Mu Qianchen worked quickly. After receiving Ruizhu's message, he asked Qianli to investigate personally. An hour later, he found out the reason.
"Master, it's Princess Pingyang."
Mu Qianchen was playing with a piece of jade in his hand. After hearing Qianli's report, he exerted force and the jade shattered. His voice was indifferent and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry. "She must have forgotten where her personal maid went?"
"Master, I will find someone to teach her a lesson right away!"
Mu Qianchen said: "Wait a minute, bring that person into the mansion and explain everything to the old lady."
"yes."
Because of the recent undercurrents in Shengjing, Mu Qianchen was kept in the palace by Emperor Tiansheng for inspection and could not return home for a while, so many things were handled by Qianli.
Qianli brought the captured assassin back to the Mu Mansion.
Frost Courtyard.
Old Madam Mu sat in the main seat, the first and third madam sat down below in order, Gu Yunran sat on the other side of Old Madam Mu, followed by Mu Qianxue, Mu Qianjiao, and Mu Qianshuang and Mu Qianyao from the third room.
Mu Qianyao is a chubby ten-year-old girl. Her biggest hobby is eating. Look, she is eating a handful of pastries in her hand.
She even ran to Gu Yunran and said sweetly, "Second sister-in-law, here's some sweet-scented osmanthus cake for you. It's made by my mother herself and it's delicious."
There were so many people sitting there, but Mu Qianyao chose to give it to Gu Yunran. She felt a little embarrassed, but Madam Mu didn't care. She said to Gu Yunran, "Yaoyao likes you very much. You should accept her kindness."
"yes."
Gu Yunran reached out and took the osmanthus cake from Mu Qianyao's hand and was about to give a piece to the old lady, but Mu Qianyao was also smart. She ran to the old lady Mu and gave the cake in her hand to her and also gave her two pieces: "Yaoyao likes grandma too, grandma, have some."
"What a sweet little mouth." Madam Mu took the cake from Mu Qianyao with a smile and told Mother Mu, "Take Miss Wu to go play with Brother Song."
"yes."
Mother Mu carried Mu Qianyao out.
At this time, Qianli came with the assassin, "Madam, the person is here."
Madam Mu looked at the assassin and asked Mu Qianxue, "Xue'er, maybe you can recognize him, is it him?"
The man knelt on the ground, trembling with fear. Mu Qianxue took a closer look and replied, "Grandma, I was too scared at the time and couldn't see clearly, but judging by his size, it should be him."
Madam Mu called over the maid who had accompanied Mu Qianxue and asked, "Suxin, Lianxin, do you two know this person?"
Su Xin was famous for her good memory. She pointed at the man and said, "Madam, it's him. I didn't remember it wrongly."
Old Madam Mu nodded. She had assigned these two girls to Mu Qianxue and they would not lie to her. Moreover, when they just returned home, she had asked them to draw the appearance of the assassin.
Madam Mu said to the maidservant beside her, "Go and get the portrait of the assassin that Su Xin and Lian Xin drew when they just came back today."
"Yes." The maid took the order and went to the study to find the portrait.
Qin snorted, feeling dissatisfied, but didn't dare to say anything else. The third lady sat beside her with her head lowered, looking at her nose and her nose at her heart, without any extra expression.
Gu Yunran also had a calm expression. Only Mu Qianxue looked calm, but she felt a pang of fear in her heart. Fortunately, she was smart enough not to directly deny this person, otherwise...
Grandma is really thoughtful, Mu Qianxue thought secretly in her heart.
After a while, the head maid came out with two paintings, "The old lady's paintings are here."
Madam Mu nodded: "Open it."
The head maid answered yes and opened the two paintings in front of everyone. The two paintings were different, one was rougher and the other was more attractive, but it could basically be seen that they were of the same person, and that was the person who was now kneeling on the ground with ropes tied around his body.
Qin gritted her teeth as she walked forward and kicked the man several times. "You bastard, go find whoever you have a grudge against, why are you trying to harm my son?"
Qin kicked the man hard several times, but the man frowned and didn't feel much pain. It was because Qin was used to a life of luxury and didn't use much strength.
Madam Mu had Qin pulled away and looked at the man and asked, "Why did you hurt my Second Young Miss?"
The man frowned and insisted, "I, I have a grudge against her. I waited for her at the Mu Mansion for several days but didn't see her come out. Then I saw the carriage and thought that since she is from the Mu family, it would be a good idea to vent my anger on them."
Gu Yunran frowned, looked at the man and asked, "I don't even know you, what do you have against me?"
She really didn't know this person.
The man said, "Mrs. Lu, no, Second Madam Mu is truly forgetful. We were in the grain and oil business, but business was bad this year, and I owed you some money, so you had someone rob my store. I'm uneducated, having followed my father into the grain and oil business since I was a child. I don't know anything else, and I simply owed you a little money for the goods this year. I didn't expect you to be so cruel and cut off my job. I have no income, and this winter was extremely cold. Without money or coal, my mother froze to death."
At this point, he was so moved that the eight-foot-tall man actually started crying.
Gu Yunran asked: "What's your name?"
Although the business was handed over to Chen Mo, Chen Mo would let Gu Yunran review every business deal. She could call out the names of all those who did business with her, whether they were upstream or downstream customers.
She remembered this old customer clearly, and Chen Mo was a man of integrity, and would never do such a thing, so...
Gu Yunran looked at the man and asked, "You can't even remember your own name, right?"
The man was anxious. He pulled out a dagger from his waist and stabbed Gu Yunran. "I've offended Her Royal Highness the Princess. I'm going to die!"
Fortunately, Qianli reacted quickly. The moment the man took out the weapon, he kicked him. The man roared in fear, and the dagger pierced his chest.
Ruizhu protected Gu Yunran behind her: "Second Madam, are you okay?"
Gu Yunran looked at the man lying on the ground. If she didn't feel scared, she would be lying. Her face turned pale with fear. She tightly grasped Ruizhu's hands and forced herself to calm down: "I'm fine."
The man was already dead. Madam Mu rubbed her brows with a headache and waved her hand: "Carry him away."
The truth has been revealed: Gu Yunran offended Princess Pingyang. As for why, Madam Mu knows it better than anyone else.
Since childhood, Mu Qianchen often went to the palace to accompany the prince in his studies. As time went by, Princess Pingyang fell in love with Mu Qianchen and always wanted to marry him. She even asked the emperor to issue an order, but the emperor knew that Mu Qianchen did not like Princess Pingyang, so in order to prevent his daughter from being neglected in the future, he did not agree.
Later, the late emperor passed away and the prince ascended the throne. Princess Pingyang requested several times, but the current emperor did not agree. So now that Chen'er has married, she is jealous.
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