Chapter 766 - 764 Who Owns the Right
Of course, You Chenghui only dared to think this to himself, he wouldn’t have the audacity to complain directly to Duke An’s face.
Ye Xinyan personally filing the complaint made it clear she intended to give You Chenghui a hard time and didn’t want the capital’s yamen to handle the matter perfunctorily.
Indeed, with Miss Ye’s notorious reputation, the sight of her delivering the complaint to the government office in the presence of many astonished onlookers surely meant that no official would dare treat the matter lightly.
Just as Ye Xinyan had anticipated, You Chenghui indeed didn’t dare treat it lightly.
Even though Prince Fu was undeniably the powerful party in this lawsuit, Miss Ye was not someone to be trifled with. She had seen the emperor, received the emperor’s edicts, been reprimanded by the emperor, and had come out unscathed—and she was a woman.
There weren’t many who met all these criteria, but there were not so few either. However, if you were to consider women only, then they were indeed rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
If he showed fear of Prince Fu’s influence and favored him, causing dissatisfaction in Miss Ye, who was known for her reckless nature, would she air her grievances for all to know? Just like in the first month of the lunar year, when she, disguised as a man, visited Miss Han of the Qi family’s Mansion, making the matter known to everyone, even reaching the heavens above.
He feared Prince Fu’s power, but the emperor wouldn’t fear his own son. If the person suing his son was a figure of authority, the emperor might be inclined to side with his child. But if it were a woman, the emperor might look down on his son for being incompetent and deal with the matter justly.
In the end, Prince Fu and Miss Ye would likely be safe, at worst being reprimanded again, while he, the head of the capital’s yamen, would definitely be the one to suffer.
But, what if he handled it impartially? These days, the Construction Industry of the capital was watching Guangsha Construction closely, which was involved in business with Duke An’s Mansion and His Highness Prince Yu. The Construction Industry was a significant sector in the capital, of course, it would attract attention, and the tools sold by those two shops were indeed Guangsha Construction’s goods.