Chapter 117 Chapter 117 Prince Wen has heard about the impeachment...
Prince Wen had already heard that a memorial impeaching the Fourth Prince had been submitted. Although the Fourth Prince had not come to see him, he did not dare to be perfunctory. He had locked himself in the study for the past few days, racking his brains to write a memorial of clarification, but he revised it again and again and still did not dare to submit it.
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Just as he was sighing over the memorial he had written, the study door was thrown open with great force. Prince Wen was startled and said angrily, "How dare you! How..."
But soon the anger dissipated when he saw the person coming, and he turned into a smile: "Why is the princess here?" At the same time, he hid the letter in his sleeve without attracting attention.
"Why am I here?" Princess Wen's face was very bad. "I came to see what treasures the prince has hidden in his study."
"Treasure?" Prince Wen was puzzled. "What treasure? I don't have any hidden treasures."
"Really?" Princess Wen's expression was uncertain. The study was a large, empty room, and one could see everything from the door.
At this moment, apart from Prince Wen, there was no one in the study. But thinking of the rumors, Princess Wen did not let it go easily. "If it's not hidden in the study, is it hidden outside?"
Prince Wen was startled, almost thinking the princess knew something. However, he had been experienced in dealing with princesses for many years, and after careful observation, he realized that the princess was testing him. He immediately felt more at ease and frowned, saying, "What do you mean, princess? Why don't I understand? Are you saying that I have hidden a treasure outside? Let's not talk about what treasure I could have. Even if I did have a treasure, it's not as safe as here in the mansion, nor is it as safe as you. Of course, I have to give it to you, princess, to hide it."
"Really?" Princess Wen stared at him intently. "What if this treasure is a person?"
"People?" Prince Wen was confused for a moment before suddenly realizing something. He laughed and said, "Princess, what are you doing? Are you suspicious that I have a mistress outside my palace and you're jealous?"
Seeing that he had guessed it, Princess Wenjun no longer concealed her feelings and said expressionlessly, "Isn't it?"
"Of course not!" Prince Wen flatly denied it. He approached the princess and said with some dissatisfaction, "Princess, where did you hear these rumors again? Don't you know who I am? When you wanted to marry me, I refused. Why would you hide her in your harem now? Even if you really like someone, come back and tell me. Do you think you will refuse?"
Of course I won’t allow it!
But Prince Wen has behaved too well in recent years, and Princess Wen has gradually relaxed her vigilance. She has also created an image of being virtuous and generous for herself in public. She often seems to be complaining but is actually showing off and telling others that she has always wanted to marry Prince Wen, but unfortunately Prince Wen just doesn't agree. She feels really wronged because of this and is misunderstood as being jealous.
I didn't think it was a big deal before, but now I feel like I'm shooting myself in the foot.
Princess Wenjun felt aggrieved, but she still tried to save face by saying, "Of course, if His Majesty likes any of them, just take them back."
"I knew the princess was the most virtuous," Prince Wen praised, then changed his tone with a smile, "It's a pity that when I look at you every day, I see everyone else wearing rouge and powder, which is really unbearable. It's hard for the princess, you have been wronged because of me."
Princess Wen was overjoyed at what she said and said angrily, "Your Highness only knows how to coax people."
After coaxing her into submission, Prince Wen felt relieved and cautiously asked, "The princess hasn't said anything yet, what's the next time? Who is slandering me again?"
Princess Wenjun became unhappy when she thought of this: "Today I went to attend the birthday banquet of Prince Yong's wife. When I went to change my clothes, I heard the servants in their mansion gossiping. They said that Your Highness, you had a conflict with the Fourth Prince a few days ago because of a widow." She was still a little uneasy in her heart, and paid attention to Prince Wen's expression as she spoke.
Hearing the word "widow," Prince Wen's heart trembled with fear. He flew into a rage and exclaimed, "Nonsense! What kind of widow is this? How dare she portray me as such a shameless person! Whoever spread this rumor? I will never let him go!"
Seeing his big reaction, Princess Wen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I questioned them at the time, and they heard it from others. They said that this rumor has been circulating for a while, saying that the young widow's surname is Bao and she has disappeared. Many people outside know that the Bao family has been shut down. As for where the rumor came from, they don't know."
"No, I have to investigate. I can't let the rumormongers get away with it!" Upon hearing that even Mrs. Bao had revealed the truth, Prince Wen was extremely anxious and said hastily, "Princess, please do as you please."
The only people who knew about Bao Shi, apart from the Fourth Prince and his entourage, were the few people in their box at the time. Prince Wen guessed that it was his cronies who leaked the information, so the first thing he did when he went out was to look for those people.
Before he could find anyone, he was surrounded and taken to a private room.
"They say a biting dog doesn't bark. Looks like I was wrong."
Following this sinister voice, Prince Wen's knees softened and he knelt down.
