Chapter 078: Becoming a King and Defeating a Villain
Seeing this scene, Yun Yao laughed silently.
Although she kept her head down, the Empress Dowager and Wushuang at the top also kept staring at her, and naturally saw her smile in her eyes. Suddenly, the Queen Mother understood in her heart that the scene where Mrs. Yao exposed Lu Yingquan for her meticulous work must be another bureau set up by Yun Yao, please enter the urn.
The eyes of everyone in the hall were on Mrs. Yao's face, but they saw that her eyes were full of disbelief, her eyes were firmly fixed on the white paper in the queen mother's hand, and she couldn't stop shaking her head.
"No...... No, it can't be like this, I obviously saw it before I came to lock Chuntai, and I didn't pass anyone in the middle, how could it become a blank piece of paper?" Mrs. Yao was very puzzled, and she didn't know why such a thing happened.
"Mrs. Yao, the evidence you provided is not valid at all, do you have anything else to say now?" asked the Queen Mother.
"No, the Queen Mother! I didn't lie, Yun Yao really wrote a whistleblower letter! I don't believe you ask Yun Yao!" Mrs. Yao thought that there was no physical evidence, and it was okay for Yun Yao to testify in front of the Queen Mother, so she said so.
When the Queen Mother heard this, she turned her head to look at Yun Yao and asked, "Yun Yao, Mrs. Yao said that you once wrote a whistleblower letter, saying that Lu Liangren was a fine worker from Ning Palace, but is there such a thing?"
"The Empress Dowager Qi, there is no such thing. Yun Yao, like Lu Yingquan, denied it as soon as she came up, anyway, the ink had faded, and Mrs. Yao didn't have any evidence in her hand to prove that she had written a letter, so as long as she didn't admit it, Mrs. Yao had no choice.
Mrs. Yao looked at Yun Yao in shock and asked, "Yun Yao, didn't you say that you would expose Lu Yingquan's identity?
Yun Yao also had a surprised expression, and then said: "Lu Liangren is not a Ning Gong at all, and he has not done anything to be sorry for His Highness, how can Madam let me expose it?"
Listening to Yun Yao's words, Mrs. Yao already knew in her heart that she had fallen for the scheme!
Yun Yao pretended to surrender and wrote a whistleblower letter according to her intentions, but the letter somehow turned into a blank piece of paper, and Lu Yingquan pretended to be at odds with Yun Yao and tricked her into believing Yun Yao.
These two people cooperated seamlessly, one said that she planned the Temple of Light, and the other refuted the evidence of her revelations, so that what she did turned into a complete joke in front of the Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness!
Okay!
Suddenly, Mrs. Yao began to laugh, she pointed to Lu Yingquan, and then to Yun Yao, and said:
"I thought I was the one who profited from the fisherman, but I didn't expect that the praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch follows. Lu Yingquan, Lu Yingquan, after all, I still made a bad move and lost to you!"
"Mrs. Yao, if you are willing to tell the truth in the Hall of Light that day, why did you make it like this?" Lu Yingquan shook his head and sighed, "Everything has a cause and an effect, and the cause you planted yourself must also taste the taste of this fruit." β
Lu Yingquan has something to say, in fact, those who know the truth know that she is talking about Mrs. Jiang. If Mrs. Yao didn't think about the fisherman's profit that day, but directly stood up to help Yun Yao clarify that she was not the arsonist, then this disaster would not have been her turn.
However, those who don't know still think that what Lu Yingquan said was that Mrs. Yao framed Yun Yao, said that Yun Yao was flattering to the lord, and also set fire to the wrong things to His Royal Highness.
"Who wouldn't say cool words?" Mrs. Yao listened to Lu Yingquan's words and sneered, "I understand today, you master and servant are so scheming, and you play everyone around." What is the investigation of the truth, what is the evidence, it is all done for people to see, right? Now you are satisfied?"
"Okay, Mrs. Yao!" The Empress Dowager at the top couldn't help but sink her face when she heard Mrs. Yao's words, and said, "You can't explain both things, which makes the mourning family have to suspect that you deliberately planned the matter of the Temple of Light, to divide the relationship between Yun Yao and Lu Liangren, and then take the opportunity to frame Lu Liangren is meticulous work, and also instigated Yun Yao to betray his master." Can you plead guilty?"
"Queen Mother, what is the trouble of wanting to add to the crime? Since ancient times, Lu Yingquan has harmed me like this, Yun Yao is also scheming, sooner or later, they will stir up a bloody storm in the entire palace!" Mrs. Yao listened to the Queen Mother's words, and a sadness involuntarily rose in her heart, and she said so.
In fact, she knew in her heart that what the Queen Mother said was not the truth, Lu Yingquan also knew it, and everyone in the palace knew it. But now, she fell into Yun Yao's trap and accidentally went from winning to being a complete loser, but she couldn't find any evidence to defend herself.
In the matter of the Hall of Light, she wanted to clear up the relationship, but she did get involved, so the suspicion on her body could not be washed away. This is a sin of her own making, and she confesses it!
However, she will definitely not let Lu Yingquan have a good time!
Thinking of this, Mrs. Yao's eyes showed a fierce light, and when everyone was defenseless, she jumped up and rushed towards Lu Yingquan, and then quickly pulled off the hairpin on her head and stabbed it fiercely towards Lu Yingquan's neck.
