After the Minister of Justice took his seat, he asked, "Your Highness just accused the old lady of not teaching her granddaughter well. Does this mean that this person was done by Miss Xia? What is going on? Please tell me what you saw, Your Highness."
The prince suddenly said, "I was walking and talking with Wan'er just now, and I saw Xia Zi'an and Ximen Xiaoqing, the grandson of the Duke of Jin's mansion, arguing by the lake. The two of them were talking in a conflicting manner. I thought they were unhappy, so I wanted to come over to mediate, but when they saw me coming, they quickly separated. Xia Zi'an hurriedly walked down the corridor in the lake and through the rockery, while Ximen Xiaoqing walked to the back garden."
"I thought it was just a quarrel, so I didn't think much about it. I swam around the lake with Wan'er, and then went down the corridor to see the scenery over there. Unexpectedly, as soon as we got there, we heard a scream. I, Wan'er and the guards hurried over and saw Ximen Xiaoqing telling Xia Zian in panic that the man was dead, saying that Xia Zian had killed him. I ordered the guards to arrest her and bring her over here."
The prince's words caused an uproar among everyone. No one expected that Miss Xia would dare to kill someone.
After listening to the prince's words, the Minister of Justice pondered for a moment and asked Ximen Xiaoqing, "Tell me, what happened? Was this servant really killed by Xia Zian?"
Ximen Xiaoqing still looked very panicked. He hesitated for a while, "I... I don't know."
"Don't know?" The Minister of Justice asked sternly, "You'd better tell me the truth. What happened at the rockery?"
Ximen Xiaoqing looked at Zi'an in bewilderment, and said in a tearful way, "This... she did it unintentionally. She didn't intend to kill him. He was the one who shouted that he would tell the Prime Minister, so Zi'an had to kill him. I tried to stop him, but I didn't expect that she would take advantage of my back, pull out the hairpin and stab him in the chest. She really didn't want to kill him, she just wanted him to shut up."
"You want him to shut up?" The Minister of Justice frowned. "Why do you want him to shut up? What did he see?"
Ximen Xiaoqing knelt down in front of Murong Jie with a plop, and held onto his clothes, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. Zi'an and I have been in love for a long time, so she didn't want to marry Prince Liang. I beg Your Majesty to help us."
Murong Jie gently pushed his hand away and said with a look of disdain, "Just talk if you want to. Why are you pulling my clothes? If you two are in love, I will naturally help you."
"What's going on?" Prince Li said unhappily, "Don't talk about those trivial things, let's talk about the business."
Ximen Xiaoqing looked back at Zi'an with a sad face, "Your Highness, the thing is, Zi'an and I met a year ago, we were in love and had decided to spend our lives together. Later, Prince Liang wanted to marry Zi'an, and she fought back desperately. I thought she loved me deeply, and when I was about to propose to the Prime Minister, I heard the news that the Empress Dowager was going to issue an order to marry her to the Regent. I thought she would be as determined as before, but who knew that this time her attitude was completely different from last time, and she actually told me that she would not marry anyone but the Regent." , I was angry for a moment, and I had just had a quarrel with her by the lake. I happened to see the prince coming over, so we didn't dare to continue talking, so we agreed to meet behind the rockery. When we got to the rockery, we had to quarrel, which involved some intimate things we had done together in the past. Unexpectedly, a servant who happened to pass by heard it, and the servant said he would tell the prime minister. Zi'an was afraid that people would know and it would ruin her marriage with the regent, so she killed him. I thought no one over there could get away, but I didn't expect that the prince would come just as I killed him. "
Ximen Xiaoqing's narration was so clear that the people present couldn't help but whisper to each other when they heard it.
Because someone really saw Xia Zian and Ximen Xiaoqing arguing by the lake, and both of them looked unhappy.
Moreover, Prince Liang and the Regent are different. Xia Zian rejected Prince Liang but was willing to marry the Regent because Prince Liang was always a disabled and idle prince with no real power.
But the regent is different. He holds great power and is at the peak of his career. Marrying him is the same as becoming a queen.
Who wouldn't be attracted
Murong Jie said calmly: "Go and take a look at the hairpin on the deceased's chest."
The Minister of Justice bowed and ordered someone to bring the old lady forward for inspection.
The old lady took a look and could only say, "Yes, it's Zi'an's."
The Minister of Justice looked at Zi'an and said, "The evidence is all here. What do you have to say?"
The Minister of Justice had tried countless cases and naturally noticed the unusualness of this case. However, the Crown Prince stood up and identified Xia Zian, and said that he had seen it with his own eyes, so he could only judge it in this way.
Before Zi'an could say anything, Prince Li said, "Wait a minute, the Grand Tutor must have seen the whole incident with his own eyes. Why don't we ask him first?"
Everyone looked at Master Liang, secretly wondering why he could have seen it with his own eyes
Taifu Liang was startled, "Why do you say that, Your Majesty?"
Prince Li said, "Master Taifu just went to look for the toilet, and there was someone in the toilet, so Master squatted on the grass behind the toilet. From where Master squatted, he could see the opposite side of the rockery. The angle was very good, and he could see everything."
"You..." The tutor's face turned the color of liver, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you have mistaken me. I can't squat on the grass."
Prince Li had no expression on his face. "I didn't see it wrong, nor did I hear it wrong. The person in the toilet was me. I also ate too many beans. The stink from your farts is partly my fault... As for the eye-irritation, I ate sweet potatoes this morning."
The Grand Tutor stared at him in a daze, listening to the muffled laughter of the people around him, and secretly swore in his heart that in the future, if there was any banquet, he would not come as long as Prince Li was there.
"Even if I squat down, I won't be facing the rockery."
Prince Li shook his head, "Taifu, why are you lying? You were clearly looking towards the rockery. I was standing not far behind you and also saw the rockery."
Taifu Liang stood up suddenly. "Why did you come over here? You saw me squatting on the grass, why did you come over?"
Prince Li glanced at him in dissatisfaction, "Who knows what you were doing squatting in the bushes? You didn't put up a sign saying you were taking a shit. Although I had some guesses in my mind, I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I couldn't be sure. I felt uncomfortable, so when I walked over, I saw you staring at the rockery, so I looked at you too. Your eyes have always been better than mine, and I can see it clearly, so how could you not see clearly? You are not as old and blind as Concubine Cui."
Damn OCD!
The Minister of Justice was stunned. "In other words, Your Majesty also saw what happened over there? Who killed the person?"
Prince Li glanced at the Minister of Justice calmly, then looked at the somewhat nervous Crown Prince and Ximen Xiaoqing, pointed at Zi'an and said, "She killed..."
"It's her, I was right!" The prince breathed a sigh of relief and shouted quickly.
Prince Li frowned, "I haven't finished speaking yet, why are you so anxious, Prince? I mean, if she did kill someone, why don't you just ask the person involved? This person is just in shock, he's not dead yet."
(End of this chapter)