The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

The groom quietly stepped aside without saying a word. The whole scene instantly fell into silence, without any extra sound. At this time, Li Fuyin stared at the beggar in front of him with a sharp gaze and continued to ask, "Have you moved your body since the accident?"

Upon hearing this, the beggar pointed to his wounded and bloody right leg, with a look of sorrow on his face. He cried to Li Fuyin: "Sir, please open your eyes and look at my leg. I can't even move an inch!"

However, Li Fuyin was not moved by his words. He remained calm and asked the coachman Wang Ji beside him: "Where is the coachman now? Has the carriage moved since the incident?"

At this moment, Wang Ji, who had been standing in the crowd, was in awe of Li Fuyin's majesty, but when he heard that it was finally his turn to answer, he still did not dare to be negligent. He hurriedly stepped forward and responded respectfully: "To answer your words, after the accident, the Crown Princess noticed that the matter was quite strange, and specifically instructed me that neither the horse nor the carriage should be moved at all. Therefore, this carriage has not been moved from beginning to end."

After listening to Wang Ji's answer, Li Fuyin nodded slightly, indicating that he knew the situation. Then, he pondered for a moment, and then turned his eyes to the beggar again, and asked sharply: "Since you claim that the carriage wheels ran over your legs, and you and the carriage did not move afterwards, then according to this inference, you should be at the back of the carriage at this moment, but why are you at the front of the carriage and right next to the horse?"

Before this, the eyes of the onlookers were all focused on the pitiful beggar. They only expressed deep sympathy and pity for his serious leg injury, and no one thought about the matter more deeply. However, at this moment, when Li Fuyin pointed out the key point, the crowd suddenly exploded, and people began to talk among themselves. However, due to Li Fuyin's majesty, everyone dared to whisper in a low voice.

Facing the sharp questioning of Li Fuyin, the beggar was obviously overwhelmed. He stammered and tried to explain himself, but the more he spoke, the more confused he became. In the end, he simply started to act like a fool and said, "Oh, I am really stupid. I don't understand what you are saying about the front of the car and the rear of the car! I don't know what you mean, sir?"

Upon seeing this, Li Fuyin's face darkened, and he scolded mercilessly: "Humph! Stop talking so slickly to me here! If you don't answer the questions honestly, I will give you twenty lashes of the cane first, and you can come back and answer me after you are done with the cane!"

The beggar was so frightened by these words that he trembled all over and quickly changed his words, "Oh, I suddenly remembered! I remembered it wrong just now. Actually, my leg was severely injured by the horse's hoof, not by the wheel! So there is naturally no blood on the wheel, the blood must be on the horse's hoof! I shouldn't be at the rear of the car."

Upon hearing this, Li Fuyin immediately ordered his men to lift up the horse's hoof and examine it carefully. But the result was disappointing - no matter how hard they searched, the hoof was still clean, without any trace of blood. Even so, the beggar still insisted that the Crown Princess's men must have cleaned up the blood before the three adults arrived.

Seeing that the questioning seemed to have gone around in circles and returned to the starting point without any progress, Prime Minister Gu approached Li Fuyin slightly, lowered his voice and carefully suggested: "Lord Li, you see that the matter has reached a deadlock, and it may be difficult to reach a definite conclusion in a short period of time. Moreover, this carriage has been stuck here, and the adverse impact caused is really not small! Besides, the Crown Princess must have important matters to deal with when traveling in a carriage. Why don't we let the Crown Princess' carriage go first, and then take the man lying on the ground back to the government office, and then slowly question him?"

However, before Li Fuyin could express his opinion, Shang Zhongshu at the side hurriedly spoke out to strongly oppose: "Don't do this! The whole incident is still confusing and the truth is unknown. If we let the Crown Princess leave so easily and take the person who was knocked to the ground away directly, it will inevitably give others the impression that we favor the Crown Princess. Even if it is found out in the end that this man did intend to blackmail the Crown Princess, it is very likely that the outside world will believe that we forced him to change his words and confess through torture. In this way, not only will the reputation of the Crown Princess herself be damaged, but even the entire Crown Prince's Mansion will be implicated and questioned. And this is exactly the sinister purpose that this man and his mastermind hope to achieve!"

Hearing Shang Zhongshu's fierce rebuttal, Prime Minister Gu could not help but frown slightly and gently persuaded: "Shang Zhongshu may be too worried. Maybe this is just an accidental incident. Maybe there are some misunderstandings between the two parties. Why are there so many complicated conspiracies!"

Li Fuyin has always been known for his integrity and impartiality. His iron-faced and impartial appearance makes people fear him. No matter who pleads or puts pressure on him, he ignores them all. Even if the person standing in front of him is the Crown Princess of noble status, he still acts according to his principles without mercy, completely disregarding whether the Crown Princess is in a hurry to get on the road to do things.

At this moment, he only wanted to find out the truth behind this incident, who was making up stories and confusing the public. He looked at Prime Minister Gu and Shang Zhongshu with a firm gaze, and said righteously: "Since this incident happened in the area under my jurisdiction, I will naturally do my best to investigate the truth. I don't need to bother you two to worry about it!"

Hearing this, Prime Minister Gu and Shang Zhongshu looked at each other with a hint of embarrassment on their faces. They wanted to intervene in this matter, but they didn't expect to be rejected. They could only look at each other helplessly, smile bitterly, and then shut up and said nothing more.

At this time, the head of the palace soldiers quietly walked to the side of Li Fuyin and reported to him in a low voice: "Sir, the doctor that the Crown Princess asked me to send for has arrived."

Li Fuyin pointed at the beggar on the ground and ordered the doctor, "Doctor, take a look at the man's injuries."