East Gate Tower.

Ruan Youyi wiped a handful of tears one after another, sat on the wall railing and looked at the crowd of people who were pressed by the black pressure at a distance of twelve meters, even the nearest county government also sent a lot of officials to dissuade them, blocking the front of the crowd one by one, shouting hard to let her calm down and other words, but she complained and accused that no one from the Jiang family and the Liu family appeared for a long time, and the onlookers sometimes looked up, and sometimes discussed with the people around them.

Her hand gripping the wall railing under her wide sleeves tightened, and the layers of tears covered the fear in her eyes, and the hatred in her heart kept swelling with the passage of time, until King Qing's figure came slowly, but he just stood in a corner from a distance, and did not step forward to persuade or hinder him, too, when he was in the morning, Fang threw down the words, and wanted to throw her back to the Huaiyang General's Mansion, thinking at this moment that her cousin, who was not related to her blood, was dead!

But, if it weren't for her, how could he enjoy the scenery as the queen's concubine but never stained with the slightest dirty!!

It is today's scene, and Queen Fan asked her to act for his future!

Since that day, Qiu Liying in the peach blossom pond under the guise of speaking for her actually deliberately to Queen Fan for a crime of misdiscipline, and she has not been able to receive 100,000 taels of payment, Queen Fan has been dissatisfied with her, and Qiu Liying, who seems to be at the mercy of bullying, is also good at disguise, and frequently flatters in front of Queen Fan, so that Queen Fan moved to replace her mind, if she does not show her value, she will be sent back to General Huaiyang's mansion again, and pass by Yuwen Qiupage again.

Thinking of him, she jumped down without hesitation as if she had determined something!!

**

The atmosphere in the study of Changle Xiaozhu in Liufu was surprisingly cold and hard.

Mo Kaichan motioned for the magpie standing in the room to retreat, his eyes swept over Jiang Zhiyu, who was sitting on the side and pondering, and Liu Ya, who was silent and silent for a long time, said behind the table, "Liu Ya, if she really plans to murder you-"

So he let her go back where she came. Her soft, soft and sonorous words slowly sounded faintly, and the maid knocked on the door and reported:

"Miss, there is a waiter in the palace, please enter the palace with Miss Sibiao. ”

**

When Liu Ya took Jiang Zhihua and Ji Yushi to the imperial study with the inner servants, there was not only a gloomy Emperor Jiayi sitting inside, but also Empress Fan and He Guifei, and Ruan Youyi, who knelt in the hall with her hair bun and clothes scattered and tears streaming down her face, and there were heavy bruises on her forehead.

After a few courtesies, Emperor Jiayi squinted his sharp eagle eyes and said, "Princess Mo Ye, you are a citizen of our country, and you have served as an inspector in the six gates, I believe that you are very clear about the laws and regulations of our country, and you will not know the law and break the law, I know and thank you for your various major contributions to our country, now that you have just recovered from your illness, I really don't want to bother you, but Ruan Youyi's accusation has a bad and far-reaching impact, I hope that this time I will personally come forward to correct it, but there will be no similar rumors in the future, I wonder if Princess Mo Xie is willing to cooperate?"

The implication is that Lao Tzu knows that you disdain to break the law with the title of Princess Ximo, and you don't even want to harass you to recuperate, but you can't stop them from pulling the people to make trouble, the son's shame is small, and the face of the Southern Han royal family is shameful.

Liu Yaluo said generously, "Such a trivial matter, this princess is willing." ”

Emperor Jiayi bowed his head with great satisfaction, and looked at Ruan Youyi and said, "You keep accusing Princess Mo of inciting your cousin Jiang Zhihua to spread false news about you and King Ye, slander you, and attempt to put you, the virgin of the imperial gift, to death, is there any evidence?"

The memorial arch of chastity has the royal gift and the official award, the two weights are different but are a kind of supreme praise (absolute) beauty (shackles), and it also means that women must not do anything detrimental to virtue and chastity, otherwise the former criminals need to end up with a beheading, and the latter will be punished by local village rules (and most of them are immersed in pig cages).

