The wronged female supporting role made a comeback with a divine reply

Chapter 364 Killing Two Eagles with One Arrow

Du Chengyi was helpless. As a member of the royal family, Princess Zhaohe did have the right to bypass the Jingzhao Yin and directly order the Dali Temple to investigate her grievances.

Could it be that Wang Jinnian will be released before he has been under house arrest for long?

Outrageous!

He had no choice but to bow and apologize: "Please calm down, Lady County! This must be a misunderstanding! The Seventh Young Master was drunk and spoke without restraint. It was an accident that he offended the Lady County!

How about this, County Lady? Our government is willing to compensate you with 10,000 taels of silver! Please be generous and let this strategist live!"

Everyone: Ten thousand taels? For the offense of a counselor? This is enough for a concubine's daughter's dowry, right? If it were another noble lady, she would definitely agree, but...

Bai Zhaozhao showed a mocking expression: "It seems that this strategist is not of much value in the Duke's Mansion!"

"Thirty thousand taels!" A slightly majestic voice appeared.

She is the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.

"Mother!" Du Chengyi saluted.

The Duke's wife nodded slightly and said, "Princess Zhaohe, I wonder if thirty thousand taels of silver can calm your anger?"

Bai Zhaozhao knew that the lady in front of her was a first-rank lady, so she couldn't lose her manners. She changed her previous arrogance and said gently, "What are you talking about, madam? If I take the thirty thousand taels of silver from you, wouldn't I be known as a greedy person? I am not that kind of person!"

Everyone: ...If it's not this kind of person, you say his value is not high enough?

The Duke's wife frowned and said, "Then I wonder what kind of compensation the county lady wants in order to let this strategist go?"

Bai Zhaozhao said calmly, "Madam, you must have misunderstood. This county lady has no intention of settling this matter privately! And I have no intention of negotiating conditions to let this strategist go!"

Du Chengyi couldn't help but ask, "What exactly does Princess Zhaohe want? Why don't you just say it!"

Bai Zhaozhao glanced at him and continued to say to the Duke's wife: "Madam, I just said that if the Duke's Mansion favors him, I will go to the Dali Temple and sue the Duke's Mansion together! Of course, if Madam is wise and righteous, she will hand this strategist over to me..."

"Impossible!" Du Chengyi interrupted.

Bai Zhaozhao raised his eyebrows and looked at the Seventh Young Master: "Oh, you are quite important! Could it be that the Duke's Mansion really ordered you to do so?"

"County Lady, be careful with your words!" The Duke's wife shouted angrily, then calmed down and said, "This counselor's offense today has nothing to do with our Duke's Mansion! But our Duke's Mansion is his residence after all, we can't just ignore it, otherwise wouldn't it make us look unkind and unjust?"

"Madam is right!" Bai Zhaozhao suddenly laughed, "But this county lady is a member of the royal family after all. He spoke wildly and tarnished my reputation! How can it be as simple as an offense? No matter how righteous the Duke's Mansion is, it cannot ignore the royal family's dignity, right?"

The Duke's wife had an unpleasant look on her face. She glared at Du Chengyi and was obviously conflicted.

Bai Zhaozhao's eyes flickered slightly. It was obvious that the Duke's wife was only standing up for her son and had no idea about the cooperative relationship between them.

So Bai Zhaozhao continued, "Madam, this county lady has no other intentions. She just wants to find out the truth. If it is proven that he did offend accidentally today, then this county lady will only punish him and will not implicate anyone else!

If it is proven that there are other people plotting behind his back and intending to discredit my Prince An’s Mansion, then this county lady will not be polite and will go to His Majesty to seek justice!

Of course, this county lady would like to remind the Duke's wife that it would be better to check whether this strategist has joined others. Would the Duke's Mansion lose more than it gains? "

Suddenly, everyone had different expressions. Some smart people had already understood Bai Zhaozhao's meaning. She was persuading the Duke's wife to abandon the car to save the king. After all, this strategist may not be loyal to you.

