After returning home, the Crown Princess can no longer hide her vest!

Chapter 88 Gentle Scum
The maid fell to her knees, sobbing and crying, "Sir, I really don't know who harmed the young lady."

"That day, I sent the young lady to the foot of the academy mountain, and the young lady was sent up the mountain by the porters. We originally made an appointment to return to the city with the young lady in about an hour, but unexpectedly we waited for more than an hour and still didn't see the young lady coming down the mountain."

"Stop crying." Wei Ling looked a little irritated. "Remember carefully. When your lady had a conflict with the farmer selling salted fish, was there anything else that happened?"

"Salted fish?" The maid looked confused, "No, my lady had someone beat the old salted fish man to get rid of his anger, and then let him go."

"Do you still remember what the old man looks like?"

The two girls looked at each other blankly and shook their heads, "They are just ordinary old farmers with no characteristics."

Another said, "It was the old man who hit our carriage with his salted fish basket. Is it possible that he still holds a grudge against my girl?"

"Besides the old man selling salted fish, who else has the girl from the You family had a conflict with recently?" Chen Buyu asked in a deep voice, "Think carefully and remember well."

The two girls racked their brains for a moment, and one of them suddenly said, "Ah, I remembered you, sir. There seemed to be a beggar who had a dispute with my young lady years ago."

"That day when my girl went to the rice shop, this stinky beggar stumbled and jumped on my girl. The servants stopped him, beat him up and drove him away."

"This stinky beggar is so courageous. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he squatted sneakily near our rice shop. When our lady came to inspect the shop, he rushed over with an ax and wanted to chop her. Fortunately, several guys joined forces to stop her. Otherwise, my family would The young lady must have been injured at that time.”

"A beggar?" Chen Buyu hurriedly asked, "Then where is this beggar now?"

"My girl was so frightened that such a big incident happened. We reported it to the police that day and took the beggar to the Yamen."

Mrs. Chen held the handkerchief tightly, "I seem to have some impression when you mention this. When Xinlian came back that day, her face was pale and her whole body was shaking. She developed a fever that night and was ill for two days."

"I wanted to let this stinky beggar pay for his life, but the Yamen said that since this beggar did not actually hurt my family Xinlian, the sentence will not be too severe. At most, he will be detained for a few days."

Mrs. Chen's expression suddenly turned sinister, "Sir, could it be that this beggar was released from prison and then came to seek revenge on my daughter? There is no evil thing that a poor and unruly man like this can do."

Wei Ling's face was expressionless, "This is just a guess, and further verification is needed."

Chen Buyu turned around and told the officer, "Go to the prison and ask when the beggars imprisoned years ago were released."

"This case still seems to be full of doubts." Chen Buyu immediately stood up and walked towards the hall, "We must stop Mr. Yu from indiscriminately injuring innocent people."

However, when Chen Buyu and Wei Ling rushed to the inner hall, Xu Zhengnan had already finished clamping the stick with both hands and was rolling back and forth on the ground in pain.

"Lord Jade." Chen Buyu said with a trace of anger on his face, "Now that the case is still unclear, how can you catch a suspect and then resort to lynching? Isn't this... a result of a beating?"

Yu Shoudao frowned, "How can this be done under pressure? Xu Zhengnan must be hiding something when hesitating. How can he tell the truth without being punished if he is a cunning person?"

Xu Zhengnan lay on the ground mourning, "Sir, please help me, sir. Sir, I can swear to God, I really didn't kill Miss Chen." "If I didn't kill you, why would you run away? You always avoid this. If you don’t answer, isn’t it because you have a ghost in your heart?”

A voice called "I've met Mr. Lu" came from outside the cell, and then Lu Qian led an old man and a young man in, looking at Yu Shoudao with a calm expression.

His eyes suddenly fell on Xu Zhengnan's blood-stained hands, "Prince Jade, you can first listen to what the two witnesses have to say."

"These two people are enough to prove that Xu Zhengnan never left the restaurant box all morning. When the black-cloaked carriage walked from the corner to the door of the restaurant, Xu Zhengnan stayed in the box and had no time to commit the crime."

When Xu Zhengnan saw the old man with erhu appearing, instead of breathing a sigh of relief, his face turned even paler.

A quarter of an hour later, Jade Governor's face turned green, he slapped the case and shouted angrily at Xu Zhengnan, "This matter has nothing to do with you, why did you take leave and leave home, pretending to run away all night, to divert us?" sight, delaying the investigation time."

"Did you know that the twelve hours after the crime occurred is the prime time for investigating the case! Now it's all wasted on an insignificant person like you!"

"Tell me, do you know who the perpetrator is and deliberately concealed it?"

Xu Zhengnan trembled and fell to the ground, "Sir, you are wronged. I don't know who the murderer is, how can I hide it for others?"

Lu Qian spoke in a deep voice, "This Xu Zhengnan was indeed invited by Miss Chen to go to the Chengnan Restaurant that day, but he was unwilling to be lonely and invited a singer to accompany him."

"During this period, he also touched the singer because he was too drunk. The old man stepped forward to stop her and was knocked to the ground. Afterwards, the old man went to the medical center to treat his injuries, which cost him a tael of silver."

"Xu Zhengnan, you are worried that the Dongchuang incident will affect your image in the academy, and you are also worried that the old man and his daughter will come to the academy to ask you for a few taels of medicine, so you took leave overnight and left." Lu Qian looked at the shivering Xu Zhengnan coldly. , there was a hint of coldness in his voice.

While Lu Qian was speaking, the singer stood behind her old father silently wiping her tears.

The Jade Governor was furious, pointing at Xu Zhengnan and scolding him, "As a student of Hengshan Academy, you caused trouble in the restaurant, molested the singer and injured his father. It is simply insulting to gentlemen."

Xu Zhengnan winced and begged for mercy, "My lord, please forgive me, students are just drunk and confused..."

"Shut up!" Jade Governor was so angry that he wanted to step forward and kick him a few times. "Just to avoid the one tael of silver debt, you were hesitating here with me for a long time and wasting our time in handling the case! You are simply, simply!"

Jade Governor was so angry that he couldn't curse, and suddenly felt that the time he spent on the stick was too short!
"My lord, my lord, it's my fault, my fault! Please don't reveal this to the Academy Headmaster. I was really drunk and confused at that time, and that's why I did something that went against the rules of the singer. I apologize, I can Apologize! Dad, please forgive me. I will pay you one tael of silver. If not, I will pay you ten taels. Please let me go, Dad."

"What happened that day?" Jade Governor slapped the table and roared. Xu Zhengnan was furious and said quickly, "I found some bad luck with my father-in-law that day. Seeing that he was injured, I was half drunk and hurried downstairs to make plans. Leave. Unexpectedly, I happened to see a black cloth carriage dragging Miss Chen’s body at the door."

"I felt that something was very wrong, and I was worried that I would be expelled from the college after the incident, so I had no choice but to run away overnight."

"This is unreasonable!" Jade Governor yelled.

(End of this chapter)