C538 The eighth prince has arrived

Yan Yuan's words were spoken carelessly but it struck hard on Zhang Mo and Jin Yue's hearts. The two of them looked at Yan Yuan in shock.

Zhang Mo did not expect Yan Yuan to actually find out about this matter. Back then, when Princess Tian Xin escaped, they forced Liu Ruo Qing to marry her, so all the servants in the entire palace knew about it. Thus, in order to make things more interesting, not long after the escort party came out, they had planned to silence everyone in the palace.

At that time, it was announced that the Princess Palace had people infected with an unknown plague, causing the entire Princess Palace to be infected, causing everyone in the palace to die from the disease.

Right now, what was Yan Yuan planning to do after he mentioned it?

But Jin Yue was scared silly by Yan Yuan's words. She had after all served in the palace for so many years, so how could she not know about the dirty affairs of the palace? The second day of the princess' marriage, those palace servants suddenly fell sick and died, she did not believe that it was really a coincidence.

If she had not left xieqing at the time as a married woman, she would have died a long time ago.

Thinking about this, Jin Yue's face turned terrifyingly white. She was the only one who knew about this, even if she bit the Crown Princess Jing's hand, once Crown Princess Jing is convicted and she leaves Easternum, she will also be unable to escape the fate of being silenced.

The more he thought about it, the more Jin Yue's body trembled. Just as he was about to retort, Zhang Mo rushed in front of her and said: "My prince, the death of the palace lady is an internal matter of the xieqing Palace. What is your highness trying to say? At that time, it was a hot day and the people in the palace were infected with an epidemic disease, causing them to die due to mutual infection. This sort of thing is not rare, but what does this have to do with the Crown Princess Jing killing our Princess Tian Xin to impersonate her? "

Zhang Mo's voice was a little loud, as if wanting to make himself sound more confident and convincing.

However, Yan Yuan only curled his lips, and did not say much on this topic. His goal, was only to scare Jin Yue.

As long as Jin Yue started to be afraid, her words would definitely have a loophole.

"Coincidentally, the people that this king has sent out have saved one of the escaping palace maids. Prime Minister Zhang did not need this king to send someone over to confront Jin Yue. They are all people from the Princess Palace, I believe they all know of him."

Yan Yuan's words made Jin Yue's face turn even paler. Originally, she was afraid that he would be silenced when he returned, but King Jing actually said that he had another person from the princess hall.

If he were to say those words, then the words that she had just said could no longer be trusted.

Now, Jin Yue realized that she was in a dilemma. No matter what she said, she wouldn't be able to avoid death.

Yan Yuan saw the struggle on her face and continued to raise the stakes. He said to Jin Yue, "This king knows that you are not planning to frame the wangfei but are being coerced. Right now, in front of the emperor, as long as you speak the truth, this king will guarantee that you will be spared from the crime of cheating the emperor."

Yan Yuan's words caused Jin Yue's eyes to light up, but there was still some hesitation in her eyes. She did not understand Yan Yuan, so she naturally did not dare to easily believe his words.

Yan Shuo could also see the struggle in Jin Yue's eyes. The balance in her heart had already shifted towards Liu Ruo Qing's side.

Immediately, Yan Shuo opened his mouth and said: "As long as you speak the truth, we will exempt you from all your punishments.

When she had even said the words "Jun Wu Yi", Jin Yue had no choice but to hesitate. She was about to speak, but Zhang Mo beat him to it, "Since Your Highness's men have saved the people from the princess' hall, then please pass on that person to me. Otherwise, our xieqing's Emperor would suffer grievances for the sake of a female thief of unknown origins."

Zhang Mo said these words unceremoniously, with a fierce look in his eyes, he looked at Liu Ruo Qing who was beside Yan Yuan. She had a righteous look, but she did not know that Liu Ruo Qing had already seen through his ferocious and weak appearance.

In fact, like Yan Yuan, Zhang Mo was still betting on who would win in the end.

They searched the entire palace, but they couldn't find anything. Later on, they discovered that the river leading to the outside of the palace was the way out. If there were people from the palace with good water, it was very likely that they would be able to escape from that river.

At that time, they had also sent people to the palace to search for them. However, they had yet to find them.

Perhaps, it was as Yan Yuan had said, the palace maids were taken away by his men, but it was possible that Yan Yuan was deceiving them.

Right now, he hadn't reached the point where he had no other way out. How could he easily admit it? Thus, no matter what, he could only brace himself and gamble.

If Yan Yuan really had someone with him, why did he not immediately send someone to summon him when Jin Yue came over?

Thinking about it this way, Zhang Mo's odds of winning were a little higher.

Yan Yuan frowned his eyebrows without batting an eyelid. He did not expect that even though Zhang Mo looked timid, he was not easy to deal with. No wonder he was able to get the position of the Prime Minister of the xieqing, it seemed that he had underestimated him.

After all, it had been a long time since he sent Qi Feng to investigate, and the possibility of him finding the survivors in the palace was not high.

Originally, he only wanted Jin Yue to be afraid and let her speak of the truth, but he never expected that Zhang Mo would snatch it from him.

Yan Yuan felt that this was a little hard to deal with, where could he go to change into someone else?

Jin Yue's courage was frightened by Zhang Mo's overbearing attitude just now, and he did not dare to speak the truth for a moment.

"Jin Yue, the emperor has already promised you, what are you waiting for?"

Even Wang Shi, who had been standing at the side the entire time just to watch the show, spoke up once again. He also noticed the trace of hesitation that once again appeared in the depths of Jin Yue's eyes.

At the moment, it was not only Zhang Mo who was anxious, Yan Heng was also anxious. If he were to miss this chance, his son would lose all hope.

"Jin Yue, if you dare lie to the Emperor, be careful of your life."

Yan Heng gritted his teeth as he looked at Jin Yue. The warning in his tone was getting more and more obvious, as if Jin Yue would take her life just by saying something unfavorable to him.

As expected, Jin Yue was so scared that he did not dare to speak, only kneeling there, trembling like a sieve.

"Fourth royal uncle, I am here. No matter what the truth of the matter is, I will take care of it. You don't have to be so impatient."

Yan Shuo said with a calm voice, his cold gaze sweeping across Yan Heng, obviously dissatisfied with his actions today.

Yan Heng also noticed Yan Shuo's unhappiness. Although he was also Yan Shuo's uncle, he was more intimate than Yan Yuan. Yan Shuo had clearly helped Yan Yuan today, if not, he would not have called him Prime Minister Wang, but not Grand Preceptor Pang.

"Your subject obeys the decree."

No matter how unwilling he was in his heart, Yan Heng did not dare to be rash in front of the Kaiser.

Yan Shuo then looked at Jin Yue and asked: "Jin Yue, do you have anything else to say?"

Jin Yue lowered her head, her body still trembling intensely as she carefully looked at Zhang Mo and Yan Heng. She didn't know what she should do now, if she had known earlier, she would have met with such a dilemma today.

"Servant …" "Your servant …"

Just at this time, the attendant, Wang De, walked in from the outside and arrived in front of Yan Shuo, "Your majesty, the eighth prince has come."

Wang De's expression was a little strange, his gaze kept throwing towards Liu Ruo Qing's face. After taking a look, he looked as if he was deep in thought.