Chapter 837: Clever Tongue
Lin Wan glanced at Lan Ziyue contemptuously, and said lightly: "Princess Ziyue's imagination is so rich! Not to mention that I didn't know that Princess Ziling was going to challenge me tonight, even if I knew, I wouldn't take it to heart." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info I have confidence in myself, and I'm not afraid of losing, so what if I lose?Will His Royal Highness Prince Ximen marry Princess Ziling because of her excellent dancing skills? If that's the case, I'd like to congratulate her. β
Lan Ziyue frowned and said coldly: "You are duplicitous, and your tongue is like a spring, and this princess will not argue with you." Ziling has no friends and no enemies in the capital. Who else but you would hide her?"
Lin Wan felt a little headache in the face of Lan Ziyue's nonsense, stood up, walked to Zhou Tianhong's side, smiled slightly, and said, "Brother Emperor, your fiancΓ©e suspects that I have hidden Princess Ziling. In order to prove my innocence, can you ask the guards who sent Princess Ziling back to the house and let me ask him a few words in public?"
Zhou Tianhong shook his head and said, "Ziyue only misunderstood you because Princess Ziling was missing and was in a hurry. The royal sister doesn't have to take it to heart, for my brother to believe that this matter was not done by you. Maybe Princess Ziling just hasn't prepared her show yet, so she doesn't want to come to the banquet, and when the banquet is over, she will naturally go back. β
Lin Wan refused to leave it at that, frowned at Zhou Tianhong, and said unhappily: "If the imperial brother says so, the imperial sister and I will be even more suspicious." People who don't know think that I was really afraid that Princess Ziling would challenge me, so I hid her and let her out after the banquet was over. It's better to ask the imperial brother to order the guard to come out, let me ask a few words, it won't delay everyone's time. β
Zhou Tianhong was a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded, and said, "Okay, if the imperial sister insists on this, the elder brother will let him come out to answer the imperial sister's question." As he spoke, he glanced at the guard beside him, and the guard turned around and went out, and quickly brought in the guard who had just reported the situation by Zhou Tianhong's side.
The guard walked up to Zhou Tianhong, bowed, and said, "Your subordinates see His Royal Highness the Great Prince." β
Zhou Tianhong nodded and said, "Princess Wanxin wants to know what happened this afternoon, you must answer the truth." β
The guard nodded and said, "Yes, my subordinates obey!" After speaking, he turned to face Lin Wan, bowed, and said, "Little Sun Li, see Princess Wanxin." If Princess Wanxin has any questions, just ask, the little one knows everything, and the words are endless. β
Lin Wan smiled slightly, nodded, and said, "Guard Sun, did you escort Princess Ziling back to the Great Prince's Mansion to get something this afternoon?"
Sun Li nodded and said, "Yes, Princess Wanxin, it was my subordinates who escorted Princess Ziling back to the house with two other guards." β
Lin Wan nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "Do you know what the Ziling Princesses are going to take?"
Sun Li thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "Back to Princess Wanxin's words, the little one doesn't know what the princess Ziling is going to take, and Princess Ziling didn't say it." β
Lin Wan nodded with some disappointment, and then asked, "How did Princess Ziling not see her? Where did she disappear? With so many of you following, how could she not see her? Was she taken away by someone? Or did she leave by herself?"
Sun Li listened to Lin Wan's series of questions, and couldn't help but panic a little in his heart, he didn't know what to say and what not to say. However, in front of everyone, he couldn't ask Zhou Tianhong for instructions, so he had to answer truthfully: "Back to Princess Wanxin's words, Princess Ziling saw a ready-to-wear shop when she passed by Wangfu Street, and said that she wanted to get out of the car to buy a shawl. The little one originally wanted to follow up, but Princess Ziling said that the shop sold women's things, and it was inconvenient for men to go in. Princess Ziling said she would come out in a moment and let us wait outside. However, later, we waited for a long time, and she didn't come out. The little one went to ask the shopkeeper of the shop, and the shopkeeper said that Princess Ziling had left the back door for a long time. The little one took people to chase after him, but he didn't find any trace of Princess Ziling. β
After listening to Sun Li's story, Lin Wan nodded with a smile and said, "In this way, Princess Ziling should have left by herself, not taken away, right?"
Sun Li secretly glanced at Zhou Tianhong, and saw that Zhou Tianhong didn't give him any hints, so he had to nod honestly and replied: "Back to Princess Wanxin's words, the shopkeeper said so, and the little one has gone to see it, the shop does have a back door, and there are no suspicious people nearby, and there is no trace of a fight." β
Lin Wan suddenly realized: "This princess remembers, Princess Ziling is good at martial arts. So, she will never be so easily taken captive, and you are out there at the time, and if there is any danger, she can call you. Saying that, Lin Wan seemed to think of something again, and asked with concern: "Since Princess Ziling left by herself, have you ever gone back to the Great Prince's Mansion to find it? Maybe she has already gone back?"
Sun Li was already sweating profusely, shook his head, and said, "If you go back to Princess Wanxin, the little one has already gone back to the Great Prince's Mansion to find it, and Princess Ziling has not gone back yet." β
Lin Wan sighed lightly, nodded, and said, "Guard Sun, you can step down, this princess has already finished asking." After speaking, Lin Wan turned to look at everyone and said loudly: "I believe everyone has heard that Princess Ziling left by herself, not taken away." In other words, it was she who hid herself, not the princess who hid her. After speaking, Lin Wan turned around and walked towards her seat, as if the rest of the matter had nothing to do with her at all.
However, when she passed by Zhou Tianhong's side, she turned her head to look at Zhou Tianhong again, frowned and asked, "Brother Emperor, you say, why did Princess Ziling leave? As soon as His Royal Highness Prince Lan came, she disappeared. Could it be that His Royal Highness Prince Lan was too strict with his sister, so Princess Ziling would escape?"
Zhou Tianhong wrinkled his eyebrows slightly, and said unhappily: "Imperial sister, Prince Lan is very fond of his two younger sisters, and he didn't say anything harshly, the imperial sister is talking nonsense!"
Lin Wan hurriedly nodded obediently, and said in a low voice: "Wan'er lost her words, please don't blame Prince Lan." As he spoke, he bowed his knees to Lan Ziheng and apologized.
Lan Ziheng shook his head lightly and said, "Princess Wanxin doesn't need to be polite, it's the prince's royal sister who is rude first, please don't be weird about Princess Wanxin." β
Lin Wan shook his head with a smile and said, "It's just a misunderstanding, the past is over." I only hope that Princess Ziling can come back soon, so that everyone will not worry about her. After speaking, she walked back to Jin Ruoxin's side, sat down casually, picked up the tea bowl in front of her, took a sip gently, and said so many words, she was indeed a little dry.