Chapter 73: Vicious
King Xuan was taken aback, but he quickly covered it up, "Who spread the rumor! Erchen and the Jiang family have never had any grudges——"
"Hmph! The file on the ground clearly records where you have taken Xue Jinxiu in the past month, what interesting gadgets you have sent, what dirty things you two have done in the wing room of Geluofang, what kind of clothes you were wearing at that time, what kind of jewelry and Peiyu you were bringing, do you need to send someone to search your mansion!" Emperor Jiayi really didn't want to see them playfully and interrupted.
One, two, and three didn't know what kind of foolish medicine they had taken, and the opportunity was given, but they were about to bite Liu Ya and Jiang Zhihua to death when they were born, and as an emperor who had seen all the winds and waves, he had really never seen such a thing of hitting a stone with an egg! If he dared to judge the case like this, he didn't have to wait for the Western Desert royal family to come and find fault, and the people of his country would have to laugh at him for being a faint king!
She Empress Fan is willing to bear the charge of being confused for a while, he is not willing to be used as a gun by them, and he will be scolded by the world! The more Emperor Jiayi thought about it, the more angry he became, and he slammed the table and shouted, "The people waiting over there are all relevant witnesses! You still refuse to admit to conspiring to slander Princess Mo Ye and Jiang Zhihua, do you want me to turn it out and confront you word by word?"
Xue Jinxiu was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, so she just shook her head desperately and wanted to deny it, but she didn't know how to deny it, and King Xuan knelt down with an unchanged expression and said, "For what has not been done, Erchen will not admit it no matter what!"
"I admire the bearing of King Xuan's Taishan who collapsed in front of him and remained unchanged. Liu Ya chuckled, and suddenly looked at Xue Jinxiu, whose face was pale and pale, and said, "But what should I do?" Xue Jinxiu, the meaning of King Xuan's words today is to cut off the way you most desire to fly on the branches and become a phoenix! Even if there is no definite result for the time being, it is impossible for you to step into the door of King Xuan's mansion in the future, after all, once you step in, you will admit the fact that you conspired to slander me, so are you still willing to deny it? I advise you to ask for a title in front of Your Majesty, otherwise your clean body will be wasted!"
"No!" Xue Jinxiu glared angrily and fearfully at Liu Ya, who had been calm all along, "You, don't slander us-"
Ruan Youyi was afraid that she would do something bad, so she raised her head and said with hatred, "Your Majesty, she is the favored princess of the Western Desert, if you want to fabricate evidence, it is simply easy-"
"Oh, murder conviction requires a motive, and I'm not a fool who has nothing to do. Liu Ya interrupted amusedly, "As you say, I am still a princess who has been pampered to the fullest, so why do I go to such great lengths to slander you? It's just a general's wife who has been stripped of her title, the daughter of a businessman who daydreams all day long, and a little prince who is not well known, what am I trying to do? Who has ever seen a noble phoenix willing to play with those flowers and plants that bloom beside the quagmire?"
"It's because you envy and hate me, the phoenix, and try to pull me into the quagmire!" Liu Ya indifferently raised her disdainful eyes and swept over them, as if looking at the dirtiest little bug, "In the Western Desert, just committing the following crimes will need to be beheaded, if the following crimes conspire to slander the royal family, they will be burned in public and then divided into five horses as punishment, how does Your Majesty think this case will be done?"
"Just follow what Princess Mo Ye wants!" Emperor Jiayi was neither blind nor stupid, knowing that Liu Ya wanted to scare them, he cooperated with the jaw.
Liu Ya lowered her eyes and looked at Xue Jinxiu and Ruan Youyi, who were full of blue and white and resentful, and said, "Do you know what a burning punishment is? That is, both men and women have to take off their clothes and stick them on the red-hot iron, and the blister marks of saffron flowers are scalded back and forth like frying fish, I have had the honor to participate in a case in the Western Desert, the prisoner was burned to death, Bai Huahua's skin was so red and swollen that it was burned down several times, and the torturer dragged her a little rudely, and the flesh-stained skin was actually stuck to the iron!" Even though the process was cruel, the onlookers watched it with relish, and there were even ruffians and hooligans who discussed the unique physical characteristics of the women exposed to the public, I think this criminal law should also be introduced in the Southern Han Dynasty, and it is quite suitable for those who are extremely shameless.
