jdhmnovel Chapter 350 Suspicion
Chapter 350 Suspicion
Chu Yi left with a depressed look on his face.
Xie Guimo accompanied Shen Tang shopping. After walking two streets, they felt tired and went back to Prince Jingyang's Mansion.
As soon as they returned to the Jingyang Palace, the maid came up and said, "Concubine Jiang wanted to go to the Ministry of Justice to visit the prisoner, but the Ministry of Justice didn't let her in. She went to beg the prince, but the prince refused to see her. Concubine Jiang knelt outside the prince's study..."
Since she couldn't see the prince, she resorted to self-torture. Where did her stubbornness go when the prince asked her to apologize?
Officials and bandits colluded to rob passing ships. Even the prince could not protect them from this crime.
Concubine Jiang knelt outside the study. Steward Zhou tried to persuade her countless times, but Concubine Jiang refused to leave. "Your Highness, can you bear to watch the Jiang family suffer such a defeat, especially at the hands of the Crown Prince and his wife?!"
Not to mention the prince, even Manager Zhou couldn't stand it. What does it mean to be defeated by the prince and his wife?
It's not like the Crown Prince or the Crown Princess put a knife to Mr. Jiang's neck, forcing him to accept bribes and do illegal things that could cost his life. Since he has done it, he will fail one day.
The Jiang family must behave uprightly. Who can do anything to the Jiang family? If the Jiang family is truly innocent, can the prince just sit back and watch?
Concubine Jiang did not blame her brother for ruining the ancestral foundation, but instead put all the blame on the Crown Prince and his wife. I have never seen anyone so selfish and unreasonable.
Something happened in the military camp. The prince came out of the study. Concubine Jiang rushed over and hugged the prince's legs, "Please, prince, save the Jiang family, save my brother..."
The prince's face was gloomy. "Do you know that he is related to the Qianzhou case?!"
Concubine Jiang shook her head repeatedly, "I don't know..."
The prince said, "If you had thought about the consequences when doing these things, you wouldn't have ended up like this."
"He doesn't care about the lives of the Jiang family. Now that the evidence is solid, you want me to save him and the Jiang family. What can I do?"
Concubine Jiang cried, "My brother is useless. Before his death, father asked you to look after him more, and you agreed. You can't just watch the Jiang family be ruined like this..."
The veins on the prince's forehead popped up when he heard this.
Before Old Master Jiang died, he asked the prince to take care of the Jiang family, but how should he take care of it? Should he treat Old Master Jiang like his own son?
What's more, he can't even control his own son.
The prince said, "If he confesses the truth about the mastermind behind this, his crime will be commuted to absolution. After the Ministry of Justice sentences him, I will ask the Emperor to plead for his life."
This is already the limit of what the prince can do, but Concubine Jiang feels it is not enough.
In Concubine Jiang's view, the prince is omnipotent. It's not that he can't save her, but that he is unwilling to save her. He is ungrateful.
The prince was already tired of this kind of thing where people lied before doing things and then made trouble for him to clean up. Concubine Jiang held the prince's feet tightly and asked him to even bring out the deceased old lady out for the sake of the Jiang family's upbringing.
If he could save her, why wouldn't the prince save her?
The prince had completely lost his patience. He pushed hard with his feet, broke free from Concubine Jiang's tightly embrace, and left.
Concubine Jiang was dragged forward by the prince and fell. Her hand scraped against the bluestone floor, leaving a lot of blood.
The prince left, but Concubine Jiang was still stubborn, really stubborn. She was still kneeling outside the study, as if she would die kneeling outside the study if the prince didn't save the Jiang family.
They came back late from lunch, and the kitchenette thought they would not be going back home for lunch, so they did not prepare any food and just had a simple meal. They had dinner half an hour earlier than usual. After dinner, Shen Tang took Ginkgo Qiutong to take a walk in the garden.
Because Shen Tang almost fell off the bridge two days ago, Shen Tang didn't dare to walk on the bridge. He would rather take a detour. The two maids suffered a great loss and became more cautious.
