I just want to live a good life

Chapter 560 Interrogation of Zhao Zong

Upon hearing Su Nuan's words, Lou Guang's face turned grim. He hurriedly replied, "I didn't participate in her scheme. What scheme could she possibly have? She's just desperately wanting to be His Highness's woman. She... she might have done some foolish things out of jealousy of Consort Xia's favor with His Highness, but that's just women vying for favor, how can it be called a scheme..."

Listen to what he's saying! What do you mean by women vying for favor? He wasn't the one who almost lost his life over love. Su Nuan was dissatisfied, but she didn't show it on her face. She looked at Mu Yunting, but met his expressionless face, which revealed no emotion whatsoever.

Okay, very good, you don't care about the male fox talking like that, do you?

Su Nuan shut her mouth in a huff, and just stared coldly at Lou Guang no matter what he said.

"Your Highness, please let me see her."

Lou Guang seemed to finally wake up from his self-hypnosis and made this request.

Mu Yunting sighed softly and replied, "Let's go, let's go together."

In the past few days, Mu Yunting has done nothing but search for Su Nuan. He handed over the interrogation of the fake Xun Zheng to Lord Shen, and he hasn't asked about the specific results of the interrogation yet. Today, Lou Guang came and put the two of them in a standoff.

Mu Yunting and Lou Guang walked out, with Su Nuan following closely behind. After a few steps, Mu Yunting realized her intention and said to Su Nuan, "The person is locked up in the Ministry of Justice's prison. Lord Shen should have already used torture. It's not appropriate for you to go."

"What's wrong with going to see the person who harmed me being punished?"

Su Nuan looked at Mu Yunting with her innocent big eyes.

Mu Yunting wanted to say that the prison environment was bad and the smell of blood was strong, and that a pregnant woman like her shouldn't go to such a place. But judging from Su Nuan's expression, she wouldn't agree to be prevented from going; at worst, she wouldn't go to the prison cell and would only be interrogated in court.

The two didn't say anything more, changed into their outdoor clothes, and went to the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice has been extremely busy these past few days, arresting many spies from the vassal states, and interrogations are taking place daily in the prison. The fake Xun Zheng is the most special case; he is being held in solitary confinement in a fairly decent cell, where no one interrogates him, and he is only given meals on time.

At first, she kept asking to see His Highness the Crown Prince, but after being ignored for two days, she became much quieter, spending most of her time staying in one place without saying a word.

Today, His Highness the Crown Prince sent over some prisoners, including two particularly important ones. Lord Shen ordered that the two important figures be imprisoned separately. When the Crown Prince's secret guards brought the prisoners, they only said that these people had kidnapped the Crown Prince's concubine, without mentioning who these people were or why they kidnapped the concubine.

Lord Shen did not rush to interrogate the two important figures, but first interrogated several assassins.

These people were accused of kidnapping the Crown Prince's concubine, so the focus of the interrogation was on the purpose of kidnapping the Crown Prince's concubine.

The assassins were all trained assassins; the first one to commit suicide by poison in front of Lord Shen was the first to do so.

Having learned from this experience, Lord Shen ordered his men to remove the poison sacs hidden in the molars of the remaining assassins. The second assassin, who couldn't withstand the torture and was about to bite his tongue, had his jaw dislocated.

When Mu Yunting and his group arrived at the Ministry of Justice, Lord Shen had just learned from an assassin that they were all from Fanli.

It's easy to guess why the Fanli people kidnapped the Crown Prince's concubine. Lord Shen already has a plan for how to interrogate her.

He interrogated Zhao Zong first.

Su Nuan listened outside the hall with Mu Yunting for a while, and she kept frowning as she listened.

Zhao Zong responded to every question posed by Lord Shen, but nine out of ten of them were nonsense, and the tenth was a rhetorical question.

Lord Shen knew that he couldn't believe everything this man said, but unlike Su Nuan, he didn't know the situation. So he kept thinking about whether he should believe some of Zhao Zong's words, and how much to believe.

Su Nuan couldn't listen to it any longer and stepped into the courtroom, with Mu Yunting and Lou Guang having no choice but to follow her in.

Lord Shen had just seen the group standing outside, but since His Highness the Crown Prince gestured for him to continue, he ignored them. Now that they had entered, he stood up to greet them.

Mu Yunting told him not to stand on ceremony and to continue the trial.

Zhao Zong, who was kneeling below the hall, also saw the group of people. He glanced at their faces and then lowered his head.

Su Nuan smiled and looked at Lou Guang, saying, "Young Master Lou, do you still remember the coachman you introduced to the Crown Prince's residence?"

Lou Guang glanced at Zhao Zong, frowned and replied, "My relationship with this man is limited to him taking a whipping for me and me finding him a job to make a living. I admit that I misjudged him. If Consort Xia still wants to pursue this matter, let Lord Shen interrogate me by torture."

"also."

Su Nuan uttered two words calmly, causing everyone present to pause in surprise.

Although the current Crown Prince dotes on her, his concubine, to the point of obsession, Lou Guang has been the apple of his eye for eight years. What's going on here? Is the new love trying to cause trouble for the old one?

Lord Shen didn't show it on his face, but in his heart he was a huge supporter of Su Nuan. He had long disliked this Young Master Lou. He had no talent, but he relied on his status as Lord Xun's adopted son to act recklessly around His Highness. He had brought a lot of trouble to His Highness, and he always acted like he was the most upright and gentle person. He was so annoying.

After a moment of stunned silence, Lou Guang's face darkened, and he said to Lord Shen, "Then please, Lord Shen, use the torture."

Lord Shen was just enjoying the gossip, and now he's about to become the gossip himself?

He glanced at Su Nuan, unsure whether she was serious or joking. If she was joking, she should have stopped him by now, but she remained silent.

Lord Shen was in a dilemma. Although he really wanted to take this opportunity to teach Lou Guang a lesson, he knew that if he actually beat him up, Lou Guang would definitely make things difficult for him in front of His Highness in the future.

After hesitating for a moment, Lord Shen made up his mind and said to Lou Guang, "Since Young Master Lou has said so, why don't we stand next to this prisoner and explain things to him together?"

Lou Guang's face darkened further. Making him stand with the prisoners was tantamount to treating him as a prisoner.

Damn Xia Qingyan, damn Shen Xiuwen.

Lou Guang cursed inwardly a few times and looked at Mu Yunting with resentment.

Su Nuan understood instantly from that look: Are you just going to let them bully me like this?

She quickly turned to look at Mu Yunting, only to see that the latter had a slight frown and deep eyes, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Lou Guang was also startled by Mu Yunting's expression. He had been with the Crown Prince for more than ten years and could not read his mind, but he could feel his aloofness.

Su Nuan also felt strange about Mu Yunting's attitude. Lou Guang's actions today proved that Mu Yunting had not told him about his suspicions about the fake Xun Zheng before. Did that mean that Mu Yunting had already begun to be wary of Lou Guang?

Just as Lou Guang was about to lose his composure, Mu Yunting finally spoke up, "There's no need for us to be interrogated together. Just cooperate with Lord Shen to find out the whole story."

Since His Highness the Crown Prince has spoken, Lord Shen naturally won't hold a grudge against Lou Guang.

The presiding judge was still Lord Shen, while Su Nuan and the others simply listened to the proceedings from the sidelines. The yamen runners brought chairs for them to sit on.

Lord Shen asked the same question again.

Who is kneeling below the hall?

Zhao Zong glanced quickly at Su Nuan with his gloomy eyes, then replied, "Zhao Zong."

Are you sure your surname is Zhao, and not Xiao?