Su Yuntian roared in fury: "Speak! Why did you hire someone to kill my princess consort!"
Guangfu dared not admit it. He cried and pleaded with Su Yuntian that he had absolutely no intention of harming Mu Jin and that Zhao Dahu had wronged him.
At that moment, the old woman next to him spat at Guangfu.
"Pah! You despicable bastard, so you actually dared to plot against the princess. I know now, it was all for that worthless child you had with that mistress of the Shen family, wasn't it? I heard that the worthless child even became a concubine in the Prince Yun's mansion. Where is she now?"
Hearing the old woman still shouting, Guangfu, in a fit of anger, rushed over while the guards were not paying attention, intending to strangle the old woman.
Mu Jin gestured for Eleven to step forward and pull the old woman away, which saved her life.
The old woman seemed to have lost half her life, coughing violently the whole time.
Su Yuntian's expression was beyond ugly; he asked Zhao Wude what else he had learned from the interrogation.
Zhao Wude then recounted how Zhao Dahu had taken over Guangfu's plot to murder Mu Jin from the middleman Li Dashan.
The reason why the first attempt to ambush Mu Jin on Baishi Mountain failed was because Eleven, who was highly skilled in martial arts, was present.
That night, Eleven was injured by Su Yuntian. When Guangfu found out, he sent someone to poison Eleven, who was skilled in martial arts. He then spent 2,000 taels of silver that night to have the bandit disguise himself as a coachman from the Prince Yun's mansion the next day, trick Mu Jin into getting into the carriage, and then kidnap him to the mountain.
"Zhao Dahu also said that Zhang Guangfu ordered the bandits to rape and kill the princess slowly, otherwise they would not have brought Princess Yun back to the mountain. They would have killed her halfway there. It is clear that Zhang Guangfu hated the princess so much that he wanted to torture her before killing her cruelly. Fortunately, the princess knew some martial arts. Most people would have suffered this cruel fate long ago."
As Guangfu listened to Zhao Wude recounting to Su Yuntian about his collusion with the mountain bandits, he kept shouting that he was innocent.
Su Yuntian pointed at Guangfu and roared, "Why did that bandit choose to frame you instead of someone else?!"
After Su Yuntian finished speaking, he ordered his men to drag Guangfu out and torture him to extract a full confession. He was determined to make Guangfu tell the whole story clearly.
Guangfu had been in the Yunwang Mansion for many years, and he knew better than anyone what Su Yuntian's methods and the state of the Yunwang Mansion's private prison were.
Entering the private prison of the Prince Yun's mansion was worse than death. He immediately tried to ram his head against the pillar in the main hall, but was grabbed by Su Yuntian's guards and dragged out like a dead dog.
After Guangfu was dragged away by the guards, the people present had different expressions. Mu Jin played with the pendant on her clothes with a half-smile.
When Shiyi heard Zhao Wude's description of the case, which involved plotting to murder Mu Jin, his fists clenched involuntarily.
Shen Qianqian could only stand steadily with the support of Cuixiang.
Su Yuntian looked at the old woman: "What you just said is true."
By this time, the woman had recovered and said that everything she said was true. She and Guangfu were both servants of the Shen family. When they reached a certain age, they were betrothed to Guangfu as his wife. She also had a son with Guangfu. Everything she said was true. Then she began to recount the events of the past.
It is said that Shen Qianqian's mother, Ye, had been married to Shen Wansan, the head of the Shen clan, for many years without having any children. Shen Wansan disliked her and often went out to have affairs.
Because Shen Wansan was often away from home, Ye Shi felt lonely and restless, so she had an affair with Guang Fusi, who was the housekeeper. Unexpectedly, Ye Shi suddenly became pregnant.
Once, when Shen Wansan was unwell, Guangfu invited a doctor he knew to examine him. Later, Guangfu learned from the doctor that Shen Wansan was unable to conceive. At that time, Ye Shi was already pregnant, so Guangfu bribed the doctor to conceal the fact that Shen Wansan was unable to conceive.
