Ruan Songling didn't expect her daughter to admit it in public so quickly.
She glanced at the maid kneeling on the ground with a cold gaze. This person must not be kept.
"I did not instruct her to set the fire, but she said she wanted to go."
She had already noticed that Prince Jin's expression was extremely ugly, so she couldn't admit it directly.
The maid suddenly said with red eyes: "Princess, if it wasn't for the county lady telling you, she really couldn't swallow this breath and wanted to massacre these lowly people in Heyang County, but the prince didn't agree, so you said it was all Shi Qingluo's fault."
"You asked the prince to send someone to set the fire before, but the prince disagreed and you had no one, so you ordered this servant."
"Let me do this well, or I will kill my whole family. How dare I disobey you?"
She kowtowed wildly to Princess Jin, "Princess, I never thought that Xiao Hanzheng would find out about the arson and arrest me."
"I only ask you to spare my family. I am willing to plead guilty to all the charges and die."
Ruan Songling was so angry that she fell backwards, "Bitch, you really know how to confuse right and wrong. It was obviously you who proposed to set fire to the Xiao family."
The maid continued to kowtow, "Yes, it's all my fault."
"Princess, I will take full responsibility. Please don't forget what you promised me."
Then she suddenly pulled a knife from her sleeve and stabbed herself in the chest.
Blood gushed out, her mouth moved, she glanced at Princess Jin dimly, and then fell to the ground.
This scene frightened many people present and caught Prince Jin off guard.
Xiao Hanzheng seemed to be shocked as well. He immediately stepped forward to feel the pulse and then looked at the maid's eyelids.
Then he sighed, "She's dead!"
Liang Yujun didn't expect that this maid was so fierce that she actually committed suicide.
But he always felt that something was wrong with the development of this situation. He knew that Xiao Hanzheng had medical skills, but he did not quite trust his judgment, so he asked the palace doctor who came with him to check again.
The court doctor came forward and did the same examination, then stood up and said to Prince Jin: "Your Highness, she is indeed gone."
Liang Yujun felt extremely unlucky when looking at the maid lying on the ground, and he even felt an indescribable anger.
Although everyone was killed, the fact that Ruan Songling allowed her maid to set fire to the imperial officials and the princess was confirmed.
He was so angry that he looked at Ruan Songling and asked, "What did you promise her?"
It seems that this idiot must have promised something before, which is why the maid said she would take full responsibility and then commit suicide.
Ruan Songling never expected that this maid would commit suicide in public.
She seemed to be confused. When she heard King Jin ask this, she shook her head and said, "I didn't promise her anything!"
She asked someone to set the fire and offered a reward afterwards, but she didn't promise the other party anything else.
Liang Yujun didn't believe it, but there was no point saying anything now.
Now that the person is dead, there is no way to verify it.
If he hadn't taken the initiative to insist that it was the princess and the county lord who ordered it, it would have been better for him to die.
Now that he has confessed everything, it would be useless if he died. It would only backfire.
After all, there are so many eyes watching here, and who knows how the story will spread after it’s over.
Seeing this, Shi Qingluo looked at Prince Jin and said, "Your Majesty, we have never been hostile to the palace, but your princess and daughter have been constantly picking on us."
"Now they even send people to murder us."
"What do you think we should do?"
Although this question is asking what we should do, it actually wants King Jin to give an explanation.
Ruan Songling also heard it, and she said coldly: "The person who set fire to you has committed suicide out of fear of punishment, and you are not injured or burned to death. What else do you want to do?"
Shi Qingluo raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "According to what the princess said, anyone can attack an official appointed by the court or a princess appointed by the emperor. If they are not injured or killed, they will not be held accountable?"
"If we get hurt or die, it's our fault?"
Ruan Songling thought to herself that it was true, but she said, "I didn't say that."
Ruan Songling's face darkened. "How dare you! Who gave you the courage to be so arrogant in front of me?"
Shi Qingluo rolled his eyes. "You are a first-rank imperial concubine, and I am also a first-rank princess. We are of the same rank, so why shouldn't I dare to speak?"
"Don't think that you can cover up the fact that you ordered the maid to set fire and harm the court officials and the princess in front of the prince."
She looked at Prince Jin and said, "I have always believed that the prince is the most fair and will act impartially."
Liang Yujun: "..." This is clearly a deliberate attempt to put him on a pedestal! Although he had previously wanted to use the punishment of the princess to gain the gratitude of Shi Qingluo and his wife, he was the one who took the lead.
Not only has it become completely passive now, but it also doesn't end well for us.
But if he doesn't deal with it, he will be accused of being unfair.
At this time, Liang Yulin also came in with his men, "Royal brother, I never thought that your princess would be so bold, vicious, and cruel."
"Killing an official appointed by the imperial court and a princess personally appointed by the emperor is a serious crime."
As soon as he came in, he convicted Princess Jin.
Ruan Songling didn't expect that her lover would be so cruel.
At this moment, all the love and the white moonlight were thrown away, and only resentment was left.
She said angrily: "King Yi, don't go too far. What do you have to do here?"
Liang Yulin raised his eyebrows, "Why is it not my business?"
"In addition to being a witness, I am also a victim."
"I am staying in that courtyard tonight. If Master Xiao hadn't discovered that your maid had set the fire, I would have been burned to death as well."
Then he looked at Liang Yujun again, "So, my royal brother, do you also have to give me an explanation?"
Liang Yujun: “…” If you could die so easily, you wouldn’t be standing here.
He looked at Liang Yulin sternly, "What do you want to explain?"
He would rather let this annoying brother of the emperor tell him how to punish the princess.
Liang Yulin met his cold gaze, his eyes also cold, but with a handsome smile on his face, "This is my brother's princess, of course you have to make the decision."
"But if I'm not satisfied, I can only write to the emperor and ask him to make the decision for me and Mr. Xiao."
"Or are you reluctant, my brother? Or do you also think that the princess is doing the right thing?"
Liang Yujun's eyes turned even colder, and then he saw Ruan Songling looked shocked, with a hint of sarcasm on his lips.
This idiot really thought that the person she fell in love with was a kind and good person.
His younger brother, the Emperor, has never been a good person. He has a mind as cunning as a sieve.
He had framed him when he was a child, quarreled with him on purpose, and pulled his sleeve. When his father suddenly showed up, the bastard fell into the lake on purpose, and when he was rescued he said that he was the one who pushed him.
Let him be punished by his father, the emperor who doted on him very much at that time.
This bastard has been full of evil intentions since he was a child and is extremely annoying.
This guy has no feelings or love for Ruan Songling, so naturally he won't stand on her side.
Only she would be so self-righteous as to think that Liang Yulin would not do anything to her.
Although Liang Yujun also hates Ruan Songling now, he is still very angry when he sees her look of being hit and turning love into hate, and he feels the green in his heart has deepened.
He would never keep such an idiot again.
He quickly put away his sullen expression.
Instead, he looked at Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng and sighed, "It was all because of my failure to discipline them that they made the mistake."
Then he said, "So I have decided to depose the princess and send her back to her parents' home. I will also deprive Liang Mingmin of her title of county lord and demote her to a commoner, and have her go back to her parents' home with Ruan Songling."
"This will also give you and the people justice."
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