"Then tell me, how come Cui Jingyu is also involved in this matter?"
Gu Xingyan was about to speak when Li Shuangwan stopped him with a look.
She knelt on the ground, looking as if she had done nothing wrong, even though she had done everything herself: "I forced him to do this."
Gu Xingyan's eyes moved.
Li Huaiying was furious: "Li Shuangyan, do you know what you are doing! You have not only harmed the entire Zhenguo Mansion, but also the Jing'an Marquis Mansion! This is what your parents taught you before, how dare you do such a thing!"
As he said this, he raised his hand to hit her.
Since she was little, she has treated this daughter like a treasure and she would never bear to hit her.
Gu Xingyan dodged and stood in front of him: "Uncle, if you want to fight, hit me. This was my idea and has nothing to do with Yanyan."
Li Huaiying was extremely angry, but he couldn't attack the Ninth Prince of Daliang. He just clenched his fists in anger, his face turned ashen.
"Ninth Prince, you are trying to kill our entire Zhenguogong family! You are the Ninth Prince of Daliang, but Yanyan is the daughter of the Zhenguogong Mansion of Beijin. By doing this, aren't you asking her to sell out her country?"
"You are harming her! You want her to become a sinner of Northern Jin and be cursed by millions of people!"
Li Shuangwan went to pull Gu Xingyan and asked him not to get involved.
Gu Xingyan didn't move and still stood protecting Li Shuangwan.
Li Huaiying had no choice but to put down his raised hand and took off his armor: "I will go to the palace and plead guilty to the Emperor and the Crown Prince. If they want to kill me or chop me up, I, Li Huaiying, will let them do whatever they want. Just pretend you don't know."
"Daddy!" Li Shuangwan was startled and hugged Li Huaiying's legs tightly.
Li Huaiying was furious. He didn't care that his daughter was kneeling on the ground. He threw her away with all his strength and said, "Just kneel here and reflect on your mistakes!"
The general was very strong, and he was already angry, so Li Shuangwan was thrown out heavily by him.
Li Huaiying's heart ached, but he did not go over to help her.
Gu Xingyan strode over and helped her up: "Uncle, why don't you listen to Yanyan's words? She is your daughter, don't you even trust your own daughter!"
Li Shuangwan pushed Gu Xingyan away and continued to kneel.
Li Yuanqiao also stopped in front of Li Huaiying and said, "Father, my sister is not an impulsive person. She would not do this for no reason. Please listen to her words first."
Zhu Anhe also advised: "Yes, Lao Ying, Yanyan is our daughter. Don't you know who she is? Don't hit your daughter at every turn. How can you be a father like that?"
"Also, you're going to the palace to apologize before the matter is even clarified. Is that reasonable?"
Li Huaiying sighed deeply, his face extremely cold, staring at his daughter kneeling on the ground: "What is the reason for you to do this? Tell me!"
"Dad, do you still remember the dream that your daughter told you when you and mother came to look for her when Li Shuangxi disappeared?"
Zhu Anhe thought of the dream Yanyan told him that day and his face turned pale.
The entire Zhenguo Duke family was destroyed, their daughter was burned in the cold palace, their son committed suicide, and she herself died of depression. Even the Zhu family eventually fell into decline.
"Isn't that a dream? How can dreams be confused with reality!"
The floor tiles of the study were very hard. The weather was not cold after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Li Shuangwan was only wearing an inner garment and an outer skirt. He knelt on the ground, but his knees felt swollen and painful after just a few moments.
Gu Xingyan's gaze fell on her knees, his eyes full of heartache, and he really wanted to help her up.
But he knew that it wouldn't work today.
"Dad, I originally thought it was just a dream. But many things that happened later matched that dream, so I had to prepare for a rainy day."
"My daughter told you that at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Fang and Fang Yuqian conspired to drug my brother, and then invited my grandparents to be witnesses, forcing my brother to marry Fang Yuqian. This incident really happened."
"Dad, Mom, Brother, if that dream hadn't told me this, Fang Yuqian would have already entered the house by now, and Li Huaiyi's family would still be vampires in the Zhenguo Mansion."
Li Huaiying naturally remembered it.
Therefore, when his daughter told him that day that Fang and Fang Yuqian were plotting, he was surprised for a moment.
"Also, how did I know that my cousin's servant Xiaoshun would betray him? Before that, I had been away from Shengjing for half a year, so there was no way I could know about my grandfather's family. But the second day after I arrived in Shengjing, I quickly found Xiaoshun."
"It was in a dream. On the day when my cousin was taking the imperial examination, Xiaoshun swapped his clothes. When his clothes were searched, it was found that there were cheat sheets all over them. My cousin was disqualified from taking the imperial examination forever."
"In the end, my eldest cousin ran away from home and never came back. Xiaoshun had already been bribed by someone."
Zhu Anhe felt a pang of fear when he recalled the packet of medicine he had found in Xiaoshun's room that would gradually make his nephew become demented.
"My daughter told you that Ling Heng's child will be named Chun Ning. Father, why don't you go and find out if it's this name?"
Li Huaiying did not need to ask, as the name Chunning had just been decided a few days ago. He saw with his own eyes in the imperial study the person in charge of the imperial edict at the Zongzheng Temple asking the crown prince about the young prince's name.
Ling Heng wrote down the name and handed it to the Ministry of Rites in front of a group of officials.
Li Huaiying's expression gradually began to change.
Li Shuangwan moved and felt a little pain in his knees.
"And the ten Yanxue Pavilions are Ling Heng's secret assets. Xu Jianzhou is Lin Bin's uncle from her mother's side. They transferred all of the Lin family's assets to the Xu family, and most of the money they earned was given to Ling Heng to train his private soldiers."
Li Shuangwan glanced at Gu Xingyan in front of him: "Otherwise, if Ling Heng was really an unpopular prince, where would he get so much money to train so many secret guards?"
"Xingyan and my elder brother were kidnapped when they were ten years old, and countless children in the mountains and forests were trained to be secret guards. But, Dad, you know how much manpower and financial resources are required to train a secret guard."
"Sometimes, there may not be one or two secret guards with strong martial arts skills among a hundred children. If he has no money, how can he buy these children and train so many secret guards?"
"Also, Daddy, why did I immediately ask you what you said to Emperor Jingzhang in the Imperial Study 20 years ago after I came back?"
"That's because in my dream, before I was burned to death by Ling Heng in the cold palace, I asked her why? Why did our General's Mansion help him ascend to the throne, but he wanted to wipe out my entire family after he secured his throne?"
"He told me to ask my father on my way to the underworld what he said to Emperor Jingzhang when he was five years old, which caused him to live a life worse than death for the next ten years."
"Dad, that was not just a dream. Maybe it was really my daughter's personal experience. I don't want the things in my dream to happen in reality, Dad."