The Crown Prince Chases His Wife
Chapter 26 Injustice (1/2)
Qin Yan was not interested in wasting time with them here anymore, nor was she interested in touring the lake, so she was ready to leave.
At this time, Second Prince Feng Xian looked at Qin Yan and said, “Princess of Zhaoren, I believe in you, and today I must return your innocence.”
But Qin Yan was not interested in talking to everyone present. If they wanted to report to the County Chief or Imperial Court of Judicial Review, they needed to go through the procedures. What was the point of pointing a finger here?
People would only choose what they wanted as “truth” and only identified the “truth” in their favor.
Besides, just such a trivial matter as the size of a sesame seed was like a big unsolved case. Were they panicking for nothing?
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Second Prince Feng Xian’s expression was bad, and asked in a cold voice to the boat that collided with them, “Who said just now that he saw Princess of Zhaoren push Miss A Yan into the water?”
At this moment, everyone who had just been heckling lively over there held their breath and kept quiet. No one wanted to be a notable person. They all lowered their heads and lowered their eyes in an attempt to avoid the sight of the Second Prince.
Their boat just now was originally some distance away from this luxuriously decorated boat, but suddenly it accelerated toward the decorated boat. Although the young masters and young ladies who were standing on the deck and watching the scenery in style were a little puzzled, they were very playful and found it very interesting.
When they were about to collide with the decorated boat, someone on the boat recognized them. Standing on the edge of the decorated boat was Princess of Zhaoren Qin Yan and the fiancée of Shizi Xie of the Marquis of Yongding Mansion, A Yan.
At the moment when the two boats collided, someone saw Princess of Zhaoren Qin Yan stretch out her hand, and then Miss A Yan fell into the water.
From their point of view, they did see that the Princess of Zhaoren pushed A Yan.
Moreover, the young masters and young ladies of the officials on this boat were all invited by Qin Nian, the second young lady of the Right Prime Minister Mansion, today. None of them knew the unpleasantness between the Second Miss Qin, Qin Nian, and her eldest sister, the Princess of Zhaoren. Everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, even if they were just suspicious, they insisted that the Princess of Zhaoren had pushed someone.
It was a pity that after A Yan fell into the water, someone immediately jumped into the water to rescue her. If someone died, this matter would be even more bigger and exciting.
Later, they were even more excited when they saw Shizi Xie of the Marquis of Yongding Mansion come out of the cabin. Shizi Xie’s ex-fiancée pushed his current fiancée into the water, how would Shizi Xie handle this? This was a bloody scene, ah!
It wasn’t until the Second Prince and Princess of Jingyi came out that they knew it was not good. There were several big Buddhas on the decorated boat at the same time. The background of each family was higher than that of the people on the boat, not to mention the prince and the princess. Only then did they stop watching the excitement, just hoping the matter to calm down as soon as possible, and not make it any bigger.
Second Prince Feng Xian sent someone to detain their boat, and they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to slip away.
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Seeing that no one answered, Second Prince Feng Xian asked in a cold voice, “Who just said that he saw Princess of Zhaoren push A Yan with his own eyes? Stand out immediately. This Prince has no free time to wait. If you don’t tell me, I will send someone to ask your father and brother one by one to see if they say it or not.”
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All the young masters and young ladies froze, how could they let their families know about this? Everyone looked at each other as if they had a tacit understanding. Then, a small open space was opened up in the crowd, and a young lady in a green skirt stood in the middle.
The young lady who kept her head down and said nothing was named Du Ling, whose father was the Right Minister of the Ministry of Finance who had just entered the capital some time ago.
This Du Mansion also could be said lucky. The former minister of the Ministry of Finance, An Binghuai, was corrupt, and the case had implicated another assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance. And the new Right Minister of the Ministry of Finance, who was newly appointed to the capital, became the Minister of the Ministry of Finance under the recommendation of the Right Prime Minister, Qin Wenzheng.
Therefore, Du Ling, the second daughter of the newly appointed Minister of Finance, became Qin Nian’s little follower and followed Qin Nian’s lead.
It was Du Ling who shouted loudly after A Yan fell into the water, “Princess of Zhaoren pushed Miss A Yan into the water.”
It was also when everyone was heckling just now, Du Ling insisted that she saw Princess of Zhaoren stretch out her hand and push Miss A Yan down.
Seeing that the matter had come to this point, Du Ling couldn’t just hide anymore. After saluting, she said, “Your Highness Second Prince, it was me who saw Princess of Zhaoren push Miss A Yan…” Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Second Prince Feng Xian’s cold voice.
“Think clearly and say it again. Did you see it with your own eyes that Princess of Zhaoren push someone?” Feng Xian said word by word, with a profound pressure in his words, which made Du Ling’s scalp numb when she heard it.
Second Prince Feng Xian’s eyes were cold. Du Ling raised her eyes only to take a look and was so frightened that she withdrew her eyes, hanging her head and thinking about how to answer.
It seemed that the Second Prince was going to protect the Princess of Zhaoren. Du Ling said in her heart, it would be meaningless to continue biting Princess of Zhaoren and this was not a trial, even though the concerned person A Yan had already left. Since she blew it up to this extent, the favor she showed to Second Miss Qin was also considered good. Thinking of this, Du Ling said with a sigh of relief, “Your Highness Second Prince, I only saw Princess of Zhaoren stretch out her hand, and Miss A Yan fell into the water. Perhaps my eyes are blurry and I thought…”
“In other words, you didn’t see Princess of Zhaoren push anyone?” The Second Prince’s voice was truly cold.
Du Ling was sweating coldly, was this the coercion of the imperial family? The coercion of power?
“Yes, yes, I didn’t see it.” Du Ling’s voice was trembling and forced herself to finish the sentence.
Feng Xian raised a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and scoffed in his heart, playing with him without weighing her own identity.
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Feng Xian turned to Qin Yan and said warmly, “Princess of Zhaoren, everyone misunderstood you.”
Qin Yan looked as usual and didn’t make a sound.
The Second Prince’s condescending interrogation method was indeed very characteristic of the capital.
However, Feng Yuyao was right, these young masters and young ladies from noble families were indeed difficult to deal with, and Qin Yan was indeed bored.
