"Yes, that's right, that's right." Lou Mengyun no longer dared to say no. She just hoped that the disaster would fall on herself and not implicate her clan.
Lou Jiacheng, who was kneeling beside Lou Mengyun, broke out in a cold sweat and dared not to argue for his daughter.
Yin Yichen, who was sitting at the moment, smiled and looked at Lou Mengyun and said, "If you are really in love with me as Miss Lou said, then why do you carry a pair of scissors with you? I'm afraid ordinary people wouldn't carry such a weapon. If Miss Lou said she wanted to use the scissors to force me to submit, I don't believe it."
"I... I..." Seeing this, Lou Mengyun was in trouble again. She had already spent most of her energy just finding excuses, so how could she think of a reason without loopholes?
Seeing Lou Mengyun like this, Yin Yichen immediately set his sights on Qian Xingyu above him and said slowly, "My lord, you see this Miss Lou is full of lies, it's really shocking. She keeps talking and talking and can't make any sense. Now I suspect that she is not in love with me, but a spy sent by the enemy to steal the defense map, using the claim of love for me to cover herself up. Please take her away and torture her thoroughly for questioning."
"The Prime Minister is right." Qian Xingyu nodded in agreement. Now if it was related to the defense map, Qian Xingyu had to take it seriously.
Princess Xiangyu, who was standing by, became a little panicked when she heard this. The defense map was definitely Yin Yichen's nonsense, but if Lou Mengyun revealed the truth under severe torture, that would be bad.
A princess of a country, if she asked someone to do such a thing with the prime minister just to get married, she would probably have no chance of living as a human being if it got out.
Princess Xiangyu spoke up, "I've always known Miss Lou's character. She's such a timid person. I'm afraid this is just a misunderstanding. Besides, what does it have to do with the defense map? It's just that Reviewer Lou had a quarrel and sent one of her own girls to stab the Prime Minister. In my opinion, Miss Lou is a pitiful person, so there's no need to torture her. If she's injured, how will she face the world in the future?"
Lou Mengyun burst into tears upon hearing this. She quickly knelt down and crawled towards Princess Xiangyu, "Your Highness, please save me. I've been suffering for..."
Princess Xiangyu couldn't bear to let her continue. She quickly stood up and said to Qian Xingyu who was sitting above her, "My lord, it seems that I don't need to stay here any longer. You can decide how to interrogate me. I have a lot of things to do in the palace now, so I will leave now."
Princess Xiangyu's words meant that she had abandoned Lou Jiacheng as a chess piece and agreed with Yin Yichen's statement.
Seeing this, Qian Xingyu nodded and said goodbye with a smile. Now that the prime minister and the princess had reached a consensus, the rest of the matter would be easy to handle.
Qian Xingyu looked at Yin Yichen who was sitting beside him and asked in a low voice, "What do you think the Prime Minister should do?"
"This is the job of the Dali Temple. Your Excellency just needs to judge according to the laws of the dynasty." Yin Yichen's face was cold, and he just sat quietly on the chair.
Seeing this, Qian Xingyu put on the air of a magistrate and said coldly to the people below, "Lou Jiacheng, you were resentful because the Prime Minister said a few unpleasant words during a routine inspection, so you asked your daughter Lou Mengyun to sneak into the Prime Minister's residence and assassinate him. Do you plead guilty?"
Lou Jiacheng's face was grimacing, knowing the princess had given up on him, and he felt a wave of despair. If he didn't confess now, Lou Mengyun wouldn't be able to endure the torture. If he betrayed the princess, his entire family would be in trouble. Lou Jiacheng had no choice but to bow his head and admit his guilt. "I plead guilty, but I hope Your Excellency will consider that the Prime Minister's life was spared and not implicate my clan."
Qian Xingyu's gaze fell on Lou Mengyun again, and he asked with a cold face, "Miss Lou, do you plead guilty?"
Now that Lou Mengyun knew she could avoid being tortured, she no longer dared to say no. She could only bite the bullet and agree, "I plead guilty."
"Alright." Qian Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the two of them and continuing, "Since you've both confessed, then you should be punished. You two attempted to murder an official of the imperial court, and you should be imprisoned. However, there are always human feelings outside the law. Since you two didn't succeed, and only injured the Prime Minister, you will be dismissed from your posts for investigation and may return home with your families."
Lou Jiacheng thanked Lou Mengyun profusely and led her away. Now Lou Mengyun's dream of becoming the prime minister's wife was completely shattered.
Seeing that the matter was settled, Yin Yichen immediately bowed to Qian Xingyu above him and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work today, Young Master Qian. Your impartiality in handling matters has truly opened my eyes."
"It's all my due." Qian Xingyu took a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighing, "The Prime Minister has so many things to deal with on a daily basis, but he still has the energy to handle something like this. I can't even compare to him."
"Thank you for your kind words, Young Master Qian. I still have a lot of things to deal with at home, so I really can't keep you company any longer." Yin Yichen said goodbye to Qian Xingyu and left the Dali Temple.
The news of what happened at Yin Yichen's mansion spread quickly. The officials' wives in the capital said that Yin Yichen was unlucky to be assassinated in such a way. Fortunately, nothing serious happened.
As soon as Princess Xiangyu returned to Dehua Palace, she threw everything on the ground. "Yin Yichen, that old fox Yin Yichen. It's fine if I can't plot against him now, but he's actually plotting against me. Now that Lou Jiacheng has fallen, those officials who wanted to surrender to me will probably be deterred."
When Concubine Xian heard about this, she hurried forward to stop him, "You child, why don't you learn your lesson? Don't you think carefully? Yin Yichen is not that easy to deal with. It doesn't matter if we lose this time. We can succeed next time if we are more careful. What's the point of smashing these things?"
"Mother..." Princess Xiangyu burst into tears, sobbing, "If this is the case, I'm afraid my wish to marry the Prime Minister in the future will be dashed. He will definitely marry that abandoned woman."
The virtuous concubine now had other ideas and whispered to comfort him, "Silly child, you might as well think about it carefully. The Prime Minister has always been a man who does not tolerate being calculated, and we can't calculate him. Doesn't this further prove that the Prime Minister is a rare man in the world? Since we can't calculate him, and there is still more than a month before the divorce, it is better to focus on Song Wanning."
"Mother means..." Princess Xiangyu has now come back to her senses.
Concubine Xian smiled faintly and whispered to Princess Xiangyu, "If something goes wrong with Song Wanning and she can't get married, then she won't get married no matter what."
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