Chapter 213: Prison

"Mr. Shen...Mr. Shen, please spare us. We are just bad-mouthed and talk nonsense. Mr. Shen, please spare us, please spare us."

Several people shrank back with pale faces.

“Mr. Shen, please let us go. We promise not to say a word and never talk nonsense again.”

Someone's knees went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud.

Shen Changhe's eyes remained calm as he looked down at the few people, "I only believe in the dead, they won't talk nonsense."

——

Three quarters after 3 p.m.

Shen Anan bid farewell to Madam Shen and returned to the Fourth Prince's Mansion with Xiao Yuan.

As soon as she returned to Wutong Garden, she asked, "Where is Qing'an?"

Xiao Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, a little unhappy, "Why are you looking for him?"

I looked for him when I was at the Shen Mansion, and I looked for him again when I returned home.

"I have something to ask him."

"Ask me the same. I know more than him."

He sat in the armchair and casually reached out to pull Shen Anan to sit on his lap.

"I want to ask him about Miss Lin."

Xiao Yuan was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke, "Have you heard about it?"

"I only heard a few words, but I don't know the details."

"It was my negligence." Xiao Yuan said solemnly, "You had just left, and I was busy with government affairs. Lin Ye also left, so I neglected the Lin family, giving Xiao Ze the opportunity to take advantage of it."

"He coerced and bribed several guards to take revenge on us and do this to Miss Lin..."

Shen Anan's eyes burst into surging anger.

It’s a pity that that bastard Xiao Ze is already dead, otherwise she would never let him go.

"But don't worry, those people didn't succeed. Your eldest brother showed up in time and saved her. It's just... the scene was a bit unbearable to watch, and it left Miss Lin with a knot in her heart."

According to Qing An, Shen Changhe rescued her from those people. Although he didn't go to the last step, the scene of the process...

For a girl in the boudoir, it is enough to cast a shadow on her life.

Especially, the man she loved most witnessed the whole process.

Shen Anan was silent for a long time.

The fact that Miss Lin could remain so calm shows that she is very resilient.

"Those people really deserve to die."

"Everyone who participated that night died at the hands of your brother."

Shen Anan closed her eyes slightly, feeling uncomfortable in her heart.

"It's all my fault that she got involved, and the Lin family got involved."

The girl from the Lin family was so bright, gentle and dignified. How desperate she must have been facing such a scene.

Such a shameless method is worse than murder.

How could a daughter of an official family face such humiliation and filth?

"Master." Qing'an knocked on the door urgently, "Something happened."

"What's going on?"

"Mr. Shen killed six officers and soldiers in a restaurant on Hua'an Street. He was reported and has been taken to the Dali Temple."

The restaurant is such a public place, and Shen Changhe kills people in public. Is he crazy?

Shen Anan stood up and quickly opened the door. "What's going on? Didn't he go to buy things with Miss Lin? Why did he go to the restaurant to kill someone?"

Qing'an gave a brief account of what he had learned.

After hearing those filthy words, Shen Anan immediately thought that Shen Changhe had killed well.

The thought flashed through her mind, and she suddenly realized when she had become so impulsive and bloodthirsty.

"Lead the way." She hurried out, and Xiao Yuan immediately followed, "I'll go with you."

The carriage left the Fourth Prince's residence at high speed and stopped in front of the restaurant after two quarters of an hour.

Lin Yurou stood at the door blankly, without making any sound, but tears kept falling.

"Miss Lin."

"An'an." She saw Shen An'an, pursed her red lips, and her voice choked.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

"Let's not talk about this." She patted Lin Yurou soothingly, "Don't be afraid, I and the Fourth Prince are here."

Xiao Yuan walked past the two girls who were talking, entered the restaurant, and headed towards the private room.

At this time, the restaurant had been blocked by soldiers, but when they saw that the person coming was the Fourth Prince, no one dared to step forward to stop him.

The door of the private room was ajar, but the bloody smell hit people's noses directly. Xiao Yuan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and pushed the door open.

Corpses were lying all over the ground, blood had almost dyed the entire ground red, and was still flowing out continuously.

Each person had a bowl-sized wound on their neck, which was indeed Shen Changhe's method of killing.

"Who reported the case?" he asked the officers and soldiers beside him.

“Replying to the Fourth Prince, it was a scholar dressed elegantly, who said that he saw Master Shen kill someone with his own eyes.”

"Everyone was dead when you arrived?"

The officer was stunned for a moment and shook his head, “No, there is still one alive, but he was killed by Master Shen in front of us.”

Xiao Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"How long does it take to get to the restaurant from the government office?"

"Three quarters of an hour."

In three quarters of an hour, let alone killing six people, even killing twenty of these good-for-nothings in the Imperial Guard would be more than enough for Shen Changhe.

Therefore, it is very likely that the man had already gone to the government to report the case before Shen Changhe took any action.

Predict the future?

I'm afraid the conspiracy may be bigger, but Shen Changhe has long been out of officialdom, so who would want to put him in jail?

"Let the government find someone to draw the face of the person who reported the case and send it to the Fourth Prince's residence."

He turned, left the private room and went downstairs.

The officers and soldiers immediately responded.