Ruan Youyi carried herself to the weak side, sat on the city tower and kept accusing Liu Ya, the princess of the Western Desert, of doing evil, forcing her to be a little widow, and finally really jumped - although she was saved by the meat pads formed by the yacha standing in the front row, she still vomited a mouthful of blood at that time, so that the crowd watching the play seemed to feel her grievances all of a sudden, and stood on her side from the squeaky watch, and fiercely counted the willow buds to crusade against the willow buds.

On the way home, I passed through the bustling Daotai Mansion, which I just wanted to watch a little bit of the play, and I was afraid that the masses would be seriously indignant and run to Liufu to throw rotten eggs and rotten vegetables, which would ruin the diplomatic relations between the two countries or something, so I was busy delivering news to him as the emperor, and the news leaked out as soon as I entered the palace gate, and Queen Fan came to beg him to uphold justice with an aggrieved face.

Tsk, the most aggrieved thing is how is he, he still wants to finish the last few books, go to Feng Zhaoyi's little goblin to drink and guess boxing, and then play those indescribable little games or something, but now they have all ruined the good things.

How did Ruan Youyi know that the dissatisfaction in Emperor Jiayi's heart was thicker than the high wall of the city tower she jumped, and she choked with a handful of snot and tears, "If there is no evidence, the courtiers can't afford to slander Princess Moxie, but I just ask Your Majesty to allow the courtiers to invite a witness!"

Emperor Jiayi bowed his head, and a middle-aged chamberlain beside Empress Fan walked to the door and said in a sharp voice: "Witness-"

Jiang Zhihua's heart was full of sneer, but his eyes were curiously aimed at the door, but he could see that he walked in hesitantly but pretending to be calm, and then knelt down to the familiar figure next to Ruan Youyi and was stunned, and saw her kowtow to Emperor Jiayi, Empress Fan and Concubine He, and said crisply:

"The folk girl Xue Jinxiu is the cousin of Princess Moxie. ”

Emperor Jiayi looked at her for a long time, and then glanced at Liu Ya, who had not panicked in the slightest from beginning to end, and heard Ruan Youyi wipe a handful of tears and plead with sobs: "Now only you can return my innocence, you can just tell what you saw and heard in Liufu that day!"

Xue Jinxiu nodded timidly and said, "The folk girl once heard that Princess Mo Xie complained to Zhihua in the mansion that she had been wronged, and she liked Princess Mo Xie very much when she beat Xiao Zhihua, if anyone bullied Princess Mo Ye, she would definitely not be spared, and I still remember that when I was a child, the younger brother of the folk girl accidentally gently pushed Princess Mo Ye while playing, and Zhihua slapped the younger brother of the folk girl heavily, so as soon as she heard that Princess Mo Xie was wronged in Peach Blossom Pond, she immediately responded to Princess Mo Ye's request and spread false news about Mrs. Wei and King Ye to her little sister in Beijing.

The folk girl always felt that destroying the woman's reputation was like taking her life, and repeatedly persuaded Princess Mo Xie and Zhihua not to do so, but they relied on one to be the princess of the West Desert and the other was the daughter of the noble, and never took the words of the folk girl seriously, and later when the folk girl and her mother went to the Peach Blossom Garden to relax, they met Mrs. Wei who was sad to hide and cry after hearing the gossip, and felt that her conscience was blamed, and she decided to return Mrs. Wei's innocence today. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Zhihua almost didn't laugh, but the anger in her heart was so churning that it blocked her throat, so that she not only couldn't laugh or even say anything, so she heard Queen Fan say coldly: "What a noble daughter! It's so brutal and vicious, ruining other people's reputation is like eating a small bowl of white rice! You know that your actions are tantamount to choking Mrs. Wei's neck! Fortunately, she was saved when she jumped off the building today, otherwise you would have taken a bloody life by now!!"

Ruan Youyi let out a low cry that seemed to be unbearable, as much grievance as she wanted, "Ask my aunt to be the master of the courtiers!"

