"Could it be that the person who admires Xiao Shan's talents is actually you, Princess Jianan? After all, Xiao Shan praised you time and time again during the poetry gathering, belittling Lian Yue. No matter what, it is not Lian Yue's turn to adore Xiao Shan." The Third Princess said.
Xu Xianfei also never thought that this idiot, Xiao Rou, would pull out such a handkerchief in order to save Xiao Shan. She hurriedly said, "Your majesty, Jian An has always been obedient and accompanied chenqie by her side. Naturally, she would not hand her handkerchief over to Xiao Rou.
"Then, if it has nothing to do with Princess Jianan, then Xiao Rou took Princess Jianan's handkerchief and wanted to frame me, but failed?" Lian Ru Yue looked at the pale-faced, trembling Xiao Rou and said, "This Xiao Shan is still unable to dispel the suspicion that he killed Senior Servant Jin."
"…" Xiao Zhen was so angry that he turned green. This daughter was really hot-headed. Before she had no confidence, she wanted to push the blame onto Lian Rue. In the end, Lian Rue had rebelled against the first general and left her in a dilemma.
Feng Qianyue's expression became even more unsightly. He sighed and said, "Esteemed wangfei, with the matter at this point, you can no longer hide anything. You can say whatever you want to say."
Xiao Rou suddenly cried loudly, "Father, husband, it … it was I who wronged Lian Xiangyue in order to protect elder brother. This handkerchief, it was given to me by Princess Jianan. She did not tell me to pass it on to elder brother."
"What did you say?" Wei Ru didn't expect Xiao Rou to change her tone so quickly. He pointed the spearhead at himself, angered to the point that his face turned green. "Don't taint my innocence. How could I like Xiao Shan?"
"But you also praised Xiao Shan at the poetry gathering earlier. Why are you looking down on him now?" The Third Princess pouted and said.
Lian Ruyue secretly revealed a smile at the corner of her mouth. How dare Wei Ru let someone kill her? She really did not know her 'evil reputation'. After the matter with the handkerchief, the other princesses said that again. Even if she made it clear that the handkerchief was not her own initiative, her reputation would not be as great as she had imagined.
"This Xiao Rou is lying. Her words are truly not worthy of being trusted!" So don't be fooled by her, princesses. " How could Xu Xianfei allow others to sully Wei Ru's good reputation if she wanted him to be her wife? She glared coldly at Third Young Master.
The third princess' mother was Feng Degui, and her status was even higher than that of Xu Xianfei. She had always been a domineering person, so how could she put Wei Rui in her eyes?
Wei You was so angry that her face turned green, and she clenched her fists tightly. She had wanted to gain a good reputation by marrying Ye gege as the eighth prince's consort, but now, she had been thrown into such a mess.
"Father, husband …" This is all because of the Concubine Xian. No one knows what went wrong with her, but she ended up putting Senior Servant Jin's life in this mess. Daughter guarantees, Big Brother definitely didn't kill Senior Servant Jin. " Xiao Rou knelt on the ground and cried as she spoke. Feng Qianyue wanted her to speak truthfully, and this was the truth.
"Consort Xian?" The emperor was stunned. He slowly looked at Xu Xianfei with a heavy pressure that made her feel as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over.
She quickly kneeled down and said, "Your Majesty, you should know that this Senior Servant Jin has been taking care of her ever since she was a concubine. She has a deep relationship with her concubine, like a relative of mine.
Xiao Rou, you said that Xiao Shan definitely didn't kill Senior Servant Jin. Do you mean that Senior Servant Jin's death was caused by me? Why did I kill my most loyal and devoted wet nurse?
I have yet to investigate why Senior Servant Jin died in front of Xiao Shan. All of you actually want to pin the crime of killing on my head! "
"No, that's not the case. Your majesty, esteemed imperial concubine is lying." Xiao Rou saw that Xu Xian Fei wanted to protect herself by blaming her big brother for killing someone, so she couldn't care less and said:
"The truth is like this, the Empress said that the Moon Concubine pestered eighth prince, while the Empress desired that the princess of Jian'an, Wei You, be the eighth prince's consort. In order to make the Moon Concubine give up on the eighth prince, the Empress drank some bewitching medicine for the Moon Conviction and then threw her in front of my elder brother. That way, the Moon Concubine would have no choice but to marry my elder brother, and she wouldn't be able to pester eighth prince anymore."
