After the morning court session the next day, Jiang Shunyi, Tian Mingwu, Zhao Yiming and Mu Chenke gathered in the imperial study.
The emperor looked at Jiang Shunyi with a dark face, "You are really good at raising children. What would you not do for the legitimate son at a nice palace banquet? You have thought of the same thing."
Jiang Shunyi's old face flushed with embarrassment, but when he turned around and saw Zhao Yiming and Tian Mingwu with calm expressions, he immediately became furious.
He opened his mouth and began to wail, "Your Majesty, Zhao Yiming beat my son to the point where he was barely breathing, and now he's lying in bed! You must make a decision for me!"
Zhao Yiming snorted coldly, "Your son deserves a beating. Raping the princess is a crime worthy of death. You should be secretly happy that he's still lying in bed instead of in prison or a mass grave."
Tian Mingwu then added, "I heard that Princess Yonglin was drugged by your son and is still lying there, not waking up! Tsk tsk, your son is really capable. Where did he get the drug and actually brought it into the palace? This time he drugged the princess, but is he planning to drug others in the future?"
Tian Mingwu's words changed the way the emperor looked at Jiang Shunyi.
Jiang Shunyi saw that the situation was not good, his knees gave way, and he knelt on the ground and began to cry out for justice. "Your Majesty, I am innocent!"
Tian Mingwu persisted, "You're still accusing me of something wrong. Could it be that it wasn't your son who drugged you?"
Jiang Shunyi was about to say no when he heard Tian Mingwu continue, "If it wasn't your son's, could it be the princess's? Is she trying to get close to your family?"
Jiang Shunyi naturally couldn't respond to this. Without even checking the emperor's expression, he hurriedly said, "It's not a princess. It's definitely not a princess."
"That's your son." Tian Mingwu put the blame on Jiang Junfan without hesitation.
"I...you..." Jiang Shunyi kept talking for a long time but couldn't make any sense. In the end, he could only sit on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, my son is innocent!"
Zhao Yiming gave him a cold look, then stepped forward and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, whether Young Master Jiang has been wrongly accused or not, we can find out by sending someone to search his room. Perhaps there are still some unused drugs in his room!"
Hearing this, Jiang Shunyi jumped up from the ground anxiously, pointing at Zhao Yiming and saying, "Don't slander me."
Without waiting for him to say anything, the emperor directly ordered Eunuch Defu to lead a search, under the pretext of clearing his family's name.
Jiang Shunyi suddenly fell to the ground with a pale face. No one knew what was in his son's room better than him.
Before he could recover, he heard the Imperial Guards Commander Mu Chenke, who had a wound on his brow, impatiently say, "If Sir Jiang has nothing else to do, I'll go do my errand first."
Jiang Shunyi's attention was drawn to him. "Leave? You defiled my daughter, and you still want to leave?"
In this matter, he is the victim and is very confident.
It’s a pity that he met Mu Chenke, such a scoundrel.
He rummaged through his pockets, which were cleaner than his face, and finally pulled out ten copper coins. In front of Jiang Shunyi's shocked gaze, he slapped the ten copper coins into his hands.
"I just drank some flower wine a few days ago, and this is all I have left."
"What, what do you mean?" Jiang Shunyi was immediately confused by his strange behavior and couldn't speak clearly.
Mu Chenke frowned and said as if it was a matter of course: "What do you mean? It's compensation for your daughter!"
He already had a wound on his brow bone, and his frown made him look even more ferocious and murderous. When a weak man like Jiang Shunyi faced him, he always felt like he was going to get beaten.
But at this moment, he was obviously angry, and he didn't care whether he would be beaten or not. He pointed at Mu Chenke and said, "What do you think of my daughter?"
Tian Mingwu, who was standing by, kindly explained, "What else could it be? It must be a girl from a brothel! Didn't you see that Commander Mu even paid her? Hahaha..."
Jiang Shunyi nearly collapsed from exhaustion, pointing at the men and trembling, wishing he could die in the next second. "You, you guys, you guys have gone too far."
"Your Majesty..." Then he knelt down in front of the emperor and cried. If possible, he would probably want to hug the emperor's thighs.
The emperor was annoyed and said sternly, "Shut up! I haven't settled the score with you yet for Jiang Junfan's crime of raping the princess! You're crying first, who should I cry to?"
Jiang Shunyi immediately shut up, and the tears that he had finally held back hung in his eyes but he dared not let them fall.
The emperor was so angry that he grabbed the brush washer on the desk and smashed it on him, "Cry, cry, cry, why are you crying? Your son is not dead yet! Hold it back!"
After saying that, he turned to look at Mu Chenke, "What are you going to do about Jiang Wanmeng's matter?"
Mu Chenke looked bewildered: "Is ten cents not enough?"
"Pfft..." Tian Mingwu couldn't hold back his laughter. Emma made him laugh to death. The daughter of the Earl of Jingde, ten cents, and he still asked "Isn't it enough?"
Even Zhao Yiming twitched his lips.
The emperor glared at Tian Mingwu, then angrily grabbed the inkstone and threw it at Mu Chenke, "Tell me, are you talking like a human being?"
Mu Chenke is very skilled, so he naturally wouldn't stand there stupidly and get hit like Jiang Shunyi.
He caught the inkstone easily, then, ignoring the emperor's fiery gaze, silently put it back in its place, muttering, "That was a close call. If it had been broken, I wouldn't have had the money to pay for it."
Jiang Shunyi immediately looked at the brush washer that fell on him and then landed at his feet with a corner missing, feeling a little uneasy.
I hope the emperor won’t ask him to pay for it later!
"Oh! That thing is broken." Tian Mingwu, who was watching the fun, suddenly pointed at the pen washer and shouted.
The emperor looked at the brush washer on the ground with a dark face. Before he could say anything, he saw Jiang Shunyi kneeling down in fear, his head almost buried in the ground. "Your Majesty, I was wrong. I will apologize. I will do it when I get back."
The emperor silently swallowed back the words he had intended to use to reprimand Tian Mingwu for being so jumpy and surprised by things he had never seen before.
Originally, it was just a pen washer, and he didn't take it seriously. But now that someone was willing to compensate him, why not do it? After all, the national treasury was not that well-off.
Seeing that the topic had gone off topic, Zhao Yiming quickly reminded them, "Your Majesty, we are still talking about Miss Jiang!"
When Jiang Shunyi heard this, he immediately raised his head and looked at Mu Chenke fiercely, "You must give my daughter an explanation today."
Mu Chenke raised his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Shunyi, "Didn't I give you ten cents? What else do you want? If you want more, you have to wait until I pay you your salary next month."
"You, you, you..." Seeing that Jiang Shunyi was almost out of breath.
The emperor had no choice but to speak, "Well, if that's the case, Commander Mu should go back and prepare to marry Miss Jiang."
Jiang Shunyi also knew that this was the best solution at this point. After all, the other party was the commander of the imperial guards. If they could recruit him in the future, he would be useful to them.
But who knew that even after he agreed, the other party still didn’t agree!
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