Chapter 159: The Battle of the Backyard

Chapter 159: The Battle of the Backyard

Ning Fengzhe explained the situation and elaborated on the strategy.

An Pengyi listened carefully and then smiled easily.

"It's a simple matter at home."

"Master Ning is indeed a famous elder brother. He has returned home after a disaster and has not even rested yet, but he wants to play with your sister."

"Your kindness is deep and you deserve the honor."

Ning Fengzhe smiled back.

"I'm just bored and just killing time."

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Lord An."

An Pengyi wanted to make peace with him, so he flattered him.

"The clown's actions of causing trouble are all there, what's the point of talking about it?"

"How ridiculous! He actually wants to compete with Lord Ning. He really overestimates his own abilities."

After everything was ready, Ning Fengzhe ordered the dishes to be served.

Ning Jiewei came upon hearing the news.

"It's time for dinner and I'm hungry again."

"The food at Chunxuanju is really not to my liking. Could you please give me some more, big brother?"

"Oh, right,"

"I heard that Big Brother didn't have lunch. I have some leftovers. Please feel free to enjoy them. Don't be polite to me."

After saying this, he gave instructions to the servants behind him.

"Take them all away."

Ning Fengzhe stretched out his hand to stop him.

"Wait a minute."

"I'm afraid I can't do what you want this time."

"Weier, don't you see that this is the standard for entertaining distinguished guests?"

Ning Jiewei snorted arrogantly.

"I see it."

"so what?"

"Where are the distinguished guests?"

"This is clearly a plan you made up out of nothing!"

"When you were trapped in the Tongshitai, you tried to kill my third sister and made me starve. I promised her long ago that I would teach you a lesson myself."

"But my third sister still values ​​her family and tried hard to persuade me not to deal with you. So if you want to hold a grudge, just come after me and don't go looking for trouble with her."

"From today on, as long as I am here in this house, you won't be able to eat a single meal!"

Ning Fengzhe pretended to sigh.

"When did I intend to kill Xi'er?"

"When did you go hungry?"

"Hey, Wei'er, how could you misunderstand so much?"

He revealed something, and Ning Jiewei then noticed something was wrong.

"you……"

Before he finished speaking, An Pengyi and Mu Rong came out from the inner room.

Mu Rong's brows were furious and she started to scold as soon as she appeared.

"Weier, how dare you treat your brother so harshly?"

An Pengyi followed up with his explanation.

"Mrs. Ning is very insightful. Lord Ning is truly wronged."

"Mrs. Ning saw with her own eyes what happened inside the Tongshitai."

"Lord Ning is trapped in chains all day long. Even if he wants to, it is difficult for him to harm Princess Yuexi or punish Fourth Miss Ning."

"Besides, Lord Ning has done nothing at all. I have never heard him say a single harsh word."

Whether their words were true or false was not important to Mu Rong.

It was just that due to etiquette and face, Ning Jiewei was indeed wrong in this matter. An Pengyi and his entourage were present, so she had to adopt a fair attitude.

Otherwise, if word gets out, I'll be branded as someone who mistreats my son harshly.

"Weier, kneel down."

Ning Jiewei was shocked when she heard this, and pointed at An Pengyi in disbelief, speaking bluntly.

"You are the one who helped my eldest brother and murdered my third sister, right?"

"Mother, they are birds of a feather, birds of a feather!"

Seeing this, Mu Rong became even more furious.

"Are you crazy?"

"Master An is here, how dare you be so rude?"

"Your Majesty!"

Ning Jiewei felt wronged and wanted to cry.

"Well, I'll tell my father!"

Mu Rong knew that it was useless to tell Ning Hanwang, so she stopped her daughter.

"Weier, stop!"

Ning Jiewei fled without looking back.

After a while, Ning Hanwang personally brought Ning Jiewei back to Huixinju.

"Wei'er, kneel down, apologize to Lord An, and admit your mistakes to your brother."

Ning Jiewei knelt down as she was told, furious and crying.

"If I had known this earlier, I would have told my third sister..."

"But, I'm helping her to teach her a lesson... and then I turn around and ask her for help... isn't that bad?"

"Humph, you are all bad guys!"

