"Your Highness, do you think I know them?" Bei Yutang asked back.
"Now I am asking you, not you asking me." Gu Fanzhi said angrily.
"I don't know him."
Gu Fanzhi snorted coldly, "Don't know them? But they do know the people around you."
"Who?" Bei Yutang asked.
Gu Fanzhi ordered, "Bring him up."
After a while, two yamen runners came up with a man. Xue Qian was brought in front of them. When he saw Bei Yutang, he was very excited.
"I don't know why Your Highness arrested my people?" Bei Yutang's face was slightly cold.
Gu Fanzhi said in a deep voice, "Lord Wang, tell her. Let her die knowingly."
"Madam Mu, those thugs we arrested today say this is the man who ordered them to incite the people. Bring Xue Qian over and let them identify him. They insist it was this man who gave them thirty taels of silver and told them to incite the people. He also told them to spread the rumor this morning."
Xue Qian hurriedly shouted, "They are all talking nonsense. I have never seen them at all."
Gu Fanzhi looked at Bei Yutang, "What else do you have to say?"
"Besides the witnesses, is there any other evidence?" Bei Yutang asked calmly.
Lord Wang waved his hand, and someone immediately brought up thirty taels of silver and a purse.
"This purse contains thirty taels of silver, and Xue Qian has confirmed that it is his."
"I lost the purse yesterday, along with a few taels of silver." Xue Qian explained hurriedly.
But the people present did not believe his words. No matter what he said, they did not believe him.
"Now that we have all the evidence, do you have anything else to say?" Gu Fanzhi asked coldly.
"If all this was planned by me, why would I be there with Lord Wang and help Lord Wang capture these people?" Bei Yutang asked.
Gu Fanzhi snorted coldly, "This is how cunning you are."
"Why do you say that, Your Highness?"
Lord Wang explained, "Upon receiving word that the troublemakers had been apprehended, His Highness immediately went to the Ministry of Justice's prison to interrogate the inmates. Initially, they confessed, saying they simply couldn't stand the female prisoners. After being tortured, they couldn't bear it and immediately confessed. They said someone from the Gu family had instructed them to do so."
Bei Yutang didn't interrupt him when she heard this, because he must have something to say later.
"His Highness felt that the four men were scoundrels and that their words were not sincere, so he tortured them again. After they could no longer bear it, they finally confessed. It was the Lei family's men who came to them and told them to do this. They also described the dirty money and Xue Qian."
As soon as Lord Wang finished speaking, Gu Fanzhi continued, "Your plan was brilliant, but it couldn't be hidden from my eyes. You deliberately pointed out those thugs to Lord Wang, getting them arrested and slandering the Gu family so you could clear your name. You made us think the Gu family was guilty and was causing this to disrupt the experiment."
"Pah, pah, pah"...
Bei Yutang chuckled, clapping his hands non-stop, and exclaimed, "Wonderful, truly wonderful."
Gu Fanzhi, Lord Wang, Xue Qian and others looked at her in astonishment. The next second, anger surged on Gu Fanzhi's face, while Lord Wang looked at her with a serious gaze.
"What do you mean? Are you saying that I, Your Highness, have slandered you?" Gu Fanzhi asked coldly.
"I dare not, but I have a question. Could Your Highness please explain it to me?"
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