"This can't be true, right? There were so many guards during the escort. Where did they all go?"
"Feng Yuqin is a good-for-nothing who couldn't cultivate before. Even if she can cultivate now, she's only at the first level of Soul Master. She's still a good-for-nothing."
"How could a good-for-nothing deal with so many guards?"
"I heard that she probably poisoned those guards."
"Then Feng Yuqin is so vicious! She poisoned the guards herself and then blamed it on Ji Wenjie."
"Yeah, the second young master of the Ji family is so wronged. He's still in the yamen and hasn't been released yet."
"The Ji family won't ignore Ji Wenjie. I heard that the Ji family is now investigating the evidence that Feng Yuqin killed the guards and fabricated the story of the assassins."
"Even if they find out, Feng Yuqin now has the support of the Fourth Prince of Dongyuan Kingdom behind her. In the end, she might not get into any trouble at all."
"The Fourth Prince probably doesn't know what kind of person Feng Yuqin is. If he did, he definitely wouldn't stand behind her and support her."
Hearing this, a faint smile curved Feng Yuqin's lips.
So this was the doing of the second wife's family.
If she didn't have the ability to save herself, it had to be admitted that it would really seem to be her fault.
Killing the guards, fabricating the story of the assassins, defying the imperial edict to marry, and deceiving Dongyuan Kingdom.
Any one of these charges would be enough to cost her her life.
"What do you think of this matter?" Feng Yuqin turned around and glanced at the three of them.
"We're not sure what the rumors in the streets are really like, so their authenticity remains to be verified," Lin Xuan thought for a while and said.
"I used to be in charge of purchases for my previous employer. Every time I came out, I would hear some bad things about the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion. But in a big family, just as Lin Xuan said, it's hard to tell the truth from the false. We can't just follow what others say," Xia He also expressed her opinion.
"What about Lü E?" Feng Yuqin looked at Lü E again.
Lü E glanced at Feng Yuqin and said, "Actually, when I first came to the imperial city, I saw the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion. She was with the second miss of the prime minister's mansion at that time."
Feng Yuqin raised her eyebrows. "You actually saw them? The scene you saw probably wasn't a good one, right?"
She remembered that every time Feng Qing was around, nothing good ever happened to her.
Even the little followers behind Feng Qing bullied her. Among them, Xia Yujia was the most ostentatious.
Sure enough, just as Feng Yuqin finished thinking this, she heard Lü E say, "Yes. The only time I saw them was when I first came to the imperial city. I'm from the outer city. I heard that the west city was full of wealthy families, so I wanted to give it a try. As a result, I met the two misses of the prime minister's mansion and other noble ladies in a jewelry store. The second miss wasn't as kind and magnanimous as the rumors said. Instead, she had a very bad heart. She incited others to bully the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion. In the end, the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion knelt down and begged for mercy."
Listening to Lü E's words, Feng Yuqin also remembered some past events.
She didn't go out with Feng Qing very often. That time, it just happened that she was about to go to Dongyuan Kingdom and the mansion was preparing things for her. The only time she and Feng Qing went to a jewelry store was probably the one Lü E saw.
Logically speaking, in a big family like the prime minister's mansion, the ladies' clothes and accessories were mostly custom-made, and they rarely came out to buy things.
But she wasn't in favor, so she was temporarily asked to go shopping with Feng Qing.
In order to humiliate her, Feng Qing called many ladies who were on good terms with her. Along the way, she made a fool of herself.
When she put on the jewelry, Xia Yujia deliberately bumped into her and broke it. The shopkeeper asked her to compensate, but she had no money, so she cried and begged Feng Qing.
She remembered that there were quite a few people inside at that time, and more and more people gathered to watch.
The former Feng Yuqin was a cowardly and timid person. That time, she was really forced by Feng Qing and her group to kneel down and beg for mercy, crying like a mess.
Thinking of this, a cold aura emanated from Feng Yuqin.
Lin Xuan and the other two immediately felt it and thought that their master looked a bit scary at the moment.
"Master?" Lin Xuan tried to call out.
Feng Yuqin came back to her senses and glanced at the three of them indifferently. "Good. You all have your own opinions and won't just follow what others say."
The three of them were smart people. As soon as they heard this, they knew that Feng Yuqin was referring to the fact that their remarks just now didn't follow the discussions of these people.
"Don't go back to the mansion yet. Let's go to the trading house." Originally, she had left it to the Meng family to handle, as long as Ji Wenjie was beheaded in a proper manner.
But Lü E's words just now instantly reminded her of the days when she was bullied by Feng Qing. So she changed her mind and went directly to the trading house.
The shopkeeper had just come back from helping Feng Yuqin look at the store when he met Feng Yuqin at the door.
He immediately respectfully invited Feng Yuqin in.
This time, Feng Yuqin directly took the three maids in with her.
After entering the private room, Feng Yuqin got straight to the point. "You should have heard the rumors outside about Ji Wenjie, right?"
The shopkeeper nodded. "Yes. They're all saying that the assassins weren't hired by Ji Wenjie, but were fabricated by Feng Yuqin. But please rest assured, Miss Qin Yu. The Meng family is already investigating. There should be a result tonight. Then I'll announce the evidence. Ji Wenjie won't be able to escape."
Since the shopkeeper didn't know that the Miss Qin Yu he was talking about was actually Feng Yuqin, he didn't need to consider Feng Yuqin's reputation. What he needed to consider was that these people outside wanted to shift the blame to Feng Yuqin to escape punishment, and what he had to do was to announce the fact that Ji Wenjie had arranged the assassination.
Moreover, he heard a piece of news today that the mastermind behind this might not be just Ji Wenjie. But since Miss Qin Yu said it was Ji Wenjie, they had to fabricate some evidence that it was Ji Wenjie.
Lin Xuan and the other two didn't expect to hear such news when they followed Feng Yuqin to the trading house. But the three of them were very sensible and tried their best to lower their presence and be qualified invisible people.
"Don't announce it for now. Let them keep jumping around. Announce it one hour before Ji Wenjie is beheaded," Feng Yuqin said indifferently. "In addition, regarding those remarks about Feng Yuqin, quietly let everyone know that they were all made by the second wife and the second miss of the prime minister's mansion."
These words made the shopkeeper and Lin Xuan and the other two look at Feng Yuqin in surprise.
"Do you have a grudge against the second wife and the second miss of the prime minister's mansion, Miss Qin Yu?" the shopkeeper asked curiously.
"Yeah. Anyway, I'm happy to do anything that can make them unlucky," Feng Yuqin didn't deny it.
Because she knew that as long as she made her stance clear, in the future, as long as it was something related to the second wife's family, the Meng family would spare no effort to step on them.
So Feng Yuqin also explained the detailed handling of the entire incident to the shopkeeper. All of them were strategies targeting the second wife's family and protecting Feng Yuqin.
When they were about to leave in the end, the shopkeeper couldn't help but ask, "Do you have a very good relationship with the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion, Miss Qin Yu?"
Otherwise, why were all the people who benefited from the plan she came up with the eldest miss of the prime minister's mansion, Feng Yuqin?