Her gaze swept unscrupulously over their bumpy bodies, and finally at their faces in a sinister manner.
Xue Jinxiu only thought about it casually, and felt that her scalp was numb, and her pale face turned a little whiter, "No!
"Ask them—" Liu Ya pointed with her chin to the witnesses waiting nearby, "to know if I can do this." ”
"But for the sake of you always being my cousin, I can give you another chance, as long as you retract the words you just said to slander me and Zhihua, I will be lenient, whether it is you or the man you like, I can spare it, otherwise after they start to give evidence, there will be no regret pills for you to take." Her words were full of beggar-like almsgiving.
But Xue Jinxiu was shaken, Ruan Youyi grabbed Xue Jinxiu's hand and said, "Don't believe her! How could she be so kind! And we didn't slander her! Obviously, she likes King Ye and is jealous of my childhood friendship with King Ye, so Fang deliberately designed to slander me!!"
Liu Ya laughed as if she had heard some funny joke, "I am a peace messenger from the Western Desert to the Southern Han Dynasty, if I like him, just tell Your Majesty to give me marriage, why should I be jealous of your childhood friendship with him? You can't play other tricks in this friendship! Mrs. Wei has forgotten that she is a virgin who received the archway of chastity? Even as a concubine, you are not qualified to do so, so why should I be jealous of you? Besides, if my feelings can be compared with one finger, my liking for him is at most only the weight of a fingernail, and why should I give up many excellent men for a man like him who has a cinnabar mole in his heart?
She looked at Ruan Youyi with an expression of 'don't you be mentally retarded'.
called Ruan Youyi's face turned pale and black, purple, black and purple, and shiny, and saw Liu Ya turn his gaze, and looked back at Xue Jinxiu disapprovingly, "Okay, have you thought about it? It's not too early, I want to solve this matter quickly so that everyone can go back to rest and rest, and continue to work hard." ”
Xue Jinxiu looked at Ruan Youyi, who was holding her hand tightly, and then at King Xuan, who had been staring at her, she knew how much ability Liu Ya had since she was a child, but she never thought that since she lived in Liufu, Liu Ya would actually send someone to monitor her and guard against her! Shattering her calculations! But what she wanted was to fly on the branches and become a phoenix! She didn't want to be tortured and disfigured, and she didn't want to suffer the slightest bit of it—so she vigorously shook off Ruan Youyi's intended restraints, and said decisively:
"It's Ruan Youyi who begged me and King Xuan to help her slander Liu Ya!!"
"You!" Ruan Youyi never expected that she would turn against her so quickly!
"It's because she once saved King Xuan when she was a child, and after knowing that I was in love with King Xuan, she begged King Xuan to repay the life-saving grace of the day, and asked me, Liu Ya's cousin, to personally 'testify' that Liu Ya incited Jiang Zhihua to spread false rumors to the nobles, and also said that she would ask the queen to give me a marriage contract afterwards to eliminate the identity barrier between me and King Xuan——"
"Presumptuous!" Empress Fan interrupted Xue Jinxiu's words angrily, but this time her dissatisfaction was directed at Ruan Youyi, "Youyi, this palace believes you so much! I heard that you had an accident and asked Your Majesty to uphold justice, but I didn't expect you to even use this palace! You also used the name of this palace to smuggle Xue Jinxiu and slander Princess Mo Xie!!"
"Niece didn't-" Ruan Youyi cried her grievances with a handful of tears and snot.
