Shen Changyun raised his eyebrows, "Oh? That means Miss Ling sneaked into the capital before?"

His words were a bit serious. Without the written document sent to the capital, it would mean that he did not respect the emperor's authority. Ling Ling's crime was still related to treason.

But how could a weak woman like her rebel? Fu Bin still felt that Ling Ling was somewhat wronged, so he decided to help her again.

At an angle where Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun were not paying attention, he desperately winked at her, "Girl from the Ling family, I remember that you had a serious illness before and stayed at home. I think it was a woman in the capital who looked like you. Hurry up and apologize to the prince and his wife for what you did just now. The prince and his wife are both kind people, and they will not hold it against you."

Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun looked at each other and chuckled at the same time.

Fu Bin was kind-hearted and spoke for Ling Ling by avoiding the main point, which made him a benevolent official.

They didn't say anything. After all, the main reason for their trip to Yunzhou was the matter of Jiang Chan, not to compete with Ling Ling.

Unexpectedly, after hearing these words, Ling Ling became more convinced that Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun were bullying others, and Fu Bin was in cahoots with them, which made her feel even more humiliated.

She became even angrier, and even stepped forward, glaring at Li Qingqian with her hands on her hips, "Even if I went to the capital, so what? Didn't you still drive me out of the capital like a duck? Li Qingqian, you like A Lin but you don't dare to compete with me openly, and you have to use despicable means behind my back. This selfish and hypocritical look really makes me feel sick...ah!"

Before she could finish her words, a tightly wound whip appeared around her neck. The next moment, she was thrown out and fell heavily to the ground, coughing up blood foam.

Fu Bin couldn't help but stand up and look at the owner of the whip, "Prince, you..."

"Master Fu," Shen Changyun interrupted mercilessly, "You don't want a good place like Yunzhou to have a bad reputation of 'poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people', do you?"

Fu Bin's face flushed. Yunzhou was not a remote and poor place. It could even be considered rich. Only Bailian Town had lagged behind in recent years.

But Shen Changyun's words were rough but true.

Yunzhou has been a picturesque place with clear waters and rich and prosperous in recent years. However, Ling Ling, a commoner of Yunzhou, behaved like this. He stood with his hands on his hips and glared at the Crown Prince's wife without any manners, which made him seem no different from those ruffians.

He has worked diligently for Yunzhou over the years and has almost exhausted his efforts to lead the people of Yunzhou to live a good life. Now that his shortcomings have been exposed by Shen Changyun, he feels truly ashamed.

Li Qingqian curled her lips slightly and added, "Even if it's for the reputation of the Zhenguo Mansion and the Left Prime Minister Li Mansion, I have to say something. Miss Ling Ling, the last time you went to the capital, you couldn't produce proof that you were a citizen of Dawei. At that time, the capital had just received foreign envoys. As a woman from the capital, I naturally have to consider the safety of Dawei. Your various behaviors are inconsistent with my Dawei citizens. I suspect you a little bit, and I sent you to the government for official prosecution. What's wrong with that?"

Ling Ling spat out blood foam and looked up at her unwillingly.

Li Qingqian then said, "Besides, you knew that Jiang Lin, the son of the Jiang family who went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, had an engagement with my sister and had not yet married. Yet you urged Jiang Jialang to take you as a concubine before the marriage. Do you know how much trouble this would bring to both of us?"

After hearing this, Fu Bin looked at Ling Ling with disbelief.

Although this girl is a little willful on weekdays, she is only lawless in front of him, which makes her cute.

But he never expected that Ling Ling would be bold enough to do such a thing with others.

He knew the young master of the Jiang family. He was a few years younger than him, but very talented.

This time Jiang Lin went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, and as the prefect, he also gave him some travel expenses, sincerely hoping that he could achieve great things in Beijing.

When the news of Jiang Lin's engagement with the daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion was reported back to Yunzhou, although he felt a little sorry that Jiang Lin was indulging in love before passing the imperial examination, he still sent him some gifts to express his feelings.

Those little gifts that Jiang Lin gave to Li Shuyue were just a token of his appreciation from Fu Bin.

But what made Fu Bin feel even more complicated was hearing that Ling Ling and Jiang Lin had done such a thing.

No wonder, at the end of last year, when he went to visit Ling Ling's family, he was told by Ling's father and mother that she was seriously ill and could not see anyone.

Was it because of this incident?

There was a hint of loss in Fu Bin's eyes when he looked at Ling Ling, as if something in his heart was broken at this moment.

Li Qingqian slowly stood up, took a few steps towards her, and said, "You just said that I like Jiang Lin? Haha, what a funny joke. Let me ask you, the emperor's nephew or a poor scholar who lives off his wife and feels justified, who do you think is better?"

Ling Ling seemed to have caught something wrong in her words and laughed sarcastically, "You are indeed like this, vain, greedy, and short-sighted. You only want the glory and wealth at the moment, but you never thought that things may change over time. If someone else makes a comeback in the future, you must not regret it... ahem... don't regret it!"

Li Qingqian smiled and hid her lips. "It seems that Miss Ling's words are like, if I like Jiang Lin, I'm wrong, but if I don't like Jiang Lin, I'm also wrong. May I ask Miss Ling, I'm a noble lady, the daughter of the Prime Minister's family, why would I lower my status and treat your bad-behaved scholar as a treasure?"

Ling Ling couldn't put it into words, but she just thought that Li Qingqian was extremely mean and hypocritical.

Li Qingqian's expression darkened. "Let me ask you again, my husband and I came to Yunzhou to investigate the matter of Jiang Chen. We started to deal with this matter the next day after arriving in Bailian Town. Is this hypocritical? But you placed the two bodies in the main room of their house and refused to bury them. You kept saying that you wanted to deter Jiang Chen, but now whether Jiang Chen is really a criminal or not is still under investigation. How is this calculation?"

Ling Ling was also confused at the moment, but not because of what Li Qingqian said, but because she was troubled: Why was it not Li Qingqian who married Jiang Lin, but the more difficult Li Shuyue? Why is Li Qingqian living such a good life now after marrying Shen Changyun?

She originally thought that Li Qingqian was a gentle person, and it was not the time to deal with her brother yet, so no matter how much injustice she suffered, she would not care.

If things had developed as they were supposed to, Li Qingqian would have been living a miserable life under her control, and would not have been able to live as happily and carefree as she does now.

Ling Ling looked at Shen Changyun who was sitting beside her and looking at Li Qingqian humiliating her with a doting look on his face.

Isn't this guy wild and unruly? After learning that Li Qingqian saved Jiang Lin, he was extremely disappointed with her and stayed away from her from then on?

But now, not only did he marry her, he also spoiled her to the point of being lawless.

Could it be that I was wrong, and Shen Changyun was actually the one I should turn to?

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