To be honest, he himself could hardly remember what he had answered just now.
When Feng Linyuan asked them what they had eaten, seven or eight injured people almost answered in unison.
At that time, their voices overlapped one after another, and the onlookers outside were chattering. Few people could clearly hear everyone's answers.
How could Feng Linyuan remember so clearly what each person had said?
Thinking of this, he suddenly understood something. He jumped up all of a sudden and wanted to snatch his copper basin.
But the servant holding the copper basin shot a sharp glance at him. With swift movements, he simply sidestepped and moved a few steps away.
Then he turned around neatly and showed the contents of the copper basin to the onlookers.
On the other side, Bai Zheng calmly explained, "These orange - scented buns are made by kneading shredded orange peels into the flour and then baking them. Because they are filled with the fragrance of oranges, they are named orange - scented buns.
After being eaten, the bread can be chewed into pieces, but the orange - colored shredded orange peels still remain distinct."
As her words fell, another servant moved forward and showed the copper basin in his hand to the crowd.
"Just like this young master who said he had eaten sponge cake. What he vomited is exactly what the orange - scented buns should look like."
Hearing this, although it was a bit disgusting to think about looking at the vomit, curiosity still drove the crowd to crane their necks and look at the copper basin.
Sure enough, there were orange - colored shredded orange peels in it.
On the contrary, those who claimed to have eaten the orange - scented buns didn't have any shredded orange peels in their vomit!
It was not easy to distinguish other things, but the bright orange of the orange peels was too obvious among the white vomit.
All those injured people were stunned.
No one had expected that Feng Linyuan and Bai Zheng would remember so clearly what they had casually answered. Now they could even match the evidence in their vomit and leave them speechless.
Feng Jingye stood there stiffly, his hands and feet turning cold.
He didn't know what to say. He just looked up stiffly at Feng Linyuan and Bai Zheng.
The undisguised smugness on his face began to crack bit by bit.
One of the injured people had a sudden inspiration and explained bravely, "Yes, we just remembered wrongly..."
"So coincidentally, all of you remembered wrongly?" Feng Linyuan turned around and shot a sharp glance at him. "You remembered wrongly what you had for lunch, and also remembered wrongly which dessert you had in the shop. The most coincidental thing is..."
Saying this, Feng Linyuan lifted his chin slightly.
All the servants holding the copper basins walked into the crowd, allowing all the onlookers to clearly see the contents of each copper basin.
At this time, Feng Linyuan's cold voice rang out again.
"You guys clearly come from Yongding City and even various parts of the Great Zhou, but what you had for lunch is exactly the same."
At this point, everyone understood.
It was obvious that these people knew each other and someone had instigated them to deliberately frame Bai Zheng's shop!
"Look! The egg yolk she ate is not black at all!"
Suddenly, someone pointed at the pile of golden paste in the copper basin and shouted.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice.
This was the copper basin containing what the girl who had fallen to the ground had vomited.
The onlookers didn't have as good memories as Bai Zheng and Feng Linyuan, so they couldn't remember clearly what the other injured people had eaten.
But everyone clearly remembered that the girl and the old woman were the first to come to Bai Zheng's shop to demand compensation. At that time, the old woman was still holding a half - eaten egg yolk pastry.
The egg yolk was no longer the normal golden color, but a dark purple color, almost indistinguishable from the red bean paste wrapped outside, looking like it had been bitten by a poisonous insect.
But now, it was true that there was egg yolk pastry in what the girl had eaten.
The problem was that the egg yolk she had eaten was not black, but golden. There was not a trace of the blackness that would indicate being bitten by a poisonous insect.
Everyone looked at each other, seeing shock and confusion on each other's faces.
Then they all looked at the old woman and the girl in unison.
At this point, who didn't understand?
This was clearly a blatant act of framing!
Thinking of this, the scene suddenly fell into a strange silence.
They had smashed and scolded, but now they realized that they had smashed the wrong shop and scolded the wrong person. Moreover, they had wronged the mistress of the Marquis of Dingyuan's Mansion, the last person they should have wronged.
"Marquis... We were wrong!"
Someone in the crowd lowered their head, their old face turning completely red.
As soon as this voice sounded, others immediately followed, saying, "Marquis, we were wrong!"
"We wrongly blamed the mistress..."
"We easily believed the words of villains."
"Please forgive us, Marquis."
Row after row of heads hung down. No one dared to look directly into the eyes of Feng Linyuan and Bai Zheng, and no one had the nerve to look back at the shop that had been smashed beyond recognition.
It was their doing, the result they had created with their own hands.
Feng Linyuan said nothing. His calm eyes swept over the bowed heads of the crowd.
He still stood there with his hands behind his back. Under the sunlight, a handsome and upright figure was elongated on the ground.
No matter how the outside world gossiped, that figure remained steady and calm, standing beside Bai Zheng.
Bai Zheng's eyebrows and eyes were gentle, with undisguised affection in her eyes.
After a while, she withdrew her gaze and turned to look at Feng Jingye. As a result, she didn't see that as everyone's heads hung down one by one, two familiar faces emerged from the crowd.
Their eyes were as cold as ice, and their gazes were as cold as poisonous snakes. Before Feng Linyuan's gaze swept over, they turned around and walked out of the crowd.
At this time, Qin Mu, the magistrate of the capital, arrived at the scene with a group of his guards.
As soon as something as big as this happened in Yongding City, he had received the news.
But he was always a smart man. When Bai Yinan had sued Chu Feng before, because of the involvement of the Prince of Yi, he had been forced to offend the Chu family and the Crown Prince Feng Jingye.
Now, as soon as he heard that Feng Jingye had clashed with Feng Linyuan again and was helping the trouble - makers to seek justice and settle accounts with Feng Linyuan, he didn't dare to step forward and take the risk of being caught in the middle again.
Therefore, he had been hiding nearby, observing the situation. Only after the truth was revealed and everything was settled did he hurry over with his guards, pretending to be "out of breath" and running in front of Feng Linyuan.
"Qin Mu pays respects to the Crown Prince, the Marquis, and the Marquise."
He first politely saluted the three of them one by one.
Feng Jingye knew that the situation was hopeless. When he saw Qin Mu coming, he had no intention of speaking at all. He waved his hand and said, "Since you're here, investigate it carefully." Then he was about to turn around and leave.
"Your Highness, please wait." Bai Zheng quickly said.
Feng Jingye stopped in his tracks. He suddenly remembered what Bai Zheng had said to him just now.