Chapter 97 The Trouble
Su Qingqing drank tea and asked leisurely, "How is it?"
Rong Que glanced downstairs and listened to the lively discussions below, "Are there any of your people in here?"
Su Qingqing leaned back in her chair without moving, and snapped her fingers to indicate that she was right.
Rumors always need a leader to fan the flames.
Rong Que smiled and said, "I'm afraid there are more arrangements than these?"
"Just watch." Su Qingqing grabbed the teacup in front of her and took a sip. Her posture was lazy, but there was a sparkling light in her eyes.
It was true that the Second Prince liked Su Yunyun, and the envoy from Southern Liang also knew this before they came. But now, amid the discussions among the people in Kyoto, could the Second Prince really allow the woman he once loved to be taken away by the envoy from Southern Liang?
This is about a man's face.
Or, the second prince doesn’t care, but what about Mu Ze?
As a mighty general of Southern Liang, would he be willing to marry a woman who was so entangled with the second prince that she was gossiped about by the people of Kyoto in the Great Yan Dynasty?
Even if he married her, Su Yunyun would not have a good ending if she went to Nanliang.
Su Yunyun is not a fool either.
With all this going on, would she be willing to go to Nanliang? If she didn't want to go, what would she do?
Su Qingqing looked down with interest, while Rong Que looked at Su Qingqing.
The waiter and the owner of the teahouse were completely stunned. They never expected that it was just a storybook, how could it be taken so seriously?
The shopkeeper hurriedly signaled to the storyteller to stop telling the story.
The storyteller received the signal, clapped his wooden stick, and quickly said, "If you want to know what happened next, please listen..."
Before he could finish his words, someone in the audience immediately started to make a noise, "What's going on? It's not time yet, why don't you continue? Did we not pay enough for the tea or do we not deserve to hear the whole thing?"
"Yes, usually it takes half an hour. It's only been a short time. We are all regular customers of the teahouse. Are you guys bored now?"
"It can't be that you are too guilty to speak out just because we are discussing one thing?"
"You dare not say what you write, but you dare not say what you write!"
The storyteller looked at the shopkeeper with sweat all over his forehead, feeling restless.
He bought this storybook from Suihonglou yesterday. This storybook was first read in Suihonglou and the response was very good.
At that time, the storyteller in Suihonglou earned a lot of tips, but suddenly something urgent happened at home and he needed to leave Beijing and return to his hometown. When he got the news, he immediately went to the man's house and bought the book at a high price.
I just want to make some money with this book.
When the story was being told in Sui Hong Lou, I didn't hear anyone attribute this character to the second prince.
Why did he start talking about it today and cause all this trouble?
Feeling uneasy, the storyteller kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, and for a moment he didn't know whether to continue or stop.
The news here was delivered to the Second Prince's residence by a waiter early in the morning. However, the Second Prince was stopped by an aide named He Chao in the Duke of Zhenguo's residence.
Before he could arrive, someone from the Su family came.
"How dare you! You are so bold that you dare to make up stories about anyone. Catch them!"
As soon as the Su family's butler entered the teahouse, he shouted orders with a dark face.
The originally noisy lobby suddenly became quiet.
The storyteller stood up in a hurry, trembling with fear. "My Lord, this has nothing to do with me. I bought this storybook. When I bought it, I didn't know that this storybook was..."
"Bullshit, stop talking to me. Go tell Jingzhao Yin what you want to say. Slander, slander, and innuendo . Just explain yourself clearly. Take him away!"
After that, he pointed at the crowd of spectators in the hall and said, "And you, you openly mocked the prince and committed insubordination. Take them away as well!"
The crowd immediately went into an uproar.
"Who do you think you are? You are nothing but a running dog of the Su family. According to seniority, you are still a slave. We are all commoners. What rights do you have to arrest people?" Someone in the crowd shouted angrily.
Someone immediately followed up, "Yes, if someone needs to be arrested, it should be the Jingzhao Yin Yamen who do it. When will it be the Su family's servants' turn to arrest people?"
"Oh, the Su family's daughter hasn't even married yet, but they've already put out the money. The servants in the family can come to the street to arrest people. What is the government for? It's all up to you, the Su family."
Facing the people's questioning and accusations, the Su family's housekeeper's expression did not change at all, and he ordered in a calm voice, "Don't listen to their nonsense, just take them away!"
Immediately, the Su family servants rushed in.
Su Qingqing put the cup on the table, coughed, stood up, leaned against the fence on the second floor, and said to the people below in a crisp voice: "Let's see who dares to be so presumptuous!"
She suddenly spoke, and everyone below looked up.
Su Qingqing stood there leaning against the railing, with a hint of anger on her face, "You can't even listen to a storytelling in peace, what are you going to do?"
The common people didn't recognize this as the Crown Princess, but the Su family's housekeeper recognized her. He looked at Su Qingqing with wide eyes and asked in surprise, "Crown Princess?"
When people heard this name, they gasped and the lobby became quiet.
Rong Que looked at Su Qingqing.
Su Qingqing sneered, "Oh, you know me, if you do, get out of here right away."
The housekeeper of the Su family bowed and said, "Your Majesty, you may not know that this person fabricated the story of our young lady and humiliated and slandered her. I have been ordered to arrest him and bring him to the government."
Su Qingqing laughed, "Making up a story about your young lady? You said, the heroine in his storybook is your young lady Su Yunyun?"
The Su family's housekeeper had a dark face and remained silent.
Su Qingqing mocked, "No one said the heroine's name is Su Yunyun, so how come she is your daughter? It doesn't sound like that to me."
The Su family’s housekeeper was silent for a moment, then said in a hard voice, “The Crown Princess should stop interfering in this matter.”
"Don't mind your own business? As a servant of the Su family, you have no power and no official position. What right do you have to arrest people?
I am the Crown Princess. Should I just watch you do evil things right under my nose without stopping you?
Then am I worthy of the title of Crown Princess?"
Someone in the crowd was brave enough to clap their hands and said, "Your Highness, you are right."
The housekeeper of the Su family seemed to be possessed by a demon. "Your Majesty, you don't know that these are unruly people. I arrested them to get rid of harm to the people!"
After he finished speaking, he no longer took Su Qingqing seriously, and waved his hand and ordered rudely, "What are you still standing there for? Arrest him!"
Rong Que looked at the Su family's housekeeper suspiciously.
This person doesn't seem to be so reckless and brainless.
Are you so blatantly going against the Crown Princess?
Frowning, Rong Que lowered his voice and said to Su Qingqing, "Could it be that you have bribed this man as well?"
Su Qingqing tilted her head, "No?"
Rong Que laughed immediately, "How come you even bribed him?"
Su Qingqing did not answer Rong Que. The place was in chaos. The servants of the Su family were arresting people by force. The arrested people were shouting and screaming. The shopkeeper's waiter did not know what to do for a moment.
The Su family and the second prince of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion have always been close, and it is reasonable for them to side with the Su family.
But now, this man so blatantly contradicted the Crown Princess, forcibly took people away, and made such a big noise, will they really not stop him?
Why is there still no movement from the Second Prince? How long have we been sending people to deliver the message?
