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Chapter 267 You are playing Ace Attorney here!
Then Chu Lu muttered to himself, "Okay, now that we have successfully taken away her first place and blocked her counterattack, it's time to move on to the next step."

He immediately called a eunuch and said in a deep voice: "Pass on my order!"

The eunuch knelt down quickly: "Your servant is here!"

Chu Lu gave the order directly: "The eldest princess Jiang Miaoyan has a perverse personality, is not good at studying, often contradicts teachers, and even made a scene in the imperial study after failing the assessment, which is a violation of the royal etiquette. In order to temper her character and make her mature as soon as possible, I specially grant her marriage to the son of Dingyuan Marquis in the northwest border!"

As soon as the decree came out, there was naturally an uproar in the palace. Assigning it to the son of the marquis who guarded the border was almost equivalent to exile in disguise.

But with the turmoil in the previous sect assessment and Jiang Miaoyan's crazy performance, not many people were surprised this time. Instead, they felt that it was expected.

When the eunuch came to Lanri Villa and read the imperial edict, Jiang Miaoyan was completely stunned as if a basin of ice water was poured over her head. She never expected that before she could even fight back, Chu Lu's next move would come! And the reason was very high-sounding, exposing all her previous misdeeds, leaving her with no excuse to refute.

She wanted to rush into the palace again, but then she remembered the failure not long ago and calmed down.

She paused, then slowly said, "Go back and report. Tell father... I, your son, obey your order!"

The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict bowed and responded as if he had been pardoned, then fled from the depressing and dilapidated villa.

Looking at the eunuch's receding back, Jiang Miaoyan smiled coldly.

In her opinion, this imperial decree itself was meaningless. The real challenge was whether she could delay it and find a way out during this period of time. The wisest choice at the moment was to stabilize Chu Lu first, show a submissive attitude, and buy time.

This was not an admission of defeat, but a temporary retreat to accumulate strength for a subsequent counterattack. As long as she was still in the capital, she had the confidence to overthrow all of this.

On the other hand, Chu Lu was not surprised when he received the report. He knew that this was just a delaying tactic by Jiang Miaoyan, and she would never really marry far away obediently.

"I guess she's planning to do something big before getting married." Chu Lu said calmly, "I want to see what tricks she's up to."

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A few days later, in order to celebrate the successful completion of the clan school examination and to demonstrate the royal grace and power, Chu Lu held a celebratory banquet in the palace as usual.

The banquet was held in the side hall of the magnificent Hall of Supreme Harmony, which was decorated with lanterns and royal music. The princes and princesses, the sons of nobles, important officials of the court, and the imperial tutors of the imperial clan gathered together, toasting each other, and the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious on the surface.

Chu Lu sat high in the main seat, accepting everyone's congratulations, but his eyes kept sweeping down from time to time. Liu Jiajia sat not far from him, with a bit of shyness and joy on her face, obviously still immersed in the excitement of winning the first place. The prince seemed a little absent-minded, secretly glancing in a certain direction from time to time.

As for Jiang Miaoyan, who was supposed to be at the center of the storm, she unexpectedly showed up today. She was wearing a simple palace dress, sitting quietly in a corner, with no emotion on her face, except for a hint of cold resentment when she occasionally looked at Chu Lu.

The banquet went on as planned, with singing and dancing, and clinking glasses.

At this moment, Chu Lu noticed that the aura of the heroine behind Jiang Miaoyan suddenly emerged. Then the prince and Liu Jiajia exchanged glances, and then they stood up quietly at the same time, left the banquet, and walked towards a secluded corner outside the palace.

Chu Lu frowned slightly, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

"Qin Su, pay attention to them."

In the corner, the light is dim.

The prince's face was filled with distorted hatred that was completely different from his usual gentle image. He lowered his voice and said to Liu Jiajia, "Jiajia, that bitch is going to be married off to the frontier, but I won't accept that! She beat me and humiliated me before, and she even wanted to take away the Lanyue Villa that should have belonged to you! I can't swallow this!"

