Chapter Eighty-Seven: Fueling the Flames

This man in white is none other than Ximen Yuqing, the crown prince of Xiling Kingdom, and when he saw Ximen Yuqing smile evilly, he asked instead of answering: "That man said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of your country once gave him a jade pendant, I wonder if Brother Zhou can help him testify?"

Zhou Tianhong turned his head to look at Hu Heng pointed by Ximen Yuqing, and saw that his head was lowered, so he thought for a while and said: "That is the shopkeeper Hu of Changxing Building, and the palace often goes to Changxing Building for dinner, so he did once reward him with a jade pendant." After Zhou Tianhong finished speaking, his face turned cold, and he asked the black-faced official, "Liu Zhutou, what's going on?"

Liu Zhutou hurriedly ran to Zhou Tianhong, bowed down, and said in a loud voice: "See His Royal Highness the Prince!

As soon as this voice came out, all the officials and people in the alley knelt down and shouted unevenly: "See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!

Lin Wan also took two steps back and knelt with the people, not wanting to attract anyone's attention.

Zhou Tianhong smiled slightly and said, "No courtesy!"

Zhou Tianqi calmly looked straight ahead, as if he was not interested in what was happening around him at all, and said lightly: "Flat!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince!" Liu Zhutou stood up and bowed to stand beside Zhou Tianhong, and the people also stood up one after another, Lin Wan stood up with everyone and hid behind others.

Liu Zhutou quickly recounted everything that had just happened, emphasizing that the seventh lady of Lin Xiangfu was here to uphold justice.

Zhou Tianhong locked on to Lin Wan at a glance in the crowd, smiled gently, and said, "It turns out that Miss Lin Qi is also here, can you come out and see it?"

Lin Wan sighed secretly, walked out of the crowd, bowed to Zhou Tianhong and Zhou Tianqi Yingying, lowered her head and said: "The courtiers are just passing by here, seeing that the two children are pitiful, and they don't want them to be wronged. ”

Zhou Tianhong smiled slightly and said: "What Miss Lin Qi said is that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, how can you not know right from wrong, resulting in unjust, false and wrongful cases." As he spoke, he turned his head to Hu Heng and said kindly: "Since it was a misunderstanding, Shopkeeper Hu will give these two children some compensation and let them go back." ”

Hu Heng nodded again and again: "Yes, yes! Thank you His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for testifying for the villain, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise and martial, and cares for the people." The prince's benevolence is the blessing of the people of the Great Feudal Country!" Zhou Tianhong was very happy with this sycophant, and the surrounding people also began to praise the prince's benevolence.

"Dare to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, since you remember that you once gave a piece of jade pendant to Shopkeeper Hu, do you still remember what kind of jade pendant you gave him? The courtiers were worried about your kindness, but they inadvertently helped a sinner who forcibly robbed and framed and injured innocent children on the street, or tolerated a thief who stole the jade pendant. Lin Wan suddenly spoke, obviously with worry and doubt in his voice.

Zhou Tianhong didn't know how to answer for a while, because Liu Zhutou didn't describe the color and appearance of the jade pendant to him just now, he secretly hated Hu Heng for being greedy for money and trapping him in a dilemma, but he didn't show it now, just pretended to think about it for a while, and said: "It's just an ordinary reward, this palace doesn't remember." ”

"Ordinary reward?" Ximen Yuqing chuckled inadvertently, slowly shook the folding fan in his hand, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou is really generous, this jade pendant worth tens of thousands of taels was so easily given to an ordinary restaurant shopkeeper, and it was just an ordinary reward." The wealth of the Great Feudal Country can be seen!"

Zhou Tianhong's face turned dark, and he turned his head to look at Hu Heng, his eyes sharp.

With a "plop", Hu Heng suddenly knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing heavily like pounding onions, and said urgently: "The villain should die! The villain is clumsy! The villain didn't mean it! The villain should die! The villain should die!"

Standing beside Zhou Tianhong, Zhou Tianqi, who had been silent, suddenly said: "You really deserve to die! Rob and injure young children on the street, deceive officials, deceive the prince, and damage the prince's reputation! Take it back, hand it over to Lord Wu for investigation, and pass on the prince's message, once it is verified, you will definitely be severely punished!"

Zhou Tianhong's face was angry, he frowned and glared at Hu Heng, without saying a word. On the one hand, he complained that Hu Heng was too careless, and on the other hand, he thought that if Hu Heng had an accident, would he affect Changxinglou, and would he say anything that should not be said?

"Yes!" The two sergeants on both sides quickly walked out, bowed down and clenched their fists to receive the order, and quickly picked up Hu Heng and walked towards the entrance of the alley.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince, save me! The Seventh Prince, the Seventh Prince, spare your life! The villain really didn't mean it......" Hu Heng turned his head desperately and shouted, one of the sergeants reached out and slapped him on the back of the neck, Hu Heng fainted, and his voice stopped abruptly.

Zhou Tianqi turned around and left expressionlessly, only at the moment of turning around, his eyes swept over Lin Wan, who had been looking down.

Zhou Tianhong turned his head to Ximen Yuqing and smiled: "Let Brother Ximen smile." It's past the unitary time, the palace is the east, how about inviting Brother Ximen to taste the food of the Great Sealing Kingdom?"

Ximen Yuqing chuckled and said, "Okay, Brother Zhou is so generous, this prince is not welcome." It's justβ€”" As he spoke, he raised the folding fan and pointed at Lin Wan and said, "Can you also invite Miss Lin Qi to come along?"

Zhou Tianqi's body that had already walked a few steps paused slightly, and then walked a few steps before he slowly turned around, as if he suddenly remembered, and said casually: "In view of the complexity of the circumstances of this case and the great impact, it is better to ask Miss Lin Qi and the two children to go to the palace with the prince to testify, so that they can give an explanation to the people of the capital." ”

Lin Wan bowed and said, "Yes, the courtiers obey the order!" Then he turned to Ximen Yuqing and said with a slight smile: "Thank you Prince Xiling for your kindness, the little girl is going to testify about this case, and the little girl can't be accompanied." Then he turned to Zhou Tianhong and curtsied: "The courtiers retire!"

Zhou Tianhong looked at Zhou Tianqi thoughtfully, and saw that he had turned around and walked out of the alley, so he nodded to Lin Wan and said, "Go ahead." ”

Lin Wan slowly walked to the two children, stretched out his hands, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, come with me." ”

When the two children heard that they were going to the mansion, they trembled with fright, and when they saw Lin Wan stretching out their hands, they looked at her in a daze, and after a while, they saw that Lin Wan had not withdrawn their hands, so they put their little hands on her palms.

Lin Wan smiled slightly, not too dirty, gently held two soft little hands, and walked towards the alley together. Gale led the way in front, Qingtong and Luliu followed behind Lin Wan, followed by two columns of sergeants who quickly evacuated.

Ximen Yuqing watched Lin Wan holding the hands of the two children, and walked away without looking back, with some disappointment in his eyes, but he also had more interest and exploration.

Zhou Tianhong also felt a little strange in his heart, he always felt that Lin Wan's performance was a little strange, today's development to this point, it is indispensable for her to add fuel to the fire, I don't know if she is intentional or unintentional? Of course, Ximen Yuqing wants to get along with himself, but what about Lao Qi?

Ximen Yuqing smiled slightly, and said lightly: "It's better to go and have a good time." After speaking, he shook the folding fan and slowly followed.