Chapter 173 Confess on the Spot
Hearing Su Zhuo's words, the queen stroked her temples.
The emperor shouted, "Search."
Fu Qingyin patted Xianglan's shoulder, and a few things fell from her body.
There is a small sachet with a strong fragrance.
Picking it up in his hand and smelling it carefully, Fu Qingyin tilted his head to look at Yu Shengsheng: "Do you understand the fragrance?"
Yu Shengsheng was startled for a moment before coming back to his senses: “I understand a little bit.”
"Smell it."
Yu Shengsheng hurried forward, took the small sachet, looked at it carefully and smelled it: "It is indeed Yuhua Awakening Fragrance."
Su Zhuo supported the queen, tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, it was clearly Xianglan who placed the incense that the Crown Prince couldn't smell here in advance, tricked the Crown Prince into coming here, and knocked out Princess Ruiyang, intending to let the princess be a witness, so..."
Su Zhuo stared at Concubine Shu: "My Lady Concubine, you have such a cruel heart."
Concubine Shu raised her eyelids and looked at Su Zhuo. Just with this one glance, Yu Shengsheng felt that the look in her eyes was completely different from the one Concubine Shu showed when she was acting coquettishly in front of the emperor.
"I didn't know I had fallen to this point. A maid dared to accuse me in front of the emperor."
The emperor frowned and said, "Slap him."
The queen's face was slightly stiff, and Su Zhuo responded quickly: "I slapped myself. I was the one who said something wrong, but I dare not blame the imperial concubine. It's just... the queen has suffered too much."
After she said that, she spanked herself, one after another, crisply and without holding back any strength.
Yu Shengsheng glanced down and saw the things that fell out of Xianglan's body, as well as a few other things.
She whispered, "Commander."
Fu Qingyin looked in the direction she pointed and saw a small bag wrapped in a handkerchief. Perhaps it was not wrapped tightly and fell out of her body, revealing the contents vaguely.
There are several round beads.
Fu Qingyin picked up the handkerchief, opened it and took a closer look, his eyebrows slightly raised.
"emperor."
He took it to the emperor for his review.
The snow-white silk handkerchief contained a few smooth and shiny oriental pearls, five at a time, each slightly larger than a thumb, without a single flaw.
"With this kind of quality, even one, let alone five, is worth a thousand gold coins," Fu Qingyin held it lightly with his palm, "This snow silk handkerchief is also top-grade silk."
The emperor's mouth twitched twice, and he looked at the queen: "I remember that among the gifts Li'er sent this time, there were a few beads like this. Where are they?"
The queen just opened her mouth, but before she could make a sound, the emperor looked at Su Zhuo again: "You, go get it."
Su Zhuo stopped pulling his hand and looked at the beads.
"Your Majesty, the Queen's pearls... were stolen."
Concubine Shu chuckled: "What a coincidence."
"What a coincidence, it was my servant who stole it. What a coincidence, it was my servant who was hired to frame the Crown Prince and the Queen."
Her tone was sarcastic and full of anger: "Your Majesty, you have seen what kind of life I have been leading day by day!"
The emperor looked at her helplessly, then looked at the queen: "What do you say, Queen? You have always treasured the things Li'er sent you, and you were reluctant to use them or wear them. How can you just throw them away?"
The Queen sighed and blamed herself: "It was my negligence. I was busy with the palace banquet and didn't manage it well. This happened. When I found out, the banquet was about to start, so I didn't make it public. I thought I would tell you after it was over."
"The palace has held this banquet countless times," Imperial Concubine Shu took over the conversation. "I went to the Queen's palace two days ago and asked if there was anything she could help with, but the Queen flatly refused."
"If I had known that this kind of thing would be blamed on me, I would have tried my best to make the Queen unhappy. I would have helped her, rather than being suspected now."
Concubine Shu snorted softly and turned her face away to show that she was angry.
The emperor also looked unhappy: "A palace banquet has become like this. Queen, if you have limited energy and are unable to handle it, you might as well tell me directly. I can arrange for someone to help you."
"Your Majesty, I didn't do it well. I accept the punishment."
She looked up at Xianglan and said, "Let Xianglan tell us what happened."
Fu Qingyin glanced at her and the emperor nodded.
He raised his hand to open Xianglan's vagina, then lifted up her lower back. Fu Qingyin took out a handkerchief and slowly wiped his hands.
"Slut, what's going on? Tell me!"
Xianglan knelt down with a plop, her arm still bleeding: "Your Majesty, this servant... this servant did follow the order of the Imperial Concubine. I put drugs in Concubine Yu's wine in advance. While others were watching Concubine Yu perform the Flying Dance, I secretly followed Concubine Yu and took the guards to kill the people in her palace, and then threw Yuhua Xingzuixiang."
"The prince was tricked here again. The fragrance was getting stronger, and the prince drank some wine. Soon he fell into a coma..."
Xianglan said, looking at Yu Shengsheng again: "Princess Ruiyang painted a picture for the Imperial Concubine, but she didn't finish it. She said that the Imperial Concubine was too beautiful to be painted. In fact, she just didn't want to paint for her."
"I saw it with my own eyes, and I was dissatisfied, so I wanted to drag her down with me."
Yu Shengsheng didn't believe what she heard. Not to mention that she had never said anything like "the queen is so beautiful" or "she was painted" or anything like that, just the fact that Xianglan spoke so quickly and fluently made it feel like something was wrong.
The Queen glared at Concubine Shu: "What else do you have to say?"
Concubine Shu was calm and said, "Where did the beads come from? Could they really have been stolen from the Empress?"
Xianglan didn't answer for a moment.
Concubine Shu shouted, "Speak!"
Xianglan shuddered with fear: "It was...it was stolen by me."
Concubine Shu laughed briefly: "Then tell me, how did you steal it?"
"The beads are another matter," the Queen said solemnly, "A few beads, are they not as good as the Crown Prince's? Imperial Concubine Shu, you should first explain what Xianglan said."
"What do you want to explain?" Imperial Concubine Shu said, "Xianglan betrayed me, or rather, she was bribed with a large sum of money, so she framed me with her own words."
"If you want to frame the crown prince, why use such complicated means? The crown prince is not as good as the third prince in literature, nor as good as the king of Yi in martial arts. His only good character is still well-known among the ministers. Why do you want to frame him and target his character? Am I that stupid?"
"How dare you," the emperor shouted in a low voice, "You are not allowed to speak of the prince in that way."
Concubine Shu snorted and said nothing.
The prince knelt there, his face burning. He had to clench his back teeth and purse his lips to swallow his anger.
This bitch! When I ascend to the throne one day, I will cut her into pieces with my own hands!
No, throw her into the lowest-class brothel first and let her be humiliated.
And the entire Lu family will be overthrown, leaving no one alive.
Although what Concubine Shu said was unpleasant, it was indeed the truth.
The emperor hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Fu Qingyin: "Qingyin, what do you think?"
Fu Qingyin said impartially: "Your Majesty, this is a serious matter and must be handled with caution. Find out the truth. The Crown Prince is a noble person and Concubine Yu is a concubine in the harem. We cannot listen to one side of the story."
"Yes," the emperor nodded, "then..."
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