The Command to Pamper the Husband - Chapter 90

The steward stood there, his face dark with anger.

“Your Highness, please speak cautiously. The Duke’s Estate is clean and pure. Where is this body you speak of? And what do you mean by ‘Qian Lai’?”

Song Jin laughed and said, “You don’t know? That’s fine. As for Qian Lai, when he was buried, a jade pendant fell into the pit. If you want to know if Qian Lai is real, you just need to check the flower garden in the east courtyard of your residence.”

The steward straightened his back, pointing to a stone pillar beside him.

“Your Highness, look clearly. The Duke’s Estate is a pillar of the nation, granted by the Emperor himself. Such a status means that without an imperial edict, no one can investigate it at will.”

Song Jin glanced at the stone pillar. It reminded her of the one she had seen in the TV series “Nirvana in Fire,” in front of Xie Yu’s house. Even a prince couldn’t storm in there when Mei Changsu was cornered.

Amazing.

She didn’t expect to see one in front of the Duke’s Estate as well.

Tsk~

Fortunately, she was smart and had kept a trump card, otherwise…

Looking at the stone pillar, Song Jin smiled at the steward, “If the Duke’s Estate is clean, why fear an investigation? This pillar is a symbol of honor and the Duke’s status, but if the Duke’s Estate is involved in a case, should this honor be used to avoid investigation?”

The steward raised his chin slightly, his eyes filled with disdain.

“Since it is an honor given by the Emperor, it represents imperial authority. How can it be investigated by anyone at will?”

Song Jin stroked her chin, “Am I not a product of imperial authority?”

The Crown Prince almost burst out laughing.

The person inside this body was definitely not Shen Yue. Shen Yue would never say such things.

The steward looked as if he had eaten something unpleasant, frowning as he glanced at the Fourth Prince.

Although he was a prince disliked by the Emperor, he was still a prince.

However…

The steward, with a haughty expression, clasped his fists casually, “Your Highness, as a prince, I dare not defy your wishes. But if you wish to investigate the Duke’s Estate, you must first get the Emperor’s permission. After all, Your Highness is just a prince and cannot represent the Emperor.”

These words were cutting.

However, Song Jin didn’t care.

“I never said I wanted to investigate the Duke’s Estate. Why would you think that? Feeling guilty?”

The steward…

Immediately, his expression became stern, “Didn’t Your Highness say to follow Qian Lai’s words and check for the jade pendant?”

Song Jin nodded, “Yes, just digging at the spot I specified to see if there is a jade pendant…”

The steward interrupted her, “That is also impossible. The Duke’s Estate is clean and pure and cannot be investigated by anyone…”

Before the steward finished his sentence, a servant ran out from the mansion, interrupting him.

The servant, upon seeing the Crown Prince, abruptly stopped and hurriedly bowed.

At that moment, before he could finish bowing, a loud shout came from the crowd, “Everyone, go look over there, something exciting is happening!”

With the shout, a swarm of people rushed towards the southeast direction.

That direction was precisely the street-facing wall of the east courtyard of the Duke’s Estate.

Song Jin smiled and said to the steward, “Do you want to go check it out? If not, I will.”

With that, she turned and leisurely walked away.

Lu Zhan immediately followed.

To be honest, he was still confused about what was happening.

As a participant, Lu Zhan didn’t know what was going on over there either.

But he was really curious!

Just as he was about to ask Song Jin, a voice called out from behind, “Fourth Brother, wait for me, I’ll go with you.”

The Crown Prince’s voice was low, with a hint of laughter.

As he spoke, the Crown Prince’s arm wrapped around the Fourth Prince’s shoulder.

Song Jin…

Her hair stood on end.

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, she jumped away, glaring at the Crown Prince, “Brother, we are both men. Doing this in broad daylight, what does it look like!”

The Crown Prince smiled faintly, “So, you mean it’s okay at night? Alright, I’ll come find you tonight.”

Saying that, he walked towards the crowd with a good mood.

From his years of reading novels, the Crown Prince thought that right now, there should be a lot of bodies being thrown out from the Duke’s Estate.

No, not people, dogs.

The Heavenly Hound had been with the Fourth Prince, but was now nowhere to be seen. Earlier, his subordinate reported that the Fourth Prince had brought the Heavenly Hound to the Duke’s Estate but left it there.

Interesting.

The Crown Prince felt that life was as exciting as a novel.

Song Jin glared at the Crown Prince’s back, shaking her fist, “Annoying brat!”

Lu Zhan…

“Miss Song, what did you arrange over there?”

Song Jin glanced at the Crown Prince’s back, whispered, “Yuan Bao is throwing things out. Just go and see.”

When Song Jin and Lu Zhan reached the outer wall of the east courtyard, the crowd’s exclamations were already overwhelming.

“Oh my heavens! This has been dead for several months, it’s rotten!”

“Oh my heavens, this has been dead for at least a year!”

“Wow! The Duke’s Estate keeps such things? Their tastes are heavy.”

…

One after another, either fresh or half-rotten corpses were thrown over the wall.

Like shaking fruits off a tree.

The Crown Prince, looking unsurprised, stood there, lightly tapping his palm with his fan.

To avoid the Crown Prince, Song Jin stood far from him.

Lu Zhan was stunned.

“The guards of the Duke’s Estate are top-notch experts. How did you do it?”

Song Jin laughed, “Experts, but Yuan Bao is the Heavenly Hound. You told me how powerful and majestic the Heavenly Hound is. Those experts wouldn’t dare harm the Heavenly Hound.”

The Emperor valued the Heavenly Hound’s spirituality.

Whoever harmed the Heavenly Hound would be seen as harming the imperial lineage.

The Duke wouldn’t dare.

The east courtyard of the Duke’s Estate seemed like a storage for corpses. After the fresher ones were thrown out, then came the skeletons.

More and more people gathered.

Almost the whole city came to watch.

Among the crowd were amateur coroner enthusiasts. Seeing so many corpses, their eyes lit up like dogs seeing meat buns, and they rushed over.

This one had a broken neck, dead for over a year.

This one had a broken neck, dead for almost two years.

This one…

Wait, all of them had broken necks.

And they were all women.

The amateur coroners were shocked by their discovery, constantly confirming their findings with each other.

Their words reached the ears of the crowd.

Suddenly, a woman burst out from the crowd with a heart-wrenching cry, breaking the noise. She rushed to a relatively intact female corpse.

“Cui’er! Cui’er!”