Wang had accidentally stumbled upon these events, and later Guangfu suspected that Wang had discovered something, so he sent Wang and their son away together.
The Shen family's decline began when Shen Wansan fought with the son of a mountain tyrant over a courtesan. In the process, he accidentally crippled the tyrant's son, leading to the tyrant's massacre of the Shen family. However, Guangfu managed to escape with Shen Qianqian, who was only a few months old.
It wasn't until recently that Wang learned that Guangfu had become the steward of the Prince Yun's mansion in the capital, which is why she came to the capital to settle accounts with him.
Upon hearing Wang's words, Shen Qianqian couldn't help but cry out and curse at Wang.
"You're talking nonsense! You must have been sent by Mu Jin to frame me. My father is Shen Wansan, and my aunt is Consort De. You're not allowed to talk nonsense!"
Hearing Shen Qianqian's hurried and incoherent words, and how she dared to criticize Mu Jin at this time, Cui Xiang quickly covered her mouth.
Shen Qianqian still struggled to explain a few words to Su Yuntian, but Su Yuntian frowned. Looking at Shen Qianqian's eyes, there was no trace of the vows of eternal love she had made half an hour ago. He only wanted Cuixiang to take Shen Qianqian back to Qiushui Garden as soon as possible.
Seeing that Shen Qianqian was also dragged out of the main hall by Cuixiang, Mu Jin sneered, "Have you finished talking? If you have, then I'm leaving."
When Su Yuntian saw Mu Jin's indifferent smile, it was as if he had heard a joke that had nothing to do with him.
Su Yuntian felt very sad because Mu Jin used to love him so much, and she was always infatuated with him to the core. She was never as indifferent to him as she is now.
Mu Jin stood up and said to Zhao Wude, "Thank you for your trouble, Lord Zhao. If you find anyone who has been convicted of murdering me, please carry out the law accordingly."
After Mu Jin finished speaking, she left the main hall with Eleven and Qing'er.
Even after leaving the main hall, Qing'er was still troubled by what she had heard about Guangfu plotting to murder Mu Jin.
"Miss, do you know what? Just now I almost couldn't resist stabbing Guangfu a few times."
Hearing Qing'er's words, Mu Jin couldn't help but smile: "When did you two become so violent following me?"
After Mu Jin finished speaking, she couldn't help but look at Eleven, who was standing silently to the side, and said, "Luckily, you didn't find out that I knocked Zhao Dahu unconscious and stuffed him under the bed, otherwise you would have silenced him, and I really wouldn't have heard such a good show."
When Shiyi heard Mu Jin teasing him, he couldn't help but feel guilty for his recklessness at the time. He didn't know what was wrong with him back then, but when he asked the bandits where Mu Jin was, they refused to tell him.
He was going to search that room and even try to stop people from doing so. He was going crazy because he couldn't find Mu Jin. He only knew that the quickest way to deal with anyone who was getting in his way was to kill them all. Thinking back now, he might have killed Zhao Dahu if Zhao Dahu had appeared in front of him back then.
Eleven blushed deeply after Mu Jin's words, and after a long pause, she managed to stammer out three words: "I'm sorry!"
Mu Jin smiled slightly as she watched Eleven revert to her previous reserved demeanor.
"You don't need to apologize to me. Without you, even if I had managed to escape in the end, I would probably have been badly injured. I should be thanking you."
Upon hearing this, Shiyi couldn't help but purse her lips and smile.
After being disturbed like this, Mu Jin lost all desire to rest. She suddenly thought of the person who had delivered the letter to her. She tapped her hand with her fan, thought for a while, and then said to Eleven.
"Go to the Yi King's mansion now and tell the gatekeeper that you have something to thank the Yi King for, and invite him to the Shi Ding Lou restaurant at 5 pm."
Eleven was taken aback upon hearing this, but quickly accepted the order and went to the Yi King's Mansion.
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