Yuan Jing touched Tang Ruozhi with his whip and sneered, "You are so calm! Every word you say seems to make sense. You, a mere daughter of the Prime Minister's family, have the ability to cover up the facts of murder. How can His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's actions of upholding justice and eliminating harm for the people be considered an abuse of power?"
"I don't understand what you're talking about." Tang Ruozhi suppressed the extreme discomfort and pain in his body. He sensitively caught the emphasis in Yuan Jing's words and panicked. "I didn't kill anyone!"
Yuan Jing smiled playfully, fiddling with the whip in his hand, and said, "I didn't say you killed anyone. You're trying to cover up the truth. I just said that being the daughter of the Prime Minister's family can help cover up the fact of murder. I didn't say whether Miss Tang did or didn't kill anyone. Oh, so Miss Tang, are you admitting to murder?"
He spoke in a deliberately sarcastic tone. Although he looked very honest in normal times, he was very good at using psychological tactics when interrogating people. Few prisoners could slip away under his nose.
Yuan Jing had grown up in prison and witnessed countless interrogations, many more bloody, horrifying, and outrageous than this one. The prisoners he interrogated were all ordered by Helan Ruizhe. So, they were either elite individuals who had attempted to assassinate the Crown Prince or those suspected of posing a threat to the imperial family. These were all elite prisoners. Their mental and physical endurance was immense, surely unmatched by ordinary humans.
Let alone Tang Ruozhi, the delicate and tender young lady of a wealthy family, who turned pale with a whip and confessed everything after just a few threats.
As expected, after Tang Ruozhi let the cat out of the bag, she wanted to bite off her tongue, but she was afraid of the pain and didn't want to die. She just hated Jin Xiwen in her heart. Why did she have to deal with such a person? Why did she believe her lies? Why did she agree to cooperate with such a person just because she threatened her!
She was so stupid. She didn't know people well and even took the medicine to seduce her brother Ruizhe. She had never made such a fool of herself in front of Helan Ruizhe since she was a child!
"What does Brother Ruizhe know?!" She suddenly remembered that Yuan Jing was Helan Ruizhe's subordinate. Given Yuan Jing's loyalty to Helan Ruizhe, Helan Ruizhe must know more than Yuan Jing.
Yuan Jing seemed to see through her thoughts and deliberately emphasized: "I know, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows. Is it three years ago or three years later now? Which one do you want to hear, Miss Tang?"
Yuan Jing specifically emphasized three years ago.
Tang Ruozhi's heart was beating wildly, thinking back to what happened that year. When Shi Ran died, she was not there at all. She had evidence of her alibi, and she got along so well with Shi Ran. On the surface, they were like sisters, so no one should doubt her!
Not many people knew about her killing Shi Ran, except for that idiot Jin Wade and Jin Xiwen...
But Jin Xiwen had no reason to betray her. They were now in the same boat. Jin Xiwen would not be stupid enough to tell such a thing to others. Could it be Jin Wade?
That's even more impossible. Jin Wade, that idiot, loves her to death and would never betray her.
Since Yuan Jing already knew, she wasn't afraid of hiding anything. She simply threw the can down the drain and asked, "How did you know that?"
"Tsk," Yuan laughed out loud. He truly thought the disheveled, dirty woman in the sack was ridiculous. "Don't worry about how I knew this. Do you think I'll tell you? You just need to answer me who ordered you to harm the Crown Prince. If you still don't tell me, I'll whip you with this whip and you might not see the sun tomorrow."
The whip cracked in the wind, making a sound. "No!" Tang Ruozhi stopped Yuan Jing fearfully, "Don't hit me! Stop it!"
Yuan Jing retracted the whip and sneered: "Are you scared now? How come you weren't scared when you killed someone? Didn't your hand shaking when holding the knife?"
"I didn't kill her with a knife!" Tang Ruozhi blurted out in a hurry to defend himself, then realized that he had said the wrong thing again and shut up.
"Oh!" Yuan Jing said, as if remembering something. "It seems no knife was used. Oh, right, you pushed her into the lake, didn't you? It's so pitiful. The sight of Miss Shi drowning will be remembered forever by not only His Royal Highness the Crown Prince but also the Queen Mother."
Tang Ruozhi knew what he was hinting at. If this matter were to be exposed, not only would Helan Ruizhe hate her, but the Queen Mother might even let her die.
Because she knew how important Shi Ran was to them.
Although the Shi Mansion of Shi Ran's family was not the Shi Mansion that had taken in Queen Mother Helan Qin, they had been under the protection of Queen Mother three years ago.
It was as if Shi Ran was her own granddaughter.
Rumor has it that Shi Ran looks very much like a good friend of the Queen Mother when she was young, and Shi Ran seems to know how to please the Queen Mother particularly well. Therefore, among the noble ladies of Funing, Shi Ran is the only one who is most favored by the Queen Mother, even more so than Yu Qinglan.
In the eyes of the Queen Mother, she was just a clown. If it weren't for her status as the daughter of the Prime Minister, the Queen Mother probably wouldn't even look at her.
She is proud and arrogant, but not so proud that she cannot see herself clearly.
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you who the person who ordered me to do this is." She said this weakly, feeling the strength in her body slipping away bit by bit.
Yuan Jing waited for her to continue. After a long while, Tang Ruozhi didn't say anything. He felt something was wrong. He wondered if she had fainted.
He stepped forward and tried to untie the sack to smell Tang Ruozhi's breath. As soon as he got close, he felt someone approaching. It was the special breath of a strong man, with a faint scent of herbs. Before he could be on guard, he just blinked and the figure in front of him swayed. He quickly dodged and when he looked back, Tang Ruozhi, who was hanging on the tree, had disappeared.
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