Harem Daily Life

At the entrance to the horse farm, the people from the Han Prince's Mansion and the guards had already started fighting. Today, the Han Prince's Mansion had brought fewer people and were not allowed to bring weapons, so they were quickly subdued by the guards.

"Father, what should we do?" Jing Yuwei cried and sobbed, her body covered in bruises, looking utterly disheveled.

King Han was furious at his son's lack of ambition, and nearly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Look at you! I went to so much trouble to plan this for you, and you're so useless!" King Han was furious. Such a fine young lady had ended up with a shady merchant.

"I never expected that Prince Jin wouldn't come!" Jing Yuwei wiped away her tears, filled with resentment.

"The Crown Prince has ordered a thorough investigation into whoever administered the drug today, and no one is allowed to leave." Outside, the head guard called out loudly, "King Han, please be patient. Once the truth is revealed, we will release you."

Anger flashed in the King of Han's eyes, and he narrowed them.

"Don't say anything in a moment, I will handle it myself. Just stay in the carriage and don't show your face." As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people arrived, surrounding the Crown Prince and his entourage.

The King of Han dismounted from his carriage and stepped forward, saying, "I need to take my daughter to see a doctor. I hope the Crown Prince will allow us to proceed."

He Yucheng raised his hand: "Go and take a look, female physician."

The female physician who had come with the imperial physician stepped out of the crowd to examine the patient, but was stopped by the King of Han.

"There's no need to trouble Your Highness and the physician. There are doctors at the Prince of Han's residence; we can go back and see them."

He Yucheng smiled and said, "Your Highness, it's not that I'm not letting you leave, but the matter of today has not yet been investigated. I have already given orders that no one is allowed to leave and must cooperate with the investigation. As for your daughter giving an invitation to a merchant without permission, that is suspicious in itself. I hope Your Highness will let Miss Jing come out so I can ask her a few questions."

The King of Han clenched his fists tightly: "Your Highness, the murder of my daughter is the greatest sorrow of my Han royal family! It would be more reasonable for Your Highness to question the others rather than the victim."

Seeing the Crown Prince's face darken, the Fourth Princess and the Crown Prince of Han, who were hidden in the crowd, quickly stepped forward and each tried to persuade the Crown Prince.

"Fifth Prince, Yuwei is already very upset. Why don't you let the Prince of Han's residence leave first? There are too many people around, and she has just gone through such a terrible ordeal. Why make things difficult for her?"

On the other side, the Crown Prince of Han also advised the King of Han: "Father, he is, after all, the Crown Prince and the heir apparent. You should treat him with more respect. We don't have that many guards. If things get out of hand, we will be the ones who suffer."

"Fifth Imperial Brother, I have never asked you for anything before. Today, I am begging you to let the Han Prince's Mansion leave. If this continues and we break off all ties, how will we end up?"

“Father, why don’t you take a step back and say something nice? If you can’t bring yourself to say it, then I will go and plead with him!”

……

After much arguing, the Crown Prince of Han and He Qian returned empty-handed, neither side willing to back down.

In a secluded courtyard of the horse farm that had never been open to the public, He Jin'an's complexion finally returned to normal. A thin layer of sweat covered his face and body, and he held Hua Yuerong, who had already fallen asleep from exhaustion, in his arms, gently stroking her back intermittently.

"Knock knock knock," Yin Jiu said in a low voice from outside the door, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince and the Prince of Han are at odds, and things are about to get out of hand."

A murderous glint flashed in He Jin'an's eyes. He quietly got up, afraid of disturbing the sleeping person, put on his clothes, and left the room.

"Send men to guard this place until I return." I must avenge myself the drugging incident I suffered today.

Anyone who dares to lay a hand on him is simply suicidal!

"Prince Jin has arrived!" The announcement came, and the crowd looked in the direction and saw Prince Jin, dressed in a blue robe, riding in.

The King of Han's eyes darkened as he looked at the newcomer who appeared to be without any problems.

He Jin'an dismounted and walked closer step by step until he stood before the Prince of Han. He looked directly at the Prince of Han and asked, "Prince Han, are you feeling guilty for disobeying the Crown Prince's orders and insisting on leaving?"

The moment those words were spoken, the surrounding crowd erupted in cheers—

"What does Prince Jin mean? Could it be that everything today was orchestrated by the Han Prince's residence?"

"Prince Jin has been absent for a long time. His appearance at this time must mean he's out investigating a case, right?"

"If it really was done by the Prince of Han's mansion, what would they be after? It couldn't be that they wanted the merchants."

"Is the real target not the merchants, but someone else?"

Sitting in the carriage, Jing Yuwei clenched her hands tightly. The discussion outside was so loud; she couldn't possibly have missed it. All she hoped for now was for the steward to erase all evidence, so that no one could use it against her.

Otherwise, everything she has today would be a huge joke!

Just when she feared it all, the conversation between the Prince of Han and Prince Jin outside plunged Jing Yuwei into an icy abyss.

"What does Prince Jin mean? I need to take my daughter to see a doctor. It's an urgent matter, is that wrong?"

He Jin'an sneered, "I never speak without evidence. I have my reasons for daring to directly point out that the King of Han is guilty."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand, and the guards brought up several servants from the horse farm. One of them saw the steward of the Prince of Han's mansion and quickly lowered his head.

The butler turned pale and his legs went weak.

"Gentlemen, as soon as I discovered that someone showed signs of being drugged, I sealed off the entire horse farm. Following the trail, I found that the problem originated from the tea provided by the horse farm. Of course, not everyone who drank the tea was drugged; only a small number of people were affected. And among these people, there happened to be the mastermind who truly intended to drug them."

After he finished speaking, his sharp gaze swept over Zhou Chen, who hurriedly said, "I don't know anything, I don't know anything!"

He Jin'an smiled and looked at the Prince of Han: "If the Prince of Han's mansion wants to recruit a merchant's son as a son-in-law, they can just come and talk to him directly. Why resort to such underhanded tricks and make so many people suffer along with them? Does the Prince of Han know that the other people who took Chinese medicine took a large amount of medicine to induce vomiting and are half dead?"

The King of Han angrily retorted, "Prince Jin, don't make baseless accusations. What does this have to do with my Han Royal Palace?"

"Heh, what does it have to do with me?" He Jin'an pointed, and the steward of the Han Prince's mansion trembled and knelt down.

"Is he the steward of your Prince Han's mansion? He found the person who brews tea, gave him twenty taels of silver, and sent five pots of tea laced with drugs to five different places."

The butler hurriedly kowtowed, "I...I...no, no..."

"One pot of tea was sent to the north stand and drunk by Young Master Wang; another pot was sent to the south stand and given to Zhou Chen, the one who had a secret rendezvous with Miss Jing in the carriage; another pot, also from the south stand, was given to Compiler Xiao of the Hanlin Academy; another pot was sent to the west stand and given to Vice Minister Shi of the Ministry of Revenue; and the last pot was sent to the east stand for me." After He Jin'an finished speaking, the steward turned ashen-faced and dared not utter another word.

"Fortunately, I brought my own tea and did not drink it. Otherwise, would your Han Prince's Mansion be plotting against the prince? Are you trying to rebel?"