Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 865

Qian Yin was anxious and asked, "What should we do now? Just now, it must be the seventh Prince who instigated the seventh princess to do so. The seventh Princes must have planned to create rumors to make things worse for His Highness. How about I catch Hua Yutong and ask her to tell the truth?"

Yun Shang shook her head, but gradually calmed down. "Since the seventh Prince wants to slander His Highness and frame him, he must have prepared a lot of evidences. Now we don't know what kind of trump card he has. If we takes action rashly, it might put us at a disadvantage."

"Qin Yi." Yun Shang raised her head to look at Qin Yi. "Wang Wanzhi is most likely to be there when His Majesty interrogate the seventh Prince. Send a message to her and ask her to deliver a letter telling about the situation of the trial every half an hour by the carrier pigeon."

"Qian Yin, ask all our spies in the city to be on standby. If there is any news, they'll take action immediately."

"Hua'er, send someone to spread some rumor secretly today. Tell them that the seventh princess came to the Crown Prince's Mansion to complain tearfully to me that the seventh Prince paid regular visits to brothels and had never spent a night in her room."

Yun Shang ordered in an orderly way. The three of them answered and left the room to make their own arrangements. Yun Shang sat in the room, tapping on the edge of the bench with a frown.

She didn't know what kind of evidences Xia Houjing would show, but she had to ensure that when Xia Houjing showed the evidence, she would be able to find the evidence before Xia Huanyu and change all the evidences.

This time, the competition was not about wisdom, but speed. Her numerous spies in the Jin City finally came in handy.

While waiting, time passed the most slowly. Yun Shang felt fidgety, so she took a book to read, making herself calm down. After a while, Qin Yi came in with a bamboo tube.

Yun Shang's eyes lit up. She took the bamboo tube and took the letter out of it, only to find that it was not Wang Wanzhi's letter, but Luo Qingyan's handwriting.

The letter must have been written in a hurry, with only two short lines. "All the evidences point to Xia Houjing. There is a trap. I sent Luo Qi back. You can ask him to mobilize all the secret guards for you."

Yun Shang sprang to her feet. As she expected, Xia Houjing wanted to accuse Luo Qingyan of framing him regardless of brotherhood.

No wonder he had been so respectful to Luo Qingyan recently. He had designed all this on purpose to frame Luo Qingyan.

Yun Shang crumpled the note into a ball, with a cold expression on her face. This time, although he entangled Luo Qingyan, he ignored her. She would definitely not let him be satisfied.

Qin Yi handed the letter to Yun Shang and left in a hurry.

Qian Yin and Hua'er also returned to the room one after another. "Your Highness, everything is ready."

Ning Qian also followed Qian Yin and Hua Er into the room, looking like she was watching a good show. "There is such a good show. Why didn't master send someone to inform me?"

"And me." Wang Jinhuan also came in out of breath. "I'm good at Qinggong*. I can deliver messages much faster than those little pigeons." (*TN: A Chinese martial arts technique that supposedly helps one lift and travel in the air.)

Yun Shang looked up at the people in the room and felt warm in her heart. "Okay, you are all here. What am I afraid of?"

While they were talking, Qin Yi ran up in a hurry, with a letter in her hand, followed by a man dressed as a secret guard. "Your Highness, I'm Luo Qi. His Highness asked me to obey your orders."

Yun Shang nodded and took the letter. She opened it and read it. Her face frowned. "The first evidence pointing to the seventh Prince is a herd called heartbreak grass by which the two court officials had been poisoned. The Ministry of Justice has interrogated all the pharmacies in the city. In the past two months, only two pharmacies have been sold the heartbreak grass. They are the Huichui Pharmacy and Baicao Pharmacy. And the buyer are all from the Seventh Prince's Mansion."

Hearing this, Ning Qian frowned. "The day before yesterday, I saw the seventh Prince in Chunlai Brothel. He was talking to two middle-aged men, so I kept an eye on him. Later, I specially ordered someone to investigate the identity of the two middle-aged men. They are exactly the shopkeepers of Huichui Pharmacy and Baicao Pharmacy. At that time, I was still wondering why the seventh Prince were with the owners of the pharmacies. I thought that might not just be a coincidence." Yun Shang nodded and racked her brain.

"If Xia Houjing wants to frame His Highness, he will probably ask the two shopkeeper to reverse the confession in the court trial after they are brought into the Palace. It is very likely that they will say that it was His Highness who ordered them to say that the seventh Prince had bought heartbreak grass from them.

Hearing this, Qian Yin's face darkened. "The seven Prince is really a wily snake. It seems he knows us very well. None of the pharmacies he chosen is ours."

Yun Shang nodded, "That's it."