In the end, Princess Linjiang was unable to convince King Zheng.
Because Prince Zheng refused to listen to anyone's advice, he insisted on having the palace guards surround the main courtyard, and then invited all the ladies to the guest room in the east wing where Mei Ying was currently staying.
On the surface, they said they had something to ask, but the guards standing outside the yard were not there just for show!
This is clearly a threat!
Princess Qin sensed something was wrong and asked him angrily, "Old Fifth, what do you mean? Everyone is here to congratulate you happily, what are you going to do?!"
The buildings in the palaces were all built strictly according to the standard. The layout of each palace was roughly the same. It was always a bit cramped to stay in the wing room in the east courtyard. Princess Linjiang glanced at Prince Zheng and lost her temper. She laughed coldly: "That's right, why are you making a fuss over such a small matter, Old Five?!"
Prince Zheng was not impatient. He waited until the princesses had finished speaking before he personally helped the oldest princess to sit down. He turned around and smiled at them, "Is it a small matter?"
He asked: "How can this be a small matter? Poisoning the eldest granddaughter of Mei Hanlin at my wedding banquet, how can this be a small matter?!"
Poisoning? !
The women in the room who had been whispering just now were stunned for a moment and almost jumped up in shock at King Zheng's words.
Poisoning? !
What poisoning?!
Prince Zheng had already passed them and looked at Madam Mei. He asked her calmly and rationally, "Madam Mei, do you think we should report this to the police?"
He glanced at Meiying lying on the bed, then glanced at everyone in the room, curved his lips and forced a smile: "I'm sorry to have troubled Yingying today. I wanted to pray for good luck, but I didn't expect to implicate her. This happened in my house. No matter what, I can't get rid of my responsibility. I have no objection to what you want to do."
Princess Linjiang and Princess Jin looked at each other, both confused and nervous.
When King Zheng said this, wasn't he saying that they were not doing their job well
After all, they are nominally the ones in charge of the backyard today.
It's really true that good intentions don't get rewarded. You have done so much, but others don't take your kindness to heart at all and are only interested in finding trouble for themselves.
Nothing happened at all. Isn't Meiying fine now
But I don’t know if King Zheng took the wrong medicine, he kept on being so persistent.
Princess Chang'an also frowned: "Fifth brother, the banquet outside may have already started. You have been hiding in the back. I am afraid that people outside may come in to look for you."
She shook her head gently: "Today is your big day, I'm afraid it's not good to toss and turn like this."
It was indeed so. It was a good day and a happy wedding, but Prince Zheng chose to make it so unhappy and kept harping on something he didn't understand.
He didn't even attend the banquet outside because he was really bored.
Everyone looked towards King Zheng.
But the King of Zheng smiled coldly, without giving Princess Chang'an any face. He just rolled up his hands and coughed. Then, after everyone had calmed down, he looked at them and said, "It's ok to not bother with other things, but this is not a bother."
As he spoke, he looked at Princess Chang'an, Lady Xianrong, and several other princesses one by one, raised his eyebrows and smiled sarcastically: "Someone is about to die, is this still unimportant? Before, it was just Meiying who was harmed, but what about now? Should they kill my bride?!"
The word "kill" was pronounced so sharply and murderously that everyone present couldn't help but shiver and got goosebumps.
The Lady of Xianrong County looked at him with an unpleasant expression and slowly stepped back.
"How could it be so serious..." Princess Jin reacted and said quickly, "It's just that the servants of the Mei family were careless... Fifth brother, you are too sensational. Be careful not to scare the guests!"
Princess Jin also felt that she was a little unlucky.
I finally managed to help out, but something like this happened. It's really a thankless task.
Princess Linjiang did not try to persuade Prince Zheng any more. She could see that Prince Zheng was determined to get to the bottom of this matter, so she frowned and took a deep breath: "Okay, since you said someone poisoned Miss Mei, who was it?"
She glanced behind King Zheng and saw Wei An lowering his brows and eyes. She then passed King Zheng and called Wei An's name: "Shouning, you were there the whole time. Tell me, what happened? Miss Mei was sitting on the bed with so many people serving her. How could something happen to her all of a sudden?"
The accusation in these words is already obvious.
The old princess coughed and cleared her throat. Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she said, "Such an important matter must be investigated thoroughly. What the prince just said is right. There is no trivial matter in the royal family. The good marriage granted by His Majesty and His Majesty has happened. This is really disrespectful to His Majesty and His Majesty. Naturally, it should be thoroughly investigated!"
She was of a senior generation and was very old, so she had a lot of influence. Many people in the room immediately agreed with her.
Mrs. Mei also walked over quickly with red eyes: "That's right, my little girl came here fine, but now she has become like this... We adults must get an explanation!"
"Even if the prince doesn't tell me, I will investigate." Madam Mei sneered, "Whose child's life is not life? I dare not say that our child is noble, but the whole family regards her as the apple of their eye. What happened to her, who did she offend, why did such a thing happen at the wedding banquet, I really need to know the reason!"
As she spoke, she looked at the maid and ordered, "Go to the front and invite the master, and tell him what happened here."
This is where we need help.
Everyone saw it.
Princess Linjiang stopped talking.
Don’t offend these scholars if you want to offend anyone else.
These scholars are the most terrifying. With just a pen and a mouth, they can sometimes make people live a life worse than death. They are often unexpectedly stubborn and rigid. What's more, Mei Hanlin is a famous scholar.
She sighed and asked King Zheng with a headache: "Well, let's make it short. What's going on?"
Wei An stepped forward from behind King Zheng and stood in front of everyone. His voice was still as calm and indifferent as always: "It's nothing. I just want you ladies to recognize someone and see if anyone around the person who will come in later knows her."
What does it mean to recognize someone
Everyone looked at each other and no one spoke for a while.
Wei An clapped his hands toward the outside.