Chapter 156 The Princess Offers Tea and Apologies
Chu Shouchen glanced at Princess Anyang and repeated:
"After a thorough search, the Mingxin Division has not found anything suspicious. I wonder if Her Royal Highness the Princess has any advice for you?"
Princess Anyang rolled her eyes and said, "I heard that your son has a very good relationship with the Northern Prince's Palace. I wonder if he will protect him."
"You're talking nonsense! Slander!" Chu Jue got anxious on the spot.
He is impartial and never shows favoritism.
Jiang Rong stared at her. "Why did the princess single out our Beiwang Mansion? Do you think we harmed Princess Yongfu? Do you have any evidence?"
"We'll know if there's any evidence if we search for it!" Princess Anyang looked at the emperor and said:
"I feel that the Mingxin Division's search is not thorough enough. Please allow me to take people to search again, Your Majesty!"
Of course, the emperor trusted Mingxinsi more than the eldest princess and thought that the eldest princess was targeting the Northern Prince's Palace.
It was common knowledge that these two families did not get along.
But since it involved the death of her own daughter, the eldest princess wanted to take the opportunity to find fault with the Northern Prince's Mansion. He immediately felt that Anyang was very ignorant.
"The Mingxin Division has already investigated. They specialize in investigating cases." The emperor said unhappily.
What you are saying is that professionals have proven the innocence of the Northern Palace, so what are you doing?
"What if Chu Jue is protecting us?" Princess Anyang wondered.
Chu Jue was very angry.
Jiang Rong said calmly, "In order to prove the innocence of Mingxin Division, I am willing to let the princess search again. But if no evidence is found, please offer tea to Mingxin Division and Beiwang Mansion to apologize."
"Okay!" Princess Anyang agreed immediately.
She responded so straightforwardly that the atmosphere in the room suddenly became quiet.
If Princess Anyang is targeting the Northern Prince's Mansion and insists on investigating it again, it means that she has an old grudge against the Northern Prince's Mansion and is looking for trouble.
Then why did she agree to these conditions that were obviously disadvantageous to her?
Princess Anyang always valued face more than anything else. Asking her to offer tea and apologize was a complete loss of face...
She can agree to this.
Unless she was sure that she could find something in the tent of the Northern Prince's Palace.
A moment.
The expressions of several people in the field changed.
Cen Tingbai, Murong Shili, Fan Ziyi... including the emperor, all looked at Princess Anyang with something strange in their eyes.
When Dong Xiqi saw this scene, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He couldn't carry her anymore, he really couldn't.
Aren't you asking for doubt?
At this time, Jiang Rong was almost certain that Dong'er was from the Princess's Mansion.
"Since the princess is so suspicious of the Northern Prince's Mansion, please come in." Jiang Rong said calmly.
Princess Anyang couldn't wait to say, "Come here, search thoroughly!"
She personally led a team to search the tent of the Northern Prince's Mansion, but they could not find the brocade box after searching through all the boxes and cabinets.
The box had already been burned to ashes...
"What's going on?" Princess Anyang murmured to herself in disbelief.
Zhou Gou's face turned pale, and he whispered, "Your Highness, stop saying anything you shouldn't say!"
As he spoke, he quickly stepped forward and saluted the emperor: "There is indeed nothing suspicious in the tent of the Northern Prince's Palace. The Mingxin Division searched very carefully."
Dong Xiqi was very depressed about this result.
It seems that there is a smart person in the Northern Prince's Palace who discovered something wrong with the brocade box and dealt with it in advance.
It’s a pity that I couldn’t kill Jiang Rong today.
But there is still a long way to go...
"Mother, you should quickly apologize to the Northern Palace and Mingxin Division!" Dong Xiqi reminded her, and then tried to smooth things over by complaining:
"You have a prejudice against the Northern Palace, but you can't doubt that all the bad things are done by the Xie family. Princess Yongfu has no grudges against the Northern Palace, so why would the Northern Palace want to harm her?"
Her words seemed to be distancing herself from the Northern Prince's Mansion, but also from herself.
They are members of Prince Duan's party, how could they harm Princess Yongfu?
If we have to be suspicious, we should also be suspicious of the enemies of Prince Duan’s party. Only the Prince’s party would destroy the marriage between Cen Tingbai and Prince Duan’s party.
When Fan Ziyi heard this, his face changed slightly. Want to throw dirty water? You wish!
"Indeed, the Northern Prince's Mansion is very innocent. When we heard that Cen Tingbai is about to marry Princess Yongfu, it is possible that some people do not want Cen Tingbai to marry a noble wife, in order to prevent Cen Tingbai from suppressing them." Fan Ziyi sneered, hinting at something.
Cen Tingbai and the Dong family are both military families in Prince Duan's party.
If Cen Tingbai could not marry Princess Yongfu, his relationship with Prince Duan would naturally be more distant than that of the Dong family.
Fan Ziyi’s meaning is very clear, it was not us who did it. Do you want to suspect that there is a rebellion going on?
Fan Ziyi had no idea that the cause was actually Princess Anyang's jealousy, and thought that it was something the Dong family did for the family's benefit.
Dong Xiqi's face turned pale. None of them were easy to mess with.
Finally, the emperor said, "There is no need to speculate about things that are without any evidence."
But he was extremely suspicious of Princess Anyang and was very dissatisfied with her.
If her marriage with the Dong family had not been an important move by the royal family, he would have already found some charges to sentence her to Anyang.
"We, the Northern Palace, have proven our innocence. Princess Anyang, please offer us tea and an apology." Jiang Rong said loudly.
Princess Anyang was very reluctant, "How can a princess serve tea to others... This is against the rules..."
"It's against the rules for you to bring people to search this prince's tent. What you said in front of His Majesty, the princess wants to go back on her word. Are you trying to deceive the emperor?" Xie Lingxi said coldly.
Because of this sentence, Princess Anyang was put on the fire.
If you don't offer tea and apologize, you will be committing the crime of deceiving the emperor.
The emperor didn't want to pay attention to her, Prince Duan was full of speculations, and the prince just wanted to add insult to injury.
No one in the room spoke up for Princess Anyang.
"Mother, please hurry up." Dong Xiqi urged. Everyone was waiting for her to apologize...
The longer you delay, the more embarrassing it will be.
Princess Anyang's face turned pale, then blue, then blue, then red, then red, then black. In the end, she could only grit her teeth and offer a cup of tea to Jiang Rong, saying:
"I misunderstood. I'm sorry."
Jiang Rong took the teacup she handed over slowly and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll be more careful next time."
Princess Anyang: I’m so angry! I’m so angry!
Princess Anyang toasted Chu Jue again. Chu Shouchen winked at his son, telling him not to accept it but to decline it to save the princess's face.
He did not want to offend Prince Duan's party. Who knows who will be the emperor in the future?
But Chu Jue didn't understand his father's expression at all, and he also took the teacup, raised his eyebrows and said proudly:
"It is a great virtue to know one's mistakes and correct them. Don't doubt others recklessly in the future!"
Chu Shouchen was silent: If you were not my son, how long could you live?
Princess Anyang was so angry that she wanted to poison Chu Jue and Jiang Rong to death on the spot!
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