Liu Ya rolled her eyes speechlessly, but she didn't want them to casually expose this matter as soon as they came and went, and interrupted impatiently, "Okay, okay, the queen mother should watch the truth surface." ”
She snapped her fingers coldly and neatly, and the magpie said: "Since the banquet in the Lu Guogong Mansion, Ruan Youyi instructed King Xuan to deliberately approach Xue Jinxiu, the re-encounter in Peach Blossom Lake and the chance encounter in the market are both King Xuan's bureau, Xue Jinxiu has little knowledge and is bent on flying on the branch to become a phoenix, but he didn't notice it, and because of King Xuan's pretending to be talkative, he liked King Xuan, and he was drunk in King Xuan's arms in Geluofang, and gave him chastity, and then King Xuan promised Xue Jinxiu the future of marrying as a concubine, and asked Xue Jinxiu to help Ruan Youyi commit perjury!"
Xue Jinxiu looked at the magpie dumbfounded, as if she didn't know a word of the words that came out of her mouth, and listened to her continue to say without emotion, " Ruan Youyi and King Ye's false rumors were simply spread by the maid around her, the little maid who had been guarding the back door for many years in the Zhenguo Mansion and the little maid of the Xi family in the neighboring mansion could testify, and the reason why she was like this was to stimulate Princess Mo Ye, and secondly, to declare that she was different from King Ye, after all, she had liked King Ye since many years ago, and this time she went back to Beijing to go to King Ye, and the evidence was hidden in a silver box in the secret compartment of her wing, which was a handkerchief embroidered with King Ye's name that she had always wanted to give to King Ye but never sent out!”
"It's all nonsense!" Ruan Youyi, who was poked out of her heart, scolded angrily and glared at her with tears in her eyes!
The magpie didn't look at her and continued, "The maid in the Zhenguo Mansion who is skillfully responsible for taking care of Ruan Youyi has seen Ruan Youyi take out this handkerchief at night and stroke it affectionately for a long time, and now she is also waiting on the side, Your Majesty can also send someone to the Zhenguo Mansion to search, it is because Ruan Youyi likes King Ye very much, so she will repeatedly try to target Princess Mo Xie." ”
"No! it's not like that—" Ruan Youyi said and pounced on the magpie, "Why are you slandering me like this—"
The magpie easily dodged on one side, and several little eunuchs in the imperial study rushed forward to catch her!
"How can there be such a slander in the world?" Liu Ya sneered, "It's called slander if you splash it with a few words, and now that the witnesses are here, Your Majesty should quickly send someone to the Zhenguo Mansion to bring the physical evidence, so that she will die and then harden her heart!"
Emperor Jiayi gave a slight signal, and the middle-aged eunuch who was standing beside him left quickly, taking advantage of the gap in evidence collection, he looked at King Xuan, who had been kneeling in the hall without saying a word, and said, "Does King Xuan admit it or not?"
"Erchen is still the same sentence, for what he has not done, his father will kill Erchen, and Erchen will not admit it!"
"In this way, I want to ask King Xuan, does King Xuan admit that you participated in slandering me in order to repay your kindness, or does he not admit that you have had a relationship with Xue Jinxiu?" Liu Ya's understatement blocked King Xuan's back road, and the corner of his eye caught a satisfied glimpse of Mu Ran's Xue Jinxiu looking at him hopefully.
It's a pity that King Xuan didn't look at her, "This king has never been involved in any slanderous things, and he has never had a relationship with Xue Jinxiu." ”
Xue Jinxiu looked at him in disbelief, her heart and body couldn't bear such a major deception, tears rolled down like beads of broken threads, and she couldn't stop shaking her head in despair, "No, no, no! You can't do this to me! You said you wanted to marry me as a concubine! You, you have taken possession of my body! You must be responsible!" She rushed over and grabbed King Xuan's arm, but he shook it off in disgust.
"Please respect yourself! Don't splash dirty water on Princess Mo Xie and try to splash it on this king!" King Xuan said coldly.
