Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

Wang Quan raised his head and looked at Li Junze sadly again, then said, "Lord Yan is right. The two of us have thought it through thoroughly. We did such a treasonous thing, but we kept it secret for that person. We are really ashamed of His Royal Highness Prince An's cultivation of us."

Li Junze's expression moved slightly. These two people have been following him for five or six years. How could it be possible that he had no feelings for them? Now seeing them being tortured like this, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

The hands hidden in the sleeves tightened again, but in the end he said nothing, waiting for the two of them to speak.

Wang Quan then slowly began to tell the story.

"Two years ago, my father was seriously ill, but His Highness arranged a business trip for me without any explanation. No matter how much I begged, he did not change his mind. As a result, I did not even get to see my father for the last time."

"When I came back, my father's first seven days of mourning had already passed. It was because of this incident that I developed a strong dislike for His Highness. Ji Huan later found me and said that he also hated His Highness."

"It was mainly because his sister was bullied by a bully and hanged herself not long after. He wanted to seek revenge on the bully, but His Highness would not agree, saying that Ji Huan must not cause trouble for Prince An's Mansion."

"Just like that, we both had opinions about His Royal Highness Prince An. Although we still follow him, whenever we have the chance, we will do things that go against his instructions."

Li Junze looked at Wang Quan. Both things he said were true, but the results of both things were modified by Wang Quan.

"Finally, in February of this year, a middle-aged man secretly found us and said that he was... instructed by Minister Si to come and discuss cooperation with us."

Although Wang Quan stumbled, he finally said the name of Minister Si.

After saying this, he glanced at Yan Nangui with a guilty look.

Anyone with a brain in the capital could see that the only person who could attack His Royal Highness Prince An was probably His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Wang Quan was conservative after all, and did not directly say it was Li Junhao, but mentioned his maternal grandfather, the Minister of Personnel Simaode.

"How could this happen? You..." Li Junze became furious after hearing this. He pointed at the two of them viciously, his fingers trembling with excitement.

"Your Highness Prince An, please calm down. In fact, whether it is the matter of Lord Jian or the matter of the water dike in Xiangyang City, we were all instructed by that person and deliberately framed Your Highness Prince An." Wang Quan added.

Yan Nangui looked at Wang Quan and the other man with a playful look in his eyes. "Then according to what Chief Wang said, what is the man's name? How did he contact you? Do you have any evidence?"

Deputy General Niu was a little confused at this time. In the past, if Lord Yan encountered such a situation, he would separate the two people in time and interrogate them separately. Only if the testimonies of the two were completely consistent would he determine that they were credible.

But this time, Lord Yan actually let the two of them together and began to interrogate them. What exactly did he want to do?

Wang Quan rolled his eyes and continued,

"That person, we don't know his name. He asked us to call him Mr. Liu. We have no way to find him. He always finds us. Every time, he asks the little beggar to wait for us at the gate of Prince An's Mansion. Only when we leave will he tell us the time and place to meet."

After hearing this, Li Junze breathed a sigh of relief. This matter was considered to have been resolved by Wang Quan without revealing any major flaws.

"As for the evidence, Mr. Liu is so cautious, how could he let us leave any evidence behind?"

Wang Quan seemed to have accepted his fate and told Li Junze everything. After he finished speaking, he seemed relieved and fell to the ground, kowtowed to Li Junze repeatedly.

"What Chief Wang said makes some sense, but how can I rely solely on my mouth to handle cases in the Dali Temple? Your confession is hard to be believed, especially since you were tortured for nearly two months in the government office, but you didn't say anything."

"I don't think you would be so loyal to Mr. Liu or Minister Si."

"Also, you guys have been unwilling to speak up, so why are you deciding to speak up now? And you want to tell it all like this?"

Yan Nangui spoke calmly and slowly, and saw the panic in Wang Quan's eyes as he wished.

Without even raising his head, Wang Quan replied directly, "We realized something was wrong after we finished the case in Xiangyang City. They just wanted to use us as pawns and didn't even care about our lives, so we wanted to confess early on, but, but..."

"But we both think that such a thing is hard to be believed. If the people of Minister Si knew about it in advance, we would definitely not survive."

"How dare you! You two mean to say that there is something fishy going on between my Dali Temple and the Minister of the Ministry of Rites?" Deputy General Niu couldn't bear to listen any longer and could not help but shout.

Wang Quan waved his hands repeatedly but did not say anything else to defend himself. It was obvious that they had their own guesses about the relationship between the Dali Temple and the Minister of the Court.

"So, today, you saw His Royal Highness Prince An coming over, so you dared to tell the truth, right?"

Yan Nangui's tone remained calm as he continued,

"But, you all rely on your mouths to tell the truth, which is equivalent to saying nothing in my Dali Temple. If your words today are not believed, you will not be able to present them to the emperor. I am afraid that these things will never be known to the emperor."

Wang Quan immediately looked at Li Junze. The other's face was still cold, but he was thinking about what Yan Nangui said.

Wang Quan finally made up his mind and continued, "I have evidence. When I met Mr. Liu once, I was more careful and hid one of his jade rings. Now it is in my bedroom in Prince An's Mansion."

Yan Nangui looked at Li Junze. Li Junze had an angry expression on his face, but he still asked the servant who followed him to take two guards to Prince An's mansion to look for the jade ring.

After a while, the guard who went to Prince An's mansion to get the jade ring came back, holding a round jade ring made of high-quality jade in his hand.

He presented it to Yan Nangui with both hands.

Yan Nangui took it and examined it carefully before he could say, "I don't see anything wrong with it. How can you prove that this jade ring belongs to Mr. Liu?"

Wang Quan then spoke up, "There is a small word 'Si' engraved on the lower back of this jade ring. Did you see it, sir?"