Lan Shuang didn't look at him. She said to Meng Yu, "You're right. The Jinyiwei are the best at interrogation. They can pry open the mouth of a person no matter how stubborn they are. I heard that they've carried out a hundred unrecognizable corpses this month."
How could Meng Yu know how much was brought out? But since the prince said so, she just went along with it.
"Yes, one hundred people."
Lan Shuang smiled, looked at Han Fang, who was lying on the ground with no color on her face, and said kindly, "That's perfect. You can go and make up the difference."
Jiang Lusheng, standing next to him, couldn't help but laugh. "Is 101 still okay? 101 in the underworld?"
"No, don't—"
Han Fang was terrified. Meng Yu grinned and held out his hand to him, "Go away! Where are you going?"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I surrender, I surrender!"
Hanfang shook off Meng Yu's arm, crawled forward on her knees, tears streaming down her face, "Prince, spare my life, I will confess!"
"Then tell me."
Lan Shuang waved her hand and asked Meng Yu to leave.
Meng Yu and others stood behind and stared at Han Fang vigilantly.
Han Fang burst into tears. Lan Shuang said with a sinister smile, "If you cry again, I'll have your tongue cut off."
Hanfang was shocked and fell to the ground, staring at her in disbelief. Didn't that person say that Prince Rong was always good-tempered and compassionate to women? How could this person he saw be so terrifying? He was like a living devil!
It was his fault that he was bewildered for a moment and deceived by the other party's sweet words, which led to his end.
He regrets it so much!
Sniffing, he quickly recounted the whole story: "I did see the prince before, at the Weak Willow Pavilion. At that time, the prince was drinking with a group of friends and had a group of young men with him."
"That table is full of high-ranking officials and nobles. If I could just hook up with any of them, I could be high up in society. So I started to have an idea and drank some potion that could help me get pregnant. I thought I could take advantage of the adults being drunk so that I could... do something."
His secret thoughts were revealed and his face turned red with shame.
The voices were getting smaller and smaller, but Lan Shuang and Jiang Lusheng already understood.
"So you did have sex with a certain gentleman that night, but that gentleman wasn't Prince Rong. You are indeed pregnant, but the child belongs to that gentleman?"
Jiang Lusheng chuckled: "If that's the case, why didn't you go to that gentleman, but instead went to Prince Rong? Do you think Prince Rong is a sucker?"
Lan Shuang: “…”
Isn't that a big sucker?
Hanfang said embarrassedly: "I didn't intend to look for the prince at first. Someone found me and said that since I was pregnant, I should take a long-term view and think carefully about the child. The prince has always been gentle, sympathetic to women, but also confused... confused," he almost let the cat out of the bag and quickly changed his words.
Lan Shuang smiled, "This prince is kind and gentle, but also confused. If you say the child is mine, I've been around so many women that I definitely can't remember. If you keep nagging me, maybe I'll agree and take you into my palace. This prince has no children, and the child you give birth to will be Prince Rong's eldest son. He will be extremely noble in the future. You can be honored by your son, right?"
Hanfang's eyes widened in disbelief, "You...how did you know?"
It’s almost the same as what that person said!
"Oh, you are really stupid." Lan Shuang's face changed, she stood up with a flick of her sleeves, her aura fully released. Han Fang looked at her in fear with held breath.
"Do you think the royal family is easy to fool? Every child born must be verified. As long as they're willing to investigate, they'll definitely find out who the child's biological mother is. What will become of you and your child by then? You only see the glory and wealth, but you haven't considered whether you can afford the responsibility yourself!"
Lan Shuang sneered, "The person behind you didn't dare to come forward, so they asked you to be the scapegoat. But you actually believed it and rushed to die."
Hanfang suddenly felt a chill running from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.
Jiang Lusheng also stood up. "As long as I'm here, the prince won't have any illegitimate children. The other party knows this and instigated you to come here just to drive a wedge between me and the prince. Even if the mission fails today, the other party won't suffer any loss. From beginning to end, you're the only one who's unlucky."
Hanfang knelt on the ground in a daze. It took her a long while to digest what Jiang Lusheng and Lan Shuang had said. She laughed softly, "I'm stupid, I'm stupid!"
"What's the name of the person who ordered you? What does he look like?"
Lan Shuang lowered her eyes and looked at him without any emotion. Han Fang gradually calmed down, and what she said was almost the same as Jiang Luqing's.
"It's him indeed."
Lan Shuang and Jiang Lusheng exchanged glances and clasped their hands. "I was too kind to him, which is why he kept provoking me."
Hanfang was confused. Who was it?
However, without giving him a chance to speak, Lan Shuang said to Meng Yu, "Send it to where it came from, and let whoever has the child take it."
"yes."
Meng Yu and the guards sent the person away together.
Fortunately, Lan Shuang handled the matter in time, and not many people knew about Han Fang's affairs. A few gossipers were secretly warned by her, and the matter was over.
However, Yun Xing's existence was always a thorn, appearing from time to time to annoy her.
At night, Lan Shuang and Jiang Lusheng took a bath and lay on the bed. Lan Shuang played with Jiang Lusheng's hair and finally made up her mind, "I have to see Yun Xing."
"Hmm?" Jiang Lusheng raised his eyebrows: "What are you going to do?"
"Persuade him with reason, appeal to his emotions, and if that doesn't work, use some force. After all, Prince An has fallen, and he's no different from a lost dog now."
"If he persists in his delusion—" Lan Shuang's eyes turned cold, "Don't blame me for being rude."
Even if the original owner tried to stop her, it would be useless. At worst, she could just do the task again.
Yun Xing's actions have touched her bottom line.
"I have a way to lure him out." Jiang Lusheng whispered the plan.
Lan Shuang was silent for a moment after listening, then nodded: "I'll do as you say."
…
Three days later, Prince Rong Zhengjun went to Pusheng Temple outside the city to burn incense with his guards.
Fushoji Temple is quite far from Kyoto and it takes a day to go there and back.
Therefore, the dignitaries who come to burn incense usually spend one night in the meditation room of the temple.
Jiang Lusheng was no exception. After he took Huaixiu to burn incense in the palace, he went straight to the meditation room.
Huaixiu didn't know his plan and whispered, "Why does Zhengjun suddenly want to burn incense? Are you praying for a child?"
Jiang Lusheng: "..."
"I'm just burning some incense, what are you praying for?"
Huaixiu saw that Jiang Lusheng didn't care and hesitated to speak.
He thought that the last incident had made Zhengjun anxious, so he came all the way here to burn incense and pray for a child, but it turned out that was not the case.
He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
Jiang Lusheng patted his head in amusement, "Don't worry, even if we don't have children, the relationship between the prince and I won't change."
Huaixiu was puzzled: "Zhengjun, why are you so confident?"
Jiang Lusheng smiled, raised his hand to his brow, and looked into the distance: "Because I know her."
The two of them were standing on the bluestone road, and they didn't try to conceal their voices when they spoke, so the people in the tree could hear them clearly.
"Ha, ridiculous." He murmured softly, and his words disappeared in the wind.
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