Liu Ya really felt that all the people of the Southern Han Dynasty owed them a stage, like they added Xue Jinxiu to the stage casually, and then kept repeating the grievances, they would only receive a copper plate every day and make a lot of money, such vivid acting skills, even the host of the Academy Awards the previous year came, and they couldn't help but create a medal for them at their own expense!

"Your Majesty, look, if the nobles and daughters in the city are all like those from the Jiang family, then they must not be messed with-"

"—Princess Moxie, what are you doing?" Emperor Jiayi interrupted Empress Fan's insinuation, and looked at the willow buds that took out a small bronze mirror from his arms and shone it up.

"I just want to see if someone has secretly engraved the words 'very good bullying' on my face, why do one, two, or three like to bully me so much?" Liu Ya put down the mirror, blinked her eyes and asked from the bottom of her heart, "In Your Majesty's opinion, I am a doctor who can be good at medicine, and I will not be afraid of hundreds of corpses with broken hands, feet, and heads, and the princess of the opposite sex who is very favored by the royal family of the Western Desert, if she is wronged or something, will she run to complain to her cousin who is raised in the deep boudoir?" What's more, their so-called grievances are fundamentally nonsense-" She glanced at Xue Jinxiu and said:

"Xue Jinxiu, you live in mine, eat me, use mine, take mine, that is, now from head to toe, there is nothing that I didn't give you, I asked myself what I never owed you, I gave everything you wanted, but today for your own selfish interests, you accepted the poisonous knife given to you by others, and stabbed me hard in the back, does your conscience really not hurt? Or do you think that without my willow buds, you Xue Jinxiu is a good thing worthy of other people's eyes——"

Liu Ya hooked her lips with great mockery, and under her eyes was the bone-eating coldness that Xue Jinxiu had never seen when she raised her head, this woman who had been loved by all her relatives and friends since she was a child, and was lucky enough to become the princess of the Western Desert, as if she was standing on the top of a snow-capped mountain, she really looked down on her who was kneeling on the ground like an ant, humble and pitiful.

Xue Jinxiu suddenly panicked, but when she thought that after winning this interrogation, she could also become a respectable existence, and she could also look down on them who she hated in the past wantonly, so she straightened her waist without flinching, met Liu Ya's gaze, and heard her say first when she wanted to speak: "-You are unkind to me, don't blame me for being unjust to you." ”

Liu Ya swept Ruan Youyi coldly and glanced at Empress Fan lightly, "Just because a fool who doesn't know where to fight wants to slander me, so as not to be too shabby, right?" she sneered coldly, and then looked at Emperor Jiayi and said, "Please also ask Your Majesty Princess Yunben to send some witnesses to come up and uncover the truth of this absurd farce!"

Emperor Jiayi almost couldn't help but run out of the carnival and waited, and shook his head again.

Liu Ya motioned to the accompanying Western Desert guards.

The guards left the study.

"Because I didn't expect Your Majesty to invite me into the palace for such a thing, so the relevant witnesses still need the guards to go to their house to invite, so while there is still time, let me explain the dirty water that Xue Jinxiu's red mouth and white teeth splashed on Zhihua's body just now!" Liu Ya said calmly, "Zhihua has indeed liked me very much since I was a child, and because I have been weak since I was a child, I am more protective, but the slap that Xue Jinxiu half-truthed and half-truthful was the one that her younger brother Xue Runcong learned the problem of a ruffian hooligan, and tried to pounce on me to bully the sick me." ”

She stared at Empress Fan and said, "I wonder if the Empress would prefer to believe my words or Xue Jinxiu's words?"

