The story of Yin Jiuniang was overshadowed by another matter after only half a day.
Princess Heyi dug up the remains of her former fiancé, Han Changgeng, and his wife. She threw the remains of Han's wife, Cai, into the South China Sea, while the princess hid Han Changgeng's remains under her bed and kept them company every night.
The truth behind why the Grand Princess was sent to a foreign land for a political marriage was also revealed.
The person who spread these rumors was Han Zijin, the husband of Princess Kangle.
He was drinking with a group of rich kids at a brothel when he got drunk and started talking nonsense.
The other playboys didn't believe it, but the drunken Han, the proud prince consort, patted his chest and guaranteed that his information was absolutely reliable, and that it happened on the day the Fang family went to the palace to seek justice for Fang Yantong.
If he utters even the slightest falsehood, may he be impotent for the rest of his life.
The playboys burst into laughter and commotion, and the news spread like wildfire, eventually reaching the entire capital.
Someone secretly went to the Fang family to verify this.
Fang Jiaben saw that the Emperor's intervention against Yin Jiuniang that day was intended to protect the face of the Grand Princess, so he refrained from revealing it to the outside world.
Fang Yantong is still in danger, and the Grand Princess is even helping Ye Wantang.
They also came to hate the Grand Princess, thus implicitly confirming what Han Zijin had said.
Once confirmed, the rumors spread even more intensely.
When the culprit woke up from his drunken stupor and realized he had caused trouble, he fearfully begged Kang Le to accompany him to the Princess's residence to apologize.
Kang Le was furious.
She went to great lengths to please the Grand Princess, but the Prince Consort offended her to the point of no return, yet she had no choice but to go.
She is the head of the Princess's household. If this feud is not resolved, the Grand Princess will definitely hate her as well.
Han Zijin took off his shirt, carried a bundle of thorns on his back, and knelt at the Grand Princess's residence, showing his utmost sincerity.
Inside the mansion, the Grand Princess's face was so dark it seemed as if water could drip from it.
"I will not bother with their baseless accusations. Tell them to go back."
This kind of thing will only get worse if you try to explain it.
Fortunately, Han Zijin was a playboy, so she ignored it, and people began to doubt the veracity of the rumors. Then, she could bring up Yin Jiuniang's matter again, and the matter would pass.
After the two people were unearthed, their tombs were restored, and no one has discovered them for many years.
The Han and Cai families couldn't very well dig up the graves to verify the evidence, much less search the princess's residence.
But how could Han Zijin know about what happened that day? He wasn't in the palace that day, so who told him?
The Grand Princess was just beginning to have doubts when a servant brought in the answer.
"Your Highness, Han Zijin refused to leave and apologized outside the gate, saying that he shouldn't have gone out of the mansion in the middle of the night to wander around because of a quarrel with Kangle."
"I shouldn't have followed the cricket through the dog hole into the General's Mansion after finding it, and overheard Ye Wantang cursing you. I shouldn't have blurted it out while drunk..."
Before the servant could finish speaking, the old princess angrily threw a teacup at him, exclaiming, "What a Ye Wantang!"
It was her!
She had previously used Fu Jiang's matter to blackmail him, and since he had failed to help her, Ye Wantang must be holding a grudge against him for it.
A few days ago, he revealed Yin Jiuniang's affairs to her again, attempting to use her as a tool.
However, she also hated Yin Jiuniang and thought that she should deal with Yin Jiuniang first, and then deal with Ye Wantang.
I never expected her to be so bold as to curse her behind her back, and that unreliable Han Zijin overheard it and made a scene.
After hearing Han Zijin's explanation, none of the onlookers doubted that he was lying.
Because all the maids in the General's Mansion had left, and the head of the guards had been punished because of Fang Yantong's matter, the General's Mansion was now in a state of decline.
Han Zijin's image over the years is indeed that of someone who would crawl through a dog hole in the middle of the night. He even dared to lay a hand on his own aunt when Ye Wantang was punished and confined to her home. What wouldn't he do to curse people?
This further confirms that the news is true.
The people were furious that the deity they once revered had turned out to be so despicable and vicious, and they pointed fingers at the Grand Princess's residence, feeling deceived.
They even went so far as to hurl insults, calling her a hypocrite and saying it was no wonder she couldn't distinguish right from wrong and would protect a beast like Fu Jiang...
Hearing these words from inside the door, the Grand Princess was so angry that her leg had healed. She stood up abruptly from her chair, her eyes dark and gloomy. "Damn it, these people all deserve to die."
Meanwhile, inside the prison of the Wude Division.
Someone carrying a food bucket approached Fu Jiang's cell and whispered, "Master, please forgive us, but the young masters are in trouble."
Fu Jiang looked up abruptly in surprise, "What do you mean?"
"Someone found the young masters' hiding place and killed them when we weren't paying attention."
How did you find it?
Fu Jiang almost roared. He had personally chosen this secluded spot; how could they have been found?
But this is the Wude Division, and the other party went through many twists and turns to finally meet Fu Jiang, so it's not a place where we can go into details.
A jailer came over and urged, "Hurry up, the others in the cell are waiting for their food, stop dawdling."
The man bowed and apologized.
The jailer stood waiting for him to distribute food to the next prisoner.
The person carrying the food bucket had no choice but to leave, and the two had no further chance to speak.
After all the prisoners had finished eating and were returning to the kitchen, as they passed Fu Jiang, Fu Jiang quickly said to him, "Find the princess to save Lan Zhou."
The man didn't dare to stop, nodded slightly, and left the prison.
Xie Tingzhou watched all this from the shadows and gestured for Xing Ze to follow.
Fu Jiang collapsed to the ground.
His secrets in Qingzhou went far beyond his affair with Lady Liu.
Fearing that his family's visit to the princess's residence would expose him, and also to incite conflict between the Grand Princess and the Marquis of Zhongyong's family, so that the Grand Princess would help him deal with the Marquis of Zhongyong, he orchestrated a family massacre.
The unaware eldest sons were hidden away by him under the guise of being rescued, with the plan that he would find a way to make them appear once he had gained the Grand Princess's complete trust.
Therefore, he was not in a hurry after learning that Xie Lanzhou had been infected with smallpox.
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