In the end, he didn't hear anything useful from Princess Linjiang. He could only stare at her for a long time before standing up again. He sighed for a long time before saying, "I know you hate Shen Chen, but I'll say this again. If you want to hate someone, you should hate me. Don't waste your energy. If anything happens to Achen, I won't let you go."
Is this a warning
Princess Linjiang sneered silently, her heart chilled.
For a bastard, for a hybrid, his own son is unimportant and his own wife can be abandoned.
She had been prepared for a long time, and strangely enough, she didn't feel sad at all. Instead, she was looking forward to how King Linjiang was going to deal with her.
This is much more important than how to repent.
Seeing that she did not respond, King Linjiang looked at her, then looked at the rosary and the Buddhist altar in front of her, and then said softly: "Since you are sincere in worshipping Buddha, why don't you go to the temple outside the city to practice meditation. There are beautiful mountains and rivers there, and there are eminent monks who can calm your inner demons."
Princess Linjiang felt relieved.
This result was within her expectations.
She also knew that even if King Linjiang knew about it, the worst that could happen to her would be imprisonment. It was impossible for him to cripple or kill her at this time.
She made the right bet.
"Pray to Buddha?" She sneered, "It sounds nice, but you just want to build an ivory cage to imprison me."
This was the first time she had spoken so much to King Linjiang recently, and she spoke very quickly, like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube: "I didn't want to say this useless nonsense. But Your Majesty, please think about it with your conscience, how do you feel about me and Jingxing. Shen Chen is probably more important to you than anyone else... ... You have forgotten that Jingxing is your biological son. For so many years, Jingxing has never been happy. He has always lived in the shadow of Shen Chen and had to give in and compromise, constantly following Shen Chen. It's just because your partiality is too obvious."
"You said Jingxing was wrong, and he was indeed wrong. He ignored the interests of the mansion and did a lot of stupid things and things he shouldn't have done. But in the final analysis, you are not without responsibility for what he did." Princess Linjiang had tears in her eyes: "Shen Chen also knew, he also knew why Jingxing took this path, he knew Jingxing took the wrong path, but did he stop him? He didn't..."
These are all fallacies.
Prince Linjiang couldn't help but snorted: "Who can blame others for this? Who forced him to collude with outsiders to frame the mansion? He almost killed everyone in the mansion! You are just making excuses for him!"
“Your Highness!” Princess Linjiang raised her voice and shouted, “Now that he’s dead, he’s already dead, are you still scolding your own son like this?! When he was alive, he didn’t get your love, didn’t get your trust, and always lived in fear and trembling. Are you going to treat him like this even after he’s dead?!”
King Linjiang stopped talking and sat in a chair far away for a long time without responding.
Princess Linjiang calmed down, smiled bitterly for a while and then said: "Okay, there is no right or wrong in arguing about these. You value Shen Chen, so naturally you think he is good in everything and think I am overdoing it. But I am a mother, and I can't remain calm and have no reaction to the murderer who killed my son. I did it, and it was wrong. You asked me to go to worship Buddha, and I will go. There is no need to talk about other things, and there is no point in saying more."
She paused, then said, "I'm going to worship Buddha. I just hope you can treat Jingwu better."
She glanced outside again, with a tearful tone: "I know you cannot tolerate what I did, but Jing Wu is a good person. He has always been close to Shen Chen. Don't vent your anger on him. Don't have any grudge against him because of me..."
When saying these words, it was obvious that every word was pointing at Concubine Yu over there.
King Linjiang also reacted and responded solemnly.
After a long while, the sound of a door closing was heard outside.
Yu Qian, who was newly transferred to serve Princess Linjiang, came in carefully and said softly: "Princess, we..."
Princess Linjiang ignored her.
She had long been prepared for the possibility of having her arms cut off after the incident, and had also made arrangements long ago, so the newcomers were all her people.
She just ordered coldly: "Go and let Aunt Dong come in."
Nanny Dong came in a moment later, bowing her body. When she saw her, she knelt down respectfully and said, "Princess, everything has been handled. There will be no changes to our personnel. If Concubine Yu wants to replace our people, it will cause trouble for her."
This is to prevent Concubine Yu from becoming too powerful.
Since she was imprisoned, Concubine Yu would definitely seize this opportunity to rise to the top and try to drive her out of the palace completely.
But she would never let Concubine Yu have her way.
If Concubine Yu gets what she wants, her son will never let Chu Jingwu go.
She hummed and closed her eyes, "I understand. Arrange all the affairs in the mansion. I don't want to see any accidents or mistakes."
The situation in the capital is now developing in a direction that is favorable to Prince Linjiang. They have been operating for so many years, and it is very likely that there will be results in the next three or four years.
She will still come out when things are settled.
That's why she stepped on King Linjiang's guilt with every word she said, so that he wouldn't completely hate her.
Nanny Dong responded, but seeing how calm she looked, she couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Princess, then should we...should we continue to contact Mr. Xue?"
Mr. Xue was not arrested.
Because of the tip-off from Princess Linjiang and her family's deliberate letting him go at will, Mr. Xue had already escaped before Prince Linjiang's men arrived.
Princess Linjiang opened her eyes, thought for a moment, and then said, "Not for now. Shen Chen is in high spirits. If we touch him again, the prince will no longer tolerate us. Let's wait a moment."
Wait a minute, it’s not that they don’t have a chance, they just need to continue to accumulate strength and wait for the right time to deliver a fatal blow.
Seeing that she had made all the arrangements, Nanny Dong knew that there was no place for her to interrupt. She waited until Princess Linjiang personally held a stick of incense before she said, "Princess, we are going to the temple after all, and we don't know when we can come back. I'm afraid that by then, the night will be long and dreams will be many..."
Princess Linjiang knew the servants' concerns and could understand them.
Who would want to keep doing something without any chance of success? There is no hope. It is hard to predict people's hearts.
She smiled, curled her lips and looked at Aunt Dong: "What's wrong? If I tell them, will it make things easier for them? I'm going to practice in seclusion, do they want to bully others here?"
What was she thinking? How could she let them have it so easy