Chapter 290 The one who set up the trap
The midday light shines through the carved window frames, reflecting the flying dust.
"Your Highness, it is better not to move you since your injuries are so serious. It will be troublesome if your injuries get worse." Doctor Miao looked at Chu Jinyan who was getting dressed and advised earnestly.
Alas, I am so tired following such a stubborn master.
Chu Jinyan glanced at Doctor Miao calmly and said, "The bed is too bad. I can't sleep well."
This deep disdain is simply unbearable.
Doctor Miao choked and his face turned red: "..."
His salary is low and the house is a bit shabby, it's his fault!
At this time, Sheng Xian said at the door: "Your Highness, the carriage has been arranged, but the gate of Doctor Miao's house is too narrow, and the carriage cannot enter. Your Highness, please walk to the door."
puff……
Doctor Miao, who was once again despised, said: "..."
Could you please be considerate of your master?
Sheng Xian didn't realize that Doctor Miao was in a state of mental collapse, and said to him, "Doctor Miao, it's not good for His Highness to stay here, but we don't feel comfortable asking someone else to stay. You should come with us. Living in the Eighth Prince's Mansion will make it easier to take care of His Highness's injuries."
Upon hearing this, Doctor Miao's mouth twitched slightly.
"yes."
So Doctor Miao packed his luggage and left with Chu Jinyan.
The Eighth Prince’s Mansion.
As soon as Chu Jinyan returned home, he asked Sheng Xian to call Yuanfeng over.
"How did the trial go?"
Yuan Feng blamed himself and said: "I am incompetent. These are all dead men. They are very tight-lipped. I tried everything I could but failed to pry open their mouths."
Chu Jinyan was silent for a moment, and said with a cold look: "Then there is no need to interrogate them. Since they won't confess, just kill them and send their bodies out one by one. Looking around the capital, the number of people who want to kill me and dare to do it directly can be counted on five fingers."
Looking at those people's reactions, he could guess who set up this trap and captured Lu Xiang.
If he was just coming for him, it wouldn't matter, but if he dared to threaten Lu Xiang's life, Chu Jinyan would never let him get away with it.
Yuan Feng understood: "Who did your Highness suspect first?"
Chu Jinyan's icy face was filled with infinite coldness, and he said in a deep voice: "Chu Chengli and Chu Huining..."
When Yuan Feng heard Chu Huining's name, he was stunned: "Princess Huining?"
How could a woman like her be so bold as to harm even the emperor's son? She must be crazy.
"We'll know if it's her if we try." Chu Jinyan said expressionlessly.
He threw Zheng Wenwu from the second floor and almost lost his life. His father also issued an edict to abolish Zheng Wenwu's title of prince. Considering the eldest princess's love for her son, she would probably do anything.
"I understand." Yuanfeng responded with a fist salute, then turned and left.
Under the moon, the monsters on the eaves, the carved windows in the courtyard, and the thick black shadows were cast on the large and empty garden, giving people a feeling of suffocation.
After visiting Zheng Wenwu, Chu Huiran returned to her room. She walked around the screen and saw a person lying on the tidy bed. The quilt covered his head and she couldn't see who it was.
Madam Duan behind her immediately scolded with a furious look on her face: "Who dares to lie on the princess's bed? I will skin you alive."
While cursing, Nanny Duan rushed to the bed and pulled back the quilt. However, when she saw the man in front of her who had been disfigured beyond recognition, she screamed in fear and fell to the ground.
“Ah…Ahhh…”
Chu Huining also saw the person on the bed clearly. His body shook violently and his frightened face suddenly turned blank.
Even though the man's face was unrecognizable due to severe torture, Chu Huining still recognized that he was the assassin she sent to kill Chu Jinyan.
"He, he he..." Chu Huining's lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a complete sentence because of fear.
Madam Duan rolled and crawled to her feet, trembling as she hid behind Chu Huining. She said fearfully, "Princess... the people we sent out yesterday failed. Did the Eighth Prince find out that it was us who did it?"
Otherwise, why would this person appear in the princess's bed? This is clearly the eighth prince's warning to the princess.
Even after sending out so many assassins, they still failed to kill the Eighth Prince. Now the Eighth Prince knew that it was the princess who murdered him. Nanny Duan didn't even dare to imagine how the Eighth Prince would retaliate.
Chu Huining suppressed the fear in his heart and glared at Nanny Duan fiercely: "Why are you panicking? Since they just sent the dead back, it means he didn't get anything from them at all. What can Chu Jinyan do if there is no evidence?"
It would be useless even if she brought the matter to the Emperor. She could easily use the reason that Chu Jinyan was trying to frame her to refute it.
I am his aunt, and I don’t believe that making a fuss will do any good to Chu Jinyan.
Would the ministers support such a rebellious and unfilial prince to be the crown prince?
When Chu Huining thought about it, he suddenly felt more confident.
Nanny Duan looked at Chu Huining with doubt. She had tried to stop the princess when she wanted to do this, but the princess insisted on doing it. She accidentally learned that the Eighth Prince was in love with Lu Xiang, so she took advantage of the wedding of Prime Minister Liu's daughter yesterday to create chaos on her way back home at night, hoping to take the opportunity to hijack the carriage.
The princess thought her plan was flawless, and the eighth prince would surely die if he went alone to rescue people since he was isolated and helpless.
But who could have thought that even in such a dead end, the Eighth Prince could actually escape unscathed.
"Tell someone to dispose of the body, and tear down this yard and rebuild it tomorrow." Chu Huining covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, turned around and left with a gloomy face: "A bunch of rubbish, so many people can't even kill one person."
Chu Huining couldn't bear to live in a house where a dead person had stayed.
She had thought that the information she had found was false and Chu Jinyan would not be fooled, but she never expected that these people could still fail even if Chu Jinyan fell into the trap.
Chu Huining felt a surge of blood rushing to her head, making her eyes turn black with anger.
When Nanny Duan saw Chu Huining turning around and leaving, she quickly followed him. If she stayed in this room for a moment longer, she would feel the hairs on her body standing up.
After leaving the yard, Nanny Duan ordered the servants to throw the bodies in the house into the mass grave.
The servants who were handling the corpse were horrified, but did not dare to ask a single question.
There was a slight sound of tiles hitting each other on the roof, but everyone was so frightened by the corpse on the bed that they didn't notice it.
Sheng Xian ran all the way back to the mansion.
The lights were still on in Chu Jinyan's room, and Doctor Miao was changing his dressings.
Sheng Xian entered the room and saw Doctor Mu there, so he waited quietly by the side.
Doctor Miao tied the gauze for Chu Jinyan and then left. Chu Jinyan casually pulled up his inner garment and let it hang loosely on his body. He looked at Sheng Xian with an indifferent expression.
"Any results?"
Sheng Xian nodded, and a cold light flashed in his eyes when he thought of what he had heard: "I have observed the eldest princess and confirmed that these assassins were sent by the eldest princess. They captured the third lady and led Your Highness there alone, just to kill Your Highness."
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