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The Prime Minister's wife walked step by step towards the throne room, dressed in appropriate attire. Her steps were steady and her expression was calm. In comparison, Madam Ma who followed behind the Prime Minister's wife seemed dim and nervous.

"This subject wishes to kowtow to Your Majesty. May Your Majesty live for tens of thousands of years. May Your Highness kowtow to the Empress for thousands of years." The Prime Minister's wife bowed politely.

"This official's wife, Madame Zhang, kowtows to the Emperor. The Emperor shall live for tens of thousands of years, and the Empress shall live for thousands of years." Madam Ma bowed behind the Prime Minister's wife. There were already people giving guidance to her on the way.

"Get up." Yun Lancang said.

"Thank you, your majesty." The Prime Minister's wife stood up. After Madam Ma expressed her gratitude, she followed the Prime Minister's wife and stood up.

After the Prime Minister's wife stood up, she bowed towards the Princess Anyang Taichang. "Greetings, Princess Taichang."

Princess Anyang Taichang smiled and waved his hand.

Seeing this, Madam Ma only slightly bowed and obediently stood to the side.

The Prime Minister's wife looked at Shui Qingyan, saw the messy clothes on his body, and retracted her gaze. Shui Ruo Yan could not meet her eyes.

At this time, Eunuch Shou had already returned to Yun Lancang's side. Seeing that everyone was present, he quietly reported to the emperor, "Your majesty, everything has been prepared."

Yun Lancang nodded, looked at Shui Qingyan who was not wearing any clothes, then looked at the other four women, and nodded.

"Get on the screen." Eunuch Shou shouted.

When he said this, there were immediately eunuchs who carried eight big screens, sixteen small screens, two palace curtains and one curtain. Forty palace curtains tightly surrounded Shui Qingyan and the Princess Anyang Taichang.

"Fourth Miss, please take off your clothes." The Queen looked at Shui Qingyan calmly.

"Thank you, empress, Princess Taichang, Prime Minister and Madam Ma." Shui Qingyan slowly took off her clothes, then placed the three thousand strands of hair in front of her, revealing her smooth and clean back.

"Her skin is smooth and creamy, the Fourth Miss' skin is similar to Ninghua's." Princess Anyang Taichang could not help but nod his head at Shui Qingyan's beautiful skin. The moment those words left his mouth, Princess Anyang Taichang seemed to have thought of something, and immediately retracted the praise on his face, "You qualify."

When the prime minister's wife saw this, she looked at Madam Ma. "Madam Ma, there aren't any injuries on the Fourth Miss' back. She seems to have recovered from her injuries before."

Madam Ma's eyes widened. She remembered that someone along the way had told her that if Fourth Miss didn't have anything behind her back, then her husband was going to die. What to do, what to do!?

The Queen looked at Shui Qingyan's clean back and nodded.

Suddenly, as if she had gone mad, Madam Ma pounced towards Shui Qingyan: "Why did it turn out like this!" She wanted to scratch Fourth Miss's back so that Fourth Miss wouldn't kill her husband.

Shui Qingyan frowned, she turned her body and dodged Madam Ma's attack.

Madam Ma threw herself over her head and fell face first onto the square screen. In an instant, Gong'e who was outside the screen was also knocked down.

Ah!" The Court ladies cried out in surprise.

At this moment, a gap opened up in the curtain. People outside could see what was going on inside with a single glance.

Coincidentally, this gap was in front of Zhao Zhilan, who was standing there. The instant that the beauty had turned around, Zhao Zhilan saw the beautiful scene of her hair fluttering past her shoulder.

Shui Qingyan donned the clothes underneath, and leisurely picked up the clothes at the side.

Everything happened too suddenly, and by the time everyone had shown it, Shui Qingyan had already tidied up his inner clothes, and put on his clothes randomly.

Yun Lancang's hand suddenly tightened on the armrest as a flash of anger appeared on his face.

"This servant deserves to die." After falling down, Gong'e immediately stood up and lifted up the screen, then kneeled in front of the palace, her whole body trembling.

"No problem." Shui Qingyan's voice came out from the screen, "Thankfully I am already dressed, and luckily the screen did not fall in the direction of the ministers, and luckily the small screen did not." Shui Qingyan used three good points to emphasize that nothing had happened to her.

Yun Lancang frowned and waved his hand.

"Retreat!" Eunuch Shou shouted. Immediately, the eunuchs carefully removed the screen.

"Your majesty, chenqie didn't think that Madam Ma would pounce on Fourth Miss." The empress curtsied in apology, "I almost made a grave mistake, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! There's something behind the Fourth Miss! Something she really is!" Madam Ma excitedly crawled to the front of the hall. "Your Majesty, please examine this."

Because of a single sentence from Madam Ma, the throne room sank into silence.

