Dantai Mo asked, "What happened?"
Hou Yuchen had served as a prince's study companion and was well acquainted with the Fourth Prince, so he immediately told him everything that had happened here.
Wu Yehe suddenly knelt before Dantai Mo and knocked her head against the ground several times with resounding thuds. "Your Highness Prince Rui, please redress this commoner's grievance!"
She was covered in injuries, without a single unhurt spot on her body, and so weak that she was on the verge of fainting. Swaying precariously, she looked as though she might miscarry at any moment.
Yet even so, Wu Yehe continued kowtowing with loud thuds.
Before long, blood streamed down her forehead.
Jian Ruonan wondered whether she was going to give herself a concussion.
[Truly the cockroach constitution of a tragic-romance heroine. No matter what she puts herself through, she just won't die.]
[I have to recruit her!]
[Unearthing the Previous Dynasty Treasure takes talent like hers!!]
Dantai Mo's ears immediately pricked up. After waiting all these days, he had finally gotten a juicy morsel about the "Previous Dynasty Treasure"!
Where was the Previous Dynasty Treasure?
Tell me already.
The Fourth Prince waited and waited, but hey, the Fifth Young Lady had stopped talking.
"..."
The Fourth Prince instructed the Imperial Guards behind him, "Get to the bottom of this within the time it takes an incense stick to burn."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Every last person involved in the gossip was here, making the investigation convenient.
The Fu Family threw their weight around back home, but they were nobodies in the Capital City. Prince Rui's Imperial Guards hauled them aside one by one for questioning, and before even half an incense stick had burned, they had confessed everything.
To frame Wu Yehe, Madam Fu had found a traveling merchant