0p0 Chapter 124 It’s done
Chapter 124 It’s done
"Yes, that's right, that's right." Lou Mengyun no longer dared to say no. She just hoped that the disaster would befall herself and not implicate her clan.
Lou Jiacheng, who was kneeling beside Lou Mengyun, broke out in a cold sweat and dared not to defend his daughter.
Yin Yichen, who was sitting at this time, smiled and looked at Lou Mengyun and said, "If you really like me as Miss Lou said, then why do you carry a pair of scissors with you? I'm afraid ordinary people wouldn't carry such a weapon. If Miss Lou said she wanted to use the scissors to force me to submit, I wouldn't believe it."
"I...I..." Seeing this, Lou Mengyun was in trouble again. She had already spent most of her energy just finding excuses, so how could she think of a reason without loopholes?
When Yin Yichen saw Lou Mengyun like this, he immediately set his eyes on Qian Xingyu above him and said slowly, "My lord, you see this Miss Lou is full of lies, which is really shocking. She can't make any sense no matter how much she talks. Now I suspect that she is not in love with me, but a spy sent by the enemy country to steal the defense map. She uses the claim of being in love with me to cover herself up. Please take her away and torture her for a thorough interrogation."
"The Prime Minister is right." Qian Xingyu nodded in agreement. Now if it was related to the defense map, Qian Xingyu had to take it seriously.
Princess Xiangyu, on the other hand, became a little panicked when she heard this. The defense map must have been made up by Yin Yichen, but it would be bad if Lou Mengyun revealed the truth under severe punishment.
A princess of a country, who had such a thing happen to her with the prime minister just to get married, would probably lose her life as a human being if it got out.
For this reason, Princess Xiangyu said, "I have always known Miss Lou's character. She is such a timid person. I am afraid that this matter is just a misunderstanding. Besides, what does it have to do with the defense map? It's just that Lou Jiantao had a quarrel and asked the girl under his command to stab the prime minister. In my opinion, Miss Lou is a pitiful person, so there is no need to torture her. If she is injured, how can such a good girl face people in the future?"
Lou Mengyun burst into tears upon hearing this, and hurriedly knelt down and crawled towards Princess Xiangyu, "Princess, please save me, I am doing this for..."
Princess Xiangyu couldn't let her continue talking, so she quickly stood up and said to Qian Xingyu who was sitting on the upper seat, "Sir, it seems that I don't need to stay here any longer. You can decide how to interrogate me. I have a lot of things to do in the palace now, so I will leave first."
Princess Xiangyu's words meant that she had given up on Lou Jiacheng as a chess piece and agreed with Yin Yichen's opinion.
Upon seeing this, Qian Xingyu hurriedly nodded and said goodbye with a smile. Now that the prime minister and the princess had reached a consensus, the rest of the matters would be easy to handle.
Qian Xingyu looked at Yin Yichen who was sitting beside him and asked in a low voice, "What do you think the Prime Minister should do?"
"This is the job of the Dali Temple. Your Excellency just needs to judge according to the laws of the dynasty." Yin Yichen had a cold expression and just sat quietly on the chair.
Seeing this, Qian Xingyu put on the appearance of a great lord and said coldly to the people below, "Lou Jiacheng, you were resentful because the Prime Minister's routine inspection was unpleasant to your ears, so you asked your daughter Lou Mengyun to sneak into the Prime Minister's residence and assassinate the Prime Minister. Do you plead guilty?"
Lou Jiacheng now had a bitter face, knowing that the princess had given up on him, and he immediately felt a little hopeless. If he did not plead guilty now, Lou Mengyun would not be able to hold on if he was tortured. If he betrayed the princess, his whole family would be in trouble. Lou Jiacheng had no choice but to bow his head and admit the crime. "I plead guilty, but I hope that you will not implicate my clan for the sake of the Prime Minister's life."
Qian Xingyu's eyes fell on Lou Mengyun again, and he asked with a cold face, "Miss Lou, do you plead guilty?"
Now that Lou Mengyun knew she could avoid being tortured, she no longer dared to say no and could only bite the bullet and agree, "I plead guilty."
"Okay." Qian Xingyu breathed a sigh of relief, and continued as he looked at the two of them, "Since you have both confessed your guilt, then you should be punished. You two intended to murder an official of the imperial court, and you should be sent to prison, but there is no exception to the law except human feelings. Since you two did not succeed, but only hurt the Prime Minister, you will be dismissed from your posts and investigated, and you can return home with your families."
Lou Jiacheng thanked Lou Mengyun profusely and led her away. Now Lou Mengyun's dream of becoming the prime minister's wife was completely shattered.
Seeing that the matter was settled, Yin Yichen immediately bowed to Qian Xingyu above him and said with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work today, Shaoqing Qian. Shaoqing Qian's impartiality really opened my eyes."
"It's all my duty." Qian Xingyu took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the sweat from his forehead, sighing, "The Prime Minister has so many things to deal with on a daily basis, but he still has the energy to deal with such a matter. I really can't even dream of it."
"Mr. Qian, you are too kind. I still have a lot of things to deal with at home, so I really can't keep you company." Yin Yichen said goodbye to Qian Xingyu and left the Dali Temple.
The news of this incident at Yin Yichen's mansion spread quickly. The officials' wives in the capital said that Yin Yichen was unlucky to be assassinated in such a way. Fortunately, nothing serious happened.
As soon as Princess Xiangyu returned to Dehua Palace, she threw everything in the palace to the ground. "Yin Yichen, that old fox Yin Yichen. Not only did I fail to plot against him, but he actually plotted against me. Now that Lou Jiacheng has fallen, those officials who wanted to surrender to me will probably be discouraged."
When Concubine Xian heard about it, she hurried forward to stop him, "You kid, why don't you learn your lesson? Don't you think about it carefully? Yin Yichen is not that easy to deal with. It doesn't matter if we lose this time. We can succeed next time if we are more careful. What's the point of smashing these things?"
"Mother..." Princess Xiangyu cried out loud, sobbing, "If this is the case, I'm afraid my wish to marry the Prime Minister in the future will be dashed. He will definitely marry that abandoned woman."
The virtuous concubine now had other ideas, and whispered to comfort him, "Silly child, you might as well think about it carefully. The prime minister has always been a person who does not allow others to calculate, and we can't calculate him. Doesn't this further prove that the prime minister is a rare man in the world? Since we can't calculate him, now that the divorce period is more than a month away, it is better to focus on Song Wanning."
"Mother means..." Princess Xiangyu has now come back to her senses.
Concubine Xian smiled faintly and whispered to Princess Xiangyu, "If something goes wrong with Song Wanning and she can't get married, then she can't get married no matter what."