Indeed, the Duke's wife was even more hesitant. In her opinion, it would be more appropriate to hand over this strategist to Bai Zhaozhao. As long as she said a few nice words, today's farce could be over.

As for the investigation, there was no need to worry about it at all. She knew very well that Du Chengyi would never make such a ridiculous order.

So, she glanced at her son and saw that Du Chengyi was frowning, obviously still unwilling. Never mind, she still wanted to be the bad guy: "Since the county lady said so, then you..."

"No!" Du Chengyi interrupted his mother in time, "County Lady, Lord Wang, the Minister of the Dali Temple, is under house arrest, and the position of Junior Minister is temporarily vacant. Even if you go to the Dali Temple tomorrow, it will be useless. How about this, I ask the Jingzhao Yin to come and take him in for interrogation?"

At this time, the Duke's wife had arranged for the butler to let the other guests leave slowly. Some of the lower-status ones left naturally, but most of them did not leave. Many people wanted to stay and watch the fun!

Especially Lin Qingshuang, she wanted to show off to Tang Yanyan after seeing enough!

What a joke! Princess Showa is famous for her firepower in the capital!

Bai Zhaozhao glanced at the Seventh Young Master casually. The other party had been silent for a long time and had obviously calmed down.

He knew that the Duke's Mansion would protect him, so he was slowly regulating his internal energy.

Bai Zhaozhao seemed to be considering it, but soon chuckled and said, "Mr. Du, I heard that you are very familiar with Lord Jingzhao Yin?"

"What does the county lady mean by this? Are you saying that the Jingzhao Yin will show favoritism to me?"

"That's what you said. This county lady didn't say that!"

"You!" Du Chengyi took a deep breath and said, "County Lady, don't say that I am not familiar with Lord Jingzhao Yin. Even if I am familiar with him, Lord Jingzhao Yin will definitely enforce the law impartially. After all, he has no relatives or enemies with our government, so there is no need to avoid suspicion."

Bai Zhaozhao nodded, then said with a hint of regret: "That's probably not possible, this county lady is related to Lord Jingzhao Yin, so he needs to avoid suspicion!

Just now, I was thinking, if Mr. Du is familiar with him, wouldn’t that be fair? What a pity! "

Everyone:...

Du Chengyi laughed angrily: "What did you say? What kind of relationship do you have with him?"

Bai Zhaozhao blinked, "Master Du, don't you know? This county lady has returned to her ancestral home! My father said that several of the big families in the capital have had marriages with the royal family within five generations. Any person you pick out can be more or less related to the royal family! This Jingzhao Yin happens to be a branch of one of the big families, so doesn't that mean he is related to this county lady?"

Everyone: ...Within five generations? Why don't you say within ten generations?

Bai Zhaozhao continued, "Well, to be honest, I only knew about this not long ago! So this county lady showed it right from the start and wanted to file a complaint with the Dali Temple!

Of course, I know that Lord Wang is under house arrest, but it doesn’t matter. I just need to ask Uncle Huang to let him out for a while!"

Du Chengyi understood that Bai Zhaozhao clearly wanted to use this incident to ask the emperor to lift the ban on Wang Jinnian!

The emperor already trusted Wang Jinnian very much, and considering his favor and compensation to Princess Zhaohe, he would definitely agree!

Once Wang Jinnian starts investigating this matter, he will definitely take the Seventh Young Master away! This is Bai Zhaozhao's ultimate goal!

Simply kill two birds with one stone!

It's really... outrageous!

At the Queen Mother's birthday banquet last time, Du Chengyi felt that Bai Zhaozhao was an extraordinary woman. Not only was she courageous, but she was also eloquent! Now he added another point: She was extremely smart!

I really don’t know how the Bai family was trained?

Fortunately, she is just a woman, otherwise wouldn’t she be more powerful than Bai Lin?

Unfortunately, such a powerful woman does not belong to him and is destined to be against him!

Du Chengyi's face turned very dark. He glanced at the Seventh Young Master and thought, No, he can't hand it over!