Spring Drunk Chang'an

Madam Sun was also crying.

The couple both knelt before the Grand Prince.

Emperor Yingwu:...

Zhenguobo: ...

Lady Zhenguo: ...

A crowd of onlookers: ...

There was silence in the main hall.

After a long while, Liu Xiu suddenly jumped out, gnashing his teeth and pointing at the Duke of Zhenguo, cursing: "Xu Liang, your family is really not human, they are really a bunch of beasts!!"

"The old one is crooked, and the young one is crooked too!"

"Your house is completely ruined from head to toe!"

"Hopeless!!"

He is 'righteous and awe-inspiring'.

Emperor Yingwu:...

Song Bin: ...

Song:......

The three of them looked at him silently.

"Liu Xiu, you have the nerve to criticize others!" Old Mrs. Song couldn't help but muttered softly.

Liu Changan pursed his lips, a smile flashing in his eyes.

In the palace, Emperor Yingwu was also stunned for a while, and after a moment, he said, "Sun Qing, you say so..."

"Is there any evidence?"

"Did Xu Fang really force his wife to kill their daughter?"

He didn't ask for evidence of whether Xu Yuan and Xu Ruyi wanted to kill to silence the witnesses, he just asked about Xu Fang.

After all, in his opinion, Xu Yuan and Xu Ruyi were able to commit incest, elope in the bridal chamber, and murder their husbands. They were heartless people, so what was killing their sister-in-law?

Nothing that a person like this does is strange.

"Uh..." Lord Sun was slightly stunned. He obviously didn't expect that the Emperor didn't ask a single word about the incest between brother and sister that he had anticipated would be even more 'explosive'. Moreover, there were so many people in the palace!

The Duke of Zhenguo, the Duke of Ningguo, and the Duke of Cheng'en are all here.

When he first entered the hall and saw Xu Liang, he was so exhausted that he didn't go up to hit him.

Lord Sun knew about the marriage between the Liu and Xu families today. There was a vague conspiracy behind his daughter's madness and his granddaughter's death from illness. They had heard about it several months ago.

The daughter's maidservant who came with her as a dowry - the girl who was sold to the northwest by Xu Fang because she did not take good care of Miss Sun - escaped back and told them the truth of what happened that year.

Doctor Sun’s first reaction was nonsense.

As someone who read the classics, he really couldn't believe that there were such wicked people in the world, and that his daughter had to deal with them. However, even if he was a little pedantic, he had been an official for so many years and had seen all kinds of disgusting people. His son-in-law was a bastard, and his in-laws' children were beasts...

It is not impossible.

When his granddaughter died of illness and his daughter went crazy, Lord Sun was not completely without suspicion. However, his daughter and son-in-law had a good relationship since they got married, and his daughter had never made any big mistakes. It was not as if his son-in-law and his family had suddenly gone crazy. Why would they harm his daughter for no reason?

Besides, even if they killed their daughter, the granddaughter is still his family's blood. I have never heard of anyone disposing of their granddaughter along with their daughter-in-law!

Lord Sun also asked a doctor to treat his daughter. He even risked offending the Duke of Zhenguo and asked the doctor to examine his granddaughter's body. It was indeed found that his granddaughter died of a high fever and his daughter had suffered a severe shock and could not bear it.

Therefore, the Sun family concluded that their daughter went crazy because she could not accept the death of her granddaughter due to illness.

The son-in-law never left his daughter. Although he did not take good care of her at home, he did not divorce her. He sent her to Qingyunguan and took good care of her. Her daily expenses, food, drink and clothing were the same as those in the mansion. The son-in-law also promised that he would never abandon his daughter. If his daughter died in the future, the son-in-law would bury her in the Xu family cemetery as his legal wife and she would be worshipped by the Xu family forever.

She can't be a lonely ghost.

Moreover, the daughter had been crazy for several years, and the son-in-law had only taken a few concubines and had never broken his promise.

For this reason, the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife were very dissatisfied and wanted their son-in-law to divorce his wife and remarry, but the son-in-law refused. The Sun couple were grateful.

You know, no matter whether she is crazy or stupid, living in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion or not, as long as she has not been divorced, she is the legitimate concubine of the Duke of Zhenguo's prince. With this title, her son-in-law cannot marry a noble lady.

Any family that is of equal status to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion will not marry their child to them as a concubine!

Even if she was a concubine who didn't have a mistress above her, and except for the title, she was actually treated the same as the wife...

No one can afford to lose that person.

Keeping his daughter as the Crown Prince's Consort meant his son-in-law would be deprived of a future family of in-laws and would also mean he wouldn't have legitimate children. This was truly a huge sacrifice for the heir, and it showed how much he loved his daughter!

The Sun couple were truly grateful to him.

No wonder the Sun family's first instinct when the maid came back to report was to disbelieve her. However, biological children were different from those born later. No matter how much they trusted their son-in-law, they felt it was unfair to doubt him because of a maid's words. Their heart, which was distressing for their own daughter, still prevailed. They planned to kidnap the maid and apologize to their son-in-law as long as there was no problem.

The Sun couple went to check.

The loopholes and answers that Xiao Chuo had arranged in advance were also successfully discovered by them.

The Sun couple were almost mad with rage and wanted to tear Xu Fang into pieces immediately. However, the flaws they found were just flaws and not conclusive evidence, so they endured it for the time being.

Today, because of Liu Chang'an's desire to make things more lively, Xiao Chuo "gave" the evidence she had prepared in advance to the Sun family, intending for them to come to the Ningguo Mansion to cause a scene. The Sun couple were indeed preparing to go, but just as they reached the intersection, the servant who had inquired about the situation returned to report that the Liu, Xu, and Song families had entered the palace in a grand manner...

The Sun couple were very confused.

However, anger was pounding their chests, and they didn't care about anything else and just chased after him.

"I have evidence!!"

"We have both witnesses and evidence!" Lord Sun was filled with grief and indignation. He took out the witness statement from his arms and handed it to the eunuch chief.

Chief Eunuch: ...

This is the second time today!

Who could have thought of this!

He took the testimony with mixed feelings and respectfully handed it to Emperor Yingwu.

Emperor Yingwu:...

The mood is also a little strange.

I always feel that this scene looks familiar!

He unfolded the confession and read it carefully. Then, he looked up at the Earl of Zhenguo and said, "Xu Liang, take a look at this. Then, tell me what happened."

Emperor Yingwu thought the evidence was quite real. Since the Sun family dared to sue them, they must have done a thorough investigation.

It's not surprising that Xu Liang and his wife were able to raise children like Xu Fang and Xu Ruyi, and also have a beastly eldest son, so...

"Did you know this in advance?"

"Are you covering for him?"

Because Xu Liang had a criminal record of marrying off his daughter who had an affair with his adoptive brother, Emperor Yingwu thought that his son might have killed his grandson and driven his daughter-in-law crazy because Xu Liang was helping to clean up the mess.

That's possible.

"Your Majesty, I, your servant..." Xu Liang was stunned. He looked at the eunuch steward holding the testimony in his hand and walking towards him with sympathy and disgust on his face. He really had an urge to die!