Yun Xi stood in the corner, coldly watching Song Yulin being taken away by the officials from the Capital Magistrate's Office.
Madam Song wailed loudly, while Minister Song was busy writing a memorial to distance himself from his daughter. Meanwhile, the elderly Lady Cheng still lay on the cold floor.
Her filial descendants had long since scattered back home to pack their bags and flee for their lives!
Watching the chaos in the Song family, the guests who had come to the birthday banquet also left their seats one after another, fearing being implicated by the Minister's Mansion. Only some brave ones remained to watch the subsequent developments.
After Lady Cheng's birthday banquet, almost all the high - ranking officials and nobles in the capital knew that Song Yulin had used a fortune - teller to deceive Yun Ni, the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, into poisoning the Crown Prince!
As a result, although Yun Ni still couldn't be completely acquitted, the charge of "instigating his daughter to poison the Crown Prince" against Prime Minister Yun was cleared.
Because Song Yulin had personally admitted that she had conspired with the Taoist priest to frame Yun Ni, simply because she also had feelings for the Crown Prince, Qi Yu.
With dozens of pairs of ears listening, there was no way for her to retract her words!
The Capital Magistrate, Liang Sheng, immediately regarded Song Yulin as a key suspect and locked her up with Yun Ni. He would interrogate them after reporting the matter to the emperor.
Yun Xi and her maid, Yu Zhu, walked out of the Minister's Mansion. Yu Zhu couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, her heart still pounding.
"Miss, my heart was about to jump out just now!" Yu Zhu pressed her chest, still in a state of lingering fear.
Before, she had suspected whether Miss could successfully pull off the plan of sending the Taoist priest into the Minister's Mansion. Now it seemed that all her previous worries were unnecessary.
Because her miss had already planned everything, and every link was closely connected until Song Yulin was cornered!
Yun Xi just smiled but didn't say a word. She just reached out and held Yu Zhu's hand. The dampness in her palm made Yu Zhu's eyes widen in surprise as she looked at Yun Xi.
Only then did she realize that her miss had also been very nervous.
Although Yun Xi had always appeared calm, she wasn't very confident about her own plan.
But even without confidence, she didn't have time to hesitate. She could only face the difficulties head - on and go all out!
On the way back in the carriage, Yu Zhu suddenly remembered what the Taoist priest had said before and said to Yun Xi,
"Miss, the Taoist priest said that the paper package Song Yulin gave him only contained water chestnut powder. And just now, Song Yulin also seemed to know this. But why was there poison in the tea that the second young lady gave to the Crown Prince?"
"Do you think it's possible that the second young lady really became jealous out of love and deliberately replaced the contents of the paper package?"
Yu Zhu speculated about this possibility in her mind, and the more she thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed.
Because if that was really the case, no matter how hard her miss tried, she couldn't exonerate a real culprit!
After hearing Yu Zhu's words, Yun Xi remained calm and said firmly,
"No. Yun Ni doesn't have the guts!"
From childhood to adulthood, Yun Ni had always been against her and had even been used by Madam Jiang several times. But in the end, Yun Ni had never really done anything to endanger her life.
Moreover, the Crown Prince, Qi Yu, was the man Yun Ni was deeply in love with!
When she was in prison, she had already asked Yun Ni and was sure that the other party wasn't lying.
"Tell me, how could a person who is so afraid of going to prison dare to poison the Crown Prince? Isn't that contrary to logic?"
Thinking that Yun Xi's words made a lot of sense, Yu Zhu nodded slightly, but many questions in her mind still remained unanswered.
"Miss, have you ever thought about what if Song Yulin isn't the mastermind behind this?"
They had finally managed to track down this far. If they still couldn't catch the real culprit, it would be really troublesome!
Because her master was still locked up in the imperial prison, and the longer the time dragged on, the more dangerous it would be for him.
Yun Xi frowned slightly and said almost without hesitation,
"Song Yulin is indeed not the mastermind. There's someone else behind this."
The scene was very chaotic at that time. Maybe others didn't hear all of Song Yulin's words, but she had heard a name - Wei Xueming!
Wei Xueming wasn't as simple, domineering, and outwardly strong but inwardly weak as Yun Ni and Song Yulin. She was truly a scheming woman!
Yun Xi had deeply experienced this when she was in Lingchuan.
Wei Xueming would even risk her own life to achieve her goals, and she could use everything around her as chips!
Once bitten by such a person, one would surely lose a piece of flesh!
"Then won't all our efforts be in vain?" Yu Zhu looked anxious after hearing this. She didn't expect that her guess would actually be right!
But Yun Xi patted Yu Zhu's hand on the back and comforted her,
"Our efforts won't be in vain."
"Even if Song Yulin isn't the mastermind, she didn't join hands with the Taoist priest to frame Yun Ni on a whim for no reason."
Song Yulin must have planned it in advance before inviting Yun Ni to the temple fair together.
And before that, the people she met and the words she heard became the key!
Yun Xi's eyes glinted slightly, and the corner of her lips curled up as she said,
"No matter what the truth is, the more people involved, the safer Yun Ni will be."
Because the emperor couldn't possibly execute everyone!
So, now that the truth was still unclear, she actually hoped that more people would be involved!
Just as Yun Xi finished saying this, a sharp shout suddenly came from outside the carriage,
"Is the person sitting inside Yun Xi from the Prime Minister's Mansion? If so, come out quickly for this princess!"
Hearing the familiar voice, Yun Xi didn't need to think to know who it was. She rolled her eyes and looked helpless.
In the capital, except for the Eighth Princess, there probably wasn't any other royal princess who would openly stop someone on the street and be so confident!
"Miss, it's the Eighth Princess!" Yu Zhu lifted a corner of the curtain and saw the Eighth Princess standing arrogantly in the middle of the road with her hands on her hips. She immediately frowned.
"What should we do?"
Seeing the Eighth Princess looking so aggressive and deliberately coming to pick a fight, Yu Zhu couldn't help but feel nervous.
It was already a troubled time, and Yu Zhu didn't want her miss to have to deal with the Eighth Princess's provocation at this time.
Through the carriage window, Yun Xi naturally also saw the Eighth Princess and, behind her, Wei Xueming?!
Yun Xi suddenly sneered,
"What else can we do? Do nothing!"
Saying that, Yun Xi stopped the carriage, immediately got out, and looking at the domineering Eighth Princess, she curtsied gracefully with a smiling face and said,
"Yun Xi pays respects to the Eighth Princess."
The next moment, Yun Xi's eyes swept over Wei Xueming behind the Eighth Princess, and a sneer curled up on her lips,
"What a coincidence to meet the Eighth Princess and Miss Wei while shopping!"
Yun Xi thought that it was really a narrow path for enemies! She had just been thinking about Wei Xueming, and now she appeared right in front of her!
She just didn't expect that Wei Xueming seemed to have just returned to the capital and couldn't wait to cling to the Eighth Princess to deal with her. It seemed that Wei Xueming hadn't had a good time in Lingchuan!
Did she still fail to gain Qi Rong's favor after she left?
Otherwise, why would Wei Xueming, who had always been like a plaster sticking to Qi Rong, be willing to leave Qi Rong and return to the capital?