Chapter 243 Arrogant Attitude
The magistrate of Yi County's excessive knowledge of Jiang Yuan and Xie Wanniang surprised the people sent by the Crown Prince.
Noticing the strange expressions on their faces, the magistrate simply explained, "That Madam Jiang is currently in our county office."
The group quickly exchanged glances, and the leader asked, "Has something happened?"
Otherwise, what woman would have nothing better to do than come to the county government office?
The magistrate was just wondering how to deal with the Princess of Nanyang's group of subordinates when he received this question. He immediately poured out his heart and told the whole story.
The group of people who had originally planned to ask him about the case outside the city after finishing their business were surprised when the magistrate brought up something they were interested in.
Of course, what they didn't expect was that the case was actually related to Xie Wanniang.
The leader pondered for a moment, "We wish to meet Madam Jiang, and we would like to trouble the magistrate to introduce us."
The magistrate nodded vigorously, "I'll send someone to invite Madam Jiang right away."
Neither the people sent by the Crown Prince nor Xie Wanniang had the right to avoid seeing them.
Soon, Xie Wanniang was invited to their side.
The magistrate immediately introduced everyone present to Xie Wanniang. Of course, he didn't know everyone. Only the leader of the group told him his name and position; the others were mentioned only briefly.
At this time, the county magistrate also followed the way the leader introduced himself, focusing only on introducing the origins of those people, as well as the name and official position of the leader.
Xie Wanniang gracefully curtsied slightly, and the people opposite her returned the greeting with clasped hands.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, the leader got down to business, asking them a series of questions.
Xie Wanniang sat there, her main principle being to answer every question, and to speak frankly and without reservation.
Because the first thing those people asked was about her marriage to Jiang Yuan, Xie Wanniang recounted in an orderly manner how she was assassinated, forced to live in exile, protected by Jiang Yuan, and how, through the arrangement of her adoptive father Xie Daoheng, she married Jiang Yuan.
Thanks to her father, whose reputation allowed her to directly bring him out as a witness in this situation.
So what if the Prince of Nanyang is her biological father? He never raised her for a single day, so what right does he have to spout nonsense and slander her husband?
Xie Wanniang made no secret of her dissatisfaction with the Prince of Nanyang's family. She told the Crown Prince's subordinates that before the Prince of Nanyang's family appeared, she had always lived happily and peacefully in the Xie family. However, after their appearance, she began to be assassinated repeatedly and lived in fear every day.
Although the Crown Prince's subordinates did not notice even the slightest sign of fear in her, they all tacitly refrained from pointing it out.
The fact that they were victims and didn't feel terrified is not because they didn't encounter danger, but because they were bold enough and had enough power to protect themselves.
It's unreasonable to assume that the perpetrators are entirely without fault simply because the victims are strong enough.
After talking with Xie Wanniang, those people went to ask the county magistrate what they had found out so far.
The magistrate looked distressed and said that apart from physical evidence, he had not yet obtained any confessions.
These people, who were ordered by the Princess of Nanyang to kill, were all arrogant and haughty even when caught in the act.
They didn't take the magistrate of Yi County, a mere seventh-rank official, seriously at all. Naturally, they also wouldn't respect the county clerk, advisor, or yamen runners who were responsible for interrogating them.
Although they were all captured, they believed that as long as they held on for a few more days, Princess Nanyang, who would realize that something was wrong, would definitely send someone to rescue them.
Conversely, if they confess to their crimes without reservation, they are truly digging their own graves and cutting off their own path to survival.
The magistrate of Yi County was determined to get rid of this big trouble, so he didn't care at all about letting the Crown Prince's subordinates see the arrogant attitude of the Princess of Nanyang's subordinates.
With a pained expression, he pleaded with the other party to take these people directly to the capital and hand them over to the Crown Prince or the Emperor.
Fearing that the other party would refuse on the grounds of insufficient manpower, he even offered to personally borrow men from the nearby garrison.
The Crown Prince's subordinates did not immediately agree. Before coming, although they had received hints from the Crown Prince's trusted advisors that they should treat Jiang Yuan with utmost courtesy, they were instructed to bring back directly the person suspected to be sent by the Princess of Nanyang to assassinate Jiang Yuan's wife...
They stayed at the county government office, and after discussing things among themselves in private, they decided to write back to the capital to ask their superior for instructions.
The group worked quickly. The leader spent about an hour writing a thick letter, and then two of the men he brought with him immediately delivered the letter to the post station in the city.
They had the Crown Prince's official badge, and the courier dared not neglect their orders in the slightest. The letter was delivered by the courier immediately.
The Crown Prince, far away in the capital, had no idea that before he had even seen Jiang Yuan's self-defense memorial, his subordinates would send him such a sensational letter.
In the letter, the leader not only wrote down the results of their investigation into Jiang Yuan and Xie Wanniang's marriage, clearing Jiang Yuan of the suspicion of abducting a respectable woman, but also reported that Xie Wanniang had been assassinated again, and that the assassin was carrying the waist token of the Prince of Nanyang.
The leader of those people wrote in the letter about their arrogant attitude and their willingness to threaten the county officials even when caught red-handed.
Naturally, he also mentioned at the end of the letter that the county magistrate wanted to transfer the person directly to the capital.
The more the Crown Prince read the letter, the more his brows furrowed. He could understand the magistrate of Yi County's actions; after all, this matter, to be honest, could be considered a royal scandal.
As a prince, the Prince of Nanyang, in order to reunite with his only blood relative who had been living abroad, did not hesitate to make up lies and slander the border general.
Meanwhile, in his residence, another person disregarded the law and human life, attempting to prevent Xie Wanniang from being recognized as a member of her clan by killing her to silence her.
Their Great Wei has only been established for a few years, yet the royal family and relatives have already become so arrogant. It's hard for the Crown Prince not to be furious.
Taking a deep breath, the crown prince tucked the long letter into his pocket and ran to find his lazy father, the emperor.
The emperor never expected that the person from the Nanyang Prince's Mansion who didn't want Xie Wanniang to return to the mansion would be so arrogant as to send people to Yi County to kill her and silence her.
The last time Xie Wanniang encountered danger, she was forced to live away from home and dared not return.
This time, although Xie Wanniang was able to protect herself, the fact that the other party directly dispatched such a large team was clearly more brazen than the previous time when they only secretly sent two people to carry out the assassination.
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