Chapter 61 Why He Hates Her
"I never wrongly accuse anyone. Miss Xiao, there is no need to do this." The candlelight danced on Jiang Ning's cold and hard profile.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Renyu's eyes instantly filled with tears, his wet almond-shaped eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and his lower lip was bitten to form a white crescent.
She raised her face, the candlelight shining through her thin eyelids, revealing the fragility of her pale blue blood vessels. "My words are insignificant, how can I defeat the princess..."
The second half of the sentence was stuck in his throat, and his pale cheeks flushed with a sickly color, as if he would faint if he said another word.
Luo Xifeng's eyelids were half-closed, the candlelight turned into two clusters of ice in his eyes, the corners of his lips were pursed into a stiff arc, and even the rise and fall of his shoulders when he breathed revealed a restrained alienation.
He seemed indifferent to Xiao Renyu's tearful face, like a piece of dry grass thrown into a medicine grinder, which had no medicinal effect even if it was crushed.
Chu Yangyang kept smiling the entire time. Facing Xiao Renyu's hypocritical antics, she laughed and said, "Sister Renyu, you keep saying that I'm targeting you. Since you claim you're innocent, do you dare to go with Lord Jiang to the Dali Temple prison and accept interrogation? After all, a person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear."
Xiao Renyu suddenly stopped crying, the tears stopping as they came, flowing freely. A trace of resentment flashed across her eyes, and in an instant, her expression became pitiful again. "Princess, are you really so cruel to me? Without any evidence to incriminate me, you tried every possible way to torture me and threw me into that cannibalistic place. Are you deliberately trying to ruin my reputation?"
Chu Yangyang raised her beautiful eyebrows, "So Sister Renyu is aware of all these things and is using them to frame me. Speaking of viciousness, I'm not even one ten-thousandth as vicious as you."
"You..." Xiao Renyu took a step forward and looked at Luo Xifeng aggrievedly, "Brother Xifeng, how could the princess be so slanderous?"
Luo Xifeng said coldly, "It is better to leave the matter of solving the case to Lord Jiang."
Jiang Ning nodded, and it was his turn to speak. "You're all just talking nonsense. If you want to identify a witness, then present the evidence. Lan Yu, do you have any evidence to prove that it was Miss Xiao who ordered you to do this?"
Lan Yu bowed deeply to Jiang Ning, then pulled out a handkerchief embroidered with lilies. He unfolded the handkerchief and showed it to everyone, "This handkerchief is exactly what I got from Miss Xiao. It has the words 'Ren Yu' embroidered on it."
Xiao Renyu's tears began to fall again, and he spoke in a weak voice, "I lost this handkerchief a few days ago. It was stolen by you, a lowly slave. Did you steal my things just to frame me now?"
Lan Yu looked up at Jiang Ning and said firmly, "Master Jiang, I have always lived in the side courtyard and have never left the courtyard. Master Jiang, you can ask the servants in the side courtyard to verify this. I will not lie."
Before Jiang Ning could say anything, Chu Yangyang continued, "So, you haven't even left the side courtyard, yet you were able to get hold of Miss Xiao's personal belongings. The only possibility is that Miss Xiao took the initiative to come to the side courtyard to find you."
Lan Yu nodded and said, "Yes, I admit it. I stole Miss Xiao's handkerchief. I only did it to protect myself. If she hadn't come to the side courtyard, how could I have stolen her things?"
Xiao Renyu suddenly stopped crying and staggered back half a step like a cat whose tail was stepped on, but accidentally knocked over the incense burner on the table. With a "clang", the incense ash splashed all over the floor.
She was startled and unconsciously glanced at Luo Xifeng, but saw that he didn't even look at her.
She tried to argue, "Even if that's the case, it only proves that I went to the side yard, not that I ordered Lan Yu to harm anyone. I went to the side yard only because I got lost, and that's how I met Lan Yu, and he stole my handkerchief."
She knelt on the ground, facing Jiang Ning, tears lingering in her throat, "Master Jiang, I have always been a humble existence in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Especially the princess, she always dislikes me. I have no way to defend myself at this moment."
Jiang Ning frowned, as if he could hear the hidden meaning of Xiao Renyu's words. He kept showing weakness and using the trick of inflicting pain to gain sympathy.
"Miss Xiao, I have already promised you that I will be fair and strict and will not wrongly accuse anyone. You don't have to belittle yourself."
Xiao Renyu deliberately knelt in the ashes, his thin back trembling like a reed in the wind.
Chu Xinyao was enjoying the excitement and said, "I'm afraid Lord Jiang doesn't know Miss Xiao's personality. She has always been kind and gentle. Even when she was staying at my Prime Minister's Mansion, she always followed the rules and was timid and cautious. Where did she get the courage to harm others?"
Chu Yangyang asked with a smile, "According to what you mean, sister, it means that I, a person with a bad reputation, have wronged Miss Xiao?"
Chu Xinyao replied, "My sister didn't say that. Please don't accuse me anymore."
"Hmph." Chu Yangyang glanced at her sideways, too lazy to waste words with her.
"Sister Renyu really won't cry until she sees the coffin." Chu Yangyang looked at Jiang Ning and said, "Sir Jiang, words are not enough. Why don't you send someone to search Sister Renyu's courtyard? You will definitely find direct evidence."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning immediately gave an order, "Come here, search Xiao Renyu's yard."
A sneer appeared on Xiao Renyu's lips, and his back was straight, like a proud peacock raising its tail feathers, without any fear.
In about the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, the officers and soldiers hurried back.
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