Empress Fan said calmly, "This palace only believes in evidence, and a slap can't make a sound——"

"Smack. The mirror in Liu Ya's hand fell to the ground and shattered, and she smiled and said, "Look, why can't a slap sound? If the queen doesn't think this sound is loud enough, I can change to a bigger mirror and drop it to you! She Xue Jinxiu slandered me and Zhihua only because her heart was originally bad, not because there was anything bad about us or the Jiang family! Or did Xue Jinxiu provide some conclusive evidence to the queen mother to accuse me of inciting Zhihua to spread false rumors? Otherwise, what she said just now was a clear slander against me, the princess of the Western Desert and the Shilang Mansion, so many ears heard Ruan Youyi asking her to testify, I hope that the queen mother will not because Ruan Youyi is your niece, listen to some crazy words, and mix up unrelated people without asking for a reason——"

"Presumptuous!" Queen Fan, who had always been flattered by thousands of people, angrily cut off Liu Ya's voice and reprimanded.

The eunuch palace maid in the full imperial study was so frightened that she knelt down, and listened to He Guifei, who had only been listening and silent, said leisurely, "Why should the queen be angry? The interrogation is a rebuttal between you and me, and the queen mother took Ruan You to ask His Majesty to uphold justice, so no matter what the outcome of this matter is, the queen mother must also bear a certain responsibility, otherwise who will blame Princess Mo Xie with a few words in the future, isn't it that the royal family of the Western Desert can't come to laugh at us in the Southern Han?"

"The concubine feels that the concubine's words are very reasonable, whose child is not the treasure in the palm of the parents' hands? The queen mother wants to be the master of her niece, and there are many people who want to take justice for Princess Moxie, and slandering the princess is a big crime of cutting off her head, and she even knows the law and violates the law in front of His Majesty.

Liu Ya's eyes brushed the eyes of Emperor Jiayi and Empress Fan, whose face instantly darkened, and looked at the sound source at the door, and saw a girl whose posture was more beautiful and bright than Murong Jiang, stepping on a peach-pink skirt, gracefully carrying a mahogany tray with a golden soup cup and walking in.

No wonder Emperor Jiayi is very favored.

"Your Majesty has an appointment with the concubine, but after a long time, it has not arrived, and no one has told the concubine that you are not coming, so the concubine thinks that His Majesty is still reviewing, so she is reckless, I hope Your Majesty will not be surprised. ”

Emperor Jiayi was willing to reproach the girl who was now on the tip of his heart for half a sentence, and hurriedly motioned her to get up, waved his big hand and gave her a seat, Fang said: "The concubine and Zhaoyi are reasonable, they want to accuse the princess of a country with only a few words without evidence and no evidence, and they are also the peace messenger of the Western Desert to the Southern Han Dynasty, it is really ridiculous in the world, the queen, you have always been a steady person, I believe that you will not be confused so far, and if there is any evidence, just come out!"

His majestic gaze swept sharply over Xue Jinxiu, who was in a panic and hung his head, and Ruan Youyi, who was still crying with a look of grievance, before landing on Empress Fan's delicate face decorated with thick rouge gouache, compared to their embarrassment, she was as graceful as ever.

However, Empress Fan's heart was not so calm as it seemed, but her anger quickly subsided in the joint attack of He Guifei and Feng Zhaoyi, and after secretly cursing them for a circle, Fang sighed heavily, "Your Majesty, you also know that Youyi is the niece daughter of the concubine who has been pampered since she was a child, and when she heard that she jumped off the city tower to accuse Jiang Zhihua, the concubine panicked, how could she take care of anything else, so she hurriedly brought her here, and the concubine also sat down to realize that the witness was the cousin of Princess Moxie." ”

In a word, you will be clean.

Xue Jinxiu's heart shook, and she kowtowed anxiously, "Every word that the folk girl said came from the bottom of her heart, and she didn't dare to say half a lie——"

Liu Ya sneered, "That's enough, don't you think the pit where you will lie for a while is not spacious enough!" At this time, the guard returned.

The eunuch guarding the door respectfully asked Emperor Jiayi, and Emperor Jiayi passed the word word, and the guards came in with the magpie headed by the leader and eighteen men, women, and children who were sincerely afraid, and the angry Xue Jinxiu looked up and saw a few familiar faces, and his face turned white, full of panic and disbelief.

