Favoring concubines and ignoring wives? The mistress of the marquisate remarried a powerful official

Qian Xingyu couldn't bear to watch Lou Mengyun talking nonsense. He set his eyes on the official standing beside him and said, "Come here, bring the torture instruments! This woman is still not giving in. We should let her see the power of the Dali Temple's torture instruments."

Lou Mengyun was so frightened when she heard this that she almost fell over. She could only kneel on the floor of the Dali Temple to steady herself. Although Lou Mengyun was the daughter of a minor official, she had been raised in luxury since she was a child. She had never seen such a scene in the Dali Temple.

The officer from the Dali Temple took out a handful of silver needles and placed them in front of Lou Mengyun, asking her to watch as her three souls and seven spirits flew away.

At this time, Qian Xingyu, who was sitting on top, spoke again, and said to Lou Mengyun, "Miss Lou, it's not too late for you to tell the truth now. Otherwise, I'm afraid you can't stand this iron torture device."

Lou Mengyun closed her eyes, not daring to think about how it would feel to have those silver needles inserted into her fingers. She knelt on the ground and trembled as she spoke, "Sir, I..."

Before Lou Mengyun could finish her words, the official outside shouted into the Dali Temple, "Princess Xiangyu is here—"

Everyone in the court looked out the door, except Yin Yichen, who seemed to have expected it and drank his tea leisurely.

After a while, Princess Xiangyu came in from outside. Looking at the scene, she put on a fake smile and said, "Prime Minister, I asked Miss Lou to follow you out of the palace yesterday. Why didn't you let Miss Lou go home? Now we have to go to court."

When Yin Yichen heard Princess Xiangyu say this, he immediately put the teacup aside and looked at Princess Xiangyu with a half-smile, "That's not quite right. I want to ask you, Princess. You have a grudge against me. Why did you let this murderer leave the palace with this Prime Minister's carriage?"

"Murderer? How could that be? A girl like Miss Lou wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken." Princess Xiangyu said with a smile, "I'm afraid this is just a misunderstanding."

Lou Mengyun, who was kneeling on the ground, heard Princess Xiangyu coming, and immediately turned around and knelt down towards her, saying to her, "Your Highness, please stand up for me. I didn't assassinate the prime minister. I didn't."

Qian Xingyu, who was sitting at the top, now felt a headache. This case could have been closed, but now it was being confronted by these two demons. He was afraid that things would not turn out well. "Now that there are witnesses and evidence, it is really impossible to deny it. Miss Lou wanted to plead guilty just now, but who would have thought that she would change her mind immediately after seeing the princess."

Princess Xiangyu snorted coldly after hearing this. "Witnesses? The witnesses are all from the Prime Minister's Mansion, so they will naturally be on his side. I'm afraid these witnesses can't be counted."

"There are so many people in my Prime Minister's Mansion, just ask them all whether the situation is true. If someone changes their words and the Dali Temple finds out, then my Prime Minister's Mansion is willing to suffer this loss." When Yin Yichen heard Princess Xiangyu say this, his face turned colder and he just smiled at Princess Xiangyu, "It's just that Lou Mengyun and Princess Xiangyu have always been good friends. I'm afraid Princess Xiangyu is just trying to cheat for personal gain."

"You..." Seeing Yin Yichen being so aggressive, Princess Xiangyu didn't know what to say for a moment, so she just changed her mind and said, "Miss Lou is a girl, and she followed the Prime Minister out of the palace. She originally wanted to ask for protection, but she didn't expect the Prime Minister to accuse her of assassinating the Prime Minister without any reason. If I had known that day, I shouldn't have asked Miss Lou to follow the Prime Minister out of the palace."

"That's right." Yin Yichen nodded in agreement and said to Princess Xiangyu, "Princess Xiangyu really doesn't know. It was because she was concerned about Miss Lou's safety that she found the opportunity. Otherwise, it would not be good for a girl to leave the palace in the same carriage with a man like me in the middle of the night. I'm afraid she already had evil intentions and was just waiting for this opportunity to use her power as a princess to let her follow me out of the palace. Then she entered my Prime Minister's Mansion and shamelessly asked to stay there for the night, hoping to find a chance to assassinate me."

"You..." Princess Xiangyu's face now looked frighteningly ugly.

Yin Yichen's poisonous tongue had allowed him to debate dozens of censors in the court without losing. Princess Xiangyu was, after all, just a girl in the boudoir, so how could she be able to defeat Yin Yichen?

But now, it’s not that Princess Xiangyu must protect Lou Jiacheng. Lou Jiacheng is just a minor official of the seventh rank, so it doesn’t matter if he is gone.

It was really because Lou Jiacheng surrendered to him, but the important thing was that he fell just after he got close to the princess. In the future, who among these officials would dare to continue to be on good terms with the princess?

Princess Xiangyu's expression became even uglier when she thought of this. She looked at Yin Yichen and said directly, "If the Prime Minister insists on saying this, it is just his one-sided words. He has never heard what Miss Lou said. If the Prime Minister does this, then I am afraid that the whole court can accuse anyone they want. What is the point of keeping the Dali Temple?"

"She was given a chance to speak, but she just refused to speak." Yin Yichen smiled faintly, his eyes fell on Qian Xingyu who was sitting above him, and said with a faint smile, "Sir, you agree, right?"

"Yes, yes." Qian Xingyu responded repeatedly. He really couldn't afford to offend either Yin Yichen or Princess Xiangyu under him.

But now, Qian Xingyu had no choice but to continue asking, "Miss Lou, I'll give you one last chance to tell the truth. If you still don't, don't blame me, the Dali Temple, for being rude to you."

Lou Mengyun was now trembling all over. When she raised her head, she saw Yin Yichen's smiling eyes.

Yin Yichen said in a low voice, "Some people are unwilling to speak. Is your real purpose to steal the military deployment map from my bedroom and give it to the enemy's spies? If not, you wouldn't be so afraid to admit it."

As soon as these words were spoken, Qian Xingyu, who was sitting on top, felt a chill on his back.

If it was simply because he hated Yin Yichen for assassinating the prime minister, then everything would be fine. But if it was to steal Yin Yichen's defense map, then it was a crime of treason and the entire clan would be executed.

After hearing this, Lou Mengyun dared not say anything else, so she kowtowed and confessed, "I confess my guilt. I just wanted to have a one-night stand with the Prime Minister because of his beauty. I asked her to give me a status, and it would be good to be his concubine. Who would have thought that the Prime Minister would get drunk to death. I had no choice but to get angry and take a pair of scissors to assassinate the Prime Minister. It really had nothing to do with the Prime Minister's father."

It seems that Lou Mengyun has some brains now. Otherwise, her whole family would be in trouble. Unfortunately, how could Yin Yichen let her have her way.

Yin Yichen immediately said, "Miss Lou, think about it carefully, is this really the case?"