Liu Jiajia's eyes also flashed with resentment. She bit her lip and cried, "Brother Crown Prince, I, I won't accept this either! She even called me a bastard! Woohoo... I wish she would die right now!"

"Yes! She must die!" The prince's eyes were full of murderous intent. "We can't let her get away with it like this! When she's on her way to get married, I'll send people to disguise themselves as bandits and hack her to death! Then no one will be able to trace us back!"

"Okay! Okay!" Liu Jiajia nodded repeatedly with a satisfied smile on her face, "Let's do it! Let her die without a complete corpse!"

The two seemed completely unaware of how stupid and crazy this plan was. They seemed to be controlled by an invisible force and immersed in the pleasure of revenge.

At the same time, they did not notice that Jiang Miaoyan was standing in the shadow of the pillars not far away, with a smug sneer on her face, and she heard their conversation clearly.

"Hmph, you two idiots." Jiang Miaoyan sneered in her heart, "I knew you wouldn't just stay still. You actually want to kill me? You're really courting death! But this is a good opportunity!"

She quietly returned to the banquet, her face returning to its calm look, as if nothing had happened.

After a while, the prince and Liu Jiajia finished their discussion and returned to their seats, trying to act as if nothing had happened.

The banquet continued. After three rounds of drinks, the atmosphere was very lively.

At this moment, Jiang Miaoyan suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Father, I have something important to report!"

As soon as these words came out, the noisy hall suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on her.

Chu Lu raised his eyes to look at her, and said calmly: "What's the matter?"

Jiang Miaoyan raised a cold arc at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes swept over the uneasy Crown Prince and Liu Jiajia, and she said loudly: "Just now, I accidentally heard the Crown Prince and Princess Anle plotting outside the palace! They are going to send people disguised as bandits to kill me on my way to get married!"

boom!
The entire hall was in an uproar!

Everyone was stunned by this shocking revelation!
The prince turned pale, stood up suddenly, and shouted: "Nonsense!"

Liu Jiajia was so frightened that she subconsciously grabbed the prince's sleeve.

The ministers began to talk among themselves, looking at the Crown Prince and Liu Jiajia with shock in their eyes.

"How, how is this possible?!"

"The Crown Prince and the Princess are planning to murder the Princess?!"

"Oh my God! This is a serious crime!" Chu Lu frowned, stood up, and said in a deep voice: "Silence!"

He looked at the pale-faced Crown Prince and Liu Jiajia, then turned to Jiang Miaoyan, with obvious doubt in his tone: "Jiang Miaoyan, this matter is very serious. Do you have any evidence? The Crown Prince is the crown prince of the country, and Princess Anle is also the princess I personally conferred. How could the two of them do such a crazy thing? This is too absurd, isn't it?"

Chu Lu's words calmed the shocked crowd down a bit. Indeed, this matter sounded too bizarre, and the image of the prince and Liu Jiajia was far from such vicious behavior. Could there be some misunderstanding?
However, Jiang Miaoyan seemed to have expected Chu Lu to say this, and a sarcastic expression appeared on her face, as if she had been waiting for you.

"Humph! I knew you would favor them, father!" She sneered, then raised her voice and said with full confidence, "Fortunately, I am well prepared! Of course I have evidence!"

"Oh? What evidence is it?" everyone asked.

Jiang Miaoyan clapped her hands in triumph, and a palace maid who had been waiting outside the palace came in with an exquisite bird cage. In the cage was a parrot with bright feathers.

Everyone was confused when they saw this, not understanding what the parrot had to do with the murder.

Jiang Miaoyan walked to the bird cage, pointed at the parrot, and said proudly: "This is the parrot that I carefully raised. It is the best at imitating human speech! When the prince and Liu Jiajia were plotting just now, it was nearby! It heard every word of their conversation!"

She paused, looked at Chu Lu provocatively, and raised a triumphant arc at the corner of her mouth: "Now, let it repeat the conspiracy of those two people to the emperor and everyone else!"

After that, she teased the parrot for a few times.

