Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Dust Settles

"Queen Mother, this Scar Qiang has already been murdered in prison, and now it must be Xiao Mengyao who is witnessing me in the main hall to find someone to pretend to be, just to frame his son. Ask the emperor and the queen mother to learn and give justice to her sons. Song Xinrou knelt down and bowed, her tone firm.

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, the courtiers have a way to find a witness to prove whether this person is Scar Qiang."

"Please."

"This man intersects with people as long as he lives in this world, and although his relatives are dead, he is addicted to gambling and often wanders around various gambling houses, and those who have been to the gambling houses must know this person. Your Majesty can send someone to find a few gambling houses at random to find the owners and guests inside to verify. ”

Song Xinrou was completely panicked after hearing this, could it be that no one from the people she sent killed Scar Qiang at all, otherwise how could Xiao Mengyao dare to find someone to test her true body.

"Your Majesty, this person card can be bought, in case Xiao Mengyao lays out all this in advance." The county lord of Changle argued.

"Lord Changle, if everything can be faked according to what you say, then how can I not be said to have been framed by Lord Changle for selling fake medicines in Gushengtang. But the courtier has never been a villain who frames others at will without looking for evidence, let alone creating false evidence against the dignified county lord. If the courtiers really have this evil intention, they will voluntarily let the lord of Changle dispose of it at will. Meng Yao replied calmly.

"Okay, don't argue yet, wait for the witness to come and then distinguish the real from the fake," the emperor waved his hand and asked people to find a witness.

After a while, more than a dozen people in the main hall came in in with fear under the leadership of the guards, and when they saw the big people in the main hall, they didn't dare to squeak and bow down.

"You're all from the gambling house??" The emperor's majestic voice came.

Several people who had been brought from the gambling house trembled and raised their heads slightly in response.

"You can identify whether this person is Scarqiang," the emperor pointed to a person in the main hall who was dressed in the same way as Scarqiang.

Everyone looked up and shook their heads, and one of them said: "Back to Your Majesty, Scar Qiang is very familiar to us, although this person is dressed and shaped almost exactly the same as Scar Qiang, but this appearance is not at all the Scar Qiang we see on weekdays."

"Let's see who is Scarrick and write down the answer."

A few people looked around at the people around them and wrote down their answers with the pen in front of them, and the guards picked up the paper and presented the answers in front of everyone. Although the descriptions written are different, the answers all point to the left guard who is escorting the fake Scar Qiang at this moment.

Song Xinrou was paralyzed, but fortunately, she was supported by the maid next to her so that she would not fall to the ground.

"Xinrou, what else do you have to say, this random person found a witness, and on the premise of no communication, it proves that this person is Scar Qiang." The Queen Mother's tone revealed a deep sense of disappointment.

Song Xinrou saw the general trend, and hurriedly went up to ask for guilt: "Erchen committed this kind of wrong thing because he was fascinated by a ghost for a while, but selling fake medicine to kill people is not what Erchen wants, I hate Xiao Mengyao so I designed her store to lose the hearts of the people, and I have never wanted to harm people's lives from beginning to end." ”

"Lord Changle, the mother of this brother and sister was an accident, how can you explain the person who was assassinated in prison by your men." Xiao Mengyao debunked it mercilessly.

When Song Xinrou heard this, her face changed from hesitation to horror, and then she looked at Xiao Mengyao, who was harmless to humans and animals at the moment, with the expression of looking at the devil, and asked in disbelief: "You... You... It's you, it's you who hurt me... You've seen through it early... Is it for today? ”

When Song Xinrou pointed at Xiao Mengyao and questioned, Mu Linghan and a group of guards went to the main hall with a person dressed in the Yamen Mansion and a few people dressed in the Xinrou Mansion Shangjiading.

"Back to Your Majesty, a few days ago, the Yamen was broken into by a group of gangsters, and killed a criminal dressed as a scar...... Lord of Changle. Mu Linghan said respectfully, and when he mentioned Song Xinrou's childhood playmate, he couldn't help but pause and lower his voice.

"Bold, a county lord not only cares about people's lives, but also uses his power to stretch out his hand to the yamen to frame the daughter of a heavy minister, is it more powerful to buy the people of my palace to frame me" Emperor Long Yan was furious, since such a scandalous thing happened when his biological mother's birthday banquet was approaching.

Song Xinrou was so frightened that tears couldn't help but flow down, her body trembled and knelt down, and she stepped forward and said hoarsely: "Erchen has no such courage, Erchen just loves the sixth prince too much, and he can't see that he wants to marry a woman like Xiao Mengyao, so he made this decision." Erchen just loves the six princes too much, and he couldn't control his feelings for a while and did this foolish thing. ”

The emperor grew up like Song Xinrou and Mu Linghan, and naturally knew Song Xinrou's friendship with Mu Linghan, and his face was shaken.

