mesbooks Chapter 311 This is the last resort
Chapter 311 This is the last resort
As soon as the man said this, Lin Xuan's face turned pale, and so did Shen Jingyu.
Before this, she had only heard that the Third Prince was teased by a woman while hunting in the hunting grounds, but she had never heard that the Wolf King was also there.
But it is true that few people in the capital discuss the right and wrong of the Canglang King.
Moreover, if we speculate in this way, it is not a glorious thing for Xiao Heyu to be rejected by the Canglang King. No one would be stupid enough to publicize this matter in a big way.
As for the news about that woman being leaked, it must have been at Xiao Heyu's instigation in order to find this person.
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole place fell silent.
The man looked lazy and glanced at Lin Xuan coldly, as if waiting for his reply.
Lin Xuan swallowed his saliva and stammered, "Your Majesty... I..."
Before he finished speaking, Ye Lan's voice rang out: "My Lord, the person has been brought back."
Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw a few village women and servants standing stiffly by the side. Behind them was a shivering doctor carrying a medicine box on his back.
Ye Lan looked at Lin Xuan and said in a cold voice, "Mr. Lin, may I ask, are these people the servants of your manor? Is this the doctor that Miss Shen invited that day?"
Shen Shuyi didn't expect that this person would act so quickly. Otherwise, at the speed Shen Jingchuan sent people to look for him, it would take at least one or two days.
The doctor and several servants looked at Lin Xuan, and after making eye contact with him, they lowered their heads tremblingly.
However, several villagers living near the village were a little confused, until they heard that the people before them were important figures whom they rarely saw, then they began to feel a little afraid.
"Yes." Lin Xuan gritted his teeth and agreed, wondering why the Eighth Prince had arranged such a terrible task for him.
After Lin Xuan nodded, Ye Lan's eyes fell on the doctor and said in a cold voice: "Tell me, when and where did you treat Miss Shen that day? How was Miss Shen's injury at that time?"
The doctor raised his head quickly, glanced at the girls nearby, and then pointed at Shen Shuyi and said, "It's... it's this girl..."
Ye Lan asked again: "When and where? What is the injury? Who was there at the time?"
"Five days ago... at 3 p.m.... at 3 p.m...." The doctor became less and less confident as he spoke, and even his calves began to tremble.
Ye Lan drew out his sword, placed it across the doctor's neck, and said coldly, "I'll give you one last chance. If you dare to lie, watch out for your head!"
The doctor was so frightened that a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.
The next moment, the man on the sedan chair spoke in a deep voice: "Separately try all the people, and those who collude with others will be put to death."
"Yes." Ye Lan responded and immediately detained the group separately.
In an instant, the courtyard of the Jade Buddha Temple seemed to have turned into a crime scene, extremely solemn and cold.
Several servants and doctors were all very frightened. After all, everyone knew that if they were interrogated separately, it would be easy for clues of confession to appear. After all, lies would not stand up to scrutiny and there would always be loopholes.
It is impossible for everyone to be meticulous and thoughtful.
"Sir, I'm telling you! Sir, I'm telling you!!!" The doctor was the first to be unable to hold back and knelt on the ground.
After all, the servants were all from the Lin family, and their indentures were in the hands of their masters, so they did not dare to speak rashly.
But the doctor was different. Although he had some friendship with the Lin family, he did not dare to put his entire family's lives at risk.
"I did treat a girl that day, but that girl was not the girl in front of me. Someone later brought a portrait of this girl and asked me to identify her as the girl I treated..."
After saying this, Ye Lan looked at the other servants. They looked at each other, and when they heard the name of the Wolf King, they were all terrified and immediately confessed one by one.
"The young master did save a girl that day, but it was not Miss Shen... We don't know who that person is... but her appearance is far inferior to the girl in front of us..."
"Yes, the master later showed us Miss Shen's portrait and asked us to announce to the public that it was Miss Shen that we rescued!"
"..."
Once someone took the lead, the others naturally didn't want to persist, fearing that they would fall behind, so one or two people all confessed like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
Shen Shuyi sneered. Shen Jingyu was smart. He took great pains to find Master Lin who had saved someone on the same day. No wonder the villagers around him were willing to testify for him.
After all, who wouldn't want to do something that doesn't require lying and can please the young master of a noble family?
Unfortunately, these villagers probably didn't even see the woman's appearance clearly. They just heard people say that she was Miss Shen, so they all thought that she was the second daughter of the Shen family...
Upon hearing this, Shen Jingchuan shouted angrily: "Master Lin! What exactly is your Lin family's intention? Why are you holding Sister Yi's portrait and forcing the servants to identify her and destroying Sister Yi's reputation!"
Lin Xuan frowned, but still insisted: "Your Excellency has misunderstood. The person I saved that day was indeed..."
Before he finished speaking, the man on the sedan chair spoke again, his voice cold and a little lazy: "Master Lin, what you mean is that the king and the dozens of subordinates under my command are all short-sighted? Can't recognize the person we rescued?"
This sentence interrupted Lin Xuan's words.
Lin Xuan stammered and was unable to utter a word, and the onlookers around him began to discuss in low voices again.
"What is Mr. Lin thinking? Is he in love with Miss Shen, so he resorts to such despicable means?"
"No wonder Miss Shen said that if he wanted to marry her, why didn't he come to discuss it instead of rashly trying to hook up in front of everyone."
"That's right. Everyone says that the Lin family has a clean and upright family tradition. I didn't expect them to be so shameless."
"What bullshit! Everyone saw it. They were afraid of ruining Miss Shen's reputation. These villagers didn't even see the girl's appearance clearly..."
Lin Xuan's face flushed red for a moment, and Shen Jingchuan said coldly: "Mr. Lin, if you can't give me an explanation for this matter today, I will never let it go!"
Qin Xuerong stood beside Shen Jingchuan, her face pale. She never expected that Shen Shuyi's luck was so good.
Yu Jie'er said that it didn't matter even if there were loopholes in this matter. Even if the master wanted to send someone to the Lin family to verify it, the location was far away at the foot of the mountain. Even if they took the shortest route around the hunting ground, it would take one to two days.
At that time, they just need to spread the matter. Shen Shuyi's reputation will be ruined, and with the old lady putting pressure on the master, the two will cooperate, and the master will naturally agree to marry Shen Shuyi to the Lin family.
After all, on the one hand, there were discussions and rumors from all sides, and on the other hand, there was the urging and pressure from her mother. Shen Shuyi was indeed of marriageable age, and there was nothing wrong with the Lin family, so there was no reason for the master to disagree.
But I didn’t expect that this bastard would be so lucky that the Wolf King came to help him…
Lin Xuan was put on the spot, his face flushed, and he had to bite the bullet and say, "I do love Miss Shen, but I can't get her, so I resorted to this desperate measure..."
The next moment, a cold light flashed and something flew out.
Lin Xuan let out a painful cry, blood oozing from his eyes. He immediately covered his eyes with his hands and rolled on the ground.