Chapter 671: Those who can follow Xiao Yan are all black-hearted!
There were originally many people in the hall who felt sorry for Fu Jinrou who had suffered such an unexpected disaster, but now their faces changed.
Being forced to be a victim and taking the initiative to approach and have sex with the prince are two completely different things.
Fu Jinrou felt those gazes and immediately became flustered. She cried out in a lost voice, "I really didn't do that. Believe me, it was the prince who bullied me..."
She suddenly looked at Zhou Yuchang:
"Yuchang, you know it, right? You saw it!"
Zhou Yuchang's face turned pale instantly. Lady Wenxinhou's heart skipped a beat and she was about to yell in anger, but Tang Ning stepped forward and slapped Fu Jinrou in the face first.
Fu Jinrou: "You..."
Tang Ning said coldly, "Thanks to Sister Zhou and Marquis Wenxin's wife for risking their lives to save you, and thanks to Sister Qian for almost being accused of murdering the Crown Prince because of you. You and the Crown Prince have long had an affair, and the Queen Mother found out and used it as a pawn in her scheme against the Crown Prince. Your secret meeting with the Queen Mother almost implicated others, and now you still have the nerve to ask Sister Zhou to defend you?!"
"Song Tangning, I'm not..."
“Bang!”
Tang Ning slapped Fu Jinrou directly, causing her to stagger.
"Not what? Not being used by the Queen Mother, or you never had a secret meeting with the Crown Prince? The evidence is irrefutable. You are wearing the tools used to murder the Crown Prince. You are just as involved in the Crown Prince's death as that man. Even if you tell the truth, there is no room for you to quibble."
"If you hadn't secretly met with the Crown Prince long ago, and the Queen Mother hadn't plotted to accidentally injure the Crown Prince, could it be that you, like those two, had conspired with the Queen Mother to murder the Crown Prince?"
"I'm not!"
Fu Jinrou said in a sharp voice.
Tang Ning's eyes were cold: "Then tell me, what are you?"
Fu Jinrou met Tang Ning's dark and cold eyes. She wanted to say that she had not conspired with the Queen Mother, and that she had no idea what happened today. She wanted to use Zhou Yuchang's matter to threaten the wife of Marquis Wenxin and others to help her out, and force Tang Ning and others to protect her. But when she met Tang Ning's gaze, all the words were stuck in her throat, and she collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.
Tang Ning found out what happened in the porch.
She knows!
She was threatening her, either admitting that she had an affair with the prince and that they were meeting secretly, and that she was framed by the Queen Mother, and that she had inadvertently become the Queen Mother's "chess piece" to harm the prince. Although she was guilty, she did not deserve the death penalty. Or she would conspire with the Queen Mother to deliberately kill the prince like the man who brought the burning water and incense.
Fu Jinrou was just about to open her mouth to speak when she saw Xiao Yan approaching with cold eyes. He clearly didn't say anything, but when he stood behind Tang Ning, he was like a long sword drawn from its sheath, and the sharp sword was stained with blood.
Fu Jinrou had a hunch that she couldn't speak, let alone tell anyone about Zhou Yuchang. Once she dared to mention Zhou Yuchang, this sharp sword that even the emperor couldn't control and could force a rebellion at will would take her life in an instant!
Fu Jinrou thought a lot at that moment, but in the eyes of outsiders, it was just a moment. Fu Jinrou, who was still quibbling just now, seemed to have lost all her strength and collapsed to the ground, trembling:
"I, I didn't mean to..."
"I just admire the Crown Prince. His Royal Highness also said that he would take me as his concubine. He also said that after he leaves the palace to attend to the illness, he will ask His Majesty and the Queen Mother for permission to go to the Fu family."
"I didn't know the Queen Mother would harm the Prince, I really didn't know!"
Fu Jinrou covered her face and cried bitterly. Half of her tears were because she shouldn't have rashly given her body to the prince and ended up dying. The other half of her tears were because she would be infamous from today onwards and even the Fu family might not tolerate her.
Everyone in the hall looked at the embarrassed young woman kneeling on the ground and crying, but they didn't feel any sympathy.
Although Fu Jinrou spoke tactfully and said that she and the prince were in love with each other, the bottom line was that she was an unmarried girl who had an affair with someone and was being plotted against in the palace. No one felt any sympathy for her. No one thought she was innocent, but instead thought she brought it upon herself.
Madam Wenxinhou and Zhou Yuchang watched as Fu Jinrou gritted her teeth and admitted the guilt without implicating anyone else. They both felt weak all over and their backs were soaked with sweat.
Rong Yue reached out and supported the two of them before speaking, "The evidence is irrefutable that the Crown Prince was murdered by the Queen Mother. Even without Miss Qian, the Crown Prince would not have survived this day. However, the Queen Mother is in Shoukang Palace and has been ill for many years. It is strange that the people in the Imperial Guards obey her orders."
Yu Yanfeng suddenly said: "He is not mine."
Liu Tong'en's eyelids twitched, and he heard Yu Yanfeng say, "Ever since the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, Commander Liu has returned to the Forbidden Garden and forcibly taken back command of the Imperial Guards. His Majesty intends for the two of us to check and balance each other, so the Imperial Guards were split in two, with Liu Tong'en holding more than half of them."
"I know all the people under my command, and I have a special book to manage them. This person should be Commander Liu's man."
"You are talking nonsense!" Liu Tongen's face changed drastically.
Yu Yanfeng looked at him and said, "Is that nonsense? Just take the books of those people under Commander Liu and compare them one by one. Every badge in the Imperial Guards has an identity mark engraved on the back. Ordinary people can't forge it. Just compare it with all the other Imperial Guards on duty and you will know who he belongs to."
"Yu Yanfeng!" Liu Tongen was furious.
Madam Qin glanced at the man on the ground and said, "I just want him to speak. Why go to so much trouble?"
She rummaged through the tattered but treasure-chest-like bag hanging on her body, took out a medicine bottle, poured out a pill from it and threw it to Shi Lan.
"Feed him."
After Shi Lan took it, she walked to the man in eunuch's clothes on the ground. The man looked panicked and wanted to dodge, but Shi Lan grabbed his chin and stuffed the pill in his hand into his mouth. Then she exerted force and put the removed jaw back.
Just as the man was about to use his tongue to push the medicine out, he felt a pain in his throat. He subconsciously cried out in pain, and the medicine went down his throat.
Shi Lan let go of her hand.
The man immediately lowered his head and dry-heaved, trying to vomit, but it was no use. He looked up in panic: "What did you give me to eat?"
Madam Qin smiled and said, "Nothing much, just something similar to Baihua Chan."
Seeing the man's face change drastically, she said, "Don't even think about biting your tongue or anything like that. A severed tongue won't kill you instantly, but this medicine is even stronger than Baihua Chan."
"You should have seen what the prince looks like when the drug takes effect. If you're still alive, you'll act like an animal, acting on instinct. Even if you only lose your limbs, tongue, or penis, you'll still be like the most enthusiastic young prostitute, begging for sex with a rosy face."
"I'm thinking that you guys are definitely not afraid of death. If you dare to murder the Crown Prince, you've definitely put your own life on the line. So let's take a gamble on whether you still have any shame. If you're not afraid of the drug taking effect, you'll moan on the ground, be stripped naked, and hung in front of the palace gate for everyone to see, then just bear it and it will pass."
Madam Qin smiled as compassionately as a bodhisattva in a temple, but the man felt as if he was being stared at by an evil ghost and was trembling all over.
Everyone else in the hall gasped.
Gu Helian took a half step back. It turned out that those who could follow Xiao Yan were all black-hearted!
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