Oops, the male villain looked at me with affection in his eyes

Zhao Wan silently walked to the door, Xiu'er followed closely behind.

The torch illuminated the moment inside the prison, and also illuminated the faces of Yuewan and Yu Xiuer.

Shen Lankang squinted his eyes to see the two people clearly, and felt surprised and happy. He quickly straightened up and knelt on the ground: "Mother, why are you here? But the prince brother is asking you to come and save the child?"

Hearing this, Zhao Wan raised her slender eyebrows: This idiot actually dares to count on the prince!

There was a sarcastic smile on her lips, and she looked at Shen Lankang lightly and said, "Old Qi, please tell me, what is going on?"

Shen Lankang looked at Zhao Wan's unclear face, and a glimmer of clarity flashed through his brain that was overwhelmed by excitement.

He hurriedly walked forward on his knees, pulled Zhao Wan's sleeve and asked: "Mother, is the prince brother begging you to come and save the child?"

Zhao Wan looked at the eager Shen Lankang in front of her and couldn't help but frown. She grabbed her sleeve back.

Xiu'er was worried that her empress would act impulsively, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The empress is already here, and she is here to save you. If you have anything to say, it's better for Your Highness the Seventh Prince to tell the truth."

When Shen Lankang heard this, his sunken eyes instantly lit up, and he murmured: "Let me tell you, the third brother will definitely not disregard my life and death and go and beg His Highness the Crown Prince early."

Looking at Shen Lankang's stupid appearance, Zhao Wan frowned fiercely.

Her voice was slightly cold: "Tell me, why is Shen Lanqing so good, so why should he report it to you?"

Shen Lankang lowered his eyes and said: "Who knows, who knows why he went crazy? Maybe, maybe he wanted to cause trouble for His Highness, and it happened that something happened in the son's house again, so..."

Zhao Wan saw Shen Lankang's words flickering and shouted sternly: "Bold! Who gave you the courage? If you still don't tell the truth at this time, are you just thinking about dying?!"

Shen Lankang was shocked by Zhao Wan's expression. He paused, leaned down and said hastily: "Mother, save me!"

Seeing that her mother-in-law was very angry, Yu Xiuer said: "Your Highness, the Seventh Prince, if you want the Queen to save you, you have to tell the truth and let the Queen have a countermeasure, don't you think so?"

Shen Lankang lowered his head and blinked his red eyes: "If I tell the truth, you won't blame me, right?"

Zhao Wan and Yu Xiuer looked at each other, and she said calmly: "I will do what I say. If you tell the truth, I will not blame you."

Shen Lankang was silent for a long time, and finally said slowly: "I also want to help His Highness the Crown Prince, so I took this step."

Zhao Wan's pupils shrank when she heard this. She suppressed the scolding she wanted to say and said calmly: "What's going on?"

Shen Lankang did not dare to get up and remained kneeling on the ground: "I saw that Shen Lance's wings were getting stronger and he had the potential to catch up with His Highness the Crown Prince, so I thought of letting him suffer."

"But Shen Lan can't find fault with both public and private matters, so I have no choice but to take advantage of Shen Lanqing. I heard that he was in charge of the imperial merchants selling private salt and making huge profits, so I wanted to use him as an excuse."

"After learning that there was a list of officials in his house who were selling illicit salt, I took the risk and bought the Jianghu Order at a high price, and invited people from the Jianghu to steal the list from Shen Lanqing's house."

Zhao Wan's expression softened slightly when she heard this. She nodded and asked, "Have you got the list?"

Shen Lankang nodded, then shook his head.

Thinking about how he went to the third brother's house before, the third brother told him in an understatement that the list was destroyed and could not be delivered to His Highness the Crown Prince.

"That man took his men and pretended to be assassins to assassinate Shen Lanqing, and stole the list by making false claims. It's just, it's just..."

Zhao Wan asked anxiously: "Just what?"

