For a trivial matter, you complain, complain, and disrupt His Majesty's rest. Isn't it your problem?"
Duke Lu choked up and trembled with anger: "Your Majesty is really capable of confusing right and wrong. If you hadn't put my granddaughter in prison, would I have disturbed Your Majesty?"
Xiao Chengyi retorted: "If it weren't for Duke Lu who taught his daughter poorly and allowed his granddaughter to bully the noble daughter, would I have put her in jail?"
"you......"
Duke Lu was speechless. He gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "What evidence does the prince have?"
Xiao Chengyi sneered: "If you want evidence, I have it."
As he spoke, he saluted Xiao Chongjun and said: "Your Majesty, the Duke of Lu sued me because I imprisoned his granddaughter in Dali Temple.
But this matter was handled by the king in accordance with the law and there was nothing wrong. Let Princess Protector tell you the truth of the matter."
Xiao Chongjun nodded and said, "Princess, please tell me."
Mu Yun'an stood up and said: "I took my friends out for shopping today. When I passed by the Zhenbao Pavilion, I happened to bump into Lu Ronger, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Lu, and two other noble ladies, bullying the daughter of the Minister of Civil Affairs.
Chu Lianyi.
Chu Lianyi went to Zhenbao Pavilion today to sell jewelry and got a thousand taels of silver, but Lu Ronger insisted that Chu Lianyi stole the thousand taels of silver from Zhenbao Pavilion.
For this purpose, they invited Shopkeeper Liu of Zhenbao Pavilion. Unexpectedly, Shopkeeper Liu had evil intentions and actually admitted that Chu Lianyi's money was stolen.
Chu Lianyi is a smart person. She confronted Shopkeeper Liu and quickly cleared her name.
Seeing that the slander failed, Lu Ronger actually slapped Chu Lianyi in the face. Not only that, she also stepped hard on Chu Lianyi's injured leg.
Chu Lianyi was humiliated, and in anger she scratched Lu Ronger's face with a hairpin. When she escaped, she took her hostage hostage, but was captured by the regent and imprisoned in Dali Temple.
But I feel that the main culprits in this matter are Lu Ronger and Shopkeeper Liu. If they hadn't slandered, framed and bullied her wantonly, Chu Lianyi would never have been forced to commit murder and hurt others.
So I took it upon myself to have them all imprisoned in Dali Temple and handed over to Sir Shen for review."
She saluted Xiao Chongjun and said: "Your Majesty, this matter is not just a murder case, the Miss Chu family who was bullied is the daughter of the Minister of Chu.
As the daughter of an official family, she had a distinguished status, but because she suffered from a leg disease, she was humiliated and beaten by Lu Ronger, the young lady of the Duke's Mansion.
Who gave her the right to act so wantonly at the feet of the emperor of the capital?"
Xiao Chongjun was really shocked after hearing what she said. His eyes darkened, he slammed the table and asked Duke Lu: "Duke Lu, is what Princess Protector said true?"
Duke Lu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Princess Protector is simply exaggerating. My granddaughter and the girl from the Chu family just had a quarrel.
Quarrels between noble ladies in this capital are common, and I don’t know where our Duke of Lu offended Princess Protector, so that she insulted my granddaughter like this.”
As he spoke, he knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, I dote on my granddaughter a little bit.
It's a pity that she lost her father at a young age and her mother also died of illness. She had no parents to protect her since she was a child. She was the only granddaughter, so I couldn't help but indulge her a little.
It was wrong for her to hit the girl from the Chu family, but it was even more wrong for the girl from the Chu family to hurt her face. Your Majesty should know what face means to a girl’s family?
Ronger hurt her face, but instead of sending anyone to treat her, the regent also sent her to prison. This is to kill my granddaughter. Please make the decision for me, your majesty."
He knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, expressing all the helplessness, sadness and grievance of a grandfather.
Xiao Chongjun was already ashamed of the Lu family, but now that he heard him mention Lu Ronger's father, he couldn't help but feel a little moved.