"Second Miss Ying must have already agreed on her confessions with the maids in advance, so there's no way we can get the truth out of her!"
The man in black stopped Ying Zhuer from speaking with just one sentence.
Ying Xixi stood aside with her arms folded, and almost laughed when she saw this.
This man in black is quite eloquent.
Maybe Ying Zhuer never thought that the assassin she hired with her own money would actually stab her in the back.
She only has two words to say about this: You deserve it!
Ying Sili handed the handkerchief to the maid who came with Ying Zhuer, "Take a look at this handkerchief, is it the Second Young Lady's?"
The maid took the handkerchief tremblingly, hesitating whether to tell a lie.
But then Ying Sili's voice rang out, "If I find out you're lying, you know what will happen to you."
Upon hearing this, the maid fell to her knees with a thud.
"Master, this handkerchief belongs to the Second Young Miss."
Ying Zhuer stamped her feet in anger, "You're lying! This isn't my handkerchief!"
Ying Sili looked at the exasperated Ying Zhuer with a complicated expression, "Zhuer, so everything he said is true?
Did you really spend money to have him kill Ying Xixi, just to make Ying Xixi give up your position as the Fifth Prince's wife?
Do you know that if Ying Xixi really died, not only would she become the laughing stock of the entire capital, but my Ying family would also become a laughing stock!
Do you think the emperor will really let the fifth prince marry you as his principal wife?
Don't forget that you are just a concubine's daughter! Among so many princes, not a single one has ever married a concubine's daughter as his principal wife! "
Ying Zhu'er stammered, and subconsciously wanted to say, "Then my father made my mother the legitimate wife, so doesn't that mean I am the legitimate daughter?"
But when she met Ying Sili's eyes, Ying Zhuer swallowed the words.
"That's not the case, father, my daughter really didn't!"
Ying Zhuer still refused to admit it.
She knew she couldn't admit it. Once she did, her father would never treat her the same way again.
But what Ying Zhu'er didn't know was that this time, whether she admitted it or not, Ying Sili had already planted the seeds of suspicion towards her and her mother, and it would be impossible for him to treat her and her mother the same way as before.
“The murderer will never admit that he is the murderer, Ying Zhuer, the news about me has spread all over the capital.
I'm afraid this is also your work. You are so anxious to spread my secret and hire someone to kill me. Are you so anxious to get me to make room for you?
You said you went to great lengths to snatch the Fifth Prince from me. If the Fifth Prince knew that it was you who spread my secret, what would he do to you?
You may not know that the emperor made it clear that he would not let anyone else know about the consequences of the fifth prince pushing me into the pond except the emperor, the fifth prince, me and my mother.
How did you know this? Did you bribe the Fifth Prince's confidant to find out? Does the Fifth Prince know that you did these things behind his back?
Ying Xixi glanced at Ying Zhuer with a half-smile.
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't do anything! I certainly didn't bribe the Fifth Prince's confidants! Don't slander me!"
"Then how did you know my secret? I don't believe you didn't bribe the Fifth Prince's confidants!"
"My mother told me."
Ying Xixi pressed on with every word, and Ying Zhuer finally couldn't hold back and sold her mother out.
Ying Xixi smiled, her eyes moving between Ying Sili and Ying Zhuer.
"Interesting. Now the question is, how did your mother know my secret? My mother would never tell your mother. Could it be..."
Ying Xixi's gaze fell directly on Ying Sili's old face.
“That’s enough!”
Ying Sili shouted angrily, interrupting Ying Xixi's unspoken words.
"Xi'er, Zhu'er is sorry for you. Your father will not let you kneel in the ancestral hall anymore. Go back and rest. As for you."
Ying Sili looked at the man in black who was still kneeling on the ground.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I know I shouldn't have accepted Second Miss Ying's banknotes to kill First Miss Ying!
Please, Prime Minister, don’t send me to the government!
The young one has elderly parents and young children to take care of. If he didn’t have to make a living, he wouldn’t do such a heartless thing!
In order to forgive my sins, I am willing to stay by Miss Ying's side and work like a slave!
Please, Prime Minister, spare me!"
The man in black kowtowed loudly.
"Father, please let him stay. He knows too much. If you let him out, he'll bring shame upon you if he says anything."
Ying Xixi advised in an 'understanding' manner.
Ying Sili was also concerned about this issue.
Moreover, he needs to send someone to investigate what the man in black said.
"Okay, then you stay with Xier."
"Father, what are you going to do about the trouble Ying Zhuer caused?
Or does my father intend for me to pretend this never happened?"
Ying Xixi smiled and stared at Ying Sili.
Ying Sili's eyes flashed, "Xier, since you are fine, then let's just pretend that this never happened. Your father will compensate you."
Ying Xixi smiled and said, "The Prime Minister dotes on his concubine's daughter and ignores his legitimate daughter, and favors his concubine over his wife. If this gets out and the Emperor and everyone in the capital knows about it, I wonder what will happen.
After all, the late emperor said that officials who favor concubines over wives, or fail to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children, will be punished."
Ying Sili narrowed his eyes, a cold look in his eyes, "Ying Xixi, are you threatening me? I'm your father!
If something really happened in my Ying Mansion, do you think you, as the legitimate daughter of the Ying Mansion, could escape? Or could you smoothly marry the Fifth Prince?"
"I'm not threatening my father. I just love to tell the truth. Is there anything wrong with telling the truth?"
Ying Xixi's eyebrows were curved, and she was smiling with her face but not her eyes.
The father and daughter were facing each other, Ying Zhuer stood aside biting her lip, and the people around them didn't dare to move.
Just when the atmosphere was tense, Ying Sili's servant hurried to his side and whispered something in his ear.
Ying Sili frowned even more tightly, looking like he had encountered something difficult.
He glared at Ying Zhu'er fiercely, "Come here, lock the Second Young Lady up in the ancestral hall! Don't give her any food! Let her out when she's done reflecting on her past mistakes!"
Ying Zhu'er was stunned. She couldn't believe that her father, who had always doted on her, would actually treat her like this!
Did my father really believe what the man in black said?
"Father! I really didn't do those things! I don't want to stay in the ancestral hall, father!"
Ying Zhuer screamed, but was still locked up in the ancestral hall by the servants and the door was locked.
Ying Xixi looked at this scene and felt a sense of relief that it was karma.
Ying Zhuer must have looked at her with the same smugness yesterday as she was locked up in the ancestral hall.
Now, it’s finally Ying Zhuer’s turn!
But...this is far from enough!
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