Chapter 88 What about this?

Warmth comes over me.

The hall was brightly lit.

Bai Wutong glanced around with her almond-shaped eyes.

In addition to the emperor, there was also a queen and many concubines.

How come there are... so many people?

The queen took up a handkerchief and covered her mouth and nose, leaving only a pair of narrow and long phoenix eyes exposed. She squinted slightly, as if she was smiling.

This Zhaopin is going to die here today.

The queen was pleased with herself, and looked at Jin Weige again. She would not have an easy time either.

She felt better when she thought about solving two problems this time. If it weren't for the emperor, she would have laughed out loud.

Zhang Chengyan sat in the middle with a stern expression.

Bai Wutong looked him in the eye bravely, "Your Majesty..."

“Kneel down!”

Zhang Chengyan's tone was extremely cold, without any emotion at all.

He had never spoken to himself like that before.

Bai Wutong lowered his eyes and knelt on the ground while thinking about what would happen next.

She raised her head, a puzzled look on her face, her eyes slightly red, "Your Majesty, but what did I do wrong?"

"Do you know this person?"

The palace maid was brought in, covered in blood.

"My queen!" she shouted excitedly, "My queen, save me!"

Bai Wutong didn't understand why this person came here, but she couldn't lie about this kind of thing. Even though she knew there was something wrong, she could only admit, "Yes, she is from my concubine's palace."

Zhang Chengyan's heart turned colder. "I want to ask you, did you let her go out to deliver the letter tonight?"

"No, why would I ask her to deliver a letter in the middle of the night? Besides, I have no letter to deliver, and I will not break the rules by communicating with the outside world."

The maidservant next to her couldn't stop crying, tears mixed with blood dripping down, "Your Majesty, it was you who asked me to deliver the letter to you. You let me fall on the bed so that you could take the opportunity to slip the letter to me so that the person sent by the emperor wouldn't see it."

Bai Wutong's heart sank suddenly and his whole body went cold.

She recalled that the palace maid almost fell on her when she was washing in the evening.

It turned out that from that time on, I had fallen into a trap set by others!

Zhang Chengyan exuded a chill. The secret guards of Zhaochun Palace had already asked about it and it was true.

How could a little palace maid know about the secret guards? The only possibility was that Bai Wutong told her.

Bai Wutong opened her mouth, her voice trembling, "Your Majesty, I have never done it."

"What about this?"

A letter was thrown at his feet.

After Bai Wutong opened it and saw the contents above, he became unstable. If Chan'er had not supported him in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

The letter was written in her handwriting.

He only wrote a few simple sentences - "He has already found out, find a chance and take me away."

No wonder Zhang Chengyan was so angry.

This is no longer just a matter of suspicion, it is clearly that the concubine is going to elope with her own subject!

"This is not written by me." Bai Wutong put down the letter and dropped her shaking hands to her side. "I have never written anything like this."

Jin Weige tightly grasped the handkerchief, her eyes fixed on the letter, and she was also extremely panicked.

She simply stood up and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, my brother is loyal to you and would never do such a thing. Someone must have framed him!"

After she finished speaking, she pointed the finger at Bai Wutong, "Princess Zhao, my brother is upright and honest, and he would never do such a thing. Did you do it on purpose? You relied on the child in your belly to frame him! The emperor will not do anything to you for the sake of the heir, but he will punish my brother!"

Bai Wutong felt extremely regretful at this moment.

It’s not that I regret bringing Jin Zhi to my side.

Instead, I regret that I didn't do more thoroughly, which led to this.

If she could get out alive today, she would definitely be more careful, do things more prudently, and would never give anyone the chance to frame her again!

Bai Wutong forced herself to calm down and answered Jin Weige, "I am not stupid enough to use myself to set up a trap. This will hurt both sides. Besides, I have no grudge against Lord Jin, so why would I take such a risk to deal with him?"

Wouldn’t Jin Weige understand what it meant to leave the mother and keep the child?

If this is true, the emperor will let her live for the sake of the child.

When the child is born, she will definitely die!

No man can tolerate this!

Jin Weige stared at her, "If you don't have your brother, you think you can deal with me!"

"Enough!" Zhang Chengyan didn't want to listen to the two of them arguing here.

