I married an exasperating eunuch Chapter 101 part 3

Chapter Planning for revenge (3)

When Chen Hui said this, it seemed that Wei Wei was very frightened. His legs even lost strength and he fell on his butt on the ground. He stared speechlessly at Chen Hui.

Her guess was partially confirmed by Wei Wei’s actions. Chen Hui was not in a good mood at all and said with a cold face, “I never thought that scholars could also be so shameless!”

“I don’t know what you are talking about!” Wei Wei regained his senses and hastily denied it.

Chen Hui said, “Do you really want me to make it clear? How much enmity is between you and Lady Zheng that you want to ruin her life?”

“I, I didn’t!” Wei Wei quickly said, “Don’t talk nonsense. I adore Lady Cheng and will never harm her!”

Chen Hui said, “You are harming her by eloping with her. If you are really in love with her, why don’t you go to Zheng residence and ask for her hand? Elopement? A wife comes from a betrothment, a concubine comes from elopement. You, as a scholar should understand this principle more than I, a woman who hasn’t gone to school.”

“Her father will not agree. I also had no choice but to do this!” Wei Wei shouted in a low voice.

“Her father doesn’t agree, then you try to make her father agree. What is this that you are doing?” Chen Hui said, “I love money. Do I just steal it knowing that others won’t give it to me? There is no such sense!”

Wei Wei was rendered speechless by Chen Hui. Originally, it was already unethical of him to elope with someone else’s daughter. So, he naturally couldn’t refute confidently at this moment.

Chen Hui refused to let him go easily. She said, “I see that you don’t have the guts. How did you come up with elopement? Did someone instigate you?”

Wei Wei’s complexion changed. To Chen Hui, this was admitting by default. Who instigated Wei Wei? The truth was already obvious.

“If Huang Renhou wanted you to have the guts, he would do more than only talk, right? How much money did he give you? Chen Hui asked.

She had it almost figured out. When she saw Wei Wei and Huang Renhou together earlier, she thought that it was Qi Shengwen’s idea and that he had some bad intentions. But at that time, Qi Shengwen hasn’t come back from the frontier yet and there is no phone call. Now it seemed that it was not Wei Wei who approached Huang Renhou, but it was Huang Renhou who took the initiative to approach Wei Wei. Without Qi Shengwen watching over him, Wei Wei was a scholar who didn’t know about the world. Didn’t he treat the smooth, slick and shameless Huang Renhou as a confidant after just being coaxed by him? Wasn’t it simple why Huang Renhou did this? Huang Renhou is Li Youde’s godson and Li Youde has some enmity with that sir Zheng. Letting Wei Wei trick Zheng Yong’s precious daughter into eloping with him, wasn’t it a blow and humiliation to sir Zheng? This kind of retaliation wouldn’t be tracked to Li Youde and it doesn’t take much effort on his part. How perfect was it?

Chen Hui felt a bit sad thinking of how she told Huang Renhou to stay away from Wei Wei. Huang Renhou should’ve told Li Youde, right? But Li Youde didn’t mention it to her at all. Thinking about it, it seemed normal. She would definitely stop Li Youde if he had mentioned it. He wanted to do things without her knowing but didn’t expect that she happened to bump so coincidentally into Zheng Rongrong who wanted to elope.

“He, he didn’t,” Wei Wei shook his head hurriedly.

“It’s fine if you don’t tell me. I will let Xiao Liu come in and search you,” Chen Hui said.

Wei Wei’s expression froze. After a long time, he finally took out a stack of banknotes and said, “He gave me five hundred taels.”

There was no doubt that this was a huge sum of money. But to Li Youde, this little bit of money was nothing. He would think it was a good deal if he could get revenge with this small amount of money.

“Keep the money well,” Chen Hui said, “Go and tell Lady Zheng that you want to elope with her only after you took money from someone.”

Wei Wei’s complexion changed drastically, “No, my feelings for Lady Zheng are sincere. I can’t say that!”

“Isn’t what I said the truth?” Chen Hui was in a bad mood at this moment and didn’t bother to say much more to Wei Wei, “You took Huang Renhou’s money. That is why you made up your mind to elope with Lady Zheng. I am not wrong about that, right? If you still have a bit of conscience, you should let Lady Zheng go back instead of taking her thousand miles away from her home and having the hard life of living roughly and having to say goodbye to her relatives forever!”

Wei Wei sat down dejectedly, “What about me? I want to be Rongrong.”

Chen Hui said, “Study hard, pass the imperial examination and ask for her hand properly.”

Wei Wei covered his face and didn’t make a sound.

Chen Hui said, “You can leave now. I won’t stop you. When Lady Zheng’s family arrives, you won’t be able to leave.”

“Let me see Rongrong at least one last time!” Wei Wei knew that it was impossible for him and Zheng Rongrong to leave today, so, he could only plead.

Chen Hui said, “What are you going to say to Lady Zheng? Saying that I broke up a pair of lovers?”

“No, no! I didn’t think it through before and would like to thank Lady Chen’s awakening me,” Wei Wei stood up and said, “I will let Rongrong go back to the residence and wait for me. Sooner or later, I will go ask her hand in marriage in a fair manner!”

Chen Hui felt relieved and raised her voice to the outside, “Xiao Liu, go next door and ask Lady Zheng to come over.”

Xiao Liu responded and went. Soon, Zheng Rongrong hurried in. When she saw Wei Wei, she rushed to him and had a look at him.

Chen Hui secretly ordered Xiao Liu to inform Zheng residence to come to pick her up.

With Chen Hui and Xiao Tiao present, Zheng Rongrong and Wei Wei naturally couldn’t talk much. When Zheng Rongrong heard Wei Wei’s plan, only a fleeting trace of struggle and sadness flashed on her face before she agreed. Chen Hui thought, Zheng Rongrong still had some concerns about the elopement. Now that Wei Wei wanted to take the most correct path, perhaps, Zheng Rongrong was the one who is the happiest.

The two knew that they might not be able to see each other again for a long after today’s parting. So, they seized this opportunity to exchange some intimate words. Chen Hui stayed there with an embarrassed face just in case Wei Wei said something he shouldn’t say.

Although Chen Hui disagrees with Li Youde’s way of doing things, what could she do? Tell Zheng family the truth, place righteousness before family and let sir Zheng hate Li Youde even more? How could she do that?! She had to help Li Youde. Even if she didn’t let his plan succeed, she wouldn’t let sir Zheng find out that Li Youde was the mastermind behind the scenes. However, what should she say when she returns to Li residence, sees Li Youde and he learned that she destroyed his plan for revenge? Just thinking about it gives her a headache!

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