Conan's physique? The Crown Princess is involved in a murder case again

"Yes."

Jing Zhichen answered firmly, "I am willing to stand by her side, in poverty and humbleness, and never change."

Emperor Yan Ning felt a pain in his heart and a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, they were cold.

"The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people! Come here, the crown prince has killed an official of the imperial court without evidence. Put him in jail! Wait until the evidence of the case of Duke Xu is clear, and then make a decision!"

"Your Highness, I'm offended!"

As Emperor Yan Ning gave the cold and resolute order, the imperial guards immediately took action, bowed and said this before surrounding Jing Zhichen.

Jing Zhichen did not resist. He stood there motionless, calmly accepted the imperial edict, and left Longxiang Palace with the guards.

Only Emperor Yanning was left sitting alone on the dragon throne, looking at the empty palace with complicated eyes.

As Jing Zhichen was escorted out of the territory of Longxiang Palace by everyone, he ran into Xu Xingyin who was rushing in in palace attire.

"Your Highness!"

Seeing Jing Zhichen, Xu Xingyin hurried forward, subconsciously stretched out his arms to block the escorting guards for him, and shouted at him.

"What are you doing? Go away!"

The guards were really in a dilemma, but they also knew that they could not afford to offend the two people in front of them, so they could only explain awkwardly.

"Your Highness, we are here to perform our duties. His Majesty said that until Duke Xu's case is fully investigated, we will have to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go and cooperate with the investigation."

Xu Xingyin didn't bother to confront the guards. He grabbed Jing Zhichen's hand tightly and shook his head.

"No! No one is allowed to take him away!"

Seeing Xu Xingyin looking like she was facing a formidable enemy, Jing Zhichen couldn't help but feel soft in his heart. He squeezed Xu Xingyin's hand, smiled and shook his head at her, signaling her not to worry.

"Don't be afraid, Jiaojiao. I will go with them and will be back in a few days."

Xu Xingyin felt a little sad and held Jing Zhichen's hand tightly, refusing to let go.

"Your Highness...it's clearly not like that, you..."

"Bright!"

Jing Zhichen probably guessed that Xu Xingyin wanted to defend himself, so he quickly interrupted Xu Xingyin.

"Just take a good rest in the East Palace, and the rest will be dealt with when I come back. I promise you that I will come back safely. OK?"

After saying this, Jing Zhichen did not give Xu Xingyin a chance to refuse. He turned to look at the guards escorting him, said in a deep voice "Let's go", and quickly left Xu Xingyin's sight with everyone.

Xu Xingyin watched Jing Zhichen's back gradually going away, and finally did not obediently chase after him. Instead, he sniffed, pulled out a golden hairpin and stuffed it into the hand of the eunuch who was guarding the door nearby.

"Excuse me, where is your Highness going?"

The eunuch accepted the benefit and told everything with a smile.

"In reply to the Crown Princess, it seems that the Emperor has issued an oral order, saying that Your Highness should stay in the Heavenly Prison for a while until the facts of Duke Xu's case are clear."

Xu Xingyin bit his lip and thanked him, then walked back in a daze.

He was not careful with his footing and almost fell. Seeing this, Dan Feng hurried forward to support Xu Xingyin and said worriedly.

"Crown Princess, be careful! Are we... going back to the East Palace?"

Xu Xingyin finally came to his senses and shook his head.

"No, we are not going back to the East Palace. We have to rescue His Highness."

Dan Feng was shocked and tried to persuade him.

"My Lady, robbing the Heavenly Prison is against the law!"

Xu Xingyin glanced at Dan Feng helplessly and explained.

"Only if we can prove that Xu Xiuzhu is not innocent and that His Highness did have a reason for his actions, can we prove that His Highness acted to defend justice. In this way, no one can say that His Highness is not right."

Dan Feng nodded as if he understood, and asked again.

"So... where are we going?"

Xu Xingyin looked calm and slowly uttered two words.

"Lin."

This trip to the Lin family was exactly the same as the last time. Xu Xingyin went alone with a servant, being extremely low-key.

Last time, Xu Wanmian's mother-in-law, Zhuang, suffered a lot at the hands of Xu Xingyin. Later, wherever she went out, she was scolded by neighbors.

Later, after Lin Jinzhong came back, he lost his temper for the first time, which scared Zhuang and the entire Lin family.

The Lin family are all people who have come from the bottom of society, so they can naturally distinguish the primary from the secondary.

After all, they were domineering in the past only because Lin Jinzhong had a soft temper. Now that Lin Jinzhong is strong, who in the entire Lin family dares to say a word against him?

After all, isn't it Lin Jinzhong who is the reason they can have the best food and drink now?

Therefore, the Lin family members who were so arrogant last time have become completely obedient. They went out for a walk in the first few days, but when they found that they were chased and scolded as soon as they went out, they simply stopped going out and stayed at home pretending to be quails.

The Lin family, who had been pretending to be quiet for a while, finally planned to go out to the temple fair these two days, but they heard that the Crown Princess of the East Palace had come again.

Well, now the Lin family collectively retreated back to their bedroom in shame. They were too embarrassed to apologize, but also couldn't afford to provoke this giant Buddha again.

He simply claimed to be sick and sent the housekeeper to "serve him carefully" and took him directly to Xu Wanmian's yard, and then continued to pretend to be a quail.

Therefore, Xu Xingyin was relatively successful this time and was respectfully escorted to the gate of Xu Wanmian's yard.

Xu Xingyin really didn't have much to think about today. It would be best if he could get to Xu Wanmian smoothly.

Unexpectedly, just as she finished feeling thankful, a Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared.

"Oh, it's the Crown Princess who's here to visit us? I wonder what the Crown Princess is doing here that has brought her to our Madam's courtyard?"

Xu Xingyin looked up at the source of the voice. This weird person...

It seemed that she was the nanny who originally worked in Aunt Liu's courtyard. After Aunt Liu passed away, she was assigned to serve Xu Wanmian.

Later, she was brought to the Lin family as a dowry.

If you think about it this way, he is actually an old enemy.

"I have something to discuss with Xu Wanmian. Please let me know."

"You are joking, Princess. Our wife is of low status, how can she help you?"

Xu Xingyin frowned and patiently repeated it again.

"Thank you for reporting."

Seeing Xu Xingyin's attitude, the nanny became even more domineering.

"Oh, it seems that the Crown Princess really has something to ask for? What a pity, our wife is in confinement now and cannot stand the wind. I am afraid that we will neglect the Crown Princess."

After saying this, the nanny folded her hands and spoke sarcastically.

"The Crown Princess also knows that women in confinement have many taboos. No matter what, our concubine Liu was killed by you, the Crown Princess. If I let you in now, you will say that our wife saw the murderer of her mother. How bad would she feel!"

When the nanny got to this point in a weird tone, Dan Feng, who was standing behind, finally couldn't help it and took a step forward angrily to confront the nanny.

"Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to our Crown Princess like that! Don't forget, it was our Crown Princess who saved the situation when your wife had a difficult delivery, and that's why we have the situation today! Otherwise, if Zhuang Shi had been making such a fuss, you guys wouldn't even be here! Today we came here but you're making things difficult for us, aren't you repaying kindness with enmity?!"

The nanny blushed after being criticized by Dan Feng, but she still argued.

"So what? I wasn't wrong. Back then, our aunt was..."

"Snapped--"

Before the nanny could finish her words, a crisp slap landed on her face. She looked up in surprise and saw Xu Xingyin's eyes narrowed slightly with a cold look in them.