Shen Lankang raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Wan's expression, and said cowardly: "It's just that the man accidentally injured Shen Lanqing, and was stabbed to death by Shen Lanqing's bodyguard commander, and then took the list back."

Zhao Wan's chest heaved with anger. Regardless of her manners, she pointed at Shen Lankang and said, "Why did you find such a trash!"

Seeing that Zhao Wan was angry, Yu Xiuer hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My Lady, don't be angry. Fortunately, the man was stabbed to death by the guard commander, so His Highness will not be harmed."

Zhao Wan was held by Xiu'er's chest, and she thought for a moment and said, "A few days ago, Lao Liu was injured and sued for defence. Is this what happened?"

Shen Lankang lowered his eyes and nodded.

Yu Xiu'er rolled her eyes and said, "You said that the people in the arena got the list after making noises from east to west, but all the people in the gang were stabbed to death?"

Zhao Wan lowered his eyes after hearing this and looked at Shen Lankang lying on the ground again.

Shen Lankang hesitated for a moment, then shook his head again: "The rest of the people ran away, and not all of them were caught."

Zhao Wan asked: "So Shen Lanqing was so angry that she filed an imperial edict?"

Seeing that Zhao Wan's voice was getting colder, Shen Lankang quickly wiped his sweat and said, "Don't worry, mother, third brother has already given the order. The guards of Prince Li's Mansion will hunt down the rest of the people with all their strength. Even the entire gang will not survive."

Zhao Wan felt relieved after hearing this, and she said calmly: "Prince Li does things safely, and he will definitely not be taken advantage of."

Shen Lankang said anxiously: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, the third brother will definitely get rid of that group of people before Shen Lanqing does, and will never leave any trouble to His Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhao Wan thought for a moment and said, "Do you know how Shen Lanqing learned that someone in your house died?"

Shen Lankang shook his head: "I don't know."

Zhao Wan held the handkerchief and stroked his chest, and said calmly: "I think it's because your sixth brother has been eyeing you for a long time that he knows everything about your house."

Yu Xiuer said: "Then why does Prince Gong, who is so good, look so covetously at His Highness?"

Shen Lankang figured out the key and raised his eyes in shock: "Does he know that I was the one behind his assassination?!"

Zhao Wan nodded: "Shen Lanqing must have known about the good things you did for a long time, and has been waiting for you to show your flaws. What he will do next may be to use this incident to deal with your third brother who loves you. "

Then came the prince of the palace, Zhao Wan's well-maintained eyebrows were a bit colder.

Shen Lankang frowned: "Third brother, if you act upright, you won't be caught in pigtails."

Zhao Wan looked at Shen Lankang coldly and said, "Think about it for yourself, how many things have your third brother and your prince brother settled for you over the years?"

Shen Lankang lowered his eyes.

Zhao Wan saw that Shen Lankang seemed to be shaken. She stepped forward to help him kneel on the ground and said, "Now that your father prefers Shen Lance, he just randomly pulled out one of the things your third brother had done for you before. Both of them can be used as triggers to bring down your third brother."

Shen Lankang was shocked and looked at Zhao Wan in disbelief: "What does the Queen Mother mean?"

A smile appeared on Zhao Wan's face: "Admit your guilt. Before Shen Lanqing digs into your third brother's faults, cut off the source of his harm to your third brother."

After Zhao Wan and Yu Xiuer left, Shen Lankang fell to the ground blankly as if his spine had been ripped out.

Not long after, Gong Zhiyu, the minister of Dali Temple, received news: Shen Lankang confessed in prison and was willing to plead guilty and obey the law.

While he was looking at the clerk's record, he secretly sighed in his heart that Chu Ye was so knowledgeable.

If Chu Ye hadn't informed him early on that the prince or queen in the palace would let anyone come, Zhao Wan's trip to prison might have been ruined.

And I also had the false reputation of interrogating the prince, and I was afraid that the emperor and the prince would be in trouble in the future.

Now that Shen Lankang pleads guilty on his own, he has also gotten rid of the false reputation of questioning the prince.