"I……"
The fourth prince choked. He couldn't bring the matter with Xiao Yan to the table. He could only say to Tang Ning: "I really didn't harm you. I didn't know anything about what happened today. What did the queen mother say to the eldest princess?" I'm just afraid that Sun Yi will get entangled with you, and Xuan Xuan must have misunderstood me, and it's because she has ill intentions because of my admiration for you."
At this point, he could only let go of the fourth prince and concubine.
"I didn't expect that Yinxuan, who has a kind face but a bad heart, would use such vicious things as Buddha beads to harm others. It was my fault that I didn't discover in time that she had such thoughts. It's also my fault that I couldn't restrain my feelings and showed them in front of her. The County Lord Yue almost put the County Lord in danger..."
Rongyue looked at the fourth prince's affectionate face and almost spit on his face.
Tangning pursed her lips as she listened to the fourth prince's words: "So what you are saying is that the fourth prince's concubine did what happened tonight, and you don't know anything?"
The fourth prince nodded quickly: "Yes, I don't know."
Tang Ning: "Then what are you going to do to her?"
At this time, the fourth prince just wanted to clear up the relationship and remove himself from this matter. In his opinion, the fourth prince's concubine had lost her innocence and was not worthy of staying in the palace, so he said without hesitation:
"Of course she will be severely punished. As the fourth prince's concubine, she instigated the eldest princess with her words and deeds, harmed the county lord many times, and acted viciously. I will definitely ask my father to punish her severely when she returns to Beijing."
Tang Ning said quietly: "She is your first wife. She has lost her innocence tonight. If she is charged with such a crime again, she will die. Is the Fourth Prince really willing to bear it?"
Seeing that there seemed to be some relief on her face, the fourth prince quickly expressed his stance: "Why can't I let go of such a poisonous woman as Zhao Yinxuan!"
"But she is your wife..."
"Such a vicious person is not worthy of being a royal wife!"
Tang Ning stared at the indignant fourth prince for a while, then turned to look at the curtain next to the main hall.
"Fourth Princess, did you hear that?"
The fourth prince's face froze, and he saw that the curtain on the other side was suddenly opened, and standing behind it was the fourth prince's concubine, whose face was pale and clutching the curtain tightly and trembling all over.
"Yinxuan..."
The fourth prince's expression changed drastically. He never expected that the fourth prince's concubine would actually wake up. Thinking that what he just said might have fallen into her ears, he was completely panicked.
The fourth prince's concubine was on the verge of falling. Someone tried to help her, but she just pushed them away and walked to the fourth prince.
"Xie Guangzheng, I am really blind to believe your lies and do all the evil things for you!"
"Yinxuan..."
"Don't call me!"
The fourth prince's concubine's whole body ached, but no matter how painful it was, it was not as painful as the fourth prince's betrayal of her.
After she woke up and knew what happened, her whole body almost collapsed. She didn't know why things turned out like this, and that the people in the temple would become her, but no matter how much she hated or cried, she never thought about it. To betray the fourth prince.
She knew that her actions were being plotted against her, and that she was standing behind the curtain with her mouth covered. When she heard that her instigation of the eldest princess was exposed, she was filled with horror and fear, but she also felt a little determined.
The fourth prince and concubine thought that her innocence was ruined, so she could no longer drag down the fourth prince and Queen Lu, and planned to bear all the blame alone.
But she never expected that she would hear the fourth prince eagerly pushing her out.
The fourth prince, who kept saying that he only loved her, was the one who used his past relationship to trick her into attacking Song Tangning. He didn't even try to redeem her, but he pinned all the charges on her and called her a poisonous woman.
The fourth prince felt those words were like a heavy hammer, hitting her again and again, smashing her into pieces, and her infatuation turned into a big joke.
"Am I a poisonous woman? Xie Guangzheng, if I were a poisonous woman, you would be shameless and despicable!"
"If you hadn't begged and said that you were in a difficult situation in the court, how could I have helped you plot against Song Tangning? If the Queen hadn't repeatedly told me that if you could win over Song Tangning, you could reverse the situation and return to the court. , how could I help her instigate the eldest princess?"
"When you used our love as husband and wife to trick me into attacking Song Tangning, you kept saying that you only had me in your heart. Now after the incident, you say that I am a poisonous woman?"
"Yinxuan!" The fourth prince panicked: "Shut up... The fourth prince's concubine is crazy, tell her to shut up..."
The person behind the Fourth Prince panicked and wanted to step forward, but was blocked by Cang Lang with his sword.
"The fourth prince's concubine hasn't spoken yet. Why is the fourth prince so anxious?"
"You!" The fourth prince glared at Canglang: "Does your master know what you are doing?!"
He wanted to make fun of Xiao Yan, and wanted to hint to Cang Lang that enough was enough, but Cang Lang just said coldly: "My master is recuperating in the mansion, so of course he doesn't know what happened tonight, but if someone harms the county master, he will definitely not do anything when he finds out. Will you be gentle? Why, don’t the fourth princes know how the governor treats girls?”
The fourth prince's face turned pale. Of course he knew it, and it was because of his knowledge that he had evil thoughts. He wanted to use Song Tangning to completely tie Xiao Yan to their side, but who would have thought...
He was extremely regretful at this moment, regretting that he should not have had Song Tangning's idea.