Now he just wanted to figure out one thing, whether this letter was written by Zhaobin.

Bai Wutong looked at Zhang Chengyan, her eyes clear and aggrieved, "Your Majesty, this is indeed my handwriting, but I have never written such a letter. I wrote many Buddhist scriptures for the Queen Mother, some of which are placed in the small Buddhist hall, and some are in the Huguo Temple. If someone wants to imitate it, it is not difficult."

She bowed her head and said, "Your Majesty, I have nothing wrong with Lord Jin. I did not write the letter today, nor did I ask someone to deliver it. I was framed. How could I send one of my own palace maids to deliver the letter in the middle of the night? Are you afraid that others will not know? I think this maid must have been bribed by someone else and deliberately staged such a scene to frame me."

The maidservant next to her stared at Bai Wutong angrily and spat out a mouthful of blood, "My queen, I risked my life for you, but you don't care about me anymore. You have such a cruel heart!"

She ignored her injuries and shouted loudly, "Your Majesty, the reason why Concubine Zhao asked me to take the risk to deliver the letter is because there are too many rumors and she is afraid!"

The maid spoke in a resentful tone, "She was afraid that Your Majesty would suspect her relationship with Lord Jin and thus kill the mother and keep the child. She was afraid that you would know that the child in her belly was a bastard, and even if it was born, the child would not have a good life. That's why she took the risk of sending a servant to deliver the letter, just to let Lord Jin take her and the child away as soon as possible!"

Seeing the palace maid's fearless appearance, Bai Wutong knew that he had no chance of making her change her mind.

This person must be determined to die, and would not hesitate to sacrifice his own life in order to frame her.

The mastermind behind this must have promised her something, or...had something on her that he could use to threaten her with her relatives.

The other party not only wanted to prove that she and Jin Zhi had committed adultery, but also wanted to turn the child in her belly into a bastard!

Bai Wutong tightly grasped the handkerchief, wondering how to break the impasse.

She must not let the mastermind succeed, otherwise neither she nor her child will survive!

Chan'er's hands were shaking and she wanted to say something but no sound came out.

She was originally just a little palace maid and was not well-liked. Even after she came to Bai Wutong, she had never seen such a horrible scene.

Concubine Hui coughed lightly and said casually, "There are so many concubines in this palace who have been childless for many years. Only Concubine Jin was pregnant in the past. How come Concubine Zhao is so lucky that she got pregnant just a few months after entering the palace? She is still so thin. I always feel that this matter seems a little strange."

When she said this, she was not looking at Bai Wutong, but at Concubine Jin who was also kneeling on the ground.

Zhang Chengyan exerted force with his hand, and the beads he was playing with broke and scattered all over the floor.

The field suddenly fell silent, and no one dared to say a word.

Wang Decai walked in quickly, breaking the silence, "Your Majesty, Lord Jin is here."

"Let him in."

Heavy footsteps were heard.

Jin Zhi entered the hall, looked at no one, brushed off his clothes, and knelt on the ground neatly, "Your humble servant pays respect to the emperor."

Zhang Chengyan looked at him coldly, "Jin Zhi, do you know why I called you here?"

"I don't know."

"I found a letter that I think was meant for you."

Wang Decai picked up the letter and handed it over with both hands, "Master Jin, this is the letter, please take a good look at it."

Jin Zhi looked over and immediately realized that he and Bai Wutong had been framed.

Because there is absolutely no way she could have written this letter.

There is nothing innocent between them, why should he leave?

"Your Majesty, this is definitely a frame-up."

Zhang Chengyan held the only remaining red sandalwood bead and asked, "Why are you so sure?"

"Since I have no relationship with Concubine Zhao, why would Concubine Zhao write this letter? This doesn't make sense at all, unless someone is framing me. They want to get rid of me and Concubine Zhao in one fell swoop."

Jin Zhi was full of righteousness, and there was no trace of guilt at all. "Your Majesty, please understand!"

The queen took off the handkerchief.

The maidservant next to her saw it and immediately stepped forward, "Your Majesty, I have something to say!"

Her voice was crisp, and every word was clear. "I saw it with my own eyes. Lord Jin has a token of love from Concubine Zhao, a purse!"