Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 713

Mo Zhonggui asked incredulously, "Who are you here to save?"

"Of course it's Madam Sheng!" Qi Xuan said, becoming agitated. "Why did you arrest Madam Sheng? What did she do?"

Mo Zhonggui said calmly, "Ling Jun was bitten by the nine-spotted rat before, and encountered those three crazed brown bears in the hunting ground. These were all done by Madam Sheng's animal trainers."

Qi Xuan immediately said firmly, "Impossible! There must be some misunderstanding! Madam Sheng has no grudge against my junior sister, why would she do such a thing!"

Mo Zhonggui: "She has already confessed. She wanted to get rid of Ling Jun so that the position of Crown Princess could be vacated and Sheng Qiongluo could take it. She felt that only the position of Empress was worthy of Sheng Qiongluo."

Qi Xuan stared blankly at Mo Zhonggui, incredulous.

While Sheng Qiongluo's flawless nature certainly makes her suitable to be an empress, this is perhaps a bit too much...

Mo Zhonggui lowered his voice and continued, "Was it Sheng Qiongluo who sent you to break me out of prison?"

Qi Xuan said weakly, "Yes, Miss Sheng didn't know that Madam Sheng was kidnapped by your people. She thought that some villains had abducted her. Miss Sheng, for Madam Sheng's reputation..."

Mo Zhonggui interrupted him: "Lingjun said that the reason she went to that pine forest was because you asked her to go there. Sheng Qiongluo is your sweetheart, so did she ask you to ask Lingjun to go?"

Qi Xuan's face paled. After hesitating for a moment, knowing he couldn't hide it any longer, he could only admit, "Yes, but Miss Sheng wanted to call my junior sister over to discuss our marriage. She would never want to kill my junior sister..."

Mo Zhonggui was utterly exasperated: "You believe everything she says? Do you really need to bring people to such a desolate and deserted forest to discuss marriage? Madam Sheng's animal trainer prepared the wild beasts, and her daughter was responsible for luring Ling Jun over. The mother and daughter were in cahoots. It's such a simple and obvious scheme, can't you see through it?"

Qi Xuan remained resolute: "Impossible! Miss Sheng is absolutely not that kind of person! She is simple and kind, and not vain. How could she possibly harm someone's life for the position of Crown Princess! Even if Madam Sheng is ambitious and reckless, it must have been her own idea and plan, and has nothing to do with Miss Sheng! She is innocent!"

Mo Chonggui: "......"

He was too exasperated to persuade him, so he decided to leave it to Shen Lingjun to do.

Mo Zhonggui sighed and said, "Never mind, let's not talk about it for now... You're injured, I'll take you back first and have Ling Jun come to see you."

He had someone send Qi Xuan to the Qi residence, and then returned to the East Palace to speak with Shen Lingjun.

When Shen Lingjun learned that Qi Xuan had been tricked by Sheng Qiongluo into breaking into the prison to save Madam Sheng and had even been injured in the process, his first reaction was to slap himself on the forehead.

Did her senior brother have his brain eaten by zombies?

Mo Zhonggui prepared her mentally: "I've been talking to him for ages, but I just can't get through to him. He absolutely refuses to believe that Sheng Qiongluo and Madam Sheng are in cahoots. Go and try to persuade him, I don't know if you can convince him. If all else fails, I might as well kill Sheng Qiongluo along with him."

Madam Sheng certainly cannot be allowed to live, but it is said that Sheng Min dotes on his wife immensely. If he finds out that his wife has committed such a serious crime, there will definitely be another round of lawsuits. If the Crown Prince insists on executing Madam Sheng, it might even cause Sheng Min to resent the Crown Prince.

To avoid trouble, Mo Chonggui planned not to publicize Madam Sheng's crimes, but to treat it as a disappearance and resolve it secretly.

As for Sheng Qiongluo, although there is currently no direct evidence to prove what she did, Qi Xuan is so single-mindedly infatuated with her, and who knows what she might use him for in the future, so it's best not to keep him around.

Shen Lingjun sighed, "Killing her would be quick and easy, but if Sheng Qiongluo dies now, my senior brother will immediately guess that it was us. He's so infatuated with Sheng Qiongluo; if we kill his beloved, he'll hate us for the rest of his life. Let me think, is there any other way..."

She suddenly had an idea and asked Mo Zhonggui, "Huo Tingsheng isn't dead yet, is he?"