Once Xiao Rou finished speaking, Feng Qianyue glared at her with a murderous gaze. He knew right away that this foolish woman wanted to use Xu Xian Fei's hand to teach Lian Ruyue a lesson, and in the end, Lian Ru Yue was the one that gave Xiao Shan the sin of killing someone! As for how Meng Yue used her and Xu Xianfei, it was still unknown.
However, this foolish woman had obviously caused him a huge disaster. She was his consort, so her actions naturally had something to do with him!
Lian Ruyue looked at Xu Xianyue in disbelief. "Empress Dowager Xian, when have I ever fooled around with the eighth prince? I didn't have much contact with him."
"You …" Xu Xianfei paused slightly before saying, "Lianyue, I haven't said anything like that before. To shirk her responsibilities and slander my honor, you don't have to believe a single word of what she said."
"Your majesty, no matter what, this subject has not reached the age of thirty and is still waiting for her ladyship to speak up. With her reputation as a vile subject and daughter, how will the subject and daughter go about doing things in the future? I request that Your majesty uphold justice for this subject and restore this subject's reputation." Lian Rui said to the Emperor in an awe-inspiring and sorrowful manner.
"The eighth prince has arrived." At this moment, Feng Ye walked in.
Xu Xianfei and Wei Ru both raised their heads and looked at him — he was awake?
Feng Ye walked into the hall, first glancing at Xu Xianfei before kneeling down in front of Emperor Zhou Cheng. He said, "Imperial Father, your son can testify that Lian Ru Yue has never bothered me before. Your son and she …" Feng Ye turned his head and looked at Lian Ruyue. In the end, he said with a bit of bitterness, "They aren't familiar."
He wasn't familiar with it. When he said the four words he felt a sharp knife silently stab through his heart. Puff! A thick blood flowed out.
"The princess of Yue said that the reason why she pestered your son like a moon is to slander your mother. I hope that royal father can observe the situation more clearly."
The reason why Feng Ye said this was, firstly, to protect Lian Lu Yue's reputation, and secondly … The second reason was to protect his mother from being implicated in this matter.
"That's right, Your Majesty is lying to Princess Yue. Ye'er is not acquainted with Lian Ruyue, so how could chenqie say something as impolite as' infatuated with Ye'er '? Besides, if chenqie has such thoughts, why would she listen to chenqie's arrangements?"
Princess Yue had said that Chenqie had given Lian Xiyue some bewitching potion mixed with alcohol, but Lian Ruyue was clearly standing there perfectly fine without any signs of ingesting the bewitching potion. It was clear that Princess Yue had made up such a thing in order to shirk her responsibilities.
"Your Majesty, Senior Servant Jin wishes to die. I hope that Your Majesty can give chenqie and Senior Servant Jin justice." Xu Xianfei lay prostrate on the ground with tears streaming down her face.
"Esteemed wangfei, you can't say such outrageous things. You must shirk all responsibility." Xiao Rou called out anxiously.
Lian Ruyue slowly turned her head and coldly looked at Feng Ye. Her gaze was like a knife, cutting into Feng Ye's heart. His heart trembled, and he felt a deep bitterness — —
He knew that in order to protect his mother, he had failed this girl.
"Princess Yue, you just said that in order to make Lian Ru Yue give up on me, mufei fed Lian Ru Yue the aphrodisiac and pushed her to Xiao Shan's side so that the two of them could get married. If that's true, then why are you cooperating with my mufei's plan so well?" Feng Ye put aside the deep guilt in his heart as he looked at Xiao Rou and asked.
"I... Because Ru Yue has gone against me time and time again, I thought to myself, if she marries my big brother and goes to the Xiao family, then she wouldn't go against me. That's why I believed in esteemed wangfei's arrangements. Xiao Rou thought that it would be better if she admitted that she and esteemed wangfei had planned to marry Lian Ruyue into the Xiao family since elder brother was responsible for the murder.