Ning Hanwang knew that An Pengyi was a favorite of the emperor.

Of course, he couldn't afford to offend the emperor.

There was no other choice but to bite the bullet and severely punish Wei'er.

"Since you are unwilling to apologize, you will be punished to kneel outside the main gate of Ning Mansion!"

Mu Rong felt the same way. She felt distressed but helpless and could only kneel as punishment.

After punishing his daughter, he had to apologize to An Pengyi in person, and after treating him well, he sent him off in a friendly and courteous manner.

There were many passers-by outside the main gate. Ning Jiewei was punished to kneel down under the supervision of the servants, and she felt humiliated.

An Pengyi left safely in the carriage, and Ning Jiewei was even more resentful.

"They are obviously in cahoots with each other!"

"Both father and mother are blind!"

"I'm not going to give up."

"Ning Fengzhe, I'm going to settle all the old and new accounts together. Let's wait and see!"

Mu Rong heard her words and lowered her voice helplessly.

"Auntie, can you please stop being so willful?"

"You've made such a fuss that the whole family has suffered. Are you teaching Fengzhe a lesson? Are you making things difficult for me?"

Ning Jiewei's cheeks puffed out and her brows were deeply frowned.

"What's wrong with making things difficult for you?"

"Who told you to bully my third sister? You deserve it!"

"You don't allow me to make trouble, but I will uphold justice. If you are dissatisfied, at worst, everything will be shattered, and none of you will survive!"

Mu Rong couldn't do anything about her and could only feel depressed.

"Then just kneel down."

"Kneel until late at night when there is no one on the street, then go back to your room and sleep."

Ning Jiewei responded angrily.

"Kneel down, and let everyone on the street see for themselves how cruelly you treat your daughter!"

After Mu Rong left, Ning Jiewei fell into deep thought.

As the third sister said, dealing with the eldest brother is indeed not easy.

Brutality is useless. It seems I have to think of a plan.

While thinking, an idea came to her mind and Ning Jiewei raised her eyebrows and smiled.

“Haha, got it.”

The next morning, Ning Jiewei came to the vicinity of the governor's platform and after careful selection, she set her eyes on one of the governor's attendants.

A bright smile is enough to touch the heartstrings.

The governor's attendant agreed to her request, stole the examination questions from the governor's office and handed them to her.

Ning Jiewei quietly placed the examination questions in Ning Fengzhe's room, intending to frame him for stealing secrets.

She wrote a petition in one stroke and submitted it directly to the governor.

The governor of the state, Xiang Chiyou, was confused for a moment after reading the petition.

"What does Fourth Miss Ning mean?"

He Jingche, the governor of the province, took a quick glance and made a conclusion.

"It seems like something from the back house."

Chi You smiled helplessly.

"I heard from Lord Xiaolin that Ning Fengzhe is considered the emperor's top counselor. What was she thinking that she would plot against him?"

"The petitions are submitted to the court level by level, under the watchful eyes and fingers of all, and we must not openly show partiality."

"But the princess and the fourth Miss Ning have already reconciled. According to the law, she must be severely punished for framing the imperial official. How can you and I just watch her get punished?"

"Oh, this is difficult."

He Jingche was also in a dilemma.

After thinking for a long time, he responded.

"How about this, we take the people from the state governor's station and go search together."

"I will be responsible for holding Ning Fengzhe back and preventing him from making any other moves."

"You are in charge of the search."

"Ning Fengzhe's residence will definitely not be able to find the examination questions."

"Considering the possibility of framing someone, and in order to be fair, we must turn to search Fourth Miss Ning's residence."

"When the time comes, find the test papers, and when you take them over for inspection, secretly replace them with the test papers from the old test."

"I will hint to Fourth Miss Ning that this test question was taken from Ning Fengzhe's residence, in order to collect evidence."

"As the governor of the state, it is normal for Ning Fengzhe to take the old questions back to his residence and think of a way to come up with the questions. Fourth Miss Ning did not understand the affairs of the governor's office and mistakenly thought that her elder brother stole the questions, so she sued him. Although she was wrong, it was also a case of sacrificing one's own brother for the sake of justice."

"In the end, just kneel down for a few days, a minor punishment and a major warning, and that's it."