Chapter 58 The interrogation (2)
Commandery Princess Shuning walked in with her head high. When she saw Li Youde, she didn’t have a good expression, “Is it Lord Li, right? You must release me as soon as possible, otherwise, I will let my father make an accusation against you in front of the emperor!”
Li Youde chuckled and said, “Commandery Princess Shuning, I am afraid that you don’t know the situation. I came here today to catch the extremely daring criminals who committed a capital offense by trying to assassinate the emperor. Even if Prince Qing of the first rank came here personally, he also can’t obstructme. Commandery Princess, although your identity is noble, you aren’t nobler than the emperor, right?”
The assassins who have once tried to assassinate the emperor haven’t been caught yet. He borrowed some people from the Brocade Uniform Guard for this reason and surrounded the temple.
Commandery Princess Shuning was dumbstruck, but she didn’t show any weakness when she said, “I didn’t see any criminal. You are obviously taking this opportunity to retaliate!”
Li Youde said with sarcasm, “What does Commandery Princess mean?”
Commandery Princess Shuning said loudly, “You have enmity with Lady Chen and deliberately took this opportunity to harm her!” She just saw Xiao Tiao go out sobbingly. Naturally, she thought that it was Li Youde’s revenge.
Li Youde said with interest, “Commandery Princess Shuning, I am very curious. What did Lady Chen tell you about her relationship with me?”
Hearing how Li Youde called Lady Chen so intimately, Commandery Princess Shuning frowned uncomfortably. She didn’t want to haggle with him and just said, “You have a fallout with her father and you have a fancy on her. You pestered her, didn’t you?!”
Li Youde’s mouth dropped, “Did Lady Chen said that I pestered her?”
Commandery Princess Shuning choked and humphed coldly, “Even if she didn’t say, could it be that this Commandery Princess can’t see it?”
Li Youde lifted his eyelids and the smile at the corners of his mouth was very vicious, “Then, Commandery Princess Shuning, didn’t you see that Lady Chen had long been my woman?”
Commandery Princess Shuning was dumbstruck. Then, her face got red and she said fiercely, “Don’t slander someone venomously and destroy someone’s innocence! You…you are… a…how can…?”
Li Youde spoke out the vague words for her, “Does Commandery Princess Shuning want to say, I, Li Youde is a eunuch, how can Lady Chen become my woman?” He raised the corners of his eyes and laughed ironically, “Commandery Princess Shuning is really a naïve girl. What I have are ways…”
“Shameless! You can even speak such filthy things! Shameless!” Commandery Princess Shuning was embarrassed and angry, “You are a despicable and shameless person! None of you are a good thing!”
Li Youde had long been used to being scolded in the face. Towards those who he could retaliate against, he didn’t do that in a hurry. Towards those who he couldn’t retaliate against, he would only laugh away the matter. At this time, he was looking smilingly at Commandery Princess Shuning. He shook his head slightly as if he was the wronged party, “Commandery Princess Shuning has presumably misunderstood me! Lady Chen has been sent by her father. I had no choice but to accept her. I supported her and gave her two shops. It could be considered an extreme benevolence already. I didn’t expect that she spoke about me like this to outsiders. Really a thankless wretch.”
What was more hateful was that she schemed against him, lied to him and ran away with her lover! When he catches her, he will teach her a good lesson!
“Nonsense!” Commandery Princess Shuning subconsciously didn’t want to believe Li Youde who was shameless, treacherous and cunning in her eyes. However, she suddenly recalled something at this moment and blurted, “Li Clan’s Cloth Shop…is yours?”
“If it is not mine, who else’s could it be?” Li Youde smiled.
Commandery Princess Shuning suddenly remembered Lady Chen’s explanation of why Li Clan’s Cloth Shop wasn’t called Chen Clan’s Cloth Shop at that time and recalled how she refused to say where she lived and always contacted through Li Clan’s Cloth Shop when something happened…It turned out that she (CH) lied to her!
Commandery Princess Shuning didn’t know which person she should get angry with and finally froze there.
Li Youde didn’t have time to care about Commandery Princess Shuning’s emotions patiently. He asked, “Commandery Princess Shuning, I ask you, did you see someone suspicious?”
“I don’t know…,” Commandery Princess Shuning said weakly.
Li Youde also didn’t come here to really catch a criminal. He called Commandery Princess Shuning over and made her in trance, it was like he vented some anger at Lady Chen and his mood turned a bit for the better.
“Send Commandery Princess Shuning back,” Li Youde beckoned at Ah Da. Ah Da immediately stepped forward and politely asked Commandery Princess Shuning to leave.
Commandery Princess Shuning was also stupefied and didn’t speak. She followed Ah Da out.
Li Youde asked Ah Er, “Ah Er, how many people are there inside Tanmen Temple?”
Ah Er quickly said, “Answering lord, there are currently fifty-two monks and twenty-two guests at Tanmen Temple. Among them are four scholars who came here to study. Three of them are locally from the capital. Aside from them, the rest are people from Commandery Princess Shuning and Lady Chen’s group.”
Li Youde narrowed his eyes, “Those scholars…”
“They are all still there. Xiao Tiao said that one of the scholars seemed to be an old acquaintance of Lady Chen. They have met before at Full of Hope Bookstore,” Ah Er said.
Li Youde’s expression turned cold, “Let him come over.”
“Yes, lord!” Ah Er quickly went to fulfill the order.
Qi Shengwen walked with Ah Er in the lead. There were no worries on his face.
After entering the room, Qi Shengwen looked calmly at Li Youde first. Then, he lowered his head to make a respectful posture.
“What is your name?” Li Youde raised his chin slightly. Whether it was his tone or expression, both were full of contempt.
Qi Shengwen looked like he didn’t notice. He smiled slightly and said, “This humble one is Qi Shengwen and is just an ordinary student. Presumably, sire must be Lord Li from the Department of Rites, right? Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred of times. Nice to meet you, lord!”
Li Youde frowned. He didn’t like Qi Shengwen’s attitude. But after all, his mind was preoccupied with other things, so, he didn’t bother to care about it. He just said, “From yesterday to this morning, did you see anyone suspicious?”
Qi Shengwen said, “I don’t know what the suspicious people Lord Li refers to are…”
“Someone whose manner is suspicious, hide the head and show the tail,” Li Youde said.
- Hide the head and show the tail: speak half-truths.
Qi Shengwen seemed to ponder for a moment, shook his head and said, “This humble one didn’t see.”
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