Chapter 296 Panic
Chapter 296 Panic
Hu Yong and Hu Yuexi's faces both changed. Neither the father nor the daughter had expected that what they had just said had been heard by these people.
Seeing the undisguised disgust in the Second Prince's eyes, Hu Yong felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He had spent a lot of effort to get close to the Second Prince, and he could not let him abandon him because of this scandal.
His voice was trembling but he tried his best to pretend to be calm: "Yuexi... Yuexi is not my biological daughter. She is just an orphan I adopted. There is no blood relationship between us. It was she who drugged me and made me do such a foolish thing."
When Hu Yuexi heard this, his body shook violently, and he clenched his hands into fists, his knuckles turned white, and veins bulged on the back of his hands.
She was filled with hatred. It was clearly Hu Yong who had used violence to force her and even made her pregnant. He was afraid that someone would find out, so he forced her to abort the fetus.
Hu Yuexi didn't want to maintain this despised relationship at all. She once wanted to get close to the Second Prince and escape from Hu Yong's control. Unfortunately, the Second Prince had seen countless men and didn't like her beauty at all.
Hu Yuexi had no choice but to shift her target to Xiao Jin.
If it weren't for that bitch Xie Lan, she believed that with her charm, she would have been able to marry Lord Xiao. It was that bitch Xie Lan who ruined her.
"Second Prince, it was that bitch Xie Lan who tried to seduce my father. After I found out, she was so angry that she drugged us.
Now my father and I have been disgraced by her. Please have mercy on us and help us get justice!"
Xie Lan laughed sarcastically, "Master Hu, even if Miss Hu is not your biological daughter, an adopted daughter is still a daughter. You two are really equally disgusting.
Miss Hu, when you had the abortion, I was thousands of miles away in Sanqing Mountain. There was no way I knew about your dirty deeds.
What's more, your father is worse than an animal. Even if all the men in the world were dead, I believe no lady would even look at him, let alone seduce him. Who are you trying to fool with this lie that confuses right and wrong?"
Hu Yuexi's face turned pale and red, and she stared at Xie Lan with resentment. Although Hu Yong felt ashamed, as long as he killed all the servants in the house, no one would spread this scandal.
As for Xie Lan, as long as he could find a way to clear her name and get hold of something against her, he wouldn't have to worry about her talking nonsense in the future.
Even though the Second Prince felt that Hu Yong was disgusting, he was a key chess piece that he had managed to place in the Jinyiwei with great difficulty. It would be a pity to abandon him hastily because of such a scandal.
"Lord Hu must have been drugged, which is why he did such a foolish thing. Everyone, please go away. This matter must not be spread outside."
Hu Yong still has some value now, so why not do him a favor and help him cover up this scandal? Thinking of this, the second prince's eyes were stern, and he quietly sent a look to the guards beside him. The murderous intent hidden in his eyes was clearly instructing them to kill all the servants present to prevent Hu Yong's scandal from spreading.
Inadvertently, the Second Prince's eyes swept towards Xie Lan in the crowd. It was as if bright stars fell into his eyes, and a hint of amazement that was difficult to conceal flashed across his eyes in an instant.
I just felt like I had seen this girl somewhere before, but I didn't realize she was so beautiful.
The second prince had an evil thought in his heart, and was about to order the chief guard to quietly knock her out and take her to his private residence. Unexpectedly, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
Thick smoke rose from the four directions of the house at the same time.
"Hurry up and put out the fire!" When the second prince saw the raging fire and thought of the things in the secret room, his heart suddenly tightened, and his original calculations and evil thoughts were instantly thrown out of the window.
In order to put out the fire, the second prince not only took all the guards away, but also ordered all the servants present to go and put out the fire.
Xie Lan did not stop them, and followed them out in the crowd. However, she did not go to put out the fire. She took advantage of the chaos to use the invisibility charm to escape and find Zhao Chong hiding in the dark. "Have you found everything you want?"
Zhao Chong wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes full of excitement, "We found it. We have moved everything into the formation you set up."
Xie Lan nodded. "That's good. When will the people from the Five Cities Army arrive?"
"I have sent someone to invite him, and I believe he will be here soon."
"Okay, Hu Yong should be dressed now, let's go and capture him first."
"No need." Zhao Chong waved to Xie Lan, then waved to another guard Zhou Shen, indicating him to bring the person over.
Zhou Shen dragged Hu Yong over like a dead dog and threw him to the ground. Xie Lan saw that his clothes were covered in blood and thought that Guard Zhou had beaten him.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Shen glared at Hu Yong with disdain, "In order to cover up his beastly behavior, he killed Hu Yuexi."
Xie Lan had long known that Hu Yong was not a good person. If Zhao Chong had not said that he wanted to keep him to testify against the second prince, she would have killed him when he drugged her.
Seeing Liang Kunxing, the commander of the West City Army, rushing over with a group of people, Xie Lan followed behind to the main courtyard.
Upon learning of the fire, the second prince rushed over with his men. He thought the fire would be put out in no time, but he did not expect that the warehouse where the account books were stored seemed to be blocked by an invisible object, so not only could water not be poured in, but the fire could not be put out either.
He could only order the guards to go in and rescue the things in the warehouse.
But what was unexpected was that the guards tried their best but still failed to break into the warehouse.
Seeing Liang Kunxing bringing people to help put out the fire, the second prince's face suddenly changed, "Why is Commander Liang here?"
Liang Kunxing bowed respectfully to the Second Prince, "I heard that the Second Prince's house was on fire, so I brought people to help."
The second prince's face froze, and he felt nervous when he thought of the things he had hidden in the house. But then he thought that he couldn't get into the storehouse at all, and those things would not be exposed, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
However, to be on the safe side, the Second Prince still planned to send Liang Kunxing away. "The fire is too big to be put out. Let it burn. Anyway, this house is not worth much, so I won't bother Commander Liang."
Liang Kunxing shook his head, "No, we still have to put out the fire. Otherwise, if all the houses in this area are burned down, the emperor will blame us, and no one will be able to bear the consequences."
Seeing that the fire was getting bigger, Liang Kunxing immediately ordered his men to put out the fire.
The second prince frowned but did not stop them. The fire could not be put out and they could not enter the warehouse anyway.
However, what the second prince did not expect was that Liang Kunxing and his men put out the fire in a few moves. At this moment, the entire warehouse collapsed, and hundreds of boxes of various treasures, account books, and weapons banned by the court were suddenly exposed to everyone.
These are not the most important things. The most fatal thing is that in the middle of the warehouse, there is a wooden shelf, on which hangs a bright yellow dragon robe, which symbolizes the emperor!
For a moment, everyone present, without exception, turned pale, their eyes filled with fear and shock.