The panic on Grandma Pu's face was too obvious, and everyone could tell that something was wrong.
"Is your nephew here?" Cang Lang asked.
Aunt Pu's eyes were red, and she pointed at one of them with trembling hands: "Yes, he is my nephew."
Cang Lang glanced down, then walked to the other corpses, seemingly looking at the wounds on their bodies. After waiting for a while, he stood up, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and said:
"They were all killed with one knife, and their neck bones were cut off. However, the injuries on their necks were very consistent, and there were no other injuries on their bodies."
"These people have thick calluses on their mouths and fingertips, and their limbs are strong. They have obviously practiced martial arts. No matter how powerful they are, they will never die without help, unless a trusted person is at an extremely close distance. If you suddenly fight back, you won't even have the slightest resistance."
Mrs. Fu heard this and said: "So, I'm afraid these people have been bribed a long time ago. They knew that the county master had not fallen into the trap but still released the news to mislead the eldest princess and the others, and were silenced afterwards."
"Nine times out of ten."
Canglang looked at Nanny Pu.
Aunt Pu's face turned pale: "Impossible, how is it possible? He is my nephew, how could he help outsiders to harm me..."
"Both close relatives can fight against each other, let alone nephews."
Tang Ning's words made the place extremely quiet, reminding her of the Song family back then, but she just continued to ask: "Did your nephew know that Sister Qian and I fell into the water on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day?"
Aunt Pu nodded with a trembling voice: "I know, he was the one who was with the young man in the water that night."
"How did Tan Yan get seen by the eldest princess?"
Aunt Pu was stunned for a moment.
Tang Ning frowned: "Tan Yan is the steward of Chun'en Tower. Even if she makes a mistake and flees, she will definitely not run towards the downtown. The eldest princess's mansion is in a very expensive place in the east of the city. Tan Yan and Chun'en Tower are the most knowledgeable. People who follow the way of survival will never seek death to disturb noble people."
"Qiu Qin just said that the eldest princess originally wanted to find someone to insult my innocence, but she changed her mind later when she bumped into Tan Yan who was running away. How did she bump into him?"
Grandma Pu's face turned pale and her lips were trembling unbelievably.
However, Qiu Qin said in a trembling voice: "I remember that the day the eldest princess was made things difficult for Zongzheng Temple. On the way back, it was Pu Da who drove the carriage. It was he who accidentally frightened the horse on the way and made the eldest princess get out of the carriage, and then bumped into the slave." Tan Yan was chased out of the alley..."
Others didn't understand what they heard.
Aunt Pu's nephew had been bribed a long time ago, and even the butler at Chun'en Tower was deliberately delivered into the hands of the eldest princess. The eldest princess was used as a knife.
After Mammy Pu reacted, she knelt down in front of the eldest princess: "It's my fault. It's my fault that harmed you."
Princess Leyang also turned pale, and she hissed: "Someone is plotting against me..."
"If you don't have evil thoughts, no one can plot against you!" Rong Yue cursed.
Princess Leyang also knew that she would not be able to escape the disaster tonight. How could she be as arrogant as before? When her tears fell, she cried: "I, I didn't want to harm Song Tangning at the beginning, I just wanted to let Yi'er I married her and wanted her to enter the eldest princess's mansion, but you repeatedly refused..."
"You have such vicious thoughts after we rejected you repeatedly?"
"I don't. I want to persuade you slowly. Later, I heard that there are too many people asking to marry you recently, and you are also looking at each other, so I was in a hurry..."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Tang Ning frowned tightly: "How come I didn't know someone was asking to marry me?"
Rong Yue also said from the side: "Is the eldest princess crazy? Not long ago, Tang Ning's engagement with the Lu family was terminated, and so many things happened one after another. Later, Governor Xiao was seriously injured, and the academy was very busy. She How is it possible that we are planning to get married so soon?"
Princess Leyang's eyes widened suddenly: "How is it possible? The Queen said it herself..."
"aunt!"
The fourth prince shouted loudly.
It's a pity that Princess Leyang's words have been clearly heard by everyone. Tang Ning's face was stunned: "You mean, it was the Queen who told you that I am looking at others?"
"County Lord..."
"I didn't ask the Fourth Prince!"
After Tang Ning shouted coldly at the fourth prince, he looked directly at Princess Leyang.
Princess Leyang also came back to her senses at this moment, as if she was enlightened by Tang Ning's words, her eyes widened and she said anxiously:
"It's the queen, that's the queen. On the day Rongyue hosted the banquet, I mentioned Yi'er's marriage to you to her, but Rongyue refused, and you insulted me in public."
"That day, the Queen sent her confidant Jin Zhi to deliver gifts to your house. I wanted to ask her to help me facilitate the marriage. But the Queen refused and asked Jin Zhi to tell me that you now have Rongsheng Academy, and With Xiao Yan's protection, there are now countless people in the capital who want to marry you."
"She said that she had heard that Rongyue was looking for you in private. Even the queen has many people asking for marriage, hoping to use you to please Xiao Yan and win Rongsheng Academy. Jin Zhi said that you are holding Jin Zhi now. Yuan Bao's sweet pastry says that even if an ordinary person marries you, you can use the academy to achieve success."
Princess Leyang knew that she was in doom, but she also realized that something was wrong, fearing that Tang Ning would not believe her and spoke quickly and hastily.
"I really didn't want to harm you at the beginning. Even though I was dissatisfied with you, I didn't have such thoughts. It was the Queen's words to me that made me anxious. I was afraid that you would fall into the hands of others. I want to use the incident of falling into the water to facilitate the marriage between you and Yi'er."
Everyone in the palace had different expressions. Seeing that something was wrong, the fourth prince quickly said, "Eldest Princess, please don't bite my mother!"
He looked at Tang Ning,
"County Master, my mother treats you like her own daughter. She has loved you very much in the past. She asked Jin Zhi to say this because she must have felt that Sun Yi was not a good match for you, so she wanted to dispel the eldest princess's thoughts."
"The Queen Mother has absolutely no other intentions. It was the eldest princess who became greedy and became vicious."
Princess Leyang's eyes turned red and she said angrily: "No, it's really Jin Zhi. She was the one who bewitched me, and the four princes and concubines, by the way, and the four princes and concubines!"
Her mind had never been clearer, and she was eager to blame others.
"Song Tangning, do you still remember when you fell into the water on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day? Old Princess Lu was indeed found by me. I just wanted to use her strict temperament and strict rules to force her to agree to the marriage, but things didn't work out later. If it works, I don’t want to do anything else.”
"It's the fourth prince. She was the one who angered Old Princess Lu with your neglect of the Queen. She also made Old Princess Lu think that you were disrespectful to the royal family and that's why she made things difficult for you. It was she who mentioned the Mu family girl to me after you left. The thing is, she stayed outside the city for a night and was forced to almost become an aunt."
Princess Leyang raised her head and hissed: "I was disappointed at that time. I just thought that if I missed that time, I would lose the chance. It was the fourth prince. She was the one who said something in my ear. If you lose your innocence, I'm afraid it will be worse than... The daughter of Captain Mu’s family is even worse.”
"There is also Lingyun Temple. She was the one who told me about Lingyun Temple. She was the one who told me about the Bon Festival. It was she who told me!!"
Everyone looked at each other. Once was a coincidence, but two or three times was definitely not a coincidence.
Empress Lu's words may have been a misunderstanding, but how could the fourth prince and concubine have such a "misunderstanding" by chance, and she was actually there when the Lord of Yiyang County fell into the water on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day.
Is this a coincidence or intentional?
Everyone looked at the fourth prince, whose eyes were so flustered that he could hardly keep his balance.
