"Why Li Na…"
Li Rong was stupefied to hear that Xi Ying was now taking Li Na's name also.
"Your Majesty, this clearly tells that Lord Xi is just being willful and behaving arrogantly. Before he took my second daughter's name and now he was involving my first daughter's name also."
Li Rong was actually scared.
Nothing bad should happen or stain Li Na's reputation now. Lu Jianye and his family were also there in the banquet hall today.
She didn't want them to regret this marriage proposal.
Li Qiang was thinking the same.
Ignoring everything, he stepped forward and stood beside Xi Ying.
"Prime Minister Xi"
He whispered in a low voice and when Xi Ying turned to look at him with a cold and emotionless face, he continued
"What are you trying to do?"
At the question, Xi Ying smiled coldly and said
"Can't you see what I am trying to do, Minister Li? I am trying to get what your daughters truly deserve."
Li Qiang frowned deeply and spoke again
"Prime Minister Xi…"
However, Xi Ying raised his hand and stopped him amidst his words.
"This Lord had enough of your daughters, Minister Li. Rui is this Lord's wife and Your daughters have tried to step on her again and again. My wife might not care that much but this Lord won't let her get wrong like this. Since you can't control your daughters as you had promised, this Lord will help you."
Finishing his words, Xi Ying no longer spoke to the confused Li Qiang and said to the Emperor.
"Your Majesty, Four years ago, Second Young Miss Li and Third Young Miss Li…"
Li Qiang as well as Li Rong had their eyes wide when they heard the starting words Xi Ying said.
Li Rong was so scared that she immediately stepped forward in Xi Ying's direction and started shouting loudly.
"No, you can't tell that. Prime Minister Xi, shut your mouth…Qiang…"
Xi Ying's eyes went sharp and cold at the words while Li Rong seemed to have gone crazy suddenly.
She ran towards her husband who also seemed to be startled by her behavior. Holding Li Qiang's sleeve, Li Rong pleaded
"Qiang, stop him. Stop him for our daughters…"
Li Rong's reaction made everyone inside the banquet hall more curious.
What was Xi Ying going to say that made her so scared?
Li Qiang could see this and hence he tried to stop his wife but Li Rong seemed to have lost every sense of her to act with a rational mind because of her fear.
She was afraid that Xi Ying's few words today would destroy her daughter's future.
"Rong'er, go back to your seat."
Li Qiang said sharply but Li Rong shook her head helplessly as she thought that Li Qiang was not going to do anything to save her daughters.
She forgot that if she was the mother of her children, Li Qiang was also their father.
Leaving her husband's robe, she instead went back to stand in front of Xi Ying and said in an emotionless tone.
"Prime Minister Xi, you had promised that you won't let this matter come out. You can't back out of your words now. My daughters have already paid for whatever they have done."
Li Rong tried to justify but Xi Ying smiled coldly and said
"Already paid for whatever wrong they have done… Not yet Madam Li."
After that, he looked at the Emperor again and said coldly.
"Your Majesty, This Lord requests that Madam Li must be taken away from here. Because if she keeps interrupting this Lord like this then this Lord doesn't know what he will do next."
That made Li Qiang immediately step forward and held his wife's arm.
His children's future was already ruined.
Seeing Xi Ying's cold behavior, Li Qiang could feel that there was really something he didn't know.
He didn't want his wife to get harmed also in all this so he dragged Li Rong to stand beside him and whispered sharply.
"I promise you, Li Rong, if you tried to speak again in between then I shall take my life today."
Her husband's words made Li Rong stop her struggle to get free and Li Qiang sighed in relief seeing this.
He threatened Li Rong with his life because he was helpless.
Li Qiang could see anything but he couldn't see his wife getting harmed in front of his eyes. That was not even the last thing he wanted to see.
Satisfied, Xi Ying continued speaking.
Zhao Wang Lei was frustrated and very angry inside his heart.
He didn't like at all how his commands were being ignored in such a huge banquet hall.
When he had already refused Zhao Zhuang Chen's suggestion then Xi Ying should not have spoken that he wanted to continue speaking on this matter and go against him.
That was disrespectful.
However, Zhao Wang Lei never knew that Xi Ying no longer cared. There was no respect inside his heart for him.
When Xi Ying spoke again, everyone listened to him with perked ears.
And what they heard shocked them.
"Your Majesty, four years ago, during a banquet This Lord's wife was found inside a room with this Lord and the physician had said that she was drugged. She had said that she was dragged inside that room by an Imperial guard but since the investigation minister, minister Xin had not found anything, it was declared that all of that was just her hallucination because of the drugs."
Xi Ying looked in Minister Xin's direction after finishing his words.
Minister Xin who was sitting on his seat understood and stood up from his seat.
Bowing his head in front of the Emperor, he told everyone.
"Your Majesty, what Prime Minister Xi said is indeed right."
Zhao Wang Lei nodded his head forcefully while Qin Wenya also seemed to have gone stiff in her seat.
She, of course, remembered all this.
So it seemed that Xi Ying also knew the truth. She sighed heavily.
It seems that her daughter marrying Xi Ying was really impossible. After all, Xi Ying knew this truth also.