The corner of Zhao Zhilan's lips curled up slightly. From his angle just now, the light behind Shui Qingyan's back was as clean as it was before. Not only was there not the slightest trace of injury, there wasn't even a single trace of excess fine lines in the magazine.

Zhao Zhilan knew that Shui Qingyan had won again. Next, he had to properly watch how these ministers who wanted to strip her clothes off suffered from the humiliating three whips, and watch how the Assistant Minister Ma s who kept biting on Shui Qingyan were presented with their own eyeballs.

"Your Majesty, Madam Ma's rudeness to Fourth Miss caused the accident just now. May Your Majesty have a clear look." Princess Anyang Taichang took a deep breath. She never expected this to happen.

Yun Lancang looked at Madam Ma coldly, then looked at Princess Anyang Taichang, "I've frightened the Grand Princess."

Two of them knelt on the ground, trembling as they awaited for their orders.

Seeing that, Yun Lancang slowly said: "The two of you, get up and put on Fourth Young Miss's clothes." As the words left his mouth, Yun Lancang actually felt a little helpless.

Eunuch Shou looked at Shui Qingyan's dress as a top, robe as a skirt, and his clothes all messed up. The Fourth Miss was already fourteen years old and was about to arrive for her wedding ceremony. Now, she couldn't even tell the difference between her dress and her clothes, making people speechless.

A trace of mockery flashed across the Prime Minister's wife's eyes. Today, he did not manage to humiliate Shui Qingyan through Madam Ma, he did not expect that Shui Qingyan would embarrass herself once again.

The Queen looked at Yun Lancang's expression and clenched the handkerchief in his sleeves tightly. How could she not hear the extremely well-hidden helplessness in Yun Lancang's tone?

Princess Anyang Taichang sneered in his heart. Fourteen years old and unable to write or write, not even able to put on clothes, he was truly hopeless. How could such a person have Ye'er in his hands!

Shui Qingyan did not say anything, but her ears were still a little soft. Who let these clothes be so troublesome, who let her not wear them at all, who allowed Yu Niang to serve her so well every day!

The two Gong'e helped Shui Qingyan put on her clothes, while sighing emotionally about the Fourth Miss' cold body.

When Shui Qingyan was once again standing neatly in front of the throne room, Yun Lancang spoke: "Princess Taichang has discovered something behind Qingyan's back."

"Fourth young miss' injuries have recovered very well. We can no longer see any scars."

"Indeed." The empress nodded. "The fourth miss' injuries have already healed. There's no scar left behind."

"Your servant hasn't found anything. Fourth Miss is pure and untainted." The Prime Minister's wife said as well.

"No, no, there is a wound on Fourth Miss's back!" Madam Ma quickly shook her head.

"How dare you!" The empress frowned and snorted coldly, "Bullying the sovereign in front of the palace, Mrs Ma Zhang, how dare you!"

Madam Ma was quite frightened and immediately sat on the ground.

"Impossible, impossible, you're lying!" Assistant Minister Ma also shook his head in disbelief, "Fourth Young Miss's back is clearly covered with a thick scar, and there's even a cut on it, how can there be nothing on it!"

"Are you saying that I'm deceiving the monarch!?" The majesty of the empress radiated out in an instant.

"Are you saying that as a Princess Taichang, I would speak nonsense in front of all these officials?" Princess Anyang Taichang was instantly happy when he was questioned.

"Subordinate never lies." The Prime Minister's wife immediately knelt down to express her sincerity.

"No, no." Assistant Minister Ma looked at the few of them in disbelief, before finally shifting his gaze to his own wife.

Assistant Minister Ma immediately rushed over and grabbed Madam Ma's shoulder, "Tell me, tell me, do you see any injuries on Fourth Miss's back?"

Madam Ma was rather frightened of the empress a moment ago, so she nodded.

"Tell them what you saw!" Assistant Minister Ma's eyes were filled with hope.

"There's a wound on Fourth Miss's back, really." Madam Ma nodded her head repeatedly. "There's a scratch. There's a small cut. It's as long as your pinky!"

With these words, the throne room fell silent.

"Hahaha, Assistant Minister Ma, there's a huge difference between a whip wound and a scratch." Zhao Zhilan laughed loudly, "Assistant Minister Ma did not want to watch the officials get bored, so I decided to sing a big show for the officials and the Emperor today. It's such a pity that your wife doesn't seem to cooperate!"

"That's right, that's right, this is simply unreasonable." Someone echoed.

"I think it's Assistant Minister Ma talking nonsense!" More and more people were discussing this matter.

Shui Qingyan looked at Yun Lancang with a smile. "Your Majesty, the truth is already clear.

Assistant Minister Ma sat on the ground and absentmindedly shook his head. "Impossible, impossible!"