Chapter 363 Do you even respect the law?
"That's why it was a deliberate setup to frame them."
"Have you forgotten everything you said at the bookstore and restaurant yesterday?" Jiang Wan Ning asked calmly. "And why are you here?"
"Has anyone seen my men summon you here?"
Qin Hualang's eyes darted away. "I just happened to be here for a meal."
"Since it was a coincidence, I must have been unaware of it. How could I have planned it if I was unaware?"
Jiang Wanning refuted Qin Hualang's words in just a few words.
"People like that should be taken to the authorities; they're utterly shameless."
"What official is higher than the prince and princess? I think we should drag them out and parade them through the streets right now."
"Yes, parade them through the streets! Parade them through the streets!"
"Your humble servant greets the Prince of Jin, the Princess of Jin, and the Princess of Langya."
Qin Zhaolin, who was blocked outside the crowd, shouted loudly.
"Perfect timing, Lord Qin is here. Let him see his fine son and daughter."
"What are you still looking at? Their whole family is like this. Lord Qin is no better. Not a single maid in that mansion can escape his grasp."
"......"
With the prince and his two consorts present, everyone chatted amongst themselves, showing no fear of Qin Zhaolin whatsoever.
Even if Qin Zhaolin heard it, he could only endure it.
Qin Zhaolin's old face flushed red with embarrassment. "Your Highness, Your Highness's Consort," he bowed and greeted the group.
"Lord Qin, your arrival is just in time. Why don't you go and see your son and daughter first?"
“This Concubine Qin is now considered a member of my Prince’s mansion. In principle, she should be handed over to the Prince for disposal. Even if she was granted a position by His Majesty, the Prince has the authority to order her to be beaten to death for having a private conversation with someone.”
Jiang Wan Ning spoke casually, but the Qin family members listened with trepidation.
"Your Highness, there must be some misunderstanding."
Qin Zhao had been tipped off by the shopkeeper before he arrived, and had already come up with a plan on the way. As he spoke, he waved to the servants behind him to hand the clothes to the two shameful scoundrels.
Qin Hualang quickly put on his clothes while carrying the person on his back, and then chimed in, "That's right, Father, we were framed."
"Shut up!" Qin Zhaolin shouted angrily, and Qin Hualang had no choice but to obediently shut up.
Qin Zhaolin then said, "Your Highness, I can also testify to what happened today. My son was with me when he was suddenly called away by someone."
"The person who came to fetch my son happened to be a servant from the Langya Prince's Mansion."
Qin Hualang's mind raced, and he immediately said, "Oh right, right, I was discussing the article with my father when a servant claiming to be from the Prince's mansion called me out."
"Then they just told me to wait here, and then I was drugged. That's how it happened."
"I was also summoned by the Princess and Miss Shen." Qin Yasu, dressed and sobbing, stepped forward.
Qin Zhaolin continued, "Your Highness, I have already apprehended these people. You should first check if they are from your household."
Before Jiang Wan Ning could speak, Qin Zhaolin ordered his men to bring her up.
"Isn't this Indian?" Prince Jin recognized the person being escorted.
The Indian man was beaten black and blue.
“Your Highness, this person was stubborn and refused to admit it, so I used some tricks to get him to confess.”
"Your...Your Highness, I didn't say anything. They forced me to sign the document and admitted it," Ah San said with difficulty.
"Your Highness, I am a fifth-rank official in the imperial court, and I would never dare to do such a thing as forcing a confession."
“I’ve investigated this matter. You used to be in an assassin organization, and somehow you ended up working for the Prince’s mansion.”
Qin Zhaolin straightened his back a bit as he spoke, "His signed and fingerprinted confession is all here, and he also admitted that he was instructed by Your Highness."
"In my opinion, today's matter... is not about me giving the Princess an explanation, but rather the Princess giving me an explanation."
"How could the Princess Consort do such a thing? She actually drugged my two children, causing them to be in this state..."
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Shen Ruzhi pointed at Qin Zhaolin. "How dare you frame Ningning?"
“Miss Shen, I know that you are now a princess of Western Xia, but this is in Dongling, and this matter is not up to you Western Xia officials.”
"Of course, if you insist on helping the princess distort the facts, there is nothing I can do."
"But I must go to His Majesty to demand an explanation for what happened today."
Chen Ruzhi angrily raised her foot to kick Qin Zhaolin, but Jiang Wanning grabbed her.
Jiang Wan Ning slowly stepped forward, and the closer she got to Qin Zhaolin, the more she felt the pressure emanating from him. Jiang Wan Ning's current temperament was too similar to Pei Yan Chuan's.
The less they speak, the more frightening they are.
"Your Highness...Does Your Highness intend to hit me?"
No sooner had she finished speaking than Jiang Wan Ning raised her hand and slapped him several times. "Why can't I, the princess, be hit?"
Shen Ruzhi knew that Jiang Wan Ning rarely referred to herself as "this concubine" in front of others. If she did, it meant that she was really angry, and the person opposite her was not far from death.
"Your...Your Highness...do you have no regard for the law?"
"No matter what, I am an official appointed by the imperial court. How can you just hit me as you please?"
Although Qin Zhaolin said this on the surface, he was secretly delighted. The more arrogant Jiang Wan Ning was in public, the more advantageous it would be for him.
"You tortured my people without my permission and then have the audacity to yell at me here."
"This...it was precisely because someone testified against me that I had no choice..."
"No choice?" Jiang Wan Ning slapped him hard again. "So, if I kill them both, can I just say 'no choice' and cover it up?"
“Even if it really is an Indian, you should hand it over to the Dali Temple or to the Emperor. It’s not your place, a mere Vice Minister, to interrogate it here.”
Do you even know what your official position entails?
Without saying a word, Jiang Wan Ning slapped Qin Zhao Lin hard across the face, causing him to stagger backward.
Jiang Wan Ning only stopped when she had nowhere left to retreat. "Lord Qin, the trick of extracting confessions through torture is not going to work on me."
"However many blows you struck that Indian, whatever torture you used, I will use them all on Qin Hualang."
"Your Highness, you cannot be so arrogant and domineering! Is there no law anymore?" Qin Zhaolin shouted.
"The law?" Jiang Wan Ning said coldly, "Do you even have any regard for the law?"
"If you use torture without authorization, I will definitely report it to His Majesty."
Qin Zhaolin was initially quite arrogant, but he didn't expect Jiang Wanning to be so bold as to strike a court official in public.
Then she thought, with the Prince of Langya behind her, what wouldn't she do?
"While it may be wrong for me to conduct a private interrogation, is it acceptable for the Princess to beat me in front of so many people?"
“I think the Princess Consort is trying to force me and my two children to our deaths. Your Langya Prince’s Mansion has always been so domineering.”
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