Chapter 274 Instruction
Shen Ji was not afraid of the censor's impeachment, and the Dali Temple Minister did not dare to persuade him anymore. He interrogated the couple in the street.
The whole street was completely blocked, and there were crowds of people watching the fun, and the gossip fire in their hearts was burning fiercely.
Everyone likes to gossip, and today they finally caught up with it.
But no matter how the Dali Temple Minister questioned them, the couple insisted that Chen Wan was their biological child.
At that time, their family was so poor that they could not afford to raise a child. So the uncle secretly put the child in a luxurious carriage without telling the couple, hoping that the child would be adopted by a kind-hearted person.
After the uncle secretly released the child, he did not leave, but hid in the dark. He saw Shen Ji pick up the child with his own eyes.
Two months ago, my uncle went to Beijing and recognized the current Duke Dingguo as the man who held the child that year. After returning, he told the couple what happened, and they came to Beijing to look for their daughter.
The couple's words were so flawless that many people watching them began to believe them. After all, there is a saying that goes "empty talk, no wind."
Most people would not dare to stop Duke Dingguo in the street and ask him for his daughter, as they would think he was too unlucky.
The Dali Temple Minister asked, "Do you have any evidence to prove that the Princess of Jingbei is your daughter?"
The woman became excited. "My uncle saw Duke Dingguo holding my daughter with his own eyes. Isn't that enough proof? If the Crown Prince's Consort of Prince Jingbei isn't my daughter, then where is my daughter?"
The Dali Temple Minister looked at Shen Ji, who was already impatient on horseback.
Shen Ji said, "How could I, Shen Ji, not know whether my daughter is my biological child or not?"
"Hit me!"
"Beat them until they tell the truth!"
There were a lot of people around, and the Dali Temple Minister could not use torture at will, but in order to get to the bottom of the matter as quickly as possible, he had no choice but to use torture.
The Dali Temple Minister waved his hand, and the yamen runners borrowed a bench from a stall nearby and pressed the couple down on the bench.
“Bang!”
The board was hit.
The couple leaned on the stool, enduring the pain, and cried out, "Duke Dingguo! Give me back my daughter!"
After being beaten with the sticks for sixteen or seventeen times, the couple still refused to give in.
The Dali Temple Minister looked at Shen Ji, and Shen Ji said, "Keep beating me. I want to see whether they are tough with words or with sticks."
The Dali Temple Minister was a little worried, "What if someone gets beaten to death..."
Shen Ji said coldly, "My title of Duke Dingguo is enough in exchange for their two lives!"
Dali Temple Minister, "..."
Too impulsive.
But looking at Shen Ji's expression, he seemed very calm.
He was determined to find out who had instigated the couple to come to him and ask for their daughter, even if he was impeached by the censor for his callous disregard for human life.
Shen Ji took all the responsibility, and the Dali Temple Minister was afraid of nothing, "Keep fighting!"
The boards are connected one by one.
The couple finally got scared.
The woman cried, "I confess! I confess!"
After being hit with more than twenty sticks, her forehead was covered with cold sweat from the pain.
The yamen runner stopped, but the woman was in so much pain that she couldn't speak. The man was in better condition. The Dali Temple official asked, "Speak quickly!"
The man was dying, "Someone ordered us to do this..."
"Who is it?" asked the Dali Temple Minister.
The man shook his head. "I don't know him. He gave us a hundred taels and taught us to do this. That person said that Duke Dingguo has a good temper and won't do anything to us. That's why we dared..."
The Dali Temple Minister was speechless.
Duke Dingguo has a good temper?
If you don't provoke him, Duke Dingguo will of course have a good temper. But now that he is riding on his head, how can Duke Dingguo still have a good temper?
Kindness does not command the army, and righteousness does not command wealth. Can a general who holds military power be a good-tempered person?
The yamen runner indeed found a silver ingot worth one hundred taels from the bag the man was carrying.
The Dali Temple Minister looked at Shen Ji, "This couple has confessed, how will the Duke deal with them?"
Shen Ji said, "For a mere hundred taels, you dare to stop me in the street and ask me, Shen Ji, for my daughter?"
"Break one of their legs for me!"
The couple turned pale with fear and begged for mercy.
But it was too late to beg for mercy now, and the yamen runners raised their sticks and beat him.
Two shrill screams were heard, and the onlookers were horrified.
After the beating, the yamen runners threw the couple aside and Shen Ji rode away on horseback.
After the excitement was over, the onlookers dispersed, the road was cleared, and traffic resumed.
The whole street was talking about this matter, but everyone was talking about the ruthlessness of Duke Dingguo and the stupidity of the couple. They had never seen people who valued money more than their lives. They were simply provoking trouble.
If the Princess Consort of Prince Jingbei was not Duke Dingguo's biological daughter, would Duke Dingguo's wife have doted on her so much?
I don't know who instructed the couple, they really had ulterior motives. Fortunately, Duke Dingguo interrogated them in the street, otherwise someone would have spread the rumor that the Princess Consort of Prince Jingbei was not his biological daughter.
Eunuch An watched the excitement for a while, then lowered the curtain and returned to the palace.
Imperial study.
The Emperor was reviewing memorials when Eunuch An approached. The Emperor put the memorial down and asked, "You're just going to announce a reward. Why are you taking so long?"
Eunuch An said, "On the way back, I watched the excitement for a while and wasted time..."
"What's the excitement?" the emperor asked casually.
"A couple stopped Duke Dingguo in the street and demanded that he return their daughter to them..."
The emperor's hand holding the tea froze, "Which daughter?"
"The Crown Princess of Jingbei."
The emperor slowly raised the teacup and asked, "Wan'er is not Shen Ji's biological child?"
Eunuch An didn't know how to respond, so he could only say what he knew. "I don't know who was behind this, but Duke Dingguo flew into a rage and ordered the Dali Temple's Minister to interrogate them in public, breaking the couple's legs..."
What happened on the street inevitably reached Shen Wan's ears.
Hearing someone claiming to be her biological parents, Shen Wan's face turned pale, and she felt a fear she had never felt before in her heart. Although she had known for a long time that she was not her parents' biological child, she had never thought about looking for her biological parents. She did not want to change the status quo and would rather be kept in the dark for the rest of her life.
She made up her mind that as long as her parents didn't say anything, she would never ask.
But she never thought that someone would expose this matter. When she heard Shen Ji interrogating the couple in the street and breaking their legs, Shen Wan's nose was sore and tears came out.
When Xie Jingyu came back from the study, he saw Shen Wan wiping her tears. He asked, "Why are you crying?"
Shen Wan shook her head, then looked at Xie Jingyu, "If I really wasn't my parents' biological child..."
Xie Jingyu laughed and pinched Chen Wan's nose, saying, "Before proposing marriage, God knows how much I wished you weren't my father-in-law's daughter. That way, I wouldn't have to worry so much and could just come and propose marriage directly."
Shen Wan was a little sad, but when she heard Xie Jingyu's words, she disappeared without a trace.
Stop crying and glare at him instead.
Xie Jingyu held Shen Wan in his arms, “No matter whose daughter you are, you are my prince consort.”
His hand covered her lower abdomen and he whispered in her ear, causing Shen Wan to blush and elbow him.
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