The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 735: indisputable
Chapter 735: No Way to Defend Yourself
Mr. Fang expressed his thanks and stood up.
Soon, Bai Jinxiu entered the main hall with the imperial physician and the nanny of the Crown Princess. Behind them followed a trembling servant who was escorted by two Bai family guards.
“Bai Jinxiu greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!” Bai Jinxiu saluted.
The imperial physician and the nanny beside the Crown Princess also saluted the Crown Prince.
The prince withdrew his gaze from the servant being escorted by the Bai family guards, suppressed his doubts, looked at Bai Jinxiu and asked first: “How is the Princess Zhenguo?”
Bai Jinxiu bowed again: “Thanks to the Crown Princess for sending the imperial physician, the imperial physician prescribed medicine for my elder sister, and after she took it, her condition stabilized. Bai Jinxiu came here again because I was ordered by my elder sister to report something to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!”
Bai Jinxiu looked back at the servant who would have been unable to stand if not for the Bai family guards, and said, “I heard from the servants of the Zhenguo Princess that this man came to the Prince’s Mansion to ask for the imperial physician before I left, and then came to the Zhenguo Princess’s Mansion to see my elder sister. He said that he had something extremely important to tell my elder sister in person!”
At this point, Bai Jinxiu wiped her tears with a handkerchief: “My elder sister was in critical condition at the time, and she was still thinking about the extremely important matter that this guy mentioned. She struggled to get up. When I returned to the mansion with the imperial physician and the maidservant of the Crown Princess, my elder sister had already forced herself to have the maid called to the courtyard. As soon as the imperial physician, the maidservant of the Crown Princess and I arrived at the door, we heard the maid telling my elder sister that Wang Qiulu had close contacts with the Liang Palace.”
“When my elder sister heard that Wang Qiulu was alive, she asked the servant who saved the traitor Wang Qiulu, and who the servant’s master was. Was it the servant’s master who saved the criminal Wang Qiulu who deserved to die, or was it the King of Liang who saved him? But the servant knew nothing about anything and said that he was just delivering a letter. My elder sister thought that this was a case of treason, so she asked me to send the man to the Crown Prince’s Mansion and ask His Royal Highness to investigate thoroughly…”
The prince tightened his grip on the armrest of the chair and looked at the servant.
Old Fang’s pupils also shrank, and he felt that Li Mingrui was indeed plotting something behind the scenes. If he didn’t know what Li Mingrui had instructed Wang Qiulu to say to the prince,
As soon as the Bai family guards let go, the servant knelt down and said, “Your Highness, I really don’t know anything… I was just delivering a message to the Princess Zhenguo on behalf of my eldest son! It was my son who asked me to tell the Princess Zhenguo!”
“What did your master ask you to say to Princess Zhenguo?” the prince asked with a stern face.
“My master only asked me to say that Wang Qiulu has close contacts with Prince Liang’s Mansion, and Princess Zhenguo please be careful and alert! He didn’t say anything else… I really don’t know anything, and I hope Your Highness the Crown Prince will understand!” The servant burst into tears at the end of his speech.
The prince’s face became increasingly gloomy, and he was almost certain that Li Mingrui was the one behind this.
Li Mingrui first sent a letter to Ren Shijie and Fang Lao, handing Wang Qiulu over to them, and then sent someone to send a letter to Princess Zhenguo saying that Wang Qiulu had close contacts with Prince Liang. What on earth did Li Mingrui want to do? !
“You don’t know now, but you will know when Li Mingrui comes later…” The prince’s eyes were extremely cold. He hated to see people playing tricks under his nose. Could it be that Li Mingrui really thought that his tricks were so sophisticated that he, the prince, couldn’t see through them? !
Soon, Dali Temple Minister Lu Jin arrived at the Prince’s Mansion first. When he entered and saw the layout of the main hall of the Prince’s Mansion, he was confused. After bowing, he sat down… and then let Shijie slowly explain the whole story to Lu Jin.
The prince had just ordered his men to bring up Wang Qiulu and the jailer from the Dali Temple when Li Mingrui arrived.
Li Mingrui actually had no idea what was going on. The person who came to summon him was a personal guard from the Prince’s mansion. The personal guard knew nothing about anything and only knew that the Prince had sent him to summon Li Mingrui.
Li Mingrui guessed that maybe Mr. Fang and Ren Shijie had betrayed him, and he was quite confused. Based on his years of investigation and understanding of Mr. Fang…it was obvious that Mr. Fang was a greedy person, so how could he let Li Mingrui accept the credit?
Now that the prince came to summon him, there was only one possibility, that is, something went wrong, and Old Fang and Ren Shijie pushed everything onto his head in order to shirk responsibility.
But what went wrong?
Could it be… Wang Qiulu?
Seeing Li Mingrui stepping into the main gate of the Prince’s Mansion, Bai Jinxiu, who was sitting on a chair, sneered, turned around to face Li Mingrui, with a sneer and sarcasm on the corners of her lips.
“Master! Master, save me!” The servant cried out when he saw his master, “I am only delivering a message!”
Li Mingrui’s heart skipped a beat. When he saw Bai Jinxiu and his servant, he knew that the Princess Zhenguo had reported the matter to the Crown Prince. He pretended to be ignorant and respectfully stepped forward to salute the Crown Prince: “Your humble servant greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”
“Li Mingrui, do you admit your guilt?” The prince asked coldly as he looked at Li Mingrui who was kneeling on the ground.
Li Mingrui still looked respectful, lowering his head and said, “Your Highness, I was summoned by Your Highness at night, and now I am completely confused. I don’t know what crime I have committed.”
Li Mingrui was thinking in his mind that now that Old Fang and Ren Shijie were here, they must have told the Crown Prince…what he said about looking for something to hold against Princess Zhenguo in order to avenge his brother. However, Bai Jinxiu was also here with the servant he sent to deliver the message.
The two testimonies were compared and he had no way to defend himself. He had to think of a convincing excuse quickly.
As he spoke, Li Mingrui raised his head and glanced at Mr. Fang, who had a gloomy expression on his face. “Perhaps it’s because of Wang Qiulu’s matter?”
“I’m here to ask you, why did you frame the Princess Zhenguo?!” The prince’s voice could not help but get louder.
He couldn’t just admit that he was avenging his younger brother, otherwise the Crown Prince would question him… If he was avenging his younger brother, why did he send someone to tell Princess Zhenguo that Wang Qiulu was still alive, how should he answer?
Li Mingrui was silent for a moment, then kowtowed to the Crown Prince: “Your Highness, I had no choice but to do this! When the King of Liang failed in his attempt to revolt and force the emperor to abdicate, he was imprisoned in the palace by Your Majesty. Thinking of the friendship I once had with the King of Liang, I went to the palace to ask Your Majesty to allow me to send someone to take care of the King of Liang from time to time! Who knew… the King of Liang forced me to help him rescue Wang Qiulu!”
Li Mingrui looked up at the gloomy eyes of the Crown Prince, pretending to be frank and looking at the Crown Prince with clear eyes: “King Liang said that if I don’t help him, he will say in front of Your Majesty and the Crown Prince that I am an accomplice of King Xian, saying that I was afraid that he would betray me, so he sent people to take good care of me! It is not a pity for me to die alone, but I can’t let the whole family be implicated! Moreover… my father is in a high position. If King Liang makes false accusations, even if the Crown Prince believes in our Li family, Your Majesty will not believe it!”
The prince gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and sneered: “Prince Liang…”
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