Xue Jinxiu stared at the handsome man who suddenly became very unfamiliar with him, and pounced on him to grab his arm, "Yuwen Ruixuan, how can you be so ruthless? I gave you everything, and even slandered my cousin in order to help you repay your kindness, but you denied everything we had!
Xue Jinxiu, who was crying and screaming in a mess, was finally avoided by King Xuan like a snake and scorpion, and he frowned angrily and said, " This king doesn't understand why Miss Xue is so stubborn to slander this king, you and I have never seen it since the banquet in the Lu State Mansion, and nothing should have happened that shouldn't have happened, it is a big crime to conspire to slander the princess of a country, not to mention the Mo Xie princess who came to our country as a peace messenger in the Western Desert, how can this king know the law and break the law and mess around with you, Miss Xue wants to pull a cushion, please also don't involve a little-known little prince like this king!"
When Xue Jinxiu's heart was like a knife, she suddenly remembered that Ruan Youyi instructed him to deliberately approach her, so she rushed towards Ruan Youyi, "It's you who are you! It's you, the poisonous woman, who can't see that we are doing better than you, so she is plotting to kill us! However, what you hate is Liu Ya, you just want to harm her! Why do you do this to me, why! Deceived my feelings and took away my most precious night, I'm going to kill you-" She pulled off the hairpin and stabbed Ruan Youyi frantically!!
But Liu Ya couldn't play Ruan Youyi badly, and with a glance, the magpie easily subdued the crazy Xue Jinxiu, and she walked slowly to the hall and picked up the dossier that was thrown down by Emperor Jiayi in anger, "What's the hurry? There is a lot of evidence here to prove that you have been in and out of each other in this way!" A few words of one witness with one physical evidence is slander, a few sentences of two witnesses with two physical evidence is doubtful slander, and then multiple human witnesses with multiple physical evidence is the real truth. ”
She smiled, "Although it is not easy to prove that the man walking beside Xue Jinxiu at that time is King Xuan, there is one thing that only King Xuan has-" Liu Ya turned up a page of the file and read it out word by word, "'' Xue Jinxiu sneaked to the No. 9 wing room of Geluofang, and after a while, King Xuan also came, he was still wearing plain white clothes, but unlike in the past, he was wearing a black robe with gold and silver embroidered Fu patterns wrapped in silk, and he looked different from the past, Xue Jinxiu's eyes were shining. ”
After a pause, Liu Ya met Emperor Jiayi's suspicious gaze, " The Western Desert and the Southern Han Dynasty since the establishment of diplomatic relations will give gifts to each other every New Year's Festival, a year ago, the Western Desert had sent a black yarn woven silk wrapped in gold and silver embroidered Fu character pattern cloth, this cloth is as transparent as the yarn weaving but also has the smooth and dense touch of silk, is unique to the Western Desert royal family and only used to make baby clothes, because this kind of cloth is very troublesome to manufacture both materials and artificial, so even the father and the emperor will not use it, and because the baby is a treasure given by God, this kind of cloth becomes a blessing, only used to give to the newborn baby。 ”
"Your Majesty only needs to follow this cloth to find out, and you can know who this cloth fell on in the gift sent by Ximo a few years ago. She smiled and looked at King Xuan, whose calm expression finally had a hint of disintegration, "Taking advantage of the gap in the evidence collection, we can take turns to listen to the testimonies' statements, and let's start talking about the secret sentinel guards who witnessed you inadvertently meet Xue Jinxiu again in Peach Blossom Pond——"
Suddenly, she seemed to think of something, and added slyly, "Oh~ After a small snake ran out of Taohuatan and disturbed the girls in the garden and closed the pond for rectification, a large number of secret sentinels were arranged to protect the VIPs in an orderly manner, so some remote gardens that seem to have no little maids to move around are actually people~"
King Xuan's heart shook violently and anxiously, and he heard Liu Ya say with a smile again, "I have heard before that although Ruan Youyi has been favored by the queen since she was a child, she has never been pampered and arrogant, and she is known for her kindness, gentleness, thoughtfulness and intelligence, and the princes who are born are often taken care of by her, but I didn't expect that King Xuan is also one of them, obviously I had a lot of unforgettable friendships when I was a child, but I hid them so deeply, and repeatedly used the peach blossom pool as a cover to meet in private, and discussed how to do bad things. But no one has ever told you that if you walk too much at night, you will easily see ghosts?
