Reaching this point, how could Prince Rong still have the courage to conceal? He immediately spilled everything:
"When General Liang and General Du arrived at the Prince Manor, General Pei's wife, Fu Zhen, also came with General Liang's son, Liang Xuan.
"Mrs. Fu had foresight and feigned avoidance from the eyes and ears of Xu Yin's dispatched servants. After they left, she had Liang Xuan intercept the poison from Xu Lian's hands, and then conspired with my daughter-in-law, Mrs. Zhang, to devise this plan. It was to first spread the news that the criminal minister had committed suicide by poison, to lure the true culprit into believing it and thereby expose a flaw, at which point I would reappear to testify.
"I thought that by doing so, I could make the Crown Prince reveal himself as the true culprit, and thus agreed to this strategy.
