Yiyi are good sisters, I... "
"Wait a minute!" Mo Qinghuan interrupted Ning Shouzhang. "You said you let her in because you considered her relationship with Zhao Yiyi?"
Ning Shouzhang nodded. "Yes."
Mo Qinghuan suddenly laughed. "Doesn't the general know the difference between men and women? Doesn't he know that being alone with a woman at night will cause people to gossip?"
Mo Yao looked at Mo Qinghuan in surprise. She didn't expect Mo Qinghuan to speak up for her...
Even Mrs. Lan looked at Mo Qinghuan in confusion.
"I didn't expect the second young lady of the prestigious general's mansion to be so shameless!"
Mo Qinghuan was extremely angry when she heard Ning Shouzhang keep referring to the general's mansion.
This Mo Yao really knew how to disgrace the general's mansion!
But she couldn't let others insult the general's mansion. Even if she had to punish someone, she would take the person back and discipline them herself.
"In today's matter, everyone has their own point of view. You say Mo Yao is shameless, and she says you ruined her innocence and now you're denying it. So, it's hard to judge this matter clearly!"