Ni Gaofei sighed and sat down on a chair nearby.
"Don't worry too much about me. The environment here is just a little worse, but it doesn't affect anything else!" Ni Gaofei started to comfort Ni Yueshan. Ni Yueshan picked up some food for him and said, "Eat quickly!"
Afterwards, Ni Yueshan also sat down and poured some wine for Ni Gaofei: "Dad, the Imperial Observatory has been exposed, and the prince believes you. Don't worry, we will find a way to rescue you."
Ni Gaofei nodded and began to eat and drink, obviously not wanting to talk about other things with Ni Yueshan.
Ni Yueshan looked around. Perhaps Ni Gaofei felt that whatever he said here could easily be heard by others.
Ni Yueshan secretly stuffed a bottle of medicine into his mouth: "It's for your wounds!"
Afterwards, Ni Yueshan stood up and said, "Dad, take care of yourself in the cell during this time!"
Ni Yueshan walked out, and Ni Gaofei followed her and watched her leave.
When Ni Yueshan came out of the cell, but before he walked out, he ran into three people who were talking and laughing as they walked in.
Ni Yueshan stopped in her tracks. They recognized her at first glance.
"Hey, isn't this the Regent Princess? Why are you here? This is the Sky Prison! How could you come here just like that?"
The person who spoke was not someone else, but Shao Lecheng. There were two other people beside him, the father and son of the Tai family.
Ni Yueshan's expression was calm and natural. "I'm just worried about you guys torturing my father without even questioning him, so I came to check on him. I want to make sure he doesn't suffer in vain while someone else claims he's fine."
When Ni Yueshan spoke, his expression was extremely cold, and he didn't feel at all that he had done anything wrong.
Before the Tai father and son could say anything, Shao Lecheng spoke first, "Since the Regent Princess doesn't trust us, why don't you come along and listen to the trial at the same time?"
The Tai family father and son opened their mouths to say something, but Ni Yueshan immediately spoke up: "Okay!"
Afterwards, Ni Yueshan walked towards Ni Gaofei's cell again. Shao Lecheng snorted and followed.
The Tai family father and son looked at each other. What kind of nonsense is this? How could they let the prisoner's family attend the trial together?
Ni Yueshan walked to the cell door. Ni Gaofei was still sipping his wine. Seeing the four people, he paused and asked, "Are you interrogating me? Didn't the Queen Mother order a joint trial by the three courts? Why are there only people from your Ministry of Justice?"
"I'm here today and have called the people from the Ministry of Justice to interrogate him first. What's wrong with that?" Shao Lecheng took the initiative to say this, then looked behind him and said, "What are you all standing there for? Why don't you go open the prison door and invite the Prime Minister out? Isn't it disrespectful to treat the Prime Minister through the prison door?"
As he spoke, Shao Lecheng smiled maliciously, and Ni Yueshan stood aside with his fists clenched, not saying a word.
Soon, the jailer brought four chairs. Shao Lecheng sat down, and the Tai family father and son also sat down. Ni Yueshan moved the chair behind her in front of Ni Gaofei.
Although Shao Lecheng and the other two hesitated for a moment, they did not stop him and let Ni Gaofei sit down. Ni Yueshan then stood beside Ni Gaofei and did not leave.
Shao Lecheng didn't care and ordered the jailer: "There's tea, bring it!"
Minister Tai coughed and said, "Prime Minister, you are a loyal minister of our dynasty. All the civil and military officials in the court respect you. But this time, the prince saw with his own eyes that the princess was found in your house. Prime Minister, you'd better confess the truth, so as to avoid some physical pain!"
Ni Gaofei's expression was calm, without a trace of nervousness. "Yes, that's exactly what's strange. At that time, a crowd of people gathered outside the palace for quite some time. If it was my people who abducted the princess, why didn't I send them away quickly?"
"Instead, they deliberately sent someone to my wife's room before they found anyone? If my wife hadn't been so lucky, wouldn't she have died in childbirth?"
Shao Lecheng immediately scoffed, "Isn't there no difficult birth? I said at the time that this might be a self-torture tactic on your part! You thought it was too late to move the person, so you just took him directly to your wife's room and used a self-torture tactic to clear yourself of suspicion!"
Ni Yueshan's eyes sank and she didn't say anything. She looked at Ni Gaofei, waiting for him to explain.
Ni Gaofei remained relaxed, and replied helplessly, "If I really wanted to find someone you were looking for, I could have had the servants at my door stop the prince's men when you entered the mansion. If they were held back, even the ten princesses would have been moved away! How could I have given you the chance to run into them?"
Ni Gaofei's words sounded quite reasonable, but Shao Lecheng didn't believe them at all.
He snorted softly, "You've used these words to justify your claims before, but saying them now in front of two officials from the Ministry of Justice is completely unconvincing! Prime Minister, you should explain why my princess appeared in your residence!"
Ni Yueshan frowned. Shao Lecheng was being too picky!
Didn’t I just explain that someone else framed me? Framed!
Ni Yueshan said with a slight displeasure: "Prince, you are not the judge of this case. The two officials from the Ministry of Justice have not spoken yet. Why are you trying to make a name for yourself here?"
Upon hearing this, Shao Lecheng looked at Ni Yueshan unhappily. Finally, he snorted and said rather complacently, "I am the plaintiff. What's wrong with the plaintiff participating in the trial? What about you? What do you have to do here?"
"You are the plaintiff, then I am the witness. I should be present during the trial!" The two of them talked and started carrying it.
Minister Tai coughed awkwardly, "This case truly requires a careful listening to all the testimonies. It would be better to truly understand what happened at the time and whether this incident was the Prime Minister's doing or not."
Shao Lecheng didn't say anything else, waiting for the Tai father and son to have a thorough trial.
Minister Tai asked, "Prime Minister, are you saying that you don't know when the princess appeared in the Prime Minister's residence, and you don't know who abducted her to the Prime Minister's residence?"
"Yes!" Ni Gaofei responded with certainty.
Minister Tai smiled and said, "But the princess said that she had been staying in the Prime Minister's residence since she disappeared. When the prince searched the Prime Minister's residence, she was still there."
"From the beginning to the end, she has been in the Prime Minister's residence! Such a big living person, in the Prime Minister's residence, only you and your wife have two masters. How did you hide her so well and not be discovered? How should the Prime Minister explain it?"
Ni Gaofei looked indifferent and responded calmly, "There are over a hundred servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion. The Madam is pregnant and about to give birth. It's normal for her to neglect household affairs. There is only one housekeeper in charge of all the affairs in the mansion. If you want to investigate thoroughly, you need to call him in!"
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