The fourth prince wanted to beg the fourth prince's concubine, but it was a pity that his previous words almost offended the fourth prince's concubine to death and completely destroyed the relationship between them as husband and wife.
The fourth princess looked at Tang Ning, with red eyes, and whispered: "I gave the beads to you, and I also brought them to Lingyun Temple, but I also obeyed the queen's orders. She was the first to instigate the eldest princess after knowing her thoughts. She also hinted that the eldest princess can destroy your innocence and force you to marry by any means..."
"Zhao Yinxuan!"
The fourth prince opened his mouth to stop the fourth prince's concubine, but Cang Lang already threw it with his hand, and the scabbard hit the fourth prince's mouth with a "bang".
The fourth prince screamed and vomited out blood and teeth.
Cang Lang said coldly: "If the Fourth Prince obstructs the trial again, don't blame me for being rude."
He looked at the fourth princess:
"continue!"
The fourth prince's concubine's face turned pale, and she felt happy to see the fourth prince's embarrassment, and she didn't want to cover up for them at all.
"The queen knows that the county lord has a stubborn temperament, and you may not be willing to marry the eldest princess even if she tries her best. And as long as you know that she is plotting against you, Governor Xiao will definitely not let the eldest princess Leyang go. They know that the eldest princess wants to give in tonight. If that manservant destroys your innocence, let someone exchange Sun Yi with that manservant."
"As long as people see you and Sun Yi together, and let the fourth prince protect you in public in the name of his admiration for you, you will definitely be moved, and then use some means to make you willingly marry into the fourth prince's house, and bring Rong Sheng into the palace. The academy gave it to me."
Seeing Tang Ning's extremely cold face, the fourth prince's concubine laughed softly, full of ridicule.
"We made all kinds of calculations, thinking that we were the oriole, and tried our best to send Sun Yi into the Buddhist hall, but who would have thought..."
The fourth prince's concubine couldn't stop crying whenever she thought about her innocence being insulted and the disgusting marks on her body.
But no one in the palace sympathized with her.
Tang Jing looked at the fourth princess who was crying loudly in silence, with a cold expression and no sign of mercy.
She never wanted to use such despicable means to deal with anyone, but the fourth prince knew clearly what would happen if she was sent to the Buddhist temple tonight. She knew clearly what would happen if the woman's innocence was ruined, and what would happen if the temple was broken into in public. , even if it was later found out that she was framed, she was already destroyed.
As a woman, she could not understand what would happen to her but still take action. From the moment the fourth prince agreed to act on behalf of the fourth prince and gave away the beads, she was not worthy of sympathy.
Tang Ning looked at her: "If you want to harm me and Sun Yi, then why are you in the Buddhist hall?"
The fourth princess looked into the crowd: "Then let's ask Mrs. Pei and Second Lady Bai."
Among the crowd, two figures looked pale.
The Fourth Princess said in a cold voice: "I sprained my ankle on the pretext of the Dharma Assembly. I wanted to go back to my room to arrange things later, and to clear myself of suspicion. But on the way back, I met Mrs. Pei and Bai. Second lady."
"Fourth Princess, we just met you by chance..." Mrs. Pei's face turned pale.
"An encounter? I was walking on a small road at the time. How could I meet you by chance? And who doesn't know that the second prince and the fourth prince are on the same page?"
The fourth prince's concubine said angrily: "The Pei family is close to the second prince, and the second concubine Bai is the biological sister of the second prince. I was not familiar with you in the past, but you blocked my way after the ceremony and deliberately talked with me. Get close and chat about what you have and what you don’t have.”
The fourth princess was not stupid, otherwise she would not have been able to provoke Princess Leyang without leaving any trace every time. She looked at the two people who looked flustered.
"You stopped me from having a cup of tea. After I got back, I felt extremely sleepy. I had no energy left after trying to arrange the rest."
"Tonight is a big deal. I should have been waiting for the Buddha Hall, but it turned out that I would never fall asleep, but I fell asleep and fell unconscious. The fourth prince has been unwilling to sleep with me recently, and no one found out that I was abducted. Wait. When I woke up again, I had already entered the Buddhist hall and was in such a miserable state."
The fourth princess's eyes were red, and she looked at the two men full of resentment and said:
"I thought carefully about everything tonight and was cautious in everything. Apart from you two, I have never seen anyone else, let alone been close to anyone else. No one can do anything to me except you."
Mrs. Pei panicked: "It's not us, we don't have it!"
The second girl Bai was also in a panic: "Don't frame it randomly. Mrs. Pei and I talked to you, but we didn't do anything!"
She and Mrs. Pei were indeed ordered to come to the temple to cause trouble in the Fourth Prince's Mansion. Their purpose was to help the Second Prince establish the truth about the Fourth Prince's Mansion's frame-up of the Yiyang County Lord. After the incident, they found an opportunity to expose this matter. The incident left the fourth prince dead without a burial place.
But they didn't have time to do anything. It was really just a coincidence that they met the fourth prince.
At that time, I kept the fourth prince's concubine just because I wanted to find out information from her, but who knew what would happen later.
They had always thought that those in the Buddhist hall were Sun Yi and Song Tangning, and wanted to expose them after the fourth prince jumped out. But when they saw the fourth prince and concubine appearing in the Buddhist hall, their jaws almost dropped.
Now that they were identified by the four princes and concubines, they felt like a scapegoat fell from the sky, and they were filled with injustice.
