Chapter 237 Not on the Jade Plate

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"Jing Mo, I will temporarily hand over the secret guards to you. You must have people keep an eye on the Eastern Palace. They didn't succeed this time, so they will definitely take action again. As long as we can catch a person who attacked the prince alive, Qingyan and I will have hope of clearing our names and getting out." Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan were temporarily detained, and the Duke of Ying and others visited them in the prison.

"Well! Is there anything else I can do?" Jing Mo nodded and looked at Pei Jingchuan firmly.

"Now, you should mainly keep an eye on the prince. The breakthrough lies mainly in the prince. Only if Qingyan and I come out first will we have a chance to rescue King Qin." Pei Jingchuan instructed.

"Okay!" Jing Mo nodded when he heard that.

Seeing this, the Duke of England also stepped forward and asked, "What about me? Is there anything you want me to do?"

How could he, a Duke, be useless at the critical moment?

Pei Jingchuan looked at the Duke of Yingguo, thought for a moment, and said, "Father, please send someone to monitor Prince Shuo to see if he has any other moves. You also need to send someone to the imperial mausoleum to protect Prince Yu and the Sixth Prince. If something continues to happen to the Crown Prince, I'm afraid they won't be safe either."

Although, Prince Yu and the Sixth Prince had been disliked by the Emperor and banished to the Imperial Mausoleum, when the Crown Prince and Prince Qin both met with accidents, what happened between Prince Yu and the Sixth Prince was no longer of any importance.

The emperor will definitely take them back. I'm afraid Prince Shuo will definitely think of this result. Pei Jingchuan thinks Prince Shuo will take action against these two people later. If they can find evidence that Prince Shuo murdered Prince Yu and the Sixth Prince, it will be a weapon to overthrow Prince Shuo.

——Prince Shuo’s Mansion——

"Your Highness, you have done a great job this time! You have caught both the Prince of Qin and the young master in one fell swoop. I'm afraid they will never understand the answer until they die!" Xu Qingyue knelt on the ground and peeled grapes for Prince Shuo. She looked at him adoringly and praised him sincerely.

Now, she had to admit that this Prince Shuo was indeed shrewd and calculating. She and Pei Jingyuan had failed in their calculations so many times, but Prince Shuo actually succeeded in his calculations. Whenever she thought of Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan, who were now prisoners, she felt indescribably happy.

"Don't be too complacent too soon. He is still in custody and has not been fully convicted." Prince Shuo curled the corners of his lips slightly, his eyes were extremely dark.

"Then Your Highness...what are you going to do next? Now that they are in prison, they must be close to death! Your Highness, you can't give them a chance to get out of prison, right?" Xu Qingyue asked quietly.

Prince Shuo's eyes were deep, and he sneered, "Of course not. Now that Pei Jingchuan is in prison, no one is going to protect the prince anymore. So the next step is to let the prince go first..."

Halfway through his words, he paused and said, "However, before anything happens to the Crown Prince, I still have two people to deal with first."

"Oh! Who else?" Xu Qingyue asked curiously.

But Prince Shuo gave her a cold look and said, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

Xu Qingyue could only lower her eyes and remain silent. After being tortured by Prince Shuo, her whole body was covered with bruises. She put on her clothes and looked at her body in the mirror, her eyes full of hatred.

"Xu Qingyan! All this is because of you. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have fallen to the point of serving Prince Shuo, a pervert!" Xu Qingyue said gritting her teeth.

God knows how painful it was for her every time she served Prince Shuo. Now, Xu Qingyan and the others were finally imprisoned.

So, after Xu Qingyue packed up, she took people to the prison. She naturally wanted to take a good look at Xu Qingyan's current miserable condition.

"Empress, please be careful! It's a bit damp over there, please come this way." From a distance, Xu Qingyan and the others heard the flattering voice of the jailer.

As for the queen mentioned by the jailer, Xu Qingyan guessed it was Xu Qingyue. After all, the Queen would never come to such a dirty place like the Heavenly Prison. They had no grudges against other concubines, so the only possible one was Xu Qingyue. As expected, Xu Qingyue's face appeared in front of them with a superior look.

"Oh! Aren't these the Young Master and the Crown Prince's Consort? How did they become like this now?" Xu Qingyue said with her chin raised proudly.

At this moment, Xu Qingyan and Pei Jingchuan were wearing prison uniforms and had taken off their hairpins and rings, looking very miserable. Xu Qingyan naturally knew that Xu Qingyue came to laugh at them today, so she ignored her. Facing Xu Qingyue's words, she just sat aside with Pei Jingchuan and pretended not to see it.

Their disregard completely annoyed Xu Qingyue. She looked at Xu Qingyan with a twisted look, put on airs, and said coldly: "I am talking to you here! I am the concubine of Prince Shuo after all, why don't you kneel down and pay your respects to me?"

At this time, Xu Qingyan gave her a look and chuckled, "Now, my husband and I are only temporarily detained. We have not been convicted, and the emperor has not deprived us of our title of crown prince. You are just a concubine, or to put it bluntly, a concubine who is not even on the imperial jade plate. Only Prince Shuo recognizes you. What qualifications do you have to bully us?"

Although Xu Qingyue was given the title of concubine by Prince Shuo, she was not recorded in the royal jade disc, which means that the royal family did not recognize her identity. The emperor was also very unhappy about her relationship with Prince Shuo, and thought that it was a disgrace to the royal family for a concubine from a duke's mansion to become a concubine of a prince. However, in order to cover up his ambitions, Prince Shuo could only let her stay in the palace as a concubine.

Xu Qingyue was naturally furious when she saw her identity being ridiculed by Xu Qingyan, but she also understood that what Xu Qingyan said made sense. In order to humiliate Xu Qingyan, she suddenly had an idea and handed a large piece of gold to the jailer.

Xu Qingyue said quietly, "I feel that this prison is a bit dirty, especially the cells. There is so much dust. Don't you guys use some water to clean it?"

The jailer immediately understood and nodded, saying, "Your Highness is right. Come here! Bring me some buckets of water."

Of course he understood that Xu Qingyue was not saying that the cell was dirty and needed to be cleaned, but wanted to use the name of cleaning to pour a few buckets of water on the young master and his men. Anyway, this was not a big deal. Now the young master and his men could not find any evidence to prove themselves, and the King of Qin, to whom he had surrendered, was also imprisoned. The head of the jailer would think that Pei Jingchuan and his men would not be able to turn over, so he was not afraid of offending him.

After a while, several buckets of turbid water were brought over. Xu Qingyue looked at them with a smile and gestured, "Pour the water into the cell quickly and clean it up."

"Yes, Concubine!" the jailer nodded.

When they were about to ask someone to pour water on Xu Qingyan and the others, something flew over and the jailer holding the bucket tilted his body, and the whole bucket of water poured onto Xu Qingyue who was standing next to him.

"Ah!" Xu Qingyue yelled and was about to curse.

But she heard a sarcastic female voice: "Oh! I'm so sorry! I just saw a mouse and wanted to hit it, but I hit the bucket instead."