Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

Madam Chang's father said, "The fact that all the suspects were apprehended so quickly and reported to the Jingzhao Prefecture shows that the Crown Prince was definitely behind this. This is beyond Chang Sheng's control. This involves the Crown Prince's and Second Prince's Palaces. We must act with caution and must not get involved, otherwise, something bad will happen."

Hearing that the emperor might be paying attention to this matter, Madam Chang wanted to sever ties with Master Chang immediately to avoid implicating her family and her child. In the end, she thought of her son who was still in the Chang Mansion, and gradually strengthened her mind. She said, "Father, I will do as you say! Chang Sheng put the entire Chang Mansion in danger for Chang Wan'er. I can't bear to see him harm my child like this. I will go to the Jingzhao Mansion now to accuse him of his crimes!"

"Wait!" Madam Chang's father stopped her. "Don't be impatient. If you want to file a complaint, we need witnesses and physical evidence. Otherwise, if Chang Wan'er finds out what you're going to do, she'll prevent everyone in your courtyard from leaving the Chang Mansion. Then she'll say she came to the Chang Mansion to see her mother and nothing happened. You'll be the one being blamed for it and that's it."

"Yes, your father is right, just do as he says."

"it is good!"

Mrs. Chang quickly found a good excuse and wrote back to tell Mr. Chang that her father was still a little reluctant and she might need to stay here for a day or two to persuade her father, but she wanted the people who served her to come and serve her, otherwise she would not be able to get used to living here and it would be too troublesome to always run back and forth.

Mr. Chang didn't suspect anything and asked Madam Chang's personal nanny to take away a dozen servants. He just asked in confusion, "Why do you need so many people?"

The personal nanny said, "Yes, sir, these are all the elderly people in the courtyard. If it weren't for them to serve Madam, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to get used to it over there."

"alright."

The Second Prince's wife, however, grumbled, "Mother comes from a good family, so it's normal for her to be a little spoiled, but this is a bit too much. If outsiders knew about this, they would inevitably accuse Mother of being extravagant and debauched."

Mr. Chang coughed lightly and said softly, "Don't be rude." Then he said no more.

The personal nanny secretly rolled her eyes and spat as she walked out of the Chang residence, "What a bullshit! You'll be in for it later!"

Soon, with both witnesses and physical evidence, Mrs. Chang wrote the complaint with the help of her father and prepared to go to Jingzhao Prefecture.

The physical evidence was naturally the silver and good things that Madam Chang asked Mr. Chang and the Second Prince's wife to prepare before she came to her parents' home. Before that, Madam Chang thought that the worst outcome for her would be divorce from Mr. Chang, so she would cheat him and the Second Prince's wife out of a lot of money before leaving. She didn't expect that in the end it would become the physical evidence for her to sue Mr. Chang.

The total amount of these silver and things and the price they represent are not low, and Mr. Chang and the Second Prince's wife never thought that Madam Chang would go to Jingzhao Prefecture to sue them. In their opinion, reporting this matter would not benefit Madam Chang at all, so the things Mr. Chang gave were directly paid from the public account, and the Second Prince's wife used her own dowry. The sources of all the money can be traced and they cannot get rid of it.

The fact that Madam Chang sued Mr. Chang for helping the Second Prince's wife conceal the crime was something that Jingzhao Prefecture had not expected, and because of this change, all things were brought forward.

After Madam Chang complained to the prefect of Jingzhao about how Mr. Chang threatened her to ask her family for help, and listed the evidence and witnesses one by one, Jingzhao Prefecture naturally could not sit idly by. It immediately acted according to the law and went to Chang Mansion to interrogate Mr. Chang and the Second Prince's wife.

Before they were caught, they were still complaining that Madam Chang was too slow. The next second, they were captured by the people from Jingzhao Prefecture. Master Chang asked them with a pale face why they arrested him. The Second Prince's wife was also scared silly. She kept struggling, saying that she was the prince's wife and Jingzhao Prefecture had no right to arrest her.

The leader sneered and glanced at Master Chang and the Second Prince's Consort. "Master Chang, Madam Chang has already reported the entire process of how you helped the Second Prince's Consort cover up her crimes to the Jingzhao Prefecture, so we are handling the case according to the law! As for the Second Prince's Consort, we don't have the right to arrest you, but the Imperial Clan Court does, right?"

When the Second Prince's wife heard about the Imperial Clan Court, her face turned pale with fear. "I-Imperial Clan Court? Aren't you from Jingzhao Prefecture?"

The Clan Court was the place that was in charge of deciding on the punishment for the royal family members who made mistakes. It was also the place that was directly under the emperor's orders. Any clan member who was related to the royal family would be terrified when they heard about the Clan Court.

"Who said that?" One of them stepped forward and took out the badge of the Imperial Clan Bureau. "We are from the Imperial Clan Bureau! This matter involves the Crown Prince's Mansion and the Imperial Prince's Mansion. We are under the Emperor's order to cooperate with the Jingzhao Prefecture to handle this case!"

The Second Prince's wife then noticed that the clothes of these people were very different from those of the people who had captured Master Chang. She had been too panicked and scared just now, so she had not noticed the difference in their clothes. When she was sure that it was people from the Ministry of Clan Affairs who came to capture her, her face turned pale.

The intervention of the Ministry of Clan Affairs means that the emperor has also intervened in the case. He had previously thought that Zhang Tong had not yet given him up, so he still had a chance to save himself. He did not expect that Madam Chang, who he thought he had in his hands, would expose the matter. He was afraid that he was doomed.

Thinking of this, the Second Prince's wife couldn't help but hate Madam Chang to death.

The same was true for Mr. Chang. He also hated Madam Chang who had informed on him, and cursed her in his heart. Even when the people from Jingzhao Prefecture said that it was Madam Chang who had informed on him, his face couldn't help but twist.

She thought that if she had the chance to get out, she would definitely divorce him. She actually sued her husband as a wife. Did she not want the Chang Mansion to be well? She even ignored their children and didn't care about the slightest bit of love between husband and wife. It was simply abominable!

There was also a small episode here. When Master Chang and the Second Prince's wife were about to be taken away, Master Chang's childhood sweetheart, Qiu Yue, learned that Master Chang and her daughter were captured, so she quickly brought people out and wanted to rescue Master Chang and the Second Prince's wife. The final result is naturally self-evident. Qiu Yue was captured, and those servants were also taken away, and they accompanied Master Chang to Jingzhao Prefecture.

Not to mention how angry Master Chang, Qiu Yue and the Second Prince's wife were. After being taken to their respective destinations, the three of them and the servants' legs were trembling. Master Chang, who had previously wanted to scold Madam Chang severely when he saw her, also shrank like a quail after entering Jingzhao Prefecture, and only looked at Madam Chang with resentment from time to time.

Qiu Yue was more emotional. If she hadn't been restrained by the soldiers, she would have probably run over and started a fight with Mrs. Chang.

The Jingzhao prefect, who had evidence proving that Master Chang and his concubine had shielded his daughter from crime, was furious when he saw this. He slammed his chopping board on the table, "You daring, wicked woman! How dare you cause trouble in this hall! Come, drag her away and give her ten beatings with the board before bringing her back up!"

Qiu Yue didn't expect that she would be beaten with a stick before the trial even started. She immediately looked at Mr. Chang for help.