Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 870

Wang Wanzhi turned around and glared at Wang Yuanjun. Then she said calmly, "I have a vague guess in my heart, but I need to see the memorial submitted by Lord Wang..."

Xia Huanyu nodded and handed the memorial to Liu Wenan. Then Liu Wenan walked down and handed it to Wang Wanzhi. Wang Wanzhi opened it and looked at it carefully for a while. She kept silent for a long time until Wang Yuanjun was a little impatient. Then she said indifferently, "There is a reason that I said that I haven't seen these two memorials before. Just now, this reason has also been confirmed, but I still need Lord Wang to answer a few questions."

"Tell it." said Xia Huanyu flatly.

Wang Wanzhi answered in a hurry, "Would you please answer some of my questions, Lord Wang?"

A touch of impatience flashed through Wang Yuanjun's eyes. He waved his hand impatiently and said, "Go ahead. If I know something, I will tell you."

Wang Wanzhi nodded with a smile, "Your Lordship just said that it was Lady Wei who told you that Lord Wei had written two memorials with the same content and submitted them to the Emperor, but the Emperor had never replied?"

Wang Yuanjun was confused and nodded slightly, "yes."

Wang Wanzhi also nodded and said, "Okay. Has Lady Wei told you when Lord Wei submitted the two memorials respectively? It doesn't matter if Your Lordship forgot to ask this question. We could just call Lady Wei to the Palace and ask her."

"Lady Wei said the memorials were submitted before the full moon birth party of the little prince." Wang Yuanjun frowned and answered.

Yun Shang curled up her lips into a smile. When she looked at Wang Wanzhi, she saw Wang Wanzhi were also smiling.

"Okay." After saying that, Wang Wanzhi bowed to Xia Huanyu and said, "I don't need to ask any other questions. I've got the answer."

"Oh? Tell me." Xia Huanyu moved forward a little and sat straight.

Wang Wanzhi said in a low voice, "Just like Her Highness Crown Prince doubted about the handwriting in the letter, the problem of these three memorials was also about the handwriting."

"There are many officials who like collecting paintings and calligraphy works. They should know that the longer the writing is finished, the lighter the handwriting will be. Many collectors like light ink, but after being a female official for so long, I found that there were two court officials who had different preferences from the others. They were the Imperial Astronomer, Lord Wei, and bachelor of the Imperial Hanlin Academy, Lord Meng. Their favorite ink was Huai'an ink. I'm sure most people know the feature of Huai'an ink."

Wang Wanzhi went on indifferently, "When you finished writing with Huai'an ink, it looked a little light, but the longer time it took, the more it would be like new ink. The longer, the deeper the outline of words would become."

"Lord Wei has presented two memorials and finished the third one. Logically speaking, a memorial would be presented again if there was no reply. Since His Majesty was busy with government affairs, he usually replied a memorial in five days. In other words, the third one should've been at least ten days later than the first one. However, the ink marks on the three memorials were exactly the same. Judging from the ink marks, the memorials should've been less than five days ago."

Wang Wanzhi lifted her head and looked at an official about fifty or sixty years old standing in the line of officials on the left. "Lord Meng, come and have a look. Is it as I said?"

The man lowered his head and didn't hear Xia Huanyu say anything. He replied and walked to Wang Wanzhi, took the three memorials and read them. "You are right, Lady Wang. I'm afraid the memorials has just been written for three days or so."

Hearing this, Wang Wanzhi had a faint smile on her face. She must be happy that she final shook the suspicion.

Wang Wanzhi suddenly knelt down and raised her voice, "Your Majesty, someone wants to frame me up and even forged a fake letter to slander the Crown Prince. Please find out the truth and uphold justice for us, so as not to be deceived by the crafty villain."

The corners of Yun Shang's mouth curled up slightly. Wang Wanzhi knew that it would not be effective if she just asked Xia Huanyu to uphold justice for her. So she deliberately mentioned the Crown Prince. After all, framing the Crown Prince was much more serious a crime than framing a female official.

No wonder Wang Wanzhi stood out among so many people and became a female official. Among her subordinates, only Ning Qian could be so smart and calm.

Xia Huanyu nodded, "Li Qianmo."

Li Qianmo replied and walked out of the crowd. Xia Huanyu raised his voice and said, "I'll leave it to you. You have three days to find out the real murderer who framed the Crown Prince and Wang Wanzhi."

Li Qianmo received the order in a hurry.

Yun Shang saw Wang Yuanjun's face darken. Not to mention that he had identified Wang Wanzhi just now and promised that Wang Wanzhi was innocent, he would take the punishment as an accomplice. Just now, Xia Huanyu had directly asked Li Qianmo, the Vice Minister of Justice, instead of him, the Minister of Justice, to take in charge of investigating this matter, which had shown his attitude.