At this moment, not only Shen Li was furious, but even Shen Yu'an was furious. He hurried home to inquire about the matter right after the morning court session. After hearing what had happened, he even smashed several teacups!
He pointed at Bai Mingzhu and said angrily: "It is because you indulge these maids too much that they are so unscrupulous! Come on! Beat them up! If others know about this, I don't know how they will look upon my Shen family!"
Bai Mingzhu sat aside with her eyes downcast, thinking about the key points secretly. She knew the personalities of these little girls in her family very well. Although they were jealous of each other on weekdays, they never had the intention to harm others. As for who wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, it was really hard to say...
Seeing that no one had confessed, Shen Yu'an was even more furious and shouted, "Beat him to death! It would be better if you don't even say anything! It would save the house from being filled with chaos!"
The guards' attacks became more and more severe. One maidservant could not hold on any longer and begged for mercy, covered in blood: "Master, spare my life! I said, it was a girl named Xiang'er, I know her! She seems to be a maidservant of the Ninth Princess! I saw her and Cui'er getting very close a few days ago, and I thought she was asking Cui'er to find out about the Master! Who knew she actually sneaked into the mansion..."
The one named Cui'er kowtowed continuously and tremblingly.
"Master, please spare me! Master, please spare me! It was Xiang'er who had been bewitching me. I was bewitched by the devil and that's why... Master, please spare me!"
"How did that maid get in? And those hooligans! How did they get in?"
"Yes, from the dog hole behind the tree in the library..."
"Bang!" Shen Yu'an smashed another cup! "Good! Good! Very good! They have plotted against my Shen family! Come on! Prepare the carriage! I want to enter the palace!"
Since the Ninth Princess met Chen Li, she had her eyes on him. She had sent people from her mother's family to talk to Bai Mingzhu several times, but for the sake of her grandson's future, she politely refused. The Ninth Princess was the emperor's favorite daughter. She was arrogant and domineering, but she became more and more perverse. Her mother, Concubine Zhen, was not a good person either! Because the emperor doted on his two children, who else would he take seriously?
Bai Mingzhu sighed and said to the nanny beside her: "Go and get my dress! I want to go to the palace with the master!"
After hearing this, Shen Yu'an snorted twice and said sarcastically: "What are you going to do? You might as well stay at home and think about how to deal with these people!"
"I know that I indulged them too much on weekdays. Now that something has happened, I am not allowed to make amends for my mistakes?"
Shen Li stepped forward and said, "Grandfather, I want to enter the palace too! If the culprit is not severely punished, I will not be able to see Wanwan!"
Chen Yuan's beard trembled with anger, "Okay, okay, let's all go! All of us, young and old, will go! If you don't punish them severely, I will kneel at the palace gate and never get up!"
So the three of them packed up and drove to the palace together to ask for an audience with the emperor.
Emperor Hui was happily eating grapes and listening to music in the harem when he was suddenly informed that Prime Minister Shen's entire family was waiting to see him at the palace gate. He was so frightened that he dropped the grapes and rushed to the imperial study.
"Your Majesty! Slow down! Oh, you'd better ride over there on foot!"
"Didn't you hear that the whole family is here? This must be a big incident! Go and invite them over first!"
"Yes! I'll go right away!"
Eunuch Cao trotted all the way to the palace gate. What the hell was going on? The emperor was only happy for two days, and now there was another big event!
It wasn't until he saw the serious faces of Chen Xiang and his wife and Shen Li that he began to feel a little flustered. Could something really have happened?
After meeting the emperor, they told him the whole story. Emperor Hui was furious and sent someone to bring the ninth princess and her maids.
Chen Li knelt on the ground and shouted, "Your Majesty! I have watched Lin Wan grow up since she was a child. Now she has suffered such humiliation, and in the current prime minister's residence. Please investigate thoroughly!"
"Wuwuwu... I am so old now, and I finally recognized my grandson, but because of this incident, he has become estranged from me. How can I live with dignity... Wuwuwu... I might as well go down earlier to reunite with my son and daughter-in-law..."
Emperor Hui was only 50% angry at first, but the two of them pushed his anger to 150%! This was the first time he had encountered such a thing since he ascended the throne! He must investigate it thoroughly! Give the prime minister an explanation.
The Ninth Princess was so frightened that she knelt aside and kept denying it.
"Father! I didn't do that! How can you conclude that it was my daughter who did it just based on two maids' accusations? It's unfair, father!"
“Shut up!”
Emperor Hui shouted angrily, pointing at the maids and saying, "Drag them away and interrogate them! If they dare to bite their tongues and commit suicide, all nine generations of their clan will be killed!"
Under the guards' questioning, the maid named Xiang'er confessed everything and only asked for mercy to spare her family.
When Emperor Hui learned about this, he was furious. He had never thought that his beloved daughter would be so vicious! She even went to the prime minister's residence to cause trouble! If the woman was an ordinary woman, it would be fine, but she was the great contributor to the grain planting this time. How could he not be angry!
In the end, the emperor was furious and beat the Ninth Princess with 60 sticks, fined her salary for one year, and ordered her to reflect on her mistakes in the palace for one year without the emperor's order. All the maids around her were sentenced to death, leaving no one alive!
It can be regarded as an explanation to the Prime Minister's Mansion and Lin Wanwan.
When Zhenfei heard the news, she knelt before the emperor and begged for mercy. Hearing her daughter's screams, she felt even more heartbroken.
"Your Majesty, please spare her! If she continues like this, she will be beaten to death! Fu'er has been weak since she was a child, Your Majesty, please have mercy on her!"
Emperor Hui kicked her away and said coldly, "Weak? Oh, how could she not be weak when she sent people to the prime minister's residence to destroy the reputation of other women! How can I put my face down! This is the good daughter you taught!"
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