At the suggestion of Liu Ya, the witnesses began to testify one by one, first Taohuatan witnessed the secret whistle No. 1 of King Xuan and Ruan Youyi and the secret whistle No. 2 of King Xuan and Xue Jinxiu, and then witnessed the shopkeeper or Xiaoer of the shop with Xue Jinxiu in and out with King Xuan, and then the Xi family maid who heard Ruan Youyi's personal maid deliberately spread false rumors, and the Zhenguo Mansion witnessed Ruan Youyi hiding a little maid embroidered with Yuwen Qiu's handkerchief, even though the confession was not lacking in the trembling of the first time in the imperial palace, but they all took their lives and finished their confessions in front of Emperor Jiayi's majestic eyes like a beast。
The eunuchs who went to collect evidence came back, and in the face of the physical evidence in front of him and Emperor Jiayi's anger, King Xuan's composure could no longer be maintained, and he fell to the ground in despair, and then as if he had figured out something, he kowtowed his head in remorse and begged for mercy, "Father, all this was instructed by Ruan Youyi! It was she who asked her son to return the grace of saving her life, and she also used her mother as a threat to force her son to approach Xue Jinxiu and take the bait, and let her be at her mercy! Son, son is also forced to do so! Father, you must, you must believe in your son!!"
Emperor Jiayi was extremely disappointed in this son who didn't do anything good on weekdays, although his hard mouth just now once made him look at him quite differently, but now this appearance of Laipi completely made him unable to save it, "Actually plotting such a vicious slander, if Princess Mo Xie is powerless to explain it today, wouldn't it teach you to succeed! Knowing the law and breaking the law is added to the first-class, whether it is life or death, it will be handed over to Princess Mo Xie to deal with!" He brushed his sleeves away, and before leaving, he glared at Queen Fan, who was speechless, with great dissatisfaction!
Empress Fan had to lower her eyes guiltily, and after Emperor Jiayi left, she looked at Ruan Youyi, who was no longer struggling with the eunuch, with red eyes, and said, "Youyi, why are you so confused? This time, even my aunt can't help you!" As soon as the tears fell, she appropriately demonstrated the sadness and grief in her heart, wiped away her responsibility in this matter, and was disappointed, but she couldn't bear to wipe the corner of her eyes and look at Liu Yadao:
"It's the poor upbringing of this palace that makes her make big mistakes again and again, but in the end, she is the niece who has been pampered by this palace for many years, and I hope that Princess Mo Ye will show mercy to her subordinates for the sake of repeatedly losing her loved ones in this palace and her daughter is still young-"
It's really TVB's old drama bones are not as many as this queen's drama.
Liu Ya rolled her eyes implicitly, "If this princess is merciful today, others will really think that this princess is easy to bully, but the queen can rest assured, although this princess looks very good, but her heart is also vicious, and she will not give her a good time." She raised her lips and said, "Locked up in prison and tortured for three or five seven days, let's see the mood of this princess!" With just a gesture, the guards of the Western Desert conveniently landed and escorted King Xuan and Ruan Youyi down.
However, at this time, after the magpie loosened the clamp, Xue Jinxiu suddenly rushed over and knelt down, pleading bitterly with tears streaming down his face, "Liu Ya, I admit that I was wrong, I shouldn't have believed them and helped them slander you!, but what can I do, I, I'm already a woman of King Xuan! You woo woo woo to fulfill us, I swear I will never be jealous of you and hurt you again, you, you can't let me lose my husband wow woo!!"
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