With the cooperation of Li Xiandi, Lin Dan quickly tied up the other person.
"You lie here, I'm leaving first." Feeling more blood flowing out of her leg, she tore off a piece of the curtain and tied it tightly with thick circles. Seeing her face covered in cold sweat, the lust in Li Xian's heart was completely replaced by shock.
People always say that there is not a single spineless member of the Lin family, and that both men and women are strong-willed. He used to think that this was an exaggeration, but today he clearly realized that this was true. If he and Lin Dan were switched, he would never dare to be so cruel to himself.
"Be careful." Looking at Lin Dan's thin back, he couldn't help but remind her.
"Don't worry, I will never implicate you. Once you get outside, I will quietly call your servants over and have them escort you away."
Li Xian shook his head and said, "No need to call my servants over. I'm fine lying like this." Whoever framed him today must pay the price. A prince was drugged and tied up in a room. In order to maintain the reputation of the royal family, the emperor's father would conduct a thorough investigation and would feel guilty about him, thus becoming suspicious of the other princes. In this way, he could take advantage of the situation to persuade his father to let him leave the capital and go to the border for training.
Lin Dan immediately realized that he was trying to use a torture trick on her, so she didn't insist and pushed the door open to go out. She had a keen sense and could sense whether there were people nearby even if they were dozens of feet away, so her journey back was smooth and she was not seen by others. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, she did not show up at the banquet. Instead, she asked the maid in the Jiang residence to secretly tell Mrs. Lin that she had her period and was embarrassed to go out and see people, so she asked Mrs. Lin to bring clean clothes and come to the guest room in the east wing to meet her.
The maid ran away with the generous reward, and finally found Mrs. Lin in the crowd, and quietly handed her a message. This is a girl's private matter, very embarrassing. The maid would never think about it in other ways, let alone mention it to others.
Mrs. Lin was afraid that her daughter would be shy and afraid to come out to see people, so she personally delivered the clean clothes to her. As soon as she entered the door, Lin Dan pulled her into the inner room and told her the details of what happened before. She then said, "Mother, I was helped to Linshui Pavilion by my maids, and then I fainted for no apparent reason. You have to help me clean up the mess."
These girls were all selected by the original owner. They seemed okay at normal times, but now that something like this had happened, Lin Dan didn’t dare to use them anymore and simply got rid of them all. The Lin family had great military achievements and enormous power, and was highly coveted in the court. Several princes dreamed of pulling the Lin family into their camp. As the daughter of this family, Lin Dan naturally would not cause trouble for them.
No matter what happened around her, she would not deliberately conceal it, but tell Mrs. Lin everything and let her and the elders in the family deal with it. She was extremely disgusted by these shady tactics and was even more impatient to deal with them.
Mrs. Lin lifted up her daughter's skirt and checked her bloody wound. She was so angry that her teeth were chattering: "Okay, okay, these evil spirits actually plotted against my Lin family. I will definitely not let them go!" As soon as she finished speaking, there was a commotion outside. It turned out that Prince Zhuang had been found and was being rushed to the Imperial Hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Lin took the opportunity to take her leave, and after returning home, she arrested all the maids and old women in Lin Dan's courtyard and interrogated them one by one.
Lin Dan didn't care about these things. After returning to her room, she carefully cleared the original owner's memory and found that she was secretly in love with her concubine sister Lin Wan's fiancé Ding Mujie. She also stole many of Ding Mujie's personal belongings. She took them out from time to time to look at them, touch them, and treasured them very much. There were a lot of miscellaneous items, including letters, paintings, jade pendants, purses... and each of them was stamped with Ding Mujie's private seal. If someone found them, it would be a big trouble.
Lin Dan acted decisively and immediately burned everything that could be burned, and crushed the things that could not be burned into powder and sprinkled them on the flower bed in the backyard. Just as I finished all this, someone came to the front yard and said that the old general wanted to see me.
Lin Dan came to the front hall and found that the maid whom the original owner relied on the most was lying on the ground in a miserable state with a look of fear on her face. Seeing her coming, the maid rushed over and hugged her feet, crying: "Miss, you must save this slave!"
Seeing that General Lin's face was very ugly, Lin Dan kicked the maid away and asked bluntly: "What did she say just now?"
Father Lin looked at the old man, then at his innocent daughter, and replied, "She said that you wanted to go to Linshui Pavilion on your own, and you sent the people away on your own, in order to have a secret meeting with Ding Mujie. You and him had a secret relationship a long time ago, but I don't know why the person in the room turned out to be King Zhuang."
The original owner had no memory of having a secret meeting with Ding Mujie, which showed that the maid was lying. Lin Dan pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I have never met Ding Mujie, let alone a private relationship with him. If I took the initiative to ask him out, why would I faint for no apparent reason? Why was I drugged? This is not a normal procedure for a man and a woman to meet privately."
Father Lin felt relieved when he saw her frank words and frank expression. He knows his daughter best. She dares to do and take responsibility for her actions and there is no reason for her to hide anything.
General Lin's expression softened as well, and he said, "I believe you. I taught you myself, so how could you do such a shameless thing?"
