EBE Chapter 442 I Just Don’t Want to Waste Time
Chapter 442 I Just Don’t Want to Waste Time
Qing Su came over carrying a maid.
Shen Sui'an recognized this old woman as Nanny Zou, who was Chen Qiong'er's wet nurse.
He is usually steady and mature in his work, but what happened today?
Madam Zou's face turned pale and she sat on the ground with a look of despair.
Shen Sui'an looked at Qing Su in confusion.
Qing Su bowed and looked at Madam Zou with a sharp gaze.
"My princess, I found this old man secretly handing something out at the back door. The guards outside were taken away for questioning by the pacification officer, and I caught this old man." Qingsu said.
Qing Su handed a small note to Shen Sui'an.
Shen Sui'an read the content and glanced at Nanny Zou indifferently.
"You want to spread the patrol time of the palace guards outside. What do you want to do?" Shen Suian asked softly.
Madam Zou turned pale. "I just wanted to rescue our girl and leave here. I have no other intentions."
"Is this what Concubine Chen meant?" Shen Sui'an asked.
"No, the concubine doesn't know. She doesn't want to leave the palace, but this old servant feels sorry for her own daughter. The prince only has eyes for the princess. Our daughter is just wasting her time in the palace. Why should she be implicated for the rest of her life?" said Madam Zou.
This is what she thinks.
Her daughter has been married for many days, but the prince has never visited her. It is impossible for him to treat her as a concubine.
Now that the prince's life or death is uncertain and his future is dangerous and uncertain, what's wrong with her making plans for the girl?
"Does Concubine Chen know that you are doing this?" Shen Sui'an asked.
Nanny Zou's face changed. She did it without telling the girl.
Now that he’s been caught by the princess, will the girl be implicated?
"You want to help your girl leave the palace, but you want to reveal the situation of the palace to the Royal Guards. Who do you think can believe this?" Shen Suian asked.
"Tell me, who do you want to give the message to? Who asked you to help Concubine Chen leave the palace?"
"If you confess, you will suffer less."
Nanny Zou's eyes flickered, as if she was weighing Shen Sui'an's words.
Qing Su sneered and immediately reached out to break Nanny Zou's wrist.
"If you tell me even a single lie, I will break all your ten fingers one by one."
Nanny Zou was so frightened that her face turned pale.
"It doesn't matter if you're stubborn. Let the people from the Pacification Bureau take you away. After the interrogation, do you think you can come out alive?"
"The palace is now in decline, isn't the princess afraid at all?" Madam Zou didn't understand where Shen Sui'an's confidence came from.
Shen Sui'an smiled faintly, "No matter how defeated I am, it's not your turn to bully me."
Matron Zou's expression froze. Yes, even if the prince was now imprisoned in the Dali Temple, Shen Suian was still the princess. It would only take a word for him to take the life of a servant like her.
"Princess, I tell you, this matter has nothing to do with the concubine, and she is not aware of it. If she knew, she would definitely not agree to it?" Madam Zou shouted hurriedly.
Shen Sui'an's eyes were cold, with a hint of impatience.
Madam Zou kowtowed heavily, "It was my aunt. She asked a guard to secretly tell me the defense situation of the palace so that she could find a way to save the concubine."
"Which lady in your Chen family?" Shen Suian lowered his voice.
"Yes, she is the second wife of the Ruan family and the prince's second aunt." Nanny Zou did not dare to hide anything anymore.
It was her.
Shen Sui'an was somewhat surprised and somewhat unexpected.
What does Chen Suzhen want to do?
Knowing the deployment of the palace, so that you can enter the palace and take Chen Qiong'er away when the guards are at their weakest?
"Take her away and lock her up in the woodshed." Shen Suian ordered in a cold voice.
She asked someone to call Chen Qiong'er over.
Chen Qiong'er was very nervous.
Normally, Madam Zou would not be absent for most of the day, but today she had not seen Madam Zou yet.
Nanny Zou advised her to take advantage of Fu Jinyuan's imprisonment to find an opportunity to sever the relationship and not waste her time in the palace.
She didn't listen.
What could she do if she left the palace?
Is it possible to marry into a rich family and become the mistress?
It’s impossible.
No prominent man would marry her as his principal wife. Rather than being someone else's concubine, she would rather choose Fu Jinyuan.
She didn't believe that Fu Jinyuan and the Queen would be defeated so easily.
Obviously, she had handed the evidence to him, so he must have taken precautions.
Arriving at the upper room, Chen Qiong'er still kept her head lowered and her face submissive.
But when she heard Shen Suian ask her if she planned to leave the palace, she was stunned.
"I have never had such an idea. Although I have just entered the house, I also know the principle of sharing honor and disgrace." Chen Qiong'er immediately expressed her loyalty.
"Some people in the Chen family don't think so. Your aunt is trying every means to take you out of the palace." Shen Sui'an smiled faintly and did not mention what Nanny Zou had done today.
Chen Qiong'er frowned, "I am me, and my aunt is my aunt."
She lowered her head, "Princess, I am not the same as my aunt."
Shen Sui'an said calmly, "If that's the case, then I'll go back to your aunt for me."
Chen Qiong'er always felt that there was something else in the other party's words, and wasn't her aunt Shen Suian's second aunt?
But when she thought of her aunt's cruelty to the second master of the Ruan family, she understood why Shen Sui'an didn't regard her aunt as an elder.
"Princess, I have something else to ask. I haven't seen Madam Zou today. I wonder if she... made a mistake?"
Shen Sui'an smiled, "I'll borrow Aunt Zou for a few days and ask her to reply to the Chen family."
Chen Qiong'er's heart skipped a beat.
Nanny Zou must have done something that was discovered by Shen Sui'an!
Shen Suian didn't say anything more. After sending Chen Qiong'er away, she asked someone to continue watching.
Chen Qiong'er has not taken the initiative to contact the outside world these days and has been keeping to herself.
With the Tiqi guarding the palace, the Imperial Guards did not dare to act recklessly. Apart from the inconvenience of entering and leaving the Prince Chen's Palace, everything seemed to have remained unchanged.
But things are not so peaceful outside.
A piece of evidence that Ruan Xiuyuan colluded with the third prince of the Western Regions and sold privately forged weapons to the Western Regions appeared on the desk of the Dali Temple Minister.
Cheng Hongyan was shocked and felt that the evidence was not credible.
You Shaojun doesn't think so.
"It's clear that Chen is sacrificing her own relatives for the sake of justice. She was sent back to her parents' home because she knew that Ruan Xiuyuan was colluding with the Western Regions. She was Ruan Xiuyuan's bedmate, and this evidence is absolutely true." You Shaojun was very excited.
As long as the Ruan family falls, Prince Chen will never be able to be reinstated.
Cheng Hongyan said in a deep voice, "It cannot be used as evidence if it is not verified?"
"Sir Cheng, do you want to protect the criminal?" You Shaojun asked coldly.
"I am the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple. I have my own way of investigating the case." Cheng Hongyan said in a cold voice.
However, before Cheng Hongyan could investigate the confession submitted by Chen Suzhen, Chen Suzhen went to the palace to file a complaint.
Emperor Fu was furious when he heard this and ordered the Ruan family to have their property confiscated and be imprisoned.
Before the imperial edict was sent out of the palace, the drum for reporting the incident was struck.
A group of ordinary people were seeking justice outside the palace gate.
They are all common people from Jiangbei, and they are here to sue the high-ranking officials who have captured them and forced them to mine and forge weapons in the mountains.