klisemfg Chapter 230 Rumors
Chapter 230 Rumors
Dan Tao made this trip personally.
She stood beside the curtain and said respectfully, "Your Highness, a palace maid was murdered for no reason. Although my master has tried his best to suppress the rumors, I am afraid that someone with ulterior motives will exploit this and deliberately spread the news outside the palace, thus affecting the reputation of the prince."
"Only Doctor Luo, who took the palace maid's pulse, and the guard Jin Yuan knew about the palace maid's pregnancy. If there were any rumors outside, I'm afraid there must be a traitor in the backyard..."
Although Xie Run had issued several orders not to discuss the matter casually, she was not the real manager of the backyard of Prince Jing's Mansion after all, and many of the maids and servants under her would probably not take her orders seriously.
It would have been fine if it was just the news that the palace maid had fallen into a well and died, but she was one month pregnant.
If this news gets out, who knows how it will be spread.
The princess also knew the seriousness of the matter and told Dan Tao: "I know what your master means."
That night, King Jing came back very late, looking exhausted and as if he had been traveling all day, but he looked very natural.
When King Jing returned, he brought with him an old maid from the imperial palace.
He went to see the princess first, and when he saw that she and the baby in her belly were fine, he mentioned the matter of the old nanny.
"I already know what happened in the mansion today. Just rest assured and take care of your baby. I will handle it."
"Also, I've asked the Grand Princess for an old nanny. Please have someone settle her down. She will be responsible for taking care of Xiaoliu from now on."
The princess was moved when she heard this. "The Sixth Young Master is now being raised by Concubine Wan. If he were to be raised by this nanny, would he have to live in the front yard?"
King Jing nodded and said, "Mrs. Wan is just a concubine, and Xiao Liu is the prince of the palace. How can he be kept in her care?"
Even though Prince Jing's tone didn't fluctuate much, the princess could still hear that Prince Jing looked down on Wan Linlang.
"Then I will arrange it today."
After seeing the princess, King Jing went to Chunshan Courtyard and summoned Jin Yuan for questioning.
After listening to this, King Jing's expression was calm. He lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before saying, "I understand."
"Find a way to have the body preserved. Don't bury it yet. I still have a use for it."
Xie Run sat aside, his eyebrows twitching as he listened.
Her intuition told her that the child in this palace maid's belly had a complicated origin.
Xie Run said the same thing to the princess and repeated it to King Jing.
"The prince had just asked the imperial concubine for help, and the imperial concubine gave this maid to the prince right after. If the news of her pregnancy gets out, people outside are afraid of gossiping about the prince..."
After hearing this, King Jing smiled and said, "The princess said you are quick-witted, insightful and calm. It is indeed true."
Xie Run was a little surprised. King Jing had an overly good attitude.
"Your Highness, aren't you afraid that someone will deliberately fabricate rumors to ruin your reputation?"
"If it's just a rumor, how can it ruin my reputation?" King Jing asked rhetorically, but his words were full of confidence: "As long as it's just a rumor, it will be shattered one day."
"The person who secretly did this will suffer the consequences sooner or later!"
King Jing's words were sonorous and powerful, and contained hidden secrets that Xie Run could not understand.
Xie Run didn't ask any more questions, but just said softly, "As long as it's alright with Prince Yu."
King Jing patted her hand to comfort her.
At night, King Jing did not stay in Chunshan Courtyard, but went to the front yard.
The next day, Xie Run asked Chunjuan to go out and inquire about the news early in the morning.
Just as she finished dressing, Chun Juan came running back, panting, "It's just as my master said. Rumors have spread from somewhere outside, saying that our prince is dissolute and unruly, with no sense of human ethics, and even touched the maidservant beside Concubine Rou."
"Everyone said that the child in that palace maid's belly was our prince's, but the prince was afraid of being reprimanded by the emperor, so he didn't dare to acknowledge it and killed her to silence her."
Touching a palace maid close to one's own mother and making her pregnant was a very despicable thing, even in ancient times.
Afterwards, he was afraid that his reputation would be ruined, so he silenced the witnesses and killed his own child... This rumor was not intended to ruin King Jing's reputation, but to put him on the fire.
Xiao Shu said angrily: "The person who spread the rumor is really brainless!"
"If the child in her belly is really our prince's, and the imperial concubine has given the child to the prince, then we have no choice but to raise the child in the courtyard."
"They're just afraid of rumors, so they only report the child's age as younger. How can anyone know when they were conceived?"
"We don't have many children in our mansion. If he really is the prince's offspring, we would probably be too busy protecting him. How could they possibly want to kill someone... The person who spread the rumor is truly stupid and brainless!"
Dan Tao sighed, "That's true. But rumors don't need logic. As long as the news spreads quickly and widely enough, even black can be turned into white, and everyone will just believe it."
Xie Run thought that this might be the real purpose of the person spreading the rumors.
But once this rumor came out, it became easy to find the culprit.
No wonder King Jing is not in a hurry.
I'm afraid he has other evidence in his hands.
Thinking of this, Xie Run felt relieved.
The rumors circulated for three days, and a lot of dirty water was poured on King Jing's head.
In the eyes of the people, King Jing was unfilial, unfraternal, unjust, cruel and ruthless, and killed people without mercy...
Xie Run sent people out to inquire every day, and the rumors he heard were more exaggerated than the last, so he just listened to them as fun.
That day, she was teaching her son to walk when she heard news from the princess that Prince Jing was suddenly summoned into the palace by the emperor.
The women in the backyard were all a little uneasy, fearing that King Jing would really be punished for this matter.
No news came from the palace the whole afternoon.
It was not until the evening that an imperial decree suddenly came from the palace.
King Jing and the emperor had a big quarrel in the imperial study. King Jing was scolded by the emperor and stayed in the palace to reflect on his mistakes.
Before the people in Prince Jing's mansion could panic, they heard news that Prince An was also reprimanded by the emperor and punished to kneel outside the imperial study. The pregnant Concubine Jing was also demoted to Concubine Jing.
It took Xie Run more than half an hour to find out that the reason Prince An was reprimanded was that he had not been able to find out the mastermind behind the murder of Concubine Chen.
Xie Run listened, his expression changing several times before he said, "Dan Tao, turn off the lights early today so you can at least get a good night's sleep."
Dan Tao and Xiao Shu were both confused after hearing this.
"Master, the prince hasn't returned from the palace yet, aren't you worried at all?"
Prince Jing is the king of Prince Jing’s Mansion.
If anything happened to him, the sky would fall on Prince Jing's mansion.
Xie Run yawned, his tense nerves relaxed instantly, and he began to feel sleepy.
"I was worried at first, but after I figured it out, I'm not worried anymore."
Dan Tao was puzzled: "Master, what have you figured out?"
Xie Run smiled and said, "It's the same reprimand. Imperial Concubine Rou in the palace was not in any trouble at all, but Prince An implicated Imperial Concubine Jing and made her Imperial Concubine Jing..."