Liu Ya waited for the eighteen men, women, and children to kneel down and kowtow in the introduction of the guards, and pointed to the magpie holding a pile of files in her arms and said, "She is a junior general in the establishment of the Regent Palace, after I had a quarrel with Xue Jinxiu, I listened to the order of the Prince Regent to secretly monitor Xue Jinxiu's every move to prevent her from doing anything wrong to me. She laughed self-deprecatingly, "Whatever people and things Xue Jinxiu has come into contact with in the past few days are all recorded in the booklet——"

The magpie handed all the dossiers in his arms to the middle-aged eunuch who walked down from Emperor Jiayi's side.

Emperor Jiayi picked up those files and quickly flipped through them with the skills of one glance and ten lines that he had cultivated over the years, and his face became more and more complicated, "Very good, the record is very detailed." Even what Xue Jinxiu eats every day and how many times he goes to the toilet are marked one by one, but the more he looks at it, the more gloomy and terrifying his complicated face becomes, and after the last dossier is finished, he angrily throws the dossier in his hand in front of Xue Jinxiu and Ruan Youyi!

asked Ruan Youyi to bow to the ground in disbelief, Xue Jinxiu came back from the shock and clenched his fists in a panic, and repeatedly forced himself to calm down with the pain of his fingernails piercing his palms, but when Emperor Jiayi's strong gaze swept over like thunder, he couldn't help but tremble.

"For the sake of one of you being the queen's niece and the other being Princess Mo's cousin, I'll give you another chance, did Princess Mo really incite Jiang Zhihua to spread false rumors about Ruan Youyi and King Ye?" Emperor Jiayi's warm voice made the air in the imperial study seem to be instantly pulled away by someone.

Ruan Youyi gritted her teeth stubbornly, still kowtowing, only intermittently making a thin sound of sniffing, the hatred and resentment in her heart had already turned over the river, and she couldn't wait to rush out and vent her anger regardless of it, but she was still betting on Queen Fan's trust in her and her feelings over the years, even if there were several faces in those witnesses, she knew them, but she was still stubborn:

"If Princess Mo Xie didn't have any fault, how could Miss Xue, as a cousin, kill her relatives and testify against her?!"

Xue Jinxiu kowtowed anxiously, perhaps because of the panic, the strength of this knock was uncontrollable, and her forehead slammed into the floor, which made her cry aggrievedly, choked and said firmly and resolutely with a trembling thick nasal voice, "Every word spoken by the folk girl is true, please also ask Your Majesty to know——"

"King Chuanxuan. Emperor Jiayi squinted his eagle eyes and snorted heavily.

Liu Ya clearly saw Xue Jinxiu, who was kowtowing, trembling violently, and after the little eunuch received the order, there was a strange silence in the huge imperial study.

Xue Jinxiu only felt that time seemed to be prankfully stretched by someone, every minute and second was like a year, constantly tormenting her anxious heart, and then when she heard the loud report of the eunuch guarding the door, her extremely worried heart instantly softened, and in the corner of her eye, she saw a dusty white figure standing in the hall gracefully and gracefully, and listened to Emperor Jiayi:

"Xue Jinxiu, you raise your head. ”

Xue Jinxiu stood up tremblingly, and Emperor Jiayi said again: "King Xuan, do you know her?"

King Xuan entered the door and noticed that there were many people kneeling in the hall, although they all bowed their heads in avoidance, he still recognized a few familiar figures, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and after listening to Emperor Jiayi's question, he slowly looked at Xue Jinxiu on the right, and thought for a while, "I have seen it at the banquet of the Duke of Lu's Mansion, and I heard that it is the cousin of Princess Moxie." ”

"Then have you ever met in private?" asked Emperor Jiayi.

"No, I didn't. King Xuan affirmed.

If it weren't for the worry that had just been firmly grasped in Xue Jinxiu's eyes, Emperor Jiayi would have almost been impressed by their acting skills, and he couldn't wait to immediately order a stage for them, and the coldness in his eagle eyes swept towards King Xuan wantonly, and said with an angry smile: "Didn't you promise her to marry her as a concubine as long as she slandered the Jiang family!!"