Being plotted against and becoming a frightened bird in her own palace was a shameful thought. However, evil deeds will be punished by God. Jiang Huier was imprisoned by the Ministry of Justice. It was a pity that the Ministry of Justice could not arrest Concubine Jiang as well. Why didn't the Ministry of Justice suspect that the stolen money was given to Concubine Jiang by Mr. Jiang?
Not to mention all of it, at least some of it must have fallen into the hands of Concubine Jiang.
Of course the Ministry of Justice had suspected it, but Mr. Jiang denied it flatly. The Ministry of Justice could not directly enter the Jingyang Palace to search for Concubine Jiang without any evidence. It could only continue to interrogate Mr. Jiang and find out something.
The evening sky is breathtakingly beautiful.
There was a swing in the garden, so Shen Tang sat on it and swung, watching the clouds sweeping across the sky.
Si'er came over and said, "Prince's Consort, Concubine Jiang has fainted from kneeling."
"Where is the prince?" Shen Tang asked casually.
"The prince is still in the barracks."
Tomorrow is a day off, and the prince is still in the military camp at this time. Perhaps he is planning to stay overnight.
However, this was a matter between the prince and Concubine Jiang, and it was not Shen Tang's turn to intervene, so Shen Tang was unwilling to ask any more questions.
After staying in the garden for another quarter of an hour, Shen Tang prepared to return to Chenxiangxuan.
Concubine Jiang fainted from kneeling. The prince was not at home, so the servant reported to Steward Zhou. Steward Zhou asked the maid to help Concubine Jiang back. No one asked Concubine Jiang to kneel in the first place. She insisted on doing so. Even if the prince was in the mansion, she would be treated the same way.
When Shen Tang returned, he saw from afar the maid helping Concubine Jiang over. Concubine Jiang had woken up, but her knees hurt from kneeling for so long that she had difficulty walking.
There was nothing surprising about this, but just when the maid couldn't support Concubine Jiang, a scene occurred that made Shen Tang raise his eyebrows.
The Second Master took a quick step and supported Concubine Jiang who was about to fall to the ground. Concubine Jiang grabbed the Second Master like a person drowning in the sea, grabbing a savior and asking, "Do you have any way to save the Jiang family?!"
The Second Master stepped aside and called the maid who was cleaning the place, "Help to help the concubine go back."
The second master strode back to the South Courtyard.
But the scene of him quickly walking over to help Concubine Jiang was still lingering in his mind, even after Shen Tang returned to Chenxiangxuan.
Concubine Jiang fainted from kneeling, but the prince didn't care. Concubine Jiang fell, but the Second Master reacted so quickly. Concubine Jiang was so eager and natural to ask the Second Master to save the Jiang family. Maybe it was because of a woman's self-awareness, but she always felt something was wrong.
The old lady was ambitious. When she married into the family, she gave her a sterilizing drug. However, after Xie Guimo died in his previous life, the title was inherited by Xie Guiyin.
Even Xie Guimo was killed by them, wouldn't it be easy to kill Xie Guiyin?
But it just didn’t happen.
Shen Tang always explained that they were in the same group.
But given the old lady's temperament, it is impossible for her to fight to the end. The title will not be in her hands, and will eventually be inherited by the prince's son. What's the difference between her and Xie Guimo?
The Jingyang Palace will surely reach a higher level in the hands of Xie Guimo, but in the hands of Xie Guiyin, it will only be eaten away step by step.
The old lady and everyone in the Jingyang Palace must understand the principle that when one prospers, all prosper, and when one suffers, all suffer.
Shen Tang tried his best to suppress the thought that the prince was being cuckolded. Concubine Jiang was the prince's cousin. For her to collude with outsiders to cuckold her cousin, it would be as if Concubine Jiang had been kicked in the head by a donkey.
Can't think too much.
If the prince knew this, he would be so angry that he would die.