Chapter 236 The Crown Princess Dies

The Crown Princess sent all the servants out of the room. Wearing gorgeous palace clothes, she walked to the Crown Prince's bed and looked at him with hatred in her eyes.

"Crown Prince, you are a useless man. You can't be the emperor while you are alive. Now, His Royal Highness Prince Yu has been harmed so badly by Prince Qin. I must do something for Prince Yu. Only when Prince Qin and you are dead, His Royal Highness Prince Yu will have the opportunity to come out of the imperial mausoleum. Don't blame me for not thinking about our years of marriage. After all, I have never loved you. If you were not the crown prince, my father would not have forced me to marry you. Originally, I wanted to marry Prince Yu, but you blocked my way!" The Crown Princess said gritting her teeth.

Ever since her last attempt to frame the crown prince failed, she has been having a hard time in the East Palace. If the crown prince had not gotten into trouble this time, she would have had no chance to come out and take charge of the situation.

Xu Qingyue had already contacted her privately and said that Prince Shuo actually supported Prince Yu and was willing to help Prince Yu. As long as it was proven that Prince Qin had killed the crown prince, Prince Yu would be able to come back.

So, the Crown Princess slowly walked to the front of the Crown Prince, picked up the quilt from the bedside, and covered the Crown Prince's face. She forcefully covered the Crown Prince's mouth and nose with the quilt, her eyes were sinister, and the force gradually increased. Although the Crown Prince did not wake up, his face gradually turned from rosy to pale. When the Crown Prince's breathing was about to stop completely, the window of the room suddenly opened, and Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan jumped in from outside.

"What are you doing!" Pei Jingchuan roared, and quickly stepped forward and kicked the Crown Princess to the ground.

"How dare you! How dare you trespass into the East Palace! Someone, come, arrest the young master and his men, they are trying to murder the crown prince!" The Crown Princess did not feel guilty at all for being caught, instead she turned the tables.

Pei Jingchuan and the others were furious and were about to reprimand the Crown Princess, but they saw her fall to the ground with a thud, and a dagger flew in from nowhere and pierced her heart. The Crown Princess stared with eyes wide open and fell to the ground. When the servants of the East Palace came in, they saw this scene.

"Ah! The Crown Princess is dead! Someone is trying to murder her!"

"Someone come quickly! The Crown Princess is dead, there's an assassin!"

"Hurry up and report to the Emperor and Empress that something has happened to the Crown Princess!"

The maidservants who came in saw the Crown Princess lying on the ground with a dagger stuck in her chest, and they were so frightened that they screamed.

Pei Jingchuan and the others were also shocked. They had never expected that the Crown Princess would die in front of them. Xu Qingyan was even more shocked. How could she not have found out that there was a trap here? Prince Shuo and his men had really planned one thing after another. Now that the King of Qin had just been captured, they planned to have her husband kill the Crown Princess! This time, they were in big trouble.

Soon, many guards came to the East Palace. Pei Jingchuan and his men did not flee. After all, if they fled, they would be fugitives, and the entire Yinggong Mansion would be implicated. Pei Jingchuan and his men were taken to the Dali Temple for interrogation.

"Young Master, the servants of the Eastern Palace said that they saw you murdering the Crown Princess. Do you have anything to say about this?" The Chief Justice of the Dali Temple sat upright on the high seat and asked seriously.

As this matter involved the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, many ministers came to listen, and the Duke of England naturally stood aside with concern.

Pei Jingchuan looked at the Dali Temple Minister frankly and said, "Sir, the servants of the East Palace did not see me kill the Crown Princess with my own hands. What they saw was that the Crown Princess fell to the ground and died. The Crown Princess was assassinated. Someone tried to frame me. The dagger was not mine."

"Then why did you appear in the East Palace? At that time, there were only four of you in the prince's bedroom. Except for the unconscious prince, how can you prove that you didn't kill the prince's wife?" the Dali Temple Minister continued to ask.

Although what Pei Jingchuan said made sense, it was not enough to clear his suspicion.

Pei Jingchuan replied: "The reason why we appeared in the East Palace was that we suspected someone wanted to murder the prince, so we planned to come back to see the prince. But when we came back, we happened to see the prince's wife trying to strangle the prince to death."

As soon as these words came out, many people were surprised. The Dali Temple Minister also frowned and said, "Crown Princess, why did you want to murder the Crown Prince? Young Master, do you have any evidence for what you said?"

They really had no evidence. The servants around the prince were all controlled by Prince Shuo, so the secret guards around the prince were probably unreliable. That was why Pei Jingchuan did not ask the secret guards to come out to testify.

But at this time, an official who was listening to the trial nearby brought it up, saying, "Sir, there should be secret guards around the Crown Prince! Call out the secret guards around the Crown Prince and ask them, then we will know, right?"

Seeing that Pei Jingchuan did not speak, the Dali Temple Minister reported to the eunuch sent by the emperor to hear the trial, and then asked someone to invite the secret guards around the prince. As expected, the secret guards had already been bribed and controlled, and they insisted that Pei Jingchuan had killed the princess.

"You said that I killed the Crown Princess, so may I ask why I killed the Crown Princess?" Pei Jingchuan looked at the secret guard coldly and said.

The secret guard's heart trembled, and he said, "Of course you wanted to kill the prince, and the princess found out, so she killed him to silence him."

"Oh? You want to kill the prince? If that's the case, then why did I bring the miracle doctor to save the prince? Originally, the imperial doctors all said that the prince was beyond help, and it was the miracle doctor I brought who saved the prince." Pei Jingchuan sneered.

"This...this you are...deliberately trying to cover up something. You are afraid that others will suspect you, so you...you would do this." The secret guard said in a panic.

After all, killing the Crown Princess was the second choice, and when Prince Shuo ordered me to do this, he did not teach me how to justify it.

Originally, their first plan was to let the Crown Princess kill the Crown Prince. If they were unfortunately caught, they would kill the Crown Princess.

The Dali Temple Minister also saw the guard's guilty conscience. He narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Why are you so nervous? Why are you stuttering so much?"

"I... I'm just a little... a little scared. After all, the young master is so cruel when he kills people." The secret guard explained reluctantly again.

Pei Jingchuan laughed after hearing this and said, "How can a secret guard like you say you are afraid? How can you be responsible for protecting the prince like this? No wonder the prince was murdered, your responsibility is not light!"

"Yeah! Why does this secret guard look so weird? Is there really something wrong with him?"

"But there were only a few of them. If the Crown Princess hadn't caught the young master trying to kill someone, why did she die?"

"The young master's sister is going to marry the King of Qin, so he will naturally stand on the side of the King of Qin. It seems reasonable to murder the prince for the King of Qin!"

At that moment, many ministers began to discuss the matter. Of course, many of Prince Shuo's people also tried to guide public opinion.

The Dali Temple Minister was certainly not stupid. He discovered something fishy through the performance of the secret guards. However, despite this, Pei Jingchuan was still highly suspected.

In the end, no conclusion was reached and it was decided to continue the investigation. Pei Jingchuan and others were also temporarily detained.