Chapter 423： Calculations fail

The design of the people behind the scenes failed, and the bargain was not picked up. The most important thing is that Zhou Mingyuan immediately asked someone to guard the broken railing on the second floor to prevent anyone from destroying the scene.

None of the girls who went upstairs with Jiang Wen before could get away. While sending people to report the crime back to Beijing quickly, Zhou Mingyuan detained all the suspect girls with a tough attitude.

When the pusher of Jingzhao Mansion hurried over with a team of yamen servants, what he saw was Zhou Mingyuan's cold face, letting the girls and sons of various families criticize him.

"General Zhou." The Tuiguan and Zhou Mingyuan met each other, and then asked him a few details about the case.

Zhou Mingyuan answered one by one, and then sent someone to invite Jiang Wen, the victim of the case.

Jiang Wen was frightened, but she didn't find even a little injury all over her body.

Accompanied by her maidservants, she stayed in the Nuan Pavilion and drank hot tea all the time.

Because she couldn't trust Cheng Guogong's mansion as the host, Jiang Wen kept the window open and let herself sit where Zhou Mingyuan could see it at a glance.

Zhou Mingyuan sent someone to invite her, and she immediately trotted out of the warm pavilion.

The promoter of Jingzhao Mansion was recommended by her grandfather to the current governor of Jingzhao Mansion, and she was very concerned about the accident she encountered.

After listening to Jiang Wen’s detailed account, the pusher led the officials to check the broken railing in the observation building, and then called the girls who were present at the time to the temporary interrogation room for questioning.

Most of the girls were held in the hands of their families and raised up pampered and spoiled. The most common contact with them is basically the murderous intrigue in the inner house.

They have never dealt with the government, nor have they come into contact with a "reckless man" like Zhou Mingyuan who detains them for a single disagreement.

Being detained and interrogated by officials from Zhou Mingyuan and Jingzhao Mansion one after another, the psychological defense of these girls was directly broken. Basically, whatever the officials asked, they would subconsciously and honestly answer with trepidation.

A few girls who were thoughtful, courageous, or who were involved in the incident chose to lie, but their lies were quickly discovered by the Jingzhao government officials.

Whether it was to protect themselves or to shield others, these girls who chose to lie have become the key targets of investigation by Jingzhao government officials.

The other girls have already been let go, but they still have to go to the yamen with the officials and yamen servants of Jingzhao Mansion.

When the matter developed to this point, those bystanders who could have chosen to tell the truth suddenly regretted their previous careful thinking.

They shouldn't be afraid of offending others, and they shouldn't fantasize about being able to benefit from it. If they didn't change their minds at the beginning, they wouldn't have to go to Jingzhao Mansion to accept the strange eyes of others.

I watched the scene, the girls were interrogated, and the pusher asked someone to bring the young man who had been hiding under the observation deck before.

This is the cousin of the Second Young Madam who is new to Cheng Guogong's mansion. He is a cousin of the girl who bumped into Jiang Wen before.

The reason they were able to sneak into Daqi's honorable circle was because one of their cousins ​​married Cheng Guogong's most beloved concubine son.

This Cheng Guogong is the hereditary duke of the same batch as Ye Anlan and Li Jing. He is still a kid in Xie Yuan and has not been expelled from the family. Ye Anlan and Li Jing don't know Xie Yuan yet. By the time of Xie Yuan, this person was already an effective subordinate under Xie Yuan's command.

He came from a Jianghu sect that had a wide range of disciples in the Great Zhou Dynasty. He is a standard Jianghu person who is not good at strategy, but has a good kung fu.

He is loyal to Xie Yuan, no matter fighting or fighting, he is willing to work hard, so he has done a lot of meritorious service by Xie Yuan's side.

While making meritorious service, he also caused some troubles for Xie Yuan because of family affairs.

His original wife was one of the "spoils" he gained when he protected Xie Yuan for the first time when he went out to study and made great achievements in protecting Xie Yuan.

In order to be able to marry this "trophy" back home as a wife, he had the cheek to please her for nearly a month, and in the end he was fined 20 boards by Xie Yuan's grandfather for violating the Xie family's rules.

This is thanks to the fact that he and his original wife got married on a voluntary basis, otherwise Xie Yuan's grandfather would at least beat him a hundred bucks and make him go directly to see Lord Yan.

After being beaten up, he managed to marry the girl he liked back home. As a result, within two years after the couple got married, the man fell in love with another outstanding-looking Xiaojiabiyu.

He took the other party back home, but in the end, the other party took advantage of being more favored than his original wife, and played all kinds of monsters in his house.

His original wife was a troubled official lady. Although she chose to "give in" to such a reckless man like him for the sake of her future life and personal safety, she has always looked down on her husband from the bottom of her heart. .

After the two got married, especially after she gave birth to her eldest son, her dislike for her husband gradually showed.

Because of her disgust, the two couples gradually developed a rift, but no matter how the rift arose, Cheng Guogong still liked his first wife more than hated him.

When he found out that his first wife was being angered by his concubine, he was so angry that he directly returned the concubine to her natal family.

Of course the concubine was not reconciled, so the family sued Duke Cheng to Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan: .

He was so busy that he still had to deal with his subordinate's peach blossom debts. If he didn't beat this guy up, he would be sorry for his white hair and wrinkles from being cried by that family!

Enduring his headache, he left the family to Mrs. Xie at the time and now the empress, and asked her to decide right and wrong between them.

Then, he called Cheng Guogong over and beat him up without saying a word.

After that, Cheng Guogong disappeared for about a year, but the gap between him and his wife did not disappear because he drove away Xinna's concubine.

Even because of some reasons that Xie Yuan didn't know, the two couples became more and more estranged this year.

Then, Cheng Guogong took another concubine.

His concubine is a peasant girl he rescued at random. Her appearance and figure can only be regarded as mediocre. When she was first brought into the mansion by Duke Cheng, this girl was not only illiterate, but also did not know elegant skills such as piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. , and even female celebrities are very ordinary.

But it was such a woman who was regarded by Cheng Guogong's original wife as evidence that her husband was crazy, but because of her personality, she was very popular with Cheng Guogong.

Although after her, Duke Cheng took in two concubines one after another, but among all the wives and concubines of Duke Cheng, the most favored one is always the concubine of Duke Cheng, who was born as a peasant girl.

Although her status in the mansion is higher than Cheng Guogong's other two concubines, she is far inferior to Cheng Guogong's original wife, but she does not have any dissatisfaction with Cheng Guogong and his wife because of this.

In her cognition, she is a concubine, and a concubine should be a head lower than the original wife, and she should keep her own place and serve the wife.