readsfreenovel Chapter 303 No one can escape
Chapter 303 No one can escape
"Brother Prince Rong, I'll have to trouble you again. Take Wen Zhuangyuan away and comfort him. Don't let him stand there like a fool." When Zhou Chang looks at Wen Qingyan again, his handsome guy filter has been shattered.
"Yes, yes, how could I forget about him? If those guys hadn't pulled him back to discuss poetry, I wouldn't have... Alas, I was so anxious just now that I lost my mind. I should have let him leave first." Prince Rong wiped his forehead, sweating profusely.
"By the way, Brother Prince Rong," Prince Rong was about to leave to get Wen Qingyan away, but Zhou Chang grabbed him again and asked in a low voice, "Since the incident, has Wen Qingyan said anything? Did he admit or not that he wrote these love letters?"
Prince Rong had a sad face. "Alas, after the incident, he couldn't say a word. He just stood there like a clay figure, not saying a word."
Zhou Chang was still worried.
The skinny monkey also whispered, "Your Highness, what I saw was exactly as His Royal Highness Prince Rong said. The top scholar has been standing there for almost an incense stick of time, and his posture has not changed. It's as if he ate something wrong and his voice was poisoned and he became mute."
"Thank you, Brother Prince Rong." Zhou Chang then let go.
Prince Rong walked away quickly with his entourage.
The skinny monkey slapped his forehead and said: "Oh, I was so anxious just now that I lost my mind. I should have asked someone to take back all the letters from these people as soon as possible."
"No, no need... If you had done that just now, wouldn't it have made things even more obvious and made people feel guilty." Zhou Chang calmed down and came up with an idea in his mind.
“Ah…?” The skinny monkey didn’t understand.
"Since everyone has seen it, why not take a closer look?" Zhou Chang's phoenix eyes turned back into crescent moons, and he suddenly shouted to everyone at the table.
When these words were spoken, most people heard them clearly and their eyes widened.
As Zhou Chang spoke, he walked into the banquet with his hands behind his back, looking at the guests with a smile on his face. He became more and more determined in his heart that no matter whether these love letters were true or false, they must, could only, be false now.
As a result, people who were waiting to watch the fun would feel embarrassed to comment.
"Eat well, drink well, and get moving..." Zhou Chang seemed to be strolling in the garden, constantly greeting people to liven up the atmosphere.
After looking around for a while, accompanied by the sound of drums and music, the atmosphere has been restored a lot.
Zhou Chang had already made up his mind. He returned to the front, avoiding others, and instructed the skinny monkey, "Monkey, go and ask Gao Yuan to gather all our palace soldiers, surround the front and back of the central hall, and keep an eye on all the guests. Don't let any of them escape tonight."
"Your Highness, what are you going to do? You won't kill everyone to silence them, right? There are so many people here." The skinny monkey gave an exaggerated expression of horror.
Zhou Chang slapped him on the forehead and said, "What are you thinking about? Go quickly, the chance to make a fortune has come again. Oh, is Shopkeeper Fu coming today too? Tell him to go find some incense or something else, the more the better."
"Okay." The skinny monkey suddenly understood, grinned, and ran away.
Just as the skinny monkey ran away, Zhou Chang remembered something and said to Zhong Yu, who was still frowning, "Mr. Zhong, take someone to my study and bring the largest wine jar in the corner over here. Be careful not to open it or break it."
"What is the prince going to do?" Zhong Yu seemed to be still racking his brains for a countermeasure.
"Mr. Zhong, don't ask any more questions. Just go quickly." Zhou Chang urged.
"No, no, no, no matter what the prince wants to do now, it's not good," Zhong Yu just shook his head, "Although reputation is a fleeting thing, the prince's status is different. Once it is destroyed, the consequences will be serious, too serious."
Zhou Chang was so anxious that he pushed people out: "Don't worry, sir. I have an idea. You should go quickly. If you are slow, it will be a big deal."
Zhong Yu sighed dejectedly, how could he believe it? However, he could not resist Zhou Chang's urging, so he could only turn around and leave.
Zhou Chang then turned around and found the table where Yuan Jie was sitting. He asked Yuan Jie to sit down again, and ordered a cup of tea to quench his thirst.
After drinking half a cup of tea, his mind calmed down completely, and he was in the mood to tease the child: "Yuanjie, are you done eating?"
"Ah? I've eaten, I've finished eating..." Yuanjie, a twelve-year-old child, also knew the seriousness of the matter. He kept fidgeting beside Zhou Chang, looking at Zhou Chang's face for a while, then turning back to look at He Xi for help.
Zhou Chang put down his teacup and said, "After eating, let Uncle He take your people back first. Don't worry about this place, and don't mention it when you go back."
"This..." Yuanjie looked at Uncle He.
Uncle He was always nervous and didn't know how to answer.
At this time, Aunt Jing came back, bringing with her Yuan Qi's maid Lu Ju.
Aunt Jing found Zhou Chang and whispered in his ear: "My Lord, the letter is true, but the princess has something to tell you."
Zhou Chang looked at Lu Ju.
Lu Ju stepped forward and bowed, then approached carefully, and replied in a voice that Zhou Chang had to struggle to hear clearly: "Your Highness Prince Yi, my young lady said that the Yuan family had supported Master Wen's career advancement. Since the master's accident, Master Wen was grateful for the Yuan family's kindness and has been exchanging letters. These letters should have been returned, but I never thought that the Yuan family was robbed a few days ago, and this box of letters was lost with them. I don't know why it ended up here."
"Oh..." Zhou Chang nodded.
So that's how the letter got lost, but we still don't know who intentionally spread it.
Lu Ju paused, and finally said: "My young lady said..., Your Highness had met Master Wen before, and I'm sure Your Highness knows what the relationship between my young lady and Master Wen is like. Everything is up to Your Highness to decide."
"I understand. You can go ahead." Zhou Chang waved his hand and asked Lu Ju to go back.
Lu Ju only waited for this reply, and a flash of disappointment flashed across her eyes, but she could only bow again and retreat.
Zhou Chang had been thinking about his next move in his mind. He turned around and said to Aunt Jing, "Aunt Jing, please send Yuan Jie and the others back first for me."
"Yes." Aunt Jing's face no longer had the joy she had in the past few days, and she agreed softly.
At this point, Yuanjie and his group had to leave even if they didn't want to, so they stood up and said goodbye.
In the end, Zhou Chang was the only one left at the table.
Zhou Chang went to send the people sent by the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Household Department: "You have worked hard, the incident happened suddenly and the situation is special. I will trouble you to go up and say hello. There will be a generous reward later."
"Yes..." The group that had been lazily watching from the sidelines started to move again.
After a while, the atmosphere at the banquet became more relaxed, and many people began to take out their writing papers and chew them.
Zhou Chang watched coldly, feeling as if a huge hole had been pierced through his heart, with gusts of cold wind howling.
By tonight, what happened at Prince Yi's wedding banquet will spread throughout the entire Jindu City. Within half a month, the people of the entire Dalin Kingdom will probably know about it.
This incident was definitely not a coincidence, but she had already lost the initiative and was afraid that she would not be able to catch the person who spread the letter.