As Feng Linyuan's crisp clapping sounded, Commander Mo, who had rushed out at the order of the Marquis of Gaochang just now, walked in with a young servant in his grasp, accompanied by Mo Li.
After Mo Li saluted Feng Linche, he arched his hands towards Feng Linyuan and said, "Your subordinate just now was ordered by the marquis to look for Miss Bai. But when passing by the door of the Fourth Prince, I saw this young servant sneaking out with a bundle.
Your subordinate suspected there was a thief, so I wanted to stop him and ask. Unexpectedly, as soon as this young servant saw me, he turned around and ran. Your subordinate chased him all the way and even called a few imperial guards. We chased him all the way to the palace gate but still couldn't catch him.
Thanks to this adult who arrived in time, we were able to capture him."
Seeing Mo Li seriously and even a bit shame - facedly telling the lie about "chasing all the way but not being able to catch him", Bai Zheng couldn't help but sigh silently in her heart.
Sure enough, like master, like servant.
They could tell lies without even thinking, making people believe them.
With Mo Li's ability, how could he possibly not catch up with this young servant after chasing him all the way?
It was just that he was worried that if he really caught the young servant earlier, the evidence wouldn't be presented immediately and would stay in his hands for too long. At that time, they might even be accused by the other side of framing, which would make things even more troublesome.
So Mo Li deliberately dragged this person along, making him exhausted and having no time to destroy the blood - stained clothes.
And for the rest, they just needed to wait for the people of the Marquis of Gaochang to arrive.
To make things more seamless, Mo Li even deliberately called a few palace guards during the chase of the young servant. They helped chase for a while, and Mo Li secretly helped the young servant. Every time he was about to be caught, he could escape far away.
Thanks to Mo Li's meticulous execution, by now, he had not only successfully protected the evidence but also ensured his own innocence.
Feng Jingyang looked at the bundle in the young servant's hand. He felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet. His face turned deathly pale, and cold sweat kept pouring down. In extreme fear, he even felt like his soul had left his body.
The Marquis of Gaochang looked at this bundle, and his fingers trembled slightly.
He quickened his steps and rushed forward, trying to snatch the clothes from the young servant's hand. The young servant probably knew that once the matter was exposed, he would surely lose his life, so he tightly protected the bundle in his arms.
Finally, Commander Mo slapped him on the back of the head, knocking him out, and the Marquis of Gaochang was able to grab it.
When he opened the bundle, it was exactly the moon - white robe that Feng Jingyang had worn just now. Sure enough, it was covered with bright red blood. As time passed, it had now turned dark red and was stained on it.
"Yan'er!" Princess Pingyang let out a shrill cry. The cry was heart - wrenching, making everyone in the hall shed tears.
"What else do you have to say?" Amid the deafening cries, Feng Linyuan looked coldly at Feng Jingyang. "Fourth Prince, you personally killed your fiancée who whole - heartedly loved you. Seeing her die so miserably, doesn't your conscience feel a bit of pain?"
"How dare you say these are Yang'er's clothes? You're framing him! It's all your framing!" Concubine Zhao immediately became agitated and couldn't control herself as she shouted at Feng Linyuan.
Feng Linyuan smiled faintly, and his words were even colder. "This marquis can understand the concubine's disbelief. To be honest, this marquis is also a bit in disbelief at what I'm seeing. What the Fourth Prince has done is beyond common sense.
However, even if the concubine doesn't believe it, it's useless. It should be very easy to tell if this is the clothes the Fourth Prince wore just now.
After all, this is the clothes the Fourth Prince wore, and it must have the Fourth Prince's scent on it.
For example, the incense the Fourth Prince uses?"
As soon as these words were said, Concubine Zhao opened her mouth wide, and her face became paler and paler.
Feng Linyuan's words had hit the nail on the head.
Among the princes, Feng Jingyang was the most carefree and dissolute one. So the incense he used was not the common scents used by other princes but a special fragrance he had developed himself.
As long as they smelled the clothes to see if there was that smell, Feng Jingyang would surely not be able to clear his suspicion.
"Thud!" Feng Jingyang fell back onto the chair again.
Looking at Feng Jingyang's defeated look, Bai Zheng couldn't help but feel angry.
She suddenly remembered the first time she saw Zheng Yan. She was still a naive girl in a goose - yellow long dress, standing beside Princess Pingyang. Pointing at her, she said with a smile, "Hey, she's here!"
But soon, under the instigation of Bai Di and Su Muxiao, that girl became full of hostility towards her.
She was just like the former Bai Zheng, the Bai Zheng who had been mocked by Chu Feng and then escaped from the banquet alone, unfortunately losing her life on the way.
These silly girls had given everything for the young man in their dreams.
Until death do us part.
Thinking of this, Bai Zheng couldn't help but clench her fists.
She looked at Feng Jingyang, and her voice was ethereal, as if coming from the sky.
"Fourth Prince, how could you bear to do such a thing?"
Feng Jingyang looked up blankly and stared at her in a daze.
"Until her death, Miss Zheng was still wearing the flowing - cloud brocade dress you gave her. Even though it was dirty and stained with blood, she was still reluctant to change it.
You told her to go out. She broke her leg and came to the imperial garden from the warm pavilion alone. Do you know how much pain she endured on this way?
To protect you, she would rather pull out the knife from her own body forcefully. There were barbs on that knife, which were stuck in her tendons and flesh!"
Feng Jingyang slowly shook his head, muttering, "Stop talking, stop talking!"
But how could Bai Zheng let him off!
Bai Zheng smiled maliciously. "Presumably, even the heavens couldn't bear it! She did a self - destructive thing to protect you, but she didn't expect that the key evidence to testify against you in the end was actually her love for you, the love knot she carefully weaved for you!
If you had ever cast a single glance at her, you wouldn't have ended up in this situation.
You would have noticed this and could have solved this matter.
But you didn't! You didn't love her. You even hated her. You were even stingy with a single look at her!"
Feng Jingyang shook his head violently. He covered his ears and kept saying, "I didn't mean to. I didn't know. I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to..."
He was muttering to himself. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide, as if looking at a certain place, and let out a sharp cry, "I didn't do it! I didn't mean to kill you!"
"Yang'er!"
Seeing Feng Jingyang's condition getting worse, Concubine Zhao didn't care about anything else. She rushed in front of Feng Jingyang without hesitation and hugged him in her arms in a panic.
"Yang'er, don't talk nonsense. You didn't kill anyone. It's all others framing you!"
Her eyes were red, full of blood - streaks. She stared at Feng Linyuan and Bai Zheng viciously.
"Yang'er, don't be afraid. Mother Concubine is here. Mother Concubine will make those who harm you pay the price!"