The parrot was indeed very clever. It flapped its wings a few times and then imitated the voices of the prince and Liu Jiajia very vividly:

"Jia Jia, that bitch is going to be married off to the frontier, but I won't accept that!..."

"Brother Crown Prince, I, I won't accept this! She even called me a bastard!..."

"Yes! She must die!... Send someone to disguise as a bandit and hack her to death!..."

"Okay! Okay! Let's do it this way! Let her die without a complete body! ..."

The parrot imitated the conversation between the two people vividly, even the resentment and excitement in their tone.

The prince's face turned pale as paper and he collapsed to the ground. Liu Jiajia almost fainted from fright.

There was another uproar in the hall! Angry accusations surged towards the crown prince and Liu Jiajia like a tide!

"Worse than a beast!"

"You are unworthy of being the crown prince!"

"Scorpion-hearted!"

Jiang Miaoyan looked at the chaotic scene, feeling extremely proud! She looked at Chu Lu provocatively, her eyes seemed to say: Look! There are witnesses and evidence! What else do you have to say this time? !

She had already begun to think about how she would force Chu Lu to revoke the order of marriage and return the stolen first place in the clan school to her when Chu Lu came to her humbly to beg him in order to save the lives of the prince and Liu Jiajia!

Just then, Chu Lu moved.

He walked down the steps expressionlessly and went straight to the birdcage.

Under everyone's astonished gaze, Chu Lu suddenly reached out and grabbed the parrot in the cage, and then...

Click!

With a crisp sound, the parrot that was still chattering had its neck broken by him and became silent instantly!
The whole place was dead silent.

The smug smile on Jiang Miaoyan's face froze instantly, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she looked at the parrot corpse in Chu Lu's hand in disbelief.

After a few breaths, she finally reacted. Her face suddenly turned red, then turned blue. She screamed, "What are you doing? How could you destroy the evidence!"

Chu Lu casually threw the parrot's body on the ground, turned around, looked at everyone calmly, and said lightly: "Evidence? This is ridiculous."

He looked at Jiang Miaoyan, his tone was full of sarcasm: "Since ancient times, trials have been based on evidence. I have never heard of a beast being used to convict someone. You said it can imitate human speech, so it can imitate human speech?"

"Okay." Chu Lu paused, then changed the subject, "But who knows whose words it learned? Did you teach it? Or did some palace maid or eunuch say them when they were bored and teasing it? Can a flat-haired beast tell the difference? Can it tell you who it learned from?"

Jiang Miaoyan was suddenly speechless.

This is indeed impossible to prove. When a parrot imitates something, it is imitating. How can it prove who it is imitating and in what context?

"You, you are making up stories!" Jiang Miaoyan was so angry that she was shaking all over, but she could only utter such a weak rebuttal, "That's what they said! That's it!"

"That's enough." Chu Lu was too lazy to talk nonsense with her. He waved his hand and said loudly to everyone in the hall, "This matter is full of doubts and the evidence is insufficient. Don't believe it. The banquet continues! This matter ends here. Anyone who dares to make irresponsible remarks again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

He took one last look at Jiang Miaoyan, who was about to explode with anger, and said in a cold tone: "Your face looks dark. If you are not feeling well, you can leave on your own."

After saying that, he turned around and walked back to the main seat, signaling the palace music to continue playing, as if the farce just now had never happened.

"You!" Jiang Miaoyan looked at Chu Lu's indifferent figure, then looked at the people around her who were silent as a mouse. She felt a surge of blood rushing to her head, and her vision went dark!
She had never suffered such a humiliation!
She thought that her counterattack was ingenious, but Chu Lu easily resolved it! He even humiliated her in the process!
"Old thing!" Jiang Miaoyan gritted her teeth, every word seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth, full of deep hatred, "Just wait! This matter is not over! It is definitely not over!"

After saying this harsh word, she left the hall angrily.

Chu Lu returned to his seat, picked up the wine glass, and took a sip. There was no expression on his face, but he silently complained in his heart: "You are crazy, and you even use a parrot as a witness. Are you playing Ace Attorney here?"

(End of this chapter)