Lin Dan nodded without blushing at all. Anyway, the person who did those things was the original owner, not her. What's more, the original owner was indeed framed. Although she admired Ding Mujie, she also knew that he was her half sister's husband. Her grandfather and father would never agree to her sisters getting married again. So she only thought about it in her heart, or invited her half sister to the yard to inquire about Ding Mujie's situation, and did not dare to do anything more excessive.
Just as General Lin said, she still has a sense of shame.
The maidservant shouted immediately, "This was really the young lady's order. If you don't believe me, you can go to her room and check. She had already secretly communicated with Ding Mujie!"
Lin Dan sat in his original position with his arms and legs spread out, waving his hand and saying, "Go check. I'll wait here." He did not even say a word to defend himself.
Seeing this, General Lin and Lin's father felt more at ease with her. After a while, the old woman who had searched the courtyard came back and said that she didn't find anything suspicious, but found many valuable items in the maid's room, which were definitely not something someone of her status could afford.
The maidservant never expected that those treasures had already been disposed of by Lin Dan, and she immediately panicked. No matter how much she wanted to defend herself, she couldn't say it now. General Lin and Lin's father had obviously determined that she was a traitor and was framing Lin Dan. Today's incident involved Prince Zhuang. Even if the Lin family wanted to suppress it, the emperor would not let it go.
The maid knew she couldn't escape, so in order to avoid being charged with murdering the royal family, she had to give up the culprit.
Father Lin said in disbelief: "You said that Lin Hui asked you to do this today?" Lin Hui was none other than Father Lin's concubine's daughter, the sixth child. She had been well-read since childhood and was quite talented. As a result, she caught the eye of the eldest daughter of the Jiang family and was often invited to the Jiang Mansion to participate in poetry gatherings. Although Lin Wan's talent was not as good as that of her sixth sister, she was also quite smart, so she went with her several times.
The only difference was that Lin Dan had loved to wield spears and sticks since childhood, and did not like to associate with girls in the boudoir, so he had never been to the Jiang residence. Thinking about it this way, what happened today was definitely not her doing, because she was very unfamiliar with the Jiang Mansion and it was difficult for her to act. On the contrary, it was Lin Hui who could easily set up this trap with her understanding of the Jiang Mansion.
Father Lin became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. His face was already somewhat ferocious. He then heard the maid say in a sad voice, "I didn't want to do this either, but Miss Six holds my sister in her hands, so I have to listen to her. She is jealous that Miss Eldest and Miss Seventh are more favored than she is, so she plotted to frame Miss Eldest and Miss Seventh's fiancés to teach them a lesson. When Miss Eldest marries a white man and Miss Seventh's engagement is broken off, she will be the best among all the ladies, so she will naturally be valued by the general."
"Just to win favor, she put her sisters in an unjust situation and put the Lin family in danger. She is really a good daughter of mine, Lin Tie!" Lin's father was very angry and immediately called Lin Hui to confront him.
The plan was not accomplished, and in the end, Prince Zhuang and the royal family were implicated, and it caused such a big uproar that the charge of "assassinating the prince" was enough to kill Lin Hui hundreds of times. After Lin Hui returned home, she became more and more uneasy. Without waiting for her grandfather and father to interrogate her, she knelt down as soon as she entered the door and confessed everything. She said that she was possessed by a ghost and begged her grandfather to save her and not send her to the government office.
At this point in the interrogation, General Lin realized that Lin Hui really wanted to harm her sisters, but she did not expect that someone with ulterior motives would take advantage of her and set up a plan within a plan to involve King Zhuang as well. If Lin Dan hadn't pierced her thigh to keep herself awake and leave that place in time, both the Lin family and King Zhuang would have been implicated this time. How could Lin Hui capture King Zhuang with her little tricks?
Creating a scandal is a small matter, but losing the king's heart is a big matter. The Crown Prince and Prince Kang were already fighting fiercely, and now if the Lin family got involved, no one knew what the Emperor would think. Once the Lin family is dragged into the fight for the throne and the king starts to doubt the Lin family, then the Lin family's merits will instantly turn into evidence of guilt.
Since ancient times, how many military generals died because they were more powerful than their masters? General Lin counted with his fingers, but couldn't count. He deliberated for a long time, and finally had Lin Hui kidnapped and sent directly to Prince Zhuang's mansion.
Fortunately, the emperor still trusted the Lin family very much, and knew that Lin Hui, a mere girl in the boudoir, would never be able to pull off such a scheme. So he ordered the guards to punish her with fifty strokes of the cane and send her home. He also ordered Prince Zhuang to suppress the news so as not to ruin Lin Dan's reputation. King Zhuang investigated and investigated and found only Lin Hui, so he gave up. But because of this, the emperor became more suspicious of his sons. Seeing that Prince Zhuang had lost his mother since childhood and had no one to take care of him, he felt really pitiful, so he approved his request and sent him to the border to gain experience.
When Lin Hui returned home, she did not dare to get off the carriage. She asked someone to bring her a hooded cloak and covered herself from head to toe before being carried down. Lin's father refused to see her and only asked the servant to bring a message to her, saying that he would marry her off far away when she recovered. She should not even think about marrying into a wealthy family, and that the Lin family would be doing her a good deed as long as she could have enough food and clothing.
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