"Yingquan!" Yun Yao knelt beside her, and when she saw this scene, her eyes couldn't help but widen, and her heart was about to jump out.
said that it was too late, and then it was fast, Yun Yao and Shen Che at the top moved at the same time. Yun Yao was still shackled on her hands, so she could only use her body to protect Yingquan, she got up and hit Mrs. Yao hard, in an instant, Mrs. Yao's body was crooked, and the hairpin in her hand was also half a point wrong, next to Lu Yingquan's neck, stuck to the ground.
Before she could raise the hairpin again, Shen Che's offensive had already arrived, and a dagger flew down from the top and went directly towards Mrs. Yao's heart.
Everyone only heard a snort, it was the sound of weapons penetrating into the flesh, and the next moment, it was dripping blood spraying out of Mrs. Yao's chest, penetrating along her clothes, and even stained Lu Yingquan's bloodstains.
Mrs. Yao glanced at Shen Che with an unpredictable expression on her face, and then her eyes closed and her body became weak, so she slowly fell down and lay on Lu Yingquan's body.
Shen Che stepped down from the seat, kicked Mrs. Yao away, and then helped Lu Yingquan up from the ground, looked at her neck carefully, and then stretched out his hand to rub it carefully: "Are you okay?"
"Thank you, Your Highness, the concubine is fine. Lu Yingquan looked shocked and shook his head.
"It's really unorthodox. The Queen Mother looked at Mrs. Yao's body and said, "Come on, carry Mrs. Yao down and deal with it." Today's events are all Mrs. Yao's own fault, and the rest of you are also watching, what kind of fate will it be if you are restless in the palace. β
When the Queen Mother said this, she looked at Jiang Yi, as if this was specially said to her.
After all, the Queen Mother had been teaching Jiang Yi not to shoot casually, but she didn't expect that this time she would leave such a big handle. Jiang Yi was inevitably too naΓ―ve, she really thought that such a simple trick could deal with Yun Yao and Lu Yingquan, but all of this was just in Yun Yao's calculations.
Mrs. Yao's body was quickly carried away, and the blood on the ground was cleaned up, as if nothing had happened.
Yun Yao was also helped up from the ground by Lu Yingquan, the two of them clasped their hands tightly, watching Mrs. Yao being carried away, looking at each other, they were glad in their hearts, but they were more numb.
Maybe they have seen too many such deaths, and they are already not surprised. This feeling is completely different from when Xiangqin died.
"Mother, it seems that everything has fallen into place. It turns out that Yingquan and Yun Yao were both framed, how should this matter be handled?" Shen Che turned his head and asked the Queen Mother.
Yun Yao was acquitted and rewarded with a thousand taels of silver as compensation. The Queen Mother thought for a while and said, "As for Lu Liangren, let's restore the status of a beauty." β
"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother. Yun Yao and Lu Yingquan saluted at the same time.
The Queen Mother glanced at the people in the hall, and then spoke again: "Che'er, you just came back from outside, and there are a lot of things to deal with, so let's leave first." Yi'er, you go back too, Lu Meiren and Yun Yao stay, and the mourning family still has something to say. β
Since the Queen Mother has opened her mouth to drive people away, it is naturally not good for Shen Che and Jiang Yi to stay longer. Although Shen Che was still very worried about Lu Yingquan, since the matter had been resolved, there would probably be no more trouble, so he left with confidence.
Jiang Yi followed closely and walked out of the palace gate of Suochuntai, but when she left, she glanced at the Queen Mother very nervously, and seemed to be a little overwhelmed.
The shackles on Yun Yao's body were unfastened, she had been restrained for so long, and there was no displeasure on her face, and she was really calm.
As before, she stood quietly beside Lu Yingquan, low-key like a background. But now, after going through so many things, this background can no longer be underestimated.
"Lu Meiren, the mourning family asks you, what did An Lan's confession say?" Seeing that there was no one else in the palace, the Queen Mother asked directly.
Lu Yingquan listened to the Queen Mother's words, immediately knelt down again, leaned over and pleaded guilty: "The concubine is guilty, the concubine deceived the Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness, and asked the Queen Mother to forgive her sins." β
"Deception?" the Queen Mother's eyes flashed slightly, "Tell me, how did you deceive the mourning family?"
An Lan's confession was not directed at Mrs. Yao, but someone else. Lu Yingquan said, "But when the concubine learned that Mrs. Yao was going to frame the concubine with her identity as a fine worker, the concubine had no choice but to make this decision and fight back in order to protect herself. The concubine lied to the queen mother, and the concubine was guilty. β
The Queen Mother squinted her eyes and looked at Lu Yingquan, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. If she pursues Lu Yingquan's crime of deception now, it means that she will continue to investigate the matter of the Temple of Light, and in this way, she will inevitably pull Jiang Yi in. And if she wants to keep Jiang Yi, she can only push the boat down the river and put this charge on the dead Yao Meng.
Thinking of this, the Queen Mother couldn't help laughing, and she asked again: "The person who can come up with this set of serial schemes is really a master." The mourning family is fortunate to be able to see such a wonderful palace fight in their lifetime. Lu Yingquan, you really didn't choose the wrong person. β
The Queen Mother's words mean something, who she refers to, it is self-evident.