Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

It turned out that Chu Yanluo wanted to steal the credit.

Shen Wantang finally understood what Xiao Qingyuan was here for. When she looked up, she saw Chu Yanluo walking in with his chin raised behind Xiao Qingyuan.

She was full of vigor, as if she was sure of victory because of her rebirth.

A subtle sneer appeared at the corner of Shen Wantang's lips. Chu Yanluo wouldn't think that he could catch the person just by knowing the result, right?

In his previous life, people from the Ministry of Justice had suspected Xiang Meng, but Xiang Meng was arrested and thrown into the prison of the Ministry of Justice and tortured severely, but he insisted that he was innocent.

The Ministry of Justice also had no evidence, and Nanny Jin and her family cried on the streets every day that their son was innocent, saying that the Ministry of Justice had arrested the wrong person and that they were trying to force him to confess. They begged people for justice everywhere.

Moreover, Xin Huailin wanted the real murderer. He didn't want the Ministry of Justice to find a scapegoat to deal with him. Without sufficient evidence, he was unwilling to admit that Xiang Meng was the murderer.

Otherwise, if the wrong person was arrested, it wouldn't matter if Xiang Meng died, but the real murderer would go unpunished. Xin Huailin felt that he was sorry for his dead relatives.

Later, Shen Wantang found the key evidence. Faced with the ironclad evidence, Xiang Meng knew it was futile to protest his innocence, so he admitted his guilt.

"Sir."

Shen Wantang said calmly, "How did Aunt Chu know that it was Aunt Jin's son who killed the thirteen people in the Xin family? Does she have any evidence?"

"This……"

Xiao Qingyuan turned around and looked at Chu Yanluo: "Do you have any evidence?"

Chu Yanluo said as if it was a matter of course: "What evidence do you need? I am very sure that the murderer is Nanny Jin's son Xiang Meng! The Crown Prince's Consort asked me for evidence. Could it be that she wanted to destroy the evidence and conceal the fact that her son killed someone for your dowry nanny?"

Huo Yunzhou at the side could not help but frowned: "For such a big case, of course, it is easier to arrest someone if there is evidence. It is normal for the Crown Prince's Consort to ask you if you have any evidence?"

Even his first reaction was to want evidence. This is the most basic reaction of a normal person. It is reasonable for Shen Wantang to ask this.

But this Chu Yanluo's train of thought seems to be a little different from that of ordinary people!

"It's normal for others to ask this, but if the Crown Prince's wife asks this, it's highly suspected that she's covering up for him. I've already said that Nanny Jin is the Crown Prince's wife's dowry nanny, and the relationship between them is very different. She might even have known that Xiang Meng killed thirteen members of the Xin family, but she deliberately concealed it for him."

Shen Wantang's face turned cold: "Mrs. Chu has no evidence and you framed me. I think you have ulterior motives. I asked you how you knew Xiang Meng was the murderer, but you couldn't explain it. Instead, you said that I had a different relationship with Aunt Jin. How did you know that?"

"Oh, what the Crown Princess said is true. Nanny Jin is your dowry nanny and your confidant. Of course, the relationship between us is different. Is there any need to explain this?"

Xiao Qingyuan hesitated for a moment and looked at Shen Wantang: "Where is Nanny Jin? I have been to your yard so many times, why don't I seem to have seen her?"

Shen Wantang said in a cold voice: "Your Highness, have you never met Nanny Jin?"

"Yeah, I haven't seen it."

"The prince hasn't even seen it. Aunt Chu has come to my place less often than the prince. How did she see that Nanny Jin and I have such an extraordinary relationship?"

"This……"

Xiao Qingyuan was also confused. He finally realized a problem: "Yanluo, where did you meet Nanny Jin? Where did you meet her son Xiang Meng? How did you know that he was the murderer?"

Chu Yanluo opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a word.

She looked around and saw many faces, but among all the faces, not a single one matched the Nanny Jin in her memory!

She was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat. She looked at everyone again in a hurry, but Nanny Jin was still not there.

"This is impossible! Where is Nanny Jin? Shen Wantang, where did you hide Nanny Jin?!"

Shen Wantang smiled coldly: "What do you mean by hiding? Didn't Aunt Chu swear that my dowry nanny and I have an extraordinary relationship? If the relationship is so good, why should I hide her? Shouldn't I keep her by my side every day and make her my right-hand man?"

Chu Yanluo’s face turned pale. She was careless!

She forgot that Shen Wantang is not Shen Mingxuan. Shen Wantang is scheming and resourceful, and he must have made arrangements for Nanny Jin long ago!

Shen Wantang looked at Chu Yanluo's pale face and asked again, "How did Aunt Chu know that my dowry nanny's surname was Jin? You seemed to have been looking for her just now. How come you have seen her?"

"I--"

Chu Yanluo only said one word and then found she couldn't continue, because she had never seen Nanny Jin in her life!

Shen Wantang stood up, walked to Xiao Qingyuan, and gave him an indifferent look: "Didn't the prince ask why he had never seen Nanny Jin in my courtyard? The reason is very simple. On the night of our wedding, Nanny Jin made a big mistake, so I sent her to the outer courtyard to be a nanny."

Xiao Qingyuan recalled the night of his wedding when he refused to lift the veil and left Shen Wantang behind, and he felt a little uneasy.

He felt that Shen Wantang's eyes were particularly cold when she looked at him at this moment. He asked her with a cautious tone: "What mistake did Nanny Jin make? Isn't she your dowry nanny? It's okay for her to make a small mistake. Why did you ask her to work as a maid in the outer courtyard?"

"Of course it's because the mistake she made was not a small one."

Shen Wantang said calmly, "On the night of our wedding, Nanny Jin tried to sow discord between us. She scolded me for not being able to keep the prince, and said that I should cry and make a scene so that the prince would know that I was not someone who could be easily bullied. If I kept silent, the prince would only treat me as a soft persimmon and bully me at will."

"Tell me, my lord, should I keep such a stubborn slave? Just because she is my dowry nanny, can she instigate me to cry, make a scene, and even hang myself with my lord?"

Chu Yanluo, who had really been crying, making a fuss, and even trying to hang herself, suddenly looked unhappy. It was obvious that Shen Wantang was making an indirect accusation!

She gnashed her teeth and refuted Shen Wantang: "No one can testify for what you said! Maybe Nanny Jin didn't do anything wrong at all, and you just knew that her son killed thirteen members of the Xin family, so you deliberately drove Nanny Jin away!"

Shen Wantang glanced at her. It turned out that rebirth did bring some advantages to Chu Yanluo. She had guessed half of the reason right.

She had indeed known that Nanny Jin's son was the murderer, so as soon as Nanny Jin made trouble, she immediately sent the man away. However, even if she didn't know that Nanny Jin's son was the murderer, she would have driven Nanny Jin away. After all, this was a spy deliberately planted by her stepmother Qi, and he was a bomb that could explode at any time.

"Why did Aunt Chu think of asking me for witnesses now? Who said that no evidence was needed just now?"

Shen Wantang raised a sneer at the corner of his lips: "However, Aunt Chu has no evidence, but I have witnesses who can prove why Aunt Jin was driven away."