Lin Yurou managed to calm down with Shen Anan's comfort.

Xiao Yuan glanced at Lin Yurou and said to Shen Anan, "Let someone send Miss Lin back first. Let's go to the Dali Temple."

"I want to go too." Lin Yurou said immediately, "Take me with you. I won't cause any trouble. I want to go see him."

Shen Anan looked at her red and swollen eyes, nodded and agreed, "Okay."

The three of them got on the carriage and headed towards the Dali Temple.

On the way, Shen Anan asked Xiao Yuan, "Is there any problem in the private room?"

"No," Xiao Yuan shook his head, "Judging from the method, it was indeed done by my eldest brother, but..."

"Someone must be behind this."

That night, Lin Yurou saw Shen Changhe killing people with her own eyes, so she naturally knew that he must have killed those people on impulse. But when she heard Xiao Yuan's next sentence, she was very surprised.

"Does the Fourth Prince mean that someone deliberately led Chang He to go to jail?"

Shen Anan also frowned and looked at him.

Xiao Yuan said calmly, "According to the officers and soldiers, the person who reported the case was a scholar dressed elegantly. It took them three quarters of an hour to rush from the government office to the restaurant. When they rushed to the restaurant, they witnessed the eldest brother killing the last person with their own eyes. That's how we had eyewitnesses and physical evidence."

"And with Big Brother's kung fu, it wouldn't take that long to kill those idiots. Excluding the three quarters of an hour on the way to the government office and the time it took the scholar to report the crime, that means the scholar only went to the government office half an hour in advance to report the crime."

"But he said he saw it with his own eyes, which is obviously a lie. The fact that he could predict what was going to happen in the restaurant shows that there is something seriously wrong with him."

It is very likely that the guards in the restaurant were designed by him in advance.

"Scholar?" Shen An'an frowned and thought, "My eldest brother has been in the East City military camp almost all the time recently. When did he have a grudge with a scholar?"

"Could they be relatives of those who were killed earlier?" Lin Yurou said.

"We can't rule out this suspicion." Xiao Yuan said calmly, "I've asked the government to find someone to draw the face of the person who reported the case. We'll examine it carefully after it's delivered."

Lin Yurou nodded, lowered her head slightly, and fell into deep self-blame.

"It's all because of me that I always cause him trouble."

If she had not been greedy and left the capital earlier, perhaps he would not have gotten into trouble so often.

Shen Anan stretched out his hand to cover the back of her hand, "Feelings are mutual. You never despised him for being down and out at the beginning. Now, whatever he does for you is what he should do."

——

“Mr. Shen, just tell me. If you don’t confess, you will be punished according to the law. Aren’t you making things difficult for me?”

The Dali Temple Chief Justice felt that he had taken on a hot potato and secretly cursed the scholar who reported the case for causing trouble for him.

After investigating cases for many years, he naturally realized that something was wrong and knew that he had been tricked by the scholar.

But so many people saw it in public, he couldn't just pretend to be deaf and blind and do nothing.

“Mr. Shen, just tell me a few words. If those people are extremely evil, I will definitely handle it impartially and will not show any leniency.”

As long as Shen Changhe tells the truth, he can find a way to help him get rid of the crime and avoid this lawsuit.

Shen Changhe sat on the bench, his stern face pursed his lips, not saying a word.

"Oh my God," the Dali Temple Minister just wanted to cover his head.

"If you don't tell me, this matter will be reported to the emperor. Even if the fourth prince intervenes, I will be helpless."

He felt that he had made his point clear enough.

He was afraid of the Fourth Prince, but he had to obey the Emperor even more. Everyone knew that the Emperor and the Fourth Prince did not get along, and the father and son were fighting fiercely.

He wanted to avoid getting involved if possible and not offend either side, but he didn't expect Shen Changhe to not appreciate it at all and refused to cooperate at all.

During the stalemate, the officers and soldiers hurriedly came to report, "Sir, the Fourth Prince and his wife are here."

"Alas," Lord Chen sighed heavily, glanced at the stubborn Shen Changhe, and stood up to go out to greet him.

Shen Changhe also looked up at the prison door.

Those things were Lin Yurou's Achilles' heel, the most hidden pain in her heart. How could he possibly say them out loud and let everyone know?

Now, all those who knew the inside story are dead, and those things will rot forever, sinking in the long river of the past, and no one will ever mention them again in their lifetime.

Lord Chen, Xiao Yuan, and Shen Anan were greeting each other, but Lin Yurou couldn't wait and strode into the cell.

"Chang He," she rushed over, looked him up and down, and only felt relieved when she was sure that he was okay.

"I thought they were going to torture you."

"Don't worry." Shen Changhe stroked her red and swollen eyes distressedly, "He won't torture me easily. After all, I am the fourth prince's brother-in-law."

However, this has caused trouble for the Fourth Prince and An An again.

Over there, the Fourth Prince and Shen Anan also walked in, and Lord Chen's helpless voice continued.

"I have been trying to persuade him for a long time, but Master Shen just gritted his teeth and said nothing, leaving me with no place to exert my strength even though I am willing."

He didn't know the inside story, but the other three did.

Shen Anan had already thought about it, and Shen Changhe would never tell the truth.