Fortunately, there was no one else in the box except the two of them. Prince Wen didn't care about his face and knelt in front of Yinzhen, saying anxiously: "Fourth Prince, Fourth Prince, this is a misunderstanding! Really! You must believe me! I didn't leak this out. I just heard about it from the princess. I was about to check when your people brought me here! Fourth Prince, Fourth Prince, really, it will not be good for me to tell this to others. Believe me! I'm not afraid of you knowing. In fact, I have several young widows outside. I must not let Nalan know about this, otherwise I will be finished! So I will never say anything about widows to others. I can't let these two words be associated with me!"
When Yinzhen heard this, he began to believe that he was not the one who did it.
Yinzhen was informed of this by his wife. Coincidentally, Qi Buchen had also attended the birthday banquet of Yong Beile's wife and ran into the Wenjun Prince's wife, who was also at the banquet. Qi Buchen had initially been indifferent to her and even felt a bit sympathetic for marrying a scumbag like the Wenjun Prince. Unexpectedly, the Wenjun Princess immediately launched a barrage at her. Qi Buchen couldn't let this go, so he responded with a barrage of insults. The Wenjun Princess was so enraged that she left the table midway, and upon her return, she took the Yong Beile's servants hostage and demanded an explanation.
Qi Buchen was just watching and eating melons, but he didn't expect that he would end up eating the melons at home.
Did Yinzhen and Prince Wen fight over a widow? Yinzhen loved widows and kept mistresses in his mansion, while he himself was just a decoration.
If not? She was there at the time, and Qi Buchen actually believed it!
But? It doesn’t matter whether she believes it or not. The wives and princesses present all seem to believe it. For a moment, the gazes on her changed from envy and jealousy to ridicule, sympathy, and gloating.
Qi Buchen didn't care what others thought of her, but she couldn't allow Yinzhen to be labeled with such a hat.
Qi Buchen hurriedly left Yong Beile's mansion and sent people to investigate the rumors while notifying Yinzhen.
After Yinzhen learned about it, he did not delay and directly took people to find Prince Wen.
"If it's not you, then who is it?" Yinzhen sat with his horse and sword in his arms, lowered his eyelids and looked down at the person in front of him condescendingly.
"It must be Yuan Duan and the others!" Prince Wen said firmly, "They were there at the time. Although I warned them, they lost their minds after a few drinks!"
Yinzhen looked at him deeply, then stood up quickly and said, "Lead the way."
"Ah?" Prince Wen was stunned for a moment before he realized what he meant. He quickly stood up and said, "Okay, okay!"
After finding several people and interrogating them, it turned out that it was Yuan Duan who leaked the information. According to his account, he had drunk too much with his lover and let the secret slip, but he did not dare to say more. He only said a few words about Widow Bao and did not dare to mention the Fourth Lady at all.
Then he went to find Yuan Duan's lover, who was stubborn at first: "I was just curious about your affairs, so I asked a few more questions."
Later, he confessed the truth: "Someone gave me money to find out the reason for the conflict between the two masters. I thought it was not a big deal, so I accepted the ten taels of silver."
They went to investigate the person who bought the information and soon found Li Si'er. This was because Li Si'er's hands were not clean. If it was like the fraud case, Yinzhen would not be able to find it easily.
There was another benefit associated with finding out about Li Si'er, which was that it was also discovered that Longkodo was said to be planning to deal with Yinzhen. Although he didn't say how he would deal with him specifically, Yinzhen already had a hunch that it was related to this fraud case.
Because he was implicated in a fraud case, Yinzhen decided not to pursue the rumors for the time being. He put aside all the evidence he had found and went to find the prince first to tell him about his speculation about Longkodo.
The prince said with a serious face that he understood and sent Yinzhen away.
Qi Buchen waited until Yinzhen returned and asked impatiently, "Have you found out?"
Yinzhen explained his actions to her. Qi Buchen was furious after hearing it: "I knew it, I knew that woman was not a good person!"
"No! She must be taught a lesson!"
When Qi Buchen thought about the stigma that Yinzhen had to bear because of her, he felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry, if it weren't for me..."
"It has nothing to do with you." Yinzhen patted her soothingly, "Even if you weren't here, Longkodo would still target me. I didn't give much face to the Tong family before." He was talking about Tong Jian taking Qi Xia as his wife.
After comforting his wife, Yinzhen changed the subject: "But this Li family really needs to be taught a lesson."
But he is just a piece of shit, and he dares to throw dirty water on him. He will never show mercy to such people.
Yinzhen narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at Fujin again.
However, there is no need to let Fu Jin know about this matter. She is too soft-hearted. Even if she wants to teach her a lesson, I am afraid it will only be some ineffective methods.
Qi Buchen was still worried: "What about the rumors? This kind of thing is the hardest to clarify."
It has always been easy to spread rumors but difficult to dispel them. The rumors that Faka and his younger siblings were having an affair have not been clarified yet.
"That's fine," Yinzhen mused. "Let Mrs. Bao go back openly and say you hired her to work in your tailor shop. If she shows up in public every day, the whole thing will fall apart."
Qi Buchen had wanted to send Bao back before, but Yinzhen kept her in the mansion first to prevent Prince Wen from doing anything behind the scenes. Now that he has seen Prince Wen's cowardly nature, there is no need to send Bao back.
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