Xiao Mengyao naturally noticed that the emperor's expression softened, so she spoke leisurely: "Do you not hesitate to hurt innocent people in this world because you love someone too much?" Is it worth forgiving for doing something unconscionable in the name of love? If liking someone leads to making mistakes, then that liking is wrong from the beginning and does not deserve sympathy. ”

"What do you know, you can easily get the love and marriage of the sixth prince, and I ...... I and the sixth prince's childhood sweetheart were taken first by you, if the person you loved since you were a child was suddenly robbed by another woman, I don't believe you won't hold a grudge! Song Xinrou couldn't get used to Xiao Mengyao's condescending face to take responsibility for herself at this moment, and immediately replied.

"County Lord, emotional matters have nothing to do with time and identity. Love is not about one party liking, but about both parties. Is it worth it for a noble county lord to make himself so unrecognizable because of a man who doesn't love him? ”

Song Xinrou raised her eyes when she heard the words and looked at her beloved, seeing that her usual politeness and love for her had turned into disgust, and in an instant she was like a frosted eggplant, looking at all kinds of people in the hall blankly and muttering: "Is it worth it, is it really worth it?"

"Your Majesty, please ask the emperor to remember that the little girl is young and ignorant, and spare the little girl's life" In the main hall, the parents of the county lord of Changle hurriedly came to the main hall and pleaded for their daughter.

The emperor saw that Princess Changping and Prince Yu, who had treated him very well since childhood, licked their faces and pleaded for their only flesh and blood, and finally couldn't bear it, and ordered Song Xinrou to be confined in the mansion for half a year, and the rest of the people who hosted the affairs of Changle County were all beheaded by the Autumn Queen.

Murong Yue looked at her former friend like this, her heart was full of distress, but she was helpless. Didn't he feel in his heart that Xiao Mengyao, a woman who suddenly appeared, should not be favored by all of her brother, but at the moment when her brother helped Xiao Mengyao deal with Song Xinrou like this, Murong Yue had to admit the status of this woman who made her brother Tieshu blossom.

The farce came to an end, and the rest of the female dependents were also brought to meet the Queen Mother, but at this moment, the Queen Mother no longer had this Yaxing, so she simply chatted a few words and withdrew from everyone, leaving Xiao Mengyao alone. The main hall was originally bustling, but now it was quiet.

The Queen Mother looked at Meng Yao and fell into a memory, her eyes drifted away, and finally she looked back and said: "You are very much like a person, but that person is more flamboyant than you, and standing there can instantly overshadow those women who have lived in the deep courtyard for a long time, but it's a pity that their family has done something wrong." ”

"I don't know who the queen mother is talking about, since she can make the queen mother so worried." Meng Yao replied calmly and obediently, in Meng Yao's eyes, the Queen Mother had never taken any special care of herself in the previous life, and she was also treated equally at ordinary palace banquets. Meng Yao really didn't understand, could it be that the Queen Mother really secretly paid attention to her every move.

"It's all in the past, and people always have to look forward. Yao, Ling Han returned to the capital, you are the only one who can get his eyes, and in the future, the husband and wife will work together to live the life under their feet as much as anything else. The Queen Mother estimated that she was driving all the way, and she was tired in the scene just now, and the two chatted a few words before Meng Yao retreated.

Meng Yao saluted and said goodbye to the Queen Mother and left the Queen Mother's palace, turned around and took a deep look after leaving, and walked straight forward without looking back.

The Queen Mother, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes and sighed with her close grandmother at the moment: "If Gu Zhiyao is still alive, do you say that the sixth prince will love her as much as he loves Xiao Mengyao when he sees her." After speaking, his face showed pity, and his eyes were clear, "I am still one step late for the Gu family." ”

"Why did the Queen Mother suddenly mention this daughter of the Gu family, could it be this Xiao Mengyao?" Mama Chang replied while fanning the Queen Mother.

"These two people are too similar in demeanor and behavior, and on the occasion of a foreign visit, this Xiao Mengyao is said to have become famous in one fell swoop with her 100-step archery technique and shined. People who have seen it have rumored that this prime minister's daughter has the style of General Gu's daughter. "The Queen Mother is shrewd in her eyes.

"But this Gu Zhiyao has long been missing, so it is impossible to become the daughter of Xiao Xiang." Mama Chang disagreed.

"Yes, but I wish she was the one who deserved to be so good." After speaking, he was shocked by what he had just said, "I am really old, and since I have pinned the hopes of the deceased on another person because of my image." ”